New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 2, 1929, Page 10

THIS HAS HAPPENED Ashtoreth Ashe, & young stenog- | rapher from Boston, traveling alone | on a West Indian cruise, comes face | to face with death. ‘ Mona de Musset, her roommate, | a mysterious Frenchwoman, has | had a hemorrhage, and the ship's| doctor says she cannot live. Mona 1s gay and galant and ready, it seems, ' to die. But Ashtoreth is heart- hroken. The hemorrhage was the result of a furious scene, in which Mona denounced Jack Smythe, a young| nglishman, for making love to Ashtoreth. Following the doctor's report that Mona is doomed, the captain sends for Ashtorcth. He tells her first that Mona is dying, and out- lines the arrangements he has made to have her carried to Gua- deloupe, her island hom Mona appears to b u colorful creaturs, and something of an enigma. The captain speaks ot hearing of her in Paris, where she made a sensation. Mona was &n en- tertainer—with a few counts, and a millionaire from the Argentine chasing her abo While the captain is telling what he knows of Mona's notorious reer, Dr. Saunders enters the cabu. (NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY) CHAPTER XXIIT The doctor’s unruffled demeanor tiad vamshed. And he seemed curl- cusly shaken. “I couldn't keep her* he said, | and there was a tremor behind hs brusque tones. “The woman was| game! She suffered terribly—ana | went out smiling. And—can you believe it, captain? — there was prayer on her lips. to pray for her soul The doctor mopped his foreheaa with the handkerchief he rolle between his palms. “Yes, sir — Mona de Musset be- lieved in God, and she wasn't afraia ca- They carried Mona's body ashore at Guaeeloupe, Crowds lined the wharf. And there were numbers o big black policemen to keep order. | Only the dead woman's relatives were allowed on the quay. Ther. were five of them—decorous, decent | people, &warming to the shores, streamea | half the island population—laughing | and crying. Jostling and flgh!lng.i It was like a public celchration, ex- | cept that some of them chanted | weird dirges, which were presently | taken up by the others. So that the shores rang with their lamentations for the beautiful dead. Ashtoreth shut herself in the suite that had been given her, and put her fingers in her ears. She lay on the bed, with a pillow over her ad, and cried as though her heart would break. . . . Mona's jade was about her neck. And Mona's bracs. | lets on her wris Thet afternoon the boat dockea it Dominica. Smythe had left the hoat at Antigua. And Ashtoretn | felt lonelier than she had ever been hefore. She wondered if anywher. | on earth there was such utter lone- | o liness as in her heart. She wandered aimlessly about {he streets, The day was fearfully how. The other passengers had hirca cars, and driven away into the mountains, to picnié and see the gorgeous views. There had been » sudden tropical shower, and there were two rainbows. Likc moire ribbons in the sky. “Oh, it ain’t goin' to raln ne moah — no moah. Oh, it ain't goin® | to rain no moah,” whistled a small black boy. ‘trundling a bicycle.. Ashtoreth sm'led. Somehow the clouds bad lifted. Down the street strolled a man in whites, wearing the stiff helmce that Americans and Europeans af- | o lef things, in order to pay her daughter's ex- penses. Oh no — nothing of the kind! Only that mother “coulan’. possibly get away” — social obligae tions, or something like that. At least, that was what Ashtoreu hoped Mr. Hart would think. “After you went," she continues, | “I had a sort of a breakdown, anu | mother simply insisted that I take a sea trip. Mother has such faith in the ocean—my goodness, 1 believe she thinks it cures just abou. everything. . (That was calcu- lated to make Mr. Hart think th Maizie was quite casual abour transatlantic voyages, and al that sort of thing—Maizic who'd never en any further on a boat than couldn’t 1 t away. id, she simply So she dug up roa for me. And the very the woman came down rlet fever, or diphtherla, o ing — after we'd made our ions and everything. Wel, then mother wasn't going to lec g0 — but Tt 1d teasea. O dreadfully unconves, mother's such a tei- with s Ashtoreth's checks were burnins. was probably the most elaborate she had ever told. But she simy, Iy couldn’t let Mr. Hart think the, didn’t know how to do things. Al niost all moneved people had sues a respect for the conventions. Mr. Hart looked pathetic “Why, were ill, ing pertectly radiant now “Oh, I'm not,” she prot a perfect wreck. very sym I'm awfully sorry yow ted. “I'm he exclaimed. *“I'd !have thought you'd find it delight- ful.” “Oh, the weather was lovely,” she admitte And it was a nice boat, nd everything like that. But I haa @ most terrible experiences. Hon- estly, I feel just like I'd lived a regular nove She played with her ice cream. Coconut. .ice cream, with coconut grated over it, and the milk of the | fruit for a sauce. “It's perfectly deliclous — tnis tropical sundae,” she remarked, po- litely Don't change heg! ‘Won't u tell those terrible experiences?" she hesitated. . . . Peo- ple from the bhoat were coming down the strect. She could sec them through the open door. The son sisters. and Mrs. Hatch . and Mrs, Dunks. They ha | disapproved of her highly. What if they came in the shop, and Mr. Hart, who would surely w them for p: ngers off the boat, notlcea that they did pot speak to her? “All right,” she said. “Tll tea yon! I hardly know now to begin e moves so fast and fur.- the subject” he us. “They always do on a ho: remarked. “I's remarkable— ovents that, In the ordinary cours would transpire over all get crammed into a single voyage. Romance blossom over night. And the most phlegmatic people do the most tem things. T suppose it's the stars—and the long, y certainly have way of undoing us — but I didnt mean to interrupt. Please tell me. “Well,” she sald, “to begin witn there was an Englishman named Jack Smythe. And there was loveliest girl you ever saw nameu Mona de Mus Mona roomeu with me. And it scems Smythe had met her before, and made love to her everything. He told me he period of years and W, he told her. “You're looke | It's been the mose | the | this Mr. | somewhera | — — 3 — 28 S——_NEASERVICE I —— friends, 1t gives a lovely light! Ashtoreth's eyes brightened. “Why, that's just like Mona!” she | cried. “Because she did burn he. | candle at both ends. She *knew she | hadn't long to live, and yet she kept | right on doing things. But Mona | wasn't afraid of the dark.” | He reached across, and patteu | her hands. | “Then lct's not feel badly aboud! | Mona any more.” he said, and hie voice was very gentle. ‘You're lovely lady is beyond all hurt and pain, | and I think she would not want you to grieve for her.” The Simpsons had come in, and the Dunks, and Mrs. Hatch. They sat at a corner table, lime squashes up through straws. They saw Ashtoreth, but did not speak to her. Ashtoreth spoke quietly. “You see those pcople over there —those skinny, horrid women, in the blue veile dresses, and that silly little man In golf trousers, with the two fat women? One of the; squints, and the other is bhow- legged. You'll see when she stands up.” Mr. Hart smile “I gather nehow,” he an- swered, “that you're not awfully tond of the quartet.” “I hate them,” she “They're pa: nd of course that they didn't spea Jjust glared. old boat speaks to me! They treat me just like the dirt under fect! They think I'm not 100k at! They—" “Why, Ashtoreth!™ Mr. Hart looked alarmed. (TO BE CONTINUED) toll him it to | Hart invites Ashtoreth to his lit- tle home in the mountains, and, vecklessly she accepts. Adventure | lies ahead in the next chapter, NARCOTICS BLAMED BY MAYOR WALKER Declares Use Responsible for | Crimein Neyl York me aboue | New York, Jan. 2 (P — Mayor ames J. Walker, in & copyrighted article in the New York American today, gives the use of narcotics as one of the chief causes of crime in the metropolis. He also asserts that New York is relatively the least crime-ridden city in the country when its millions of inhabitants are compared in size with other communities. | While wrong doing in other com- ! munities {8 minimized by thelr local | newspapers and not published 1in | metropolitan papers, the mayor says, similar occurrences in v York gain nation-wide publicity, giving the city a reputation of belng er Jones, back in Kee- taucket, elopcs with the choir sing- or the local paper may give it a paragraph, or, if the elder happens to be a friend of the editor, there merely 18 a mention of Jones being absent from town for the time be- ing on business of course. New York papers won't even be intcrested,” the mayo article declares. Zight Column Line “But let a misdirected sceker of sustenance in the eerle reaches of | the Bronx decide the road to wealth fect in the tropics. In his buttoy |Studying law at Harvard — but ..1 hole was a Whisp of purple bougain- | S*ems he writes. Probably he goes villea. And he was whistling, too, “Oh, it ain't goin’ to rain no| more, . . ." For a moment Ashtoreth thought | she would faint. Then, as he turnea up an avenue off the main street, she ran toward him with her hands stretched, calling wildly: | “Oh, Mr. Hart! Mr. Hart!" Hollis Hart turned in amaze- ment. “Ashtoreth!” he cried. And came and took her hands in his “Mr. Hart!' * she repeated. Mr. Hart!” hey stood in the middle of the street, oblivious to the starcs of the curious natives. And he cou- tinued to hold her hands “I can't belic t!" he simply incredible He smiled ly. “Did yon know,” he asked, “that T called you Ashtoreth? It is the wayv I think of yon. s such a lovely name, and it suits Do you mind 7" “I love to he told him simply. He released her he “Come,” he proposcd have to get out of 1 w. You'll be He took i to little “We can tere, or an ic You must tell me nd how most “On, said. “It's slo always r yon say havit roarm shop. Ashtoreth laughe “Oh, my Koodn: ink I'd dor No—1I'm quite “I suppose vou ca'e eruise boat? T told me one was due today You don't mean you're really tr: ling by yourself?" He leaned toward her Httle table. “Yes ahe said. ¢ think that's terr “Why, sesured think it's very nice.” “Well, mother couldn't get away,” she told } Not that there wasn't enough for them both one the across the suppose you her. =1 possibiy mones Or thar | Malzie Bad found a temporary Jou |Castoria. Anyhow he published this boow, and it was all about Mona. And, of course, she wos perfectly furious. “They had the most awful figm. And Mona had a hemorrhage.” Ashtoreth dropped her face her hands, and shivered. “0l she eried, *it was dread- ful! Poor Mona had tuberculosi, 'd had it for years and yeam, 2nd knew all about it. But you ses, he was so brave, she w t a bu aid to die. = There were tears in cyes. Ashtoretn o ised the jade orna- she s littls as gorg satn brace- \ My Il these Oh, Hart!" Again Ashtor “It choked b vas so sad k the oam toars othery s rathee quarrel with Wi sordid, T sup- to thir W it LAXATIVE FOR BABY THAT “STAYS DOWN” n to and ession, H 1 imitat Fletcher sig marks genuine | | to law school too — I don't know. | | SLICED BEEF LIV FULL MEATED PLUMP FOWL «n BEST CENTER CUT and drew ' | Well, nobody on that | their | | K%~/ SPECIALS Wednesday & Thursday is trafc—directed by a violation of the Sullivan law, or a delicatessen dealer is robbed of eight dollars, and that item will be broadcast in from six to eight column headlines (depending upon what size the Kee- taucket Bladder boasts) in the self- same paper that slighted the defec- tions of Brother Jones.” Young men, who under proper conditions would be useful, law- abiding citizens, Mr. Walker writes, are turned into gunmen and gang- sters by a handful of gang leaders Wwho feed them drugs to undermine {their moral fiber and to gain an ascendency over them. | The mayor said the world war, which lowered the respect for hu- man life, also had contributed to present day lawlessness. SHEPHERD'S DEATH WON'T BE PROBED Governor of Mississippi Has “Neitber Time Nor Money” Jackson, Miss, Jan. 3 UP—Gov- {ernor T. G. Bilbo's official notice of the lynching Monday night of Char- ley Shepherd, convict killer and kid- naper, was his announcement that he | would not instigate an investigation |into the torturing to death of the negro by a mob. “I have neither the time nor the money to investigate two thousand people,” the governor said in reply to telegrams of protest reaching his | office. Arthur Jordan, district attor ney, however, was considering a call for a grand jury investigation. National Guard officers leading groups of posscmen in search of the negro were ordered to cease their duties when word was received that the negro had been taken. | Adjutant Gneral Hairston sald the troops were requested to aid in cap- | turing the murderer of J. D. Duvall, | carpenter sergeant at the state prison | farm and if possible to deliver him to the law. | No Request To this Governor Bilbo added that if a request had bedn made to guard the negro after his capture by a per- son authorized to do so, “I would | have grantci it." | The verdict of the coroner stated that Shepherd came to death “from | causes unknown to this jury.” His | | burncd and mutilated body was bur- | ied in the prison farm cemetery | after lying at the pyre ruins for | hours. The mob which raced over north- | west Mississipp! last Thursday night when the convict trusty killed the | prison worker in his home, grew by lcaps and bounds when Duvall's daughter, Ruth, stumblel into a vrison camp Saturday morning with her story of ill treatment by the | slayer. Two Die in fls{_ Massachusetts Crash 1. Mass, Jan. 2 (@— believed the first auto mobile ient deaths of the new vear in }i ssachusetts occurred at two local hospitals yesterday. Alton Ayer, 72, died at Wesson Memorial hospital yesterday morning from in- | | Jurics received last Friday while | Peter Graveline, 55, died last night Mercy hospital from a fractured ull. His automobile was demol- | ished In a crash Sunday morning. Wi MARKET ER b 23c aver: | Georgia 6,123; Massachusetts, b 35¢ PORK CHOPS b 29¢ FANCY SMOKED—6-8 1b ave. SHOULDERS PURE PORK SAUSAGE FRESH GROUND LEAN HAMBURG BONELESS b 16¢c b 25c b 25¢ Ib 33c POT ROAST FRESH OR CORNED SPARE RIBS b 17c _&Miflllflv&' e FLU LESSENS IN WESTERN STATES Reports Show It to Be Increas- ing in Bast Washington, Jan. 2 (M—Influenza is believed to be decreasing in most of the states west of the Mississippi river and increasing cast of the Mississippl. A warning against op- timism was seen, however, in reiter- ation by the public health service of the possibility of a second and more severe wave of the disease later in the winter. It was recalled that in 1918 there was at first A widespread outbreak, most of the cases being mild, but then it came again, and this time the malady was virulent in its nature, Reports from 24 states and New York city for the week ending De- cember 29 showed 90,000 new cases, as compared with 168,000 cases in the same states and New York city | for the previous week. “This, however,” officials of the public service said, “would only sub- stantiate the belief that a second and more severe wave may follow this one later in the winter." To Hold Conference Practically all the states reporting decreases were west of the Mississip- pi. Iowa dropped from an estimate of 85,000 to 27,000; Montana from $4,031 to 623; Kansas from 17,617 to 11,953; Wisconsin from 14,724 to 4,698, Btates that showed increases for the week were: Michigan from 5,777 to 10,690; West Virginia from 2,640 to 4,683;; Alabama 1,518 to 6,261; Louisiana, 121 to 2,343; and New Jersey, 219 to 584. Reports from other states for the week ending December 29 included: Arkansas, 2,830; Oregon 2,007; Idaho 34; Connecticut 297; Florida b541; 221; Washington 690; North Dakota 1,- 644; Vermont 292; Utah 14; Illinois ,657; New Mexico 2,006; Maryland 1,048; Maine 211, and Colorado 2,- 468, EXPECT PASSAGE OF KELLOGG PACT Navy Construction Bill Also Ready for Action Washington, Jan. 2 UP—Propo- nents of the Kellogg peace treaty were in a position on the eve of the reconvening of the senate to push the pact to a vote ahcad of its com- panion measure on the calendar, the naval construction bill. So confident were the treaty ad- vocates, that an agreement is being sought by Chairman Borah of the foreign relations committee which would specify that the treaty be dis- posed measure. Whether Chairman Hale of the naval committee consents to the Money in 24 Hours — of ahead of the cruiser | agreement whereby his naval con- struction bill would be brought up after the treaty, appeared to be immaterial, for the treaty advocates have the votes to go ahead. An agreement, however, would serve to assure a vote on the naval measure. Tacit Consent Realizing that 8enator Borah has the strength to press the treaty to an early vote, senate leaders have given tacit consent to placing it ahead and In return have received some assurances from opponents of the naval bill that this measure will ' be allowed to come to a vote. If an ‘agreement goes through, yotes would be definitely assured on both the treaty and the naval bill, and predictions have been made that such an agreement would lead to disposition of both propositions within two weeks. Prior to the Christmas recess the senate agreed to make the naval bill the unfinished legislative business and the treaty the unfinished execu- tive business. This will automatical- ly bring the naval bill before the any time, however, treaty advocates {can move to go into executive ses- |slon for consideration of the peace | pact. | will be able thus to keep the treaty | constantly before the senate. Senator Reed, democrat, Missourl, will wage a fight against the treaty. He will gain some support from Senator Moses, republican, New Hampshire, who 13 asking adoption of an interpretative resolution stat- |ing America's reservations in ratify- ing the pact. However, scnate leaders belleved they could force an carly vote with strength enough to use the cloture rule limiting debate, it necessary. A more serfous threat |against the bill to construct 15 new cruisers with republican indepen- ' !dents under the leadership of Sena |tor Norris of Nebraska, opposing it. However, it is believed that if the treaty is allowed to go to a vote they will not filibuster. Attempts will be made to modify the naval bill to provide for only five or ten cruisers. The request o President Coolidge for elimination of |the clause requiring construction of Ithe vessels within three years will et support only from opponents of the bill. Chairman Hale will oppose | elimination of the time clause, Inspector Will Examine Books of Hammond Camp A. G. Hammond camp, United Spanish War Veterans, will hold a | regular meeting in the camp meet- | !Ing room at the State Armory to- | |night at 8 o'clock. District Inspec- tor Paul Haun of Hartford will in- spect the books of the adjutant and quartermaster as well as the con duct of all officers in conducting the mecting. Refreshmehts will be served, i | On Friday night A. G. Hammond \camp and auxiliary will hold a_joint !iggtallation of officers with G. A. ! Hadsell camp and auxiliary of T tol. 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