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Quicksands of Love Adele Garrison’s New Phase of Revelations of a Wife—— Why Does Mary Faint, Following | Masked Dancer Story? 1 broke off with-a quick involun- tary side glance at Mary which I Lillian's exclamation of pleased ' knew was seconded by Lillian and astonishment and mine were almost | Katherine, I was anxious to see simultanecous. what her reaction would be to this “The masked dancer!” we repeat- |sudden mentfon of the dancer's ed and Dicky smiled in patent self- | nane. But to all appearances she matisaction. | had not heard anything which had “I thought that would fetch you,” | been said. She was slumped. into said. her big armchair, her head turned top smirking, Dic away from us, her elbow resting on lian admonished him. “While Madge | the arm of her chair, while her hand and T are tickled pink at the chance Covered her eyes. It was a familiar 85 565" the girl-pvarybod | posture to me, one she frequently ix talking about, yet remer takes when she is tired, and with gver &even, and there have |the mental comment that she either masked dancers in the world befgre this one. think T cdn remember s two myself. So she's nothing to get 80 complacent about.” ‘ Dicky grinned 1n the enjoyment | alwa n's gibes | n they are directed against | been Indeed, T |Was indifferent to it I gave my at- | astonished exclamation. “What Ails Mary?" “Yes, T mean to say that the cap- ering cockroach has sprung a new one on Broadway,” he said. “From somewhere he has dug up probably the most graceful and gifted dancer of the last half century and taken her on as his partner. She has an exquisitely molded fignre and ever one believes her face matches it. 11‘-11{ she never appears without a himself. “You certainly have had the | chance to see many of them, dear | he retorted “in the sixty years | come Martinmas you've wandered | up and down Broadway woman and | Eir).” _*Yes, and T've learned too much , 40 €0 into hysterics over a night club |novel pontomime dance that dancer whom I haven't seen or | heard,” she said caustically cial {the combination is irrestable to the 1y when Jack Leslie’s the other half | blase Broadwayites, and the place is of the sketch. I can't in |a riot every night. Not the least in it- theatrical | had not heard the dancer's name or | | ing one or | tention to Dicky's rejoinder to my | ask and as they're putting on a | self is worth the price of admission, | thing less interesting to that youth.” Leslie Best Dancer “I don't like him any better than you do,” Dicky said “but I don't let judice blind me to the fact s the best dancer on Broad- | | bouna, and was in time to catch her | way today.” My ejaculation of astonishment forestalled Lillian's retort, if indeed she meant to make any. “Jack Leslie!” I exclaimed. “Do you mean to say—" The Robin Who Wasn't By Thornton W. Burgess Bome folks, T really do believe, ‘Were born their neighbors ceive, —Peter Rabbit Sometimes it does look that wa Yes, sir, it does s cver, folks are their own fanlt. deceived They haven't used il\f the attraction is o Vel strong | probability that Noel Veritzen and | Jack Leslie will come to blows about | the girl some night soon. Hello! | what ails Mary?"” | He covered the space between his niece and himself almost at a single | as she slid from her chair in a ¢ | faint! to de- | Usually, how- | through their eyes as Mother Nature intend- | «d they It was just after Christmas t Peter Welco Robin ain the wi as hard for Peter to believe this, for he had s come start for th little hefore the coming of the first snow, and he was sure that Wel- come had had no thoughts then of returning before spring. e it,” =said Peter y to Danny Meadow who had just told him. ‘Have n Welcome yourself? . replied Danny rather “No-o, T haven't cousin, the Hare, told one of the Mer: tle Brec and the Merry Breezes told me.” Peter looked susplcious. “My , Jumper the Mare, doesn't g0 over to the Old Orchard in the daytime, and it is in the that Welcome Robin is abroad. | ¥Oh,” replied Danny, “it wasn't | n the Old Orchard that your | cousin saw Welcome Robin; it was over in the Green Forest. Welcorme had just come from the Old Or-| chard.” “I'm going to find out for my- | self,” replied Peter. “It is mighty | queer if Welcome Robin has stayed | over and I have known nothing about it ail this time. So away went Peter, lipperty-lip- perty-lip to the Old (gchard. Of course he made straight for Stone Wall with the bus elong it. There he always f Always there was a hiding p under the stones of the Old Wa No one but Shadow the Weasel Billy Mink, could follow him the The first thing Peter did sit up and look this way and look that way for danger. None was i sight. Then he hopped over t very edge of the bushes ne Old Orchard gerly I Welcoma Robin, He saw Tommy the Chickadee, and Down Hairy, the Woodpeck my J nd hatch, hut tho looked, he should. me for Lit- Little | and and Sam- reminded seen | Jumper | ’ broken | orange of this whi “At the present moment,” said he, “I am getting a good meal.” | | | Iy he came to where | him of Welcome Robin, owly Peter hopped along on the Pr number of sumac bushes grew. | seed scales floating rlo\\n‘ Peter to look up. There, | eding on the sumac herries, | at first glance fool- | Yes, sir, Peter was fooled, | bird was about the size and | hape of W 1e Robin. At first | Peter only had a back view of him. | He just on the point of calling out to him when the bird turned. | Peter saw instantly that it was not Welecome Robin, He had a short, thick bill, quite unilke Welcome Robin's bill. Moreover, the stran- | ger's breast was rose red, and that is not the case with Welcome Rob- in at all. Welcoma Robin isn’t red. even if he is called “Robin Red- breast.” ‘It's Piny the Grosbeak!” exclaim- ed Peter to himself. “My cousin Jumper the Tare didn't half use Hello, Piny! What are you | down here? Tt's a long time T've scen you. the Pine Grosbeak stopped s from the sumac and 1 down at Peter. “At the pr sment,” said he, ‘I am get- | a good meal. That's what I'm since : down here. | ned good naturedly. “Of | said he, “and I'm glad of | you don't come down here and 1 wondered why you down here from the Great orests of the North." or the most excellent reason | I couldnt' get enough to eat and I can down here. rries are delicious. come T don't suppose y Poter Rabhit.” Coal Evenings and cooler days are coats must come fro; hung awe before the Call and w or dye any of your Have them taken car can be w o 1°223-3 T New Britain DyvyCleaning co. To a Masters Standayd inquality and Sevvice™ 96 WEST MAIN ST. PLANT 413 W. 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Creomulsion contains, in addition to creosote, other healing elements which soothe and heal the infected membranes and stop the jrritation and inflammation, while the creosote goes on to the stomach, is ab- sorbed into the blood, attacks the seat of the trouble and checks the growth of the germs, Creomulsion is guaranteed satisfac- tory in the treatment of persistent coughs and colds, bronchial asthma, bronchitis and other forms of respira- tory diseases, and is excellent for build- ing up the system after ®lds or flu. Money refunded if any cough or cold is not relieved after taking according to directions, Ask yous druggist, (advy poons sugar, 1-2 teaspoon | chopped | WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE Elwell in Camdenville, Ind, one night in October of 1808, comes Martha Dalton, a nurse, bearing a woman who gad fainted on the train on which Martha had been travel- ing. Elwell s an artist. He has a son, Jim, aged 5. Late that night twin girls are born to the woman, who dics without revealing her pame. The Elwells adopt the girls. The story then moyes forward 18 years. The twins, now growing to beautiful womanhood, have been named M nicknamed ret and Elizabeth usty and Betty. en the World War Iwell enlists. Two nights leaves he discovers that twins loves him and he lives her. He tells his but does not {ell which one, because he wants her to love both of them the same in the event he does not return. Two months later he France. NOW BEGIN THE STORY 4 CHAPTER XIV The privileges accorded well during the seven mon lowing his arrival in I no different from those other soldiers of Uncle there.” They ¢ d him to wor cat, sleep and drill in a cantonment camp. For it was discovered ver hort- 1y after reaching France that the American army was an unprepared army. The first United St 'S troops were landed in France in May and June of The first shot fired by any of them was on Jet. 21, four ménths after their landing. America’s contribution World War divided itself into three mods, namely: The period between March and August of 1918 vhen the United States troops fought under French cogmmand at Cantigny and also be- tween Aug. 6 and Sept. 15, when Pershing organized the American First Army and led it to battle at St. Mihiel, and then that period be tween the campaign of the Me Argonne. Hence it was that up until March of 1918 Jim found himself, along with something more than a million other United States soldiers, ple and Ameri and Jim before ) one of the in turn mother, sails for Jim El- o were f a million to the roughly of “just looking on.” It was a year after the United States had declared war that the first divisions were the big American action described i { official documents as the Aisne- Marne. It was the “Yanks” Division, which Jim Elwell had been trans- | terred, that reached T in | August of 1917 May of 1018 eight activ had | By that time Jim had | transferred. Decoration him in billet with the Second Di- | vision south of Beauvais. This di- vision later was ordered to proceed to the Marne arca. As they approached the Ourcq river the troops of which Jim Fl- well, buck private, was a part en- countered hundreds and thousands | of refugees fleeing hefore the invad- ing hordes. OIld men, women and children with such of their house- hold effects as they eould pile into | carts wheeling along in front of [ them or beside them. Some crying, | others cursing, still others with olid, expressionless faces. Remnants of the French Division, irruring after defeat, also were met | Thess waved to the advanc | Americans, new hope in their eyes. | “Comrades,” they called them. Private Perkins, late of Prince- eald to Private Dlwell, “Poor They look all in.” ve becn through an | time of it, T guess.”” Jim repli | “well, we'll be “oon | selves, 1 guess June 4 was th eday on which the cond Division faced the Germans. Their line reached northward from { the national highway and encircled | the little village of Tucy-le-Bocage, | from that time on the center of the American sector, Following is a de- | scription of this sector, from Fi H. Simmonds’ history and maps of | the World War The Bois de [ betore the larger | American front | siderable area of dense wood ll\\r‘l.-l- d from the little least of TLucy-le-Boc: {to the highway runn Torey and forking to ce in heen Day found ful therc our- ellean, portion constitn stretehing the con of ich just northward east from the ork brook Re mhed out village of Bellean. Reyond one branch cl the of Belleau Wood and continued®o Broken ©192 NFA SERVICE INC., To the home of Prof and Mollie | . Mihiel ana the Armistice, | the old watchful and waiting game | preparng ifor | arrived. | AIEA) FICTION VA [7g % Cliffo | Chateau-Thierry. The other turned | south and ran along the eastern | edge of the woods through the vil- | | Iz che, joining the Paris- | Metz at Vau | Where the road following the | southern edge of the forest and | crossed the brook just east of Lucy is where the first American Marines that. fell in 'battle in France were | | buried. | The western slope, which faced | |the Marines, compelied the Ameri- | | cans to move under ‘direct obsery nd thus to suffer heavy losses. i [ tion The highest point of this wood look- jed over the ruined village of Be {leau and the crossroads, and crowned by a little stone tower. On June 6, at daybreak, the sec- ond of their occupation of this front, the Marines attacked the enemy. But { their attack was not a success, and they began {rying to ha their way th forest. Their losses were heavy and continuous although the Germans had to reinforce their troops time and Tt was on June {ing the French, that the Second vision, of which Jim Elwell was a . joined the Marine brgiade. They were assigngd the task of rout- ing the Germans. That samo day ihey took the entire forest, and Jim | Elwell learned what war was. i The Second Division did its work nd did it well. On' July 5 it turncd over its front to the New England troops and from then on it looked upon even by the Germans of the best American ghock And while Jim Elwell, who | played his small part in this victory, got no medals for his work, he got —but we are gefting ahead of our story. From the many ledges and rocks of the wood, the Germans were di- recting a withering machine gun fire. They had dug their curious, protecting “fox holes” to provide the guns with cov neing in the face of with the wave of aw man after T of him, to either side of him: d the sing of those dly 1ti ad messengers, the cam of shells, the cries of wound- m Saw Private Perkins, late of Princeton, fall with a bullet through | his breast, saw him smile a ghastly mile, and die | Jim Blwell kept telling himself | that he was afraid. But he kept | moving on. A man heside him | screamed and dropped. Jim shudder- od. Yes, he kept telling himself, he was afraid | | The uproar was hideous. The { acrid smell of gunpowder burned in his nostrils. From the woods ahead puffs of smoke kept bursting, each | puff packed with death, he told | himself. And then a strange emotion took hold of him and it seemed that he { was moving in a dream, It all was | untrue, unbelievable, It was not he, lwell, that was here keeping th death. No, Jim Elwell was in Camdeny back with Moilie and Prof, back with the twins, Ah- He < now with that o had paused at the | Elwell back fence to throw insulting remarks at the twins. Yes. was fighting with him, and the man had hit him, hit him in the left shoulder. For the shoulder suddenly hurned and then grew numb and neTecoiled from the shock and stumbled. But it would take more blow to keép him down getting up now, getting up and— But that was blood running down the front of his blouse. Blood, and he was fecling faint. But he was up again and moving forward. Again that spell of powder in his nostrils, And the din around him-—cri x plosive sounds, and the rat-tat-tat, | rat-tat-tat of the machine s - |and then secing little puffs of dirt oming up from the ground as the lets powed into it He was feeling very faint, now. Strange that Rusty wasn't around to throw that croquet hall and res- cue him. Where was Rusty, anyhow? e there man," someone shouted him, “you're hit, don't vou know it? Why in hell don't you back?" | Jim smiled, saw with an antomatic pistol in his hand. Dut he had never scen this man be- | fore and he grinned a sickly gr!n‘; ind kept on. | | And then, suddenly, a loud explo- fon somewhere back of him, and | mething came up from the ground | ind hit him. Hit him in the leg, ind he dropped down i He lay there for several minutes | and this tine when he tried to get fighting he t a misty figure hreads rd L WehbasdErnest Lynn up his legs just refused to do the work. They buckled under him and lie half £at, half lay down in a queer, huddled position. And now it all came back to him clearly. He was not back in Cam- denville, after all. This was France and he was a scldier and this was an actual battle. This was what war was like. He tried to move and failed. And ther he began to sob. He had for- gotten the pain in his shoulder but his leg where that rock had hit him, was hurting horribl His head was swimming now and From the woods ahcad, puffs of smoke kept bursting, cach puff packed with death, he told himscif he tried to think of Mollie and Prof and the tw but somehow he just couldn't think of any . The ground where he i red. Jim hed gently sounds faded from his e sight of moving men w shut off. outflung arm and stayed there. Figures moved over the battle- eld. The din had died down now and the woods from which had come that deadly machine gun fire ind the suddenly were still. These were messengers of | merey that now area, where brief messengers of hurled. moved across the hours before the death had been They were lifting up t} the wounded. Someor at 1o across the still figure that lay in the queer, huddled position, knees drawn up close to the chin, head resting on lead and one outflung arm, while the other hand stretched out limply and fell just short of the rifle grip. trong hands lifted Jim Elwell up from the ground and bore him back on a streteker to an ambulance fillgd with the living and the dead m\\ll those who were to die. (To Be Continued A buliet in his shoulder and a piece of shrapnel in his leg. But Jim Flwell is not through yet. Your Health How to Keep It— Causes of Illness BY DR. MORRW I'ISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygela, the Health Magazine. A Dritish physician noticed that there were more sudden deaths when | the barometric pressure was high. 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