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iflSjl fftliejg OPEN COU1 The Tax Question. To U? Him. T>? Wa.biagti.e HmsM: In an editorial of Augnst 25 you j " ' Stated that the excess .profits tax ? * and the income surtaxes are paused on to the consumer. One hears this theory fi'om many source*. Including the business and financial intertU>. This. In face of tha fact that wch Interests hare been accused or lack of regard for the welfare of the ultimate consumer. There Is danger that this statement may be acceped blindly and unthinkingly merely because of its constant reiteration. Economists are not agreed upon the subject. Considerable doubt can be brought to bear upon the well-nigh universal dic, ? turn that these taxes are passed on How can a merchant or manufacturer. for example, shift this tax? By raising the price of his product and thereby increasing his total returns byhe amount of the tax, or mora. It will do him no good to raise his prices unless his volume of sales remains such that his total returns are greater than bafore. He. collectively speaking, can raise his pi >ces by curtailing his output. ~ut will raising his prices enable him .o receive a greater total aggregate return, and thus provide the wherewithal to pay this tax? It will not. His prices are already set at a figure which will, volume of sales considered, give him a higher total return than will higher prices (or lower prices), volume of sales considered. This is true so far as trial and experience Indicate to him the most "profitable" prices; there is no other means of determining them except by trial, and this method Is. of course, subject to error. Ford undoubtedly thinks that the present prices of Fords will net him a greater total return than either higher or lower prices. Increase his Income surtax and he will not raise his prices, for his present prices give him more money. But even though the manufacturer cannot raise his total net return any higher?everybody knows he raises it as high as he can. tar *>r no tax?may not these high taxes on income or profits discourage production and take money out of Industry. thus causing our manufacturer to earn less income or profits In order to avoid paying them? If they did have this effect it would be no longer a question of shifting: for In this case the taxes are not paid. But did you ever hear of anyone's refusing to accept a hicher salary or income because of the greater income tax required? Half?or a quarter, even?of an extra dollar or an extra million is somewhat better than none of it. even to a merchant or manufacturer. It is. of course, true that theee taxes drive much money, from other industries into tax-fre^ securities. While this may and probably does retard "business." here agsin it is not a question of shifting but avoidance The excess profits tax should be repealed because of difficulties of administration. Inequalities In application and possibilities of evasion by the hiding of profits but not because it > is passed on. "It an't be did." The proposed sales tax, unlike the taxes on total profits or Income. would b* passed on to the consumer In higher prices. It is an expense of production and narrows the margin of profit by that much. It thereby forces the marginal men out of the business, thus restricting the supply. The restricted supply causes higher prices. F. H SHKL.L.EDT. Hyattsvllle, Md. Religious Arguments Foolish. To the Editor. The Washington Herald: I suppose nearly all of us read "Open Court" letters that appear in your daily paper each morning, and The TEARS C (Continued from preceding page.] " log out West all thoee yeara I had book chaps call a dream. Tha very I ran away I made up my mind that time I waa coming back?home. For, th I ran away from It. It a)way. aaemcd 1 to me." The girl waa touched and ahowed it. - rm glad you felt that way. rra you wanted to oome back to US." "To you?yea- Tou were all I had, and Uncle WU1?and Aunt Carolina, added dutifully. " So from the Bret I wi toward getting back. I waa a rolling but I waa rolling one way all the toward home. So far aa I could. I got a ready for that home." he went on. "X a lot. I weat to night echoola. when 1 anywhere near one. When I ran up M men who oould help me, gentlem< watched their way. and their talk. I to myeelf?' You're been a homeleea rat you were fourteen, but. after all. you born of well-bred people, and you're | back to well-bred people aome day. It to you to go In for preparedneaa.'" Dorothea "put out her hand and tot the gray-gloved flat that reated on hla - That waa splendid." aha mid. you're wonderful, Dick!" He leaned toward her eagerly. Agal odd Light flaahed In hla eyee. "Tou that?" ha gtammered. "Ton wouldn aahamed of me, among your old friends " I ahould be proud of you, anywhen . * She apoke almply but sincerely. He a quick breath. "I have the moat extraordinary aen nearness to you." aha added. Under thi In hla eyea a wave of color flooded her Something new had entered their rela , ' aomethlng that made her heart pound leaned eloeer and took her hand. - Then?then per ha pa you won't turn the suggestion I'm going to make. '1 . before you say anything I want you to it over. It?wall. It means a lot to n wont deny that. It'a?the dream. O other hand?perhapo you won't thin practicable. I don't know." He stopped a moment, the, went on (he stfect of a runner taking a hurt - I- - .. ' tolttagton *T LETTER note with Interest the variety of mind* mod opinion* that find expression In thla way. and the scale of aubjecta touched upon, lead all the way from religion to politics and around again to tha Irlah question. the negro quaptlon and whether or not the push cart men shall sell their wares on one corner or keep moving. It Is all very well, but It doesn't get us anywhere. What good does It do. and what does It amount to? 1 know that tha open forum of a newspaper la a BTeat temptation to air our Ideas and soma of the names signed to some of these letters are as familiar to our eyes as an electric signboard downtownt and their sentiments so thoroughly Impressed, upon our minds that I am positive 1 should recognise them If I met them on the street. It does seem such a waste of time, and so foolish for people to even try to argue on religious subjects Tou know Mr. Editor, that all the discussions and arguments from now until doom'sday wouldn't In the leaat affect or change you or me, or any one else for that matter l? their religious Ideas. The pros and cons of all these discussions are Immaterial. The Wheres and wherefores are unimportant. There la enough that Is simple and clear that Is manifested to us ?~tiT " W? car? t0 *" thexe truths for each of us to live by. If f on'y would. No great visions or miracles are to come to us as i demonstration of God's power, and If we are waiting to ba shown hefore we can believe, why those of us who are Just plain, common-place every-day sort of folks, who don't claim to be Infallible, or to possess any divine rights, would, I am afraid, never got very far toward understanding God's great plan for His children. It doesn't matter In the least what Mr. Pierce or Mr. Smith or Mr. Brown thinks about these things, or what you or 1 ?5ink' Mr Editor. Who will know 100 years from now whether we accepted God's teachings or not* Nobody will know, and nAbody will whether we did or not will have been of vital Importance to us when we will have played our little parts on this earthly stage, and had our chance. That is a most comforting thought to me whenever the thousand and one little petty annoyances that sometimes flu our day and seem Just a little more than human nature can stand, to say, "Well, who will know loo years from now?" It certainly seems to quiet all the qualms and settle all the questions by minimizing to the nth degree the questioning and the petty doubts that seem to overshadow our visions. Who are we that Our Father should take us Into His confidence and explain to us all of His plans? He has told and made perfectly clear to us enough to save us. but that doesn't satisfr all of us. and we want Him to tell us why He did so-and-so, and go into detail about It. Why, we can't have that done even on this earth. Was our peace conference In Paris open \ to the public and made clear and plain to us? Were we taken into the confidence of our representatives and explained all the details of its functioning? We were not! Are we allowed to sit In executive session when our lawmakers want to decide any vital question concerning the affairs of our country and our people? We are not! Of course we are not. but we think and hope that they are doing what is best even if we are not taken into their confidence and advised of their decisions. Will the coming disarmament conference held here this fall b? '"open covenants. openly arrived at?" It will not. And so you see there art mysteries In this world that we are not expe.Tted to even question; why shouldn't there be many things unexplalnable and mysterious In >F DOROTT foil apeod. " I'm going to ba ' a good deal from now on?*t tlma, tha way It looka. And?I M Tou 11 take me In?tf wa cu some Now don't speak " ha haste ough "Think It over a while.* borne She waa glad of hi* suggc* It over. Certainly It needed th though her heart seemed to tui glad It was made. She must pull ba ?If she could. This strange r you been Dick r.nd was suddenly s " ba must not ba permitted to ansa trkad mant. With extraordinary rapl< tone. circled first around the prop time. around the obvious objections ti iyse!f themselves. read First, of course, there was tl was superable one of lack ef space alnat tha little apartment, could she < in. I giant like Dick? On the othei said was Norm's room?a most uaua since a servant, charmingly papered were with some of the good old Hutt rolr.g Th* room was. Indeed, the su| '* up tlon which had kept the girl e happy for two years. She wouj iched such a room elsewhere. But I knee. Ing. and poealbly a room out*! " And lag could ba angaged for th* n< that would mean expense, but d tha vital point?Dick would no doi m?*n pay tha uiual New Tork rates t ba board. Thus, hi* coming mlg if to meat and banish that night ? " creased cost of living. drew Her dark eyebrows knit u tensity of her mental proem ise of paid even fifty dollars a moi > look around, and certainly he wool ,K'' to pay less, she could manage tlons, would be the wonder of his Ha which ahe felt her whole being have him there always, to tall down to?O, yea, Dick must come, J But it could be, it must be. arrange think that now, absolutely. ' Her silence tisd lasted lonj n the realized. Glancing at him, she k Ifs had grown a little pale. She rei dream which had Oil ad his mil rsarm. She apoke with quick ri Da at - Daar Dick." aba said. in hai a S FROM HEF [when a feller ne I . i I ' - > /. > ./ v /' K ' I th* functioning: of God's plans? 1 There are of course many things < we cannot understand now, but i thero are enough that wo do un* I derstand to save each of us if we i want to be paved, and the excuse i that we couldn't take in these ] mysteries, and wc couldn't see why this, that, and the other wasn't made clearer, will never excuse any i of us either In this world or the next. MRP. ADELAIDE HARRIS CASSIDY. Washington. T>. C. Finds Justice in Hell. To the Editor, Th* Washington Herald: An article appeared in the Open Court column of The Herald recently, from a gentleman, on the subject of hell. Now, just a brief, common-sense and reasonable conception of the future. First, we take the soul in its 1EA * In New Tork fuj role* -x wunt heal' ?t half the coming Of courae mV, ' "m auutolMi ni just thinking of ways Uv? together He did net apeak. and ) ned to add realised that he could not. " Ton eee, we've got such tlon to thick ah? want on lightly, to giro In kins about, you're aoch a bit peraoa t n ever vIm take aoma planning to rselT together able." nan who had " But?yon will fit ma lnT om? one elae " Of course wa will " a ttla her Judg elaton. than etepped ah Uty her mind Mother should object." aha oattloa, then note. "I dent know how ) bat presented the truth la that for a mo: about her?"?" he almoat In- The dlecevary amased I k Where, In aha hare forgotten Mothe Lock a young never forgotten Mother bet ' hand, there " How much do you thin] ual room for far ma to pay?annually? and fitted <jp She fluahad deeply. Ho on furniture. terribly taetleea of IMck < ireraa attrac- question now! But It wa ontontod and must try to remember thai d never have and dreamed of him alace fora waa ne- Ha waa not thia ?tranger a da the build- oddly dlaturbad and thrlUad iw maid. All " Buppoaa Aunt Carotin ?hare was a went on. "and you crowd i ibt expect to flat. What, at a rough i for room and think I ought to pay? I ht even help to know, right now. Ill ai mare, the In- - Well?why, how can on kaap boardere. you know." nder the la- taxed nervea went back 01 lee. If Dick tent, but remorae aelxed h. lth the year hla expraaalon. " Forgive d not expect quickly. " To make up foi u And there IU anawer your queaUon, presence?for mature. I?I auppoaa wa c longing. To you?If you?" Heavena, 1 I to, to turn to bring out the worda!?" [a aome war alz or eight hundred a yea. d. She knew " Six or el(ht hundred a j eoftly. aa If conaldarlng th< ter than aiie " Do you think that la aaw that he more than what you had nembered the thea'a face waa all 11 flamir id for twenty "No. I dont thiak lt"a assurance. emlled at bar. "It la lesa warm, ooler- had la ml ad. I Juat thoi * - t ?; x >..i v. . 4 k . - _ . lagasrae 'ALD REA1 ' ' ?' A EDS A FRIEND PoWCHA Wor?V P*AM - I'LL HAV/ The POP iKi S\A? AHAee iM a we , UPAV/CIM T'ME ( leave 'IN The future state. Our soul is the seat :>f our memory, intellect and will; it is the principle or subject of these faculties, as the soul is a spiritual being;, the source of these faculties. Through them it is made happy or sorrowful. By our intelligence we are able to know God: by our memory we are able to deBire; by our will we are able to act God usually derives the love of us creatures in the natural way. He gives us many means with which to develop these faculties, namely: All things created for intelligence, the redemption for memory and for our w*?l, the Ten Commandments against which human nature is most inclined, thus to elevate our senses to spiritual things. Should we succeed a reward is promised and if the reward is not gained reason demands punishment, namely. the loss. The desire and lov? for God that we create'here depend! to a great extent on what degra? ? taring oT?r you. tnUr?0ttmg to ] to be with us. J added, ooolly. "1 and means." M More! But, : >* subcoaackraaM -i>, t*tn loc ignoring her la a bos of a place,' boon la New 1 him time. " AnJ want to call on ; hat lfa going u he aMtd frank! kite you comfort and look at Sati I made a list i tou'4 like?and he becan with de be calmly eadad ruptly. "Unlees Dorothea ope: ended en a fla: elooed them a [ could do It, hat etopped at the ment I forgot all ment building 01 already on the >er. Row eoulJ opea and belplni t?ehe who had an unotuoua M ore! by appointment. I K would be fair Two mtnutee ?" a large 11 Ting ro w dreadful?how wbooa three dou 10 bring up thle the avenue, wh Dick?and ehe exclusive eroea L aha had known a library Uned she waa a child. music room, hot rhoae preaenoo ao hall. Open doors I her. Tlataa of charm e consents," he " Lots of air me Into the lit tie Dick. Ignoring I kstlmate, do you the suits I thou have a curiosity He led her lr :plaln later." ting room and ia tall! We don't also facing the Dorothea'a over- can aleep here i her to this ex- sitting room. ' >r when aha aaw moat of the tin me," ehe aald comfortable. A r being ao nasty, I picked for TO though lt'a pre- The big bed *rald arrange If? almost aa larg? low hard tt waa preaant flat. V if you paid, aay, vit had a flrepla r." . cushioned seati 'ear," he repeated ?qulpped prlvat i amount. shelves and cup too much? Is it " "1 didn't plar in mind?" Doro- laughed. "I i ig. much time In too much." He dining room ar i than the earn t . quarters.* ight it would be Thar war* sa . ? , v.* .. - ? -as.. v DERS SHOW - ? , . ... W ^ ' ?By BRIGG8 of happiness we experience in Heaven. Our body and soul -work? corporeally. it will also at the last day take Its place with the soul, as Christ's resurrection proved this. Justice demands a hell for th* man that has us*d his faculties only for worldly pleasures, buried his soul in the mire of immorality, and created a disgust and hatred for all things spiritual. He would not hope and would not want to be mingled with the souls that had sacrificed all earthly pleasures. So it must turn away from God into hell. \ K. A. QUAL.KINBUSH. i Denver, Colo. j Opposes Home "Stills." To th. Editor. The Wuhiaffton Herald: > It afforded me much satisfaction i to read your editorial replying to t your critic* 1b the Fourth amend- | _ iava your Idea Mine." b? ranged as la that we must move " apartment Dick " sitting roo >king around." he explained to theae n terruptlon. "Ten eee. I've bedroom, d ork eeveral days. I didn't served for roo till I rot my new oetflt.' room* (y. - but I could go around eenrant wl i In my eld clothes, eo I did. year*. Wl ?f throe or four I though* work If yt we're at the tret one now," k**P 01,1 01 It wm ned her Up* to speak. and her voloe. gain Th* .Umoualne had them the 4 entrance of a auperb apart Dick's arm 1 Park avenue, and Dick waa " What'* sidewalk. holding the door " Twelve r her oat. In the inner hall " Twelve ent awaited thorn, obviouaty " There** I ground flw later she found horoelf in excellent c. m. with a tag open flreplaoe. here yeeta hie front windows overlooked bother wit ills two more opened on an real home, street. Back of this was treuhlso a with built-in shelves, and a wet" Hit h giving 00 a square oentral There are at the right aad left showed but this wi ing room*. - if* da and sunlight." commented Hutton to ler stunned alienoe. - Here'* common *i rht might suit yow mother." *and a yea to a charming bedroom, aft- - J don't private bath, the two rooms " You ds avenue. " Her trained none rather rok he added, Indicating the twelve or I ' I fancy ahem need a parse an apertm le from now oa to be really He nodd nd here's the pair of rooms "That's ? " looked are room he had selected was able here. > aa the living room In her ther " Ike most of the other rooms. Dorothea ce and broad windows, with In her thr 1. Off It waa a beautifully "I supp e bathroom, fttted with glass la a Joks' boards. was such 1 1 s sitting room for you." he and so en! raj afraid you'd spsnd too He gras It. Now oorae and see the leasly. id kitchen and the servants' " Hsrs's you ts shj perfect and aa admirably ar- I can par I SMI "v r-t"...-*>T>> ? mi |F TRENDS 0 . ' / raent controversy. Mr. Flourney Uyi much stress on the unreiion ablcDcti of search without a warrant lfow I hare all due regard for*the sanctity of the home, but can see no particular reason why any cltiaen, who If permitted to keep a private still to make % "wee bit" of liquor, or medicine as he prefers to style It, for hfs own purpose, can have any reason to object to official investigation, one would think he would be proud to show his medical laboratory. The officers of the law would, hsve a sweet time catching a murderer, burglar. or horse-thief if he had to be armed with a warrant before be could make an arrest. Norn- then, why should we make law* to protect bootleggers who peddle their poisonous concoction out to the feebleminded. I say feeble-minded because none other would drink his swill. The whole thing In a nutshell i* the old disgruntled whisky element Is sore, and instead of using Influence to stamp out this worst of evlla. Is saying to h? with law and humanity. so either directly robbing the weak, or else by saying the law can never h? enforced, aiding those who are. It's foolish to say we cannot enforce the law until we try. We never will by small fines which can be made overnight?but. long terms in th* pen at hard labor would work wonders, for a large per cent of the bootleg clan are I. W. W.'s. If liquor is a necessity for medicine why not let the government mske and control the sale for this purpose with a reasonable amount above cost for revenue ? The government certainly ha? not the public welfare at heart if It permits the husband to spend all of his earnings in exorbitant bootleg dope, which, of course, he doesn't need, when his family may need food or be sick and possibly a little pure liquor as medicine might benefit them. In the last campaign we were led to believe liquor wa.* a settled issue and already there are politicians in this neck-o'-woods right now preaching the same evasive logic. Ljet's not be mislead; we have only broken the snake's tail. P. F. SKINXEIt. Washington, D. C. Commends Herald Editorials. To the Editor Tb* Washington Herald I wish to commend and express my appreciation for your editorial policy, especially a* regard* problems relating to farmers and the industry of agriculture. It markn the beginning of an era of better understanding and better feeling )'# the metropolitsn press, and consequently among the city population, relative to the life and problems of farming people. In the past there has been a notable absence of such interest or understanding, except for a general d?sire for cheap food. The farmers' economic or social condition wa? of no concern so Jong as he continued to produce plentifully. Mutual misunderstandings. unreasonable eharges and general antagonism between city and rural people have resulted. l>ue largely to the enlightened attitude of The Washington Herald and ther newspapers this unwholesome condition is beginning to be remedied. It is a caune for gratification. F. II. SHELLEDY. Hvattsville. Md Man Against Maternity Bill. To the Kditor. Th? Washington Kf*raM riease publish the following open letter to Miss Alice Robertson. >1. I appeal to you to prevent the passage of the maternnity bill?though the heavens fall. This bill, backed by the League of Women Voters, is nothing more or less than politics in dtsguise For did not Mrs. Park state, under questioning, that the League of i Women Voters has a membership of By ELIZ the rat of the fourteen room in The servants had their own or m, their own bath. On the way kbi he casually showed her the mo i ? Ing room. u< bath he had re himself at the rur. - Had to hav e It ' ,? ha explained " I>e cot a Jap rn to haa boon wWh me tor aereraJ fut Mn he'B bar* ball halp with the Fo ><t Ilka him. If too don't be'i: ten ! your way." wa X thla point that Dorothea found me The agent had removed from ,n ignity of hla preaenoa. She aalaad mo and aaked a question Ifi the rant of thla? - bet thousand a year.- 1 tboo l Dick, are you eraay ? " a vary food dining room on the "t or." aaid Dtck placidly, "with an hef and a house staff. I lunchod I' Tday ta try It. But we wont av h that vary often Wa want a ? ? with home cooking and servant for nd all that sort of thine, don't oai i face fell. Dont yon like K? be three or four more on the list. O. is ths one I thought you'd choose iply perfect. But. Dtck?" Miss kn ok a firm (rasp on nerrea and kn ms??" lfy Income Is three thou- I i *1" sr sea what that*s rot to do with It." I ntt Wall. I do" Her voice was ay L " Bealdee the rent. It would ooet da lfteen thousand a year ta run such ha lit" *d m what the agent aaid. Wall." ha ya und. " we could be very comfort m But If you'd rather look fur- I I swallowed something that roae be nat. Nc oae," aha began. " the whole thing m< "?and than her Toloa broke. It to a stupid )oke?such a cruel Joke? of Ike the Dick aha had known rxi ped bar hands and spoke breath ?h sa< the home I've dreamed of?with vo ire It and run tt Don *, you sea " bo tar H. bat you're the only per eon ? J* f s ? - . . . * K . . irtifltt >F OPINION two million, "all eligible to vote nest r?ir in the bi-election?" A few more nialwsrt women like Mi* LMlherb??, of Bontol. aMirty#?. will. I. trust, prevent the piMMfc of this bill and thereby "* prove a blessing to humanity. Aa Mr*. Leatherbce truthfully says: "This* country wa* made, thl? nation vi^ built by rod-blooded. In* dependent. hard-working and Hlf-l* opocUnf men and wom^n It will dl* ?heu its oitisena become devitalised parasite* ltrlnc oo bnre*ueratic sustenance.* The l^mntaU claim that Congress h%a "don# nothingIs ft any wonder that Congress doe* noth ing. when moat all of ita time ie taken up fooling with auch ua^-Ksv and aillv things'' I think I vole ihe aentim?tita of all right-thinking persona, of both sexes, wh'n T aay the time haa arrived for every ne? fad and 'l?m to be thrown into th* discard, in order that Congress ma> have legislation passed that will b* a benefit .o ell the people A. SIDNEY JOHNLTON. Winchester, Vs. Rejrulalinu the Regulators. To the Editor, The Waahingtoa Herald: With your kind permission, I } would like te submit a brilliant idea to those who have been re filiated, but perhaps not reformed, by the activities of the reformers. Also to those who era liable to be regulated by these people, and their number is legion. I believe there should be a bill introduced In Congress ana lobbied for bv those who have been regulated, regulating the regulators All over this country meetings. presided over by reformers are being held anfi the halla and meeting houaea are parked by their followers. At these meetings tons of raka. hogsheads of dill pickles and an ocean of tea is being coniumed. In many citler the fountains have been shut off. people are unable to sprinkle their lawns and are deprived of other nominal uses of water because of the supply used In the brewing of tea. And yet there haa been many a man sold tea when he thought he waa buying boose and became a raving maniac in consequence. Therefore. 1 submit there should he a law standardising the sise of the tea pot. the s!zo of tha cap. the number of lumps of sugar to be used and the number of caps to he drunk on any one occasion Here in Washington, where minr of theae gatherings are held in the rest period between the daily forenoon and afternoon spasms of regulating and reforming. It should alao limit the alse of the gas plate or electric heater used Socially ! might be well to prohibit the brewing of tea entirely oa government property, on government time and with rovernment fuel. RFX51TLATBD. BIT NOT RFFORltEP Washington. TV <\ Want* Cross on Monument. To the Editor, Tb* Waahlagtoa HeraM. Will you, too. giva your aid te a child's project? Is It s go^d Idea to hsve s ~ruld* light- put on the Washington Monument* And what shout Pennsylvania avenue being made a pr?at whit' way? The pen Is mightier than the ??word. Let up write it in lightelectricity. The pen tells of s Saviour, and we know St. John, o' whom it can truly be said: "I com* with Are and a f word.** Put "Pershing" in Tiaht. "He makes wrongs right"?for God. Would a great electrical cress put in a suitable spot In this city remind us of those who died that we might live? Wiser heada than mine may hare better Ideas. I am merely suggesting the thought of a mother Mrs. P. M. SMITH. Washington. D. C. ABETH JORDAN the world who can make :t a home?w he i make my odd dnun com* true." But?Dick?T cant take it Id! If* an sudden and confusing " 'I know. I bungled It?abominably. But waa part of my dream* to surprise you. > more practical than I seem. Here'. ?or lire bome, if you approve of it and me' r, O Dolly. I want you to marry m. It 1 Just because I>e made a fortune aM nt to take care of you Tou don't need i?in that way. Tour eteptatber's etak. my oil field* will make yon and your ther comfortable the rest of your Uvea i because I lore you, because there's never so any (iri in my life but you " Dorothea drew bar bands away. ' Don't say any mora" she begged lick. Dick. Jot me think! " ' I don't dare to let you think. I know ID t you now or never. It's my hour. If II" er to have one. Dolly. Dolly, ywu war. A to see me when I came! I can nevr r Tet those tears! Think of what our lives > be together, and of what my life will If yoa send me awayl Can you do UT Dolly, can you?" ' No." Her voice was unsteady. " I dont ow whether I love you or not. I only ow that?that I can't send you from me. oant even bear the thought of K. Bui srylhlng is so sudden and upsetting." She stopped. Two tear* crept from her e* and rolled down her cbeeka She bod them away with the back of bar nd. " That's the second time rv* cried." she lped, "and I haven't cried before Car ire. For heaven's sake, Dick, don't think a a crying woman!" 9e bent and kissed her wet cheek* " I know it Is all too sadden, my darling ' said tenderly, -but 111 give you time iw that I've got you. m teach you to love k. As for those tears?my wadding present you Is going to be a pendant with foar the most precious pearls I can find?e arl for each of the four blasasd tears thai owed me I waa wanted As soon as I w those tsars." be added and now bis ows lee waa unsteady. " I knew that I had come me to stay." tOeprrtrti imi; 1? Wi lil> Js*dsaJ ^ i ... ?