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GWEN
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TtlZ STORY THUS FAII Bpritt Her
lont motion picture producer met and
nuttled Elisabeth whose first basband
Arthur KlUredfe wn reported killed In
World War 1 bat who later unrecot
Hired went to wort for Sprat under the
name of Kessler Dick 17yeirold ton
of tat Herlongt enllited In the Marlnei
If was convinced that be had a Job
that mutt be done After they taw him
off Elisabeth recognizing Kessler at Ar-
thur toll him about It He denied that
he wai her former hmband and told
ber that unlets the forgot It be would go
away He forbade her to lay anything
to her hutband He ealltd ft an illuilon
and tried to convince her that the wai
wrong
CHAPTER XXI
That you will not trouble your
husband with this For it would
trouble him more than you can
Imagine In your present state Hell
be here in a few minutes Your first
Impulse ulll be to blurt out words
that tomorrow morning youd give
hall your life to take back Will
you promise
She did not answer and he added
If you dont promise Ill leave
Beverly Hills tonight I will not be
the means of wrecking your peace
or his
Yes she said faintly I prom-
ise that But you havent convinced
me Everything youve said I
know jou
The maid came in bringing or-
ange juice and the morning paper
Why didnt anybody wake me7
Elizabeth asked
Mr Herlong said not to He said
you were tired
Spratt had left her a note scrit >
bled In pencil across a sheet of stu-
dio stationery Elizabeth Glad
youre getting a long sleep I told
Cherry and Brian to go on to school
without bothering you I have to
leave now will ring you later if
anything turns up otherwise will see
you tonight All well Chin up the
war news looks pretty good this
morning anyway nothing lasts for-
ever I love you thought Id re-
mind you In case I hadnt mentioned
It lately Spratt
She got up and went to her tele-
phone Apparently he had been wait-
ing for her call for he answered
the phone himself When she told
him who she was he said Yes
Mrs Herlong and waited expect-
antly
First said Elizabeth I want
to apologize for my startling behav-
ior last night
Then you do know this morning
he asked eagerly that you were
mistaken
I dont know that not jet But
at least this morning I can promise
you to behave like an intelligent
adult You told me I could sec you
today May I come over
Certainly
Now
Whenever you like
Thank you
Kcsslers housekeeper told her he
was waiting for her in his study
Elizabeth went in and shut the door
behind her Kcssler had been sit-
ting before his typewriter with
sheets of manuscript around him
For an instant she wondered it he
had been working or if he had set
the stage to make it look as if he
found this so unimportant that he
could go on with his work without
interruption But she thought of that
only an instant As she came In
Kessler put his hand on his cane
and stood up Their eyes met and
Elizabeth said
I came here this morning to see
it I was right or wrong in what I
said to you last night I was right
Kessler drew in a quick breath
without answering Elizabeth came
nearer and sat down Holding her
handbag in her lap she leaned back
to look up at him
She said I have not been drink-
ing and I am not hysterical I had
nine hours sleep and when I woke
up my Impression of last night
seemed like i mistake based on a
chance resemblance It was not a
mistake She smiled at him plead-
ingly Arthur lets face this and
talk about It
Ill talk about it as long as you
like he answered her and as he
spoke he smiled too as though sorry
for her But Its not true Mrs
Herlong
But Elizabeth continued You
have a scar on your arm where you
were burnt by a splash of boiling
chocolate one night when I was mak-
ing fudge You have another scar
on your right knee made when you
and I were practicing fancy dives
and you hit the edge of the pool
Kessler sat down and moved a
pencil that was about to fall off the
edge of his table I have so many
scars he said that no doubt you
could And two that would fit those
you are talking about Then sup-
porting himself on his cane he
leaned toward her and continued
Mrs Herlong my body 4s such an
accumulation of patches and make-
shifts that to prove or disprove my
likeness to any healthy man would
be very difficult I didnt grow this
beard to disguise ray face but to
cover some ugly lines on my chin
that would make me even harder to
look at than X am now Yet you in-
sist I resemble your first husband 1
You are talking In abstractions
1 tell yat I know
Kessler shook bis head
ElUabetii shrank back Into her
MwSit
chair away from him How can
you do this to met she exclaimed
Dont you remember how I loved
youFor
For a moment she covered her
face with her hands She did not
know how thankful he was for that
moment when she did not see the
tightening of his eyes and lips that
even his grim selfcontrol could not
prevent She got out a handkerchief
and began twisting It between her
fingers then carefully untwisted It
and folded It again Her pause to
regain her own calmness had given
him time to regain his and when he
spoke again his voice was steady
Now that Dick has gone to fight
for tomorrows world he said to
her It would be a catastrophe to
see his mother refusing to give up
her dependence on yesterday
Elizabeth started What on earth
do you mean
He spoke to her In a low Intensely
purposeful voice Mrs Herlong
not long ago your son sat where
you are sitting defining In his own
mind the question before this gen
Dont jou remember how I locd
JOU
eratlon At length he understood I
like to think I helped him under-
stand that he was living In one of
the periods when the advance of civ-
ilization seems to halt because of
forces that are trying to push it back
Instead of letting It go ahead as It
was meant to do He came to sec
that his side was the right and ulti-
mately victorious side because
those who fight to raise up the dead
past eventually destroy them-
selves
Elizabeth shook her head with a
puzzled frown I understand that
but what has it got to do with me
With us
It has a great deal to do with you
and me This battle between yes-
terday and tomorrow Is only occa-
sionally an international affair But
its going on all the time In our own
lives Some of us refuse to let go-
of what used to be We cling to It
even when it Is nothing but dust
and dead leaves instead of accept-
ing the fact that weve got to go
ahead in time whether we like It or
not
Elizabeth did not answer But she
was listening to him for he spoke
so earnestly that he made her lis-
ten
Sometimes its so obvious hat a
child can see what theyre doing
baldheaded grandfathers acting like
fools over young girls women In
their fifties making themselves up
Into ridiculous caricatures of ado-
lescence Hasnt it ever occurred to
you that they do this because theyve
still got adolescent minds Theyve
never developed to the point where
they can enjoy adult pleasures In
the company of adults so they try
to imitate and associate with the
children whose equals they are A
ripe mentality Is an achievement
It takes effort and some people have
never made the effort So instead
of growing up they stay halffin
ished and spend what ought to be
their most abundant yean paying
their dancing partners and beauty
operators to tell them how young
they look Youve seen them and
laughed at them
Elizabeth caught her breath In
protest But you were Just telling
me I wasnt like that Im not
for heavens sake Im not going to
be a fat old woman who gets her
face lifted and goes starryeyed over
a gigolo I She laughed shortly at
the idea But even if I were what
has this got to do with us now to-
day with what I came here to tell
youIt
It has a great deal to do with it
Mrs Herlong Kessler insisted
Youre a charming woman not be-
cause youre sixteen but because you
arent Genuine maturity has a era
clous poise that youth never hat
The charm of youth if in its phys-
ical freshness but the charm of ma
turity Is a flowering of the spirit
Those others I was recalling to you
they have no youth and no maturity
either You have maturity you
know how fine it Is dont start to
bo like them Dont reach back
now
I dont understand you she ex-
claimed I want to know whether
or not you are Arthur Klttrcdge
come back from that German hos-
pital where they told me you had
died What are you trying to tell
meHe
He answered her simply I am
trying to tell you that If you want
to believe I am Arthur Kittrcdge
you can persuade yourself that I
am You can make yourself see me
as a living reminder of a period of
your life that was very happy that
perhaps has grown happier In your
recollection of It
I didnt come here retorted
Elizabeth to be advised whether
or not I should believe In fantasy
I come to be told the truth
I am telling you the truth he
Insisted The truth is that you can
stop living In the present if you want
to You con reach back and demand
that the past be returned to you
But it wont be returned to you You
wont get back what you have lost
youll only be destroying what you
have
For the past few months you
have found the present very hard to
take You have been looking back
into a lime when you werent
aware of the demands life was going
to make on you In those days every
minute was delightful for itself You
had what you wonted and you didnt
know you were going to have to pay
for It Youve personified that love-
ly thoughtlessness of youth In the
figure of the man who shared it with
you You want it back not Arthur
but the young freedom Arthur sym-
bolized for you
Is that what Ive been doing
Yes ho said It is
Elizabeth was silent She felt as
If she had been accused of a sin
and found just enough echo of guilt
in herself to be unable to speak In
her own defense
You cant get it back Mrs Her
long Kcssler said gently But if
you keep trying you will lose what
you have And you have so much
to lose now so much more than you
had twentyfive years ago
Elizabeth moved forward In her
chair listening intqntly he ur
ous senseof guilthad hot left her
As for your first husband
Kcssler began
Yes what about him
How old were you when you mar-
ried him
Eighteen After she had spoken
she realized that her answer had
come as readily as though she had
rever had any reason for believing
he knew this already
Eighteen Kcssler repeated
What did you know then about lov-
ing a man
I thought I knew a great deal
she retorted
Naturally you thought so How
could you judge jour feeling for him
except by the standard you had
then But look at it now and see
what It was by the standard of love
you have today A bright girlish
rapture Beautiful no doubt but no
more than that
But what else is a young girls
love What else should It be
Nothing else Thats what Im
trying to tell you But what did you
lose when you lost Arthur A lover
and a playmate You had nothing
else to lose
Elizabeth drew back and stared
at him almost angrily resenting
what he said and fighting against
having to accept it He wanted a
moment to give her time to get used
to it and then went on
When we get older and are
drawn into the depths of experience
it Is sometimes very tempting to
look back and regret the time when
we were skipping over the surface
without dreaming how thin It was
Elizabeth still did not answer All
this was new to her as relating to
herself It was as though he were
accusing her of having been foolish
just when she thought she was be-
ing wise
When we do look back said
Kessler it means that just then we
are frightened at the challenge of
being adult
I have been frightened she ac-
knowledged still astonished at all
he was showing her You know
that
What we forget In those mo-
ments of course he went on is
that the profoundest joys as well as
the greatest trials are found In the
depths of experience The happiness
of youth is a shallow merriment It
cant be anything else But the hap-
piness of maturity I mean real
mental and emotional maturity is
strong and deeply rooted because it
comes of having tested this and that
until we have discovered the perma-
nent values Cherry Is heartbroken
if she goes to a party and Isnt
dressed like the others Some wom-
en your age are too because theyre
still judging life by Cherrys stand-
ards but you arent because you
long ago outgrew letting yourself be
heartbroken over things thai didnt
matter Mrs Herlong he ex-
claimed earnestly you have gOM
so far dont turn back now
TO BE CONTINUXDl I
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HEMPHILL COUNTY NEWS CANADIAN TEXAS
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International II SCHOOL
LESSON
BY HAnOLD L LUNDQUIST D D
Of The Moodv Bible Institute of Chicago
Released by Wei tern Newspaper Union
Lesson for September 22
Lesson subject jnd Scripture texts se-
lected and copyrlehtrd by International
Council of RcIIrIoub education used by
permission
jesus and tiii law or Tiin
STRANGER
LESSON TEXT Exodus 2221 23 Deu-
teronomy 24H 13 Matthew 2534 41
MEMORY SELECTION The King
shall answer and say unto them Verily
I say unto jou Inasmuch as ye have
done It unto one of the least of these
my brethren ye have done It unto me
Matthew 2340
There is as much need today
for the words of counsel and ad-
monition regarding strangers which
wo find in our lesson as there was
in the days of Moses for there
seems to be an almost complete
breakdown of nelghborlincss both
between nations and individuals
I The Law Required Nelghborli
ncss Exod 222123 Deut 2414
IS
Our heavenly Father as revealed
to us In his Word is a Father in
deed one greatly concerned about
his many children but especially
docs lie care for those who are weak
and needy
The laws of ancient Israel made
provision for the feeding of those
who had no fields The corners of
the field were left uncut at harvest
time some of the grapes were to
be left on the vine etc so that the
poor could enjoy the sense of self
respect as they picked for them-
selves what God had provided see
Lev 199 10 2322 Deut 241921
and other passages
The poor man who found work
was to receive his pay when need-
ed For the one who hired him to
do otherwise was to bring upon
himself the judgment of God He
listens to the cry of the hungry
worker and his family Deut 2415
Strangers were In a peculiar way
subject to the possibility of extor-
tion They are even today the easy
mark of the one who lives by his
wits the confidence man and
sneak thief
If any such person reads these
notes let me warn him solemnly to
keep his tricky hands ofT the stran-
ger for God is watching and will
hear their cry Exod 2223
The same Is true of widows and
orphans God Is their keeper and
their defeffder
Someone may say that oil this Is
Old Testament in its backgreund
and principle What about the fol-
lower of Christ in our day The an-
swer Is that
II Christ Expects Nolghborll
ness Matt 253441
This is a prophetic picture of a
great judgment scene It is not as
many suppose the same as the
judgment of the Great White
Throne of Revelation 20
The scene here is not In heaven
but upon the earth It Is not individ-
uals who are being judged but the
nations of the earth They are not
being judged regarding per-
sonal salvation but for their treat-
ment of Christs brethren
Who are his brethren First we
think of his brethren after the flesh
the people of the Jewish race Scrip-
ture reveals again and ogain that
God is watching over his chosen
people even though they are now
scattered in judgment for their un
belief He will not hold any guiltless
who harm his people Gen 1213
The word brethren is also used
In such a passage as Matthew 12
4650 to include all who do the will
of God That suggests a broader ap
plication of these words
Our attitude toward God ex
presses Itself in our attitude toward
our fellow man That which we do
toward those about us is not a mat-
ter of Indifference but Is the basis
for Gods judgment of our lives
Each of us must answer for the
deeds done in the flesh whether they
be good or evil That la true even
of the believer II Cor 510 whose
salvation has already been deter
mined by his faith in Christ
Here In our lesson however the
failure to do that which shows forth
Gods law of love Is made the
ground of eternal judgment This
Is not because an act of kindness
itself can be regarded as the
ground of division but because the
failure to give It or do It reflects
an attitude of heart toward our God
and his Christ which Is in reality a
rejection of his way of salvation
Judgment is thus a revelation of
the attitude of the heart which
marks a man or woman as being
either saved or lost It may be pos <
sible to so becloud the thinking of
our friends and neighbors that we
may go through life looking some
thing like h Christian but when
Christ judges It will all be revealed
Notice the importance of a proper
attitude toward those who need our
kindness and help Ml too often the
only concern of men and women Is
to look out for number one and
let the rest of the world shift for It
selfObserve
Observe also that the Lord identi
fies himself with bis brethren
what la done to and lor them la
counted as done to and for htm
Compare the experience of Samuel
I Sam 87 and of Paul Acts 05
Touch Gods people and jou touch
him Fail them and you fall him
Serve them and you serve him
UPhillipr
THE REVOLT
President Truman Is a President
among Presidents He has just
come out openly with a statement
that he considers fishing a waste of
ttmel
He caught some fish on the Ber-
muda trip without posing for photo-
graphs This supplemented a simi-
lar thumbs down on newsreel pic-
tures of him holding a fish in Puget
Sound last year Whats the Presi-
dency of this country coming to
anyhow
We think Harry Truman lost the
fishermens vote by this attitude
But ha more than offset it by gain-
ing the vote of their wives
It has been an inviolable custom
for Presidents to act as if they liked
fishing no matter how they really
felt Tradition has required that any
White House occupant get himself
into fishing regalia go fishing and
invite the photographers
No President ever looked as sad
In fishing clothes as Cal Cool Id ge
but we loved him for it Herb
Hoover never seemed the type in a
trout brook but It helped with the
votes
Roosvelt was a great one for
photographic angling Grover Cleve
land is better known as a fisher-
man than as a ruler Even Hard
ing fished In response to the public
demand But now comes a Presi-
dent who says I say It is spinach
and the heck with it
Personally we think Harry Is an
old freshwater Missouri type fish
erman who can go for bullheads
and catfish but thinks nothing else
counts But we welcome his posi-
tion It may be that nothing would
do America more good today than
less fishing It certainly must Inter
fere with reconversion
Truman might make a tremen
dous hit by a White House state-
ment declaring that fishing takes
too much time that It is far too
unproductive that it encourages de-
ceit causes pneumonia breeds al-
coholism and furthermore that
most fishermen go fishing to avoid
necessary work around the house
t
The fisherman never lived who
was 100 per cent honest and reliable
Fishing makes liars of the best of
us It Is a racket conducted for the
benefit of bait salesmen tackle
stores and rowboat renters Long
live Harry Truman HI Phillips
has wasted most of August trying
to catch one striped bass Editorial
explanation
Desire
Let me build me a house by the
side of the road
If those race tracks are com-
plete
A house unpretentious but still a
home
That wont balk some racing meet
I crave a home of the modest type
With fireplace quite new
If the builders of some new grand-
stand
Can spare a plank or two
Oh I yearn for my home by the
side of the road
With four walls even three
If the boys who are building the
paddock sheds
W1U waive their priority
A little house where the sun comes
In
And contentment seldom falls
If the lads who are rushing the
clubhouse plant
Can spare me a couple of nails
Oh X care not for any handsome
manse
Just a plain four walls will do
If the contemplated amusement
park
Doesnt need staff P D Q
All I wants a place fit to banr my
bat
And Ive got an outside chance
If the football parks and the new
fight clubs
Plan no superdooper plants
Oh give me a shack by the aide of
the road
If the play world has enough
A little place for the wife and me
If no night club needs the stuff
Just a simple hut with a chimney
there
Which need not be extra thick
If the race tracks parks and the
honkytonks
Will Just give a gay a brick
The Influences ot the movies on
child life ii getting pretty terri-
fying We heard a nineyearold
child decline an offer to go to a
picture the other night because
Im ick of murders with Juit
guns and hatchets I wanna wait
for a good poison story
The time seems at hand when we
shall hear of a peace conference
delegate being decommissioned for
somebody with more modern arma
ments
4
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