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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1928. THIS HAS HAPPENED Virginia Brewster is in love with an artist, Nathaniel Dann, but she is her inquiry. Virginia’s face was aglow. aps vou know Mr. Leigh she said tricked into promising to marry |Quickly 0daly’ he s called by Frederick Dean in one vear if she his friend % falls to earn $100,000 that he all 014 Oddly Leigh! We all know Ber father cheated him out of. him by name down here in the Brewster, but I'm sor- ry to say that I'm not personally ac- quamnted with him. Matter of fact. one has scen much of him lately. rarely leaves his plantation and Brewster had lost his fortune before his death and \~ tute. the money without success, Dean has bribed the help her. Oliver gains her and shows her at d glanced anxiously “By the way. is he a :nd of vours?" he asked, trying bund casual at hev not to irginia confidenc th o *“No,” resents, but she P Mot ather knew him Chiri, treats him LAn Tndia. 3t 45 o Pieaiela, finsily obt st wish to mept him on t e it trip and 1 thought, “when you satd ed by Cutter's wife you lived in Haiti, that yon might ::'"" 100 happy. but vou Odaly an introd tion welcome the daughter of an old 1 can vouch for that on his ZK‘COU will triend peha m a penny for b but that not made a p Only well, since it il give any amount fo her if Teputation Bti ksl T,,-H G st ke voniss e woiialie denoun him vou knew him 1 must prepare you Her cor to find him greatly changed fron her on 2 vovage ip hosts the man vour father knew The poor goes 1o see Nicl but Chiri's presence fellow has had his troubles in the studio | Virginia's heart sank like a plum- The break t met. Oh " she cried in consterna- widened when tion “what has happened to h 1 after receivi r from Dean | met & ;r-;:vd in r\e:- \'or: who had she 15 angling for heard had news about him R man—the who saved ¢ected. Her wor father's life Senr oD line “It is hardly a sublect vou 's triends ther's friends would care to discuss, Miss Brew- 1 judge.” ined quiet for a mo- don’t you see? 2inst inie pressed forward a \ the stern deck and peer because I'm g pally to see a hand that shaded prin from the bright morning sun much easier. T think She was gazing at Moro © to expect.” g that gloomy relic | «yes T believe it would ™ ted glory for tire last time. | orced after a second thoug nated her with its SOmM- yoy evers hear of Oddly’s wife?' Ber gray color and p added abruptly mosphere, that symbolized S0 PEr- . “His wife!” Virginia repeated fectly her own bondage. Why, I don't remember that 1 ever She had heard of tine AuUngeons g4 I'm sure father never mentioned below the water line; she had lis- |per in diary or when he spoke tened to tales of horor and brav- ery about the old days of the Span ith reign had come to, think of rself as a p ner in the shadow of that grim pil= of stone Not until they sailed for Haift would she feel otherwise for not un- | til then could she count off the miles or knots as it were in this case, that separated her from the land where .resided the man who might save her. Thé colorful daye of Havana! ‘that the pa hgers found so divert- ing and thrilling were only so ma Gays of imprisonment to Virgin She was held as helple -per wish to depart as though she Leigh.” . “Probably not Most like he never heard of her. No one had, T guess. until she suddenfy appeared down lin the West Indies and dragged old | 0ddly’s name through all the slimy backwash of the islands. Then the story came out. She'd driven him from the states a few months after their marriage, and hate of him because | [@at she would niarry the other E “0ddly couldn’t do that because he didn't believe in divorces. fo he took to roving, thinking she’d free herself. But she didn't. And when &he came to Haiti she was still of a v against were indeed incarcerated in a dun- iy 0 D D Leigh and all the geon in Moro Castle world could know it for all she Tt was slow torture, waiing amid .oy Javish beauty and gaietv with pleas It did to Leigh what the sugar her ure-bent people who expected trust hadn't been able to do. It broke always to be carsfree and interested |y oy e rem: i their enterta nants of afraid, Miss ' Their absorption of her did mot 228 O . extend to t early morning hour it became of his wite 7" however, and she took her farewell Lt ok i e guthee glance at the jewel-like city and fa- feoreaming 1n agony at a madman mous old fortress undisturbed |who aidn't know how to handle a The first throb of the engines |yrioe deep in the bowels of the ship had [" g proke off sharply, suddenly et her nerves fo quivering with the |, cove o6 the effect of his words up- excitement that attends an €agerly o Virginia who was leaning against awaited moment |the rail, white-faced and trmbling She was dressing, hurrving to be T'm sorry,” he hastened to add welcome sound ; She struggled | was thinking world and wh Beastly of me, but I of the finest man in the what that woman did to him \ the on deck, reached fnto her string-colored linen dress saized a sweater and flew up to €x | Virsina did not answer mme- perience the satiefaction of WItness-|ga4e)y Finally she thanked him for ing the steamer's departure from the fy ping her what he had and left scene of her impatient delay |him, to fle to her stateroom and She was turning away from the 4 o 4o compose herselt to carry on rail, having drunk in enongh of sat her dutics glare, her mind | someone jefaction and sun “Tonch of the tropic on her obligation to the Blue €a- | .9 her at the breakfast table, re- pella, when she was j0mned by a man g qing her untouched plate recognize as a passen 1 suppose so” she answered she did not 354 | “After Cuba everyone should take He was elderly and dwstinguished 1, go0g qose of salts” another ad- looking, with a thin, tropic-brownéd yycoq placidiy. "It isn't safe not to tace Fversbody eats too much there May T introduce myself2" he Nover had better fish in my lfe" eatd in a anier, pleasant vowes, “Just | The remark ted a general re- - eame aboard this morning counting of the days Just past and Flance—John Harvey Virginia slipped out of the conver- you were the hostess sation to commune with her own to belicve T might spe tlonghts They were not pleasant Virgin m at v | company but she could not get away of cou e returned politely lfrom them. Resides, the situation in The 1 ke @ country [ which she now found herself must house, vou know u 'l be faced present vou he oth it had come npon a wild gonse you're at liberty to count the roof | chase Snll. on after as an introduction. vou know thought VoRMzed: (et tio Lone 1 think T'd prefer o 1 had sard that Leigh had been im- by s wife's conduct merely spoken of bad ind smely the seandal and Conld accannt for that foc, had mentioned only omimz had broken” her i 413 not necessarly meney losses were fm- spirtt. He had speet- hat th ar trust le to do." THE DAILY ARGUMENT Al St “Evenf 4 woman rr the vight ma n rai gettin’ weathe! alone tows many’ fine things that don't care for anvthing her husband can buy her with kind 0" love she don't get. 928 Publishers Syn| (Copyr “Per- |to help her now hung over the rest | of the voyage to Haiti like a heavy | Her heart ached for Oddly Leigh but she was glad of a slim thread of hope for her own futute. Such a man as Leigh would do all that lay in his power to release her.from the hold of anyone who held her fa- ther’s honor at stake, Virginia knew. She did not appeal to him for her own sake alone once he knew her story. For this Virginia breathed a praver of thankfulness. She was chary about approaching anyone on her own behalf entirely. Her experi- ence with Oliver Cutter had warned her of that danger But here was one person whom the whole world seemed to trust. A man who had own her father Virginia felt she could pour out her heart to him in the sure knowledge that he would be as certain of Rich- ard’Brewster’s innocence as she her- self was But the uncertainty of his ability black cloud. Had it been necessary she could have gone to Flance and asked him directly if he knew any- thing of Oddly Leigh's financial of- fairs. But it would seem like prying | to do so and she knew that she might be misunderstood unless explained her reason for wis know she did not care { Flance info her confidence i Virginia preferred to endure the snspense. knowing that it could not be for long now She got definite directi reaching the Leigh plantat, Flance, however, and then turne desperately to the task of enterta gt day should come w she would return to the ship with a heart full of thanksgiving or only a bitter hopeless despair (To Be Continued) Approv'e School Cinders In Street Construction i That economy can be effected and material for rcad repair placed at the disposal of ths board of public works to the zdvantage of all con- cerned was th view expressed today Ly Mavor Paonessa and Councilman Donald L. Bartlett who conferred at the mayor's oftice with reference to a proposed agreement with the school departhent to take over its | cinders. City Engincer P A was present, approved the plan Merian who He his department even though it was found necessarv to store cinders during the period of furn: opera- tion, to ve handled again wken road repairs are being made. Purchase and operation of a truck for this purpose wonld prove an economy. the engineer predicted. Councilman Bartlett will confer with President Patrick ¥. King of the school committee to discuss the project further. FASTEST GAIN ELEVATOR Port Arthur, Ontario, June 26 (# —Described as the most modern and the fastest operating terminal ele- vator, the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool | is erecting a grain elevator here ca- pable of receiving as many as 500 cars of grain a day during the rush season. It will be able to ship out 150,000 bushels an hour. and has a storage capacity of 6,900,000 bushels. ORDFR OF NOTICE OF HEARING Probate Court Estate of Jos Kains Kaenz, late of the town of New tn_ ead districe, deceased Tpon the application of Emills Kamns praving that as Admnistratrix she mav Be ticrize) Atidiaionoweiad £otwel) ant convel certann estate belonging to sald deceased as per said apphication on or Jnsoph Britain real file more fully appears. it is ORDERE That eaid application he heard and determined at the Probat Ofce, in Ne m eaid Aistrict on the 2 of A D108, at 10 o'clock in the forenvon, daylight sa ing time, and that notice be given of the pendency of said application and the time and place of hearing thereon by publishing this order in some new - | ultra-dry: Agena’s passengers until the | declarad it would be advantageous to | ,what has,been going on | ‘ Hold Many Mectings Under the leadership of repre- t{sentatives of 31 national dry or. having a circulation in exid distric by posting a ropy of this order on public sign-post m the town of Nex Britam. in said diserict, and by ging notice to all parties in ntercst, either personally or by mailing to each o Prepatd postage. a cary of this arder and return make to this Court of the ' notice giten BERNARD F GA Judge PROHIBIION SSLE FACING DEMOCRATS Dry and Wets to Battle to, the End CHAMBLIN By WALTER Associated Press Staff Writer Houston, June 26 (P — Three widely differing groups of democrats {turned today to the resolutions commiftee of the national conven- tion to fight out the position the party must take on the prohgbition 1ssue Unable to compose their views |in many pre-convention conferences, each camp plunged into the fray with a determination to battle to (the end for the cause with which their lot was cast On the one hand there were the under the leadership of | !Dan Moody, the youthful Texas governor, and others lined up under dry banners were such bulwar democracy as Josephus Danie! |North " Carolina. Senator Carter | Glass of Virginta and a host of other party leaders | At the other extreme swere the | Wets, insistent upon a platform plank declaring in favor of some modification of the prohibition laws. y were found ¢ ¢ under the standard raised by Albert C | | Ritchie of Ma a champion lof state's rights, who has taken the [ position that the 48 commonwealths | should be given the power to settle {the prohibition question for them- |selves Gov vland, | In between these a far larger styled conservatives, two extremes group of ee intent upon | was | wa !the adoption of a plank declaring rigid enforcement of all laws the prohibition statutes, but at the same time a plank that {would not commit the party to an {extreme position upon the one ques- | |tion which above all others was harmony that gathering hosts for | today has permeated the here of the democratic | the convention opening de from these three main di- [visions, there were numerous minor groups each with views of a tan- gent-like nature and each display- ing ardent enthusiasm for their re- |spective positions. This Iatter class right ment But out of this vortex of conflict- Ing opinions, there came a positive jcurrent of thought which was {epitomized late last night by Sena- |tor Walter Edge of New Jersey, an lardent wet, who said that the bat- tle should be fought out behind the closed doors of the resolutions com- |mittee and not permitted to reach | lvhs convention floor | Whether leaders {to hold the disagrecing groups un- |der control, however, remained a |auestion which no one was able to of the repeal 18th amend- would be lanswer. ! | Forther. there was injected into | the many-sided situation the in. | fuence of organt nd wet or- | ganizations. The former have been an active element for several days in pre-convention procesdings and have added a touch of color to ganizations, the advocates of prohi- bition have held many meetings, everal of them prayer serviees at {which the leaders of thetr cause |urged them to stand steadfast tothe | end. White badges inscribed with the | briet declaration: “Kor dry eandi- |date and platform.” are plentifully displa in Houston. Wets also have been busy. Under the leader- | |ship of William H. threatened to disrupt the spirit of |43 [included those who have declared that under no conditions would |5 |they support a wet candidate os | well as those championing the out- |65 | 70—BUSINESS PLAC “abte |5 Stayton, chair- man of the board of the Associa- tion Against the Prohibition Amend- ment, the opponents of Volstead- ism early in the proceedings initi- ated a-move in behalf of a plank proposing repeal of the 18th amend- ment, and have announced that the fight was one to a finish. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING HEADLINGS ANNOUNCEM L—BURIAL CNTS LOTS. MONUME! 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