New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 29, 1925, Page 14

FRaARRTI basbbiers A Wife’s Confessional Adele Garrison's New Phase of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE Up a Clue Lillan gave distinotly glances at the small box 1 had pre pared for the holding of the pel fets we meant to substltute fo those Hugh Grantland had b taking. “You're the cate, Madge" m Ing advantage the temporary absorption lets that we had bro to h snalysis, Then in a louder tone asked briskly “Will you fhree of thes please? Ther a theusand of the count | essary, but we might as well the substitution complcte eheek the count.” The drugglst put down the vial In which he had placed tablets Lilllan had given kangaroo's vanity rmured tak- dr she of 1681 give me juet soventy- this box in We little of the harmless choeol pellets. These were 8o lik enes in appearance and we wera sure Hugh would net notics the pubstitutior Tian and I eounted with him and when he had gaid "seventy- three,” Lillian elapped the lid on tha box, hastily wrapped pleen of paper around it and it into her purse "And that's ‘Now if you'll more of these t reserve supply damage, we'll be getting The drugeist supplicd ns, and with a farcwell admonition to him to rush the analysis of the tahle left with him, Lil out of the pharm waiting ear You'll have to get veu?" ghe asked, w tled ourselves in our “Yes, and oil. 1 saw an tlgn on a garage in the onfskirts of the eity. We'll stop there and cheek up n everything the needs.” A Distinguished Chanfleur “If we pass one beforc we get to that last one, I'd advise you to do vour checking up then said 1.l lan. Something in her tone 1o me wateh carcfully for signs. For some reason she did not wish us to stop at that last garage upen the main road leading out of Binghamton, But every gas station as we drove along the that at last we draw up to the which was brightly lighted Two cars were standi in paved yard of the gas station. was a big luxurious limousin of whose two extra tires was in the hands of a mechanie. It the type of ear which {s rarely seen without a chauffeur, yet the man who sat slumped over taste that G a thrust that” she said hundred gs for a sort of and tell the give me a me along ian hur gs h won't 1 set- all-night ol car m gar was dark ts, €0 re cor ed to » in the outskirts sirer the Onc one was v young the admiring Tt IR EAERIIAIEIRLSIEALILLLRNLLIL Lilllan’s Scarch for Gasoline Turns w 1 over with his hat drawn down \s eyes a8 f he had gone to y one of fortune's favored ehildren. His fur coat would have paid a chauf. 1's wages for tWo years or more, here were the blurred figures of two people in the decply cushioned but 1 could not they rther end of the powerful driver N cop was dlstine tonnean whether runabout tall slumped man, he cavy 80 n in his aont likaiha 0 a glant turned up no one could “Is That otk His Whout Man a Chinese?" . and harpened by Lillian lisinclination to stop at garage, 1 looked furtively at him as we waiteqd r someor 10 come 38 ¢ mouth, without reminis service together, at either of those my cue.” returned a tric > seeret “Don't look ht,"” 1 same manner. The next instant in querulous ton accustomed to instant her whims: ‘How long mt and oil, a “He with you in a minute or two now,” the garage man returned im perturhably. “Well, what's the man doing in- side there?” Tillian asked “You'll have to ask him," man replied curtly, “He's boss.” “That's just Tillian said Madge, we'l cars, and All in she called out of & woman attention to t we walt for ga way the the what stoutly, lieth or not." E caug me by the arm ae T climbed down from the driv t and hurried me acr paved yard to the garage, in which a fall lanky man in overalls was bending over a pile of small ws and nuts. op betwe Lillian ed hor, « 1 shall do.” “Come on see W r we'll got ANy s s the ide of n me and the wir whisy and 1 nding so that no one outstde eould the swift move- ment with which she dot silver hadge of from her drcss and he the garage owner er ¢ T rec “What rot 1 it il sec offica a0 that it suid to wrong hor s do You've come you s @ hoot- of here' n answered, end. T want be angry at my upon g But me tall man in run- on out T vorking that “ny ‘Im not ou to pretend t at el the COTT TO JOIN PRESC( CONTINUED. Altheugh I had you and Leslie about it feellng that all m f you, I had rented my month Castleton nor 1 knew that either of us had any acquaint- ances in common. That she w renting the home of with whom her brother and who had asp hand, was the last th Castleton cou m!nd, and c know that Mr ‘You must see t of the pro Heaven, for t ercod when Mr. Gi in Winterbrook Tou have e and you know 1roking man he in Win Bradford herse s in love her our s how son went to inion is one made atte visit take of wri Mr. G how popular TUntil T receive that t et Lot AT Gibson mind and my heart. 1 ) : r lown 1) tor ) of them was trin moment 1 deeld Vinterbrook 1 I was coming, & at th tion, not in‘endcd to 50 pleased it 1to go 1t how miu course, the rally he met me Although I had 1 him anything, him te to see {hat modustly, at last 1 had iccede to bl wife. 1 may tell you 1 not this sacred conf that Orson a him un made up my mind to proposals and be his my you son, although lence to I.cs a boy. b and nds whe watehing me from &k T harrasse L rame face to Bradford NEA ? me arm d e face Taon NEXT: The letter continued. ‘Menus. well food of the wi sweets, This given beeau and at the resip eon Date Cake One ez, 1-4 teasp teaspoon S a Family ~ . 9 sossin’s Corner | Iy Ouality 110 | NEW BRITAIN A it T Z: ZLE | tell | were men or women. | yard a | was | that, | looked | of any repalr | with | this | llian spoke from the | moving | at of our | the ched the ' to | oser | HORIZONTAL According to pattern Sea food Decree of sultan To cut off Native metal To ignore ather Provides food Sixth note in scale Third note in scale To rescind Toward Point of compass Beer Crown of the heud To knife Morindin dye Sorrowful To depart Point To put Dy of compass up (poker) by boat 1tely eolored fews Driving commund Subsiets Cover Second no Beverage in seale Carerpil Poems Cloth Exelamation of surpri To rotitn To i air VERTICAL ‘l Cosetie’s Christmas | | > FAIRY'S REVENGE | is the second chapter of a ahout story s daughter and It 3o me the dolls from which to act out th prince's whol¢ y twelfth rthday dre ofcing in ar, the kingdom Beera he lords from far and the midst of all this n, there was a great sound and walling and the dwelling trembled. The 1 a g holding the young » her feet in alarm 1 to the ground » strange sounds ed, and at the same time the vanished into 1-air, for ¥ touched foot ground ¥ he was twe vears old, it is bright red | wbout his st ather in his In s had and this — After A Bath With N Cuticura Soap Dust With CuticuraTalcum Delicately Medioated Of Pleasing Fragrance — To soak up To rcach across Inns Says again ot Stundard type Constellation 1Yuid in & tree To chant Chunges To loiter Prodigals Pertaining to sound Coarse woolly hair loney gatherer Ltental contract I"irst note in scale Seventh note in scale lalian river Prophet who ehold Marine fish To accomplish rart of verb Let it stand ignre of speech Troubled To spportion M of area Farewell Not a8 much Wower stalk Carden tool 1l gheep Sy trained Samue] to be ure = O. No B 2 i SN D ST | DIONO 70 >(O: 0 m zim AOROTCROOT S In keeping with desire for things mannish is this very feminine variation of the man's evening waist coat. Of white satin broadeloth, ft carries out the lines of the tailorcd coat. A scarf, folded to resemble a stock, co; FLAPPER FANNY says | Al Hifo) tf Avoid Clashing 10 be taken, In plan- s, 1o avoid nations lors or combinations of flavors @ not harmonize s a prescription for Colds, Gripne, Flu, Dengue 113 N . aske iBllmlb‘ Fever and Malaria. |Gray It kills the germa DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1 925. ’ BEGIN HERE | Bawnara Hawley, tidented, | Brue ythe Ne to s 1™ Through | porte TODAY self-willed breaks with her flanee, | D Reynolds, and gets a job on | I’ itain Telegraph In order him, Lydia 8tacy Iinforms Andrew Me- maott, ma ing cditor of the ph, of crookedness in the Manners, Stone and Reynolds firm. Manners leaves town with the firm's tank deposits, Bruce thinks T a is responsiblo for the publicity given the a Jerome Ball tells Tarbara he roing to be married w oo lite Dol Jefferies, , shie meets Jorome ahout town, at a dinner at an inn w a prominent loeal man kills | himsclf, and Rarbara picks up a red left in the room by the wun- woman companion of the lead man Prucs has foined the real cstate of Manncrs, Stone and Rey which is promoting Valc a mammoth rcal estate pro- lydia Stacy, a rich widow, re 8 to invest in Vale Acres when { Bruce falle to respond to her blan dishments, | Barbara gets many letters from & tmed Violoet which she an- ¢ lovelorn column. She marriage to a fac y girl named Violetta Granhy, and learns that she hersclf has neered Violefta's campaign to poliea re Ball, man b pe 16T 15 AN known lcases an apartment in town, Me Dermott asks her to take hls young laughter, Fancy MeDerr with her and to act as ¢ girl, Darbara consents On the day after her mother's fu eral, Barbara prepares to leave the home. NOW eron for i GO ON WITH THE CHAI'TER XXXIT At & o'clock next day Barbara went through the house, The last moving van was just pulling away A woman was sweeping the last heap of trash out of the lower hall. Barbara came down the stairs, wearing her hat and coat. She paid STORY engl win The Good ¥unter By Thornton W. Burgess jasked Happy Jack of Lightfoot the { Deer. And “No. wonder who it could have been.” And then in the distance, but not ar that it didn't sound loud and dful, banged that terrible gun more, This time Sammy Jay each in turn sald: Munters are hoth good and bad; folk make happy, and some sad. —Ol1 Mother 2 | Some e once came hurrying from the direction of at dreadful bang, and {t was plain that Sammy was exgited. He didn’t look a bit frightened but he did look as If he a hunter in the Green IPorest, a hurter with a terrible gun. |1t was quite astonishing how rapid- ly the ¥ through the | Green lorest. had any one | hunted there at this scason of the With news. He was. year, and the little people didn't; “What is it? Lnow what to make of it. In the @&DXIOUSly. y first place, this Green Torest was “I've Ioundhour whfz it is that is owned by Farmer Brown and he al- | belpg hunted:" cricd Sammy. lowed no hunting there. Once in “Who" asked all together. great while & hunter slipped in thers “Guess,” replied Sammy, when Iarmer Brown and Farmer| But they couldn’t gucss. So at last | Sammy told them. He just couldn't hold it any longer. “It is Terror the Goshawk!" he cried. “Terror the Goshawk!” they all repeated after him. “Not realy and truly!" | Jumper the Hare. “1 saw him with my own eyes. I saw | him shoot at Terror.” | “Did he kil Terror?’ asked Chatterer the Red Squirrel cagerly. Sammy shook his head? “No." | said he. “T guess Terror was too far | away. I can tell you one thing, and | that ts that Terror left in & hurry | and it looked to me as if he intend- ‘»d to go a long distance. Here ‘mmos the hunter now. He is what |1 call a good hunter. Hian | Sure enough, coming through the | Green Forest was some one :{u)? 1. B V. you thin t | Do, Tou know who he shot stz | ermle i TROL I Brown's asked Chatterer of Happy Jack al 2 the Gray Squirrel | boy! Yes, sir, that is just who it i e was. Ho was smiling and didn’t look Brown's boy were not at home, but|at all as it he had been trying to nis was seidom, Now & hunter was | kill some one. The truth is, he ldly going through the Green I'or- | hadn't. There had been no shot in est with a terrible gun. that gun, only powder to make a Such a hurrying and scurrying to | noise. You see, Farmer Brown's boy get out of sight as there was. Sam. | had seen Terror catch a plump hen my Jay followed the hunter and|from the hepyard the night before. I trom a safe distance sercamecd a|He knew how Terror was feared by warning to other little people. For a | all the little people in the Green ng time Sammy's streaming was| Forest. So he decided to give Terror he only sound “bang” of that terrible gun, and|saying is. He would make Terror [ every one wonderea, and shivercd as| atrald, as Terror made others afraid. they wondercd, who had been shot|And so he had. After the second at. For a long time after that no|shot Terror had made up his mind one dared mo But by and by|that there were other places where the e people began moving about | he would rather be, and off he had | very stealthily “Do you know who he shot asked Jumper the Hare of Grouse Do you know who he shot at?” | Re cried the others eried one. And all the little peopls of the Greep Forest were grateful to Farm- g a Mrs. by driving Terror the Goshawk away | he had saved the lives of some of them. (Copyright, 1925, by T. W. Burgess) Mrs. Grouse of Chatterer the A Squirre Do you know who he shot a 1 tterer of Happy Jach th Squirrel “Do you know who he shot a! The next story: “Peter Rabbit Thinks Quickiy. Her mother dies suddenly and she ! e, 10 live | was falrly burstlug‘ Then came the|a taste of his own medicine, as the | er Drown's boy, for they knew that| the woman and locked the door aft. er her. Then she made the rounds of the downstairs, The rooms were bare, and the blinds were drawn. Bhe took a last look around the lower hall. Then she went out and - ‘r\nm d the front door, As she was passing through the Rrate, 8h w Dob's exr racing down | the street, “Hello, Pobs, Just came to get you. Top in." Barbara smiled m and obeyed. “I don't know when I've been &0 glad to seo anybody as I am to sce 1 tonight, Bobh." “Thought you 7 aht be. Wasn't zoing to let you « one this night, anyhow. We'll run down to Pierre's and have a steak with mushrooms 1 told him to broil & nice one for us. Then, after dinner, 1I'll go with you | to your new home straighten up." Barbara turned grateful eyes to [ ward him. “Honestly, Bob, you're a life saver tonight, I didn’t know how | T was going to get through it alone | And as for food—the very thought {of it would have sickened me an and help {hour ago. And { wonder 1f T ate some of that steak.” | “That's the stuff, old girl." Bob | patted her arm. | “It's wonderful to have somehody ;‘ikn you to depend on, Bob," she 1. as they waited for the steak Tob looked at her quizzeally. mess everyhody needs Darbara.” She finshed someone, When she spoke [ Vala Acres stor; “Nothing much,” answered Rob. “Young Reynolds swears he's oot | gnilty and MeDermott s inelined. to } 1 helieve him. DBut they sent me over Ito talk to that guv, Stone, and Y1l "cat my hat it he f=n't as guilty ag <ln. Mavhe he didn't get any of %he hoodla, but he knew what*was gotneg on and expected to. And now he's as nervous as an old maM aunt. “Clinging to the Reynchds kid for Aear life. Fopes to pull through clear, heeansa of the young fellow's gond reputation.” ntation.” asked Barbara, looking et her plate, “Scems to.” replicd Rob. “Fvery. hody seems to be surprised to learn | there's something wrong with a firm [ he's connected with. Only thing T'we heard against him is his cholde of a | wife, “Got married several months aro {to a girl—they sav she's a pretty chean eort, Nobody can ever tell in | enses ke those. times elrcumstances the world | doesn’t know."” He spoke with calm frankness, Rarbara lald down her fork and knife and sat back. ‘“How ratten,” she sald, “to jump to conclusions like that. were ‘elreumstances,” as you put {t?” | Rob stared at har amazed. “Why, what on earth, Barbara? T didn’t | mean anvthing. Didn't know you had any interest in this Reynolds ehap. T—TI'm sorry.” Barbara’s face changed, et § | haven't,” she sald, “It's just that T get tired of hearing {dls surmise blast reputations. I've seen g6 much damape done by gossip, especially since T've been in this work. | sheuldn't have apoken to you like that."” | Bob was smiling again. ‘Never mind," he sald. “My feelings aren't hurt. I know we humans do get in |the habit of ripping peopls to | shreds. But it's a bad habit, and T try to avold it. “This time, though, I was talking just sort of naturally, as one news. papér man to another. Poor Rey- nolds. T'm afraid nobBedy can dam-. age his name much further, The world will always believe he was guilty with Manners.” Barbara pushed her plate awa the £604 half eaten. “I'm not so very |hongry Rob,” she apolegized. | “You'll forgiva me for not eating, |won't you? These last few days {have Been just tos mueh.” Bob 1ookea Alsappointed. But he |went on eating his steak without saying anything. At last the silent dinner ended Tarbara rose hurriedly, as Rob paid | the éheck. *“We must rush’™ she | sald, “for all my stuff is standing in piles right in the middis of my new J climbed the ladder, whistling. L R | azain it was upon a different gnb- | “YWhat hanpened today in the| “Dons Reynolds have a gaod rep- | There ara some- | How Ao you know thare | SPINSTERIOO © 1925 by NEA SERVICE INC, apartment, I’ bet.” They hurried out rant, ‘The bullding new apartment was located was on Church street, It was just 8 o'clock when the racer lunded at the door land Rarbara elimbed over the side, “1'd like to come in nnd heip you, Rarbara,” suid Dob gravely, “But I've been thinking perhaps you'd rather 1 dldn't,. Maybe you want to be alone.” Barbara took his hand impulsive ly. o, indeed, Bob," she reas sured. “1 want you to come in Please don't mind my jumpy nerves tonight. I'm not myself you know “Yes, Dabs, 1 do know. And T'm sorry about it all.” The little flat was in exactly the Istate of chaos that Barbara expect |ed. She gave one look at heaped-up boxes and seuttered fur niture in the living room and eat [down suddenly on the window xill There were 1cars in her eyes, “Oh, buck up, old girl,” shouted Rob, diving into the midet of the debrls. "Wl clean this up fn a jiffy.” Bue Parbara had to wipe her eyes before she could face him At midnight, the place was begin- ning to show signs of heing habita | ble. Bob paused in the center of the | living room and, thrusting his hands in his pockets. leaned back ani looked at the pictures that Darbara had hung. “Every single frame's erooked, Bahs,” he said. Barbara descended from her lad- der and stood beside him. “So they are,”” she aimitted ruefully. “Well, {1 never was meant for a picture haneer anyway.” | Man wns not made to live alone."” | quoted Bob, “and woman wasn't either. You need a Mttle male picture hanger all vour own, Tlabs’ Tarbara smiled at him, “Are you proposing to me, Bob?"’ Rob turned |and fled. At the door he turned back. “T should say not. Heaven for- bid. Gosh no!” “Well, that's not so complimen- tary either,” reproached Dinrbara. | “But come hack and all will i well {1 promise not to accept, even though { you should propos Bob returncd cautiously on tiptoe, lana stood beside her, poised for flight. ope, Babs,” he said sol- | emnly. “I'm not a marrying man. Tl never fall. T believe firmly in the institution, but not for myself. 1 love to stand off and sce my friends get married, and say ‘Bless you, my children,’ and then go on about my nice independent business.” “You are always urging domestic- ity on me, though,” retorted Bar- bara. “You forget that I'm just as much of a vagabond as you. And my wings would be as hard to clip as yours, “Why should anybody want {o set- tle down with one man, when there |are so many good travelers around, just waiting to be friends for a while and suy goodby without re- | grets?" Bob was rubbing a brulsed finger. “But there's the trouble, Babs,” he of in the which ihe h he i now-—I .lhouldn'!.:‘ sald. “You just find one of th good travelers and she decides travel away. It's such an uncertuin arrang-ment. But anyhow, it's bet- ter than the ball and shackles.” He “You and I'll be good friends any- way, won't we,' asked Barbara, {looking up at him from the foot of the ladder. “You tell 'em,” replied Bob, tilting nis head to one slde and surveying the picture, When he had gone whistling away, a little after midnight, Bar- bara sat down in one of the llving ;room chairs and looked about her. This place was hers. No echoes would sound through it save from her own steps. he rose and went into the little chen, where the ghelves were ked with dlshes and pans and | jelly jars. Thence she passed to | the bedroom, with its furniture standing stiffly about where the moving men had placed it. Here too there was emptiness. Barbara went back to the living room and lay down on the couch. She covered her eyes to hide the staring picturce and the stiff chaire, | but she did not weep, It must have heen an hour later that the door bell rang. Barbara leaped from the ecouch and ran to the window. A taxicab was standing in front, under the street lamp. The door bell rang again, and was followed by a knocking on the door. | Barbara looked in a mirror and smoothed her hair. She glancel about the tumbled room and again out the window. The cab was pull- | ing away, At last she went to the door and opened it. A girl stood in the hall. { She was richly dressed and carried a smart travellng bag. Her eyes were blue under tha little velvet hat. She held her hand out to Bar- bara. “I'm Fancy McDermott,” she sald. “Dad didn't expect me for two weeks, and he's out of town. But ¥ just got tired of waiting and here Tam” (To Be Continued) LURNS REMOVED FOR 10 GENTS Corn, Callous, Roots and All Come Out—Pain Gone Instantly. 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