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' TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1925 Story’ PRAS ce CHAPTER x6. | Philip Weinrich. She began think- The soft Jouy hangings at the ing of Philip, wondering if she would windows blew gently back and|be able to clude him, and wishing conversely, that he were there. “I say, how long do you intend to play the part of the poor work- ing girl," the young man asked. There was, she discovered, a strange fascination in his eyes, which were refreshing breeze. te linén was forth with the The bed with its deli spread open, ready for Amoura_to take the afternoon nap she had luxuriously decided upon. The -maid od awaiting for instructions ‘ou may go, Alice.” | It was with rather a sensuous | feeling that she slipped off cloth And donned nL French hand-manufact colour of champagne, thoughtfully] “Aren't you afraid?” i ny Cicely Swiftson. How cep aoe Hee peniy qt i ts he are a ‘|. “Afraid of what?" She avolded tee vaticn again, With a. sigh of | DIS eyes, without understanding the fabitation a sigh feeling that caused her to do 80. pleasure she plunged her legs v "phiathugs and tough ¢ ters, der the delicate bed-linens ar cit RAW vou! adoet” reas stretched out her tired body lots of them,” tried not to think rapid ha perms 4 “I’m not exactly moving in the go back to the other world on MOn- | gerworid,” she answered indif-| day morning. |ferently, wishing again ‘she wos At five o’lock, attired in a SOW? | talking with Philip Weinrich. “Be- of the shade of pale orchid, she siges I have a guard—or did hay sought Cicely and tea. The tea} what had become of Galld tablo was in the Italian garden, al yas he still searching for her horticultural and sculptural wonder wrought by an artist who shut his eyes the fact that the Swifton money was made in the Sto ards. Cypresses pointed their dark green cones towards the sky and gardentas watch I slipped father me," she explained. ouf of his sight." The man laughed. “Topping! say, will you allow me to come and 2 Tl not sent a detective “But to see you at work sometime bloomed. White peacocks 4nd} ne pothersom statues, imported, impressed their He reminded her of a P, G. Wode- grace upon her. house hero, he wondered if his e's the poor little working | Anglafc drawl was genuine or af. Cicely shouted at her ap-| fected, ach. Collegiate youths in white She studied Cicely’s other guest flannels, and many g in sports| a conventional assemblage, To th clothes, gathered around the persons who. followed the society table to meet her, and enhanced the] columns, they meant a great deal; striking effect of her gown. Even} put, she mused, they were idlers, had she known that the others were | thoughtless, . incompeten She rot going to dress for tea, shé@/ thought better of herself her would have chosen to wear it; her] effort to stand on her own feet body ached for the “feel of silky, clinging loveliness. “No, you may not she smiled, affectedly, answering him tardll: “I've been telling them about “T won't let you satisfy vulgar you,” Cicely cried. She introduced | curiosity.” the girls, then presented the men. “No, no, Not that It isn't “You must tell us. how to make | curiosity. . . Do you, Miss Ainsley, peppermint candy and cough drops believe in love at first sight?" and all that sort of thing.” “Someone has said that there's Amoura realized now that shé|no other kind.” would not be allowed to drop her] “I'm speaking seriously,” he said. assumed self and forget life “among | His eyes gave her a start. Passion the unwashed.” She must resign} purned in them. He had, it ap- herself to the uncomfortable position | peared, fallen in love with her. of a curiosity and freak. She smiled She looked About tily and saw and artfully manufactured a humor-| petty MeCuen. “Ob, ” she ously wild story of the processes | cried, joyously, jumping up and employed in manufacturing choco-|leaying the man. She felt’ afraid, jJates that made the girls giggle and | and a shiver passed through her. the men grin. Those giggles and grins made her feel gloriously alive. CHAPTER 21. As the tea chatter progressed, she “Why, Amoura! You look fright- found “herself talking to a young|ened.” Betty MeCuen gave her ¢ man who reminded her vaguely of|kiss of welcome and sear Amoura’s eyes for an explanation for their wild exp “I do? That’s str said, with an affected smile. was annoyed with herself fe playing her feelings “T guess it’s overwork,” Betty laughed. “I saw a story in the newspaper that said your emplayer wanted more. heiresses; that they made the best workers.’* * Amoura She dis CORNS : : Lift Off—No Pain! Amoura glanced furtively at the youth from whom she had fled. His <—<<_— | back was turned to her, “Oh, I’m not working there any more. I’m |} not only a poor working girl, but | I'm also jobless.” “What are you going to d She extracted a cigarette from a silver case that dangled from her arm. “I don't know. I think I'd like to work in a factory. I've always | loved machinery.” “I think I could induce father to |employ you as a milkmaid,” Betty remarked, in, it seemed to Amoura, a sarcastic tone. Amoura appeared not to notice it, and watched the other girl carefully light the cigar- otte. “Ym surprised that so many of you are at home this summer,” she Doesn't hurt one bit! Drop a little | said. “Freezone” on an aching corn, in- hh, mother and I are going to stantly that corn stops hurting.| Newport later in the season. It’s then shortly you lift it right off] horribly dull there, and if one is with fingers. going to be bored, it might as well Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of} be at home. The others feel the “Freezone” for a few cents, suffic-|same way, I suppose. Besides, ient to remove every hard corn, soft|there’s polo and tennis and golf corn, or corn between the toes, and /and yachting.” the foot callauses, without soreness “But you're not very athletic, or irrigation.—Adv. Betty," Amoura remarked innocent OUT OUR WAY. donee MHET LOOKS VERY MUCH LIKE ONE O'THEM HEART SHAPED BOXES O' CHOCLITS YOUNG WES HAS GOT NUNDUH HIS ARM, I DION’ KNOW HE WAS INTRESTID IN ANN WIMMIN: ROOND HOSS eye? “was ENED MONSTER. iH IA 6BIN THE GE Mee t| Who OH,1 DONT STIFF. HE OFFIN BUNS CANDY FER HIS HOSS | AN-WELL MAYBE THEM HEART SHAPED BOxES 1S TH SPECIAL KIND HIS LIKES Ly ever since?” | He nodded. | “This,” she addressed Betty, ' |the work of J. Reginald Ainsiey, |my Dad. He sent this human bull- | dog to protect me from the Perils of the Big City. I suppose he"— poking her finger—‘makes a long report every day, giving a minute Dare it account of my movements. It's Ive by of repayment for the} very antioying.” She-turned again snpiemy remark. to Gallagher: “I wish you would Betty's eyes flashed slightly. Her|away, You can be sure that I will increasing welght was a sore spot. “I should think you would sum- mer in Europe,” Amoura went gn. be well protected here.” “I'm sorry, Miss Alnsley, but “Oh, no one but the nouveau) «syvery well,” she replied, with the riche und the schoolteachers ever|atr of washing her hands of go to Europe in the summer any| matter. "Please keep out of w Betty replied. “Do they as well as you have in the last fow STILL do that sort of thing tm | gays." ¥ Wesuland?" Her deprecating tone is et PRI made Amoura aN itis] toe eee eapee 000. fol knew, was a t return for | Sons. referring to Betty’s bulkiness. “Ten't it disgusting,” Ar “By the way, Betty, who is the | /*Ushed to Betty. young man standing over by the} “Oh. Miss Ainsley." Gallagher | tree?” With a slight flush she in. |©®me back to her. “There's a young | dicated the youth from-whom she} ™@" from Westland looking for you. | had flea t He has a letter from your fatt | “Ob, that's Tommy Loughley. Patio) 2a Eee Haven't you been introduced to] |. these people?” wee fs he?” She turned and x directed an unseen frown at her “Oh, yes, but I'd forgotten the! companion. Why did Betty persist nat in standing there and overhenring a most remarkable You must see a game “Lommy polo player, or two.” “Isn't isn’t is what was said? “He's in the city, Miss Ainsley,” | the detective responded, in his usual he a little queer—I mean, ‘mal, uncomfortable tone, racked just\a little?” “Wh dont know. I'd never “Does he know where I am?" noticed it, Why?” There was an| Well, I told him you were work- odd expression in Betty's eyes. ing, and where you were living. He “Oh, something he said to me | doesn’t know you're here.” made me think so “If you have been watching me, how could you have seen him, with- out him seeing me?” “What did he sa; “It doesn’t matte! Amoura was sorry now she had mentioned the “T talked to him on the telephone. matter. I report to the office twlee a A A stran light began to burn in |It was this morning, when you were Betty's eyes, and she repeatedly | Waiting in the hotel. He was at the wet her Ips, in her case an indica-| office. He asked me to manage to tion of annoyance. “I wish you|hold you there until he could ge would tell me,” she said, In a voice} over, but just then your auto ar- that had the effect of. pleading. |tived. Tdidn't know where you were You see, we're virtually engaged. I—-.” T see.” She was exasperated. | “Oh, tell me what it was well, Gallagher.” She turned What made you ask me if he was| gain to Betty, who had been Usten a little queer?" ing avidly: “Isn't {t terrible.” Amoura glanced over’ Betty's} “You brought it all on yourself.) vhoct other details the admalralte shoulder helplessly. What CQULD|4arling. It's most time to dress |“) ig 2 cent be the sphinx she say How idiotic of her to}for dinner,” But naval ¢ re it’s fast marke that last remark! She thought. “Really, Betty, you're too curl- ous,’ she smiled. “T think you're mean not to tell me," the other girl returned, with pout. “Perhaps I will sometime.” Sim- mons, the Swiftson footman, saved her. He came up at that moment and indleated that he wished to speak with her. “Yes? asked innocently. “Yer “Well, I'm going to take at least one turn in the garden, to settle my jangled~ nerves." She was appre- hensive. lest this device would not rid her of Betty, but the ruse was effectice. When eBtty was out of sight, she hurried to her room. The maid had her things laid out, but ghe was in no hurry to dress, a “A man came to the servant's "m going to read for half an quarters, Miss Aingley, and repre-| hour. Come back then.” The maid sented himself as one of your ser-| complied obediently, although she vant He wishes a If you | would liked to have told this guest will pardon me, Miss about whom there was so much talk in the servants’ quarters, that now Was time to begin dressing. She changed into the negligee and picked up one of Carl Van Vechten's doesn’t quite impress me as telling the truth. May I bring him to see you?" “Did he give any name?" she was, she realized, discovered, books. Soon she tossed it back on “T understand him to say Tomp-|the table and went to the balcony, kins, Miss Ainsley, still bright to the fading day. A “I do not know anyone of that} strange restlessness pervaded her. name.’ A wild thought leaped into} Her mind raced with thoughts of. her head: Could it be Philip, mas-} Philip; of Gallagher; of Tommy querading? She saw Betty watch-| Loughley’s absurd love-making: of ing her intently and grasped at the | Betty.” She regretted coming’ now. opportunity. to escape. This must be, she decided, the last “T will see him. . . . Wait, I will} intermission in her new life. Her go with you.” Her heart sank as|two weeks had gotten her nowhere; Betty fell in with her. ‘Tell me|the time had been wasted. what he said, Amoura, please tell In half an hour she went down me.” Simmons followed at a re-|to dinner, Cicely introduced Mr. spectful distance. and = Mr Swiftson, The latter greeted her conventionally, and eyed her curiously, in effect not quite approving of her. The greeting of Swiftson, hog butpher risen to multi- millionaire, and proud of {t. was dif- ferent: “So this is the little girl who's making her own living. Good for you! T worked my way up. Cicely and her mother frowned s!- multaneously, , They wished that he CHAPTER 22 Amoura grimaced at the sight of Magher. The detective met her glance with an expression as guile: less as a babe's. “T know this man, ing to Simmons. “Very good, Miss withdrew and waited, she said, turn. Ainsley." He “Frankly, Amoura began, ad-| ould forget that he was a self- dressing herself to the uninvited |made man; he was always making guest. “I thought I had eluded| breaks like that. you.” Amoura was spared an answer; the butler. paused before her. with Gallagher's face suggested a smile. the tray oY sherry. It warmed her Betty looked from one to the other questioningly. blood and heightened the color of “Tell me, Gallagher, how did you| her cheeks. She smiled when she find me?” drew Tommy Loughley as a dinner “Oh, it was simple, miss, Taxt-| Partner; and was emboldened to wink drivers keep a record of thelr trips; when your man returned to the hotel found out where you went." “And you've been following me He had little to say early courses, but later garding her intently for se ments, and making her uncomfort- able, he remarked quietly: “T Insist B Willi on taking you to lunch Monday.’ w--DY iW UMAMS | “Amoura shruggea ch don’t think you duced to smile glimpse of Betty's Je: After dinner there z in a pretty ttle pavilion at the end of the garden, Amoura found her- self much in demand, but Tom Loughley dogged her steps, Betty kept jn Tommy’s. She burned to know what it was he had told Amoura and finally she succeeded duri mie alous eyes. THink sO 2 was danc talk had passed between them, she sald coquettishly: ‘Amoura says you were talking about me this af- ternoon, saying nice things; bot she won't repeat them. Pledse tel! me. I SHOULDN'T have to get them secondhand,’ Tommy grinned. “Oh, I « 1 shouldn't tell you—not now.” He regarded Amoura o@diy from a dis: tance, Imbued by new determination. (To be continued) The next chapter: Philip Appears | | Casper Daily Cribune PAGE FIVE “Are you going “now?” Amoura in cornering him. After some small |; ‘New British Sub Crew worn to secre oy’ REQ DELEGATES SHARIN UL I Aer European {di Ir E {1 ’ w | hI 1 b ar art | banne oO the n “Down with RB Impe t We ¢ 1 1 : , Ur te. ¢ The super-submarine XI, about which navies of the world are anxious to know —_ By JACKSON VY, JACOBS ) the 1 fleet and wipe it out « y (Central Press Correspondent) , things ud | 1 t : GAME DEPUTY NAMED. LONDON, Sept. 29.—No engine of the empire | 3 an iEYENNE, Wyo., Sept. 29, death and destruction developed since} Ana there are several tations w ac PERE. 6 Sah Tet P ster Bog Afton, has been the world war is surrounded wit enough 1 s ty wipe out tho| oni ANC t . much secrecy as the ihex ‘ent ¢ ir t Va super-submarine XT ‘ star France | i I r 1 1 About it only the HideeHhe. butl hen are known. ‘The cre ‘ah 4 s v r been sworn to keep inviolate the d bhi pete al an A ¢ Ke nviols de- | tori counting ‘ tails of the inside congtruction and ‘ Wi Mit«| I ! v the methods of operation. Photo- Support for Mitchell Ses : hers are ced to be discreet With 4 fleet of super-subs, wi mm ure a t t I can be said, however, that the| have guns that can be ed h s & less than an un-} lerwater dreadnaught.” It displaces ) tons, and can tfrn in its own ler It cost $4,500,000 te Battleship's End Seen. | The British admiralty somehow al- | y become known that the | capable of staying under alt days at | t | water two and a time enough to « Atlantic under water in seye nor eight days, and five on top. Naval experts say the super-sub the nay the future. it as confirmation of the claims that airplanes have made bat presages They see tleships obsolete, predict that Britain will concent p on war ves sels of this type in the future. Obviously, Britain's navy is {ts life-blood. If an enemy strong in the alr should suddenly swoop down on ARISTOCRACY IN BRITAIN BARKS BOOZE RUNNING LONDOD y Associated Press),—Members of the British ar istoerac nd well known financiers of both England and tho western hemisphere, were back of the scheme deliver whiskey in America’s “Rum Row" from Gloria De Casa- res mucha-advertised ship, The Gen- eral Serrett, it is now stated in al quarter which is in a position to know the facts. Casa orce wife of a entine, and formerly a .» has announced leased her ship to hing to do with others rum-running which came to naught and had nce recently when a over paying the crew. General Serrett ntroversy arose Although the fre quently referred to as “rum runner,” | it is stated that the vessel never | actually made a trip with whiskey Her highly placed backers planned | that she sail ostensibly for Halifax | and unload her 12-mile Umit off tl upon some real rum runner. 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