Union press-courier. (Patton, Pa.) 1936-current, December 07, 1939, Image 9

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    Thursday, December 7, 1939.
Out of the Fog
By GREGORY JONAS
(Axsociated Newspoesre— WNT Service
STUART, bach
high-powered
ARRY
driving his
gter over U
pace quite
ity for s
in the
might
beasties
the magi
huge, disgo
bank of w!
inte the
upon hus
“Like
Barry
yeu ow Ug CR
of white and Barn
8 horme—and he wished vaguely :
there were a yellow light beckon
ing hizn. With these vague wishes
was mized the shadowy dream
girl's face, her blue eyes and
Bright hair az soft and intangible
gs the feathers of fog about hum
ey had been unable 0 forget?
this particular girl for ene moment
after meeting her; and now he was
sunning away from her. she threat
ened to crystallize his vague
dresins into reality; she imperiled
his celibacy, and he wasn't ready
aot yet. His memories of her min
gied so enticingly with the night
that he was startled, as his car
rose to the hilltop, to see 8 slight
figure hurrying along ahead of him
“Won't you ride?” ssked Barry,
senging thut there must be some
knew there
reason for & girl's treading this lone
some road so long after teatime
Her voice sounded sharp and there
was recklessness in her scceplance
of his invitation
“Yeu, I'li ride.”
and slumped down
deside hin
“On your way
he asked
"as weil ss anywhere,’ she re
plied, and Barry was silent. . His
dreams were lost in the fog as he
puzzled about the girl beside hi
They drove along quietly. dinping
into the valleys and rising fo the
hilltops with a swift, clean motion
that was worthy of his car. When
they had gone another fen miles
the girl spoke suddenly
“Tm leaving ry husband!™
“indeed!” ejaculated Barry, and
added: “How old are you?"
“Twentydour and I'm
ghe snawered,
inte the seal
Moorestown
ge
Baviog noth
» "1 Joe, coftmented Barry goth
or =r” she seman |
ge EE
tired of |
drudgery snd tending babies and |
“Good Lord, 1 PY Ie in a s bac Helor "
“Pren you don't know a thing
about it. They're so soft and ador-
able and-—-and cute! Twin girls
But his mother is always there
making She'll take cure of
them
trouble
agreadt Barry
nonths ery
rt Dest
hry Enow
EEE Ine
Phi
“Men do
ny
er In
“1 know.
and some day IN
dependent and fire
tili 1 see that it wan't ruin
happiness,” he lod her
Ske touched his arm when at las!
two rectangles of light gleamed
through the lifting fog
“Atmosphere has cleared,” re
marked Barry, drawing up fo the
house and sounding his horn. The
door opened and s [renzied young
man stood outlined --behind him a
woman twisting her apron
“I've brought back your wife,’
he anna unced, handling her out
the car. "Wives ate hard to get,
he observed, "and reer fo
I'm told
ta mane Nn
her!
WEP R
Beep,
When | firdl one I'm going
my Dluiness 4
Batry .
Bio pres her d
ration where hve git with the vive
gyas end sovely han aust de sitln
sumewhere behind obilongs of yellow
bghi—waiting’
Yhender Btopr Walebes
SASKATOON, BASE, ~~ Herb
| Buckie, local jeweldy, remarked re.
“1 wish Quire were more
| night and three a. 9.7"
HAT
-l Tt owed gH the wi
brought me fap rep have
| stopped between the hours pf
Squirrel Is Killed
By Golfer's ‘Shot
VANCOUVER. WASH. "That's
a sguirrelly shot if there over
was one!” cried Golfer Gedrge
Wells ax his tee shit smacked
nto a free Nei th er Wells nor
his golf ng purtnérs. realized just
gar ripll the shot was
approached the ree
foursd his b and a lurge
#1
wey
dead red sguirre
Couple Completes
Long Dream Trip
Visit Most of the World on
5 Year Cruise.
BERKELEY, CALIF —Terminat.
ing 8 fve-year cruise in their 37.
ketch Igdrasil, in which they
sailed five of the seven seas, Roger
Strout. 3 years old, and his wife
Edith have made their last mooring
nn the Berkeley yacht harbor and
reintegrate themselves Inlo a
bher's life
font
graduates, the
their vagsbond
$34 merely to realize that
aimost everyone st
life has of sailing away
¢ place in lure
rivers:ly
fecided on
ing in I
fream which
mie time in
to some far distant
ty fashion
Strout,
a! Portland
of Bowdoin college. He won § mas
ter's degree in physics at the Uni
versity of Chicago and was aussi.
ant professor of physics at Georgie
Tech when he finally decided lo quit
his job and carry out his idea.
He modeled his boat after the fa
# Spray of Si Clocum
and Mrs. Strout started frit
ihree-year jaunt which took
New Zepland, the Indian
ocean. Cape of Good Hope, and %o
chorage in New York in MRT.
After that they sailed on and on.
the Arctic snd Ant
the east coast
through the Panama
and Srnally Alaska
they came down to Seattle
they spent the winter, and
to say good-by
whose former wan
Maine,
DOETUR
ws
i hey went WO
arctic circles, from
¥ Ww . E A
to Berkeley
they explain,
of life in Norse
Strou t who was a student 5t
gt uiversity of Denver, lwcame
the wile of the aniversity professor
un 1929. She is especially proud of
the fact that she stood het night
sratehas at the wheel throughout the
cruises the same as an able ses
nate feat that even ses Saptainy
is a graduste |
ON
AR a
1 i mvt] tn i Union |
Sess Courier next, weelt on tie orca-
A)
na
¥
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&
OUR STORE WILL
BE OPEN EVERY
NIGHT UNTIL
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