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i THIS HAS HAPPENED | Virginia Brewster, after losing both father and wealth, consents to make her home with Clarissa Dean and her father. Her fiance Nathan- iel Dann, objects to this for he mis- trusts, Dean's motives. Meanwhile Dean plots to get Niel away from Virginia. but fails. Clarissa be- comes jealous of Virginin, and the latter resolves to leave hut Dean insists that she marry him. When she ref he threatens to reveal that her « ed him out of $100,00, cssly, she promises 1o earn enongh in one year to repay im—or marry him Virginia leaves but has to pawn ring to tide over il she can find i position. She goes to Niel's stud to tell him of her Deans but her joy clouded because s veal her com 1150 because of the familiarity with vhich his model, Chiri, treats Niel Next day Virginia asks a broker end how to carn a hundred thou- K with him is gt She crossed over, intending to tak e a bus downtown and save taxi fare sand. Then she asks ‘his eccretary | how to find a business position, and is directed to an agency where she | is given the name of a newly-rich lady who wants a social secretary. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXV As Virginia's ey hecame accus- tomed to the subdued light of the irawing room she discerned a gold brocade divan, a toy dog in her arms and an open hox of choco- lates on a taloret at her side Good morning” she greeted, a little at a loss for an answer to the cxtraordinary receytion she had met with, “Come over close,” ner urged invitingly an some light. We save on the electricit to Virginia The butler walked pompously’ fo a wall &witch and flooded the room with dazzling light from a dozen incandescent lamps in the bronz. chandeiier, “Daylight Mrs. Gerns- “Pictro, turn t need to ' she added s %0 hard on the com- plexion,” Gernsner ctoed promptly. “Pietro, bring a chair for the young lady Virginia sat in a gold chair that ook stock matehed the divan and of her prospective employer while e latter rot | compliment Mrs. Gernsner was talking at th houses?" she inguired a Mrs. Gernsner cleared her throat. | Of the red face of “Don’t be afraid to say something,’ she told Virginia cncouragingly. “Le'me go, you big stiff; le'me |lion as companion to an adult,” Then, as Virginia's face took on an 50" Virginia retorted. “Good after- 0dd expression: “Maybe you should | “Mama! Mama!" | noon, Mrs. Gernsner. I shall re- like we were alon she added| “He did it! He did it port to Mrs, Phelps that the posi- quickly. “Pietro, leave the room,| “You're a liar! tion is not one I care to accept.” please Stop it, you blithering litile “I'll do some reporting myself,” Yow, tell me how you should livils! Stop it, 1 say.’ that lady muttered darkly, “and if my companion,” she went on when| “Maggie!” you get a job by Mrs. Phelps I'm a the sple 1 butler had stalked out Mrs. Gernsner's voice rose above customer what she should never R I'the door |1B® uprowr in magnificent cre- | sce again | none too quictly behind him | scendo. Maggie, what docs this Out once more in the sparkling oy AT T S e P T T sunshine of the spring day Vir- ualifications a coun. |, What does it mean? What does ginia drew in a deep breath of T i it mean?" Maggie shrilled. It | fresh air and blessed her lucky star § o Talk about your. | M€ans I'm leaving and the saints to be out of that house. - & ER | wipe my mim'ry o this past weck: | She crossed over and walked to : { Will ye be quiet?” she began again | @ bus stop signal, intending to take Well, 1 believe I'm competent in |, on T8 P2 S0 beenain |a bus downtown and save taxi far ([“' : o ‘,.“,"!‘ Virginia | =5 g Come here! Anuie, | A8 one of them rumbled up a few k. SR T stop that kicking mm\mln |:;wr she stepped hastily Mo T 5 conalfiereal yathen | ro b £ took a heavy hand | onto 'm‘n zlforn\h |{nd took a step =00l L o G GHHIL) the affair but even so she was 'lv\\-wTJ :," door 19 ore it c_ncumnl A b Debussy | P2NUNE and disheveled when the |to her that it would be more pleas- It Beethoven and Chopin are be. | CHildren were at last planked down |ant on top. AT £ in chairs and reduced to blubbering. Her 'I““‘v')\ turn lvrfl(ugh( her up e il et trs., Gorne. |, NOW. WhaUs at the bottom of |#bruptly against a passenger who That's ¢ Mrs. Gerns she demanded of Maggic. | had hoarded the bus directly be- Them imps of Satan have heen | hind her. “Oh, I'm sorry,” she up o their pranks agin” Maggic #Pologized and smiled briefly at | exploded accusingly. *'Tis soap in him. He smiled back at her, and ner broke {n hurriedly. have to {nvite any Ruests to our parties. I've plenty of fricnds of my own.” oy " and substituted an murmur instead “I told MNrs. e | “Well, Tm sure T don't think it 4 sl Boueer s, Gersher - expiained | would be pleasant to eat soap| Greatly Improved Today S Virginia replied before she could | New York, June 5 (P —Mrs. Ar-| ",l ite understand,” Virginia re- | check herself. 1t was, of course, de- turo P. Ramos, the former Millicent | lion a ye lied soherle St 1 thinke it | meaning to argue the matter, She | Rogers, who has been i1l with pneu- Iight Lo hetter 1f you would state | had Known from the heginning that |monia, was slightly improved this Bl she could not live with these peo- | morning it was sald by a member Mrs, What 1 read me the want? Well, new aving my n and And you can help flowers when we ha @ a party “We don't professional got 8 Virginia broke off her ejaculation in the middle of it unintelligible Phelps T don’t need Gernsner thought a moment, you should novels while I'm manicure. Pietro with the answer to Virginia's drowned in a howling, screeching i because she wanted to chuck it. But din that came from the foyer and | now that it had become thoroughly bore down upon the drawing room | impossible to accept the position {in a struggling mass of juvenile she was immeasurably relieved. arms and lega. As they pushed Mrs. Gernsner bristled. “You and apoved through the door Vir-|don't expect children should be ginia caught glimpses now agd then | angels, do you?" she snapped. an Irate Irish “I don’t expect them to be any- thing to me when I accept a posi- nursemaid. a glimpse ! of a now. | Virzinia caught flashing gold tooth. | Then he stood aside and per- mitted her to ascend the narrow, up | curving stairs, She paid too little attention to him to notice that he did no lift his hat and of course nic.” Maggie | she forgot all about him the next N send e | second. But when she got up to to pack me |l°ave the bus at 48th Street she saw him in one of the rear seats. He did not look at her nor move, but | when Virginia alighted from the bus and happened to face ahout rather suddenly she discovered that | he too had left the bus. turned sharply the candy they're feeding me Me innards are blazin' like a three alarm fire.” She put her hands |over her stomach and groaned. “Go tell Pietro to fix you something.” Mrs. Gernsner advised uneasily, “I'm goin' fo a « announced firmly, frind, Miss Casey, things." “Rut you came for two trial” Mrs. Gernsner “You won't got paid if hefore your time's up. someone in your place.” weeks on protested] you leave 1 got to get away and “Ye can keep the money! 1 He wouldn't &tay another day under |Started to walk briskly toward a the same reof with them divilieh |Store entrance, but there was brats for a month's pay!" She comething a0 unexpected in seeing shook her fist at the children, who | him at her heels just a few gec. made faces back at her, and | Onds after he had been so appar- dashed out of the room. still | ~ntly staying on the bus that Vir- ginia experienced a queer feeling of uncertainty about him. (TO BE CONTINUED) clutching her middie and emitting strange ®ounds between a gag and a groan Mrs. Gernsner turned fo the oL’ e prite. “Wait 'til your papa comes H"‘S DR YORONDFF home!" she shricked st them o “That's the third time this month — u've driven someone out of the house! Dean Inge of London Scores Gland You're goin' to bed, both | of ~you. Pictro! Pictrol” &he| @perations But Vienna Specialist called, raising her voice even louder. “Take them away and give | Replies in Kind. them castor oil," she cried when London, June (UP)—Tean and | Inge. known as the “gloomy dean” kicked and bit but somehow Pietro |And Dr. Serge Voronoff, the gland managed to drag them off. The |eXPert, have furnished London with echoes of their struggle could he | the latest amusement through their heard for several minutes hefore |interchange of views on glandular a slamming door somewhere in the |Operations. - apartment restored quiet in the| Dean Inge in a sermon in West- Aveidhg i nom minster Abbey, which was crowded, Virginia was amazed at the ease | fald: with which Mrs. Gernsner changed | "I regret her manner back to the calm hefore | honored and the butler came running in The children screamned that there applauded whose theories is being in Great ning of their interview and she set. graceful.” tled herself leisurely upon the | He did not divan before she spoke. | Voronoff but in an interview later “Let's sce . where were we?" he said he meant VoronofT. she said, trying to take up the| VYoronoff was interviewed in Paris broken threads of the conversation. | by the United Press and replied that Virginia got to her fect, shaken |Catholics heartily approved of his and disturbed. “I . . . really think | work. it's no use going further into the | “Dean Inge not only is far behind matter, Mrs. Gernsner,” she said. the times but is in opposition to the “I'm sure T never would he equal | beneficial actions of to taking your nursemaid's place.” | permit prolonging of life of man, Mrs. Gernsner frowned. “Them thus permtting him to perform more Irishers don't know how to handle | good in the world.” Kids,” she scoffed. “A little joke | and they fly off the handle.” |Condition of Mrs. Ramos ple, but until the advent of the | of the family of her father, Col. H. children on the scene she had been | H. Rogers, trying to convince herself that she “We think that the critical stag. ought to try. She had thought |has passed,” the informant said. question was | herself something of a weakling refer specifically to | science which | | tion | schools. |1t could not POWER CONPANIES WELCOHING PROBE Honest Industry Has Nothing to Fear, Speaker Says Atlantic City J., June 5 (P— The electric light and power indus- try has nothing to fear from an honest inquiry and. in fact, wants the investigation by thé federal trade commission to be most search- ing and complete, H. T. Sands, president of the National Electric Light Association said in his address opening the association's convention today. “We are anxious that the true facts be given the public,” he said. “We want the people to see and understand the make-up and habits of the organizations that furnish light for their homes and power for their factori *This association the joint commit- tee of national public utility associa- and every organization repre senting the utilities, national or local | have thrown open to the commission everything in their possession. Every scrap of paper has been made avail- | able for scrutiny. “The under direction of state committees of public utility infor- mation pamphlets, dealing with electric light and power, gas and lephones, street rallways have been furnished for use in public I'rom some newspaper ac- counts one would think the utilities in sonie mysterious manner have forced innocent school officials to compel atudents to learn falsehood from texthooks composed of propa- ganda, or that there has heen a con- | of utility companies and to pervert the youthful sp teachers mind. | “It s an insult to American in- | telligence to believe utility compan- | fes would undertake such a plan, or | that thousands of hard working, earnest teachers would allow it to be carried out if attempted. The | men and women who teach the | youth of our country must resent | this imputation on their intelligence and integrity. The American peo- ple will not believe they are fools or scoundrels. If the utilities had undertaken any scheme to corrupt instruction, the mdividuals guilty of be condemned too strongly and would find themselves heyond the pale of good utility ao- ciety. - No such thing ever has hap- | | | I | the storm. Her features relaxed |Britain a foreigner instantly into the genial expres-|and schemes are revolling (o all pure | ed. |sion she had worn at the begin- |minded men and women. It is dis- | | | nened or could conceivably happen. | The record before the federal trade commission shows it did not. “It is true that the utilities have furnished material for use of teach- ers in schools. They have done so openly, frankly asserting authorship, | gladly assuming responsibility. No | teacher ever has received copies for such use unless, after reading a sample, he or his &chool superiors, decided it was useful to him and his students and asked it be furnish It is a public service known to everybody with school connections. | It has been welcomed and appreci- ated. as thousands of letters of thanks testify. It remains for a cer- tain type of press to discover and declare an evil in it Four Million Dollar R. R. Yards Are Opened Boston, June 5 (A —The new Roston classification vards of the Boston and Maine railroad were for- mally opencd and dedicated toda The yards cover 400 acres and were built at a cost of $4,000,000. The 225 miles of track in the| vards have a capacity of two nunian! freight cars a year and at present are handling at the rate of one mil- | There is one auto to every 53 peo- ple in the United Kingdom, com- pared with five people in the United States, 11 in Canada and Hawail, 12 in New Zealand, 17 In Australia and Denmark and 46 in France. POOR PA o L. 7% (= “Betty's awfu! eonsiderate of her beau. Instead of let- tin' him spend his money for delicacies she fixes ‘em lLere i at home for him an’ has ‘eny | charged to me.” 192%, (Copveight Publteners 8104 fixe up things nice . write out | shopping She stopped and looked at Virgini significantly. know swell places,’ as 1f she doubted it very “Iean give von the names of IF ANYONG J\]M. G 1“ ::;H ned. “Some N 7HE places they have chick NEIGHRORHOOD S hohaEe e Ine e FAILS TO HEAR, “Oh, 1 don't know Mayhe T'a ABQUY Mus“ t you to take the children out HAVING His for a walk or a ride in the limou- e aaeliton s PICTURE IN THE "H“ 't \n‘\ a v;‘,\» i PAPER " UON'T e \‘v:‘mm B THE =AU‘J 1 ar 18 “.:’U‘“ “'1“ V'\hv;c o= ONE of & Torialt fastotum TIRELESS LITTL « ) K Her e N souLd 1 AUNT HET I QUILLEN kins when had 1 o make blue n the used to colored nap- | had babies an’ ones from eettin® mixed to 1 GOTTA HAVE PROOF- OLLY. THATS WHY iM o\ PITCHER. RIGHT INTO [T au' aie —~— ABOUT ME BEIN BRAVE AN' SAVIN' TENNVSON OTOOLE = VOU KIN LOOK NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1928, { poration Counsel John H. Kirkham KoL G. B. ASHLEY ESTATE GETS 82,839 JUDGMENT — Insurance Company Pays for Injur- ies to Deceased Clothier Who Fell Into Excavation. A judgment with costs, given in favor of George B. Ashley, now de- ceased, in a suit against the city of New Britain for damagea resulting from a fall into an unprotected ditch on Corbin avenue, has been met by the Travelers' Insurance Co., in the amount of $2,339. The judg- ment was originally for $3,000, but was later reduced on motion of Cor- to $2,200 and costs. Judge Kirk- ham then called on the insurance company, as insurers of Pepper Brothers, contractors, for reinburse- ment. Mr. Ashley, a clothing dealer, while returning from a neighbor- hood store, fell into the ditch, caus- Saturday. Telephone 925. 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