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PEOPLES

Tuesday, $50 p. m, Fishers Of
Men, continuing study of How to
Lead to Christ Those Who Arc
Trusting Their Own Good Work for
Salvation.' At 5 p. m. Bible class
subject for study: "Where Paul Re
ceived What He Called My Cos
pei Thursday, 7;45 p. m, weekly
church prayer meeting, Friday, 1880
p. m, choir rehearsal Saturday, 8
p, NJ, Junior Mission Workers.
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$50 a. m. Sermon, THE Last
Triumph. at 1p.43 Il, ii. Easter
eantata, 5:15 p. III. :. Belmont lien
bricks, harpisl
In connection with the Easter
services Rev. ". H. Anderson an
nounces the appearance OF Z. Bel
mont Hendricks OF New York city,
who viii play some OF the great
hymns OF the church on his cathe-
dral harp, an instrument Of his In
vcntion and the only one OF It's kind
IN the world,
The cathedral harp is dedicated
to the service Of the church cx-
clusively its inventor refusing 10
commercialize it in any manner.
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Monday 7:t5 p. m, Young Peo-
pics board meeting at % Grand
street. Tuesday, 7;45 p. m, Bible
study, prayer In the Historical
Books Wednesday. $50 2. m,
Ladies' Prayer band: 7:45 p. m, cot
'2gc PRAYER meeting. Thursday,
-;i5 p. m. Dealing With Those
Who Have Problems Friday. s p.
M. choir rehearsal at . Grand
street
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First Baptist

Morning service at l0:45 O'Clock.
Easter music by quartet and carol
choir. Short Easter message by Rev.
William Ross. subject; The Dawn"
Baptism of candidates at the morn
ing service, United Bible school for
Easter exercises at 12;1o.
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Trinity Methodist

Monday, 2;30 p. M. Sunshine So
ciety Tuesday afternoon, Methodist
group at the hospital; $50 p. m.
Phllathea class; 7:15 p. m, Boy
Scouts: 7:45 p. m, class meeting
Wednesday, 8 p. m, first regular
meeting of Mothers club. Thurs
day, 7:45 p. m, prayer meeting.
Friday, 7:3o p. NJ, choir rehearsal.
The weekly meeting OF the Ep-
worth league will he omitted tomor-
row night.
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Easter Swedish service at 1890
a. N. Special Easter music ar
ranged by the musical director, Prof
Per OLSON, Sunday school at noon
At Z p. m, Sunday school Easter
festival
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At the meeting of the Central
Congregational club Tuesday eve
ming, at the First church in Bris-
tol. Rev. James Gordon Gilkey will
speak on rs the Church DYING"
At the meeting Of the Young
Mems brotherhood on Thursday
evening there will be a supper and
regular meeting, followed by a bust
ness meeting.
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Clayton Thomas of Hartford has
been elected by Trinity Methodist
church to succeed Leonard c. Woke,
as oreanist and choir leader. He
will take over the new position May
l.
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German Baptist

Monday, $ y. m, meeting OF the
Y. p. S. Thursday. 7;15 p. m, pas
tors class; S p. m, prayer meeting
iu English.
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.C6Qr<k Directory,

The program Of events in the
various churches during the coming
Weel, is as follows:
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International Bible students Assn.

jet: ''Fho Divine Plan of the Ages"
Wednesday, 9 p. m, prayer, praise
and testimony service. Friday s p.
m, Bible study. subject; "Dcltver-
anec."
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in German at 1o;45. No day school
Easter week, but confirmation classes
will meet as usual. Walther league
meeting Friday evening.
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BartOlonmeo di Francesca Cristo-
fori, an Italian, invented the piano
in 1926.
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Special Easter services will be held
In local churches tomorrow. The
services viii be as follows:
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Reformation Lutheran

Monday evening, the Luther
new mem bers.
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Reformation Lutheran
Trinity Methodist

At u a. m, holy communion: 4
p, m, services Of the Sunday school.
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Fveryman's Bible class, Woman's
Bible class and church school at
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81. Matthew's Lutheran

Easter service with holy commun-
ion at 8 q, m, in English; service
The Washington times., 1927-08-27
The knowledge Test For
Readers Of The Times

Find the which best fit
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2. Tennis player.
3. Puglist
4 Artist.
g. President "A .~'#
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Match correctly.
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16 Ypres
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b l8. Cologne. New Jersey
See Mondays paper to verify your results
Answers to yesterdays test
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g. Composer; T. William Bryan Baltimore Nd; g. Napoleon
TO- Michael Bale; H. side dish r. Blank leaf at beginning
and end of book 49, Cite H. Joseph Conrad Is Edgar
Poe; 1S, Edith Wharton; II, Rudyard Kiplng.
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rible has happened, so that / can't
go on as promised. I'll be back
as soon as can. This, sounds
wild and mysterious, but I can't
explain now. love you ALL
Sally"
Then she was on her way down
town again, stopping to pick up
the filled prescription and spend
ing the rest Of her money reck-
lessly on some flowers.
When she got In this time, Jerry
was sleeping. She sat down in
the Morris chair, watching him
as he breathed. Now and then
his lips moved. His face looked
thin and drawn and pitikul.
Sally found tears coming into
her eyes.
Don't let him die" she prayed.
"Oh, don't let him die"
1t grew late, but she did not
move, watching by his bedside. It
must have been midnight when he
started up. His voice was dry and
husky.
'Pedrol Pedro. get ma the
water dipper. You-you-''
Her arms were around his shoul.
ders. He struggled futilely. lie
seemed as weak as a small child.
Jerry, Jerry darling, it's all
right, it's all rightw
1t was wonderful to be able 70
whisper that to him even though
he could not hear.
She brought a glass of water,
and put II to his lips. He swal.
lowed only a drop, and fell back
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ing whimsically, Mana! she
caught him in her arms and car.
ried him to the window.
"A rain went whipping down the
street. Drops raced down the win
dow pane. The baby leaned over
and stuck out his tongue to gather
them. He looked delightfully."- at
Roen and informed her: WA
wa" She was surprised that he
could identify the rain as water.
she pointed to the gray, gusty
downpour. Oh, on days like this,
Roen longed for home; longed for
the green, grassy park and euca.
lyptus trees with their slender,
graceful branches and their moist
acorns that one crushed for many
years under ones foot-that one
had stepped upon when life and
love were high like a song in the
throat.
She Ionged more than anything
else for her garden, where the ny.
acinths and daffodils would now
be blooming the little
secluded garden where she might
sit with the gay little boy sitting
at her feet, where Jackie might
come and bring his sadget to play
with hers.
This would never be. Roen put
her finger over the baby'B and
slowly traced the raindrops.
1t would do no good to evade
Jackie. She would write today and
tell him she was transferred to
Chicago. Then she could take Q
room at a hotel and during his stay
leave the baby with a nurse.
At this prospect she grew faint.
Leave the baby for q week-per-
haps two? In strangers care?
Then the next time Jackie
might come to visit Or suppose
he should know some doctors here
and introduce her?
Endless, endless evasion. End.
less lies. She might hide the exist
ence of her child indefinitely from
Jackie--from everyone.
There would be lurking always
the possibility Of q chance dis
covery.
And she did not want to hide the
into q dark world Of falsity and
uGNClIs
She wanted her child to romp In
the garden; she wanted him to be
chuckling with happy, unfailing
mirth.a She wanted him safe in a
cosy, joyous home acknowledge
and beloved. He was no sad little
thing that one would hide away!
She wanted to go back to her
cottage because here would beaa
natural, wholesome environment.
Here the boy would have Jackie
for his uncle and the little Roen
for his cousin.
The more she thought, the more
sane, the more inviting was this
way.
Why. she would so home and get
Ulls TO come again and care for
the baby. She would keep very
IL
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SOULS : By Elenore Meherir

worked in an office on the same
floor with Roen. Irma Hall. .
tall. strapplnk girl with that
clear, huted voice.
Was Irr1a one Of Stephanie'g
friends? Had she seen and REQ
ognized Roen? And would she
now say incredulously: "Roen
Ross married? And q baby IA
months old. And begin counting
on her fingers?
Almost lifeless. Roen sat with
the baby wrapped in her arms.
Hours later when she lay in
the dim berth straining her hot
eyes through the racing windows
she said to herself contemput-
ously: That wasn't Irma Hall!
Why should 1t be.'
Condolences like this didn't
happen. She had gone from st.
Louis to Chicago. She had gone
from San Francisco East-and she
had met no one. Why now, be-
cause seciusion was so crucial,
should she meet two people In
this unheard-of manner?
Not was not Irnla Hall! But
at o'clock In the morning RoeYi
got off the train, taking q stop.
over till the next morning.
Shs wore q veil ana looked
neither to the right nor to the
left.
And for three days she didn't
move from her compartment.
It was hard amusing the child
in this little, space. He kept going
10 the door, reaching for the
knob and looking back to her
with q winning: Good by"
Once he cried and stamped his
feet. She swooped him to her
with a choked: Only a little
longer, angel baby! Then we'll
see the auto and the meow and
the bow-wow. Then everything
in the world viii be lovely love
ly--lovely.--"
But as the train neared san
Francisco, q terrible lassitilde came
over her. She now asked in.
cessantly:
"shall I tell Jackie! Nor
Why should she? He would
never doubt her.
WMdL ~ SAAO Aulu LI1S CkAllu WAS
hers he would think she had gone
mad. Lifelong suppression had
driven her mad 80 she was dream.
ing that fulfflment came to her.
This was what he would think
IL she told him the baby was
truly hers that she was
crazed!
So she would tell Jackie, too,
the baby was adopted. And he
would believe her.
Halt swooning with this hack.
Ing problem, she came back al
ways to this strong point: But
II / die-what would Jackie care
for an adoptedr child? who would
look out for you. angel baby,
then ?"
Go Be Continued NIonday)
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debut he might come to the know
ledge that Mark was the baby's
father.
This Roen would not tell him.
But she would have to risk the
discovery. OF all the ways she
saw, this way from the child's
standpoint seemed the kindest.
She now became excited-cruelly
apprehensive of some flaw she
had not foreseen. All behind
her she had left innumerable
clues.
Another reason why she would
tell Jackie all--she would have
his wholehearted protection. No
one would dream Of doubling
Roen Ross.
So she would tell no flimsy tale
Of marriage, thus laying herself
open Immediately to challenge.
She prepared for the homeward
trip. In the afternoon before she
started she wrote to Mark.
He sat in his office with the
door locked. He read Roen's
letter as man reads sentence
Of death.
Then he, too. took his stand.
CHAPTER SO
What il troubling you, Mark?"
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He came upright with a start.
Always sensitive to his moods;
always proudly reserved. Claire
seemed now at times clairvoyant
-seizing the thoughts warm from
his brain.
He regarded her with hag-
gard, astonished eyes.
1t was two days since Rooms
letter reached him. And for two
days flaring back and forth in
his mind went the image OF Roen
getting on the train-Roen COM
ing to the city, bringing the baby
with her.
Ending all definitely-ultimately
passing irrevocably from his
life,
He twisted rigid hands about
the arms of the chair. And
Claire asked gently-swe et1y;
''Mark-what troubles your"
She had her delicate and now
almost transparent hands clasped
under her chin; the big, dark
glasses making her so tragically
appealing. And she was smiling.
In these days, so much happier
than the Claire of other years
the Claire who really had things
to be glad about. Gayer, too,
than the prudish, injured figure
standing tense before her dresser,
slipping the rings from her finger
and asking in q grieved tone:
do you speak flippantly Of sa-
cred things just to hurt me? Just
to belittle me?"
That CIofra u1aa osono-and Thfa
Slim; pale, smiling figure in her
place--the Claire o. IL who had
seized his hand and gone run.
ming into the garden for the rapt,
first kiss of love.
She had slipped back to her
girlhood and was radiant in It
He could almost forget she had
ever been his wife.
Now she closed the books her
thin, sensitive fingers had been
studying and came toward him,
feeling her way delicately.
rs my bench there, Mark?
At your feet?"
Her hands clasped on his knees,
her face looking up with a smile
to his. You don't answer me,
Mark. Strange, you appear as
though you had been running
and running until your eyes were
sunk"
''You cant see me, Claire"
''But I can feel you. It is I who
troubles you so? But why. Just
, because I don't see?" She gave
ioyou laugh. you have almost
made me glad for this, Mark. You
have more than made it UP to
me-"
He looked into her face iIlumined
with a smiling, childlike trust and
thought of the thing he planned
to do to her. A sudden reflec-
ton like q paralysis seized his
mind, He sat limp and inarticu.
late like q man budding against
q merciless beating.
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helpless bewilderment. Her mind
went flying to atoms blind atoms
racing about distractedIy.
Her brother would try to find
her-would have her movements
traced. But he didn't know her
address here. She would move
again 50 that not even the post
office could locate her. And IL
she remained silent, she would be
as one lost.
For long while Roen sat
mutely, pondering this. They
would know she had purposely
disappeared. They would know
that Roen had a child and was
Sinking away to hide 1t.
And all she would gain would
: be lifelong, futile loss of Jackie!
Lifelong isolation from all rela.
tives for her child.
She safeguarded nothing and
solved nothing by a silent disap-
pearance. Let Jackie visit that
apartment in st. Louis and her
whole secret would be barred.
After all, what worse than this
could happen?
Roen sat on the floor, building
blocks into lofty tower. The
baby, who could now run about,
stood on the threshold, one foot
raised, his little body taut with
suspense. He waited till the struc.
ture reached a dizzying height.
Then he came dashing across the
room, and with a rapt, sudden CUR.
gle, struck all the blocks down,
He did this now. Roen caught
him in her arms, hugging him to
her. He struggled free and, reach.
ing for a block, handed 1t over
with the bland smile of a little
King who knows his orders are
understood.
You build It." said Roen, shak.
ing back her head, almost chok.
Ing, almost srnethered with the
weight Of her thoughts.
As she remained listless, the
child crept to her, poking his face
with gracious inquiry near to
hers.
She smiled. This was invitation.
He reached up and caught her
nose vigorously in his thumb and
forefinger, wanting her to say IN
q high, nasal tone: "Na-na!''
This astounding trick was hts
own invention. She found. him,
one morning, holding his nose. re.
peating again and again Mana"
He experimental with the sound,
now with his nose free. He found
the contrast uproariously funny
and would laugh himself into hic-
coughs over it. Sometimes Ia the
middle OF the night, when Roen
leaned down to cover him, he
would reach up and clutch her
nose-even though half asleep, Civ
ing gleeful murmur.
She would almost cry with the
Joy OF his infectious laughter, but
now az he kept poking toward
her, twealking her nose and order
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NOlO Go On With The Story.

CTS after doctors office hours.
= No, you can't see him. 1 tell
you. He won't be disturbed now"
But Sally gritted her teeth. "I've
got to see him. I'm going to see
him"
A middle-aged man came out
into the hallway. An irritable,
kindly face.
What Is it?"
i've been trying to send her
away, sir, but She"
Please, come. with me.' Sally
pleaded. He may die-you've got
70 come. You're nearest!''
He was putting on his coat with
There. there! Well see about
that 80
Back in the room, he was look.
ing at Jerry, bending over him,
finger on pulse, asking Sally ques.
tons. ~,
These tropical fevers-no one
understands them-but he's young,
strong, hen pull through with any
care at all. No food for q day or
two, and you can fill this prescrip-
tion. You can let me know II you
need me again"
1t was dark outside now. Sally
hurried homewards. She threw
some things hastily into a bag.
None of the girls had come in yet.
On the back of a laundry slip
she wrote:
Forgive me, but something ter.
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quiet and tell no one but Jackie
about the child. Then after a long
interval when the likelihood Of her
absence being linked with the
baby's birth had passed--then she
would merely announce that she
was adopting the boy.
No one would think 1t odd.
She had always been talking Of
taking In some stray wolf or
other.
What she would tell the child
itself-ah, that was another heart.
break. But that could wait.
To Jackie she would tell the
truth. The boy was hers! She
would tell Jackie this becaust she
shrank from the thought of his
discovering 1t should she withhold
the facts. But the chiefest of all
she would tell Jackie because she
felt with an unerring faith that
he would guard her child as she
had guarded him. II it were
Rooms boy-that would make 1t
sacred trust to Rooms brother.
She felt certain Of this.
The beginning would be hard
would be crucifying. Jackie would
know the baby's age. Unconscious.
~ he would check back. Without
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Early that gusty March evening
Roen had arrived at the depot.
She wore a big, dropping black
hat and held the baby very tightly
in her arms. He was heavy ana
wanted to look about-wanted to
point to the trains, to the passing
machines. He saw a big dog ana
called out excitedly: "Bow.wow!"
and struggled to get down and
run after it.
Roen said sha lilly: Mono
look, we'll run now" and kept re-
peating to herself: Train T1-com-
partment f."
Just reach that--close the door
swiftly. She would be safe! She
would not come out for meals-for
anything
Just a moment said the con-
ductor, as she went racing to the
steps. Your trains on the other
track"
It took her q moment to recover.
She was speeding on again when
she heard footsteps; when voice
called out: Hello. there!"
~ ldIIA ESd(AAu& Out C0BOAAys
"Wait-let me see our child again"
Stephanie Hendricks, the nurse
who had attended Roen at the
hospital. The long midnight talks
they had had--revealing talks.
1 Now, Stephanie taking the baby
from Rooms arms. why, he's
turned blond! Oh, you gorgeous
little thing! What did / tell you?
just give him q chance. He's
beautiful, Mrs. Jackson"
She began talking to the baby,
who smiled at her, liking gay peo.
pie. Talking to the baby talking
to Roen passengers
crowding In new Rooms
heart crowding.
How far are you going? Isn't
this priceless, meeting like this?
I've some friends going to San
Francisco. We can have d game
of bridge tonight. Your child will
be asleep :"
Roen didn't listen. Furtively her
eyes searched faces. Who were
Stephanie's friends that were
also going to San Francisco?
She talked on with a crazy hi-
larity. Surely-ye IL the baby
was asleep, but she'd be afraid
he would fall from the berth.
Nonsense see you tonight : =
Stephanie's friends in q little
group now coming toward her.
Hurriedly Roen babe goodby.
But as she went up the train
steps. a voice after hera clear,
soprano voice. The voice re.
called a face.
Burning to her veins. Roen.
reached her compartment. closed
and locked the door.
The voice called out: "Ste-
phanie Hendricks, come right
here"
And with the tone there flashed
into Rooms overcharged heart q
face-the face Of q girl who
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Life, Love and Adventure Are the Lot
Of an Obscure Girl in
High Society.
What Has Happened So Far:

sally Marsh New York with thousand dollars and
deu education She keeps house with four other girls
0aph and after three decides She fails find
deal and Sheyn
society through
some security This security consists of note which he dictates
and Sally reckessIy the
never regret the months
6 wonderful clothes that SheVln
Newport
IeaW, She with Tubby Wells and
married. greatly
EheVn Mrs. Brooke cOnesses she
Eyesham Sally after she dives off Tubby
Wells yacht avoid his love mang The people fall In
love and sally bitterly rTetnE her compact with shvn asks him
meet Adrian Martin first Sally does meet Martin and learning that
hr swsethea Jerry calling Martin Sally
telling to her horror how he makes his derry
up from New York. telling her to him his apartment win
snow the letter to Derry Sally He makes his
her then Finding
letter TO Jerry who reads in spite of S frantic Shevn
through with
20 her girl friends She begin Jerry
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GA T any rate. well have high
"A old week or two with you.
Wait till you see our gadget!
She talks French like a native
and knows that / don't. Ron.
ole dear. get your work cleared
UP so that you can give us a
run Of it. Longing to see you.
I'd wire when we land"
He would scour the earth till
he found her. Now she must take
her stand.
CHAPTER So
Jackie was going to that apart
ment in st. Louis to visit Roen--
TO spend q high old week with
her.
He would be given the address
Of her second apartment as
Godfrey had been given it.
He would learn that Mrs. Rob.
ert jackson had left with her
baby just before Christmas. And
no one knew where she had
gone.
instantly Jackie would seize
on that name" Robert jackson"
his name and Bobby-dad's.
Strange coincidence that Roen
should live with a woman by this
strange name-stranger still that
she had never mentioned this
friend. So much she had not
foreseen! So many little details
tracking her!
They would describe Mrs. Jack.
soma tall, notable figureI with
her flying chestnut hair, dark
eyes and long, silky brows whose
peculiar auburn gave such start.
ling vital color to the face.
And Jackie would begin. cruelty
~ wonder. He would search out
Geoffrey-with each clue becom.
ing more mystified, more pinched
at the heart.
frightened, he would begin the
checking up. He would look Tor
Gregg Morse's branch office.
Finding no such place, he would
frantically wire Morse and de-
nnand his sisters whereabouts.
1O Dc lDIu IAAdI NAOASG SAASNSAS
her joyously in Europe with her
brother! She had never been In
ST. Louis on business for him.
Suspicion would become rapidly
A blasting, incredulous certainty.
Let IL once dawn on Jackie that
Roen and Mrs. Robert jackson
we're one, he would move the
heavens to make sure.
He would visit every hospital
IN tn city. He would get in
touch with Stephanie Hendricks,
Roen's nurse. BY a hundred
marks Stephanie would identify
Roen. She need only. mention
the blood-red ruby on the fourth
finger Of Rooms left hand. Jackie
would know.
Roen pictured Jackie and vir.
ginla staring at each other in
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together thoughts and memories
and wishes, In one second living
again in South America, in another
back in Newport on his dingy
boat. a
"why, the waters not cold,
Sally!' he said once. "Come onr'
Then she shivered and laughed.
Sally looked around her
IL she only had q hot water bag!
These alternate burnings and
chills--there must be something
that would help. She'd buy not
water bag anyway. Buy-how
could she? Not a penny in her
purse. Well, she would pawn the
mesh bag. 1t was silver. She'd
go out as soon as the places were
open.
With the light Jerry fell into an