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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
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“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.
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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
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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.
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$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
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$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
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