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PAGE TWO S Mffiß WW 7'-y Beatrice Burton © ‘® 29 a WWB °« i She sat down on the front steps.] and looked through the Sunday pa- ' per. Suddenly the photograph of a I house in the advertising , eetion ' caught her eye. It i.oked like their ' house . . . Pick’s and her . It w , ■ ' their house! , "Owner must sell,” read the cut- ; line beneath the picture. “Six room house, with finished attic. Evem thing in good condition. Good terms if buyer takes furniture. Gall Mr. Gregory, Lawyers Building.” So Dick was going to sell the furniture, too! Everything that had been theirs . . . the friendly yellow lamp in the living room ,the cunning white kitchen table, the gold-colon d Chinese rug that had lain like sun light on the floor of the* dinjng room. “I suppose he’ll sell even the lit,-' tie red smoking stand I gave him for Christmas,” Gloria thought mi - erably, “and my little* tea-wagon!” The little tea-wagon had been Ute pride of Gloria’s heart. It had looked so homev with its him* tea cups, and the little silver teapot that had been Dick’s grandmother’s. "J think I’ll telephone Dick and ask- him for that little tea-wagon," she made up her mind that night, as she lay in bed. But when the morning came she did not telephone. She decided to go jlo Dick’s office to ask him for the tea-wagon. She didn’t know why . . . but she wanted to see him' She wanted terribly to see bin. again She spent two hours bathing her self. brushing her hair, making her self lovely for Dick's eyes. Her beauty was her only weapon against. [ Miss Briggs. She must keep it i bright and shining! i ‘’Thank goodness, I’m still yotftig!” she thought. “Years young er than Miss Briggs, who must be at least thirty. “After a while I shall be thirty, and call myself twenty-nine,” Glo ria"said to herself. “But I’ll bet I won't look like Sue Briggs! So lorffr as there’s a grain of powder or tan inch of lipstick left in the woMd, I’ll have it ,by jinks!” Her heart was light as she hur ried down the street to the street car. line. She hummed happily, as women do when they are going to meet the man they love. . . But did she,love Dick? She didn’t know. She. knew only that in a few min utes she would be seeing him again. I That was enough. J. . She had hardly stepped from the street ear when she did see him. He.Svas not ten feet away from her, walking along the pavement. And beside him, looking up into his eye was Susan Briggs! Gloria’s one fear was that the two might see her. Quickly, as if she were fleeing, she ran across the side-walk, and into a drugstore. She sat down at the' soda, fountain and ordered a chocolate sundae. When it came, the sight of it made her ill. She paid her check and hurried out into the fresh air and the sunshine. . Thank goodness, Dick and Miss Briggs were nowhere in sight! suppose they’re having lunch somewhere, together,” G 1 oria thought, with a pang of self-pity. She" walked along, not knowing or caring where she was going. . . . Then a poster outside a moving picture theater caught her eye. •‘Jealous Wives”—the words flamed cut-on it. Gloria smiled grimly to herself. “I’m one of them,” she thought. “I think I’ll go in, and see what it's all abofiut.” She went into the* dark, cool cav- EXCURSION July 11 TYBEE $7.00 For the Round Trip Tickets on sale for all trains July 11. Return limit leave Savannah prior to midnight July 15, 1925. Sleeping Cars and Coaches Spend four delightful days in beautiful Savannah on the beach at Tybee— “Where Ocean Breezes Blow’’ Numerous attractions for entertainment of visitors. Visit Tybrisa On Tybee Inland Largest and most attractive Bath House, Dance I a villion, and Amusement Palace on South Atlantic Coast* Also on Tybrisa is the Oleander Tea Garden where delicious food is served at a reasonable price. ASK TICKET AGENT FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. Central of Georgia Railway “THE RIGHT WAY” — S' 1 ISfc // -ilk 4 s o illii® i 1 th H ' ti -Wk*.• I HiWw p 'i ' '' ■ i ; > ! I -I L—.—l “I’m going in,” Gloria mad e up her io>nd suddenly. 1 i’ll of the theater. She sank grate fully into a chair. . . . Ah, it was good to be here, alone! Away from her mother's disappointed eyes, her father’s kindliness, from Aunt Dor cas’ sharp tongue . . . away from everybody. There was no sound in the the ater except the whirl ing of a huge electric fan in the center of the ceiling. Down in the orchestra pit, the organist was turning the leaves of his music. The picture flashed on the screen. Against it Gloria could see the sil- I houet of a man who sat directly in I front of her . . . Dick! 1 She leaned over to touch him upon the shoulder. Then caught herself. . . . So, he would have to come to her! She was through beg ging him to take her back. . . . But there was a certain cold com fort in the thought that he was not with Miss Briggs, at any rate. She must have merely walked out of the building with him on her way to lunch. Gloria was glad of that. The thought that Dick could give her up for a plain woman like Susan Briggs had added to her cup of bit terness. Perhaps, afti r all, he did not care so very much for her. Suddenly Dick shifted a little in his seat. Gloria held her breath. Suppose he should turn around ami see her there! . . . He would think that she had followed him into the theater. No, he mustn’t think that. She would never give him another chance to think she wanted him to take her back. . . . She was through! Softly she slipped from her chair, and -walked out of the twilight of the theater. But a great loneliness dropped | down on her like a cloud, as she went out into the thronged street. I How lonely a crowd could make I you feel. . . . Gloria turned away from the cen [ icr of the town. She walked along familiar streets. She knew where she was- going. . . . Home! Not to her mother’s house, but to the little place that hau been Dick’s and hers! She was going' to that ■ forbidden place . . vhe one spot 1 on the whole wide earth where she ■ felt at home. How cozy and happy the little I green and white house looked as | Gloria came down the street toward | it! It seemed to twinkle a welcome |to her with all of its shining win- ■ (lows. ... But in the center of the green lawn was a real estate agent’s t “For Sale” sign. Gloria had a sud den iippulse to pull up the sign, as I she might have torn a weed out of the lawn. . . . I “Hello, there, lady!” a voice hail ed her. Her neighbor, Mrs. Donberg, was leaning out of one of the second floor windows of the houes next door. “I was thinking of calling up the real estate people to ask them to show me through your house,” she said in her shrill voice. “But now that you’re here you can let me in. Nice Elberta Peaches Extra Nice Cantaloups * '■q And Ice Cold Watermelons Braggs Market We Just Know (live How Should Phone Be H ; WK Call - Done! kk-?' Il SBBK 506 NEW LIFE IN WORN-OUT TIRES! By Having Them Vulcanized When your tires are in need of Vul canizing remember Americus Steam Vulcanizing company is the place to have it done. AMERICUS STEAM VULCANIZING CO. ‘ Lamar Street Phone 506 ■ THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER I’ll be right over!” Gloria eyed her coldly. “I’m sorry, Mrs. Donberg,” she said, “but I haven’t any key with me. I —I just came to pick some of the roses in the backyard. . . .Were you thinking of buying the house?” “Well, we’d love to have it. It’s a little bigger than ours,” Mrs. Don berg answered. Gloria knew perfectly well that she had no thought of buying the house. “She just wants to look through it, to see all my things! . . The big busy-body!” she told herself angrily, as she walked around to the backyard. She didn’t want Mrs. Donberg poking around her house! She did not want anyone to look through her house! . . . And the thought that someone would presently buy it and live in it was unbearable to Gloria. Why, it belonged to her . . . that house! She had picked out every scrap of wall-paper in it . . . every stick of furniture! What right had Dick to sell her house. . . .? “I’m going in,” Gloria made up her mind, suddenly. On the grass lay a clothes’ pole. Gloria put the sharp iron end of it under one of the sunroom windows. Using it as a lever she finally man aged to get the window open. She laughed aloud when she food in the sunroom. “No wonder there are so many burglars, if house breaking is as easy as this!” she thought. She sat down at the piano and ran her hands lightly along the keys in the opening bars of Offenbach’s “Barcarolle.’i “No,” she thought, springing up, “I’d better not play that thing. , . It always makes me want to cry. . . .” She knew that she was on the verv edge of tears. Who would have thought, a year ago, that she could ever have felt this way about a silly old house? Gloria looked around her. There was Dick’s chair . . . and the read ing lamp swung above it. There was the little red smoking-stand she had given him. The tray on it was filled with fine gray ash. . . . She closed her eyes. She could see him sitting there, with a book in his hands, smoking his old pipe! Ah, it wasn’t the house that Glo ria was homesick for .she knew, at last. It was Dick she wanted! Dick! She dropped into his chair, and laid her head back against the brocade where his head had rested. Tears filled her throat, burned be hind her closed eyelids. (To Be Continued) HUNTINGTON Protracted services will begin at Pleasant Grove Baptist church Sun day, July 12. The pastor, Rev. J. S. Winn, of Leslie, will do the preaching, and Mrs. J. J. Heard, of Vienna, will conduct the singing. The public is cordially invited to at tend these services. On Thursday morning, July 9, all interested will meet at the church for the purpose of cleaning of the cemetery and grounds. Mr .and Mrs. E. R. Stover will entertain the members of the Senior B. Y. P. U. with a social at Can’t Spoil Her Picnics! Op si ' HI • W ' I - z .* ■ ■ '■!ss^■>*. ■ Pleasant Grove Baptist church their home Tuesday night. was well represented /at the en campment at Myrtle Springs last week. Those going were Misses. Lucile and Tera Kinard, Virginia Ethridge, Claude Edwin and James Frank Johnson, Griff and Woodrow Ethridge and C. C. Sheppard ami Alton Bradley. Miss Clara Belle Ethridge left last week for Davenport, lowa, where she has accepted a position. Mrs. C. R. Cole, of Jacksonville, is visiting friends and relatives here. Mrs. Lee Westbrook and little, son, of Danie, Fla., are spending sometime here with Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Westbrook. Mr. and Miss Bradley, of Moul trie, are visitors at the home of their uncle, Mr. B. A. Bradley. SHEETMUSIC! We have a complete line of the newest and latest hits in Sheet Music. If we haven’t got what you want, we will gladly order it for you. ' THOS. L. BELL, 1 Inc. See Our Window Display WALKER’S “The Store of Quality and Service” Thursday Specials Dexdale Chiffon Hosiery—finest in town — full fashioned, pair— sl.so Dexdale Silk Hosiery, full fashioned —all Silk-Lisle Top, nothing like it, pair— sl.4s Pigeon Brand Hosiery. All silk- —100 per cent pure, pair— 89c See our table of Remnants and short lengths All clean, new goods. Marked at specia prices. WE OFFER VALUES ALL THE TIME H. S. Walker & Co. Lamar Street AMERICUS, GA WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 8, 1925 Virginia Lee Schubach, aged 2, has a dozen snakes for her pets— and likes ’em. Ker father, “Tex” Schubach, owns a big snake farm near Berkeley, Calif., and he has taught her to like the reptiles. Why? So no snake will ever spoil her picnics, he says. Mrs. W. A. Parker returned to her heme at New Era Sunday after a two weeks visit at the home of her sister, Mrs. M. C. Harris. Mrs. A. E. Perry and familv (spent Sunday pleasantly at the Lome of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Bray. Mr. and Mrs. Perry Cannon and family, of Americus, were recent visitors to Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Cannon at their home near here. Mrs. Walter Guerry, Hugh and Verna Parker, of Americus, were the week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Johnson. THE STANDARD Extraordinary ] SPECIALS' Featuring Splendid New Goods, Marked at Such Phenomenally Low Prices That Quan tities Cannot Last Long. Be Among Those Who Enjoy First Advantage, and Unprecedented Savings. $8 Linen and Silk Dresses, At $3.95. Beautiful New Irish Linen Dresses, made and trimmed in the newest fashions; some with voile combination. Hiey are all new and beautiful. Now, your choice at ;$3.95 50c Blue and Pink Dot Ruffled Marquisette, at 39c Made ready to hang, beauti fully ruffled; regular width; ab solutely new. 39c A”, $2.50 to $3. Radium Silk At $l9B Pink, Blue L.avender and While; excellent quality. $1.98 $3.50 Colored Striped Bed Spreads, at $2.48. Beautiful colored striped Bed Spreads, size 81x90. They are worth a whole lot more than our price. $2.48 11 IIMiiHM IH $1.69 Seamless Sheets, At $1.19. Bleached snow-white; free from dressing, made with broad hems, seamless; size 81x90 inches; buy for future needs. $1.19 25c to 29c Bungalow Cretonnes, at 19c. Full yard wide in about fifty pretty designs; all guaranteed fast colors. 19c 3000 Yards Dress Gingham, At 10c Yard Full regular width and all guaranteed fast colors. Over one hundred patterns to select from; in reasonable quantities at, yard 10c 8-4 and 9-4 Unbleached Sheeting, at 29c Yard Clean-up Sale of factory ends —desirable lengths from 5 to 20 yard pieces; only 2 1-2 yards required for a sheet; while the lot lasts, yard ’ r ' . 29c Genuine 9x12 Linoleum Squares, $9.95 This sale to continue for the balance of this week. Guaran teed to measure 9x12 feet, and some of the prettiest patterns we have ever shown. $9.95 I Pepperel Sheeting, Yard Wide, 15c Yard. • The best finish you have seen; fine even weave, full yard wide; suitable for nice underwear, - sheets, pillow cases, etc. 15c 1 BFi: lICKETS IO RYLAN DER THEATRE FOR NEXT WEDNESDAY THE STANDARD 1 DRY GOODS COMPANY | Forsyth Street, Next to Bank of | Commerce ‘i AMERICUS, GA. t jjl
