Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1923, Page 10

| BY RADIO TODAY || Schedule of Wireless News and Entertainment. LOCAL STATIONI (435 Mete: 10:65 p.m.—Weather bureau report. )es WIH—Willl P. Boyer Com] (273 Meters). to 4 p.m.-—Financial and market reports; music (daily). WMU—Doubleday-Hill Electric Com- pany (261 Meters). 4 p.m.—Musical program [t 30 to I¥). WCAP—Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company (469 Meters). 30 p.m.—Bess Perry, Sopfano ev. 1. F. Corradetti, baritone, ac- companied by Enrico Barraja. 50 p. rla_Kleibe, violinist, smpanied by Mildred Miles, Pro- “Thais” (Massenet). “Schon arin” (Kreisler). “Polonaise Caprie (Newlandsmith) and “Oh, Promise Me” (de Kove 8:05 Bess Perr: adettl, ba tructive Tal by Raymond F p.m.—Gordon Male Quartet, isting of Wilbur . Simpson, first John R. Brierley. second tenor; McLean, baritone, and Duncan Miller. bass. frida de Roda, colora- Program: “Summer” Berceuse,” from “Joce- Lesais tu'” (Massenet), (Terry). Kleibe, violinist. (Wieniawski), the S (R! Adieux” (Sarasate). ordon Male Quartet. frida de Roda, colora- tura soprano. Pr “Polonaise Mignon” (Thomas), ing _Song chumann), “¥ The Birl ¥ Hprano. aminade), (Godard) ; Program: “Hymn to altz Song,"” and Julie (Gounod). 12—Dance music played by Davis' Le Paradis Band at e Le Paradis WRC—Radlo Corporation of America (469 Metern). (This station will remain during the broadeasting of the Army- Marine foot ball mame by WCAP.) 3 p.m. nstruction in code prac tice, by engineers of the Radio Corporation of America. §:15 pom.— Albion DISTANT STATIONS, All Programs Scheduled for Eastern Standard Time, - WJZ~—=New York (455 Meters). § p.m Wigglly Stories.” by Howsard 9 p.m.—] al by Narinska, Rus- greatest woman planiss 0 p.m.—"“The Near East Dr. Finley p.m.—The Kin in popular song 10 p.m.—Program of Fe anist 0 p.m.—Dance program by Pa; t and his Alamac Hotel Orches- Relief.” an Garzia, WGY—Schenectady (380 Meters), p.m.—Phil Ramano’s Rain-bo Orchestra at the Kenmore Hotel. WWJ—Detroit (516 Meters). :30 p.m.—News Orche, WOC—Davenport (484 Meters). imes concert. ndman's visit Sport new forecast 9 pm the Tusical program b, and silent | | hildren's hour, by Pegay Sisters, Mary and | | WBZ—Springfle! | Kimball Trio, | entertainer; and weather | Strtke” [ Kable Brothers Company. WOR-——Newark (405 Meters). 6:16 p.m.—"Icicle,” Santa Claus will speak to children. 0 p.m.—“Music Whil¥ You Dine,” by the Hillside Orchestra. 8 p.m.—Eugene Ingraham and his orchestra. 9 p.m.—Fred J. Bendel in a talk, “Sporting News Up to the Minute." 9:10 p.m—James MacDonald, bari- tone; Janet Beck, soprano. 10:10 p.m.—Joseph J. Mitchell in a talk, “Bargains in Income Tax.” 10:30 p.m.—Al Judith Roth's Enter- tainers. ° WHAS—Louisville (400 Meters). §:30 to 10 p.m.—Concert under the auspices of the Daughters of the Isa- bella, Louisville Circle, No. 84; RMiss Margaret Boyle, regent; Mrs, John F. Holland, program committee; news bulletins. 9:30 to 10:30 p.m.—Piano recital by Leland Johnston of the Baldwin Pla- 1o Company. 12 to 1 a.m.—Mrs. LaRue Nelson and Miss Grace Hudgins, soloists; Mlss Inez Hudgins, planist. WBAP—Fort Worth (476 Meters). $ to 8:30 p.m.—Review of the in- terdenominational Sunday school les- son, by Mrs. W. F. Barnum. KSD—St. Louls (548 Metern). 30 p.m.—Orchestral concert; organ recital and vocal and instrumental specialties from the Missourl Theater. WIP—Philndelphia (509 Meters). 6 p.m.—Weather forecast. 5 p.m.—Dinner music, by the nwich Village Follies Serenaders. 7 p.m.—Uncle Wip's bedtime stories; roll call for children, : § p.m.—"Atmospheric Comfort,” by Dr. David Wilbur Horn; musical pro- gram, by Camille Zeckson, pianist; Frederick E. Haber, violinist; Helen Baxter, soprano; address by Dr. Ho- bart A. Hare; WIP Male Quartet; Charlfe Kerr and his orchestra. WMC—Memphis (500 Meters). 30 p.m.—Program, by the Hot Springs, Ark., Business Men's League. KDKA—Pittsburgh (326 Meters). 6:15 p.m—Dinner concert by the e nging the Worla to merlch,” by Our World. i35 pm.—Children’s period. & p.m.—Feature. p.m.—Concert by the West- inghouse Band; vocal solos. KYW—Chlcago (538 Meters). 0 p.m.—Children’s bedtime story. to 9:48 p.m.—Musical program. 10 Xews and ieather report. ¢ ‘nder the Evening Lamp. Mass. (337 Meters). 7 p.m.—Dinner cbncert by the Hotel Twilight tales for kid- 0 World to Amer- p.m.— "Broiugn"l" llh!. by Our orld ' § p.m.—Concert by Hazel L. Childs, C. R. Henderson, ac- companist. 9 p.m.—DBedtime story for grown- ups. by Orison S. Marden. WEAF—New York (402 Meters). 7:20 to 10 p.m.—Program same as WCAP. 10 to 11 _p.m.—Dance program, the American Tob 0 Company's “Lucky Orchestra. 11 to 12 p.m—Vincent Lopez Or- chestra from the Hotel Pennsylvania. TREES OF WASHINGTON BY R. A. EMMONS. BUTTERNUT—JUGLANS CINEREA. Who among the readers that are from faither to the north have not, in their childhood days, experienced those fascinating and memorable Tours of butternut hunting—leaving, with bags or baskets under arms, for the woods where the butternut is known to grow, there to gather the Jarge, promising nuts from the fallen dry leaves, to breathe the crisp and joyous air of the fall woods, to scare up a partridge or rabbit now and then, or to watch with profound in- 1erest the passing of some mysterious nter and then to return homeward 1l:“de‘nrwllh those woodland promises of evening hours of winter fireside luppiness. _These are memories dear 10 many of us, memories of expe- riences that 1 doubp not some would at this moment lik8 to repeat. The butternut is one of the best known of our nut-bearing trees in its range, which is from New Bruns- wick ‘to Delaware and along moun- talns south into Georgia and Ala- bama. Westward it is found to Da- kota, Nebraska and Missouri. Tt ig mot & tree native to the District and tlie specimen illustrated has been planted in the grounds of the Capitol about 100 yards to the southwest. It led. 8 e, symmetrical tree fifty to seventy feet high—sometimes to 100 feet—with broad, spreading, hori- zontal branches. The bark is a light grayish brown, deeply furrowed into flat’ ridges. The leaves resemble those of the black walnut, but with the difference of a covering of clammy hairs on the leaf stems. In winter these two trees may be dis- tinguished by the leaf scars, which with the butternut have a little downy pad along their upper edge. The black walnut does not. The butternut leaves are pinnate- 1v compound, fifteen to thirty inches long. with seven to seventeen leaflets, which are threc to fve inches long, one-half to two inches wide, rounded at the base, taper pointed serrate. The oblong, pointed \nuts are in- closed in a thin, sticky husk. The nutd are sweet, pleasant and oily and soon become rancid if not stored in a cool place. 11,000 PRIZE ANIMALS AT WORLD STOCK SHOW Best of United States and Canada on Exhibition at Chicago Exposition. By the Associated Press, CHICAGO, December 1.—The best this country and Canada produces in horses, cattle, sheep and swine is to be seen among the 11,000 animals at the international live stock exposi- tion opening here today. The first Judging contest resulted in the Nebraska junior live stock judg- ing team winning the fifth annual non-collegiate contest with 1,635 points, four ahead of the Oklahoma team. In addition to the live stock and horse shows the international grain and hay show aleo is being held, with more than 1,000 entries. BANS ROADSIDE ADS. ST. PAUL, Minn., December 1.—Min- nesota’s new law prohibiting adver- tising signs on trunk highways went into effect today. Thousands of signs ranging from small tin tags to bill- boards are being removed. Signs back from the highways on private property will not be disturbed now, but a movement has been start- ed to have the next legislature take steps either to have them removed or taxed. - i RADIO NEWS The second of the Philharmonic concerts being given at Carnegle Hall, New York, will be broadcast Monday night by WEAF and WCAP. WRC will remain silent Monday night in ~order that the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company can give ‘Washington's radlo listeners this mu- slcal treat. A feature of the pro- gram will be two songs, composi- tions of Duparc, rendered by Arthur Hackett, tenor, with orchestral ac- companiment. Three more readers of this column have answered the query of C. L. P. as to the station in Iilinois which Wi b.l'oldfllslln‘ Monday night at o'clock, and all agree that it was WCBD, at Zion City. The an- Swers came from C. Eugene Doyle, Willlam E. Cartwright, both of Clar- endon, Va., and R. E. 1737 ¥ street northwest. Radio Editor: 1 heard station KDKA sign off at 1003 p.m. Tuesday, and soon after, on a wave length slightly higher, I heard some orchestra music. 1 didn't recognize any of the pleces, nor did I, catoh the station’s letters, but about twenty minutes later I thought I heard a cornet " solo. The only possible station T think it could have been is WOR. because I have a crystal set. Please see if some of our friends can’t tell me what I heard i 1821 DJ.“H_ X;HIU&PS. ¢ { 2 reet northeast. Radio Editor: Would one of the more fortu- nate fans please tell me through the radio news column what sta- tion broadcast a concert by a mixed chorus at 10:30 o'clock Thursday night. The next number on the program was a selection by a band. Also would some one tell me What station was playing “Heme, Sweet Home,” at 11:20 the came night. The latter piece was played by an orchestra. ROBERT_B. CONSIDINIE, 727 2d Street N. E. WCBD, at Zion City, Ill, broadcast a concert by a mixed chorus Thursday night, and it is Iikely that this is the statlon Mr. Consldine heard Radio Editor: Thursday night I tuned in for a few minutes about 10:30 to 10:40 o'clock on an address regarding the Natlonal Guard and reserve officers, but lost it before getting the cail letters of the station. & Wwould appreciate it if some of your readers could sppply Informa- tlon as to the station broadcasting the speec GEORGE C. STRATTON, 3402 Mount Pleasant Street. Radio Editor: I was reading an article in your column last night by F. C. Gardiner and I agree with him that there is no reason for a silent night. There are five or six methods for elimi- nating interference and five or six successful “hook ups” that may be used. . I also read the article by Charles Shepard, 2d, and agree with him that It is not “amateur” stations that Col. Warfleld hears. If you are on the phone wave band (.360 up) it is absolutely impossible to hear any amateur stations, neither can you hear the “broadcasting’” while on the lower band. I am a lover of radio golf. T love to listen to far and near, but never once have I been interfered with by an-amateur. ‘There are times when more high-power commercial transmitters’ waves will chop distant wave to pleces or make it unsatisfactory to a critic, but sel- dom does this happen on a three- circuit tuner. To those who are having their “lis- tener's” troubles I would suggest that they join one of the socleties here {n Washington devoted to co- operation of “listener” and “broad- caste! There is one such soclety that is doing very good work. There is one thing that, if it ex- ists I do not know, with an ordi- nary recelver DX and selectivity do not go together. I am not an amateur. T do not know the code—I wish I did; I am a listener. I consider the amateur a_“bee’ doing good work, which the United States government recognizes; the listener is a “drone.” EDWARD C. GILL. 910 E street northwest. THE WEEK Epiteme of Events Up to December 1. two or FOREIGN. President Ebert invites Kardorff to form cabinet. France concedes point on Ruhr pact. Poincare sweeps depu- ties, 505 to 70. Socialists active in British elections. Ebert asks Hergt to form ministry as Kardorff fails. Lloyd George hits British-United States debt. Ebert's efforts to form cabinet in Germany tutile. Bitterness grows in British elections. Albert abandons attempt to form cabinet in Germany. Britain faces grave di- lemma in collecting Ruhr reparations. New crisls faced on Britain’s view of French in Ruhr. Four Moros killed in Mindanao battle. Separatists split; Matthes in flight; Dorten is premier. Japanese experts fear new quake to rack Japan. Pershing, Herrick and Cardinal ~Dubois attend notable Thanksgiving celebration in Paris. Italy, Spain and South American countries may withdraw from league of nations. Reparations body decides to probe Berlin resources. German warlike acts stir Britain. Marx is German chancellor, Stresemann gets foreign portfolio. NATIONAL. Bomb blasts wreck consulates and injure scores in Philadelphia. Curtis is backed as Senate leader. Coolidge message to meet challenge of politi- cal foes. Ford is candidate, close friends say. Coolidge supports Mad- den on shoals. Gerard charges United States rights lost in Turk pact. Yale defeats Harvard, !1-0. Army-Navy game scoreless. Illinois turning to Johnson boom. Leglslature call to fix coal price asked by Pinchot. Two killed, eight hurt in Ilinofs mine ex- plosion. Guns of rum ship fire on cutters. Forbes deserted, records of the Army show. Lodge calls G. O. P. caucus for Saturday. Coolidge orders Cralg case probe. American Federa- tlon of Labor to assist unions in Ger- many. Progressives hit Mellon's tax plan. Coolldge favors free Philip- pines. Move to abolish supercommit- tee on appropriations. United States begins probe in Tomoka, rum ship, seizure. Secretary Wallace’s paper raps Mellon’s tax plan. Progressives hold key to organizing both houses. United States-Britain rum treaty al- most ready for Senate. Dry enforce- ment alded by tariff. Organization row seen by bloc leaders in Congress. Coolidge confers on veterans’ row. Senate asks Fall to testify in Dome oil lease probe. Irene Castle becomes wife of wealthy coffee merchant. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Ritchie predicts auto reciprocity soon after January 1. Col. Brett named to District of Columbia guard post. District of Columbia traffic po- lice bewall handicaps of poor equip- ment. Extra precautions taken to uard embassies from bombs follow- ing explosions in Philadelphia con- sulates. Maryland favors sixty-day uto truce. “Widening of downtown reets and arterial highways studied by Oyster. Policeman shot ting youth. New Carne Zift sures branch library.” Sixth precinct probe ordered by Oyster. President urges memorial “ bridge. Auto reciprocity may wait on bill. Model headlight legislation urged. Ritchie will order reciprocity if District of Columbia promises gas tax. Jones to revive District of Columbia suffrage bill. Propose -to-amend teachers” pay bill. More policemen, two more judges Shall the Rich Old Maid Flout Convention and| Propose Marriage?—Girlish Seventeen Who Wants to Marry Young Nineteen — Can a Man’s Love EAR DOROTHY DIX: I am a rich old mald. Be Rekindled? I have never married because I suspected that every man who came about me wanted my money, and because my relatives impressed it upon me that I would be the DOROTHY DIX. victim of a fortune hunter if I didn’t watch out. Lately I have decided that it is better to take a chance on that than live the lonely, companion- less life I do, which is bound to get more lonely, and more dreary, as I grow older. Among my acquaintances is a fine, middle-aged man, cultured, interest- ing, very congenial in all his tastes to mine, but who has never succeeded in business because he lacks the money-making instinct. I would like very much to marry him, but he will never propose to me, although he likes me very much, and we have been Intimate friends for years, be- cause my money makes a barrler between us. I havas a notion to flout the conventions, and make him a marriage proposition. Why should his pride and a silly custom keep us from being happy together? Would it be very shocking if I popped the question to him? SPINSTER. Answer: Go to it, sister, and heaven send you the luck you de- serve for having the courage to make a fight for your happiness, instead of being the victim of a silly superstition that makes us pretend that a woman never thinks of a man until h e happens to notice her. So far as there being anything to apologize for in your taking the initiative in this case, you are doing a fine, brave, sensible thing. The man cannot ask you to marry him because his sense of honor will not permit you that are worth more than money. You would find no pleasure in trav over the earth with every pleasure d A rich woman, in my opinion, c: which she will get'so much out of it There {8 no more cruel wrong u than being bound by the old traditio get a husband under cover. Every to marry, and inasmuch as every her husband s, it is she who should b Of course, within a few years it DEAR DOROTHY DIX: I am a youn, and my mother considers me as making a reasonable decision. a boy who is nineteen. He Is working that we may marry soon. and 1 assure you that 1 know we will him to seem to seek to be a sort of pensioner on you. all dignity, invite him to share your good fortune with you. has no money to give you, he has the things of the spirit to lavish upon Ay mother does not approve of my engagement. But you can, with And while he Without him, you would be a lonely old woman in a lonely house. or in any solitary amusement. With him, you turn your empty house into a home, and you two can wander oubled by a pleasant companionship. an spend her money in no way In 4s in marrying the man she wants. nder which the feminine sex labors ns that forbade a woman the right to select her mate openly, and that made her do ull her maneuvering to woman knows the man she wants wife is ten times as much married as e the “picker out,” not he, ic going to be just as much a com- monplace for 2 woman to pop the question to 2 man as it is now for her to vote, and it is women llke you, of means and position. who must be the pioneers in this final emancipation of the sex. Dy DOROTHY DIX. g girl in 1y last year of high school, a schoolgirl, who is not capable of 1 am seventeen years old and in love with hard and saving his money in order He shows his love for me in every possible way, always be happy together. he will not allow my sweetheart to come to See me, and tries to break up everything between us. Under these circumstances. 1 see my knowledge. I am an unhappy girl. understanding, one I love and am going to marry. 1 shoul Answer: Why, B. R, if you wil fiance once in a while without her d have my mother's sympathy and but all T get is cruel words and hard dealings against the What shall I do? B. 1 take my advice, you and your boy sweetheart will put off that wedding for three or four vears, until you are grown up, for, believe me, matrimon women to tackle. It is no pastime fo No girl of seventeen and boy of ni: y is @ hard job for even men and r chidren. neteen are ready to marry. They are in a state of evolution, with minds and tastes that change every day, and they have no idex what they are going to develop into themselves, or what sort of husbands and wives they are going to make. The boy that at twenty-two. wouldn’t have on a girl fancies at seventeen she wouldn't look at The girl that a boy of nineteen is crazy to marry he a bet when he is twenty-five. Of course, every boy or girl who is indulging in a case of calf love thinks that this is not true. They believe they are older and wiser and altogether different at their age' from any other seventeen and n fooling themselves. All humanity is keeps repeating itself. D All of us go throu, ough, and having a passion for choco! teens, and most of us get safely over our youthful experiences. So use a li humor about you, B. R. Look the m why you should be different trom all taste change as other women's have? @ lot of good food. will give the boy a him. of life? | BEDTIME STORIES free. man-bird and down t they ran all about They were looking for a JDEAR MISS DIX: Will you tell me Answer: There is no way. A d things. You cannot rekindle ashes. (Copyright, 1923.) ny and Nanny Escape. Afraid to sts afraid to go, Some people are forever so. —Old Mother Nature., For several days the great man-bird remained shut in the shed into which it had been pushed the day of its ar- rival way down in the Sunny South. But the aviator didn’t forget Danny and Nanny Meadow Mouse. He had fas- tened the door of the little cupboard open just wide encugh for Danny and Nanny to go in and out. In front of thie he had placed their cage, with the door in this open, so that they could run into the cage. Every day he vis- ited them and talked to them and showed them to his friends, and never once @id he forget to keep them sup- plied with plenty of food. He showed that he was fond of them, and they had grown to be fond of him. Then one day he carelessly moved the cage and forgot to put it back close up SSSSSSse Dan ) FTER HESITATING A MO- SOLIEANT OR TWO SHE HURRIED AFTER DANNY. t oor opening into the little cup-l board, “A%ier o had closed the door of the shed and gone away Danny ked the ahed artof the littie cupboard, and right away discovered that that cage | wasn't close up, and that he could | it. great excitement. ““We can get out! Of course, Nanny came at once. She followed right at Danny's heels. At last they were free. Yes, sir, they wers) urge fonal Guard armory u Honied on ‘Pepco appeal. Maryland tags held to December 10. Five men indlcted on murder counts. District of Columbis teachers’ pay bill gets nal touch. _District militla doubled since 1919. ‘Red Cross drive deferred for month. City celebrates Thanks- ving day. District asks boarding Eome supcrvision. First car to cross Key bridge on Sunday. Board of Trade committee named. Thousands to see big service game here. Mary- land insists_on gas tax action for reciprocity. Police lieutenant charged with oon-plne{. Building declines slightly in District. Twenty-four taken in raid in “Hell's Bottom. S t by women. Na- d for Distric e live on if you married a boy of nineteen. what it costs to run a house, and reflect tha Also consider that yo the fun of girlhood if you marry and sett] and washing and pushing a baby buggy while other having pretty clothes and free good times. And here is something else to think about: chance to get ahead, so that b A It will give you a chance to learn how to o will be prepared to be a good wife, and if your to stand a three or four years' test, how is it gol C Listen to your mother, and compromise if she won't oppose your engagement to the boy, vears. That leaves the matter in Cupid's hands. B 2 who once cared for me and now cares for m ineteen year old kids, but they are cut out of the same bolt, and life gh the measles und the mumps and the whooping late eclairs, and being in love in our them, and look back and laugh upon ttle sense, and have a little grain of natter in the face. and ask yourself other women. Why shouldn't your Also ask yourself what you would Get your mother to show you t growing boys and girls need u will cut_yourself out of all le down. You will be cooking girls are dancing, and Waiting won't hurt. Tt ou won't be & burden on 0ok und sew, 6o that you love isn’t strong enough Ng to stand the long teet With her. Tell her that YOu won't marry for three DOROTHY DIX. eawaken the love of a man & no more? ANXIOUS. d love is the deadest of all a DOROTHY Dng.e“ how to i ea By Thornton 'W. Burgess. They scrambled out of that great 0 the ground. Then inside x!llat shed. lace to get out. It didn’t take them lon - cover that that shed was bullt on sand and had no floor. Danny began dig- 8ing, and soon he had little hole right under one wall. In almost no time at. all he was outside. Nanny followed him. They each drew a long breath. They were no longer prisoners. They were free. They could go where they Dleased and do what they pleased. It was a glorious feeling. For a while they could think of nothing eise. They Just sat outside that shed, listening to the strange sounds and looking at the *"Risht back o the sh gl of the shed strange plants were growing. They 'w s0_closely that any one as small as a Meadow Mouse could remain quite hidden under them from the sharpest eves. “Come on!" oried Danny. “Let's go see what tha Sunny South is like.” Nanny, who was more_ timid, tated. ““We'll get lost” sald she. “We don’t know what dangers there may be down hers. We don't know what enemies to watch out for. afraid, Danny.” “Nonsense!" cried Danny. “What is the good of being afraid? We can always come back here to our nest in _the big man-bird if we want to. I don't belleve there is anything to be afrald of. Anyway, I'm going to find out. You may stay here If you want to.” But Nanny didn't want to stay alone. Staying alone in this strange land would be worse than going ad- venturing. So., after hesitating a moment or two, she hurried after 'l.)l.x;ny and was soon right at his eels. (Copyright, 1928, by T. W. Burgesss.) ISLAND GREETS ALFONSO. Majorca Port Thronged by Natives TUnder Spanish Rule. PALMA, Island of Majorca,' Baleario Tslands, December 1.—King Alfonso and Queen Victoria and a numerous suite, including Gen. Primo Rivera, president of the military directorate, ‘were welcomed on Spanish soil here on their return from Italy. An en- thusiastic crowd of natives came to Palma, notwithstanding the inclement ‘weather, to greet their rulers. Colncident with the return of Gen. Primo Rivera, Admiral Marquis Ma- jaz ceases to be acting president of the military directorate in Spain. OUTLAWS TRY ROBBERY. By the Assoclated Press. MANILA, December 1.—Further ad- wvices from Lanao province, where several Datos recently raised the red flag, and where four Moro outlaws were slain early this week in an en- abulary, ind S Totiomie of robverics as broken out there. Word ot the x:::;{: .r:g‘:tflmm Provincigl Santos. I'm reached com- here in a Governor “PAWNED” Aa Unumal Remance of Pogp Pledged to Do the le Whose Very Being Is others. ¥ idding of By FRANK L.PACKARD Author of “The Miracle Ma “From Now Om,” etc. Oopyright, 1922, by Publio Ledger Company. (Continued from Yesterday’s Star.) E spoke aloud to himself again, as he approached the door of Paul Veniza's home. “But I am her daddy” whispered the old man flercely; “and she is my little girl. It don't change nothing her not knowing, except— except she ain’t hiding her face in shame, and"—Hawkins' voice broke 2 little—“and that I aln't never had her in these arms like I'd ought to have” A gleam of anger came sud- denly into the watery blue eyes under the shaggy brow “But he ain’t going to have her in his! That devil from the pit of hell ain’t going to kill the soul of my little girl—some- how he aln’t—that’s all I got to live for—old Hawkins—ha, ha!—somehow old Hawkins'll—" Hawkins' soliloquy ended abruptly. He was startled to find himself in the act of opening the front door of the one-time pawnshop. He even hesi- tated, holding the door ajar—and then suddenly he pushed the door wider pen end_stepped softly inside, as the sound of a voice, angry and threatening in Its tones, though strangely low and muffled, reached him. He knew that volce. It was Dr. Crang’s. It wnrdnrk here in the room that had once been the office of the pawn- shop, and upon which the front door opened directly; but from under the door leading into the rear room there showed a thread of light, and it was from there that Hawkins now placed e Miood irresolute. He stared around him, Upstairs it was dark. Paul Veniza, because he had not been well, had probably gone to bed early —unless it was Paul in there with Crang. No! He caught the sound of Claire’s volce now, and it seemed to come to him brokenly, in a strangely tired, dreary way. And then Crang's volce again, and an ugly laugh. The wrinkled skin of Hawkins' old weather-beaten hands grew taut and white across the knuckles as his fists clenched. He tiptoed toward the door. He could hear distinctly now. It was Crang SPealing’ oe o soot: 1 aid not speak sbout 1t to make you ain. 1°don't care where you met him. or how long you had been lovers before he crawled in here. That's nothing to do with it. It's enough that I know you were lovers before that night. But you belong to me now. Under- stand? 1 spoke of it because the sooner you realize that you are the one who is the cause of the trouble between Bruce and me, the better— for him! I wasn't crowding you be- fore, but I'm through fooling with it now for keeps. 1 let you go too long as it is. Today, for just a little while, he won out—ves, by heavens. if you want the truth, he nearly kiiled me. He got me tied in a cabin of a ship that sailed this afternoon for South America; but the engines broke down in the harbor, and, damn him, T'm back! You know what for. I've told you. There's one way to save him. T've told you what that is, too. I'm waiting for your answer. hy should it be m voice was dull and colorless. “Why can not you leave me alone—I, who hate and loathe you? Do you look for happiness with me? There will be none.” . y “Why should it be you?' Crang’s voice was suddenly hoarse with pas- sion, “Because you have set my brain on fire, because you have filled me vith madness. . D o o snderstand—Claire! Claire: Do you understand? Because I want you, because I'm going to have you, because I'm going to oWn you—yes, own you, one way or another—by rriage, or- i i o cry_came from Claire. Tt tore at Hawkins' heart in_its bitter shame _and anguish. His face blanched. 3 “Well, you asked for it, and you got it!* Crang snarted. “Now, I'm waiting for your answer. There was a long pause, then Claire spoke with an obvious effort to steady her voice. ogp “Have I got to buy him twice? o “You haven't bought him once vet. Crang answered swiftly. “I performed my pert of the barguin. I haven't been paid.” > And Hawkins, standing there, lis- tening, heard nothing for a long time; and then he distinguished Claire's voice, but it was so low that he could not catch the words. But he heard Crang’s_reply because it was loud with what seemed like passionate savagery and triumph: You're wise, my dear! At 8 o'clock tomorrow morning, then. And since Mr. John Bruce's skin is in- volved in this, you guite understand that he {s not to be communicated with in any way?" " = “I understand.” Hawkins this time caught the almost inaudible reply. “All right!” Crang said. “There's a padre I know, who's down on Staten Island now. We'll go down there and be married without any fuss. I'll be here at 8 o'clock. Your father isn't fit to ride in that rattle-trap old bus of yours. I'll have a comfortable limousine for him. and you can go with him. Hawkins can drive me, and"—he was laughing softly—“and be my best man. I'll see that he knows about it in time to—" Like a_blind man, Hawkins was groping his way toward the front door. Married! They were to be mar- ried tomorrow morning. He found himself on the street. He hurried. Impulse drove him along. Hae did not reason. His mind was a tortured thing. And vet he laughed as he scurried around the corner, laughed in an unhinged way, and raised both hands above his head and ounded at the air with his doubled sts. They were to be married tomor- row morning, and he—he was to be best man. And as he laughed his once ruddy, weather-beaten face was white 28 a winding sheet, and in the whiteness there was stamped a look that it was rolled down his cheeks, opening the flood tes of his soul. he sobbed. “Daddy’s And reason and a strange calmness “John Bruce,” he said. “He loves her, CHAPTER XXI. good on no man'’s face to see. s“‘My little girl? too. ing house he climbed into the drivers It didn’t matter now how much The Last Chance. Claire's And then sudenly two great tears little girl!” came. And in front of Mrs. Hedges’ room- seat of the old traveling pawn-shop. noise he made. John Bruce closed the door of Lar- JOIN OF 50c a Week Will $1 a Week Will $2 a Week Will $5 a Week Will $10 a Week Will CHRISTMAS SAVINGS CLUB “FEDERAL-AMERICAN” Deposit any ‘amount from 50c a week up We add 3% interest mon’s sulte, and, taking the elevator, Wwent up to his own room in the Bayne- Miloy Hotel, two floors above. Here he flung himself almost wearily into a chair. Larmon had gone to bed, but bed offered no appeal to him, John Bruce, in spite of the fact that he was con- scious of great mental fatigue. Bed without sleep was a horror, and his spirits were too depressed to make sleep even a possibility. From a purely selfish standpoint, and he admitted to utter selfishness now, it [had been a hollow victory. Ctang was gone, disposed of, and as far as Larmon was concerned 'the man no longer existed, for if Crang had held certain intimate knowledge of Larmon's Hfe over Larmon's head, Larmon was now in exactly the same position in respect to Crang. And Crang, too, for the time being at least, was no longer & factor in Claire's life. Ho smiled grimly to himself. Hol- low! The victory had been sweeping, complete, conclusive—for every one but himself! He had not even waited to leave the dock before he had tele- phoned Clalre. And Claire had He rose suddenly and Legan to walk foverlshly up and down the room. Hollow! He laughed out shortly. She had curtly refused to talk to him. He had only meant to telephone to say that he was on the way up to her house, and he had m: naged to say that much—and she had coldly, cbn- temptuously informed him that she would not be at home and had hung up the receiver. She had given him no opportunity to say any more. It was not like Claire. It had been 50 unexpected that he had left the dock mentally dazed. The sight of the liner out in the stream had seemed to mock him ironically. After that, until now, he had followed the line of leagt resistance. He had come back here to the hotel and dined with Lar- mon. He stood still in the middle of the room. Larmon! 1t had been a singu- lar evening that he had Just spent With Larmon. He had got a new view- point on Larmon—a strange, grave sympathetic Larmon. He had given Larmon the details of everything that had hLappened, and Larmon had Jed him on to talk—of everything and anything, it seemed now as he looked Lack upon it. And, somehow, he could Dot tell why, even while he felt that Larmon was drawing him out, urgine him even to speak of Claire and the most intimate things of the last few weeks. he had been glad to respond. It was only when Larmon for a litt while had discussed his great chain of gambling houses that he, John Bruce, liad felt curfously detached from it all and estranged from the other, as though he were masquerad- ing as some one else. ax some one whom Larmon beliaved to be John Bruce. and as though he in his true self had no interest in these matters any longer in a personal sense, as though his connection with them had automatically ceased with the climax of Crang's removal. It was queer! But then his mind had been ob- sessed, elsewhere. And yet here, too, he had been frank with Larmon— frank enough to admit the feelings that had prompted him to refrain from actual play only two nights be- fore. He remembered the quick little tattoo of Larmon's quill toothpick at this admission, and Larmon's tight little smile. Yes, it had been a singular evening! In those few hours he seemed 1o have grown to know Larmon as though he had known the man all his life, to ba drawn to Larmon in a personal way, | to admire Larmon as a man. There | was something of debonnair sang| froid about Larmon. He had made no | fuss over his escape that day and much less been effusive in any thanks. Larmon’s philosophy of life was ap parently definitely fixed and settled and, in so far as Larmon_was con- cerned, satisfactorily The whole world to Larmon was 2 gamble—and, consistently enough, his own activ- itles in that respect were on as vast a scale as possible. Larmon, with his unemotional face and his guill toothpick! No: not un- emotional! When Larmon had finally pleaded fatigue and e desire to go to bed, there had been something in Lar- mon’'s face and Larmon's “good- night” that still lingered with him, { John Bruce, and which even now he | could not define. John Bruce's brows gathered into tight furrows. His mind had_flown off at a tangent. There was Claire! It had not been like Claire. Nor had he meant nor did he intend now to accept her dismissal as final. But what was it that had happened? What was {t? He could think of only one thing—the letter he had written to Larmon, and which, on that account, he had ‘asked for and received back from the other. It was a certainty that Crang's hand was in this some- where, and Crang had said that he had shown the letter to Claire, but. The telephone rang. John Bruce stenped to the desk and " A Complete Stock orF Radio Receiving Sets AND Radio Accessories Always on Hand John J. Odenwald Phone Franklin 6903 1209 H Street N.W. MEDICINE Keeps Them Healthy | i OVER 68 YEARS OF SUCCESS THE THE Give You $25.37 Give You $50.75 Givg You $101.50 Give You $253.75 Give You $507.50 Federal-American National Bank 1315 F Street Ppicked up the instrument. Yes? Hallo!” he said. The clerk’s voice from the office an- swered him “There's a man down here, Mr. Bruce, who Insists on seeing you. He's Pretty seedy and looks as though he had been on a bat for u week. I'm l;'llli‘r);rlohl’lflllher{ynu. but we can't get m. ay N Howdf him. " He #ays his namo fs “Send him up at ence!” said John Bry}g sharply. ©s, ir”" "The clerk coughed dep- Iecatingly. “Very well, Me Bruce. Thank y Hawkins! John Bruce walked to the door of his sulte and opened it. He looked ot his watch. It was get- Ung on now to 11 o'clock. What on earth had brought Hawkins up here to the Bayne-Miloy at this hour? iL. smiled a’little grimly as he stood waiting on the threshold, and the recollection of the night before came back to him. Well, at least Wwas safe tonlght from any kidnaping through the medlum of Hawkins' The elevator door clanged a littls way down the corridor, and Hawkins followed by a bellboy, stepped our “This Hawkins!" John Bruce called —and’ dismissed the bellbos with a wave of his hand . And then, as Hawkins reached the door, John' Bruce stared in mmaze ment and for a moment absolved the clerk for his diagnosis Hawkins' face was like p devoid of color; his hands, at the old felt hat, tremble the ague; and the blue burned they seemed, s fixed way from under brows. John Bruce pulled the side the apartment and closed door. “Good Lord, Hawkins'" ed, anxiously. “What's with you?" Hawkins caught at h - the matter n Bruce: tomorrow morn “Tomorrow he ing said at s “What 182" Inquired John Bruce. He¢ forced the old cabman gently into chair. “You're upset, Hawkins, —walit! I'll get you gometh But Hawkins held him “I don’t wi 3 misery, bitterness in H “I don’t w; come! It—it's come to Crang and—and my littl ing to be married tomorrow ing. And then John Bruce laug quietly and laid his hand reassuring’ on the old cabmas sheulde “No, Hawkins,” he said. "I don know where you got that idea; but won't be tomorrow morning, nor fo 4 good many tomorrow morni ther. 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