New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 9, 1926, Page 4

“He {sn't thero?" I repeated ba- nally, for the little rector's breath- less announcement had only ocon- firmed the fear which hud come to me a minute before, when I had scen the stealthlly dodging figure through the evergreens. 1 did not walt for a reply, but rushed past him into Hugh's room, finding it empty indeed, The wide-open window and the old wistaria vine, with branches as thick as heavy cables beneath it told the story of his escape from his | friend's vigilance. “I'll go right out after him," lttle rector sald resolutely. “Please, Dr. Douglass," 1 sald as 1 turned back into the room, ‘‘you must let me do this. I saw soriebody dodging through the trees as I came in, 80 1 know in which direction he has gone. And I am accustomed to walking swiftly through woodland. Do not eay anything to anyone un- less 1 have not brought him back or you have not heard from me by the time Lee Chow awakens. Then you will have to use your own judg- ment. But above all things keep all knowledge of our going from Mrs. Underwood."” 1 did not walt for his answer, but rushed down the stairs, thankful that in obedience to Lillian's wish T had secreted on my person the tiny revolver she once had given me. I knew that Marion was ‘“playing #chool” in whispers with Junior in my room adjoining her mother's. Though I longed for my little lad's hug and kiss, which aiways greet me on my return from any errand, I did not dare risk any delay, but went swiftly out of the house and plunged directly iInto the evergreens through which I had seen Hugh the Grantland making his way—1 was | sure now that his was the figure I had glimpsed upon my return from the telegraph office. Madge Goes After Hugh That he would go directly to the top of the small mountain-—scarcely raore than a high hill—I was sure, for any other course would bring him under the observation of chance pedestrians or motorists upon the roads below. So stopping only to fix in my mind the spot at which I had seen him .and to estimate the shortest and most feasible route to the top, T wasted no time in attempting to find his trail, but climbed steadily and as rapldly as I could to the edge of an open level space which T had ob; A Wife's Co REVELATIONS OF A WIFE SRR SR SR R R R R R S approximate | nfessional | the very top of the hill, breathlessly and almost rested, for 1 had climbed rapldly, 1 was sure that Hugh Grantland, weakened by iliness, could not have | 0 soon reached the top. | | When 1 had regained my breath, | 1 adjusted the sights of a pair of | fleld glasses, belonging to Dr. Dougluss, which 1 had taken from the living room table as 1 passed it in my rush for the hill. With these I scanned over part of the hillside |below me, and in a few seconds was | rewarded by secing at some distance |beneath me a movement of the ev greens. |“You Came to Share My Danger.” | Carefully T noted the general di- rection of that movement and, keep- |ing in the shelter of the trees, cau- | tlously skirted the edge of the tiny | plateau until 1 had gained a point | (within hailing distance of that where | |the ascending figure must emerge. | I did not have to wait long, al- though the progress of the climbing figure was slow and halting. But pre- sently Hugh Grantlan's head appear- | |ed above the bushes, and I advanc- | ed into the open with the hope that | my sudden appearance would not |startle him. 1 knew that his nerves |were n no condition to stand any ;!udd(-n shock, but 1 had no alterna tive. T could not trall him unseen he was far too good a woodsman for me successfully to accomplish |that feat. He stopped short as he saw me, |stood motionless for a sccond, then {brushed his hand across his eyes as | {1f he did not trust his own vision. “Is this chance?” he faltered, “or did you—did you—-" "I saw someone going up the hil," ! T interrupted, “and when I found you gone, 1 hurrled after you." “But why?" he asked, and there was that in his voice and cyes as he put the query which stirred my }pulm strangely. T answered, Here spent, 1 } | “Because,’ striving | to make my voice casual, “Mrs. | Underwood tells me there is danger for you anywhere outside the ree-! tory; there was no time to summon anyone elee and I could not let you 8o away alone.” He took a sudden step toward me, and his face and eycs suddenly and fanfastically hrought an old line to my mind— “the light that wag on sea or land.” ame to share my A fn a voies that shook hy Newspaper Inc never dan- LETTER COTT TO LITTLE MARQUISE, I7:0M LESLIE PRES- CARE OF THE SECRET DRAWER—CONTIUED Sally herself secmed (o think tiv Marquise, that 1 un of how strangely : sho who lways ¢ was giving herself up to deadly fear. “T expect you think 1 1 Leslie, she said, “but 1 oould malke Jack call it all of There was a wistful fonr volce that I had never hivard before in all the years t Lit- ton never had struek i the feminine quality of wis At the repetition of my b first name, 1 suddenly real T had never heard Sally Atherton eall him “Jack” before. She hac vays spoken of him to Prescott,” and yet at this eri had spoken the word “Jack” na casually as though she b ways called him thit in thought. Perhaps that was o the reasons sk s0 stre me. She was to greatly worried bout this coming pletnre to he taken at the mill and what it might mean to my hushand that ! a vnconsciously used the name for hugband, by which she really knes him best 1t made me feel ot seeme e 10 rather solemn, her own | for T had neve lni00d Lefore. |my arms ar 'l do m T mised, "hut cither you or do much mind."” and pu dear,” 1 sure (hat | would his sally I'm quite Sydnev Carton better at cha if ar onld rEnac productisig mil" t wor Wly. U1 be ail | rigit ing's going to lappen T'm sure of it. Dut I'll do my best you feel this way fo make the He can j stay home me a litde whils | an excus that he ahlc o project here [ Company 1 often out in hicir geenario o they do th Holly- wood At this friy happy 1 Lit ons remark Sally de- 1 had pro Marquise, T am and and two re all go o SLIT NEXT: Letter from John Prescott to Sydney Carton. — COLOR A Miller’s Daughter CUTOUTS —— THE REWARD FOR KINDNESS This is etory prince daugh Children w all the paper dolls can r the whole story as i t has bee The king turn of k nothing great enough to bestow up- on the miller's d ter who had saved him by her act of kindness / ! overjoye 1 cou news of their at he or- lon, larger le hed ever Thus it was that the be hal pleased hir S0 1} 1 Ve new mill wheel the miler's wife her new sk Although the two sisters had too selfish to win tven the for. th ond her at the Lter was as as she had he miller ¥ and dres vern thems is light blue with golden nd collar.) Aseociated Editors FLABPER FANNY s0ys iarriage broadcns and flattcns & 2 Alden ! P NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERA [CROSSWORD PUZZLE | HORIZONTAL | A golng back in development Tuberous root stock used Hawait 13 Sert 14 Perished 16 Female figure praying 18 Indian from Utah 19 Pertaining to a soft pulit 20 To soak flax 21 Feeling deeply 24 Silk worm Pot 1 12 | 27 Opposite of soft 29 You and me 31 High mountains 33 To distribute grudgir 34 Morindin dye 35 Morning 87 Musical cha Bubbles of s 41 To place In line 42 Inlet 43 Bulb flower 44 Woven string 45 Kindled again 47 To upportion 48 Correlntive of 49 Invasion of palice 51 Double (: Point Ve 56 Disincnm Ancient 80 One whe efther point of com party 63 To cmploy hureh seats VERTICAL pounds 11 § Point of compass Small fish Lubricated Close Study of embossed work Low-gpecd drilling machine To plow Meat ops I"actory Jem Perts 2 &mall wer Passages To tear To be % Rubher troe To got Ripped Portion of a church 10 12 15 17 19 falcons n again iing to the &un picce of material up ring instrument large appear above the Yorizon 0 phone To judge e ] | Your Health | How to Keep It— t Causes of llness i HUGH 8. CUN TMING) General U, 8. It ion of t prot agnitud travelers formed if T tell you proxiuately | by common car- 1 0 per 1 by cent rstate trafiic hont 5 per | carried on | tion with the s de- N - facilities | onts are used | in carrying out work of the health | been preatly aided | tatlyes of the railway i The American Raflwny tion, through its medical and tion has shown ftself to | ly alive to meihods bene- | patrons sanitary ' Dorilin hay by rey compi1 53001 protecting the g out the past year, in the con upplies used on cars inepected and certified ueh co-operation of the state departments of health. Ninety- of water supplies on ves also certificd through the tion of 14 river and lake alth departments. Over 3 water from water sup- analyzed A4 sixteen inspee- | nde by service officers cooking and washing stems on 917 vessels. are some of the precau- ch have been taken to pro- | velers against infection. | od that the day is not far of n the American publie can be ussured that all of the drinking | water provided for their comfort on | 1l our interstate earricrs will have | been inspected and certified as pure and = In = During the trol of water four sour sels were 800 tions wl 1t oid fever has been | Todny sees | a | -l past, typ! of seamen s of the Unitec Rurean rs Cc the s Army Na “orporation ng Toard and progres- btened commercial tiors united in the | water supplies | svstems | drinking. | hov Hou United safe ter supply s for cly the federal ser- for the future. Re o provide for more casures of the interstate regulations as relates to | er furnished by inter- an ndvisory appotnted by ¢ quarantine darinking state common earrie committee has beer the surgeon general of the United Public Health Service, Oae of functions of (he advisory com- on official water standards will be to review the present ‘i iy Department stundard for drink- ing water on interstate carriera and LD, 8 \Y, JANUA Life attracts BARDARA HAW. LEY, 265, 80 she jlits BRUCE REY- NOLDS, her flance, and gots u job on the New Dritain Telegraph bara is at a roadliouse when a pro- minent man kills himself and she connects LYDIA S8TACY, wealthy wi- dow, with the case by means of a red scarf. Mrs, Staey llkes Bruce. nores her advanccs so she refuses to invest in his realty propo: Valo Acres, and tells ANDREW Me- DERMOTT, managing editor of the Tdewuruph, that the firm 18 crook ed. Manners, Brucc's partner, ab- seconds, and for the publicity given this affair Bruce blames Barbara Barbara's invalld mother dies, so the girl takes an apartment with Fancy, McDermott's daughter, She He fg- MeDermott shook his head sadly. flllum- in New York.” ries to cure Faney of her § fon for JEROME BALI, a m about town, hut I acenses Ba {bara of wanting b uce VIOLETT tory girl he “m “lovelorn” eolum rhara plung tional ¥ ation stlon, Bar- has Man- back to imiplicates 1 weds to work. into her At w Brituin, Brue Bruce v refu confron trial. When ¢ 1o help him, Bar ts her with th room M body when ghe enters nt to testify, and g on Mrs. zht at home Barba finds |a farewell noto from Fancy telling of her marriage with Ball. Lonely {Barbara s standing gozing at window full of Persian ct Byers, &n office assoclate, comes up behind her and accuses h old maidishness in considering the i purchase of & cat. n Bar. | RY 9, 1926, By ——— NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XL11 Darbara turned about, Byers was standing beside her, smiling 'Ils bantering smile behind his slusses, 8he greeted him coolly, “Gond morning. No, 1'm not buying a cat I'm just admiring them." £ turned about and walked on beside Wim to the office. The cditorial room was sultry and smoke-filled, Barbara's head began to throb as she took her place and sgan to open the morning's mail. he letters were more than usually tedious. She copled the announcements they contalned. wrote the Tda ttorey Interview, sorted out the love. lorn notes and went to the city edi {tor with her copy. “I'm afraid you don't know what lon Sha noticed that his face was low, with the same lemon color the fac of the other bad. His brows were 5 lly wrinkled in a nervous frown. She looked around the office and of D, not make Jier f yout the s Huy Qist ol mater; todiy, ) v DId Idu fgive yon a good lin | ®he handed him the interview, He read it hastily. “Fin®! Get the othor side of the story today. We'll pl the storfes side by side on tomorrow, without t girl mother, of course picture of {he baby, Barbara sighed. The hospital proved to he o wil- dernees of white walle, with the sickish swec of ether drifting {down from the floors above. | A nurse led Barbara through the |corridors. “The superintendent h consented to the story only on con- {dition {hat the name of the mother he withheld, vou understand.” | “Certainl rhara replied. ‘ “The rer for letting you R o] v nanie of the to recommend a standard ov #tand- | available to Dlies which will be t ards clag X S TN S ~COCNC Ot Small hats in pale shades of very soft straw are belng worn in the south and even by some very vanced New Yorkers, with Leavy fur coats. Delicions N tea sandwiches are made of crcam cheese and nuts on brown bread, Cuffcu:a Shaving Stick {ledicated And Socthing Seeps The Skin Healthy It produces a creamy, lasting lather which doubles razor efficien- cy and makes shaving casy for ten- der faced men, while its delicate Soap Te. Ointment 2 and Be. Taleam 2ic. Sold where Sumple _each free. Address; Tadoratories, Deph. 261, Malden, Mese' a Shaving Stick 25¢. all The Sudden Interruption By Thornton W. Burgess e Po dunger In a flash give way. I'cter Rabbit. | Peter Rahbit had started to say something, but he didn't finish it. Instead he almost turned a back | somersault n his huste to get down inside that hollow log on which he had been sitting. At the same instant Jumper the Hare dodged off to one side and then bounded away to the Inearest hemlock tree with low-grow- |ing branches. Under these he dived As Jumper dodged Mrs. Grouse {whirred away on utout win and it was wondcrful to sce her dodge the trecs as she flew. But swift as she was and clever as she was at dodging their |around and through trees, there was | |fear 1a her heart for behind her on swift wings was the cause of the in- | HEany | Peter Rabbit, safe in the hollow log, didn't mind it at all. terruption of the pleasant gossip she and Peter and Jumper had been hav- {ng. There was fear in her heart for swift as she was there was a swifter behind her. It was Terror the Gos- hawk. and there is nothing Terror likes quite so well as a Grouse for dinner. Mrs. Grouse knows this. 8o |now she trusted to her stout, swift |wings only for a minute. Then she | plunged down and out of sight in the |snow. Bhe was barcly in time. A |second more would have been too |late. Terror the Goshawk ehecked him- #e1f just In time. He swerved up and olight a1l stuh, He 1 on at tuh, fure was in sht. 1 was if he alone was wive there in the Green Forest. The silence was the silence of a great here awhile,” thought I must Lave intcrrupted a With Peter and Jumper and | Mrs. Grouse all here it may pay to lhave a Mitle pati I'll wait.” So Terror waitc After a bit it hegan to rain. It was very fine rain. | Peter Rabbit, safe in the hollow log. | didn't mind it all. In fact he would- n't have known it was raining had he not poked his head out to see if Terror was still about. Jumper the | are knew that it was raining, but didn't care. Under those hemlock | boughs was like being under a roof. Peeping out he could see Terror the Goshawk, €0 he remained right there. Only Mrs. Grouse knew noth- ing of the rain. She was very com |fortable down there under the snow and she intended to stay there until there was no chance that Terror | would be waiting. So she wasn't at [all worrled. But she didn't know about the rain. Had she known {ahout the rain she might have been | worried at least a little. She certainly would have worried when the weath- |er turned eold and the fine rain be- {Ran to freeze as soon as it fell. It |was making a crust over the surface of the snow. Terror the Goshawk soon away to seak shelter. This sort of weather took away his appetite. Jumper and Peter remained where {they were, for they were protected and comfortable. And Mrs. Grouse remained where she was under the snow because she was comfortable |and safe. At least she thought she was gafe. She couldn’t think of any enemy likely to find her there. Now, Peter Rabbit didn't think any thing about Mrs. Grouse. Even |1f he had there was no way in which {he could have let her knew that she really was in the greatest of all dan- |gers for her, the danger of being made a prisoner under the crust. Jumper 41An’t think anything about Mrs. Grouse. A crust never bothers Inim, so he aidn't think of what it |might mean to her. And all the time !the rain fell, and then the air grew colder and colder. A thin erust |formed on the surface of the snow. This thin crust grew thicker and thicker and harder and harder. And [all the time down beneath it Mrs. Grousa squatted in warmth and comfort, and was thankful for the snow that aided her to escape from | Terror the Goshawk. flew Wells' | write this story ls that we ‘hope to find a home for the buby through your p The room Into which Barbara was led contained two beds. One was empt In the other lay a girl, Wlen Barbara sat down heside her, the girl turned listlessly rom lier contemplation of the wall and answered in monosyllubles, The story of descrtion and destl tution came out, bit by bit. Barbara | chose her questions tactfully and waited for the answers. The mothe seemed little Interested in the con- versation, | But at the end of It, she sat bolt upright. “What're you asking me all this for? You're not going to help them take my baby away? ) Barbara stammered. "1 thought you wanted a home for it,” she said liness means. You've never heen Perhiaps through my paper we can find & good place for it and you 't be so hard pushed to take wre of it The girl almost shricked at he |“Hard pushed! And what do you think I'd \ You uplifters make me sick. Treat us all like a herd of cattle, don’t give us credit for human af- feetions, just becuuse we're un- e | “I tell you, that baby's mine and v her and all the rest. She's all 1 e I've got. Whay, I'd dle it you took her. ' | “But how can you support her?" asked Borbara timidly. ! “Don’t you worry about that! When a woman loves anything the way 1 love that baby, she's going to {take care of it all right. The father von't help. He'll never show up again till he gets drink and wants to borrow money. But core about him? A man ain't any- | thing, beside a little baby. You get lout!" She buried her face in the bed |clothes, sobbing violently. e door opened and the nurse {stepped in, a blanketed bundle in er arms. “Why, Mrs. Multon, what's the matter?” She shot a disapprov- You mustn't cry like that. You'll make yourself sick again.” The girl in the bed paid no atten- tion, The nurse beckoned to 2 and tiptoed out of the room taking ihe baby with her. Barbara followed. | In the corridor, she explained to the nurse what had happened. The |woman accepted the story coolly. |"“Yes, that's the way they all act,! en some of the rottenest ones. ‘I've decided that mother love, though a wonderful thing, is not a virtue. It's an instinct, and these |wwomen cannot withstand it any more than they can withstand the in- stinet for food or self-preservation.” “It {s a nice baby girl, though.” the pulled the blankets away from baby's face. Barbara leaned for- vard to look at it. Before she knew it, the nurse had placed the bundl« in her arms. Barbara stood very still. The face of the baby was scar- let and wrinkled, like that of a very old man. Its mouth and its fists worked constantly. | It smelled of talcum powder and 'milk. | It gave Barbara a emile that last- cd only a second, and waved a fist like a morsel of raw meat in the di- rection of her face. Barbara caught her breath and handed it quickly back to the nurse. “I suppose it would be hard to |give up a bahy.” she sald medita- | tively. “But they're nt very pretty, are they?” | . | McDermott called Barbara into ‘N! oftice that afternoon. “Have you heard from Fancy?” he asked. | Barbara shook her head. “No. {and I really expected to hear.” | “I've had a letter from her today. |Jerome's firm has sent him to New |York. They're going to get an |apartment there. She seems happy. [but you can't tell. Fancy isn't the {kind to admit it if she wéren't, after taking the thing in her own hands that way. “I wish I could see her and talk to he Barbara watched him. He looked |older and less contented than when |she first met him. A thought occurred to her. “Look {here, Mr. MeDermott, 1 want to go to New York. I'm tired of this town." He looked at her, startled. “Tired {of New Britain, Barbara?" Barbara spoke hurriedly. “Yes. #o tired of it I'm going etale on my job and getting down-hearted and good |for nothing. 1 want to get away at onee.” M-Nermott leaned dack in hw swi chair and looked thoughtful- {1y at her. “Another ¢ase of greener pastures, Barbara? You've tired of your joh?" “Not exactly. T still think it's the {best job for me in New Britain. But [that's just why I want to go. I've {got as far as T can here. And 1 want to do more. New Britain hedges live for it you took her ' ugainst you and the | what do I, ASPINSTERHOOD: e © 1029 by NEA SERVICE INC. {me in. T've lved here {and the sama old plac 'same old faces are driving e 1 She jumped up and walled | jand forth across the little roon “Do you think you'd be uny pler in” New York?" sk 'mott. “Or would you soon for still farther ports? Thut nally the result of these foverish [questings.” arbare turncd wn him, freitaliy ["“You don't understand. I've got to {g0. And I've got to succoed—muks {a splash in the world. It's my wholt [Mife. T've nothing else. 1 want to b |going sormnewhere. | At tha last word her a keen glance, sald. “I've known |women and young mn {'going somewhere.” But they never got anywhere until they stopped “I don't mean to preach. But () rolling stone {8 the curse of tl newspaper professton. Just at |time when he is beginning 1o be use. ful to his paper, the wderhist selzes him and he's oft aguin, “But looking own point of vie making a mistake to put up s here, just when you are 1 really necessary fo the Telegrg There's a rather large measurc success ®or you right here, if only you'll stay long enough fo win it." Barbara was not listening 10 him. Bhe stood at the window sturing out {at tha leaden afternoon. “1 suppose you're right, Mr. MeDermott. You always “But it's a matter of me. T've got to go. 1 the loneliness here any longer.” McDermott shook Nis head sadiy, “I'm afrald von don’t know what loneliness means, You've never 1 alone in New York."” Rarbara threw up her lessly, and went out Wella cought gight of Yher, Migs Hawley, will you ple the hosnitals and get the births deaths? it's Jimmy's work. 1 kn But he is gone on an errand.” Rarbara sharpened her penefl and {took her place in one of the telv- {phone boothes. | For 20 minutes she Ipitals, struggled W Aifficult names, seratched obftuary notos on a pad. Her head was aching more violently. | air in the hooth acenmulnted 11 bygone elgarets. Darbara |atared at the serawled telephone {numbers on the walls of the hooth | New Britain Genoral Hospltul was Ihard to get. Tte switchhoard wasg Ikept buey mogt of the time with smergency calls, Barbara tried again and again |without success. Between times she {leaned back against th: wall and |1aoked ont through the ponels of Idirty glags at the entside effice. The |eeene was suddenly unpleasant to {her. | “YWhat it T should have to ook at |this place every day for the rest of my life? The years after 40, she eaid to herself. At last N. B. General Hospital 2% answering. Barbara enlled for the elark tn charge of the records, | fTne tirst ttem wan a death motice. At tha opening words of the sec- ond item, Barbara gripped the edze lot the ehelf with her right thand “Will you plense repeat the name?” |she gasped. | (To Be Continued) is McDermott v Barbara,” b d nany wha v o the ity to nds, heip- “om eall alled hos- h te oldors a was gt | i i | Menus for the Family Breakfast — Orange juice, boil- od rice with raising, thin cream |brofled bacon, creamed potatoes, ham toast, milk, coffee. Luncheon — Lamb souffle, car- rot salad, holiday graham bread milk, tea. | Dinner —Botled fish, egg sauce. [bofled potatoes in parsley butter. |turnips au gratin, jellied tomato sa- |1ad, old cake pudding, rye bread I milk, coffee. | Use light brown sugar on |breakfast cereal in place of granu lated and use it sparingly. The rai- |sins add some ‘“natural” sugar to [the aish making it almost swec! |rnough without additional sweeten- |ing. the Hollday Graham Bread One cup graham flour, 1 cup |hread floi -, 4 tablespoons sugar, 1-2 | teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 cup sour cream, 1-2 tea |poon ealt. 1-2 cup stoned and chon- 'ped dates, 1-2 cup chopped nu' |meats, 1-4 cup candled cherries, ! CRR. Mix graham flour and breal flour and stir in sugar, salt, sodn |and baking powedr. Mix thoroughly |and stir in sour cream. Beat well |and add dates, nuts and cherries Mix well and stir in egg well beaten. |Turn into a buttered and floured bread pan and bake 45 minutes in a moderate oven. Sour milk and two tablespoons |melted butter butter can be used in place of sour cream if more con venient. (Copyright, 19 Inc.) NEA Service Gossip’s Corner Palm Brach Florida headwear tends toward pastel shades in emall velour toques and cloches. Ornaments consisting of a single huge pear] are very good Glassware Rinse glassware in hot water con- talning several teaspoonfuls of houschold ammonia, to produce a high polish. Dry it with a soft cheesecloth towsl. Jewelry Jewelry ehould be dried in jewel- er's sawdust, after cleaning. The sawdust may be bought in boxes trom jewelers. Thumb Tacks Small, white-headed thumbd tacks are now available for the laying of kitchen oileloth. Whole Clove Many hestessés add & whole close and a slice of lemon to a cup of tea, to improve the flavor. )