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John Toil, stepson of wetutny t.aay
lull, is engaged In marry Lucy Burn
ham, a wtdaic. Thin ie resented by
Alpsia Saylor, John’s cousin, u>ho
has been making her home with her
sister, Etta, and her brother, Claud,
at Taits abode in London. Lady
Tait sees her stepson talking with a
beautiful girl, revealed as Gillian
Dundas. in the hotel lobby at Vichy
where she, Tait and Lucy are stop
ping Gillian, it seems, i« blackmail
ing Tail tor a past indiscretion.
Sack in London Lady Tait shows
John a tetter from her dead son’s
wife, an Italian woman she despises,
demanding money for her son, Lady
Tait’s grandson. Tait learns of the
fatal shooting of his business asso
ciate, Laid Mills, for which his valet.
Hi own, is held. Tait had recom
rnended Hrou n for the post. Reggie
Claridge, Alysia Naylor’s fiance, at
tracted by Gillian Dundas whom he
met in Paris, follows the latter and
a strange-looking young man in a
cab Miss Dundas returns to the
station and Claridge follows the man
into an apartment. He comes upon
a human fiend sitting before a mir
ror. The stranger spies him, runs
alter him but Claridge leaves him
behind. Tait goes to Lord Mills’
quarters m an effort to hate Rrown, '
the valet, released from police cus- :
tody. At Scotland Yard Superin- (
tendent Dartmoor talks over the '
Mills shooting with Chief Inspector J
Pointer and tells him of Tait’s in- 1
terest in the case.
(NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY) ‘
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CHAPTER 16 i
f,ADY TAIT looked at Mrs. Burn- «
ham in a silence that conveyed (
volumes. The latter had just re- 1
turned from her outing with To 4 ". c
the outing cut short by the no- 1
nouncenient in the papers that I.ord
Mills had been found shot dead in f
his flat. I
Lucy ntirnhnm returned the look *
with a half-entreating, half-quizzical
glance. f
"Don’t say you think me mad! €
You’d have done the earne in my
pines.” . *
“Never!” Lady Tait spoke with !
emphasis. "Take a young woman in
just because I found her crying on
the doorstep! My dear Lucy, who 1
is she? Companion to Mrs. de
Souza? That’s nothing to go on. .
What is she? How can you possibly
tell?” • !
"I’m not clever like you.” her
guest replied promptly, “but I can
read faces, and a nicer one than this A
pretty girl has. I’ve never seen. I
thought so at Viehy when I first saw ,
her there, you remember.”
“Nice!” Lady Tait’s very voice I
seemed to throw up hands of horror. 1
"Beautiful, yes, very remarkably so. j
And I should say a nearly perfect '
figure. Rut nice! Oh. Lor’!” She i
would have added had she been given
to such language. "If ever I saw a i
weak, sly, pleasure-loving face, that i
giif has one. And what are you go- i
ing to do with her?” She went on: <
"People are easier picked up than I
dropped, as well you know. Even
the best of them. Especially when ]
one s got your kind ’heait. Really, i
I’m afraid you'll find yourself sad- <
died with an incubus, and perhaps i
worse. What reason did she give for
being on rny doorstep, pray?”
"She hoped I would be In. She (
came to me for kelp as some poor •
little wild animal might have done.” i
Mrs. Burnham’s voice was moved.
“She has left Mrs. de Souza. A i
nephew has turned up who is quite
impossible. She didn’t know where |
to go . . . she thought I would be <
kind. Few women are kind to her. i
she says ’’
"Very few, I fancy,” Lady Tait 1
agreed grimly.y “Forgive me being |
impertinent, dear, but oughtn’t you •,
to consult John now?”
“J hadn’t time.” Lucy looked as <
if tears were not far off. "I had to
do something. She won’t go back to
Mrs. de Souza’s flat. That dreadful
young man is there, she says, and
Mr». de Souza haa gone off to stay!
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Convention
Epsom High School
Friday, April 27, 8 p. m.
Held for benefit of Henderson Christian church—
Everybody is Invited.
Admission _lo c and 25c
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“My dear Lucy, who is she?"
with some friends in the country.
She seems to think poor Miss Dun
das can remain on with him. 1 al
ways did think her a frightfully
selfish thing. Os course I don t want
to land the girl on you. Lady Tait.
She has some little studio of her
own in Fulham, it seems, where she
works at china-mending and so on,
only she can’t afford to pay the rent
if she’s out of a place. It’s all a
rush, of course, and I know it’s
dreadful of me to bring her in here,
but —until I can turn round I really
don’t quite know what to, do with
her.”
‘‘Take her to a O. F. S. Lodge, pay
a week’s board for her, and let her
find another place,” Lady Tait said
briskly.
"They’re always full,” Lucy re
minded* her reproachfully, “and gen
erally frightfully uncomfortable.
You know the kind of beds they give
the girls. Lady Tait, believe me, she
really is in great distress. You’d
have done just as I have, had you
seen her standing there like some
pathetic, stray cat in the rain.”
It was not a poetical simile, but
Lady Tait looked uncomfortable.
"As for John, I know he will feel
exactly as I do.” Lucy went on.
“Would have done just as I did.”
There was a little pause.
"Where is she at the present mo
«ment?” Lady Tait asked.
“I told her to lie down. She looked
worn out with worry and fright.
Evidently the nephew was an abso
lute cad. Don’t think that I intend
to inflict her on you indefinitely.
It’s just for the moment.” Lady
Tait rang the bell and ordered tea
to be taken up to Miss Dundas.
"Though I fancy she w’ould prefer
a cocktail,” she said to Lucy. “Now,
my dear. I’m no Gorgon. Besides,
the girl is here as your friend. Os
course she’s welcome under that
heading.”
"I couldn’t quite make out about
her studio as she calls it, but if noth
ing else turns up at once, I’ll find
some way of making her useful to
me.”
“Such as?” Lady Tait asked dryly.
“Well—eh—companionship, and so
on. With her good looks only a re
spectable girl would have been so
utterly helpless.”
Lady Tait acknowledged that argu
ment with a rather grudging nod.
"Still, to take a girl as your com
panion. even though but for a couple
of weeks, a girl you know nothing
about . . .” she protested afresh.
“But what else can I do!” Lucy’s
tone was a trifle impatient. "I’m not
prepared to adopt a daughter yet
a while. But seriously I felt as
though some lovely bird had flown
•n to my window* sill for protection
from the storm, and God knows
what, outside.” •
"Limp!” was Lady Tait’s only com
ment, but she kissed Lucy. She
liked a soft heart in another, though
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she pretended that net own was
Bessemer steel.
"And you’re accepting her story as
gospel truth?” she said finally. There
seemed no way out of the difficulty.
But quite apart .from disliking OIL
lian Dundas, she would have much
preferred not to have had her cross
John’s path again until his wedding.
"Oh, no!” Lucy was shoekec.
“Dear me, no! I shall go out this
afternoon and see Mrs. de Souza, 'ot
at least find out where she is, and
so on. Oh, no, I intend, of course, to
check up her story.”
And when the two met at dinner,
Mrs. Burnham told her hostess that,
so far as she could And out. Gillian
had told her nothing but the truth.
“As to the young man. Mrs. de
Souza’s nephew, he has tried to make
love to Gillian often before, and each
time Mrs. de Souza pretends that it’s
her fault, and refuses to do anything
about it. I spoke to her on the tele
phone. She seemed to think Gillian
was making mountains out of mole
hills. And she’s most indignant over
her leaving her. But Miss Dundas
very naturally feels that nothing
would induce her to go near the
place again."
"And this studio of hers?”
Mrs. Burnham went on to explain.
It seemed that Gillian’s mother had
bought the lease of it some years be
fore, and iet it intermittently to
artists or craft-workers. “Gillian
has done pottery w’ork and intends
to go in for mending old china. I
think, with a little help, it ought to
do very well. She’s clever with her
fingers, you know.”
"I don’t." But Lady Tait was
smiling affectionately. "She seems,
however, to be clever with her
tongue. There, there, my dear, if
you like, I’ll let her try her hand
with my cracked Sevres dish. Is she
going to stay there entirely?” Lady
Tait spoke with open hopefulness.
"Not to sleep there.” Lucy said
promptly. "It’s all very w’ell by day.
The studio. I mean. I’ve just left
her there. But the weirdest sort of
people seem to live there. I don’t
think it would be at all the sort of
place to leave her in, without any
one to look after her.”
And Lady Tait, against her will, .
let it go at that. After ail, she
might be quite wrong in attaching
so much importance to that odd little
scene in the hotel lounge. . . . But
John was acting very oddly just now
again. He had excused himself from
luncheon for which he had meant to
be back. He had not turned up at a
friend’s dinner which he had ac
cepted. And, later on. he had tele
phoned to Lucy that he would not be
able to go with her to a supper
somewhere or other. The Harrs Bone.
Lady Tait believed, was the trine of
the club, where a party of the Nay*-
lors’ friends were taking Mrs. Burn
ham.
(TO BE CONTINUEDJ
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School Data Said
To Be Misleading
(Continued from Page One.)
of fact, but, merely based on rumor,
says:
“This is one of several rumors that
is going the rounds in the State,
others being that there are only three
states paying more and another that
41 other states are paying less.”
None of hese “rumors” had been
heard until this story was put into
circulation by the North Carolina Edu
cation Association. Nor have the
“rumors” ifceen issued as a statement
by any State official or any one hav
ing any official connection .with the
management of the State school
system.
“I have not heard of these ‘rumors
until now, and have never heard the
statement made by any one that
North Carolina is paying its teachers
as much as any state in the nation,”
said Leßoy Martin, secretary of the
North Carolina School Commission.
“On the other hand, there are many
others in which the salary schedule
for teachers is h gher than in North
Carolina.. However, it will be impos
sible to tell what the average salary
is in North Carolina or any other state
this year until the present school year
is completed—and then it will require
several months,” Martin said.
Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus indi
cated he had never heard of the
ported “rumors” to the effect that
North Carolina is paying its teachers
more than any other state, that there
were only three other states paying
more. But Governor Ehringhaus and
others, including Dr. A. T. Allen, State
superintendent of public instruction
and State Treasurer Charles M. ohn
son, have made the statement, based
on figures obtained from the Federal
overnment, that North Carolina is the
only state in the union in which no
schools have been forced to close dur
ing the pasty ear, in which no child
has been denied the privilege to at
tend school this cast year, and in
which the teachers are being paidj
their full salaries each month front
the State treasury, Without any reduc?
tion.
But in a statement issued in Golds
boro last Week, President Phillips of
the education association, went even
further than did the story issued by
the publicity division of the associa
tion here. In this statement, as quoted
in The Goldsboro Newstf-Argus, Phil
lips said:
"Through some channel, apparently
subterrenean, the word has gone out
over the State that only a few states
in the nation are paying salaries as
high as are paid teachers in North
Carolina. Responsibility for this ridi
culous erroneous statement cannot be
union is paying her teachers as much
in average annual salaries and in
placed. A great many people have
heard that not a single state in the
other places the figure is that 41 other
states are paying less, annual salaries
than North Carolina.”
In this statement, it is pointed out
that President Phillips went the
original report issued from Raleigh
one better, since Phillips did not even
characterize these alleged reports as
"rumors,” as was done in the original
story issued by the North Carolina
Education Association. Phillips then
salary of North Carolina teachers and
principals is $498 a year, based on
went on to point out that the average
the amohnts budgeted last fall by the
State School Commission. Then, ad
mitting that "entirely accurate figures
from other states for purposes of com
parision will not be availableu ntil
after the school year has ended,”
Phillips quotes the average salaries
paid teachers in 28 other states, mos?
of them higher than the salaries paid
here. <
Park Road Inspect
ed By Plane
<Continued from T»**ge One.)
noon. Included in the party are H.
J. Spellman, engineer of the U. S.
Bureau of Public Roads, who will be
in charge of building thep ark-to-park
highway when the location is finally
decided upon, Thomas C. ent, land
scape architect with the Department
of the Interior, representatives from
the North Carolina, Virginia and
Tennessee highway commissions and
other engineers and officials.
It was expected that the plane would
follow the proposed route from the
'Shenandoah National Park, on down
to the North' Carolina line near Sparta
in the Alleghany county, then on down
by Boone, Blowing Rock, Linville
Falls across Mount Mitchell to Ashe
ville and then on to the Great Smoky
Mountain National Park dlnd then
back to Washington although the
plane will probably stop at Knoxville,
Tenn., to refuel.
“It is going to be a wonderful tr-p
if the weather is good and we can see
the proposed route” Baise said yester
day afternoon before leaving for
Washington. "There will also be
plenty of sharp mountain peaks to
crack up on if anything goes wrong,
but I am not counting on that.”
Several weeks ago Chairman Jeff
ress and a party of Washington en
gineers and officials made an auto
mobile trip along the route, but the
weather was so bad hey could not
see anything but fog and clouds. An
other motor trip is to be mde later on.
HIGH GOLFERS IN
RALEIGH FOR MATCH
Henderson high school’s golf team
was in Raleigh today meeting
Raleigh’s foursome in a return match
this afternoon. The teams met here
a week ago, and Henderson walked
off with the match 12-6.
The team was without the service
of its ace, Turner Wortham, this af
ternoon, lessening their chances for
a victory vonsiderably.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
Team: W. L. Pet
Detroit 4 1 .750
New York 2 1 .667
Cleveland 2 2 .500
Philadelphia 2 2 .500
Boston 2 2 .500
Washington . 2 3 .400
Chicago 1 2 .333
St. Louis 1 2 .333
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Team W. L. Pet.
New York 4 0 1.000
Chicago 3 0 1.000
Brooklyn 2 1 .667
Pittsburgh 2 1 .667
Boston 1 2 .333
St. Louis 1 2 .333
Cincinnati 0 3 .000
Philadelphia 0 4 .000
Recital
AMERICAN IiEAGUE
Detroit 4; Cleveland 0.
Philadelphia 9; Washington 6.
Others, rain.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 5; Philadelphia 0.
New York 7; Boston 3.
Others, cold, rain.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
St. Louis at Chicago.
Detroit at Cleveland.
Washington at Philadelphia.
New York at Boston.
national league
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati..
Chicago at St. Louis.
Boston at New York. •
Philadelphia at Brooklyn.
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Will Rogers, the old horse-trader of David Hamm, ” Fox Film’s
latest, does some stepping out with the comely assistance of
Evelyn Venable.
Doumergue In
Warning For World
. (Continued from Page One.)
against national welfare measures.”
At the same time, he declared the
government would fight to keep the
franc down and prevent it from be
coming “monkey money.” '
Without mentioning Germany,
Doumergue said France "nurses no
grudge, but a desire for peace can
not make her forget the lessons of
the past or the counsels of prudence.”
He said that when it is suggested
that France reduced her armament
at a moment when those who ravag
ed her soil and against whom she
had to defend herself with energy and
despair are increasing theirs consid
erabbly, contrary to the peace treaty,
and without authorization, then every
body can understand France needs
even greater security.”
He pictured the risk of the recent
rioting disorders, saying:
“I unceasingly repeat that anarchy
will lead to civil war and civil war to
foreign invasion.
He said it was “inadmissible” for
government employes to stage pro
tsets against the pay cut economies.
President Signs Bankhead
Bill for Control of Cotton
(Continued from r*««e On«.»
1921 and 1927 widespread sentiment
was developed for somep lan that
would prevent the recurring accumu
lation of cotton surpluses from drag
ging prices to starvation levels.
"The cotton states have found it
impossible to act independently or in
unison to achieve this ened. They have
asked for the use, of Federal powers.
A democratic government has con
sented.
“The sponsors of the Bankhead bill
say it will not supplant, but will sup
plement and will make even more ef
fective the present adjustment pro
gram. It is the purpose to make cer
toin that the splendid progress already
made is consolidated into enduring
benefits.
"The objective the bill is to place
the cotton industry on o sound finan
cial and economic basis. I hope out
progress already made toward this
objective will be facilitated by this
legislation.”
Doctors Agree To
Slash In Charges
(Continued from Page One.)
Mdical society and members of thq
commission, it was learned today.
With the exception of Mrs. I. H. Man
ning, former dean of the University
of North Carolina Medical School in
Chapel Hill, no wpresident of the
JState Medical Society, the doctors on
the committee found little cause for
complaint and for the most part up-
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held the members of the commissioa
in their handling of fees, x-ray and
hospital bills, it was learned.
Members of the industrial commis
sion also agreed to the plan suggest
ed by Dr. Manning and the committee
which will be submitted to the forth
coming meeting of the medical society
providing for the selection of a sec
ret committee of three doctors, to
meet with the commission and pass
upon all contested bills before they
are finally reduced. If the plan is
approved by the medical society, a
committee of three doctors, whose
names will be kept secret for obvious
reasons, will be appointed, with the
approval of the industrial commis
sion, who will sit with the commis
sion and pass upon all bills held to
be excessive and advise the commis
sion as to the amount of the reduc
tion which they think should be made.
Members of the committee who met
with the members of the commis
sion here this week are Dr. Hubert
Haywood, Raleigh, chairman; Dr. Ad
dison G. Brenizer, Charlotte; Dr.
Charles W. Banner, Greensboro and
Dr. H. B. Ivey, Goldsboro. Dr. Paul
Whitaker, of Kinston, was also a mem
ber of the committee but was unable
to be present. Dr. Manning met with
the committee as an ex-officio mem
ber, since he had appointed it as
president of the state medical society.
When the conference opened, seve
ral members of the committee were
openly antagonistic, it was learned
today. But when they were shown
literally hundrds of bills, submitted by
hundreds of doctors in conformance
with the schedule of fees as fixed sev
eal years ago by a committee from
the State medical society and the com
mission and shown that none of these
bills had been reduced but were paid
as submitted, the , doctors began to
relax in their opposition.
One bill that had been reduced, was
for $32.50 for dressing the thumb of
a workman who had lost part of his
nail in an accident. When a member
of the commission asked Dr. Breni
zer of the committee what’he thought
would be a fair charge for dressing
such an injury, he said that at the
most he would not charge mor et.han
$lO. The commission member then
said that the bill had been reduced
from $32.50 to $22.50. whereupon Dr
Brenizer is said to have remarked
that the doctor who submitted it
“got $12.50 more than he really de
served.” Before the conference was
over the committee was pretty well
convinced that the contentions of the
commission that 90 oer cent of the
doctors are satisfied with the ifee
schedule and submit bills in confor
mity with it, are correct and that only
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MONDAY and TUESDAY
“DAMAGED LIVES”
Adults Only
about 10 per cent of the
mit and try t ocolleet exce- Su,) *
Dr. Mannnig, howevei v .^“ ls
a practicing physician unT'Tl ri ° l
been for years, as a result of T- r ' ot
neetiori with the Universit- ? Cor ‘
school, remained unccu ( “ edlCal
tried to 1 get the members 'ot Vn' &r ‘ a
mission to agree to a levj- %I!1 ‘
feg schedule by anoth.a . ° f . tne
from the medical soda-."?*— 6 ®
commission refused to eoi, tii(i
proposal. Dr. Manning j s 11,15
made it clear that he thou-},' h ? v «
tors should be permitted i 0 doe '
any fees they want to . in( ‘ ailEe
were paid by the insurance' ooT they
In a recent letter to the
he reported to have said that .
natural to want to soak ihe u '
anee companies, and doctors
man.” The commission tried lo V"
him, however, that the com (i) " ,w
trial liability insurance ;<■
medical and hospital costs win ?
on the number ot accident , a „ d
where medical mosts increase T
cost of the insurance to the employe ''
is increased. So in the end ,j„.
ployers rather than the ipsuranc,
companies pay the medical fees
The conference was regarded
very satisfactory and the ] m
is that most of the differences'll
tween the doctors and the onnimissin
have been settled.
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