The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-29
GOALS OF FIRE.
By Elizabeth r. Greene.

By Elizabeth r. Greene.
Copyright, 1922, by Wheeler Syn
dictate, Incl.
Salome trod angrily up the gar
den path.
The sermon that Sabbath morn
ing had not pleased her; indeed,
she wouldn't have gone a step to
have heard it if she had suspected
that the text would be Romans xii,
20.
She ,despised sermons and texts
about ones enemies-they always
reminded her of Lobelia Bascomb
From the rocker on the porch
Salome gazed frankly at the Bas-
comb house across the road.
From time immemorial, she re-
Elected bitterly, Lobelia had always
had everything that made life worth
while.
Painfully Salome's mind review
ed the past.
! Back in schooldays, she remem,
bered, Lobelia had always won the
most favors from indulgent teach.
ers and admiring schoolmates. Ev'
! en- In those days Lobelia had had
"a way with her. that had somehow
carried her triumphantly through
school with but little book know
ledge.
Later, that same "way" had
dashed the cup of happiness from
Miss Salome's lips-dashed and
broken it into a thousand frag-
ments.
Unconsciously the woman on the
porch clenched her slim, white
hands at the remembrance.
"Lobelia always had everything,
she muttered miserably; even
John
! But she, saiome, could havt
borne it patiently had there moi
been the memory ola summer.
True, there was not much to re
member, but Salome had chung t.
the little there was. The Sunday
evenings John had walked home
from church with her; the c1rcu:
| they had gone to together; and thu
time he had brought her the string
of beads
Salome knew that other womeI
would have forgotten these things
long ago, but she was different
John Bascomb had been to her TIL
Zone man.. Once she had dared t.
dream that she might be to hin
the zone woman
! But that was before the comm,
of Lobelia.
4 Salome's lips frightened now a
the remembrance Of it-Lobelia'
coming. 1t had crushed and hu
inflated her; it had robbed her Q
love and happiness; and the da,
;Lobelia had married John it hal
] planted the seed of hatred in he
heart.
! 1t was several days later, Will
she was busy with her jelly-makin
| that Salome heard of Lobelia'
4 trouble.
| Selma Hawkes., a neighbor, ha
leone in, obviously to borrow som
sugar, but in reality, as Salon
eknew, to tell 1.-THE news"
| Il spose you've heard littl
Harry Bascomb can't live? querie
Selma eagerly.
"No!" Salome's hand. stirrin
the Jelly, trembled.
1.-The doctors give him up thi
morning." continued Selini
They've had three doctors and
nurse, you know" she added. "bs
Its double pneumonia, and ther
amt no hope. Lobelia's mos
crazy-"
: There's that black hen on
lagain!" exclaimed Salome. glans
ling from the window. Il declar'
she must fly over the top Of tina
hsnyard IN have to go. right on
Selma" she added hostilely, "aI
} / get her in again"
But Selma was not to be side
tracked. She had come over dha
morning resolved to 4 find out. ]
, possible, how Salome regarded K
belia's trouble. and il would tax
more than mere hen now TO hea
i her of.
! 80, following Salome to the doc
she. brfskly assured her that sh
would help 'ketch the critter."
But just when this feat had fir
Tally been accomplished, Selin
found it hard indeed TO resume Ii