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the imagination, offered. a certain
amount of mechanical difficulty.
In the old days it would have been
next to impossible, for Esther's
handwriting had been very dis
tinctive, bold, almost masculine
when compared with his own pre-
else and beautifully rounded one,
and with a curious backward slant
difficult to initiate.
But with the partial atrophy of
her right arm, writing had become
very difficult to her, and her hand
had lost all it's character. Acting
on Harold Arkwright's advice,
however, she had practiced a little
every day; and sometimes, when
there was no letter or anything
which she really needed to write,
she had carried on with a note to
Tim. He had these notes by him
now. They were brief, touching in
their simplicity, and revealing q
patience and hope that it would
now hardly suit him to have re-
vealed. 4. He picked up the latest
of them-written only two days
before. The writing was a little
clearer and better formed than
that of the early ones, but not
very much-a squarish, wavering
script, showing hardly any trace
Of individuality.
That, of course, simplified the
matter. He set himself to copy
this last note, holding the top of
his paper directly below 1t in the
matter Of copybook writing, and
folding the top Of his sheet over
as he proceeded. He did not ex-
anime it till he had finished.
It would not do. Try as he
would something Of the smooth
ness and firm sweep Of a strong,
healthy hand had asserted itself.
His second attempt was little bet
ter. This time, holding the pen
loosely, he tried to, suggest a
wavering irregularity. But the ir-
regularity seemed artificial. Per-
hans it was impossible to bring
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This is the way you saw me-"
All, that she had done, her own
mistakes, her own impulsiveness
was revealed to her.
Then, very carefully, she put
the telephone back on its stand
and pushed it away from her.
It was dark. in the salons as she
walked through them to the
bronze doors.
At first, when she saw him
standing there before the window
where her. name was spelled in
gold letters, she thought it was a
dream. It was q vision she had
wanted to see.
For half a minute she stood
motion1ess, her heart in her
throat.
Only an instant she paused and
then, with wings at her heels, she
ran quickly into the locker rooms
back OF the salon.
"Oh,. let him still be therew
she prayed as she wrenched the
lockers open one after another
until she found what she wanted.
She picked up an old beret, ruff
fed her. smooth hair into curls
and pulled on the beret as she had
seven years before on a February
night.
There was a trench coat in one
of the lockers. Her sables fell
to the floor, forgotten as she
hitched the belt tightly about a
waist that was as slim as ever it
had been. If only she had a port
folio. There was one in Letitia's
Office but that was upstairs and
he might be gone
Her heart pounded against her
ribs as she ran back the way she
had come and let herself out of
the bronze doors.
He was still there.
There was a lump in her throat
at the thought of his nearness.
He didn't hear her footsteps,
hadn't seen her come through the
bronze doors.
He was turning away when she
slipped her arm through his.
Even as once she had done, he
turned coldly, saw her and neither
of them had any words. Or any
need for words.
Mari swallowed and tried to
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the right degree of moment to
bear, to reproduce not only the
weakness, but the desperate effort
to overcome it.
Recalling a trick he had been
shown and practiced in his child
hood, he tried another method.
This was to turn the model upside
down, and copy as one copied a
drawing. The advantage was that
the mind did not outpace the hand,
it was unconcerned with the actual
matter of the writing, and there
fore did not anticipate and simpli-
fly. The work was infinitely labor
ious, but the result showed a great
improvement. In 20 minutes he
achieved a practically identical
copy of Esther's last note.
But how was he to adapt this
method to an original compost
ton? At first sight the difficulty
seemed insuperable, but on ex-
aiming Esther's notes closely he
found that nearly all the words of
his letter appeared once or more
in one or the other of them. Even
whole phrases were there. II can't
help it," Tim sure it's BEST"
"Goodby, my dearest one" A
dozen or Is words at the most
were absent.
He took up a pair Of scissors and
shipped out the words and phrases
he required in little rectangles.
These he pasted, neatly and in due
order, on to a stiff sheet of paper,
leaving spaces where necessary.
Then he filed in the missing
words, copying letter by letter,
using extraordinary care.
At last he had a model ready.
The final version was all that re-
manned for him to do. But for
this he suddenly realized that he
would have to use Esther's own
fountain pen, with the particular
blue ink she affected. This pen:
she kept in her own bureau in the
living room.
(TO Be C0ntinued)
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speak. "Oh, Tony" That was
all she could say, all she needed
to say. It told him everything.
Even that she knew; that she
knew he loved her, that he had
paid her the highest compliment
he could-he had come across the
-Atlantic. to see her in her moment
Of triumph. Her eyes, clinging to
his, told him that she loved him.
Silently she turned him back
toward the big glass window and.
blowing there with her breath UNI
til there was a veil of steam, she
wrote above the name of Mari
barat. TONY CASTLE.
Then her eyes opened wide with
the pantomime question.
Tony rubbed his fingers across
the name. erasing it.
ooh, no, Tony!"
He pulled out his pockets to
show her that they were empty.
"That doesn't matterw
'"This is the reason" he said.
He held out his hands. The long,
delicate hands. that she could
never forget were paint-stained
Inow. ,-~-
With finger colored an Indian
red, he wiped away tear that
slid down her cheek. It wasn't
really a tear; it was a diamond
that spilled off a corner of the
stars that were her eyes.
"I'm broke, darling"
'But you paint! And you can
Ipaint in Paris for a few months
in the year. Oh, Tony, lookY'
Again she blew her breath on
the glass. Again her finger traced
the name CASTLE. And now the
name was MARIBARAT CAS-
TIE.
Again her questioning eyes met
his.
"Oh, my darling!' he said as he
crushed her hard against his
heart, "Will you NEVER get over
being impulsive? Please don't!"
The gendarme frowned, twirled
his stick Importantly, whistled
without effect and looked the
other way.
"C'est pamour," he murmured
land went on his way.
(THE ENDl
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Cokesbmy News
By MRS. ERNEST GILL

q
AvcocIx school doors swung open for
tho 1e37-37 term Thursday as did the
others in the county, and we wish to
extend a hearty welcome 10 the new
teachers as we'll as the OLD. we arc
very proud of the entire faculty:
Mrs. M G. Johnson and cnlloren
from Henderson spent Sunday with
Mrs. Johnson's parents, Mr.. ana MIS-.
A T. Gupton. ~
Miss Mary Powell and Buck Gnee
from Henderson were guests OF Mr..
and Mrs. w. E. Gill Sunday evening.
Bud Coghill spent Monday on the
warehouse floors in Rocky Mount.
Miss jamie Yurgen from Raleigh
was the attractive house guest OF MISS
Leona Workman last week.
Friends vii; be glad to know Roose-
welt Hicks is getting along very nice
Nv at his home after undergoing an
operation at Maria Parham hospita
for appendicitis few days ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. w. Alderman and
daughters Josephine and Margaret
left last Wednesday night for Nor
canton where they attended the con-
vention for three days, before going
on to their home in Atlanta, Ga, after
spending a happy vacation with their
parents here, Mr. and Mrs. Z. e. Gill.
Miss Florence Vaughan has return
ed to her home in South Boston, Va.
after spending two months with Mr..
and Mrs. Nelson Vaughan.
Miss Rosie Leigh Stainback left
last week for Iouisburg where Alc
entered Louisburg College for the
1878 term.
B. W. Powell returned to his work
at Concord last week after spending
a few davs at his home here.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-09-15

Treasurer Charlie Johnson has writ
ten all county clerks to notify all JUS
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-09-15
WAR FLAG NOW IN
HALL OF HISTORY
Emblem of Famous North Carolina
Artillery Unit in Civil War
Returned to State
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter HOtcl


Raleigh, Sept. 15-Flag of the
Fourth North Carolina regiment, cap
tured by Federal troops and recently
returned, has been placed in the Hall
of History, it was announced today by
DR.. C. C. Crittendon, secretary of the
North Carolina Historical Commits
sion. The flag was recently sent to
Governor Hoey by James r. Settler,
of Steubonville, Ohio, who said it had
been captured by his father, Captain
John Settler, of the First West Vir-
ginia Cavalry, at the battle of Win
chester, Virginia, September 10, 1854.
The North Carolina Regiment was
one of the most distinguished of all
the military units the State furnished
the Confederacy Organized at Garys-
burg, near Weldon, in May, 1861, at
the very beginning of the war, it was
heavy fighting throughout the conflict,
and was with Lee when the end came
at Appomattox. It was successfully
commanded by Colonel George Burg
wyn Anderson, Bryan Grimes, James
H. Wood, and Edwin A. Osborne.
The battle of Winchester, where the
flag was captured, was one of the
most disastrous of the war for the
Confederates, and was part of the
campaign which resulted in their loss
of the Valley of Virginia.
The flag, in an excellent state of
preservation, will be placed with the
other Confederate flags in the Hall
Of History.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-09-15

The State Board of Agriculture was
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-09-15

der I'M a vote of the. entire State. " =
Draw a north-south line through
Durham and there isn't a single liquor
store west of it and in all but five
of the western units there hasn't even
been interest enough in stores TO. call
an election, let alone carry one.
The State Liquor Board. incidental
ly, has just Cracked down" hard on
whisky advertisements, a new ruling
requiring every proposed ad to pass
strict censorship. Advertising VIII
be wholly prohibited in dry coun-
ties and severely curbed in wet ones.
Guitar Moore, board chairman, APP
parently is bent on carving out e tne
full the expressed intention Of tne
board not to encourage, but to con-
troll the sale of liquor.
A good, hot tip Is to watch for q
big howl from ABC county poaros
who think more Of the profits tnan
anything else.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-09-15
Capital Gossip
BY HENRY AvERILL
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, Sept. 15.-Every time Ii
4uor store advocates look at a map of
North Carolina showing the wet, Try
and Indifferent counties they breathe
a prayer of thanksgiving that State
wide referendum was defeated in the
1887 General Assembly. 81
Reason is plain as the most casual
glance is very convincingly TO The Of
feet that any and all forms of liquor
control would have been showed un-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-09-15

to attend the Goth National Safety
Congress and Exposition in the NUM-
cipal Auditorium" says a release from
Kansas City just received. North Car
olina's Highway Patrol will be repre-
scented, if Major Arthur Fulk can
work out plans to make it feasible.
Guitar Moore, chairman of the State
Liquor Board, is one of several State
officials who will go to New York
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-09-15
BY BRUCE HAMILTON
CHAPTER I


ON A SUNDAY morning. in the
second week in July, Tim Ken
nedy sat at his writing desk before
the open window of the billiard
room. It was hot; his stiff white
collar. and the old Norfolk jacket
he usually wore about the house
irked him. He had q pen in his
hand, and several sheets of fools
cap paper lay on the desk. Every
now and then he scrubbed q line,
and in the intervals looked frown-
inglY out Of the window as his
Aaind CROPPED for q phrase.
Ideas came slowly. The pleas
ures Of literary composition had
never appealed to him, and since
leaving college he could hardly re-
call ever having put pen to paper
except to write q letter, note down
an appointment, or make out bill
or receipt. He remembered the
subject of one Of the essays that
had so tormented him in his
schooldays: Write an account of
what you saw in the Diamond
jubilee, in the style of either
(a) Or. johnson. or (b) Lord
Macaulay, or (c) Charles Dick
ems. The problem was fun
damentally similar: Write a let
ter Of farewell prior to committing
suicide, in the style Of Esther
Kennedy. :" He discarded a
sheet.
Evidently his fault was over
elaboration. Such letters were
generally brief enough. The longer
he made it the greater the chances
for little improba bilities and faults
in psychology to creep in. And
the note of reasoning he had tried
to strike, in the seven or eight
longish screeds he had attempted
and abandoned was false one.
Esther would not be concerned to
convince people that she really did
intend to destroy herself. The
fact would speak for itself. Des-
pair, affection, unconscious pathos,
an abrupt haste to be finished with
a painful task-those were the
emotions to suggest.
He tried again. It remained
strange, writing q letter to him
self. But this time he got going,
and the result looked to him a
great deal more satisfactory.
MY dearest Tim.
I am going to take the rest of
the medinaE Perhaps its more
than is needed, but I don't want
to wake up. and I want to make
sure.
I know this will be = terrible
shock to- you. but please forgive
me. Tim dear. This dreadful
sleeplessnesS is too muck for me.
and T can't go on. It isn't as if I
would ever be really well. I don't
feel I can face living on as a
wretched ncurotic invalid, and a
burden to everyone. I'm getting
bad-tempered and selfish already.
I can't help it.
Give Uncle Harold my love.
Try not to, feel it too much. Tim.
I'm sure it's best for you in the
end. We've had such happy times
IOS etACA' dHu Ie WOAu NC pity
to spoil them.
Goodby, my dearest one.
Your loving Esther.
It was still a little vague. Was
Esther's motive the misery of
sleeplessness, or despair at the
prospect Of becoming "a wretched
neurptic invalid? -. On the
whole he decided it did not mat
ter. It was not like a money loss,
or a bereavement, or disgrace. A
certain loss of grip, expressing
itself in a slight ambiguity, par
took Of the very nature of her sup
posed state.
He proceeded to the next step.
This. while making no demand on
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&RUSTLE0F SHKSS
CHAPTER As
IT. WAS 10 O'CLOCK.


A small army of porters had
cleared away the last of the
debris. The salons that had
echoed with the cries of the days
activities were restored to order.
They were darkened now save for
the night lights.
Only in the small Office where
Mari sat with her secretary did a
light burn brightly overhead.
! Before her, on wrapping
table, the days orders were ar
ranged in high mounds. Each pile
was arranged in it's alphabetical
order.
go through them again, Lett
tia. Carefully! We may have
made mistake. It may be at
tached to another"
Patiently Miss Higgins went
through them all again She
shook her head. There isn't a
single one from Mr.. Castle. Very
strange, too. He's the only one
who didn't order!"
"All right" Mari said then.
YOU'D better go now. You must
be hungry. I'll leave presently"
She sat there, how long she
didn't know, alone with her bit
ter sense of failure. And the
knowledge that Tony Castle had
found her unworthy!
Her hat lay at her hand. She
drew it on, draped her sables
about her shoulders. Then, with
a hopeless gesture, she pulled the
telephone toward her.
She said to the. operator, II
wish to be put through to Nice.
II want to speak to Mr.. Mark
Sutherland at the Grande hotel"
On the level with her: eyes was
the book marked CONFIDEN-
TIAL CREDIT REPORTS. It
had been one. of Miss Higgins
ideas. A book filed with news
paper clippings. bearing on the
financial conditions of merchants
all over the world.
Mari felt her pulse accelerate,
a vague hope stir, in her as she
shifted the telephone from her
right to her left hand and pulled
the book toward her.
The operator said she was try
ing to get Mr.. Sutherland. Mari's
finger found the C's in the big
book.
IF Tony were broke. :.
The operator said there was a
slight delay, she'd have Nice in a
moment.
Mari spread the page marked C
wide open. There were clippings
pasted there under big red letters
spelling CASTLE. Still holding
the telephone, she read the first,
read all of them. Her eyes grew
wider. The silence about her was
filed with music.
One by one, unblinking, she
read the headlines:
FAMOUS 57th ST. SHOP
SOLD TO FRUET & CO."
And -.
MERCHANT SELLS SHOP
TO BECOME PAINTER"
CASTLE AWARDED FIRST
PRIZE IN ACADEMY Elk
HIBIT."
The last:
ARTIST REJECTS OFFER
OF MUSEUM FOR PRIZE WIN
MING PORTRAIT"
The prize winning portrait lay
there before her eyes-the por-
trait of woman with a light
glowing in her eyes; a tragic
woman in black gown with her
arms appraised. The gown was the
one that she had designed for
Lame Weston 50 long ago. And
the woman was herself.
She had said, "Tony, don't you
see? Only the man who loved her
would see her this way?"
For a long time she stared at
it, and her smile tasted the salt
of her tears.
Tony" she said softly, "you
did love me and I didn't know!
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-09-15

tices of the peace and county court
judges that they should collect 81 adj
ditional costs in every criminal case
where the defendant is found guilty,
this sum to be paid to the; State
treasury for use in establishing and
maintaining a bureau of identified
ton.
The State Board of Agriculture was
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still in session Wednesday afternoon,
completing two-day meeting. An
nouncement of the site for the State
peanut test farm may be made late
this afternoon. Delegations from Tar
boro and Rocky Mount were heard in
connection with location Of the farm.
"The butcher, the baker, the can
dlestick maker-they'n all be; here
during the week of October IL to Is
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-09-15

The announcement that school en-,
rollment is rapidly decreasing is nala
to believe in view of the TACT 'n ss
every September there seem 10 "
twice as many football teams az 'A'
voaY hefnra
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-09-15
(To Be Continued

next week for the National Conven'
ton of the American Legion. MI
Moore, a Legionnaire, will leave iOr
the big city Saturday night
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-09-15

football coaches might make ideal
congressman. They have at least one
outstanding qualification. They know
how to take lot of razzing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-11
BARNARD PUPILS
SCORE ON STAGE
Olive Wilder's Proteges
Present One-Act Play,
"Jean Vatican"

Pupils Of grade seven at Barnard
school, under the supervision OF
Miss Olive Wilder. presented spe-
cial program yesterday, featuring 0
Oae-act play entitled "Jean VAL
jean," q presentation adapted from
the work Of Victor Hugo. Les Mis-
CRADLES"
The program follows: The Miller's
Daughter, Antoinette ParSiale; ban-
10 solo, Michael varanelli: two songs
Melody Mixers; news. Angelo Par
ziale; play, "Jeall Vatican" class.
Time, 1895; place, somewhere IN
France; scene !, before hte city
gates; scene 2. the bishops guest;
scene .. the bishops blessing.
Characters: Guard, Joseph Cor.
tigiano: Mademoiselle, Marceila
Balses; Jean Vatican. Joseph Co
rio: Madame, Rose Papa; Inn Keep
er. Michael vaYanelli; Bishop. Rob-
ert Kearney; Fisherman. Anthony
Gallo; Oflcer, Earl Monroe; Citizens,
Jean McFarlane, Matilda Navikauc-
kas, Rose Morelli, Angelo Par2iale,
Helen Hubul Dolores CipFiano, An
toinette rarz.ale, Edna NEBRASKA.
Stage manager, Michael Roma
nielio.
Sort assider, Caroline Tiorilio-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-11
COIN CLUB Men
STAGE DISPLAY
Rare Pieces Shown at Mat.
tatuck Society Build
ing Today

Coins Of all denominations and
values, dated back to pre- Colonial
days are on display today Fat the
museum Of the Mattatuck Historic
cal society building on West Main
street, through the courtesy Of sew
erai members Of the waterbury
Coin club who are sponsoring the
exhibit. ~
Complete sets Of the earliest types
Of coins including commemorative
and rare pieces are included. The
display opened to the public at 2
o'clock this afternoon and viii con-
tinue to o'clock. Opening again
at 2 .. m. tonight 1t will remain so
until 10 o'clock. Final opportunity to
witness the fine pieces win be afford
ed for the display will remain open
to view tomorrow afternoon from
Q to 5 o'clock.
Among the pieces witnessed today
are: early type gold pieces Of sew
eral denominations; silver dollars
and quarters and also a complete
set Of silver half dollars beginning
with the 1894 issue; complete set Of
commemorative gold pieces; COM
plete set Of the Panama. Pacific
commemorative which included
$50 pieces: three-cent nickle pieces
issued 1864-l873. and scent pieces
from 1855 to 1912. Pennies, begin
ming with the 1893 issue, right to
date, are among the pieces.
Especially interesting are the
pattern and experimental pieces
struck In silver, copper and alumni
mum proof. Among the oddities are
half-cent pieces; fractional curren-
cy; old style large bills; broken
bank bills: colonial pieces, Connects
cut metals; scrip money. and also
a collection Of counterfeit coins
and bills. >...
Ofncers of the Waterbury Coin
club are, President, Ferdinand
Bachman; vice-president, Oliver
Hill: secretary, A. Crosse, and treas
urer, George Stevens.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-11
$l6,5OO ACTIONS
PUT OFF DOCKET
Settlements Made in Suits
Based on Alleged Defec-
tive Stairways

TWO actions In which damages
sought totalled $4,000. were today
withdrawn from the superior court
and reported settled. IN both. cases
the suits were based on allegedly
defective sairways.
Mary J. Kelly, owner Of q two
family house on a Orange street
was defendant In an action IN
which damages OF $4,000 were
sought by Martha Trayer. who
claimed to have suffered extensive
injuries In q fall on defective stair.
way. The fall Is said to have
occurred at 10 p. m, November Is.
1886.
walter Perry. receiver for, the
Merchants Trust was defendant In
the other suit which was brought
by Gennaro RUSSO, who sought &c.
500. He claimed injuries suffered
lii D fall caused by defective stairs
ut 70 Pleasant street. which prop.
srty was owned by the Merchants
Syss., August Z. 1896, which was the
ks.e Of the fall. The house was re-
ycntiy sold with the permission 0f
fudge Frank p. McEvcy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-11
ONLY AMENDMENT
CAN ACHIEVE GOAL

New Haven, Conn.,. Feb. 11.-(UP)
Only a constitutional amendment
will achieve the goal desired by Pres
ident Roosevelt's supreme court re-
organization plan, which Is not OF
"iar-reaching and permanent char
acter," Dean Charles E. Clark Of
Yale Law School believed today.
The presidents proposal, Dean
Clark told the Yale Political Union.
"in its long-range aspect Is merely
q. retirement or o pension plan.
When first 1t Is applied II is true II
may change the character OF the
bench sufficiently to save Tempo
rarily o few acts which otherwise
might have been lost.
zone may venture to prophesy,
howe Ger, that after q few years this
temporary effect, even II 1t occurs,
as IL may not. will seem uninapor-
tant." M
Dean Clark asserted we should
not ''be blinded to the fact that the
proposal does not touch at all the
fundamental questions Of conflicts
between, executive, legislative and
judicial power which have troubled
effect upon proper governmental ac-
ton Of tn !. system Of checks and
balances und II which we now live.