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WASHINGTON, D. O, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1024 REG’LAR FELLERS —Speaking of Miracles. ' Sl o 5 o it s . trade mark reg. U. 8. Pat. Ofice.) One Year to Live By JOHN HUNTER (Copyright, 1934, ir. United Sta yri nd Can- @12 by North meriean N Tliance. All Fizhts reserved. d.) HOW THE & ELISE DUCHAN j&_a_ beautftul gentle birth, who. by nocent young gl mistortune, hak sunk fo be a_dresser in a small Mootmartfe theater. Elive has the careof u bedrinden s who 18 8 by an elderly doctor ummed Lapierre, ho loves Elise. e young girl is dresser od in- creature of flaming y arance, and equally glaring morais. Klise’s natural modesty and beauty are & thorn in Lolette's jealous side, and the star desires ntali of her ‘little dresser. Lolette's manager snd BL. the great entrepreneur, Lolette’s in & To this latter termived to rain Biise. Elise meets a young amen oM KENDRICK, whom she at once recog- nizes as o man of different stamp from the hangerson of the theater. Kendrick asks Flie to sccompiny him to a great bal masque and the girl accepts. At this bali, in Durtuance of ber pian. Tolette induces many beautiful gitls have passed. offers to make El ctar—on_conditions that the pure, youg girl indignantly re- jects. One day Elise faints dead away in ter room. Dr. Lapierre, who is summoned, reluctantiy informs the girl that sbe bLas ooly 8 whort time to live. Whe doctor asks Eliee to marry him, but she refuses; she hax come to & dectsion. Since she has enly a year to live, she will Jive (o the full. “Brunel's promisé to make ber a star springs to her mind. CHAPTER XV. Decision. LISE went out for a walk. She suddenly felt that the atmos- phere of the garret was stifiing and constricted, and had a need for the comparative cool- ness of the night air outside. She crept dcross to Marthe's bed, and, assuring herself that Marthe was soundly asleep, she went carefully from the house to the silence of the night-filled streets. She wanted to think calmly and dudicially, and thought she could do ®0 more ‘easily walking about than sitting in the still, close room. ¥or this was a great decision. She was in the position of one with a certain limited capital to be disposed of to the best advantage. She had a single talent—a year of life—and she must use It with her best en- deavors. Lapierre—Brunel—or what? Already she had definitely decided that continuance at ' the dressing room was impossible. The stakes were too high to permit of such small play. She must throw a giant hazard With fate, and hope to scoop the pool. As she walked she realized that she had changed even in the past few days The defection of Kendrick, attitude of Brunel and Mordac, the sentence of death, and Lapierre's en- deavor to take advantage of it—all had reacted swiftly on her ‘mobile temperament. She felt harder, more beginning to display that aplomb which afterwards served her so well, and which had lain unheeded beneath her girlish simplicity until stark necessity should urge it to active life. It was probably a heritage from those sneering, quizsing, silk-clad an- cestors of hers who had found life a bore and death a joke. runel was clever, Mordac was devilishly clever. Lolette was, after all, but a fool. Slowly she was molding her .pur- pose, reviewing the battleground, grouping her forces. She must remember that all the time—remember the potentialities of these men, and forget Kendrick. God! Bhe must forget Kendrick utterly, or she would sink in the bottomless pool of black despair beforo her purpose was accomplished. At the back of her mind she knew what she was going to do. -She was going to play her wits against the wits of these men, using her beauty as a pawn in the game: she was going to play them for the highest stakes, and she hoped to hold her line of de- fense until the hand of death ren- dered that defense ne longer neces- sary. She went back to the garret. Marthe was still asleep, and she un- dressed quietly, very methodical, un- naturally calm and deliberate, and stood in her white nightgown look- ing down at her sister. Sho was about to drop to her knees when she stayed the movement, How could she pray? How could she ask the blessing of that God whose hand had stretched out from His heaven and slain her? How dared she talk to that God whose command- ments she was breaking? She crept into bed. Yet she praved hours afterwards, when sleep had proved impossible— prayed with wet, hot cheeks and streaming eves, and the burden of her prayer was appeal for mercy, re- peated again and again—appeal and explanation to Him for whom all ex- planations are unnecessary. THe next morning she went to Brunel. CHAPTER XVI. Coming to Terms. Brunel found her different. After- wards he persuaded himself that he ‘was mistaken; but during the inter- |view he thought her extremely busi- nesslike and inclined to hardness, a thing which was not at all to his liking. = As usual he attended his office in the morning between the hours of 10 and 12, and when her name was sent up to him he told himself that the golden bait had been swallowed at last—hook and line—and that the quivering, frightened fish was landed. Even Brunel had his limitations. He dismissed the caller who was with him—a well known singer from America—and ordered that Elise should be shown up at once, adding that he interviewed nobody else that day. She came in, ushered with some servility by Brunel's secretary, who conceived that she was going to be | Anfr pecun’ WONEST | NI . THERE. WAS MULTITUDES OF THousADS AN —OUSANDS AN ALL -THEY HADTO EAT WAS o LIL Pieuts Al FIVE concerting discovery businesslike and hard ‘here was to be a contract and the salary—for she had learnt something of such things during her association with Lolette—was large. From suave flattery Brunel deecended to argu- ment, even to haggling. The discus- sion waxed hot, point by point it was fought out—and Elise won. Her smiles and her beauty turned the decision and she won the day. It was all laid down definitely, and be- fore she left the contract was dic- tated in her presence to Brunel's sec- retary. . Brunel was producing a great new Spectacular revue at his place in the Champs Elysees—the Theater Joy- use. Flise knew the Joyeuse. It was one of those magnificent elaborations of the open-air cafes chantants, of which the Ambassadeurs s an exam- ple. Open only during the summer, it was always thronged with the wealthiest and the greatest in Paris, both of the natives and the visitors: 1t was set amid trees, and across its auditorium were strung little colored Jamps in thousands. At the back was a great restaurant, where the gayest in Paris supped nightly. On its stage always appeared the most brilliant stars in the Parisian firmament. The Joyeuse was, of its kind, what the Interantionale was among the estab- lished and always open theaters of Paris. “Lolette,” said Brunel, “will remain at the Internationale. You will star at_the Joyeuse, provided you main- tain the conditions of the contract.” These conditions were that during the weeks that Brunel was perfecting his production Elise was to invent and exhiblt to him new dances, these dances to be performed to his satis- faction, and the music of them to be written by a well known composer at his expense, he to pay Elise an ade- quate retaining salary over the whole period, without obligation on her art if the dances failed to please im. Tn other words, Brunel took all the risk and Elise stood to gain every- thing; except that Brunel had made a mental reservation to the effect that, fail or succeed, Elise should pay for the opportunity, a reservation of whose existence Elise was perfectly that she was that, monsieur. I shall be La Phalené, it you please.” “But_certainly.” agreeable, He wishied to take her to lunch, but she refused his invitation and left him. “You must come and see me again tomorrow.” he sald, as she was going. “We must keep in touch with each other now, because we are going to make La Phalene very famous, we two.” He was standing before her and his hand reached up and patted her shoulder. She had an impuise to draw back, but fought it down and smiled at him. 5 “I hope so, monsteur.” “And 1.” He took her hand, almost before she was aware of it, and kissed it. “Au revoir. Tomorrow!" She went out. “Au revolr!" And a kiss on her fingers! She was sickened and reeling, for they brought back to her a memory of Kendrick and his kindness in those days, which seemed centuries previ- ous, when she had been different and life' had_been a matter of simple is- sues and straightened paths. It was not until she got home that she realized the strain the interview had imposed on her and how much it had cost her to preserve a bold front, to watch Brunel's leering admiration unmoved and to meet him, toe to toe, and use her beauty and her smiles to bring her victory. She was trembiing and shaken by the time she got to the stair-top and had an impulse to sit down and cry and abandon it all. Yet when Marthe spoke to her and asked her why she was so flushed, she said, with a gayety so well assumaed that it seemed nat- ural: “Marthe! I have a chance. I am to go on the stage as an actress, and there will be quite a jot of money for ua At least enough for you to move from here and go to the coun- try and have proper attention. I have signed a contratt this morning.” “Elise!” ~ A silence; them: “WIill it be all right? FElise looked down at her, hesitant “Of course, it will, Marthe. Why ever did you ask such a thing?” “I don’t know.” Marthe looked less troubled. *Only, you see—people say such things about actresses. Although He was suavely her dismissal, of coursa Brunel has been silent about her, but I hear authoritatively that a 'contract was signed this morning between them which makes her a dincer. She han- dled 1 as far as_salary went” Mordac smiled. “Some men are not even safe from their secretaries” he observed. “But I presume it is not a breach of confidence for you te be informed, eh? Where i she to show?* “At the Joyeuse.” Loletts was a little short in her speech. She had planned to be at the Joyeuse herseif. Mordac whistled softly. ‘“‘D'un nom! There! As a star? In the new pro- “Exactly.” Mordac studied Lolette closely dur- ing a few moments of silence. “That,” he id at last, “is umex- pected. You did not imagine she would leap so high at flrst® Lolette sneered. ‘The higher the leap the greater the fall. I have nothing to fear! There i3 only one Lolette in all the world. Ehe will fall, that one, and break.” Mordac did not answer. He knew Lolette's overweening vanity would blind her to lns hfl’ar of eclipse by this new star Brumel had found and did not think it worth while to argue But he wondered on decided, would find him a frequent visitor while La Phalene fluttered beneath its lights Tomerrow: The Power of Memey. UenTY To vaT! | COULDN; “LAST OF THE HERETICS” HITS FUNDAMENTALISM Dr. Crapsey, Expelled for Heresy, Bees Church Doomed Unless Stand Changes. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 23.—“Thec Chris- tian Church is doomed unless it aban- dons the so-called fundamentalist theology and gets back to the funda- mental teachings of Jesus said Dr. Algernon Crapsey of Rochester, N. Y., yesterday, taking part in the mod- ernist-fundamentalist controversy for the first time since he was tried, con- vieted and expelled for heresy from a Rochester pastorate of the Protest- ant ED:‘icflpal church in 1906. Included in the charges against Dr. Crapsey was his denial of the virgin birth of Jesus Christ by the asser- tion that Jesus was actually the son of_Josep! Firm in his belief that Bishop Wil- llam M. Brown or Dr. Harry Emer- son Foadick will never be tried on charges of heresy, but that their cases will languish 'and be forgotten, Dr. Crapsey, now seventy-Seven years old and a civil war veteran, styled himself “the last of the heretics.” —_— The hand that kindles cannot al- ways quench the flame. These are real Burt Shoes for men in this 8.00 grade Made on “Nature Shape” lasts and of a quality that will repay in satisfaction far be- yond the expectancy of the price. We feature Nature Shapc principles in our Shoes for the boys, girls and children Arthur Burt Co. - 136 F strect Caring for feet is better than curing them aware. The contract was typed while they discussed minor points, and was signed, ready for stamping. “And ." said Brunel. “Your name. Shall I bill you as Ducha- nier? Or would you prefer another name—one of your, own invention?" Elsie thought a moment. This was a year of fluttering in the lights and the blaze, with inevitable destruction at_the end. “I shall be called La Phalene,” she sald at last. Brunel smiled. “You are pessi- mistic, cherie.”” Already he was speaking to her with that familiarity which distingulshed his relations with his artista. “Moth is hardly eompli- mentary to your beauty.” “Nevertheless, we will detached, more ealculating, with still, beneath the hardness and detachment and calculation, a restless flgod of her old emotionalism, a protest against this new self which was be- ing born. a reaching out for light and Jove and that quiet happiness for which nature had fitted her. The more she thought the more did she concentrate od Brunel and Mor- a very important personage before Brunel had finished with her. There was a subtle flattery in this servility which Elise appreciated and which I know you would be safe, Elise. know that. I should never have thought it for a moment. Should 17 “Of course not, Marthe." Marthe smiled. I shall tell doc. tor,” she said. “He will be happy to know that we have been fortunate.” “Yes.” Elise turned away. That night Le Comte Mordac found himself alone with Lolette in her dressing room for a little while. “So the little Puritan has deserted you?" he said quietly. Lolette nodded. She was resting after her dance, stretched on s great pilo of costly cushions old Heloise had arranged in the middle of the floor. ac was sitting on one of the ebony chairs looking down at her. “She has gone,” sho sald. “Twice she has not been roun: Overstout Men! 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