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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1925 pose Herble had proposed to her, | tlicker of an eyelash, 1 thinking that she was rich! Sup-| “But I would adore one,” she B w f C f l pose he was a fortune hunter— |added, A diamond — a square 7 But, no, that couldn't be! He had | diamond, darling." CROSSWORD PL]ZL E shown her photographs of his won-{ “You shall lave i1, Herbie o derful houscs! A man with homes | promiscd. “The lurgest onc we can like those was nothing less than a | find.” Adble’ GartltonatNew TEhaseto! milllonaire. What need would ho| He lighted his cigarct and looked have to marry for money? across the table at her with Y “Let's get married today!" she | thoughttul eyes, “Heard from young REVELATIONS OF A WIFE suddenly. what | Jack today?” he asked with studied i cense is there in walting around for | curelessness " o vaseess a week? We love each other—don't | Muy .\hu(;h her head, “No," she Alllan's Startling Revelation As- | turned. “That answer scored a high .. NEA I | “We sure do!" Herblo answered | thoughy 10 call him up — and then tounds Madge per cent. He didn't dure keep thos 'HEL STORY SO PAR: | invest. That'll soothe his injured | Yehemently, = slipping her arm 1 decided that the kindest thing ite numbers on his person, so he coded | T e e [l 6y ) e o104 ] through his. “But 1 think I'd like | do is to let him alone — to let him AuSLilijancvad 0 ms)th m. clumsily enough.” [ Killed nimself beeause of her love| She went on thinking about Her-[10 run up to Pittsficld to sce my | forget me, poor child:” gram from Allen Drake, Dow't Think We Need Wo L e O e a% |, a8 sho lazlly touched a match | little daughter for & day or two,| There was genulne pity In May's Al e ey Great as 18 my uffeotion and LR e ey e }‘,, o cigaret, and lemped back in|frst. 1 think I ought to tell her|voice, She was sure she had broken flashed into my consciousness the | pirution for Lillian, I could huve s SR CAASU D SCRER LA LR [ ey she's going 1o have a new mothe young Darnley's heart and khe - whi GhniCenlon ithi e goodl sranes My ot ‘;;)“ disposes of her inherited! "It would be nice it T loved him| May drooped. “What i she | was sorry for having donme it! He rarcly tall to heed, and then 1o MY | curiousity conceyning the r T the salo of her |+ - - she said to herself, “But I|docsn't like the idea of having a|was a lovable young Kid, under his sorrow. It told me to I ke i | peaning of Allen Drike's telegram e e s of Ulvsoes | BUess It just lsn't in me to fall in | step-mother®” sho usked. “What | bravado and his cultivated deyelish- cmphasized for my guidance th e | ous: " ds o 1 £ 1 boiling point, and | et Z 000 op [love with any man. . . * will you do then? ness— from this instant my ldeas as Lillian was wasting time in being | .. fi.... fi.. ! organ, ma \‘\]’\(:y” 1':?1 '”r“x!“:n‘firr' Roplatian e B R e v o Bl e et Steve,” and those of Lillian and | yonsens | \and ooy, AT MATTY 4y inick, square onvelope that the | ble replied, “Marry you just the|T let him.” she sald to Waterbury, Allen Drake, would diverge widely next minute, however, 1 re- 37 D entie oy e meat. o ai. | bellboy had siipped under her doar | my girl!" But there was a | in a sudden outburst of frunkness, I'hey represented the : i ! hasty gment, for | !l Py “‘_".”‘M l‘ o ]K:f"“ l“ul" 1“\1‘ an hour befors E in his voi “1 had no idea he cared for me the personal, unrelenting. while nd | Homde, Horbert Watombury ami | “Goodnight, Nurse!® thought| A feeling like a cold hand grip- | way he did every instinct clamoring to ri manner relaxed into her chair, | rague. Both men pay sult to | May. A little thrill o hotror passed | Ping her heart, enter May's |- Her volee dicd away and she mysell with them, yet knew that L don't think we need to worry | DIREUAC e VR B e T breast, “1 wish 1 had that money | stared across the restaurant with the first consideration with me must [y pout holding’ Steve,” she snid. ‘ ) Rl 2 e oL .. What If it should be a note|of mine Lack again!” sho thonght | puzsled eyes, Waterbury turned arid be my terror-stricken mother-In- | uppg ) 1 thut you have this Dan “':“Hm” \.‘““\ : from 1lérbic telling her that per- [ uneasily. “After all, i's my whole | followed the dircetion of her gaze law. ) ird will fusten him to this vicinity Curlotfa asks May fo spend the | haps it would be better for them to | fortunc—" with his own eyes, Fortunately for me, Tilllan was iy finiemee o i r it e (i Han i e (A ta sl end Eincintangagameniy At a table in the vory middie of 80 absorbed, for the moment In the | yiout time that 1 put you wise fo Ingalow. My noconts on comdiil + .. Or, suppose it should be a| That afternoon at five she met|the room sat vouns Jack himself] telegram that 1 was able to 5chool | (o roal dope on this thi sit Uon that Carlotta Tot er iy e | farewell message from young Juck | Herbert in the restaurant for tea. Across from him was (he pref(iest my face and voice before sho next | qowy and relax for a minute or tw AT Rl e 2R | Darnicy, telling her that he was go- | She had put on her new gray suit, | giel imaginable. A giel with poach Jooked at me. 1 knew that 10 Keed | Youipe gy taut as it you were an | g a0 MH‘“‘\‘ her plans when |18 to shoot himself! . . . It would | and had pinned a boquet of orchids | and-crean skin, hair of spun gold back any part of my reaction 10 the | 4 hiar's fitted howstring.” | Waterbiny profoses marrings. to|be just like that wild boy.to do it, |10 her breust and eyes as blue as a Rajah's sape telegram from iy friend's keen ' gypned into wlr opposite e GETR N l“ o is the millian- | 100! What a fool she had been to| “Quecr thing - thuat he's never|phire! A girl who peeded o paint perceptions would In a herculean |y casy one, physically relaxed, aire whom she is looking for she |let him fall in love with her. . . ,|thought to send me a single flower and powder to increase her ehildish task, and I felt every merve In m¥ |yt nientally as tensely strung as HORIZONTAL 1o AT or! e T ol deatiEalio T ‘mar.| May's breath came in frighted | since he asked me to marry him!" | henuty! A girl who wa (he incarna- body tauten when she looked UP | cvor And 1 guessed that Lillian's To damage 14 Iights ‘_,‘I’“”,.H ', pr i : zasps as she thailed her silk negli- |she thought, as shie smiled at him [ tion of voung innoccnes and from the telegram. kecn eyes were appraising me as Joyful 16 Sheltered “In the meantime. she has heen | Se¢ Rcross the room fo pick up the | across the tea table. “Aml he's | ety! “Hold man at any cost,” she re- | gjiu goko, 5 Beer 15 Tempered i warrying on a Mjrtation with young | lefter. Then she breathed a long | Never mentioned setting me an en- | May had scen her abont 1he hotet: ated, and to my amazement there “Tt isn't a very long story,” she 11 Was indebted 20 Valued ick Durn) “mu,m boy. On the | Sigh of relief as she saw that it hore | 80gement ring, either!™ tor several days, accompunicd by a as the hint of & gibe in her volee | pegan. M1t concorns a prob ;.,,,1 Japancse fish i e e Bl L S N e e iank | Probably the thought had not oc- | hland, elderly woman who was evie “Allen must be getting excited. But | wpieh has been baftling Alle n\'( To serutinizs Burdened SR et b Mrs. May Lucas Seymour,” she|curred to him, she decided. So she | dently her mother, then, he can't be blamed. He's been | 1y for over a year and you |18 IFlower leaf L SR "’M Fiels out of | tead in the large. unmistakable [ Slipped off ler bluck pearl ring and “Moricl Mackey danzhter of on the track of this thing for a Iong | 1how he doesn't like to admit that|17 To answer Lilectrified partic her sittng-room lnughing Ik a |handwriting of Uly X. Forgan, | Pul it down on the tablecloth old Corlies Mackey, the ilroad fime." his massive brain ever has to balk |19 Wiser 3 FFemale horses R - e sight of it was warmly| Then she held up her bare left | man® Mgy heard Waterbury say. She paused, and looked at me | ¢ a hurdle, Don't you admire that | To gaze Ry N i oy “vamp- | comforting to her. | hand. “By this tgme next week Il =That's the girl young L will Epeculatively mixed metaphor, my dear? T think Visionary 33 Fvergreen trees ling” the boy. wni May. strenuousty | 1t brought back., once more, thebe wearing your wedding ring, | probally marey after he's had his “This (hing shows the reason for | jie a wiz myself.” |20 Sca eagle 34 Placards et Lt * [sound of his deem low voice, and|Won't 1. Herble?” she asked. smil- | fling." 'Steve's anxiely to recover that 1'rom somewhere I pumped up a | Very small 36 Punctuation mark NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY | 11" I ol his Kinhy vity ing straight into his eyes, Shall "I want to speak to him." May bard,” she sald. “But, of course, he | snocious smile, and was starlled to Civilizes Tniquity R AR vou be glad to see it on my hand?” | euid, when she and Herbert had has no means of knowing that we | poap Ljjlian give' a short little (#! 3.1416 To form an angle morning a bellboy brought a thick, | To read the letter, itself, was (ke Without answering. Waterbury | finished their tea Know anything of code, and there- | jugp |32 Aurora 40 Wing part of a seed ] et el wlled out his wateh and looked al As they neared Jack’s table he fore he can't be worried about our | i \nought so she sald. “You ! lootleyer 41 Heavenly hody el ppet s Sy Dusinosse i it Lonv. s L e Halt past hiveitt e usad, il looked ip: andteas: (hem ; finding out the real meaning of the | yaven't lot down the fraction of an |°# Green pod vegetable 42 SaDorlico There was no answer 1o his repeats | Folded within it was a New York [rowning. “That mcans all the| “How do you do, Mr. Waters jargon that was on that card.|inoh. ' hurry through this and Half an em 44 To cut quickly Gl KnoGle for Avidid ot car i Lidrareitor 312 0600 jdewelry shops are closed, doesn't | hury," he said. jumping up and Hence e paused and a twinkie | {yon. my lady, we're coming down Drink made from apples (45 M Qe {nfeatds e was sinaing at the fop of her| Without an instant's hesitation, | it? . greeting Herbert cordially, of amusement at her own nomen- | 1o hrass tacks. | 46 Perched ; ) SEIR G (T LRl 1) her bath, | May swept to the telephone and He laughrd suddenly. “I never| Then he stuck bLoth his hands tlature came into her eyes — Lil-| " porhaps you read of that mailiys e ANTnantyour .""'_’,',t,h Sb e slipped. the Tler under (he fcalled Herbio's room. vealized until this minute that you into the pockets of his wide llan laughs at hersell frequently | roppery ahout a year ago,” she be- |4y '\”h’,"‘,’.' o o beaat ol ‘“‘ Second-nolain eonl e v et oo | " “Good morning. merry sunshine.” ought to have an cugagement ring. | trousers and looked May up and and with gusto — “what’s the an- | gun *“that one out in Tllinois.” e it “.“n'”";m Bgucdsp e — May loved music. and she adored [she said with forced gayety, “This My dear.” De said in his delighttul | down insolently. A snecr overspread guard ws killed | 4 \.m“_h_\" the sound of her own silery soprano | is May speaking- ;wlr'\\. “We'lll go out :m‘d buy onc | his features, and to her horrified date?” . i Tis 0w revolvantana i el e b e | His voice greeted her coldly. first thing in the morning, won't | astonishment his mouth opened The smile with which T greeted | cypitics taken were never tound Wagon “Depuis le jour . . " she trilled,! “He is jealous!” she thought. »If Wwe™" 1in a laugh that scemed to ring te her sally was distinctly a foreed | [ queried B et ent | : May nodded, with shining eyes. i the very corners of the crowded when S Sh (el Te b “Funny — 1 never thought of it, | restaurant mentally T had anticipated her you know that the list of figures S X ; * she fibbed, without the (To Be Continued) question by several second which you decoded, corresponds inlsa Jefore i 1 “It's probably the only clue he | cyery Al to the list bf tho Liguid has to some secret of his own and | missing sceurities, yowll realize |55 To wateh seeret] he's lost without that card,” 1 re- | jow exultant Allen must be.” VERTICAT, Jjoined. (Copyright by Newspaper Soft broom “Move up three scats,” - IFeature Serviee, little warning intuition which 1 t change v ole Bay- vwer? Mr. Bones, can you eluci- | ewhere the one, hut my answer was ready, for | “pxactly,” she replicd. Now Inc.) * Inspires with reserential f Keeps Preposition of place Terfeet score Pastries Iruit of an oak tree Narrow path To finish Letter From Leslie Prescott to Rath | ' fecling e Burke—Continued 1 am Juoking for another Iitier Comi By ity eroni ek oo st S IGUE R LI o IR ol nm_\ SPUORKY RETURNS TO THE OLD thankfulness or a sigh ORCHARD of sorrow. “They have started out in the Great oo | World,” said she. VT TR A TG You mean they have left | | | p into the water; and | | 5 | Z 7 | ] home?" asked Spooky. | 1l | to think she won't write me again |10 dic. I think dedth wlhen you are hefore she comes home, but | am | having an aw good time—a Bure she will, for Sally is more apt fo be confident ani tell you ahout herselt and her affairs in Al Now they have decided that they B ahe s ot at ey on't hen you read this that Spooky the Screcch Owl doesn't | Want to be by themselves and so know there are people in 5 worle oving morbid, for I'm not 5 Y I {like to have a fuss made about him. [they have left the Old Orchard.” like that—In fact, dear, I think I'm | @M happier than 1 have been in a | TBreakfast—Chilled melon. haked A s - That is one reason why he keeps out | 1 Suppose,” said Spooky, hesitate that way. hite monotony, and | s creamed potatoes, bran and | i - i |of sight inwdaylight. Of course, an- {ing a wee bit, “that there'M be room This is a terri ¢ Linly cen having all kinds | raisin muflins. milk, coffec eI e T - i Goss[p S CO"I’:‘T [ ; j I other veason s that the dayiight is |for me in there.” Who e'er would get enough of sicep | Mrs. Spooky nodded. “Yes," said Must Proper hours always keep, |She. “You know I have been show- Ol Mother Nature. Ing them about for some little time, ath that came suddenly and just would be ideal, his me for sleeping. But Spooky| “DPlenty of room.” replied Mra, got very little sleep after giving that [Spooky. “1 certainly miss those chil- |young Woodpreker. who happened | dren. but (hey were a great care. It to look in at his dourwuy, such a really is a relief not to have to think v ) s s o A - {fright. You sce, after the other |of any meals but my own.” ittle e 4o |y, » 1ole wheat bread, particularly flamag and king blue is| i / Ay Y 4 birds had departed, Drummer the “T know," said Spooky, trying t DaVId Cflppelfleld Fo i s v ; i } “oF voliilar To Mo R | / % ¢ I Woodpecker ."mv. to that trec and [look wise, ik R . : ; - 4 ! began drumming on the back side! “Huh!" spiffed Mrs, Flowers of Feathers i \ 7 ) il 18 |of it:close to where Spooky was try- | “much vou know gbout it! sted in dinner menu Mower ormed of foathers in ? g \&/ (it ling to get a nap. mother that has fo do fhe fomatoos are stuffed with |ivight colors are & novel trimming | s/ . i and ch The macaroni | for [ 1 combining and {omatovs et I L ) g hak toasted muffins, celery < : peieh ercam puffs, milk, tea. e COLOK CLT-0UTS 1 V1Y et - Dinne icasse of lamb, riced In High Colors | mash, carrot salad Georgette erepe in high colors, six years of 1t's the > work, and e shonld not erved the succot i | There was no slecping with that don't you forzet it. 1I'm as thin s the new t hats 5 S ¥ i |rat- tat going. It w as if ja shadow. Mak~ vourself at home i b\ Driummer was pounding vight on his /if you want to while 1 go out hunt- Picturesque Millinery ’ T A 1 | ears. He climbed up to his doorway |ing for a dinner. It is a long time Peach Cream Pufls ey . § % O since 1 have had all T-conld eat.” SECLE P ] " el sl 4 | . And so it was that Spooky ree tablespoons pow- | T (R PG AT 4 wirned to the Old Orchard, while rains sall, 1-4 2 lover in the apartment tree in the PR ¥ S Green Forest little Mrs, Whitefoot cnchienand Ve T R el A s {and her family, and little Mrs. Tim- Chil B e e rliane wnd sl weavds AR \ )‘ ; my the Flying Squirrel and her fam- ‘1 W, 8 ISl And van| a0 Sasus B e ily confinued o live in peace nd fold in peach pulp. four to | Aiicad s =% (Copyright, 1325, by T W. Burgess) ix cream-puf ith mixtur For Midsummer 'Y ; and serve Keep the cream very 7 ” 5 : U e next story: “Redwing the col whip as cold as possible. [ * ¢ u \ . Sgleh e o [1y worn NEA Service The Iibbon Van .. An hour later the §12,000 was in Herbert Waterbury's hands. | turns up « < afan | atter carning manner of Mary11 had any brains 1'd make him | or two of R srain . narry me today, before he changes | ‘sz‘ as she sang that loveliest of [ his mind about me-—" ‘ she was not thinkldg| Aloud she said: “That money of Al Shades of Re e v love, hut of money! mine just came, and I'm going to “HOW are the children. my d ‘ A dance fr ot 1 i At she would buy | turn it over to you. as you \ug;':!r: asked Spooky layers of s nk chifo ith Herbert Waterbury’s money! | cd. 10 invest for me Snd noked Hia head louts He After Childbirth Women Should | imuted sl afivct roms fn rose| S\Well havelg box al the opers,| Waterbury's yolce Intercupled pissiig angeily. When! Spooky is shades i and in er. “Have you had breakfast?” 1 o : S < angry he hisscs. Almost at once Take Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg- | the most ui y ind’s o coull s T st fnshed it S e 1 t n of white| “So did 1 — I'll meet you down- e S efns i Normal Conditions | e lohes oF ars e the SOl {'oval tb the TANE togeiher” e euld. | my flew over to forment Spool 2 * Now, Spooky is a little fellow. He Ay etle Deelde ety A1 ithe Frolinsestnad Smelled from 3 i o didintl figh t bachy o/ tonce St. Louis, .\I‘A:wm — ‘““After my he could see Herbie's large, firm- | his voice Rt i which was the wisest thing to do. He went down inside {hat hollow in r. “Gosh, T hope that stock of ; \N° free. But now he was no better longer I let it go. y 3 S e p'(fl' 5 e {off than he had been in the first | It was terrible. 1 2 AR place, because Drummer the Wood- often had to lie ! pecker was still hammering away down to get any [ ed b f like a . An hour later t $12,000 from After a while Drummer grew | relief. I was in P tiger-cat as s ¢ nto 4 e sale of her house wds in Her- |tired of drumming and flew away. | a weak and run- 3 i nchair ir tting " nalf rt Waterbury's hands So was the It bhecgme quict. Spooky went to | down condition, \ | 1 to eat th 0 that remained from her slecp. But he hadn't been asleep and my side z fa oxe Kfas [ riginal $8,000, very long before Mrs, Drummer took seemed to be the | o 2 t her May held out her bare hands ap- |it into her head to drum on that point for all the pealingly to Herbie as they left the |tree. pain. 1 was this bank on Ocean avenue, and started | So it went all the rest of the day. ,then I read your back to the hotel. | Perhaps you can guess how glad ,lv testimonials it arted Eakiriy Lydid sced rolls were fres ft .. .| “Look at me! I'm a penniless Spooky was when the Black Shadows | A minister Isn't rated as a broker ; > 1 t mor all thi f she 1 with an air of [came creeping through the Green [because he deals in marriage bonds. Ats Compoune. y f gedy on have every Forest. Spooky didn't waste an hdd in the world!" time. He flew straight over to th auain after \ ¢ ] cur \d bitnk- startled look came into Water-!Oid Orchard. When he got there| BOBBED HAIR looks wonderful . 1 sure will v g sit sky e bit| bury's brilliant biue ‘eyes. “Every he went straight to his old home. |with the tiny tint of Golden Glint e Compoun L nt J ent you had in the world!" he re- [ Mrs. Spooky was sitting in the door- | Shampoo.—Advt N.R. LAYTON, Py she ught eated. “Why, I had you doped out | way. t., St. Lou E t s 8 ally? {as a million-dollar widow!—" | “How are the children, - my dear?” | =g ring from any weak § \ The thoug Herbie 1 Your mistake, sweetie!” :a,\’:nsk;“l Rr'(m'\\, . UNBURN ses such symptoms as her last nore or less dis- [told him cheerfully. “My husSand| “Well hope.” replied Mrs. it and nervou tof v turncd up quietivg. 1 » 1 w|was the kind of doctor who didSpooky. “but I don't know mach | ;‘O‘L""g!:"“;: :;:nyulr’s:u.’u: . 1 give Lydia E. Pinkham’s features of 1k are ' Jidn't ' r st be- | most of his work ;without evér hop- | about them.” | \ etty fitt ' ) e.| Vegetable Compound nlm]?l nor. the est thing in for cause of g ss firtation with)ing to be paid for it. Two-thirds of | *WWhat do you mean?” demanded fis v will ap . 2 v Do not continue to feel all rup-down |11 High colors us fuchsia, | a v like J Darnle his work was charity, pure and Epooky fnpyn!h* . ed Edi- ) " walify today mn\ and half sick when relief is at hand. |y 5, vin greer encil biue and en my money from the he simple—" Mrs. Spooky sighed. o FMOW. VAPO g Sold by druggists everywhere. purple, are popular shades. mes turn it over to him to She stopped and frowned. Sup- wasn't sure whether it was a sigh of PHL 11RL st child was born I was bothered ¢ f : looming out of the| “That's because he's flattered by vith a pain in my larkness above his gleaming shirt | my confidence In him,” May sald side which became ‘ 2 front. Oh, it w ng : olf more ¥evere the as she hung up the re- MANY GOLEERS ENTERED