New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 12, 1929, Page 12

when he saw her coming with the { darkness all around her, and her| | tace lighted, like a holy statue’s. | in the flickering light of the can- | dle. And then, someliow, her can- | dle had been also (‘x'in'.'\u:hml.l She missca the boat on which she | And he was waiting for her, with | 1s traveling, and goes with him to |lis arms open. . And the great, | his house in the mountains, Her | s ness had cnfolded em | clothes have gone ahead on the cruise ship, but Hollis fits her out as best he can. And they spend a danserously glamorous weck to- gether. Sfix wonderfut days and t'g ship is due Ashtorcth and Hollis their last day together. ble hurricane rushes in almost without warning. sea. The servants seek refuge hurricane shelter, a great ber in the mountain side. takes Ashtoreth to the where they spend the day most of the following night, alone. Ashtoreth vamp her host. Khe pajamas, und wanders through the garden Ashtoreth Ashe, adventuring far from home, has a thrilling adven- ture in the West Indies. There she meets, by accident, her employer, the rich and famous Hollis Hart. . s he neld her. his desire ! went singing through her. He lifi-| od hier forehead to his lips, and the | wild wine of his love flowed ke la torrent from her swimming head. | He hushed her protestations with | {his mouth. And, lifting her.| cradled her in his arms. And talkel of love. when lie talked at all | which was not at first, nor until Ihe was weary with Kissing. | in the | “Youll marry me, Orchid?" he cham- | had hegged Hollis | aAng he called her honse. | tpings, A high white altar.” And and [ cpalawhite love And a “flame- auite L pite secret forover.” Lovely, tic names, like a port making love. | |1t rather cnarrassed her. As| Lit had when 1 1hed out her| | “darling untonchedness” She won- [dered if he had known about the him hold and kiss her. way Jack Smythe had Kissed her | her Orchid, as his own lonly a week before, he would still | tender name—becauge she reminds foa)) hor by white and precious him. he saye, of the flower. A0l or s urae (hers st NOW GO ON WITH THE k Smyvthe cither. There | CHAPTER XXX And one or two ofh- | Thy storm had raged all day row it was night. Midnight have passed. back again. prepare for Suddenly, from the a horri beautiful mys- best to oven dons with him and lets He calls secret, does her I names. nst Jdac was Monty. ers, besides. Ry and by in. And TORY and he lighted the lamps | when the storm had abated opened a shutter and they stood at the window together, with his arm about her shoulders | 1e ler, then, to dress, and said they would go out for a little. | lAnd that 1 would come to pre- | the red hibiscus spilled like 11004 | nore a ot meal, for they had eaten | on the gras slope: Great boughs very little that day. | sretched across the lawn. And, | St | beneath the wreckage, the whol { They decided that the hoat, which | gay garden was crushed and | they had expected in the morning. Lroken, | would be surcly delayed. But when Lime trees had ben uprooted |t came Hollis was fo sail for home and thrown aside; and the vanil- | with her. And they would be mar- las and cocoas. And a giant palm, i | ried in Woston. «pilling cocoanuts from its broke “Will w> cable your mother?” he fronds, lay across the garden wall. |14 asked. | A few pale rs came out and | Ryt Ashtoreth thought not. peered sadly down. Hollis and| «0h Td rather tell her myself! Ashtoreth looked upon the horror | che said. She had her own | that had visited their small para- 'yersonal reasons for that. Tt might | dise. | . he a little diffienlt, handling Mai- Servants, with flaming torches, | sin. Maizie was so fond of Monty | wandered here and there. A chila, She would nant to be sure. too, | in the hut wher: the women lived, {that ft was all quite proper and re. | eried and sobbed. And an old man | spectalle, Maizie had such @ ple- moaned. Lelan suspicion of millionaires | Down in the gully, dogs bayed Ashtoreth theught fearsomel And the servants | axcited that night fo sleep. Hollis | seuffed their torches out and ran | seat her to hed very shorlly | as though the devil chased them. [after they had eaten. Later For they knew that dogs Bevcr jad wmelled cigarets and knew he Eowled like fthat, except when the | wag gmoking in the garden, be- 8uck E Y'an rode on the wings of |reath her window. She conside: d | the night . . . and the wind sighed ctealing =oftly down. to surprise gustily. Everything scemed him again in the Chinese pajamar. hurt and sad. She took her halr down, to brush | Amd only Ashtorcth was happy. | rnd plait it, and thonght of slippink | For Hollis had told her that he a big hraid over each shoulder. and loved her. He had. moreover, asked | zoing to him that w Ashtoreth's | her to marry him. And that, | hair reached far below her waist, | of the two, was the more important ' and was, without doubt, her erown- | declaration, ing glory. Hollis, she knew, would | love it. She sat on the side of the lied to comh it and to think upon | her great good fortune, And. s she | comhed, her arm grew tired and | | heavy, 80 that she rested her head | azainst the pillow. In a moment she was sound asleep. | While she slept, Hollis smoked | innumerahle cigarets and won- dered if it yas decent for a man of | his age to marry a young girl. And if such marriages were ever happy. And if Ashtoreth might not be het- tor off with a younger man. | Wretchedly he pondered. And. when he closed his eyes. he could imagine the feel of her in his arms, | with her hody throbbing. and her dark hair like a soft cloud across his face. and 10 his cyes. He looked up to the room that Teld her, sleeping there. Pale and slim, with her hlack hair, and her {long, black lashes that swept her | white checks. e thought of her ir the big old bed. with the wooden angels to guard her slumber . the lamps and he lit another cigaret . . . and and the wind worn ont with its fury, skulked like a fittul wraith, lifting the poor. dead things it had Killd tossing them about like chaff. The butterfly bushes lay on their purple heads. And the pefals he sent she was too | &h It had heen wonderful, fn the cozy fastness of the little house, Hol- lis had fo'end a pair of black pa- | jamas, with gold frogs. and a Chi- nese dragon writhing up the back. How they happened in his hags he could not imagine. For they haa been honght n Pekin, for the wire of an old friend. Tt was months since he had scen them. Parkins mnst have mistaken them for some- thing more nutilitarian (Parkins, Ashtoreth gathered. was Hollis' valet), Hollis begged cept them. “Mrs Lee would look like a mear bag in them.” he declared. “Pl Orehid — they'rs lounging thi~gs. really. Not to sleep in at all.” | So <he had put them on. And taken a candle from her hedroom to light the way to the drawir room, to show him how beanutiful ithey were on a girl who did not at 21l resemble a meal bag. He had blown out Ashtoreth to ac- | head. and told her she was beauti- | noved from the domestic life | or sunbeam, [ memory in my heart, so [ never lose it until T die.” ! conld | and i one of those doll-women, 1929, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, as fiftcen or twenty years 3 Q. How long dees a tadpole’ main in that state? oY T A. The tadpoles of the g or spring frog, and the still 'r.h'lfl ones of the bullfrog. remain twe Falr-tike bristles near the -mouth, | miles have been filled im, leaving and these are not always present, [19.45 mies of trestle. being rather a characteristic of the | Q. How many states are there | while we are away. Tl ask Aunt|young. in France? | Meg to get hold of a housekeeper.| Q. How many gorillas are there| 4. The palitical division bearing {2nd then - you necdn't be'annoyed [ a¢ present in the United Btates? | the closeat resemblahce to states in | | with hiring servants. Aunt Meg |\ \o know of four,—RBambu, a | France is the Department. There|years and even longer in that state. { will see that the place s running |, ;. in the zo0 at Philadelphia; |are 90 of these. Q. What is the derivation and moothly before we get buck.” |two in the hands of dealers and| Q. Where are the Bermuda|meaning of the name Gllligan? - “Oh, Holly! Holly! It's like a|“N'GL” Dbrought to the National |Islands? A. It is an Trish family name Zoological Park, Washington, D. C..| A. In the Atlantic Occan, be-|frem “gill* meaning servant and shtoreth threw her arms about | when three years old, December 6, [tween the parallels of 32 degrees| “gan” meaning offspring. The his neck. T feel like a princess in | 1o |and 33 degrees N. Latitude and 575 | meaning is “son of a servant.” iry tale. Don’t—don't—let me | ad- | nautical miies off Cape Hatteras. Q. What is the arca of the city up. dearest " Q. Where is Flanders? of San Francisco? d her closely. | A A. The name Flanders 18 NOW| A 26880 acres. is going to be a lovely | street, [enly geographical title, covering Q. How many acres in a square * he promised. the territory which at one time was | mije> know it she cricd. “But the County of Flanders. It cor-' A Holly, 1've the dreadfulest feel- ! vesponds 107 two departments ol! hat something is going to lLap: ¥e | France, Nord and Pas-de-Calais, the | of | southern part of the province of Zealand, Holland and the provinces Flanders, Bel- like. Tt's on Beacon street, on the river side. 1 suppose it's a bit dingy {now. We might have it redecorated. X § Nl another . . . and another . . . un-| “Oh, T don't know. Girls for gen- til it was morning. And with the | eral housework at home get $15 dawn. he knew that, right or wrong. |and $18. 1 think” Ashtoreth told he would ubide by Ashtoreth's de-|him. *“But | don't knew a thing sire. ¥or the big old bed, with the!about wuges for servants that arc pale, slim girl sleeping in it, held | especially trained. T suppore though | heaven for him, and all but God. |there’s no comparison between ‘he States and the tropics.” “I should say there isn't!" he ¢ Well, Hortense gets the meaning “monnt of joy.” Montc ship, back again, | magnificent sum of 50 cents a weck. : i anish meaning “mount .;,‘, ,mm:, SR the | And Lisa, my dear. who is rated | (TO BE CONTINUED) ith. : ; | Zeata n con. and they helped him prepare | the best cook on the island, gets a R e hat is he per capita wealth | of East and West {0 leave. packing his bags, and | dollar! We coud staff the whole | Ta the next Instaliment Ashioreth United States? | gium. Learing messagas to the town, | place with them, if you'd like. Of and Holly go home. And on the 915, | Q. Mow many years can a gold % 5 % | course there might he some trou- | Loat they plan tieir honeymoon. is the population of | fish live in captivity? At seven Hortense called Asho-[ "0 tiing them | e A. The age goldfish will attain | veth. The hoat was sailing at 10| 1 P00 0o could b L e R A Monsicur Hart was waiting In the | i 0 % ke the notion.” B R o e dining-room, for her to join him in | average but they have lived as long breakfast | he bathed in the big cement tank in the bath house beneath the ango. Hortense, whose dusky 7 e Q. What is Flo Zicgfeld's dress? Mis office is at 214 West 42d ew York city What do the nd Moute ¥e Monta Fay is names an ? Monta 640, 666 is & Prescription for Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue, Bilious Fever and Malaria. 1t is the most spredy remedy known, fess s oh ch name The sun had risen, and he saw . boat riding the waves, The cruisc claimed. of the s in on the quota, - arranged. | ” m Langford, the famous ywheight hoxer, still liv- When and where was he born? He was horn at Weymouth, | N. 8. March 4. 1886, and cis still living. He is a hoxing instructor at | Jim Toland's gymuasium, 128 Han- over strect, Boston, Massachusetts. Q. What is sta” ? ’ Ashtoreth was dumbfound: “I3ut it's probably not practical he addad. “The details of passag {and all. 1t would be quite a nuis® resses were ladies’ maids to the ;00 “ang hen, cf course, they are | | t white women on the island. | o ygcq to our ways. There would drivd her with hot towels. and . )1 gorts of trouble getting them ented her with lollis' shaving | 2 U adjusted.” taleum. And combed her long hair. | | Ashtoreth was nd slipped her cnly dress over her | 5 ane proviem GETTING RID OF BEOBUGS dings in & house in mot necessarlly an ind for. little aw the idea may be relished, thia insect syite of the adoption of all reasonable brecautions. It A. A view, prospect of outlook. apt to unlis and satchels of travelers, or into baskets of laundry o Who 1 the Hircctor of - the || A thus be introduced into houses; and it ix alw. unfortunately, quite 0. ho 15 | : capalle of wigrating from one house to another. In thess and other ways, United States Veterans Bureau? [| snsones premiscs m vaded. A ank T. Hines. Our Washington B s prepared from government wources, a com: Q. What is the amount of indus prctiueive bullctin on the characteriatics, lulits” snd metiiods of eradivat. Q. i NCUS ] g bedbugs. If you liave these peste, or want to be prepared agaimst them | trial insurance in force in the Unit 611 out the coupon below and send for this bulletin: tafes X LA P COUPON HERE = == o= o= o The total amount in force in | 3 unk Washington New Britaln Herald, and the in the! The pre neglect may g her overawed was far re- to | | which she acenstomed, S vemembered the days when i areeted him timidly. For Hortense |y ta®0 EE JLp Ll commodating. | had told her of the return of the|pikyng stoves and scrubbing | boat, and it secmed as i the fININZ | (oorer ~ Ashtoreth wanted fto ery| (0 hours were crashing about her head. | o2 TN Clone of it ” lihe » He Kissed her reverently, a8 \ng now she was fo have servants | They are hoiled in salt though last night had been a dream.| ¢ Jop own! The very notion |[fer and then allowed to dry, «nd only today was real. Very much| = ntened and thrilled her. | which they are roasted. as though she had heen a child. | wpoq jany servants have you. Q. Do whales have scales? bridge is the French structure in | touching her eyes and her forehead | yojjy 2 whe asked. | A, The skin of a while i¥ smooth [ the Puy de Domc. The rails an with his hps. 1s? Oh, T've nob but Par- and without scales, though there! 434 1-2 feet ahove the water. The | “The hoat.” he fold her. “sails at o po toid hor. “I live at the [are frequently many barnacles and |longest rallroad bridge s the Tu- i0. 1 have sent my bags ahead, and | qiyh. mostly. We'll open the town | parasitic crustaccans clinging to it em C'ut OFf at Ogden, Utah. 1t was | transacted, by messenger, all MY | pouse after we ried, if you'd [The only outgrowths of the skin oQrisinadly S7.5 wnlle Ioong hut 808+ Lusiness on the island. So that wr can leave when vou are ready.” | “I'm ready this minute,” she as wured him. “T only want to sav goodby to Hortense and Lisa and Cher, and the rest. And pick som orchids, and walk through the gar- den. And look at the mountains and the sea and everything, so that 1 can never forget a blessed shadow %0 long as T live. 1 want to photograph it on my mind, forever and ever, and lock fthe that T can ful as the morning. She went then to Hellis, and How Bureau, shetl are psabuta saitod dn New York Avenue. Washingten, D. C. 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