The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 30, 1929, Page 7

“ ‘WEDNESDAY, J ANUARY 30, 1929 “Girl? Who said I had e girl?” Benny sputtered, whirling about in ees chair. Ruth A ,. Ruth, with an exultant laugh, Spread her arms wide, leaning far out » @f the window. In a moment she “Oh, beautiful!” 4 You're a beautiful! Go put on your big Spectacles and slick back your hair. Xm jealous even of Satan, and. he’ of me! Look! I believe he'd eee Tee om, jut ughed, very gently, &s not to frighten “Satan” away, xeached into the pocket of her . y Faggee i H Hi! i it i FE THE RISMARCK TRIRUINE scrap of disguise, except for the yel- her. What luck that he thought he: complexion out of a box! “There's an urgent letter from Nathan in Los An- geles. He's demanding a larger com- mission on Bakersfield Oil, since the new field is failing. What shall 1 write him?” ICFO ANNE AUSTIN | of Then he Borden consented to be lured into dictation. “Write me outa check for 509 cash,” the promoter said at last, fling- ing his personal check book across the desk to her. “And go to the bank BT On ne lowish spectacles, which was left « - To Prison fer Life -—--4 Tony Papish, 49, Manistique, Mich., convicted of his fifth liquor vio- has begun life a Ton Is Indefinitely curls had come cut of a machine, her | © ADEE RL lation, qj serving term. He was seii- tenced by Judge H. W. Runnels, under I 1} a Hee er Catlvatory {next two years will not be taxed 10 | coal industry in the state will be, ‘The Benny rose slowly from Ruth’s chair, then lifted a crooked elbow as if to ward her off. “Gosh, woman! Turn them lamps off me! You'll blind me! Where's your specs? And a eg have you done to your Ruth’s little white hands, which she had never been able to disguise, flut- tered to her golden curls, fluffed Mey a “Nothing—but turn it’ loose!” “But gosh! You didn’t have to slick it back till your head looked like a yellow onion, and screw-it into a little i iffest say, Ruth, you'd better douse the glim before ‘Hcndsome Harry’ surges "'m tellin’ you—” “Talk English for a change, Ben- HA Ruthe laughted. “ ‘Douse the im’—?” 4 “Put on them yellow specs of yours and slick back your hair like you'd been wearin’ it,” the boy urged, with ® curious sort of desperation. “Hon- est, Ruth—” “Mr. Borden's affections are so thor- oughly engaged at present that I don't think we need worry,” Ruth | laughed. “But to please you, Benny, F he marveled again. “But, listen! What'd you do to your face? It looks different, too, not Pale and sickly—” eee Ruth opened the top drawer of her desk and took out a box of powder, | which she showed him triumphantly. “See! Rachel-tinted powder, very heavy. See how yellowish it is? Plenty of that slapped on and my milk-maid complexion was successful- , | y hidden. But—I've got to get to work, .| Benny!’ Be a good infant and get ly |™me some water for my sponge, and sharpen a bunch of pencils, won't you?” “Listen, Greta Nissen!” Benny sputtered. “You ain't going to shut up and not slip me the low-down on why you done it, are you?” “Greta Nissen?” Ruth raised her eyebrows and gave him the full, en- reas beauty of her limpid blue es, “My error!” Benny backed away, again with that crooked-elbow gesture of warding her off. “Greta Nissen or no other movie star can’t hold a candle to you. “I heard that red-headed riot across the hall say that Ruth Lester wouldn’t be a bad-looking girl if someone’d slip her a little info, about how to dress and make up that sickly little face of hers. Boy howdy, but I hope I’m on deck when she lamps the wow you turned out to be! Gee!” “Scatter, Benny! Ruth command- ed, her cheeks very pink, her blue eyes brimming with tender mirth. “Re- member, this is Saturday. I’ve some- thing else to do than listen to you sputter ‘Gee!’ and ‘Gosh!’ down my neck. No, I’m not going to tell you why I did it! Take these pencils and put a long point on each of them, lease.” please.’ Her competent hands began to open the big stack of mail. Only one letter marked “Personal” this morning—an- other of those big square, orchid- tinted envelopes with the distinctive, angular handwriting in violet ink. The handwriting of a woman of cul- ture and strong character, Ruth had decided long since. The pencil sharp- long dresses.” “Clever boy!” Ruth laughed. “You done it so’s you could keep your job!” Benny deduced triumph- antly. “You knew that the minute ‘Handsome Harry’ lamped you he'd fall for you like a Bet that’s the « worked so out of business eee “Benny, you’ve been meddling in my desk again!” “aw I ain't either! I just hapened Til revert to the ‘Lillian Gish-in- spectacles’ role.’ \e 8 She was reaching into the top drawer of her desk for the big, yel- low-lensed, horn-rimmed spectacles which made her blue eyes look a Sickly, pale green, when the telephone rang. “Main 3500,” she announced. Then, after a pause during which she raised her eyebrows significantly as she glanced over her shoulder toward Benny: “No, Mr. Borden is not in I don’t know. I’m sorry .. . What name shall I say? . Oh, thank you!” She hung up the receiver and shrugged. “The woman with the lovely contralto voice. I wonder who she is. I put Mr. Borden.on the line once when she called, and he told me to remember her voice and never do it again, Some old flame, I sup- Pose, She pushed back the telephone and was reaching for the disguising spec- tacles when the outer door opened and Henry P. Borden stepped into the room. Ruth whirled toward her desk in her swivel chair, so that not just yet should he see the transformation with which she had chosen to celebrate her engagement. She had not meant him to see, had intended to have the golden curl pulled into a tight knot, exposing her ears and elevating her golden-brown eyebrows, had intended was striding toward the door that led into his private office, not vouchsafing a look at that pallid little secretary whose only appeal to him was that she was an incom- parable secretary. Henry P. Borden, known along the city’s White Way as “Handsome Harry” Borden, deserved both the ad- jective and the slight sneer with which it was accompanied. For hand- some he undoubtedly was, in a bold, striking, black-and-white way. If he had chosen the movies insteatl of dubious finance as a career he would inevitably have been cast as the “heavy,” but invariably as a drawing- room, silk-hat type of “villain.” He was tall and large, but not at all fat. Sleek, thick black hair, into which 40 years of self-indulgence and at least 20 years of fast living had not introduced a single strand of white. thick shaved close twice a day. yourself, won't you? Then stop at the station and get me a drawing- room and two round-trip tickets for Winter Haven—train leaving at 2:15 this afternoon. Wire the Hotel Win- ter Haven for a suite—best in the house. Reserve the rooms in the name of Mr. and Mrs. H. P.—let’s see— on other surname begins with a o” “Benton?” Ruth suggested, in a small, innocent voice, “All right. But make a note of it on the ticket envelope for me, please. bird who Mrs. Benton will be, Cin- 9” “I—I think I'd better not know, don’t you, Mr. Borden?” Ruth an- swered, in her timid, ghostlike little voice. “Here's the check. Will you sign it, please, and I'll go to the bank right away, before it’s jammed.” “Little prunes-and-prisms!" Borden chuckled, grasping the small hand which extended the check. “You know—lI believe you've been stringing me! I don’t think you're half the timid little rabbit you've been pre- tending to be.” He drew hard on her hand, so that Ruth’s small body was’ strained against the desk. “Come on! Let’s see how you really look! Take off those big spectacles and let me see your eyes—" “Please, Mr. Borden!” Ruth gasped. “I—I can’t see without them. My eyes are very weak. They—they blink without my glasses,” she lied desperately. ee It was Benny who ended the scene, a stormy-faced, sullen Benny who jerked open the door as if he had . | been listening at the keyhole. “What the devil—?” Borden began furiously. Benny swung the door shut and slouched against it, sullenly defiant. “There's a guy out here wantin’ to see you. Says him and his wife's been Jipped outa their life savings—” Borden stared at the boy as if he thought Benny had suddenly grown crazy. Then the dark blood of anger stained his peculiarly white skin. “Get out of here, or I'll shake your teeth down your throat! And get rid of that man, whoever he is. You know I never see a person of that sort.... Wait! You’d better handle him your- self, Miss Lester. Here! Don't forget the check! Five hundred, in tens and twenties. Here’s a fifty to get the drawing-room and tickets. I want to have at least 500 in ready cash, and this fifty is too big a bill anyway.” The promoter had drawn a hand- some brown leather wallet from his pocket, and as he extracted the fifty- dollar bill, Ruth caught a glimpse of another yellow-backed bank-note, but did not see its denomination. Later, a harsh-voiced, flinty-eyed man would be demanding of Ruth &@ minutely detailed recital of every>event-of that fatal Saturday morning, expecting prodigious feats of memory of her. Then, everything would be of importance, for murder would have made it so. But now nothing seemed importan$ to Ruth Lester but that she was free to leave Harry Borden's private office, free to close the door upon his staring, bold black eyes. Not even the old man who was tre- mulously reiterating his story of ter- rible and crushing financial loss through one of Harry Borden's fake schemes seemed important to her then. She eased him out of the of- fice as gently as possible, her ears deaf to his muttered threats against Henry P. Borden. As she put on her fur coat to go to the bank and to the station, her heart was singing again. It was half-past 10 o'clock. In less than three hours she would join Jack Hayward at the elevator, go to luneh with him to cele- brate the engagement which had tak- en place last night. By this time Jack had captured the thick but well-shaped red lips, always |' slightly moist, as if he had just run anticipating tongue over them. padi gy cresting appr ag knob keep you. “Shut up, Tenny, and get to work!” Ruth scolded. “Yes,. sir, ‘at's the ticket, sure’s you're born! own of, i to a riveting machine————Hullo! what have you done to yourself?” Smith function that causes the most trouble. See that your children form '8 | bowel habits, and at the first sign. billousness bad breath, coated tongue, or Pa Ae "Tony ¥ after all, enger. that! SENATE BODY KILLS PROPOSED COAL TAX|:Sssreet ta land, Ramsey |: Bill Providing Levy of 10 C Postponed : land Coal mined in North Dakota in the | activity, and what the future of the for four felonies. He | cents a ton. black pigeon, had robbed “Satan” of | ed by Senator W. E. Matthael, Wells the little love message she wrapped about the tiny red leg. She smiled ‘at the absurd irony of it. The pigeon which Jack had insisted should be called “Handsome Harry,” because “Satan” and Harry” were synonymous, had been forced into the role of lovers’ mess- If “Handsome Harry” knew Ruth laughed softly as she left the office to fulfill Borden's commissions. | They favored giving the (To Be Continued) Murder is only a few hours away in| taxation about its neck. this thrilling mystery. Don’t miss the chapters to come. MORE TIME GRANTED ‘—--— IN HAIL INSURANCE Senate Committee Favors Pas- sage of Amending Legis- lation With Changes earlier. Senate bill No. 58, O. H. Olson and Magnuson, was recommended for pas- sage by the senate insurance commit- tee this morning, after a number of amendments in dates had been made in the measure as drawn by the in- surance department. The committee tossed overboard the commission's attempt to cut out four days of free insurance for such risks as might be withdrawn. 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