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THE PALMIST

"I can't understand,” said Mary Ellen, "why you're so excited about this fortune teller person we're to meet to-night. It seems so silly and ab- Burd."

"He isn't a fortune teller," Lucy Murdock insisted, almost sharply, "He's a palmist. And, there's a great deal of difference!" ·

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Mary Ellen shrugged............. “They're both the same,” she replied. "To me, anyhow. It's all so silly. Im agine anyone being able to predict your future. Bosh!"

"Well, anyway," Lucy said lightly. "He sounds interesting, and it'll be loads of fun meeting him.”

aries, "I didn't intend to be rude. But when I looked into your eyes, well-❞ he faltered.

"Well?" Mary Ellen asked sweetly. Bob went on breathlessly! "I didn't need to look at your palm to predict your future. I knew then that a light-haired man was coming into your life and and-"

Again he faltered, and Mary Ellen began to feel her heart bent wildly. Yet she managed to retain an out- ward calm.

"And?" she asked, her voice scarce- ly audible.

Bob Traynor swept a spot of mois- ture from his forehead. He seemed to be groping for the right words.

Mary Ellen got the surprise of her young life when she and Lucy arrived "Mary Ellen," he blurted. "May I at Sally Hathaway's party that hope will there that is, I wish" night. The "Palmist" was already Mary Ellen suddenly laughed. Every among those present. Very much so. trace of anger and humiliation that In fact, it looked to Mary Ellen and he had caused her was swept aside.. Lucy as if there were no one else In its stead was a new emotion,a of importance in the room. un bran queer feeling of ecstasy that she had.

"Isn't he exciting looking?" Sally never before known. asked, taking each of the girls by an

"Heretofore," she said, looking

By Barbara Ann Benedict

Wrong.":

arm and leading them into the living, deep into his eyes, "I thought, for room where a tall, blonde person with tune telling and palmistry was all laughing blue eyes was the centre of rot. But perhaps I may have been... an interested group.

"But-but," Mary Ellen faltered, “I Her meaning to Bob Traynor was thought fort palmists were queer old quite clear. And had Sally Hath- men with whiskers. This one--he away at that moment not put in an your guest, seems quite young and appearance, he might have said things human," she finished lamely,

to Mary Ellen about her future that Sally laughed and nudged Lucy, no palmist had ever dreamed... "Bob isn't really a palmistahe (Copyright, 1938, By The Associat- said. "He's a lawyer by profession. ed Newspapers). Palmistry is merely a hobby which

interests him immensely."

They had paused, unnoticed by the

tall youth, on the group's edge.

MR. EDEN

"As a matter of fact," Bob Traynor CHAMPIONS was saying, "palmistry is actually a

scientific study of the construction DEMOCRACY

of the human hand. There's no guess work about it. Time and time again I've been able to predict accurately facts concerning people's futures.” ⠀

He paused, and impulsively Mary Ellen stepped forward. "I wonder, she said with the faintest of twinkles in her brown eyes, "If you can tell me my name. Most fortune teller are able to do at least that.”

Need For Unity

former

Mr. Anthony Eden, Foreign Secretary, said at South- amption that only when men and women were free and governed by free institutions could they give to their best.

Bob Traynor looked into Mary Ellen's eyes and smiled. "I'm not a fortune teller," he laughed, “but I be "For my part," he said, "I could. lieve your name is Mary Ellen nøver subscribe to any other doc- Brown. You're not married, and trine; or take any part in public 1won't be for almost a year. When life were any such other doctrine you do marry it will be to a light to be widely accepted in this land. haired youth, to whom you've never been properly introduced.

But it won't be. That doctring of

Mary Ellen flushed to the roots of belief in individual liberty will en her hair. For a second she was seired dure,

by a panicky désire to flee from the "Our hope in post-war days was circle of laughing faces, Her lips to live in a world freed for ever of smiled, but inwardly she seethed. ́aggressive ⠀⠀ militarism. A world.

“And you can tell me all this with-

out even looking at my palm!" the where international y friendshipsɛ said sweetly. Well, I can do as would break down, all barriers, a much for you, b: Your name is Bob world where; at home;iall sections of Traynor You're a lawyer. You're the community - would work” to- not married. And you won't, be, not gether in frank sincerity for the at least, within a year..

It was Bob's turn to flush, Mary good of the whole. Those hopes were Ellen had turned the tables nicely disappointed...

Sally Hathaway foresaw trouble un and interceded. The group broke up; much to the roller of the two young people who had not as yet been "pro- perly introduced: ANN

Later: Bob"managed to get Mary Ellen into a secluded oprnur</l 'BOFTY}

"Now, when the world outlook is dark, the nation is beginning to feel once again the need for unity, com- radeship, and joint national effort such as - animated us in the war

"" he began without prelimin- years.