New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 12, 1926, Page 12

Who Was Cpying on Hugh (you that there can he very little and Madge? |dunger from anyone in thls short There wus no shaking Hugh |trip, But we must be back in two Grantland's determination to go to his old home. I could see that plain. ly. To his naturully strong will } l‘ been added the obstinucy engenders ed by his obscssion that the wild let- ter he had written and which his | stepmother had concealed in her wall safe might pro a source of eubarrassment to me. There was but one thing for me to do. “I cannot go back to the rectc 1 sald quietly, hut with determina- tion, “but I will go with you." “No! No!" he said vehemently: then Into his face flushed an e v expression softening t stubborn determination which it had mirror- ed but instant before, | “To see you once in nmy moth- er's roou he murmured as i to himself, and then he put out his his hands and took mine into them. “I don't suppose 1 am quite sane, yet,” he said huskily, “else 1 would never permit this. But if what that woman says I8 true, and my moth- | er's room is as she left it, I have! now the only opportunity Y shall ever have to see it. I—I—worship- ped her, you know, and I was not permitted to see her even when she was dying and called for me.” Ho stopped fighting for control of the emotion roysed by those bitter memories. His graps upon my hands | tightened, and his volce goftened al- most to a whisper. “What Is This Danger?” *There is no use trylng to keep fmy feeling for you a secret any fonger,” he sald. “You must know Bow it 48 with me, how it has been ever since I first saw you. But I am mot going to annoy you with it. I ask nothing, expect nothing, for I know that your heart {s entirely bound up in your husband. But it would eomfort me immeasurably if [and saw just below us a preten. | 41 I could have you with me for the | sacred moments T shall have in my | mother's room. I-—I-—ought mnot to | let you come with me, but T do not | belleve anything can happen in so short a time. What is this danger of which you speak? I was infinitely glad that his bark of thouglit had drifted into another current, for I had no words | to answer his halting declaration of his feeling for me. It had stirred mo | unaccountably and I found myself catching my breath as if T had been | running when 1 answered his query. | “I cannot tell you now,” I sald, realizing that whatever lay back of his flight had not yet found its way into his memories. “Mrs. Underwood knows all about it and will tell you when she is better. But I agree with 'hours or |will Hloved A Wife’s Confessionalm Adele Garrison's New Phase of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE the rector and Lee Chow art tn search of us,'" "We can casily make it," he sald, the other through his arm, he wheeled me ot the: bl !:n‘ Hrlu ald I,H‘IA ||’( be | Mrs, Stacy likes Bruce but he re- e uits vas oot e [ pels her advan she tells AN- F you the way; for I seem to have | | DRIZW Mcl , editor of the lost my strength somewhere, You | |"felegraph, that firm, | started arter 1 did a et you { ) y gt {u :‘n\l'\‘]l vou beat Vale Aercs, is crooked. Manners. e ) y ral miny Bruce's partner, absconds, and for was the humiliation ¢ man unused to physical wealine in his tone and I hastened to offer what balm 1 could MIL" T sald ligltly coward going down, They h the House ere, at least, 1 can help you,” he rejoin we sot out upon our toilsome de- cent of one hill and the ascent of another, That “but 1 the Journey taxed his 1sing one of my hunds and draw- | as | oward the other side | | ulways find it easy to climb a | am 4 in a relieved tone, and | strength 1 guessed, but did not dare | to suggest that he rest. 1 feared to humiliate him; Y was in a hurry to get back to the rectory, and, potent reason of all, after a |minutes of struggle through the eve- | greens I became obsessed with the idea that we were not ulone upom | the hillside, that furtive steps were dogging ours, and keen eyes observe ing our movements. 1 had no reason whatever for such & feeling, and I tried to tell myself that, in Dicky’s parlance, my | “imagination was working overtime,” but T could not reslst an occasional | quick glance over my shoulders. | most | few | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUE BEGIN HERY | BARBARA HAWLEY her fiance, BRUCEH REY und gels a job on the New Britaln Telegraph because she wants to see [lfe. With BOD JELNFRIES, police reporter, and JEROME BALL, man about town, she is at a roadhouse Iwidow, with the ven the affair Bruce When Barbara's invalid dies the girl takes an apartment with Faney, MeDer- {mott's daughter. Bruoce we the publicity blames Barbara mother VIOLETTA CRAN- BY, factory girl through advice to ©in Barbara's “lovelorn™ column. | Bartara, bitter, plunges into work to try to forget At a convention of |women's clubs she sees nners {and has i arrested. Manners fm- s Druce, 1. Boundary, | % Priority v Barbara de- 5. Replying { @ Toint of compass. help to free him 14 : 10, To fmmerse nd when €he retuses Barbara con- 15, Above. {11, Small fish (pL). fronts hier with the red scarf. Mrs, 16. Broader. 12, Famous fiddling emiperor. Stacy proves a last minute surprise 7. A pointed missiie 13. To emile broadly. | wilness and Brues fy acquitted. {18, Ebb and flow of the water, 16, To divide. incy weds Jerome Ball. Barbara 26. Fairy. Devil, (is lonely. A child is born to Violet- 21, Tumor of the eye, { 24. To hem fa and Bruce. Then come a leiter 23, Nots used as trimming. | 27. Instructor. Joffering her 875 u week tu work for 25, Male child. Jewe “IFootlights,” a New York theatrical lagging back of Hugh when I gave | them that he might not sce. Relieved indeed was I when we | reached the crest of a second hm; tious white house This house possessed a pictures- | que but incongruous wing of stone | covered with ivy, extending back of the newer structure and being in turn backed by the hillside, Tn- deed fts rear wall seemed to be n |part of the hill ftself, so near did it {seem, “That is the wing my * Hugh Grantland sald reve- ently, “Her room Is in i, and my old room." We seranhled down the slope ar in a few more minutes he was fit- ting the key in the front door, while T turned my head to scan the hill- |side, still with the fantastic idea that some one was trailing us. Copyright, 1926, by Newspaper Teature Service, Tne. LETTER FROM JOHN ALDL\{ PRESCOTT TO SYDNEY CARTON—CONTINUED You see, Syd, I have found out | there s such a thing as to be suf- | focated with great comfort and lux- ury, that always to be sure of pers fect ease Is not always conducive to the greatest happiness. This is not treason to Leslle, Syd. It's just a yearning for the old rest- lessness and uncertainty—for the old | feellng that all of my life is not settled—~—for the old expectation that Just around the corner I'm going to | find something new and thrilling— something that T have never known | about before. | At last, Syd, as T see It now, my road is perfectly sitraight and it stretches out such a long ways ahead that it makes me tired and I'm weary just trying to find the end. 1It's stralght, shady, beautiful road, §yd. I know that. One over which I sahll roll alonz until T am old and gray and can go no further. 1 hear you say that no one such | R fool as 1. You've toll me that a good many thn old friend, and you were always right. Lut you must remember that perhaps no one has been so foolishly confidential with you as I. Consequently you have never known what the others have had in their hearts. You have never known what others have and kept from the world. I am the only man you have known as he has known himself. T am the only man who has told you things that he done |to God that would hardly eonfess to himself. mother | 3 26, Stop (exclamation). | 80, To assault. |perlodical. 27. Label. | 31, Act of restraining. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY | 29. At no time. 33, Speedily. | CHAPTER XLIV | 30. Exterior. 34. To bathe. Barbar the letter several 32, Drops of water found on plants | That supposed to be trug :"”'}'» Wel ed up and saw her in the morning. Gdge of a roof. |for the f “Miss Hawley, |She laid his desk 33. High mountain. 36. Having five metrical feet, . ‘Tiny golf mound. To slip. down the lefter “At what hour are w 3%, To box. | 42. sald e 40, Stone worker. | 44. Spilled deliberately FHscgvon danitramn owiong . Writing instrument | 45. Anger. akadiicu sty SNyl eIl uet Jet {42, Sert, s me know, Il try to plan the edi- s ¢ ons ywa“ 1L- ‘1" l‘lxzy \ph [r»I\w: form. ‘44.. Steep cliffs Imbacile. ‘:v I:'n‘«v ’wi]j‘u‘)lv‘v"ll~nlmj)'~y- ‘::,’ ,’.Lf 46, Joined. To ¥ hoisteraus!y for you. And the paper shouldn't be | 48. To corrode. | 64. Rhythm, We are all fools, Syd, more or less | —vyou for rushing away and I for staying at home while all the time we both are more or less unhappy because, with all our hearts, with only thing we want to do Is to get away from ourselves. There! You see what you have brought upon yourself by making me write a fare- well letter, but I promise you that I will not grow maswkishly sentimen- tal again, ven't scen Paula since you he {8 not in New York, 1 wish moving plcture busi- ness was over. I don't think I ever dreaded anything more in my life But, whatever happens, I will talk to you over long distance hefore you leave. However, T will probably say nothing of any conscquence. No one ever does when he has so much to say that never can be said But T want to again, old friend, before you go on that long journey into the middle of Africa. Good Heavens, Syd, T didn't dream m were 80 sick of civiliza- | tien as all that, You can make up your mind to one thing though. When you ge hear your volce | back, even it vou declde to live | abroad, you won't he able to lose Leslie and me. We'll come to you even §f yon intend to pass us up and now, good-hye, until T talk to you a little later. JACK. (Copyright, 1823, NEA Sorvice, Tne.) TOMORROD: Clipping from the i Pittsburgh Sun. COLOB CUT-QUTY = The Three Lemons THE THREY This is the second apter of “The Three Lemons.” Children who e the paper dolls from day to LEMONS day can act out the k story at the end of the sitaille tha prinee beantiful malden wife t to ser whom he wanted the - a long time he jou t last came to the sea On an island in the sea lived » sister, and from the third he «d three lemons. he said: ' to your ann land, and at «® water, pauss and first of tae three lempns, A t spring beautiful falry with miik-white &kin A is red 24 blood will spring forth and beg vou for a drink of 1 Give 1* ta her immedlately will vanish. 7¢ you do not cap- st, try the second, and if ho escapes, tle talrd. But it you Il of them, T sannt help you.' The prince’s tunic is green this 0 match, wit with hat vellow feather 19 gloves and girdle are yel- ©. Associated loc.) Sditors, Menus for the Family SISTER — Bake MARY ] winter pears ner — Roast potatoes, ecurrant canned peas, da'e sa lamb, jel browne buttered Pt ! uberculosis 1 may navop | Goshawk. She was ve arm and v‘l our Hea th :_‘\“"“‘]: i n ot theer comfortable. Over and around her | | (s ey LS 48 Lyvas a blanket of snow. Right away cage. Such persons are suid to be A Y 1l How to Keep It— it satoh ot a0 BE fajia remembered " howh she Stiad I Causes of lliness When the ditease becomes aetive g |1lunged into the snow the afternoon I s called munifest tuberculasis, There |D80T¢ to escape Terror the Gos- | e : iy © hawk. 8he chuckled | 5 3 is good reason to belicve that m [ 'Br.DR MUGH s. cuMMING: | 1® 000 Feason {0 bellere L most | I he waited for me to come out | | 3 5 : Ydho e b he had a long wait,” sald she to Surgeon Genera . S. Public childhood. 1f, later in life, the dis ; geon General, U. €. Public vmm,.l TR ,1 - VORI E AT Ty e et il ToaTt Tor | Health Service N ; ARl s morning so 1 guess the best { (ot infectc : i for mo to do s (0 get out 1—Ehould a patient With tubereu- | g s {here sy early and eat breakfast bhefore h losis be told he has the disea PR e ‘ round. One ti 1 like Not to tell a patient that ha'l i (‘\‘]‘_ S deep soft snow is that | ture cocoanut | | mouth of a tuberculosis patient and 47, Enemny Dyeing apparatus. To apportion out. Gull. | . Angle of an insect's wing 0. Before, Jallowed fo i ty sleep, o or con ith your beau- 49, Rent asunder, | 1. To piece out. 2. Part of verb to be, Battering machine. s silent 2 moment You nee ma onl n sl uietly, |expect 1. Wells. The al spring. me down any 1 not To it for a photograph again. feres with my sleep, It in- | 88. Collection of facts, Printer's measure, |terferes with ppincss as well (} i‘;.‘ninl Arch. |1t you ha gnments for O 1 me today, I'll take them. But there 3. Bolt. no more after today.” will be 66. Horrible monster. 67. To cloy. €8. Superior. 69. Opposite of awecather. Vertical Minor officer on a Muse of poetry. 3. Member of an party. nly. “Very well” he said. “You Iwill cover the retail merchant's con- [vention today.” He turned back to h\\ assignimnt bhoolt he color had ||sr n to his usually pallid face, Barbara turned away, her eyes {blazing. MeDermott was coming through the gate from fhe elevator. He nodded a good morning to her ship. nglish political SDAY, JANUARY m. when a prominent maun, kills him. self, By means of a red scarf she | | conn LYDIA STACY, wealthy he called sharply. | ind went to | he city editor looked at her sul- | At oA AT 00 arw e 12, 1926, ed back to |around her, “Goodby, everybody. you come to New York, call me up land T'Il show you the town." Then, [to the soclety editor, “You'll be sure to remember to do that, won't you Miss Badger?" She got no answer, The tax) whirled Barbara through (he famillar streets of New Britaln the laughing group And when |8he looked out at them half wist- [ tully. Chureh street, too, looked unoa- pectedly homelike to her that night "Yovery building was stamped upon lier memory, every urchin playing |in the strects formed i part of a | pleture thut had meant home to hies for many months. Barbura struggled out of the tax) with her load of books and puper and paid the driver. So strong v the sense of her wotldly rise npon her that she tipped him thre s the normal amount, and ran up 1} [ |steps ligialy, in epite of the I load. She had forgotten to order gro- cerles for dinner. After a moment's contemplation of the larder she de- cided to dine in solitary grandeur at !the neighborhood tea room, just around the corner, and to spend th ening in packing the things that she meant to take with her. She returned from dinner still | ¢ hiaze of excitement. She had not made rush of the morning; zaily to straighten the sheets. Under the pillow she came upon t fold- ed copy of the Telegraph, the hos- pital column on top. “Reynolds—Bruce al\d Violetta, a son, born Monday at New Britain General Hospital.” Barbara raced through the short paragraph and laughed shrilly. Thel ghe stuffed the paper in the wast {basket under her desl and snapped hed in the 80 she began Barbaia pulled a plece of cardbaard from the bottom of the drawer. She turned it over, Bruce Reynolds smiled at her from the photograph. took a corncob pipe out of the desk 'good to me. drawer and filled it lazily. If he “But Mr. Wells chose this morn- Lt A s chose e packed he 1. saw the fury in Barbara’s eves, he fag of all mornings to practice his ctall, Bhe paghed HuRvang made no sien. arcasm upon me. And it wasn't a yiug aside maky RETMOR) € 1 unfit for her new grandeur. Thery would be ample chance to shop o Fifth Avenue. Then she went through her books and papers. Most of these would have to go with her. She piled them just quit the Telegranh d to keep her voive it shook in spite of Jivw, tt did not lay down his tcad, he put it in his gocd merning . do it. That's all. 1 came down Jate today, for only the second time in the year I have been here, I meant to come in and talk to you about leaving. There are rea- \d puffed leisurely several sons why T cannot be satisficd to before he looked at her. When [spend another month in New Drjt- 10 2 corner of the room. his eyes were cool. ki The dressing table drawers l " ke inqui |""“But when 1 got Yere, T founa accumulnted many trifles that mu be sorted. Barbara sat down on the floor besidehe table, to go through their contents. Gloves, ribbons, Barbara bit her lips. “Yes," she said and made for the door. MeDermott smiled when her back [this” She pulled the gray envelope out of her pocket and tossed it on his desk. s handkerchiefe. as turne he called after her. | “ang . We e D e e e R T ol a0l bral ookt s foosmetitssshinon i s mBOR Rt S il hole affalr was = seitled and,toopipi“collection came to view. Pa Hm’\ done with, quite easlly.” Barba tiently she sorted the articles, throwing them into box: The lower drawer was re; “Not particular- you standpoint. her import- turned back. perhaps, from from mine, it's r shrugged her shoulders and turnc to the window. MeDermott picked up the envelope But ¢ that T shall be free from the 'and drew out the letter. Iis eyes | oot The m'p“;fi‘t{"' e Kaeey thankless grind. In fact, it's the narrowed as he read it and he ond vellow. Barbara pleked it Bp Inicest thing that's happened in & glanced at Barbara's back once or Azroh daled M”‘” rather dull year." liMheniihe foldedib aipiagain |1 o oit et AOSMARE egu e b | ‘re quite sure you are nol and put it in the envelope vear before. Her lovelorn colum |was on top. just acting on the spur of the mo-| “Well,” he eaid, “it looks e i 1 i : She glanced at it. “Be sympathe- ment, Barbara?' McDermotUs faco matters had 'shaped themselves |, She lanced at it. “Be sympathe tic and above all, be feminine. “If you love him, Violetta, do not " T d to give your heart entire- A slehane 0]{:(‘“‘01 {1y to him. Love Is the most import- t is. I've been wanting a change of |, ¢ tning in the world to a woman, scenery for wecks. And the offer is 56t atiractive.d |1t} (means Brond: | L AoGtO/a ant most uttrs 3 cans Broa S ¢ | Barbara crumpled the paper in way and Fifth avenue and the cen- AIOGE plog vap v ot things) 10 also meana thieiiaat | Lo ot and hrew it aglde o e rather counted on your he muc] h was grave. “I lyon, you know. Barbara melted somewhat. “I'{ know you have, Mr, McDermott. And that's the only thing that |makes me sorry to leave the Tele- | graph. You have been consistently | prett 1 suppose 4. Soclal insect. and smiled. bara did not smile 5. To decay. back. 6. Bad. | When he had gone into his office | 7. Type of closed car. land closed the door, she followed o [nim. He was taking off his coat and rolling up his sleeves. pudding, bran rolls, milk, coftee. |tlents often have the germs upon| el Barbara, what's up?" he The vegetable soup fs made with- their hands. They pass easily to the out a meal stock in as much as a hands of others and thence to the | hearty salad is served. mouth, Tuberculous cooks deposit | Date Salad {the germs upon the food that they dates well and draln. handle. Tuberculous butchers : and Make a thin syrup using 2 tabl i spoons sugar to 1 cup boiling wa-| Children cr ter. Add 2 or 3 dales for each per- floor get the g son ‘to be scrved. Dip dates into or they may g yrup and then place on a . balls, and other playthings ow pan, Put into a moderately | ove been fn contact with spu- cool oven to plump and dry, Re- |‘~"'" upon the street deposited there move stones. To 1 package of DY a tuberculous person. The germ Philadelphia creum checse add 4 are also chiained from the milk of tablespoons finely chopped nuta. | tuberculons cows. Work in cream until the mixture is | smooth, Season with salt and pep- bakers do the 6—How long after the germs get | into the body before one develops A Prisoner of Jack I'rost Per to taste while mixing. Wil the | tubcrculosis? " 2 Rt prepared dates with this mixture, | NOU all persons who get the germs By Thornton W. Burgess Arrange on a bed of lettuce, Drop 1010 their bodies develop active o e a spoonful of mayonnaise in the SYMPptoms of the disease. It is prob- d‘f*l‘d‘h‘: m. 1““3.1-“‘:_:_1“? center of each plate and top with able that most of 1 1 enter- Sl e s a teaspoonful of whipped cream 'INS the body are destroyed ;..y(,," T tLS lightly seasoned with salt and made ''he¥ do any harm. On the other T % fa bit pink with papria. {hand, the germs that lodge in {he |, Mrs. Grouse is one of those who | body live and to a limit :v I)ir\ s in the old saying “eerly to bed, 1926, NEA early to rise.” She gets up with multiply and eve 1 ek Inc.) multip even in such p LR : : ¢ round b . Sun and she 2 never glve rise to actlve tubereulo. |10UY round bright Mr, Sun and sh BN of thellunzs lis very regular in her habits. As ug ual she awoke early the mornin The en’ las the disease is wrong. The only here is 1ce to hide no hope of cure depends upon the In- | yilikce vae ,.fl.,;,, e telligent cooperation of the patient. | .. fons Doclors should! teliia patlEnt exnelly | ool conine delermined shefher wit his condition is and what he || S must do to get well Rinco 2—1Is tubcreulosis hereditary? f th 3 ¢ No. Practically never. (il e ¥ able in some cas 6 in certain families e El]HN ENOVED TR0 RS < | Corn, Callous, Roots and All | Come Out—Pain Gone Instantly, Wi re are the germs of tuber- | tuberculosie are chiefly in the sputum of per- m the disease, k of diseased re always present B in any ¢—How do the gern atene {osix get Into the body of tubercu- o Hlany be surprised right out in the open I The germs of tuberculosts enter 0 body usually from the | SHOES DON'T HURT “If he waited for me to come out he sputum of a tut Jlosis patient or | SU S ] LS My WAL M e troem milk from tuberculosis cows | RESULTS GUARAY TFED Papert which b n pasteurized. The | ~Many a man and woman has ex- v h: atter A be Tt 1 were t garm positad upon dust, | claimed O-Joy when they found |r. erehers L mashe St | ekl a foul room, | their corns and callouses gone— | ouia plung cut of sight in the | Ahd lusigs by bre pain gone—and shoss hurting no |¢por. ‘_r;“ sir. 1 do like it. T do so ing. The germs ars froquent] - | more. Pay a dime for an envelope Well, I'm : etting hungrier every e ih: =i | of six O-Jov Corn Wafers. Press |mio oo o8 0 i«« what 1 bEenioa tants and this .| & wafer, thin as paper, on the |can fing for )y;(:k{;)ty s e is often cough=d directly into the| SOTM, elip on shoes, pain is gone. | \re Grouse gave an upward faces of other people. | Later peel off wafer and out comes |umn. as 1e e “.F\ usinj hvrpsmm Germs may be deposited upon the | €0, callous, roots and all. Abso- ‘.mf,' HMS : ectin mnc-nd the rim of a cup or glass or upon a fork | lutely guaranteed. No bulky dough- | Jnow nying SirhiTaelagay. it nut pads or burning acids. wafer, thin as paper. Avoid priced substitutes, O-Joys newest, best remedy vet. dime at druggists, or £ or upon any article such as Jus that is placed in the 2 l¢he didn't send the snow flying. She igher | giqn't speed away. She bumped her Six ;;g |head and bruised her stout wings |against something hard, something in this way may be conveyed to the mouths of oti Tuberculosis pa- | |that kept her right down there in| ; piece of cardboard had been slip- of your very fine city editor! b R A Ll PRt e i * ... |ped heneath it in the drawer. She | McDermott shook his head. “I'm {Grew it out and turned it over. !sorry, Barbara, that you should have | Bryce Reynolds smiled at her left under unpleasant circumstances. from the photogriph. In spite of Wells is a nervous dyspeptic, labor- ing under family troubles just now that make him hard He knows your worth as a reporter, |head, and 1 would wager that he i Te- | \W(ih a sharp intake of breath "penting to the bottom of his heart |gurhara grasped the picture in bot at this moment. But, of course, You |hangs, would want o go anyway. So sup- | we call it settled.” | arbara smiled at him. “All| right,” she replied, “but Mr. Wells the photographer's care in retouch ing, one lock of hair &cemed aho: ountable. | o stand upright on the crown of his (To Be Continued) }'Hm snow. Instantly Mrs. Grouse \jcnot the only one who has personal | o s Knew what it was and the fright of | oubles to mar his temper. Everyone | ' her discovery made her quite helb- o1 his staff has them, t0o.” | less for @ minute or two. She ji The excitement In her eyes rather | dowil in the snow. Shelemphasized the circles about them | under the crust whieh [4nq the new lines around her | 4 in the night Rllw a8 imouth. But he asked no questions. of Jack Irost. She had jpgead, he held out his hand. | been caught that way before and pare's the best of luck. You've | |she m\lm\' just uh;t it m_mn;r. :;\;-}1\,,‘ n a good bet for the Teleg wl\vi {knew that it must have rained while | gy rhara.” Ishe knew nothing about it, and then |~ rpore were tears tn her eyes and | APORS Jack Trost had come along and {her lips were quivering. "Thzml:i 3 reach a cold made that crust. She knew that un- iy, » ghe said, and fled. directly because they are breathed {less the weather should turn warm le that crust melt very soon she would he almost certain to starve to rom other enemies she al- ad the chance to escape by the use of her stout wings and quick right into the air passagesand I It isfor thisreason that Vicks \;l:;:- Rub brings such quick relief. When tubbed over throat and chest at bedtime:— It is vaporized by the body heat In the outer office, she was con- scious that Wells' eye followed her xlously. But he did not speak to r again. With a heart lighter than she had known for many months, Barbara wits. It was dreadful enough to | cont out of the office on her way 10 | and inhaled, while you sleep, right have to fly for her lifo as she often | o purritt Hotel, where the retail | to the affected parts, looscning the ad had to do, but that was noth- | jyorehants were holding their an- | phlegm and casing the difficult ing compared with the dreadfuiness | oo convention g,mhmz. of being held a prisoner under the O Y crust by Jack Frost. Do vou wonder that she felt quite helpless? en Mrs. Grouse did the most foolish thing she could do, a thing was foolish because At the same time it acts through the skin (like a poultice or plaster) “drawing out” the pain and sore- ness. Most colds yield by morning to this A wire from the Footlights Maga- zine was on Barbara's desk when she |returned from the convention. {“Can you come at once?" it sald. Barbara rang for a messenger and | at he knew she had done it before. She began [ anp the answer. “Will report Mon- | double action of Vicks. to beat against that crust. She beat | oo™ she said. and beat and beat, but only hurt | garbara went through her desk 1S wa' self. Finally she had to stop to afternoon, collecting her per- 0‘ at rest. She was tired out. Later she <mm] property from its drawers and r pecking at t crust. But it piling the other things in neat was difficult to peck straight up and } e couldn't do much. phone operator o call a taxi for her. | groups on top. She asked the (el»-Y v Ks VAPORUB Once as she was feebly pecking you're not leaving, are vou, Miss at fcy erust she heard a " asked the girl, eyeing the | ceratching sound just above her. Lven 21 Musion Jars Useo Yearey mlfld desk. " answered Barbara happlly. | m going to New York. Byers| heard the reply and came hurrying over. "Are vou really, Babs? Con- gratulations!” “It's because you let me do some of your play reviewing that the offer came,” sald Barbara. “I think I'm | mighty lucky.” | Wells was passing. He paused for She stopped pecking instantly and crouched motionless in the snow. knew that Reddy Fox or Old | an Coyote or Yowler the Bob Cat d heard her and was trying to scratch a hole to get to her. Right then she was glad that crust was so thick and so hard. But whoever it was didn't waste much time trying to scratch the hole through that |crust. They had no intention of |5 raction of a second. as though to wearing out their claws that way. |speak, but went on to hir desk | After a while Mrs. Grouse tried | A taxi driver stepped out of th working her way along under the |elevator and the telephone operatc jcrust and trying it at different |cajled Barbara. By this time a grou |points n the hope that she might |nad gathered about her desk, to of find a weak place. But working fer congratulations and say good through that snow was slow Work [py E€he was tving her books an and hard work and she was €0 VEry | papers with cord and talking excit hungry that it seemed to her that| she must, she simply must get food | (or her strength would fall. Poor Mrs. Grouse was almost hopeless, but not quite. She had been {caught that way before and escaped Farmer Brown's boy bad found her {and set her free. Perhaps something {would happen this time. (Copyright, 1926, by T. W. Burgess) HEAL SKIN DISEASES Apply Zemo, Clean, Penetrat- ing, Anuseptm Liquid 1t is unnecessary m-; ou tosuffer with Eczema, Blotches, Ringworm, Rashes and similar skin troubles. Zemo wili usually give instant relief from 1tching torture. 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