New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 19, 1923, Page 18

» NEW BRITAIN D SR BEACH . CORRIENT MEE B2 BRs Btarw " PR 0y kb nni 1w (Comtinyea From *1 worked a long wh and 1 was wpen the verge of $—i1 W have been a real accomplishment, t w=when, without apparent cause, the gang took warning, scattered, the whole thing hlew Months work for nothing 1 had made worse than a failure this time “You mean to & Henry of treachery of that sort?" Swepe In. yuired “1 de. And that's net all Out of a clear sky charges were ppeferred against me Outrageous charges i which that woman figured Up to this point Gray had spoken smoot 1y, rapidly, but now his tone changed Bis words became resitant, jerky. 1 was amaed! Joke, 1 ealled it at first Bort of a blanket indletment it waas, charging me with inefficiency, negligence, exoreding my authority dishonesty—and things even worse, Those were some of the least serious, the least—nasty. 1t was all to ab- surd! Being peeullarly vain and sensitive, my impulse was to shoot Henry Nelson, But I couldn't be- lleve the charger would be taken, seriously, “Well, there was an investigation 1 was court-martialed 1 disproved & good deal; I think I'd have exorn- rated myself on every point only for the woman-—that one 1 spoke about, Bhe turned the trick . 1 was found gullty, disgraced, sent backy Even | though you are not mllitary men, preciate the extent of my se of “Well, Il be damned|” Martin Murphy exclaimed. “At least Henry played this; he didn't betray your Gage sald coldly. “Oh ,I meant to tell you that he didn't dare betray me, for he, too, came back in disgrace. The pot ecouldn’t very well talk the kettle,” “What?" “Henry Nels “Impossible!" “I mean exactly what I say. No man of his type could have lasted over there. Then, too, the story of cur quarrel leaked out, that old re- port of mine turned up—Yes, he got the same medicine he gave me, But he had influence In Washington, and e managed to delay final action al- most up to the day of the armistice. Even then he succeeded in pretty well covering up the reason for his dw/ missal.” S “Why, doegh't know th: “Henry's beer a terrible hereabouts,” sald Gus Briskow. After a momen, he addressed the other men. “Mr. Gray told me this, an’ I . wazited him to tell it to you. I dunno ‘what you-all think of his story, but 1 know him an’ I believe every word of it What's more, I believe lhl!; bank is goin’ to be run as well as ever it was even if I am president. A man can be president an' stay at home, if he's got folks under him that know more than he does. What d'you say if we start that meetin’ we been talkin' about? I'm willing to see Mr. Gray settin’ in yonder at Henry's desk if you are.” . “I don’t see that it makes much difference whether we're willing or not,” Swope confessed. “You have the votes, between vou, to do about as you choose.” “Of course we have, but, with Bell an' Henry gone, it seems like some of their necighbors ought to stay an lcok out for what potaters they've left in the ground. What d'you say?” X : Bwope eyed his companions briefly, then he nodded. “we'll stay.” o “Then, Mr. Secretary, let her go! falr In secret,” about even Bell hero, Chapter XXIX. Age Bows to Youth several days after the kow opened ‘s office One morning, annual meeting, Gus Bris! the door between his ar:d Gray' inquired: “Busy?"” nn'(ll‘hv ‘n'w vice president of the Se- curity Natlonal raised a preoccupled face to the new president and sald: “I'm never too busy to talk to you. What is it?" “No chance 0 us out, is there? ' to stir up money-— ‘nfl:'m a chance, unless / you want him to do so; unless you're afraid o a failure of the busir Gus smiled quizzica fall. Folks around town about how au you're they're beginning to petter hanker Looks like Bell only ones } Bell Nelson throwin' He's in Dallas e #You won't are talkin’ takin' hold, an’ think you'll make & than the Nels an’ Henry that tak “The funny thing frowned, perplexedly take it hard enough doesn't appear to what puzzies me. sort— That's not iike Gus agreed to t pectin’ him to That's why I bee ADVERTISING MAN SERDS PRAISE Baltimore, his vas ut the is"'—Gray ‘they don't At least, Henty do ®oO That's No move of any him." “I been ex- p capers d s 50 ahont daughter “1 have be Dr. Trme's Elivire The Elixir i my daughter; bottles. Yours Benzon gcores and ghow us t been most lieving constipatio Watch these tion, sour scores of such pr. True's Elix suceessfy use in 1s: Constipa- tor biliousn anit headaches serious con- | felt the same way when I was courtin’ | | Ma. T W e ARG, e e ¢ fat Most triumphs is. Here L H president of a w ank, but | k., Allie's miserabie 1 sleep nights for Year 1 se 1 got!" y smiled affeetior r At least It ping his dividen ately at the iy is happy is, If I'm any ARDH BLUE RIBBON MAYONNAISE Nrt——————— . ] udge I figger he's in love amai Good heavens Gray paused in restiess pacing a ox- of almost eomic pressior Aread u like to talk to you about this report,” the man began “Don't go,” Gray sald unfolded his legs and rose, the Security head, saying Choctaw to me. as Driskow | But the premdent of National shook his “Rookkeepin' is all I saw one statement an' 1 thought ‘liquid assets’ meant that bottle whiskey Bell left in his desk."” “Mr, Gray,"” the auditor announced, | when they were alone, "I wish you'd | nak somebody else to take this Job | eff my hands, | “Why?" | “Well, somebody else could prob- ably do it better'” There al pause, “I've known Bell N n all | my lite—" | “That is why 1 engaged you.| You've been over these hooks be- Again there was an instant of | | afl then into Gray's face there | flashed a curious alertness, ‘“‘Come!" “I WAS FOUND GUILTY, DiIs.|he cried, sharply: “What {s it?" GRACED." e rry to be the one to— “The. I'm — — | SUdItOP shrugged “It you insist on the father, “With that woman, eh?ian explanation, I suppose I shall have Well, I refuse to interfere agaln, I|to tell you, Perhaps it's just as well, haven't fully recovered from his first anyhow . They say figures don't lie, infatuation for her." but you and I know better. I only “1 can tell the boy's symptoms., - I[wish they didn't. “Have you caught here?" “I have. And—it has rather ill. You'd Dbetter e, them lying, I acted just like him." | “He has been trying to tell me‘ something for a week, but I'vesbeen too busy and to worried.to listen.” ‘Lyours‘ If for a shock.” There came a ¥ap at the door, and It was nearly an hour later that the uccop‘fimnt Gray had put to work | Gray telephoned to Senator Lowe, upon, tite bank's books entered. “I'd|the bank's attorney, and to Bennett ON BABY'S FACE notice, This done, he wrote a note to Henry Nelson| In spite of his And Head. In Fine Rash. Cuticura Healed. P | effort to control his hand, it shook “ My baby began to have eczema when he signed his name, and on gecond thought he destroyed the mis- on his face and head. [t broke out with a fine rash which sive, There {8 something ominous | about the written word. If Nelson | grew suspicious, he'd never come, itched and burned, and late: turned to big pimples and then to thick. white made me prepare W in patches “1 gent for a sample of Cuticura Soap and Ointment and the eczema began toget better Iboughtmoreand he is healed ~ (Signed) Mrs. Geo.W. Perkins. R. ¥. D. 1, Danbury, N.H, Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Tal- cumareidea) for every-day toilet uses. UL A b 28e. Ointment 3 '-""‘C:\’hwu Sno':, shaves without mug. Gray stepped into Gus Briskow's | cffice and asked him to call the for-| | mwer vice president, flrst, however, ex- | plaining exactly what he wished Gus| |to say/ The ruse succeeded: then| Gray returned to his own office. He drew a deep breath, Within him he | felt a ferocious eagerness take fire, for | it seemed to him that the day of reck- | oning had come. Henry's behavior was now easily understandable; the crusts. He was awfully | fellow was cringing, cowering in an- fussy and his face and ticipation of a second blow. Well, head were an awful sight. | | tho whip was in Gray's hands, and he His hair would come out | | ;roposed to use it ruthlessly—to sink the lash, to cut the bone, to leave | scars such as Henry had left upon | him. Gray, too, kept a revolver in his cesk. He removed it and placed it in his pocket. | Buddy Briskow chose this, of flll, moments, to thrust his grinning vis age into the door and to inqu! “Got time for me now, Mr. Gray?” “Not now, Duddy."” “When?" A NINETY-S1X TODAY = THAT ISN'T e S0 BAD- GUESS P’LL HAVE To TRY I'T TOMORROW AGAIN" 2rippe. Ta | attack light |a'U'l ward off or make 40c—60c-—81.20. br. True's Elista 00H— | DROED OM B0Y- GUZZ CERTANLY e GOT THI5 CLOCK AT Ay DRRGAN NESTERDAN FooxTam | readily understand, | #st chair, and upon it leaned 1Hlf There's a cholce of words! HELLO, LENA,\ WHERE |5 MRS& DUFF P AILY arvived resirala tented Wall in the Henry Nelson ¢ with his head vy Rimself preside tered the with & eontempt ous smile upen » e A Fasy onk His hand Was outstye 3 tow e knok Briskow en ¢ alieining opened and m the effies him- self had so leng eceupie Calvin Gray spoke to him Please step in | Sy, reluctantly by some for Nelson stepy the ehair t Come! “You will he Colone impelied imself I've : soon have ample ti f ! to waste, at least to meditate—" “What do ¥ mean by that The query came sharply T've had an examinatic of the bank's books That, as you will explains why | sent for you" “Why-=no, I don't—" "I wondered how you 1 yo father got the money to ep :m:“: 80 long, for I discovered you were in A bad way even before I turned up. It is no longer a mystery, When you and he, as directors . curity National, lent money, as individuals, you mu realizged that you “‘l'fl:"l'n ! ing leisure for yourself in whi meditate upon the stringency of the tanking hws—"' Nonsense! rothing serious.” color certain hand he reached for the near. as he continued,i enkily: “Irregular, bute there's nothing wrong Oh u'll make it look as bnd'n poseible, I dare my! Put you don't understand the eireumstances. Anyhow, father is getting it straightened out; all he needs is time, We'll be able to handle it all right We're good, you know, perfectly good—' “You're broke! Everybody else knows it, if you don't. ‘Irregular’! That's nothing~— Nelson's ruddy speaker laughed silently. "It is an irregularity that carries with it free board and lodging at the state's ex- pense.’” An incoherent protest {ssued from Oh! Those Dirty Fingers! Every one in the family gets stubbornly dirty hands. But its not good form to keep them— nor is it necessary, MIONE makes the softest, creamiest, smoothest lather of its kind you ever cleaned your hands with. Surface dirt, dirt under the finger nails, dirt in the pores, all goes when you use MJONE. Your hands come up clean, soft and smiling. Your dealer has it in compact, convenient, ten-cent tins. You need it! MIONE Manufacturing Company Collinzdale a. HERALD, TUESDAY he ignoped | * ' command read the had slowly vanished; with un.| The | | Staring From the Pags JUNE 19, 1028, 8 threg \ nest 2 make Bimself audib a8 really to 1L he eried \ volce 1t was You had us erewded other way ] e his Nere aueh e alt 3@ minute You blame it on Gray's iry was harsh, ine dlous. After a mementary pause % maved, but for enee he mered, his ready tongue refused He exploded, Anally, with he jerked open a drawer in Prom his pocket he res it inside, on oath his degk moved his revelver, fung then jammed the drawer back inte plaee with 2 erash. “You—rat!" he orelaimed He turned his back upen Henry Nelson and made a eireult of the littie reom , It's a thing you and I can easlly fix up,” the latter feebly insisted Now that personal matter of yours— s | could Le!p you reopen it ehow, clear it up" Ah! Indeed!™ “Give and take, 1 say to do anythipg I ean, if—" “You'll do that, anyhow,” Gray re. plied, in a veoice that grated. He & himse!f into his desk ehair and. seizing pen and paper, he began to write rapidly, shakily. | *I want te see what I'm signing, Nelsan warned A grow! was his answer. | Feor an interminable time the only sound in the office was the serateh. |ing of that pen When at last it |came to an end, Oray rose, thrust the loose sheets into Nelson's hand, then, indicating the vacant chair, said | “Sign that! The wretehed recipient of this eurt| lines carefuly. I1e read them twice, thrice, for his mind no longer functioned glearly, | He ratsed a siek face, fnallyy and shook his head ' “Wouldn't T be a fool?™ he queried, “Listen, you—" Gray's body was | shaking, bis ords were uneven, | I'M sorry for Bell, but not for you. | 111 never forgive what you did to me, | Nothing can undo that. Disgrace clings to a man, You're going to get | yours, now, and you can't squirm (:uvl | of it, or le out of it, no matter how you try, for I shan't let you, You're ruined, discredited, blown up, but—I don't think I want to send you to the I'm willing [ Eden Philpott’s novel, The Red Redmaynes Thig face comes and goes —an uuderlying motif in as strange a mystery tale as author ever wrote—a de- tective story of quite a new kind. Once begun you'll never lay it down unfinished. penitentiary 'd mther L ¥ walking the streets with dandrull ¢ Your collar 'd miher keep you look at have s that It you'll guarantes 1o keep bank matter quiet=—if you'll pretect me, Il sign Otherwise, you ean §0 te hell We'll beat it out, semehow We can do it Inflexibly Gray asseried 'm #o ing to turn you ever, whether or Ro But 'l heip Bell get the meoney 1o repay those loans He'll prebably manage 1o save himself and-—save you, teo.” Anyhow, you this ——— (Continued in Our Next Issue) BRITISH CLERGY WILL SUPPORT LABOR PARTY More Than 500 Pledge Their Help— Will Give Laboring Class No Cause To Think 1l of Them Lendon, June 19.—More than 500 clergymen of the Chureh of England have formally pledged their support to the labor party, Among them are many canons, For a long time many in the church have felt keenly the re proach that the working classes wers being alienated from the chureh that the church showed plainly that it had no sympathy with them and their aims and aspirations, and never did anything for them., The leaders of this movement within the church are determined, it is said, that here. after jabor shall have no cause to complain that it lacks friends among the clergy The 600 elorgymen signed a con- gratulatory memorial address to Ram. say MacDonald and other labor mem- bers of parllament in which they say “We shall support actively in what ever ways are open to us the efforts you will assuredly make for the spirit. ual and economical emancipation of the people.” Canon Donaldson, in presenting the memorial, said: “It {s quite elcar that A great change of outlook has taken place, not to say landslide of ti clergy in regard to their opinion attitude toward the labor movement - SN To Run Serially in the \ TO-NICHT Iricthi T - T it esp and a8 e e eseits digestive Sromact. 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