The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 3, 1924, Page 2

THE BISMARCK TRIBUN Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, ‘N. ‘D., as Second Class Matter. SISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY Publishers CHICAGO Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK Fifth Ave, Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED. PRESS The Associated Press is exlusively entitled to the use or ‘epublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not )»therwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- ished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are iso reserved. ___ MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION * "SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAY ABLE IN ADVANCE Jaily by carrier, per year. ati $7. oo Daily by mail, per year (in B: marek) % Ti Jaily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) . Boe Jaily by mail, outside of North Dakota. . 6.00 DETROIT Kresge Bldg. THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) ADVENTURE LIES OUT YONDER A movie craze is sweeping the Far North. Picture thea- ers in Alaska are doing record-breaking business. Audi- nees up there are not keen for snow country pictures show- ng hardships and struggles with nature. They get too auch of that in daily life. The Alaskans prefer warm trop- al scenes and ballroom and other spectacles portraying omfort and ease. Here in civ tion, life is “soft.” We have, as every: ay comforts, many services and conveniences that would be lassed as luxuries in the Far North. The natural reaction + that we flock to pictures portraying hardships of the cold orth or the burning desert. In a life of hardships, people yearn for comforts. In a te of comforts, they are entranced by hardships. On a hown-down, few would actually trade places with the other tind of life. The lure of the distant is as strong as when the early xplorers sailed daringly into unknown seas. Romance and dventure are scarce, so We associate them with the places ar away. No matter how attractive things may be, most olks imagine better things lie on the other side of the hill. Climbing to the top of the mountain, they look down into valley much the same as the one they’ve just left. On. hen, across other mountains. The same spirit makes the radio bug more interested in ong distance reception than in actual radio concerts. Man’s restlessness and dissatisfaction, his craving to venture into the unknown — these are the forces that have wrought all progress, that have evolved the cave-dwelling »xrute into the comparatively high type of mentality of mod-}, rn times. ° Contentment breeds stagnation. Dissatisfaction generates progress. Curiosity leads to new discoveries. Accordingly, the fact that so many Americans are dis- uened is a certain indication that rapid progress lies head \ MILLIONAIRE > The wealthiest man in South America, Senor Garcia \lvarez, was invited to a banquet in London, England. He vent. On his steamer he carried his own livestock and poultry, o he could be sure of fresh milk and meat and eggs. He ‘eturned to Buenos Ayres the next morning after the ban- (uet. His trip, for the banquet event, cost him $50,000. A thousand and one different “morals” can be drawn rom this. Take your pick. If your liver is functioning harmoniously, you merely vy Senor Alvarez and wish you could do the same. Nero, Yaligula and Cleopatra were pike’ HIRED TO COMMIT CRIMES Confessing in court, a New York gangster nonchalantly ells how he hired himself out at $50 a week to set fire to enements. He says he got a bonus of $40 for one job — ring a building in which 250 people slept. The really remarkable thing about a case like this, how- ver, is its That is true of all major criminal opera- ions. The criminal is the exception, and that’s why he gets ublicity. A discouraged public, for instance, gives so much | hought to the 12,000 Americans who commit murder in a ear that it ee the more than 108 millions who don’t. METHANOL “Wood alcohol is queer stuff. A good drink of wood cohol will kill two men out of five, say; two more will go ‘tone-blind; and the fifth won't be any worse off than if he’d een drunk on bad whisky.” So writes Dr. Ernest M. Poate. Wood alcohol, like all deadly poisons, is mysterious. It’s characteristic of some poisons that certain few people are nmunized by nature. The reader will observe that Dr. ‘oate says the average drinker of wood alcohol has only ne chance in five of not being blinded or killed outright. t SAVING OF COAL The new-electricity generator at Niagara Falls—70,000 orsepower—does work that otherwise would require 700,- 00 tons of coal a year. Multiply this by 10 and you have the coal saved by all ower plants at Niagara. \ The force of falling water, nick-named “white coal,” is ‘estined to play a tremendously important role in America’s siture. There’s a strong tendency to allow private interests 9 get possession of water power. This tendency is danger- ,us and foolish. 14 : ‘ WEATHER Ail $f us are eternally growling about the weather. But = we don’t like it, we can move. Nature is a magnificent amt —— ready to provide any kind of accommodations vanteds. _ Proféssor Barnes of McGill University in Montreal re- ts that in-Greenland the snow is nearly two miles deep a places. : exceptionally interesting, scientifically. But most Lf us are interested mainly because we're not living there; nd have to shovel. x . “Five you any engagement in sight? » Coolidge asked _ Wonder if-he' wants to hire Jack? j business if we choose to give | what? EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments ée atl ced in this column may 9} 7, not oi the opjnion of "rhe rib ‘4 ate p@rcnted here in order that have both otass. of impogant in being ibe aca the day, STRIKING A BLOW FOR OUR | MERCHANT MARINE At last the shipping board has taken an action which is essential | to the suécess of the Ameri merchant marine, which in turn essential to the promotion of our foreign trade and to our naval de- fense. The board has asked the inter- state commerge commission to en- force that section of the merchant marine act of 1920 which provides that American railroads — shall make through exports rates in con- | junction with American steamship | lines-end shall refuse to make such rates with foreign steamship com- panies, Under the law, this preferential for American ship ‘ory except when sufficient | American vessels are not avail- | able. The shipping board now | feels *that American ships are ivailable in sufficient numbers to re for the export needs of Amer- railroads. ordingly the | y ig being revoked. | e may expect to hear vigorous objection that such preferential treatment is unfair tq foreign ship- | meaning the ship- | ping intetests-- ping interests of Great Britain, who dominates the sea and firmly | intends to continue to «iominate it. In answer it may be pointed out | pleasantly that Great Britain ‘has | never hesitated tu rt of | preferential treatment | for the growth and protection gt her merchant marine. Our merchant marine is an es- | sential industry, and it is our own |, it preferential treatment, just as it | is our own business if we choose to give preferential treatment to | American manufacturers of steel or tex! by means of a ta THE BISMARCK. TRIBUNE walcn OUT Fer THAT BIRO —HE SWANGS A WICKED Vole wall or other aid. It is our | own business; just as it is Brit- ian’s own business if she choose to nourish and cherish her mer thant marine in every practicable ; and that is exactly what Great Britain is doing. British insurance companies | make discriminations 13 against American vessels. British | whers, aided by tbe Britisn nment, contract with ship- at certain ports to carry their entire products, and refuse to per- mit the shippers to put any part of their products in American ves-} ‘ A British governmental sub- is now permitting the con- fleet of large motor at Belfast. plain fact is that. Britain everything necessary to help! own ships, and when she says] n't she is just about as plau- q Doheny is when he says, “IT tell you there is no oil scan- dal.” Germany was once in the situa- tion in which America now finds herself. Germany wanted to build up a merchant marine. According- ly she established a em of| preferential railroad rates. And that system helped immensely to establish the German merchant marine. One other objection remains. Some Americans may ask (and in| asking it they are unconsciously repeating British propaganda), “What good ig a merchant ma- rine?” The answer ig threefold. First, a merchant marine will give Amer- ica a large part of the world’s carrying ‘business. Britain has that business now. It is her lead- ing business. It has done her good. It will do us good to have a large carrying ‘business, just as it haa done us good to build up our steal industry. It will mean that we have added one more industry to the. list of America’s economic asgets. Second, a merchant marine wii} promote our foreign trade. Britisn propagandists stoutly Qeny this; but Germany’s merchant marine built up her foreign trade, anid pain hag officially admitted this fact. Third, a merchant marine is necessary for our naval defense. The Ni is a complicated machine which few citizens understand. Anybody who has gone.on one voy- | age ona battleship knows that there) is not a doubt in the world thy supply ships, colliers, aireratt qa”. riers and other auxiliary ships are | vitally necessary. Without them, our battleships could do nothing in time of war except, patrol our coasts. And the only practicable | way to get these auxiliary ships is ' to draw them from our merchant marine in time of war. And if we have no merchant marine ~ then It has been prediced freely by well informed residents that if the | old conditions were allowed to con- tinue a few more years would see the textinetion of the Tahitian race, a fate which already has overtaken ¢ aboriginal inhabitants rquesas archipelago. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON “Now then,” said the Beanstalk Mouse to Nancy and Nick when he had carried them safely out of the dark drain, “we e in the gardener’s cellar where it js nice and dry. And now I shall show you the funny round dish the gardener has been kind enough to set out for me. “What is it like?” asked . “[t's round and has holes in the sides, also some very shiny whirli- gigs with bits of cheese hung on them, all ready for me to dine on. T do think the gardener is a grand man to be so kind! But come pn. I'll show it to you. It's right over here under the steps. And you must be my guests and have pot-luck with me, There is plenty of cheese for ~The Twins were not so anxious to share Mister Mouse's meal as they were to see the wonderful dish he spoke of. What kind of a dish could it be that had holes and whirligigs in it? But Nick said he was sure they would both be much obliged to stay and everything, and after that all three 9f them went over to the dark piace under the stairs “There!” declared the Berustalk Mouse with a wave of his long tail. “There is the dish right there in the corner, And do you smeil the cheese? Really it smells so delicious it al- most makes me want to snecze.” “Why!” gasped Nancy the minute she set eyes on it. “That’s a mouse-| trap, Mister Mouse!” “A what?” shrieked the backing away ip a hurry. you say?” “A. mousetrap,” repeated Nick. “Those whirligigs are springs, and if The nd sh mouse, caught, “Are you sure?” mouse doubtfully. “I'll show you,” ia Nick. the trap is so hig and I’m so little, I’m not quite sure I can work it.” No wonder Nick had his doubts, my exclaimed. the as hig as a pony and the mouse-tsup} was as large as a—oh, about as lurge as a garage. Nick picked up a big piece of wood and reached into one of the holes on the side of the teap, Scaicely had the stick touched the cheese, when bang! The trap went off like » eannor, <urning completely over and knocking the Twins off their feet, “Dear, dear! Ate you hurt?” squested the Reanstalk Mouse resh- Tng up. But Nancy and Nick jumped ‘ight up, as spry as crickets. “We're alf right, Mister Mouse,” they laughed. “Don’t worry.” “Oh, I’m $0 much obliged!” pant- ed the mouse gratefully, “Just think what would have happened if it had | bzen me instead.” “You saved our lives, and we are ‘glad to do the same for you,” suid Nancy, “But remember, you mustn't get too greedy or you may get into trouble yet.” “What's all this I hear down here?” said a great. voico just then, and the dgor into thé cellar opened and the wardonéz looked in. “I thought .L} i rl Just hove We need or Navy.! We need a merchant marine to aid that, Navy. We tfeed a merchant marine be- cause we need a carrying business. We need a merchant marine to promote our foreign trade. And to get that merchant marine. we should give our ships prefere: tial treatment on ‘American rail- rods. We ‘have a right to do ft, and we should not let any ‘threats of British retaljation frighten. us out of exercising that right. The ‘interstate commerce com- mission showd speedily int the shipping td’s request.—Chicago Journal of Cémmerce. Fight Disease T6°" | Save Aborigines | Papeete, Tabiti, ph hare —A de- termined effort is being made by the authorities to clean-up Papecte and. to stamp. out-.certein diseases which long have beep* prevalens- in Tahiti. For many yegrs Papeete,.on ac- count, of ite shsguitgry Atates. has been the breeding ground.o° maladies a jook at that trap.’ But when ‘he got there not’ a thing was to be seen but the overturned’ bar Nancy and Nick had skipped off. ‘And as for:the Beanstalk Mou he had. écurried down a hole, long’ the. score shows the . ade * boy eH Maxim says the Volstead Act prohibits ted- and |=" “ ~ How 1 nice to learn ait prohibits something. ee f which have spread to all the islands of te.colony: The death*rate both in) the. town. and . the: outlying is- eal srg this cause has: been very al Loa eet A the. co BRIGHT SPORT suit ive population, whose/ An unusually attractiy, ~ membots kere. lites to ei Fa a tame of - white woet:batided in European omit fachigay, el Bie ogs ‘and brown. tail and ae ae (Copyright “1044, NEA. Servic, Inc.) simatic melita ect at | “What did! you touched any of them, you'd be} “Only} dears, for the Beanstalk Mouse was) Jo BRIGHT SIDE FOUND AFTER SEARCH It’s an all wind that blows no good, | Even the wind used in Congressional igations may prove beneficial. s have always been plumpness. But if they keep stewing around in Washington the presidential backers be skin- ny men $600 REWARD n Dobb's reward for Tom Sims is increased to $600, provided we can newspaper for that amount. ms may have done a lot of ife, but the mean- est he ever did sell Dan Dobb this newspaper. D. Dobb. EDITORIAL Perhaps the entire American navy could cope with the rum runners, but it would bea hard battle. These rum runners have cheated Scotland oué of $1,260,000 worth of booze. Men who can put anything over on the Scotch can get away with almost anything. SAFETY NEWS Sinclair, of Teapot Dome fame, started in the oil business with money he collected from an accident to his big toc, according to reports. Now he has put his foot in it, but will collect no money this time. The moral is: Avoid accidents, SOCIETY Four New York girls who drank iodine were ‘saved. They could have claimed they thought it was restau- rant coffee, but they m were heart broken. Iodine is no cure for a broken heart. The real remedy, ix to get busy and steal a brand-new one. _ FAMOUS NEWS Roosevelt, Ford, Edison and Wright are the four greatest men of this century, says a college president who LETTER FROM JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT TO SYDNEY CARTON, CONTINUED « Ruth Ellington met me in her lit- private office, Syd,‘and I want to tell you that woman is one of the cleverest I have ever seen—and as hard as. nails. She told me Leslie was convinced that little Jack was your child, and wanted to kpew'if I had told this. toj Leslie. She asked it in such a man- ner that I knew the truth., Conse quently, I told her the whole thing and explained that I had never as far as I knew even intimated you were the father of little Jack. I must have been a pretty abject. person, for her only comment after listening to me for about 15 minutes was, “Men sometimes must @ay~the piper; thank God.” Before she’ began to lay plans to keep Leslie from being unhappy, she informed me she would not stir a | finger if it were. not for my wife. “You have been particularly nasty to me, Jack.’ You have arrogated to yourself the right to do anything' you pleasg and make no explanations to Leslie, and you insisted that she not only ‘should tell you her reasons for doing things but should abide by your decision in the: matter. “You have insulted me by telling me you thought I had , practically | stolen the’ money that ¥gu found me putting in Leslic’s wall safe, and you have added injury. to insult by. taking thet money away from. Leslie. and keeping it, thus overturning some very important ‘plans of mine for its disposal. “At. that,” she continued, perhaps you are a bigger fool than | you are *a_ villain. lost. aflen a You haye tried. to “carry things wit ei very, high hand, Jack, but you} couldn't do it. Now that bi bias (3 ina tight’ place you come, as men always do, to a. woman to be helped ‘out of it, “T think |@ ‘tiTLL WIND IS BLOWING GOOD may be trying to make Jack Dempsey, Rodolph ond Brign mad, RADIO NEWS A new device makes heartbeats dudible at a distance of many fect. But this has been done for years simply by asking a man, “Does your wife know you are here tonight?” cussfNG News Petroleum is another name for oil but it is being called many new names in Washington now. SEA NEWS A new hole has been found it the Atlantic, no telling how deep. Some senators should go to the bottom of this at once. < WEATHER If cussing the weather made us fat there would be no skinny men. FASHIONS Many a fur coat has some unpaid bills in the pocket. SPORTS The Pittsburg Pirates have signed a pitcher named Yde, who sounds just like a few letters grabbed out of the alphabet at random. If his fast ball hard to hit as his name is to pronounce he will be a,winner. FINANCIAL PAGE Money comes in handy for paying bills, ‘The amount a man noeds is usually just a little more than he has. Happiness is nice, hut it won't buy groceries. And thoney is nice, but it won't buy. happiness. POLITICS Another cow-milking contest is planned between two senators. This will develop muscles for shaking hands during elections. SPRING NEWS The annual epidemic of spring fe- ver wouldn't be dreaded so much if our money didn't, catch’ it, : y “Why is it that-When ‘anything terrible happens allimen say, ‘Look for the woman,’ when down in every man’s heart he knows he has never had anything good come into his life that some woman has Not brought it to him, “Thank God the day is coming, in fact it is nearly here, when you will really have to acknowledge this. Love and marriage will be a fifty-fifty proposition. A woman will not only belong to the man she loves but a maf will belong to her and each qne will belong to the other only as long as love lasts. “T shall have to. wait until after I have talked with Leslie before 1 can advise you freely, Jack, but I want: to understand that my whole sym- pathy is with her first. Then, with Paula Perier. You don’t enter into it at all.4I would sacrifice you as quickly as I would tear this paper into-'strips (she suited the action to the words). If I can keep Lesli happy and make Paula Perier und stand whatever Ms best.” While she was. giving me this lec- ture, Syd, 3 kept growing smaller and smaller and.she seemed to an idea of this for she stopped abruptly, and then began: “I don't think anything will mat- ter much to Leslie if she does not haye to give up the boy.” “What do you mean?’ stupidly. (Copyright, 4924, NEA Service, Inc.) "4 THOUGHT } Babe Ruth, Valenting T asked He that is aoe to anger is than the mighty; and the that rulcth' his spirit. ¢han he that taketh a city.’ Prov. 16:32, He who rei se ogien and: fears, is eng: Milton, ee Jinally diverted. .| Who's that? Pictures, Inc. XXX (Continued) “Lord, Lee, I wish you could have jeen behind a screen at that Junch- ion, Thirteen old tombstones in eathers and net collars—stven or ‘ight of °em, anyhow-zcolonial pro- lies and lorgnettes, and ‘all ooking as if they had been hit n the stomach. I at one end \t the table looking like the Witch’ yt Endor, Mary at the other Ibok- ng like one of our granddaughters ind trying to be animated and inti- nate. I forgot my own tragedy ind haw-hawed three timea. She ooked almost apologetic when she salled us by our first names, espe- flally -when she used the diminu- dve. Polly Vane, who's got a head ike @ billiard ball and-has to wear 1 wig for decency’s sake, drew her- lelf up twice and then relaxed with \ sickly grin. . All'the same { don’t think Mary felt any more tomfortable or liked it mugh better than the rest of us. Too much like teading your own epitaph on a& ‘ombstoné. I thought I saw her squirm.” “How did they take it Individ- ially?” Clavering hoped she was “Were they jeal- us and resentful?” “Some, Elinor Goodrich had al- Ways been too besottedly fond of yer to mind. Others, who had been nerely admirers® and liked her, were—well, it'g too mich to say they were enchanted to see Mary looking not a day over thirty, but shey were able to endure it. Isabel Lawrence thought it downright im- jmoral, and Polly Vane looked as if the had fallen into a stinking mo- cass and only refrained from hold- ing cher nose out of consideration tor her hostess. I think she feels that Mary’s return is an insult to New York. Lily Tracy was pain- fully excited. No “doubt she'll be- sin collecting for the Vienna poor At once and finding it necessary to 0 over and distribute the funds in person. Mary ‘lost no time get- xing in her fine work for Vienna re- def.” “But they'll all stand by her?” “Oh, yes, she’s Mary Ogden. We'd be as likely to desert New York itself because we didn’t like the mayor. And she'll need us. Y's the young women she'll have » look out for. My God! How they'll hate her. As. for Anne Joodrichwand Marian Lawrente-—” Clavering sprang to his feet. Jim?” up the stairs. Oglethorpe A than was runni “Janet,” said Mrs, grimly. “She's out.” ~~ RXKUL “Don't be a flat tyre, Don't be a dumb-bell; Run from the dumb ducks, Run from the plumbers. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!” Oglethorpe pounded on the door with his stick. There was a sud- den hush in the room, then a wild scurry and a slamming door. ‘He rattled the knob and, to his sur- rprise, for he had assumed that these wild parties of hig young friends were soundly barricaded, the door opened, There were only four young men standing about a tablé covered with the remains of a chafing dish supper and many champagne bot- tles, but an excited. whispering came through the partition, Young Farren was leaning against the tabla his large moon-face pallid with fright. As he recognized Oglethorpe and Clavering fright was wiped out by pias. i and relief. . “Thought you were the police,” he muttered. “Though they've got no business here—" “I've come for Janet. Go into that room and bring her out = once.” “Janet ain't here.’ Haven't seen Janet for a week. Tried to get her on the ‘phone early this afternoon and couldn't—” “If you don’t go into that room and fgtch her, I will.” As he atart- ed for the inner door, Farren with drunken dignity opposed his Broad bulk. “Now, Mr. woulda’t do that. Chorus girls—" “That's’a lié. . Stand .aside.”.° Farren, who was very. young and very drunk, but who had a rudi- | mentary sense of responsibility: iwhere girls of his own class were concerned, burst tata téars: “You wouldn't, Mr. Oglethorpe! I swear to God Janet’s not there, ” Bit— but—some of her friends, are. !'Phey wouldn’t want you to see Oglethorpe, you Ladies in there: Published by arrangement with Associated First National Watch for the screen version produced by Frank Lioyd with Corinne Griffith as Countess Zattiany. Copyright 1928 by Gertrude Atherton \ “Just stay there, will you?” ‘He turned to the three gaping young- sters. “You dare make a move and I'll knock your heads together. Just remember that you're drunk end I'm sober,” He went into the next room, and immediately saw several forms un- def the bed, He reached down and jerked t out by their legs. They rolled over, covering thei&® faces and sobbing with fright. Emancipated as they were and dis- dainful of pre-war parents, wher, it came to late parties in a bachelor’s rooms they exercised strategy to slip out, not defiance. “Oh, Mr. Oglethorpe,” gasped one counisivaly. “Don't tell on us, ie fe.” no intention of telling on You can go to the devil in Im you. your own way for all I care. after Jane-——” “She's not here.” “That’s what I'm going to find out.” He opened the door of a wardrobe and another girl tumbled into his arms, shrieked, and flung herselt ‘face downwward on the bed. But it was not Janet. He in- vestigated every corner of the partment and then returned to Clavering, slamming the door be- hind him. “She’s not there, Lee,” he said, leaning heavily against the wall. “Where in God's name is she? I don’t how where to look next. This is her particular gang. She has no other intimates that I know ef. But what do I know coat her, anyway?” “You're sure she isn’t hiaing anywhere at home?” “Searched the house from top to bottom.” “[ suppose ft, isn’t lHkely that she's gone to any of her aunts.” “Good Lord, no. She’d take a chance on mother, but never with any of the rest of the family, and she’s got no money. I saw to that.. D'you suppose she’s roaming tho streets?” “Well, she can’t roam long; legs. will give out. Perhaps she’s home by now, or at Mrs. Oglethorpe’s. Better telephone.” They went out and found a pub- lic telephone. Janet had not been seen nor heard from. “You don’t think it’s going to be another Dorothy Arnold case?” gasped Oglethorpe, who seemed completely unnerved. “Good Heavens no, Jim! And she’s able to take care of hers Nobody better: She'll give you scare and then turn up—with her thumb at her nose, likely. Better come up to my rooms aud. have a drink.” 2 “Orrigit. I can’t go home and I don’t want to be alone anywhere. T'd go out of my senses. Anything night happen to. her, and I shan’t call in the police until the last wyinute. Filthy scandal.” “Police? Certainly not. And as Janet is cold sober, be suré~she'll come to no harm.” A few moments later they were in the lift ascending to Clavering’s rooms. “Hullo!” he said, as he opened the door of his little hall. “The fool maid has left the light on,” and, as they entered the liv- ing room, “what the devil—” Ciga- rette smoke hung in the air. There was a wild shriek from a corner of the room, a sil girl leaped across the intervening space lime a panther, and fiinging herselt upon Oglethorpe, beat his chest with her, fists. “You damned old plumber, "you old dumb-duck!” shrieked his’ little daughter. “What did you come here and spoil every- thing for? He'd have had.to mar- ry me tomorrow if you'd. minded our own business: I'll claw, your eyes out.” But her hands were imprisoned. in her father's hard fists, and she turned and spat at the petrified Clavering. “I hatg you! I hate you! But I'm going to marry, you all the same. One way or another I'll get you. I ‘meant to wait awhile; for I hadn't had fun enough-yet, and I'd have precious little with you, you old flat tire. But when I heard that old Zattiany woman’d got hold of you—and then locked up and not able to do a thing—I thought I'd go mad. I dropped my diamond bracelet out of the window and one of the servants let me out—I won't tell which, You've been seen com- ing out of her house at all hours, ‘but she’s a thousand years old and nobody cares what she does, but I intended to rouse this whole house and: I'd have been so compromised you’d have had to marry me. You're a gentleman if you ate a damned old left-over, and you're a friend of granny’s and dad’s. I'd have had you tied up so tight yot'd have toddled straight down to the City Hall.” Clavering stared at her, wonder- ing how women felt when they were going to haye hysterics. hem.” His mood changed. to righteous indignation. “What right you got breaking into..a..gentle- man’s rooms like a damned -police- man? It’s an outrage and if | had a gun I'd shoot you. PAbd then he collapsed qn a: chair and was véry. sick. Oglethorpe turned to Clavering,| who had thought # best; to: remain in the Mall and. watch other exits. ta=lae——"] What a night! And this girl’s re- semblance to her grandmother was uncanny. He could see the Jane Oglethorpe of the portrait in just such a tantrum, And he had ‘thought he knew both of tiem. He wanted to burst into wild laughter, but the girl was tragic in spite of her silly plot and he merely con- tinued to regard her stonily, (To Be Continued) BU’ Brigh' or navy bye, wool. | They-are afso used to decorate ch are ubedstanienomie Guinot gray Wecce ‘EVENING CAPES, “Evening capes for !.4} («'].8hown-in lace-lined with chiffon, For on ‘all|'more practical wear ate the lothies Ahis- deasony Pleated ones of silk, _ summer are «