New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 12, 1927, Page 12

Beuting the Stage for a Scene With Mrs. Baker “But do you suppose Mrs. Baker will be willing to com down to Katherine's room?” 1 asked when Lillian was outlining her scheme for ataging my denunciatory interview with the queer lodger from the fourth floor. “QOrdinarily, “put this time we'v no,” my friend asked, got her going and coming. If she’s put Mary up to this appeal to vou, shelll be Johnny on the spot. On the other hand if the s spicl was on the square, we'll get her by the simple expedient of ‘sending Mary after her. . won't want to risk her in by refusing the request.” vy hand upward in a mili- salute. ow've thought of every possible angle!” T said admiringly. Sbe made a curions little familiar to me as her way of ward- ing off a compliment. i the tary 10ts d are now s brusquely, about his business any more. act it would he a great deal better if you @idn’t rehearse even to vourself he ghunder and lightning you're going to unloose upon Mrs. Baker's head vas nd we don't need to worry It will be all the better it im- promptu, and you > can trust Your memory for the things Mary told you.” T nodded an assent, and she look- ed at her watch speculatively “We have a good two hours—and over — hefore Mary returns,” said. “D'ye mind If T haul out t ©ld drawing board?" “Terribly,” I told her with #mile, and with an impudent #he walked to the closet where sht keeps an emergency outfit of her Grawing materials, and in another minute she was ensconced in one of the big windows, working so ab sorbedly that nothing short of a fir a grin | Quicksands of Love Adele Garrison’s New Phase of —— Revelations of a Wife—— NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1927. Beatrice bYBurtor. | « -author of % *LOVE BOUND* 4 “HER MAN* © JOHNSON FEATURES INC. 1926 'HONEY LOU"ETC READ THIS FIRST: 1know where her folks were,” she| “She must have lost her mind Bobbje Ransom, & little school |sald, sniffling. “She was burned | Mrs. Mangan,” she said solemnly. darm would have disturbed her, | teacher, is about the last person on |over at the studio about a month | “She's been awfully blue ahd With the urge of my own unfinish- | €&Fth you'd suspect of being “movie | ago, and Miss Ransom and T looked | melancholy r since she was| 21l work upon me, 1 established my~ | Mad.” But she 1s. She tries to bor- | through all her things for a name |burned that time. She knew she 1t, my portable typewriter and my | TOW money from her father and her | or an address. We thought if she couldn't go back fo the picture sheit of notes at a small tabls op- | Aunt Gertrude to take her to Holly- | had any folks anywherc they ought | for a long time, and it made her posite her, and from that moment | Wo0d, where she hopes to break into | to know about her. But we awfully unhappy. She hated man- Until Mary with Katherine and | Pictures. They both refuse to lend | couldn’t find anything to sho | iwuring She sighed, remember- Junior came breezily into the room, | her @ cent for such a purpose. So | where she'd como from.” Ing ShowEBtella hadkio @ hersdly| e did not speak. Indeed we hardly | 40€s Andrew Jerrold, who wants her,| The envclope, tucked into the e before how emply lif looked up, for we hoth had drilled | t0 Stay at home and marry him. girdle of Dobbie's dress, cracki ay from the studios. ourselves in concentration upon any | Finally she borrows $500 from |1t sounded as loud as a thunde suppose she was trying to e Ak the Widow Parkins, who is engaged | clap to her. Surely the police t1l me Low —empty evervthing “How doth the little busy beel” | to marry her father, and goes to|must hear it. Perhaps she ought |:emed to her,” she went on think- herine mocked as she came | Hollywood. There at the boarding [to turn it over to them anyway she's been getting through the door. Mary laughed at | house of Mrs, Marngan, she meets | The name and address of ] with he the nonsense, but T caught the un- | Stella Delroy, who's an extra girl | people might ¥ dit to nerve he i atia tive be which she |in the movies. Through Stella she “I'll take a look and 1 out Tonely peop hiow nd guossed. that s gets some work at the Magnifica | first,” she made up her mind, and their thou was wondoring whether or not T yet | Studios, where Roy Schultz, a great | very quictly she slipped out of n wh A A | director, and Lottie, his wi ke | Stella’s room and across the hall ther people v Lillian made a final mark upon | STeat interest in her, more as a per- to her own. ik really. Living her work, gave it a critical inspec- | SON than an actress. Gus MacCloud, | Guiltily locking the door hehind lonely little world, silently | tion, and laid down her pencil. | the assistant director, falls in love | per, she drew the envelope from | #sking for sympathy, and under- o 2 wholo hive of 'em,” she | With her and she with him. Another | peneath her girdle. 1t was not | Standing.and - hardly ever get- “But we're going to|Plaver, Monica Mont, advises Bobbie | scaled, and upon it was written in 12 ¢ work now for a spell, | t0 VAmp Gus into helping her along, | pencil: “Please give this to Halt: Spast one Misg Mapsan you ought to be photo- | Put when Bobbie takes her advice | Angus MacCloud.” Ui s Sand g dand aphed in that pose. Tt's most | She becomes jealous, To Gus MacCloud! To Gus M went upstairs fo bed. CReaativa Bobbie goes home when Aunt | Cloud! For a moment Bobbie t is, Mrs. Man, went to T flushed at her raillery, but | Gertrude dies. Andy tries to per- | prain could’ take in notl but | bed—and, let us hope. to sleep. | Junior’s arms around my neck pre- | suade her to stay there and get the fact that Stella had some | 00 woman, she neaded sleep. She vented me from answering her. He | merried, but she has two reasons |jast m for Gu Tt sald, as if LRSS had run into my embrace as he | fOT going back to Hollywood—Gus, Rut why Gus? She hem a knot-hole back- | Alveys @065 when hairetirns, from |-and HerXcaresr. s She doesn't know {swonder after: o vhile, iz S n outing, and unwittingly he pl which she cares for most. What had there ever Leen be Bobbit, sas Oy ed into our hands | In her absence, Monica, that con- | jer and Gus that she should p than she n in g “Please let me take my nap on | firmed gold-digg has left her o |etter him and then take her S vour bed.” he pleaded, “and you lie | board bill at Mrs. Mangan's unpail, | poison? There was a mystery for | She undressed and got into hed down with me till T get to sleep.” |&nd moved into a flat of her own yoyu! She ftried to e alllarine Ravs u | where Bobbie suspects she enter- “All T've got to do to know the couldn’t mas T told him with the {nvariable | tains s sometimes. as well &S | rpsw to open this envelops couldn deference to my little kinswoman’s | another suitor, Ted Piper. Monica | and read whai's inside,” Bobbic letter discipiine wh T have practiced | &PPears to be deeply in love with | (jought, look down at the cheap Fthe vug. over by | 2 sinee she took charge of Junior in | but he evidenfly prefers Bob- ywhite paper. Her fingers &ad Wha s it : What order to give me my untrammeled | Pie. The latter hears that he's mar- | the flap, {hen pressed it down }ad a had fo say to Gus Mac- vear of work under Philip Veritzen, | Tled and that his wife is leaving | ugain. n once more she lifted (loud. during the last minutes of | Eut at the same time I gave her a | Mm, and tells him she'll let him | it up. her lon ppy life? Would little. signal which told her that T|Mzke love to her no more. But sha stopped tas R Jed gm0 had an especial reason for wishing | After a week of loneliness she is' gdipped the thing under Lo enanl st to grant my small son's request. |&lad to sce him again and goes 10| cred rug on the floor. 1 nything to do with it | Cowspaper | Bis New Year's Eve party as guest | there, for the time heing. 1o questions went around and Feature Service, Inc. | of honor, There, Lottie Schultz sug- Then she threw her velvet ca round in Bobbie's brain, like num- | Bests that she maké some ext on the bed, and went back to the bers in a roulefte wheel — dizzily. | money by teaching her little daug] ay on the bed. | swiflly, but coming again and Jolly, & » going. The one | again. | | cide Jater, in plain clothes was putting his | " she could stand it no Mrs. Mangan phones to say that |nook away, and then slipping his 10ng was soul of | Stella has taken acid, and is lying | glasses into a leather case, e she was also a woman. | {on the floor of her room, insensi- |said something in a deep under- n have been madly curi- | ble. Bobbie takes Gus' car and | tone to Mrs. Mangan and she Ous ever since the time Pandora rushes home. Monica and Ted | nodded dolefully. cpened the alabaster box. Piper arrive, and Ted suggests that N Ao T She switehed on the light in her | they call the police. RO R e e room. and flung lLuck the rug. Sit- NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY | Monica tald to Ted Diper when | UNg on her litile bare heels she CHAPTER XXXV |they were gone But he insisted |Tcad the letter that Stella had “Oh, no! Not the police upon staying until a Mack automo? tten to Gus 1o letter - thaty It was Mrs. Mangan's voice, high ' bile came rushing up thr \ the de a good many things perfeetly | and shrill with nervous dread. She foggy night, and carried Stella’s ©'ear to ! i f | | | ! while Mother Brown Entertains | was still thinking of her house, | Lody away with it to the morgy 0 CHAPTER XXXVT Tl land the disgrace that Stella had | The house scemed like a di The letter was not the hysteri By Thornton W. Burgess brought upon it—and wondering ent place when Bobbie and Mrs. | cal scrawl th Bobbie had The “open sesame” to the heart wid her she'd ever be able to rent | Mangan went back into it, pected fo see. It was not the kind s frequently the stomach’s part. that room ag: Probably;not for | Monica and Ted had driven away, ©f letter anyone would expect a —Old Mother Nature a long time, if the story got into suicide to sit down and write, ey e chairs and tables, the ery Stella had used an indelible pen- It is trus of man and it not dead. We | pictures on the w cmed | ©il, and nd there a purple the Hitie people of the Gre she said sharply. nd g ent mark showed wher ar ha est and the Green Meadoy | “Seems to me we ought to find out v light n, the | fallen on the paper and biurred the 19 nothing quite so friendly | for sure, befors we call the police. | windows stood wide open to let | Writi well filled stoma There is noth { How about a doctor 2" out the strong ening smell of “Dear Gus,” &l had written, ing quite so difficult to quarrel | She went jerkily forward and the poison. Maybe yowll tear up this letter with. 1f there were no hunger in| | knelt “down beside the still figure Mrs. Mangan sa on the ¢ 1y you've forn up most of the this world it would indeed be a {on the floor. Then she picked it | hottom step of stairs, put her others I've written to you in the world of hrotherly love. | {up in her arms, and for the first 1 against the newel post and last three years. Maybe not. Any When Peter Rabbit popped out time Stella’s face was visibl m to ¢ I'll be where T won't know or | of the old home of Johnny Chuck There was a red burn at one side h, wi rrible thing to | lis fime., That's something. in the far corner of the Oid nnirml‘ of the open mouth, brighter than | have ha n—and on New Year' ear, don't think T blame you Yie saw a queer procession. It con- | {the old scars on her neck and|eve, too! she sobbed: “Such a not likin me any more i sted of Jimmy Skunk, Mrs. Jim- | :\mmt. | way to wind up the yes And o how you can't help it. You just my, and six fully grown children. | “She drank the acid!" Monica | think T never heard a (hing until ot over it—and I didn't, It seems One behind another they were am- | exactly want to be agasped, and there was a long|she fell on the floor. T was sitting to me th n't heen a minute Lling along over th now up | thought Pe islh nce while they all stared at the | in the kitchen, havinz a cup of for the six years when I through the Old Orchard towerd | LRIy _ [ little brown glass bottle on the| hot tea ter my hath, T guess T | haven't of you, Gus. rmer Brown's oo Peter | the Staunie fanilly, |/ grasger. must-a dozed off, and then all of a Don't o your head that Raibit was so interes that he | Shoud not be d high. 1 Car-| “Yes—and she’s gone, all right. sudden, T ard a sort of dull I'm of my heca: forgot he was hungry. Curiosity | Fied his or her tail iow, which is a as cold as a stone,” Mrs. | humping noise stopped caring about m took the place of Lung sleniotiHiEndshly p said, looking up hopeless- | wept afresh as she remem only part of it. The thing “Where can those Skunks be go- | Peter didw't know it, but Jimmy 1o “uy gysgs we'll have to call { bered just how it had all happen cally got to me is my fail- | ing?" muttered Peter. hey act | SKunk and m.«.mnm_\' had been fed | 410 police” wiping her little eyes® on Ao e in the pictures. I've been just as if they know where they are | In that back shed many times and | g jaid the pitifully limp iittle | of her gray bathrobe slipping for g time—and now going and as if they are going there | they and Mother Brown were (he |4y down on the floor. and went | *I kept calling fo her from he that I'm burned, T just know TI'll with a purpose. It must be they | Very best of friends. out of the room. | door of the room.” wailed, “1 get anywhere in them. 1'm know where there is something to (Copyright, 1927, by T. W. Burgess) | Presently the others heard her | was afraid to go and touch her — ving up. T don't see any- eat and they are going straight s | elve the number: “Metropolitan | Oh, what could have made her do ahead of me but the kind of | The next story: “Jimmy Drives | 6100." Tler voice sounded -ery | such a thing?" I don't ind it's New At a safe distance Peter followed | pyo o' pycce oyt loud in the silence. Bobbie shook her head. eve and everybody's out | along behind. He kept close to | A A Monica and Ted Piper turned| She couldn't imagine anyone having a good time rybody Old Stone Wall for safety’s sake, ! toward the open door to listen to| wanting to cnd her life, no matter ' but me, G None of Jimmy's family looked be- | .y |Mer. and it was while their back | how hard and cruel that life migh “It made me feel pretty low a hind. Such a sight as they made, M fi h F [ {were turned that Bobbie saw the | he. Why, it was good and sweot » ago to see this Tobbie girl even in the dusk, One was nearly enus for the Fami Ly | tetter, to be alive if on ;:\mm“ of the gel her. all dolled up to | all white, one was nearly all black, | | Tt was tucked into the opening sun that came up in the morning, &0 to your hou: I watched all had a great broad stripe down R MAR | of the cotton-crepe kimono that|and becanse the sky was blue or you start away with her in your the middle of the back, one had a & — Winter nears, cereal, | ¥rapped Stella's bedy. Just a cor- | hecause it was starry, and becanse ' car, and I pretiy rotten, let dGouble stripe, and each presented | =3 I ood weiiL | mer it i showed. {it was fun to go walking in the me fell you. 2 picture of perfect independence, | 'hin - cream. scrambled eggs With | g 00 popbie knew that | rain, or to go window-shopping — t I'm going to Beler slghed a5 he looked at thems | {rizeled dried beelyicornibread, milk, |y s sioet that Totter. Whatever | or even ‘to it down: in a movie tolia o I hought to- “I don't exactly want to her a Sl 8 b was in i, had not beer written | sca a good picture, or to read a T've o serew Skunk,” thought Peter, “but I, WifCieall —= Lream = of (OMOB | ror tho eyes of the police who were | good hook. i courage to do it for wecks. ehould like to know how lf seems | SOUP. croutons, sweet potato and | .oming certainy. | { not to care for anybody or anything. | Pineapple salad, whole wheat bread, | "y’ g0t 1o get it, and give it to | I should like to know what inde- |° K“_:;'\"'} He pudding, m’”]",,f, teaks | the person she wrote she | pendence of that kind is like." s m‘g ‘zmi K5 101d herself. “It's the thing | Straight to Farmer Brown’s door- yard Jimmy led the reached the door: pause, He led the w across to the bac way. When he vard he didn't v right straight door of Farmer Brown's house. That door opened into a shed. The door was not latch- ed. Jimmy began to pull at it with his claws. In a moment it swung open a little way. Without hesitat- ing a minute Jimmy walked in. Mrs. Jimmy followed hin. The six children followed Dbit's eyes were “I wouldn't } hadn't s tered Just th [ backin P saw of hin is tail threshold he turned and eame o on the doorstep, H 1 sor ng in his mouth whic liat Iy began to a o Mr Jivmy came | out and joir i By t} T f ble to sce insi hat v h the but t e wide enough open for in Could he have I wou'd have seen Mot mother of Farmer Brown's Doy, you know, standing in the doorway which led into the kitchen and smiling as she looked down at sev- eral plates of food Y on floor of the 1 she looked sl s skunks. I ) 1 he wround tonight.' 1 you see T didn't ? Skunk ily said a w & too busy. But each v care ' w s the with bacon ¢ custard, coffee, nut d. milk r making evenly ove and r the baking chopped nuts evenly ramel l. Then add the cus- as usual. The | caramel delicio bake and pow- spoon rou oroughly sifted jually land coarse tri Without Jooking at it, she cked it into the low girdle of r pink dress. “I called a doctor, 100, Mrs. Mangan's voice came nearer nd | | him in the I'll ever be able to do for the poor tle thing.” She kuew that now was the time do too—while the curious -ves of Monica and Ted Plper were to turned away. But it wasn't an casy thing (o do, to touch a dead body. It took every ounce of Bobh courage to lean do and draw the square of paper from the folds che their fa f unattractive lothes with ed ribbons there was “t. We called time Mangan sprained ankle, He'll be right over.” was in flve minutes, L sleepy, pale, dead-tired looking “T remembere the next arer, on to keep { : \dq egp | Young fellow with a little mustache | i e black wings above his lips. LR L powder took one look at Stella, felt | Ve e el (1 |)~\- little hands, d shrugg 1! o first mixture, Stir in pre. | [i8 shoulders. e \ pared figs and turn into a well but- | ' afraid you called me to| tered mold. Cover mold and steam , 1ate” he said dryly. But i ade | bl Nrrve with shipped | SUre with his stethoscop | o i Yos, shes dead” T said ot | ( NFA Servies, Tne, | UNE o his feet. “Let's see it we| | can lay her on the bed.” | tors and porters With the help of Ted Piper, he | | stoek in the com. £t her on her bed just as the| ¥ Weroism and brav. POlice came driving up in & big| S open car. They ran across the lawn to the | hou and came flying up the | 5 two of them, one in uni- | !m n and one in plain dark clothe | They took down bits of tnform | tion in their little notebooks as i~ a Prescription for | Mrs, Mhngan ol []z;.»n; everyth s e 4 kn about Stella Delroy. (olds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue, mhere really was very little that X PR Rl o0 che knew about her = Jilious Fever and Malaria, ™70y fvont her o migs It kills the germs d she always 1 me she didn't | “SHE'S GONE, ALI iy t RIGHT,” MRS, MANGAN SAID, LOOKING LY | of the silk sports dress she had on. vag he spoke. She was going fo lot him know why Stella, had | | Killed herself. Her fingers closed on the envelope. l “Beauty, luck, grit or a pull.” He ! | checked them off on his fine straight fingers. What have 1?” asked Bobbie, | | lat | | | | | 1 wish there were some casier | took her by both arms, just above wa but I guess there 1isn’t.|the elbows. And at his touch all Drowning is so cold, and I haven't!the bitterness she had been feel- the money for a gun—" ing, went out of her. After all, it The letter broke off short, there. | wasn't his fault that he had got Stella had evidently made up her|over his love for Stella, was it? mind, at that instant, to take the [l.ove wasn't the stort of thing that bottle and drain it. Bobbie said to her- cork out of th ‘Poor thing! could be kept in mothballs. Some- times, it just wore out. self. She was shivering in the| She climbed into the car. As cold wind that blew shreds of fog|they started .down Las Palmas into the room, but she didn't|street, she took the letter out of know it. the pocket of her dress, and tore The letter painted pleture ofter|it into a hundred pieces. They picture in her mind, as she knelt | tluttered out into the fresh wind there. Gus in love with Stella six | like so many white butterflies. 3 before, when she had been| “What's that you're throwing Jretty and young and full of pep|away?” Gus asked, his free arm and hope and ambition. And then Stella, writing letter ffer letter, as he began to slip away from her — trying to draw | had him back. Crying when he didn't him, wnswer them. Stella, standing at the, window of , *¢, ler bedroom, with her face pressed é‘:“] sgainst gla she watched as him drive Bobbie awdy in the um-colored ter. And, last of all, Stella unco-king the little brown glass bottle, .« o & er Bobbie was awak- An hour For two days Mrs, nothing but talk about Stella. As she went about the house, packing to give to the | Salvation Army if they would take | them, she talked about her. up Stella’s Lolding her close to his side. “Nothing—that Dobble faltered. She felt as if she matters betrayed a trust, somehow. " she said to stirred the coffee dn't drink. things now,” “But I love him too mueh to hurt herself, as she sat beside him at a lunch counter that she Mangan did | | knows, or at least half-know: when another woman is trying to steal her man away from her. On the Thursday after N Year's day, Lottie Schultz called Sobbie on the telephone and asked Ler if she'd made up her mind to take the place she offered—the position of governess to liftle Jolly. A “Of course, if you're playing in some picture, I won't ask you to come,” she said. “Are you, by any chance?” “I'm not, and I need the money— and Tl come,” Bobbie answered her. It seemed the only thing for r to do at the time, and she did t. Dut she was not happy about it. “I'll be Gus’ neighbor while I'n there, though. That's something, she thought, and was more cheer- ful. (To Be Continued) Your Health How to Keep It— e il 2 ~| She talked about her while Bob- Causes ;;::l dlliur‘.'::n,,u”w“ slnsinmiotiihell e Sunte SelE SN S uses of Illness As she started up and reached | °hd the papers and forget Jisroshe for her hedroom slippers, she heard | falked about her mormng nOSS| By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Mrs. Mangan going down the| 204 night tuntil Bobble IhOUEML| paitor Journal of the American slairs. Then there came the low | She Would go mad if she didn't| “yiogica) Assoctation and of Hy- sound of talking from the room "“‘,,"&; e e geia, the Health Magazine below—Mrs, Mangan's thin, high-| 'I_m h““_s 2 flm}o 2,”..') The A newly-born infant avolds light. vitched voice and a man’s deeper | KROW BOW 0 Push ReelT Mor | The Dupils of its eyes are contract. Ca% ‘anywhere, front the time I set|©d !0 & light room. and the ey After fiffeen or twenty minutes, i Noolroh faketny ; will close if a bright light is brought ERI00E 000k dosen “licker. She's the kind that's sure | Pefore them. Sgin Gt upihe S80S, !fo get ahead—brassy and mervy.| AL about’ the sixth day the Reporter from one of the pa- | (2 Kl @R TR, Th o get. | baby's eves will sometimes follow pers,” she fold Bobble, coming | ¢8O0 CEIE HUR TG i he one | @ liEht in the room and the infant into her room. He wanted a pic-| %5, 0 h“'mus slars one of these|MaY eVen turn its head to follow ture of Stella and a story, T told | & A% ek my words, Not | the light. Tt is not hefore the third him all 1 knew abont her. R g,‘;xs’n protly or specially | MOPtR that the infant is able 1o st morning there was a Lic- | SC0NST, SIOR Ry O e ges | Co-ordinate the action of the eyes (nre of Stella on the first page of | PN = af she. wants and gots | for general purposes, iis puper. Under it was the head- | SV (00 SN 5P Tt Courve | The evelids are also only under line: “GIRI FAILS IN PIC 25| got to be in pictures, T guess!” | Partial control at this time so that —-DRINKS POISON."” | B Which Kind am I-—the Stella | they will be partly separated dur- Robbie, who had just come in| . 5 €h At o ind?” thought | ing sleep. from a valk, read fthe story and | pop i ong she began to seriously | Y the end of the sixth month carried it into the house to Mrs. | ZRIT N L adn't been get- | the Infant is usually ehble to rec. angan. fioe along better then she had ognize objects. Because of the (tood heavens! Did you know | I‘; s to hor. all at on § ‘hat | SeNSitivity of the eye of the in- that Stella had tried to Kill hvrsrfllf,qm'm;lp‘, Liew ,‘m“, to push “or- | fant to light, a newly-born baby once before?” she a d, pointing : _ye “rpat she didn't know how to | should be kept in a room that can to the picture and the pisce. | S5t ahead with no one fo help her, | b darkencd, and for the first few Mrs. Mangan's gay face went| Sit ARCRE B N0 A0 ke Stella, | Weeks the eyes should be pro- acad white. did not!” she an- | '0" 2 | tected against strong light. and read th icle swered wild) jto d o the thing | For one thing, she was too 'oroud; that Monica would The newly-horn infant probably hears nothing for the first 24 hou and indeed sometimes for several days. This is due to the fact the birth process sometimies | results in a swelling of the mem- brane that lines the cavities asso- thir e last paragragh: steal the autemo- This was not Miss Delroy’s fir s and the monoy atempt at suicide. In 1923 she heeded: tried to Kill herself by opening the | Becn Brousncl aniile Ras jets in her apartment in aj)gce gne told herself, “and i a hotel on Western avenue. Nelgh-| groat handicap to be a lady, when Lors discovered her while she was | Lot 0 R L S Tl Taont | unconscious and rushed her to a h men all day Lospital.” tie shook her head over it and that what she ought w sohbed aloud. |'to do was to go straight to Roy “Well. she's done it this time, ! gihuitz and nag him into giving poor thing!” she said thickly. “I jora good part in a picture. That guess she had what they call ‘the | qe ought to wind her arms around suicidal mania.’ " ius MacCloud's neck and “va 1p” 3ut Bobbie shook her head. Shelyim nto bringing her to Roy was thinking of a sentence in the' gopultz's notico, He was always letter that Jay at the bottom of | t.qjinz her how beautiful she was. her handb “But when T'm with him, T for- “Maybe yowll tear up this let-{ got 411 about my carcer, and think ter the way youw've torn up most| of nothing but him,” she went en of the others that I've written 101 thinking unhappily. “I'm so happy you in the last three years” Stella| (o pe with him that I forget to ask had written, nd it was 23, that she elf the first broken th him three years ago, in | had tried to kil | time! Gus must her about that n doe v ave time, “I wonder how he'll sees this letter she she thought, bitterly, and the thought was crossinfi| her mind, she heard the loud honk- inz of his automobile horn outside house. n to the front door. » was standing beside the o in his evening clothes. The were rumpled. and his tie was | askew. His sandy hair stood ap! all over his head, and he was look- | ! | | tnat feel when wrote to he him,"” ing up at the windows of Bohbie's room as he houked the horn. The ! morning sun. piercing through the ! fog. shone straight into his blue | cyes. | Holding the paper in her hand, | 3ohbie went out to him. : “So you're the fine young kiepto- | some deep-buried And h to help me. T wonder if think: any more, he hated to Monica did! A woman alw Neat Pair maniac who made off with my car ! last night!” he said, smiling down | it her as she came up to him and | stood beside him. “Darned if I didn’t think it had been stolen, when I went out to look for fit. Then, all of a sudden, ft occurred to me that you'd taken it to coms down here. How'd you find Stella?” For answer Bobbie handed him the paper. She watehed his handsome face as he read the story of Stella’s death, Tt did not change. His eyes were as coldly blue as ever when lie sheet back to her. murmured, gravely. “Poor kid! She's been years try- ing to make good. I've told her a liundred times to get out of pie- tures and go home. A girl's got to | W iave one of four things to make good in the mo Stell didn't have any of the four. Bobbie stared at him in open- cyed amazement. He might have been reading a lecture from a sheaf of notes, for all the feeling showed. ‘hat are the four things, Gus and opened her hand- slipping the letter into the pocket ' face softened as he looked o and he smiled. “You know beautiful and lovel he | said vibrantly, “and you know that vou've got an awful drag with me, Baby. Just wait 'til they give me a picture of my own to make—" Far back in Bobbie's mind, she wondered if he had ever talked like that to little Stella. Long ago when they had been sweethearts, Long ago, before she had started to write him the letters he had torn up. us: His her, you're * she bhegan, and then She hated to give him that letter. It was a sort of thing that a man would remember all his life, affer he had read ft. It would leave a scar on his soul —one that would always be there. He was getting into his car now. ‘ome on, Bobolink, and we'll oot down on the boulevard for some coffee,” he said, his hand on her arm. “My head's still going around after a night of drinking. Come on.” THe react out and ried out on the hat. COCOA /7 Gncheon Here is a drink that has food value As well as a most delicious flavor and aroma For the business man’s luncheon it is incomparable A DISTINGUISHED DIETITIAN ONCE SAID “It soothes both stomach and brain™ MADE ONLY BY' WALTER BAKER & CO. Ltd. Estaplished 1780 ides T'm not going to let him make love to| Monica | o, but instinct told her 5 Brown suede in two shades with the darker outlined in gold form part of the shoe with the same scheme car- | | normal indicate t iin Canadian Mills at Montreal Booklet of Choice Recipes sent free of obj ciated with the ear. Hearing gradually improves, and is unusually sharp for the early months of life so that slightest noise awakens some babies. The laby apparently begins to recognize the direction of sound by the end of the second month, and hy the end of the third month will turn its head to the direction from which the sound comes. An investigator named Kussmaul found that even a newly-born - 1 recognize the difference in ste betwe . sour, and bit- ter substa will frequently raise consideral) objection to the slightest variation in the taste of s food. Nobody has yet heen able to tell when the infant devel its seu of smell, although the experimenis thus far available seem to indicate that some of the sense is present even in the newly-horn. Certainly, the ability to detect slight differ- ences in odors does not come u 1 later in life, The studies of various specialists indicate that girls as a rule falk two to four months earlicr than Loys. Adults insist that this prac- tice persists with ine sing fre- qeney during life, The child will begin toward the end of the first year to say “papa nd “mam by the end of the cond in short sentences, and, child, to show improvement from then on. Studies by experts in languages at the names of persons learned first, then the names ts, then verbs, adverbs and adjectives, and finally the smaller ts of speech. For this reason. the child usually uses its own name requesting things before it de- velops the use of the personal pro- noun. If a child two vears of age makes no attempt to speak, a physician should be consulted promptly, as the difficulty may be with the hear- ing. If the child does not hear speech, it is not likely to attempt ihe use of words. year to put words together it fs a inued it o re DORCHESTER, MASS.