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i » NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST e e ————————————————————————— fl Ty ELEANOR EARLY © 1929 By AEA Jervice Incy THIS HAS HAPPENED “But you must accede to popu- |gut in Paris sent us a tip.” Molly Burnham, who has written |lar demand!” he argued. | " Molly bent to tighten her shoe | two sensational crime plays, is writ-| “Oh, no.,” she said. “Not any |lace. ing a book called Ashes of Desire. [more. I never intended ‘Ashes of | “Is that so?” she replied po- | Molly bas everything on earth that | Desire’ to be a popular novel.” | 1itely. | should make a woman happy—suc- “You might jazz up a little,” But Red, being an ng cess, wealth, and the , love of a|he offered hopefully. “Give it a |young man, was not dec by | dear little girl. The child js the |happy ending.” | her casual manner. Any he ighter of Molly's college room-| “I'm sorry,” she told him pa- | decided, could regain her comyo- mate, and Molly has taken care of |tiently. “that I cannot make you |sure, after spending 30 full seconds her since Rita’s untimely death. |understand. I'm being absolutely lon a shoe string. There wasn't Still, with all the things that should |sincere, Mr. Hall. T don't want nything the matter with the shoe make life full. Molly is strangely |do popular stuff. I'm tired of manv- | string anyhow. It was tide, in th unhappy. | facturing for the trade. I've had |beginning Therc are three men who com. |enough of catering to the market.| That evening Molly could not plicate things—Jack Wells, her first | I've put my heart and soul into |banish thoughts of Jack. She won- sweetheart, who is in Italy now |something real. And I don't care|dered if he had rea Ashes «f with a middle-aged milllonatress. | whether anyone likes it or not. T|Desire.” And what he thought of Mrs. Bulwer-Eaton is the old lady’s |had to write it.” |it. And if that silly old Mrs. Bui- name, and Jack, who s an archi-| “Well, I'll see what I can do,” he |wer-Eaton was returni o cn ct, is in her employ. Mdlly resenis | promised. |the Isle de France. And where | the situation furiously, but there i3 | they'd been. And what they'd done. nothing she can do about it. She wanted to tell him not to|And if Jack had missed her. And Then there is Red Flynn, a re- |bother. That she did not care if,if there'd ever be nother gi-l. | porter and a regular fellow, Who | he never found her a publisher.|And if Mrs Zaton really makes love casually. Red has an in- | That the only thing that mattered | tried to vamp him . | valid mother, and has promised her | was that the book was written, and | Then Bob came, to interrupt her that he will never marry during|the truth told. But she knew he|Wwonderings. For some time Molly | her lifetime. | would think she was telling lies, it | had succeeded in beirg evasive with The third is Bob Newton, litile|she should talk to him like that. | Bob. He had been sober and c Rita’s father, who has asked Molly |Because 1t is douotful if anybedy |siderate, and had not tried to t {0 marry him. Molly has no regard |ever wrote anything with the idea |again of love or marriage. for Bob, but she lives 1n mortal |that nobody would read it | But tonight there was terror of losing Rita, whom she| She hung up the receiver slowly, ' mination in his ey loves above all reason. | wondering why she had written tne | poseful look about the She is working now on her bosk, |DOOK. if it were true that she did | mouth. Molly knew which is rather autobiographica! not care whether it was published. | of reckoning had come. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY |The half-remembered lines of a (TO BE CONTINT CHAPTER XL | furtive poem ran tantalizingly Eesicte s There is a story about the young- | thTough her —mind. She thought er Dunns, and how he shut himself |that if she could recollect them, filR[ 13 !S 8"[[] up In a garret, and wrot o book |they would —explain why she hac 9 y in no time at all. Vietor Hugo is |felt the necess of writing some- he | thing which no one might read. | Hours later the lines came to h They we Kipling's L' said to have done something of same sort. And there is a lesser nov- elist who took a vow neither to shave nor to bathe until he com- |- pleted his hook. | The chances are, however, - FOR MULES, WAGON wvoi “And no one shall work for money, Kentucky Mountaineers Accused in point of time—Molly beat thom | and no one shall work for fame 1S i Child Wi all. She scarcely slept until “Ashes [But each for the joy of working, 0 a]EO 1 ]fe of Desire” was completed and each, in his separate star. i3 Once, when she was a reported, |Shall draw the Thing as he sees 1t ushe interviewed Miss Amy Lowell,| for the God of Things as They| Hopkinsville, the poetess. Miss Lowell did all | are queer bargain her work at night, writing in bed, [in which ropied o By 15 feather DHIOWR | yen Phatwasidt. “knd’ mute] Davtered .o She drew the (;vuvx\i:s‘ev\:;\‘:n:‘rm((:\‘: the Master il prabe w, ant anly @ &1 0f four i ani sunlight, and tacked biac S A At erail b o la wago 3\ fust’ reached the = over the mirrors. Because the €red- | oe not with covetousness for the lice of the anthorities with tive fire, she said, burned more .. oe fou. that Melly haq|the result that one man brightly at night-time, or under | oy, of the censure | 2noth bout to face crimi artificial light g ot nttte m She. had writtan | charges, the luckless girl is in Try it, my dear,” she advised. | o Thing he saw Yt, for tae hiding s Tionteloreralativos “And " nmever forget that genius is|gog o e | k. Yowve got fo : e ,'”.’“'s ”“m ; G It was with less difficulty than sweat for sucee: gt tmas il e dicdicaltyging Molly had remembered. Like Miss ?‘ ‘{\’mlm}\”y- Hatibin Sl faad Lowell she turned night into day, |1, FPHP5 00 Hghenpublnary e inz bhiialiothers aleptt iShafe T Sgentiutsia or romanticism, o EAi Neri Blen bR eID Mang) IoAcErEas, Sth sifnoticnBodibting piug ionelBEIL L and IEOEELTEC SShe S noton ol Bring e 4 'y she was a . to no fold Mary she was at home to s e one. ] ovel he grew pale and thin. And her When Molly's hook made its a eyes took on a particular green light, [ o8 FON S 2008 FEOE A8 e and looked huge, and a trifle witd. [FEELE S NER, SETUAEY S She drank quarts: of black coffee, g UM KT i and cared nothing for substantial =T A Ladlier B foa FOEN gold vignette. And name wos She withheld herself from even 800 P& T ST 1, as if by Rita, vowing that nothing should e e e interfere with the completion of catraRl s tha A echer her greatest work. Once, when Red S s 9 Flynn came—and refused to leave 08 L until he had her—she v seasons. Its hing daint p (1€ they said suitably heral him not to be disappointed in her |[\H55 ACY SUC. SEUAEY UG when her hook proveq unpopular e L Oh, it will be popular all right Faguon el : o T e iverything you | With &lmost hysterical fervor. Tm do is & wow."” diately it jumped to tt head cf But this Is different,” she : Saniasiths T plained. ** ‘Ashe of Desir will ""“’ of The-Book-of the- never be popular. 1 don't want it MO to be. I want just to speak sir It 3 ply, truly, to the few who will nn. With exquis and derstand. 1 never want again what | Poignant bes here was & the world means when it says suc- at deal of conjecturing. Was cosa.” - it, they den in the nature of Red stared at her, uncompre- |an autobiography i At the insistence of her puhilish- “What " ked inelegantly. | ©rS. Molly received reporters. And “Wh eating yo then, heing thoroughly human and “"I“)rm m}nl she »:\H" '>r an, | Woman, she played up to them. MRS LOUISE Gid trying mnow to be true to the real e T8 . ol things.” d bedroom had become |, o€ ST o le You look like the devil,” he in-|h -room, formally beautifur. | & =t ¢ w5l terrupted, scowling at her palenes: \Ev” r‘!' . mi aust !\w:. )\\‘UH i Ll ”l N[y 'k is done,” she told him | flowe: nd books, and gay, hlos- [ 19 5 LY M“\.l\\v. \)n”g:‘ ‘“,‘”M V:”on ‘\ [, somed china. The floor was waxe ;L"\:v):.‘»‘r{.,\(\”f,( mpel : ;‘lwl Eoil i1st write, or die.’” | green, and seemed to shimmer. At ,‘r‘ i - “V\HI‘ l‘h_vn : He shr mptuously. the windows were green silk glass e o $ iibbs, is in “You're £ arty” he ac-curtains. and the walls were huny | M 4 ‘-*"’,1{; converting the prop- cused. “Success has gone to your | With vellow brocade. oM R h head. You're going temperamental. Molly wore a Nile-green tea gown!' S ‘-’ sk “ & WD is p out of it, old thing.” with flowing sleeves and a tr SRR the senior SE when she talked for her public. She ©f her father. is waiting in Hop- He went away angrily, bec in candle light, pou kinsville in the hope that he can he thought she was posing. But |orange-blossom tea an old gt the girl to return to him. He worried, also, because she was thin |French service. When reporters |18 180 vowing vengeance on Gihbs and white. And, since he could do |came, the butler drew a tea-tahwe ‘Whom accuses of defrauding nothing about it. that made him hefore the firepl nd 1ald 1t witn | DM angrier still. Molly watched him |a lace cloth. Then Molly, trailing| It all happened like this JRINING & TALENT [[euieve i or OT &5 B = » A Toy BALLOON WAS BLOWN 500 M JACK BORLAS CLAIMS To USE EITHER HALF OF HIS BRAIN AT wiLL | E WORKS LEFT HANDED SEES HANDED 22 e 4 s 225 o IRROR FASHION ] o 5Q. FT. J | LN} i o | o | | | ‘ 1y A FENCE 0O FEET LONG WiLL EXACTLY INCLOSE g EACH OF Tue ABOVE PLOTS ALTHOUGH ONE 1S ALMOST 3 TIMES AS LARGE AS THE OTi n Virginia from her window, drawing tne clouds of chiffon glory, received S"“”, veeks ago Green took Lon- shade aside cautiously. He did not |like a lady in a novel. ise to ( Ky.. and marvied her look but stepped into his old [ One day Red came. and found ShoW < JRPDOTL: dar: ning the door furiousty, pouring her orange-bloss from and driving away in a ¢ tea, and passing caviar sandwiches. | barental cons rollicking fenders and loose ore water lilies at her belt, | cording to Gibbs forged, B iling their long stems down the Gibbs atened Greeh with A week later the manuscript was | softness of her vellow skirt. And | consequences, finished. Molly wrapped it senti- |she looked, he thought, like the| Peace was made. howey when mentally in lavender tissue. and Lily Maid. in Idylls of the Kins. Green _gave his new fath law tied it with lavender ribbons. Then | When the others had gone (th.re two te of m aw aind she ried it herself to her agent. | were two liter: dowagers and a | a log chain he parent th| Two views ¢ | m 2 hoadwat 11 look at it tonight,” the man | SO vy reporter), Molly changed Subsided. and ( n took his bride | yj e 2 e 1 promised, “and call you first thing her chiffon gown for a skirt of |to Detroit, whe he has four chil- ) o) i i L in the morning. There'll be no | plaid stuff and a scarlet blouse. And [dren by another marriag the fo trouble finding a publisher. Of (her feathered slippers for a pur| Louise, a slim child weighing — — - e e coursa, you kow that” of stubby oxtords. whout 100 pounds, auickly t £ T he did not wait until morn- “We'll go for a walk,” she said, | married life and hu y ] A oLt ) ¥ < ing. At 10 o'clock he telephoned “and by some hot dogs some-|Sha hid in Detroit until her 1 Socan L § T ‘I've read ‘Ashes of Desire,’ Miss | where. If you knew how sick fo arrived and brought Gl g ix ] 5 i Burnham” (hesitantly and a bit | death I am of heing rave and deli-| nome =0 ve 1 apologstically) Green came to Hopkinsy L 410 s ue 1 var “Yes?" she prompted. “You dont But Red laughed at her protesta- 1it. Unable to get his S 2 hi care for it, Mr. Hail?" tions. back, he demanded the re L 1 siness “It's so unlike anything you've You love it he told her. his peace offering—only fo f Rrea X done!™ he protested “You're cating it up.” Gibbs hod sold mules. wagon for Year St | i 1t's the best thing T've done.” | “It's amusing.” she admitted |all, for $825 ; il “But your public doesn't expeet | T know." Gibbe thereupon had Gireen ar v R EOR LSpsoslag) N this sort of novel from you. They | “It's a relief. being respectable” |rested on a charge of forging the 1 want you to give them crime, Miss she declare Mother's coming to letter of permission with which th = Ll s ‘ Burnham.” | vibit me, T've been so good. I don't|marriage license was obtain i o ) el 8 Molly sighed wearily. | know what mother will s when | Green made peace in some way and n i ol S “I know. Well, I'm through with [she sees my butler. I hope helthe charge was withdrawn: and im on, I e it what my public wants. T've given |doesn't frighten her. ~He is rather | mediatel Green had |y ) A them a ook out of my heart If [imposing vou,know. 1 used to he Gibbs ar the wagon | ., they don’t like it, T don't care. T |scared of him myself. land mulos, Zine that he had | ore 4 : SEu shall nover write another any- | “You and your butler!" jeered | merely left them with Gi for | ag the 5 : A G D S e XS how.” Red. “And I remember when you|safe keeping e 2 ax A Mr. Hall cleared his throat used to borrow your lunch money bbs was placed In Jaill and | jess (h y Fean i ! s beaudfully don na as- | LA Louise went 'to stay with relutives | coding year, the denarts f S . i ELiat 2 sured her. “But you ki your Molly sighed She asked the jailer to lock her up!inerce announc i 8 g m‘ : \\ e It what your market s, Miss| I was happier then she mur-[with her father. but the jail was| op 5 ¢ 0 i i rnham. Youw've always catered | mured. full and he r nd i 5 < ’ 5 to—eor «‘v-vm we say— by you were!” he contradicted Her father. meanwhila, Insista b 5 Ak ! M L) i ‘T don't care w you say, “Don’t pull that on me, Molly." that as soon as he mets ent of fail | copd K g » ) 3 , interrupted. - “Lowbrows. Morons. | “But I was she insisted Ralwil) Yenintuta the harkis ar oo nae i ¢ 33 D 2 e 1t doesn’'t make any difference. He looked at her sharply. against Green ¢ SO Lk N d on pro: But ‘Ashes of Desire’ {sn't for them.| “By the way, Jack Wells Is com-| The counte mrand jure 1 exy o ¢ A U L DL Tt i Salintonoh ol It is for the very few—the few who | ing into New York on the Isle de ed to Investigate the entire matt i s L ! will understand | France tomorrow. Our correspord- | soon. TAKING OF CENSUS Enumerators for 1930 Count om tween A GIGANTIC TASK - Uncle Sam Marshailing 100,000 The census ta work in t rs must complete urban centers. fn two weeks and in the rural com- munities in one month. Hoy the job seems highly bl iging from the deluge of applica which seem all out of proportion to the pay reecived. 1 will yield few real 500 supervisors 100 each compensation ac- lation and the num- listrict. They nographers and oup of 100,000 tually take the approximately red in ome from of three ating and ar- s and fagts ind some k for will rg- but other total cost proximately bureau {8 hums with echanical devices mans and rmation is which are run bulating ma- the wers count lation to= when i1s was takeh numeration only six S 8000 inhabi- counties, boroughs from a tants to the York, 0 in the census 1 volumes of of 1700. This pe- names of the head ) number @t John Hancock, for ported as compris- s over 16 years fomales and ot white, who negro servants the 1 census, individual in the value of s Daniel Web- turned property | | | NEW BRITAIN | THROUGH DAILY Lastern Standard Tim Via Hell Gate DAILY SRR e s aD R TS R e S AN S T S S e v SO T NEW HAVEN TS o S S i DTy BRIDGEPORT ER I T Due PITTSBURGH N = RN S A M, RETURNING Lv. 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