New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 31, 1925, Page 4

Wife's C onfession Adele Garrison's New Phase of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE ‘Sreve’’ Buggests Ulackmall When Madge Outlnes Flan At my sommand to Lee Chow not te-the “Bteve's’ arms, the Chinese obediently dropped the rope it bis hand. Bus e lodul himsel! tn A elow, dlsapproving shake of the! hsad 20 he did ¢ — & remarkabdie | exhibitten of emotior for this im-| perturadie Orfental Ther he tapped ‘Steve” Nahtly o the shoulder. “Poeass Wt down here” he sald »ointing te the box I had indicated | Whel 3 glance at me in whioh Wy amasament there was somne thing ke gratitude, and then obeyed les Chow's directions “It strikes me Sister-in-Law ' he Arawled “that we're wasting quite & lot of waluabdle time on the pre-| liminaries. Aren't you about ready te some down to sarth, also cases? Vhat posnible wse ean that card be to yow?® If you tell the truth, you tan't ¥eny you have It ‘1 van asenre you that tha card s mot im my possession now. T paused significantly and “Steve” half leaped from his seat, only to sink back aguin as Lee Chow made s single menacing step forward But the deep lines which suddenly sprang into relief around his nose and mouth betrayed how vital was his Interest in the missing eard “What 4o you mea he manded hoarsely 1 looked at him steadily “Simply this." I said. “T have de coded that card and sent it to a man in the service of the government whom 1 was privileged to work during the war. The list of figures” — I saw “Steve etart — contained, matched a list fn which he was much inter- csted — a of stolen securities missing eince a mail robbery in Ti- linols about a year ., In which a messenger was murdered.” 1 swear hy all that's h ‘Steve” gajd hoarsely, all the vado gene from his volee, "'t 1 had nothing to do with that croak- ing." de seeret with it it ago, Steve Threatens Madge “Unfortunately, that plea not ave an accessory before or atter the fact,” T said coldly, steel- Ing myself against an unaccountable maudlin flare of sympathy for the man befare me, from whose eyes now -gleamed the frenzy of a trapped fhing. But the next instant all sympath for sudiden- Iy “Steve” in his eves was rdonie amusement, and he drawled s “The ba Bl i things are a does vanis! Taxed replaced 1 or Jenly fortu 1t by s feigned, not all mine, e that if s up to the family to get ma out of the mess it the members of 1t do not wish the odium of & prison-bird relafive on ir hands.' T felt ax it opened and ! them, but. tortunately to keep the ehill fn my away from my spirit while swered h'm “The troubls with I sald “fs will be out of my soon ns the afternoon train gets in trom New York or a n auto moblla renches here from the city.” “Now Comes the Blackmail” The trapped look came t USteve's” but 1 against it time and steadily he conld me again “This man dacoded card you ever sinee had mped fnto was volee veins § 1 my o water been able and 1 an. that solution,” the aftair hands entirely as quietly, that certa into was proof went on interrupt to sent has n looking for the robhery, He graphed orders for us to hold you at eny cost, untll a government operative could from N York. You know better than 1 h useless any of us, even if were related to you, will that ugtaye dry lips. “All right he =aid tone- b I'm licked What have you got up your sleeve? You must have someéthing or you wouldn't have me here, You'd have let the government man nab me lown at Ticer's."” “Your reasoning is surprisiagly accurate,” T told him. “First, let me tell you that I have no faith at all in vour claim that you are my husband's half-brother, but on the bare chance of its being true, 1 am going to give you two hun- dred dollars, all I can get together, and Lee Chow will take you over the back roads to Riverhead, where you can catch a train to New York, which t of the detec- tive here. "But 1 itly “there a this."” whom 1 the he tele- here be to you after happens.” ran his tongue over his 1 cave,” lessly. know when will pass oming out paused signifi condition to all “Now comes the “Steve” said venomousfy: “Call it whatever you wish torted, “but be assured it will be enforced righily. You will not go back to Mrs. Ticer's to get any of your things and will permit Lee Chow fo s you and turn over to me for safe-keeping DAPErS YOU MAay oS 4 What!" he shouted raucously “Giive np all my proofs that your husband's half-brother!" “Exactly,” 1 1 imperturh ahly Copyright, 1825 Feature - is blackmail,"” 1 re- von arch now any 55" returne by vpaper ILTTER FROM JAMES CONDON TO SALLY ATHERTON Sally bunk, th mora 1 think 1hink th Ten't it ¢ neh mo men are thing Ml persis th they are In ha tues when Mr. Prese aie ) the pol arehid h Jon't min: 1 whether nat but 1 now on or faint alwaye ane af h fal) 111 omething ahant he posaible 1] 4 the | v 1n Sor tor th raiad Bower nish il Rioed Five or six pola sait, 1.1 teaspoos apoor butter Kknow that when aid not \en we put her on th Ameriea had had time to Lelong had she the already gotten in- wonld want o om conntry far a straw, | Mahel when T ¢ A odra irter of to hoin from TOW Vion to Sally Tettor Athert re il from James Co n a ATARRH f cead of t DeraR at is usually G by the vapors ICKRS varoRuUB 7 Million Je Used Yearly - 1 am | | | | poses more | greater | all | { NEW. BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 81, 1925, CROSSWORD PUZZLE EHHHIW R RORIZONTAL, | Eprinkles To got to slaep Verbal Female sheep Smell Silk worm To peer Era Socla! insect To scatter To obstruct as water Star-shaped flower Erronsous An egotist Ventilating machines Variant of “a” Twenty-four hours Unit of work Bone Bottom of a pulley block To require A customary action To speak lazily Friend 0 soak flax To persecute mdicially Wooden club for baseball Pink skeleton of eca animal Sesame Hither Grie Tap Poll Deit, Delf 6 Lon Toward Visi Spaces in dwellings Sea Obn Slen Peri Hap Inct Moo One inheritance Smearer Speedily Fair Cons memorized role A Min Trwice Word of driving command Point Lxc To embarrass To brov'n in the oven Painter's frame — MAY SEVRIOU Dy DEATRICE DUBION & THE STORY 80 FAR: French doll May Seymour, whose husband Who's your girl killed himself because of her love [ May asked idly, affalr with another man, returns to| Dan started, laughed and her home town after a year's ab.|away. eence. She sells her property, and Search me,” he sald carelessly. with her tiny fortune in cash, sets|“All I know {s that she's been do- out to find and marry a man with|ing her darndest to flirt with me money. for the last fifteen minutes. Have At Atlantie City she meets Her-[you had your lunch?" bert Waterbury and Dan Sprague,| May eald she hadn't, and two through a divorcee, Mrs. Carlotta [ minutes later they were sitting op- Frolking. Both men pay sult to|posite each other in the dining-car. May, greatly to the distress of Car-|Before they had time to give their lotta who has long been in love|order to the walter, the chemical with Dan. &he and May becoms|blond had taken her seat at the great friends, however, and Carlot- | table across from them. ta invites May to spend the winter “Dan,” May said to him in an with her in California amuged nundertone, “This woman's May finds Dan most after you, You'd better watch your but she sets her cap for Water-|step.” bury, having made up her mind| Tan smiled without looking up that he is the rich husband she is|from the menu, looking for. Finally proposes, There's only one woman and May accepts him. &h» =ives him | world who's dangerous to me,’ all her money to invest 1or ner [ remarked And immediately he disappears| “Who's [ with it asked Penniless, May sells her feweiry| Again Dan smiled and her fur coat to buy a raflroad |a prncll and wrote ticket for Los Altos, o visit the waiter's pad lotta in her bungalow. On the way, |swered the stops off to visit her friends,| “Isn't Dick Gregory and Gloria, his wife, [in love with vou One day while lunching downtown| Then, as May with Gloria, May meets Ulysses [went on: “You | Forgan, a wealthy widower who [think you were crazy about him, has been mildly in love with her.|and then, as far as I can see, you Refore she leaves for Los Altos, he | dropped him like a hot cake, | proposes to her. May refuses him,| “And tut at the same time fells him that | me? Made googley eyes at me he likes him betfer fhan any man|for four or five days until 1 was on running around in circles. But the | minute 1 asked vou to marry me, what did yon do? Bawled the life |out of me for falling for you! {What's your game, any way?" May looked him square in face “T didn’t bawl yon out for mak- ing love to me, Dan.' she contra- dicted him to marry ¢ sheanid! Yon her hushband, friend, Dan?" looked attractive; s in the * he or ribald VERTICAL that? Carletta?" + estry He picked up their order on utes hefore he an- ¥y vered g grass any man in danger who's ' he asled eald nothing, made old Herbie he onary patterns eagle oxious plant der spiral plant stalk le earth On the tos she pened (well or i) train hound for l.os Al- meets Dan Spragne NOW GO ON WITH THE N’l‘(‘fl\') “Is {t May herself, or only her ghost Dan asked, and May laughed and gave him her hand “See, T'm veal flesh and hlood!” cried gaily. “Nothing ghostly about me!” Holding her warm hand between his palms, Dan guestioned her with puzzled dental i who unlawfull the she v sumes as by time rlotta, and co anay you from eral used for face powder eves, of compass lamation of laughter Your Health How to Keep It— Causes of Illness BY DR. &, CUMMING Surzeon General, United Publie Tcalth Sevl. States In very early times served that tuberculosls was apt to occur at certain ages and under certain conditions ot living. Hippocrates, the father of medicine, noted that it was most frequent he- tween the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. It is common knowledge now among physiclans that any vhich weakens the individual and predis- powerful y a safe- it was ob mo. his resistance to tuberculols, phyinue s n snard There that Iy necessay s a growing eonviction tion in tuberculosis usual- urs in childhood rounger child intimate the contact prolonged the the danger. It is about 10 per cent among children under ars of age are due to te in form relation of early infection to sis later life i8 believed that intected before infec The the and the and exposure | mare ae 16 esti mated that deaths fiiteen b of renlos The It some il in is impor most peo the age of ple ween the ages of third of all to tuberenlosis. frequent they twenty and Vhont on death most BEcating nor escape among cannot minor a nurse ailment other diseases infection. Nor ed them: ngthen zorm on W redispose to and fe ot can Ives in re v house manner to thetir mee to the Tty worker, the reilgious re- he rounder the miser, the rou olute spendthrift fir, the chronically tired an, and t e predisposed through unwise tion of p to tu- or un iysical re Lack of Proper Food Blamed osing cause of of proper foad an to the stud home fao | the 1 ch | | | r amused | that tu because of this lack of knowledge do not The ing in backed | ment. The tive wh neighbors under 1t s childre would that re shall b It is to rem institnt fota carefuin | sons should low 1) cooks teacher David Copperfield 1 paper *1f you have herenlosis Is contagious and take precautions. anti-spitting laws now exist- most. cities deserve to be hy a strong public senti- viciously eareless consump- o daily exposes his family or to disease should be put proper institutional control. dangerous to house young 1 with consumptives but it be difficult to enforce laws quire that the voung child removed from the house more practicable, perhaps, ove the consumptive fo an ion where he can be trained Tuberculous per- be allowed to fol ations of not e vo dairymen, nursemaids or waite COLOR CUT-QUTS “Why, of course,” he said, “vour menev doesn't mean a thing in my life . it's you I want.” what neck Then are yvou doing hera| this of the woods all by vonrself 2" he wanted to The all set How Dan lonked his surprise life! She hated the old boy long before T arrived on the scenc! She just aftached herself to me like to the bottom of a ship, with me! T never her to come along." smiled sarcastically. 1 can't belfeve you when that,' she answered quiet- perfectly other to leave admits that Vrolking good husband You fall in 1} with you the it Wis n e vour last T saw of you, you were to marry Herbie Waterbury did you lose him?" May geed he I didn't lose him Aidn’t marry him,” “Can't a her mind onee In 2 had decided in a £he was not going to tell Dan any- th affairs. She re. membered that Carlotta had hinted to be trusted any Herble Yon hear from him sked suddenly. written von all | harnaels T jnst said indif- | n change| ‘“Dan, you a3 shr r and sailed avay mted m v May ferently while She in a flash that o woman | aves a un! is persuading her Carlotta Iy man And was a Jot hushand ss gome nz ahout her that he was not pretty her that more than was He's about his head way she prod- ally ™" T wouldn't let *“No. 1 hardly the world talk me the way from Herb,” he said. "W talking 1o me,” he said, each other for ten or fifteen years,| “Vou call me a rditer and a cad, nd tn all t {and 1 and take if. T guess had th n from | T mugt he love with von He's no ** [really bont you, 1 mean.” had her of the waiter with said short this conversa- etudyving | tion. Then the blond across the aisl He had idently decided to_aftract of 2 attention by dropping her 1 it f floor. Unfortunately it There ont fumbled cake rakist May ind an up her head and Dan's expression as he mishap. Pan any shook other woman inde er hear in © known | You're at time T don’t believe sit here e scrateh of a in 1 of ab She crazy The arrivs OFT reat frien SCHOOT him May she FOR mine ut leaned clever cager ntly on | a that women doubts thie, | hing. Dan's the 186 the heginr the soup eut stor lean, restless, | ¢ lolls, at th ) who is const affair was ahout that men bag on opened of the had ever with him St an | ana brightest red a ir “Well Roing to world Peggotty| 1 21 when ghe told him | s rouge seen | pencit | 1aughea behe ‘Lady &eems to have dropped her t vou're | complexion,” murmured as Los { Dan put metics back into answered | the bag and returned it to the own- or in s lpsti She at this 11 not get en't ed ny thre “What the you e re doing and minded he il that early in this part of 1 to school imagine I'm doing nha she eling toward May 1oing tra the n they | Altos and Carlotta,” at he He had aisle of vou o much,” the blond at looking him her sticky eyelashes. could sworn that her stroked as he took the him soulfully from under May gors from have ena | f May |1 blond a but 1 and- | get so 1 sitting on 1e from|a train without a soul to talk to! dressed in | Don't . returned far om his " to drop ft nk vous and yJumpy you? a cat! I could just Mr. ¢ h this minute!” Dan | i s eakle, the | Color his sult a very | 3 Then his face sobered, and he re- turned to his food and to May “So you think I treated Ca \s Ma h wide blue the movable eves that eyes of & it re like tta May | remember what vou did to| “T told yon you ought a| Dan's badly . . ." he began, but a move. ment from the girl across the aisle stopped him, ghe had apparently made up her mind to talk. This time as she leaned toward them and opened her lips, she included May In her smile, “It you folks had a pack of cards along, 1 could tell your fortunes," she drawled. “I do it awfully well . honest. I've foretold deaths and marriages and everything. I learned how to do it at school from my room-mate, Awful rich people, T went to an awful swell school. « I'm in the movies now." She rat back and waited for this to sink in “I've never een,” May “I'm ther answered seen you on answered coldly, though,” the complacently, “You not have heard of me yet, but will . Goldie Gay “Is that your omwn name Goldie asked Dan, Goldie shook her n deed” sho aald haughtily. “Papa | never would It me drag the fam- | {ly name into the films! vou'd be surprised to know am,"” Dan pretended the blond mav you head “No. who I real astonishment “Did you notice that hig fat man | sitting across from vou in the Pull- {man?" Goldie suddenly asked May. | | “Yes answered May re- | membered an elephantine n an elephant.gray snit had | ogled her all morning. “What about him " “Nothing Vishback, who man who anly head he's Lemuel | of Migh-Art | Films," declared Goldie in a hushed | tone “I béen trying to up my nerve to go and ask him for a job for the last hour." She sighed. “Seems as if 1 can't g ed. “T'm ot | irls. Lord, T| the though,’ one of those pushi wish he'd notice me! They say| that's the only way anybody erashes | Into the films these days by having some or director notice ‘em and give ‘em a part.” he rose presently. “I guess TNl go | him a more fimes,” she “and see if he'lf"take a look." She pansed by the table and eyed Dan “Listen, can read “After you've T'll read yours. she mourr | | | | | | producer walk an' past 1, fomw Mr. TWhats palms." finished if yon want me to," | vour-name. went vour she on. lunch 1| | your palm?" May asked when heavy with the scent of strong per-| fume. | “Sure T am,” Dan answered.! this train ia | her doult everything h | you | Galdir Goldie had gone, leaving the air|fifty as well =8 the time away" When he had taken May her seat, he sauntered down to end of the car where Goldie v of the films awaited him, o e Tt'll help te back to He came back a half hour grinning from ear o ear; dropped down beside May. “She says 1'm going (o marry a blond," he informed her May betrayed no interest news. “But I'm not," he went on, lean- ing closer to her. “Not if a certain gray-eyed brunet will me for her second hushand. Will she?" “Do mesn m rsked May With wide, innocent eyes, and felt Dan's hand close over her wrist in a grip that hurt “Of course, 1 mean you, know it he said in “And A it weren't for the T take and show you how L For May \ater, and in this have n and you a whisper, people on vou in my arms much 1 mean all ardor of his was not Ihere was of the mounte about Dan Spragas that made said with suspicion a1, He didn't or other mile & tons, impresseq touch actor that npon mada her Inok crything e ring true somehc him a slog wr arm from his “Darling." sald, and was ridicnle in her fone, to marry in the whlow, and thers “Would me if T world? If T but a poor she n still int hadn't weren't one Dan swent {h 3 his hand “Why, he said, “Your money doesn't mean a thing in my life Tt's you 1 nt." May leaned back and looked out the window at the revolving the miraculous bins a cent a rich with a wavy of of course. of landscape j of the &y, the radiance of the sun- shine on e, the von trees, g0 back and talk to Gay for a while, and let me kit o id lazi She watched him go, consclous that the cves of the movie magnate fhe aisle were upon her. . , Wouldn't it be wonderful if he should decide that she was tha fype ho wanted for film, and should star her! “But of th er,” she course, he won't" che “Are you going to let her read|ftold herself. “I'm tnoo old for the sereen Twenty-seven is like fo a movie actress,” o porter came through the car, oxt stop, San Jose!” he called, (To Be Continued) ks Seeing Ts Believing THORNTON W. BURGESS Most people will agree with me We must believe the things we see, Peter Rabbit. Pefer Rabbit didn't want to be- lleve that Jenny Wren and Mr. Wren were guilty of destroying the eggs of their feathered neighbors Tt didn’t seem to him that he could | helieve it. Carol the Meadow Lark | had told him that there was a ru-| mor, which, you know, s a story that no one is sure about, going around that the Wrens were brea ers of eggs. Now, after having talk- ed with Jenny Wren, Peter was| more npset than ever. It was true that Tenny had no very near neigh- bors, and there certainly was some- thing queer about if. Tt looked very much as it the nelghbors who used to be there must have had some g00od reason for leaving. Tenny Wren had disappeared in- her houee, Tt second she had occupied, for had ralsed one family in ancther house, Peter could hear Mr. Wren singing. He was some little distance | e was the house she | away. Peter hopped over in th | directien. He thought he might | able to find out something from Mr. | | Wren. Just as Peter started Mr.| | Wren stopped singing, so Peter| | aian't know just where to look for | [ him. You know, Mr. Wren is so | emall that it is very easy for him I to keep out of sight. Peter looked all aronnd, but hie couldn't ses Mr Wren. 8o finally he sat down in the | bushes along the old stone wall. He | | #at down just to yst awhile. Py land by he noticed that there was| | a vird-nouse in an apple | near nim. 1t Brown's Boy's houses, FPeter dered if any one living in l'and 1t so. who it might be. Then | he heard the soft love song of Tom Tit the Chickadee, Almost Mrs. Chickadee put her ) of the doorv of that little houge, €he Jooked all around and ont €he came, and together che and | ¢ away tree quite | was one of Farmer won- was it my | | ad once. | out Tommy Tit fi thing to eat to get some- FLAPPER FANNY savs e ) his onn home | never AT SEAVICE W Modern skirts are more “knee-high-to-a-grasshopper.” than | a thing. You never can | (Copyirght Peter watched them out of sizht. Then he turned to again look at the |little house. Ha was just in time to see a tall disappear inside. blinked. “That's que said he to himself, “As surely as I'm sitting here I saw some one go %eio that house. Now who could it e been and what did they go in for Not more than a second later, hoth questions were answered for Peter. Mr. Wren's small head and slender bill were thrust out, Peter gasped. On the end of Mr. Wren's bill was a pretty little gpeckled egg. Mr. Wren looked this way and that way and the other way, Then he dropped the ege. It fell to the ground at the foot of the tree, Mr, Wren disappeared. Almost at once he was out with another egg. He 4id the same thing with this egg. Peter kept count. Five of those lit« tle ezgs speckied with brown, wers dropped at the foot of that tree Then Mr. Wren looked this way and that way and the other way. He was making sure that nobody saw him. He looked every way ex- cept down where Peter was sitting. Then &wiftly he floew over in ameng the bushes where he couldn’t be Poter A in a tree moment later he hegan singing over near where his own house was seen. A moment in a later he began near whers vas, 1t was that same icking song that every one loves it you never, 1ght it pos- Wren to do anything singing tree over so much. Hearing uld ha Mr sible for A at al Potor the hopped over thoee There, to the foot of little czgs had in each, was the sharp bill Peter when Tom- adee return and seampered SR could take him. To scen him you might have taken him to he the guilty one, “It's true,® Peter kept saying e to himself. “that rumor is true. It must be that thoss Wrens have Jriven their away. It doesn't se ! 1€ must be true. And ar Mr. Wren sing vou would think he never had done a bad deed in all his life, Of all the people in the Old Orchard Jenny and Mr. Wren are the last ones T would have suspected of doing such tell in this never can tree where dropped hole punched Mr. Wren HAN't want to Tit Mrs. ¢ 0 turned been the by Somehow my and ed he fast as his hav world. Ne, tell.” siree, you by “Jenny Wren De- T. W. Burgess) The fends next stor: Herselt,”