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Tomorrow's Promise

By Temple Bailey Continued

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when supper was served, Margot sat at a little table with Gar and two others. The food was de cious and she ate with appetite. Usually she denied herself ior the sake of her figure. but tonight the blood flowed warmly in her veins. She had things to do which gave a zeal. to her thinking. She was going

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M W16! Presidins. no delicate serv- ins of thin tcast and marmalade, 0! areen and black grapes in BIIiGl' b”"l5- 9' NINE Juice in tall frail glasses. Here were huge plates or oatmeal with cream thick as honey: 3995- Cold Hid white on :1 great bl"? P331-Cr. flanked by wood-smok- Edtharn in crisp slices; wames gnu ” ""53 Mud IPl)les and fruit 5541095: Ind all this heartiness to be ::31rkllt:e;l by the hours of exercise as loan erpt the young l-lewitts l.-an ms” no orses. Here were no neu. were; complexes. The Hewitt; mam nxolrqmal lamily, made ,0 by y l eritance and a serene environment. "Ll Charles ma 1: llfhvg Csgufren." Anne and herself. be vy all live like this." It wcum -onderful. she thought, to be 3

to fight Anne Ordway for the pos- session ol her lover. it would be a light to the finish and she would ful to be like Elinor

win. 80. like a warrior on the eye on, be colmnuad of a. battle, she savored to the full

mother like Mrs. Hewitt She had never thought it would be wonder-

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Continued from page 2 hound racing is very popular in the States and in England. but Canadians haven't got around to racing dogs - not yet. According to. the Em-yc. Brit... greyhounds have been racing at least a thou- sand years longer than have horses. The custom originated in Egypt. The Egyptians raced their dogs in open fields with a wild hare as quarry. . As late as 1782. no less a person than John Wesley said. ”The giving up oi witchcraft is in effect giving up the Bible."

His words fell on dead ears. The worm has turned. . . . There never was, nor ever will

be a perpetual 'motion machine be- cause such a machine would defy all the definitely established prin- ciples of physical science. But.

well as men without brains, have tried to build such a machine. John W. Keeley (1837-lmei not only claimed to have invented a perpetual motor, but he also in- duced I number of capitalists to form the Keeley Motor Com- pany in New York. The machine, like all its predecessors, was a pure lake, controlled from a basement where the necessary motive power had been installed! Ywr watch ticks five times each second To tick I billion times it would therefore take (3,000 years. . . .

is Joe Louis too old to stage a comeback? Perhaps. But don't forget that Bob Pitaslmmons and Jack Johnson won the heavyweight crowns at the age of thirty-seven.

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strange to say. men of brains. as

the meat and drink which were to .. sustain her. "I The next morning she drove her

roadster to Annapolis and took the

terry across tin bay. It was raining

a little as she followed the road to

the Hewitt farm. and the wind blew

cool. But Margot cared nothing for

wind and weather. Her blood was

hot with excitement. As she vwent

a:1ong she rehearsed what she was

to say to Anne. and she thought

she knew the answers. if she lied

a little, what harm? The end would

surely justify the means.

She lcund Anne away. The color-

ed maid who answered the door said they were expecting her at any moment. she had gone to Baltimore early that morning. The rest of the family was also away. A reunion on someb0dy's birthday.

Margot -was glad that fate was playing in to her hands. she would wait for Anne and see her alone. She sat on the porch and the maid brought her lemonade and crisp cookies. Mai-got's scul yearned for a cocktail, but she dared not S1198!-Isl. it

The garden -before the house was ablaze with roses. Their scent came up to her. The rain had stopped. and the bay was blue and still. A peaceful scene. Margot told herself. but it did not appeal to her. it was the kind of thing that Charles lik- ed. and if she got him back. she have to affect a love for nature which she did not leel.

The shadows lengthened anl still Anne did not come. she had gone to Baltimore because of a letter from her mother. It had arrived on the preceding day. and when she had read it she had gone at once to Vicky. "It's about herself and David."

Vicky, in the garden cutting roses for the table. sat down on a rustic bench and motioned Anne to sit he- side her. "Read it to me, my dar- ling."

Elinor had covered several pages with sprawling script.

"My darling child:

"You haven't an:v.s-cred my OUT)? letter. but I beg of you to answer this. In a few weeks I shall be free to marry David. But David is in

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financial straits and it makes things difficult. Your father has a mortg- age on his property. and David is so prcud that he has resoix-cd to sell and pay off the mortgage. He says the cant be in debt to .a man whose wife he has stolen.

"This means. my door. that when we marry. David and I will have no roof over our hcads. and that if we live on his income, we must go abroad to live decently. Your father has more money than he can use.. You won't touch a penny of it, and after I leave, there will be practic- ally no expense to keep up things here. I have written your lather and told him that. But he is hard. He says that I wanted to go with David. and so he gave me my tree- dcm. But he will not finance us. And, indeed. I am afraid David would not let me take anything your father might offer.

"But David need never know. if your father gave me an allowance that it. was not my own. And what I want you to do is to go to Francis and ask him. He will do anything ior you. And I am your mother. An- ne. 0th I know what you think of me. But I -want to be happy. and Til be happy with David. He's so good that T he forgives me everything. And I'll try in live up to what he thinks of me. But I dont want him him to lose his house. and I dcn'i.

pair could then live together nil

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want to go to him like a beggar. in rags and tatters." when she had finished readin: Anne said. ''I have decided to ask Daddy. Vicky. But I want you to tell me whether you think I'm right or wrong."

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such dreadful wisdom for one so young! Yet Anne was right. David had done higih-mindedly what nil- nor had dono falsely and lmiairI.V. "But, she will go to him with a lie on her lips." Vicky said.

"No. Daddy must tell him that Mother can't -be happy with out money. I think he will do it." Vicky said. "I wish you could keen out of it." "so do I. but 1' can't. I shall tele- phone Daddy and go up tomorrow morning if he can see me." rnncis could and would. He was delighted. Anne must lunch with him. He was completely at her rr- vice for the day. Anne. breakfasting early with the Hewitt family. was aware more than ever of the interdependence and cooperation of its members. It was a homely meal. Here was no old mahogany and massive sliver.

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