The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 7, 1932, Page 4

S40 anemetasoe Qun2a ememu gs fhe Bismarck Tribune - Am Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) ‘Published by The Bismarck Tribune bes , Bismarck, N. D., and en- \tered at the postoffice at Bismarck as {second class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN President and Publisher. Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Waily by carrier, per year $7.20 Daily by mail per year (in MATCK) ...0...eceeecec sees sees 1:20 Daily by mail per year (in state | outside Bismarck) ...... ‘Daily by mail outside of North Dakota ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year $1.00 ‘Weekly by mail in state, three years .. 2.50 ‘Weekly by Dakota, per year . ‘Weekly by mail in Can: year ........ Circulation 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. (Official City, State and Co Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER, BREWER (Incorporated) CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON Beware of False Prophets Now is the time when the political parties, oratorically speaking, will zome to the aid of the farmers. In national and state affairs, there will be many advocates on the hustings hoodwink him into supporting their zlique or faction for political prefer- ment. Probably no class in our social structure has been so callously lied to as the farmers, None has received 30 many promises before election and © geen so completely forgotten after the votes were counted. | Now is the time for them to watch for false prophets who come to them in sheep's clothing. Not so many months ago Melvin Traylor, a prominent Chicago banker, speaking of the farm problem, said: “I hope I may be pardoned if I claim a personal acquaintance with the life on the farm and the prob- tems of the farmer. In my opinion no division of human society has ever been lied to and lied about as much in the same period of time, as has the American farmer in the last 10 years. He has been the victim of more false economic and political in- formation, with its constant destruc- dion of public confidence in everything ne is and represents, than has any| other element in our social structure.” Mr. Traylor might have gone farther and emphasized the fact that not all the misinformation has come from ‘he so-called enemies of the farmers. Some has come from those leaders} who are supposed to speak for them, AS a class. For many years the farmers in this state have been trying to improve) * sheir economic condition through po-| 1 dtical action. The battle has waged ( ntermittently since 1916 with the net result of a large bonded indebted- aess and heavy state and local taxes. Both political factions, now preparing @ go on the stump for renewed con- tidence and votes, will probably give + the farmers of this state the same old story with a few variations. There are surface indications, how- aver, that the farmer is interested 1ow solely in getting the taxes down and some way out of his debt to save she farm and eke out an existence for ais family. The old stock arguments will fall on deaf ears. It is time for a real vital message and new leadership. Whether such eadership is possible under present shaotic political conditions remains to 2e seen. On Haun Officialdom vs. Communism Robert Talley, writing for one of hhe nation’s great news services and seporting on the troubles in the Ken- sucky mine fields, asserts that might as replaced right in the name of law and order and is seeking to suppress sommunism. Conditions in the field are those which have long prevailed. Miners ive in company houses, buy their ‘ood, clothing and other equipment subject to the dictation of their em- aloyers. Many of them never see mything other than “company money” which means brass trading thecks. Misery, squalor and hardship orevail, not only among the miners out among their employers, for the soal business is in bad shape. The condition is one which would ye bad under any circumstances, but he attjtude of the public officials in 4 | == she area seems to have made it worse. Talley says that in Bell county busi- v» 1¢55 interests, the churches, local mmunity clubs, the American Le- ‘sion and residents generally are band- ik 9a together as a unit to prevent out- interference in community af- Me asserts that “your sympa- must be entirely with these local ‘s unity groups or you're & “Red.’ Outsiders who seek to learn the are denied the right to visit the | Presid! or to talk with its residents, ‘was demonsttated recently when a | congress, unless they soon repent and were|Teverse themselves, will presently large number of college students seeking to “save the farmer” and| at company stores and otherwise are; when thy attempted to visit ‘Talley says the efforts of officials|rency, Some men have greatness ist upon them. The Democrats preserving Americanism the consti- tuted authorities are doing the most un-American things imaginable. Talley is a reporter with a nation- wide reputation. His accuracy and honesty are unchallenged. He is not, himself, a communist so his observa- tions will stand until disproved. There is nothing we can do about it. Kentucky's problems of local govern- {ment will continue to be her own. We have some of our own which deserve attention, although we may thank our lucky stars they are not as virulent or as pressing as those afflicting our 109 {Sister state. From it all, however, we may gather a worthwhile lesson. This is to look behind every charge of “Com- munism” to see who makes it and why. Many a bit of selfishness and greed has been hidden by the furore raised by shouting “Red” at those who disagreed with the powers that jbe. Railroad Taxes If the rest of us feel that the tax burden weighs heavily upon us we should have a sympathetic interest in the plight of the railroads. The| federal courts now have before them! @ complaint by the Soo Line railroad against North Dakota taxes on rail- road property. The 30 odd counties through which that utility operates were glad to accept payment of 75 per cent of the amount assessed and let the question of whether or not the remainder shall be paid be decid- ed by the courts. The Northern Pacific railroad, which also operates in this county, {met its taxes when due. Just how jimportant this fact was to this and jother counties is demonstrated in a Statement sent out by that railroad. In 1931 the Northern Pacific paid} in state taxes $196,146.65 or enough to pay the salaries of 65 state officers | at $3,000 a year each. To county| taxes for sinking fund purposes it paid $46,489.07, or enough to pay the interest on $774,817 at six per cent. * For road and bridge purposes it paid to counties and townships $216,- 820.70, which is equal to a three-cent tax on 7,227,356 gallons of gasoline. School taxes paid by the railroad to- talled $712,197.13, enough to pay for @ year's schooling for 7,809 pupils at $91.20 each. The importance of these payments may be realized when it is pointed out that the total is more than five times the amount received, by the State in 1931 from its income tax. When it is further considered that prompt payment of railroad taxes has been a boon to many political subdivisions, which have experienced trouble in collecting taxes from other sources at a normal rate, the import- ance of the collections is further emphasized. With these figures in mind it is} easy to understand why railroads are vitally interested in the tax ques- tion. No one studies it with greater care than they for they pay a con-| siderable share of the bill. In these times, when railroad traf- fic has shrunk and revenues are re- duced, the carriers are using the| amount of taxes paid as one of the principal arguments why the public Should give them patronage. They contend they must have business ii they are to remain in business and if; they go out of business they will quit! paying taxes. The argument is one which every taxpayer can understand. It is worth serious attention. Golfers and woodpeckers are the only birds using their heads to get into the hole. What will the next war do for marches, now that the march king is dead? Japan's clean-up day in China seems to have been extended indefi- nitely. Game conservation came too late to save the lame duck from extinc- tion. “One jazz composer is said to be quite deaf.” We had supposed them all deaf. 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. | Congress and the Country (New York Times) Early in January two prominent Republicans were talking poiitics. One of them asked: “How can we Possibly reelect President Hoover this ar?” The reply of the other was: “We can't, not our party, but the Democrats will do it for us.” At Washington they seem to be doing it to the best of their ability. On Sat- urday Mr. Crisp, the able and honest means committee, stood up in the house and said: “I am seeing my party destroy itself.” That may be Premature. Yet the michief is evi- dently afoot, and the impression made upon thinking people through- out the country has been such as at once to blur the previously bright Democratic outlook. It is not simply that thé Democrats in the house repudiated and humiliated their own leaders. They disclosed a reckless disregard for sound principles of public finance, and this, if persisted in, cannot fail to add enormously to lent Hoover’s strength with the and steady-going people of the United States. The Democrats in make of Mr. Hoover the embodiment of national credit and stable cur- and are a} pparently to be again, the most fa- mous thrusters of greatness upon a “Under the guise of | political opponent. acting chairman of the ways and)’ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1932 The Voice of Jacob, But the Hand of Esau! New York, April 7.—Most of the na- tion hears about the sporadic “red” riots staged in Union Square, City Hall Park, or in Wall Street, but few New Yorkers have made the acquaint- ance of “little Moscow.” _ This is the name applied to one of the most interesting and enthusiastic cooperative experiments in Manhattan or elsewhere, se ® Some years ago, a group known as the. International Workers Order de- cided to have a little city of its own within the great metropolis. To keep from having their lives and affairs pried into and to avoid police atten- tion, they selected a site quite off the beaten path. It was a large area at the upper end of Bronx Park, near the Bronx river. Two complete city blocks were acquired and covered with co- operative dwelling places, save for those areas devoted to courts and playgrounds. x KOK Into this cooperative city moved 3,000 people—and like any small town of such population, libraries, gymnas- ium, meeting halls, dance halls, res- taurants, barbershop, tailor, laundry, ket place and even a print shop were included. Because of the mixed nationalities, bound to be found in such a venture, “home schools” were organized for the teaching of several tongues. Yiddish, English and Rus- sian predominate. One of the particular attractions of “little Moscow” became the men's choir. Some 200 voices, finely trained, were to be heard when last I listened. The population included everything from music teachers to small shop owners, The venture, naturally, required mil- lions and was raised after many years, ee *& Probably the most thorough diary ever written since diaries were invent- ed has been kept by Stella Benson, the English writer whose “Faraway Bride” recently won the medal of the Royal Society of Literature in London. Visiting New York, Miss Benson told about it the. other day before sailing back to China, where she wrote her prize-winner. So intimate it is, and STICKERS AAEEEEFMMO RRRSSUU The above letters can be rearranged to spell out the title of one of Shakespeare's famous plays. Can you do it? we, RABBIT FUR. 1 so filled with commentaries on hun- dreds of famous contemporaries she has met or known that no one of my age is likely to be alive to read it—sad to say. For she has stipulated that it can be published fifty years after her death. The manuscripts have been turned over to Cambridge University and al- ready occupy several crates of jot- tings. x eX | Ineldentally, few beoks have ever jas marked the creation of “Faraway Bride.” life is Mrs, O'Gorman Anderson—was in a Chinese town that was, at the time, under siege thanks to the jlast revolution rather than the recent near-war. | Because she feared that copies might never reach the publisher, she made five carbons and sent all but two in different directions. Two she kept in case the mails never got out. | TODAY | ANNIVERSARY ‘i 0 BRITISH ATTACK SUCCESSFUL On April 7, 1918, British troops | stormed new German Positions on the ter-attack which allied bulletins scribed as completely successful. In another section of the front in Picardy, however, German shock di- visions took Pierremande and Folem- FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: The necessity for reducing is like- ly to weigh on the mind i ‘ ee IS SOLO UNDER od EIGHTY SIX ‘been written under such circumstances | Miss Benson—who in private | Ancre river, north of Albert in a Gon Jae the United States. ‘The danger lies bray after stiff fighting. Pressure on this front, however, was not so great as to be alarming. Two German raids on American trenches near Toul were repulsed with Slight losses to the Americans. Increasing activity on the Lys sec- tor was reported by Portuguese pa- trols and there was some anxiety for the safety of British, Belgian and Portuguese positions if a major Ger- man attack should be directed at them. Turkish troops recaptured Arda- ‘han in Armenia after defeating the hastily gathered Armenian army. | The Soviet government at Moscow | Sent additional protests to Germany jon the invasion of Kursk province by 'German and Ukrainian troops. (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.) The Anti-Saloon League will ad- here to its previously announced po- sition that a vote in favor of sub- mitting repeal to the states would be a wet vote and neither legally nor logically a vote for referendum.—F. Scott McBride, superintendent, Anti- Saloon League. | eee There are only 12,000 Commmunists in the fact that they fish in troubled waters.—Rev. Dr. Edmund R. Walsh, vice president, Georgetown University. xe * The aim of Japan is to colonize iChina, but that is not within Japan's | powers.—Leon Trotzky, exiled .Soviet leader. ee * We prefer married men for the Rangers. We find they don’t mind getting killed—Adjt. Gen. W. W. Stirling, Texas Rangers. ee * I will not agree that the richest country in the world has done enough when it manages to keep most, or even all, of the unemployed just above the line of subsistence.—Heywood Broun, writer. rs > Barbs a ee All 10 members of the supreme court. of Albania were removed for “‘un- professional conduct.” Slowly, but surely, American ideas and American customs are conquering the world. * * # Style experts tell us that print fabrics are to be very fashionable this summer. That will get many a girl into print for the first time. ee % A news item says women in Russia get the same,wage as men. That’s nothing new. American wives have been doing that for years. x % * If conditions in Chicago get much worse, they might as well start look- jing around for another cow and an- other lantern. ee A scientist has an invention which will detect bad milk over the tele- Phone. Now if he can perfect another one for stocks, he will be a real hero. (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.) Adjust Clothing To Weather, Not The Season! By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association The question of the child’s clothing is perennial, yet its importance justi- fies the consideration that is given to it. It is generally understood that chilling predisposes to colds and to in- fections. Prolonged exposure to cold due to insufficient clothing, Dr. Fritz P. Talbot believes, may seriously un- dermine health through diminishing resistance to diseasc. Practically every form of animal life, except the human being, comes into existence with some protection against exposure. The human body at birth lis practically devoid of air and extra covering is needed at once to prevent loss of heat. The temperature of the human body remains approximately at a certain level, even though the outdoor atmos- phere varies within wide limite. There is an internal regulating mechanism bee adjusts the temperature, cooling ithe body by the development of per- spiration from the surface, and heat- ing the body through muscular action. When there is too much heat lost from the surface of the body, chilling occurs, hence clothing is worn to pre- vent loss of heat. * Oe OK The temperature of the skin, Dr. Talbot points out, varies on different parts of the body. It is warmest over the trunk, which contains the large otgans whose activities are so neces- sary to health. The coldest parts of the body are the extremities. When a body is exposed to cold its surface becomes cooler, but the internal tem- safety device for keeping heat in the parts of the body most essential to life. Dr. Talbot emphasizes the fact that clothing which may he correct in weight and texture for one part of the body may be quite inadequate for another. Since the feet incline to be cold perature remains at normal. This is a! 7, WOO! in winter will aid in keeping the feet warm and prevent too much strain on the heat regulat- ing mechanism. ‘There was a time when human be- much easier than other parts of the body, 1 stockings “lings used to change their clothes ac- cording to the season of the year. Nowadays the type and the weight of clothing are adjusted to the weal of the day concerned. ‘People who seldom get outdoors may lighter clothing than those who are compelled to spend much time ina frigid atmosphere. i Lein i By OLGA M. RISE day and Wednesday at the Ed. Lar- son home near Wing. Several from this vicinity attend- ed the farewell party given for Mr. and wa Larson at the Wing hall Wednest evening. Mrs. J. M. Borsheim of Northwood, Iowa, arrived here Wednesday to vis- it her brother, Ole Spilde. Many attended the party given at the Theodore Torgerson home Friday evening. John Gunderson and Hugh Irwin transacted business at Bismarck Sat- . j_ Valdemar, Constance and Catherine Lien spent Wednesday evening at the John Birkeland home. Bill Glanville of Wing called at J. O. Rise’s Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs, Helmer Arneson, Alice Arneson, Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Arn- jeson and family, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Arneson spent Wednesday evening at Stuart Severson’s. | Faye Harvey spent Friday, Satur- day and Sunday at the Willie Olson home, M. J. Brenden, Ethel, Kenneth, Er- nest and Arthur Rise spent Sunday afternoon at John Birkeland’s. The P. T. A. will meet in Lein school No. 1 Thursday evening April 21, instead of in school No. 2 as an- nounced. ‘The annual meeting of the Luther League will be held at the church Sunday afternoon. All members are urged to be present. i McKenzie By MRS. T. T. HUGHES Harry E. O'Neil and Nels Struwing attended an assessors’ meeting in Bismarck Thursday. The school pupils gave a farewell party Thursday in honor of the O. W. Thompson children, who moved to south of Moffit. Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Roeshke, ac- companied by Mrs. M. A. Doucette, jWere shoppers in Bismarck Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Art Bailey and fam- ily of near Bismarck were supper guests of Mr. and Mrs, T. T. Hughes Saturday. H, E. Wildfang of Sterling was a business caller in McKenzie Thurs- day. : Mrs. M. A. Doucette and Mrs. T. T. Hughes were joint hostesses at a farewell dancing party in honor of Mr, and Mrs. C. W. Thompson in the hall Saturday night. Refresh- ments were served to 84 guests. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson were presented with a gift. The high school will give its play in the schoolhouse Friday night. Mrs. George Watson is visiting her sister in Bismarck and is receiving medical treatment. Mrs.’E. F. Easton is ill in the Bis- marck hospital with double pneu- monia. Mrs. Marian Lee called on Mrs. William Hughes Tuesday afternoon. H. E. O'Neill, M. A. Doucette, W. L. Watson and Mr. and Mrs. T. Hughes eae arene her. Macomber } wear much SSS Leo ‘ Olga and Ernest Rise spent Tues-|day were business callers in Sterling Tuesday. William Hughes motored to Bis- _ visit his daughter, marek ‘Tuesday fm, who 4s ill in the Mrs, E. F. Easton, hospital. Biene Ladies Ald, will meet April 13 with Mrs. E. L. Adams. ‘ | ‘ ° By MRS. 0. LARSON ‘The Macomber Homemakers’ club will ‘meet Aprii 16 at the home of Mrs. E. D. McGinnis with Mrs. Wil- liam Ollenburger and Mrs. O. J. Ol- ‘son as a L, ‘All members are urged to be i. Mr. ana Mrs. C. W. Howe were Sun- evening visitors at the E. D. Mc- Ginnis home. Mrs. Ben Ollenburger was the hon-- ‘or guest Wednesday afternoon when friends and neighbors gathered at her home to help her celebrate her birth- day. Mr. and Mrs. William Mickelsen and children, Regan, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Larson, the Misses Charlotte and Ruth Wilmot were supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hollingsworth Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Walker called at the Sid Waddington home Sun- day. Mr. and Mrs. John Dixon visited relatives in Bismarck Sunday. Mr, and Mrs. John Dixon visited relatives in Bismarck Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Danielson and family spent Thursday at the Henry Danielson home. The Misses Charlotte and Ruth Wil- mot spent the week-end at the home of their mother, Mrs. Harry Daven- port, Regan. Mrs. E. D. McGinnis was a Satur- day dinner guest at the V. D. Heaton home. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Ollenburger and son Allan were Sunday guests at the Charles Spitzer home near Baldwin. o | Glenview e ° By VIOLET L. JOHNSON Edger Jacobson visited at the Art Larson home near Washburn re- cently. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Brown and son Loyd, Lester Brown of Painted ‘Woods, and Mr. and Mrs. Con John- son and family spent Wednesday at the Joe Brown home. Burt Monroe, Hans Nelson, Erick Albertson, Al Holden and Millard Ja- cobson were Bismarck business call- ers this week. Mrs. Lars Jacobson visited at the Con Johnson home Thursday. A number of young folks attended the party given by Howard Scott at the Lars Jacobson home Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Erstrom took their daughter Effie to Bismarck Tuesday afternoon to consult a physician. Mr. and Mrs. Al Holden had the misfortune of having their car over- coe while coming from Wilton Satur- lay. School No. 2 started Monday, April 4, with Harry Vincent of Wilton as instructor. The Reynard Spitzer family are moving from the Bourgois farm. Miss Ruth Stenquist visited with Renie Holden recently. | The friends of Maxine Erstrom will be interested in knowing of her mar- riage to Ted Cook of Bismarck. Mrs. Cook formerly lived here. Mr. and Mrs. Mike Kozak had as guests Mr. and Mrs. Sam Halezak Saturday night. Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hochhalter and children of Regan. New York state contains 49,204 {square miles. CHAPTER XLVIIL BELEN had not returned to Dreamland but she intended to. go that evening, The thought of the gaudy, noisy place was distaste- ful to her but she felt a desperate necessity to try to take up the life she had dropped. Dancing—any sort of occupation—would help her forget maddening memories. She must go on with living. So she planned to go to Dreamland. There was no chance of secing Larry there, She knew he would obey her request, Oh, why couldn’t she decide that her. own past was as much her own as was his past? It was the indecision in her mind that was driving her to despera- tion. Late that afternoon she dressed to go to the dance hall. Myra was at the library and Molly was lying down. Suddenly the doorbell shrilled, Ellen glanced at the clock and sighed. She looked into Molly's bedroom and saw that her mother was asleep. There was no escape, 8o she answered the bell, E She had removed her gloves but # left on her hat. She opened the i door and looked down the dark z cavern of the stairs, Suddenly her £ heart plunged. Coming up the 2 stairway, trailing perfume and | wrapped in silks and furs, was z Mrs, Harrowgate. it She kissed Ellen on the cheek in Plaintive greeting. Then, sure of her welcome, she stepped into the living room. “I'll go call mother,” Ellen said. “Don’t bother, my dear. T came to see.” “But I—I have to leave in a mo- ment or so,” Ellen stammered. “Not just now, I’m sure, down, my dear.” Ellen sat down. “Now what’ is this nonsense be- tween you and Larry?” Mrs, Har- rowgate began easily. “You should know that you're breaking the poor child’s heart.” “Did he send you here?” . It’s you Sit Me. HARROWGATE flushed. "For the firat time her magnifi- cent composure was a little shaken. “He didn’t send me—no, In fact he forbade my coming. But I’m not in the habit of being ordered around by my own son and so I told him, He finally agreed with me and even sent you a message.” She opened a soft gray bag studded with amethysts, took out Without reading ft or even glancing at the address, Ellen laid the mes- an envelope and handed it to Ellen. sage in her lap. “Do you mind my saying that 1 consider this whole thing ‘ridicu- lous?” Mrs, Harrowgate said fret- fully. “If Larry had done anything to hurt your feelings—but I’m sure he hasn’t—perhaps your conduct would not be so extraordinary, - As it i> merely to make him suffer for > whim of yours, is childish and rd. It’s cruel!” She seemed for the moment to lack further adjectives, Mrs, Har- rowgate paused for breath, and still Ellen did not speak, “Larry tcould have helped you during these difficult days,” Mrs, Harrowgate continued. “He could have stood by you when you had to face the police and reporters, You should have let him do that. If you hadn’t come to my home that after- noon Fergus would never have dreamed of applying to you for in her heart. The yellow light at the window burned on steadily. The girl turned in at the apart. ment house and walked through the lobby and up the stairs, She could not stop for an elevator. The door of the studio was ajar. She went inside. And as sho entered, Larry stepped through the door from the adjoining rooms that were to have been their home. For an instant he paused—then caught her savagely into his arms and kissed her again and again, Feverishly she pushed his hands away and walked to the window to stare down at the roofs and at the men and women and children stroll- ing in the tiny, dusky park. The children were screaming and run- ning briskly, all of them buttoned into leather Jeggins and little woolen coats. Ellen turned suddenly and re- turned to the divan where Larry help. And then the whole thing| V@ited in puzzled silence. wouldn’t have happened, Larry| “Larry,” she said, “there’s some- feels deeply responsible. That’e| thing I must tell you—something what makes—” “Stop, stop!” Ellen broke in, “Put on your coat,” Mrs, Harrow- gate said firmly. “Larry’s at home now and he’s wretchedly unhappy. I'm going to take you to him, You can patch up this quarrel or situa- tion or whatever it is together, I’m sure it’s too much for me!” “Hurry, child,” she added. “I’m sorry, but I can’t come,” Ellen told her. Nothing Mrs. Harrowgate sald could persuade her, The older wo- man threatened, pleaded, even wept. Always she was defeated by Ellen’s refusals, There was no. triumph in Ellen’s heart at the complete surrender of Larry's mother. There was nothing in her heart except a burning agony. . . poNxe After Mrs. Harrowgate had gone, the girl sat in the darken- ing living room, At last she read Larry’s message, “Tl wait for you, my darling, as long as you want me to wait. Nothing in your past, nothing in your future, can affect what I feel for you. Whenever you want to come to me I will be waiting in the atudio, You can see the light from the street.” That night before she went to Dreamland Ellen walked past the studio. There was a light there. Larry was waiting as he had prom- ised. Ellen stood for a long time in the cold, quiet twilight, She felt that’s been killing me. Larry,” she stammered, “It was Fergus who wrote those unsigned letters to you and ho told the truth—at least a Part of the truth. There was a girl at the house with your uncle when he died. I was that girl, I thought I was married to him—and after. wards the whole thing was such a terrible mess! I ran away rather than face it.” Tears came in torrents, sank to the divan but she outed away Larry's hand and steadily, steadily told him the whole story. She tried to make him see her fear and indecision, her frantic desire 1 Reso Dik love at all costs, “You'll never forgive won ‘give me, I know, “I cheated and lied and excuse is that I loved you peated to risk your hearing anything that might make you love me less,” She was crying bitterly, Her voice hid hoarse and strained with emo- “Now I’m paying for all my Nes! TM have to give you up, to let you go, And my heart is breaking!” eee HE® hair was. disordered, had showered from its pins. Her face was pale and drawn with pain, The ache in her heart seemed to fill pe world, Larry leaned for. ward and gathered her shaki bey into his arms, . “You might let me speak, dar- ling, he said. “My Door, fright- ened little sweetheart! I've known again the sharp and burning pain} all this for days, for weeks—” “You've known it all?” she whis- Pered, utter incomprehension writ- ten on her face, “Was it Fergus who told you?” “You yourself told me.” ” “I mean you tried to tell me at first, After I learned what must have happened I could realize the thousand opportunities you’d tried to make and that like a blind fool T'd closed them to you. You're not @ very successful falsifier, sweet- heart.” “I tried so hard—I did try and then I just stopped trying! I was afraid, Larry.” He held her closer, “Do you remember that day I went out to Long Island?” he asked after a while, She nodded, tightening her fin- gers about his hand, “That was the day I learned,” he Went on, “I was going through Uncle Steven's papers and one of the first things I ran across was his Passport, made out for him and for his wife. Your picture was on that Passport.” “Ob, darling—to learn that way!” “At first it was pretty bad,” he admitted slowly, honestly. “Then T got to thinking and I saw how you'd tried to explain to me, I was Jealous, too, jealous and hurt and Duzzled. But I saw I had no reason to be, Whatever you had once thought you felt for Uncle Steven, I knew you really belonged to me and knew you had been intended for me all along.” “That's true, Larry. That's the truest thing that’s ever been sald,” Ellen interrupted passionately. T've suffered all that you've suf- fered—at least I think I have,” he said, “I knew, Ellen, that some time before we were married, you'd tell me everything. I don't know how but I just knew it.” “Til never deserve your »” Ellen said hoarsely, “I don't care what happens now. I’m al- net od Sverveniag happened just 80 lon; forgiven me.” Eee ent “Don’t talk of forgiveness,” the man said. “There can never be any such thing between us.” She did not answer in words, But she resolved never again to test his loyalty or his trust in her. Si would take them for granted as one of the most beautiful things of life. Kiss me, Hilen,” Larry said, She raised her lips, (TRE END) ra)