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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1935.

SERIAL STORY-

SILKEN SPINDLES

CHAPTER 1 Continued

by Laura Lou Brookman

As quickly as school days had end- ed can the disillusionment when she tried to find work. At first Gale would not hear of hor brother leaving high school. Hor two years' college tralaing made her confident that there wax work she could do, work that. would earn enough to keep up the Hendersons' home

But Galo was inexperienced and there were no job even for those with experience. Trying times. Hard. times. Men out of work, standing in bread Hines. Women asking for charity to keep their children fod and Warm. A Tow weeks' noarching brought a desperate awakening to the Boriousness of the altuation. Gale was glad to become a mill girl. She carned $14 a week in the mill and was sure that in time it would be more.

Steve

Meyers, steady, reliable

mill employee.

The $14 did not stretch as Galo had.. hoped. One day when Fhil announced with determination that he was not self, and we'd manage about your going back to school, she did not fathor some how." opposo him. Brother and sistor had worked in the silk mill ever since. Their earnings paid the bills for their Iving, their father's and for his medical treatment. Galo took on the duties of cook and housewife as well ns those of mill girl.

"And there's your mother," the girl Interrupted. "Don't you see, Stove, we can't can't talk about getting married?"

"No," Steve said, "I don't see any thing of the kind. I love you, Gale. I want to marry you. That's all there

Brian Westmore, whose father bullt the mill.

boat house. A few yards away, near the edge of the Ice, a bonfire was burning. Half a dozen boys and girls stood near it and Gals recognized among them Joey Dinwiddie and one of the O'Connor boys. She ant down on a log and began putting on her! ekntes.

A girl in a bright red sweater went No one had done more to help her is to think about. You and me, swinging past. It was Katie Shantz keep her courage, to fact each day as Wo've both been working for others, from the mill, akating hand in hand it came, than Stove Meyers. Steve's thinking about others for long time. with a boy from the shipping room..

"Where's Storo?" Katie called,.com- story was different. Two years older Aren't we entitled to some happiness? than Gale, they had known each other Don't you see that if we keep puttinging nearer.

Home, I guess." in grade school. Steve's mother was things off-waiting for times to get

Someone caught Katie's arm, whirl- a widow. At 17 he had gone, to work better or for this or that to happen~~ |

There was general As a bobbin boy. Now he was in the we'll always be waiting? Oh, Gale" ing her around. spinning room, considered one of the His arms were around her now. laughter, and Gale' swung out on the stendiest, most reliable workers. The girl drew back. "No, Stove," she ice, heading up the river.

The girl knew he cared for her-sald cared deeply. And her feelings for "Well," he said roughly. "I guess It was glorious-gliding with sure, Stevo? Gales' heart heat a little fas-that's the answer. You don't need to swift strokes, feeling the wind against her face. Silver and black was the ter when she naked herself the ques-try to make it easy for me!" tim. She felt warm, glowing. But She turned quickly. "Steve, I can't river. A nilver ribbon winding be she put off answering; she thought she say I'll marry you. I do enre for tween abany banks Gale skated fas- had no right to give the answer. you! You've been.the best friend I've ter. She wanted to get away from the There were her own responsibilities had. But there's no me pretending others--to have the silvery, moonlit things aren't the way they are. We river to herself. Out here she could couldn't be married-

. think. "You could say whether or not you Katie's question about Steve. It want to marry me--whether you love was partly because of Steve that Gale had come to the river to-night, alır. me."

She hadn't wanted Steve to come with Steve was waiting for the her,

his question-and Gale answer to

Sometimes didn't icnow the answer. when things went as badly on they had been intely she thought of marringe ns n refuge. Stevo's strength to rely on... Steve's kindness.. Oh, yes, he was kind. And strong, too. Steve lind so many fine qualities. She re- cognized them all."

and there were Steve's.

She was totally unprepared that winter afternoon when she fell Steve's hand on her arm, halling her. She loaked up, heard, in a voice not at alle Steve's naturally, "Listen, There was an instant's silence; then Gale, I want to talk to you. You the girl said softly, "Wait a few days, know I'm crazy about you-I've been Steve. You'll let me have a few days crazy about you for a long time. to think about it, won't you? I'll tell Before you went away to school. I you then," didn't think I'd have a chance then-

why

Aure if that's what you hut you came back. Since then, when want," he agreed. we've been going around together- well, nometimes I've had--listen, Gale, will you marry me?"

She frowned. Her eyes shadowed by the late afternoon light, looked nl- most binck. She said softly, tremu- fously, "But, Steve-"

"Does that mean you won't? - That you don't care anything about me?"

"Stove!" She touched his arm. "I couldn't marry anyone-not right now, I do care a lot for you. A lot. You've done so much for me--for all of us. I don't know how I could have got along without you! But we can't ̈get married. I mean, even if I was

sure"

Then you're not sure? You don't know whether or not you want to marry me?"

"I couldn't marry 'anyane, Steve. You know that. I've got Father to think about. And Phil. I couldn't leave them."

"I'm not asking you to leave them. I mean, we could find some way. Phil's old enough to look after him-

Throurse later Gule closed the door of the house saftly behind her and stood for a moment on the top step.

And yet, vaguely, Gale know that Steve wasn't the man she had pic- The winter moonlight fell over the tured in romantic dreams. Well, little patch of yard, over the street whint of it? Did any girl ever realise with its rows of box-like houses on those dreams-ronlly? either side. It was almost as bright Steve wasn't asking her to marry a daylight, and yet there was magic him now. Of course they couldn't do in the night that hid the ugliness of that, It would have to be a long time the attest.

in the future. There was her father and Phil

Gale

was wearing a jacket of leather-n relic of college daya........ over her short, dark skirt, and on her had rounded the bend, taking her out Gale had been skating swiftly. Sho head was a scarlet tam. She carried of sight of the crowd near the bont a pair of iço akates.

house. The shimmering, silver river She went down the steps, walking called her and Gale leaned against the briskly. It was altogether too per wind, skating with longer, faster feet u night to remain indoorя. Phil had left the house immediately after strokes. She saw the black outline of a stump frozen in the len ahend, i dinner, as usual. Her father was reading. There was no reason, Gale swerved to avoid it and suddenly felt:

the surface beneath her tremble. told herself, why she should not spend an hour on the river.

She turned corner and, ahead, could see figures moving across the ice. The street went down to the old

Galo heard the crack, sereamed. She know what had happened. She cried out again, terrified, kelpless.

(To Be Continued.)

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