Rn AASSSOSANENSSR ER WW GA NR SS ms me ma we _— en ww ¥ T0000 05030050505 RE TUE OS RS TRA RE RR TU PE TEE TS RE A RE TE: Thursday, December 7, 1939. Out of the Fog By GREGORY JONAS (Associated Newspavers—WNU Service.) ARRY STUART, bachelor, was | driving his high-powered road- | ster over the country roads at a | pace quite inconsistent with its abil- | 3 ity for speed. Barry was drinking | in the beauties of the moon-flooded | night. A fog rose from the river | and floated lightly above the low- | lands, wandering clouds touched by | the magic of the moon. Like a huge, disgorged feather-bed the | bank of white awaited Barry’s dip into the valley only to disappear upon his advent. “Like all my troubles,” mused | Barry. Now and then oblongs of yellow light showed through the blur of white and Barry knew there was a home—and he wished vaguely that there were a yellow light beckon- ing him. With these vague wishes was mixed the shadowy dream of a girl’s face, her blue eyes and her bright hair as soft and intangible as the featherseof fog about him. Barry had been unable to forget this particular girl for one moment after meeting her; and now he was running away from her; she threat- | ened to crystallize his vague dreams into reality; she imperiled his celibacy, and he wasn’t ready— not yet. His memories of her min- gled so enticingly with the night that he was startled, as his car rose to the hilltop, to see a slight figure hurrying along ahead of him. “Won’t you ride?’’ asked Barry, sensing that there must be some reason for a girl’s treading this lone- some road so long after teatime. Her voice sounded sharp and there was recklessness in her acceptance of his invitation. “Yes, I'll ride,” she answered, and slumped down into the seat beside him. “On your way to Moorestown?” he asked. “As well as anywhere,” she re- plied, and Barry was silent. His dreams were lost in the fog as he puzzled about the girl beside him. | They drove along quietly, dipping into the valleys and rising to the hilltops with a swift, clean motion | that was worthy of his car. When they had gone another ten miles the girl spoke suddenly: “I’m leaving my husband!” “Indeed!” ejaculated Barry, and added: “How old are you?” “Twenty-four and I'm tired of drudgery and tending babies and having nothing!”’ “I see,” commented Barry soft- | ly. “Husbands and babies aren’t much compensation unless they're | nice,” he added tentatively. “My babies are adorable!’ she flashed. “They must be unusual, then,” he observed. ‘‘Most babies are pests!” “Have you any?’ she demanded. THE UNION PRESS-COURIER. | what I think? 1 don’t even know | your name. But you're foolish to gu “Good Lord, no--1'm a bachelor. “Then you don’t know a thing | about it. They're so soft and ador- | But his mother is always there— making trouble. She’ll take care of them.” : “Of course,” agreed Barry. “In | another six months they’ll probably think she’s their mother—they’'re un- feeling little brutes, at best.” ‘““Mine are not! They know n they cry when 1 leave them!” ce enveloped them, when enly the girl's voice broke “I've got to go back! to the next bus stop—you’ll think I'm crazy!” “What difference does it back. We could go to the ghow and have a good time—’' HW turned | and caught the appeal in her up- | turned face. *‘ITonestly, I didn’t mean that!” ire said contritely, turning the car about. “I'm going to take you home.” The car flew like a live thing. “Tell nie the house,” said Barry. “I will.’ He could feel her tense- ness; once she put out a small hand and laid it over his on the | wheel. “I don’t know how to thank you—"’ “Your husband won’t—abuse you?” he inquired. “Phil? Good heavens, no!” “Men do—"’ “Not mine—it’s just that his moth- er bosses me so—"’ “I know—I have a boss myself and some day I'm going te wax in- | able and—and cute! Twin girls. | dependent and fire myself—but not | till I see that it won't ruin my own happiness,” he told her. She touched his arm when at last two rectangles of light gleamed through the lifting fog. ‘Atmosphere has cleared,” re- marked Barry, drawing up to the | house and sounding his horn. The | door opened and a frenzied young man stood outlined—behind him a woman twisting her apron. “I've brought back your wife,” he announged, handing her out of | the car. “Wives are hard to get,” he observed, “and harder to keep, | I’m told. When I find one I'm going her!” The young man, with his arms about his wife, tried to thank Bar- ry; but with a wave of his hand 3arry was one, iiot toward Moorestown, but in the other di ‘to make it my business to keep | rection where the girl with the blue | eyes and lovely hair must be sitting | sumewhere behind oblongs of yellow | light—waiting! Thunder Stops Watches SASKATOON, SASK. — Herb | Buckle, local jeweler, remarked re- cently: “I wish there were more thunderstorms, for my business seems to pick up immediately after | a thunderstorm. But there is one thing I can’t explain. That is, why is it that one-third of the watches | brought to me for repairs have stopped between the hours of mid- night and three a. m.?” (143 BETTER FEATURES PPorT IT It’s the only all these fine car NEW “ROYAL * NEW EXCLUSIVE CUPPER” STYLING VACUUM-POWER SHIFT low-priced car VLE Plt “THE LONGEST OF THE LOT” From front of grille to rear of body (181 inches) Chev rolet for 1940 is the longest of all lowest-priced cars! Euelt-Tylt-Buylt! SE EQ Chevrolets are Shipped to Dealers — MOT DRIVEN OVERLAND! The Special De Luse Sport Sedan, $802% mie Squirrel Is Killed By Golfer's Shot % OUR STORE WILL VANCOUVER, WASH.—'‘That’s ¢¢ BE OPEN EVERY a squirrelly shot if there ever was one!” cried Golfer George as his tee shot smacked CHRISTMAS. Neither Wells nor ¥ his golfing partners realized just . the shot was | | 3 they approached the tree | | Jt and found his ball and a large | | yes dead red squirrel. ¥ NIGHT UNTIL Couple Completes “ Long Dream Trip Visit Most of the World on 5-Year Cruise. BERKELEY, CALIF.—Terminat- ing a five-year cruise in their 37- foot ketch Igdrasil, in which they ! sailed five of the seven seas, Roger Strout, 38 years old, and his wife Edith have made their last mooring | in the Berkeley yacht harbor and reintegrate themselves into a landlubber’s life. couple decidedson their vagabond roving in 1934 merely to realize that dream which almost everyone at some time in life has of sailing away | to some far distant place in leisure- Strout, whose former nome was at Portland, Maine, is a graduate of Bowdoin college. ter’'s degree in physics at the Uni- versity of Chicago and was assist- ant professor of physics at Georgia Mech when he finally decided to quit his job and carry out his idea. He modeled his boat after the fa- mous Spray of Si Clocum. . and Mrs. Strout started first three-year jaunt which took to New Zealand, the Indian | ocean, Cape of Good Hope, and to | anchorage in New York in 1937. 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