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EW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1926. SPINSTERHO b—————s © 1929 by NEA SERVICE INC. e [CROSSWORD PUZZLE TN ASLISISII LN INLLE | Wife's Confessional Adele Garrison’s New Phase of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE pissssisieiate Fanny Powell Proves Her Love Lor Hugh For a told Tynda revolver w despalr in domitable spirit again, and he whispered ten “Can you fire that? “Yes," 1 answered, for taught me to v o his army He thrust gun into 1 “Count slowly to ten be two shots,” he directed. At sixth, come into that wood cl the side of the fireplace." I obeyed "'im mechanic shicer horror at Yet Tal's ¢ plan had robbed me of ir The instant 1 had fired ! shot, T rushed into the wood clc from which Hugh had thrown few logs which it contained, 1 wondering vaguely if he were pin ning any hope upon the chance that the place might be a protection against the fumes which the big Chinese had threatened. But I found him cutting through a flimsy lath and plaster partition with the short handled axe which had been left with the wood ""Used to be open pas through here years ago,” he explained jerk- 4ly. “Played here when a kid. No- Body else would think of it.” As we groped fearfully the old closet there came to our ears the sound of the ¥ ul voice from the corridor. It was Yet Tal's tones, suave as ever, but a trifle higher in pitch “A touch, my dear Grantland,” %o snecred. “Tou really had me @eluded into the belief that your shots were dangerous. But vour tle farce is ended. We will now: A wild scream, a woman's, sound ed farther down the corridor, There was a guttural exclamation from Yet Tai, and then I heard Fanny Powell's voice in protesting shrieks. TLee Chow Saves Hugh “Ne, no, you must not. I never meant him to be harmed, only her, He is in there. T know it. Ah! | knew I could get it. Now, catch me it you can.” Her wild, cackling laughter, with mors than a touch of insanity in {t, veceded down the corridor. “Qrick, Madge,” Hugh gasped as the axe completed its work and an aperature big enough for us to zet threugh yawned hefore us, “He'l! kill her when he catches r. We must get there. He went through the aperature head first, and T scrambled after sccond as Hugl Grantls me recior ot uls in his tha t by y; for stardly itiative. la the was ' him, finding mveelf in a large closet | filled with jink and opening into TUTITR FROM LESLIE PRES- COTT TO LITTLE MARQUISE, CARFE. OF THE SECRET DRAWER—Continued. i intervals lately. but once in a while T mnust talk to you the times, Strange h it {8 for a woman to } eounsel as she I know to tell e me and every re trice Grimshaw. been dead many yea ¥ think I have Y ever lov been ab ave bee long confidant as though s one of de when 1 1 to ction T had to Rea- Peor Bee! She's n althou loved Ruth more than never things 1 a confidan ou, Little Marquise, quite a8 h go 1y my eantidence § Those fat=ful pear ®and A ¢ 5 5 great freedom SIIIITITIII SRR RRER SR ERReRie s en akendzizianesniisteris through | Tal had jthe corridor in which Yet f With the axe grip- ed our door d tig itic Iy In his right hand, Hugh isly oy the door mto (he ! Powell's T w as no one part of IFanny even s, . but from house, we laughter, as we ran, into| [ The next instant we 1 burst into the hall of the main urt ) and 1 saw the y waif, whom Lillian nad cicus on the | reathing horribly, while above | a d devil crouched. It retrieving from her | ed fingers a queerly shaped object vhich [ shudderingly ned the fumes of ad spoken, ng toward while 1 ke trying with rembling fingers to take dress my tiny pistol. Yot 1] pt to i but from his croching position hurled the metal ohject straight at us. Hugh dropped the axe and holding out his hands, Il hear nging 1 him with close 1o fumbling from my i did not Horlzontal | & Variant of Straw carpeting. 9. Wand. causht the declly missile and de- |posited it with infinite care upon |the floor. Yet Tal got to his fect and leaped toward the ave. But it |lay nearest iie, and with my feot |T sent it spinning out of his rrasp |fust as he reached it, and at the | |same instant succeeded in gelting at my small revolver. In sheer desperation T almed it at the rush- | ing Chinese, but Hugh with a sweep |of his 1.and knocked it out of mine | |to the floor. “You cannot have even a 8 blood upon your white sonl!" h |said, as he closed in deadly grasp [With Yet Tai—he had had no time to alm or fire the weapon himself. It was a conflict which lasted hot | a minute, and it con'd have had but | |one ending. Hugh Grantland, once | |the superior of most men in physical streneth, now weakened by illness | |and the drug administered to him, | 25 as a child in the iron grasp of the Chinese. Too terrified even | for o seream, I saw Yet Tal hatter his enemy unconscious and hurl him | |to the floor. Now." he sald, rising, with a aourtly how to me, “I am afraid I| must escort you . and the uncon- | |selous form of your gallant defender |back to the room of death. T cannot permit my plans to be changed.” | “T am afraid that you will have no cheice in the matter, most il- |lustrious Yet Tai,” a suave volce | |sounded hehind me. I whirled to goe Lee Chow spring |at the throat of the biz Chinese, Copyright, 1926, by Newspaper Feature Service, Inc. | | | tige | you, Little 1t would em silly when I say I have had bad luck; when I intimate that I am anything but the ppiest woman on |carth. You, my dear confidant, are | lthe ouly cne knows all of my misfortunes. You, as well as 1 {know that while money can bring materlal comfort, it cannot have the slightest effect upon the scrrows or the joys of the soul. | " Little Marquise, I know that I have nothing this moment which is not | and admiration for Paula | Perier. She never really voluntari- ly hurt me. Indeed, she has always shown e the greatest considera- tion 1 respect since 1 have per sonally known her. All that tragedy | cf hers and my husband's was start- | ed 1 {ime when thought re was no other woman but her in his heart | I expect at folt that she Marquise, wl | o n my | in my | want you heart love she that time she enly would probably be willing to pay for the ecstatic bliss | he folt then. And ghe has paid. | Sometimes, Little Marquise, how John will pay. For | good Lord would not unless he punished the ithstanding all the love- 1y lines the poet wrote about “sins | that were done vo, and and paid for one whatever ¥ and Panla and tever will iing comes, T shall al giving me m- | wonder just certainly th punish one other, notv two by one s gone between Inc.) TOMORROW— This letter, tinued con- COLOR (CT-OUTS ~—1 Beauty and the Beast ! THE €O UNTRY DWELLING above s er, and there will be a » of Neauty's sisters to- lost al & poor man had old house in the | 53, |6 | particularly the |the Bllled as the leading player. An article of clothing worn as a protection for dress when cooking. Rodent. Din. @ 110, 1 12 19, 18. Theme. Opposite 14, 15, 16, 17. 18. 20. 21. 2 24. 26, 26. 21 Stain, Sixth note in scale. Sun god. Portion of medlcine. Ancient. Opposite of eastern To touch lightly. Point of compuss. To grate Normal depreciation of an « cle in use, You. To breathe heavily Imitates. Particles of soil Title of courtesy. Devours. Light wagon. 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In many of these cases there is more or less mu The ae Is 4 long tn duration. The period of alescence is variable. In some cases recovery within two weeks aft acute symptoms subside. In other cases, howe discase is prolons the mind in- pepper. kettle hours, add closely water as ar ways n result in Iysis of one fire. ar (Copyright, 192 will fall bren small market is completed the out rubher Thes leaves certain 17 its record muscles n and on nerves of up a solved by g ining ta again, of keys, ut cast of Veal pounds breast rated onio pa lcaf, peppercorns Remove bones and tendons from neatl tly Mob in violent action of shullower. IPor fear that, hidde dishes that require more time than is worth the time. nevertheless true can’t conjure a meal out of However, if we can spend | a few extra “minutes” in the kitchen can spare our ever- 0 1 thyme, nd . 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Mak es Yo Kore Beautiful fore d le how fon i a tod HING ECZEMA Penetrating, Antiseptic Zemo Will Help You Now iled, roll of meat and strain stock should be three cups. salted water for 15 minutes and add to holling stock and simmer for 45 minutes over a Take up meat and remov Stir cheese into rice and ar- | range in a horder on a hot platter. Tlace meat in the center and serve. NEA Service old problem of B their holders the invention rings no slipped over the | to anchor it fast. | this new wonderful retirin I hite com Your complesion soft, jar of ay often you o of meat, % cup rice, cheese, smooth and BEGIN HERE TODAY BARBARA HAWLEY, 2§, jlits BRUCE REYNOLDS, an architect and gots a job on the New Britaln |'Telegraph, Bruce joins the firm of Manners, Stone and Reynolds, pro motiLg Vale Acres. He meets LY- DIA STACY, rich widow. Barbara finds thrills as a reporter and meets BOB JEI'FRIES, police re- porter, and JEROME BALL, man thout town. Barbara, covering a suicide, finds a red scarf she links with a dress of Mrs. Stacy's. Mrs. Stacy likes Bruce but he refuses her attentions so she tells ANDREW McDER MOTT, editor of the Telegraph, that Vale Acres is crooked. A member absconds and Bruce is indlcted. Barbara forces Lydia to clear Bruce by confronting her with the scarf, | VIOLETTA CRANBY, factory ' &irl, writes to Barbara's “lovelorrs ealimn. Brueo despaire of winning Farbara and weds Violetta suddenly. MeDermott's anghter, cy, comes ta live with Barbara. She {alopes with Jerome Ball, against Parbara's advice. Violetta and Bruce have a child, Barbara leaves |New Britain to faln the staff of Footlights magazine in New York. |" Flizaheth Turnivall, unmarried at (40, becomes Brrbara's friend at the | Footlights office. She s hurt when | Barbar. moves to Greenwieh Vil llage at the advies of Maria Caprl, yerse writer. Maria haunts s hom ara goes home ternoon find it ransacked er motl diamond rings PGS Barbar |ana {missing. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER LI ried the to awer out | s contents on the | [ lied through ribhovs and hand- the rings were not Barbara i emptic bor. Then nd hut loves | rchiefs, there, w | She went out to the dining room |The silver had not hecn disturbed assing through the Wving room e noticed for the first time that samovar lzht On the ble bes a cup and ueer, cup b ained tea. A bunch of mign: a glass of water n by na- | th it de it s | d o nette in paper Baucer aftracted abont { A slip of ath the protruding from 1 her at ben: 1 turn | to This is a fine But youn ud 1 do. and turn- to pay b don't need thiosc Daisy got mad tod ed me Just back T'll let you ar. Shouldn't wonder if as valnable as these monds—it's been in Ler for ages and ages. “If you don't want hocking it. fome Tl pay you back for the rings. 1I'm really sorry to have to do it, for vou've been nice to me. But a sirl must live, mustn't she? And T wouldn't do you the wrong of coming to live with you, as you suggested. I'd have bouzht vou more mignonette, but T had only a quarter, out. two 10 it, try B 'mo >, < u’g s s ix/c’ol pim 2 W ainst the s save Barbara fell hack a The room was in dackiy for When hie had info the hodroo: s in t wearing j grim . « Miller Miss Furnival v pagsed down the ¢ mornin “Miss was coming office Hawley!" he 1t veal, % 1 3 cups | carrot, 1 bay- pepper. Chatterer Loses His Voice By Thornton W. Burgess ason with '8¢ | gome folk 1 know I wish no ill, bind with | g+ o1adly would their volces still. celmmings —01d Mother Nature. Add vege- & salt and} o orer the Red Bquirrel like cold weather. He is naturally frisky, and cold weather makes him more He docsnt have to worry about his f00d, because he has sev- eral storehouses well filled. It he cannot find food elsewhere, he can always get it from one of these storchouses. Now, when people feel good all over, they are very likely to want to make a noige. Chatterer is like that. He is very fond of the sound of his own voice, anyway. I don't know any one who likes the gound of his own volce any better, unless it 18 Sammy Jay. Between them Chatter- or the Red Squirrel and Sammy Jay Cover | for two Remove | There oil rice in Drain Add meat Ine.) | | ndles that| has | of w on the | other little people in the Green For- est together. This morning Chatterer was frisk- ing about and chattering as only he can. With every word he jerked that harm- ng: rub it t on over- and clear es. Nour- | fade | look tions will Mello-glo Totlet S Prickly Porky didn’t pay any atten- tion to him whatever lttle red tail of his. It was a wonder you have | he didn’t ferk it out by the roots. But can stop|he didn't. And the Green Forest quickly | rang with the sound of his voice. rt time | Chatterer dldnt have a worry. Ter- ma, ror the Goshawk hadn't been .bout is for so long that Chatterer had for- be | gotten that he ecven existed. Th was no one in the Hawk family at this time of the year. S Chatterer felt free to make as muc as he pleascd. He had discov Porky in a poplar tree ing great fun ni and Prickly Porky didu’t K bout nois nes fun of him. can make more noise than all the | 4 o FRRIEE Uhta pay any attention to him whatevcr. (He just went on about his business, which was filling his stomach wiilh poplar bark. The fact that he wouldn't pay any attention to Chat- terer made Chatterer provoked. You know there is nothing in the world so provoking as to try to attract at- tention and fail. So Chatterer scold- | ed harder than cver.. Then something queer happencd | Chatterer lost his voice. Yes, sir, he {1ost his voice, He lost it with I | mouth wide open. He was just in | the middle of saying something most { unpleasant. And had you been look- |ing at him when he lost his voice you would have thoug were going to jump rig head. You would so! Chatterer didnt move, been frozen stiff there he have been more motionless. ! have no idea how guiet it | after all the noise he had been mak- |ing. Even Prickly Porky noticed it and turned his head to look at Chat- terer. Chatte was staring dowr below, T was in popping eycs of his. Prickly Porky's | eyes are too dull him to see far ! or much. He turned back to his ing. Already he had ceased to v der what alled Chatterer. Still Chatterer did not mo He 4id not blink an eyelash, nor did he make the smallest sound. Delow, looking up at him, a small per- |son all in white. He than Chatterer, The tip of was black and it was that moving | tip that had caught C Had it not been for that black tip it is probable that Chatterer would mall person at w who it was. the Weasel. When Mother Nature gave Shadow that | white coat, but left the tip of his tail black, she muet have had in mind the other i people wl have reason to so greatly fear S| dow. Shadow sat up and glared up Chatterer. Then he bounded over to the foot of the tree and began to climb. Then, and not until then, did Chatterer move, With a smothered little cry he raced out to the tip of the branch on which he was sitting and jumped. It was a long jump. a desperate jump, but it succeeded. Chatterer landed on one of the lower branches of another tree and raced up that and d from that tree to another to wi indeed, for the a sound If he had couldn't You seemed e tright thos Of cou was Shadow jump his as still. he have tongue v Not nade (Copyright, 1926, by T. W, Burgess) world would The next and One in Black.” “One in White does | first Muria stood up with the Quuen of ghoba air of hers and all that blowi- ined hair on end. “You don't kno a real artist when you see her,” sho said o me. ‘T whl go.' 've never en 1 ovening the s 1OV with your note." “1 guess I'm lucky took 11y mother's d of coming to live w od Barbara Miss Olivero “Lucky? Yon luekiy!” t she only is, fnstendy ' answer, lifte “hrov oved to Miss Olivero er. She spoke of it wi apth of fecling. Ifrom time 4 me she roge and walked about thd v talk o reon rre coat levever she mov I'd like to play vin she sald, at ta face Barbara. Her “That's the only place T am trying place that will hear what 1 1t' only in ti one finds freedom and natural life. Do o Lknow what living mean ot rid of nll the old outworn co.n pulgions and stupid t.hoos that ry of the world, It t bhes can find, in made a alw lag in 11 turnin s burned that know the onl m tr: Villa 2t 10 that n avashoof o ool ) < met her nos! | from the transon, A Could ! vou start out s hare 1 Miller, | r. “Denced in- ler to play off nniv number Her | wa days. + early yes "0 be here if onl of re- he has sn't the sort who | = for her living, | tard enough to T T e n. £he ought to some man's fire- t to he el of work N At ! Barhara sniffed er for room “And working A board than she ry vou pay her, ould be any ng on some man he a purse slave think she's better be to o an em t know er off, dc woman 1 1o anvhody, T slave to an hushand. You Mo ) Miller I wley 1t Te nlover than ch can rets dis ble.” lied. “Calm down, Miss m down. Nohody is ‘ry you atrimony. 1 King Miss Furni- 10 1 just G into 1 was spe of od, too. “On that I'm not responsible Pity arried wo- o often that T can hardly holu any longer. T'll run over Furnivall's home this after- \ T men my o Mi ne e heard men unm 'n sce how she s “Good idea,” said Miller Just before n the office boy cntered Barbara's room. “Queer- looking dame outside wants to see you, Miss Hawley. Says her name is Olive Oil or somcthing like that.” Barbara smi her { The woman who entered a mo- ment later was slim and gracefut Her skin w k. and a rich col- or bt in her checks. 8he wore a coat of some strange, embroldcr- ed fabric in many colors “T am Daisy Oliver: nounced. “Since I couldn't the other day, I've co for it. Il zive you tr it you like.” cd, though it will have the next number now. It's too late for the current number. But tell er the samovar arrived T've been abont Miss 5 d. “Show she an see you e to ato! me whet safely. Olivero it came too. smiled languidly. And T was glad to 1er thought my for keeps that host of original But this was ever played on it T was gone Maria had a stunts like that. lit time. little the most serious me."” “T di lerstand that she had actually taken it without telling sald Barbara. T ha® explained about meant to take it back to few days. But it seems she ray for my rings with it.” Daisy Olivero laughed again, this time more heartily. “No, she didn't fake it for that purpose. Maria never thousht that far ahead. She onfiscated it one day after an argu- ment we had on Schopenhauer. She maintained the most stupid obsti. nacy & out him, 1 was very angry and went away. When I came hacl the :amovar was gone. I didn't worry very much, for T thou would return one day, as soon as Maria got over her grouch. “But things got worse instead of better. We qunrreled next day ahont Norman Nel-Geddes' stage sottings, and the day after that she s welsh rarebit wasn't fit to eat. Finally we had the grand blswnp over who should take care o fthe narcissus jar in the window. /When the battle was at its height, you, she it and you in a meant to { bring him along. interview’ | anxious | supposed | But unluckily, in ve all poor. And even I can't live on sincers appreciation of my art I have to have bread and beans foe to keep this poor n chinery goine. “That's why T'm going it 1 get the ¢ o ke enough money to slap Broud in the facr o back and nothing in the Vil But vour story gazed ndmiringly of the w T knew your Village. Tt's fust end to me at present, Miss Ol o' The rha Villag for arbara carneet fa actress Hfted her eyes to . “Would you ltke to mec he real Village?”" she said. “Con o iny house tonight. There's to b a liitle studio party, for a faw, pro wWho are doing thinze. Wear (tever you ike. But mest of ms like to sport their e < when they 1a party 1l he plenty of \ art Jowever, if yon chioos me elothes. It just podze. But it's good fin il be some ni sument and some pr T ki heer, have a We'll feed him 1 the women will Jet hi We don't poach in the Vil well an lage.” Barbs 1 smiled. “I'll come, glad Il have to come alone isn't a man 1 can ask in Ne rl Miss Oiivero was g thering up he purse and gloves. “Right-o. Catch a toxi and come e about nin: oclock. She left the oftict to Bu:tara as it a clo whien the bright coat left. At five o'clock she left the T°oo1 lights plant and walked towar Pifth avenue. Miss Furnivalls apartment was in a building o1 West 59th, fust off the avenue. Barbara walked along in th crush of pedestrians, looking a! shop windows and passershy witt V-een interest. The panorama of Nev York was still fresh enough to in trigue her, though with acquaint ance, Broadway and its theater: were growing stale, There were no busses in sight o the avenue, so Barbara walked leisurely up the street, breathing the clear wintry air with pleasure. The apartment buriding in which Blizeheth Furnivall lived was snah by. It was situated, with character ittic New York incongruity, betweer two pompous stone houses with fret- work iron doors. On the steps of one stood a large stiff-necked foot- man, holding a learh to which w aftohed a ickinese dog not mucn larger than a rat. The man stared in\wr Barbara's head as she went by When she entered the hallway o Furnivall's building, was surprised at its appearance IThick dust lay on the stairs, an {the odor of fri 1 food hung abon [the corners. | Barbara wen up the stairs to ti taird floor. A door immediatels [the head of the staircase bore Mic Vurnivall's number. She knocked lightly, {rore laudly. No one |tirocked again, lut there was si {lence. Then she felt the knob. T turned unespretantly and she wep @it seemc Miss ahe ther She and ore in. | TRarbara fell back against th door as a rush of gas met her nos trils. 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