The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 21, 1930, Page 6

| s § g X Leon Morse re- it Glenn as his enemy tes his attention im and his irri- blocks Morse's a railroad Morse pays Anne Wilmot to marry un- Robert X)ougl\ ing a Glenn an:‘. r becemos Jealousy -t quickly. “his aito: moab witne b 122 to her aunt to mar- £ 'him for his wealth, accepts. Chapter 20 LOVE BECKONS ‘ A rap at the door and Douglas| entered obviously anxious to talk t0''Morse. Anne took advantage of t the " interruption and turned léfve. Morse followed her to dob¥ end said in a quiet voice, * motrotv then?” ¥B8s you like, She found her reading lamp ap) grossed in her knitting gb upstair Anne 8s withott waiting for an answer % t6''er room. Her aunt joined her there. “Mr. Morse has asked me mar'y him,” ne announced very abripily. 5. Wilmot looked across at her| coltlly. “Well, and you refused him, |o I suppose?” “My dear Aunt Emily—" | “Nothing that you uml(l no;sxh‘\\ she assented. nt sitting by 2 ently much en- hall we an boulder carefully out of her te bdued she had Well, she t to lnmk If, the ir lude was over madnes: or whate had. been a few weeks ack to New uld b‘ Just At all ever g0 no more into the She must put Glenn jand the little cabin on the mqh‘ mind. | sionally in the years to com there would be a quie moment when she might smil onizingly 1ittl no doubt, at the r cragy star-chasing he had come s throwing ‘hermit whe mountains, dange: elf her lived in a k 3 Glenn wa. before sittir pa , no doubt. He wa. a woman more make much differ- ng run— she straightencd the aler S‘lmu nly ove > the very Wi ly caugh do Would s ise me. s THere was ilen The older | 3im 11 Har woman adjusted f near the|eagern aradiiALly lamip cn the table and her ‘knitting again “1 certainly did not reiuse him,”| Anne said after a time. “But h stiplated that the wedding shov take place ‘tomorrow. I think"} gheé laughed a little, “he is afraid| to walt. You see, the other mar did ‘derve a purpose after all! The woman on the other € thé ‘table grunted enigmatically. “Well, you won't marry him to- mbrrow or the day after either,” she sad decisively. “I will speak to L&n myseli—" %My dear Aunti spread out | g¢ olver wa F later noise the bac tiptoad the quarters {slee unbolt into the ' Anne stood jand to the on e , the meaning of stunned and cold roused herself, snatched a from a ch: donned her d thr I ol She sweater up, “we certainly can't afford to be night squeamish about trifles—to o ot low a whale and then gulp ¢ Yast inbs o mihnow! For the rest,” she ac C A bra Mghtly, “T fancy we'll do just about |and swung into as brisk as he says from now on, you and felt she could po 1. The hand that pulls the pur: strings, you know- | She was trylng to fit o E was what I told him—" % her aunt confessed Wwith a pgmlexcd shake of her head. ly. ing matters. 1T think he liked it—/ppo o0 erence with Burkhalt my being so ”‘““k' She s}ggf}g and the Mexican that very togard the other room. |—The main g was to get night, Auntle, I'm going to bed.” §. Wilmot looked after her pro- testingly. “You don’t mean you' nof going downsialrs again?” “rhat's just what I do mean. You can tell the bridegroom-to-be that 1 bave a headache or that I'm resting for tomorrow’s ordeal or— whatever you like—" th her hand on the door knob, | howeyer, Anne paused then leaned| across and lai d ‘one hand timidly over the busy, plump old finge: «It is wonderful, isn't it, Auntie?— tg know that it's all settled—that we don't have to worry any more about money or creditors or—hus- bands!” 1 “Well, it's not settled any too soon.” The fingers were Wwith- dxn*n with no answering move- ment. “But—I'm glad you've had sense enough to do your duty al last.” nne let her own hand slip un- obtrusively from the table. “You did mean what you said tonight, didn’t you, Aunt Emily—down there at the dinner table?” ‘Mrs. Wilmot peered up at her kegrily. “I certainly did” she said. nk you.” Anne laughed lightly as she started again towards her bedroom door. “At least, you have always been honest with me. T grateful for that. Good night.” “rears stung hot and blinding agatmt her eyelids as she closed the 'door quickly behind her and her way through the dark- ness to her bed, but she dashed them away impatiently. | At midnight, she was still sitting fully dressed on the edge of her Delphine had tapped on her | door twice, but she had sent her| aWdy for the night. ~Mrs. Wilmot | “stopped to say that Leon had ‘down to the construction camp afid” would not be back until late. had had a ‘most satisfactory with him, and thought it was to herself. switched off the lights -nd omo{thel"rench onto a small rustic bal- | the front. She pressed her against the rough, cool of one of the rustic pillars.| her on the porch she could out two red circles—the tips | 's and Douglas' cigars. Ap- they had just returned. munewtohzr.twe number of dls *¥ou -modern girls are beyond | ... ‘Lm‘ woods Anne lifted her eyebrows amus 8d- 1o blg “Well, ‘we have debts ‘hfl"lhern must be paid—it was no good mine- | tim {Glenn before it thing else could wait. obligation to him, |aunt—all were swept away over- bility, with both France and Italy whelmingly in the instinctive im-|left out tpulse to save the work of the man she loved. She did love him; there | r to have the wedding on-the morrow and avoid the usual fuss ~ atill bother. Anne had only smfled R A jointed facts th: ubbornly in her mind had been in the part ere Glenn’s worl of men | Then wa. E too late. E Oddly enough, she did not on istop to cons r that she was b lm;lnp the inter of the ma whom she had promised less than three hours since to marry. The the debt to her yjas no use trying to deceive hel- If about that any longer. (Copyright, Ruth Cross) Glenn ponders how to pay Emily Wilmot and free Anne. Read about his solution tomor- row. — . Ueads Internationax Marriage Agency | Mys. Flsie Weisart, Los Angeles, has been indicted by the Federal and jury as the alleged head of n “international” marriage agency. The technical | of using the mails in a swindling scheme. Scores of middle-aged Germans, for the ‘nnchen and cattlemen, are said been victimized in the "nnl ordor‘ marriage plot. of s dam— | t per- | to|? fraudulent charge lodged against her is that most part THE DAILY A i Bl o [ l’mn AND HER PALS ASKA LW’IRE, TUESDAY J\N ZI 1930 [ WOTS THE IDEA OF You AN'THE KID = PREJUDICE WE DETERMINED T \cpm?upe OFA AGANST DARK MATERIALS o WEEP THAT PROMISE 2 | \ g DOUGLAS i NEWS | MISS KENNEDY WEDDED TO FHOMAS YOUNG , were unit S. Commis 7, yesterday fore | Witnesses to the ceremon Mr Annd Mrs. Harry Worobee, of he newlyweds are also of Jun and will continue their fut dence there Mr. Young |penter by tra oo UNDERGOES OPERATION B. Cook, local 1 cperated upen at 8t. A ay, for appendicit | S wa d resting ea gL WATER SUPPLY LIMITED Due to the long, dry, cold period |of we: , the water level in th | Douglas reservoir has been gradu- 1ally going lower until it has become necessary for Mr. ilburn to re- 1ce to turn the water off partially entirely during a part of th little water is going at present and it is to take care of ed by leaving the ta night to keep individu from freez up. into shortage was most f ol house whe; a elevation, no yesterday. ® If the not imp e S00! tl |sions may be discontinued authorities said last night. e ,Arms Parley One ! Step Toward Ideal (Continued 1rom Page One) ates and Creat Britain want ply. France also wants to build ex- ively in both cruisers and sub- to . marines and she has intimated, LD’\ she may not signia tri don unless its enforceme: rcught under the League of tions. A three-power, instead of |five power treaty nmow is a po: ty Tangle of Aspirations As sponsors for the conference, it be the purpose of the Ameri- and British delegates, in par- to tread very softly amid ngle of rival national aspira- mou Diplomatic history has demon- strated often the hazards of play- ing upon sensitive national emo- | tioms, just it has shown, like- | wise, the proceeding carefully |from one ¥ of gafety to another, {something at least, can be accom- plished. At the Washington conferenece in {1921, one after another of the origi- {nal proposals had to be put aside. !Some, beset by danger signais, passed from the picture with sur- prising suddenness. Limitation of armies—a subject not on the pro- gram at London—went into the dis- card almost at the start. Scaling Down Strength The scaling down of cruiser and {submarine strength followed. whole course of the negotiations was subject to change from hour to hour. But, by proceeding al- ways along the line of least diplo- matic resistance, the conference did ‘Imewed in bringing the mighty bat- tleship within restrictive covenants. and in laying down technical limits on a few other classes of warships. Thus at London. Already tenta- tive proposals for abolition of the submarine and the battleship seem headed toward deadlock. Hoiding of taking first {to ‘the principle assembling delegates hope to pro-! ceed step by step to real accem- | plishment, however far short of the |ultimate ideal they may fall At this preliminary stage, the ob- jectives standing out largest on the horizon are the actual realization of parity between the United Smtcs and Great Britain, and a gene_rsl trimming down of all wn-ship building programs for a limited | number of years in the immediate future. 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