The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 19, 1935, Page 4

4 The Bismarck Tribu - [ An Independent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper ehind the § Scenes 4 in Washington | WITH RODNEY a Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- marck, N. D.. and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck Rs second class mail matter. George D. Mann President and Publisher Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Gecretary and Treasurer Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year .. Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarcl Daily by mail, per year (in state out Bismarck) Daily by mail outside of North Dakota . Weekly by mail in state, per year her by mail outside of North Dakota, per 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. Inspiration for Today Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.—St. Matthew 16:37. It is easier for the generous to forgive than for | the offender to ask Skdbneaad .—Thomson. Should Do It New One of the causes of the disaster which wvertook North Dakota’s wheat crop this year twas the failure of the government, upon whom more than half our farmers depended for seed, to get this seed into the hands of the men who meeded it AT THE PROPER TIME. It was not the only cause, to be sure. The ‘season was two weeks late and some farmers Were not ready to seed before the grain was available to them for that purpose. Neverthe- Editor's Note: This is the second of a special series of stories telling exactlv how lobbies work and what part they play in the government at Washington. | Washington, Aug. 19—Want to be a lobbyist and make big money? Well, come on. Sign up and go to school. Not only is tuition free, but the school pays you while you learn. It trains you, provides you with the best possible inside and outside connections, puts you in touch with prospec- tive clients, and opens up spheres of influence which will be invaluable after you graduate. The three big schools for lobbyists whose diplomas command the most respect are: The government service. The Democratic party. The Republican party. * ‘EARN WHILE YOU LEARN’ Lobbying, politics, patronage and the practice of law here are all closely intertwined. Embryo lobbyists, pre- pared for their jobs at taxpayer expense on the federal payroll—in congress or the executive branch, pour out of the federal service into private office buildings to sell their prestige and influence by practicing before the government of which they were recently a part. Their efforts seldom work to the advantage of taxpayers and consumers, With every change of political control, a new batch of political lawyer-lobbyists sets up shop. National com- mitteemen march into town, establish “law offices” and begin to charge all the traffic will bear to represent any- one who is after anything. Law partners of senators and other officials come to town with like purpose. Every executive who leaves a federal job to enter lobbying here leaves many friends behind—including some who owe their jobs to him—who can be depended on to be friendly. (Smart clerks in the right places can work wonders for a lobbyist.) What with this and the o | fact that he is supposed to know his department inside out, the business world comes flocking to his door. One hears that it means at least a million dollars | worth of business to any law firm which can hire an ex-attorney general. . eee THE BIG PARADE If you ever counted sheep in an attempt to fall asleep, you can envisage the rate at which bureau of in- ternal revenue attorneys—from general counsels on down —jump from the governmet into tax practice here. Consider the celebrated local law firm of Covington, Burling, Rublee, Acheson and Shorb, which practices be- fore all federal law courts, departments and commissions. Its members, able lawyers, doubtless would resent being called lobbyists. Yet they include: Mr. Covington, an ex-congressman from Maryland. Mr. Burling, a former chief counsel of the U. 8. shipping less, had the seed been available earlier, millions of acres would have been much nearer to matur- Sty when the rust came than was actually the tase. Many fields woud have been well worth gutting which it has been necessary to abandon. On the basis of present conditions, it will hot be necessary for the government to make weed loans next year unless it should develop that the shrunken, shriveled grain from the rust-smitten crop is not sturdy enough to serve for that purpose. If that proves to be the case, the fact should be ascertained as quickly as “possible and provision made for getting seed {nto the hands of our farmers during the winter 80 that they may plant it at the earliest possible time next year. When he was manager of the Bank of North Dakota, the late C. R. Green defined a poor farmer as one who “sows all summer and har- vests all winter.” The truth of that remark Was never more aptly proved than this year when the early-sown crop came through in much better condition than that which was town later. The theory, according to many farmers, has held good for flax as well as wheat. One Burleigh county man said recently that his early-sown flax will go 15 bushels to the acre. His late-sown flax he will not even tut. The planting dates were only two weeks part. In addition to providing seed where this Wear’s crop proves lacking in viability, a defi- tite effort should be made to conserve for seed ll the grain from those strains of wheat which have proved rust-resistant. Despite the fact that the Ceres variety failed to justify the hope which had been held for it, there were some »thers which made relatively good yields. Among these were various Hope-Ceres frosses, tested out at the various experiment stations in the state, and a variety known as Thatcher. Of these the latter seems to have ‘been most widely grown and best adapted to propagation for early general use. The Marquis strain seems clearly to be on the way out. Ceres made only a little better tecord this year. It is clear that our plant ex- ySerts must provide us with better varieties if ~ is not to cast a perpetual blight over the nd. It took millions of dollars from North Da-| Kota pockets this year. The result should be to encourage renewed hostilities against the com- mon barberry, which acts as its winter host in the north, and to stimulate the development of new grains which are more resistant to its rav- ages. There is no time to waste. This year may mean the end of the drouth cycle. But even if this is so, rust remains a major obstacle. The best remedy, according to present knowledge, is earlier planting of grain which is more rust- resistant than any generally used this year. The Consumer’s View Still before congress is the Guffey coal bill, described by its supporters as salvation for the bituminous coal mining industry and labeled by its enemies as a device to throttle competition and perinit the mine unions and the operators to unite in gouging the public. The average citizen doesn't knw whether it is either. He needs must form his opinion from what he reads or hears in a casual way rather than from intensive study. There are too many other things calling for his attention. He may get some idea of the bill’s importance, how- ever, from a survey made by George H. Cushing, described ‘by enemies of the bill as a “nationally known coal eco- Momics authority.” He says that passage of the bill twould mean an increase of $1 a ton on the price of coal in North Dakota and, if the full demands of the miners’ union were granted, the additional cost would mount to $150 = ton. Applied to North Dakota’s production of board. Mr. Rublee, a former member of the federal trade commission, Mr. Acheson, a former undersecretary of the treasury. Mr. John Marshall, a former assistant attorney general. (These men represent various big in- terests, such as the du Ponts, the Chemical Foundation, and the Van Sweringens.) And just lately the firm has acquired the services of John Laylin, the treasury’s legal assistant who wrote the gold clause brief for the courts. Another example is the firm of John Q. Tilson of Connecticut, former Republican floor leader in the house under Speaker Nick Longworth, which “practices before all boards, commissions and departments.” This one in- cludes an ex-assistant chief of the bureau of internal revenue, an ex-special assistant to the attorney general, an ex-assistant to the comptroller general and an ex- secretary of the federal power commission, eee A DISPUTED CASE Many local law firms, in addition to the top-rankers, house mysterious “fixers” of nebulous status. Mr, Axel B. Gravem, a Norwegian who got his legal education at Oxford and was known as “a friend of the Duke of York,” was attached to the Tilson firm. The senate munitions committee heard that Gravem had offered to secure from 10 to 15 million dollars worth of work for a shipbuilding concern if he were paid $250,000, though the deal depend- ed on still another “fixer.” Gravem denied this and a perjury investigation involving him and the three wit- nesses who accused him still languishes in the local dis- trict attorney's office. On many occasions it has been obvious that federal jobholders had either landed themselves on the federal Payroll to do some inside lobbying or were feathering nests for themselves by being obsequious to certain in- terests. This happens in Republican or Democratic ad- ministrations, to the disgust—usually ineffectual—of liberals and progressives in both parties. eee FAVORITE SPOTS NRA was a paradise for such “inside lobbyists.” It was jammed with officials who made it their business to put through codes highly agreeable to industries over the shrill protests of labor and consumer advisers. These men always exhibited a splendid spirit of cooperation when the paid lobbyists came around, AAA is still infested with representatives of proces- sors and distributors camouflaged as servants of the pub- lic, But that state of affairs there is nowhere near as smelly as it was in the early days under George Peek, who thought he could pack his ranks with men from the food industries and the middleman groups who would be glad to give farmers and consumers a fair break. Once upon a time Charles J. Brand of the National Fertilizer association was co-administrator of AAA. ‘The tariff commission has a notorious history of be- ing packed with lobbyists, although the most conspicuous ones have been weeded out, and those who remain are not nearly as influential as they used to be. Most of the tariff lobbying is done from the outside now. The shipping board in the department of commerce is commonly considered to be loaded with friends of the ship operators. Admiral Hutch Cone, its former chair- man, resigned after Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ewing Mitchell—later himself forced out—had preferred 23 charges against him, mostly alleging favoritism. One could go on like that indefinitely—and even tell about the power company people who have had charge of municipal power plant projects in the supposedly pure domain of Secretary Ickes. But perhaps you get the idea. There are many honest officials who aren't unduly swerved by lobbyists. But some of them find life hard. More than one has lost his job because he wouldn't “play ball.” NEXT: Democratic lobbyists and Republican lobbyists. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) able pile of money. ‘The fact that Mr. Cushing represents those opposed to the idea may have something to do with his figuring, but even so, the matter is one which our congressmen and senators should look into carefully. Everyone is in favor of miners making a decent wage and of mine operators making fair profits, but no one wants them to wax fat at his expense. An increase of a dollar a ton in the price of coal would mean a real hard- ship for many North Dakota people. A man in a midwest city was shot in an argument over the proper amount of liquor to put into a Tom Coltins. An improper amount had already been put into the men. ee, . French scientists have discovered that Eskimos in Greenland prefer broccoli to blubber. And here we thought we had found a brand-new substitute for spinach. ooe Dinosaur eggs discovered in Mongolia have a mar- ket price of $5,000 each. However, after paying trans- portation costs there and back, a U. 8S. housewife wouldn't save a thing. eee Oil royalties are coming back in bigger amounts to the Osage Indians. But here’s one place where Farley can’t get a thing out of it. The Indians don’t vote. eee New York magistrate disposed of 705 cases in three the state’s coal bill by a similar figure. Certainly a size- | The Dark Outlooks | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, AUGUST 1Y, 1935 (© 1905 NEA OLITICS | - at the - NATION'S cannon, | The recent tax gyrations in con- gress further emphasize the general bewilderment which has surrounded this issue ever since Mr. Roosevelt de- posited it unexpectedly on the door- step of the capitol. It would be difficult to recall any piece of legislation which has had a more baffling career. Perhaps it was the heat, or the humidity, or perhaps it was some deep and devious form of political action, the true purport of which only history can reveal, Whatever it was, the simple facts leave the ordinary mind staggering and wholly non-plussed. Surprise has followed surprise, and the reasons for much that was done still seem to be effectively hidden even from congres- sional understandings, If ever a bill was drafted and push- ed toward enactment in an at- mosphere of confusion, doubt, cross- purposes, and general fogginess, the tax bill is it. xk * A Few Questions Why did the president, without con- sulting his congressional advisers, suddenly disrupt adjournment plans by asking for the taxes on wealth? Why did congress, after universal- ly agreeing no action could be taken this session, suddenly decide to act in three days, to meet the June 30 fiscal deadline, and then as suddenly aban- don that plan? Why did the house draft and pass a bill differing widely from what the president had requested? Why did administration senators, after asking indignantly what the house meant by departing from the | White House recommendations, re- write the bill to depart far more widely from them? Why did the senate committee un- expectedly vote to tax low incomes, and then completely reverse itself 24 hours later? ‘These are only a few of the ques- tions which almost no one has even attempted to answer. x ke One Move Clear Of course some things are obvious. The reasons why the senators backed away from the lower income tax brackets, after their initial sally in the direction, are clear enough. No politician ever could have sup- posed for a moment that in a pre- campaign year congress would ac- cept a@ bill raising taxes for a very large percentage of voters. ‘Then why were these taxes voted by the committee in the first in- stance? No one has questioned the motives of Senator La Follette, who proposed them, but it is of record that several of his seconders were sena- tors who were against any tax bill at all. If any more effective way of scut- tling the bill could have been devised, no one has been able to think of it. It was apparent the house would not take the proposal under any terms, and had the senate, by some miracle, agreed to it, the result would have been the death of tax legislation in any form. *k ® A Possibility Such an attempt to sabotage the president's entire tax program may or may not actually have been involved; conclusions are hazardous considering the state of mind which prevailed generally in congress. But the pos- sibility is an interesting one. The impression conveyed to many of those on the sidelines was that a fair proportion of members, on both sides of the argument, were in con- HORIZONTAL 1,5 Author’ of “Pride and Prejudice.” 0 To offer incense to. 12 Rod. 18 At no time. 14 Snaky fish. 15 To exist. 16 Wayside hotels |¢| 21 Alleged force. 22 Italian river. , 23 Ferocious. 26 Demonstration 28 Slovak. 30 Verb. 48 Stockade. 50 Child. 31 Types of coal. 5) Gazelle. 33 Hail! i 4 Perforates the ft een skull. 36 To reconstruct Be Sailer ie! 38 Rootatock. - 29 Weird, 56 Her original 40 Corpse. 42.Precept. 44 To pierce with a knife. 45 Postscript. 46 Beam. al for her Born. hours. Some included men who,tried to dispose of a3 many cases in less time. New Massachusetts law defines a bad egg. so the 1,447,304 tons of annual production, that would increase | police won't confuse one with a respectable citizen. gy ml ECCem Uae iajeic] 2° To lay as 0 OM REiaRarar 1OlB/O}E! ity was unusu- 9 Northeast. 11 Southeast. i 15 Per. VERTICAL 17 Nay. 2 Skin disease. 18 She won last- 54 Neuter English Writer 19 Sea eagles. er riaale 20 Walker. street. @ rector. 24To ein. 25 List. 26 Complete view of a region. 27 Fastest. 29 Refined women, 31 Tree. 32 To daub. 35 Butter lump. 37 Eye. 41 Starch. 43 Seed covering. 44 Iniquities. 45 Piece of poetrt 47 Ye. 49 Portuguese coin. 50 Three. 52 Measure of area. taj RUSH fe] HOLT VIN ISIE SIT] 4 To envelop. 5 Pertaining to air. 6 Squanders. 7 Digits. 8 Measure of cloth. ing fame as pronoun. \aae (NUE siderable doubt themselves eae what they really wanted. Perhaps it was the heat, or the humidity. Probably nobody ever will know. Devorce cases are becoming much more numerous in England. In 1913, 557 divorces were granted in England ‘and Wales; for the first three law terms of 1933, the number of petitions in London alone totaled 2800. I] Your ur Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. | Dr. Brady will answer questions pertaining to health but not dis- ease or diagnosis. Write letters briefly and in ink. Address Dr. Brady in care of The Tribune. All queries must be accompanied by @ stamped, self-addressed envelope. THAT EIGHT POUNDS HANDICAP Among the first things that people notice after beginning a salt-poor marked increase in urinary excretion for several days and ofter. decrease in the size of the hands, feet and ankles bese patients ought Mra ply adopt the salt-poor diet when they know that up to eight pounds of their weight may be lost by omitting salt from the food. My son, who lived on a selt-poor diet in college last year, found thai his weight increased four pounds on a Sunday spent away from his diet The salt-poor diet, however, improved his sinus trouble, thus verifying Ull- mann’s findings. (C. Ulysses Moore, M.D., F.A.CP., of Portland, in North. west Medicine, Dec., 1932). Dr. Moore is a noted child specialist and an authority on nutrition. Dr. V. Ullmann published a book (Macmillan) in 1933 on “Diet in Sinu: Infections and “(I reluct to say) “Colds,” in which he points out that mosi people consume more than-half an ounce of salt a day and suggests a diet for sinus patients which reduces the salt intake to little more than a tea- spoonful a day. The body requires less than half a teaspoonful of salt ¢ day, which is obtained from nati foods, The simplest way to try a salt-poor diet is to reject any dishes or items to which salt has been added in cooking or preparing and to eschew the use of salt as a condiment. Numerous authorities geil us that an ordinary mixed diet, including milk, cereals or cereal products supplies enough if any kind, milk or butter or cheese, and eggs naturally contain Tt is not advisable to attempt to follow a salt-free diet, ex- under medical care. But a salt-poor diet is perfectly one and may give considerable improvement in health in a variety of troubles. Items to be excluded from the salt-poor diet: Table salt, salted butter. smoked meats or fish, ham, bacon, sausage, sardines, herring, caviar, etc., ae Preserved olives, salted nuts, salted crackers, salt sticks, pret The salt-poor diet should include these items: A quart of milk with s half-pint of fresh cream daily—preferably raw milk from tuberculin-tested cows or Certified milk. Buttermilk, cottage cheese, cream cheese, fresh sweet (unsalted) butter, all kinds of vegetables and relishes of course with- out salt added in cooking or at table, tea, coffee or cocoa, sugar preferably brown or crude unrefined or honey or maple syrup, whole wheat bread o1 rye bread or raisin bread with lima or soy bean flour content, (the breac should be made without salt), not over a pound of meat a week, and 6 ounces per week of sweetbread, brain, kidney, liver or fresh fish, plenty of fresh fruit or dried fruit, marmalade jelly, preserves made without acids. ‘Why carry a gallon of water in your tissues when you don’t need it anc the water-logged state only interferes with metabolism? QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Cold Pack I notice you specify factory canned tomato juice to get the full benefit of vitamins. Would cold pack canning of tomatoes or tomato juice make the product equal to factory canned in vitamins? (H. A. T.) Answi if the can or jar is heremetically sealed before cooking In the factory the can is sealed before heating. This prevents oxidation. which is destructive to vitamins, A Orange Peel Thank you for mentioning that the inner portion of orange peel is sometimes beneficial in intestinal stasis. It has proved exceedingly so ir my case. I chew thoroughly the peel just under the outer skin, from three or four oranges daily, and never require any other laxative now . (S. A. F.) Answer—Probably that’s where the vitamin B is. It is not necessary to take so much roughage in order to get a large daily ration of vitamins McCarrison believes many of the digestive disturbances of people who dc not call themselves sick but who take various remedies for “sour stomach,” “morning mouth,” headache, constipation, etc., might enjoy better healtt. if they got enough vitamins. (Copyright, 1935, John F. Dille Co.) BEGIN HERE TODAY JO DARIEN, Snishing her fret year ta college, learns her tather ts out of work. Je hunts feb and secures part time work tn a marine supply store. There she meets wealthy, handsome DOUG- LAS MARSH who offers her the fob of hostess at bis ine at Crest Lake. Jo accepts. This causes = quarrel with BRET PAUL te whom she ts coe Jo breaks the engagemen e goeg to “crest Lake, ser ts felons ef Joe's popularity. the PETER FRA- papi Upped te marry eee ped ‘cam ‘secure & He gece to reaising (Good Lord, Jo! ston is just a good friend, and Douglas Marsh is only my em- ployer.” “Does your work include having |my dinner with him at the Lone Tree Tavern?” “Bret . . .” Jo put a hand on his arm. “Bret, let's not get started on that again. Besides, you've been listening to the verands chorus, I'm afraid.” “I haven't been listening to any- thing,” Bret said. “I'm not alto gether blind.” He turned to her suddenly. “Jo, I don’t want to be unpleasant every time we meet. But it hurts me te see you acting like this.” “Hurts you?” repeated Jo, be wildered. | He nodded. “Of course it does. Do you think { could love you as much as—as } did NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXV Se NIOYING the moon, Jo?” This time the gir) recognized the voice as belonging to Bret Paul. With another stride Bret stepped from the shadows of the path and into the clear moonlight reflecting up from the shimmering “I was just going to walk along the shore of the lake,” Jo told him with a cordial smile. “Want to come along?” . He hesitated the fraction of @ moment—long enough for Jo to sense that he had other plans. But he managed at last to say, “I'd like to very much, Jo.” She smiled quizzically. “Perhaps you'd better not, Bret, if you have an appointment.” “I haven't an appointment,” he answered stiffly. “Babs said she might take a walk tonight, and I told her I might run into her, that’s all.” Jo was somehow enjoying his discomfort thoroughly. “Well, if we should meet her there’s no rea- son why we can't make it a three some hike, is there? Or do you think three and the moon is a crowd?” Bret fell into step with her. “Don't start kidding me, Jo. I don't feel like being kidded.” “Ob... .” she put surprise into her ejaculation. “Then it’s that serious?” “Don't be a tool,” he told her roughly. “You know darned well /70u I've never been serious about Babe Montgomery. Only a fellow gets mighty lonesome up here, Jo.” “Lonesome? With all this mob?” He nodded. “Oh, it's all right for you. But I don't belong, and I a want to, really. I'm just the guard. “And I’m just the hostess,” Jo laughed. “But you're a girl, and a darned pretty one. You've all the men chasing you, so of course you're not lonely.” “Not all, Bret,” objected Jo wits fe laugh. eee EN he answered, his voice was touched with faint anger. “Do you want any more? This aviator fellow, and Marsh —and this crazy Fragonet .. .” “That’s not quite true. Bret. [lt agmit that Mr. Fragonet has been © little—well, silly. But Todd Bar- and not care what you do now?” “That's true, Bret.” admitted Jo slowly. “That's why 1 don’t want our friendship to be spoiled, ever. But somehow we seem to be unable to avoid arguments.” She ‘looked out across the lake for a silent mo ment, then added, “If you could just believe in me, Bret. Why can't you now? You used to believe in me.” “You've changed,” he told her quickly. “I don’t believe you real- ize yourself how much you've changed—and that’s what makes it hurt all the more.” Jo faced him squarely, and when she spoke again her words were slow, careful, méasured. “Perhaps I have changed. Do you really think a girl could be just the same after what happened, Bret?” “What do you meant” “I mean I loved you, Bret. I doubt if you ever realized how much, because I don’t think any man ever realizes how much @ woman loves him. He's so wrapped up in himself, so intent with his own love—” She stopped. biting her lips, “Bret, I’@ have followed you anywhere, I'd have done any- thing in the world for you. [ thought there wasn’t any man in the world quite like you.” “But, Jo—” eee ssPLEASE let.me finish,” Jo i terrupted. “I thought there wasn’t any man in the world like you, Bret—and then you walked in- to the apartment that night and showed me you'd take the word of someone else against mine.” “You'd Hed to m> already.” Bret reminded her. “You told me you had to work, and then I found you'd been dancing with Marsh.” “I know, Bret. I'm not trying to. explain why I've changed. 1 lied to you, I think, because I was all confused. I'd never bad to have s fob before, and then suddenly job was the most important thing in the world. But you wouldn't listen to me even for a minute that night—” “I didn’t want you to come down here,” Bret said quickly. “I had to come, don’t you see? And when I did come you were finished. Do you remember what you said?” Bret nodded, as though he did not want to hear the words re peated. “1 remember, Jo.” She was silent a moment, and then went on again. slowly. “I didn’t feet like living. Bret. 4 sup pose that was the most terrible night Ul ever spend in my whole lite, But.» .” she smiled up et: him bitterly, “the morning came— and I was still alive. I was still alive and I had to go out and start fob. It was a shock at first when I'd stop and realize that there ‘were hours, even whole days, when I didn’t think of you at all, Bret.” “You don't need to walk on the body, Jo.” “I'm not trying to be cruel. But. don’t you see a girl can’t go through a thing like that and be the same? Don’t you see that when she comes out of it she’s—she’s a little harder than before?” They walked along the lake then for eeveral yards before either spoke egain. Finally Bret said, “Perhaps you're right, Jo. But that doesn’t explain your actions down here. ['ve known what's been be tween you and Fragonet, and—" “There's nothing at all between us. He wants to divorce his wife and, so he insists, marry me.” “A thing like that doesn’t come out of the blue sky.” Bret said. “He must have had some reason.” “Do you mean to say you think I encouraged him?” asked Jo. “Maybe you didn’t encourage him, exactly, but—” be stopped. “Tell me this. Fragonet’s going to be up here again. What do you propose to do?” “Do? Why, I'll just go along as I have been.” “You won't refuse to see him?” Bret wanted to know. eee j° shook her head. “I couldn't tefuse to see him, Bret. You can’t avoid a man in a place like this.” “Perhaps you'll even return to Hollywood with him?” suggested Bret. For a moment Jo was too in- censed to speak. Bret’s continual barrage of questions about Frago net had made her increasingly angry. And now his insinuation that she would carry on what Bret obviously believed to be an affair— “Perhaps 1 will.” Jo said, meet- ing his eyes defiantly. Suddenly Bret grasped her shoulders in his strong fingers, brought her nearer to him. “Jo, I want you to leave Crest Lake be fore Fragonet arrives.” That, Jo told him quietly, was impossible. “And please let go of me, Bret. I’m going back to the Inn.” “I won't let you go until you've promised me that you'll leave this Place before he comes.” Startled at the fanatical gleam in Bret’s eyes, Jo had difficulty in fiuding her voice again. But then ber anger mounted once more and she jerked herself flercely from uis defend myself. {'m only trying to| grip. “Bret Paul, you've gone insane,” she told him hysterically. “I'l leave Crest Lake when I’m ready and not a minute before.” “That means only one thing to me,” be answered, glaring at her in the balf-light. “It means. “You don't have to tell me what it means to you.” Jo replied quick- ly. “tt could mean only one thing to you. And I think we'd best keep away from each other in the future.” -Bret rushed toward her along the th, and before Jo could protect It he had taken her roughly in bis arms. “Jo—Jo, there's no use in my trying to pretend. I still love you, and I guess 1 always will, That's why ['m so insane. That's why ! can’t stand to see you chang: ing like this.” (To Be Continued)