Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1926, Page 88

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., . 1926—PART L.ove Like Cold Water BY ROYAL BROWN Eve’s Ambition Was to Marry for Mone: LEVEN o'clock of that Septem- ber day on which she was to be married—though she did not know that th, found Lyndall in disreputable riding- breeches with a smudge o | ing nose. The riding-breeches, once white and yet to be paid for, had been fashioned by a celebrated London taflor who would hav pt could e ve seen them now. Eve remained unperturbed: even a glimpse of her nose would not have upset her unduly Therefore it was well she could not xee herself s w her—mean in particu . having been born a S \d christened Treve lvan, for personal rea ons, : Ive's 1, He was wres wholly unaccountable but e desire to kiss it. o reverse, old top—go Into re- he was advisin mself. ope—not even F guessed that. She was bored almost 1o extinct hated machinery with t e which is bred in ide from s his Creator h was very well | 1 million per- ns why she should dmiring audience honest h de him—w there was v the part of ked Che ¢ w cond-hand. known er had paid | 1 the other| me fu ve could re been made fin ways full ase remit’’ on them. of “Accounts hore foreign Berlin, Paris, Rome—all pe and their envi. the capitals of E ne red-headed one happened to ren- er first ald s her v s mother had lgnored. “Tt . i he must have noticed vou. And to see me Is to love me! That ad been so well proved this Sum- mer.” “1 suppose the ntroduce you." ““Helen, my dear, T r that your methoc llionaire in need is eed. But 1 sugges me.” What do you plan to do “You are zoing to buy me a car,” she informed her mother airily. “Eve, are you cr ’ “No—just deep. proprietor might m beginning to wre crude. A a milllonaire ave him 2 I don't mean a Rolls Royce, but the cheapest old second-hand car we can find—some- thing that will require frequent atten- n. When we find it I suggest you leave the rest to me They had found it. It had required immediate and frequent attention. Bill had given it this. Eve had as sisted him, which w breeches had becor why this afternc smudge on her nos Bill had always been the first place, i ion that whatever have was outw He did not belie im strafght. And he the girl who would m money would start ri him through the hoops, training 0 do the things he hated The things he hated wero afternoon teas, formal ors and evend clothes And, of course, things he liked for_mechanics t v he was now. Eve had upset all these theorfes. > disreputable and n there was a shy. money. 1 could see e would hate the mother had vears. rons, for and Any in g and d mag R carillons of L when she chc be sweet and written an old . I bring a had not le. But test and o e world—n v returne shed 1t were June In June Eve had been a novelty ation. She n of several ¢ these had been tempori 11 dependent | on their She had millions in| prospect, but Eve's mother wanted ons at once. An older man, that | ere had beer ired Eve. who ad een wary. | ze that her ich had netted her| on had been retrench. cure li hill town she ht. Sug: d to it had found oat Inn it aber the prop: what she was ¢ v b le-horse for and fea han his. H the inn one afternoon i it of which he to c ve up rattle-trs epped, with the pro. nd attired nf As indeed he did however, was purely temporal rmal condition. He was proprietor explained to Eve's | working In a garage down in ve’s mother nothing could have been of less . worked in garage A not been bu he would hi the glance she gave ink, to look at him, worth millions, was would she worked echoed. in a ga | Red A the monument last July,’ etor had reaffirmed s. a local down by the propri- r. I guess. They ators and this chap that st here was ” makes you think he's worth see me about his| income A X a n 1d e had to . He told me that me wasn't Bill Smith but Tr Sylvester and—-" But why should he change his name”” Eve's mother had protested, bewildered “Well, he sald he'd come up to help Ames and that if people had an idea he had money they’d think he was cracked, working around a ga-| rage- { Eve's mother had certainly gotten | that impression. “Why should could Joan mone, He said around he work just as wi he liked to mess better than any- - proprietor had added, ; ot not to mention this to s0 perhaps voud better not li’u.ll 1 thought you might * ok K ox S mother had been—how much ver dreamed. returning from a ride, had been d with: Where have you been all this time?” And before she had recovered from the surprise of that: “You know that young man who works in the garage?” “The red-headed one? No, I don't, although something In his manner suggested he would be ‘pleased to meet we Americans say.” Not that one—the other one. Please | be serious e—" Are you seriously sug- gesting that I have been improving my spare moments cultivating young | garage men?" “You might have done worse. The one I speak of has millions.” Eve had looked incredulous. Then: “Well,” &he had demanded satiri- cally, “what am I supposed to do—get thrown from my horse in front of the s be inter IVE! -4} ] -, grey “They were sort | 5 her sarage? T believe that is always ef- tective, if entiquated. But what i§ been slipping fast ad acquired the smud ght it on her have no - than up men Eve's voice “It's an aw t it's the best we ford. > be poo said nothing for a minu z to run the car e on the State rc 1o speed I I wonder.” Ev have a real in life but he pro- pite of her- | ¢ She had of humor 1 humor in This w The thri stopped the coupe abruptl for tires or 1ve been pure triun tinctured with s hing else. Al been | 1 bef r then. rd him irrendar. her and kissed savoring hes He simply —clt ! But for 2 moment he Smith for all e married. just New Hampshi ight h ve ve ared. Il travellng nort ve had the grace to blush. ier for that. went on from with a He Burlington in a hundred-and-thirty JAKE TURNED TO BILL AND DEMANDE how her riding | | she felt older, a he might | 1spected that | ging his passion | sent her the cen befora | intention | fsn't it? | Its | , and She Had And—she did. The primitivenes plumbed new depths in her. They spent a month on the Crazy Bill said he wished they could stay a Winter, but he agreed with Eve thai they owed something to her mother. The ore they broke camp they s roaring open fire that cast fantastic lights around the fur-decked living room. Presently Bill spoke, long, sleepy silence. “I've always thought,” he sald, “that some day I'd like a place in the country. One of those long, low, rambling houses with lots of land around it. A place where we could have horses and dogs and—and——" The word children was on the tip of his tongue. There it stayed. He had come to realize that Eve, though still the miraculous one girl in the world for him, had odd withdrawals from some subjects So after a brief pause he finished breaking a uld you like it? In his voice there was a boyish wist- ulness. he was Wl of 28, moments like this nost motherlike. some time, perhaps,” she evaded, But this Winter we'll spend in New York.” ¥ * I New York, Eve’s mother awaited | th>m She had found an ment for them, east of Cent which she had sublet furnished knew you and Eve would love he said Bill glanced around the living room. “I suppose,” he reflected, “I'm an wful roughneck and it's about time T had my taste educated.” Eve's mother gave her a swift, arching glance. The wire Eve had day of elopement had given her a brief taste of triumph. But since then she had hegun to won o fact was what red to as a small-tow) apart- had | I's room had hat she had, after all, ch at anything d to Eve. on very mu n etorted Eve, mean did I mind ever so much better hen I deserve. “FEve—you haven't fallen in—in love to fall in love for mor 1 faux pas you marry s a bitterness ism her mc Nor could E: ¢ raptdly Eve’s mother cildered. Tn less th he and Eve seemed in- all-town mi re. to invi n automobile ac d the shrewdness to ca ke his father, was a n by chance. Actually fit’ either into the ther organ d r even in New Yo 1+ week his chief diversion was D t, exotic to bej > have developed | e par n intrusion ad her ers, he had his. He had not to the argot of d have said that to him and he s ready to slam e realized that it couldn’t trouble was he didn't uld go. »nth in New York Then one afte v in December he returne antly exhilarated and Bill had been helping a taxi-driver change a tire! WELL. HOW MUCH WOULD YOU PAY ME TO DODGE SCANDAL—AND A LONG JAIL TERM?” inch wheelbase. In Burlington Bill !most ten thousand dollars. chin now snuggled in a brand-new fur coat, the best the city afforded. On the third finger of her left hand appeared not only a wedding band but a solitaire. “But_vou said you were poor!” pro- tested Eve. “No man could be poor—after marrying you.” Billretorted. “You've made a millionaire of me so soon.” He, too, had a fur coat. And in a new golf suit, brown like his eves, he more than fulfilled the prophecy Eve had once made to her mother. “He'll look almost respectable,” she had said, ““after he’'s been well scrub- bed and properly clothed.” Now she remembered thit and almost hated herself for it. And hated herself, too, because she must say: “I—I don’t understand.” “Don't try to,” he replied. The fur coats, he told her, would be needed because they were going to spend their honeymoon in a camp on Crazy River, deep in the woods to the north of Plattsburg. ‘They came to the camp on the Crazy toward sunset the next day. It was as primitive as its setting, fashioned of logs, yet touched with crude luxury. Bill's eyes begged her to love it and Eve said she did. After that he and thg taxi-driver had talked. The taxi-dfiver was a hard-faced hulk of a man, but Bill in his loneliness warmed to him. The taxi-driver was a free lance, owning his own car. “Some days the pickings are good— other days not so good,” he had ex- plained. ~“But every little bit helps. Me and my brother-in-law have got a garage over on the West Side we're trying to get on its feet.” “You are starting a garage?” had asked eagerly. “On a shoe-string. But if we can keep going for a few months more it will coin money for us. The trouble is that the bank is hollering about the note—"" “How much s it “Fifteen hundred—"" “Give me the address,” Bill had cut in. “I may be able to help you out.” The taxi driver had given him a sus- picious glance. He had an idea he was being kidded. His second thought was that perhaps Bill was a nut. But you never could tell, and so he had glven him the address. This Bill had with him as he entered the apartment. He had, as well, other souvenirs of the tire-changing episode, more obvious. He was not aware of that, e Bill al Park, | el her suspected, | I More than | was {nextinguishably the son | > who had had| the hour, feel- | pure- | dise in which his pres- | al-| Realized It. home. He heard her and curlously provoca- w her. She saw him the same instant. She did not cker an eyelash nor even seck to over her hand her visitor held so ently. v “Come In!” she commanded. want you to meet the Count d'Adoni— an old friend of mine who refuses to believe 1 have been so heartless as to marry somebody else. Assure him that T have.” The count Cve was ce, lovely ve, before he came gracefully to his 1eet with equal self-possession. He stood erect and easy, olive-skinned and very good to look upon, with his black smartly brushed and his mus » smurtly clipped. 1 congratulite—and envy you said in precise English, The smile that revealed the flash of his teeth was beyond cavil. But in his eyes there was a suggestion of the {ronic that was an affront. This Bill was given no chance to di- * he exclaimed Eve. “What on earth have you been doing-—mak- ing mudpies with other Jittie boys in the park?’ I helped a man change il contessed, confusedly. “You go change yourself’” she com- | manded. “And take a tub as well.” When he returned to the living room, 1t was deserted. Madam,” Eve's maid informed him, dining out with Count d Adoni.” \e came in at midnight. The count came in with her. Bill, in his room, heard snatches of convewsation, and presently the scent of their cigarettes reached him. a tire,” * ok ox x HE count departed. Bill heard Eve's footsteps in the hall. His heart quickened and almost suffocated him as she approached his door. Lk “GRACIOUS,” EXCLAIMED EVE. JANUARY 17, M “WHAT ON EARTH HAVE YOU BE DOING—MAKING THE PARK?” 1 her car overhauled first Eve paused, then knocke “Come in,” he managed to say. Eve came in. She was lovelier tha lever. She was his first impressio! And then he saw gown she wore- decolette, G and daring “Did you wear that thir manded, abruptly. “Thing?" echoed Eve In honest sur- | prise. “What do you expect me to wear (o hear Heifetz? A Mother Hub- | bard? | To that He managed effort, ar vely eyes ' he de-| ade no a phy wer she commented, | *h more | vours | hat able my appeara to the oc L Desire vet ther: tha BiI coul not hav The count unexpectedl had refreshed and kindled her. To her | the count had been what the changing a tire had been to Bill as innocent as a kitten when she had surre; ed to the lmpulse to knock his door. and he had taken her | 1v bv surprise. | Now she turned her back to him. A | t was, and most of | not to Bill. All aw was red. He h: a primitiv a to lay hands on her; to stay { her departure and author- | v. But he let b room | unchecked w | The next to the West not guess that and she d it 1e taxi driver driver was not er-in-law, his_brot harder | he got worked until on that old bus of Daley’s. good mechanic, at that. Sal he'd be around to finish the job. wonder how he gets that way!" * Rk ¥ % Bill came home one evening, as the count was taking his | had most d and th 1 1| | | arewell lantly kissed Evi | pired to hig | eluded hir and provocative, but determined to deny him. Tha | count had not yet gotten that idea Nor did Bill, entering at that moment Eve d mistress of the sit tion. | “I had just warned Edmonde,” she said serenely, t you might come | 1 Tookec ou wes sted, words. The count hesitated, then, bending stiffiy from the w with an air of conceding nothing, with ed behind him She drew a t the count going, I believe?” his voice clipping he the ce lifted to hers so ardently were blazing cold. It seems apparent,” he said, “that e made a mistake.” ‘Congratulations on_ your perspi cacit she replied. “I suppose you you propose to do about 1t?" “Let you get a divorce—— “How perfectly sweet of you!" She had a feeling that he was see- ing her at last as she really was. He left without another word. ““And that,” remarked Eve, “is that. But I do door.” e's mother came in hran‘hlsesly ‘Eve, I'm so glad! I was afraid he might not agree to a divorce— “And he suggested it himself. Did he ‘sound unchivalrously glad to get rid of me to you, too? He did to me. ‘Wasn't that irritating of him?"” Eve’'s mother gave her a sharp glance. mask. “You must see a lawyer—the sooner the better,” she advised. “Tomorrow,"” promised Eve. Eve did. She told the lawyers there would be no contest. She was mo- mentarily dashed when the lawyer asked her for Bill's address. Then she remembered the garage, and told him he would find Bill there. He did. “T shan’t lift a finger to provent the divorce,” Blll said, grimly. “Nor will I lift a finger to help. The question of alimony can be settled by the courts. That's my last word on the subject.” And it was. But the matter did not, as Eve's lawyer reported back to her, rest there—not even temporarily. Gus, at work under a car, had eaves- dropped. That night he repeated what | he had heard to Eddie, driver of the taxi. Together they worked out the plan that was to get from Bill much more than the measly 1,500 he had loaned them. Two days later a woman drove into the garage. She was young and pretty. She gave her name as Jeannie ‘Whiting and her address as an apart- ment block nearby. She was plan- ning, ehe said, to drive up to spend X refer to our marriage. Well, what do | sh he had slammed the | 114 this be don The car was tu said he could ! days, if that d over to B ve it ready in ould be 1t replied T to Wh tr her it with her I took tr you over, me: T { cried. o wish'y you come The gt Christmas with her mother, but she | “He has got money, Jake. Oh, let him pay instead. Think of the to get back to the Cr: mu an And now I thin ted Juke BY E. HENDRIK RIBBINK. SAMARANG out 15 inches long, with a wing spread of about 40 inches They look u nything in_th world except the gargoyles of Notr Dame. They w some, but Mme. Kre have become quite tr take them to her studio lin for further study and domes tion, “They are charming and fast Hlittle creatures,” E berg, “although th of becoming intoxicated on the | sap of palm trees. This is their ite drink. It is quaint to see them { making erratic and hilarious swoops through the air, under the influence of too much sap. Figs, bananas and delicate buds ' of flowers are their favorite food, although, in emergen- fish. ““Their flight is like that of the crow | They move slowly and evenly through or -! the air, except when intoxicated, with the | lonly an occasional flapping of wings. The Malays eat them, consider them a great delicacy “They make only two sounds, a ratlike squeak and a kind of whisper- ing. They quarrel a great deal, but chiefly over food, and I find that when and But Eve's face has a lovely | they are well fed they are less trucu- | lent. Their bodies are covered with fur, but their wings are black cool and they spread them ove bodles when they go to sleep. They continually lick their wings to keep them smooth and clean, just as the Eskimos bite their moceasins to make them flexible. At the end of the wing is a sharp claw, with an extended thumb. This is useful in climbing trees and fighting. “At first I had to be careful of this hook. It can make a nasty cut; in- fection and blood poisoning may easily follow. While I cannot truth- fully say they have developed any real affection for me, they will light on my hands and lick them with their little pink tongues. But I would ad- vise any one trying to domesticate them to hold them by the back of the neck at first. They are clumsy, and cannot move on the ground, but are quite at home In the air. I have seen them catching fish, making a swift SWOOD over a stream. 1 asked Mme. Kreutzberg hopefully about the possibility of the small fly- ing dogs being taken up by women of leisure as pets to replace the small pomeranians and Pekingese Spaniels. “Que could leash ’em out of an cies, they will eat snakes, rats, insects | and | their | ng. [and veir hav- | the cl suid. | tiny h red in New York a few years ago, It t better of it. utzbers wanted to talk jabout some studies of protective mim. icry, which she has been making in the jungles, and I found it difficult to keep her on the subject of the dogs. “I have found many of the ‘walk ing leaves,'" she said. “It Is an in- sect which lives In the jungles of Java. It disguises itself like an oak lent . st the exact color more, her than the twig The stick-caterpillar, in form, po: ture and coloring, resembles so clo; 1y the branches or thorns of the! food plant that they can only be di tinguished with great difficu! Th will grasp a twig with th pair of hind legs, and, supporting th head by a t T the body ou | ONE OF THE FLYING DOGS DISCOVERED IN THE JUNGLES OF JAVA. trong , extend Woman Naturalist Captures Flying Dogs Rare Specimens From Indian Islands and the the caing > and the ause A d mean jn S- [ is safe s and ul with and thus by ing schema ttack by looking like certain bees polsonous sting, man- vaging enemies ini evidence {s tound butterfly. This spot_ey look colorir those resort this ha “Cer almost 2 e species of known s s, which ing eves cept in tim suddenl |1ike two b into vie of star- te flight stunt.” have the tling the enemy into pre o'-lantern 1925, United ritain Europe and Ast wre Warns of Quakes. REMARKABLE instrument that translates the slightest tremors of the earth into sounds that issue from a loud speaker is the recent inven- tion of a Japanese professor, Dr. Jun Shlda of Kyoto University. 'It is de- signed to give warning of the ap- proach of earthquakes, says Popular Sclence Monthly. The possible usefulness of the fin- ventlon lles in the assumption that most severe earthquakes are preceded by slight shocks. Thus an audible warning of slight tremors would give people time to leave homes and office buildings before the arrival of a de- structive quake. The invention consists of a pendu- lum, an electric coil and an amplifier. The pendulum is so delicately poised that it responds to the slightest vibra- tion. When it is set in motion, elec- tpicity is generated in the coll, which ctuates a sound-producing device. he sound is amplified and issues rough & loud speaker.