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THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1988 The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST APER. SZWSP. (Established 1873) Published by The Bismarck Trib- une Company, Bismarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN President and Publisher, ' Babecription mates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year .......$7.20 Daily by mail per year (in Bis- marck) . Daily by mi outside Bismarck) Daily by mail outside Dakota ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year $1.00 Weekly by mail in state, three fe YOATS .....0s0005 see ‘Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year ............ 1 Weekly by mat] in Canada, per year 3.00 Member of Audit Bureau of 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. Those Constitutional Amend- ments In addition to the referred and ini- tiated measures presented on the bal- lot for the special election Septem- ber 22, there are two constitutional amendments which have drawn only passing attention. The first of these, in the order in which it appears on the ballot, re- lates to the consolidation of certain county offices. It provides that, in counties with less than 15,000 popula- tion, the county judge also shall be clerk of the district court and in counties of less than 6,000 population the register of deeds shall hold that office as well as be county judge and clerk of the district court. No other Offices are affected. ‘The amendment was proposed in answer to a demand for more efficient, operation of county governments and reduction of their cost. In some coun- ties there is insufficient work to keep these officials fully occupied and Many persons contend that one man could easily do the work now assign- ed by law to the various jobs which would be consolidated. The second amendment relates to the manner of performing a purely legislative function, that of reading bills upon which the lawmakers must vote. At present bills are read “at length” when they are introduced and, im- mediately thereafter, are given ‘a sec- ond reading by title. A third read- ‘ing, also “at length” is had when the measure is placed upon its final pass- age. The proposed amendment would Provide for a reading “by title’ when a bill is introduced and @ second read- ing “at length” upon some other day. Reading at length when the bill is up for final passage would be dispensed with, The proposal is one by legislators and is strictly for legislative con- venience. They are asking their boss- es, the people, whether they may do their work in this manner. The argument made for the pro- Posal is that it would save the law- makers many weary hours along to- ward the end of the session when the bills pile up. The bills have been considered in committee anyway and frequently are amended so they are far different trom the proposal orig- inally introduced. Each legislator doesn’t have time to study every bill and so he must depend largely upon committee recommendation. On this basis third reading of bills is a waste of time and an imposition upon the hard-working legislators, There is another side to it, however, which the public can hardly overlook. If bills are to be placed on final pass- ge in this manner, it will mean that many lawmakers will be voting on measures which they do not under- stand. They will not know what the fe put to work as is the case when busi- ness finds it easy to borrow. the liquidity requirement in this in- Stance. It must not be forgotten that immediately preceding the bank holi- day and large number of bank depositors had days it was quick assets which count- Yet there is much to be said for immediately afterward a the jitters. Panic-stricken folk didn't care whether a bank was solvent or not, They wanted their money and the institution which could not pay was regarded as insolvent. In those ed. They determined whether a bank was to remain open or be'closed, per- haps for good. The government had to figure on this psychology in determining its requirements for reopening. Had any reopened bank been unable to meet the demands made upon it, a condi- tion would have been created which would have caused untold harm. For Senator Vandenburg to predi- cate his ideas of what should have been done on normal conditions and normal ways of thinking is patently unfair. Farm Reaction to NRA Announcement Monday of the sev- en things wheat farmers may do with land taken out of grain production clarifies the terms and conditions of the allotment contract. All that re- mains now, before every farmer can determine its probable effect upon his fortunes, 1s the definite announce- ment of the acreage reduction which will be required. Varied reactions among the farm- ers of this area are reported. All be- lieve the immediate payment of the allotment benefit is a God-send be- cause of conditions under which they are facing the winter. They are counting on the money for food and clothes and coal for themselves and their families. ‘There is a latent reaction, however, that the accompanying NRA program is not doing the farmer any good be- cause it clearly is raising the farmer's cost of living. They think of them- selves as consumers and wonder if they can stand the strain, particular- When Everybody Gets More Leisure Time PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE | By William Brady, M. D. | Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease diagnosis, or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped, self-addressed envelope is enclosed. in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, | Letters should be brief and written | i | in care of this newspaper. concerned. fit. channels. ly since some of them have little grain to sell. It is only natural and justified that farmers as well as others should view the whole recovery effort from their own particular viewpoints. If it brings no substantial benefits to any group it is a failure so far as that group is If, as one well-known farmer suggests, it means a nickel for the farmer and a dollar for the other fellow, the farmer has every right to object. In considering the movement as a whole, however, it is necessary to keep in mind that the greatest bene- fit to come from the allotment plan is not the payment of the cash bene- That is important but not con- trolling. The real merit in the plan lies in its attempt to stabilize agri- culture by raising the price for pro- duce marketed through the regular When and if this is done, the government's effort at agricul- tural justified. That farmers are taking the long view of the program is indicated by their expressed willingness to sign the allotment agreement. is called and a check-up made it is impossible to guess what percentage of farmers will give it their support, but it seems safe to predict that west- ern North Dakota will make an ex- cellent record in this respect. Hard- pressed as they are, farmers are not expecting manna from heaven nor the arrival of a Santa Claus, in united action under the allotment Plan and its allied provisions for other leadership will have ‘arm products, an opportunity work themselves out of the wilder- ness in which they have roamed these many years. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show tl trend of thought by other editor They are published without regai to whether they agree or disagre with The Tribune's policies, been Until the roll They see NO REASON WHY A WOMAN MAY NOT SWIM A distinguished physician, Dr. Clelia Duel Mosher, for some years medical adviser of women in Stanford Uni- versity, has one of those “queer no- tions” I am subject to, but she has it in a comparatively mild form. In her fine little book, “Personal Hygiene for Women,” published by Stanford University Press, (and an ideal $1.50 gift for any girl, I should think), Dr. Mosher says: The importance of bathing is also overlooked, especially at the men- strual period. Why should a woman alter all her habits of life so sharply at the time of menstruation? This alone is sufficient to account for many of her symptoms. At the time of her functional periodicity she needs more rather than less bathing, provided...” Here I deeply regret to say the au- thor uses a lot of weasel words that ‘suck the significance out of the whole- some and sane view already expressed. Perhaps her purpose was to let the old fogies down gently. Or it may be that her publishers decided the Doctor's teaching was too startling and she'd have to add on a few hundred words to salve down the old parties who have the most to say if not much to do in Medicine today. Publishers are like that. If you have any clear ideas to impart to the public you had better be your own publisher and take all the blame or censure yourself. Why should a woman change her habits of life so sharply at the time of her functional periodicity? No reason that an intelligent person can express in unequivocal language. And hours labor. At 31, second baby born by Caesarian section. Now at 33 well | and strong, but have slight rupture; near incision. Is it possible to have another child (of course by Caesarian) as long as I have this rupture? (Mrs. B. R. 0.) Answer—Yes, the second, third or fourth section is rather easier than the first. Perhaps the rupture can! be repaired at time of the section. A Saving of 90 Per Cent I had been buying a $5 medicine for anemia, when I saw your article on “Iron for Pale Weak Women.” I had the medicine you recommended put up} —at a cost of 50 cents—and it has al- ready done more good than several bottles of the expensive stuff. More- | over my doctor says your formula is| Just as good... (Mrs. J. R. P.) | Answer—I said in the article that | an ounce of iron-and-ammonium-ci- | trate in a four ounce bottle filled up| with water, dose a teaspoonful after food three times a day for two or three months, is as effective as an organic or hifalutin iron preparation | can be. (Copyright, 1933, John F. Dille Co.) Vitamin D, necessary in the diet to| Prevent tooth decay, is contained in| spinach, cabbage, eggs, milk and cod; liver oil. | The Bull Moose Party received its | name from the remark made by Theo- dore Roosevelt—‘I felt as fit as a bull moose.” | There are about 2500 miles of navi- | gable canals in the United States. why should she change her whole at- titude and her philosophy or her way of thinking at this time? The woman at this time may bathe, Dr. Mosher says, provided care is taken to prevent chilling of the sur- face, and provided she gradually ac- customs herself, without fear or worry in regard to consequences, to rational bathing at this as well as other times. That's too bad. I have recom- mended Dr. Mosher’s book to a great Many young women who sought essen- tial knowledge and sound advice on the subject, and I'd reluct to discour- age any girl or woman from enjoying @ swim or a bath whenever she might wish to go in. All these to whom I have recom- mended the book and others who have yet to read it should know there is no sense in that quaint idea of get- to bills contain and so will be in no posi- tion to make independent judgment. In effect they will be voting merely @s they are told and this is a bad situation in a democratic form of Sovernment. What could be more conducive to boss control of the legis- lature? A better system would seem to be to demand that the legislature so manage its affairs as to avoid last- minute jams. They are unnecessary except as a result of legislative Pro- crastination. The men who drew the constitution assumed that every law- maker would know what is in a bill before he says yes or no. The citi- zen of today has the right to expect the same thing. Warehouses for Money Arthur Vandenburg, junior senator from Michigan, criticizes the hand- Ung of the national banking crisis with the comment that many solvent banks found the requirements too strict for them to reopen because they could not immediately turn their assets into cash. The emphasis, he said, was on liquidity rather than solvency, the effect being to make banks merely warehouses for money. Beyond question there is consider- able ground for this opinion. If a bank, whioh represents the central- ization of the community's money, is to act only as a storehouse, bustness in the community suffers. A/ large share of the community's resources Ue idle abd are not permitted to be trust. Six Months from Moley to Tugwell (Chicago Tribune) In the beginning there was Prof. Moley, and he was the whole brain On the day Prof. Moley resigned a new name, Later came Tugwell. ting gradually accustomed to bathing or to swimming or to going in the water. I mean so far as health or one can enjoy it. hygiene is concerned. Any girl who is not feeble-minded ought to know enough to come out when she is too cold to enjoy the water any longer, or to stay out if the water is so cold no that of Dr. Dahlberg, the pink and green money man, came to notice. A little less than,six months saw the rising of Dr. Moley’s sun and the go- ing down thereof. In that time Prof. Moley demonstrated, among other things, that he was not particularly well equipped for a diplomatic career; but on the whole it may be said that his influence in the administration has been wholesome. His voice has frequently been raised in behalf of moderation. His mind was discip- lined. When he was told about a pot of gold buried at the end of the rain- bow he generally asked what rain- bow, which end, who said so, and how did he know. Often Dr. Moley must have added, “So what?” Without Dr. Moley, it seems probable, a great many schemes for reorganizing every- thing into particularly small pieces might have been undertaken. Almost from the start it was said that the other brain trustees were go- ing to get him. Whether they got him or he got himself is a matter about which there may be debate in any girl, child, woman or man may safely decide for thonself at any time or in any circumstances whether thon will go in swimming or take a bath. By the same token No one but an idiot needs a doctor or any one else to caution care about such a question. I hope that when Dr. Mosher re- vises her excellent little book she'll delete the Saireygamp stuff from the third chapter. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Fitted With Zippers At 29. First baby born dea iter 34 China’s population totals more than | IN l NEW YORK BY PAUL HARRISON New York, Aug. 31—The gypsy tribes that make their winter quar- ters in New York have remained through the summer in greater num- bers than ever before. This is partly because the fortune-telling business has remained good. Romany axiom to the effect that the less money a superstitious man has, the more anxious he is to spend it to be told that he’s going to get rich.) Another reason is that the kidnaping epidemic has made gypsies less wel- jcome than ever in the hinterland, (There is an old 475,000,000. | . ry HORIZONTAL Answer to Previous Puzzle 6 Minor note. ] 7 Exists. 5 Firt name of & Cognomen, ie) Blin © 9 Day the famous SIEM UNIAL BOE | 1d Above. was; Dero in ALE IRI 11 Polynesian she aleture. 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Tugwell is at the plate. long before the pink and green money man, Dr. Dahlberg, will replace him? who's next? And after Dahlberg. Where is Zack Foster's place in jpatting order? Meanwhile the departure of Dr. Moley must raise the question in many minds whether Prof. Tugwell now succeeds, and, if so, how long Moley tried to stretch a single into a two bagger and is out at sec- the HOW DID How THE NAME CHICAGO ORIGINATE? the many ‘medals VERTICAL 1And —s were estab- lished in the mountains in his honor 2To express gratitude, 3 Soft mud. 4 Beer. 5 Melody headband. 39 Opposite of aweather, 41 Bridle strap. 42 Gold Coast negro. 43 Exclamation, 44 Short letter, 45 Soft brooms. 47 Gibbon. 50 Japanese fish 52 Postmeridian 53 Toward. LT NT Tt ETT TN WS ST PT TN ENN FT A me EE NET Potential child-snatchers. Since horse-trading has gone out of style, the Romany men, when they do anything at all, swap automobiles. One habit the gypsies haven't aban- | where they're looked on by many as | always rent basement or ground floor store rooms, partition these off with gay draperies, and hang out weather-beaten signs suggesting that you “Learn Thy Future"... The men Stay out of sight, somewhere, and the women sit in the doorways, attracting patrons. Some of the women,| bangled, earringed and wearing a half dozen or more flowing skirts, are quite beautiful. But sidewalk Lotharios have learned that it isn’t healthy to tell them so. Although such establishments are Scattered pretty much all over town, most of the gypsies live in the Balkan quarter on the lower east side, around Avenue A, Grand and Broome streets. Some of the biggest automobiles in town are to be seen in that squalid district, many of them belonging to| the gypsies themselves, others to wealthy women who go there for fortune readings. ' eee. BIGWIG ‘GYPSIES’ | Not long ago the word was noised around the Romany Ghetto that a/ 2000-acre estate up in the Catskills had been set aside as a sanctuary for gypsies. It was a place called the Gypsy Trail Club, ran the rumor, with | streams and forests and hills, with| Places for camping and tribal coun- cil fires ... Worth an investigation, anyway, 80 half a dozen families piled into their cars, together with chil- dren, dogs, guitars, tents, shawls and skillets. Sure enough up near Car- mel, N. Y., they found a series of Gypsy Trail signs with encouraging arrows. At twilight they drove into @ wooded place that would delight any wild and migrant heart. Fires soon twinkled through the trees, and Balkan melodies caressed the hills around ... Architect Wiley Corbett heard, and so did Philip Le Boutilier, and R. Andrew. Reinhart, the archi- tect, and Louis Cates, the copper mag- nate, and Frank Hawkes and Bernt Balchen and a lot of other men you've read about. Some of them went down from the clubhouse to ex- Plain the situation to the unbidden i mi J SYNOPSIS Young and pretty Patricia Braith- wait becomes engaged to wealthy, middle-aged Harvey Blaine te re- lieve her father’s financial situa- tion. She hopes in vain that hand- some Jack Laurence, whom she met ence—and the only man she ever wanted te kiss her—will res- cue her from Blaine. In despair, she turns te Jimmie Warren, her Aunt Pamela’s husband. They become in- fatuated. Aunt Pamela blames her- eelf for leading Pat to believe she ne longer loved her husband. The fear ef lesing him makes Pamela realize how mach she really cares. Finally, Jack arrives. Pat learns he is the sen of wealthy Senator Lau- tence, whe was kidnapped a few years age when he went to Mexico te investigate his father’s property. Pat tells him he is too late as she loves Jimmie but Jack refuses to acknowledge defeat and a bitter rivalry develops between the two men. For days Jimmie avoids Pat. Unable to stand the strain, she de- termines to have an understanding with him and asks him te dance with her. Overcome with emotion, Pat faints in Jimmie’s arms, He is conscious of everyone's stares. When Pat comes to, Jimmie repri- mands her for making fools of her- self and him. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX “Please, Jimmie, I've got to talk with you.” “No,” he said sharply. She lifted her head, blue eyes flashing. “I will, or you'll carry me out.’ “All right,” he said grimly, and began moving toward the door. So absorbed had he been in his passion; that he had not before realized that he and Pat were objects of gossip and wonder. Those secretively smil- ing eyes had revealed the truth to him. With a sense of shock it came to him that without doubt the whole colony was whispering. And if he left the pavilion with her in the midst of the first dance—it simply wouldn’t do, And yet, he had heard the determination in Pat’s voice. He knew she was quite capable of pretending to faint. What was Pam. thinking? They had reached the door. “Pat,” he can't——_” “Hello Pat,” Jack’s cheerful volee greeted her. He had come in while they were dancing, and arrested by the sight of their faces, feeling sure they would make a break, hoped to dis- tract attention from their exit by’ going out with them, if possible. To his surprise Patricia returned his greeting with enthusiasm, “Hel-| lo Jack. I’ve been looking for you. Come on take me out in the air. It’s beastly hot in here. Thanks Jimmie, Jack will take me out.” Warren relinquished her with mingled relief and rage. She gave him a look of anger and triumph as if to say: “Well, there are other men who are glad to take me out.” Warren made his way back to their table to wait for Pam who was still dancing. From beneath lowered lids her somnolent eyes had taken in the scene at the pavi- lion door and she breathed a prayer of gratitude for the watchful ten- derness of Jack Laurence, He was began, “I simply always on hand at the right mo-|head on his breast, sobbing and ment. “What am I to do,” she thought, The horrible pounding within her bosom that gave her no rest, enough skilled operators Conrad of Tin Pan Alley and Holly- wood, discovered Jackie Cooper. Years ago the youngster’s mother was Con- rad’s secretary, and he begged her to try to get Jackie into the movies... Needy artists have hit on the idea of renting their pictures, at 5 per cent of the sale price a month, to people who want to impress their guests... Tillie Losch, the dancer who has the! loveliest hands in the world, is fond of recalling that she first danced to guests, and for awhile it was almost j nip and tuck whether the gypsies or the Gypsy Trail members would vacate the estate. ‘The Gypsy Trail Club, it might be fe ig doned is staying close to earth. They wae Pee ee & ODD CODE-EXEMPTION Meanderings: The factory that prints those NRA stickers you see itt. everywhere isn’t working under the president of the label company, sign- ed the agreement, then had to ask exemption from it because orders started code. Mr. Sidney Hollaender, coming in for lots of several illion each—and he couldn’t hire hurdy-gurdy in the streets of Vien- na... Shy John Jacob Astor, 3rd, had a party planned for his 2st birthday, but fled to the White moun- tains with an aunt when publicity and pictures threatened to mark his in- heritance of part of the old Astor | fortune . lunchers at the Algonquin the other day, H. L. Mencken, Rex Béach and | pa McEvoy made scurrilous remarks a eral. Irvin Cobb sat there quietly and took it. He has just done his first mystery novel. +. At a table of literary ¢_mystery-story writers in gen- cy I want to be an evangelist; I've helped so many men make fools of themselves that now I want to help save @ few of them—“Tex” Guinan, night club hostess. xe e Threats, intimidation, compulsion, boycotts, blacklists and suppression of opinion were never contemplated by the NRA and therefore have no right- ful place in the picture —Al Smith. * Oe OK I feel that our chances of going through with this marriage are bet- ter than those of people of the same jage. Divorce statistics bear me out. —Dr. Arthur S. Baker, 51, of Los Angeles, who married a 14-year-old aS 8 | I don't want a job, and I wouldn't | work if I had one.—Clarence Darrow. | ** * Punishment as a means of discip- line has been popular because it Con | quires no imagination on the part the parent.—Dr. Douglas A. Thom, Boston educator. Mail to 8 member of the U. 8. House of Representatives should be addressed to The Hon.; that to 2 senator should be addressed to Senator, etc. FLAPPER, FANNY. SAYS: i | dl Leal It’s in the long stretch that) the sandman overtakes you. ! ~AZ MAC But years had taught her to smile while the heart broke, to talk of gay, herons Row things, every nerve +3 ly pulling to the strain of it. Angry blood darkened Arthur's pale face. “My God! Mrs. Warren, how can you talk like that. Even if you don’t care for him, you're a woman. Don’t you care at all? Why don’t you stop it? . Everybody’s talking.” Oddly, she was not angry at him. Rather, it relieved the strain she'd been putting on herself. “What can I do?” she said in a low voice. “Pack Pat off to her father and set the whole colony laughing at me for getting jealous of a flapper? Besides I couldn’t do it. Her father left her amply provided with money. She has as much right here as I have.” “No, don’t send her home,” he said hastily. “Just tell them both where they get off. They know that’ ‘in the end the whole thing is up to you. He can’t divoree you just be- cause he’s lost his head over an- other woman. All you’ve got to do is to give him hell and tell both of ’em where they get off.” She laughed without mirth. “Pat's not used to being told where she gets off, as you put it, She’d simply tell me td go to the devil.’ And Jimmie can’t be handled in ‘that fashion.” “I wish to God we lived in the days when men kidnapped women and married them out of hand,” he stormed. That night Pamela wrote Mr. Braithwait that she thought ur- gently he should come and get Pat. She didn’t explain, but made it clear that he was needed at once. On their way back’ to the hotel Jack suggested a picnic breakfast on the beach where they had first met. He bought a whole chicken, having the man unjoint it, fruit, rolls, a big thermos of coffee and hardboiled eggs. Hungry “as bears” by the time they reached their ren- dezvous, they proceeded at once to set the tale on newspapers also bought en route. After breakfast they took off their shoes and waded into the ocean to wash their hands. “I had a wire from Dadums last night,” Patricia said when they sat on the sand to rest. “He’s coming back —any day now. He has de- cided to come here for me instead of having me meet him in New York.” That change of plan troubled her, “Will you live in New York?” “I don’t know. Dadums wanta to take me to Paris to study art.” “You'll like that, won't you?” “I don’t know. I did want to go terribly.” She looked into Jack’s eyes, a hard steady light coming into her, own, and said calmly, “This is the first time in my whole life that I ever dreaded to see my Dadums.| He’s the kindest, sweetest, dearest ——” she broke off, her eyes hold- unblinking She flung her arm over her face and dropped into the sand, weep- ing bitterly. He sat staring down at her a moment, then reached out and drew her up into his arms. She did not resist him, but rested her He was not surprised by her break. He had seen how near she ‘was to it for days. And his heart and which she sometimes thought|throbbed in painful joy that she must soon wear her heart out by sheer overwork, was pushing at her breath, so that she talk- ed with difficulty. She dreaded the + impending scene when she must return to the waiting man at her table. She feared the watching ey of Sa penile, How can he shame me 80! ‘had turned to him in her agony of confusion and despair. He held her close, making no ef- fort to soothe her, nor questioning. When she was ready she would hi it all out. Now, tears were Just tears. Heavy, bitter little-girl tears. He steeled himself to meet what ‘ Ele eaten Scie ible Se ar DONALD FEATURES SYNDICATE, fNC. he knew was to be the hardest moment he could ever have. After a time she began talking, as he had known she would. Talk- ing. Talking. Punctuating her speech with long dry sobs like » child that has cried itself to sleep. “My Dadums taught me never to look for ugly things that might fasten themselves onto me if I even so much as looked at them. At school I never talked with the other girls about — nasty things —I al- ways got out. I wouldn’t read nasty books like — some of them did —T didn’t want nasty things to fasten oneo me——. Then Aunt Pam told me all about what a nasty world it is. People getting married and not lov- ing each other any more. Even her and Jimmie. And I’d always thought they were both so beautiful. And about girls marrying nasty old men for money. And it was the only way nice girls could get money if they were poor—and everybody thought it was a nice way to get money. She told me Dadums had kept things from me. Made me think he’d deceived me about everything and had brought me to Palm Beach to get money for us that way. Oh, I was just all to pieces, and I've been all to pieces ever since. She didn’t mean it, I know. She meant to help me. But, think of being married to that old vermin of a man. Old and ugly. and beastly. ‘She told me to take him—to keep my Dadums from starving. You see why I fell in love with Jimmie, don’t you?” she began weeping anew. “Yes, dear, 1 see all too clearly.” His throat was so dry that the ‘words rasped harshly. “I know Aunt Pam doesn’t care. She as good as told me she was so bored with him she half wanted to die. It isn’t her that worries me. It’s Dadums. He’s so —well, you know what I told you about our plantation — and how Aunt Pam’s father got a man who would have paid fabulous money for it —and what he did——” “Yes, dear.” “Don’t think I teli everybody about that,” she went on, “I don’t. But — you didn’t get to meet him and—I’m so proud of him. So vain of him. I wanted you to know what kind of a father I have. And it seems to me that one thing tells everything about him. “It does.” “I could tell you a thousand things. All through our lives.” “That one is enough.” “Well—I’m—so afraid he'll be upset about—about my loving Jim- mie. Oh, I do love him, Jack. I love- him so much that it’s eating me up in here.” She drew herself out of his arms and beat her breast with a small clenched fist. “I didn’t want to love him. Or any other man, But——” She stopped, her throat working, and with a stony face fin- ished, ‘but my Dadums.” It seemed to Jack that every drop of his blood was pounding against the walls of his sxull. The ses went red. The muscles of his arms ached. He had known all along, of course, but to have her put it into words —to witness her suffering was, he felt, more than man should be called on to enduss, His years of slavery, monctony, filth, starvation with every bone and muscle crying out in agony, the loss even of hope as time went on, had been a child’s troubles as compared with this. There must be a way, though, he reflected grimly. If I could get him in a card game, and let him catch me cheating—he would blurt it out —it would form an obvious reason for my killing him. (To Be Continued) © 1952, by King Features Syadicate, Tne, wera ¥ @ ty * - e cy