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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1023.
'iiiiiimiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiii',
A Wife's Confessional
Adcle Garrlaon'a New rhnsc of
REVELATIONS OF A WIFE
Madge Sends Lee Chow In Search
of "Si4e"
There was but one possible
method of getting Into communica
tion with "Steve." Because Mrs.
Tlcer had no suspicion that I ever
had sen hr lodger before the dny
I encountered him In her home, I
could nnt go there in search of him.
Put 1 knew thai Lee Chow, who.
without "Steve'1 guessing It, had
looted his boarding place and was
Keeping him under strict espionage,
could find him for me. Therefore,
carefully avoiding that part of (he.
grounds where Mother Graham was
strolling with Junior and Marion, I
dodged around the house and made,
my way along the hedge to the de
serted old shack In which the Chi
nese, in some primitive manner
known only to himself, existed
while he kept the vigil over mo
hlch he had promised Hugh
Grantland lo maintain.
Through the hedge, I could see
people walking along the road, al
though I was completely screened
from vie- cd not wishing to use
the whistle Lee Chow had given me,
I advanced almost lo the door of
the shack screened by a wild tangle
of vines and bushes before the
Chinese saw m. He was sitting just
Inside the door, upon a rude chair
Improvised from an old stump. His
had was bent down upon his chest
and I gueesd that he was dozing.
Cut when I spoke his name In so
)ow n voice that no one but him
self could hear, he started up with
more haste than I ever before had
seen In his movements. He hurried
forward, with an extra low salaam,
"i "Lee Chow ver' sorry no hear
Mltse Graham," he said. "Mlsste
Graham not stand hre long""
"Want Leo Chow Work?"
"Not two seconds. Lee Chow," T
reassured him and then I hesitated,
not knowing just how to frame the
request I wished to make of him.
1 felt also. a. curious reluctance; to
carry out the plan I had made when
Allen Drake's coded telegram had
urged us to hold "Steve," until a
New York operative could come out
and s"t him. If I said the word to
the Chinese, the die would he cast,
and I hated, more than I dared ad
mit to myself. th Idea that mine
Should be the hand to thwart the
retribution the blackmailing tramp
10 richly deserved.
But the white, worn face of my
mother-in-law, the laughing, cher
Iirttcr from Mrhllln Sartorls To
Leslie P-rcseott
You may bo surprised to hear
from me. In fact, I uni not sure
that you will read this letter after
the (irsl two or three paragraphs.
1 didn't ask you if I might write
you. for I was afraid you would re
tuse, and then of course I would
have 10 forego the exquisite pleasure
I am having tonight of silling here,
alone on the deck, out of sight of
lend, with nothing but the wasle of
waters', about too talking to you.
' I look a.11 ovrr the wonderful, rest
less sea, and then I retire into ni
own mind, where, only you arc, and
I find rest.
I know that as far aa 1 am con
cerned, you and I are the only (wo
people In this whole universe. Dvcry
ihing that nature has mad", up until
now, has been for us alone.
It is a gorgeous night made for
low. The water is singularly calm.
The moon Is making Its customary
path of silver, studded with dia
monds, from my yacht straight up
lo where somewhere on the solitary
star that seems to be stilling nloni;
l.CMde the sliining orb rests my
Dadv - of 'he Snow s.
You see, lady fair. I'm tahim; all
soi-is of lilrr!i. bc-nuse I know
ou "ill not ansv.tr i know tha'
;nn cannot tuifor I am quite ;un
that I do not '-an imi to answer.
If I'V any possibility I win- v.iin
enough to cp ct an .-tower. 1 v tr,!d
1-e writlmr you a totally ilifferm
kind of letter. Not, howevr, I am
outr ide pf nnv com eniion.-'! r stri' -noo.
1 cm goic- to induce m 'h'
1 1 1 v 1 i r of she--inc oo int" If as I
a ci.
I h: '. in fe-ir m dojep thiv r,,r 1
ftenus s
fr,')'i'i In milk fr3.T'i t'is'.
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r-ef uirr feat ept sdshtlv and
h't 11 mill.. All cirrn's 'nix'ure
and mix 'Weugfclr Turn tn'n fo.jr
to i Individual moid ell ru''r
1. Flare IB r" cf hot ter anl
hake thirty to fortv mlnuts in a
maderatelj hot oien. When firm to j
f
-w; -z v&n
iiiniinnii
ubic little phiz of my small sen, and
the frank handsome countenance of
my husband who was unconscious
of (lie whole miserable business,
rose before the camera of my mind,
and I set my teeth, resolved to go
through with what I had set out to
do.
"Mlssce Graham want I.ee Chow
work "I Want (o Talk to That Man"
The soft, gentle voice of the
Chinese prodded my slowness.
"No." I unlkd at him. "but I do
want you to go on an errand. You
know the man who frightened my
mothrr-iu-law In the woods that
day."
"Missce Graham mean man now
live at .Mtsee Tiee's clown road'.1"
he asked. "Man I.ee Chow watch
all time."
"Y-s, that man." I said. "Now
I.ee Chow, I must ask your advice.
I want to talk to (hat man where
no one can hear, and where no one
can see except you. Where is a good
place V"
His reply was prompt.
"Here, best place," he said. "In
side here." He waver bis hand to
ward the Interior of the deserted
shack. "I.ee Chow lake car, go
around backward," he waved his
hand toward the wood road, the en
trance to which was masked by a
tangle of vines not far from the
shack, "bring ian down here.
When you want him?"
"As soon as you ran get him
here." 1 said, "and I.ee Chow."
"Yes, Missee Graham." He prod
ded my faltering speech gently.
"This man may want to get away
quickly after I talk to him. Can
you take him In the car over to
Pnerhcad, so he ran get to New
York on another train than this
south side one?'
"Can do. Yes," he replied lacon
ical 1 v.
"Then go after him now. No,
wait," as a. sudden thought came to
me. "I must go to the village tirst.
You get car ready and when you see
me come back here, then go down
to Mrs. Tlcer's and tell (he man
that Mrs. Graham wishes to see him
concerning something very impor
tant. Hut do not let Mrs. TV-,r hear
you. She does not know that 1 ever
have p'-n the man wdio calls him
self flalph DacKett until the day I
stopped and found him there."
Copyright, 1M, by Newspaper
Fcatnre St nice. Inc.
never expect lo look upon our face
again.
I have not words, tlcar lady, to
till vol. the sharp agony that was
mine that day ou fell in'o (ho water
from off my acht. I suffered h
million pants so much worst than
the pangs of tb-nth, that his grizzly
hand has now no (errors for me.
I also know that (he story is (rut:
wherein we art; told that one may
rev'e w his whole life in one inlin-
I llesiinal moment of time.
1 know I hat in the moment when
I saw your beautiful body hurling
Itself downward to what I was sunt
was certain and sudden dcalh, fill
the things thai 1 have wann-d lo Fay
to you from the lirsl moment I met
'you. uttered themselves lo you in
my distracted mind,
j I told you that I had found ou
: 1 1 1 r. one desirable woman of all the
i earl h. I railed at society for making
line keep this all' in my heart until
1 1 he moment when 1 I bought 1 would
I never be able to trll you. I railed at
i i- . ' for thinking I could tur (ell
iou this, for I knew if 1 did try to
!do it and I found that you would
: listen. H would dissipate all my ro
! gar. for you.
j That you are unapproachable to
'such as I, makes ou the perfect
I -oiiian. I( you had stepped down
ttoni tmr i st.il for one moment
while i v as w u h you. riy disa ppoint
. no nt would hat be. n almost more
I hail I cnuld bear. Thank God. you
r.''i' did! And so nu remain per
I feet in nit e: ...s, enshrined iii my
h art fort er.
J it'opvrlghl, 13:.". NI"A Per. lee. lo'-i
Toiotirro' I. 'tier frofo M-ht'le
SrTtorls lo f.r-iiie Treseott.
a fomily
MAW
s to'jr't fh ttpil"..lr r done
Si n In tht ni'tlds In whteh t)V'
re PaV r d.
The Cons' bill t due ' cn th
roses.
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55 86 jS7 58 I! ST&O
61 I "SfeT 63 SPT
nW II M 1 1 lEtm
Down deep In a coal mine you'll
find that some of these words are
usd.
HORizo.vru,
3. Tits where fuel Is dug
10. Kindled (as miners' lamps)
12. Mineral spring
13. Edge
14 Pino tree
Id. Sound that Is reverberated
IS. Typical
:n. To languish
CI. Kxca.vallon In a mine
CJ. To devour
24. Troubled
CV To hem
Cij. To sin
C7. Furnace size coal
CS. Before
"3. Force supposed to rroduce hyp
notism 3". Melancholy note in scale
SI. Deity
Vi, Point of compa?r,
S4. Perfect score
35. Hurrah
3 7. Jewel
l!5. Fish caught off Maine coast
40. Kit
42. Supplied with nourishment
44. Printer's measure
4. Therefore
47, You and me
4'. Second note In scsle
4''. Flcotrjfted rartic.it
si. Also
Ml. Billiard pole
f'4. Ocean
f'S. Middays
;i7. friend
5?. Chunks as of coil
11. Gaelic
''.;. Cotton fabric
f'4. Clean, unmixed
i'o. Owed
sr.. To ent.ilate
il". Soft broom
M. To wander Idly about
7n. Largest size coal
VimilAL
I. (Wall) recessed
:i. 1:011c
4. Having a habitual tendency
5. Stratum as of coal
(M.dlt ( I l-Ol IS
David Copperfield
IHK .101 REY HOMX.
This Is the V'einnlne of the third
-"ek of 'h story of "Dav id Copper
'1iJ." Have oq been, savlnr there
rapr dolls? if von cut them out
find rave thorn every dsy ycu will
(""ii h.a a vholc set of David t'op
prflebl dolls.
I r!o0n David's sadnesa at parting
, "Ph little Km ly gave way to x-.itr.tp.-rtt
and tov at once more se.--oT
his l'eloved mother. As th'.y
drtv nar horn h became more
"d more exi'iled and impatient. !
i'ecotiv. bowe.r. did not Seem to
bare ibis Impatience. Indeed, she
I'ptnr.d to linnc bnek with a dread
rvn ing borne.
K'i' in spite of T't -.-co'ty, l?lun
.jfrtoee Kook'fv s D. iv id s home
Ua brid skin
y-Mir li.int-lirjn 1
I?esinoI
rrxJurr Wofchcs.rcln?ss,
roughness, etc. and
promotes skin health
esmol
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1
Angry
7. Nothing
'. Standard typ measure
9. Diggers of coal
1. Precept
11. To melt
14. Ridged steel tool
15. To ransom
17. from
1?. father
CO. .lumbled tvpe
CI. Drop of fluid from the eye
24. Dyeing apparatus
S". Lights worn by miners on their
caps
32. Meshed materials
S4. Tiny sized coal
3. A coal scuttle
25. Filled (as rock by mineral de
posit! 41. Children
42. Coal
43. Pen'ed by contract
4V Bird (also called cassowary),
4?. To Implore again
5". Organ of snnll
eC. Musical drama
53. To scale (as a hill )
54. Pueve) )
50. Direction bctnean nofh pole
and where the sun rises
5. 'Variant of "A"
ko. Aboie
C. To perish.
3. The lowing of row
PreposlMon of p'ace
o- Male parent
RlAlfiTGiE
was tailed finally came in sight.
As they drove up. I he door opened
and David leaned far out to wave
lo his mother, lint when he looked
it was not, she. A strange servant
stood in the door.
(Here is David's attractive moth
er. Make her hair a golden brown
and her slip the very faintest pink.
Tomorrow there will be a pretty
dress for her.)
(Copyright, KtC4. Associated Editors,
Inc.)
Gossip's Comer
T his Orion Helps
Tf Clll have no ier :intl fi.sr Ihnl
i meat will not keep, put t out of
doors in a cool place where air can
get at it from all sides.
IJcUrr tor Slimmer
I.esr meal is i-equiii-d it you start,
your meal with soup, and the body
IB just p.i r. t nourish' d.
A I i t in h I i onoiviT
1 Paeon fat may i,o used in salad
i dr's.-.ing for btiiicc and vegetables.
i Hrovvn and (Vlil
j An afternoon mm. of brown silk
I ri-rpr 1s h".ivi!y embroidered in EOld
thread and lined with gold cloth.
J Two Matt-rink 1 sod
I rrint'd crepes trimmed with
! plain colors ar' the most con. ra'ly
1 popular combination of the sum
. nvr.
l ine riTooK
Diamond shaped la'frns end
diagonal hiiidlutes are nntieed )n
til' pew wool fabrics.
rsjilalettes Atf.im
The court diessiiiak'rs of T.on
don ate showing pantahit's cf
crepe de chine and g"otg'!te to
match the frocks.
rWcl on straw
Much -velvet ribbon In brirh col
ors is being ned on the new straw
ha's.
iYC Antiseptic
"jy heals tip Poison Ivy
J. jy eruptions in no time.
fJ It'snon-poisonous.sooth.
inc. acts quickly. Worst
jf psins-llornet Stings. Burns.
Sunburn, vanish within 20
L'seo pasi years in oipgesc
hospitals (including Ciy of New
York) Industries, Railways, and
II. S. Navy. Ask your
Druggist for a bottle
10c and 39c
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(DEATQICE DUQTON
J
i hi sTonv so r,n:
May Peymour, whose husband
killed himself hfcaiis.. 0f ),,.r ov
affair with another man, returns to
Ixr home town ati'i- a year's ab
sence, she dlsposrs of her Inherited
properly, loaves the sale of her
lions' in the hands of I'lysses Z.
Kurgan, and willi $.onfi in her
hu nil bii c. sets out to find any marry
a man with money.
At Atlantic CHy in"ts a divorcee.
Carloiia Frolking, and her two
friends, Herbert Wnierbury and
I 'an Sprngue. Roth men pay suit to
May, greatly to the distress of Car
lotla, who has been In love with
Han for many years.
May. however, sets her-rap for
Watcrbury. having made up her
mind that he is the millionaire
husband she Is looking for. She
spends almost ail of her ready
money on jewels, a. fur coat, and ex
pensive cloth"? to create the Im
pression that she Is a wealthy
widow. Finally Waterbnry proposes,
and May accepts him.
She plans to marry him within a
week before he has a chanc" to
slip through h'T fingers, and when
the JU'.O'iO from the sale of her
house arrives, she turns it over to
him to Invest for her in Don
Sprague's oil well. But immediately
regreta t, when Carlotta. on (he ee
of her departure for h'-r California
horn, irarns May not to trust Wa
terbury too far. She hints that he,
Dan, and a mysterious third man
nam"d "Oliver M. Brunll" work to
gether to put ovep shady stock
deals,
May immediate!? gors to Water
burv, tells him what Carlotta has
said about him. And while he is
strongly denying it, May sees a
special delivery letter In his hand,
addressed to "Oliver M. Bruiu'll."
NOW GO OX WITH 1 HE STORY
May looked up from the letter In
V.'aterbury's hands. His face bore
the strain of n man who is doing
his h"St to appear cheerful and non-
"You fhat! You piker!" May
hilant under adverse conditions.
I "Are you Oliver M. Brunell?" she
asked bluntly.
j Waterbnry laughed. "Well, I
seem to have his letter " he an
, svv red with guarded carelessness.
J "I suppose you're Brunell and
j Waterbury, too and one of the
names Is your alias." May went on
thought fully. "Vpon my soul, Car
lotta w as i ight and you and Dan
are crooks:'1
Watrhury folded his arms and
looked at hr in cold silence.
"All the things you told me about
your country house and jour
town house, and your trirs to Eu
rope they were all lies, weren't
they'.'" May asked.
His slbmce maddened her.
"Weren't they?"
H'r ioi" rose higher and higher.
Why don't ou lell the whole
hotel about it?" Waterbury asked.'
laying his hand h-avily on her
should' r. "Veil don't, have to shout,
do veu ."'
Miy flushed, and lowered h'r
i eic.
-Vet) ipntod all that stuff,
to mik" me think you were worth
a million doilits, you rhtatl you
piker"- she ;.;,id between clenched
teeth. "1 ou thought I had a lot of
money, and you wanted to marry
It " She broke oft. trembling so
' iolen' ly that her voice shook.
"And who toll me you had a lot
of monej " Who told me you were
a walking gold mine?" Waterbury
asked.
There, wa? a s'ing In the sneering
smile he flashed at her.
"Toil took muhty good care not
te let me know how poor you were
iimm
NEA
until you thought you'd landed nit,
didn't you?"
He paused a moment and then
went on.
"Hut don't kid yourself that jou
fooled me I saw right through
your little game from tha very
start," he said coolly, "I knew you
were down here fortune-hunting,
like many another widow who's
looking for a new meul-ticket'. I'o
met our kind Ik fore. Mrs. Scy
nioui pln(y of limes!"
May pulled herself together, men
ially, before she. tipoku again. And
when she did, her volca was curi
ously culm. H sounded far away to
her own ears.
"How much chance have 1 to g"t
my $14,('0t' back Horn you?" she
ashed.
He stared at her.
"Decuus's I've just made up my
mind to get it, now, tonight e en
if I have to go lo the hotel detec
tive about it," bhe said simply.
He caught her again by the
shoulder, turning lv r toward him.
"Look here, Way, do you really
believe all this tommy-rot that Car
lot'a's b'eil tilling you?" he asked.
Shu made no ansvvor, and his
grasp tightened on her soft shoul
der.
"Of course, I'll admit that sonic
of the stuff I told you was just
plain tales from (lie hills,'" he
said, laughingly. "But eery man
dresses himself up a bit for (he
woman he loves. He tells her things
that aren't strictly true, about him
self, just to appear more attractive
j in lvr eyes. I do have a house up
I in ' l'insfield. as a matter of fact,
! but it's mortgaged up lo the hilt "
He looked pleadingly at her, for
an instant.
' You did the same thing. our
f.)f. you know," he continued. "You
tried to make me think you had a
lot more money than you really
have. Now, didn't you""
May shook hi" hand from her
shoulder, "Whcre Is (hat check I
said between clenched teeth.
cave you?" she asked, and there
was ice in her voice.
He shook his head, despairingly.
"May. you're going to regret this
" he began, but the dangcrtur.
glint in her i-ys silenced him.
"Where is that check of mine?"
sh asked again. "Now. I'm not
fooling. Herbert Waterbury! Either
you give mo back that money of
mine, or I'm going straight over to
the tlesk for the house detective!"
Waterbury saw- that she meant
what she said. He rose heavily to
his feet, leaning- upon his gold
headed cane.
"It's upstairs In my room. In a
despatch box in the left-hana
drawer of my dresser if you want
io know the exact spot," he an
swered, flushing darkly.
"Go up and get it:" May com
manded, looking at the clock above
the door. "I'll give you ju,-t live
rninute.s "
H". nodded, without look'ng at
hr.
8h witched him lurch toward
the elevalor, and disappear within
t's elaborate, grilled door, remem
bciinc the tirst time she bad seep
him standing there How- handsome
be bad si m'd to her then how
utterly desirable ss a prospective
husband!
"And he's nothing but a crook'"
she thought. "My stars! What qu- er
men a woman docs meet when she's
knocking around the world, alone!"
She thought oter the men she
had met the last year: Waterbury,
Pan Sprague. vicious joupg Jack
Darnley. LTysses Korean
But Ulysses was in a elaaa ty
himself.
"Why, be'i so honest and to tyi
eroua that he didn't aven pay him
aelf a commission when he sold my
house for me!" May thoujht.
"When I get that money back, I
must send him a check, I can't let
him do things for rat, without be
ing paid "
She realized then that ten mln
Ules had passed, nd Herbert had
not returned. 6ho waited. Five more
minutes crawled by.
At last May got up and walked
over lo the room clerk.
"Will you please call Mr. Water
bury In 312 for mo?" ehe asked.
The dapper, young clerk, who
looked Ilk an ad for men's cloth
ing, shoved (he telephone across
the desk toward her.
May called Hoom SIC.
There was no answer.
Bewildered, May hung up the re
C"er. nnd walked over to the ele
vators. As she stood there, one of
llnni descended, and several peo
ple stepped out, Put Herbert waa
not among them.
"Where can he be?" slit, asked,
dazedly,
Twenty minutes had gone by since
he had left her, promising to be
back In five minutes.
"I guess I'll go up and S"o ."
She stepped Into Hie elevator, and
got out at the third floor.
The door of Itoom 1112 stood
open, and the key hung from the
lock.
I Within, every light was blazing.
i May went In, and stood in the cen
ter of the room, looking about her.
I Drawers stood open, a torn collar
j lay upon the floor, the end of a
j lit-' klie hung over the. edge of the
I wastebasket.
Hut even then, what had hap
pened did not dawn upon her
I She heard a noise behind her. and
turned sharply. A chambermaid had
come In, and dumped a pile of clean
linen upon the bed.
"The gentleman who has this
room " May began.
I "He just left, ma'am," the girl
answered primly, "about a quarter
cf an hour ago taking, if you
please. een the silk shad's from
the lamps:" She poinled a thick
forefinger at the electric lights that
shone nakedly on either side of the
dresser,
"You wouldn't believe there was
folks like 'im In the world, ma'am."
she, said, "unless you'd worked
around hotei as I 'a-e. In PriMol.
Cng'and. whr I come from, 'twas
the same. 'Ot water pitchers they'd
take, and bath towels anything
they could lay (heir 'ands on!"
She shook out a sheet, and began
to make up the bed, as she talked.
And May stood there, listening, be
cause she was Incapable of sane
thought or action, for the time be
ing so dumbfounded w'as she by
Herbert's flight .
"I don't know how 'Ms," the maid
Another Visitor to Jerry's Roof
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
Some people's labor seems to irk,
While others dearly lo-ve to work.
Did Mother Nature.
Peter Rabbit found that Mr. Water
Snake was in the habit of taking a
sunbath and nap every pleasant day
on the roof of Jerry Muskrat's house,
and he found that Jerry didn't mind
it at all and never disturbed Mr.
Water Snake in the least. Then one
day when he chanced to be over at
the Smiling Pool, Peter discovered,
another visitor on the i-oof of Jerry's
house this visitor surprised him
ftulte as much as had Mr. Water
Snake. It was .Mrs. Snapper the
Snapping Turtle.
Peter was tiiite used to seeing
Turllcs taking sunbat hs, and when
be saw Mrs. Snapper climbing out
on the roof of Jerry's house he
thought she was climbing up there
to lake a sunbath. He hardly gave
her a glance. But when he looked
over a second time he saw that Mrs.
Snapper was crawling about nil ovrr
(hat roof as if she wrre looking for
something. Then he became inter
ested. Finally, al a certain spot on
the roof, Mrs. Snapper went to work.
From where he sat Peter could see
that she was making a hole In that
"N"w, What Is She About?"
Thought Ho
roof of rushes an mud.
Teter certainly was surprised thn.
"Now what is she about?" thought
h. "What is she trying to die down
intd Jerry's house for? If she wanta
to get. Into his house why doesn't
she go in the same' w ay he does,
tinder water? She can stay under
water as long as she pleases and I
should think she could go rlgh'
through his tunnel."
Then another tnought csme to
rter. Mrs. Snapper was big, Eh
was very hlr. H" realbed as he
looked at Vier that she couldn't pos
sibly go through one of Jerry Musk
rat's tunnels. She was too hroad for
that.
S that's It." said he. talking to
himself. "She can't gt in through
Jerry's tunnel, so she is ditreing her
way in throueh th roof. But wha'
is ehe doing it for? That is what I
cannot understand."
Mrs. Snapper was too far away for
Peter to ask questions, o all he
could do waa to lt and wstch. He
saw that she had chosen ona of the
eldest partt cf the roof and she kept
went on, "But folks who wouldn't
steal a pln'a point from anybody,
will take everything they can from
a hotel, and think lis all right! I've
known 'em to uteul tho very forks
and salt cellars from restaurant
lablca, or from their niornln' break,
fast (rays, Ma'am! And yet I've no
doubt they calls themselves honest
folk "
May shook her head.
"A person who'd steal a towel
from a hotel would commit enotlnr
sort of crime. I think," she
said slowly, "In fact, I know It "
Her eyes were on the maid's red-
cheeked fee. but she was speak
ing to herself. At last she knew the
truth about Waterbury; that he was
not a gentleman and a millionaire,
but th" commonest sort of crook
a thief who would steal thousands
of dollars from a widow- with Iho
same casual air that he would Mrip
a hotel bedroom of lis silk lamp
shades, Its towels, and bathmats
J hven in his flight he had stopped
I to. do thai:
Without bolus aware of how- she
. had come there, she found herself
presently oulside (he holed. She was
hurrying down (lie boardwalk as If
she were late to keep an appoint
ment with someone and yet
mere was not out. soul In I ht gay
rtbort whom sin; knew. They were
all gone her oneer friends Wa
terbury, Dan, Carlotta, oven I'ran-
cie Dee.
She was utterly without friends!
Kven such doubtful friends as they
had been
hdic stood beside the railing, look-
I nife I'ti' lit i j if- bttt, u;ins to lllltlK.
j What was the going to do, now?
! She had almost no money not
more than three or four dollars that
were in the bead pur:o dangling
from her arm.
She didn't even know Water-
bury's name, or where to find him.
. . . And what use was there In
trying to find him. anyway'.' pha
had signed her money over to him
No court would convict him of
robbing her That was certain.
No, sh" had been a fool. .She had
brought this thing upon herself!
And here she was stripper of ev-rY
penny sip- had wit If" no'hing but
the cloth's she uoie. and a few
more on the hangars in her closet.
in the hotel. And think' Think of
the hill she owed at the hotel '.
May drew in her breath, gripped
lb" railing with both her bare
hands until her fingers wre sore
and bruised. Put she felt no bodily
pain.
She began to cry not with tears
but with the dreadful whimper
of an animal that has been caught
In a, hidden trap. She stood there
In the darkness, rocking back and
forth in her agony.
f m done for! I'm done fori" she
sobbed.
(To P.e Continued)
ss Bedim stories
right en working as If she had
something very Important on her
mind, Mr. Wafer Snake came for
his usual daily sunbath, but, seeing
Mrs. bnapper at work there, decided
that he didn't want a sunbath that
day and swam away.
Mrs. Snapper continued to work
and work, and Peter continued to
watch and watch. By and by Mrs,
Snapper had- that hole deep enough
so that she was half out of sight.
Then she seemed to grow tired of
working and for a long time ap
peared to be doing nolhing. "She
must be tired out," thought Peter,
"and Is resting." Vou know Peter
himself Is always ready to rest. The
sun was warm, it was very quiet, and
so presently Peler dozed. Then he
dozed some more. Klnally he took
a real nap.
Peter awoke with a start. Just for
a wee part of a minute he couldn't
think where he was. Then he re
membered, and hastily looked over
to the roof of Jerry Muskrat's house.
Mrs. Snapper the Snapping Turtle
was busy again. Hut now she seemed
to be filling that hole In Instead of
digging It deeper. It waa all 'very
puzzling. Finally she waddled down
to the edge of the water, looked all
around, then dived In and Peter saw
no more of her.
Peter waited around hoping Mrs.
Snapper would come near enough
for him to ask questions of her.
When she didn't come, he looked fof
Jerry Muskrat. H was anxious to
tll Jerry what Mrs. Snapper had
been doing on the roof of that house.
Hut Jerry must have been taking a
r.ap somewhere, for not so much as
a hair of him did Peter see. It b-
an to look as if his curiosity would
hpve to go unsatisfied.
(Copyright. 1525, by T. VT. Burgess)
The nt story: "Bobby Coon Is
Greatly Interested."
Braided
Oxfords of narrow stripes of
leather woven Into a checkerboard
pattern are shown for fall. Some o'
these are made of two colors of
leather, such aa fclaek and whit" or
tan and Hack. Tha hesl la high
you will notice.
Mil '

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