Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1926, Page 82

4 THE A Handsome Husband By Alice Duer Miller A Wife Who Liked to Worry—A Husband Who Hated Being Worried About—And a ~ HE great Western rushed out of the darkne a tunnel intn sunlight and fresh air. FEve Andfews al lowed her eves to wander ovep the evening newspaper which was Iving on her knees. where her hu hand had laid it when he himself had finished it It was folded back to one of the inner pazes. She hegan to read what ghe had probably never read bhe- fore in ali her life. namely. the the atrical notes—those printed in the smallest possibie type. made up like an old-fashioned bhouquet of the smallest flowers.plucked from the pib. licity agents’ offerings. The very hist one of these informed her thai Miss Josephine Joy was going West on that very train 1o make her fivst picture. Miss Joy was a celebrated dan and thoush she had done almost evers thing else in the world that there in to do. it seemed tha: sha had never made a picture. It was no flattery o call 1 the wickedest woman in Hardened men who had long ceased ! nse the adiective, excep: perhans i connection with their wifes used it in speaking of Joey. For <he did all the things that even wicked people ought not to do--she heiraved and mocked and abandoned. If mar rled, she sied faithlessly for divorce and if not married, she =ued even more faithlessiy for hreach of promise. She was hold and beautiful Eve drew a long, deep breath and glanced across to where her handsome hushand wits hie broad shoulders turned from he was staring idly out of the window Khe had manenvered him away this holiday irip. A hollday! Eve though' ihere was, no holiday possible for 1he plain wife of & handsome man. Nui of eourse that she was plain, or thought herself %0, except in moments «f 1 depres. sion, like the present. <he had a nice £mooth, round little face and rouna friendly brown eves and soft smooth brown hair. When she was a child #he had taken part ina school pageant in which she had plaved the part of Jenny Wren. and ihe experience seemed to have lefi a permanen: effect upon he ks, She was not press of The desper the alsle eious nature. and she had no son to doubt b hushand's which after eight vears of marr, remained both romantic and alive Only there was between fthem more than the usual difference hetween the masculine and feminine poinie of view as 1o what constituted legitimate amusemen: Eve's idea of amuse ment was to do anvthing with Tomn from gol to Shakespeare. Tom's iden (Y amusemen: was to render the rien nd variegated pattern of his life a little richer and more variegated. He had an extraordinary range of acquaintance. He had friends a nong thieves and great ladies and priests and skippers of racing vachts and policemen and opera singere and wom. an lawyers. It sometimes seemed to Eve that he knew every one in the world except the tiresome well hred people with whem she had heen brought up. 1f von went to the cirens with Tom the clown waved his hand and the great trapeze expert spoke tn him as he passed and said. as Tom was sure to tell you later. “Say, Tom. those were swell guvs you were with.” They worked together in the same gym nasium, for Tom w: n notabhle ama teur hoxer. and in his earlier days was alwavs getting into fights in publie, coming out victorious —and telling 2hout them. Of course Eve knew he ought not to tell it sounded a little like boasting. suspi * % ox ¥ S a matter of fact, she liked the boyish. exuherant streak in him she liked his heing on intimate terms with the policeman at the corner and his knowing every head waiter in the world. Only it made her anxions when this vivid interest in human contacts concentrated Itself upon a beautifu! woman, because, though she was not jealous. she was wise and she saw that to an attractive man like her hushand. forever forming new human relations, ane must eventually happen of which she would be jealons. And_this might very’ likely he the one. She let the paper drop on the floor and crumpled it with her feet. Tom would never read a crumpled pa- per. and perhaps he had not noticed the ftem. But, of course, he had, and in a mo ment he came across the alsle and aitting down heside her, laid his great ruddy hand with the scar across the knuekles on her knee and said. “Who An yeu think is on this train- in the drawing room of this very car—but Joey Joy? He stopped and looked at his ‘wife —his triumphant interest giv- ing place to amused affection. “1 don’t suppose you even know who that is.” “Really, darling.” said Eve, “lite with you is more of an education than vou seem to think. Of conrse, I know whe she is a very unserupulous woman.” Tom laughed. threw hack his head and “T'nscrupulous.” he sald “well, that is aboit A% near 1o a com pliment on her moral character as Jeey has ever come.” LT =aid e “Do vou her>" Of course she might guessed that he did. “Oh, 1 mei her vears ago. when I had a erush cn a girl in her company. She probably wouldn't remember me." “Oh, she’ll remember you.' an swered Eve rather drearily. They al- waya rememhered six feet of mas- culine heauty “1 used to go to her night,” Tom went on, I met you. of course—it was just after that splendid thing she did in the fire—danced with the flames almost hursting out over her head, pretending it was a new smoke dance she was putting on for the first time. She saved thousands of llves that night. and was going to get a meda! for it only just as ft was under consider ation ne of the worst of her scandals breke. Unjust. I always thought.” know have show every was before In her heart Eve thought that the| Gevernment or the Humane Society, or whoever it was, had heen perfectiy right not to give a notorfous womar like that s medal for anything, but| she never argued about theorétical pointe, and Tom went on with his reminiscences. xx FTER dinner they settled down te a game of Russian bank. They did not often play at home he- cause Tem was so much hetter at it than she was that the game no longer interested him, aithough she always wanted to play hecause she had the temperament which made her think she was going to win the next rame What was her surprise now, they had been plaving a little t te find that she actualiy was ning. She “stopped” him with so triumphant a tone that a middie-aged gentleman going by paused to watch them. She beat h husband badly, which was surprising enough, but even more surprising was the fact that he did not seem to mind. Tom. the most magnificently generaus of win vers. was not quite %o splendid in fefeat. It was not at all hie role to be beaten at anyvthing, particularly Ehe knew e could bim in a gool temper letting him wis, buj she Davel ) after ime. win by on | Situation Full of Possibilities. He smiled hi though it lac ““That.” he said, * semi-civenlar smile, its nsual gayet = one of the dangers him she simply could not Now, looking up at the end | of a long. breathless play. she saw the reason why he wasn't cross. He |of prohibitions.” simply hadn't for a long time heen | She had wanted the truth and she paying any attention to the game. |had had it. for the reason that Miss Joy had | She went to hed that night really pme ont of her compartment while.|unhappy. She was not at all sure that the porter went in to make it up | it was not worse to know that he was for the ni ve had heen subcon- longing to he with that woman than E lv aware for some minutes of |0 know that he actually was A strong et subtle perfume which | b There was something had come’ drifting down the ear. about the situatfon. If they had quar- Turning ber head over her shoulder, | reled, they might have made it up. If she could eatch n glimpse of a slim [he had fallen in love. he might have little figure and a curly golden head. | recovered. but simply to have sepa- Fve gathered up the cards for an. | vated in this cold, ugly, other game. “You're not playing as |Sort of way . . . nothing like this well as usual.”” she said. had ever happened to them hefore. “Or elxe vou're improving.” he | PN answere:l generously. This was almost 2 JVE raised the window shade and deceitful Eve thought. especially as, when a few minutes iater Misg Joy lay staring out at the flat country She began to went hack into her drawing room and | 2nd dlhfl{xil\";r :[a:m‘.‘ Shi shut the deor sharply, Tom. took his | Wonder for the first time w T the revenge. 5 fight was worth fighting. She was She went fo bed that night aware |barely 30—20 vears might lie ahead of of anxiety a< u chronie snfferer is |her—20 vears of this agonizing strug aware of the approuch of pain. The |Ele to make Tom hers in the sense in trip had been decided on at the last |Which she wanted him hers. And as MORGRY mRAiesen Tom s e {#he grew older she would have less o ad not n able to get them a 0;""' :mn\ I‘hor\; \»\nuh‘u}: h:n(hp;‘!\ compartment. The hest he could do 'F'“ .:“.;‘. n;»“r’::o}'),.‘,’:{\ d"?_ she the was. two < on opposite xid y an? g e i her | She became aware of the fact narrow berth she maw plainly that |ihe train had stopped. There was she wasx in for one of those agoniz | Pothing alarming in that. Fve did Ine striggtes which make rvervihing |10t even change her position or break el<e in the world seem inimportant, | her line of thought. The trouble was T et dust hefore dawn Eve faced | that she loved her husband -not too the faci that #ll the happiness of her |MUCh. but too exclusively. She’ had marvied Iife wax over that Tom |N0 life but his, whereas he had a Would probaby abandon’ her and go |dozen ~other Cintereats and - excte off w ity % k. Lot o [,,,,,,,',‘ AR ‘,:',.'ri\!'l‘:““{ Suddenly the whole train began to home alone, standing unmet in the ;‘::"“"‘”'!J"‘"‘”’"“;“,';f'""""”" TRASH vast waiting room of the < 4 L e iainime 1o evary. | through the car:shouting something. Iy that Tom had heen detained by |[3/® #at up. and looked out between R bA ¥ |the curtains. The brakeman was i | going down the aisle, waking people. | “The trains held up. folks,” he was |saying. “they're golng right througn the Pullmans.” Where was | did et help it d sect As she that ook x HE next morning she saw how ridiculons her state of mind had been. and felt thankful that she had fiye mage S dive with | hopeless | irreparable | Some one came | for the opposite section. 1t was un- disturbed; he had not yet come back from the ohservation car. Seeing her, the brakeman remembered his instruetion “All ladles are to go to the draw- ing room and lock themselves in," he said. . | Eve was frightened, but she was | not a coward. She wasn't, she said to herself, going to take refuge with i that woman. “I shalt stay where I am,” she said. he brakeman took her by the arm and attempted to lead her down the aisle. She freed herself with as much dignity as that rotary gesture of the elbaw will permit, just as the door of ‘the compartment opened. Miss Joy:in a silk dressing gown, every golden hair of her head outlined hy | the bright light behind her, stood in | the doorway. | The brakeman repeated his in- | formation. “The train's held up by |a zang of them,” he said. “Will | you take this lady in with you and {lack the door on the two of vou?" | Miss Joy's naughty little face | erinkled into a_smile.” “Well, what !'do you knew about that,” she sald | “\Where's my publicity_agent”" And she drew hack to let Eve enter. Rut Kve did not enter. “Thank you,” she said. “I'll wait for my husband to come hack." The brakeman washed his hands of her and hurried on. Thera were many cars still to be warned. Miss Joy said civilly: “T don’t llke to leave the door apen, but I'll leave it un- locked as long as I can in case you change vour mind.” She shut it, leaving the outer car in semi-darkness again, for the brake man had not thought of turning on | the lights in his haste, and the porter | had disappeared. Again .the train hegan somebody said. “Look out--here they are.” Far off some one gave a strange high scream. The door of the car opened and in the dim light ive, peering out, saw two maaked | to shake: SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON. D. f THIS THIRD FIGURE C. SEPTEMBER 19, 1926— MUS PART 5. T HAVE BEEN THERE A LONG PORTUNITY TO SHOOT. TIME FROM THE BEGI figures, ““Hands up! said, and the next one of them thing she knew the knobh of the drawing reom deor was in her hand, and then she was inside—in light and safety, and Miss Joy, lovely in her silk draperies, was quietly locking the door. “I'm glad you came, said. politely. “Why, can't they door?” asked Eve. break dear,” in she the | Miss Joy smiled. “If they do.”" she replied, “T have a little surprise for them.,” and going to her gold-fitted dressing case she produced from it a small dark blue revolver. “But could yvou kill a man?" whis- pered Eve. Miss Joy laughed out loud, showing the per . crescent of her teeth. “T never tried." Tt was impossible to be handsomer it 1o Fom That dax and the next passed pleas- antly and withont incident as.far as the heautifil occupant of the draw ing room was concerned. Tom had | discovered that the gentleman who | had stopped 10 watch the game of Russian hank was a great speculator | from Los Angeles, and he went out with all the craft and ener of a dog chasing rabbits to capture the account for the firm. Miss Joy w. in the dining car s were served in her drawing Eve began 1o recover her holi- day spirit They had decided 1o dine early that evening, and about half past & Tom went away to get ready for dinner Fve sar reading. Fager for his re- - turn as she always remained, she be- | of full-scale airplanes the expenses came aware that he had been away a | would total at least $50,000. long time. Lookinz up from her | Here i< a striking illustration of sk, she xaw through the open door | current Government economy in the that the compartment at the end of realm of technical research. kvery the car was empty. She rose auto |time an airplane is tested in minia- matically 1o her feet to look for her ture at the Navy Yard the Govern- hushand ment can reglster a_saving of $49,500. She went the whole length of Washington residents in general train and reached the observation ave not familiar with the astonishing deserted at that hour. The door to | weronautical rescarch which is ci the back platform was open, and ried on daily- and has been in prog- through i1, like a frame, Eve saw a |ress continuously for the last 15 picture of her hushand and Miss Joy. | vears—at the local Navy Yard. Few Miss Joy was leaning hoth hands on | persons: except (overnment repre- the hack of a chair, and as she talked | sentatives, interested in one way or she moved—her shoulders, her small lanother in aviational studies, know pretty feet. her lips. her head. every- | that one of the largest, finest and thing but her blue eves, which were | oldest wind tunnels in the world ix {pinned to Tom's. Tom, towering only 1i; miles from the Capitol. above her, was smiling- he had a| Epochal resuits which have revo- queer characteristic smile, the. cor- lutionized and standardized certain ners of his mouth curving upward [types of airplane construction have until his mouth hecame almost a semi- | heen consummated here cirele. Eve could even hear what they | Listed in Uncle Sam were saying | “What's What" 1egister as the Aero: She was crazy | dynamical Laboratory of the Bureau Joy was saving. “She used to come of Construction and Repair of the round my dressing room, and if | United States Navy, these Federal vou hadn’t been fn your regular seat— | research offices should appear awe- oh. hoy. we all had to suffer! inspiring. But once you gain en- A pity ahout Ler.” answered Tom. | trance to the airplane-testing ground, “What do vou suppose T came to that | and get a chance to look around a Show every night for?” bit, you forget ahout the Imposing “To see her. | presume, | title “in the genuine interest which Joy modestly the sclentific equipment and testing Kve had no wish to hear the answer | machinery engender to this insincere presumption, and so | Ajrplanes of every type and she speke, and her tone was that of & | yjery are made in the form of minia sfiver hell sharply struck. “Tom.’ [i;re models, which are then subjected she said |10 the vagaries of upper- He came at in wind tunnels. Parge vilgar sense lerated by electricity. are her, as without speaking she wen: | i, develop wind velovity he aisle. He sald, rather | gjrplane would ence orry 1 Kept vou wart- | fight conditions. The | the ft models stand; wind speed hour. iowever, if the s {to try the aivplanes out unde | violent conditiol they can {he air currents so that wind speeds as great as 160 miles hour can he developed. There are e the Washington 4 feer wide The larg being in t { ‘lhad ne opportunity of communicating BY GEORGE H. HE United States airplane models in its huge wind tunnel at the Washing- ton Navy Yard and solves their scientific secrets at actual cost of ahout $500 apiece, while if similarly detailed results were to be obtained from the full-flight t DACY. Navy the aboui you,” Miss said M fans, op- hrrnessed such os the r actual wajority of tested at a 40 miles an tists W once. He showed no of guilt. He followed ing for dini he was surprised to hea answering with a trembling voice, “And is tha: all you're s v for?' He looked at her in astonishment “You mean vou minded my speaking to Joey. Joy 7 Yes.” she answered < teast noy =0 much your doing it as vour having wanted so much to do {t —having planned It and thought ahout ft—nnt having been able play & simple xame of cards when she was &hou: caring s terribly.” don’t care about her at all— | Good heavens:” could anvthing trivial than th said woman you don’t care for- whom you even a liitle despise -and yet the thought of her ahsorhs you so much that you forget me and everything else. Couli anvthing he cheaps 1 can’t bear y to be like that, Tom. He looked dewn at [ve gravely “It seems preity harmless o me.” he said. “i think you would find ar [ man would welcome the presence « Joey-—just as & speciacle—-on a lon, tiresome jonrney like th Ah. there i fe.” answered “You are hored. and to me ro where yvou are could b That's the i Aerence hetween us. | please don: think I'm jealons. It is | because it'x a womin. 1 shoul just the same about anything v Which was utierly beneath v T know how vou feel ahout M that there is nothing 1o he ier except that she's wicked | 7“1 weg your pardon,” said Tom quickly. “That isn’t at all the way 1 | feel ~there'a.a lot to be said for her she’s beautiful and hrave and dances | ke & dream, to g of the ! fact that sie’s excellent compa 00-horseyeaver motor. Rut, of course, if you say vou don’y he Liftir resi | want me to speak of her, { which ac: “1 don't want you 16 sp * | model “Then that's settiad apened the door for he regretted what she had knew Tom had not expected to he taken up. Ha would keep his word, hut in keeping it he would permit her 1o see that he was hored. Tom bored on a holiday was not a pleasant com- panion At dinner his manner was perfect. After dinner he asked her most | courteously if she would like to play | cards, and when she declined he |sald he was going to the observation | ear to write some business ietters. She {could not bear parting from him like that, and lald her hand upon the iron muscles of his forearm. He stopped at her touch. absolutely poised. He | did not endeavor to get away. but he i herself | 4 | ind tunnels Navy Yard. The 4 faet high and er is & feet wide, form of an these v at | smaller i | 30 feet iong. |8 feet high, 1 | endless duet feet in « In either tunnel the airpl is mounted in the direct cour | stream of air sucked past by the fan. In the inrveer discharge from the fan is ¢ again to the beeirving chambe: tion, Thus a o nit i formed with small one the tunnel near the modlel o G pressure with the ouiide & ‘yt‘h’m‘-\ Phe fan in he smaller tun- nel discharges :4\' the arge roc ich accommod tinher. T ulates th apd evertually vetuns tennel. Both these wind waoden constructio airplane to be the center of stralgitaway sec- v two e model e of 1 be. more Fve. “A tunael, the riedd hack e ies saed cir ings in direciiy o s the £, ne velocity the navy yavrd it emplovs a wor gal fan for thls purpose. It | is equipped with 100 blades—in elec- trical wizard of wind generatior | which can_produce strong enousk zephyrs to blow 2 toothplek through A telephone polc—-if that were pos- ible. This gweat fan on said tor forees ing vrents ir see wiich would In each e eflic an he are | when | pr rtiersa mel in actual periment test is linkad to an | ing machir is |the Aerodynamical 1 | which keeps tan on a certain s | of responses which the fiying craft { gives to these simulated service con- ditions. There are four Government agenel| | which now are engaged in aeronau- tical research. The Bureau of Stand- ards undertakes misceliancous Inves- tigations for commercial concerns in all parts of the country. ‘The National | Advisors Committee for jeronautics. { which maintains a lahoratdry at Lang. Aid not bend an inch in her direction. | leY "'““:» !P"'_'fl“":::" in very advanced T - 1 coul | research prohlems. B S ] "ol "7 | Dayton, Ohio. the proving ground of have an impreesion that yvou are the Army Air Service, devotes its in- gretting your promise—that you are vestigations ;mafly to full flight tests, thinking al e of that woman | while the Navy Department at the and lopgios 19 he Wik hery Washington payy yard restricty its A va- | conditions | r more | regulate | modet | tests an | A MODEL OF THE NC4, THE FIR Tests of Airplane Models at Navy Yard Represent Phase of Federal Economy TRANSATLANTIC AIRPLANE. activities to testing models of alr- planes, airships and their component parts. These national agencies, which are continually finding the answers to many of the mysteries of modern avia- fon,” co-operate in planning investiga- tions so that their experimentations do not overlap, Duplication of tests thus avoided. airplane and alrship the Navy Depar models | have heen tested at the navy yard|great many of the lighter-than-air wind tunnels, as well as 1,000 or more airplane parts. The models as tested are complete [are known as except for various minor parts which | small ut separately allowed minimize expenses, tests and provide for are omitted for—in orde simplify the to | more accurate results. The test model | | | ment tests out | ynon a spec is mounted the wind rigidly tunnel” and balance, is whi in the middle supported ch of | | | meas- | roughly are made of mahogany. | yres the vertical and horizontal forces This wood most canse of its toughness, smooth sur- ace, durability and ability to hold its shape well. The models are bullt of is t of accuracy to which wood can he worked and finished. | Ordinarily | weight. it takes an expert modelmaker about | to one carve, fit 0f these together and models, In days complete to 36 inches in size. | propeller force. wingspread the models range from 18 | force The scale of the | plane i satisfactory, be-|aq well as certain turning moments or factors of twist which act upon the alrplane in flight The vertical force, which in level flight One horizontal to the its equal equivalent alrplane or is the one that for example, the best grade of mahogany to the |corresponds to the lift of the plane, is equal to its force resistance of opposite, The other horizontal | “skids" turning unless it is properly is the the ordinary model is about one-sixteenth | banked and is called the “crosswind that of the regulation airplane which represents. The range in scale is "l from' one-twelfth to one-twenty-fourth. m and smoothness | ency | Accuraey in the fo INTERIOR OF THE | | force. are weighed model tests, of the in these plane “‘to EIGHT-FOOT WIND TUNNEL. of the external surface are the goals sought in making these models. Their weights or the positions of their cen- ters of gravity do not matter if the texture and form are entirely correct. The wings, however, must be true to dimension and design within the thick- | ness of an ordinary newspaper. | The models are tested in | condition without any {other similar equipment. Tt |of the individual propeller by the use of mathematical formulae than to at- tempt to test it adjusted on the air- plane mode! Altogether, several humdred modals propellers or | other fail. ] is far | narily McCook Field, at | cimpler to compute the performance |ailerons. nose " Of the two moments which interesting one measures ‘the tend- into a | dive” or “to nose up into a stall.” The other measures the tendency of | Wound upon spools. the | | | | the plane to turn either to the left | or right out of its correct course. A | third and final moment, which is not |is carried to the spools of a certain generally measured, of the plane to “roll This tendency counterbalanced is the tendency ) while in fiight; | I stripped | that is, for one wing to rise and the | creases its diameter. again winding is ordi- by the All styles and types of ligister-than- air craft are also tried out In the navy vard wind tunnels. The only dif- ference between these tests and those made with alrplane models ls that & | | automatically and independentiy. | mounted as not craft are merely mathematical models without either appendages or con trols. In aeronautical parlance, they “fish forms” of very vesistance. The purpose it to nd for any form meeting certain requirements as to volume which shape offers the minimum resistance in its motion through the air. As soon ax a suitable body type of least resistance is located. tail surfaces, nacelles and cabins ca to best advantage. The same pre- cision of model tests applies tothe than-air craft as in the han-air craft trials. Many of the airplane accessories and appliances are tested directly “ax is.” This eliminates the extra work involved in making satisfactory models of such fixtures or fittings. Airplane radiators, for example, -can be removed hodily from the flying machines and set up in the wind tunnel for service tests of every de- seription. An automatic wizard—called a six- component wind. balance—designed and perfected at the navy yard, is used in measuring the various forces and moments which affect the air- plane model in the wind tunnel. It welghs and indicates these various forces and moments simultaneously. t connists of five independent balance heams similar to ordinary steelyards, with as many driving motors for shifting ‘the balance weights 8o to interfere with each other's movements during the tests. When the wind attains a steady velocity, these five recording heams come to a position of equilib- rium. Thereupon the current may be cut off from aimaster switch and then the indications of the beams are read by the observer who is making the tests. In addition to the 'routine tests which are made for the United States Navy, this aerodynamical laboratory occasionally makes a commercial test for the professional aeronautical industry. Such commercial tests are extremely rare, as the Navy demands on the service of the laboratory are about double what the scientific-ataft is able to handle. Hence the labora- tory is always congested. Wire-Drawing Machine. N the manufacture of certain kinds of wire, especially fine alumi- num wire, A machine is used that is surprisingly similar to the spinning apparatus in a modern cotton mill. In fact, It is a mechanical twister, by which the wire is separated from what might be called the supply coil into strands of the requisite thickness and The supply cofl passes over a pulley above the spindles and through what might be called a drawing frame. size. From these it passes through a second drawing frame, it on spools, the third drawing frame turning it into the size required for commercial purposes. While some of the machines will draw out enough wire to flll 20 spools at once, 80 complete and so simple s the machanism that but ane person is needed to attend each machine. then be added | From thin it | which de- | neo than Josephine Joy was at th. ment--in her lovely neglige, w hair mussed and her eyes shining She was excited, but not Eve was. Miss Joy's excltement was simply a form of stimulation, and suggested that if she would have pranced about a little on her slim feet from mere delight. Eve could not heip admiring this courage. “Aren’t vou a bit afrald™” she asked—she could mot bring the tone of her voice up to normal. Miss Joy shook her curls. “No,” she answered, “I'm not afraid. I like being in on anything that's going.” Then her face grew serfous as she lald her shelllike ear against the deor. “That shout sounded like it was vour hushand out there,” she said. “Oh. let me go to him.” cried Eve, | all minor fears swallowed up in the | larger one that Tom was out there alone. But Miss Joy held her place at_the door. “A lot of good you'd do him €ald. “You keep perfectly still, and T'1l have a shot at them myself.” She clicked out the lights of the compart- ment and very softly opened the door. o ow ¥ the dim light of the outer ear the could see that Tom ngaged in a fight in what had been a fight—but was now a slow, cruet triumph over a small writhing figur vhich was gradually heing forced | backward down the aisle. Tom had | come in from writing his letters and | found an Intruder going through his | things, and all his primitive instincts | had heen aroused. | “Eve was thinking haw abhsurd ever | to worry about Tom—Tom was always secure, always trinmphant—when her eves fell on a sinister excrescence from the side of the door which the two struggling figures were approacn- ing—such a small thing to be o sinls. just the upper half of a masked face and the barrel of a revolver. Thls third fizure must have heen there a long time—from the beginning, wait ing a favorable opportunity ta shoot when his friend’s hody should not he | acting as a screen to the victim. Eve never realized that the queer, shrill | seream like a wounded kitten came | from her own lips. for everything hap- | pened in a second. Miss Joy did not waste her emotion in screaming. simply fired at the excrescence, there was a vell of pain, Tom turned at th whot, releasing his opponent, sprang to the assistance of the wound- ed man, and must have dragzed him off the train, for the bandits disap- peared to return no more. Tom rushed to the compartment and sefzed his wife in his arms. not so much in a caress as in an imperative necessity to know by the sense of touch that she was actually there safe and sound. “I couldn’t find vou didn’t know where you avere.” he repeating. and his tone told her this was the most could happen to him. shoulder he added saved my life, Joe: “Of course she did.” murmured Eve, a lttle shocked at his casual tone. “And may live to regret it,” an- swered Miss Joy, patting her back curls, with a good deal of elhow mo. tion in the gesture “How did you happen to have a gun with you?" he asked, and there was a shade of patronage in his tone. Eve broke in. “Oh, she has heen wonderful, *Tom, sa brave and calm She thought it extremely noble of Miss Joy mot to turn the situation to her own advantage emotionally. Rut it was not until after she had gone tn bed that she reflected that Tom had not made anw set speech of gratitude to his rescuer. Some people, she thought, some of those stupid people who did not understand Tom's nature, might even have thought him a little bit ungrateful. She fell asleep perfectly happy, for not only had the crisis shown her that she and Tom were perfectly one, bhut all the bitterness of her feeling towara Miss Joy had gone. Wicked the wom- an might be, but she was generous and brave: There must always now be a bond between her husband *and this woman; whatever one felt toward a person who had saved one's life, Tom must feel henceforward, and it something wilder and warmer gratitude came of so romantic a sitia- tion, Eve felt that she could bear even that, for there would be nothing trivial about it. e x % SHE woke early the next morning, and by the time she was dressed the train had atopped at the first town kince the holdup. The platform was allve with sheriffs, oMcers and report {ers. A= Eve stepped down Into the sunlight and the crisp, dry air, mean ing to get a postal card at the adohe atlon and write a hrief account of the holdup for her sister, she found herself surrounded. Every one seemed to know that she was the wife of the man whose life had been saved by the splendid courage of Miss Joey Joy. Eve, who had been brought up to an immense reserve toward the press, was relieved when the whole group about her disappeared like Ileaves swept by a wind. Miss Joy herself had appeared. She was standing on the top step. bare-headed, looking like a Fra Angel ico angel who had suddenly put on » smart coat and skirt. She was hanz ing on the bar outside the steps, ana one foot, in the thinnest of flesh-col ored stocking and a bright-buckled shoe, swung frankly out. Standing humbly in the crowd, Eve listened to her story. It was, from the reperters’ point of view, a splendia story—from every point of view buy women was Then over his “I helieve yon nervous as | * she | She ! horrible thing that | than | 1t was clear, thrilling. charar | Eve's. onty | teristic, and absolutely accurate ive felt that there were certain omis sions. No one would have supposed that Tom had been engaged in a hand to-hand fight—that he was apparent!y the only man in the train who had thought of using his hare fists on th= bandits. . Mise Joy made | sound as If Tem had been standing idly hy waiting to he &hot. Cameras were clicking, and ft wa: not long hefore some one suggested that they must have a picture of Miss Joy and the prominent broker whose lifa she had so courageously saved One of the men hounded ltghtly into the car, but returned almost at once with defeat written on his face. He spoke to Miss Joy: “Won't you g0 and ask him? Surely, if you save a fel low's life, he'll do that much for you.’ A murmur of agreement to this senti ment went through the group. Miss Joy's eves fell on Eve. starine up at her from the platform; she heckoned with a hand whose finger tips gleamed red as little strawber ries. “Oh, Mrs. Andrews.” she said. won't you ask Mr. Andrews fo coma and have his photograph taken | for these hovs— just to obilge me?” Kve heard some one remark that if | it hadn't heen for Miss Joy. “a death mask would he all we'd get off him." | She was only too well aware of the {truth of this assertion and wen | ohediently into the car. | Tom, who had been still asl-ep when | she went out, was now standing in the Jnlsln tying his tie, with the collar of his soft shirt turned up abont his ears. | Tt was not necessary to speak. She | looked at him, and he answered In | stantl “No, Eve, T won't Roman holiday for Joey Joy | Tt was characteristic of Eve | though she suffered horribly at idea of her hushand's photograph ing over the world in company w | Miss Joy, she hent all her will | bringing ‘this result about., hecause she felt it to he a fust ebligation She saved vour life. Tom,” she said Tom swore. “And daes that make me her slave?" he asked angrily. "It | would be bad for my husiness reputa tion to be photographed with her And then he added his real reason. Besides, it would make me laok like a fool." I won't make a that the R | JROR an instant Fve saw clearly into her hushand's heart—saw how re pugnant it was to him to relinquish | the naturai role of the deminant male | -~how inevitable it was that the wom |an whe thus triumphed over him- who linked her name witn his and ver deprived him of a spark of masculine superiority—was a woman who wonld | forever seem 1o him. not remantie, | but repulsive in the highest degree | his heart she saw clearly, but she did not see equally clearly that this was | precisely why she was urging this step upon him—that for her one more rival was obliterated—one more cris | passed. She felt relentlessiy noble as xhe insisted, and finally Tom ylelded, | as he had known from the beginning | that he would he obliged to do. “Well," he sald, T must p shoes. I can't ge out without shoes.” He took a long time to extract them from under the herth where they had heen kicked during the struggle with the handit. “I think you ouglt te hurry, dear she said The tr: may start at any minute."” But he didn’t hurry: in fact, he quite obviously dawdled. e put his shoes on carefully, pulling the tongues atraight and tying the laces in a pe cullar double knot that he affecied Then he sought his watch under his pillow, where he had put it after he had snatched it from the handit's brown hand, and then at last he moved toward the door. As they reached the steps Fve saw that the aspect of the platform had changed. The light being better on the far side of the atation, the photo graphs were being taken there, and every one had surged away to help prepare for Tom's coming. Only the outlying crowd was visible hevond the bullding. Miss Joy and the pho- tographers could not he seen from the train, nor—more important could the train he seen by them. As Tom came down the steps the conductor was standing on the plai- form. He was a severe. middle-aged man, with a face like the Duke of Wellington's. He was not on good terms with life—he was angry th: his train sheuld have heen held up annoyed that reporters should be writ- ing stories about it, and troubled by heing already an hour and 35 min. utes behind his schedule. He asked Tom what he was gatting off for he was about te art the train as soon as he could get his passengers on hoard —he wasn't going to lose time for this sort of nonsense. Tom, not yet off the last step, leaned down and "spoke quickly and per suasively in the conductor's ear. Eve did not hear what he sald, but she knea. The conductor did not change his expresslon—probably he never did that—but he gave vent to a loud, au thoritative “All aboard!* The bell of the engine began to ring. The passen gers on the outskirts of the crowd hurried toward the train and pushed thelr way on hoard. The condnctor raised his hand and sawed the air, and the train. with a_silent, sinuous motion, began very quietly to pull nut of the station. The great speculater from Los Angeles just made the last car, the last stragglers were pulled on board by Tom and the conductor— but Miss Jov, gracefully pesing in a deep angle on the farther side of the station, was not among them. (Copyrieht. 1926.) who | on my my