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— Z Jfcme ym&cnv Frances SHelley Wees CHAPTER I DBYN finished his story. Tail, *-*iean, bronzed, he stood before the big crystal mirror hanging over tiie stone fireplace and examined his chin critically. It was a very nice chin, but Bryn was not in the least concerned with its niceness; iie was trying to determine whether Burch had or had not nicked it in finitesimally. It seemed not. Burch had done his visual perfect job. Tubby, his eyes round and dis tracted, dropped into one of the deep morocco armchairs and stared out at the dusk. It was pouring like smoke across the bay, sifting through the Golden Gate to blot out the sunset. The daily fleet of fishing vessels, their sails a row of tiny dark triangles against the dimming face of the sun, slipped out once more to brave the perils of tiie vasty deep. Below the house the waves lapped idly at the white cliff, gentle and harmless. Tubby was not a philosopher, and he had very little imagination. To Tubby a horse was a horse, usually with four legs and a tail. It was not something over which kingdoms might be lost or with which prin cesses might be rescued. Waves to Tubby were waves, always wet and often chilly. But now, as he stared down through the wide plate glass window, there was a look of posi tive inspiration on his face, as if he were telling himself that these waves, at least, might sometimes wash the shores of China, the far, far. dangerous shores of China; (hat these waves might easily, small and tender though they now appeared, might easily puff and swell and lift themselves to fall with thunder and fury on one of the innocent little vessels drifting now so serenely past the sun. Life was like that. Tubby was convinced. Tubby put his head down into his hands and groaned. "Look here, Bryn,” he said in a woebegone voice, “you can't go through with it. I won't let you. That’s final.” "Tut, tut,” Bryn responded amia bly. Me pressed a bell on the man telpiece. Burch, bland and serene, opened the door noiselessly. “Burch, l am being married this evening.” There was a moment of dead stillness as if even the waves had halted in their irresistible course. Then Burch swallowed, and said nobly, “indeed, sir? Do you wish me to procure a maidservant, sir?” Bryn looked up, startled. “A maid servant? Do we need a maid servant?” , “I was thinking of your wife, sir.” "My wife?” Bryn repeated, his eyes coming sharply to Burch’s face. Then, “Ah . . . no. She will not be coming here.” "Very good, sir. What shall I pack?” Bryn looked down at the gray suit with which. Tubby had insist ed, he was desecrating the evening, lie considered. “Well, shirts and vliings. Nothing else, except those <dd golf trousers I got so much mud on at Tahoe.” "Yes, sir. Nothing else? No guns? No fishing tackle? No golf clubs?” “Nothing. By the way—l am a young engineer out of work be cause of the depression. Anything a young engineer out of work be cause of the depression wouldn’t have, 1 wouldn’t have. I’ve pawned it.” Burch drew a noticeable deep breath. "Very good, sir. Shall you be here to breakfast?” "Certainly.” “And ...” “No, I said she wasn’t coming.” “Ah . . . yes. sir. Lunch?” “No lunch. I shall be leaving im mediately after breakfast, and you needn't prepare dinner until ap proximately a year from tonight. I shall be away during that time.” "Yes, sir. And the orders for Morton?” Bryn swung round from the glass, fie regarded Burch thoughtfully. “That’s so,” he said meditatively. “1 might have forgotten. Tell Mor ton to take a spanner, will you, and remove the paint—not all of it, but large, uneven portions—from the Bellaire. Tell him to take a chisel and give it some nice deep scratches. Tell him to make it look like a car I might have bought for about forty-two dollars and fifty cents from a bankrupt gangster, lie might bash up the fenders, and if anything further occurs to him...” “The Bellaire, sir? The new French motor? The black car?” “All of those tilings,” Bryn said calmly. Tubby stood up. His eyes rested on Burch’s agitated countenance. ■He drew n deep breath. “That’s all,” Bryn said crisply. “Yes, sir,” Burch muttered de spondently, and went out. Tubby was staring at Bryn. “Any body would think yon were in love with the girl,” he said. “Would they? How nice. It sounds so much better. So much more romantic and idyllic. To be in love with one’s bride instead of marrying her for her money.” “Money!” Tubby said bitterly. “Money!” He shook his head mis erably. “You’re making some kind of a damned fool out of yourself. Bryn. You’re letting some gang pull a fast one on you that’s what you’re doing. Do you think for a minute that that girl doesn't know who you are?” “She doesn’t,” Bryn said calmly. Tubby snorted. “That’s a bright remark, isn’t it? Very bright. Now, if I ask you, how in God’s name could anybody on the Pacific coast help having seen your ugly mug in the papers, how could anybody who can read help knowing about James Weldon Shipley Brynildson Third and his speed boats and his ele phant tusks and his seven cars and bis polo ponies?” “I’m sure she can read,” Bryn re plied, unruffled. “The first time I saw her she was reading over a lot of legal documents up in Hol worthy's office.” Tubby eyed him for a long mo ment. Then he said gustily, “Look here, Bryn. Did it ever occur to grsv “Did It Ever Occur to You That Ted Holworthy Might Be Engi neering This Beautiful Mix-up?” you that Ted Holworthy himself might be engineering this beauti ful mix-up? Did it?” “I can’t say that it did.” “All this talking lie’s been doing about her. What did he tell you about her for in the first place? Oh, I know he said it was an interest ing case, but that was just to get you listening.” “Didn’t you think it was an in teresting case, Tubby?” “Well, if it was a case, yes. Cer tainly. Os course. I thought my self it was interesting. But you no tice 1 didn't get all wrought up about it and start hanging around to get a look at the girl, and even if I had I wouldn’t even dream of stepping into a game like this and marrying her myself.” "Neither did I,” Bryn said. “I never dreamed of such a tiling. But I was curious, I’ll admit that. You haven’t any curiosity because you haven’t got any imagination. If you had, you’d have been hanging around, too. Y’ou'd have wanted to look at the man in the case, when he arrived for this wedding to a girl lie’ll never seen, and then when you saw the man you’d certainly have wanted to get a look at the girl, and when you saw tiie girl ...” Bryn paused. Tubby looked at him curiously, but Bryn coughed and went on immediately. “When you saw the girl you would most assuredly have wanted to know how it was all going to come out. She . . . well, she wasn’t bis type, Tub.” "You’re saying just what I’ve been trying to say,” Tubby cried. “Ilolworthy’s been working on your imagination. He knows what you’re like. Well, it’s succeeded. Every thing’s gone according to plan You're roped. Tonight you’re go ing to marry this girl that you’ve only seen three times, a girl you don’t really know a darn tiling about, just because she lias some kind of cock-and-bull story about having to get married before her twenty-first birthday and the man she’s supposed to marry doesn’t happen to take her fancy. Os course he wouldn’t take her fancy with you around. Certainly he wouldn’t, lliats what it's all about, you darn I idiot. You, James Wel,?pff Shipley Brynildson Third. Ye god;? lit | tie fishes, aren’t there enoupHj men on the coast who would marry her for this fifty thousand dollars she's supposed to be paying you, without you stepping into it? It’s so damned absurd. What are you doing it for? Fifty thousand dollars doesn’t mean anything to you! And they’ve got it all worked out so that there'll be plenty of publicity and trouble when you want a divorce . . . you going up into the Oregon back woods to live with her for a year. So romantic! And she’ll turn out to he a cheap little crook, but she’ll be married to you all the same and entitled to a lot of your property when the break comes and your name as well. Doesn’t it sound beautiful?” “Don’t be an ass,” Bryn said com fortably. "I happen to know that this business is on the level, be cause I’ve known about the case for years. I met the old gentle ■ man himself, Deborah’s grandfa ther, when he was here eight years ; ago fixing the will up with Ted’s fa ther. It was just when I was tak . ing over my property and spending 1 a good deal of time In Ilolworthy’s office. Tiie old gentleman was a most interesting old chap, and we had several long conversations. He I was intensely concerned about this will he was making, and. very anx | ious to make sure that he was do ing the right thing. The old man L put the tiling up to me as a hypo . thetical case and asked 4 me what I thought of it. Being a young fool, I thought it sounded fine.” “So now,” Tubby said, eyeing him, “when it doesn’t look as if it , might be so fine, you feel respon sible? Is that it? Is that why , you’re throwing yourself away like , a sack of soft potatoes?” . Bryn sighed. “I do wish you’d I go and change your clothes,” he . said. “You can’t be my best man I in a white tie and tail, not when I’m wearing a lounge suit. We’d probably have another earthquake.” r “And what about Pilar?” “Well, what about her?” “For two years you've carted her around. Everybody thinks you're going to marry her. She’ll go blooey . when she bears this. Have you told , her anything at all?” “How could 1 tell her? I w’asn’t sure myself until two hours ago. And there's no reason why I should. I’ve never asked her to marry me, or even hinted about it.” “Well, I don’t have to tell her, do I?” “That’s a bright idea,” Bryn said happily. “Thanks, old man. I'll do the same for you one of these days. Now, on your way, Tubby. Go and get dressed. Burch will bring you your cocktail, and lend you one of his shirts and a collar. Y’ou can wear my pants if you’re careful not to take a deep breath, but I don’t think you'd better try buttoning the coat. All in keeping . . . she’ll think you got them second hand.” ******* Twenty-three years previously, Anne Whittaker Larned had eloped, on the morning of the day of her wedding to Courtney Graham, and had married a young man, who, had lie been a woman, would nev er have been received in tiie so ciety in which the Larneds moved. Tiie consequences were disastrous. The young man had no money, bin t lie had expected to have a great deal when the Larneds relented and . forgave their only daughter. How ever, lie encountered unexpected ’ difficulties with the daughter her - self; for when she discovered why lie had married her, she crept away from him, her heart as nearly bro : ken as a physical organ can he bro i ken by human unhappiness, and , when her daughter was only a few ■ days old, she died. Fortunately, the young fattier—who never knew that lie was a father —was kicked . in a vital spot by a horse, and died before lie could cause any more . misfortune; thus strengthening the . belief of a number of people in the . vengeance and justice of God. ( The aged and broken grandpar- I ents took their daughter's child and i also the blame for their daughter’s 5 unhappiness. If, they told them- I selves, miserably, they had guard ed her well, she would never have [ met this handsome young seoun : drei, and ail would have been as i they had planned. She would have i married Courtney Graham, scion of f an old and spotless family, and all r her ways would have been ways of > pleasantness and all her paths i would have been paths of peace. [ The Grahams were among the i first people of Boston. Nowhere ■ on their escutcheon could be found i a blot, and even tiie erasure marks I were so carefully done as to leave I no trace. A perfect marriage, it I would have been. But their daugh i ter was dead, and their hitter re t gret was in vain. However, they still liad the child, and over the > mother’s grave they vowed to them ’ selves that nothing should mar this » girl’s life. They dedicated their remaining years to her. It seemed ■ to them that they must creep out . of the world with her, hide her, and find for her a sanctuary. They had sold the historic man . sion in Boston, and with their beau > tiful old household goods, had gone j west as far as they could go, out to r t lie Oregon wilderness. There, in , the most glorious natural surround r ings, they had built a huge stone r house. They were miles from the ! nearest town, and cut off from all t easy contact with civilization. > Here the child, Deborah, grew up, i with only her grandparents and the servants for her companions, in ] the early years, when she was yet THE COOLIDGE EXAMINER a small child, she went infrequent ly with her grandparents over the rough mountain roads to the little country town, or was perhaps al lowed to accompany old Gary, their ■servant, on a marketing expedition; hut as she grew older, and her mother’s beauty began to evidence itself in her, she was kept more and more closely at home. There were quite often guests at the great house when Deborah was a child, but they were grave elderly people like her grandparents, so- that she grew up completely cut off from companions of her own age and generation. She had, however, a library full of books, and three peo ple entirely devoted to her welfare. It must be admitted that of the three, Grandfather, Grandmother and Gary, it was Gary who taught her the most interesting things. Grandfather taught her history, and science, and geography, and politi cal economy. Grandmother taught her needlework, and a number of tilings that made them both blush and over which they skipped as hastily as possible. But Gary— Gary told her stories of people. Y T es, there was Gary. Grandfa ther and Grandmother kept the iron gates leading to- the world locked and barred, but Gary lifted the shut ters of a thousand little windows, magic casements, all of them, open ing on the foam of perilous seas. But no matter how staunchly Grandfather and Grandmother kept tiie iron gates locked against the world, they knew that some day tiiey would have to be opened, even if only to allow themselves to pass through, on their last journeys. For many years the question of Debo rah’s future, when> the iron gates should be opened, gave them anx ious hours of discussion. She would have a fortune greater than her father’s before her, since it had grown through the years. She had no relatives other than her grand parents. Deborah must he com pletely secure. So, when she was thirteen, eight years ago. Grand father had gone away to San Fran cisco on a journey, and when he re turned he liad stopped frowning, and they told her that her future happiness was taken care of. Courtney Graham, less than- a year after the marriage of Debo rah’s mother, had taken unto h*Tn self a wife. For him to do so had been a blow, hut after talking it all over for a number of years, Grandfather and Grandmother had consoled themselves by saying that of course Anne, as far as Courtney knew at the time of his marriage, was happy; that if she liad been dead, Courtney would have devot ed his life to mourning her loss, would have considered himself a widower. No; Courtney had been a perfect New England gentleman and he had done no wrong. He had a son, horn two months after Deborah herself. The boy’s name was Stuart, and now at thir teen he was a tall handsome lad of great promise. His father and grandfather both thought that a second attempt at an alliance be tween the two families might prove I a happy one. So it was understood that if the young people were will ing. they should marry each other when they grew up. (TO BE CONTINUED) Deborah Enters a Great Adventure hc^Lvno^h MOUNTAIN by Frances Shelley Wees OUR NEWEST SERIAL Far up in the mountains of the Pacific Coast, in the old-world atmosphere of a secluded estate, the lovely, unsophisti cated Deborah had been reared. Instead of marrying the fortune-hunting suitor named by her family, she offered another man $50,000 to act as substitute for one year to satisfy the stipulation of a will. Eut he fell in love with herl START READING THIS FINE STORY NOW HOJs^RE l/ouy&m / DR. JAMES W. BARTON T3lU* About Spacing Meal Tiniest IT IS hard to understand how the idea ever started, and still persists, that an in dividual doesn’t weigh any nro-re after than before eating food. Yet the increase in weight after eating ia exactly the amount of the weight of the food. Putting it into the stomach is just the same to the scales as put ting it on the scales themselves. Boxers, jockeys, and others who must keep their weight at a certain figure know exactly what they must eat to attain a certain weight at a certain definite hour. They know also that the amount of liquids must also be measured the same as foods, as water or any other liquid in creases weight. Thus in the case of boxers, where the weight is taken at two o’clock in the afternoon and Dr. Barton | the bout takes place I at 9 o’clock or later, I their first thought is 1 for “a big drink of I water.” This is be | cause they have been I ‘‘drying out” for I weeks. After this I large drink of water, I and eating a big I steak a little later, 1 at file hour of the bout they will be some pounds above die weight taken at two o’clock and will feel much stronger. Boxers are I usually in good health and therefore I the effects of food and liquids will be the same as in any other healthy individuals. . When food is eaten, the body im mediately begins to use it, which really means burning it up to- man ufacture heat and energy. And just as anything that burns gives off ’ wastes —smoke and other sub stances—so the body gives off wastes and sends them to the lungs, 1 to the kidneys, to the skin, and to the lower bowel from which organs they are sent out of the body. Body Weight Adjusted The urine an<i the feces remain in I the bladder and bowel for hours at a time, whereas the breath and the . perspiration are being lost all the time into the surrounding air. [ An interesting experiment is re corded in the American Journal of Physiology. Dr. C. I. Howland re | corded the hourly loss of weight on ( two successive days for ten individ uals following the eating of (a) a light lunch made up of a glass of milk weighing about seven ounces 5 and a ham sandwich weighing 11 5 ounces, and (b) a heavy lunch con ■ sisting of three glasses of milk and ’ three ham sandwiches—2l and 33 1 ounces respectively. In other words 1 the light meal weighed a little over - one pound and the heavy meal a lit * tie over three pounds. ! After the light lunch there was a - progressive increase in the rate at • which the weight was reduced for two hours, then the rate of losing v eight became less, so that by the end of five hours, the rate of weight loss was the same as before the food , was eaten. Digestion was com pleted. After eating the heavy meal there was an increased rate of weight loss for three hours. Five hours after the food was eaten the rate of loss was still nearly 5 per cent above the rate at which the weight is lost when there is no food being digested. The greatest increase in the rate at which weight was lost after eat ing the small meal was 10 per cent, and after eating the heavy meal 23 p cent above the normal or aver age rate with digestion not going on. Thus the body adjusts itself to the amount of food eaten, increasing the rate of weight loss in proportion to the amount of food eaten. The above experiment shows that when a heavy meal is eaten al though the rate of weight loss is greatly increased, nevertheless five hours after a heavy meal is eaten the rate of weight loss is still 5 per cent above the basal rate, that is the rate of decrease when no food is being digested. * • • Understanding the Patient A knowledge of all the sciences in cluded in medicine should naturally be a part of the equipment of the physician but a knowledge of hu man nature, the workings of the pa tient’s mind, his reactions to every day life is just as important if the patient—the individual—is to be treated properly or completely. It has been well said that every patient when he first visits the phy sician is really a mental patient; he is complaining of some symptoms and whether these symptoms are due to any real underlying cause or only exist in his imagination, they must be carefully considered and treated. In other words the physician must know men and women and never forget that he is treating men and women and not just some group of symptoms of which these men and women are complaining. The first consideration of the doc tor is not the symptoms or disease but the patient himself. Disease means not being at ease, and the fact that the patient is not at ease may be as much the fault of the pa tient as of the organism or other c«ndition causing the symptoms. © —WNU Service. Uncommon john blake iPii qp 88 AA O g) Beil Syndicate.—WNU Service. There are few village smithy shops today under the chestnut trees. One reason A Village is that there aren’t Blacksmith any more chestnut trees. Another is that the motor car is rapidly driving horses and vehicles drawn by horses out of business. I used to’ think that in fifty years or more' practically all the village smithies would disappear. But lately I have' fearned better. Here in a little coast town in Maine is a village blacksmith who has more work than' lie can do. though he has probably not shod a horse or repaired an agricul tural implement in twenty years or more. * * # For a time after the “devil wa gons” began crowding horses and horse drawn vehicles off the road, he had little to do. Then one day he saw some or namental grill work that had been sent to his town to be used as an adornment on a new building. He examined it carefully, then went home and thought a little. “There is no reason in the world why I cannot do that kind of work,” he said to himself. “I will do it, by Gosh.” * * * Today the children still “love to see his flaming forge and hear the bellows blow.” Over the anvil on which he used to fashion horse shoes he makes beautiful things of steel and iron. Visitors seeing him at work have come in to inquire if his handi work was on sale. He assured them that it cer tainly was, and that more of the same kind of work would be in evidence as soon as there was a demand for it. He is known today all over the state, and in many other states, whose residents have bought his work. And if he had the advertising gift that some people have he would have a wide reputation. But not, I am sorry to say, a great business. For his work is artistry, and cannot be done in quantity over a single anvil. * * * It cannot be said of him that he is another Benvenuto Cellini. He Urud& ftkll jy, M We've Much +o Watch When we are alone we have our thoughts to watch; in fam ilies our tempers; in society our tongues. is not sufficient to have qual ities. We must make proper use of them. Those who make threats don’t fulfill them any more reliably than those who make promises. A pessimist doesn’t tell a lie, he only sees one in everything. Fault-Finding Is Easy It requires keen vision to de tect a virtue, but most of us can find fault with our eyes shut. Give us a day once in a blue moon when we don't have to make good. When you forgive a friend, do it with a hug or a handclasp. That seals it. They Come to Earth When a hero marries an angel, it is two very ordinary people who set up housekeeping at the end of the honeymoon. Sometimes the only -way to combat a gloom spreader is with laughter. , Be fit for more than the thing you are doing. Love brings flattery to a man’s tongue and flutterings to a wom an’s heart. Show an Interest Indifference looks sophisticated, but people like you better if you’re interested. You are always hearing about the qualifications of a model hus band, but never about the quali fications of a model wife. Rea son enough. All wives are model. Every man like to see how he looks in a beard, but he is so timid about it, he will never find out. It takes three generations to make a gentleman—starting at scratch; but thousands are born so without any preliminar* plan ning. * FOR "<l - THESESKINIUMSHES •.a \ heads Wonderful, thousands say, how the soothing penetration of CUTICURA Soap and Ointment l helps banish ugly skin irritations due to external -*-«/♦ | < eczema causes> Wonderful, how this mildly medicated '*• 11 ( Soap cleanses and soothes—how the Ointment <*.i——relieves and helps heal! Wonderful, you’ll a^pree, / " Sold everywhere. works in iron, not in silver and gold. But he is a master craftsman, which he never might have be come had he not been forced by changing conditions to become something besides the village blacksmith. I saw him at work the other morning on a pair of beautiful andirons. I asked him what they cost. “A lot of time.” he said. “Yes, but how much money?” “Oh, not so much. But the fel low I’m making them for isn’t rich so I wouldn’t like to charge him too much.” And there was proof that he really had the soul of an artist. Smart Household Linens in Color gea Pattern No. 5348 Let us do i. bit of “garden ing.” It’s linens we’re going to beautify, with cotton patch flow ers and flowerpots. This easy applique is sure to enhance a pair of pillow cases, scarf or dainty hand towels. Take colorful scraps, cut them into these sim ple flower forms, and either turn the edges under and sew them down, or finish them in outline stitch. It’s called “Linen-closet Gardening” 1 In pattern 5348 you will find a transfer pattern of two motifs 5% by 15 inches, two motifs 4 3 /i by 15 inches and the patterns for the applique patches; material requirements; color suggestions; illustrations of all stitches needed. To obtain this pattern, send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept., 259 W. Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y. 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