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

s0 angry that T could hard- : speak, and then I smiled mx,‘;'.rdv - « s never pays to chase men. They|him take her back—make him wr 3 Dol like to do all the chasing them- |take her with him to Montana. or ° sens wer, h to me was the By Beatrice Burton [ Merry paid : o attention to her.| She made up her mind to bury most thrilling emotion 1 ever had. 5 : ; : : 0 She wasn't listwing to her. She | her pride, and to beg him to take N SN That old hypocrite was : i E Adele Garrison’s New Phase of i e AR e o Author of “Love Bound,” [ | listeuiog only to the sound | ner back. e ending | . POLRNL) in her ear — the sound of Central ‘He's just got to! He's just got |to do. He was intimating that I was “HER MAN ‘ ringing Tony Gaines' house. to!” she sald to herself as she . . | —_— R )] & 2 J Reve]at,ons o/ a mfe going to blackmail Mr. Robinson. | Her heart, her brain, and evers | flow downstairs once more. I expected thrcugh that bottle, al- | (Ulustrated and Copyrighted by Johnson Features, Inc., 1819 Broadway, New York City) nerve in her body seemed to be} ‘Oh, Lord, please let him be at 5 thought at the time I picked | ing answi Lillian Lifts Madge From a Morbid | Lillian, had arranged to have his |w erf x . o ,I ’.l e I\ waiting for {““‘ 10" UpWer. . |home! Let him answer the tele- an, : bay {was perfectly innocent of any such | rors e 3 Moms talked on. “If you Eiris| ponces che found herself praying Situation. :m m-]u looked after by the Ticers, (thought, to make Mr. David Robin- | e . - LR 3 e e would only listen to what 1 tell ’mn‘u- ,;‘ he gave the number of 3 ftes 1o e hus releasing Katie to me. Al-[son pay over to his stepd ter \RE : o ia et | B11€! s she ga 3 3 1; o Tu: after L.lucnl.. .‘Eful\\h( NN Whers yas notiing fop Jim | se0 000 Lor Lharit ;‘“d.t“,:)jcflol:ir"":‘LI..\M IHIS FIRS he remarked. “Yes, siree, a reg-| It began vau vonlz‘e‘“:n' 8 while you'd £°|the Gaines house. *I've Just got ad been laid to rest beside her |y, ae in the city. Lilian found him . . g 8] MERRY LOCKE, twenty and |ular little thistle! But I ltke you (“OH, AIN'T HE NEAT, Rk \d the ball. kicking | t© talk to him tonight! father and. mother: that T, found |, soh ot good wages and Katl l’m 1t to him. But I was not going |pretty and gay, falls in love with |for it.” YO USWEET, HANDSOME she went around the ball, kicking | *® fo 0 00 WO (OCECC e voice courage to burn the notes which |y ucekeeping fn her third floor | e it Judas browbcat me. [ANTHONY GAINES, a wealthy | He took his arm down from the | FAIR? le &igd Bsk I 1A When | spoke in her ear. the crazed woman had left for| o room w & . | I didn’t think anything about vv_‘ young lawyer. To fall in love is{back of the seat and lit another |“HE IS A DAISY 1 was a girl, did I telephone the “¥es?" it asked quletly Katherine's perusal. I had seen | .. 1r~::\m‘vl\\‘x\‘x;‘;(mq hagler than IDocton Flint. When T came into the [nothing new to Merry, She has been | clgar. ) “IHE GIRLS ALL DECLARE) |Yourg men I knew? 1 did NOT, let| i o' ¥ nenk to Mr. Gaines—to Dicky but once during the interval | or s whole year in the aite Z iy [T00M after I had eaten my lunch |4 flirt since the time she was six-| There was another long silence. |“HE'S A HIGH-ROLLING, 2o Aol YO {Mr. Anthony Gaines?” JMerry's and had been cheered by his Warm | waie youse shaicr ob ter periil Jand found Miss Cleaver on the floor |tcen—but she's more serfous about | Morley began 1o drive slowly, |“LOUD-DRESSING SWELL—" “They didn't have phones whenly .,ihioss voice shook approval of my secreting them, a1 | every pishis g ahe phiseed o I & COMVUlsion, it did not twke me |Tony Gaines than she ever was |with one arm around Cassic, who| Along abont that time she would |YOU were a girl, Moms” spoke Wo| “uyyhg jg this, please?” the cool action performed wholly ‘upon Dis| «\hats the Mattié With You?” ,-‘l”""“U"v-r»”[“4"'_1:‘3' I am not a doc- [about anybody. had fallen asleep on his shoulder. [break off with a sigh, and shake JH‘ ThcumnE ]o m“:: Borehs | o e ankad! and Mearry told who advice. But when left to myself | Doy e sth1 in Lon Xou?” ltor or even a nurse—to come o the| A fow days after they meet, 1o automobile seemed to creep |her head”with its crown of hennaed | l00Kking flushed and ruffled. . | she was the morbid thought of Aisregarding | my praspective work i eego [conclusion 1 > had 0 | Tony begs her fo run away and be [through the hot moist July night, |hair. “They did, too!” snapped Moms. ok ves Miss Locke! Well the dead woman's last demand, il = b ilip | poison. ic 30t she Febas - 3 Vi iramyt = = “How old do you think I am, for|,. Sl s 5 Ve Batieved thatfnut take. |00 {marricd. But she refuses to. She [like a giant snail, | “Men,” she would say sometimes, i : Tony’s gone out of town, Miss venomous though it was, obsessed |ing () # bl gt You certainly w not so anx- jexplains to him that has al- | Merry yawned and leaned back |“Men—they're all alike. ‘hy | Boodness sakes!” And don't -‘""‘l.ock » the voice went on. “You me. e Erae o s oo b it o2 1ousto mave ¢ a8 you were 0 ways been so fickle that she's |in one corner of the seat, closing |Should a girl bother about them?" |be so vert or yow'll go upstairs o[y, "y \ag going out to Mon- Lillian it was who finally rescued | that her other uncle, Edward get her out of *he store, for you |afraid to trust her own feelings |her heavy eye |In all the time that she worked for | D¢ | tana, didn't you? He left the house me from my treadmill of accusing | Braithwaite, was defraying the eatra | U5t Bave known that every second {now. So Tony, half disgusted with | opened them again and |her, Merry never heard Lillle| Merry put one hand over thel, 00 than an hour ago.” fancies. She had returned from her | cxpense. i n by ]“*: ' lthat you were talking over the tele- [her, decides to wait for six months. [started up at the sound of Tony | Dale finish the song. mouthpiece of the telephone. I ey vever hvew v Hat e au trip only the day after Lucia Mere- Uy o SS I (hhone meant everything to her. It| In the meantime, Merry fails at |Gaines name. ¥ Ry “Did you seo & letter of mine| .~ % "o o cer remembered was then that I found the bottle and , business school, to the great “Morley, what ever became of the night of the twelfth of {on that table a while ago, Jinny?"{ =/ oo © rip : | money matters, I knew that Dicky dith's tragic death, and, coming up | would never find out the real ex- | e e to the apartment, had so filled both | pense involved until S el T mind telling you that the!appointment of her mother, who |that lawyer I met in your office one y, Merry went home late for |she asked anxiously. | bling out onto the front porch. my time and Katherine's with brisk | haq been 1 o VS reason T did not show it to you was|wanted her to be a seeretary like |day last fall?” Bill Erskine was |supper. When she was halfway up| Jinny shook her red head | Her motner found her there an plans for the arranging of my sur : Tussis Ui LU | nour atters *ace aow roundings so that T could best take up Phillp Veritzen's work that we had but little opportunity for mor- | bid retrospection. By arrangement with the own oken to him of my work, al which I dreaded, for, fol- s tragedy of Lucia Mere- apparently forgot- r against me and ap | iked neither the way you tr lies suddenly, leaving nothing to [one was teling me just the other |hair before the hall mirror, Moms | Merry sharply. “It would be ju “L Stalind el s ik W apartment, ready tle down in amicable comfort. | . 1 1 Z |ed Miss Cleaver nor myself, Doctor his family but the house where |day that he's leaving town. Going [had a plate of food ready for her. |like her to open that lctter and of the house T had taken the apar wher rytl = when everything was settled | o | £ 3 & - £ o e nizht air. 7 lint. they live, So Merry takes the first lout to Billings, Montana She was pouring some cream |read it. She's so nosey | i . { | Merry sat up. “I wasn't asleep, ment over the one we occupied and stion «of ‘the destruction Lillian had discovered that a dis- ||, Kierocibiih: notisc: b ,““ ‘,"‘ don't think, however, that 1[job that offers If—assistant in | Merry sat up straight, one hand |sauce over it when Merry walked She turned to the telephone as | i ¥ A Caanl vl used rear stairway ran back of the | paunt me. T had withhen ther |T€lied that T had the bottle in my |MADAME DALE'S beauty shop. clapped to her mouth. She felt |into the Kitchen. Central spoke into her ear. “They |he answered in a cold, dull volce, bathroom and that, surrounded by | from Katherine's knowloar s [hand until T got into the elevator.| One night when Tony's mother |as if she were going to scream, | “I'm going to eat out here, it you | do not answer” said Central, and | Sod went Upstatat sy s 5 the tiling, was a d0or_opening UPON | siroving. them outrien i, de- I5vhen 1 reached my station in the [returns from a long visit, he breaks |suddenly. |don’t mind, Moms” she sald. “It's|with a little groan Mergy hung up| Vel I've nothing left now bu it. We promptly enkaged carpen- hrrmiadasd S another | o o Ar. Robinson came up to me |an engagement with Merry. fe.| “To Montana!" she gasped, and |cooler here than in the dining|the receiver my job,” she said aloud to her re- i€18 and tlers and uncovered 'the atls the matter wit . land ragged me because T had been |who has heard how rich Tony is |her voice was only a hoarse whis-|room.” WithYslow, dragging fect she|fiection in the mirror. “But—J old @oor, thus giving us a privatc f b you™ | way from it for two hours. Of [from Morley mn, warns her | pe Moms turned around from the | went upstairs to her own room, | Should worrs . |course, 1 was very nervous over Miss [that he really doesn’t intend to| “Yeah—to Billings, Montana,” [stove and gave her & curious look. “Cassie may shave put the letter| She was too broken-hearted tq know that she was. Too broken- Lillian demanded one ¢ vhe staircase between the two floors. | 1 e '{‘karll‘l ,”1,,,’\“} ,‘,,:.‘ A 5 2 | Cleaver and 1 felt very sore on the \marry her. If he did, she says, he Morley repeated in his loud voice. | “Didn’t you find the letter for |up here for me,” she thought; but > earted to ! She felf noumw but The Arrangements Completed walk. Katie was enjoying hers“af- | | The big front room below was 1o | ternoon off” at the nearest oinems [Subject. I wanted to make Mr. Rob- [would have brought his mother to |“Going out there to open & law that was on the hall table?” |yithout much hope. Cassic M‘\m‘ be used as a living room and a IR * linson have a few of those gisagree- (call on her, and given her an en- office, I suppose.” she asked. given o doing kind acts for any- | [ a runner after a loug race. | \h» got into her bed and slept] | dreamlessly all night. That nigh \ |because when you came back from |CASSIE, her sister, who works for |asking. “Long, lanky guy named |the sireet, she saw her mother get | “Maybe ; I hour afterward, face downward |the telephone you were so afraid [MORLEY KAUFMAN. a broker, |Gaines. We had a drink with him, [up from the front porch and burry |swered. “Shefwas sitting here in {0 S o5 pions, She shook her | I would get on to something |with whom she's in love. Remember?” into the house, the hall for quite a while, waiting | i 55, 5 tiatiners gantly that you sent me out of the room| Merry decides to.go on with her | “Yeah. Tony Gaines” Morley| By the time Merry had taken off |for Morley Kaufman.” | “wake up, derry,” she * sald as soon as ssible. course o e 8C 0] ° er | Kanfma a Were “W st € 4 a J J i ere 1s she 1 7" asked T L A on as possible. our t chool, but her father {Kanufman answered. “Wh some- {her hat and smoothed down her Where i sl oW L {ir7on can't dleep oxt hered Youlil we had any. At all other times e T APy ”" Miss Cleaver gave to the Morton De- |it over, and d s that Cass right, you know him, don't you,|sure there lad been mo letter on| fhere was mo long white en- the unusually large kitchenette and | satisfaction "“"‘p..mnnm store by dying, and so I |right. Hurt a . she lets | Merry?” [the table when she passed through |yelope tucked among the bottle library alcove gave us ample a v t hesitation T told her the |2DSWered him. |DERRICK JONE: vho lives mext | Merry didn't answer. She didn’t |the hall. She had stopped to 1a¥ |und hoxes that cluttered the story. She was familiap wits | (Copyright, 1026, Service, Tne.) |door. make Jove fo her that night. |even hear his question. [her handbag on it. Tt there had |gregser. Nor was it in Cassie T nost of it, anyway, and I knew — |28 he had many a time before. Everything seemed to have gone [Peen a letter lying there, surely |,qom when Merry went there to one for Qjcky and onme for me, | Katherine would not object to this| TOMORROW: A Clash of Wits, The mest time Merry sees Ton¥. [hlank in her mind. She felt sick and |She Would have seen it! look for it. 3 he asks lier to go fo his own home icold and numb, all at once, She| But with her heart beating wildly. |~ Ay she started back to her own to meet his mother, and gives her |qronped back against the padded |She went back to look for it, room an automobile horn honked while the third floor apartment of | ¢ apa t of | truc friend sharing my knowledge. three rooms were given to Kath- | ) gL BE8 3 Kath-| When I had finished she rose to e d s the ring that had been his mother's : pi o Bill Erski It there was a letter for her, it | er feet and hel Fyci cushions, and when Bill Erskine put g oarsely below the windows. Look- held out her hand. O e 5 Cssie tells 'ty why #he erine, with a bed for Junior, fo |} Mary Harrison and a rear room to 1 . A | engagement ring. Ashamed of her- [ - 5 = must be from Tony! fary a res n ot R nz his arm around her again she did | 2 ing out, Merry saw Derrick back- Katie and J | = ‘ 2 ling Tt aeac ooy {ne Bimi Mendy : | 5 sty e g 3 y T & , e sl Katio and sim. Lvon aho wuia, e thons sy || YOUX Hea 1t for mot_ trusting him, Merry ot Gxin mov. , CHAPTER Xx e as Wb ailoa i | himks Tany Gaines left town True, Mary Harrison was not yet | things to me. 1 shall never tell |tells him about Derrick Jones, and \ \yi » she stepped ont of the car | But the letter was not on t ' out into the street Merry gets a special delivery let with us, and she h Aiiisheat i . e grer/ el . {he goes away without making any | 5 e “hester | table. CY gt v ter. ead tomorrow's installme; 1e had not finished | you what I do with them, so your How to Keep It ; 1 DY {in front of the house on Chester (table. = = = | Beside him, proud as a peacock, or‘-'rm- e Installment her term in the school she had so {comment at But a weck Dasses {street, he slipped his arm through | sat ' Tlnny! : | conscience will be clear, ‘but you pie ; ; ‘ + hated, but we expected her in a few | o Causes of lllness without a word from him. On Sun- \here. They fell behind Morley and |Merry's own little brown hand- | ™, C0 0 1 50t svonder what they're may rest assured 1 can exercise the 7 s more' and. were-quite_sxcited | most troublasome sont: e e day, Cassie urges Merry to spend Cgassie. and in the dripping dark- (P28 and the dog-eared telephone | % '\ v iiq to herself, a in preparing a dainty and pretty | walked." Hab GVer| By DR. HUGH S. CUMMING) o evening with her and Morley |ness under * the willow tree, he |PoOk. ”,\', e Sl o e FASHIONS room for her. et g 3 § . g Kaufman, and Bill Erskine, a friend |ijsseq her. quite as a matter of | She looked under '‘the handbag, | PUZzled 100k In ner sed-green eyes o ] D) 1926, by Newspaper (Surgeon General, United States | o ity BRC B0 TS i , quite as att : d A e 5 She watched the little car until My father, upon an appeal from ; ; {of his. They go to the Blue Admiral |eourse and shook out the pages of the al trom | Feature Service, Inc.) Public Health Service.) 2 s e R it vanished into the leafy tunnel By Sally Milgrim . “Mr. Brass Monkey!” said Merry, | , 1 B AT ehan’ Ghostar sivee b gri |" She got down on her hands and | Of trees that arched Chester street y the | in the summer time, Then, with & shrug, she turned {\palace and Lillian and T had stoppe 4 dining room upon state occasions if 1 stopped |0 moments' that you * intimate |gagem ving, too. Merry thinks | Then, presently, he added: “That's | Merry shook her head. She was|joq the finish of something eet and fine that had touche life with magic. Something that never came again. (TO BE CONTINUED) commodations for our dining, table. The rear room we divided into two, In previous articles you were NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY [giving him a murderous glance given charts which showed diseases | CHAPTER XIX the night hid from him. She (knees, and hunted for it on it have rapidly been DBrought| mp. ighs and music of Blue ped his face, and felt his fat (carpet under the table, s A n e ko oo e A e ned out | under control, notable among these | o oo &0 S0 TEEG S behing |cheeks quiver under her finge Rhen Sat el anh i als B DU A Ol A Ve TiE had ot eI Ay being charts of diphtheria and ty- |y i M 5 G ook an. |Then she twisted away from him |the table dtsell from the wal to| ™ %y Bo boning dusk of the phold fever. Today there is ShOWn | (b oo ve ot cigars from its sil- |@nd ran up to the house. see if the letter could have fallen s etlent 1 o 2d e > t s sit- |and Bt it hadlnot room her reflection glimmered like L chart that is in very striking con- vk tal Seeyou later, Little Sister!” |bebind it. f p ver paper wrajper and struck a s, you. » “ e o |silver. Against its whiteness, Tony trast, namely, that of cancer. i of [she heard him call softly to her, as | “Moms!” Merry = called at z 0 one as yet has satisfactorily i ,‘,,(m fill the car. Y {she opened the front door. ;-cp of her voice, 'IhAH isn't any . ) : ;l S [«]fl_ kl’lvl\f_ A‘I\L\l"xx.uaxl oxplained the cause of this appar- Thi il A e s Newra Tnae And that was the beginning of |letter here for me gleamed brightly. 1t ‘caught Alerry's nt increase in cancer. There e 1 kb A atfair bet®een her and Bill| “Of course there js,” Moms |¢eve, and a sudden thought flashed S A o e frce jamd [1eaned itorward giing, |called back in an annoyed tone. |into her mind. doubt, have operated to increaso | oo ”,“‘"“‘“" 5 [“Wasn't T just looking at it, not| His ring! That was why he had e i) qherease | fhe night air, cool ‘n.;|‘~ ree days passed, with no word |ten minutes ~ ago? It was right |written to her! To ask her to that are reported to our health au- | orepards. swent in and she drew a |from Tony. here on that table! send back his ring ! thorities DIORRESEENED RN SN aE "I wom't call him up” Merry | She came into the hall, untying | “Well, I just wilL,” Merry found BY THORNTON W. BURGESS |my began to poke about in these Among these factors are more ac- |y Expaliy i ”') 4 | made up her mind busily polishing |her gingham apron. herself saying bitterly, as she held Sometimes ig I E e e i e rain had stopped at last, an: p h A Ay b o Sometimes an unfamilial sight He was looking for a dead fish. | curate diagnosis on the part of the e a |the glass-topped mnanicure tables in | “T'll find it~ for yo aid |it in her palm and looked down Will give the truly brave a fright. While he was doing t nny was | physicians of today, and a more e ‘l 1 ‘,”j L ‘;’ o‘!' | Lillie Dale's shop. briskly., “You go out and eat your |at it. I'll send it back this very + 3 3 Wan Rets el { in the clouds. e beauty | Ladllie Dz shop. = 4 o —O0ld Mother Nature loing a little exploring on his own | nearly complete report of all deaths “Fle'll surcly come to see me be- |Supper while it's nice and ho night! Merry's supper was laid on a She went to the head of the fore he leaves town,” she thought | | clean white cloth at one end of the | stair night stirred in Merry's heart ccount, though taking care not to |as compared with fewer reporis a |uimost like pain. 7 n‘ seems to be natural for all go too far away. 1denly he was | number of ars ago. This much Ior an instant she forgot where | at night, sitting alone in the quiet | 2 kinds of people to bo afraid of confronted by a terrible creature, | Of the increase is, of course, only an |gne was. For an instant She was |house, waiting for the sound of the |kitchen table. Baked beans in a Moms!” she called down into things with which they are not Never in all his life had he seen | apparent, not an actual increase. Tony Gaines once more in his |telephone or the hionk of an auto- [red stone Jar. Vegetable salad, | the darkness, ‘“have you a little familiar. Anything which appears [such a thing. He thoufht it was a1 Another factor which has caused |} jue v Gai ik e e crisp and cool. Fresh biscuits and | carahoard box that you don't strange is very apt to give folks a |spideny but the bigeest spider that [2n increa the actual number of |yor and his hand gripping hers on | The Fourth of July came, hot as |& iall glass of iced tea. - need?” fright. It is simply fear of the un had ever dreamed of. It seemed | deaths reported from cancer is the |(o rim of the steering wheel as |2 fiery furnace. The kitchen was cool. and filled | mye geren door slammed as known. Though Danny Mcadow to he looking at him with two curi- | fact that so many more people NOW |y gwopt along under the st Cassie went on a picnic with [With the pale glow of the fading|yjoms came in from the porch and Mouse didn't know It, he was go- ous pop-eyes, On each side were | lIve to reach the age at which can- |\ wpane Tony she whispered |Morley Kautman. Moms and Jinny [Sunset. Beyond the - screen door |y the stair ing to have many a fright at the |four queer legs that were jointed and | cor develops than was formerly the |gorie PN were invited to Helen's new home |the backyard stretched green and | “uyynat do you want with a card- seashore, for there were very few |looked as if they were Stiff between | Case on the thick voice of the man [to spend the day, and they went. smooth to the little vegetable sar-| 0,14 pox?" ghe asked, curiously, things familiar to him there, Tn front it held up two After all obvious fact con- | peside her jerked her back to| Merry, sure that Tony would den that Dad had always tended standing in the doorwaysof Merry’s The moon had come up and the |great jointed legs ending in wicked. | cerned in the reports of S LSS il i |50 lovingly. b Fiend i Jinny was sprinkling it now. re beach was almost as light as by day 8 et (e Bl el sl [0 , 1t seems fairly eatali ] eigae: re_stayed 2t home and waited for him, el : iy 3. I'hat is, Danny call- ; Gasty night fo drive” he Every now and then she called ,,.mj AL ko \’1‘:" % “”“m;“»“"r“rp"f |over the back fence to Derrick 1Yy Aot Rt ontediod o The tide had gone out. Danny eouid m legs because he didn't know | lished that some of the se in !y iked to Morley Kaufman. “Bet-"| She put on her rose-colored hear the gentle lapping of the littl: 1 them, altho sancer reported is act and not |qor 1 i ® or s dre nd made a pitcher of She o ring e D hem, althou s fer take it easpd or you'll 1 d m e F 2 5 1¢X | She held the ring out on the palm | waves on the distant beach, “Tt is e T i apparent increase. 0 With (hat me yopned his |lemonade Inte in the afternoon. 1t |Jorts who was cutting the grass| . ;. . y,ng, time to go out,” said Jimmy Skunk used! theém more 48 ar A much of ase s ap- |oerer ve oigar back into his [would be nice to have something [in the nextiyard. : Widetesad Morin stared first ab b : : LA expensive ; ; S | “That's a nice warm job vou've yed; e ddors . T You follow me and I'll show you D iRdeta srerbotatn i ; mouth and puffed on it furiously. |cold to drink when he came. oundelf. Tomesy.w |1t and then at Merry. | things you have never dreamed of.” |was green spotted with yellow and | “Don't you worry about me, Bill At dusk she went out on the |Picked for vourdelf, Jomesy."| ™ .y, "gig e give it to you?” So Jimmy led the way out from it wore a shel st the same as ¢ tossed back over his shoul- |front poreh, and straightened the ‘?"""‘, hasdf Tor &y 10 ..,.’:l”" '"1 she asked. “Why didn't you show | under the bathhouse and Danny Spotty the Turtle back In the S He wi low over the pillows on the hammock couch. | her shrill young voice, cool ¥ P Ay y g 3 e . * [you off—" Her words ended in a |it to me? Why do you keep every- Meadow Mouse scurried along just |ing Dool, only a different ki : wheel, a dark hen she sat down in Moms' little \7 thing from me the way you do? v shell. Snddenly it moved and ? rin-flecked wi SITite nablcers 18 rward with |BiBEle. b ! white: rocker, leaning forward with You treat me as if I were your 4 with surprising quickness. Bill's sudden laugh worst enemy instead of your | cager eyes waenever an automobile | The mext minute she aimed the . ilad Arfo the stxast garden hose at Derrick, soaking x inatead of going straight ahead, 3 ark. 3 Sfenecting compiny?® Derrick i from hesd to foot with' the | mpther! Her voice was shaky. t nt sidewis: It ran sidewise 4 i “Don't kid 5 i | EXPECLINEY SoRIL 3 “No, I don't,” Merry answered. : D TEE R - {flying stream of water, A it i said frank- ("«-H-\ m}nkh;‘rw-lla;lh;r\ :lle) u;x'o‘l‘r(l ™ Then, as he started for her, she | “I would have told you about this |clared brilliant blue the smartest o he porch o e L J H £ t hed |dropped the hose with a wild shriek | ring—only—only—" ~ She couldn't [8ll colors for women of fashion td s ere! | prive hedge. | i 3 3 {wea S e 3 rOZ e s : {yself an L RUIE L NG St Uk BB A R |and dashed down the driveway, Der- | €0 on. She shook her head and [Wear. As the summer progresses d ever seen. Besides, it i 1 hate to be @ 1-up righ p ”‘] i it ppia ad sit |Fick, dripping wet, jumped the back turned toward the window with {# Dew color is fastly supplanting it nd great pinching wouldn't ttle Sister I thought 1'd come over and sit | |however. Deep burgundy red is un L B | rence and gtreaked after her. brimming eyes and quivering chin. | e 5 4 e Thenol koo yack |with you a while if you were goin 1 N s ibtaaly the Iast w 4 ny took to his heels and VL 1 § having too good back wv 1r-){)<l L “<“| J_uow |-15rnv§‘ ARt Osldvn ity there nwere She was still standing there with doubtedly the last word in all tha , AfraE ¢ laughter frc he fro g to the room when her [is chic. Speak for vour 111t nerry [swecilygegs: before, iyl ;xm:\?imlx‘,” )}vf i mn ‘(I'\i‘lf"n!(l‘\” anged a box down on the| A frock of whose charms th 1 merly, ‘and *he:soerad|his {agpr drove oyer )m" Euelld | o ught her. " | dresser, some five minutes later. (Shade is only one is that in the lemanded Will Jeugn e ; Lo ”'ff,-",(f'.;‘."‘gfi\f}ff,“;:Q,":JK.R giarr | “Childrent” thought Merry, won- | “Now, then, Merry!" sho began, |Sketch today. It is made doubl: You don RO RL0: WALEYE I IoN 'n ‘he wished that |dering what she had ever seen in |in firm tones, “I want you to turn smart because it is of burgundy, bu his tongue AL T 4 Morley's driving, Mr. Erekine,” |thought Merry By Ished that |\ liek Jones. He was two yeass | around here and tell me what's|the dexterity with which it is fash lo was to point at that [ Cassle's volce came from theyfront'ishe had mever seen Rerricki older than she. But compared to|wrong. After all, I'm your|ioned is another reason for its chic Tony Gaines, he seemed to her the | mother, and I've a right to know |It is made of chiffon with a long most callow he-flapper under the [what's happening in your life. [Slender blouse and a short narroy sun. Have you and Tony quarrelled?” [skirt. The neck is bateau. A dee| “Moms is right,” she 4 to Merry, standing with downcast |bertha, fairly short in front bu herself. “A girl is a grown woman | eyes, nodded her head. reaching to the hips in back, has aj at twenty, but a man the same age [ “He was jealous of me,” she said, insert of footing dyed to match thq is nothing but a child." telling her mother only a part of |chiffon. A wide girdle of chiffon en | While she v stacking her | the truth. |circles the hips and ties in a long dishes in the sink Moms called | Moms noddeéd. “I thought so!” |boW on one side. Narrow panel to her. ghe cried. “I was sure of it that |fall from the girdle to the botton | “I can’t imagine what's happened | njght when you were out with [of the skirt. to that letter,” she said, shaking|zforley Kaufman's fat friend—" | To complete the charming sim her head in a puzzled sort of way.| «But Tony didn't know 1 was out |Plicity of this frock, a broad brim “I've looked high and low #or it— | \ith Bill Trskine” Merry cut in, [Med hat of horsehalr cloth the samd a and it's just nowhere to be seen!| [ haven't seen him since then.” [shade should be worn. Its edge 1 iy civilized so that there | * ‘g Y front seat of ihe specding fa. broken-hearted child, Her tears 1 can't fmagine what's become | \omg stared. “Of course, he|bound with grosgrain ribbon an s in our modern civiliza- % was snugzled against |dampened the old lace doily where |Of it! ] knew you were out thaf night,” |narrow grosgrain binds the crows | | She looked around the shabby | iq “Dian't T tell you he was|and ties in a double bow on om hall with its faded carpet and |yo oS nion |side. cherry-colored woodwork, as if it |y o pever | The collar of this smart chiffor could tell her whera the letter w g |trock has an inserted band of foot Then she looked back at Mer: 1z dyes to match the frocks, “It was a long white envelope Copyright, 1926 (EFS) with the name of some law firm in | silence. Bil'3 cigar glowed | . 4w , R BEE y being here | the Shalimar building, printed up | "SRG WL e T rm-v roadster, with his arm Burgundy Is the Newest Tone for Smart Daytime Frocks, arly in the season Paris = de izht at Danny Meadow Mous § vorrying about Dan caled T out. If this i “Tt's myself T ing about! s a spider, it was the most awful ht straight to where Jim ng over the sea- wered 1 eceat, low and gentle He's a won At nine o'clock she got up and teps toward it and away it ! Seaful driver. Just wonderfull He went into the house. It was dark goimg sidewlse very fast, B ) he does everything jand hot and stuffy indoors. The you ever see such a dread- b 1 QABEN else.” lemonade on the Kitchen table was | g wed Danny when b | Merry smiled to herself in the |warm in its r ated glass pitcher. | bl Merry emptied it down the sink. would | The cuckoo clock in the dining Jimmy took two or > darkness. 39N §OIOB. (0 Thok e t C She wondered ] he asked timidly i e | |say if she could he 1h 88 {room and the jccasidnal squeak of | 1y : (The chart shows the national in- | (- 0 never gave one at |a board in the floor were the only behind Jimmy. He di¢ 1 1 g Cassie, who never i P s % AT ase in death rate from cancer for (yo00'a soft answer or a word of [sounds in the house. Tt seemed to | get too near Jimmy, b ' n Crab, Did i, 100,000 population.) | ' mock her with its emptiness®and dare to get very f i L 1 vy from me? | praise + “If Morley Kaufman ever marries |its silence. He felt ‘both un h t ¢ NOW D= | ;50ent only and how much is actual, “ or. he'll get the surprise of his| “I hate holidays!” she said aloud Wme time, whi . y ¥ v find | ¢ is difficult to say. It is genera n} lifei" she fhonght. “Hell wonder [to the staring walls, and she sud- vay to feel. “W ) E L Woug t 8 observed that primitive peoples are | fime Cassic |denly crumpled up in Dad’s old K } ; Look: aut what struck him, fi look_for « ook ou iweeptible 1o cancer as arg|tors on her high horses.” easy chair, and cried and cried like tend to produce an - |yrooys shoulder now voice |his head had rested so often. incidents of this dis-|grifted back to Merry, so soft and | “I wish Dad were her she [1ow ths was only i broken mur- |sobbed. “I'm so lonesome—I'm so liev it [loncsome.” But it was Tony Gaines that | croaned. “No—you told me,” she an d, her voice heavy with despair. “Oh, Moms, | why didn't you tell me about hml Y dity may and probably | 17t was hard to n an important part in the | (oo cassie's voice t care abon t rhest T production cancer seems irly They covered a m or was erying about. wWlished. In other word lisposition. a susceptibilty, to |, ch. Finally he open : ; 3 iny torch Another week went by. in one corner of it—" she began. 1 S g 1oilodi ub AL EMMpor T of ijie car and 4 Every morning Merry got up at | “The Shalimar, building!” Merry { got about it!" hier mother gnapped. 1”9,"‘3 for the Fam,[) ors seem 1o concerned in the | oyt hit pavement seven, . bathed, dressed, ate her |cried, breathlessly, “The Shalimar | It's a wonder that I don’t forge t\ | |breakfs and unlocked the door [puilding! Why, then it must have |10 breathe with all the work and S of the heauty shop at eighit-thirty iheen from Tony! Oh, T've GOT ‘]‘””‘Y 1 lzuw lut;, Why, yes, By SISTER MARY himeelf, i pveled. sharp. £ {to find it now! e ';’i",‘ Mol Breaktast: Chilled cantaloupe country for J v By the time Lillie Dale walked | Once more she frantically shook | €ame right after you drove ””“',‘pwnnml eggs on graharh toast | proof paints, it se 1 n a y o place was i 5 ¥ o. fand T told him hare you wer 5 | proof x{vv' It scemed. o about |10 At nine. the little place was in {out the worn pages of the tele-|InM - ‘”HI o “1 15 -x‘ | bran mufins, marmalade, milk, cof Ask Your Druggist get Jere own abol! | hining onler. Morry's bedroom at [phone book. Once more she hunted | T had to tell him. He asked me. o | | 1 twice a year.” he said. “but Dhe home might look as if it had been |all over the floor. lifting everyone| Stunned. Merry could only look | % SRS * The. Tittle Sister, now that Tee et TR T o e aon, Dut aht | ! . ¥ il Kor With HerBig evee | Luncheo Combination potat: | tirred up a spoon. hut she 'of the small rugs that covered the : salaii s breanls fiteermaa” -ciben s : LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S| [ v 1 g T b N oat da mnew TN Miaia. oen . “Everything's aguinst me.” sho " pin. [places where Moms had mended pudding, milk, tea | 3 CEES often.” e henestly enjoved the shop o s voront thought. “First, Moms forgets to a Girl of TOday | Pills for Constipation D nen gaser to Nersun |, ShS Te0sly enjovad. the _ Baap. |1 oifce : cut | T e oy was here. Thon e | Dinnori Buked ham, browned Taa v hetichatitadii b othas 1 threw it ctu oduction of diseage in {0 chower of sparks. those who are susceptible " He hegan to tell Merry O Tl |She almost forgot Tony in the { Then sled around 4 ot s’ y They work in her- | (the Jenther cushion, anl Merry shd | q Woe T “oay chatter that went [denly. te Jephone ‘ang gave | Writes to' me ‘and the lotter gats|Poiotoes, epinach in cream sa¥cq ihe wihdow tomato salad, berry roly-poly mony with Lydia E. | (an inch n rer to on in it all day long—in the slap- [the num! Tony's house. lost. T must be jinxed!" y : the tele- | Whole wheat bread, milk, coffee,! THE OLD HY POCRITI He chose alse ignore that, al Without answeri ything colored a bit Pinkham's _ Vege- | Then she said 1o him, Doctor Flint said in 2 ! 1 you that it certainly 1atils ‘Bompotind. the back of o felt Bill's arm 1aid alons {p 0 6100 of ‘Lillie Dale going | “IIl call him up and ask him | But there was still f { the seat. His fingers Lol Singing down a marcolling |what was in the letter.” she said | phone. Still the chance of getting | Baked ham s quite as good colf very ty to; f uspicious to me | B touched Ther & liron here, or a great white box of [to Moms, one hand over {he mouth- | him on the wire/ #o ask him to|a# hot. The carving Knife should| 1ot under v Robinson told me that you | Jeaned forward. loold cream there. plece. . | come over toSee her. be sharp and the ham cut 1) aid not 1 n that hottle nto his hands, | Lydia E. Pinkdhiam “Put your hand where | ‘h,'; | Tilie Dale was never silent.| Moms shook her head and tight-| “If 1 could just see him for a |Paper thin slices for serving. . botte I 1 [Surely yvon miust know that 1 was . s lonizs!" she safd to hir sharplV. |xwpen ghe wasn't talking and |ened her thin lips. minute, or two!" she thought, de Berry roly-poly is a deliciou] 2 polson it wrge of it? Medicine Company § | "\ 0000 " with his love-making. |jaughing. she was singing. [ "0 navar. call bim ao. s sald | perataty.” For she was sure thet|dsssert worth keeptng in . imin T lookud str into his face and v lid you think you would & Lynn, Mass. Again he shook with laughter, Ehe had one song that she sang |grimly. “T'd mever call any man! |once she was in Tony's arms she during fhe berry season. Auy kin bowed by he ¥ taking it to Mr. Robinson | “You are a thistle, aren't you?” |a dozen times a day. & Walt until he calle you up! It'could make him forgive her-—make ! of berry can be used. ; ” houlders and she