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Conscript's Wife

By BETTY WALLACE

YESTERDAY: Martha sticks to her decision. to return to work, leaves Helen’s with IKtie explanation. She finds her old room still vacant, returns Butch to the boarding kennel. But Air Transport may not want her back. She goes to the office and is overjoyed when the Chief gives her an uproarious welcome.

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE IT WAS GOOD to be back in the office. Good to see the sunlight in bars through the Venetian blinds.

Good even to smile at the astonished,

expressions of the thin file clerk and the freckled office boy and the stout matron from the comptroller’s office who happened to be there when the Chief led her triumphantly in, Out of the corner of her eye, Martha saw that Pdul’s office was empty. She followed the Chief into his office. She listened patiently while he went through the list of woes. “Three reports in hash—mince meat—on that desk of yours, somewhere. Two more down in Sales, kicking around until somebody gets time.” He thrust a folder of correspondence at her. “This is unrush stuff, weeks old. You know how to answer it yourself, thank God. Theres’ tons of other stuff— Paul’s up to his ears—oh, by the way, he’s in New York.” She sat back in her «chair.. Relief seeped through her. She had time

to get into the groove, time to col-|

lect herself, and be casual and normal before she had to meet Paul's wise eyes. “He left this morning. He typed a lot of his stuff last night by the two-finger system. Left in a hurry, and in a mess.” “Was it something important?” “Conference,” the Chief said. “We've been overun with automobile men, you know. Detroit's taking a whack at turning out plane parts. Paul's getting together with a bunch of automotive engineers and a vice president or two. They're tooling up new plants, running into a lot of grief... .” : He turned back to his desk with a contented sigh. “For the first time in weeks, I can work without breaking my head about a lot of foolishness.” He grinned, disarmingly. “Wonderful, how a man goes along for years never giving his secretary credit for anything but nice red hair —and then finds out there must have been something rather special underneath.” “Turn off the soft soap, Chief,” she retorted. “You probably scared the wits out of those poor girls you fired. The only thing unique about me is, I talk back.”

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SITTING AT HER desk, the pyramided - paper baskets piled high with bulging folders, Martha ‘waded into her work happily. Deep contentment—the contentment that had been so gapingly absent from her days in the bungalow—filled her. There was no time to think, to remember. The potent philter called “work” wrought its magic spell, and for hours while her fingers flew over the typewriter keys, Martha forgot Bill. ‘Perhaps it was not actually a forgetting. But it was blessed surcease, and at lunch she thought, with a wry smile, “Men have known this secret for centuries. But women who work are in on it, now, too. Without my job, I'd be crying my eyes out on the bed at Helen’s. ,..” She: couldn't help wondering, then, why Bill had been unable to find in soldiering this same absorbing satisfaction, this same sweet release. “Perhaps he didn't try. Perhaps Bill didn’t take his training in earnest. He did treat it rather like a whim of the government’s. . . .” The next morning, the pile of folders had dwindled considerably. The Chief was himself again, scowling at the file clerk, barking at Martha, roaring into telephones. He was roaring so alarmingly when Martha brought in the completed reports of a wind tunnel test that she backed out involuntarily, He'd surely burst a blood vessel! * “You cross-eyed waddling ox, you .job-jam junky Jonah, don’t stand there and tell me you forgot! How in the hell did you expect to instruct a bunch of auto men when you walk off and leave the most vital papers in your office? Paul Elliott, I'll break your neck for this!” Martha jumped. Paul! The Chief was talking to Paul, in New York. “Why in the name of cracking crimson crocuses didn’t you discover this yesterday? We could have mailed them to you! Registered, air-mailed, double damned duty dumped insured helleats! - know they're valuable. Well, what do you expect -me to do—toe-dance down with them myself. No, I have no one to send but a halfwitted office boy.”

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THE CHIEF'S rolling, reddened eye lighted on Martha. “Wait a minute, Paul!” he bellowed. * ‘Wait . & minute. I'll send Martha. Yes, Martha, Martha Marshall. T don’t ” know—all I know is, she’s here. I'll have her hop the 2:15 plane to New York. Goodby!” The Chief slammed down the lephone and stretched his arms heaven in supplication. “Ever hear such bloody blasted bodily bushwacked blooming- inefficiency? Go on, get ready. You're taking the plane to New York. Here's Paul's address. He's got a 4 o'clock appointment. Youll just make it. He needs those papers or he might as well have stayed at home.” Martha did not want to go to New York. She did not want to see Paul. But there was no chance to get a word in edgewise, and when she saw the blue-backed sheets, and the inked graphs the Chief was checking over to give her, she realized that their importance was too great to be trusted to any but the most reliable messenger. Besides, Paul needed them this afternoon. At 4 o'clock. The Chief drove her to the airhimself, He hustled her aboard the waiting silver airliner. “Take a cab from La Guardia. Don’t waste a minute.” He didn’t bother to stand and wave goodby. As the huge ship turned into the wind for the take-

off, Martha settled back into her tes below,

the briefcase on her knees an “help for it, now.”

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(Copyright, 1941, by Science Service) WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Discovery in unoccupied France of a “magnificent” 30,000-year-old gallery of prehistoric dave-man art, rich in pagan human figures, enormous bulls, horses and one black rhinoceros, is stifring scientific circles here. The world-famous authority, Abbe Henri Breuil, has succeeded in reporting to thie British science journal, Nature, lis authentication of the ari discovery near the litttle town of Montignac in southwestern Frarice. | . Five schoolboys were the real discoverers of Liescaux cave, which will take its place in prehistoric annals along side the “Sixtine Chapel of Magdalenian art” in Altamira cave, in Spein.~ fhe new-found gallery of European art is pronounced far more ancient than the Altamira paintings, which are rated about 20,000 years old. Lescaux cave was decorated in closing days of the Aurignacian| era of the Old Stone Age, a stage of culture which archeologists have begun to distinguish by, the still rather unfamiliar name of the Perigordian

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long, drawn in wide black lines with big spots sprinkled on the beasts’ heads, impressed the Abbe Breuil, as he became first expert critic to appraise the ancient masterpieces. In one area of the derk underground passages and galleries, he counted more than 8( pictures, chiefly done on blocks that have fallen from the vault above. Some ascending galleries of thie cave are still almost entirely unexplored. The artists who worked by torchlight in the cave, pairited horses with red color, giving them heavy coats in softly dappled pattern. Other animals portrayed, probably with magic rites as an aid in hunting, include oxen, bison, stags, two lions, and one questionable bear. Describing a striking scene, suggesting prehistoric European drama, the Abbe Breuil reports: : “To the left a black rhinoceros walks slowly away; in the center, drawn in red, a half-conventional-ized man is lying besicle a javelin and a throwing stick. To the right, a sand-colored bison outlined in black gazes at him; its entrails seem to be flowing out like a horse ripped open in a bull-fight.” In peaceful contrast: near the man a bird is perched on a post.

pending meeting with Paul mounted. Would he ask her any questions! No, of cours not! He'd be too busy with the job in hand. - is =» AT LAST, the big passenger plane nosed down for the landing at La Guardia. “Through her window, Martha saw for the first time the pattem of water and runways and hangers, the seaplane basin and the great &hapes of liners on the which made New

of those ships down there.” The tactful, electric warning snapped on. “Fasten Seat Belts.” The hostess smiled af; her, there was & tiny bump as the landing wheels touched the ground. And then, not two minutes after the ship had taxied to a halt and wheeled al to discharge her passengers, Martha Marshall was walking through the cabin door and staring straight into the lifted face of Paul Elliott. de had come to meet her!

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