Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1929, Page 25

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. €. WEDNPSDAY, JANUARY 23 1090 THE VICARION » (Copyright, 1928, by Public Ledger) By Gardner Hunting. (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) In the year 1935 Radley Brainard has in- 1 told you one could get bored with anything—I expect, by a month from now there will be people in the theaters going to sleep over the Battle of Lexing- e | ton and the Taking of the Bastille!” n is a sensational suc- cess, with all the theaters installing it in lace of motion pictures. Complete Tilusions, nc., which at that time controls all the improvements on the movie, faces Tuin, but when Ferdinand Mortimer and Jerry Hal- the company, call on him. records of the con- . which hold liquid air. projecting one of the ked, he sees a b mer-clad girl, with whom he fal in_lo althcugh he is_engaged to PhylMs Norman. During the first demon- straifon of the Vicarion, with Phyllis and her femily looking on, a strange man stag- gers into the studio. ' He is unable to teil who he is and Brainerd names him Van ‘Winkle and makes him his aide. past are INSTALLMENT XVIL T WAS thé next day that Phyllis found she could remain away from Radley no longer. It was with humiliation enough that she ad- mitted it in her secret heart. was glad she had made no. confidants | concerning her unhappiness about or | because of him; it would seem natural | enough, now that she was able to out again, that she should go to the scene of his activities. All the other members of her family were going. She was ashamed of her illness—that | che had been so weak as to let mere stress of emotion break her down. She told herself, as she had done since the day when she first knew that Carol was | about as usual, that she had grossly exaggarated the cause of her anxieties, She shut her eyes to some of the vivid memories that shook this conclusion. She refused to think, and assured her- self she had no right to try while she was still far from strong. She tried to evolve some plausible motive for going to Radley's offices other than the mere craving to be with him; but she knew it was the hope that some better un- derstanding between them might result which was driving her. So she ad- mitted it at last, and went. He received her with a burst of at- tentions—literally a burst. She sur- prised him in his private office, where she found she could go because of the two secretaries there. Not that two secretaries in an outer office were of much practical effect as chaperons. How absurd it was! He was changed. Of course, he was | changed. And she had seen him the | day before yesterday, too. But she ex- pected change in him at every meeting. | If any man had ever been in the crucible, it was he. What she feared ‘was the hardening she had seen begin- ning in him. What she hoped was the sudden manifestation of the qualities she loved, refined! She found him standing by his win- | dow looking down into the street. It was morning—11 o’clock; but she had come through crowds flocking to morn- " ing matinees of “The Vicarion.” She had seen the papers, flaring with head- lines about the new marvel of science, spread with_his name. She had mnof | read them, because she could not en- | dure yet to know what other people were saying. She was afraid they | would say what she did not want to think. That was her recognition of the coward quality in her. She looked at the great signboards, now multiply- ing in the streets, ‘TODAY At All Theaters ‘THE VIC. with an aching thrill at its all-suffi- clency. The thing was a' fact—it would be a fact every day. It was already a part of life—very much a part of life, apparently, if pushing throngs formed a criterion. No won- der he stood at his window looking down upon it. He caught her hands, he hastened to bring a chair for her; he was all en]}emus about her strength; he was all gentleness, really delighted that she should come so to him, alone. It seemed to have healed the breach be- tween them. It thrilled her. It went far in a moment to quiet fears, to make forebodings seem ridiculous, to erase all memory of unhappy days when he had not been so. Excuses for him swarmed in her heart. It had been she who had been blind and callous in the great moment of his life! Sudden hap- piness drowned all recollections of causes for unhappiness, because she took each one by the throat and held it deliberately under the glittering sur- face of this moment! Even this whim- sical conception was a part of her ex- | uberance. { And it seemed a huge joke when he showed her his mail. A dozen let- ters from women—the feature she saw first and feigned not to see, because she | hated the other pose of feigned raillery. A dozen letters—yes, —more!—long, | square, large and small, pink, blue, gray, | and lavender! But his manner over, them was just right—that was what made the humor of it apparent. He was | not too indifferent, nor too much ! amused, nor subtly glowing, nor over- | cold. He said he supposed there would always be women who would flock after | a syddenly conspicuous man, as pigeons | do after one who has corn to scatter. | Then he showed her that the women ; were not alone in their hero-hunting. | There were scores of letters—already! —from men, ranging from veiled! threats to open begging. | She suspected that some of them ! might have startled her. He told her| he was thinking of letting Miss Arden | answer the women. Miss Arden was the | pretty one of the two secretaries. But, | of course, he didn't mean that, | And all the time she was herself | glowing It was in a woman to adore | fame for a man whom she already ' adored, at least. She looked at his strong, smooth-shaven jaw close be- | sShe | | But this manner grew absent as he talked, as if the impetus of his im- pulse to give her his full attention had flagged. She felt the chill of his with- drawal into himself and realized that at least his assiduous activities in wel- coming her had been purely voluntary. He took up his telephone. ‘“Let me talk to Van Winkle.” he told the ope: ator. “What? Van Winkle, I said!” | The sudden harshness of his tone was startling. Van? How about the indexes?” He listened, his face d ening. “Now don’t tell me that again. If they were left accidently unlabeled the operator of the condenser doesn’t know he did it; if they were purposely left without marking he isn't going to tell you.” He frowned over the answer coming back to him. Then, “No! How can you see them? I ran two of them last night. I found another this morn- ng, which makes five all told. Yes— five! I'm holding three till I find out something.” He stood with the phone held high, and began rocking from his | heels to his toes,and back again with cxtreme impatience. “No!” he shouted | again suddenly. “Damn it, man, can you do what I ask you to, or not?” He snapped the receiver on its hook, turned and remembered Phyllis. ‘Oh!” he said. “I'm sorry. I am a bit wrought up. Ah—did John tell you what he and I saw in the studio last night?” “That mill accident? rible:” “Well, if you know—why, that's what’s on my nerves this morning. I'm trying to find out where it came from, and how. Your friend Van Winkle is not so helpful as he might be.” “My friendd” “Why, isn't he?” He laughed. Most of the buoyancy was gone again from Phyllis’ heart. There was that tendency in him to snatch at any pre- text to express what seemed an itching irritation toward her. 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Men were the masters, after | all, masters of great thought, grsat vision, great purpose! And any normal woman loved it so! i They had looked over some of the letters by the window. He returned | them to his desk. As he left her side| she looked down at the still crowded street and wondered at the isolation she had so far enjoyed from its ex- citements, its words, its emotions. It| was astonishing how one could be in| the busy world and not of it, could! gass through it and be untouched | y it She turned and looked at Radley.| Stubborn Cough Quickly Ended by Famous Recipe Here is the famous old which wgillions of housewives have found to be the most depend- able means of breaking up a stub- born, lingering cough. 1t takes but a moment tg_prepare and costs little, but it gives relief even for those dreaded “flu” coughs. From any druggist, get 2% ounces of Pinex, pour it into a pint bottle and fill the bottle with plain gran- ulated sugar syrup or strained honey. Thus you make a full pint of better remedy than you could buy ready-made for three times the cost. It mever spoils and tastes so | domiineering that would brook no casual But Van Winkle hesitated as he saw | bombs were filled and it won't take Phyllis. “Good morning,” he said to | much ingenuity to learn which of two her. or three machines they came from She smiled at him uneasily because | And I " “He broke off, as it seemed Brainard had turned toward her with | because his mind was running far b an expression in his eyes that almosi | yond his words. His eyes, on Van frightened her. Then she forgot Van | Winkle, lost their direct gaze and looked Winkle, as usual, i more important | beyond them. Then they swung round things. What was this in the man she | to the window and he looked out past loved, who 10 minutes ago had been | Phyllis without including her in the gentleness and consideration itself to- | glance, and into the busy noon. “I ward her—this glance of highhanded | won't wait!” he said grimly, but as if he had forgotten that any one else was passing circumstance which interfered | with him. [ with his direct purposes? Here was no | “But, Mr. Brainard,” said Van Win trifling irascibility: here was the man’s | kle, “if we don't let any product go own sense of power turned to a pur- | out of the place till it has been seen pose that was little! She forgot even | in the studio there isn'a a chance—" to think about the indignity to herself. | *“I want to know where and when But Van Winkle was reporting further | that thing happened!” cried Brainard on the matter discussed by phone. “I | In a sudden passion. was going to suggest to you, Brainard,” | Van Winkle glanced at Phyllis. he began, “that you have every bomb | was as if he asked her in words, “Dos you put into the condensers’ hands not this seem extraordinary to you? marked in advance so that you will But he nodded and shrugged toward know—" I.Eraln:;l;d. "It\ll xlu;h he ans“{;}re}?. “Never mind that!” Brainard in- ' And if I'm too slow, put young- Well- !err’:ptei “What I want to know is l‘:fi] grg it. He's getting to be a shrewd why you are not making records at the o o mach’inns, to see who put unlabeled _He turned and went out. Phyllis re- bombs into the trays yesterday after- noon!” Van Winkle straightened with quiet dignity, but did not otherwise show re- sentment. “You realize, of course,” he answered, “that this a long job.” “It won't grow any shorter for beine postponed.” i “I thought perh.nps you'd like—— It had said Van Winkle had called cften while she was ill. He had not come to see her since. She wondered why. She ceptance of his own peculiar situation hectic days no process in her brain scemed normal, and his little mystery had now no gower to pique curiosity. She had seen him once or twice since he had begun to be out, without realiz- ng at all that his very presence among hem was a riddle unanswered. Now as it was handled by an operator afte filling. I want those indexes! And ii membered fleetingly that her mother | wondered what form his apparent ac- | had taken in his mind. But in these | man, his face covered with young beard, | and his eyes, apparently weak, covered by shell-rimmed, colored glasses, enter- ed behind him. He glanced about and | his gaze hesitated on Phyllis an instant. | 'Then he looked at Brainard and | waited for permission to speak. | ‘Well?” said Radley. “I s'pose 1 ought to tell you, Mr. | Brainard,” the machine operator be- gan. “A funny thing happened yester- day at my machine.” “Yes “Yes. You know my condenser sets that little alcove by the big west wi dow. There’s a lot o' light there, an' that's why I wear these glasses. Some times the light gets—"" “Well?” interjected Brainard. “Well, yesterday I was workin’ on duplications. I had orders to make five of every one of a list of indexes that s given to me, and I was makin’ 'em. I'd fill five bombs an’ set ’em on my rack—an’ then label ‘em, see? Saves time that way, an’ they bein’ all allke—" Brainard had leaned forward and was looking at the man with absorbed intentness. The fellow stopped. “Eh?"” he inquired. “What’s the mat- ter? sobered. “Well, maybe it was my fault, Mr. Brainard. If it was I'm awfully sorry,” he apologized. “Of course, one |0’ the bomb-caps was loose an’ the scene evaporated. An’ I suppose the | light was just right an’ all. “But, as I | ‘But where is the index of that | scene2” “That's just it, sir. I've got the in- dex I thought I was workin' on. But | it ain't the right one. I looked it up i on the list an’ it's supposed to be for the Leland Stanford—-" “But you know how your dials w:re set, don’t you?” | ‘No—I'm awfully sorry, but I don't. | Of course, you must 'a’ seen one o' | them records if you went through the | tray. Maybe more’'n one. But I tried | another scene an’ only got——" “Why don’t you know how your dials were set?” | “Because I started to dust up the machine after I set 'em for the Stan- ford stuff. Somebody interrupted me or something. I left the rag lyin’ on |on the dial board. “When I went to verify the index mark, the rag was still lyin’ there, an’ | when I took it away it caught on one | of the keys' Of course, it changed the Brainard straightened, then quietly | setting- A sat down “Go on, his chair. he directe this here index I was workin’ on, an’ set 'em up in the rack. I turned to know—when I heard something that sounded like water runnin’, behind me. It gave me a turn. I looked around, an’ I give you my word, there was a place | find out how the dials were set before “Well, as I was sayin’, I made five o' | you began to dust.” “Yes, yes! But it won’t be difficult to ‘The man shook his head. “I must 'a’ stamp the labels—the brass ones. you ‘[ moved ’em while I was dustin’. I con- | fore 1 begun to dust, an’ Mr. Van | Winkle run it. densed a record o’ how they stood be- An’ the dials was set for the Stanford stuff, all right.” Brainard turned and walked halfway there's any trickery going on here, we can find it out by recording the exact position of the location and time dials on the machines while the bombs wer2 being filled, checking up with those re- corded and getting the necessary de- tails of those that were not.” % “Well,” returned Van Winkle, “give me a week.” 4 “A week!"” l “It will take all of that.” “It won't, if there’s any intelligence used. You can figure almost to the he did not care. But Radley was talking—explaining. 3he did not know what he had said, but he had thought it necessary to e: plain. Then he was willing still in some degree to conciliate her. ‘The opening of the door again with- out a knock interrupted him. Van Winkle was back. “Excuse me, won't you?” he said. “But here is one of the machine men now. He has something to ‘tell you. Come in, Jeffry.” | in"the ‘woods standin’ up right where | the big west window had been, there A&Cross the room. There he stopped and in the end of the alcove. Get me? A |stood completely still, intant thought | place in the woods, where there was a | rresting every muscle. Phyllis, vaguely little stream comin’ down a rock and 2larmed, watched him an instant. Then S e | her_eyes went back to the machne But Brainard was rising from his | OPcrator. She surprised on his face a chair, his eyes blazing.. “Look lLere— | eer that told her instantly he had wait!” he exclaimed. “You say been lying, 3 | Bt he stopped and glanced at Phyliis | Radieyl” she exclaimed, His manner instantly took on coldness.| But the operator's jace went blank “Say that again," he ordered, turning |35 Brainard turned. 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