New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 17, 1926, Page 4

Quicksands of Love Adele Garrison’s New Phase of Revelations of a Wife —— kicked it under the counter out of | sight.” you know he dropped it?" 'Yes, I know he dropped it, but let me say right here, Doctor, that if I had dropped anything that 1 felt as important as both you and he think that bottle marked poison was, I would have picked it up be- fore the store closed. In fact, I would have picked it up instead of kicking THE PETTER By Beatrice Burton Author of “Love Bound,” “HER MAN” (Ilustrated and Copyrighted by Johnson Features, Inc., 1819 Broadway, New York City) |woman with a gay dress and hat walked with her as far as the front door. As Merry went down the steps a woman- Was coming up. An elderly that matched her eyes and hair. “Back 8o soon, Louise?” she heard Tony's mother ask from the doorway behind her, and she start- ed with surprise. So that was the Cousin Loulse she had pictured to creamed potatoes, buttered peas, lHead,lettuce with Frenc! dressing, graham bread, creame: tapioca with fresh fruit, milk, cof. fee. ‘While it's perfectly true that w need less food in hot weather tha in cold, what food we do requird must be carefully and correctly chosen. IFoods that nourish apd ar easily digested are necessary an new time of year, but during the summer] herself as young and pretty! That she | it under the papers.” Lillian Gives a Boost to Madge's tration you're fussing about?” Confidence. |demanded caustically. “If you ever | “Which of course you did, Mtss woman, with her lined face, her |months dighes that keep us cool ard With a feeling that a heavy |02r® Elve these things anbther |Dean” asserted the Doctor trlum-|ppAp THIS FIRST: she would shriek about Moms' |across the envelope was not his|tired eyes, and her gray hair. in great demand. To nlus end salad weight had been suddenly liftea |POUght I'll run you over to the Phantly. *Well, we want it, pass it | \(ERRY LOCKE, twenty, falls in [clean house, at such times. “I'll {handwriting. “What a fool I've been!" she|ahd vegetables in abundance ar | psychopathic ward at Bellevue and | Over.” love with ANTHONY GAINES, a |leave home and live in a hoteM The letter within was not the |groaned to herself, “to be jealous |Suggested. The rice and vegetabl salad is rather unusual, but one o from my shoulders, I went to my et » “Thaator, Flint, Y Have Hever ox- 3 #: " hat Tony would have |of her, an old lady! I wond hat trunk, unlocked it and, taking from |1¢2Ve you there. young lawyer. To fall in love is| “Cassie!” Merry called out to [kind of letter that Tony would have |o , an ol y onder what | pries: un 1 it the packet of notes which Lucia | LM E0INg to put them out of |Perlenced the tactics the police USC |noining new to Merry, who has |her now, “Cassie, where's that let | written, either. It was on hotel |[she's say if she knew how she's tl;;oficlls"hslrmfla! vulfldsh !h';t . alc Meredith had left as & venomous | ™Y Mind for all time,” I said firm- |in the third degree, but I believe |peen g flirt since the time she [ter of mine that was lying on the |paper and it began: “Hello, Lit-|spolled everything for, me.” o i DAnT\"ch:a‘;‘neocluafi' She thought it al out, walking along Cabot street under the boil- ing afternoon sun. | they are something like those you are using now.” s I spoke, | tle Sister.” It was from tat friend, Bill Erskine! ly, with the miasma of morbidnes: vanishing before my old friend's was sixteen. But with Tony Galnes [hall table last night? Jinny said legacy from her dead hand, I cross- . she is really serious. - |she saw you looking at it!” ed the room and laid the letters in One cup well cooked boiled rice, sweet green pepper, 1 pimento, Morley Kaufman's f Lillian’s hands. She took them into | SNergetic common sense. “Indeed, | AS I T was sure that Lady | ghortly after they meet, Tony | This {@as straining the truth a ! 5 the brief-case which she almost in. |1 have anough before me to take up |Luck was with me, for Mr. Robinson | wants her to elope with him, But [bit. All Jinny had said was that | “Hello, Little Sister” he wrote, | 1f she hadn't been jealous of ieflj‘l":f: oi':gfio‘)“‘?{"}:c;"e':s’;“’, variably carries in order that 1l the attention my brain can give. | came hurriedly into the room. she refuses to, telling . Tony that |she saw Cassle sitting in the chair [“I'm coming your way again iIn|cousin Louise, she wouldn't have |2 . 1ioP Y i - about two wecks and so I don't oip Froneh dresslng, Jettuce, “Have you seen the morning pa- I haven't told Dicky about the work been so fickle that |beside the table where the letter let Derrick kiss her that night two | unexpected delay of transportation |she has always ‘ | or appointment may be utilized for | L™ BOIg to do for Mr. Veritzen, | |she is afraid to trust her own feel- |lay. want you to make any dates With |coks ago. Scaid tomatoes and. peel, Chill fo her work. |and— | lings now. Hurt and half-disgusted, | But the naked truth was not |anybody for the first three days in |yt perrick hadn't kissed her she -*i\mfl 110)'"5- \Im o vfl\!;»v: and s(ll: “My job is a Moloch,” she said |“Hell Be Prouder Than Punch.” | ¥ Ibut still in love with her, Tony de- |very important to Merry at any|August. I must gotta See YOU |\ould still be engaged to Tony. g-fyth;n‘ i s . i \\1:11’:5 ] to me once, with a little sigh. “It| +And, ‘Gosh! how you dread it:” | ¥ as just trying to get from |gides to wait for her for six |time. And all that mattered to |then.” She would still be happy. e il consumes drawings and jingles as |Lillian quoted with a grin. “Well, I | Miss Dean here the bottle which she | months. |her, just now, was Tony Gaines'| It was signed “Bill,” as it Merry | “But would T stil] be engaged to 'fl:"d br;‘ M{CZ ol "f;‘m:n:‘;egnfl fast as I can stuff them in and s |dON't know as I blame you. The |Picked up from the floor. 4 In the meantime Merry's father |letter, - had known him all her life. him?” she asked herself presently. 0:‘"0‘“ '3“?“{1‘ e}.;];?}r»x'\ch PRty | Dicky bird is sure going to do some | “You remember it. You dropped |qjes, and Moms is left with Merry | She was sure that Cassle had it. | She took onme glance at it, and j“wasn't he just using Derrick as an M never satisfi to make moist. Pack & I watched her, fascinated, as she |F2Pid hopping from twig to twig |it yourself,” I sald, turning to the,and her three sisters. HELEN, the | But Cassle shook her head In-|tore it up. excuse to break with me? Of course | o W0 T Fo i Unmold drew the straps of the case shut |When he finds out what we've been | Manager of the store. loldest, marries. JINNY, fifteen, |nocently, .and went on into the| “You didn't find the other letter |ho was ALl T O O e a and snapped the locks. Surely, she |UP to. But don’t you care. He'll get | “Yes, I remember it said Mr. at home to help Moms with (bathroom. ald you?” she asked Moms, WO |"gno was sure that she hated him |°0,® Bed © STt T k: could not be as unmoved by this |OVer it and be prouder than Punch | Robinson. housework during the vacation “What would I want with your |was standing, looking at her curl- fnoy, ?‘“‘ fl‘llfll e 1'1'11?«.10\ o fork % message from the dead as she ap. |°ver dared to be when he finds out | Doctor Flint agaln swore under |months, and Merry takes a job in |letter?” she tossed over her shoul- |ously. But every night for weeks, the |y 0080 BB LY N nch dress peared. But when she looked up |What personage his wife has be- | hls breath. He would not have had |LILLIE DALE'S beauty shop, hav- |der, as she bent to turn on the Moms shook her head. first thing she did when she came | beat x‘nlo lLr.num n;{d o,f ] more quickly than I expected and |COmMe: {the manager make that admission |ing failed to learn stenography. {water in the tub. “No,” she answered. “But if [pom. st six o'clock, was to look :ng- nlo.urn O(In-crr\x-‘»0 ¥ i caught me staring at her she gave | . Lersonage?” I echoed stupidly. for anything in the worl 1 IE, four years .older than| Merry came and stood in the |there anything important in fgrantically, hopelessly, through the omatoes '"Y.‘ 8 ooy a little sardonic laugh which made | ‘“Shall I spell it for you?" Lillian | (Copyright, 1926 ce, Inc.) | Merry, is stenagrapher to a broker |doorway. |1t, Tony will write again. WON't ||attarg that were piled on the table erry 4!( o ke me realize that the packet I had [demanded impatiently. “Let me tell | T named MORLEY KAUFMAN, with | “I'm just sick about it.” she said, |pe2 in the hall, .. Dxvo, oups flour, & {easp '°“; i & given her meant mothing more to |¥OU, oh, modest Minnie! that any | TOMORROW—It is Dishonest to |whom she’s in love. Cassio warns |unhappil “It was from Tony | AMerry shrugged her shoulders| mng one she wanted never came. ing powder, 3 tablespoons - butter] & her than a slight temporary annoy- | Woman whom Philip Veritzen con- | Listen. | Merry that Tony Gaines doesn't |Gaines. Did you know that he'd jand went upstairs. Ay 1-2 teaspoon alt, 3-4 cup mil { ance, to be gotten rid of as soon as |Slders competent to pass upon the Imean to marry her. She points out {left town?" | When she came down again, she |y, third week In August, Bin | (4Pout). 2 cups washed and iheals B possible. | historical accuracy of his produc- Ithat he has never introduced her to | Cassie nodded and began to lwas holding a little white card-|prkine “blew into town,” as he ed raspberries, 3-4 cup sugar, 4 «I Haven't Told Dicky.” |tions will cut no mean figure in the | | his mother, nor given her a ring. |clamp waterwave combs all over hoard box in her hand. sald, It was hard to think of Bill | more tablespoons butter. “Snap out of it.” she adjured me. |dramatic world. And Dicky, not be- | | One night when Tony breaks an |her head. 2l CHAPTER XXIT blowing anywhere—he was ~too| MIX and sitt flour, salt and bak “You look positively hag-ridden! |ing exactly a dodo, is going to ap- | our ea th | engagement with her, Merry, in a | “Morley told me so last night” | As she sat waiting for TonY |pgayy and too fat to do anything | in§ powder®Rub in 3 tablespoon: it Please pardon me for the observa- |Preciate that fact at its full value. T | |fit of jealousy, lets DERRICK |she answered, absently. “To be Gaines' mother in the living room |jion"ang atry. butter with tips of fingers and cu { tion that you would win hands down |only hope you choose a psychologi- | How to Keep It— | JONES, a college boy who lives |honest, Merry, I'm glad he's gone. of the Cabot street house. Merry | “He ooked fatter than ever to | in milk to make a soft dough jus i the championship for Futile Fussers. [¢al moment for enlightening him. 1 | Causes of Illness {next door, kiss her. ~‘The next I dom't believe hie was ever seriousjooked around her with wide and [yt 00 Beach sult when | SUff enough to roll on a board. Rol My idea of nothing is to worry about 'don’t mind telling you that I'd sacv; |night when Tony comes, he brings jrhom you. 1 think that's why he cyrious eyes. he drove up before the house at|in a-sheet about 3-8 of an-incl the non-delivery of these fool notes Trafice a contract or two if T could | e : [Marry his mother's lovély old en- |left town—because he thousht he | cho had never been In such aliecan gelock on the hottest night | thick. Sprinkle with berries, leavin that even Lucia Meredith, maliclous |Stage the revelation and have a front | BY HUGH S CUMMING |gagement ring for her, and asks |was ge in too deep With you.” | poqutitul room in all her lite. 1t TG Orol OF pinaierchiet was | a margin of about 1 inch of plaii as she was, wouldn't have left if [seat.” Surgeon General, United States |per to drive over to his home to | Merry's “I don't | was wide and cool looking, with 814, oq jnto his collar, and he con- | dough around the edge. Sprinkl ahe awere sane, And you can depend | “Why can't you?” I asked, laugh- | _ Public Health Service. Imeet her. But on the way, Merry. |sce what she said. | White woodwork and the white book | (ti5C THE0 U0 SRAT, B0 eith ‘an- | with sugar, dot with Dits of butte on it, Hal Meredith is thanking his | Ing. While the preventlon of automo-|fyy| of remorse, tells him about | “Well, Tony Gaines has a 1ot of |shelves that rose straight to the | iner” Hig feet seemed to bulge [ and roll up like a felly roll. Bakd 3 particular stars that Dicky didn't | “Perhaps I shall” she retorted, |Pile accidents is not a function of |perrick. He takes her home and lmoney.” made herself plain, | cefling. like | 0ut Of his white suede oxfords, and | on an oiled and floured baking pa the health departments, he prob- | Tne rug at Merry's feet was he swelled like a balloon under his | for 30 minutes in a moderately ho! |but T knew that she was only jesting health offi- | gshe hears nothing of him for days. |“and it ‘he married you, ¥ follow his directions.” “T know he 1s,” T replled. “Dicky |and that any revelation. to Dicky of |C<r8 Raturally view with concern [Then BILL ERSKINE, a traveling (ably thinks he'd be marrying be- |, carpet of silver green moss, and | ently-buttoned vest. oven. Cut In slices and serve with told me that Dr. Meredith appeated |my new activities must he made at |the ever increasing number of man who's a friend of Morley (neath him 0 everywhere she looked there were Merry tried not to think of Teny | sugar,and cream. greatly relieved when he learned |some time when he and I were alone [1¢aths and disabilities which result | Raufman, tells her that Tony fs| “Why, we're just o5 good a8 his |jow glass bowls filled With = TOS$S: | Gaines as she watched Bill step together. from such accidents. Merry | family Merry answered, flush- |;hoe plue silk curtalns at the win- | 00500 3100 31004 car and come u | | P A what had been done with the let of Montana to live. i f ters” That the automobile fs a most fidr:f ;:r him to come to see her, |ing. “We may be poor, but we're | gows gave a view of the smooth |o ol oo FASH!ONS E “Then ‘will. you: * kindiy tell m’k Cowunlabt, 1945 by Mhwapaper ius»gful instrument for health, for [hut he never does. Then one |every bit as good as he fs! . | Breen lawn at the side of the house. | “uypoinen gho called from her bed- what in Andrew Jackson's adminis- Feature Service, Inc. |pleasure ,and for purposes of gen-|pight, Moms tells her that a1 Yes, but does he ' think so? Every table in the room WaS |,.,,p uyoy talk to Mr. Erskine — R eral utllity no one will for a mo- |ter came from him. But asked Cassie, narrowing her keen |joaqed ‘with photographs in 5”‘"(’; while T finish dressing, will you?” By Sally Milgrim | i - (ment fluuy. Indeed, under present | Merry goes to look for it, it is'gone |eyes, “that's what counts, after ¢ames, ] with silver boxes, an A6y Atarted dowhl the siaire: y y 2! 3 e / conditions of life the automobile is | from the hall table. Finally Merry |all." lamps with brilliant silk shades, o |40 right, T wi,” she grumbled, i . a necessity. |telephones his house and learns | Merry thought over ~what she | pyerything in sight 5""‘“”" | “but hurry up. What will T talk to p There are other health pv'oh‘hms!vhm he left for Montana only an [said as she went slowly down 10 | wealth and luxury and soft Wving. |y " 00 hing about, I'd like to I nl connected With the use of the auto- |hour hefore. Baffled, puzzled, and |breakfast. And, sitting_there, Merry felt fflyl‘; know 2" | H mobile hesides the accident problem. |hoart-broken, she goes to bed, | Waiting for her coffee to cool, hor from Tony Gaines than e | iy, sitting beside fhe windov Contaglous diseases, for example, |gtill wearlng his ring. she decided that Cassie was Wrong. | had, since she had first set [ St SO0 dvess, gave a short may be carried by the automobile |NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY [Tony was no snob. He was &5 |oyes on him. ElRaTe HOse Bim & dook Hook 10 | <% fr one state or city to another, CHAPTER XXI simple and modest in all his. ways | “«why, of course, he never meant ol b called, ‘“He'll Have There was less | she thought bitter- me! jand quite recently smallpox has| The next morning Merry woke up jas Dad had been. |to ma i Ciaa the dickens of a good time with |been so conveyed. in the gr velvet gloom of the |of the show-off about him than |)¢ wperhaps he did just at first |00, o : The problem of the disposal of {summer dawn. there was to Derrick Jones. : when Te was swept oft his feet. |00y g un a4 Merry and Ter O ‘ of automobile camping parti She lay quite still for a moment, | “When you dust this morning | pgut afterward—" She shrugged | . oo e face was more saucy| ES “--» |and of providing such parties with |idly listening to the clatter and |1 wish yowa look around for that | er little shoulders. and twinkling than ever, - |sate drinking water is one which 18 | finkle of the milkman's wagon |letter again” was the 1ast thing | = j¢ was perfectly plain to her, all |V iN\fe—T have a boy friend ot my |etving he \orities grave con- |coming up Chester street that Merry said to Moms When | ;"orce why he had gone away to oo RSO Bit G Yoot ghe sighed, Danny Learns More About Crabs ,to the way this fellow scuttled across icern, and matter in which the Then her evelids fluttered open. “qw left the house. “Tt must h‘t‘ | Montana. To get away from her Clasping her hands on her flat : — the sand. Like the Green Crab, he |citizen must co-operate, particular- |and without a sound she stepped |somewhere in the hall. It couldn't o course! Just as Cassie had | IR AE L B e comical By Thornton W. Burgess traveled sldewise, but he went so |ly the man who uses the automobile. |out on the rug in her slim bare [have walked away.” |cruelly pointed out, he had “gob | 4.0 'y 0. venwara, fast that it would have taken a good | AR A | Out of doors the sun was shin- | yimgel? in too deep” with her @ 1%%y"o bnoce” vou mean Derrlck The more you learn the more you runner to catch him. Jimmy Skunk | WILSON AND HOUSE PORTRAITS Without & s so as mot to |ing in the bluest of blue skies. The | 505 girl working for $10 a week |y /oo (0iq sharply. “Well, find chuckled. “There goes another one| Tondon, July 17 (P—Portraits of |disturb the sleeping Jinny, she 1ip- |leaves danced and.iwinkled on the |in a neighborhood beauty parlor. you're perfectly welcome to him, Of knowledge to enrich the mind. |of the Crab family,” said he, “That | President Wilson and Colonel E. M. |{ocd “across the room and turned |trecs and some boys were flying a | “wpnq yet,” thought Merry: Jin. Tm through wearing him!” —OIld Mother Nature. |one is called host Crab and | House by Sir William Orpen , are | the door knob. [kite in the fresh breeze of the early |zave me this ring the last time 11 She was leaning close to the mir- sometimes the Sand Crab. I guess |among the paintings which Sir | There wasn’t a sound in the morning. saw him. He must have been serl- | W€ T FrHNE B0 es with & Hardly had Danny Meadow Mouse |he's about the fastest running of all | James Dunn will offer for sale in |shadowy house except a low snore | But all Merry knew, as she | ous then—" She was looking dm,‘“ |ting brush. She made up ‘regularly vocovered from the fright of his the Crab family. Aad he can dig [ London on July 16. That came from Moms' room as walked along, was that her head ja¢ tne ring with tear-dimmed e)gs‘lnm“._‘“ps“,\ - Veyebrow ‘Dencil vans first meeting with a erab, which to about as well he can run. It is| These together with |aerry passed it on her way down- |ached and that the sun In her eves |when the door of the room open | (Hing ‘cream, Touge .and powder, him seemed like a glant spider in [too much worl®to chase him and |portraits of thirty-two other men |gtairs blinded her. land Tony's mother came in. | UNTHat Ao, - ¥on. mean-—yor're armor, when out of a hole almost |bring him back for you to look at.|who were prominent in the Ver- s gray sports coat Wumg | “I hate hot weather.” she grum- |"sferry knew that she was TONY'S |y uon ith him?* Jinny asked in at his feet popped another crab |You know, I never like to hurry. |sailies conference, were made by |on the clothes trec in the lowef |pled to Lillie Dale when the ““0 | mother the minute she saw her. |her impudent, breathless way. quite different from the first one, |Anyway, you will have plenty of {Sir William Orpen to be used in |nall, where she had tossed it late |of them were eating their lunch | “no had Tony's deep, dark eves, | ir PN A T oul He gave but quite as startling to Da In {chance to see him, for he and his (preparing large wases 8howing |last might. . |at noon, in the tiny room at the i,ng his fine straight lps. The | 5% B 0 0 T me! And you the first pla Danny hadn't seen |friends are always about on the | the delegates in 1 groups. Holding it in one har }[r»--ry‘ k of the shop. E wye |Droud lift of her head was like the IRow At fogil any hole there; in the second place, |sand. They like the moonlight. They et wiftly went through its pockets | “Me, too,” agreed Lillie. T |Jift of his, and she held out. her Mooy mughgd_“ this fellow was so very nearly the don't come out so much daytimes, WRITER 1S ARRESTED with the other. But there wWas no |makes me perspire until every POre ipang to Merry in the frank, friend- | 5 T on” Jinny had flounced color of the sand that when he |but the; nly do like to run w York, July 17 (F—Miss Jean |letter in either of them—nothing lin my fa looks as big as a shcl} way that Tony, himself, might Abviitates, | 1ticame tor HerA that Velvet and Straw .Are a Sm wasn't moving it difficult to see faround at night. i ang, a magazine writer |but a gold box of powder and a (hole” She took out & huge pink | pave offered his. Derrick probably did think he had | Combination for Late Summer him even when looking right at him. it do they eat?” asked Dan- | unde rthe name of Pearce, s under |perfumed handkerchief smeared |puff and covered her coarse skin | “Nforry laid the white cardboard | JAUTE FIORE Y, U0 o as Jinny Millinery. He was so close to Danny that ny. arrest here accused of passing & |with lipstick | with powder. - {box down on a little table of inlaid DUt it In 2 season when the footwear of “Oh, any old, dead fish they can |worihless check of $355 drawn on & | With a s Merry padded up- | “I'm supposed to go dancing With {yo0q that stood beside her. ShelTTip i o0 0 Y made him stop [the woman of fashion is a com find, or other dead matte bank in Warren, Pa., to a local dress- |stairs again in her small bare feet. [old Hot Heels tonight,” she x\.rntv‘v:mpc\l it ligntly with her finger- |, 0% P he sald to herself. |bination of satin and leather and y catch and eat Beach Fle maker. { She was far too restless to g0 |on, brushing some crumbs £rom jpg She. flushed and frowned, as she |brocade and metal and her gown h Fleas!" exclaimed Danny. . {back to bed, so she went into the her lap. “I came to bring you this” she | 0 B T e colored organdy combine two and thrée material kind of fleas are Beach | ™ Z7 77 Dt e & togk & cold plunge | ~Hot Heels" was Her name fOT |saiq in o faltering voice. “Is the [SWPPR 0° FOsrPOuae CRERL . lin each, it is natural that her hat t instead. [the admirer who took her out {0 |ing that Tony gave me. Your |PFCH o UG gonce And it was |Should be in the same mood.” On “Well, some folks call them Sand When she was dressed, she ran |dinner onge or twice a week. She |y on quite another to lose him te' lttle of tho smartest of combinations 1 | Hoppers. re goes one nNOW. lightly downstairs again. [hever spoke of him by any other | “myo other woman opened the hox | QTS 200 G 00l oty her sty [that of straw and velvet. A charm {Cateh it. You'll find it's good eat- ot wall of the siiting _room |name, and Merry had & S(rong SUE- |and ook the rins from it, looking |} AR ™ 0100 €® T Croy daya |InE examplo of this is a broad brix ing.” Danny caught it. Sure enough, was a big map of the United picion that he was & married man. {44 4t for a moment with thoughtful it orel hat of natural milan faced wit it was good eating. Though Danny States that had hung there ever | “But I'm so ragged out With the eyes pbefore she slipped it on her [P\ l0 o\e vergelt an angry Mt-[Cherry velvet A wide band of |didn’t know it, it wasn't an insect sipce Merry could remember. She |heat that 1 guess I'll go home, in- | finger. 5 tle twist as she leaned over to tie |Velvet encircles the crown and tie lat all, but was a crustacean, just as | [Siee oty glanced at it for sears. stead.” she sighed. “Ill tell hm | mhen she glanced®sharply up at [yie t36 S8 W CCEE FCT 0 Tof jin & large bow on one side. the erabs are. It looked much like | | But now she stood before it, and [T'm going out with somebody elge. |\ferry, and suddenly Merry found |, o0 o000 o1ored dress. | Another hat that uses straw an a giant Flea, only sand colored. | {hunted up the state of Montana. (It's just as well to make a man fherselt violently wishing that she ")lex:\." she thought, summing up. velvet delightfully is one with Danny saw another and caught that, | | Finding it, her finger paused o the |jealous once in a while.” , [had not worn so much rouge and |yl 1y alike — from Derrick |Rarrow leghorn brim turns up | and while he was chasing this one | lgtar that marked the city of Bil-| *“It all depends on the man” jjpstick on her face today. Jones to this fat one who's sltting|the back and shades the eyes i he ran down almost to the edge of | Ilings—the city where Tony was |answered Merry, thinking of Tony | ‘She wished, too, that her mails |4 oo’ o the front porch. All they |front. The crown is a crushe: the water, There surprised an- | going. | Gaines. were not so shiny with pink polish, | (203 T Gy brown velvet with a star-shape other crab. It wasn't like the n | A hiilings, Montana” Merry mur-| She got'up and walked to the land that her hair was not quite so |"ig 'SR IV i (o Byl Brs. |Inset of brown taffeta on {He e Crab he had seen, for it was white | mured aloud to herself, shaking front of the shop. In the mirror |fragrant with Cassie's gardenia |y, o top. Brown velvet crushes aroun covered with spotted rings of red Iher head in a baffled sort of way. that hung above the manicure perfume. “fiello, you big paint and varnish |the crown on one side. Both haf “ and purple. Besides the two last She was baffled. 1t was dread- [table her own face stared back at| ‘She felt common and loud and | .vi gho greeted him gaily. [3T° an ellent taste for town an “There goes another one of the crab || oo (coro not as much Hke legs as B & th C ti [tul ot fo know why Tony had [her with somber eyes. Her mouth |cheap in this quiet room with this [(G}os nave you been doing with [COUDtrY wear, iy il the hose of the Green Crab. They were egin e Lutcura gone there—not even to have had |turned down at the corners and |low-voiced woman whose skin Was| i oy jatery?” These hats of matural colore Danny had a good look at him. | really two paddles, for this crab is a H b't E l l L'f | chance to say “Goodby” to him, |there was a strained line between |free from powder, and whose hands|" gy o"cave him her hand, and felt |straw are charmingly trimmed wit "o irsatod Dk a0l very good swimmer and It uses abit Lariy In Lire or 1o give him back his ring. {her eyebrows. looked like bits of carved ivory, a8 16 4Ld mad stuck it into a pantul |d€ep tones of velvet. You see th era i suddenly [these for swimming. Tt was the It med impossible that he had| No one would have thought of “pen’'t you want to keep this of soft warm bread-dough. | — raised himselt right up on the tips | Lady Crab, which is also called cFor more than two generstions| | gone—jmpossible that the grent nicknaming Ter “Merry” now. as|ring?" Tony's mother was asking | " upgint ana varnish!” T N A ) Wiy tosn 80 to #peak, and then |Sand C though quite different ‘“"'C“m_5°ap hafllbtcn the favor- blue car would mever sweep royal- she stood staring at her reflection, |in that lovely voice of hers.|yeon o™ eoring through the dusk ) he had raised his eyes right up out ab, whic vou B ‘zx‘é";" "éfh", s iy up Chester street again! her hands locked o1 the glass case [“Don’t you want it, my dear?” at Merry's face. “You have plenty quAN s Bhhis head. At leadh, that {sithe lso called Sand Oir}’m“_‘f'w;:f‘nim!{, ?n:a“r": A lump of unshed fears came where Lillie kept her cosmetics. | Merry shook her sun-bright head. |o¢ it on vourselt tonight, I'm think- i€ 160ked to Danny. Never had Da senttl ¢ from Skin fetth it b o ehta into Merry's throat, as she stood Her whole figure sagged hope- |“I think Tony wanted me to return |y’ yo.'q go upstairs and wash n anything like that befor Wy into the water. LU Y SEey B S llooking ‘at the olored lessly. lit to you,” she said. “He sent me 2 s 1d only ses how | £ @ T e A i - S hood, 2nd freedom, in the majority e . i i bet e’ went: nsvay: | YOusalt 4t you coic on’y 88 » ! 2 two eyes were on the ends of fter it of cases, from skin afiections jn| |sauare that was the s Mon- | It was about two that afternoon |a letter just before he went away. |y, oK1 She 1iade a wry fice H WBin atatke, and when those stalks a him. oy tana on the map. |\when Moms telephoned the beauty [But it got lost around the house (7 50 Piieoos her daughter good- i oEs raised St owrart 2" asked e | I never see him : 1 sup- :;shop. : hc;o:]e 1 m;]t a rhnr;)ce (oh:endi it. | ieht, Wi PEBEEEL Y 3 s sl kat & Sk sl ey o |pose,” she thought, er, as| “A special delivery letter Jjust |I fegl sure it was about this ring, Moms ditested ™Mo use : g 1 out this crab, “Oh, Sl Tavoiar D e M [ long as T live.” lcame for you,” she said, and Merry [though—I feel sure he wanted me m‘;‘;‘.""f e ins Against Il Healt e o exclaimed Jimmy. ST Cuticura Shaving Stick 25c. She went upstairs, packed the |gave a hoarse little gasp. “Do, you |to bring it back to you skin, it did not worry Bill Erskine “At times I was hardly able to d my Skunk 1 to crabs pretty |gold and pearl ring into the card- nt me to open it and read it to| Under her snow-white pompa- Qr all. oy hokEoih wrltesy\lr: fia “That fellow there!” replied Dan- t mind a soft-shelled |board box, and slipped it into her |you over the phone?” dour, Mrs. Gaines' eyebrows knit| ™., " i goeen't look matural | - garet, VAVall'ace ol 3 8y, pointing to the crab standing on |c cry minute.” handbag. | “N-No, indeed!” Merry answered |themselves together in & puzzled | yijoui"it,” he pufted, as ho and | 547 Safford Ave i tiptoe. ft-shelled crab?" in- “rn sflnd_vhu( back to his moth- |shakil ",.I'" be right home to get | S Merry went down the front walk Columbus, Ohid b’ Jimmy turned. At his {er. anyway,” she made up her mind |t myself! | 1, of course, if that's what |y o o0n 410 hedges of four o'clocks Howman iy weat the crat 1926, by T. W. Burgess) firmly. “I wouldn't let them think | Her feet fairly danced as she [you think—" she murmured uncer- | oo "n 4™y 4 bianted before he Mg 05 e 11 i : vy Tiaariii that I'd keep his ring. What do [hurried back to the booth where | “Perhaps Td better ask | yils “up ko 'to see a girl look TR Boved ravialy, but othing 'How ( Grow." I want with his old ring?" [Lillie was giving one of her “milk |Tony when I.write to him—"_ |y,o0y ang up to date. When 1 SeIvEd" i thi 1 ¥ R But she took it out of her hand- [packs for tired face | “No, thankst” Merry eut n brisk- | ph S "Lt o gtnner T want | same Sondftion : —— - — bag five minutes later and put it| “T've got to go home for o few [ly, lifting her soft little chin | ol " Ty e place to look at | How many wor 8 back in her top drawer—to give |minutes”” she whispered, calling [proudly. She could be proud, too, [y, i en have fough ! ¢ Tony's ring back was like giving |her to one side. “I won't be gone [when she wanted to be! His little eyes looked her up and | bravely on, da: | away a fragment of her heart long.” She got up to zo. indeed!" | 4 " and for an instant Merry after day, cook] b | “I can't do it, not yet," she told | “All right” Lillfe answered, and |she said, holding out her hand, “I | nteq to slap his face for him! ing, washing i (S 1. she scowled with displeasure, got it back safely. I have no use [y =" i "t 4o iftle laugh, she | . ironing, doing the } » ® seven o'clock Cassie's bed- But Merry - was too filled with |for it now, of coursc.” jumped into the car he had hired | tdishes, and keeping the house clean| L/ aGll’l Of TOday | room door opened and Cassie |sndden happiness to see the scowl, [ Tony's mother looked more |¢o tyo evening. when they were in a weakened f | stepped out into the hall on her |or even care 1if Lillle scowled. puzzled than before. On the seat was a square white | condition and had not sufficient LASH OF WITS s | way to the bathroom. In one hand , What was a whole world of Lillies | “Of course, I don't know what | " 1 /"tioq up with orchid rib-| Strensth to ‘perform these duties b - A JOLAS ; R G PR, e she carried a bottle of bath salts |compared to one letter from Tony |happened between you and Tony,” |4 . A friend advised her to takd | Aot bl o (Y. Hinalteon b & BOoUE DI D T and in the other a large can of tal- |Geines? |she began. “The night I came | ‘ou said BUT, heaving him- | L¥d1a B, Pinkham’s Vegetable Com H Robinson, in the time which was | under } )th which sounded like | : g . ; ; or you,” said BIIf, heaving hlm= | ;5,44 apq gh ir triall | ; cum powder, She was sure that the letter was |home from Charlottesville, he told | .10 in yegide her. n she gave it a fair trial i n me for it, according to rules : It was unwritten law in the | from Tony—and no matier what lme that he was engaged to this |’ (TO BE CONTINUED) | “I just can’t give emongh thank ¢ 11 been up ¢ came close to me again | Locke household that Cassie should |was in it, it meant that he was still | wonaereut girl~to you. And not L | to it,” she writes. “Now I can eal i stairs lulnh’l\hu, ( \] v R W snapped, “Where s that bottle "lm\'b the use of the bathroom every |thinking of her! And that was |more than two or three days after- g{;g:-mgmit i'l"hflnd fI0 nuv}eaf?e"n 4 “Evidently you had not told him now, young woman.” morning from seven ‘to seven: | something, wasn't it? w e made up his min 0 . ave for years. i that 1 had been there, Doctor Flint, | “iTa Mr. Robinson got it?” T ehirey. & 6 el o Buire St HbGFORED a\?tnzohno‘:tana_ s S Melms far the Famlly Whall never be without your med for he said, is unfortunate that |countered Everybody elsé could dash fin |get home. And yet it was only ten | “Judge Bannerman, who lives out | cine again. ] Miss Cloaver has had an eplleptic| “You know very well he hasn't. and out whenever there was a |minuies before she was standing |there. has wanted him, to come :.BA"‘;"“‘“ who is fighting for he 4 fit. 1 told him that she had taken [That's why I asked you for it last chance. Jinny and Merry dressed [on the front porch, waiting for |for years” she added, Atill frown- | Breakfast: Shredded fresh pine- | 12 A and hialfamflgihflpp‘““; . poison and to prove it I handed him that's why I am asking you there together, on cold mornings. | Moms fo unhook the screen and [ing. “He was a great friend of my |apple, cereal, thin cream, waffles, | ;nt"ae’{'& %" L ‘l}(lxet ;"35“ oy 7 i the hottle from which about half of | for it now Doveioned ot Worid's But Cassie’s bath was a cere- [let her In. hushand, and it will be fine for [syrup, crisp whole wheat toast.| pait® iR Mer omD MIECRER SO the liguld had been tuken. As 1| “Tdontwhether Mr. Robinson has | | Poremost Scleneii mony. | But the minute she saw the en- [Tony to be with him.. Still—" she |milk, coffee. ol L sifpped it fnto Mr. Robinson's hand |it or not, Doctor Flint,” T lied cheer- | | Industrial Research It there was not enough hot wa- |velope Moms held out to her, all [shook her head and’ sighed. Luncheon: Consomme, rice and g0 WOXnE DARARES. o o he was 80 terrified when he saw the “T haven't seen Mr. Robinson iy TR B ter, she Kicked up a terrible row.|the eager happy look, died out of | “T must go." sald Merr§ shortly. [vegetable salad. brown bread and' yype \WaeoT N RAN T dia 1, Ploid 4 red skull and cross bones that he |s saw him at the counter when eas to humans If there were not enough towels to | her face. l’the smile on her face was like sun [butter sandwiches, nut cookies, pam'g Vegetable Campaun& Jfi“ Ta i Wianea it on-the fioor And. turned [T handed it b hirss: I saw bibi drop and animels. suit her, she all but had hysterics. | For the fetter was not fiom |shining on ice, as she went through |milk, tea. stored their health. #6 white 1 thonght he was going to | I saw him turn very pale as he “I won't live In a pig-sty like this!” Tony. The handwriting dashed 'the wide hall. Tony’s mother Dinner: Broiled lamb chops, ' % / Oy { ) 5 : ; . e e