Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1935, Page 23

DAILY SHORT STORY HEART By Glenn Reilly. HAT facile rogue, Clyde Shores, lay back in his veranda chair upon the Shore- ham Hotel porch and smiled be- nignly while con- templating the traffic passing on Connecticut ave- nue, Shores was not actually his name . .. admit- tedly, he changed it almost as often as he changed his residence — which was very fre- quently. The beatific ex- pression he wore resulted mainly from his inward meditation upon the excellent prog- ress of his most recent coup. For Jast night he bad proposed marriage to Mrs. Adele Bentham, conceded to be one of the most attractive, as well as one of the wealthiest widows in Washington. And she had accepted! Shores felt small compunction abotit the fact that somewhere or other he had married previously. He had last geen Elsie in London, where he had left. her when he returned to the “Did you States upon the same vessel as Mrs. | Bentham. One of Adele’s most singular charms lav in her possession of a valuable collection of jewels. Shores’ smile broadened at speculation of what he could do with this same gem col- lection. * % Kk K BROKEN up to foil identification, it would still be worth a tidy fortune; a fortune sufficiently ample to afford him retirement from the manifold vicissitudes of his calling Patlence, he was ready to agree, was most certainly its own reward! With a bit of Adele had su be an 1dea orig elope from the home where she liv with her par And thus her malleability in the face of a romar idea had made it easy for the ac- complished Shores to fashion the situation to his own ends. Quite elated, Clyde later that eve- ning alighted from his hired auto- mobile at the porte-cochere of ti Bentham residence and pressed the bell at the entrance. The sober-faced utler admittea him presently into the drawing room, where he found the comely widow quite pectant “Cylde, de: she breathed, when the servant had departed almost too wenderfu think, at thi be in New captured her Shores own and i 1 Adele, that tomorrow is indeed the day for which the rest of my life has been but a preparation.” he rcsponded, and meant every word of it SHORES led her to a low settee and they seated themselves. A slight smile accompanied his statemen “It all depends on you, my dear, for you have it in your power to make me the happiest man on earth for the re- mainder of my existence!” Adefe blushed coyiy at the implied compliment. “You know, Clyde dear, that I shall do all I can for ¢ “I'm sure that you will darling alone and ex- | TRICK But abovt our plans for tomor- row. Are you cer- tain that you have all the details straight in your mind? We must be exact about everything.” “I think I have. Tl repeat them | First of trunks packed in | the morning be- | fore I come to breakfast. Then I am to go down-| town and do some shopping to dis- arm suspicion. At | 2 Iam to send m: y meid down to the | station with my | luggage and at 3 1 shall drive to the| station myself and | we shall leave on | | the 3:10 train. Right?” ok K K "PERP’ECT." he commended, “and | now if your parents do not be- | come acquainted with the scheme. everything will work out splendidly.” He added, with a wry smile, "I am under no delusions as to what they wpuld say about ycur marrying a social nobody!” | “It doesn't matter fo me” she chided, “you know that there isn't a thing I wouldn't do to make you happy!” “I'll confess that you relieve my | conscience considerabiy,” he admit- | ted, “when you say that. For the| | whole affair has made me feel some- what of a rogue!” Adele laughed de- liciously at that, and Clyde permit- ted the conversation to drift to other and safer matters. | At 2 o'clock precisely the following afternoon the car drew up at the rail- road station. Adele’s maid, dressed in traveling clothes, alighted. followed by the second chauffeur with several bags and a trunk. The awaitinz Shores immediately saw to their dis- posal by the baggag~ agent, then re- turned and joined the maid. o o » SIGNIFICANT glance passed be- tween Shores and the Bentham heiress’ lady-in-waiting. With a swift glancc about the station, he grasped her gently by an arm and guided her to the waiting coaches. A moment later there was an imper- ceptible jerk. and the station receded into the distance benind them. Once seated in the almost empty coaches, Shores sighed and daintily mopped his damp brow with his pocket handkerchief. “Well, that seems to be that!™ he offered. remove your things, for I have a car waiting at the next station to take us to Philadelphia. But first—did you get them?” i The woman at his side smiled and oroffered a velvet-covered jewelry | ket, which he nonchalantly stuffed | into one of the pockets of his topcoat. ! “Well done, my dear.” he compli- mented. “It seems that the lady bid diamonds, but hearts were trumps in this game!” He squeezed the maid's arm afTectionAtely. | “But what will my husband say | about this?” she inquired with a purse Shores laughed and get them?” ably! Just ask him, Elise!"” (Copyrisht. 1938.) Hope for “Back-Seat Drivers” ] Seen by Woman Auto Designer By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, November 4.-—The first womsn to invade the so-called man's field of motor car design seces better times ahead for ‘“back-seat drivers.” Before long. she has declared, auto- mobiles will have engines in the rear Her first automobile assignment fin- {shed—she “styled” all but the shell of & big company's new line of cars— Helen Dryden looked toward the fu- ture. Autos to Resemble Planes. “Automobiles will look more like airplanes,” she said. “They’ll be much more streamlined.” Rear engines will be here in a few years, she thinks, and rocket-type cars will clip along the highways. In her electric-blue and white pent- house, Miss Dryden looked as modern as tomorrow’s car. She wore gilt san- dals and a scarlet velvet hostess gown. Bhe is 5 feet tall. Orie of the country’s few woman in- dustrial designers, she became the first to go into an automobile factory and work on a project. “You can't just sit down and make pretty drawings for cars and say, ‘That’s nice.” You have to know cars technicall; said Miss Dryden. LIQUOR CcUSTOMS GAIN September customs collections on liquor and wines, amounting to $3,- 416,206, were reported by the Treas- ury last night to be the largest of any month of the present calendar ear. ‘Total collections for 10 months prior to September 30 were $32,941,- 383, which was slightly in excess of the collections for the first 10 months following repeal. Red Corn “Colonels” Cure Nose Bleeding, Say Colored Folks Special Dispatch to The Star, LEONARDTOWN, Md., Novem- ber 4.—Do you want good luck to come your Way? ‘Well just get three ears of red fleld corn, tie a string around them, and hang them over your door. This is what the colored folks believe here in St. Mary's County, according to Joe Gunn, colored. 4 Anothver cure for nose bleed, is to_string some of the red corn colonels and wear them around the netk. This will keep the nose from bleeding, the colored folks say here. Although farmers plant a field in white corn in every stack when it is shucked four or five solid red ears of corn are discovered, strange as it may seem. The bees are given credit for this red corn, as they mix the pollen in such away it makes some ears appear solid red. ! On her desk lay drawings of auto- mobile radiators, bumpers and instru- | ment boards; swatches of upholstery fabric; a sketch for a disc wheel. | Opposed to Ornate. 1 She is opposed to everything “fussy,” ! ornate and sensational. frowns on figured fabrics, thinks town cars should always be black. 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