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RO e —— . locked it. 'NEW BRITAIN DAILY WALLOWED 0P Mus Wison Wooneow WHTRATYD iy Iw.s:v,nwn.n DAL BY BRENTANGS = G4128, 8% THE RIDOWAY Combany - et BEGIN HERE TODAY Hope Manger is abdueted by a band of erimina Her wealthy | father, Loring Nanger, offers a re. ward of a hundred thousand dollars for the return of his daughter, Ranger is friendly with an adven. furer called Juarez Charlle, Charlie startes on a quiet hunt for Haope, The missing girl plots with Dr, George Kelssy to escape from the hospital where they are held prisoners, gether they ride away in Rristow's eAr which is wrecked just outside Ranger's old abandoned home, Following a elue given by a girl friend, Juarex Charlie rides toward Bristow's sanitarium on his motor. eycle, He comes to the wrecked car and, Ainding Kelsey injured, rides for a | physiclan, | NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY | . “You hurt?" Bhe could dimly see| his white, frightened face, The mo- | tor-cycle stood at the side of the| road. 'Want to get up? That's| g00d.” His hand was under her el- | bow, helping her to rise, | Bhe stared blankly at the crumpled | bulk of the overturned car, and then | ran toward it, stifing a scream. | “Oh, where, where—?" she cried, and stopped. | Kelsey lay almost at her feet, mo- tionless, half under the tonne, The man caught him by the shoul- ders and dragged him out. Hope dropped down beside him, moaning faintly. Bhe lifted his head and it ! limply against her arm. The blood was running down over his temiple, clotting his hair. Juares Charlie was running prac- ticed hands over h bhody. “He' r he said, but shook his Bead. “Looks to me like a fractured skull.” She forgot everything, their plight, the probability that this stranger was seht to capture them; and cried out, imploring him. “‘Oh, go! Go for a doctor at once.” He jumped to the saddle, caught his spark almost immediately, and the Jjerky crackle of his machine was soon lost in the distance. . Hope made a pad of her own hand- kerchief, and taking Kelsey's from his pocket'folded a bandage of it and bound it about his forehead. Then with his head on her lap, she waited, bending over him. At last he stirred, there was a flutter of his lids, and he opened his eyes. “What's happened?” he asked. “The car turned over, and you were unconscious.” “And you?"” \ 4Oh, I'm all right. shaken up a little.” His eyes veered to the ruin of the car. - "Good heavens! They've got us sure. To think that it's all ended , 1 was only [ “No!” vehemently . “Not if you! can walk. The house is near. Tt's an old place that my father owns," she explained. “I spent every sum- mer here when I was a child. It's ‘empty now; the old caretaker died about six months ago.” He got up and took a staggering step or two. “Lean on me,” she said quickly. **I'll ‘have to, I'm afraid.” ‘A hedge loomed ahead 'of them. With' some difficulty she guided him ‘to''a gap in it, and they slipped through. The house was only a short distance away. “Wait!” she ran toward it, and eircled to the rear, trying the win- dows as she went. He followed more qq‘”fl‘:n‘l a broken pane!” she called utiously. : n’.l'o ning - her, he slipped his fingers through the jagged hole, unlocked the andpushed it up. o CHAPTER XIX. ‘'Without walting for tather A shaky assistance, Hope elambered through the window. Fol- lowing more slowly, he closed and re- hed Swaying on his feet, Kelsey reac out for some support and clutched a table. HELP KIDNEYS ~ BY DRINKING MORE WATER Kelsey's |. She was untying the bandage, and he felt her light, eoel fingers en his forehead, Bhe moved swiftly away from him, and he heard the sou of runni water across the roo “I'm going to wet this handkerchief," she said, “here at the sink, This Is the Kitchen," “Walt!" He got up and made his war way toward her, ‘Let me g¢t my head under the faucet “Is the cut still bleeding " anked “Noj the blood has elotted on it Its only a seratch anyway, Ah!" He inhaled deeply and stood upright, brushing the water from his face, “I'm all right now," “Put it's dangerous drawing water, he said “They'll know we've heen here." “Let it run a little “1t will look as if it had 80 a long time."” “That's #0," he sald “And now she " oahe suggested been left “HURRY! WE MUST HIDE we've got to plan our next move, You know this place, the house and grounds. They'll” be here soon, and they're bound to track us to the house. We've got to get out. Is there any way we can throw them off?" “We stay right here. They won't, find us.” There was an irrepressible, mischievous bubble in her low laugh- ter, "'lLeave that to me, 1 know every inch of this place. Give me your matches." “You mustn’t strike a match here.” “Not here of course. But in the closet there. Quick—give them to me. Oh, don't be afratd. 1 shall cloge the door.” ) Here, as on their wild drive, she had taken the initiative, and still pro- testing, he reluctantly gave her the box, She laughed again; and he heard a door open and close,’ A moment and she came back. & “'Good hunting,” she said. *I went after provisions and found a box of crackers and some jam. My father comes down here occasionaly for the duck-shooting, and I thought. some- thing might have heen left. “Now come with me.” She slipped her free hand in. his, and led him through what seemed to he a dining- room into the hall, and'then up a fiight of stairs. Kelsey stopped. idea?” he asked. attic? That won't do. for that the first thing." “What's your “To Hhide in the They'll make After Shaving Use Cuticura Talcum Take Salts to Flush Kidneys and Help | Neutralize Irritating Acids. | Kidney and bladder frritations often result from acidity, says a noted au- | thority. The kidneys help filter this acid from the blood and pass it on to| the bladder, where it may remain to| irritate and inflame, causing a burn- ing, scalding sensation, or setting up an irritation at the neck of the blad- der, obliging you to seek relief two or After shaving with Cuticura Soap, the healthful up-to-date Cuticura way, Cuticura Talcum is an indis- pensable adjunct. It is soothing, cooling and refreshing to the most tender skins. Cuticura Soap, Oint- ment and Talcum promote and maintain skin purity, skin comfort and skin health Samples Froe by Mail Address: “Catienra Labor- iws, Dopt. 360, Dalden 48, Mass.” Sold every- where, Soap 25¢. Ointment 26 and 800, Taleum 96~ Cuticura Soap shaves without mug. “We're nol golng o the attic Come on." She tugged at his sieeve “Don't stand there & argue. 1 know what I'm deing, He yielded the peint, and followed [ her witheut further remonsirance |inte a long, low.ceiled chamber which assumed to be directly above the | dining-roem. “Now you ean rest for a mement,’ said, guiding him into & ehair. Sit down. And, please, the matches aRain, Oh," antleipating his objee- tion, “there will be no light that can | be seen from the outside,” His eyes accustomed to the dark- ness made out a great stene Areplace At one side of the room, ~ Hhe passed (i, & light, gliding . ah W AmOng | shadows, and stood before the wall beyond, in front of an old.fashioned | cupboard about two feet above. the | foor. She stepped into | There | |'w tiny spurt of light as she struck a mateh, | My it, he saw her kneeling figure close to the dark wood whieh lined | the back of the closet, One |outstretehed, she was tapping the | | boards rapidly, Counting, was she? | The mateh went out, He heard | her jump down, and she came toward | him In an alry rush, | “Let me tell you," she forced her- | | melf to sohor coherency, “This is an old house, built in the early days of the Colonies, when people had to bhe constantly on guard against the In- dians and provide ways of - escape, 'an you make out that big, old-time | chimney where the fireplace In? Tt runs up from the=cellar and there |-; a fireplace just like this in the dining- roém below, and another back of it |in the kitchen' which s in wing not quite so high as the main house, ““The chimney tapers gradually as it | goes up, and so Is narrower on this| floor than on the one heneath. That | | leaves a space on either side of it up | here, and the colonists utilized this as |a hidden passage by which they could get to the rear of the house if |the front was taken, or vice.versa. The entrance on this side is through | that cupboard where you saw me, All | you have to do is to slide back two | of the boards, and you are inside, | Then hy passing around the chlmn!_\'.‘ you can get out through a similar opening into the attlc of the kitchen | wing. ~ Once there, you must crawl/ across the rafters, drop through a | scuttle intto a small room over the kitchen, and from this down a stair- | way to the woodshed outside. Rut it will not be necessary for us to do all that. We shall simply hide in | the sageway until the search is |over.” | 8he took up the crackers and jam | from a chair, and going back to the cuphoard, stowed them in the aper- | ture. “Now I'll get some pillows to sit on. ‘We'll be luxurious." ‘She gathered them up from a couch, and stuffed them also into the passage. A thought pricked the bubble of his exultation. “But surely this is known al lover the neighborhood " “No,” positively. “My father showed it to me when I was about I had never heard & whisper of it before; and T ‘would ave, if it had been gossiped about. | The .servants would have been full of it.” ’ Through the dead night they heard the motor—more than one, They went to the window. Along the rough road they had come they -saw head- iights approaching, moons of orange through ‘the fog, There was a stop where their car had crashed. “Hurry! We must hide now,” she urged. f He stepped up .into the cupboard, and crept into the passage behind. She closed the cupboard-door and slipped the concealing panelinto place, “8it down on the pillows, and we shan’t make a sound,” she ordered. Heavy thuds on a door below, re- verberating through' the house. Then the -tramp of feet and the slammihg of other doors.” Men were’ on the stairs, now, Passing the chamber door, they went on up another flight to the attlc. . They came down at last to 'hegin their search of this floor, and row they were in the room. The cup- board doors were jerked open; threads light streaked through thé cracks of the panel. Kelsey and Hope sat motionless, hardly daring to breathe, her hand clasped tight in his. quiet the souwd of a of (Continued in Our Next Issue) e (vorces o THE AIR | KDEA (Westinghouse—East Pittsburgh) Saturday. October 13, 192’3 6 p. m.—Buaseball scores. 6:16 p. m—Dinner concert by the Westinghouse Band under the direc- tion of T. J! Vastine. 7 p. m.—Baseball scores, 7:05 p. m.—Dinner “concert, tinued. 7:30 p. m.—"Bringing the World to America,” prepared by "Our World."” 7:45 p. m.—The Children’s period. Baseball scores. Humor from Judge. 8:30 p. m.——Concert by the West. | inghouse Band under the direction of T. J. Vastine, assisted by W. C. Raum, baritone. | | con- HERALD, SATURDAY, r | Howes, Sunday, Octoher 14, 1988 & mo~Central ehurch servies, broadeast from Orchestra hall, Chi- cage. I, Dy, F, F. Bhas pastor Musicoal pr m under the directh of Daniel heroe. T p. mo—Bunday evening club servs fee, broadeast from Orehestra hall, Chicago. Special musieal pregn will be given hy the cheir of One Hundred under the direction of Ed- gar Nelson, WBZ (Westinghouse—Springfield) Saturday T p. mo~Results of the world series. Dinper concert by the Hotel Kimball Trio, under the direction of Jan Geerts, direct from the Hotel Kimball dining roem, 7:30 p, m~Twilight tales for the kiddl “Bringing the World to Ameriea,” by “Our World" “This Week's Judge," 8 p. m—~Conecert by Mrs. George soprano; Margaret Haskins, planist and accompanist, 9 p, mo—Nesults of the world series, Bedtime story for grownups by Orison 8, Mard 9130 p, m.—~Progress of musie by Toten and Capriane chestra of New Haven, dance sundny 6:45 p. m,—Sunday vespers on the Springfield Municipal chimes trans. mitted direct from the Campanile, Ernest Newton Bagg, chime ringer. § p. m.—Program from the Knights of Columbus meeting direct from the auditorium, WGI OCTOBER or- (American Radio and Research Corp., | Medford Hillside "Mass.) Saturday 6:30 p. m.~~Boston police reports. 7:80 p. m,—Evening program, 1 Twenty-eight of a serics of talks on New England business problems by Arthur R. Curnick of the New Eng- land Business Magazine, 2, Musical program arranged by Mrs, Catherine Chisholm, planist and teacher, and assisting artists, Sunday m,—Twilight ' conducted by 2, Concert pro- 4 p program. 1. “Advent Youth's gram by the Edison Laboratory phon- | ograph. 3, Stories by Arturo. §:30 p. m.—Fvening program. 1. Concert by the Temple Israel choir, Henry Gideon, director. WEAF (American Tel. and Tel, Co.,, N. 7:30 p. m, of fire prevention. A talk under the auspices of the Wildman Advertising Agency. Sol Deutsch, violinist, accom- panied by TElsie Roelker. Dorothq George, mezzo soprano, accompanied by Winifred T. Barr, Nell, baritone, accompanied by Roscoe L., Hambleton 9 p. m.—Joint recital of standard ballads by capable artists, Sunday 2:45 p. m Interdenominational services under the auspices of the New York [ederation of churches, New York city, Address by lev, Lewis T. Reed, pastor of the Flat- bush Congregational church, Brook- Iyn, Music by the IFederation Radio choir, Arthur Billings Hunt, tone; Arine B. Sandford, ‘iolinist. Frank Goodman, secretary of the Re- A talk in the interest | the | Y) | tained. bari- | ligious Work dept. will preside over the meeting. 3:45 p. m.—Regular Sunday Men': conference in the Bedford Branch, Y. ‘M. C. A, Brooklyn, N. Y, with Dr. 8. Parkes Cadman. Halsey Ham- mond, braiich secretary will preside over the meeting. Music by the Kis- met Temple band of Brooklyn, Ern- est. Willlams, leader. 7:20- p. m.—8pecial musical pro- grani from the Capitol theater, New York city, by courtesy of 8. L. Roth- afel and the Capitol theater manage- ment. 9 p. m.—Organ recital by William E. Zeuch, Boston organist. (Aeolian Hall—New York) Saturday 7:30—Necital by Josephine Thayer 7:45—Harper and Brothers, 8:10—"The birthday of the Ameri- can Navy," by Mabel Washburn of the National Historic society. 8:30—Recital by Edna Flelds, so- prano. 8:46—"The sales tax as an econo mical feature and as a revenue pr curer,” by Jules Bache of the com mittee on taxation of the N. Y, board of trade and transportation. 9:00—Recital by ‘Edna Fields, so- | prano, 9:15—United States Navy «Night; speeches by Rear Admiral W, Rogers, president of the general board of the navy, music by the navy band. | 10:00—Resumption of United States Navy Night program, GIRL'S LAP SANCTUARY Ballater, England.-——Grouse hunters | They retreat, until it near here are considerate, frightened a hare out of its and their dogs chased it Jjumped into the lap of the keeper's daughter. There it mained until after the hunt, game- | re- By ALEXANDER HERMAN NEA Service Staff Writer New York, Oct. 13.~Face to face With death in realily, Felge Stipe: man, Russian im wirl, never trembled. Face'fo face wilh death on paper, she faltered. As & result she had to spend 15 months on Ellis Island, learning 40 words required by law, Fhe was detained longer than any other immigrant since the new immigration law went into effect, All of this came about the literacy provision of the law and the experiences Pelge had just passed through on the other si After she had passed the physical through | '13 Months Talks Way Into U. S. about America, how great, it is and how beautiful, I pored over it and soon the words became plain, I kept on until T was sure I could read” LR A year and & month had passed while Felge had studied. Court ae- tion by relatives to gain her admis. |wion te the country had failed, The girl's own efforts were all that would !rm her from what was virtually her prison. A Then she caught the attention of | Commissioner Curran. He heard her reading a bulletin to othér immi- grants. Another examination was | arranged and Feige MISS FEIGE STIPEMAN esamination she went into a large room at Ellis Island for the literacy test. The first word pointed out to her was—Death ! “I grew scared, evcited,” Feige says. "l couldn't read. 1 was de- Light days later 1 had an- was detained fur- ther. Months passed. My dreams began to vanish. [ became bitter. Here 1 was inside the very door of the country, yet [ couldn’'t get in. “Then 1 became ashamed. I wouldn't be literately. I would study. I would show them. “I found a littie other hearing. 1 hook. 1t was ‘The World At Its Taking Off Your Overcoat at the Theatre. YOU START UNBUTTON-. OF TIME TO GET COMFORTABLY SET* TLED BEFORE THE CURTAIN GOES UP ING YOUR OVERCOAT PEELING GLAD THAT VOU HAVE PLENTY. You BEGIN A LITTLE 'GINGERLY ON THE OTHER SLEEVE, DIs- COVERING PRESENT- LY THAT VOU HAVE GLUYAS \WiLLIAMS WITH NEXT DOOR WITH IT AND HALF OFF YOU TRY WITHOUT MUCH SUCLESS TO APOLOGIZE » by reading the 40 words required by law. e Perhaps you'll understand why !1"rige was so unnerved when ‘‘death’ was the first word shown her as she [tried for entrance to the United | Statos if you listen to the story of her previous life. | “Since I was ten years old I worl.od,” Felge says. ‘“‘Sometimes it was in_the fields, sometinfes in fac- tory. But always it was hard. “Ny' father died and life was vet we got along. Then—a My miother drew me close, harder, pogrom. Worst. BEEN DUSTING THE LADY AS THE CURTAIN GOES UP YOU GET YOUR (OAT OF AND TIND THAT 75 .GOT CAUGHT SOME- THE COAT HALF ON WHERE UNDER SEAT YOU TIND THAT YOU'VE STARTED TAKING OFR YOUR DINNER JACKET WITH YOUR OVER - Copyright, 1923, by ace. She looked around beseechingly, Wt the ruffians drove her en. “I mever saw my mother again.” For weeks Feige lay in hiding, She made her way inte Pola no poney,” F back. But I had my hands. worked in the fields, hoeing potatoes or gathering the hatvest, 1 worked a8 & barber, clipping hair, And ¥ worked as a seamstress, “As I worked, L dreamed. I dreamed of America as my salvation, Work was pleasure so long as I dreamed, But when | stopped dream» ing there was only pain,” After two years of effort Mise Stipeman got into toueh with kins. folk in America, She salled to the land of her dreams Aug, 22, 1922, O | And now do you see why that ene | word, Death, so unnerved the immi. {grant girl that ehe failed In the lit. | eracy test? “en “I'm American now," says Feige in her English, still halting and broken, “I can speak the language, and read and write a little. When I go to school I'll learn more. Maybe to dance a little-—this jaze." o The wweetest word she knows? “'Ello !==That's what my sister said when she came to take me off Ellis Island." SOLDIER SCARECROW Dymehurch, England.—A farmer near here, noticing the crows eating his crops, found the clothes on his Acarecrow - gone, They were later discovered being worn by a former soldler, who w London, England-~J. H. James, winner of the 1921 and 1922 aerial derby here, has just completed a suc- cessful fiight with a new baby alr- plane of only five horsepower. He fiew from Brooklands to Croydon and back, 31 miles, at a speed of 72 miles an hour. : .Lnse your wrist watch? Lose no time, Heed the warning of this rhyme, PHONE A WANTAD % By GLUYAS WILLIAMS YOU HASTILY PULL COAT ON AGAIN AND TRY T0 MAKE EVERY- THING SECURE UNDERNEATH YOU SPEND M0ST OF PIRST ACT TRYING T© UNTANGLE COAT, TO GET IT COMMORTABLY ARRANGED IN LAP AND TO WATCH PLAY/ THE The AMeClure Newepaper Syndicate three times during the night. The sufferer is in constant dread; the water passes sometimes with a scald- ing sensation and is very profuse; again, there is difficulty in voiding it.| Bladder weakness, most folks call it because they can't control urination While it is extremely annoying and sometimes very painful, this is often one of the most simple ailments 1';i overcome. 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