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WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1942

ABBIE AN' SLATS

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Crisis By Eaton K. Goldthwaite

CHAPTER THIRTEEN BILL, TALCOTT'S change

foreseen effect. It scared the daylights out of Professor Constantine. Apparently Martha Swenson had said something to the professor about Bill Talcott's being a ‘“‘poleetical” prisoner, and he had studiously remained out of the way. When the launch came alongside, the professor was first board, stowing himself as far forward as the confines of space would allow.

pills. June creature, transformation.

Paterson, unpredictable also suffered an abrupt Came down from her high horse, lowered her nose and chin, inspected Bill Talcott with a new light in her wide grayblue eves. Vaguely he wished she would keep on acting as a spoiled brat because that way he knew, or thought he did, how to handle her.

was in trouble of some kind her sympathies were aroused. There was a new glow of warmth in her dark eyes and by accident or design he found her nearer to him. Struthers didn’t come down to see them off. Another conference with Halsey and transfer of the precious envelope had wound him up. The last time Talcott saw him he was headed for the office. Even Halsey had been a little nettled. Talcott

had overheard him confiding to June|

Paterson that sometimes people took themselves entirely too seriously. To Talcott himself, Halsey

he was over the way in which his

of manner had one immediate if un-

And, | there he barricaded himself with luggage, muttering and munching

| Martha Swenson’s attitude had! changed, too. Because she knew he

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MacDowell had nothing to say either. Apparently angry at Bill Talcott for refusing his advice, he wedged himself near the stern and kept solemn aloofness. = = 2 ONLY BLACK TOMAS remained on the pier to watch them go. Bill Talcott realized suddenly that he was not going away, that in truth he had never really been there. Physically, yes. His body had ex{sted on Abas island. He had fol-

lowed a routine, had worked, pro-| duced, eaten, slept and sometimes |

played. But he had never truly been a part of Abas. He had brought his own world

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with him, his customs, traditions, | thoughts and inhibitions. That| Halsey grumbled, “Don’t see why) was a narrow place where the brook WORK DER PROFESSOR a world he had never left behind;|We can’t tie up and go to a hotel. had worn through soft rock and we MADE ON ARTIFICIAL : KIOOING had worn it all the while as a suit The authorities can wait until chucked it full of stones and | RUBBER WA! BUT HE =o x of armor. Of Abas he had never mormng” . plugged the leaks with sod and § TOOK \T ALL WITH HiMY : : = | Talcott couldn't resist. iv. yr

been and could never be a part. He and his kind could come here for a hundred or a thousand years,

“Do you think Struthers would ap- | prove?”

“Damn Struthers! I know that

but Abas would always belong to! the men of whom huge, patient, I for one am hungry, tired and unchildlike Tomas was a symbolic comfortable. I wish to heaven we'd

figure. Th~ great brassy ball of the sun dropped into the sea. Brief twilight and then the moon, which had been high in the heavens since 8 o'clock, took on ghostly radiance. Low clouds moved swiftly in the brisk northeast trades.

Under the expert hand of Se- |

bastien the sturdy launch ate up

thought to bring sandwiches!” | A lump in the stern bestirred it{self. “Food!” MacDowell groaned. {*Don’t nobody mention that word again!” i 2 2 » | JUNE PATERSON laughed easily. As swift and unpredictable as the wind, her mood was off on another

track. “I remember,” she said

leaves. We worked like beavers and everybody was so busy they didn’t take any notice of us. “All of a sudden we lieard a lot of yells and daddy and Uncle Jack came running. Our dam was So successful the brook had made a pond and the potato salad and sandwiches were floating around and the fire was out. And that was the end of the picnic.” Halsey and Martha Swenson Joined in her laughter, and even the professor seemed to think it funny enough to venture a chuckle. But Bill Talcott was silent. Her

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the miles in quiet, vibrationless softly, “when I was a very little| TC 2 had caused a wave of nostal- : performance. “What time yo We girl. We lived in the central part fit te Sweep (over him. Sis mei a a By H. T. Hamiin get Ji Mig ogo ort of New Ho state, and in the fall |, “Co "4 the brook and the OSCAR BOOM'S ALL RIGHT, LP ON YER FER CATSAKE, [YOU ASKED FOR (I HATE TADD TO THE ro a we would always go on PpICHICS. |p, iienup trees. But through all CHEMICAL FEET, YOU GUYS! HOW MUCH ¢ (A HAND IN THIS GENERAL CLAMOR, Tid say at 4 ociock of so” far Fe agg | this memory, stirred by an evident] F\ SELES, (QA WE SOT AlN. FARTHER WE \ WAR DIDN'TCHA?) BUT IF YOU ASK ME? “Four! Will we. be able to get|woodiot with a wonderful brook ee yee yo as pass, COME : DO !/ a GOTT A GOP 'TAINT AWRIGHT, CUT \ THIS WAR IS SHORTY hotel accommodations?’ meandering through it. We used |p te SE SON Cd Mac / ! A FITTIN' FOR A KING \ TH’ BEEFIN'!/\ ON GLAMOR/ «I don’t know. At worst, we canto ramble through the woods, AE A while ay - TBE TOTIN STUFF : pass the few remaining hours in the gathering butternuts and chestnuts vale Be Continued) ii LIKE A PORTER / ( qe launch.” ~ |to roast over the fire Uncle Jack iam : : i \ if June Paterson had lighted a cig- land daddy had built on a slope of | (All events, ames and racters in this t aret and behind its glowing tip her rock by the brook. ___ story are fletitions) : eyes smoldered. “You don’t seem| “One day Lowell and I decided | BOOK LISTS CITIZENS’ DUTIES J] er He ~ * to worry much about the comfort/that we wanted to go swimming A book, “Education for Citizen Re- N*f Zz: ) ~The . YT of your guests,” she murmured inland the brook was much too shal-|sponsibilities,” has been published 2 pe b, : ) another abrupt shift to flippancy. (low. So while mother and Aunt Ida by the National Foundation for 3 wn XA . oN “In any event we can’t land un- and my sisters and cousins were|Education in American Citizenship i ! % no. uw a til we've had permission from the laying out the food on blankets, and whose central offices are in In- ge! i Rafe : ee : harbormaster,” Talcott answered daddy and Uncle Jack and the |dianapolis. Contributors include . ; , patiently. a er ALE Sen weit Shine Shalt authorities in anthropelogy, eco- e EN . ; OR

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