The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 7, 1936, Page 6

; Ought to give a truer ring to battle cumin Veena ge . 6 : The Bismarck Tribune PIONEER BANKE An Independent Newspaper H THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER } (Established 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper Published dally except Sunday by The Bismrack Tribune Company. Bis- marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mall matter. Mrs. Stella I. Mann President and Publisher Kenneth W Simons Sec'y-Treas and Editor Archie O Johnson Vice Pres. and Gen’l Manager Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier per year Datly by mail per year (in Bismar Daily by mai} per year (in state outside of Daily by mail outside of North Dakota . Weekly by mail in state per year Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year . Weekly by mai! in Canada, per year Member of Audit Bureau of Cireulation Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press 1s exclusively entitled to the use for republica tion of the news dispatches credited (o 1% or not otherwise credited in this Newspaper and also the loca! news of spontaneous origin published herein ‘All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. “cial ee eee ae ; Two Approaches Members of Bismarck’s school board did well to present to the taxpayers of this community the problem which they face because of the general failure to pay taxes. It is one which should be Considered well and carefully RIGHT NOW lest the service to Bismarck’s school children be curtailed or the board be driven by circumstances into wasteful and uneconomic practices in operating the school district’s affairs. Members of the board are correct when they say the credit of the school district is good. Right now they can borrow money on advantageous terms. But let them borrow to meet oper- ating expenses and, unless a turn for the better follows closely afterward, the district is headed for the same kind of disaster which already has befallen many others in this state. When the eredit of a political sub-division is used over- much, as the school district’s credit will have to be if present conditions continue, it soon changes from good to bad, just as is the case with the individual. As a result, interest rates slowly mount. It costs more to run the schools on this account. Other costs mount also, for the inevitable tendency is to borrow as little as possible and Jet bills go unpaid as long as possible. The result is an increase in the prices of things the school district buys, because sellers are not inclined to shave quotations if they know they must wait for their money. A political subdivision can live beyond its income for a longer time than is true of the individual but the end is inevit- ably the same. It is summed up in one word. BANKRUPTCY. The pecular thing about this condition is that there is an easy remedy. It consists merely of the application of good citizenship to a common problem lest our failure to act now result in a much worse situation later. THE TROUBLE IS NOT IN THE FAILURE TO LEVY #3NOUGH TAXES. IT LIES; IN THE FACT THAT NOT ENOUGH TAXES ARE BEING PAID; THAT TOO MANY PEOPLE WHO CAN AFFORD TO PAY THEIR TAXES NOW ARE FAILING TO DO SO. The reason for this, it is only fair to say, lies deep in the wells of human nature and in the moratorium on the applica- tion of penalty and interest to delinquent taxes which, in all frankness, have made it better business not to pay than to pay. This is not an attack on the moratorium. That it met a really distressing situation is undoubted. No one can get blood from a stone and many erstwhile taxpayers are hard pressed to keep themselves and their families alive. It was these who cannot pay taxes that the moratorium was intended to help. But one law must apply to all and there is no denying the fact that it is good BUSINESS not to pay taxes under existing circumstances. Imagine, for example, the position of the man who pays $1,000 in taxes annually. He probably has uses for the money. In his hands it may earn him as much as 10 per cent. That is $100. Why should he pay his taxes and lose that $100 when he doesn’t have to do so? That is the cold, hard-boiled reason- ing which many have applied to the situation. And when the approach is from that direction the conclusion is inescapable. But there is another angle of approach which deserves con- sideration. That is from the avenue of GOOD CITIZENSHIP. Seen from this standpoint, the man who can pay taxes and xefuses to do so is guilty of a moral dereliction. He violates the doctrine of individual responsibility for the welfare of the com- munity. He becomes a poacher upon his neighbors who DO pay their taxes. What suggestions will be made by the committee which is to be appointed by the Association of Commerce cannot be prophesied. How to approach the matter effectively it is dif- ficult to say. f But, whether or not it can be applied, the basic remedy is plain. It lies in attempting to revive, in the hearts and minds of those who can pay but Kaven’t, the feeling of responsibility, the recognition of their obligation to support the community whose services they and their children and their neighbor’s children enjoy. IF THOSE WHO CAN PAY WOULD PAY, THE IMME- DIATE EMERGENCY WOULD BE MET. Even now we face a long-time tax problem of great mag- nitude. Many lands are so encumbered that some way of re- ducing the tax burden upon them will have to be found if they ere to remain in productive private hands. This is particularly true of farm property. But it is not true of city property. Business has been good in Bismarck. Property here has been productive. If it weren’t ‘we would not have the extensive building now going forward here. It can afford to pay taxes. If the old conditions were restored and a premium were not being placed on tax evasion, tax collections in Bismarck would now be on a par with normal times instead of only 40 per cent of the usual figure. The liner, Queen Mary, has four of the largest propellers ever con- equalling in sise some of those employed as night club bouncers. ‘With so many families hauling homes behind cars, reckless motorists housebreaking. j ask that church bells be melted down for bullets, which rem z ‘Twelve of every 2% cents spent on cigarets goes for taxes, and the rest steak 1h Eee Se ia oie beten Sa A a ess ot OF GRAND FORKS, A. HUNTER, DIES Native of Indiana Became One of North Dakota’s Out- standing Men Grand Forks, N. D., Dec. 7.—(P)— A. I, Hunter, 76, pioneef banker and business man of Grand Forks, died Monday morning. Born in Freetown, Ind., July 29, 1860, Mr. Hunter came to Grani Forks in the fall of 1882, After wora- ing for four years in a money loaning office he went into the business of shipping and handling purevred horses. In 1896 he organized the Red River Valley Brick corporation and had been president of that business since its Inception. Mr. Hunter also had extensive farming interests and ope- rated a loan office in the early 1900s, In 1910 he went into the Union Na- tional bank as cashier. Two years later the Union bank bought out tne First National bank, retaining the latter name. Mr. Hunter served as cashier until 1914 when he was elect- ed president of the board of direc- tors, In July, 1929, the ‘First Na- tional merged with ‘the Northwestern National and Mr. Hunter became chairman of the executive commit- tee, t He¥married Alice C. Bailey of In- dianapolis, Ind., Feb. 6, 1889. They had one daughter, Dr. Alice Hunter of Grand Forks, a graduate of the University of North Dakota. Mr. Hunter was a member of the Elks lodge and of the Modern Wod- men of America. He attended De- Pauw university at Greencastle, Ind., from 1879 to 1880. While there he became affiliated with Sigma Chi fraternity. Funeral arrangements been announced. have not ELETYPE BRIEFS“ KING'S PLANE IN PARIS Le Bourget, France—King Ed- ward's private plane is under guard in a military hangar here —tuned for instant service, it was learned Monday. The plane was brought here last Friday. SCORE STEEL FIRMS Washington—The national labor board Monday charged the United States Steel corporation and its sub- sidiary, the Carnegie-Illinois Steel corporation, with interfering with the self-organization of employes at the subsidiary’s 21 plants. The board will hold a hearing on the complaint Dec. 17. GULDAHL WINS Les, Fla—Stocky Balph Gul- dahl, of St. Léuis, won the $2,- 500 first prize Monday in the seventh annual Miami Biltmore open tournament. OIL COMPANY LOSES Washington—The British-American Oil Producing company. a Delaware corporation, lost Monday in the su- preme court in its contest against paying taxes to Montana on crude oil produced from a lease of Blackfeet Indian reservation land. The com- pany sought to enjoin collection of taxes, EMPIRE COST SMALL ‘Washington—George A. Ball; a grey-haired midwestern manufactur- er, told senate investigators Monday he had paid only $275,682 for stock controlling the $3,183,285,000 “Alleg- hany System”—part of the vast hold- ings of the late Van Sweringen broth- ers of Cleveland. FIVE FOUND DEAD Fayetteville, Ark. — John Butler tound three women and two men dead in a cabin at his tourist camp two miles north of Fayetteville Monday under circumstances which led inves- tigators to believe they had been asphyxiated. HUGE BOMBER CRASHES Seattle.—The 16-ton army bombing plane, UB-17, nosed over Monday un- der a test flight at Boeing field. No one was injured. EVANGELIST SUED Los Angeles.—Rheba Crawford, as- sociate pastor of Angelus temple, was named ‘defendant Monday in a $100,- 000 slander suit by a temple worker who charged she accused him of mak- ing love to Aimee Semple McPher- son, The suit was filed in behalf of Ernest Thomas Eade, scenic artist at the temple. BAR SALES SOUGHT Williston, N. D.—An initiated ll- quor ordinance permitting on sale of liquor across the bar, was being sought Monday by a. group of Willis- Not everyone who needs help is grabbing for everything he or she can get from public relief agencies. That was the observation Monday of G, A. Dahlen, Open Your Heart campaign chairman, as he reported on one of the first cases in which did was extended to needy persons by the annual Christmas relief agency. Open Your Heart headquarters in the World War Memorial building by a rural school teacher and were in des- perate need of clothing. Of six chii- dren in the family, two were ill. Such help as could be had from that source was taken from the stock of clothing there, still too meager to be of great use. Then the children were taken to a local store where they were outfitted with underwear and other necessaries. When the American Legion com- mittee, headed by Mrs. Harry Bern- stein, began checking up on other possible needs, the mother said she didn’t want to ask for too much “be- cause theré are others who need help too.” “This proves that most of the peo- ple who need help are the same fire folks we have always known as friends and neighbors,” commented Dahlen. “It proves to us that not everyone in need of help has the in- stinct to ‘chisel.’” With his organization all set up and ready to go all the Open Your Heart campaign needs to begin operations on its usual scale is donations of cash and material. LIONS HEAR OPEN YOUR HEART TALK Clothes, Money to Buy Wear- ing Apparel Needed Most, Says Vern Miller Changing demands of Bismarck’s less fortunate population were out- lined here Monday by Vern Miller, member of the Lloyd Spetz’ post of the American Legion, in an address The applicants were brought to, Everything usable is welcome. Things need not be new to be accept- able. If they can be repaired and made usable the American Legion will take on that job. Send Toys Now Is Open Heart Plea If you intend to give toys to the Open Your Heart campaign do so at once was the plea Monday of American Legionnaires in charge of this phase of the annual char- ity drive. The reason, they explained, is that it takes time to repair and repaint toys and they would like to get volunteer workers on this project started at once. If people wait it will create a last-mniute rush to get this work done, and as @ result, many poor children will have to go without Christmas toys which would have been available to them if the gift had been received in time to be ie Persons having toys or other items to donate are asked to tele- phone 2294 and arrangements will be made to call for them. Cash is particularly needed since in the outfitting of children it is neces- cary by buy many items, particularly shoes, stocks and underwear which most children wear out and of which the committee receives few donations. BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN Ig RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN Mike — Yes, “but I notice she paints, Arthur—Well, did | you ever see an angel that wasn’t paint- ed. Stingo—Did you know Johnny got married? before the local Lions club on the Legion’s seventh annual Open Your Heart campaign. ‘| Where food has been the largest needed item in some of the years, this year it is clothes and money to buy wearing apparel, he said, The reason for this is that many of the men are employed on WPA and other government agencies which gave them necessary cash for edibles. He outlined the history of the Christmas drive and enumerated the different things that the organiza- tion has set out to accomplish this year. County school teachers are co- operating to see that deserving rural families are not missed, Miller said. The Open Your Heart headquar- ters in the ‘Legion club rooms at the World War Memorial building will be open every day from 9 a, m, to 6 p. m, until the week before Christ- mas and from 9 a. m. to 10 p. m, the last week, he said. He was introduced by D. E. Ship- ley, who announced that a benefit boxing program would be staged at the Memorial building Dec. 15, pro- ceeds of which would be used in the charity campaign, _A committee, composed of Fred Pe- terson, Glen Vantine and Al Simons, was named to assist in staging the annual children’s Christmas party at the city auditorium. Instead of the regular noon lunch- eon next week, a stag party will be held by the Lions, satrting at 7 p. m. Monday at the Grand Pacific dining room, it was announced. Guests of the club were J. M. Castle of Sioux Falls and Emil Strand of Belfield. ‘We seem to want mediocrity from professors, judging from their sal- aries, I think we get too much of it.— Prof. John Ise, University of Kansas. ton eltizens in opposition to the city’s proposed measure allowing package sale only. Hold Clough Rites In Indiana Monday Funeral services for W. L. Clough, retired Methodist Episcopal minister who served congregations in North Dakota for some years, were held Monday at Rochester, Ind., where he died Friday. Burial also was made at Rochester. The late Mr. Clough was the grand- parent of Mervin Clough, 213 Wash- ington 8t., south, and the father of Harry R. Clough of Park River and Mrs. N. L. Smith of Park River. He also leaves his widow, another son, four other grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, None of the North Dakota relatives attended the funeral. COURT REFUSES RULING Miss Coo— Yes, I read about the thrilling wedding this morning. Stingo — Whet silly things some people will do to get their names in the papers. Jack—So your engagement to the banker's daughter is off. I thought you said she doted on you. Harold — She did; but her father proved to be an antidote. ‘Teacher—Now, Janey, can you give me Napoleon’s nationality? Janey—Course, I can. ‘Teacher—-Yes, that's correct—Cor- Betty — Why don’t you use that comb I gave you? Martin —I love it so much I can’ part with it. i Percy—Do you exercise after your ‘bath, or before it? Jimmie—After, I usually step on the soap when I get out of the tub and dance all over the place. Barber—How shall I cut your hair? Customer—Without saying a word, Please, Many children of today are over- fussed, over-coddled, and probably over-doctored. Largely as a conse- quence, they seem in a great measure to be lacking in those qualities of self- reliance which were found more often in the harder conditions of life of the past.—Dr. G. K. Bowes, Bedford, Eng., school doctor. ‘WARREN PIONEER DEAD Grand Forks, N. D., Dec. 7.—(P}— August Lundgren, 81, pioneer resi- dent of Warren, Minn., died at the home of @ daughter here Sunday. > 2 Eminent Novelist s LJ \ | HORIZONTAL Answer to Previous Puzzle called attene 1.7 Author of (TERIAL ICTUINICIOIIN] issireee “ 's Ieee 13 Street. ahd Ss [Plt eR MEM] IRIE|OMMO[BIO[E] 15 Lured. , Cabin,’ EINIATTIE MMR NIOIT] 17 Senior, 11 East Indian [STA}C Tk) 19 Makes plant, ai sonitery, 12 Laséo knot, ipper. [i] 23 To peruse. 14To manufac 25 Pile. ture, 27 Glided. 16 Plunders. Pit] 29 Mast. 18 Drunkard. = 31 Region. 19 chee and paerats PEA aaa 33 Not as fast. four. re) 35 Pertaining te 20 To declare. LIAWIVIEIRIST [elolVieln! 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Lundberg and Hobert Lundberg were being heard here Monday afternoon follow- ing the selection of the’ jury in the morning. The civil action in which Bentz seeks to recover damages for a wrecked automobile was the first jury case on the December calendar of the Burleigh county district court, which here last Tuesday. Bentz was represented by ‘W. C. Cull of Garrison and the law firm of Dullam and Young appeared @s coun- sel for the Lundbergs. Jurors chosen to sit on the case were Harold Zuraff, Sterling; Price Owens, Bismarck; John Harms, Men- oken; Philip Solberg, Bismarck; John Merkel, Arena; Fred M. Brown, Wil- ton; L. B. Olson, Driscoll; P. D. Holmes, Menoken; D: D. Barkman, Arena; Glen Baker, Menoken; Mrs. Oscar Brostrom, Wilton and August Beich, Goodrich. No civil or criminal actions have been set for trial at the completion of the present case bieng heard before District Judge Fred Jansonius. MRS. SCHILLING DEAD Minneapolis, Dec. 7.—(#)—Mrs. Wil- liam Schilling, 60, of Northfield, Minn., died Monday in St. Mary’s hos- pital, from injuries suffered Nov. 14 when a car in which she rode over- turned near her home. se, nooo Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. ——_—_— t not ais- Dr, Brady will answer questions pertaining to health but Ta ‘py, case of dingaosls. Write letters briefly and in ink: H s Brady tn care of The Trigune, All queries must be accompanied by stamped, self-addressed envelope. : NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY AND PNEUMONIA adulls In a previous talk we pointed out that both underweight young able of mature age (over 35) are more susceptible to pneumonia ahd less capt of recovering from the illness than are normal persons. Underweight and overweight, however, are by no means the only tae cations of faulty nutrition or nutritional deficiency. Perhaps the an ‘mild, Jority Of individuals whos uffer from nutritional disorders, wheth: ti latent functional degree or as a clearly defined nutritional disease ear ing characteristic organic changes, are neither underweight nor overwe ae From experimental observation of study, animal feeding ete investigators have inferred that shortage of vitamin A in the daily food m be accountable for increased susceptibility to or rather failure to develop sufficient immunity from the cri. In case you haven't heard, the eri ee means any respiratory infection before its specific nature‘can be clam that is, in the stage when ignorant and vicious folk indiscriminately peddl the infection among all who come within conversational spray range, the while they try to excuse themselves for the crime by pretending it is ‘just @ slight cold.” Although I have been eagerly seeking practical evidence that vitamin A in adequate amount helps to maintain good immunity against respiratory in- fection, I am bound to\admit I have not yet found ary convincing evidence, and I am beginning to doubt whether deficiency of vitamin A occurs at all in this country, ‘although I know deficiency of vitamins B, G, C and D are quite common even if not recognized or diagnosed or suspected by the physi- cian, So many common foods in the form or condition usually ingested contain vitamin A that it seems unlikely that any one should get insufficient vitamin A, unless his diet is extraordinarily rostricted. A six months old in- fant gets a thousand units of vitamin A in a quart of milk. Yolk of egg, banana, spinach, butter or cream, etc., supply additional vitamin A. To- mato juice, fresh or factory (vacuum process) canned, supplies about the same amount of vitamin C as orange juice and about six or seven times as much A as does orange juice. I believe shortage of vitamin D, which is almost universal in infancy and probably far more frequent in childhood and adolescence than has been recognized in the past, may be the vitamin factor which is concerned in im- munity to the cri. A teaspoonful of fish liver oil contains 300 units of vi- tamin D and 2,000 units of vitamin ‘A, Perhaps this fact accounts for inac- curate inferences from the use ‘of fish liver oils for the prevention of and treatment of respiratory infections. In practice there is more convincing evidence of the value of vitamin D for this purpose. I should advise vitamin TWO HOMES BURN ' D instead of vitamin A for any one who is unduly susceptable to respiratory &t. Paul, Dec, 7—(#)—Fire destroy- ed two homes here Monday, forcing occupants to flee in sub-zero weather. One house caught fire from the other. SOUTHERN GENERAL DIES Los Angeles, Dec. 7.—(?)—Veterans| of the Confederacy mourned Monday the death of Francis G. Downey, 101, infection, —— QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Tan ‘What ingredient can be added to cold cream and easily rubbed on the body, to help the sun’s rays to tan more quickly? (A. R.) Answer—I do not know. Some physicians believe vitamin D applied to the skin increases the effect of ultraviolet irradiation, Whether it would in- crease tanning, I have no way of learning. southern general in the Civil War, (Copyright, 1936, John F. Dille Co.) Copyright by Mabel Osgood Wright CHAPTER Vi—Continued —l— angrily, in fact, he was so pre- occupied that only a small part of what she said reached his conseious- ness, Waiting until she had quite finished he sat folding and unfolding the napkin on his knee. “Yes, I can believe all that,” he said at last. “‘ather has had noth- ing more important than his home life to fill his mind—while the best energies and perceptions of the most. successful men are given to their, work, With father it is different you may not realize it, m7 dear, but, pleasant as he is at home, father has always been a failure.’”” “Then, Emery, with all my heart and soul I wish that you might fail as he hi and leaving the table quickly, yet without show of vulgar, petulance, Eleanor went te the emp- ty nursery and “throwing hersejf on Tommy's ‘bed sobbed herself into a heart-broken fitful sleep, as the child himself might have done. “Strange how women at times seem to take pleasure in lashing their emotions,’’ was Emery’s men- tal comment. “I fear the outcome of this unavoidable visit will make an unwholesome break in the toutine for us all.” oe © © © © “There are several parcels that cannot be packed in the trunks, Shall I send them to Westover by express?”” Eleanor asked Vance, early in the week. “Not if you must have them by Christmas; the terminals Nake prec- edence in‘a rush, and Westover is on a branch line. I will take the automobile and the things can go with us. If we leave promptly at three o'clock we can reach The Glen in time for supper without going into Westover at all. " “Couldn’t you possibly get off at noon on the twenty-fourth, Emery? The children are so anxious to have you help to dress the tree. Your mother has told them how you used to do it with her, and I really think she still has some of the same decorations put away. They would be broken-hearted if we should be late.” “Leave at noon? Certainly not! Give an inch, take an ell. It is impossible to satisfy my family; it seems to me that leaving the city at all is a sufficient concession—"” “Not a concession on your part, Emery, do not forget that, but an emergency which overtook us, and your mother’s welcome was a loop- hole through which you crawled —| how much to my shame I never dreamed until I felt her arms about’ me. One ‘hing .more, do you in- tend to drive that car ycurself? You may have forgotten that some weeks ago Brown asked for two days’ absence at Christmas to be with his family.” Eleanor snappy, Eleanor sitting in judgment upon him — Emery ‘was astounded. ‘More demoraliza- tion! Yes, I had quite forgotten Brown,” he said. “I will get a special man from the garage, for it.promises to be too cold for me to undertake so long a trip—though, after all, it might be done without @ chauffeur, for Darrow is taking up some painting truck for a week’ stay at his home, and he was fus: The Stranger at the Gate By MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT Even then Vance did not retort!ready WNU Service but instead they dragged along shod in lead. The trunks were to be rly on the morning of the twenty-third, and, as the maid came ,in to finish the packing, Eleanor bade her leave one particular trunk; aie she wished to pack person- ally, Spreading all the things upon the floor,, Eleanor knelt beside them, fingering the trunk lid with an al- most caressing touch as she opened it. It was a wide, shallow affair with a single tray, and on the ends were stamped the initials of her girlhood. In a flash her mind flew back ten years to the day when, kneeling in the same way, she had packed this same trunk for her wed- ding journey, her uncle-father half playful, half tearful, standing be- side hery Why did her hands trem- ble so? It almost seemec it this time she was preparing for an equally important journey, but from which there was to be no happy return. In her absorption she looked up through big tears that You Might Fail as He Has.” hung to her lashes, half expecting to see her father there once more, but it was The Stranger who had paused on the threshold of the open, door, when she had thought that he was writing letters in Vance's den, “Tired, my child, and lonely also because the children are away?’’ he asked, his voice clinging tenderly to the words as stooping to lift her he led her to a chair. Then Ihe closed the trunk and locking it handed her the key. Strangely thrilled, yet‘soothed, by his touch, Eleanor sat, half crouch- ing and dumb, her hands clasped, until as he continued standing be-' fore her as if expecting her to speak she raised her eyes to meet “After first youth goes, is there ing so about its transportation that T’ve asked him to join us.” - forms’ ibe BER FEE 4 j ing that he could work miracles, begged him to give it life. Crying out and sayi ‘Master, no one in the whole worl 80 desolate and sad as I.’ Quieting her, he re- pli ‘Before I may do that which you ask, go forth and before eve- ning bring me pounded maize from a tribe where there has been no death.’ "The woman set out and all the day went from tent to tent, seeking the maize, but night fell and she had not found it. Then returning she bowed her head and said: ‘Master, I understand.’ “As for love, Eleanor, heart- rooted married love, it does not die with youth, but grows stronger with the years, even as the tree is stronger than the sapling. Yet oft- entimes when love ceases his first impetuous boyish clamor, through carelessness he is shut out, then the Gate of Understanding is the only way for his return.’” Eleanor’s head drooped lower and lower, until she hid her face with her arm. “It seems that I was born to loneliness,"” she whispered half to herself, half to The Stranger. ‘My mother was unhappy also, for my father grew estranged and went away, no one knew where, and died far off, before he even knew that I was born, and, though I've often thought and read about him, I do not even know his face, for there is no picture. “How do I know all this? It is written in this little red book that my mother left to talk to me in her place, when she knew that she must go. See this is mother.” And Eleanor drew from her waist an oval locket that held a miniature portrait done on. ivory. As she spoke in broken sentences, hesitating as if uncertain in choos- ing her words, The Stranger sud- denly strode toward her, stretching out both arms, then as quickly dropped them at his sides, while his words rushed from his lips in a@ new tone fraught with such a note of human passion, that she was startled and shaken as by an elec- tric storm. “You are not single in your agony, Eleanor.’ Then the voice, though clear, dropped as if for only her inner self to hear, “Nor do you yet know the keenest suffer. ing. To be misunderstood is cruel, but to misunderstand love and never ‘snow the truth until the gate is forever closed, that is the very depth!” CHAPTER VII ‘The twenty-fourth of December!, Eleanor looked at the calendar con- fronting her from its silver frame on the top of her writing desk; looked lang and steadily at the numerals printed heavily in red that marked the next day. What was it that had come over her? It seemed to her that she was being drawn toward some crisis in her life. Now as then she had set every-. in order, freed her desk - drawers of litter, burned old letters, tying and sealing in a packet a few that it seemed akin to murder to destroy. Her long fur cloak and other wear for the cold ride, down to the smallest detail, was spread upon her bed, yet it was but eleven o'clock, four hours before it would be time to start. ‘The telephone rang, once only, but the sound put Eleanor in such a panic that she dared not answer the call lest it might be to say ‘Then her mind turned to her hus 8 Coa | o