The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 5, 1932, Page 4

An_ Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) —_ enktataasedihl atthe » Published by The Bismarck Tribune , Bismarck, N. D., and en- . tered at the postoffice at Bismarck as Second class mail matter. % GEORGE D. MANN &_° President and Publisher. Cheeta emmendiblianenendtedal Advance Daily by carrier, per year .... WDaily by mail per year (in Bis- at marek) .............05- oon W Daily by mail per year (in W_ outside Bismarck) feDaily by mail outside o: te Dakota Fd iy 8 state U. seni ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year $1.00 si Weekly by mail in state, three 2. ronats@Od re_ Dakota, per year . 1.50 by Weekly by mail in Canada, pe m year . ty Member of Audit Bureau of ar Circulation m Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other ‘matter herein are also reserved. Gr (Official City, State and County , de Newspaper) eoss r + 2.00 am amane Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER, BREWER (Incorporated) NEW YORK BOSTON K prOHICAGO kt’ | i Legislating Via Ballot A hodge-podge of measures will find their way to the June primary election ballot. Most of them, in fact jeall of them, are without much merit. None of them can accomplish much @fgood and their adoption may do ser- ious damage. In times of economic agStress there is a tendency to hit at ‘wisomething or somebody in a wild ges- reture of protest. That is only human mature but the cures advanced are WOften worse than the ills they seck Tito ameliorate. of It is the intention of The Tribune in a series of articles in the near fu-| thture to explain each of the several Prproposed initiated measures. It is Sithe intent of this newspaper to give Fithe arguments for and against their adoption. er The voters must be enlightened at Wiall costs. Citizens who have the wel- Digare of North Dakota at heart should fi inform themselves before supporting ty blindly some measures under the thin guise of tax reduction. Their adoption 42 can easily bring about an increase of fy Sovernmental costs, It is so easy to be a penny wise and a pound foolish. Readers are invited to state their opinions and convictions through our People’s Forum which is growing in popularity with them. It is their col- umn and the only restrictions are that names must be signed to the letters and the subject matter must be free dx from libel and personalities. fa There is no use in trying to ham- string our state and city governments | §T through false economy. There are s0| w can be saved in government and the tr cost of public service reduced. These measures fail to strike at the root of | th the evil. pe = in A Fine Piece of Publicity drys who seek his scalp as Assistant United States District Attorney, is ° receiving some fine free political ad- vertising. If he had to pay for it the ®pace would cost him several thou- Pi sand dollars. Thanks to the militant er rys, he gets front page top of the facolumn for nothing and thousands ut who may have forgotten even that he St js in the race now know that his can- ar Gidacy is very much alive. MF Of course Mr. Burdick, regardless af of his official position, has a perfect ¥' right to run for Congress on a wet, dry or semi-moist platform He is pr going to file on the Hoover ticket as Pc a Republican and has violated no po- C4 jitical faith with the party which is sty 7@SPonsible for his presence on the in federal payroll. “B If the Department of Justice listens to the drys and dismisses the per- Bf sonally dry but politically wet Bur- sty dick, then several thousand more ™M votes will be added to Mr. Burdick’s 80 total next June. Had Burdick’s friends prayed for it, they could not have secured a better re break for him than the drys have Pl given without any cost to the Fargo so Bttorney. be fi Hannibal Hoople Is Coming It will not be news to Tribune readers that Hannibal Hoople is coming. ist Hannibal, you must know, is the €4 gather of the major and the major is wi one of America’s greatest hombasts. fe We have no idea what Hoople pere will look like, but certainly the 18 ust who creates him will give him a distinctly “Hooplerian” expression ht 80 all of us may recognize him after “the first glance. ‘The fact that the Hooples are im- faginary creatures who come and go at the will of a comic artist makes little difference. To a good many of us Uncle Bim and his affairs de couer, the adventures of Salesman Sam, Mom'n Pop, Boots and Her Buddies, Preckles and his friends and all the Best of the folk in that wonderful fworld of make-believe are just as real = @s the next-door neighbors. In many yses. we know a great deal more out them because they are frank to tell us what they think and why they perform the strange actions which 80 many of us. All of us are children at heart and the doings of these fictitious per- Baukes m “4 P 3 of 1 ay f e Bismarck Tribune ae ‘Subscription Rates Payable in {| $7.20 | 50 {58,000,000 bushels are short in the July m Many evident ways in which money economy and so is President Hoover. {After all the advance notice the tax- fairies which we saw dancing on the clouds of our rosy dreams when we were only ten. When we have lost the ability to people our world with those fantasies which exist in never-never land, we can turn to the comic strips. They are ever youthful and, frequent- ly enough, they recapture that van- ished spirit for us. 131,254,000 Bushels Short According to the Agricultural Ad- visory Council, an organization with jheadquarters at Des Moines, I6wa, formed to dish out Republican propa- !ganda to the long-suffering. middle i west, the “short” interest in wheat on the Chicago market is about 131,254,- 000 bushels or about one-sixth of the normal crop. Of the total amount, and September options, which means that amount of the next crop has been sold before it has been grown and harvested. The “advisory” council comments that “there never can be any stabil- lity to the price of farm commodities So long as the Chicago Board of Trade or any other open market is Permitted to sell unrestricted amounts of wheat, corn, rye or other farm | products.” This may be true, but the average citizen well may ask if it is as im- jportant as many persons would have us believe. A few years ago when Wheat was well above the dollar mark ‘the speculators on these markets had jthe same privilege of selling short that they have now. If the price |should go up in the near future those vho have sold short would bey |squeezed. { There can be no question but that jmuch of this short selling has been WELL, | HOPE WE MAKE IT done by gamblers, but the purchasing was done by gamblers, too. The farm- ers may not like it to see their chief markets the center of speculation in the products which mean life andj death to them, but the question re- mains as to what can be done about it. The alleged evil has existed for many years and has long been recog- nized but nothing definite has been done. If the fact of this short inter- est is raised now for political pur- poses it will have little effect, except to drag a political red herring across the trail. What's in a Name? New York, April 5.—From a ring- side seat at the big town show... Well, New York's laugh-of-the-week is cn that weekly that goes in for gossip and “low-down” information . .. According to this medium, How- ard Hughes, the millionaire kid film producer, is going “to marry Eliza- beth Marbury, the New York debu- tante” . . . In order to understand how funny that is, you have ¢o know that Elizabeth Marbury is one of the more famous old-timers of New York society; has maintained cel- ebrated salons abroad and at home for more years than Hughes can claim as a lifetime, and is at least twice his age, if not more .. . Nor has she any intention of quitting spinsterhood. . . Over in Germany and down in Mexico they still take their elections seriously enough to do a little shoot- ing. Americans never did go in much for lethal weapons in settling disputes but it would not be surprising to see the quaint old custom of engaging in fisticuffs revived during the coming campaigns. We are seeing a revival of interest in politics and maybe this quaint old practice will come back also. x Hughes Whose in America, - | If you, by chance, happen to be And now Burdick sues the Anti-jinterested in the immediate romance |Saloon League for slander. We won-|0f the boyish Hollywood magnate, Ider which side will try to delay the, Ne’s been down cruising off Florida ltrial until after the primary cleo.|*...*, And one of the guests on the jtrial until after the primary elec-|trin has been Elizabeth Marston, who tion in June. If either one does, itlis a lovely young debutante This Should tell the rest of us something.| romantic voyage to tropical waters is lexpected to end in an engagement. king <2 or wedding... After all, the names talking about sarston and Marbury do sound some- thing alike... . In film fan circles, this would seem payer certainly will appreciate it—if|to sound the knell of that feverish and when it comes, tecent courtship of the charming Congress still | | T@ Usher L. Burdick attacked by the} ‘are as important as were the} “A tornado can travel as slowly as 10 miles an hour.” So can a speed maniac but he never does. Good times are just around the corner. The hour has arrived for Spending next year’s income, ‘The only ones “cleaning up” now- adays are the white wings. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors. They are published without regard to whether they agree or disagree with The Tribune's policies, Using Familiar Tools (New York Times) One of the best things about the change suddenly wrought in the tem- per of the House of Representatives is that it was* due to the use of old- jfashioned American means. During the gloomy interval of uncertainty, there was more or less talk of a re- sort to high-handed methods. It was said that there were rumblings {among the people in favor of a rev- ‘olution, or a trial of Fascism in the United States, or some kind of dicta- torship, or recourse to extralegal de- vices. How any of these plans could {yet nearly everybody appeared to feel that somthing desperate would have to be done. was done was clearly nothing but a land patriotic spirit. Merely by em- ploying such homely parties. adopt a permanent during flush times, and there is noth. ing to do but face it. be attempted nobody seemed to know, | But what, in the end, familiar assertion of leadership, along with appeals to party responsibility instruments, Speaker Garner was able yesterday to carry almost the entire House with him, and to obtain a non-partisan pledge that the Federal budget would be balanced, no matter what it might cost in the way of sacrifices, the sur- render of personal opinions, or the modification or abandonment of po-| . Sitions taken before by the political The details in the form of added taxes and more stringent economies are yet to be worked out. But the central doctrine of a balanced budget has been heartily accepted. This is @ great gain. It cannot fail to give reassurance to doubters about our fu- ture, whether at home or abroad. If any supposed that Congress or the Administration would allow the na- tional credit to slip downhill, or Policy of trying to cover up deficits by borrowing money such expectations or fears are now dispelled. Congress, with the un- doubted backing of the American people, has made up its mind that it must toe the mark. The time has come for us to scrape and save all we can in public expenditures, and then to pay in taxes whatever may be | n to square the Government's one of the left-over consequences of our national folly. and extravagances sereen star, Billie Dove... Billie was showered with gifts by the wealthy M. Hughes, was pursued to Europe when she went on a vacation and then, suddenly, scmething hap- pened and Hughes was off the Flor- ida coast in his luxurious yacht en- tertaining a party of Blue Book folk. ee * Hoover Receives a Dove Billie Dove, however, has been do- ing very well since she arrived for a personal appearance visit and vaca- tion .. . She managed to get to visit |President Hoover while in Washing- ton... which isn’t so bad for an ex-Follies charmer! Speaking of rich young men, re- minds me that Walter Chrysler, . Jr. STICKERS “NECESSITY_IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION. ‘Can you form a sentence of nine words son of the motor magnate, has made! himself an important figure in artis- tic circles within the past year . He decided to go on his own, while in college became interested in the publication of rare and beautiful books. ... The other day, at a tea Chrysler gave for Ernest Lubitsch, film direc- tor, hints were dropped that he might soon be taking an interest in the art department of finer films ... His books are already valuable collector's items and several of them won prizes this year for binding and ex- pert typography ... Just a few weeks ago, he introduced a young Russian artist whose paintings are something of a sensation. ee * From Village Correspondent Edna St. Vincent Millay, poetess, suddenly reappeared the other day after “hiding out” for many months . «+ With her wealthy husband she was aboard a romantic craft headed for Majorca in the Mediterranean . +. Then it was revealed Miss Millay had been living in one of the old Greenwich Village picturesque spots from which she generated . . . Some years back when Greenwich Village was getting its Bohemian reputation, Miss Millay, Max Eastman, Floyd Dell, Cornelia Barnes, Ben de Casse- res, Boardman Robinson and a great many others were the “voices of the Village” ... They put that quarter on the map... When Miss Millay returned to her old haunts, only a few intimate friends were aware of| her whereabouts ... She had a pri-| vate phone and her address was not| easy to find... . | xe * Birth Notice That Gloria Swanson child should FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: from the letters used in the above sen- tence? - 5] The man who is a shining ex- ample is often dull. THE OFAOCLY WOOD ALCOHOL |) WAS RECHRISTENED ecessary 5 ry bid income Wi patie Fe Jigen Me ‘MET HANOU TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM DENING ‘| LONGEST CEMETERY ON EARTA”’ ISTHE TiTLe SOMETIMES: GIVEN TO THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA. UNDER THE RUTHLESS: DRIVING OF SHI HWANG TI, THOUSANOS OF OS CHINESE DIED OF OveR- ILOING MILE STRUCTURE, be announced somewhere in the early days of April . . . Possibly on the first of the month, which would be an amusing birthday .. . They're saying around Broadway, incident- ally, that it was not the fortune of a grandmother in Ireland that gave Michael Farmer his start, but that Gloria's husband was legally adopted some years back by a rich elderly widow living in France, who took an interest in the handsome young man’s career. TODAY ¢ ? WORLD WAR ANNIVERSARY fa) GERMANS RENEW ATTACK On April 5, 1918, German troops on the Somme delivered a series of ter- rific attacks on British positions and succeeded in reaching the Albert- Amiens railway before being thrust back by a counter-attack. Renewal of the drive in this region had been expected and explained the BEGIN HERE TODAY ELLEN ROSSITER, bea ROWGATE, young artist. presence at the front of strong Brit- ish reserves. Meanwhile, French troops on the other side of the salient attacked and succeeded in improving their po- sitions near Cantigny. They report- ed the front heavily held by crack German divisions. American troops in the Lorraine sector were engaged in increasing trench activity. French and British estimates of German losses in the March offens- ive ran as high as 500,000. Military experts believed that the crisis caused by the temporary collapse of the British Fifth Army was over. They were rapidly making plans to stop a second major offensive, ex- pected within a few weeks against the French troops. German bulletins claimed that nearly 100,000 prisoners had been taken in their great March drive, and German néwspapers said the British army was beaten. 4 I intend to work without ceasing until that greatest of all evils, un- employment, has been eliminated — Eamonn de Valera, president, Irish Free State. ee If we have an Andrew Jackson for president of the United States some time, we will collect those -war debts. Frees Duncan U. Fletcher of Flor- ida. x % % There are, I am ashamed to say, a lot of Americans who get asked to lunch by a countess, and immediately break into tears and want to cancel the war debts—Senator James Reed of Pennsylvania. * ee The science of taxation seems to be to get the most feathers with the least squawking from the geese —Con- gressman H. T. Rainey of Illinois, * * * The Treaty of Versailles was one of the worst international settlements ever made.—Walter Runciman, presi- dent, London Board of Trade. | Barbs That Hollywood scenario writer who is reported to be working on four plots at once could save him- self a lot of trouble by making three carbons of the first one. j oa * ox * The consumption of beer in Eng- land has declined so far they're con- sidering passing a prohibition act to bring a return to normalcy. see Aeman in Poland claims he can change sand into gold. If many more countries go off the gold standard, they'll be working to make it the| other way around. ee & Most women don’t go by the new- est fashions, an exchange says. They go buy them! ee * A coin dug up in Italy has been puzzling the experts. They can’t de- 20-year-old, loves LARRY HAR- When he becomes engaged to another girl Ellen agrees to marry STEVEN BARCLAY, 57 years old and wealthy. Her impoverished family fs indebjed to Barclay, has been married before. Se: accompanied his Mexican divorce m LEDA GRAYSON, To avoid talk Ellen and Barclay are secretly married, They drive to his Long Island home, deserted except for FER- GUS, the butler, There Barclay suffers a heart attack, LOUIS SYMES, Barclay’s lawyer, arrives with doctors nurses, Barclay dies at dawn, tells Ellen her marri al because papers prov- ing Barclay’s divorce have been stolen, Ellen yields all claim to Barclay’s fortune to avold scan- dal, She belleves she must keep her marriage secret to protest Barclay’s honor and her own. She learns L: Harrowgate ts Felay’a neph Heartbroken, returns home. Larry seeks her out, tells her that his engage- ment is broken and asks her to marry him, Ellen lacks courage to tell him of her marriage to his uncle, She goes with Larry to meet his mother. A butler ap- pears. It is Fergus. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XLVI ‘OR an instant Ellen thought she must faint. A feeling of nau- sea swept over her and her arms dropped to her sides. She fell back weakly, helplessly. Larry was at her side, his arms around \her, “Water! Bring water,” he called frantically, °° Fergus brought a tumbler and the distracted Larry bathed the girl’s.pale face. He held the water to her lips. Still bewildered, still in a world of half-consciousness, horribly frightened and sick, Ellen drank it, Larry half-carried her to an adjoining bedroom, settled her on a frilled chaise longue. She knew that he was beside her, that his hand held her hand, that he was fanning her. But Ellen could only lie still, her eyes closed, her breath rising and falling un- evenly for a long time, “He didn’t tell you,” she ,whis- pered after a while, without open- ing her eyes, “Who told me? What?” Ellen looked up then and saw that Larry was kneeling on the floor beside her. Mrs, Harrowgate was there, too. “What came over you?” the older woman inquired curiously. “It must have been the heat,” Ellen managed to say. “That room is a roaring furnace,” cide which is heads or tails. 1 Associated Press Phote One of the first official acts of Theodore Roosevelt jr. after his in- auguration as constabulary, Magic Can’t Take Warts Off, But Doctor Will! By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association Sir Norman Walker, a great Brit- ish physician, said that, “the ways of warts are mysterious.” Everyone knows that groups of warts some- times vanish following various mag- ical methods and that they appear as mysteriously as they disappear. This fact caused Dr. Karl Zwick to investigate some of the mysterious methods by which warts are “caused to disappear,” in order to find out whether there was any actual virtue in any of these methods. One method involves applying the @|cut surface of an apple to the wart at the time when the moon is wan- ing and then burying the apple., An- other method \suggests that the wart be rubbed with a piece of green, un- cooked pork until the skin around the wart becomes red and then bury- ing the pork. *Another method in- volves tying a thread about the wart until the thread cuts into the wart, then burying the thread. In this country several Indian methods involve massaging the wart vigorously during lightning, making a plea to the new moon, applying the blood of a hedgehog, and invoking Special gods who are supposed to be associated with warts. Of course, these “magic cures” are ridiculous. Dr. Zwick believes that the spon- taneous disappearance of the warts must be due to some chemical change in the body which makes the body an unfavorable soil for the causative vernor-general of the Philippines was to inspect the fe is shown being escorted in front of troops at Manila. ! i i virus or organism responsible for the wart. Sometimes warts disappear after ir- ritation with the ultraviolet or with jthe X-ray, which may also change the chemical reactions in the hu- man body. Various drugs have been applied, which sometimes do actually destroy the wart and on other occa- sions change the condition of the blood. The mere fact that warts disappear spontaneously causes some doubt as to the use of any method of treat- ment, since it is never possible to say whether or not the warts would have disappeared without the treatment. It is known that actual surgical re- moval of the wart or its destruction by appropriate agents does get rid of the wart every time. Other methods quite frequently fail. A BIG JOB Washington.—The U. S. Bureau of Standards is assisting in no little way the development of aviation. Among its duties are: Design and construc- tion of new aeronautical instruments, tests of engine mufflers, determina- tion of the effect of turbulence in wind tunnel measurements, making of fire-proof fuel tanks, and a hundred and one other tasks. AID TO INVESTIGATION To aid investigators in checking up on possible causes of air crashes in the state, New York has passed a law making it illegal to remove or de- stroy any part of a wrecked aircraft within 24 hours after an accident. The new law goes into effect June 30 of this year. Cash in With a Tribune Want Ads Larry said sharply. “It was all I could do to keep from passing out myself.” “I'm all right now,” Ellen an- nounced shakily, sitting up and smoothing her disordered hair.) “I’m sorry to have been such a 1ot| of trouble.” “No trouble at all,” Mrs. Harrow- gate assured her politely. “I can’t tell you how sorry I am though that it had to happen.” But Ellen felt confident that her concern was affected, She looked from Mrs. Harrowgate to Larry. There was nothing artificial in his anxiety. How she loved him! How impossibly cruel that something which had happened long ago might make him cease to love her, If she had only told him everything that day in the studio— For a moment she clung to the wild hope that Fergus had not recognized her. But she knew there had been recognition in those cold eyes, What did he mean to. do? Even as she was wondering the but- ler entered the room. He carried a pair of gloves. “I believe these are yours, miss,” he said, advancing toward her. eee Bins heart beat violently. She tried to brace herself for anything the man might say or do. She stared at him with growing panic and tried to read his face. There was nothing there to read except servile impersonality. Larry reached to take the gloves but Fer- gus, quicker, dropped them in Ellen’s lap, turned and left tho room, his back stiff and inscrutable as his eyes had been. 7 Ellen drew a long trembling breath, “You don’t care much for Fer- gus, do you?” Larry observed. “I don’t myself. He's so quiet he gives me the jimmies.” “He's a capable servant,” Mrs. Harrowgate commented. “Steven liked him. Are you sure you feel all right now?” she continued, ad- dressing Ellen. The girl nodded. ' “I think I'd better go home now,” she said. She and Larry departed, Ellen clinging to his arm and assuring Mrs. Harrowgate that her faintness had disappeared as suddenly as it had come. They were waiting: for the elevator before Larry had his chance to speak. “Lasked you before,” he said hes!- tantly. “What did you mean when you said ‘So he didn’t tell you?” Ellen_was resting a little against Larry’ ‘m, Her eyes were raised to his, She was exquisitely con- scious of everything about her, of the green walls, of the shining brass door of the elevator and the soft, luxurious carpet. “I didn’t mean—anything,” she whispered. Silently they went through the entrance way to the street that was a crystal canyon of ice and snow. hands. glove the crackle of paper. She re- membered with a throb of fear how Fergus had avoided Larry’s grasp to drop the gloves in her lap, Sev- eral times as they rode toward the apartment she stole glances at him, thinking he looked pale and tired and wondering what was in that j left glove held so tightly in her palm. ‘There was no opportunity to find j out until after Larry had left her. | The instant the door closed behind him she turned the glove inside out, A bit of paper fell into her hand. . Written upon it were the follow. ing words: “I'll see you at your home at eight o'clock. Be there.” The girl dropped the message to the floor, stooped, picked it up and crumpled it into a savage ball which she hurled into the waste- basket. Without troubling to re- move her coat, still adorned with Larry’s violets, she began to walk up and down the living room. The Place was bleakly cold and the whole apartment filled with brood-| ing quiet. When Ellen snapped on the lights she saw Molly had left a note for her on the library table. Molly and Myra had gone to the movies, “If Bert comes for Myra ask him to wait,” Molly had written. | Deweeae crossed to the bedroom, looked inside and observed that Mike was sound asleep, his arms flung youthfully over his head, She entered to adjust the window and shut out the freezing air. She pulled the tumbled bedcovers back into place, half-hoping that her young brother would waken, but Mike only stirred restlessly. She brushed: his hair back from his forehead and thought that he looked rosy and well again. Soon he would be able to get about with- out the crutches. A hot, wet tear dropped on the cheek of the sleep- ing boy, but he did not waken. Ellen returned to the living room, lighted the gas in the grate and lay down on the divan to stare at the ceiling. Suddenly it was September again. Steven lay dead in a curtained bed- room of the lavish Long Island house. Ellen saw herself in that hateful sitting room watching Fer- gus pack her traveling case—a pale, shamed girl, mad with grief and humiliation, who wanted to escape, to run away from an impossible situation, She saw now that she had allowed her own lack of cour- age to persuade her that a part of her life could be hidden as if it had never existed. She had been wrong about that. That part of her life was as real as any other part. It lived in her own memory and in the memory of ‘a loathsome, suspicious man who was coming to remind her of it. He was coming to remind her that it might eost Ellen's gloves were crumpled in her Nervously she began to, darker, draw them on and felt in the left] ibly in the darkness, Snow began to fall invis- Suddenly Ellen sprang up and ran downstairs to the telephone. Frantic with restlessness, tapping one foot impatiently as she waited, she called Symes’ office. His secre- tary told her she thought Mr. ‘Symes had gone for the day. Ellen left a message on the chance he might return, a message the lawyer could not fail to understand. Then She went upstairs again, cane was still alone when eight o'clock arrived, and with it, prompt to the minute, came Fergus. Seeing him, a smail, ugly man in neat blue serge, shook Ellen’s cour- age. The composure of her greet+ ing hid trembling terror. The man carried two strapped bags. He did not leave her long in doubt as to his mission, “I got to get out of town,” he stated baldly, “and I’m stony, I thought maybe you'd lend me $100 or 50,” “Just what made you think 1 would do that?” she asked sharply. “I can’t stand around all day talking about ifs and ands,” Fergus answered roughly. “I need money and you've got to lend it to me.” Ellen heard the loud ticking of the clock and the drip of a kitchen faucet. She heard the hoarse sound of Fergus’ breathing. A way out! Oh, there must be some way out! “I guess I know my rights,” said Fergus abruptly. “Your rights to what?” “Look here,” the butler resumed Dlaintively, “You don’t get mo at all. I don’t want to tell Mr. Har- rowgate where you were the night his unclo died. Going to a girl's sweetheart with a story like that is the last thing I'd want to do!” “Don’t bother to lie,” Ellen said contemptuously, “You'd want to go anywhere you could get money. You've been to Larry already. You've written to him and taken money from him anonymeusly. You haven't even the courage to speak up openly!” “Never mind about that,” Fergus responded sullenly. “That's done. The money’s gone. I wish to God I had ft now but I haven't, I’ve got to blow town, I tell. you. Some- thing’s come up so I’ve Bot to clear out. You stake me to’a railroad ticket and you're through with me. You'll never see me again, never hear from me again. Neither will Larry.” “You'll get no money tro now or ever,” Ellen declared, ia “Maybe if F went to Mr. Harrow. gate he wouldn’t feel that way!” Ellen turned away, She clenched her two hands and felt the hard- ness of the engagement ring. This Was the end, she thought, the end of everything. She knew that it Fergus carried out his threat and went to Larry she could not lie, To evade the truth was dificult enough, To look into Larry's gray eyes and tell him an untruth was impossible, her the most precious thing in life. The sky outside grew darker and (To Be Continued)