New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 17, 1929, Page 4

THIS HAS HAPPENED Ashtoreth Ashe, returning from a trip to the West Indies, has gotten herself engaged to her former em- ployer, Hollis Hart, rich beyond a poor girl's wildest dreams. Her happy homecoming is al- most ruined. Before she has a chance to tell her mother, Maizie, of her engagement, she that Monty English, who used to be her sweetheart, is flying over from New York to see her. Hollis is also fly- iug over. Ashtereth is alarmed, lest they travel together—her fiance and her ex-sweetheart. There is no telling, of course, what might be divulgel under such circumstances. There s, also, the unpleasant suspicion th they may arrive at the flat together | —and that would be decidedly awk- ward. But, worse than appearance, is the fact that Maizie has befriended a common little ad- venturess named Sadie Morton, who was formerly in Hollis Hart's em- ploy. Badie has already money from Hollis. Now she nounces her further intention blackmailing him. Ashtoreth is horrified. Of cours neither her mother nor Sadie r izes that Hollis is her fiance. Maizie protests, as a matter common decency. And Sadie turns to Ashtoreth, “Do you b demands. gee!” The telephone rings shil NOW GO ON WITH THE CHAPTER XXXVI “Excuse me, please,” said Ma with her best company manner, and tose to answer. o—this i3 J. No, there e hy that name.” Ashtoreth’s insides rose and fell, and rose ugain, in that peculia rashion of insides. when owners are in great mental tress. guess you got the wrong num- ner,” concluded Maizie affabl And Ashtoreth's stomach was an- of ame me, Ash?" she TORY dis- curi- Monty's dreaded | secured | at cating. ‘A guy as rich as him— | _S\ NP — —yj 3 — - “Monty?” shrilled Sadie. Monty coming to Boston?” “He's flying over,” announced Maizie proudly. ‘Gee, T wonder how much that costs? There's & guy that don't | count his pennics,” approved Sadie. She smiled at Ashtoreth. “Guess he must be crazy about you, Ash.” But Ashtoreth could not retern the smile. She looked at Sadie coldly. “You don’t manded, “tha Mr. Hart I certainly do!™ adie laid down her knife and fork, clatteringly. . . . “And what's it to you?" she inquired. “But, Sadie, it would be so dis- honorable! Besides, you signed an | agreement to leave him alone.” Muizie looked puzzled. An agreement ?” she said, frown- “What do you mean, Ashto- you are going to sue ing. reth Sadie erimsoned, and shoved her ack from the table. right!” she jeered. “Spill the beans!” “Doesn’t mother know the whole story 2" Ashtoreth abandoned all pretense “It's your own fault, die, if I've given something away. I'm sure T don't know what you've been telling.” “Why, she told me,” began Malzie hesitantly But Sadie cut in sharply. “Oh, let's talk about something else!” “You began it,” pointed out Ash- toreth, “Yeah. Well, we'll drop it now. Maizie rose to take the dishes | aw scraping thém at the table, and gathering up the silver, “If you'd rather have apple pie, instructed, ‘“keep your forks. | We got some lovely chocolate pud- | ding, with whipped cream. I think maybe you'd rather have that. The | pie’s just a litlle doughy-looking. | Maybe the oven was too slow. . . . Who'll have another cup of coffee? There! a whole *Ys sarcastic. “And what do you ally mean,” she de- | = A sup- pose she's going to think about you now?" “But, Ash—" Sadie spread out Ler hands besecchingly. “That guy's got more money than's good for him. He's rotten with it, that's what he is. And Mr. Corum rays—" Maizie, with the coffee pot, en- | terea the room. “Nobody ate their nice dinner!” she moaned. “I declare it's real dis- couraging—" “Why, Mums, I ate a lot!” tested Ashtoreth. “You've mno more appetite than a bird,” wailed her mother. “Just peck at your food, that's all.” “Well, I'll_eat a big helping of pudding,” consoled Ashtoreth “with, slews of whipped cream.” | “There's a swell program on the radio tonight,” announced Sadic, sugaring her coffee. “I just got the Latteries charged,” contributed Maizie. “Monty wrote, | and said he'd get me an eleetric one, But I wasn't going to let t boy pay for it, and I knew he'd never send me a bill.” “What time is Monty getting here?" Sadic was making conversation politely, and with apparent effort. “Do you know what time he left New York?” Ashtoreth shook her head. “No, I don't. He wired mother that he was arriving by plane, and must see me immediately. It sounds sort of mysterious.” Maizie smiled wisely. “It sounds sort of like he was in love,” she speculated shrewdly. Don't you think so, Sadic?" “Who—me? Oh, you bet.” Sadie folded her napkin carefully, “Now don’t you two do the dishes. I'm going to run down to the mail box. I'll be right back. Want me to take your letter, Ash?" Ashtoreth was confused. “No, thanks,” she said. quite ready yet. But don't isn’t awfully important. pro- “It isn't wait. It | imparting a secret, | that part of it Tomor- | “Oh, she means it right cnough.” Maizi’s mouth closed grimly. “But I went down to sec this Mr. Corum yesterday, and I gave him a good picce of my mind. Blackmail —that's all it is. “I tolg him Sadie was under my protection, and I wasn't going to stand for any monkey tricks, not trom him, nor nobody else. T told him, ‘rom all I ever heard, Mr Hart was a good, decent man. And Sadie herself wouldn't ever say he'l been anything but a gentleman to her” Maizie lowered her voice. “Do you know, dear, what those two were cooking up — Sadie and this lawyer of never guess! Maizie shoved her daughter a chair. “Sit down,” ske orderea attec- , “and take a load off your into “What was it, Mums?” . . toreth wondered if she could keep the excitement out of her voice. “Well, it ms—" Mai little nearer, as though she and the walls had ears — “there's a und Mr. Hart's office that where with some s Dan Corum—Dh were very, he's hers? Well, you'd { iy what Mr. Hart ever did . Ash-| story | they'll tell what they know, she's not going to get in any tro ble. What that girl needs s a mother’s eye on her. The trouble with you young people,” pronounced Ma s you forget your. mothers | knew it all before you. Sadie now | —she thinks 1'm an old fogey, and innocent as a babe unborn. Talking with a girl like her wouldn't do any good, so I just took things in |my own hands, and acted accord- ingly.” But, Mums, shell go right ahead. You can't stop her. Besides, | you don't know everything she tld Corum.” Maizie's lips tightencd. “All T know,” she said, “is that little snip of a Sadie Morton fs playing right in the hands of a | blackmailer thats got more brains in his little finger than Sadie’s got {in her whole head. And that's not healthy for Sadie. No girl living under my roof is going to get mixed | up in anything that's not decent and above board. “I told Corum T'd go straight to the district attorney, if he didn’t drop the whole business. I asked that | was wrong to Sadie. And I asked Sadie the same question, Sadie vs herself he was perfectly decent all the time she worked- for him, and I believe her. But this Corum —he intimated things. “Now, what I think, Ashtorecth, is this — they're planning, between | them, to dig up some dirt on Mr. bent a | Mart—and maybe it'll be true, and e it won’t. And they'll ask him hush money, and say it he don't give it to them. Perhaps it's | true — about this woman they say he's with now. Maybe he'll want | may | for some ble unscrupulous man, Ashtoreth— |to protect her name. he figured, if they could get any proof, they'd be able to blackmail Mr. Hart. Weil, T don't know ex- actly what Sadie had to do with But she's heen snooping around his office, trying to pick up some information, I sup- DOs: “And then there's something about a hired girl at Mr. Hart aunts’ house. She isn't really a | hired girl at all, but a detective from Corum’s office, She's trying | te worm things out of the aunts, I suppose. Maybe she's opening letters, for all ¥ know. It's an awful dirty mess, Ashtoreth.” “But, mother!” “8h, child!” cautioned M “And be carcful, Lamb, that you “But if he stands up on his two fect, and says he won't give them a thing—then this Corum is going “dle Sadie into filling out a swearing that Mr. Hart did pape things to her. . » “On, mother! mother!™ “Why, Ashtoreth, what's the mat- | ter, honey?” “But he never * did, know he never did.” | “Of course he didn't, honey, [ Maizie comforted her child, car: ing he adoringly. “You feel about it just like 1 do, don't you, dear? . . You and mother'll ta ca of Sadie. She's foolish 1little gire, and she necds somebody like us to sort of wateh over her. . . . Shi” Mums. I She_was door opened. (TO BE CONTINUED) Real tragedy in the next chapter. A Qreadful, dreadful thing happens. FORD AND JAPANESE ARE RIVALS IN BRAZIL Race to Cultivate Land for Further Expansion With Oid-Timers Betting on the Orientals. Para, Brazil, Jan, 17 UP—There is rivalry between the Ford rubber enterprise and that of the Japanese on the banks of the Tapajos river in getting land under cultivation. Old-timers in the Amazon valley are placing their wages on the Nippon- ese. According to word drifting down from the uuper stretches of the river. The Ford and Japanese conces- sions are situated nearly opposite each other on the Tapajos, one hun- dred and twelve miles above its Junction with the Amazon. The Ford base is now at Santar- em, at the mouth of the Tapajos, troit have stayed. They arrived too late in the season to navigate the Tapajos and the cargo is Deing lightened and towed the more than hundred miles up the river.’ Veterans on the river praise the Ford hospital ship and its cquip- ment but believe the task of fight- ing malaria in the Ford area will be stupendous, for there were 350 deaths from the fever in two months about six months ago. It is reported here that special cranes brought in Ford bottoms to discharge cargoes were found below s0 discharge has been delayed ow- ing to the necessity of usig3 lighter equipment. ‘Work of clearing land is progress. ing and one thousand houses for laborers- will be comstructed. CONFINED TO HOME New York, Jag, 17 (UM—Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the board of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, is confined to his home on Rivers side Drive with a slight attack of influenza. Shavis ooyl ot toonhing and coolng: Sample, Boup, The utilities of a city are combined in your motor car ously soothed. She put down in a minute. felt like an empty had stopped churning. was something. T thought maybe it w said Maizie, smiling standing near “I wonder what here.” her hand on her heart, and decided it would probably slow | Her cavern, And all oy Ashitoreth time he'll get heavy stomach but it that Mon r, and ovingly. | from worrying. “No HOW DO YOU LIKE HOUSEKEEPING,ALICE, NOW THAT YOU'RE MARRIED ? NEXT WASHDAY INEVER SAW WHITER CLOTHES, DAUGHTER! cream lett.” She ambled from the room, her arms full of dishes. turned quickly to Ashtoreth. “What your mother won't hurt her,” she said. didn’t see any need for telling her ahout the apartment and all. . Oh, T told her enough, to keep her I didn’t want her thinking I was a bad girl.” Ashtoreth half jar of nice row’'ll be time enough.” with And\Sadie “Now, lie down,” ordered Maizic don’t know | when Sadie had gone. * “And 1 Lle, and pile up the dishes. was sharply| “You don't think FINE,ALL BUT BLUE MONDAY — SCRUBBING CLOTHES JUST WEARS ME OUT SCRUBBING'S OUT OF DATE. HOW YOU MUST HAVE SCRUBBED e et . 1USE RINSO NOW, IT MAKES WASHDAY EASY-GREAT FOR DISHES, TOO It's all you need in tub or machine e o e T oney, you go right in and gently, you look all tuckered out. I'l just clear the ta- we'll let them go till morning. die's real good ubout helping. . . . And don't you pay any attention her talk about Mr. Hart, dear.” she means it, don’t let Sadia know what sleuth you got for a mothe aizie chuckled richly. . . . rang to her feet., “Wouldn't she surprised s Monty,” she said. though!” 16 e Maizie “Why, mother, it's dreadful!® | smoothed her apron, and put her And | hands to her hair. . “I'll run Sa- | Ashtoreth tcok her mother's! out, and turn the gas on under the hands, and held them tightly. Her coffee pot. I'll bet he feels just like own were like fe a good cup of hot coffee. And some “Don’t you worry, hrownies—Monty loves my brown- Sadie under wing i n old lifted her hand warningly. she is now, dear.” to ! dear, now, T got and my THEN USE RINSO=IT SOAKS CLOTHES WHITER THAN YOU CAN SCRUB THEM WELL, THAT SOUNDS WONDERFUL==-'LL GET A BOX OF THAT SOAP TODAY (Thousznds write us letters like this) ; s the clothes {00 is ”::e c. F. 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