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'DAILY SHORT STOR! NUMBER GAME . By Mary Elens. AV ID CLARKE'S aristocratic blue blood flushed his face to a rosy pink a3 he rushed up the stairs of the Hammond home above Dupont Cir- ole. Vigorously waving an envel- ope as though he were flagging & [ train, he brushed past the astonished butler and shouted for Elsie. “Darling,” he shouted in a voice unnecessarily loud because she was standing right next to him, “it's all set. I've got them: Two round- trip tickets to Hon- olulu, complete and unexpurgated. ©Oh, you're in for the champion hon- eymoon of the century. Well,” he add- ed as his words didn't seem to take effect, “aren’t you happy?”" “Why, yes. Of course.” It didn't sound very convincing. “But you needn't have run out of the office that way to show me them. You could have waited until tonight. I knew you were going anyway. And don't wave them around that way. You'll lose them.” “Well, all right. But what's the matter. I thought you'd be tickled pink.” He paused. “Don’t you—you are going to marry me, aren’t you?” Elsie faced him suddenly and took hold of his coat. “I might as well tell you now,” she said. “I wanted to wait until this evening and break it gently, but since you brought it up, I'll tell you. I can’t marry you. As you are, that is,” she concluded sim- ply. The blue blood turned a bit cold. “Can’t marry me?” he gasped. “But why not? What's wrong? Why can't you?” “Your name. It's all wrong.” LI I "MY NAME? What's wrong with 1t? It's the same as it always bas been.” “That's just it. It won't work out. He said #0.” “He said! Who said?” “He—Toga Bey—the Hindu philos- her.” “Hindu philo——! Say, you're not ], are you?” “Listen,” Elsie took s firmer hold on an already badly wrinkled coat and looked very earnestly at him. “You know that numerologist, Toga Bey— the one who gave Edith and Frank such good advice hefore they were married. Well, I went to him.” “You went to a numerologist!” If and swallowed him David could not have been more amazed. “Oh, darling, you must try to un- derstand. I love you so—I didn't want to take any chances. I wanted to be sure we were meant for each other. But your name—it doesn't vi- brate right. * “Doesn't vibrate right? What is this?” “Please, you must try to unfler-I stand. You see, every one is born under s planet. And if you are to be happy with the one you marry, your name must vibrate with your planet. Yours doesn't. You weren't born right—for your name, that is. He ex- plained it all to me. And so nice about it, too. But it can work out,” she added hopefully, “if you change your name and add two letters. Some- thing like ‘Clarksey’ he said would be Just perfect.” “Those guys are nothing but erooks,” David sputtered after he had had s chance to cool off. “They'll call down a blight for you every day in the week if you don't come through with enough money. Elsie, you can’t believe this. It's crazy.” “But, David, he said it was so. He CONTRACTOR DIES _Henry Lawler Was Official of 8ix Companies, Inc. SAN FRANCISCO, December 23 (P —Funeral services were to be held here today for Henry J. Lawler, 67. i Lawler. a vice president of the Utah Construction Co., also was vice presi- dent of 8ix Companies, Inc., the com- bination of companies that built Boulder Dam. N Born in Minneapolis, Minn., he had made San Francisco his headquarters the last 36 years. He died Monday. Give H “You mus try to understand.” is such a small thing and it means so much for our happiness. Make the change.” But David was adamant. “Impos- sible! You've got to get some sense. 1 won't go for a a Clark, and the Clark’s had a cer-|§ tain obligation which was denied oth- ers. So David joined what he considered the suckers and went to see Toga Bey, the great Hindu philosopher. He laid his plans carefully. No philosopher i was going to trick him. David had a knack of setting peo- ple at their ease. The substantial fee he had paid in advance made|§ Toga Bey especially cordial. The few necessary mystic prelim- inaries over, David put a quick end to the philosopher's musings and | & came right to the point. “The future is no mystery to you,| # is it?” he began somewhat vaguely. “With the magic of names and planet vibrations all things are pos- sible. Nothing is concealed from me. “Do you remember,” David con-|§ tinued, somewhat irked at the sales| talk, “a young lady who came in here | § yesterday and asked you about marry- | 4 ing a certain Mr. Clarke?” And you % said the name was all wrong? Didn't vibrate right?” “Toga Bey never forgets. Are you | the young man?, I am sorry for you.” “Never mind that. What I'm inter- | § ested in is the prophecy. Say, how | § much do you ordinarily get for your 3 phony predictions?” The remark didn’t seem very relevant. Not even polite, in fact. * ok x % Fl!"'l’EEN scant minutes later David | had left no question in the & prophet’s mind as to what he wanted. And just to smooth the prophet’s feel- ings he allowed the little man to tell | § his future® Which was pretty bright right then. That evening David didn’t rush up the steps of the Hammond home, but walked slowly as a harried young man | # should. No astonished butler watched | i him breeze into the room. An ex-|§ the earth had suddenly opened up|cited and yet perturbed Elsie ran to|3 meet him and flung her arms around | # his neck. “Oh, David,” she cried. “I'm so happy! And yet I'm not. Guess what?” He couidn't. “Toga Bey sent me a message this afternoon. Said he'd made a terrible mistake and wouldn’t be able to make another prophecy until he had set it|& right. Your name is not wrong. But|§ mine is. Said as long as it was Ham- | g mond I'd never be happy. The ‘h’[# and the double ‘m’ are wrong. He sug- gested something like ‘almond.’ Oh, | § isn't that terrible.” She buried her face in his coat. The Clark warrior felt that his po- | & sition was practically won. “But don't you see, Elsie, that when you marry me your name will be changed | £ and everything will be all right? No & ‘h, no double ‘m’?” “Why of course. Oh, everything is so wonderful!” She squeezed him a little tighter, Then she backed away and looked |3 at him a little reproachfully. “Now | aren’t you SOITy you Were S0 Cross with me this morning because I asked his advice?” (Copyright, 1036.) 1 . Twis CH MANHATTANS 3 MARTINIS # Algshol by vol. 18% ) THE EVENING STAR, 'WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1936. QUT WHAT CAN YOU DO, OAN P I'VE QEEN WORKING THE ORIENTAL VEARS --YOU CAN FIND OUT NOTHING ! I TOLD HIM AT LEAST ILL K TO REPORT SoNETV N THE PROWL MVSELF-- Iy Closed from Thursday at Six till Monday at 9:15 A M. 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