The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 18, 1916, Page 4

By 4 " A—The voice of the lover is the gall women have answered thru the ages. Your mother answered it in _ is considered here. ty The Seattle Star Ot Beattia Wash, Postoftior BY mail, out of aity, one year, 68.60; ¢ im Pubitehed Patty cond-class matter tha, $1.90) 850 per month up te @ mea By carrier, elty, 280 & m Slip-Tongue Law! Y a slip of the tongue, Judge Everett Smith sentenced Paul Schuman to six months in the penitentiary, when he Meant to send him to the reformatory. The Star holds no brief for Schuman. He was a police officer, convicted of graft- “ing money from unfortunate women. He deserves no sympathy, Had Judge Smith given him several years in the penitentiary there could have been ng just criticism It is not Schuman, the individual, that It is a question of law and justice, prosecution and persecution. A judge makes a slip of the tongue— AND THAT SLIP BECOMES LAW. Judge Smith wants to rectify his mis- ' take—justice demands that he should do so—BUT THE LAW HALTS JUSTICE. Prosecutor Lundin demands the law. The supreme court demands the law. _ Justice is barred. _ By the same reasoning, if a judge “absent-mindedly sentenced a man who burglarized a place to get a loaf of bread for a hungry body, to five years in the “penitentiary instead of five days in jail— Me LAW WOULD INSIST THAT 5 E MISTAKE COULD NOT BE RIGHTED. Revolting as Schuman’s crime isa by the way, which, easily tempts policemen in a loosely conducted partment—it is a worse crime if society ould send anyone to the penitentiary on body’s slip of the tongue. LOT of folks scattered about the country are asking who in the de’il McLemore, just now in the limelight cause of his resolution before the lower in congress warning Americans armed merchant vessels. McLemore is a Texas journalist and been ever since he donned long nts. He is at present publishing a semi-political and cat | magazine Houston. He is a bachelor and a rabid 4 fist—one quite likely account- for the other. “Jeff’ McLemore pbably has as many personal friends d as few enemies as any man in public in Texas. And McLemore never has anywhere but “in public life,” hav- been running for, after, or from thing for years and years. - Mclemore claims to be a self-made ‘man, having me little schooling. He has made a lair job of it, considering Dabeekich Landicip. The worst thing enemies say about him is that he is on, two strong opponents have already ounced themselves as candidates for job—that of congressman-at-large— ‘exas being strongly for Wilson, show- that McLemore is probably a better low” than politician. Bet kites Watch Humphrey HUMPHREY has not been on the right side in the fight which has been waged at Wash- ington to obtain consideration from con- gress for the natural advantages of the Bremerton navy yard. Humphrey has stalled have worked, It has long been an npon secret that influential Seattle shipbuilders did, not want the Puget Sound navy yard equip- ped for battleship construction, For they, you see, have been getting a lot of this government business during all these years, It will be interesting now to watch Humphrey’s work on Poindexter’s $2,- 000,000 appropriation measure when it comes up in the house, He sure will have an awful nerve to come back home and face his district if he continues to play his old game. while others The Octopus and Us ET us study Congressman Britten's bill to put an export duty of 50 cents the gallon on gasoline, Let us study it carefully, for always, heretofore, when we have approached the octopus, the critter has gently reached out one or more of its tentacles, drawn us closely to its bosom and taken a bite out of our tenderest parts. Mr. Britten’s idea is that this heavy export tax would lead to the octopus not sending so much gasoline abroad and, hence, reduce prices to us at home. At first blush, we warm to the idea. The natural effect of a large surplus of stock on hand is an effort to move the stock thru cheapness. This is invariably so in respect of potatoes, grains, dry goods, clothing, and even human labor. But, when we examine into the career of the oil octépus, we discover that whenever it loses or is compelled to sac- rifice at one point, it recoups by raising prices on US. It would sure be pitiful should the octopus recoup on US to the extent of 50 cents on every gallon of the 300,000,000 gallons it has been send- ing abroad annually, now wouldn't it? Serious Times for Ferd BOUT the most uncomfortable mon- arch in Europe at the present writ- ing is King Ferdinand of Bulgaria. Russia’s Caucasian army is advancing relentlessly on Constantinople, driving the Turks st ake it like sheep. Revolution is brewing in the Turkish capital and all reports indicate that the Turks have had enough. A huge, fresh and magnifi- tently equipped Russian army is at Bulgaria's door in Bessarabia. The allies have close to 400,000 men at, or near, Salonika. Rumania is straining like a hound on the leash to get at the Bulgars. Bulgaria is surrounded by a ring of steel King Ferdinand, left alone, with the czar’s sinister threat, “You will pay for your treachery with your throne and your life,” ringing in his ears, may well tremble. UNITED STATES senate hae paseed the villainous Shields powergrab bill. Chance for Woodrow to demonstrate what can be done with an ax. THE fRENCH and German commanders about Verdun are throwing all kinds of bou- quets at each other's armies, which looke as if they were about ready to cali it a draw, > —__ Q—Ii am engaged to a man who Doctors have prescribed Resinol for over twenty years In the tr ment of eczema and similar it she has some one to very comfortably. We | Q—I am engaged to a git and have given her a ring. lecently she has told me she does not care for my company, tho she refuses to give a reason. She goes about | have al- mother and going so far 1) with other men. lover's “I love |tlike this when we are engaged? PUZZLED. A---When the young woman told you she no longer cared for your company, she evidently thought she was breaking the engagement. You are entitled to a full explana. tion. Ask her again. If she ro- fuses, make no further effort to hold her. It is evident she intends to keep the ring. MARGARET. easily stops skin-troubles Resinol Ointment and Real re sold by all deal are \a drugs aod toilet goods. they iy gives testent relief and soon clears away the erup tion, tains nothing harmful or irritating to the most delicate skin. does: know, too, phat it con- See if AH Mn NH hl Should she act| Q—How many blocks make a mile? . A.—Modern cities are laid out on the plan of eight blocks tthe | mile. However, in many of the old cities there is ifttle unif about the blocks, cai ae ara! ordinary city c. T. Q—WiIIl you please tell me who | Orville Wright te and of wi portance he Is or wae in hi This question was eighth grade e: ave mot been~ able to find out about him. EIGHTH GRADER, A—Orville Wright 1s an nero- Plane inventor and was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1871, In 1909, he | received Hon. B. 8, from Earlham college in Indiana, and Lk D, from Oberlin college, Ohio, in 1910, Since 1903 he bas devoted his at tention mainly to Wright Bros.’ aeroplane flying machine. He has made numerous flights in the | S$. and abroad and was awarded | gold medal by French Academy of Sciences in 1909; also many others ~ | Q—! am a young man of 17 and have been engaged for two years! | to a girl of 19. My parents do not) | permit me to call on her, Do you! |think It Is proper for us to meet we are engag- me. 8. B, | A—In tho first place, you are al- together too young to be engaged. | A’Novel a Week A standard, high-class, beek- complete this week tn @ fall tneteti- “Well?” Sally inatated coolly. | “Still you've given me no reason for this outrageous tntrusion and accusation.” | mins; I'm coming to that. You see, the first thing was to get that letterbox opened and examine| those envelopes, I got several of the gentlemen to act as a sort of a) | | . Benes From Our Last Issue) the ground that everything wasn't done open and aboveboard.” “You found no confession, 1) leather?’ Mra, Standish interpo lated. “No, ma’am—-no confession. Al!) but two of the cards were blank.) The two had something written on them—anonymous information, so to speak.” b> He fumbled tn a pocket, brought | forth the cards, and with some heat- {tation handed them over to Sally Roth bore messages laboriously | ‘printed in penell, of much the same | jtenor: | | “Suggest you look Into Miss Man- waring’s antecedents—also her nc.) tions between 1 and 3 o'clock Inst) night. | | “Ask Miss Manwaring what sho wan doing out of bed after 1 o'clock | last night—search of her jmight prove helpful.” | Silently Sally returned the carda. |_,“You “nee,” the detective apolo- mized heavily, “after that there/ (wasn't anything for it but to ask you to explain.” | “There ia nothing to explain; the charge !# preposterous.” “Yea, mi that ts, I hope #0, for) your sake, Meantime, | guess you won't mind my looking round a bit, will you?” “Looking round?” “Your room, mise.” Sally gasped. “You have the tn- solence to suggest searching my room t* “Well, mise——* “I forbid you positively to do any- thing of the sort without Mra Gos nold's permission.” “There!” Miss Pride interpolated, In accents of acid satisfaction. she has nothing to fear, why should she object” “You see, mins, “T have Mrs. G make such Investigations as I see efit She perceived that he was stub- bornly bent on this outrageous thing. As the detective tentatively approac’ me a dressing table the 0 room | girl swung icker armchair about wo that ft oi a corner of the room and threw herself angrily Into it, her back to the four. | Immediately sho heard drawers opened and closed, sounds of rum- maging. She trembled violently with {mggtent exasperation. It was intolerable, yet it must be endured. |There was one satisfaction. They would find nothing, and present! Mra. Gosnold would reappear thetr insolence would be properly }punished. She could not believe that Mra. Gosnold would let {t pass junrebuked. |. A low whistle {interrupted at once jher reflections and the mute ac \tivity of the search. Immediately ahe heard the de tective exciatm: “What's this™ Miss Pride uttered « shrill cry jot satisfaction. . dish = entd unt Abby's solitaire!” longer to contain her jalarm and curtosity, Sally sprang from her chair and confronted four | cousing countenances, hat do you know about this?” the detertive demanded, Clipped between the detective’: jthumb and forefinger a huge dia-| mond coruscated fn the electrica. sharply: Sally demanded “Rolled up inside this pair of stockings.” Mason Indicated the mp, black silk affairs which he 4 taken from a dresser-drawer. ‘Well, how about it?” |, “I don't know anything about ft I never saw ‘t before.” Tho detective grinned incredu- |lously and presently skirts rustied behind Sally's sullen back and feet shuffled. Then the door closed softly ané she heard the key rattie jin the lock. Sho sat aghast. Strangely, she aid not weep; her spirit was bruised beyond the con- solation of tears. - As to the identity of the enemy who had done this thing, Sally en- tertained not a shadow of doubt. Lyttleton had stolen the jewels; what else bad he carried so stealth: fly down to the beach? What else had those signals meant but that they had been left there in a pre arranged plot? For what else had the boat put In from the yacht to the beach? And if not he, who bad been the thief whose identity Mra, Gosnold 80 anxious to conceal that she had invented her silly confession? The man was o favorite of Mrs. Gosnold's; she had proved it too often by open Indulgence of his non sense. He amused her. And it med that in this millea the vir tue of being amusing outwetghed all vices. Now, doubtless, the truth of the matter would never come out. In pantie terror, Sally envisaged the barred window of the spinster’s prophecy. To this, then, had dis content with her lowly lot in life brought ber, to the threshold of a felon's cell In a sudden seizure of passion she fairly tore the frock from her body, wrecking {t beyond repair. Then, calmed somewhat by reac. tion from this transport, she re- flected that presently they would be coming to drag her off to Jali, and she must be dressed and ready. moveless, stunned, Because of this, {t is not proper for lyou to meet the girl secretly. If) you know what's best for you, you will abide by your parents’ advice| and tell the girl you now realize! that you are too young to be en gaged. Probably you have as yet nothing upon which you could keep the girl should you marry her. | Q—In oi a girl has theatre tickets, is she breaking the rules of propriety if she asks a man friend to attend the play with her?! EUGENE, No, {t 1s perfectly proper. A Moving? Don't move “most quick, easy way to read Star “For Rent" Want Ad pa, anywhere” find it 1s to ads, on the | empty in the moonlight Turning to her wardrobe, she se lected {ta soberest garments—a! biue «serge tailored sult—and donned them. This done she began to realize that it was ¢ ing very late. The Kuests of the fete hagall departed. Looking from her wirffow, she saw the terrace and gardens cold and And, at this sight, temptation to folly assailed her and the counsel of despair prevatied There was none to prevent the attempt—and the drop from the window ‘sill to the turf was not more than 12 feet, She risked, tt was true, a sprained an:le, but she ran a chance of escaping On frantic impulse, Sally switch ed off her light, sat down on the window sill, swung her loge over, and let herself down util she “Where did you find the thing?"| say By Loble Joseph Vance—Copyright, Frank A, Muneey Cc XT WEEK, “THE MAXWELL MYSTERY” hung by the grip of both hands upon the sill “Mise Manwaring! of Mike Trego! “What are you doing? the matter?” he called softly She wouldn't answer, The ex planation was at once obvious and unspeakably foolish of her Her hands were alipping, She gritted her teeth and kigked con vulsively, but decorously, seeking a foothold on the smooth face of the wall that wasn't there, At this, his tone changed ile understood what was happening. He came more nearly un and planted himself with widespread feet and outstretched arms “You can't hold on there any longer,” he insisted, m catch you.” g Only the mortification of that prospect nerved her aching fin gers to retain thetr grip as long as they did—which, however, was not overlong. She felt herself slipping, remem bered that she mustn't scream and, with a little shock, landed squarely in the arma of Mr. Trego. He staggered to some extent, for she was a solidly constructed young person, but recovered clev erly—and had the impudence seem amused, Sally's first impres sion on regaining grasp of her wits was of hia emiling face, bent over hers, of « low chuckle, and then, to her complete) stupefaction, tha abo was being kissed. Ho went about that business, | having committed himeelf to ft, 1 most businessiike fashion; he kissed ( he would have said) for) keeps, kiseod her Ips hungrily, ar-| dently, and most thoroly. } She was at first too stunned to resist. And when at length she re membered and wea ready to strug: | gle, be disappointediy set her down upon her feet “There!” he 4 with satisfac tion, “Now that's settled—and o g004 job, too!” She turned on him furtously, | tiow dared you" } “Didn't 1 deserve {t, catching you the way I did?’ he asked,/ opening bis eyes {n mock wonder | at her. “And didn't you deserve) For the love What's ot gO. }ing aided Walte | grew daily /more urgent. quite the natural thing, and no biame to her. In addition, a real burglar presently Jimmied his way in, caught Walter in. the act of rifling bis own safe, and fofthwith apaaulted btm Walter and the Jewels were only sa by the tn tervention of Miss Manwaring, who very bravely pointed a pistol at the real burgiar’s head, and then, hav to turn the tables, ran away. So far, good; Walter booted the burglar out of the house, loaded up with the jewels and left to rejoin Adele, But fate would have it that he should meet Mi Manwaring again in the 4 Central station.” She paused for breath, then summed with an amused amile: “There was most em barrassing contretemps; a broken denk find empty safe at home to be accounted for, whether or not they! Mrs, Gosnold, and left it sticking| Would have come anyway. attempted to swindle the tnsurance company, and if they did make the! attempt—a witness to be taken} care of. They couldn't let Miss Manwaring go and tell the story of her adventure promiscuously, as) sho had every right to, if she chose,| for if it got to the ears of the tn surance people their plot would fall 80 they cooked up a story to | count for Miss Manwaring’s ac. quaintance and brought her here,| knowing that I had recently dis: minned Mins Matring. And tmmedi-; ately, as was quite right and proper,) everything began to go wrong. “To begin with, the Insurance people proved skeptical. Then! Miss Manwaring turned out to be a young woman of uncommon character, less gullible than they had reckoned; also, I may fay without undue self-conceit, they) had reckoned without their hostens./ I grew suspicious, and questioned Miss Manwaring; she was too hon-| sensible to try. | “Meantime the need of money) They de-| cided that Walter must pawn the) Jewels in Boston. They could be redeemed piece by piece when! money was more plentiful. But the joweln were here, and Walter in New York, and {t would be insane Mercedes Pride shut her eyes, sighed gently, slipped from her cbatr, and subsided to the floor in a“ dead faint. CHAPTER X, Breaking Jail Within five minutes Sally was back behind the locked door of her bedchamber, She could never stay at Gornold House. It might seem ungrateful to Mra, Gosnold; Sally couldn't help that, tho she was sincerely sorry, iy pho time she had succesded in composing a note which seemed sufficiently grateful in tone to ex c the pitiful inadequacy of her excuse for absconding—the chill light of early dawn had rendered the electrics garish. She addressed the envelope to conspicuously in the frame of her dressing mirror. Sho let herself out of the room, and by way of that memorable side door issued forth. Her way to the village wharf was shortest by the beach Her flight was financed by a few dollars left over from her bridge | winnings of the firm day at Gos nold house, after subsequent losses had been paid. Their sum no more than sufficed; but for the clothes she wore, she landed in New York even an she had left it. Avoiding Park ave. she sought the place that she called home by way of Lexington. The studio door was closed and locked. The card bad been torn Trom the tacks that held it to the -vneled and anxious, she stoop- ed and turned up a corner of the worn fiber mat—and sighed with relief to find the key in its tradt- jest to want to Iie to me and 100 | tonal hiding-place. Rut when she let herself tn, ft to a room tenanted solely by seven howling devils of desolation. Only the decrepit furniture re- mained; it had not been worth cart: age of storage; every al be- longing of the other two girls had disappeared. One or the ogher had left a news it for being so silly as to try any-| for him to come here and Ket the™ neoer now three days old, propped thing Ifke that?” head toward th on earth possersed you “Don't you understand?” she stormed. “I've been accused of stealing Mre. Gosnold's jewels | locked up. You knew that surely “What an Infernal outrage!” he erted indignan| “No, 1 don't know it. Ho@® would I? I"—he faltered—"T've been having troubles | of my’own.” | A third votce cut short her re tort. a hall from above. “Hello, down there! With a start Salty looked up, Her window w light again, and some | body was leaning head and shoul- ders out “Hello, I say! waring woman? eacaping arrest!” Frantic with fright, her being wholly obsessed with the one t tof escape, fally flew down the drive antil, on the point of leav- ing the grounds by the gate,te the highway, abe pulled up perforce and Jumped back fm the nick of time’ to th the that was swinging {nward reckless pace. Involuntartly she threw a forearm across her eyes to shield them from the Diinding glare of the In spite of this she was recognized and heard Mrs. Gos Is that the Man- Stop her; s the light of | nold’s startled voice crying out:| “Miss Manwaring! ” Btop! Stop, 1 With grinding brakes the car lurehed to a sudden halt.“ Expose Some little time later there filed) business. | one better tn the matter of stupld-| te) shelt ity, She took Mr. Lyttleton into) her confidence—and, crowning) blunder! took his advice. Mr, Lyt-| tletom concetved magnificently | romantic scheme, Walter was to! come to New Bedford, secretly hire & motor-boat, and be off the har. bor here at a certain hour of night. Mr. Lyttleton was to leave the jowels in a destgnated spot at the foot of the cliffs. At an agreed ignal between the yacht and) Adel chamber window, Walter) was to come in, at dead of night, and get the jewels, return to the| mainland, discharge his boat, go to Boston, pawn the jewels, get tie money, and be here In good time the next day. “Walter, notified of this arrange ment ter to New York, fell in and soul. The arrange. actually carried out last again thetr luck turned Beainst them. It so happened that both Miss Manwaring and Mr. Trego jeepless last night and observed certain details of th consptracy; and, to make matters worse, it was the very night chosen by the thief to steal my je . “When that came out, they wi all in panic—-Walter, Adele, and Mr, Lyttle Mi Manwaring the real stumbling block. She knew far too much, and had proved rather difficult to manage. Among them they evolved another brilliant scheme: Miss Manwaring must be kidnaped and bidden away in a safo place until the trouble had blown over, “Walter undertook to manage the He engaged a rascally night into the boudoir of the hostess of! chauffeur of his acquaintance and Gosnold House a small but select |} troupe of strangely various tem- | pers. “So,” sald Mra. Gosnold, her place beatd 1 been kidnapped,” she announced. Murmurs of astonishment warded her. She smiled grimly. “Kidnaped,” she reiterated with a‘sort of ferocious relish. “At my age, too. I don't wonder you're surprised. I was. So were my kid- napers, when they found out who I was. For, of course, it was a mistake, They had meant to kidnap & good looking youngster—Mins, Manwaring, in fact.” She nodded vigorous affirmation of the statement. “So Walter tells me; and he ought to know. When he found out his mistake, of course, he posted off after me, and arrived Just in time to effect a dramatic rescue, And then he had to con- fess. ra “The whole business,” she went on, “from beginning to end, was Just childishly simple, In_ fact, ridiculous, And sickening. You're not going, Adele?” she interrupted herself as Mrs, Standish rose, Without answer her niece moved haughtily toward the door. Mrs. Gosnold nodded to Trego. “Oh, yes, let her go. I'm sure) I've no more use for her. But half a minute, Adele; the car will bel ready to take you and Walter to| the 9:30 boat tomorrow morning.” There was no answer. The door closed behind Mrs, Standish, and| her aunt calmly continued “It seems that Adele's notorious extravagance got her into hot water, She went to money lenders —usurers, in fact. And, of course, that only made {t worse. Then Waiter, who has never been over- scrupulous, concetved the brilliant notion of a new start by swindling| the burglar insurance people. Adele} commandeered a closed car from y garage. Ho then induced Miss anwaring to consent to meet him in a conveniently secluded spot near the gates. I overheard some- thing, enough to lead me to suspect there was something wrong afoot, and therefore pers waring to lend r hera and went her stead. B was up, a bag head, my hands bound, and I was Mfted Into the body of the car and driven away at such speed that Walter, who found out his mistake almost immediately, was unable to overtake me before 1 arrived at the spot chosen for Miss Manwaring’s prison-—a desert ed shooting lodge, on the south shore. “Meantime, when {ft was found that I had been kidnaped instead of the girl, and while Walter was in pursuit of me to make what amends he could, Adele and Mr. Lyttleton lost their heads entirely, Mr. Lyttleton (who, by the by, fs leaving with Adele and Walter in the morning) on his, own behalf arranged to direct suspicion of the robbery to Miss Manwaring, in- duced Mr. Mason to exceed my in- atructions and open the envelopes in my absence, and led Mr, Mason to Miss Manwaring’s room, where, to his own stupendous surprise, there was found hidden one of the rings that had been stolen.” “What makes you think he was so much surprised?” Mr, Trego cut in, who had turned tn his chair to eye Mr. Lyttleton in a most un- pleasantly truculent fashion, ‘Because he didn’t know it was there.” “But somebody must have made the plant,” Trego argued There's no question, I take it, of Miss Man- waring’s innocence has always carried heavy tnsur. ance on her jewelry—almost the only sensible habit she ever con-| tracted. And so they conspired,| like the two nearsighted idiots! they were. j ‘On the afternoon of the day| they were to start for the island they gave all the servants a night off, and contrived to miss connee-| tion with the Sound steamer, Then| they went to the Biltmore for din- ner, and when {t was dark Walter sneaked back home to burglarize the safe. I understand he made a very amateurish job of ft. It seems that the servants bad carelessly left the scuttle open to the roof, and Miss Manwaring, caught there in a thunder storm, had taken shelter in the house—which was “None whatever!” Mrs, Gosnold affirmed, “Then why not Lyttleton as well as another?” “That,” Mrs. Gosnold sald slow- ly, indeed reluctantly, “brings me to the fact that no confession has pon made, as I had hoped it might That is to say, the Jewels have been restored, I am sorry, I have done all I coyld to protect the thief.” “You know—" Trego inquired. “IT saw the theft committed,” said Mrs, Gosnold, “It was done not for gain, but for the sole purpose of securing Miss Manwaring’s dis- charge He jerked his| and then take them to Boston, In| Pe'er. Mm pe abn P gig ne-4 Pe window, “What | thin emergency Adele went Walter nan she eenth net, 2a on the antiquated marble man- In separate columns on the page folded outermost, two items were encircled with rings of crimson watercolor. One, under the caption “News of Plays and Players,” noted the de parture for an opening in Atlantic City of the musical comedy com- pany of whose chorus Mary War den was a member. The other, in the column headed arringes,” announced tersely the nuptials of Lucy Spode and Sam- uel W. Meyerick. No details were given. Slowly Sally set about picking up the threads of her life. She sat @ long hour, hands list- less in her lap, staring vacantly out at that well-hated vista of grimy back yards, drearfly review- ing the history of the last five days. She felt as one who had dreamed a dream and yet was not sure that she had waked. It never entered her weary head | to imagine that the feet that pound led heavily on the stairs were those of anybody but the janitor; she | was wondering idly if there was rent due, and if she would be turned out Into the street that very night, and thinking it did not much matter, when the footfalls stopped on the threshold of the studio and she looked up into the face of Mr, ‘Trego. “Hello!” he said, «“You certainiy | did give me the deuce of a hunt, |1 wormed it out of Mrs. Gosnold | that you inhabited a studio some | where on this block, and | suppose I must have climbed 30 times three | flights of stairs in the last hour.” She ¢demanded in a low, |volce: “Why have you followed |me here?” “Well,” be protested, “Mrs. Gor nold sent me—and if she hadn't, £ 1 told you last night that I loved you. [{ haven't changed since then. And |now that you're In a fix, whether or not of your own contriving— well, it isn't my notion of letting you pull out for yourself If you'll let jme help—and that goes, even if you stick to {t that you won't marry me.” She tried to answer him, but her traitorous voice broke, and before she could master it be had re sumed: “Mrs. Gosnold wants you back— sent me to say so—saye she'll come after you if I fail to bring you.” “Oh, no!” she protested, trem bling uncontrollably. “You won't meet any of those folks. They're all going today. a new deal from a fresh deck, so to speak.” “No,” she averred more steadily, “You told me I was foolish; you were right. I'm thru with all that.” He came closer to her. “You needn't be,” he said. “Don’t damn society just because you got in wrong at the first attempt. Try again. Let me try with you. I've got all the money there is, more less. If you want a villa at ‘port—" ‘ “Ob, please, no! I tell you, I'm finished with all that forever.” “Well,” he grinned fatuously, “what about « flat in Harlem?” A little smile broke thru her rs. “Why must you go to such ex- tremes?’ she laughed brokenly. “Aren't there any more apartments to be had on Riverside drive?” THE END When P. C. Merrian, 1267 Stewart st, advertised gasoline at 17 cents 8 gallon, while his competitors de- mand 18 cents, he became tho busiest merchant in Seattle, ac- cording to Weights and Measufes Inspector C. Y. Jared. Merrian was arrested Friday. Jared says he admitted mizing 50 gallons of distillate with 300 gallons of gasoline. Sixty thousand tons of Iron ore were obtained from the soil of Ire land last year. OODYEAR qual- ity and Goodyear cons truction are cash-value advantages to the Goodyear user. He buys Goodyear Tires and ‘ Tubes because they are Good- year Tires and Tubes. 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