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

WASN’T CALLING HER DEAR ‘Destrou By mail, out ef olty, Initiative No. 19—A EWARE of your friend san movement in this state. it little harm. friends, the framers of Initia 19, to do the harm Initiative Bill No. 19 wa Olympia without having hac discussion. It is designated €rs as a nonpartisan bill misnomer. Tt is a bill covering a things and nonpartisanship i in the bucket in this cong) words, words, words measure. The bill covers ten sheets and contains words. A nonpartisanship bill ple—is what is needed the point. It should have nothing els It is a serious, fatal mistake nonpartisanship a first, seco choice method of voting. I to nonpartisanship to saddle several other debatable matt p! Ss are truly desirous of getting ship in this state—and it _ producing more substantial they should cea No. 19. A new at once. further c to sacrifice nonpartisanship fi * vanity, then it is up to oth new bill. What about the Nonpa which was recently formed indorsed Initiative Bill No should not. HAS SAN LEAGUE THE AND GOOD FAITH TRUE NONPARTISANSH S PROTECTION vestors, Prof. J to Cc. Bi have a law requiring, at sta examination of the head of |, corporation for evidences big business wreck or chairman of di: ences of president Prof. Bloodgood has sure ® novelty but fl would ¢ is of buying a camera, tain fair young woman inspect- the stock of a local shopkeeper. “Is this a good one?” she asked, she picked up a dainty little ma- y “What is it called? “That's the Belvedere,” said the ome young shopman, politely. ‘There was a chilly silence. Then the young woman drew herself coldly erect, fixed him with an icy! HAVE ROSY CHEEKS AND FEEL FRESH AS || A DAISY—TRY THIS! || Says glass of hot water with Phosphate before breakfast washes out poisons. To see the tinge of healthy bloom fm your face, to see your skin get Clearer and clearer, to wake up ‘without a headache, backache, coat ed tongue or a nasty breath, in fact to feel your best, day in and day out, just try inside-bathing every Morning for one week. Before breakfast each day, drink ®@ glass of real hot water with a teaspoonful of limestone phosphate fn it as a harmless means of wash- ing from the stomach, liver, kid neys and bowels the previous day’s indigestible waste, sour bile and toxins; thus cleansing, sweetening | and purifying the entire alimentary | anal before putting more food into the stomach. The action of hot| Water and limestone phosphate on! an empty stomach is wonderfully| invigorating. It cleans out all the) sour fermentations, gases and acid.) ity and gives one a splendid appe tite for breakfast. A quarter pound of lMmestone phosphate will cost very little at the drug store but ts sufficient to demon: that just soap and| hot w cleanses, sweetens and| freshens the skin, so hot water and Mmestone phosphate act on the blood and internal organs. Those who are subject to constipation Dilious attacks, acid stomach, rheu matic twinges, also those whose skin is sallow and complexion pal Nd, are assured that one week of inside-bathing will have them both looking and feeling better in every, way. massed If the framers of Initiative Bill No. TO SPONSOR FOR A NEW The Seattle Star Bntered at Geattia Wash. Postoffice as escond-clase matter 1 & montha, $1.00; She per month up te ¢ mos one rear, By carrier, etty, Mistake s. You can usually take care of your enemies, How well this applies to the nonparti Enemies of nonpartisansttip could do It remained for its alleged tive Bill No s rushed to { any public by its fram- That is a multitude of s but a drop omeration of into this 78 typewrit- housands of ain and sim hort, and to ¢ in the bill to inject into nd and third t is not fair it down with ers. 19 nonpartisan is the most important issue in this state, capable of good than / any other measure now pending—then irculation of iil is needed and needed If the sponsors of No. 19 are willing ‘or their own ers to file a rtisan league It has not 19—and it THE NONPARTI COURAGE STAND BILL—A IP BILL? *T would Be a New Thing in- M ordinary oodgood, D., of Johns Hopkins university, would ted intervals, every great of growing He thinks that there are a dozen notable s due to the rectors being overcome by paresis. thought out sg em of business reform, it ‘ome us to indorse it, movel tho would be the spectacle of an OST ANYTHING - “Er—and the Belva?” LAST RESORT A Scotch minister funds thus conveyed his intentions! to his congregation: “Weel, friends, gently in need of ailier, and as we have failed to get we will have to see what a bazar Tit-Bits. oe can do for wu . rn HARRY ©. BROOKS’ IDEA * OF A SOFT JOB | a lH! BOATS “TAKE A BIG” CHANCE WHEN THEY RUN) OVER AN ecu! FAKING ORDERS FOR AUTO SKID CHAINS IN A SHIPYARD —— course Inst year?” “No, sir; it wae 1. traordinary! CLASSIFYING HIMSELF Tommy, I'm surprised. Minister. Don't you know boys don’t skate on Sunday? Tommy don't—dere educes tat. How rough our childish sports do get! pupils, pearain take “flower We observe to wal rt hamper th make this hotel th |—New Zeninnd paper. Extraordinary resembiance, tho! ja an’ more room on de ice for us boys who do. celebrato tercentens espeare flowe: Bde a month officer of the law walking into the office to examine the head of our head, the day before weekly pay day, for imstance, Going to School With Congress E Tillman bill, which provides for the expenditure of $11,000,000 for a gov ernment-owned armor factory, has been reported to the house. This bill has been the occasion of one of the most exciting “educational” campaigns ever waged in Washington. The Bethlehem Steel com pany has been especially solicitous that congress should be educated and has contributed considerable literature to that end The second of a series of statements “To the Members of Congress” com ments on the company’s offer to reduce the price of steel to the gove it from $425 a ton (present price) to $395 a ton, for a period of five years. And if this proposition is not satisfac- tory, the company offers to confer, under certain conditions, with the secretary of the navy, and to guarantee to manufac- ture armor at a price which will be itself quite as low as the lowest price at which the government could possibly make it. “We make the foregoing proposition, rather than have our plant rendered use less,” runs the letter. “We have invested over $7,000,000 In that plant, as inventoried today, not taking Into expended for plant and equipment aban. doned because of becoming obsolete. for any other is our only rie lost the s. Stopping here, some of us might con clude that the government, by building its own armor plant, would completely destroy one of the country’s great in dustries And that is exactly what the armor makers want the public to t But the public is not so gullible Seeking more light on this subject, we found it in the very words of Schwab himself. Speaking to the stockholders of the Bethlehem Steel company recently, Schwab said, according to an Eastérn ex- change “The Bethlehem company has invested some $7,000,000 in an armor plant. Should a government plant be bullt, that investment would be practically valueless. Of course, this Investment is only about 5 per cent of the total Investment in the company’s var! ous properties, and the total armor busi- nese is less than 3 per cent of the annual gross turnover. “The integrity of the corporation does not depend upon armor manufacture.” Persons who have become excited about the destruction of private business interests due to government ownership of an armor plate plant would better read Schwab atement again. There's enlightenment in it which should not be confined to Bethlehem stockholders alone. eve EV. TRUE’S SISTER SAYS: recommend . Some of these new dances may not be right, but in need of! I notice the giris the kirk fs ur-|who don't dance them are always money honestly, | left! Edna, dear, please pass the choco. late eclatres. . . AN ENDLESS CHAIN that Chief Beckingham has youchsafed no word of explanation | as to why he wears his hair banged.|a pariah, !t seems,” she said, bit-| . esisasesigiiniietalehiier tallies | UNNATURAL HISTOR | BY GENE AHERN PSE lien cle i ie ———* ® brother tm thie| ! taking it over Ex- "4 Lampoon. . that good little) I'm gind dey THE GIGGLING HYENA This is the first photo ever tak en of the hyena in his wild state We don't whether it's York, Oklahoma, or the state coma After this asked the hyena w he laughing at, but he gave us horse laugh—a very eccentric ant mal. know New was told him a Ford joke and he couldn't get a laugh out of ft till he that high school the Shakes are golng to and gather plant The h ena would become extinct ing himself death ar to t somebod about r some things here For Instance congress, the po rice of gas tl-prey much-advertised — ( man who deep ir enjoys | sailing photo was taken wel! the] a | | ] ex | she | | | STAR—TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1 (Continued from our last Issue) HERES just one thing, Ha sel,” Barrow persisted stub. bornly, “There must have been something between you and Hush, and I want to know what it was.” “A short time ago,” Hazel told him quietly, “Mr, Bush asked me to marry him, I refused, of course, He" “You refused!" Barrow inter rupted cynically, “Most girls would have jumped at the chance.” she protested Barrow defended, “he got nothing but my hands and my brain, But suppose you did refuse him. How does that account for the $5,000 "I think,” Hazel fung back pas- stonately, “Tl let you find that out for yourself. You've sald enough now to make me hate you almost. Your very manner's an tn- sult.” If you don’t Ike my manner—" Barrow retorted stormily, Then he cut bis sentence in two, and glared at her, The twin devils of Jealousy and distrust were riding him hard, and {t flashed over Hazel that tn his mind she was prejudg nat her explanation, tf she it, would only add fuel to the She him. She wai turned abruptly and left What did ft matter, anyway? too proud to plead, and tt ne than useless to explain. wan we it a militonaire, and I've} Even #0, womantike, sho listen od, expecting to hear Jack's step hurrying up behind, But he did/ not come | She returned to the boarding house and hurried to her room. | Saf tn that refuge, she sat down | by the window, struggling with the} impulse to ery, protesting with all her young strength against the bit- terness that had come.to her thra/ no fault of her own, There wa only one cheerful gleam. loved Jack Barrow. | She believed | night, cause, those who knew her would take it,/ | what cause thay would ascribe. PAGE 4. “North of Fifty-Three’ By Bertrand W. Sinolalr—Copyrighted, 1914, by Little, Brown & Co. Presently it Was Dark, and Darkness in the Woods Is Blackness Itself her pay envelope contained a | brief notice that the firm no longer required her services. no explanation; and, truth to tel!,| speaking, met Hazel at Soda Creek, There was Hazel cared little to know the real But she realized how “It doesn't seem to be a case of) she reflected on her way that he loved her, and she could| home, “so much as a case of being not concetve him capable of kéwp- f, obdurate and unforgiv onee he got out of the black ing mood he was in, Then she could snugele up close to him and tell him how and why Mr, Andrew| Bush bad strack at her from bis deathbed She was atit! sitting by the win- dow when some one rapped at her door, A untformed messenger boy frozen out. I can’t stay here and be idie. her eye. on the She stopped at a news stand and hought the evening papers. Up in the top rack of the stand an assort ed lot of Western papers caught She bought two or three impulse of the momeut, without any definite purpose, ex- cept to look them over out of mere curtosity. greeted her when she opened ft: “Package for Miss Hazel Wetr.”|_ That evening Hazel took up ber| She signed bis delivery sheet.| Western papers and naturally turn-| on on the package was In/¢d to the “Help Wanted” adver-| dwritiog A box of choc. | titements. The thing which im rome little peace offer-| pressed her most, vividly was the ing, maybe. That was Mke Jack/dearth of. demadd for stenogra- when he was sorry for anything. Shoe opened tt hastily heart sinking followed. small cardboard box rested gold stickpin—the only thing she had ever given Jack Barrow. are was no meassge. She needed none to understand. The sparkle of the small dia mond on her finger drew her gaze. She work Dis ring over the kouckle, an Gropp it on the Gresser. And then she flung herself acrons the bed and sobbed hyster- ically Into a pillow. CHAPTER V. The Way of the World at Large The next morning she made up a) package of Barrow’s ring and « few other trinkets which he bad/ given her, This she addressed to/ his office and posted while on her way to work She got thru the day somehow, struggling against thoughts would per mind and stirring up emotions that she was determined to hold in check. only salvation, If she sat idle, thinking, the tears would come tn spite of her. And so she got thru the week. Saturday evening came. The peo ple at Mrs. Stout's establishment, she plainly saw, were growing a trifle shy of her, On Saturday evenings and Sun day afternoons ordinarily from two toa a girl friends called her up at the boarding house, or drop. ped in. Hazel went home, wonder f they, too, would stand aloof. n Sunday noon arrived, and the phone had falled to call her once, and not one of all her friends "|had dropped in, Hazel twisted her chatr so that she could stare at as yot|the image of herself in the mirror. “You're in a fair way to become terly All during the next week she worked She swore she would not leave Granville, and it galled her to stay. It was a losing fight, and knew it urday of the second week TIL" FOR TIRED AND SORE FEET Use “Tiz” for puffed-up, burn- ing, aching, calloused feet and corns. “Happs! Happy! Use “TIZ’* Why go limping around with ach- So we doped It out that a squirrel| ing, puffed-up feet feet so tire |chafed, sore and swollen you can put his chin over a feather duster| Wh hardly get your shoes on or off? y don’t you get a 25-cent box of gladden your tortured feet? Tiz” makes your feet glow with comforts takes down swellings and draws the soreness and misery right out of feet that chafe, smart and burn, “Tiz” instantly stops pain in corns, callouses and bun jor Tix" is glorious for tired, seal|aching, sore feet. No more shoe tightness—no more foot torture, that) in creeping Into her| |phers, but down near the bottom of A ewift the columa she happened on an tn- In the|quiry for @ school teacher, fold-| preferred, in an outof-the-way dis- ed scarf, and thrust fn ft @ small|trict tn the interior of the prov: from the drug store now and| jher services astonished her Work, sho knew, was her! male ince, “Now, that” She bad tucled away among her belongings. Originally it had been her inten- tion to teach, and she had done so one term in « backwoods school when she was 18. Other people had mad fresh start tn countries where none knew or cared whence they came or who they were. Why not she? Hasel She spent that evening going thoroly over the papers and writ- ing letters to various sehool doards, centering her hopes on the country west of the Rockies. Her letters finished, she went to bed feeling better than she had felt for two weeks. Very shortly thereafter—almost, it seemed, by return mafl—Hazel got replies to her letters of in- quiry. The fact that each and every one seemed bent on securing “Schoolma’ams must certainly be scarce out thei she told herself. “This embarrassment of riches. I'm going so here, but which place shal! tt b But the reply from Cariboo Meadows, B. C., the first pla she! had thought of, decided her. The member of the school board who} replied held forth the natural beauty of the country as much as} he did the advantages of the po’ tion Within an hour Miss Hazel Weir had written to accept and was bustly packing her trunk. | troductog himself as Jim Bri thought clase certificate! 5, CHAPTER VL Cariboo Meadows man, sunburned, slow- A tall the end of her stage journey, in- “Pretty tiresome trip, ain't 1 he observed, “You'll have a chance to rest decent tonight, and I got a team uh bays that'll yank yuh to the Meadows {in four hours ‘n’ a half. My wife'll be plumb Uckled to have yub They ain't much more’n half a dozen white women | in ten miles uh the Meadows. We keep a boarding house. Hope you'll like the country.” That was a lengthy speech for Jim Briggs, Hazel discovered when she rolled out of Boda Creek behind the “team wh bays. His conversation was decidedly mono- syllabic. But he could drive, and bis m could travel. And so by o'clock Hazel found herself at Cariboo Meadows. Her first afternoon she spent domicile, within which Mra, Briggs, a fat, good-natured person of 40, tofled at her cooking for the “boarders.” Cariboo Meadows, as @ town, was simply s double row of bufld- ings Ing each wagon road riggs’ boarding 8 building labeled “Regent Hotel.’ Hazel could envisage it all with o half turn of her head. From this hotel there presently issued @ young man ¢ressed tn the ordinary costume of the country— wide hat, Manne! shirt, overalls, boots. He sat down on a box close by the hotel entrance. In a few minutes another cam walked past the first a few steps, stopped, and said something. The first man was filling a pipe. Ap- parently he made no reply; at least, he did not trouble to look up. Hazel w his shoulders lift in a shrug. Then he who had passed turned square about and poke in, this time Iifting his voice a trifle. The young fellow sitting on the box instantly became galvan! Into action, He leaped from his seat straight at the other man. Hazel saw him who jumped dodge a vicior blow and close with the other; and saw, more- over, something which amazed her. For the young fellow swayed with bis adversary a second or two, t almost to the level of his head, }and slammed him against the ho tel wall with a sudden twist Then other men came ou hotel, and Hazel heard the young fellow say “Better take that fool in and EXHAUSTED WITH YOUR A BRUTISH SEFISHNE 3S- PF RerFoRS WS WERE MARRIED MID YOU WouLcd LAY DOWN YOUR VERY LIFE SS x WIMELIGI SSweu, L THINK @ ve ComMe 7 PRGTTY CLOSE TO MAKING loafing on the porch of the Briges | mn lifted him bodily off his feet | of the . BY ARNOLD FREDERICKS | 1 wonder how man Nil have to lek wive novgh not bring him to. more of you oul get you can't the uncons tellers to start things They supported man thru the doorway; fellow resumed his seat on the box, also bis pipe filling “Roarin’ Bill's goin’ to get bim-| |nelf killed one uh these days.” | | Hazel started, but it was Jim Briggs in the dvorway beside her only | ling the Granville 1 guess you atn'tanuch used to : t mt here | Hew teocher’s chreer pages ah + on We a ark nde | At least, Hazel guessed he must you come from, Miss Weir.” Brigés |i ave told, for as early as the my wife put in over his shoulder My land, it's disgustin’—men fightin’ in the street where everybody can #e¢| 1) on interest they had not here \'em, Thank goodness, it don’t h pen very often. ‘Specially wh | Pill Wagstaff ain't around.” | Roaring Bill | place for supper. jher own waitress. sat beside Hazel Mrs. Briggs was! yead the young |!nk .ler Perkins’ departure came into Briggs’) 4 different atmospt Briggs himeelf|ipentiy at She saw a mild) qaritiing knowledge into the heads Restdon things thin week #8 othing better a coward, an il-bred nincom thete grievous th that, the furious, shamed almost to tears, and wish fervently that she had the man to requite the In- poor to mas she fled vanit ne muscle of a |nult ng it deserved Like other mean soule of similar pattern, it sulted Mr. Perkins to neek revenge in the only way pow sible—-by confidentially relating to divers individuals durjog that even- episode in the é certain of JT looking at her caught boarders day she Briggs tofore displayed The feeling grew to certainty aft There was re. In the meantime, she Iabored 4il- her appointed task of look of surprise Mit over his coun-| of a dozen youngsters. tenance when Roaring Bill walked |in and coolly took a seat. But not Juntil Hazel glanced at the neweom er 41d she recognize him aa the man who bad fought in the street. He |was looking straight at her when| she did glance up, and the mingled astonishment and frank admiration in his clear gray eyes made Hazel drop hers quickly to her plate. Since Mr. Andrew Bush, she was begin- ning to hate men who looked at) her that way Exactly three days later Harel came into the dining room at noon, and there recetved her first lesson in the truth that this world is a very |wmall place, after all. A nattily dressed mtleman seated to one | side of her place at table rose with |the most polite bow and extended hand. Hazel recognized him as Mr. How- ard Perkins, traveling salesman for Harrington & Bush. After the first unwelcome surprise, she reflected that it was scarcely strange that the ilink in her p iife should turn up here, for she knew that in the very ing agricultural implements would have {ts men drumming up trade on the very edge of the frontier. Mr. Perkins was apparently glad to meet some one from home. He joined her on the porch for a min- utg whem the meal was over. And h@ succeeded tn putting Hazel at her ease so far as he was con- cerned. If he knew why she had left Granville, it evidently cut no figure with bim. Finally Mr. Perkins proposed a walk up on a 300-foot knoll that sloped from the back door&so to speak, of Cariboo Meadows. Hazel got her hat, and they set out. They reached the top in a few minutes, and found « seat on a dead tree trunk Mr. Perkins was pro) tm with the out look. ut vei long hb seemed to suffer a laxation of his Interest tn the view and a cor responding {ncrease of attention to his companion. Hazel recognized the symptoms. “I think I shall go down,” she said abruptly, “Ob, I say, ” Perkin: She was already rising from he seat. But Mr, Perkins caught her to kiss her. Whereupon Hazel slapped him with all the force she could muster—which was consider able. But he did not seem to mind that. Probably he had been slap- ped before, and regarded it part of the game. ‘Why, you're a regular ecrap- per,” he smiled. “Now, I'm sure you didn’t cuff Bush that w: zel jerked loose from his grip in @ ,erfect fury. Being free of him, Hazel stocd her ground long enough to tell him that he was a now, there's no hur- n, ¥., wensdy—when gorgie med- ders grows up he {# going to be a verry rich man or | miss my cess | rockefeller & J. p. morgon aint got nothing on him in the way of getting the big end of evry thing that’s going even if he is just a | boy that aint in only the 6th grade at skool last nite he went to the grosery |store with his ma which {is neer jthere house in the bronix to buy a lot of stuff to put in there feed bags | mrs medders bought a lot of | things which made the storekeeper mitey glad & it also made him loosen up a bit in the way of slip- ping something to mrs meddérs’ littel boy so when his ma got done buying all she wanted from the man he turned to gorgie and says verry plesant like, do you like peenuts, gorgio nature of things, a firm manufactur-| The first Saturday after the Per kins Ineident. Hazel went for a tramp in the afternoon. The tew walke she had taken had Iulled all sense of uneas'ness in venturing into the Infolding forest. Fventually she gained @ consid erable height. She could not see the town, but she could mark the low hills behind it. So she thought But the short afternoon fled, and, warned by the low dip of the sun, she left her nook on the billside to make her home. But once trees, she b mong the close-ranked gan to experience @ difficulty that had not hitherto troubled her, With the sun hang- ing low, she lost her certainty of direction. She blundered on, not admit to herself the possibility of bef unable to find Cariboo Meadows. But she had walked far enough to bave overrun !t, and was yet upon unfamiliar ground. The shadows deepened until she tripped over roots and stones, and snagged her hair and clothing on branches she could not see in time to fend off. Presently it was dark, and dark- ness in the woods ts the darkness of the pit itself. After what seem- ed an age, she fancied she saw a gleam far distant tn the timber. She advanced toward {t, hoping that {t might be the gleam of @ ranch window. Her progress was slow, She blundered over the litter of a forest floor, tripping over um seen obstacles. She kept on. The wavering gleam came from behind a thicket responded smilingly. | y QuR SO -——an open fire, she saw at length. Beyond the fire she heard a horse sneeze, She moved cautiously to a point where she could see the fire A man sat humped over the —- embers, whereon sizzled a piece meat Suddenly he looked and she gasped—for the fi showed the features of Roaring Bill vagstatt. She was afraid of him. Why she 4i4 not know. She turned to re treat. In the same instant Roaring Bill reached to his rifle and stood “You've had a look at me—I wants look at you, old feller, whoever you are, Come gn—show yourself.” Harel started to run. The crack of a branch under foot betrayed her, and he closed in before she took three steps. He caught her rudely by the arm, and yanked her bod into the firelight. Well—for the—love of—Mike' Wagstaff drawled the exclama- tion out fn a rising crescendo of astonishment. (Continued In Our Next tesue) JUNIOR OFFICE GOoy & gorgie ansers yes to him well, then, you may help your self to a handfull but gorgie don’t make a move go on & take a handfull, the man said agin but gorgie don’t never make no move yet well, { see you are a bit bashful, | the man chirped, so { will give them to you, & he fills his handfull and | shoves them Into gorgte’s pocket | after mrs medders and gorgie got | outside, she said, gorgle why dident you take a handfull of them peenuts | when the kind man Ist told you to { wanted him to do {t, ma, gorg! replyd why, deer, she said o, becaus his hand is bigger than mino johny Fifty students in civics from Franklin bigh school observed the trial of John and Tom MoFarl alleged cattle rustlers, in Judge Mackintosh’s court Monday. Mild Laxative Compound Cor- rects Stubborn Case of Constipation An tmportant duty that devolves on parents fs the regulation of their children’s bowels later Ufe depends tn large measure on early training, and a child jshould be taught from Infancy to regular habits. When from any cause the bowel becomes congested with stomach waste, a mild laxative’ should be employed to open up the pas gently and carry off the congeste mass. A most effective remedy for this purpose {s the combination of simple laxative herbs known as Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, Mrs. W. D, Bulls, of Reed, Okla., used Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin for her baby boy, Harley Buren Bulls und says: “It did him more good than anything we have given him His bowels are very stubborn about acting, but they time I give Syrup Pepsin.” Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin con tains no opla or narcotic drug and is a splendid remedy for chil dren and older people as woll, It ly every aldwell's act him en Dr. ( Found Simple Remedy . That Relieved Child , Health in | \ 3 sie deni HARLEY BUREN BULLS | has been on the market for more |than twenty-five years and is the |family standb: in thousands of |homes, Druggtsts everywhere sell jit for fifty cents a bottle, A trial bottle, free of charge, can be ob tained by writing to Dr. W. B Caldwell, 454 Washlagton St, Mon- tloello, Ill, P. “Hold on there!* he said coolly. © ee