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PAGE FOUR POOOOOSOOCOOOOOOSOOOOHOOHSOOOAOOHHOOOOOOOHOHOOSS | SOOHHOSHOSOOOOOSCOCOOOOOOSSOHOOHHOSHOOOSOOHOOSOOS Oot a Aik SETEC Aten, oornt Installation Of Barbara Quentin the rich Farrell he may have @ yeor crippled fiancé Mark into a well man and an hed artist. Farrell hopes #8 that time to make Barbara love him by eliminating the pity that ties her to the clever and cruel Mark. Mark hae fust given Barbara a large emerald, but she and Farrell have discovered the same emerald in a portrait of Leila Cane painted by Mark. Now Leila waylays Farrell in the Vic- @r’s garden, Chapter 17 “CURSL ALL EMERALDS” ; S FARRELL drove up to the Vicarage gate he saw first the gleaming smoothness of Leila Cane, then, behind her, the vicar’s bent, Dlack figure. “Hullo, Vicar!” he said sheepishly. Just like this, with this same tran- quillity, had the old man waited for him in childhood’s days; and never had the returning truant been able to guess whether the quiet would deepen or—disappear while a switch was cut from a nearby birch tree. “This young woman—” the vicar indicated Leila—“wants to dodge Paying her fare to London.” “Sure she doesn’t want the plea- sure of my company, sir?” “1 want both, Farrell.” } As Leila turned to lift a dressing- jr from the low stone wall, the old When he brought her out ker lunch, he was sure she sensed an un- usual constraint in him. It was with @ touch of nervousness that she in formed him— “The vicar says that Barbara and | ; Mark are going to be married at nine o’clock on Thursday morning instead of twelve. What shall you do about it?” “I shan’t do anything about it, Barbara isn’t marrying anyone on Thursday, at any time. I thought Y'd told you so.” “You're fed up with me about something, Farrell Armitage. Rath- er lend me the money to go by train?” He was silent, He took her empty glass and went back with it, pald the bill, returned to the wheel and drove away, still without answering her. She made no further comment upon him or herself and as the miles swung steadily under them, he be Meved that she slept, They turned into Brandish Place at half past ten exactly. With what- ever dreams Leila had beguiled the hours of the long drive, she kept them out of her bright, sure glance as she looked up at the big house in which both Armitage and his father had been born. The Armitage butler, also a family piece and nearly as massive as the “You're touching eighty,” sald Leila coolly. man and the young looked intently at {eaeh other. | “Mverything’s all right, sir, hon- ently.” “I'm very glad to know it, my dear boy.” Leila hoisted herself and her, Jug: ‘gage aboard and waved.a hand east- wards. 4, “Speed thither,” she entreated. ‘By now father may have managed spell out the note } left pinned to @ining room clock.” Leila’s remark was lost in the jgtowing bum of the engine. The jwiear touched Armitage’s shoulder ‘and then, as Armitage bared his head leaned forward and lightly kissed his forehead. Mt Jarred Farrell when Leila “laughed. | “Hoe’s still looking after us. I jreally rather adore him.” “I didn’t know you ever went to eee him.” “I used not to but he was decent, since I've sort of— Armitage welcomed the necessity keeping his conscious attention on the road. At the back of his brain shimmered a picture; a portrait of jan emerald set in platinum, of frightened eyes, of half-bare, half veiled allure, He remembered that jhe had the emerald in his pocket. If she kne |. “You're touching eighty,” came fo Leila’s cool tones. “And Toxeter is Found the next bend.” Yes, the portrait must be forgot- ten. After all, one often stumbled Om something in another man's life j@nd one shoved it out of the sone of jeontemptation and attended punc {tiliously to one’s own business in- ptead, He was unable to guess what time sed when Leila's voice pene {trated his exaltation. |__ “Where and when are we feedig? Bare’ ‘The County Hotel.’” “Woe aren’t feeding at all,” ex ‘plained? § Armitaze with candor. “When i'm tn a hurry { don't stop| Sor meals. I want to be in item; I wired a man t Brandish Place at bolt j@in and buy moa ban house, was displaying the receptive intelligence which Armitage got from all his servants. “Miss Cane would Mke supper. Tell Michfield to put: the Devalet away and then stand by with the Lachisse. I'll have sandwiches aud coffee up in the billiard-room. & representative from Malavie’s is due about now—send him up to the billiard-room-as well.” “No wonder you got-.rich quick,” admird Leila, entering the hall be side him. “If I'd tried to be as com- petent as that after driving six hours, I'd have ended by sending sandwiches to the Devalet and play- ing billiards with the man from Malavie’s, ... Aren’t you being a bit previous, by the way? Barbara won't like this hous®\however Mal- avie’s re-do it, It's too—self-satis- fied.” “The billiard-room {s tor Mark,” explained Armitage. He had taken up a pile of letters and was tearing open the envelopes, “It’s to be his studio—there'll be a north light, you see, Malavie can do the whole thing, right down to the easel; but he'll have to be out of the place by noon on Thursday. That’s why 1 was in a bit of a hurry. “But"—began Lelia. He was still tolerant though per haps not quite so amused. “But, easel or no easel, it’s exactly what Mark himselt would do to this house if he could?” “No,” she contradicted. “No, tha! the devil of it. He'd do it far better. She jerked away trom him and liked into the nearest reception. m, where the fire, just lit, was spurting into flame. He looked after her, hesitated, then went on his way upstairs. He had had a bull-dog once that had proved very dangerous. A‘ the end, he had wrapped a rug round his left arm and let the brute take his bite at it while the right hard | + So with | for a revolver. . « Mark Lodely. self He could @muse him- Mra. Lode! moreso tty gets a shock, toe THE ARTMAN PRESS PRIN TING suappings at the left arm, ted to, } THE KEY WEST CITIZEN :-: SOCIETY | :-: TARIE CAPPICK, Editor -- -- PHONE 436 Bdeconanesenlepeceseneesaasesspasssmacessenaneses! 1 Entertain \Fogartys Scouts |Arrive ee « Whether or not a girl should te! a@ man of her past is not exactly a new problem. That same prob- jlem is, however, vitally different today than it was when it was first propounded. Mrs. Rocilla Fogarty who haa! ef modern youth and so-called en- been visiting her son and daughter- lightened moral viewpoint, Scouts, were the guests of Envoy | law. Dr. and Mrs. J. N. Fogarty| Problem is denied as such hy a | : Getvation Aredia Ghote tall gl peteone_Dineh, Setated. Wel at tas Goleallth-slory “Vic alvation Army in their ha! on terday accompanied by Mrs. J. N. tue,” from the novel by Ethel Hill, |Fleming street Wednesday evening!Fogarty. Others in the party in-j 6 |when a supper was served the|clude Mrs. Walter P. Curry and|tiehin and directea'ce Eadie Bart |boys in approciation of their co-/Mrs. Jones, wife of Lieutenant: +21 with Carole Lombard and Pat operation with the army in the,James Jones, U. S. Marine Corps. © Brien evolving this question,’ will distribution of Christmas baskets) _ While in this city Nrs. J. N.' ao considerable to settle the -im- \to the poor, and the selling of Fogarty is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. portance of the issue once and for ibenefit show tickets to raise funds|Arthur Pastorini, 509 South street,' an. It is showing at the Strand |for the army’s Christmas activi-|and Dr. and Mrs. S. W. Douglas, ' Theater tonight. ties. jens praeion, Geen aes eet Carole Lombard, in the role of pula [Charles Curtis 537 Caroline street latury she coamot attend th ext rogram OF \Mrs. Jones will visit indefinitely! pensive N. Y., finds herself un- Monday Night |with Captain and Mrs. J. L. Wat-|der arrest, brought before the jrous, 227 Duval street. !Mrs.| Magistrate in the Women’s Night An entertainment and program|Jones was before . marriage Miss Court and confronted with a ehoice to which the public is invited will Euphemia Bott of this city. of returning to home and mother be given Monday evening at 7!-——————. or spending sixty days on Welfare o’clock in Gospel Hall, 720 South-| interested are invited to be pres-| Island. ard street, by the children of this}ent and enjoy the program ar-j Maneuvering her way out of {Sunday school. Parents and othersiranged for the evening, Police eustedy, Mae collides with \Cupid., It if Love with a capital “L,” bonafide, the real thing, {Should she tell? Perhaps either way, cemplications would have re- sulted. They certainly do as the result of the way Mae selects, Personal Mention Handsome and popular Pat H Mrs. Joe Mondul, who’ was) Richard Knowles, dealer in sea|Q’Brien plays opposite Carole Lom- spending ithe holiday season in|foods at Islamorada, who was in! bard as Mae, in the guise of Jim- Miami with relatives, returned|Key West visiting with his family, my, taxicab driver, who knows his jover the East Coast yesterday. left yesterday afternoon for hisiwomen and his New York, until he place of business. méets Mae. The latter, seems to know her Jimmies better than the wise young man suspects. From meeting to marriage, it is a swift game of wits between Mae and her man. * Members of Troop Boy| 5, | Misses Dorothy and Alphonsine}| |Cleare, daughters of Mr. and Mrs., Albert H. Carey, who came here |Allan B. Cleare, left, yesterday af-\to spend the Christmas holidays; jternoon dor a visit in Miami. {with his father and other relatives I ‘and friends, left this morning Mrs, John S. Mann, who was/over the highway en route to! spending some time in Key West’ Lakeland, Fla., where he will re-| as guests of Mr. and Mrs, George’ enter Santhera College. Masses For Sunday |McDonald, left yesterday for her 4 | cowie home in Savannah, Ga. » |. Mrs. Hiram Fulford was an out- Re }going passenger over the Bast Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Williams,| Coast yesterday afternoon for St. Louis, Mo., regular winter visi- Miami where she will spend some tors, arrived over the highway last time with her son and daughter- night and are guests of Miss Emily |jn-law, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ful-| W. Ladd, 319 Duval street. ford. | Masses on Sunday, New Year’s 8:15, and high mass at 9:30, ac? cording to announcement made to- day. Mrs. William Cates, 1432 Vir-| Lionel Plummer, disbursing of- ginia street, is visiting her son-in- ficer at the lighthouse bureau, and law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.’ Mrs, Plummer, who were spend- Roland C. Readdick at their heme jing the Christmas season with their in. Lakeland, Fla. son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and {Mrs. Joseph Plummer. in Miami, Mrs. Burrell Acherson | and:retarned over the ‘highway Wed- daughter, who were spending the |nesday afternoon. holidays with. relatives .in Key. West, left yesterday afternoon for! the home at Islamorada. BENJAMIN LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME Established 1885 24-Hour Ambuianee service Sthilied Embatmer, Plastic Surgery Phone 136 Night Phone 696-W Miss Ida Weintraub who was here for the holidays. with her parents and other relatives, left Mr. Joe Pearlman, son and | vesterday for Miami and after a In these days’ the: At Catholic Church| Day, at St. Mary’s Star of the! Sea, Catholic church, will be.at 7,; ‘|Basketball Dance At Lodge Officers Tuesday) Caban Clab Tonight Joint installation of officers in} There will be a basketball dance the several lodges of Knights of|given tonight at the Cuban Club, |The Golden Eagle will take placewhich will start just after the bas- ‘Tuesday night, January 3, in the|ketball games to be played at the hall of the organization High School gymnasium. \Petronia street near White street.| Ah enjoyable evening is _ Installation will be under the promised all who attend. \direction of Deputy Supreme Chief {Thomas E. Roberts. In the work] gharks’ fins are considered al |of installing the officers in the’ delicacy in China and form an im- portant part of every elaborate The three organizations who! dinner. {will be in this celebration are Key! jof The Gulf Castle, Number 2; |Agramonte Castle, Number 3, and ‘San. Carlos. Castle, Number 8. 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Mrs, Paul-Mesa and sn were |_, CeoTe? D. Fisher and son, J. D. * Fisher, who were guests for sev- returning passengers over the East | , Coast yesterday from Miami where | eral days of Rev. and Mrs. ne rs they were spending the early part | Page at the Baptist Pastorium, et f th J. yesterday for the home in Rocky beatin Ya | Mount, N. C. “ rT, ssistant | scpoeake Arica shoals light. | Miss Wilhelmina Goehring, who house, who was spending the holi-; Was spending the holidays with days with his family, left yester-|her mother, Mrs. Andrew Page, day afternoon for his station. | left yesterday for Miami where | she will spend a few days before ‘, chter, leaving for Tallahassee to resume Sse optcece, ake care spond. |Per studies at Florida State Col- ing several weeks in Miami as the | lege. r guests of Mrs. Martinez’ daughter, | Mrs. J. Keathley, returned on the} Havana Special yesterday. first stop Albert Schrader was an arrival from Miami yesterday for a visit {with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Rev. J. G. Stradley, of the First | Mrs. John Delgado, and left in the Methodist church, and Rev. J. T. | afternoon for Miami where he will Coulliette, of Flemir\; Street | spend a few days with his mother, Methodist chureh, left yesterday |formerly Miss Argentine Delgado, for Miami to attend the meeting | before leaving for school in Mary- of stewards of the Miami district. | land. CALENDAR Beas The Advertisements ... printed for your convenience’ Suppose all the advertisers in your favorite newspaper should advertising for a week. What inconyenience would result! How much telephoning and shopping around to get the answers to such questions as: “What's playing at the downtown theaters?’ When will that new vacuum cleaner be on sale? 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Guava Paste stuffed with jelly. Also Napolitano, the three in one jelly—Quince, Guava and Fausto’s Grocery co en ee The answers to these questions, and to hundreds of similar ones that people ask every day, are news. Vital news. You're in- terested to learn who won yesterday’s sporting event. But you’re Friday Girls’ Club of La Trindad church meets at 4 o'clock. Saturday New Year’s Eve dance at Country Club. Sunday Fern Chapter, Order Eastern Star, will attend service at First sbyterian ehurch. ‘ Presbyterian eoys’ Sodality ‘at 6:30 in convent acditorium. Monday Woman’s Auxiliary of St. Paul’s church Meeting of all organizations of St. Pa’ Meeting of Temple No.,20, Pythian 3 Parents’ Christian Club meets at 8 o'clock in El Salvador church. | Tuesday Degree of Poeahontas will hold bu Directors of Woman's Club mee Business meeting of Woman's Robert J. Perry Chapter, Order De Moiay’, in Scottish Rite temple. GN Joint aasting ef Ladies’ Aid Society and Woman's Missionary lociety of Ley Memorial church at 4 o'clock in church, Junior Boys’ Club meets at Wesley House at 7 o'clock. Wednesday Primary Boys’ Club at Wesley House at 4 o'clock. | Young Peoples’ League at Wesley House at 7:50 o'clock. Thursday Young Peoples’ recreation at First Methodist church Sunday {echool building at 8 o'clock. Sewing classes at Wesley House at 4:30 o'clock. meets at 4 0 _fock. parish at 5 ~'clock. meeting at 8 o'clock f ILLEGIB ORIGINAL for you the merchandise news of the day. a3 really interested to learn that a certain store is selling a product you need for a price you can afford to pay. Furthermore, the advertisements save you time, for you can read them quickly. They save your energy, for you can read them at home, away from the pushing crowds, and plan just what to buy and where to buy. And they save your money, by enabling you to adjust your needs to the limitations of your budget. 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