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JRINING, Ty ELEANOR EARLY THIS HAS HAPPENED Molly Burnham, reporter, was entertaining old friends at a little dinner party, when she learned of the death of Ruth Woods. Molly and Rita Melnotte and Ruth were dearest friends at college. Now Ruth is dead, and Rlta 1s experi- menting disastrously with a com- panionate marriage. Only Molly has achieved the triumphant happiness of which they all dreamed—and even Molly's joy is not complete. She is very much in love with Jack Wells, who has no money, and seems unable to make any. She and Jack quarrel a great deal, over money matters, and because Jack hates Molly's work, and is resentful of her inti- macy with newspaper men. But, when Ruth dies, Molly for- gets their latest difference, and tele- Red flicked phones Jack, asking if work to be with her days. He comes for the fi 1o comfort his swectheart, NOW GO ON WITH THI STORY , CHAPTER XVI Ruth “was buried in her we gown, with her lips touched scarlet. Molly thought she like Isolde, with her white face her white eyelids, and her white hands folded so chastcly She bent to kiss the soft cloud of her hair, and thought of what it was t Iristan had whispered to his 1solde. . your gold huir That is not gold. Only God knows who made it, What color it is exactly Bob and Rita and Jack had bought a blanket made of roses, to throw over the casker And Zip had fiilled arms with sweetheart roses. The prople from upstairs cam- down, and a few curious ncighbors called. Their faces were long, and their words right. And th from 1 re wrung her and called Ruth poor and said how awful it was neighbors brougnt i # cold snd some potato salad, and their voices quivered with 1 proper degree of feeling. And Molly. thongh she herselt for the thought, wondered if people felt an exhilaration in others' troubles. Those people, for instance, who brought the ham, ani the woman from upstairs, also. She turned fiercely to Jack “Look!” she whispered woman is finzering Ruth's She's indecent.” “Sh,” he admonished well, poor She any better.’ “Poor dear!” woman at her handker eyes, leaned dead girl. with looke | ni littl Molly and e her were woman ham despised soul. docsn’t know murmured the the hier. And. puttin: hief to her streaming a little closer to tae ! They huricd graveyard, dropped her head and still. laughed as and moss After the took Zip Ruth in a beneath a pine needles softly Everything And only it ran over Tanely tha its ihove | was little the quict hrook stones a funcral, Beb and Rit home with them. Ana Molly and Jack returned ihe to"her apartment. He put his arms about her gently gently, and brushed her forehead lightly with his lip: One didn’t somehow want to kiss, after tha | open grave, with only roses to cover the brown th that would go thud iling down en Ruth Ruth in her wedding gown. with her arms tull ¢t sweetheart re \ “You must he hungr Jack when they had sat I a lon time, somewhere and eat remarked in silenes “Let's g0 out Malke you feel setior.” She roused herself then,: shaking the spathetic melancholy tha 1d smothered her all day “1 thor it would he nicer here,”” she said. “I'd love mething, to show you Vst little wife I'm going to be \What do vou feel like, juicy yies lamb chops, nice fr “Veu sound like a by “1 don’t want you hother 0 somewhere,” ST to to | hat vant to bother &h pretend to he I'm alone. Tut up fo a taan in here, and Ul sy and me thin 1 iz shoppinz, Iy, It won't ftake ong. " t everything here How would k and mushrooms 20? avely a-tin r ouse, Yon tay iy Nan “Fine!” he applauded. “Here, 1 me pay for the stuff” He tried (o put some bills in her hand “Oh, this is my party,” she de creed. “You've bought me a mil NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST JTALENT © 1929 BY AEA Jervice Inc. Inothing to be afraid of. That man's | feeble-minded.” | He had turned now, and was walking back toward the apart- rent, peering from left to right Just lion meals, honey. Now I'm enter- |like & silly person. taining.” “Now Molly,” he protested, can't buy the groceries when I'm around.” He took her hand, and. forced a note between her fing may be rolling in wealth, can't buy your ceries. Say, Molly you suppose I've been in New York ruefully. “Honest there's thing as saving.” “Oh, 1 don't know. dred?” she guessed. “A hundred and twenty,” fessed. how ved since Fiv hun- he con- i from his cizareci before replying. “So you're the ¢ “That's abot's rked Jack exactly what wedding bougquet Molly. flushed. But he did not add that he had also met the last installment on the white and shin ing little diamond that was lost in the mud and tiime of the pond in the Gardens. Molly, he reflected, red to have She Claugia cost,” re- forgotten pretliy. sota 10r wis Heaping his com about ionz on the Diaw up a smoking stand. fort lamp and “There!" she said zines are son he 1 on tie floor. and I've : new hooks on the lowest shelf They come into the office, to be re viewed, and I've been begging them to let e do some reviewing Next Saturday I'm to have a umn on the hook page.” ou're too darn smart,” he proved lovinzly. “No wonder den’t want to marry me ut 1 cried, and kiesca him switl She surveyed little apartment complacently And I love nice things! sh thed. “Really Jack. T couldn't to he poor. (ould you? It's too severe a strain on love, I think You sce 1 Lnow lots more about life and love than 1 used, to.” ou and Life!" he hantere “Run along, child, and buy your banquet.” First she the re- you the luxury of he hie hear went to the market on cerner. A pound and half of oin. with the bone cut out— 1ok must he starved. Mushrooms and fomatees, and some hig Ter muda onions. A hunch of celery with a pa » of cream chees Lit o roquefort and taste camembert, to Stff it. Endive a s d Oh, and a jar ream There o fo of yes was a man standin when Motly left th noticed him before, came ot of the apartment hort, dark with pock marks on his face On tke corner w a woman's ¢ changs, where they sold litt1e rolls, nd delicious sweoets, Idom went there, hread ani Xnows, are 'l tell i now on the store. when A corner, he had x wars Molly frosh s everybody since pastrics, wrully fa Jack T m thought differen eninz em my Il never hurricd dirty-looki and trotte get some he decided have everythin he peraon ilong flowers It it “Now the he seneronsly. n table, nie wyish wilt fo very B o 1) man wes surely cornel nift wardly, with followi of her vy pocition. lou his hands in his She darted into a drug store o “pped into a the wateh the nock she of m Out the Saw his pocticr telephone hooth ne I'rom there she throt the window her and pretended to fumblinz for change. dooy cor cnened be bog. The man had stopped and was looking about. Yes, he was following her. or the mo mont he seemed fo have lost her. “T'll telephone the partment,” he thought, “and Tack to conr ~1 meet me. md a ia stuplaty. nickel " imber and dropaed when the nleaze.” i had 1 movis in an B nn the By 1 ! calleq per of Paulin tired the lurid *and impo: Pnite af a girl ranorter ' i mas “Ivs rial o) old s she 1ol her broad daylight, nly and there's Geonil dirty-looking person. | for | surely | KEre Molly left the drug store, and hurried toward the florist’s, decid- ng o return on the farther sid: | of th~ street. If the man had not passed the apartment by that time, You |she would run as fast as she could but you | old beau his gro- | the e would before have gained he could ap- Then surely entran much do | proach he Tve | He grinned | no such | “But of course I'm being idiotic, he rcasoned. “He won't try to speak to me, I know. And, even if he should, it wouldn’t hurt o any. Probably he's a hophead.® (Hophead was cently added to her |1t wag one of the words t Per think she w about lif chose her color schem wouud green linen that off the Dbuttercun yellow so effectively renctte would bhe lovely black bowl. Tesides, stund the cdor of wrnations today. They so fearfully funercal. She won dered i the smell of them would remind her of Ruth, and tly brown-carth grave Never mind doing them u the florist. “I can car; ¥ ifted the hox say in her hand the t lingercd the sinister Now Molly oroughly t . She r to the shon. dete o call Jack. But the tele. vas out of order Linz the salesman walk down the a4 second she the idca awfully want lcarnin flowers, her She e her cover, howed china vith mi her low uld roses or he told Down vrned er of liscarded sh wouldn't alon silly. Besides, to leave the store hore's a publie drug store,” tetephone the the saying. oh ves, T know. Thank wasn't important, though. T won't hothe Molly gathered her Later the florist's member that a younzg had hought some flower:, turned to ask if she might use the When he told her it . she seemed upset ted her to the thought 0s5 in 1t 1 guess you parcels again. rk was to r dy in preen d re- phonc out of wite ha drug CHAPTE Molly ran down th re- | volving the most preposterous ideas lin he Slim Boynton | warned nst tne ‘L:Hl\mvu lim was a | alarmist. Besides, she hadn’t ! Mandincllo. Why. even Slim ‘V'm raciic ought to give U vote of thanks—Slim, who en ro surc they were going shont her. | That horribye now dircetly in ment He h cing he ere but to run moment XVI1I street mind her But hurt said olly had 1 to man was standing front of the apart turncd, and was was nothing to past him. In an- she would be in the cther oy had re: © broad 2partment. man's ce iched the lowest step flizht that led to the And now she saw the quite distinctly, Mis were wide and hunted—th s of a mad man. And his beard dark and stubby 1idenly there w another. And another. g Molly heard only one s a shot. An1 Ana so fused with the stinging pain that vang through her shou'des that she conld never quite separa‘e them—the shot and the pain. Pcople came running. Someons telephoned — for the police. Ani | someone else called an ambwiance. WJack was there, clbowing his .o the crowd. Bullying the Who sought to assume au- Bullying even the police, ived. And when the came, it was he who lifted Molly and Iaid her gently va the strct and sat beside her and chated her sill hands. | thirough nitor, thority. when th mbhulance Her clathes were hlood that sheulder. On and moaned Excitement long the And pres Zip had drenched with flovved from her she cpened her oyos spread like fire street whore Molly ived. ently Rita and Bob ani heard the news. A girl a word Molly hal |out. Grab a taxi Calendulas | ' gether. street | ma | no more about | thinking | it." shot in broad out and saw the crowd Molly's apartment. crowd was waving ing. s was sof! really a friend of hers, W hat want didn't get shoulder, speak a | | aia she | was as good as opened. and | gloves on the hack. daylight! A policeman was disper: Molly For souvenir: were the his on, Bob reached policeman, arms and Move cantcha? Move “We are shot, “Don’t fr began know nds of the girl Boh nothin' about growled the officer. “But where have they her " “Relief station.” ned. “Didn't The know Bo. rays when you everybody to know something. her. Bullet through as near ds I could She’ll be all right, and hop down t Relief station, why don't you Molly was on the operating bullets. Jack was walking ner | Rita saw him from a distance, and her heart seemed to stand still with | Bob and Zip had stopped to »apermen fear. to a group of news the door. “She’s on the danger list,” {them said. “It was that it.” added another. wrote on the he sking to be the oper: the surgeons by a and The door of out. followed were all in white wore “It's all right, aid heartily. at as a whistle “Can 1 see her?” “Oh, she's still under eth plied the surgeon casually, reckon she’s not going to receiving for a nothing to wor nurses will let voung fellow.” “We got ‘em “and about. you know out of there in a few 2 Another man porters’ group. with red hair ders. “Look arm Molly's office. minutes. and Rita s Red Haven't you him what he knows about it.” Red was already talking Bob and Zip, and they came to join Red was very pale ticed the his freckies st y DBarry way, “They've got the man He told them brusquely. ey Dan, a hophead that with the Mandinello gang. ¢ who They ran in front of ng the And some women were pi2 ing up the flowers that dropped Even the rolls and st she had carried nered. ad probably. awherry arts being gar- who shout on, who taken policeman was That's they They th make 1 guess the able and two surgeons were probing for ous- {1y up and down the long corridor one of | gang from Chicago stufr Mandinello triai shot ™ ting room walked nurse. They rubber One of them slapped Jack he both demanded Jack firas feel like while. But there's | One of the when vou can see her. They'll be moving her - “Would you believe it? as | cokey. Henne y and Dolan cized him up soon as they clapped ey on him. It was Dolan grabbed him. But the fellow got his gun out first 1t's & wonder he didn't let the bo have it But he turns it on him- self, and takes a bullet through his lousy heart “The orange smearcd with that ain't a classy man to kick off! You got to hand it to the cokeys. They think up the cutest little things.” “It's a lucky thing he didn't to slip any of his rat poison Molly." declared Boh “Moly g all affirmed Red kid T ever knew ™ “Lucky!" scoffed Jack. “I sup- pose you call it ky to get couple of bullets in the shoulder “Sure.” retorted Red. unruffled he might have got them in t heart. Besides, see all the good it's going to do her “Good!” “Sure. he rat was sic was poison. Now 1f way for a gun try to the the breaks,” Tuckie: he's exclaimed Publicity. know Molly's writing a advertising doesn't | wright any. Molly'l | on the front p; all over the coun tomorrow morning. And if that a million dollars worth of ad- vertising, T'll my shirt.” So you're the chap who's per | sgaded her to take up filth?" cut in | Jack Red flicked an ash from his cig | vet hefore replying “So you're {he chap.” he reforted | insultingly. “who loves her in a way Rita Didn't play? hurt have you Litt] a play- her face biy douhled whit Jack and his | with rage. 1t was Zip between them Zip, still red with gricving, ish mouth swollen Cut it out!” he “You're acting guys in a hook his set fists furiously crimsone who stood vith his eyes and his bo; from weeping. told them stern ly. like a of Red g Fight 1 inned shecpishly Love of Girl itors Tteporter,” chang coupl: | I 1, 1929. “Jealous Swain Court Man old chap. I'm not Molly's told me real little square shooter tugged at his collar “Sure—she's told about you, 1oo0. 1 didn’t mean to act like an « Sort of off my 1. The shooting had scared death. old Molly 4 me play you're writ- he gibed Police worry. Threatens Don't | in the running, about you She's Jack en barrassedly e me to I'm sorry about the man. hot st Tolly's iff. Red hell-bent red 1 them to be great girl.” ure. do the Molly's a YOu suppose ether?”" Zip was trying to the subject “I'll find out.”" Red the corridor “Well, what do you guy?" demanded Bob “He all right,” Jack generously him.” R kid she'll be How soon out of swung d think of that must be responded Molly likes was back he nur Wells,” h taken her 1 ordars for a nursc in a moment she'll announced stairs, says M, T The office gay and & that private room They'll n lot private see everything's okay alonz now. rot ar Off." “Oh her mo: you Molly's it they Red Unb he busting of stuff fo A Plynn Rita smiled heguiling smile. “Couldn't this out of the paper will just about die hear about it."” her kcep nts gazed at open-mouthed ieving Keep it out of the peated. “Why in the v is HEAT vou paper!" he lic, every paper fo lead wit- understana, Molly's going to ot girl in tn tomorrow. hey've her picture, vilized in the world | Roing to play this story. Shnt by Gunman. Beautiful Colleg Martyred Young Reporter. can’t you get that? I tell you col i vou don’t Why. sucss pople. the vorld alreac most tiiis time telephotoed shoet Girl. G sh can get in the movies after this if she wants. With her face, and her build—and the advertising she's go- g to get! Boys and girl what a break! . And she asks me car 1 keep it out of the paper! No, Miss—-there's a few things we can’t >f the papers them's that guy Lind- bergh. And another's going to be Molly Burnhant.” “You don't breathlessly. “Oh, 1 don't lite for any And of us keep out one of mean began a mean front Lindy.” she's got dver- Red contract like page tising, admitted “But she's going share of it tomorrow the old folks out in Snodgr they'll just eat it up.” A nurse approached fri And , why nds. them Wife ifi fiosuital. Man Vorking, House Robbed While his wife has been sick at the hospital and he had heen out working his house has been entercd two times, was the report made to the New BRrit department eve by Walicki, North Wedn evening ay last ing Burritt street, home work reported, he saw evidences that his house had been enterd. but when he returned Wed- nesday evening he found the clothes closets thoroughly acked and lady's dre from he ts ran three ses missing DRIVES FIRE It is the par 'O FIREMEN il thing for fire com- out of their hut it quite unusuzi to have the fire Iriv right 1o the fire house to he put out. Yet t what happened at number 5 engine house yesterday cevening shortly after 6 o'clock when a truck which is used to oil the streets caught just opposite the fire house Instead of s called quarters becanse of fire is making a run on any ) | | | | | had joined the re- A tall, thin chap, | rounded shoul- grabbed Jack's | Flynn—from | ever heard her speak of him? Let's ask | with ‘ in a moment | Jack and Rita and Rita 10 oo | wn freckles, Hk‘ |a bedbug. FPopped Molly off for tar- in | he | | | | | | them | trembling, and | could be that Red was in love witn | and took | afony. | | get practice, 1 list of names in Judze Brewster and the district torney up at ‘he top. “Good lord! Wh him ¥ broke in Jack “Columbus avenue.” Red drew guers. They his pocket re did they Rita noticed that she his hand wondered She knew working together looked quickly at too. had noticed nervousnoss. “Dan was strolling was saying, "when he of cops. coming up When d any gunman's apt Well, Dopey Dan from his pocket on it. It's o that on a pm alo the strect cnough A shopping trip planned — and now the Joncs are going {o stop over on their way fo (hc White Mountains. 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