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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1926.
Quicksands of Love
Adcle (Jan ison's New Phase of
Revelations of a Wife
Do r Sliil I.oto lllm."' Katliorine
Queries
Katharine was silent so long after
the hail fullered out. "You know all
bout thu rent of It," that I finally
realized Fill o was ierhaN inifun
olously waiting for the encourage,
jiiont of a question from me. I
wrenched myself bark with a jerk
from my retrospects o mental Jour
ney over thu story of Hal Meieilith,
his wife, Luoin ami herself, us if tiu.l
been told to mo by the famous alien
ist, and rut a. tentative iht.
"You forget," I said, "I hat I lime
heard nothing of the Merediths for
a, long time. The last I know was
when 1 r. Meredith told mo that he
meant to win your consent, lo marry
him after your present, marriage and
his Is dissolved. 1 never dare, I tn
question you on the subject, hut 1
think now it might help you to huvu
me know and "
"Oh!" she cried, not. waiting for
me to finish, "that always has math'
me so furious that he dared to
imagine. 1 would have. Jack for him
or any other man and worse -dared
to say It to any living being."
"But." I stammered, confirmed In
my steadfast opinion of her loyally
to my brothvr-cousln. yet impelled lo
persistence by a sense of jus! ice holh
to her nnd Hal Meredith "but,
Kathcrlne, are you happy in your
marriage to Jack? Do you do
you"
"Do I still love him?" she finished
my query calmly. "I wish, Madge,
that I knew the answer to that ques
tion myself.
"She Is t'sing Me ns a Wind"
"And you know very well that 1
have not been 'happy' as you put it,
for a long time. Jack himself , . .
but no I will not say that even to
you."
"Especially to me. I think you
mean, dear girl," I said tenderly,
"because you know that besides my
father, 'Jack is the only relative I
have in the world. But this is no
time for subterfuges or false deli
cacy. If I am to help you and I
surmise that you sorely nerd aid
wo must face facts and call things
by their names. Do you think I
am blind, that I do not know the
nd ojt tho sentence you just broke,
off? Jack himself has made it im
possible for you to have any normal
happiness, by his storncss. his un
bending dignity, his jealousy and his
archaic Ideas of your w ifely duty to
him as contrasted with his own in
terest in someone else."
"But you forget, Madge," Kath-
IKITKtt FROM I.KKI.li; l'KLS-
corr to i.ittu; marqvisi:,
CARE SECHF.T llHAWKIt
CONTIMLI)
At first I thought I could not live.
I had a feeling that I was in some
way to blame. I wondered if 1 had
given John to I'aula the moment 1
had known little Jack was the child
for their love, if the awful thing
would have happened.
One, day when I .found among
some other 'papers in John's desk
that letter which he had written lo
I'aula and had never sent. I knew
that however much his heart had
stayed, he had always loved her.
Paula Perlcr was the love of John
Aldcn Prescolt as he was turbulent
and irresistible.
I was the love of John Alden
Trescott as ho would have like to
be.
I was a part of his ambition, his
dreams of power and she was some
thing so powerful he could not put
her out of his life.
There, Little Marquise. I have
given my whole confidence to you
and I hope you will keep it nil the
long years of the future, lock' d In
your heart.
Little Jack at first ti.sked once or
twice for Paddy and the "pretty
lady" but he stopped when be found
bis questions hint me. ! am sure
that he knows now all about b. for
he is eight years old. but he liar,
never mentioned his fathrr's name.
Sydney was too young to know
anything.
I would not hav writdn this ex
cept as a t.irowr!! to Ho- oM life.
Tomorrow I am going to enter a
new one.
Tomorrow 1 am going to .e Karl
Whitney's wife.
"Destiny ahvnvs wins," Karl u; 1
We last night. ' I.es'ie ynu i.v. re
destined to be my wi'i whin tie-T-orld
began and yon will s'il! i
my wife when reir souls a:rin fin-i
HEROWN WAY
Ja Girl
Till. OLD
mi
m w
1 I--:' 1 is
-It 1 I., aid
I was a ','. a 1.'- .' I - 'i 1 .
room 1 1n n i t teoi iiiiil'. i
him st nl rat-oi'.g iinii '.- r
At first lo- ii. sis'i d ' ;i
be calb d -low n -o tie
table right awav tha' 1
' I -loin! J
bloahMM
Mic.!.: r.
eeivo my bawling rut tr
Dun.
Rut mot In r diploma'P-ally t alb d
his attention to the cloi k that show
ed him he had barely tun- to g' t
to his office at hall past . tali'.
I surmised that rather than
break his Inflexible rub' of 1 ep-g
Bt his desk at this hour, io' w-,s
willing to let me nd my reputation
wait until evening, lor 1 l.'ard ml
one more unintelligible growl as ho
clumped down the staits.
As soon as he was will out of
houe mother rame up to my room
"What time did 'you g' t i" las'
night. Juliu?" she asked.
"About four o'clock." I ansiai
ed composedly.
"What was the nia'ter'.' Di I
Charles' automobile brink down'."'
"I don't think so."
"You "don't think soV--l don'i
understand." said mother. Tie n she
eriuo protested loyally, "that though
all you hao said Is true' 1 cannot
deny it-yet It Is not the old Jack
whu Is making nie so unhappy, not
the man I marrleil but one terribly
changed by the war."
"I am not so sure," 1 niiirmiiri d
n belliously, for my Ideas, concern
lie,' my brol her-consin had changed
materially since the day when I
looked upon him as a hero of
romance. But 1 w;is glad that
Kath'-riiH 's del, use of her husband
swept On so rapidly thai alio did
not lieirr.jue.
"Jack really ha done nothing you
know, Madge, thai thousands of
oilier women do not hae to put up
uiih," she went on, "and even if
he had made mo suffer ton times
as much as he has, even If I were
I'll re that, all my love for him is
dead, he Is my husband I cannot
forget what I promised w In n I
married him, and above all, do you
think 1 could listi n lo anyone else,
give a thought, lo anyone else, while
ho is In that terrible South Ameri
can wilderness'.'"
Slu' was so vehement in her prod-stations
that wllil" 1 believed lief
about the listening, 1 was fairly sure
that, she had given more than one
thought to Hal Meredith in the
month that stretched behind us.
"Have you told all this to Ir.
Meredith?" I asked iiiietly.
"Yes. 1 have, more than once."
The answer came iiichly, then she
added with a more sober Inflection:
"Hut, of course, 1 do not need to
d-11 him again now. Ho has said
no word to nie except of Lucia's
terrible plight ever since her o per
il t ion."
"He
prised
operation-" I uueried, stir
"J didn't know she had had
one.
"It was apparently trivial one,"
Katherine returned, "when she went
under tin: knife. Hut it revealed u
condition both hopeless and terrible.
As I told you before, she has no
idea, that she must die within a few
months, she simply thinks that she
is going to be rather ill for a long
lime, and and Madge I cannot
get tho fancy out of my head that
she is deliberately counting upon
using mo as a blind to enable her
to see as much as she wishes of
I'hilip Scarsdale."
"The famous artist who is so in
fatuated with her?;' I asked.
"The same, uf I believe she
means to have, everyone think that
it is 1 whom he conies to see."
(Copyright, 192 0, by Newspaper
Feature Service, Inc.)
our identify after millions of years,
perhaps on unknown spheres."
Lear Karl; Already I have found
a peace and contentment when lie
takes nie in his arms that I have
never had in all my life before.
With him 1 will have lost all "the
tumult, and the .shouting." Already
they have died forever.
Mother is at last happier than she
has been since my lather's death.
Karl has shown a greater aptitude
for a business life than anyone
thought possible, although Sally
Alherton and Jimmy Condon do
most, of the hard work in the man
agement of the mill.
Sally's courage In going back to
the office to work is wonderful. J
would not enter its doors for all the
money it. represents.
Last, year holh Sally and Jimmy
were given a great block of stock
from mother and mo and 1 wish T
could get rid of the remainder of it.
Dear Little .Marquise, I have loved
you dinrly. You have ln-en to me
at times the only thing which made
I mc able to live and now I am pay
j ing good-by.
J shall have
no sailm-ss. no se
when I go to Karl.
overyt king except
n nts of little Jack.
(tits to record
for he knows
who are tie- pa
That is now- kin
lo lie-. You are
wn only to you and
going back into the
and I have already
loll'.;- past
forgotten
hut mc.
Karl is
"l.es;io
tha
h
r had anyone
at tin- door.
come out. for a moment
monnlUht of tin- vcrnndn,"
"I want to make myself
into tl
he pleads. "
' unders'.a nd
1 mine."
To you, l.i
I go 1 o tiim. I
I ar-'ati-sl emit'
that yon are really
Mar.,
ls,
, before i
make my
l g'dng t
ion.
I think
II my 1 i 1
n' know
I'm- the
ropvri.'l,
I ha e lov,
- but lint
it.
last 'illle.
i.i:si.i i-
i 'i :-c. Ni
1 Karl Whitney
tonlaht 1 did
L-ooit-liy'
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of Today
i-l-D i ly :- -i'1-i'' -I Sin- had eauglit
msI "I i. iv r.i If i'!i. d clothing
il.-l lev liiud-. ah' d shoes.
V! a' s ' !" in. iii. r w ii Ii your
e,,i ..... .1 nit., ' Ti" v look as though
. on n.,,1 !' - n w liking out in t lie
lain'"
I " :,s."
"And yt vou sav that Charles'
.intoniol-il'- did not break down."
"As tar as I know, mother dear,
it did no'. I h f: Chuck In his old
boat .ibon' a mile and a half from
lute and walked home. That was the.
I e iSfltl I WOS SO late."
"Walked Lome',"' repealed mother
in a iiivstil'i.d voice. Then, all at
oiiii. si., got an inl.ling of under
standiii". tin ivn mother had
1 . . : r 1 wl.v mis -. ho went auto-rtd-mg
w jii. II u.ilkoi home.
"Walk, d home?" she repeated.
"Julia, v ,u do not mean"
1 "Tint's just what I do moan.
Ynu sci. Chink was drunk when we
s'ri, ,1 bin I .lein't kno-v i' and. in
';.ii.- ol : II 1 . ould do. It kept tak
ing a sin tin", and !k"ll from oil'
of his -bisk. A ' last 1,. got ugly
lb. cause I wulil. 1 not bt the p'ttillg
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A burning of the ib ad
Work of genius
Implement
N ly
Sun god
1 lebaiablc
Machine for crushing ore
Wild duck
Small body of water
Leverage
Avail (generally used with in)
Karly
To sanction
Observed
Title of nobility
Card game
1'Mnlshes
Spider's homes
Portion of a harness
Kmbryo plant
Colors
Wand
Printer's measure
Boll of film
Devours
Point of compass
To help
To entreat
High
(Salt
Wraths
Knd of a dress coat
To stitch
To prepare for publication
Season
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To bend
Black particles given off by
smoke
Mother
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Cooking vessel
Makes smooth
To repair
Coal pit
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Age
Proposition of place
To lower temperature
To decay
Deity
parly go any further and I got out
walked home."
Mother burst into tears.
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Inc.)
TOMORROW: Mother's Tears.
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How to Keep It
Causes of Illness
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Surgeon Cienernl, V. S. Public
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TREE-TOP
STORI ES
ri!iY mum;
y. Tl mil. P. d'-ar. wliv do you put
i'" snur hankies on the i;r'V to
dl"?" -lo''l M-o jonr.
"To m.ike them wlulri." Mnlln-r
o-pli-H. "and l'i pel the d'heate
prav-pcrfumr."
Ju'l Ih.n i puif el wmd Mew
mine rhcrrMpeul- bum I lie rlimv
Iter. Ill' .a-' va' dotted with
llirm
"S".. Mi'lliT." Uiijthril Ylar
jorie. "llv l anie arc pulling llieir
'liankir on til. pra--. lo'i."
Hiry looked lip into llir Ini
There were rows of luhy faiiiis'
nieliiic and bdis and Ininneb!
"It' 1 beautiful da for drvinc
v llieir dainly clothes,"
i'-'j", said Maij'ine.
7 (iarmcnt. used us
iii i
THIN All
SL t
mAUEINiTISSI
llAjNT
ElVfelS
WPEITEJRHE
iJJflfcES&EJi.
IALiL!Qwi8C
r.litilN II I :itl : TODAY .we're looking for, yoti let us know,"
1IK.VKY It A Mi. a business "What do you Mean?"
man, Is loiiiul .miii'den d in a cheap I "We've found the Maynard
hotel In (ILA.TON. The only clews ! woman. She saCri on w i re with her
arc a woman's handkerchief and a last night. Why didn'l you Ml us?"
ellow ticket stub from u theater In I "I was going to bring her down
Bridgeport. I In re tonight. Lieutenant, I give you
JIMMY KAMi. Henry's son. goes ' my vord. 1 rallied In talk to her
to Bridgeport, while he mid 1 1 1 1- j a lone and I'ee what she was like.
TLVTIVK MOiiMiV tr the ticket She dbln'l do U, Lloulenant."
to a 'I'lli i.M AS l-'nilAKTV, who mja,, "S!m didn't, eh? Well, I'm no'
ho gave It io a woman naiiii d (H.CiA to sure, I'miw on upstairs. We'll
MAYNAKH. I'olice ."ii.reh r lu-r. I :e ed you when we talk to her."
.liuimy lueeis and tails in love
with MA BY I.iiWKI.L. and gels u
job In her office. Later he nceldent
ally encounters ulga Maymii'd. lie
me, is at night and coul'i outs In t
with tin- evidence against iter. She
"All right," said O'Day, "then how
faints when he says she is suspected
of murder. He is in the street hold
ing her when he sees .Mary Lowell
and a man companion watching
them.
The next day Jimmy
arns
Mary's companion was SA.MI'KL
CHl'ltCII. a wealthy lawyer. Mary
refuses to speak lo Jimmy and lat
er In the day he is discharged. He
gets a phone call from I'OLICK
l.IKI'TKNANT O'DAY lo
come
I
down to headquarters.
NOW (iO ON WITH T11K SIORY
CI I A IT Kit XIII
"What's up'.'" Jimmy asked
O'Day.
"Come down and see." O'Day
hung up.
Jimmy went back lo his telegram
from Mooney. Olga. Maynard, if
said, had been seen in Oration on
the day of the murder had inter
viewed two carburet owners about
a job. Mooney thought it besl lo
place a charge of murder against
her in Oration.
"Look here," growled O'Day when
ho arrived at Ihe police .station, "the
next lime you run across somebody
l'.y TIlCilMON V. M'lttiKSS
The skeptic, as he go; s about,
Is peering through u log of doubt.
Mr. Mocker.
Nothing would do now but for
I'cter liabbil. to liu-' t Mocker tin
Mocking i'.inl and lind out how it
was thai Mocker happened to slay
over for tin: winter, jvtcr was fair
ly binning up with curiosity. Karly
ivory morning he was over there in
the Hid Orchard watching. Always
he saw Mocker go over to the vine
on I'lirnior l'.rown's house. That vine
was a woodbine and still hold Its
berries, l-'inally, early one morning,
I'ed-r ventured to go right over by
Farmer Drown's house and sit right
under the vine. l'resen'ly Mocker
the Hooking Jtird arrived.
"Ib-llo, Mr. .Mocker," said 1 tor
"Hello. Mr. Mocker," said I'cter most
politely.
niot-t poliddy.
"Hello. D'tor ltabbll," exclaimed
Mocker. "W hat are you doing over
hero'"'
"I'm over here to see if you are
really you." replied I'cter.
You should have beard Mr. Mock
er laucrh. "If I am not myself, 1
certainly am no one else," n plied
Mocker.
"J'.ut you can't live up here in
Ihe wind r." replied ivter.
"Who say.; 1 can't?" iii'iinr-d
Mocker.
"Why - why - why. I have always
loai-J that Mocking Dinls can Ihe
iWvHtoii -man .
COfYSIOHT
olga Maynard was while-faced
without lor rouge. Iter eyes, shift
lug restlessly, wore a hunted look.
She flared at Jimmy when In
came In with u'Uny. "You told
them;" she accused. "Vou said you
did Ibis get In (be room nhere the
were coming.
You told them to get
mc"
"He did not," O'Day declared. "He
just got. a piece of my' mind for not
lolling. We were, looking for you,
sister, and we've got you."
He produced a telegram. I his is
from Mooney," he said to Jimmy.
He turned to the woman. "Here's
proof t lint you were in Grafton the
day Henry Hand was murdered.
low about it '!"
"I've never denied it. Sure I was
there looking for a job. hy
should I lie'.' But I don't know a
thing about, the murder."
"You're lying!" O'Day shot back
at her.
"I'm not. It's the truth I swear
it is. I went, to the theater that
night on Fogarty's ticket I ad
mit it. And the ln-xl night Tuesday-!
took the sleeper for Grafton.
I got there in the morning and spent,
the day looking for work. I'm a
cabaret singer and I've had some
hard luck here. 1 tried to find a
cabaret or theatrical Job in Graf
t on."
"Mooney said you had interviewed
I only in the South in winter," replied
il'Ctll.
j "So you ore one of those fellows
who believe everything he hears,"
I exclaimed Mocker. "Well, here 1 am
'and I'm alive."
"That's II.'" exclaimed I'cter eag
erly. "Hen; you are and you're alive
.and vou ought not to be."
Y'ou should have heard Mocker
laugh then. "I'd like to know why
I ought, not to lie alive," sid he
when he could stop laughing.
i'cter looked a little foolish. He
felt a lillle foolish. "I didn't mean
just that, Mr. Mocker," said he.
"What I meant is that, you ought
to lie down South, and because
you're not, you ought not to be
alive. No, I don't mean that. I
mean you you "
"You mean." interrupted Mocker,
"that you don't see how 1 can lind
a living up here. Is that it?"
Ivier nodded. "Yis," said he,
"that's it. How do you keep warm
and how do you get enough to eat?"
"Y'ou have that the wrong way
around." replied Mocker. "Knting
comes first. Kat enough and you II
keep warm enough. Don't you know j
that'.'" I
I'cter admitted lhat he did. He I
I knew that food makes heat and a !
I warm coat keeps the heat In. He
know that he didnl' care himself 1
how hard Jack Krnst pinched so long
as he had plenty lo eat. He re
membered lhat Welcome ftobin had
said .something of the kind. Co he
understood what Mocker meant.
"Hut where do you get enough to
eat?" be inquired.
"Itight. here,"- replied Mocker.
"These berries are very good. But
even with these 1 dou't suppose I
would have enough if It were not
for Farmer Brown's Boy. Farmer
Brown's Boy has a feeding shelf just
for mo on the other side of the
house. So 1 do not have to worry
about getting enough to eat Hav
ing' enough to eat, I do not have to
worry about the cold. 1 really have
enjoyed the winter so far."
"Where do you sleep?" Inquired
Deter.
"That," replied Mocker, "is a se
cret." (Copyright, 1 0CC. by T. W. Burgess)
The next story: "Mocker Explains
Why He It'-maim-d."
KM IV KU OtVICC. INC,
a couple of cabaret proprietary," ad
mitted O'Day, Indicating the tele
gram. "All tight, what did you do
next?"
"That's nil. 1 didn't get anywhere,
so I took the train Wednesday night
hack to Bridgeport."
"You didn't stay all nlghl in Oriif
tnn didn't register nt any hotel?"
O'Day asked.
"No, I didn't go near any hotel,"
"You're not tcllln' the trulh. Vou
were In fanfleld Hotel while you
wire In Grafton. Wo know you
were."
"All right, I say I wasn't. 1 nrwr
even saw the ('ut)lleld Hotel,"
."Then how did that ticket stub
get In the room? You admit you
murder was committed?"
used the stub. You admit you were
in Grafton the day of tho munlcr.
Yet you say you never saw tho hotel
and the stub was found in the
room with Hand."
"I can't explain it. Maybe some
body found the thing and planted It
there to throw you off the track."
O'Day laughed scornfully. "You'll
have, to do better than that, sister.
We're dealing in facts not fairy
stories. How do you account for
this? Before you left for Grafton
you were living tn a cheap rooming
house. You're out of a job and
broke. You go to "Grafton and come
back- lo Bridgeport and move Into
a pretty nice apartment. Where did
you get tho money?"
"I didn't get any money. I got
back here Thursday morning and
started looking for work again. 1
took the first thing I could get a
clothing model's Job. On the
strength of that I rented an apart
ment. I don't like rooming bouses."
"Do you think a jury would be
lieve your story?" scoffed O'Day.
"I don't know. Do you believo I
commuted a murder?"
"it looks like it. Whether you did
or not, you're coverin' somebody up.
You know who did it. You were In
the room when the murder was
committed. I believe you even got
Henry Hand into that room didn't
yer '.'"
"No!" cried Jimmy, leaping from
his chair. "I don't believe that. Lieu
tenant. She might be covering
onubody up, but"
"Sll down, Kami." O'Day waved
Tiim aside. "Didn't you?" he contin
ued, turning to Olga Maynard.
"No. I didn't, 1 tell you," she said
fiercely. "I never even heard of
him."
"Disten. sister.' 'said O'Day. "I've
been trying to place you and it
comes lo mc all of a sudden. Seems
to me you were one of those who
got a ride in the wagon-Ihe time we
raided the Studio club. How about
it?"
She turned away from O'Day's
steady look bit her lip. "What of
it?" she asked,
"Nothing except it wasn't very
nice company. Not for a lady."
She flushed holly. "All right,
maybe it wasn't. But you can't hang
me for that."
"We can come pretty near hang
ing you for something else. Come,
now, tell us who was with you in
Grafton. Who was this guy H. A.
Jones who registered for the room?"
"I wasn't with anybody in Graf
ton." "All right, what's the jury going
lo say when we show 'em you were
in Grafton the day of the murder
and your theater ticket was found in
the room?"
She smiled sarcastically. 'They
wouldn't convict me on circumstan
tial evidence. Lieutenant. Pretty
thin evidence, at that."
O'Day studied her through half
shut eyes. "That ain't all." he said
softly. "That ain't all. You still say
vou didn't go near the Canfield
Hotel?"
"I still say it."
"All right. Then how did this gel
in the room where the murder was
committed ?"
He produced the handkerchief
and confronted her with It. "Come
on. answer me." She was staring,
white-faced, at the handkerchief,
speechless with surprise.
"If if I wanted to He." she said
slowly, "I'd say that wasn't my
handkerchief. There's no initial or
anything on It "
"The perfume Is the same as
you've got on the one In your mind,"
O'Day cut In.
"Just the same, you couldn't
prove It was mine. Lieutenant. This
is a common enough brand of per
fume, and so is the handkerchief.
Hut I won't lie. It's my handker
chief. Do you mean to say they
found it in the room with with "
"They found it in the room with
Henry Band. yes. The hsndkerchier
and the ticket stub. Now do you
admit you were in tho loom?"
"I'm still ttilllnK ' you tli truilu
Lieutenant." Hho looked appcul
Ingly ut Jimmy. "I'll swear I am,
.Mr. Band. I'm telling tho truth. No,
1 was not in that room. I don't
know how tho hundlierchlof got
there. But I think I begin to sec a
thing or two now,
"Listen, Maybe J'vn been covering
somebody up that I didn't Intend to
cover up. Thnt handkerchief gives
me an idea. Lieutenant, 1 lost that
liundkerehief' Monday night.' 1 had
it when I led the I'amgon Theater,
but I didn't have It when t went
home, and I didn't havo It when I
went lo Grafton.
"Do you sco this?" Hho held up
hor beaded bag. "When I went In
tho theater 1 put Ihe ticket stub
In here with niy handkerchief,
I W..II ni'lnp tit. thi.nle.1 t went 1n a
place to eat and diinue. Ynu know,
Mr. Hand the Madrid, where you
saw me the other night.
"This might sound like a weak
alibi to you, Lieutenant. You might
think I'm lying, but I'll swear I'm
not."
"Go nhead." said O'Day.
! "I'm trying to think." She passed
her hand uncertainly over her fore
I head. "1 gave thnt bag to the tluiil
1 was dancing with, to hold for me,
He put If in his coat pocket, and
afterward he gave It back.
"My handkerchief was still In tho
bag, nnd so was tho ticket stub, I
guess. I romemher asking him for
my handkerchief after one danco
it was worm. 1 told him It was In
my bag. He opened the bag without
taking it out of his pocket and
brought out the handkerchief. 1 re.
member he said, 'What kind of a
pickpocket do you think I'd make'.''
Ho did it real cleverly."
"All right what did you do with
the handkerchief then?" asked
O'Day.
"The music slarterj for another
dance, and I gave It back to him.
He Just stuck It In his pocket
didn't put It back in the bag."
"You mean he kept It?" Jii.imy
asked.
"Let me. finish. We quarreled end
I went homo and left, him there. He.
fore I left I asked him for my bag.
My money wos in it. He kidded ui
for a minute or two tried to treks
me think he was going to keep It -but.
I threatened to call the r. im
ager. "He gave me back the bag. and
it. was still unfastened where he hud
taken the handkerchief out. I'd for
gotten about the handkerchief, but
ho must have kept It, not knowing
ho had it. The ne-f. day, as I told
you, I missed it, but I didn't try
to think what I had done with il.
It was just a cheap handkerchief.
"I think that when he pulled my
handkerchief out of the bag, he also
pulled out the ticket stub, and they
were both in his pocket when hs
gave the bag back."
"And you think he's the man who
left the handkerchief and the stub
in tho Canfield Hotel?" asked
O'Day.
"That's the only explanation I can
think of."
All right who was the man?"
(To He Continued)
Menus for the Family
By Sister Mary
Breakfast Stewed prunes, cereal,
thin cream, scrambled eggs with
dried beef, bran muffins, milk, cof
fee.
Luncheon -Baked salsify, toasted
bran muffins, apple sauce, ginger
drop cakes, milk, tea.
Dinner Breaded veal cutlets, po.
tatoes en casserole, creamed string
beans, endive salad, peach tapioca,
whole wheat bread, milk, coffee.
Let potatoes stand in cold water
for one hour before paring. This
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any of their valuable properties. Do
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after paring but cook as soon as
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butter, 4 Cup milk, M teaspoon
salt, 1-4 teaspoon paprikav 2 eggs.
Wash and scrape salsify. Cut if
slices and drop into acidulated waler
to prevent discoloration. Drain and
put into boiling water to cover con
taining 2 tablespoons lemon Juice.
When half cooked, add salt. Cook
until tender, about 30 minutes and
rub through a strainer. Add butter,
salt, paprika, milk and yolks of eggs,
well beaten. Beat well and fold in
whites of eggs beaten until stiff and
dry. Turn into a wcjl-buttered bak
ing dish and bake surrounded by hot
water for 40 minutes. Serve at once.
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