New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 16, 1926, Page 20

20 NEW BRITAIN 3 i Quicksands of Love Adele Garrison’s New Phase of Revelations of a Wife —— Madge's Maid Peuetrates the the Eavesdropper's Guise, arer and nearer to my door She and hurried into the rear room, obedlently I lay back, for I | knev rom experience my ame the guttural volce of this|mald's little ways that she wos woman 80 persistently had | preparing & for my com- | apied upon mo since 1 had come to | ¢ It was but a few minutes be- | the new apartmer tie's shrill | fore she returned with a tray bear- | tones and volce of Mre. | Ing a steaming pot of tea, from | Peters came also to my ears. But | which she poured a cup and are | 1 pald no heed to them. All my |rangel it to my liking. | sttentlon nervously focused | “Drink dot," she “Den upon that which affected me | maybe {f vou you get so strangely earlier in the day, | oop.” when I found its owner kneeling Who I before my door, pretending to be 1 sipped picking up colns but fn reality, as | Katie ching 1 knew, spying upon us through | with evide the keyholc ! did I'or though 1tle accents 0l ), yet there omething in- back finable in th which gave | movements me a haunting scnse of having | guesscd she Leard it before, Of one thing, how- | words s 1 was very cerlain. 1 never wislied to hear and ag. for appenl- s stranger, nearly out- ed my gratitude toward iy mald for her eiorts in my | | proach, ways who sometl dueper was sald voles foel goot, This Mrs. Baker? hot tea gratefnlly, | me every moment ut determination to | not slight a single | had finished, put on the her | deilberate that 1 wa tr to put into thought which oth the hat 1 were | drop was the ice 80 some troubling her. she spok sidelong look ¢ Graha was Ainute with a it my inst m on sometings, k M little behalf. Katle's hand was upon the door now, sliding it back, and 1 braced myself to undergo the sympathy of Mrs. Peters and the woman from the fourth floor. Only Katie e tered, lhowever, and to my great ave to vear relle? she immediately closed t tink 1 see her somevere b door behind her. As sue crossed the | I no can tink now, but soms room toward me, I saw that she 1 tink." held in her hands an electric heat- | With difficy ing pad and a ¥ start which would have betrayed “Dot Missls have bot’ | to Katle my own reaction to th tings,” my Mitle maid sald breath- | personality of the woman from the | lessly, *und I feex dem for you | fourth floor. I had not thought of right avay qveeck.” | the possibility t her hair was a | Katle's Comforting Ways | wig and that her glasses were dis- | Within two minutes she had|guising, but there had been upon made good her word, and in ten|me the strong impression that be- | more the heat had lulled me into!neath the gutteral accents of the nmap I so sorcly needed, When | voive was a familiar inflection, I awakened, thoroughly refreshed,| I knew better, however, than to and without a trace of the pain|acq in Katie's hypothesis. which had so tortured me, I saw That it was based upon her pro= | my little mald peering at me from | pensity to translate everyth the doorway. | life into theories hused upon the | “You vake opp?” she asked as movie plots to which her imagina- | she caught my eye was always in thrall, 1 wrug A8 r time-honored and {amillarity 1 glhven me considered No, Katle, w “I tink dot Mi she looke. I tin ap- with ber answer fitting. 12" is 1 r, no vot vig und | Und time no lose glasses, ty 1 repl a ey “How you | tion | knew. 1t she guessed th thank you, her theory, she was quite 1sing of confronting Mrs. Baker and | manding that she take off her wig and declare her real dentity, right, 1926, hy Newspapor Fea Ine. from my pillow. “You not stir.” Kalle comma eod flercely, “Shoost you vait eoom lack vunce.'" Service, HERQUNNAY AN OYFER OF HOPE, = “You dear girl, “Honestly," said Mamle to me, | “¥OU ¢ IR, iy shocked at'me, but ut | 490 Delieve you! {ils moment I think that had J|™Money back, but if ye stayed in New York, 1 woull be|"0t P “11 add] e s more self-respecting, as Buddy| lpuanticdgielaetitie Trematw's sweetheart, tha ggic. 1Y 1 am now as Mamie Riley, the check-girl| Wil i you ry mu at the Beaux Arts.” y "}’0\1 will come {uto your | “Hush, Mamie, hush” 1 said to|room and le‘llp]wx\t:')).‘_ 1 am so un- ber. “You are not yourself tonight. | 1tPPY; and I do not t You have always been so self-re- | Jiant. Wiy, do you know what| would have Lappened 1f 1 had not had you at first nigl at the re taurant? J ¢ as you are aliy at night from | a p “Don't at for as you do, , with best vocal tea her i Maumie. ¥o said ever gt u do you must vnk I can NEA Serviee Girl to Girl. ;;(;l_l; Heafit? How to Keep It— Czuses of lliness must ko wants to sing | I be made for | lespair, hyone a way Y 1ooks it woul i tor you to know for you? You ine By DR surgeon Public H e evidence > ork consists i are good women In the world. You |ty oo T the one woman who gave him e S0 SN v i grent measure ack what he lost when he found{y,ny o qur communicable dls- | I8 wif thouBht { oqces and were health authorities The LU not given the means of accomp- | mina eno L8 this, our population would Gide fon o prl b swept om tima to tims by | 970 wiie shous the 1 s which would m those Epjloys) ey Lave occurred in the past in comparison. | sent facilitics | HUGH & that he is lon he one v to the kuo re i there a0 in health absenes of rned lishing for In i g or for the rhaps no! \ar o . AR el transportation of human be- g he' : A\ person may be exposed to Julle, She's & Wk 5 S A i B ate dia r sta in “Oh oy She's no Vigllance at Ports vigilance at ris of entry is Publ n our| Health Servic the introduction of dis- Through many rating agencies, and by means s own officers etationed in for- Pub!l Health constant touch from abroad co ) going ou and if 1 ve'll sta soon tI'n i Pillsbury's Best Flour | | compared to the rav aintained by of- |1 Py DATLY HERARD [CROSSWCRD PUZZLE | (IER\ HORIONTAL. itous, Funnel-shaped marks a volcano. Relioved ning golf mound. position. Portion of duratio . Genuine. Composition of Louned. Fish . Eggs of Rain as in w 5. Male title of court 48, Resinous siby 45. One plus one. . Deity, Tievolves. Negative. ift, 1r-hearing als similur to 1 mam- « Uncomman, whinsh /! FICTION o VEREEW s BLGIN HERE TODAY At the opening of the story today Audrey Morton has just secn U Morton she s in nter the Bon aret at midnight with a ¥ party of women. She haw asked Johu Parrish, Morton's secretary, to take her there, having overhear “make ppointment for the Morten has tried to tin Parrish, He nlso has ygust her with him by a violent Harry ove, cab plaee interest her tried to die- flirta AR SRR Toward 0, To make 10 rents land into a law Employer Nominal. Infirmity. Wearicd Depa ,\1‘4‘*. AB®. To annint To jog i‘uel commonly found in Irciand | Laint | Pertaining to the sean, | Delicately colored jew Proprietor. System of signals . For fear that. Ta fre To perch. Dad. second of property note in gcale “Cocktal tion girl New with York stagi him. )& my 10 the Britain for years, wr with Au- 1d. Rich, hand- maintains o ¢ Britain and a costly apartment In New York, dividing his time between them. His business and his' past are nnknown to his friends and neighbors, Audrey offers Darrish with Nona. a who is in love orton has b of New |dres then a ljit some, unmarried, he home In N the money provides for the collection and semination of information con: cerning the incidence of com- municable d and proseribes d standardizes the measuves nee- sary to prevent thelr trapsmis- sion from one country to another. By its terms, when ratified by the slgnatory powers, the P American safiitary burcau, of which the surgeon general of the Public a 18 dircetor, is mads central co-ordinating agency various member republics of he Pan-American Union. The portance of this international s tary tr as a health measure and d to commerce in the avol costly delays to ships in hardly be dis. ni- 2 of quarantine can overs | estimated U. S. Heads List Unite list of civilized The led tl countries of ths world in 1924 in the number of :s of small-pox reported. e were 826 known deaths from smalipox the states from 1 been received, could have iation and in in the num- which one of prevented revaccination. Expres , the increase coses of smallpox in tha United States for 1924 over 192 ibout 75 per cent and the in- ase in the number of deaths for 24 was 628 per cent. Deplorable as, these conditions are, they dwin- dle almost to insignificance when ages caused by discovery of by smallpox befors days, one out of as due toemall- prevailed today, 000 deaths from United State he discovery out of every from an some y ten deaths 1t this rate mean 13 rior to nation, nine f this di other re Menus for the Family Mary) Stewed rhubarb, brofl creamed potatoes, ry Tomato chowder, cot- croutons, salad, brown bread, Dinner — Filits of spinach and creole tatoes, stuffed pi apple souff! Keep in mind that children and alids should not be served A new potato might be inripe fr mat sole with po- sauce, new une salad, P new and difficult to Filets of Sole teaspoon table- atter, 1 ¢ atoe: spoons | cook per- | at- | he starch | broken mush- cents. {for the meal, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY (The names and situations in this story are fictltions.) rooms, 2 tablespoons flour, spoon onion juice, 1 green pepper. Put fish into sauce pan and pour | CHAPTF over boiling water to cover. Add 1 | Audrey lifted the tablespoon vinegar and simmer {or |ujvet bag that she b ten minutes, in. Wash spinach iyor arm, drew from it a fifty dollar through many waters and cook in (L1 and passed it to her escort. She the water that clings to the i i 1 tea- Xvit Httle siik and with whom Morton | v sald Audrey. briefly. a4 brought on 17 this withont once taking ves from Morton, on the room. 1 caught the tlance, and with wttled back in his s “Hadn't we better 0% h lvaning over toward er. She made a neg tiotion of her head, 1 want e told im, | The manager the 1o [ himself way « her other € direetion of her quic . look asked staurant Morton and Parrish looked at her with inte table, that e dance “RE £ flow stond di- Noor. | ity to a iy alonzside moving th from a bouquet in the middle o ager palied ot him. Morton waitad until t in 1 y were seated, and then 1 order to the Marton's ch man. Audre ltquor ag | room di turn with moments a ton's Icoffen cups varty, lifted pledging b “I bet |surmised “Cocktalls,” Tes w saw one of of chi nts in the corner th promptly re . Inw brought to Mor- ii waiter Morton, his ewn anions, drinking whiskey,"” tabic of afte com ¥ rish. safd Audrey, ! leaves. | t water cook away as much as ' - possible after spinach is tender. Chop and errange in the bottom of | well-huttered baking dish.* Place | roached filets over spirach and pour | over the sauce. Sprinkle with grated cheese and put Into a moderate oven to make thoroughly hot and melt | To make sauce rub tomatoes through coarse sieve. Add salt and | a dash of pepper. Melt butter and | saute mushrooms. Add mushrooms | tomatoes. Stir flour into butter | which mushrooms were cooked. | When smooth stir into tomatoes and stirring constantly until thick and smooth. Add onfon julce end pepper finely choppad. Remove &reds and membrane before mincing pep- per. Pour over fish. This sauce I8 deliclous with any sort of fish. (Copyright, 14926, NEA Ser to Peter's Mind Is Relieved By Thormton W. Burgess Y hope this story you will find, Will bring to you rellet of mind. -Peter Rabbit, Ine.) Did anger, — Reddy X catch the or didn't he? Peter Rab- felt as if he would give any- iing ‘o know. e listened and listened and listened for the volce of ti stranger, but not once did {he hear it after Reddy had d even | peared In the Old Pasture near as Siam or Serbia | where the ‘stranger had been crow- give thelr ambassadors, are cited to | ing. You see, Peter felt that he €8 as reasons Why our own ! just must see that s ger and sentatives abroad should be | talk with him. Never in his whole better housed “to uphold the 'e had he been more curions. But nit of the nation Thus ie {f Reddy Yox had caught the “keeping up with Lizzie" game, than | stranger that curlosity never would which thero s no whicher zame in |y all America, played in aenin of | the mighty Gossip’s Corner The palatial mansions wh such countries” t day stranger crowl Black did Pe- g, By Shadows came “It's & woman!” Whenever the s an automobile acei- | arises in a mighty | “The woman driver" has ynonymous of all that was ess and n-darn-foolish in piloting. But this popular 1s even woree darn-foolishness din a nation complete With a mighty breath, | state registrars of motor vehicles, | surance companies, palice cnm.' missioners, declare that “women are much safer drivers than men!" aa-H! Acco | survey just | he euccesstul businese woma ething like § a year| hes, according to a bud- in a current woman's maga- And even then t t is but $85! Eighteen pairs of stockings a year contrasts with an- | other magazine article quoting fac- tory girls as saying that “a new pair week are none oo many if ep your legs looking rig Miroy Peter and Johnpy kunk ambie away in rection of the Old Pasture. watched Jim- the di- creepnig out from the Purple Hills { Peter had made up his mind that Reddy must have caught the | stranger. “It's too bad," said Peter {to Johnny Chuck. as he eat on the latter's doorstep, “What is too bad?" Johnny eating sweet cloveér cver he could Mlat Reddy Fox should caught the stranger who was crowing over near the edge of the Old Pasture this morning,” replied the practice of 1 opportunity to the raw. Th Ife is worn very when sickness enters the home. Wien 1 om prac realized t all my patients 20 years her was only one mar- ried couple whom I knew to be en- v happy,” said by Dr. 8 Jose- Raker of the medicine see hum in inquired 18 fast Hl5a have 't e stranger, i you heard that Reddy aid sald Johnny. me, any one who World just where he was de- erves to be cau Did find out what the stranger's name was?" 3reat tons No. 93 third e Flve you | tellow, Peter; “no, 1 didn't Crow wouldn't tell me seen Reddy Fox to sinca he caught No." sald Ky the ind 1 haven't speak to the de- was who?" There canght volee 10 Jmmy Skunk. So Peter toid Jimmy all about he watched Reddy Fox tunting the strunger who was sllly ¢nough to crow that morning, and how the stranger hadn't crowed Ince. “So, of course, Reddy caught h concluded must n, Pe- that fel- Skunk. n T wo low crow, like hear safd Jimmy “Did you say there was more one stranger? here are two” replled Pe “One looks much like Mrs, Grouse, only has a long tail’ “ARI" gaid Jimmy vou tell m to Skunk. “What me, It may be t if Reddy hasn't caught this crowing stranger there will be nestful of fresh eggs somewhere about. The mere thought of fresh ¢zgs tempts my appetite, 1 I'll call on Reddy Fox. T like to know mor about strangers, Indeed, 1 would.” Peter and Johnny watch my Skunk amble away In rection of the Old Pasture. “Much good 1t will do him,™ said Pefer. “0Of course, Reddy Fox caught that T wish 1 dared go over here. Jimmy k s the lucki- st fellow 1 know. He isn't afraid of anybody.” It was time for Johnny Chuck to retire for the night, so Peter bade him good by and made his way over to the Green Forest spend the night. Just before Black Shadows were leaving intereets believe would these d Jim- the di- to the the | what's in them."” | gr aurant \ “Don't v Green Forest the next morning Pe- | ter got back to the Old Briar- | patch. He sat down just outside of it for a last mouthful' of ewoet clover and to watch jolly, round, red Mr. Sun begin his daily climb up in the blue, blue sky. And as he sat th there came to him from the dis a voice. Somn one was crowing over by the Old Orchard. Peter hopped straight up in the air. “Reddy Fox didn't catch him!" he cried. *I'm going straight over to the Ol Orchard.” And Peter went, lipperty- lipperty-lip, although he knew [that the only place for a sensible rabbit of at that the O The next Strangen” Crowing THESE WOMEN Parrish looked &t her with Inter. L ‘How can you tell?" “Daddy has never taken me to an, s but he told me bout them." she sald. “They always | Morton was etabhing sorve cocktalls in those little coffes {fruit, at breakiust n cups. ut's o nobody can ¢hen the butl | gran. with Morton | Morton glanced over it Audrey, but the | “When my office ops + member of the party was fup Parrish and man who had spoken to Morton ; Pian front of tl the |T won't be back for abou he directed. “Tell them 1o take enie |of any busincss matters that come up as they see 1l They know w passed through the room, but he wa talking intently to ruddy s and did not 1ift his Al a grip morning i oa tel N o brought who to The girls were strang other ma the in wer rs wire my week,” butler bewe pefr platter of hug was set hefore Has Miss Morton this morning M him 1“1 think she | night." His breaktast finlsh of the papers th picked t lay hes od over the he |coumns of nding nothing to interest | rang for the nutier, | “Never mind that message ol lephone Parrich to come o . right away." He sauntered into the room. win was turning ments of the girl offi rying lest they be lute, v \in color than for o { Morton wat e jeession for a whi to the pipe-or; aleoy Switehing on amp, he dctach | mechanis keys Boftl him, loaking ont treet b 1he arkers, | brighter wmonths past morning § and then fur back in the d the ele if-pla gering 1h manner v room. the tnt remained stan d the inta tier, en no heed to Parrish watch Morton's er dish | + pushed | wking a good | email portions that e him, ) want he asked her I think Tn Morte roup tho o fon was becoming lively. irays, with the It A b it One girl, who was ltiing Maortor's right, was laughing al- oving i o noving or brong eioh ot which s Fe amd ' irris 1 out of the were set n . his New Britain office that h butler earlier, and \ made note had Tar- ziven the ot,"” “I may > at ail, s ¢« asked. Morton thoughtfully across the room, and on the edge of th which Parrish sat. “I'm going to he 11 this eveni be too much troubl for you to take Miss Morton out any place siie desires to go versa- | 0 more brou The girl icially or tell at aturall onilid that d rieh dark re bleom 8he of a child, and o Her sittine ed from Morto: "In that case.” safd his emplo est you call her on the about noor not ) Hin the country. & liis morning.’ e lookad at Parrish, wal the young man sald nothing. “You may open an office account for yourself,” Morton went on, purposes of enter ment frald that taki i858 Morte romnd prove costly ou, otherwise.” Parrish flushed. “Miss Morton us ace ebild's ronnd, arms and on her left | um und to ger nauiring ey jonulders were bar rist was a long wound aroun a8 a bracelet A< Audrey A tail glass {1 her. and drew | lquid 1 ad ned to Morton lLeaning nearer 3 e arm stole i, and ask her i e to go for a ha chain, | platl girl upset hetora chair close as {f nd nearer to over the ack 1y over his shoulder, 1ooked amused. lof money with her, ain proposed Par- ded, “but it {s lost any of th an t { too him of his of emb; to borrow from s did nat hear fised on the| s the room. Her |7 little forward, as if were filled with some deep reso- lution, Morton turned hi wered in the g1 Aulightedly, and turning comprnions, apparer what Merton had 3 strange man reached the head of of the g atted Morton on the back. The girl who was sitting at Mor- | ton's left had heen watching him, almost as intently as Audrey. rey apparent Her eyes w nd 1 ac was et a and darted employer. Mo nassive, Parcish sigh I am sure you will not take her {to any place she ought not to go.” the cool, even volce went on, |least, unless she asks you to take her there herself.” Parrish shifted uneas there w man 1 whis- laughed to v and again s a question in his he looked at Morton. There w visible answer in the older man's He only continued his instrue . “If you take her to restan rants, take her fo those where t) ow |food is good. You have not been 1o leaned toward him, fook the ound the world much—I belfeve | other girl's hand, removed it from [am right in ving that Alwars s shoulder, and placed her own [be certain to fee the walters her. irm around his neck. The auburn- fally.” aire moved quick protest. arrish hastily arose to his both her arms around [“You saw me—yon saw ns” he e There was a quick struggl laimed, Morton ended by rising to his | Morton's eyebrows raised 2 and backing away in mock dis- {parent surprise. “T am afraid y lare talking fn riddles. That's a ba ece him turning to (habit. You evidently have girls then to the |thing on your mind t T or, as it entreating them to be- |want to inqulre into When he resumed of the girls tucked arm about as well ag an) through one of and the noisy |that's all.” conversation went on as thev dipped | Parrish r gerly Into the plates of soup that land scemed now before them. Morton had Morton's glance fore. and rested for a moment &p- aw: on Andrey. However, his| “If you have a gulity consclence unconcerned. and Audrey lahout anything, I don't want to [know it Morton said. “T don't 1 {quire into other people’s con- as s no feot Audrey conld som don you wan 7 show you er. T guc 1 his seat |to dance, Miss Morton ez an ac his, rded him about to ask again en him the nig The other man waved it bas him were O erossed the room we can go now to Parrish. Rising, he helped her to don her fur coat, and motioned to the waiter to come. He stood patiently until the ou act as if you were,” Morton n returned wih his change. Lay ald, taking the other by the arm. a half-dollar beside his plate, he | ‘But T euppose It's merely my im- s starting out, but Audrey stopped !agination. Now you go ahead to the him | office, and make sure to ring Miss “I think he expects {Morton about noon. I'm afraid she she suggested. | will be lonesome.” He looked at the half-dollar, and| There was amusement in his ey then the waiter, who had not|ag he watched the young man de- touched the money. part, and he shook his head slightly, “How much shculd T {as he pushed a button benceth the he asked the girl. |edge of the table. About two dollars, “Ask Miss Morton's maid if said i arisen yet,” he told the butler. eluctantly, he took back the coin A minute later that household of- laid twe doliars In Dills on the {ficial came running down the stairs, 1e. The w , without a change |his face agitated ountenance, nodded Miss Morton fsn't there—she wasn't here way |night—her bed isn't disturbed!™ nd fo the door. | (To be Continued) Morton as she |(Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) “But I'm not gullty of anything,” {Parrish protested. more than that 1 think,"” sh tables walched through t Audrey