New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 3, 1925, Page 4

£ O R B B 5 il e o0 i f ; | ! i i Adele Garrison's New FPhase of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE Madge and Idlllan Check up on Thelr Story of Steve T looked steadily at Lilllan as she asked the question concerning my errands. “They complish phasis. £he nodded approvingly. Then, with surprising agility for a woman who had been as ill she are all satisfactorily ' 1 answered with em as she, threw back thz Jovers and climhed | out of bed. “We can talk while 1 dress” she gald. “My memory s a trifle upon one or two points concerning this man of whom tha operative s to take charge and I think I'll have to check up with yours.” 1 understood this perfectly, She wished to be sure that our accounts of the man, Bteve, tallied In every slightest de- amonflage tail, and as she turned to her dress- | ing table apparently absorbed in problems sartorial, T tightened up my mental processes, knowing that ehe would be impatient of any de- “lay in following her cue, “0Of course, one thing is under- ptood,” she said. “This operative who is coming is a subordinate awhose Instructions extend only to taking this man, whos> card you found, back to New York. T trust the man is still at Mrs. Ticer's, but | if for any reason he has scented a rodent and departed T shall instruct the operative not to waste mround here, but to get back to New York as soon as possible, glv- | ing him as good a description of the man as Mrs. Ticer That was where you first saw him, 1 belleve. Did you tell me what name he gave her?” 1 permitted myself a quiet smile #t her strategy. By it I was sud- denly and effectually any fear that the government oper- ative might come upon some chance | awitness of my meeting at the sta- tion with the pscudo automobile wsalesman. Lilllan Concocts a Story “All T know of his st Ticer's homs o told me,” I sald, choosing my words carefully, "It seems that the man, who gave his name as Ralph Dackett and his oc- cupation as that of automobile palesman, was brought there by a Chinese, whom Dackett had en- countered at the station had recommended Mrs, farmhouse as a desirable place.” “Of op: ive question the way you gained possession of this card,” Lil- lian went on, putting on her cloth- ing rapidly as she falked. “Let me pondered, frowning, “vou were driving down that wood road leading from the station and vaw this man, whose identity you did not know at that time, sitting under a ftree Ticer's boarding the will about course, you ee,” she you hazy | time | can manage. | relieved of | and who | 100king over the eontents of a port- follo. You thought nothing of it then, but, returning later, vour car | ran out ot gas just there and you got out to turn on your =mergency. | You noeticed this card lying on the | rass, you picked ft up and your |trained eye suggested that it might he in code, 50 you hrought it to me, [T had a hunch it was connected in some way with the case which had | %0 interested Allen Drake, there- | fore 1 sent it on him. TLater, | when you happened to call at the | Ticer home, she introduced you to upon another day of his extraordinary ac- in hunting for something which he appeared to have lost, These actions which she watched from the peep-hole in the wall she showed Her story strengthen- ed our suspiclons concerning the card, but, of course, we said noth- ing to her concerning them. How about it? Am 1 correct fn my to her lodger, and told tions you you she Will Be Able to Tell” Tor a second T did not answir. My trained memory, which Lillian is pleased to call uncanny, was fil- ing away the detalls of the narra- tive she just had given me, and which 1 knew she expected me to velate to the government operative if he should question me, When 1 was sure that every detall was | ready for my recounting, 1 lifted my head and looked at her with a quizzical little smile. “Eminently so,” pose the operative Mrs. Ticer also.” “Ot course,® ehe rejoined uneasily, “why do you ask?” “I'or no reason,’ 1 assured her quickly, “only that I am sure Mrs Ticer will be able to give a pretty detalled account of the man's| movements, and it he has left there | she will be able to tell with whom lie went and how long he has been gone.” | She looked at me sharply, then | noddea satisfactorily, and 1 saw that T had sveceeded fn conveying |to her Mrs, Ticer's comforting ig- norance of Steve's identity or of | the fact that Lee Chow had sum- { moned him to a conference with I me just before he left, “It's impregnable,” | mented, and then she | mandatory forefinger “You must be worn she said. “It's your turn now for a nap. T'll attend to the operative when | he comes and call you when T need Don't waste any time getting bed, for your nap probably will be a brief one.” A T obeyed her withont question | knowing as T left her room that her | 1 said. will “1 sup- question “But,” she shook at me. out,” com- a into | suggestion of a nap was only a ruse | | 1o keep me away as long as p cible from the operative who was coming from New York | Copyright, 1025, by Newspaper Tne. Clipping from the Pittsburgh Sun There have heen some surprising @evelopments in the Prescott pear! robbery. As exclusively stated in the &€un, Police Commissioner Laldlaw had a definite {heory @8 to their disappearance. He put two of his hest detectives quietly to work and they sncceeded in track ing their man to his lodgings were at a rather but respectable hie the city. The was staying there under the namo of Downey, had hecome suspiclous and had left this morning The detectives made a very thor eugh & of the and succeeded in nnearthing a of evidence practically viets the man i proses the commissinne theory 18 rect n behind a in oo on very v which obseure tel in the we man, ho arch premises piece which e Downes that had zome fallen erack the was who was loc nlost carefully The eph “Mabel had nffice the and it was Donne The pestmark been ma 4t the m on last “Menus milk. « 1 ham bre milk, 1 Dinn baked rabi dres nut coffee With dressing ahould be simply oil oil and lemon julce, [1'm hungry hungry, Joe. T | don't think T was ever hungry be- | fore in my life T don’t deserve Yeu k Iy from South s from asn't kee | America, where married that old Dor in a few years hecoms for don 15 old You painted the pic that 1 for it and you, I 10¢ W non re | turning 11 conld Sparta a rich huve and widow and quite 111 tur yutifully, decided 1o 1ak how you the lefL of the gang. consequently the jcwels wonld | belong ta vou if you could get them, the You fald ms away were only one you linew were still for Zos them that night when ¢ ¥ilington had eryone had You said in that room to zet out aquickly | You told me you wonld give me half of them if 1 returned on to ebtain ¢ vith you come with o on ex gotten tried will ns 1 11 was that in some fired hase to but now T Gonless one of the re returncd wi wav 1w 1 to et on the ve with me. | woman who the i him again T cwnld make ne.) TOMORROW — Letter from| Mabel Carter to Joseph Downey, | proper treatment but min- | red | ideal | vies” from eir shape | white cooking. losing 57 .. I BEEE o0 It's the little things that count Youw'll find out that the small words in this puzzle are real brain-teas HORIZONTAL . Opposite of wholesales Speech 13. 8k worm . Fowl . Squirrel food . Orange red vegetable 19, More famous To hasten . Cavity . Common Frosted . Challenge: . Whitish gray Tanner's vessel Ransoms 34. Digit of the . Deity . Sun 37. Wing part of a seed . Alleged force producing hypno- tism | . Rented by contract . Stowed away . You and I . To fondle . Evening meal . Melancholy note in & Bea cagle . Solas 73, Witticlsm Toward sea More bruised . Obstructs . Mineral spring Friend To damage Comes in . Argument 8heltered Hawaiian food foot | 63, Wooers . Drone bee Snalke . Order (pl) VERTICAL To come into posscssion Fon A leash . To press Quantity Therefore . Preposition of place for hawks e R 8. Lair of a lion 2. To let fall 10, To enroll in the army . To woo Wandered Curls . Fish . Feather scarf 22. Tablet . Tiny golf mound . Visitors Frrases . To lave a knowledge of . Young rowdy American beautles (flower) . Black haws . Fluid of a tree . Constellation . §mall mammals mink . Narrow Reptiles 9. Animal Peak Slim slippery fish 3. Pageantry . To mimic A gentle blow 59, Bottom of . A disorder 3. Born 8ol Opposite . Male cat Neuter prononn slight superficial allied to the that nests 1 pulley block of wet P Your Health | How to Keep [t— Causes of Illness By DR. AUGH & CUMMING United States Public Health Service Surgeon General, Tuberenlosis disease s a rule, develops slowly. It an Indefinita incubation period A man may be able to continue | work for a year or for many | after he first becomes sick, eficiency will be great need. One with early tuberen- | seldom feels sick, does r sick to his friends, and his usual pursuits. undar favorable eir- ot is a which, nas | very, Siuch a to follow man, cumstances. well withont has had may er knowing that he ta Farly cases of tuberenlosis are cured by a few months' re (in fact early cases are more fre-| quently cured than most people think and are more common than was formerly belleved. Until recent thote cases which pro sed to an advanced stage ere ealled tuberculosis To make an early Killful physician will ral weeks of The family phy Ao thi perhay called in vears, onl diagnosie, a sometimes tion Watch for the Unscrupulous You should know that tubereu Josta provides a fisld for unscrupn healers and quacks honld know that the doctor” whe advertiscs that prob- for | lous Yon styled he solf an tnberculosis is cares only cure ably a quack who maney There phrsiclans who maintain treatment of tuberculosis ¢t this be known to the pub making extravagant are other and repnut sanitoria for the Me without claims It tuberculosis is wuspected it is Af the ntmest importance that vou find out at the earlisst possible mo- At v r or not eally me have The nosis Is two-fold, In the at cure, yon disense, diag- of early first this thine and in cases importance will usually the effect a early are carrlers of infec Obstinate ymen dict tir judge ad arrive foreman if they h unanimous sion haven't. 1 neier met eleven surh‘ obstinate men in all my life.” COLOR CUT-QUTS e David Copperfield DAVID HAS A Read todav's chapter of the story, David Copperfield ™ 1 been saving the dolls you have a whole set ont the JOR of vou have will soon | i famous story D The next day David lef His mather's funeral rible paid no more if he ad not b The next few most wvas like a ters| Aream to him. Mr. Murdstone attenti him than on 1 { ere the or spent told to return to| put fo work. Dav who was only ten and small age. London to his living was hard aid miserable lif id that he in Dn achool And vears was no hut was to he old for h all alone His and for it was sent fo work for very joh vory he Ther David (Here v will appear 1 the Color her dress tan) Editors. eive re had many times when little nothing to eat, and he and il I's great aunt who tomorrow. is story 1925, Associat Ine.) READ THE HEKALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR RESULTS | face, | the | woman said breathlessly, s f THE STORY SO FAR: May 8eymour, whose hushand killed himself because of her love affair with another man, returns to her home town after a year's ab. sence. 8he wells her property, and with her tiny fortune in cash, sets out to Aind and marry a man with money. At Atlantie City she meets Her- hert Waterbury and Dan Sprague through a divorcee, Mrs. Carlotta I'rolking. Both men pey suft to May greatly to the distress of Carlotta who has long been in love with Dan. She and May become great friends, however, and Carlotta asks May to spend the winter with her in her California home. May finds Dan much tractive than Waterbury. But she decides that Waterbury is the rich husband she is looking for. So she sets her cap for him. He finally proposes and May accepts him. When he offers to invest her money for her she turns it over to him and Immediately he disap- pears, and the money with him! Pennil dlamonds to buy a railroad ticket to California where Carlotta lives. On the way she stops off in her home fown fo see her friends, Dick Gregory and Glorla, hig wife. There she meets a wealthy widower, Ulysses I'organ, who falls in love with her at first sight and proposes. But May refuses him for the rea- son thal she likes him too well to marry him without love! On the home in Los Altos, she meets Dan Sprague. And while Dan carries on a flirtation with Goldie Gay, a movie actress, May enters into con- versation with Lemuel Fishback, a motion-picture magnate who offers May a small part in a new film of his. NOW GO ON WITH THE STOTY May did not so much as glance at Dan all the rest of the way to Los Altos. She was busy with her own dark more at- = “On my charitr!” she <aid at | money to burn!"? thoughts as she sat the window the tawny ‘andscap golden land with 1s giraie of green that lies at foot of the Santa Cruz mountains. “The more I sec of men the more T hatel tomi Uahs salalsiolantly 4o herslf, as tried to brush the thought of Dan Spragne from her mind as she might have brushed a fiv from her sleeve, Rt comin ne out of nothing of the the she persistent as a fly to torment her. She w thought €he did when the train pulled info the station at Los Altos. Then suddenly, she caught sight of L3 she knew Carlotta’s and Carlotta outside on platform. waving a welcome with both of her plump hands! . . . That brought May By the time she had gathered to- gether her bags. and neatly jumped from the train, Dan Sprague at Carlotta’s side “This is the could ha it kept s0 1ot in not notice face just 1o her senses. was nic pen to me st thing that the fat little nding to kiss May's cheek. you and Dan here Why, Dan! Dan! on tiptoe have together! . 1 had [ no idea vou'd even left New York! T can't She believe vou're really here! pressed his hand as if to make sure that it was real, and the look she gave him was pathetie in its tendern “He never writes o me, the bad | man like Dan who isn't worth the | boy!" more to she went May, on, turning once “And I never know suddenly like this.” As if she suddenly remembered | something of vast importance she | picked up May's bags. ST earry all he n manage with his own,” she 1. “1 lett dinner cooking on the and it'il be burned to a frazzle if we don't get home pretty quickly.” drops from the sky 1hese May sells her furs and | train bound for Carlotta’s | | that “To | MAY SEYNMOUR TLOOSE BEATRICE BURTON & And flushed with her ecstatic state of welcome, she bore the bags off to the smallest of small auto- moblles that stood against a fence at the slde of the station, “Look at that little road bug she exclaimed, twinkling. “All mine! Bought and paid for with my | 1ast month's allmony, . . . Isn't it cute?" The little car was so very small that by the time the three of them had climbed into it, there was bare- ly room for the bags. “Looks like a second-hand car," Dan remarked with his habitual brutal frankness. "It is, isn't i, Carlle?" He had May, Carlotta giggled. “It's worse 'n that!'" she answer- ed. “It's had two owners before me . but T'Il bet you anything that no one ever liked it half as well as 1 do.” ‘With a great she started the rattled up the rate of speed. “Let me out 'l be up for dinner later,” sald Dan us they bumped and jerked through the little town with its tiny houses of wood and plaster that were steeping in the sunshine of late afternoon. They dropped Dan when.he had promised to come for dinner in a half hour., and in threc minutes were at Carlotta’s house. A cunning thing of white plaster it was . . . with wisturia and bougainvillea dripping purplish blooms all it, with roses | welcome from the wide tront porch | “No wo you love the place! | May exclaimed, as they not dared to speak to screaming of gears little car, and they street at a furious at the lotel, took the | bags out of the car, “It's a dream!" A dinner table was set fon the front porch, behind th screen of wistaria. There were roses on it, and fall white candles wait- ing to be lighted. “1 must set another place for ast. “Why, 1 thought vou had | Dan | Carlotta cried in a high ex- cited voiee as she opened the screen for May. 8he was like a child who is hav |inz a birthday party. Her cheeks were flushed to a bright pink, and her blue eves danced in their net- work of fine wrinkles thrilled for door | “I'm too words to have vou and Dan here!” she bub- bled, leading the way to a bedroom | at the left of the large, airy living ‘v""m with its white walls, and gay. chintz-covered furniture, Then a frown between her eves deepened, and May caught a look | of worry in her eyes. at | once what the trouble was | “Now, don't get it into your head f#hat 1 knew Dan was coming ont | here arlotta,” she said sharply | “I never thought of Dan from the time he left Atlantic City untl T saw him on the train this morn- ing." Carlotta’s brow cleared. | "Of course you didn’t. . 1 | know that, =silly!” she answered { But May could that was enormously relieved, nevertheless, She trotted away toward the Kitchen, and as May bathed her ‘Hrk’d eves with cold water, and he saw see she moothed powder over her face, she | could hear her humming to herself | . the low, drowsy humming of | |- a woman who is perfectly happy. | “Poor thing!" May thought, pity- | ing her. “How can she care for a powder 1o blow him up?” S£he, herself, hated Dan with all enough money to live. | where he is, or how he s, until he | her soul. But as she stood before dresser in Carlot- | was dressing | the small white ta's guest room herself for him! she |ing alone, she would have slipped Dan'll have | into a kimono and house slippers. al- how she | For she was very tired | most too looked. ! But now that she must needs make herself beau- tired to care and over | smiling a radiant | for two | | - It she and Carlotta had been dm-l | Dan was coming |H!ul for him, whether she hated him or not, ’ ffor Dan was Man . « and May Seymour was the type of woman who had to have the admiration of {any man who happned to be in slght, There are milllons of women like her . women who thrive on the | attention of men as plants thrive | on water and air and sunlight. It | 18 the breath of life to them. And | they will take it from anybody . . . ! whirling world! S0 May brushed her blue-black halr until it shone like ‘a mirror, with paint, and penclled her cye- brows with the utmost care for the eyes of Dan! (e Carlotta’s kitchen was the most cheerful room imaginable. The walls were blue and white, and so was the linoleum that covered the { floor. There were whita curtalns in | the windows, a white cloth on the table, and from blue corner cup- boards glistened the shinlest of aluminum pans and the cleanest of white china. Carlotta, herself, in the &'earchiest of white aprong, bustied around like a big character doll, eyes round and solemn with excite- ment, “T made ice cream,” she said, | bringing in a freezer from the tiny ba porch, “Dear, dear! Ever thing's ready to put on the table: 1 wonder why Darn doesn’'t come! It'1l be too dark and cold to eat ou on the porch If he doesn't hurry." May said nothing. She had her Dan's delay. Se had caught a glimpse of Goldle Gay's purple skirt ;wmskmg oft the (rain just ahead | of her, that afternoon. . . | “Let's go out on the porch and | wait for him,” she suggested, and when they were comfortably settled lavender dusk deepen over lovely little town, she told Carlotta about Lemuel Fishback. 0 and so T'm going into the movies she finished. “And it'll be a god-send to me just now when need the money so terribly., Other- wige I'd just have fo go back to typewriting or else throw myself on your charity for a few months,"” Carlotta turned in her chair and stared at her coldly for a full min- ute. “On my charity!” she said at “Why, I thought you had money to burn!" even from the Dan Epragues of this | reddened the full curve of her lips| her blue | own thoughts as to the reason for| in deep wicker chairs, watching the | the Her eyes dropped to May's loft hand where 1t lay iy on the | arm of her chalr, She pleked §1 up. {100ked at it, and then let it go ‘Where,” she asked, “@ye. sour | rings and your wrist-wateh? | May laughed, “Gone but not fore | gotten she answered. 1 had to {8 em, st er Her- | terbury went south =ith ry cent 1 had fn the world Wordless, Carlotta fell back in her chalr and opened her eyes sfill wider, while May told her all about Herbie's disappenrance, “My sta shic exclaimed when | May had finished. “My stars, 1 lold you e crook, but you | wonldn't listen to me 3 Her volce trailed saw that she jad forgotten ull | about Waterbury, &he had leaned over the ralling of the porch and was gazing down the street, (rying to plerce the semi-darkness with her eyes, “I don't see ed plaintively, “1 do hope he hasn't forgotten ahout coming here 5 Would you call him up at the ho- tel " “Would i "1 certainly was 0 off. and May Dan £he murmur- Moy shook her hend, woull wet! 1 he doesn’t care enough atout vou to remember a date with you, I'd iet him go to the dickens!” “Well, fet's walt five more, I'm sure he'll be heye lotia answered They walted for aver half an hour and sl Dan did not come. 1 At 9 o'clock they atu the over- | done chicken, the toug s and the Sou oream. They ats fu silence and In gloom; and s0on as the meal was over and the | dishes washed, May went to bed |1 think TN sit up and read a while, Dan might come for a min- ute or fwo, and I'd hate fo miss him,” Carlo(ta said as she kissed her goodnighit. “It's so nice to have with me, May dear,” she after-thought. B minutes watery here added as you un Rut Dan did not come May knew that the next morning | by the droop of Carlotta’'s mouth | and the weary look in her red- rimmed eyes, §he did not mention him, but her | heart was filled with pity for thu | tragic little woman when she left | her alone in the bungalow, and | started out for Lemuel Fishhaclk's “location” in the foothills beyond the town. | (To Be Continued) Why Flitter Had To Go Huopgry By Thornten W. Burgess Pity those who fain would eat [ But are denied their daily meat -—Flitter the Bat. “How am I Incky?' demanded Peter Rabhit of Flitter the Bat. “You say 1 am lucky and don't know {t. Now tell me how I am Tue! r “Have you had any less to eat be- cause of this rain?" squeaked Flit- rting just about Peter's head. “No," said Peter, “T may not have eaten quite as much, but T could have eaten as much as usual if T had wanted to sit in the rain to do it.” “Certainly, of course” squeaked Flitter. “When you are hungry all vou have to do is hop over to the nearest clover patch. You may get wet but vou get your stomach full. If you go hungry it is your own fault. But I go hungry because 1 have to. I don't say about it." Peter turned this over in his mind and he was puzzled. He didn't see yet what Flitter meant, Finally he sald s0. “You can fly even if it is raining, can't yon?" he inquired. “Certainly,” squeaked Flitter. “Then what is to prevent you get- ting your meals fust as wusual?” Peter inquired “The fact that there aren't any meals to get,” replied Flitter. “Why aren't there?’ demanded Peter. “Becauee of the rain, stupld” squeaked Flitter rather gharply. several times and still couldn't see what the rain had to do with it Then it oecurred to him that not once had he seen Flitter appear to catch anything as he flew about above him. This et him to think- ing. Do von mean,” he inquired i“that all your food {s washed away? “No," squeaked Flitter, “I don't mean just that. Tou know, of course that T get all my food in the air?” Peter nodded that much,” said he “And you know that my |siste of fiving insects,” Flitter, Again Peter nodded been told,” said he. food con- continued | i i R A girl backward. o looks have anything to | Peter turned this over in his mind | “Ot course 1 know | | o T have forward to beuui “Well,” replied Flitter, “when it rains and rains and rains the way it has been doing, no insecls are fly- ing. All have crept into sheltered places to wait until the rdin is over. I tell you what it iz, Peter Rabbit, long rains are sometimes pretty hard on some of us who have to -catch all our food in the air. Skimmer the Swallow and Beomer the Night- hawk are two pretty hungry people just about now or I'm mistaken, | have known the habies of Skimmer the Swallow to starve to death when very tiny hecause of wet weather, Skimmer and Mrs. Skimmer simply couldn't find food enough to feed their babies. T ought to be asleep now, but the minute it stopped raining 1 started out hoping to find something to eat. Now it is begin- ning to rain,again. Did you ever sea such weather? Tf the weather doesn't clear pretly soon something is going to happen to some of us. I must get back to shelter, Ciood bye, Peter Rabbit, and don’t grum- ble. Away flew Tlitter the Bat and Peter hopped back to the shelter of the old Woodchuck house in the middle of the dear old Briarpatch. He felt a little ashamed, did Peter Yes, sir, he felt a little ashamed. “I Away Flew Flitter the Bat won't complain any more,” eaid he 1 have plenty to eat and I can leep when I want to. But poor little Flitter has nothing to eat and empty little stomach won't let him sleep in comfort. It's queer how in this world we o often find people much worse off than ourseives. 1 just didn’t like the rain, but it never |entered my head that so much rain |was making anybody suffer. T hope |for Flitter's sake the sun will come {out soon. And an hour later, just as if jolly, round, bright Mr. Sun had heard Peter's wish, the clouds broke and Mr. Sun smiled down on a wet world. “Hurrah,” cried Peter, “Filit. ter will get a good dinner tonight.” Flitter did. | (Copyrignt, 1925, by T. W. Burgess) The next story: “Flitter the Dat |At Home.” | TAPANESE DENTIST HONORED | Tokyo, Sept. 3 (P—The honorary degree of doctor of laws recently |was conferred upon Dr. Morino. suko Chiwaki, president of Toyke | Dental coliege, by Loyola university lof Chicago. It was the first time |such a degree has been conferred {upon a Japanese dental surgeon. Dr. Chiwaki, known as the “father |of deutistry in Japan,” received the |degree in the presence of a large |assemplage of Japanese and Amerie cans. It was presented to him by the late American ambasssdor, Ea- gar A. Bancroft,