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PAGE SIX
BUBNINSBBESOTY
READ THIS FIRST:
The start/ opens during an auction
sale of furniture and old silver at
the Kent-OHpliant house in Annapo
lis, Md. Among those present are
Mrs. Jane lileecker, a wealthy New
Yorker, her son, Tony, a naval offi
cer; Marty Van Duyne, a silver
blonde, n-ho cares for Tony; Michael
McMillan, a young but famous maga
zine editor. The group, with the ex
ception of McMillan, is discussing
* pair of old silver candlesticks when
Virginia Oliphant, beautiful daughter
of the house appears.
(NOW GO ON WITH THE STORYJ
. CHAPTER 2
YET THE MYSTERY about Vir
ginia Oliphant was not hard to solve.
It centered in an abnormally sensi
tive father who had been unwilling
that his daughter should accept at
the hands of society anything she
could not return. There had been
generations of Olipliants in Annap
olis —beginning with those men of
rank and title who had grants from
the king. They had acquired wealth
and held offices of distinction. Then
had come gradually diminishing for
tunes and the cataclysm of the Civil
war. Kent Oliphant’s father had
been killed at Appomattox, and his
mother, poor and proud, had shut
herself away from the world. Her
eon had, in his turn, followed her
example. Virginia and her young
brother had been educated at home,
forbidden to mingle with those about
them. “I will not have you conde
scended to by those who are less than
your bettors.” their father had told
them, furiously.
Much of this was known to the
people of the town. And they pitied
Virginia. She did not look, at the
moment, as if she needed their pity.
She was so gloriously alive. Like a
flame! Incandescent! Tony felt he
had never seen anything like it. He
wondered what Marty thought stand
ing there beside her.
But Marty was troubled by noth
ing so unimportant as this girl in the
shabby sweater. She moved closer
to Tony and murmured, “She’d be a
beauty if she were well dressed.”
“Do you think a woman like that
t Marty wrinkled her nose at him In
an enchanting way she had. “All
v. omen need clothes.”
' Don’t be absurd, Marty.”
| He turned from her to listen to
what Virginia was saying to his
mother: “I am sorry. The candle
sticks are withdrawn from the sale.”
Mrs. Bleecker protested. “But 1
want them more than anything.”
Virginia said again. “I’m sorry.”
That was all. No yielding.
“They’ll bring a stiff price,” Jane
Bleecker persisted, “and I understand
you need the money.”
Tony said something under his
breath. There were times when
Midget was impossible!
A flush had come into Virginia’s
cheeks. “I do need it. But the
candlesticks have associations.”
“You won’t reconsider?”
“No.”.
That was all. She went away,
taking the candlesticks with her.
As she left the room, she met
Michael McMillan. Tony saw him
stop and speak to her. Heard his
mother saying, maliciously, "111
wager anything those candlesticks
were one of the three things lie
wanted.”
They were, of course, and Michael
seeing them borne away, asked ap
prehensively, “They’re not sold?”
"No, but they’re withdrawn from
the sale.”
“Why? Oh, I beg pardon. It’s
none of my business. But you see
I’ve a bowl that matches these—and
I’m rather mad about old silver.”
She liked his voice as much as she
hated Mrs. Bleecker’s. It was be
cause of Mrs. Bleecker that she had
withdrawn the candlesticks. She had
known she could not. no, she could !
not think of those lovely garlands i
and darling eupids in the possession
cf a woman like that.
And, Having once withdrawn them,
she knew that she would never let
them go. Not even to this man
with the quick and thrilling voice
So she said again, "I’m sorry.”
“I’m sorry, too.” he told her.
hesitated for a moment, then
explained: “I only consented to put
them on . sale because my brother
basiled. .Arid I shouldn’t have c®n-
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sented. You see. they lighted all our
little feasts.” She stopped suddenly,
unable to go on.
He said, sympathetically: “You
are finding it —hard?”
“Oh, yes. This room is haunted."
For a moment he did not answer.
He was, indeed, intensely moved by
the sight of her girlish distress. It
was as if some sorrow in himself
went out to meet her sorrow. She
was holding the candlesticks now
against her, and they made a cross,
as if she had laid a crucifix upon her
breast.
At last he said, “Are you giving
up the house?”
“Yes. It is mortgaged heavily.
We can’t save it. I shan’t mind so
much if only someone will buy it
who will love it and understand it.
I’d hate to have it go to people who’d
make their money in pills or pork.”
She was trying to speak lightly,
to recover her poise. He helped her
by shifting the conversation. “There
were three things I wanted —the
candlesticks, the Dutch spoons and
the tittle Chippendale chair."
“The ladderback? That was
mother’s. She always sat in it.”
“Is she—dead?”
“No. She’s gone away with daddy.
He’s very ill. This was his only
chance. That’s why we’re selling.”
She stopped as a young man ap
peared in the door. Michael knew at
once it was her brother. They were
much alike. Young Oliphant was
taller than his sister, but there was
the same grace and slenderness, and
his head was topped by the same
bright hair. Yet there was this dif
ference. that Virginia carried herself
more gallantly. Richard slouched a
bit, and his features showed a blur
ring of the lines which gave strength
to the girl’s face. Only a* keen ob
server would have noticed the dif
ference. But Michael was a keen ob
server.
"The sale is beginning in a few
minutes,” the boy said; “I thought
you’d like to get away from it.”
• She explained to Michael, “We’re
going to the attic and watch things
from there.”
At that moment, Richard saw the
candlesticks in her arms. “Where
are you taking them. Jinny?”
Her voice had a note of appeal in
it. “Rickey, I’m not going to sell
them.”
“Why not?” sharply.
“Because—we must save some
thing out of it all- ”. %
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height, as the flames swept over a two-nnk long area.
Lower photo shows some of the
after the fire had b*e» brought undar partial control.
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“That’s why wa re selling/’
“But they’re the most valuable
item in the lot. Grogan says so.
He's not going to put them up until
the last.”
“He’s not going to put them up
at all.”
“Oh, you—that’s sentimental rot!”
As he flung himself away, the girl’s
face went white. She spoke to Mc-
Millan. “Rickey isn’t often like
that.”
“I’m sure he isn’t,” he said heartily.
Her face lighted. "I hope you'll
get the things you want. If you do,
I have a feeling that you’ll be friend
ly to mother’s little chair.”
Before he could answer, she turned
and left him. He watched her as
she went up the stairs, the silver cru
cifix still clasped to her breast. From
across the room Anthony Bleecker
also watched her. But he did not
see the crucifix. He saw only her
beauty, the vivid loveliness which put
Marty’s more delicate charms in the
shade.
Going up the stairs, Virginia
shrank from the thought of facing
Rickey. He’d probably keep on tor
menting her about the candlesticks.
And she did not mean to give in.
Rickey had his way about most
things. But he should not have it
in this. Yet she dreaded'his argu
ments. They were always so logical.
And there was no logic in this feel
ing of hers. She had only sentiment
to urge, and Rickey was done with
sentiment. “We’ve been held back
all our lives by the past. We’ve got
to break away. Jinny, or go under.”
And now she would hear it all
over again!
But she did not hear it. As she
came into the attic, Rickey was
standing by the dormer window.
"Come here. Jinny.” he said, excited
ly. “did you ever see anything like
it? That last big car brought down
a lot of New York dealers. One of
the auctioneer's men told me. It
seems they've had their eyes on us
for years, hoping we’d have to sell.”
She went and stood beside him.
Gazing down from the window she
saw the garden as a picture which
might have been painted in the blaz
ing colors of some modern brush.
There was the black of the boxwood,
the flame,and fire of the chrysanthe
mums. the light and shade of the
clustered crowds, the hard blue of
the sky and of the fiver which roea
to meet it. . , * »
(TOfBE CONTINUEDj j
Farm* Commodity Prices
Now Will Rise By Fiat;
Processors To Be Taxed
How Costs of Certain Products Are Expected
to Be Roosted as Secretary of Agriculture
Uses His Vast Power
(Tills is the seventh explanatory
article of a. series on measures the
Roosevelt administration ha s under
take!)
By LESLIE EICHEL
Washington, May 18 —Whether the
Unittd Sates has inflation or not,
farm and commodity prices generally
will rise now—by fiat.
With tremendous power in his
hands through the medium of the
general farm relief bill, Secretary of
Agriculture Henry A. Wallace can
transfer millions from the pockets of
consumers to the long-suffering farm
ers. (The farmer says that with
money once more flowing into his
•pockets he again can purchase on a
large scale, and thus put factories
to work and bring about higher
wages.)
Th test of the theory is at hand.
How Much Tax?
Processors of raw materials, taxed
by the bill ot provide the higher
prices to be paid to farmers, in' the
meantime await the amount of tax to
be levied. |
A definite goal for sevl||U of the
commodities involved ,the price aver
age of 1909-14, would provide prices
not far out of line with present mar
ket prices. Thus ,the tax to be as
sessed is today miuch less than it,
would have been several months ago
prior to the rise of commodity, prices.
The 1909-14 average for wheat was
80 cents. As this aticle was writ
ten .wheat was 73 cents.
The 1909-14 average for cotton was
12 1-2 cents, as against 8 lr2 cents at
present.
. The 1909-14 average for hogs was
$7.30 a hundredweight, as * against
nearly $4 now.
In the final revisions of the fqrm
bill ,the base parity period of milk
was changed to the pre-war period
of 1919-14 instead of the 1919 L -24 post
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tories to work.
war period. Thus, increase in milk
prices will be less tha n at first
suraed. f . - ,
Tobacco base also was left at post
war level.
Price Advances
To reach the 1809-14 price averages
price advances on several commodi
ties are expected to range as follows:
Cotton goods, 10 to 15 per cent.
Flour, 20 to 25 per cent.
Pork products, 35 to 40 per cent.
These advances are in addition to
rises already aehrued since the Unit
ed States went off the gold standard.
Prices on many ’her interrelated
products will rise. On still others,
prices will rise in sympathy.
In Sympathy
That is why President Roosevelt
has pleaded for a general increase in
wages. Otherwise, thousands in cities
literally would starve or the stand
ard of living would crash even fur
ther.
One of the question s vexing trades
is whether the processors’ tax will be
flexible. Undoubtedly the secretary
of ' agriculture will- be governed by
market fluctuations. Not eveo the
wealth:es nation can compete with
the law of supply and demand with
out giving some heed to the natural
flow and ebb. i
Milady_ finding cotton taxed, may
turn to rayon, only to find prices on
that commodity also raised. For the
bill provides for a Compensating tax
-on materials which comipete with
cotton,
Will It Work?
That is only one of the many
quirks in this newest ggantic exr
periment of the American govern
ment. As President Roosevelt, frank
ly remarked, he was not sure it
would work, but has anybody a plan
less hazardous? •
A few renegades among economists
say the cart has been put before the
horse, that the farmer has demanded
protective tariffs and isolation and,
at the same time, world markets.
That having failed, he and the high
tariff manufacturer have joined
hands to force American people to
pay the cost of lack of markets.
To relieve that pressure President
Roosevelt is putting forth a world
wide; pin for a tariff truce. That
will, be discussed next.
Next: Tariff True©
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Maxwell Estimates Cost of
Sales Tax Will Be Under
' Two Percent 1
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
IIV J. C. BASKERVI 1,1..
Raleigh, May 18.—The Department
of Revenue is already busy having •
new blanks printed and the many
new forms prepared as the result of
the changes made in the revenue laws
by the General Assembly, although
none of these changes go into effect
until July 1, Commissioner of Re
venue A. J. Maxwell said today.
Many of these new blanks and forms
have to be ready to send out by June
1, so that there is no time to lose.
The revenue department is also be-1
ginn'lng to lay its plans for the col- j
lection of the new three per cent gen- j
eral sales tax, which will beTlT*'"
fective July 1. An enla ft
nel will be necessary i n order P / rS ° r
'lect this lax, although CnmJ,- 0 Col '
Maxwell does not bflleve th lssion er
the new collecting organizj n ßl2e of
'have to be a s lafge ”S °" .»»>
The law provides that as mi , c h" k
two per cent of th P total n u as
from the three per cent
tax may be used to defray t hp Sales
of collecting it, but Commissi C ° St
Maxwell believes it can be
for less than this amount H ? ‘ ed
out, however, that i n MisslssipniTu 8
cost of collecting the sales tax tv. h<?
is about four per cent of ti, e e
amount taken in. Rroas
“If it were going t„ be „ ec
for us to set up an entirely new ,‘i
collecting agency from t o p to bottn
for the collection of the new genera
sales tax, it would ,of course b **
expensive undertaking,” Commi/sn?
er Maxwell said. “But since we hav
a well organized revenue collect i n !
organization already set U p and •
operation it. will only be necessary
to expand this ‘in order to administer
the new law, Consequently we believe
that the new sales tax can bo col
lected on a much smaller outlay than
some of its critics have maintained "
Dr. John G. Bowman, chancellor
of the niversity of Pittsburgh, born
at Davenport, lowa, 56 years ago
Notice
To the public and
those who ought to
I know that the worst
road in Vance
County is from
Henderson to
Townsville
One Who Travels It j