About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1925)
PAGE TWO r .MM SEYMOUR , E3 FOOT LOO? . jb\T E>£ATDIC& PUDTON _ “ ft-• > ' SEQUEL FLAPPER W ©NEA When Dan had left her, and had disappeared down the rain-swept Boardwalk. May crossed over to th railing and stood staring out at the ocean. Her body shook violently with ex citement. But a dullness, that had nothing to do with excitement, set tled down over her spirit. She knew that Carlotta was wait ing for her back at the Traymore waiting to hear what she had said to Dan, and, more important, what ].e had said to her. How could she go back and tell her that Dan had just proposed to her? . . . She couldn’t. She would have to invent some story—some thing that sounded reasonable. An 1 at this moment she couldn’t. She was numb, stupefied. Presently she began to walk again, and, from sheer force of hah it, stopped to look into the shop win dows that she passed. They were brilliantly lighted on this gray au tumn day, and looked as welcoming as a bonfire in the winter woods. May stopped at the jewelry store ■where she had bought her black pearl ring. “I may as well look at wrist watches,” she thought, ‘‘lt'll help pass away the time, even if I don’t buy one.” But she did buy one. It was a tiny platinum thing set with dia monds and sapphires. And it stood May exactly SIOOO. She gasped a little as she handed two of her pre cious SSOO bills across the counter to the salesman-. But after she was out of the shop, she was glad she had bought it. for the mere sight of it glittering on her wrist, was cheering. It had always cheered May tre mendously to shop. Long age. Dr. John had observed that after one of their frequent ‘‘rows” she went down town and spent two or three hundred dollars for something she didn’t, need. And it was of Dr. John that May was thinking as she swayed along in the wind. How good he had always been to her, in his middle-aged, father!'’ way!—Tears came suddenly to her «-yes as. she thought of him Angrily she brushed eheni away, and with them the thought of him. No use to worry over the old trou hies that were dead and gone!— Not while there were new ones to bother about! “N w, about this Herbert Water- * LR.. I® || UW Y aw tela. V wk s They Don’t Just Happen To Be Good You hear a lot about Goodyear Tires. They have a fine reputation all over the world. Did you ever stop to seriously figure out why they are so well thought cf ? You can’t tell much about tires by merely looking at them. T hey all lock pretty much alike. But ycu know Goodyear tires don’t just happen to be good. They are good for very definite reasons. Most of the reasons why Goodyear tires are good are due to patented processes materials and methods not found in any other tires. The All-Weather Tread, the Goodyear Bead, the remaikable new Cord ma terial SUPER-T WlST—the greup ply construction—these and many other things are the reasons why more people ride on Goodyear tires than on any other kind. And the beauty cf it is—you can buy these superb, quality tires for r.o .-..ore, frequently less, than you pay for the. general run of tires. •--> '* Americus Steam Vulcanizing ,Co. Lamar Street Americus, Ga. I it ■. * ■■ i • he 111 hi 't i j’ h 'I 11 1 .1 I z '■ ■ ' ill H ' < < J ata hilm is w IkV What did Dan have to say to you?” sire asked as May drop- ped into a chair beside her. bury,” she said to herself, “\Vhat| are you going to do about him? Let | him make a fool of you?” But she had no answer to give , herself. She could only go on trying to an j swer more of the baffling questions that came tumbling into her mind. Why was it that Dan Sprague, ‘ who belonged to another woman, I should ask her to marry him at the exact moment when she was earnest; ly wishing that Herbert Waterbury should propose? Was. Life planned to thwart peo ple? Was it just a huge practical joke played by the gods upon mor tals? 9 5! | “If it is, I certainly can’t say that i I get much of a laugh out if it!” j May decided grimly. i At the door of the hotel, she turn ‘ ed suddenly and crossed the Board iwalk, to have one last look at the i gray symphony of the storm. Above the waves that broke wildly on the ■ beach, a gull wheeled and fluttered I in the great wind that swept in I from the sea. “I’m like that bird.’’ May thought, with her eyes on the gull, “Trying ■ to keep my wings up. with every wind buffeting me down . . .” Tears of self-pity sprang once more to her eyes. But, after a mo ment, she squared her shoulders and F THE AMERICUS TIMES RECORDER walked back to the hotel. She found Carlotta sitting discon solately in thn lobby, with an un opened magazine on her lap. She was powdefed and curled and mani cured within an inch of her life, but no amount of grooming could hide the lines around her mouth and eyes. ‘‘What did Dan have to say to you?” she asked as May dropped in to a chair beside her. Her tone was casual, but May could see the look of strain in her eyes. ‘‘Did he make love to vou? I’ll bet I he did.” “We talked about you.” May said with the utter calmness of a person who is not telling the truth. A little gleam of pleasure lighted up Carlotta’s face. “You did?” she asked, “and what did Dan say about me?” “He didn’t say a word,” May an swered. “I did all the talking. I read him a regular monologue about his belonging to you. And I told him that, under the circumstances, he couldn’t expect me to go walk ing in the rain with him. He took it like a lamb, too. Do you know, I I’m sure he cares about you, Car- I lotta.” She felt that she ought to add i that bit of fiction as a crumb of comfort for the dejected little wo man at her side. “Os course, he cares about me,” Carlotta replied comfortably, “Dan is really crazy about me, but he wants the thrill of a new crush every now and then. I know he doesn’t mean anything by flirting with your or any other girl he meets.” May wondered how 'Carlotta would take it if she told her that Dan Sprague had iust asked her to marry him! . . . Why, at this very instant, if she had wanted to, she could be speeding toward the near est marriage license bureau, with Dan Sprague. What a cad he was! And, what a cad Herbert Water burv was, too! “These men who tell you how much they love you, and forget to propose marriage . . . they’re queer birds. Carlotta,” she observed final ly. She rose, and slipped out of her wet raincoat. “Let’s go in and have a cup of tea and forget ’em,” she said. * * * “When are you sailing for Eu rope?” Carlotta asked suddenly, as she buttered her fourth muffin. ' “Oh, dear, I shouldn’t cat like this! I I’m’getting so fat. But, Jiminy, ' you can’t starve yourself to death all the time . . .” She sighed, and put three lumps of sugar into her BRAGG’S MARKET Will be open on Thursdays. PHONE US YOUR ORDERS HAND BAGS, SUIT CASES AND LEATHER POCKETBOOKS REPAIRED By N. R. Harris, Expert Workman Aluminumware Free to Customers PHILLIPS CHAMPION SHOE AND HARNESS SHOP 111 E. Forsyth Street 48HIBHBMHHBHRHBBBHHHBHBHMD9K89HHHMSHMIMHBBSBMMHBMBMI WALKER’S... ‘ The Store of Quality and Service’’ Special Prices On Voiles I Floral \ Prince 25c Figured / AYARD We will be open Thursday’s all day beginning tomorrow H. S. Walker & Co. Lamar St. Phone 44 Americus, Ga. 1 tea. May hesitated. She didn’t want to go to Europe just now, when there was still a chance that she might marry Herbert Waterbury and his money. She could go to ’ Europe any time. “Why, I hadn't’ thought much about it, to tell the truth,” she an swered, frankly. “I like it here pret ty well, don’t you?” Carlotta shook her head. “I hate it,” she said. “It’s all right in the summer, but at this time of year, i the cold strikes right into my mar | row bones. 1 think it’s about time I began to think about going home.” “Home?” May repeated, with questioning eyebrows. Somehow or other, she had never thought of Car lotta as having a home. She seem ed to her to be a restless bird of passage . . . like Dan Sprague. “Oh. yes, I’ve the darlingest lit tle bungalow in the whole world out in California near Los Altos. You’d love it . . . wistaria dripping blos soms over the front door, and roses climbing all over the tile roof. Brown hills piled behind it, and ! green grass stretched before it like I a velvet carpet . . .” “Why, you sound like a poet!” I Mav exclaimed, laughing. “That’s because I really am sen timental about the place,” Carlotta answered solemnlv. “I love it, as I love no other place and no other person on this earth . . . not even Dan. It’s the only home I’ve ever had. I’d always dreamed of living there, sometime, with Dan, after we were married. But I guess that time will never come . . .” Her mouth drooped as she poured heavy cream into her third cup of tea. “I’ve just about made up my ' mind to go out to Los Altos, and forget Dan,” she went on. “I sup pose I could have a pretty good ■ time playing bridge and keeping i house and raising flowers, don’t you? And yet ... a woman’s life ■ is awfully empty without a man in j it. Don’t you think so?” ■ i “Terribly empty,” May agreed. • with a sigh. “A regular vacuum cf •I boredom.” ■ i Carlotta giggled. “I don’t know • what you mean, but it sounds awfully smart,” she said. ! Then she pushed back her tea-cup and leaned forward with her plump forearms pressed on the table. “Look here, May,” she began, “I s suppose I may call you ‘May’ . . . . I notice that you’ve been calling me ! ‘Carlotta’ . . . Look here, I wish , | vou’d make up your mind to spend i the winter with me out at Los Altos. 1 I’d love to have you with me. And !• there’s oceans of room in the bunga- WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. AUGUST 19 1925 Big Bertha ! The Katrina of squawdom, and a | marvel of Indian terpichorean art,; is Big Bertha. From back in the| foothills of Montana she came for I the Fort Union (Minn.) celebra-; tion, and carried off first honors in j tom tom shimmying event. Yes, she weighs 400 pounds. low. It’s a big thing . . . plenty of! room for both of us in it.” We enjoyed our half-holiday on Thursday, and beginning tomorrow we will be open all day on Thursdays. Give us your orders. SPARKS GROCERY CO. NOTICE I pay highest cash price for Iron and Steel Scrap, Junk Autos, Old Tires and Tubes, Metals and Rags. T.L? DURHAM TSBrqhav -COOLEST PLACE IHLRSDAY iN TOWN R YLA.\DER ~ Her innocence was her greatest danger—for in love af fairs the most innocent girl can be bolder than the bravest man. We Have Just Received a New Shipment of Silk Umbrellas ! —J_.\i 1 zZ-M /Ij) s. - As* SPECIAL SELLING UMBRELLAS // Priced From— [ ///? fff $4.95 Up! / Our store will be open all day Thursday. CHURCHWELL’S . 218-222 W. Lamar St. j Americus, Ga. I She looked at May questionlngly. “Will you come?” she asked. May’s thoughts rapidly returned to Herbert Waterbury. . . . Hadn’t he said something about spending 1 his winters in California? Perhaps if she went out to Los Altos with Carlotta, she would see I a great deal of him. Whereas if she sailed away to Europe now the chances were that she never would lay eyes on him again. “It’s lovely of you to ask me to go, Carlotta,” she said at last. “May I think over your invitation for a dav or two?” In the meantime, she made up her mind, she would find out what Herbie’s plans for the winter were! (To Be Continued) OLD RESIDENT NEAR DEATH “I bad not eaten food for 10 I days and was slowly starving to ! death. Given up by five doctors, I ! tried a bottle of Mayr’s Wonder i ful Remedy, which gave relief at ! once. I am 75 years old and would I have died but for your wonderful j medicine. The jaundice is all gone 'and I am gaining appetite and : strength every day. 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