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PAGE FOUR ‘UPAE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1922 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D,, as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN) - - Editor Foreign Representatives = G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO * - - DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK -_ - Fifth Ave, Bldg, MEMBER or. E_ ASSOCIATED RESS The Associated Press is exclusive- ly entitled to the use or republi- cation of all news dispatches cre- dited to it or not, otherwise credit- ed in this paper and also the local news published herein, All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved, MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATI SUBSCRIPTION 1 Daily per year... .$7.20 Dail per year (in Bi IEEER og co ns sabietl a Ook Ses 20 Dail per ‘year’ (in ate outside Bismarck) .... 5.00 Dail 3 Dak ot “THE STA Pa PER (Established 1873) mail, outside of North DESTROYING PLEASURE Oc bathers along the New t crawl sputteringly out} t water, covered with a! Some have to take gaso- | line baths The grease is refuse from oilb ing steamers. In principle, this gives you a very clear picture of the whole sys- tem of civilization, from forest de- struction up. Resigned as most of us are to in-} destruction of natural) and most of the things that make life really worth living, it is} rather a surprise to learn that the of the film of oil. rtment of State will call international conference to make the oc safe for democ- racy. But oil is the future marine fucl, as surely as wind and sail were -before the age of steam, and the department has cut out a real job {oy itself. an Economists now are coming out with the rather startling sugges- tidn that man has become the slave D 1 and steel. With steel and coal as the basi we ,are steadily building up a tem-that is not much different from a penitentiary where the convicts are. “trustees,” allowed to roam outside a few hours a day. The cells | in which we work are comfortable ——but;not any more so, to some of us, than they are uncomfortable. Aré we being mastered by the; raw materials that promised to de- liver us from human slivery? It's; worth thinking about. D Each year the crop of cynics is larger—people who say,’ “Some- times! it seems that life is hardly worth the living.” The: majority of us are develop- jnews from Europe is cluttered up| EDITORIAL REVIEW J 1 sex.- Leadership generally is by, letting the partner have his or her) way in a great many small things, but not in big matters, It all gets back to the old-time} saying that marriage is a system of compromise—‘give and take.” Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The ‘Tribune. They are presented here in order that our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. ROLLO California navel oranges 126 size, | iwholesale in Cleveland at $12.75 a| — E z ibox. At the same time, the price, WHAIS ELE in New York City is $ a box. ANSAS Apparently, the farther eal The country is greatly interested from California, the lower the price, | rete Aan Wai ator wp ee let a ol ie . ‘his, Rollo; | commented Uncle | editor, lecturer and publicist, and George, “proves that transporta-| Governor Henry J. Allen of Kansas, tion is the cause of high cost of liv-| Roth are progressives and popula ing.” a 8 a E WITH jand until this question arose they ;Were warm personal and political __| friends. i is! Jt seems that Kansas, always kirts sweep the Jeading in popular movements, es- The short skirt apparently doomed. ‘Long eastern cit! also the filthy side-/tablished an industrial court with walks. | jurisdiction to settle labor trou- Women, in the change of styles,|bles. William applauded this law, should keep the sidewalk angle inj which was the work of Henry. But mind, A skirt that drags on thejthe law carried a provision that ground collects and carries a thou- during a strike, while it was before saud times more germs than all;the court, no one should express flies and mosquitoes combined. | sympathy with it. No doubt there Women know this, yet long trains|!* 2 provision prohibiting anyone probenly are schonuled Jon a Fe re William, ho is a free Ameri. years hence. The short skirt was) 2 y isa ~ an euecne style, and the pendu- | 4” journalist, has always talked lum will swing to the other ex-|0Ut in meeting, regards this provi- treme. sion as an undue limitation on {freedom of speech and the press, ” ; Which it certainly is. Acting on his opinion, in true Kansas ‘style, | William posted in his office window You have noticed how a lot of the ja placard stating in big letters that | the men had his sympathy and were} 150 per cent right. , | This was a violation of the law, ‘said the attorney general of Kan- as. It thus became the duty of \the governor to prosecute his old friend, He could. show no favor, like that ‘Roman “judgeof: old’ who jordered his santé death, »- But he wavered He ‘besought | William to tke down: his» ‘sign, while William, ‘standing for liberty rof speech, refused toidd's0. So they arrested him: and-then»he took the jplacard down, merely because he jfelt it decorous to'do so pending 72 pey cent as much as in 1913, re-| bis own cases.) He'will contend, as ports the department of agricul-|many other Americans have done ture. Meaning that the farmer's; before him,.that:the law does not buying -power i: a fourth less than|#@pvly, and that if it does, it is in- before the war. | valid 5 - Until the gap is bridged, the cx-| In the meantime, Governor Allen, change of products between farm| With tears of regret, will prosecute and city cannot be normal unless! i dearest friend, because in his the farmer spends more than he|Pinion, the law covers his case makes. To get a perfect balance, farm} prices must rise or city priceo fall | to the ‘farmer’s present level.| Wrich? No one knows. COAL Coal is the most inefficient of the great industries. Seasonal buying | —nct enough miners part of the time, too many miners the rest of| the time. Twice as many mines ‘as are needed, with a 4000-years’ supply underground and easily available, yet’ shortage follows shortage. Profits rarely» are normal, either a feast or a famine. Out of each 2000 pounds of coal mined, only 76 with details about the correspon- dents’ personal difficulties, particu- larly in getting the news. “Today L had an interview,” etc. Bill Nye used to say: “The only people entitled to refer to them- selves as ‘we’ are an editor and a fellow with a tapeworm.” Maybe the foreign correspondents’ use of “1” instead of “we” is a precaution- ary measure against any universal knowledge of Bill Nye. FARMERS The income of the \American farmer in June wag able to buy only tand the law, good or bad, must be | enforced. The question seems_to be: aking from popular discussion so generala question asa strike. It seems absurd to say that 59 mild a declaration as that made by Wil- liam Allen White could be criminal or a contempt of court. \Congress is prohibited by the fed- eral constitution from making any law “abridging the freedom of speech or of the press.” The state constitution of Minnesota says: “The liberty of the press shall re- main inviolate and all persons may freely speak, . write and publish their sentiments .on all subjects.” But these few words are added, ing-a. complex against the age. of pounds are actually converted into machinery. More and moré people| heat energy, the rest is waste. talk about moving bck to the coun- The oil industry was much the try. Not many are going, but they|Same way until John D, ..came are at least thinking about it, and|@long. Coal also needs an organiz- tht shows a definite trend. A sub-|iNg genius. He will come, copscious spark of resentment is FIRE OTRO Ee ‘being nursed into what might easily TELEPATHY become a destructive flame. The next startling news from the You sec this reaction in the glee| Scientific world will come clicking with which city folks rush to the}over the telegraph .wires one of woods with a shout when they get| these days, to the effect that “im- vacations—the furloughs from’ civ-| portant discoveries have been made iligation’s jail. in broadcasting human thought.” History moves in 500-year cycles. Many scientists are toiling ‘in We are living in the one that began|their laboratories now, on this with the discovery of America in|problem. If you doubt that mental 1492. It burns hotly as it nears its| telepathy is possible, how.do you finish,y with “efficiency experts”| explain letters that, cross in the making life more and more me- mails and the flash-coincidences chanical and jail-like, destroying] When people say, “You took the beauty and most of the fine} Words out of my mouth”? f life. Every good ‘salesman, every ex- The really high standard of liv-| Pett psychologist, is an embryonic ing involves something. more than | mind-reader. 4 the production of a flood of funda- Srp ose mentally useless commodities —| * WIZARDRY with human freedom as its price. Nicola’ Tesla, greatest electrical Would you rather be back in the| Wizard, predicts that people oven- wilderness, with a small garden, tually will be able to'seé' enormous fragrant fresh air and health, game | distances by radio. He refers. to in the woods, a fishing pool nearby | that coming science as “telewsion.” —and plenty of leisure time to en-| Tesla and others ‘are .working joy life? night and day to ‘perfect a ‘device : for transmitting electrical power by wireless. With power sent wy FARMERS Are the farmers soon going to be organized as strongly as union la- bor in. the cities? The possibility! is suggested’ by the American Farm Bureau Fedetation’s report that its membership now exceeds a million and a quarter farmer While this organization does not} world’s machinery. Qperate like a labor union, it re-| This is a great though uncanny ¥ceals the farmers’ ability to get to-|age to be living in. We may be on gether when they want to. the threshold of the supernatural. It also raises the very interest- 5: ing question. What would happen if the farmers one of these days| locked their tools in their barns | deannounced that they \ had | Started a national strike for shorter hours and more pay? plane or ocean ship could travel without carrying a stock of gaso- line, coal or other fuel. Coal will be burned at the mines, generating artificial lightning that will be broadcasted to run the UNFORTUNATE over a washtub, earning a- living for four children, ‘In Canada, her husband is supporting two more children. ‘ This family is kept separated -by complicated technicalities of the immigration laws of the two coun- tries. It is a pathetic situation. Many will grumble at “official stupidity.” The governments’ side of the case is that immigration laws have to be enforced. Too’ bad, government is so futile at enforcing some of the other laws with equal stern- ness. ' NEW Patrick J. Ryan and other New offer interesting argu- ments against installing a moving sidewalk to take the place of the station between Times and Grand Central station, It will interest many to learn that the long-predicted moving sidewalk finally is being contem- plated by the world’s largest city. through the’ air, your auto, air-} In Spokane,. Mrs. Romilly toils; “being responsible for the abuse of such right.” Surely White didnot jexceed his right or e” them: The constitutionvof , a3 carries @ provision similar to our own. Americans instinctively are in sym- pathy with the editor. He is up- holding liberty—Duluth Herald. ’ POET'S CORNER | | + “JUNE | Dancing over hill and plain, To a merry tune, Strewing roses all the way, Comes the happy June; Fair as e’er a maid can be, Fit to wed a price is she, Full of love and sympathy, As a honey-moon, Cupid standing by the brook, Sees.the maiden go, Slyly takes an arrow out, Fits it to his bow; Twang: the arrow’s on its way, Hits the lovely little fay, There will be a wedding day, Just when, [idon’t know, +11, 4s Bia 1 i| TODAY'S WORD: |. | Today's word’ is-ECBEMA. It’s pronounced — ck-ze-ma, with accent on the, first syllable. To | place the emphasis on the “second | syitablé, «says''a “high “authority, | “though common, is contrary tothe ; Latin: accentuation. if yeti lind | It means—an inflammatory disease | of the skin, characterized by redness | and itching, by pimples, scales or crusts, and by a watery discharge. It is of New Latin origin, but came originally from two Greek words, meaning “out” and “to boil” It's used like this—“Eczema is a persistent,stroublesome and disfigur- | ing complaint which can hardly, | however be classified as: dangerous.” \ fe 4 '| ATHOUGHT | | 7 aa | Let another man praise thee, and. | not thine own mouth; a stranger, ! | and not thine own lips.—Proverbs | 27:2. | There is nothing lighter than vain praise—William Drummond. Every city always is at least five = yea ‘behind its transportation needs. Cities get to a certain point of growth, then street cars or uSubway trains are insufficient, itit6uth they run so closely together ‘asyalmost to form an endless train. 2. Andjess.sidewalks, provided with ats. and moving fast, may be- me :common in our generation. POSSIBLE Scientists. predict radio movies. The next step after that may be wireless newspapers, Our descendants, instead of read- ing type to get the news, may have wireless apparatuses that will re- produce movie films and phono- graphic records of the day's leading events. Sitting at home with your radio and seeing a prize-fight as HAREMS chmed Abdullah, fiction writer, k from the Orient, says the fharems’ queens boss their co-opera- t¥va husbands more than Friend Husband is reputed to toe the mark an America, Some women always become the | tors. powé® behind the throne, regard-|perhaps, but no more ‘so than a les3 of environment. The stronger | modern «newspaper would the gong and the spectators’ cheers, would “haveit all over” reading a modern newspaper extra. The great newspaper men of the future will be the wireless opera-j This seems impossible now, + - 7 | Unusual Folk | $—_-—___________—_-+ | By NFA Service. Wichita, Kas., Aug, 1—Though he! lost his vision three years ago, Prof. | Arthur J. Hoare of Fairmount. col- lege, Wichita, continues one of the | country’s foremost instructors in mathematics. | Prof. Hoare’s favorite pupils are fast as it took place, and hearing | school teachers, far advanced in their | studies. Younger people, who require | discipline, he cannot manage, since | his infirmity makes it impossible for | him to be a discipliaarian, | The professor cannot see the fir- ures he draws upon the board, but che draws them unerringly, and he have! points them out, as he explains a foristhe wiser personality usually }seemed to the Chinese who invent- problem, from memory, as to where rules in marriage, no matter which jed printing thousands of years ago. he put them. i sand: ;77Florence Borner. *|— Tom vere | Sims. isn’t quiet along the Potomac. Future Irish the present written on asbestos. Men's fall suits are termed “sober.” No hip pockets, maybe. If we get out of life what we put into it some will get out quick. The girl who thinks kisstng is dan- gerous read it in a book. Lots of people travel first class who evidently are not. Voliva says, “If my wife ran for office I would'run for the lake,” and we hope she runs. We know a case of nerves that ‘isn't a thing but a case of nerve. Two can’t sce a’ picture show as cheaply as one, Ignorance is not bliss in the eyes of the law. No one ever became a star. by staying out at night. Paris dancer left the stage because of stage fright. We know a man who married a stage fright. Prinee,of Wales is a social Hon. Every social lion meets a tamer. Maybe these golfers are training for the railroad strike. After being in America 75 years an alien has become a citizen, ‘Ie thinks he will like the place. The average man wants a 1923 ‘model auto and a 1900 model wife. “Bootleg Queen Slain’—headline. It seems the king crowned her. It is about time for something worse to take the place of jazz. Be sure your circle Health hint: of friends is sq' Dad estimates the strikes enough to send a son to college. cost Tell your wife the truth and let her suspect where you haven't been. New York washerwoman sues, for $10,000 wash money. The bill must have run two week Girl has man arrested for kissing her while driving his car. We claim She helped’ in the crime. “Boccaccio’s Bones Found”--whead- line. Who would have thought a great writer shot dice? { H Gonghess gets a [6t of cussing the belongs ‘to this..hot weather. 4 | THE TWINS | By Oiive Barton Roberts Mr. Waggletail Duckbill was out for a walk. He stopped every now and then to gobble up something to eat. Then he would go on again, very happy. He even hummed a little tune: . “A frog he would a-wooing go Whether his Mammy would him or no, Hi umpty larum a diddle oh!” let He stopped and ate a beetle. Then he went on and sang his song all over again. “A frog he would a-wooing go,” gn on. .} is time he stopped and ate a mosquito, He hummed another _ line stopped to eat a white grub. He'd eaten a fuzzy worm, a bee, a rain-toad and a grasshopper when he spied a lovely white creature with a long neck away out on Lily Pond. It swam’ gracefully about, spreading its wings and folding them again proudly. “Hm said Mr.’ Duckbill, looking awhile wnd,then gazing thoughtfully at his own reflection in the water. “[ wonder why I have such a short neck, and no wings to speak of!” Then he went on with his walk and his song. By and by he saw a pony in a field waving his fine long tail about ‘to chase the flies away. “H'm!” said Mr. Duckbill © again. “What a fine tail! I wonder why I have such a nubby one!” * He went on’ with his walk again, and his song. and “Goodness! What a fine pair of, legs that bird has! That must be Mr. Crane. 1 wonder /why I have such ugly, short legs!” This time he went on with his walk, but not his song. “How do you do this fine morn- ing?” said Dr. Snuffles, passing by. “Rotten!” grumbled Mr. Duckbill. “I'm going home gnd go to bed!” Jealosy, my dears, is the worst disease there is. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service) A HINT. summer vacation, remember cut on. straighter lines, a professional. NOTICE _ be boiled. C. E. Stackhouse, Sinde gold was found there, all histories will have Hitty. Mr. Duckbill was feeling fine andj If you are buying clothes for your that those with elaborate drapings do not pack nearly so satisfactorily as those | oom. You can easily press the latter, but often the City drinking water should | THE PROBLEMS OF LOCOMOTION (Continued from our last issue.) “Good! Take a train around seven tonight and I’ll phone when your cue comes.” Miles attended to the check and they rose. It wag almost dinner time when he reached Brooklea but instead of returning at once to the Ijrakes’ he paid a call at a neat, old-fashioned cottage nearey the village. Carter and Pierre’ were hurrying about the kitchen busied with the serving of dinner and as he pasged the ‘servants’ dining room Scottie beckoned imperiously, but ° Miles waved an emphati¢é dissent and huttied up the back stairs. At the first landing he came upon “Mr. Roger’s condition hasn't changed since last night?” “No, an’ I don’t know's it'll be any harm if I do leave him.” She shiv- ered. “I'll be right back before the fam’ly leave the table.” She scuttled down stairs and Miles softly entered the sick room and took the chair heside the bed. ‘He leaned over and spoke gently: “Mr, Drake! You can hear me?” The eye which had turned eager- ly toward him at his first word closed swiftly, gratefully and then opened wide. A “IT meant what I said yesterday. ~Wabol Ostrander ©1922 NEA Service, Inc. : SAY BILL = Dye FAINK AIRPLANES, WILL EVER BE MADE ABSOLUIELY SAFE traveling case and slip out and joip him. He will keep: in touch with me and when you come back in a few days it will be to find that all the trouble has pissed.” She held both her hands out to him impulsively.- “Oh! I have elways had faith in you even when [ was living a night- mare. You have found the terrible! old woman who tried to have me abducted and the man with the tat- tooed arm?” he “He will never cross your. path again,” Miles replied’ evasively. “One thing~ more; not only was your own sanity never in question, but that of your people also.” ii was midnight when Miles and; Scottie equipped with shovels set to work with a Will and soon had a hole waist deep where the floor of, the summer house “had been. “I've struck something, lad,” Scottie announced in an uncon-, sciously lowered voice. Mile; leaped down into the ex- eovation heside him and felt about with his hands, “Machinery!” Scottie exclaimed. “Rusted and broken as. though it had: been crushed with a sledge hammer!” “Our friends hoped it would be in The past is buried and must not be resurrected, but there is one who must be silenced, the one whose name you tried to tell your brother yesterday. I kncw—I guessed—but I must have your, assurance that I am right. The ‘man’ you feagsthe ‘man who can bring ruin and worse upon you all—is this he?” Bending more closely over the There was a. pregnant pause while Roger Drake's eye seemed to dilate. Then unwaveringly,: inex; orably, the lids closed. CHAPTER XVII. “Man, but I’ve news for you!” Scottie exclaimed when Miles came down stairs. “Dick Kemp has found. what's been under, our very noses. Do you mind when Rip told ug of meeting two men in the gar- den? . Last night they came again and Dick frightened them away ‘but not before he'd discovered the Ispot' they were after. We'll beat them to it tonight but how we're to get rid of the lad—!” “Y’ll find a way,” Miles responded briefly. “Its only the last link in the, chain, anyway, but it will be best for him and his little bride to ‘be far from this house later to- night, ' « “When young Dick meets you tell him to pack his grip and wait with his runabout in the back road till Patricia joins him.” Miles was passing through the hall when Andrew Drake emerged from the library fuming with ex- asperation. jl “Confound that — pettyfogging Wells!” he explained to. Miss Drake. “He's coming down on the jten o’clock train tonight and in- sists that I meet him at the station. !_wants a private talk.” “Sh-h!” Miss Drake warned and “J heard!” she whispered. day? ‘When is all this dreadful suspense going to end?” lady,” the detective replied. tonight. prostrate form he breathed a name. , | vanished up the stairs, Andrew grumblingly following. As Miles turned Patricia ‘ap- peared in the door of the music “Oh, . z Sergeant, why is Mr. Wells com- draped onés require the services of |ing and where have you been all |-:“Tonight, for you, my dear young “i want you to go away again now Mr. Kemp will be waiting y - for you on the back road in his car City Health Officer. « \-# an hour and you must take your better condition, I think,” Miles re- sponded. Canyou guess what it is?” “Tis not a wee printing press, though I own I’ve had that in mind, slowly.’ “If I had a chance to try) to assemble it, now—!” “You're close enough to the truth, old man.” Miles wedged down the lid once more and began. heap-| ing the loose dirt back upon it. Put the boards back over the hole} ag Well as’ you can and follow me!” Scottie obeyed and the two walked to the road where a machine had halted. With its three grimly businesslike occupants the briefest | of greeting were exchanged. “You understand, boys, that | you’re on a confidential case, and} Scottie is here just by accident?” ) Miles spoke with authority ‘but! there was’ a note of uncontrollable | elation in his tones. | “Sure, we understand all right,| Sergeant,” the burlier of the trio} replied with immense _ respect.| We're all set and waiting for or-) ders.” ‘All. right, Farrell, you and Marks come with me. I’m going to post you-indoors and then get one| of the neighbors to join us whom} I shall want a9 @ witness,’ Scottie, | jump ‘in and, let Barker ‘drive you down to the Mansion House where/| I want you to. send word up to a Mrs. Higgins that 'you’ve come to bring her back here. While she is} getting ready, call up 130 Brooklea and ‘insist on speaking to the lady of the house; she, too, will be pre- pared for your call, Tell her Miss! Drake is ill and has sent for her. She will use a conveyance of her | own to reach here, but Mrs. Hig-} gins will return with you and) Barker, and see that you make it} snappy.” CHAPTER XVIII. John Wells was still fully dressed when Miles knocked upon the door of the guest room. After a brief colloquy he descended to the library where he found Enslee ‘horrified eyes to the face of her |able hour at which to have dis- |turbed you but you are our poor Roger’s closest friend.” 4. “‘sad!’’ Grayle returned, “Roger “* is—!” “His seizure has not yet taken a fatal turn,"but it is well to ‘be pre- pared) But here come the others,” “What is the meaning of this Hobart attired in a robe and slip- |pers appeared in the doorway. “Grayle, you here!” | “Hello, Grayle!” Andrews voice sounded from behind his ‘brother. “william told me you wanted me. What’s up now?” “I do want you, Andrew, and you, too, Hobart.” The attorney’s tones, were low. “If you will wait until your sister joins us—?” “Patricia!” The cry came from the stairs and Miss Drake tottered | into the room and fell into the {nearest chair. “She is gone again! Why is Mr. Grayle here and what |have you to tell us, Mr. Wells?’ | “Very little, Your new servant, | William, is here to explain the situ-, ation.” Miles had entered quictly and Andrew turned with a snarl. “William, eh?” He added’ an oath. “Who the —— are you, any- way?” “A special agent employed by @ member of this family to protect their interests, sir,” Miles replied, still respectfully. “you, John?” Hobart took a step a forward. “By gad, you've gone too far!” | “It is the end!” Jerusha Drake bowed her proud head and buried her face in her hands. “I suppose that lunatic upstairs ‘went to you and you saw a chance of making a fat fee out of us, you— muck-raker!” Andrew advanced threateningly upon the attorney. Patricia Drake, who is safe and in good hands,” Wells responded. “I am co-guardian with her father. As for my ‘cheap private detective,’ Sergeant Owen Miles from Police Headquarterg will speak for him- self!” “Really, I feel that I am de, trop —!” Grayle rose slowly from his chair, . “No, you don’t!” for him. “Can’t you see it’s a plant?—That we a done for? You'll take your medicine the same as me—!” “Are you mad?” The spare, white-haired figure threw him off with unexpected strength, and turned in offended dignity to Ho- bart, “Mr. Drake, your brother— iS “He is not hig brother!” A nasal, feminine voice wrung with anguish startled them all as Ora Hawks slipped through the opened French window from the veranda and pointed an accusing finger. “That man is not Andrew Drake!” At the same moment Maizie Gray, flambuoyant even in crisp new widow’s weeds, entered the door with Scottie and the impassive Barker behind her. “Not—not Andrew!” Miss Drake, , soemed oblivious to the arrival of the trio as she lifted astounded and Andrew leaped old friend. “Andrew Drake died in Australia three years ago,” Miles said grave- ly. “This lady will be able to in- form you Qf the identity of the im- poster. He indicated Maizie, but drew herself up with a laugh. “‘Im? I never laid eyes on ‘im until last week, but I can tell you sf right enough 'oo that w'ite-’aired olu cove is! ’E’s Ben Gray, my lawfully wedded ‘usband, as left me and the Salisbury Repertory Company in Victoria two years ago!” The erstwhile naturalist sprang for the door, but Miles, recovering himself, called sharply: she “Farrell! Marks! Here are your men!” 4 Gray struck out blindly, but Marks seized him in an iron grip and Scottie tore off the white wig, disclosing the sleek, close-cropped black hair which more naturally accorded with the culprit’s bright, “AW TG rouR SOS: NA CATL ¥ Ne Bot NOT 30 GOOD THAT ‘vou © G9OD WHEN Xou - Ger Back M il / ! ENQUy SPENCER, TLE COOK . ACTER “THe Dec NTS WwHILe HAVE "A GooD JPencer! OH, SPENCER! AS 1 TOLD Kou, HAVE A GOOD Time Grayle. “My dear sir!” He extended a dark eyes and stalwart, athletic ¥ frame. 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