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pam {MANS FORM HUGE TRUSTS IN FIGHT TO WIN WORLD TRADE WARPROFITEERS THE EVENING WORLD MONDA earn Dealer or ertinsy Pn ¥, NOVEMBER | 8, ‘1920. * Oven | Aveme baprem ay ‘ squidation, which was in progress! al ea 14 Vy 1% | teres To ; ; rea | n the various markets wt the close 4™ Ae. Chem LR All Necessaries From Raw Materials to Fin-) By POET HAPLAIN of last week, way renewed at the A” eet fom : mn Nine Tesla V : ‘ A | opening of business this morning and! sua. Breke @bes : ished Products and Selling Agencies-In- | sharg declinen were eitiensed inthe Am toe ‘ vile ‘ glocks of botton and grain. In the 3@ Vartilard i cluded in New Concerns Now Building. pone industrial section of the stook market 4% | renin" * Nea, 1 | ipman in Verse C ore orty ; i. Martin Par . Nov, $.—Along the pioneer agreement. Stinnes's unique combine Rey. D. Shipman in Verse Con- ™ fe tis fo y issues made new low re Maniatian Shirt tre. |thus embraces every pt ot + €C0« : , or rene cords for the current yea |4= May Dee stor caste rie ee cit: [nomic process, from basic cont and| Signs Them “To Deepest |" ‘rene inciuded vie tenance eteat, am Menken @uranm, 3 mendous transformation, tantamount | iron org production to the manufac- Pj tell.” thing, food) chenical, rubber i Aw Whee to an economic revolution with unfor-|ture and marketing of every concely- it of Hell. ue: Say Soret aoe es : | i tire Issues i | Mutting Healy Seeable consequences, is rapidly tak- | able product of Germany's highly de- | ———_-» Ure issues, Losses ranged from two Am | Mideate Stet | tng place within Germany's big indus- | ¥9red sectric industry. | prove! 1 @ sermon replete with LAC ie A aye te en ne dat Wa Acta eye Be os tries and is marked by numerous|a powerful factor in world compet-| phrases the Rev, Dr, Herbert Ship- patie i “ed Md sii BAM, Hd » mie Au Satety Resor ae se great new mergers, consolidations | Hon, since the Siemens concern has &) may we ei he Cl of the | (Uched to-day ropresented lonses of ams. & C, Cor pees Bnd interlocking “community of in-|steat and highly developed foreign| MAM Fector of the Church of the) tion sy iy 75 per cent, compared Am Sm a ter | Middte, States Ot terest” organizations recently com. |*ales organization.“ Another signifi-| Heavenly Rest, Fifth Avenue, Mear | «ith tics igh proce ce tee cone Au, Saoft Pleted, in the process of completion | C@Mt fact is that through his combi 45th Street, last night pald his ree) Outro and cane Am, Steel Wiries and which are etill coming. Instead|Herr Stinnes is brought into direct! | etn 't Aine! terna, | Aud Wheat both touched am. suger of merely 4 “horizontal combination” |CoBtact with big Arnerican capital, SPects to profiteers In strong terms. | new tow figures for the present de- Am T. & SRamely, the combining of several |*% American interests, suid to have |The pastor read from a poem he had jclining movement. Wh regia. AM. Tb wae concerns of a kind Into a powerful |Pcen the Western Electric Company, | composed “The | tered a lows of betwe ur to 1% Foot ‘ nee ead took over some "80,000,000 marks e he c UA edlahh is mat eed ft between four and five 4m wooo, my 02% the Sverticn Dination” eme|the new stock of the ‘Siemens clee- | Profiteer. ne service was an Ar-!cents per busiel, ‘The decline in cot- Aveconds Ho's bracing apeesiting frome, raw mate. bgt Ro rt Tes ip int fitidad mistice Day service and was attended |ton extended to as much as $3 per Assomated Oi ak rr ere is also a significant political x fi | bate, ution ft ‘ , Atetimon 1 ‘ B, & atts vo sper gt id Anan nutacture| phase in the fact that Suinnes has | PY members of Columbia University | bl ton for digtant delivery taton Ry pf N, ¥., Ont, & W., Herr Stinnes, he Airsady” put his| lined up into the closest economic Post, No. 400, American Legion. Dr, | ¥reke below 18 cents per bushel Readite Coat take Norfolk & Werers *{ Union the leading industries the |e | To add to speculative contusion Ati Gut @ WI Norther Pueific idea int! actual practice, and other | Rhineland, Westphalia, Bay anj| Shipman is the chaplain of this Lasdekadl Paine , : ges iH shoal Nowa Scotia Stew! captains of tndustry and finance are! y.) 4 ‘ . . Ne foreign exchange market showed Baldmin. Love, i dicen ues Thess | Berlin. There is also an intimation| He saw duty overseas. | 2 Sigs tai ok Okla ORatoma P&T ce -| proposed 80 ion of the e cudrap ob terling opene 333 ‘ be Penna, Bt tions are the talk of the Berlin! Mines by ‘the ormanization ot auch {Shipman told his hearers there would “Ms opened at $3.88 9-4 for a toss eel ecreeeae de ed [hd Lag gees for the | mixed combines as are not easily torn| be some kind of a Leamue of Nations. | gk than 3 cents. The value of lsheries pie : ndor com in many mining} apart once formed. ‘i 6: wkd: Kowee thi 1 con- | the French frane was placed at 6.79 B'kism Hao ‘tran * im ind 4 id . that moral con- | b ; y : | Bere Maruotte, fineered by Stinnes is accordingly oes union between the rman! would make such a League or any) *!8ce early in the year, Italian lire jue (ge mm Vierw J considered a classic model of what is| | in Petccloum Cotes ich. togorher| treaty worth the paper it is written on.| WS duoted at 3.40 cents, a new low (atl Cent On agape : man on, toget he ecord for a . ae Se aes Oe inl OE tie ne mereeeihE | with an unnamed corpordiion, pre-| Ie paid « tribute to the men who|fécord for all time, ven the ex- Catt Packing . Vite & W. ¥ two giants or the German mining | S¥Mably the powerful Dutch oil in-| gave real service to the country in| Changes in Holland, the Scandinavian Caome & Aris Pond Creek Coal. . World, the Meisekirchen coal mining | (rests, a4 & preparedness mensute the World War and eritictsed IneM- | Countries and in the Par Kast, which ft leatine From stent. 5 nin the world o « archi Saberin sa the Doutach Lazamabung] 4 p*rielpation sn the wortd oll WA: | encp and wellshoeay lant at times [heretofore Rave shows mere oF en aogh called “Rhine-Elbe Union.” thus link. | the doings within Germany's Aniline | entered in stubility, were heavy, Rai} Steet Springs sta . Dye Trust which are projected to put! As ¢o the bonus, the préather said:| Reason for the sharp liquidating s™. & Ohio Tay Copier eadeos 2 AY SBS DAB UFR DED | 1e in ‘better fighting shape for, seeking | opy, poen against it ievotet against | Movement in ait aabiite waa toube rice a Praline» ane Next Herr Stinges obtained con-| t regain control of the world’ market Rep bee! i Dela OM. GSP RY of haat pes obtained con-| for \ AB i {| it and voted that way because I can-| in the condition of. the money mar- "Noo! get trol and annexed to his “union”, The pool agreement between the eight Chi, (Pnewn, ‘Tool Rep, Motar, concern the huge Bochum ‘Association | leading aniline dye concerns constitut-| Not see how a second wrong can right) kets, the slowing up in weneral buai- ©h), R. 1. & Pre, | Regs, Iron fe Steel. of Steel Plants, the biggest steal pro. | ing the German trust which expires in| a first wrong.” ness and continued deflation in the ©% Gt. Want)... Replogle Steel, Guoers in Germany. . Stinnes further | 1955 has been extended to 1995. Fur-} service could not be gauged in terms| prices of staple Juct Rite Royal Dano N.Y annexed the Boohler Bros.’ Com-|thormor, a new 500,000,000 mark NI-| | ¢ . bet CNC Re OROELIihee eee oe cen Surage Aspe y, makers of world famed tooi| trate Trust ls to be orgunized, financed |Of money, he said. He condemned) known that much of, the selling that. tiny. ceoos prtead viens and other ofs of the highest| and ontrolled by the Aniline Trust for| the men who stayed at home and| came on the stock market represented Chet Peatou Geiboand Air tod. Sesis, Completing his ambi.|tho purpose of taking over tho two| made money while posing as patripts.| forced liquidation by merchants and [% & Soh. Seam Rosin te 164% ‘igus plans, Herr Stinnes lastly] giant nitrate plants at Leuna an If ever there is a thought that|Husiness men ¢ u bet Olea acta Swattuck Aziz 7 7% Feached out ‘and drow the great Sie-|Oppau, where nitrogen 1s extracted| ies me bitter,” wad De Sh {business men generally who, unable Cohn trash Ranges SE mens and Halske and Schukert inter-| from the air and fixed according to the | 47 igcamalniesthone, 1% He oubsee the jto obtain desired accommodations at Core Uole tee | loes-Bhet!, ice! a aan locking electric concerns into a ‘com-| method of Profs. Haber and Rosch.| voritice und’ blood of others hang | banks are forced to part with their Sel. Cia. Go |Mouthern Pacific... 111% 119% saunity of interest” with his Rhine-| Those plants are producing 200,000/ coined dirty money.” He likened the, | security holdings to protect their con vasa, wins Southern ay wy Bibe Union under an eighty-year| {ons of nitrates annually to greedy human Vultures and crawl. | business interests. Pov in OeN ag { Souther Its, pf “6s ———-|ing chouls. iy | Stranberg mM BX | ‘ The bank statements issued after (fm Prod | id . "4 i ; | One verse of poem ds | a sede Nts aN Souddaker 6... | hy , American Refugees Safe ; | port, is confident i Bolaeviil vill It in blackest hell, O Lord, there be |'He close of business on Saturday OReBUS iad Gubeomrine Host ia 1% * y, y.,,/be unable to break through his line @ bincker werd wholly unsatisfactory and were Crile St [Bt I. & San Frau. 25%) | 28tp French Warship on Way, defense at the isthmus and tnvade| If Pei Che deepest pit @ deeper! cotent factor iH shaping market Gan ¢ tie . |e cee A yf PARIS, Novy 8.—Gen. Baron Wran- the Crimea. ty Hane thik orf | ‘| ah vi Cota Cane Gur. of. Shell, &T....., 48 48 ©) gel, the anti-Bolehevik leader in the | The French Government, it was do-| See agkanie 0 cote one eames iin reat eh Ge nes ot New Ge. Am, Gus | Team, Cap. & oe 04 * lared to-day, has not changed tty at-| put for these that blackest, deep- | York that are members of the Clear- Con ‘at, che Terns Co... 45, >» Crimea, is still hoiding the Isthmus) © 5 . P ae F : . |titude toward the military situation est hell is ft {ing House showed deficit e- Del, Lack, & Wht | Teme & Pacific a, *> of Perekop, the only means of ingress | ir South Hussia, and, as recently in - Rear ia reserve elie EN celta pe . Hod, Puinl Avenue 7% 18 to the Crimean Peninsula by land,| dicated, will not’ send military ashist | the @ ratio o Vee ates taane Pods. ON Ok i Miko iititary eituatfon tromepis|ance (0 Gen, Wrangol. A. F nch| ARGENTINA INVITES COLBY. |york Federal Reserve Institution Reece “erage en iL ih A | warship will be despptehed from Tou- | . . | dropped to 88.6 per cent, and the Dene Mine | Traum & WW: » standpont Js not hopeless, according | jon Tuesday, not for the purpose of| BUENOS AYRDS, Nov, §.—The Minis-liouns and note circulation of ths ‘Du. Be. 8 & Ail Uo Ihe & # t information which has reached| keeping the ‘Isthmus of Perekop un-| ter of Foreign Affairs has invited Secre- bik ie ikon Cou Union ‘Pantls | aan [Federal Reserve system « boarrtede oe ba Pap, the French Foreign Omce in » report | der the range of nav: V guns, it Is ex: leary of State Colby to visit Argentina on | sa nee a Ahh ane Whole ypatcortJohaatoa | Union Oi... { ey. atc plained, but in or that no vessel |the occasion of hia coming visit to Brazil |Showed new made new high records. 1 é ited’ ANloy .... ay i; from M. do Mertel, the French High/Picy be on hand to remove the | ney°comion or repaying the visits of| ‘The call money renewal rate to-day Hee I ‘ [United wruie 01.1) ans 208% ; Commissioner at Sebastopol. |Frrench and American colony should | presidents Pexsoa and. Brum. to. the was fixed at 9 per cent, and in bank. femow Players Un Ry Inr Co...., 10% 18 be We Gen. Wrangel, according to this re-' such a measure become necessary. 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PARIS, Nov. 8.—The Government has agreement from the mine to mest representatives of e National Federation of Miners in effort to avert the threatened strike or higher Wages and nationallzation f the mines, ft was learned to-day. The men are d ding that ‘the maximum pre-war seale be multiplied y flye, as the cost of living, they rep- has been increased more than fold. FUNERAL DIRECTORS, LOST, FOUND AND REWARDS. TOST Sanday, erman daciwhind, phot, boar Paws and apote: ov eat: ADA Ors Peter rewan! nam, 4441 road was CONT Hh dnchabiind, Hicwnse wi 4 eswers to name ae Write. ewan! | returned le Ae Lows Gold, 446 Rit a, ape LLL Kelly Springfiekt ., Kelsey Wheel . a a 46 The new hospital, a consolidation lof the Hahnemann Hospital and Laura Franklin Hospital for Chil- |dren, is under construction in Fifth Avenue from 100th to 106th Street. The Hahnemann, now in its fifty- ‘frst year, has not sought assistance | from ‘the public since 188%, The Laura \Frankii4, in its fortieth year, has| | never solicited subscriptions from the 47% | struction ‘now under and the vessels ow, ihent disposed of. "Tne new aso nern sald to forel, | be | eo interests but have notht | the operation of the 0 m of the ships as is now the fort CURB | Ovencd—Lrregular: Int, per, 17; WARDLESS HOSPITAL BENSON TO REDUCE FORCE. ttl, Candy, 10; Tobacco Prod. exp.’ NEEDS ENDOWMENT) wasiny TON, Nov. §—A, 11 1-2 to 13; Simms Pet., 9 1-2, up 1-4 a chairman of the Shipptag Boura ve Marac. Oil, 18 1-2 10 19 1-2; Aaphalt, « Public Is present ane icing plans tor cutting the 52, off 1 1-4; Carib, 13 1-4, off 1-4;|APpeal to the Public Is Made (o| passent unwieldy’ and expensive estab- Sweets, 17-8 to? Raise 1,400,000 for the Re- | uon.'iP la eSbtatea tue neem Rehies, FOREIGN EXCHANGE OPENED quired Fund, | The proposed plan ta undstateod to in et = ss clu a a4 : WHAK, With 180,000 persons sick in New present board worn heeneation of the Storlipg demand 3.83 3-4. cables | york City every day, only one out of fee down to the lowes messenger, both 4.34 1-2, Francs demand .0679, cables | every six can obtain a bed in a hos- United States ang igi the fleld in the 0580, Lire demand .0840, cables .0841.! pital, for there are less than 30,000 hdiniral Henson is understood to con- Ueigian francs demand 0013, cables |poppital beds in the city, For this fending's Mecg'sty Marne Act ‘aa tn. Wis. Marks demand 0116, cables | reason the new Fifth Avenue Hospi- | Vise the operation under private onfer: 7, Swiss francs demand 1820, |tat will receive @ welcome from the| The present estabinhinn meetin cablen 1625. Guildera demand .2960, | pubite. | of employees and oMiclais. will penaing cablen 12960. Pesetas demand. (1291. | Direction aety't Me Programme of con. yay is concluded involve ‘the n agencies, and instead iced" in cach large nore cre tase ative of the board to look out for ita ing to do with > PIMLICO ENTRIES. | public, The new hospital, deatmed | bas | particularly for the person of moder-} rest nace is |Rte means, will’ Bave no wards. | (urloow —Masier Jan, oer te a j Every room will be a single room| {jma veuim, 100; ‘Tormdor. 109; ‘Lom ‘I> |and every patient will receive per-| trem ‘Moria vane 100; Alora + 18: {sonal attention. This {s the first att 300; Invincible, 116:"Bromaie 113 |tempt in America to construct a jipy: yi?) eras. You: Lady ae | wardless hospital. | SECOND TRACE TNS tO. ptesskoch ‘A special effort by the new hospital | {o tre-roar-si:, at aijerslte, Stewolech ame: ta being-made to obtain the $1,400,000 | 2?) Nim. 182: Tattle. 198: The ‘Tront, “Me: balance needed for the fund. ' Every |Jounaon ier; fai asch’et Be. Iaee dite, Eine? one who loves his fellow man should [Ji i) alt y 1, ia contribute, T. Frank Manville iss ong ante acti President, Henderson M. Wolfe 6 115: Samm Secretary and Treasurer, The organ- hima ization headquarters are at No. aad) Vie tote K Ba 110; fa) ive Madison Avenue. Veta OE fa Mm. ACT er ee vlrweigit, handlean: for ¢ CONFESSES HE SLEW GIRL. 0., Nov, 8.~-Miss Edaa the elghteen-year-old — typist, | | whose body was found with the throat! slashed in @ vacant lot near her homa! here Friday morning, was ‘cilled by Albert Ellis, twenty-one, a rejected | suitor, according to a signed confession the police #ay he made to-day | Acoording to the confession he tn- tended to commit suicide but the biade| of the razor he used broke as he slashed| the throat of his victim the third time. Lillis, Lhe mother of the girl said, had threatened her qaughter tor Ellis aaid he waited at fhe corner |, | Thursiay night where Miss Ellis lett] the car, but she refused to talk to him| + land started thro ant lot t home. Hills ts suid to have stated that he followed her and knockod her down [When she arose he attucked her jee recor. LO: a. Tiwity. Whelwt 104 Rickenbacker, lp writ wie | vetllnd sinoe year seat Ante 107 breaking | 10% off thelr engagement. In the confession |" Ww) emelided with Sista, 1 wk farlon Lard Bright 100; 12> Cxman 122 10: “dinar at; *Mavor House, BT: Radic 1107" fa) Miewer, 414; (Oi Pane. ) Mater Cap. 14s Maper, ti: eth eatin: (eh) HP, Waltsey en os (hmauraha mame: | for claltaing. iy. Turls Dorotir: “Vee. 180: dimer 1 UB Poratelly, ‘Nancy Ann, 104: e Afidian,, 112" 2/6) Poreciouitee 12; 4D, 8 Brent in.) RACK The Serve olla aid unward: gelling An Gain de Came Nia i 108 La ‘Crank bares, Iv, 118: cm 100 17 17 Ot; rune. ate WO *Diadi. 14 *Polreaia mm)! 108. tis Wa Hendrie, 16 16. mp.) 100 Atbert A Salratalln, Taran eave arars 98 1 evar Y Lice ‘allowance; claimed: unok (ast learned of & Matson ’ Micky oes Ei (Jette, whiten ty eel and its place jfet the future and honest love, Te lana Ashi Rather has given up her position, expecting an ci er 10 find better quarters ue Into the coumetic business. eet indignant id bin to. fin met june aske Micky Thee whe declares makes June proulse to say woth'ny Rather, who refuses to see Bim, and th days later, Eater tells June that she hi CHAPTER VL. (Continued. ) UNE gave a rather unladylike sniff, but Esther was too en- | grossed to notice. ‘He seems to have been very ” she went on, “He hadn't got very) much money when he went | T ought not to take it; but he says that if things had turned out as he hoped, we should have been married, and so... you don't think it's Wrong of me to take it, do you?” she asked anxiously June rose td” her feet. She looked chagrined; she had been so sure that Copyright, 1920, by Raby M. OPSIS OF PRECEDING INSTALMENTS, Miionaire, befriends Ki i" Moland As naan’ In the new house, She tells Rather that Micky ta very has understood |T am, fri jh pearl. dai to Mt. ly twarriage, and vw situation for te Mather Shepetine, Lut does not th ber behalf, aver he moet June Mason, a6! to Pari Af, filed with Rope the money fecetved rmakew tt pose 1 of xood familly, not Ruowing (hat hat Micky was. poor. a worthy friend Jdmit that be kno curt Tete He reevives to. post from ber lower In peration. yourself. 00! quite differe You've a per if you wish, but [ hate be and treated jike |think anything is good enough for tending to—t« 1 knom a tangent If nate enough @he shrugged her “You didn't even write to me from your real a number.”” She ttle laugh I ghouldn’t u this man was a rotter, that it was a! “You tuke it, my dear, and don't be goose.”” sb jd promptly, “Aas he ays, if you were his wife you'd take it, and as you're going to be married, it's quite the right thing if he's weil | off that he should help you! I hope you won't let your silly pride make you send it hurt | his feelings.’ nd so Ff shall on here," EstherYsaid after u moment. “And you think you would still like me to share this room'— June promptly pounced upon her. You darling! It's too good to be true. Of course, ‘I should love it! Vl go and tell old Mother Elders | stralght away: it will put her in a good tginper for a month “Ly got to gu out,” declared Esther, “I had an appointment at half-past two, but®I'll love to come} to tea with you,” she added, “Very well, then, 4 o'clock, who is the appointment with? You won't need to find a berth’ sow. | You're a lady of leisure.” | “But L shall try all tue same. 1} don’t mean to be lazy just because he's 90 good to me. I shall save all| 1 can, I went to an agency yester- | day — | “"Dhey'll rob you,” June protested They always do, f£ know what | agents are,” she added darkly. Wsther laughed | But if ahe had hoped great things | from her call that afternoon sie was disappointed. looking person who’ owned thé “Bureau,” as it was called, loaked at her with coldly critical eyes, and said | that she had no vacancies’ likely to suit her “But you told me to call,” protested back; you'd only stay But Esther | sometping,”” was all the answer ahe received Call again to-morrow, if you please.” | ther went out dispiritediy. | ‘8 were so many gotls of her own! class and age in the bare waiting- room; she felt quite sure that they | would ull get berths before she had a chance. She felt glad that Mason to go back to. ways sympathetic, She upstairs to the sitt mauve cushions. June opened the door before ehe had time to knook “Lthought it waa you. | heard your step. What's the matter? ou sounded dispirited as you came up- stairs,” Esther laughed, I believe you must have second sight, or whatever they call it. But you're right this time; [| am rather down on my luck. ‘They haven't anything at the agency to sult me. I'——She stopped, looking past June into the cory room to where a man had fust risen from a chair by tho firg—a tall man—who looked across at her with eyes that were half- abashed, half-defiant. Micky Mel- lowes, she had June was al- | straight | Ing-room with the June CHAPTER YI. UNE introduced Micky and Esther with a sort of hurried! self-consciousness. It was not by her invitation that Micky was here this afternoon, and the fact that she had asked him to help Esther embarrassed he “Mr, Mellowes—Miss Shepstone; you've both heard of each other, so I can leave you to entertain one an- other while I get te And sbe bolted out of the:room. Esther Jooked after her with angry eye she thought June might have stayed—she took a quick step for- ward to call her back, but Micky stopped her; he put a hand on the door above her, shutting it fast. “I'm going ‘to speak to you, whether you like it or not," he said. She faced him angrily; she was very flushed. “} don't know what you mean You've no right to speak to me like that. If Miss Mason has asked you here to meet me’ “June didn't know I was coming. She has no more idea than the dead | that we have ever met before, I haven't told her, and I don’t suppose you thave—or will,” he added grimly: “However, as we are alone, will you tell me what I've done to offend you? It's not falr to take me for a friend ahd then fling me over as if I were} an old glove. If ‘l've annoyed | you, the least you can do is to tell me how and give me a chance to explain | thet fad walked to the fire and Mellowea followed her, ile knew that he had only got a few moments, and he meant to make the most of them “You refuse to see me or to allow me to take you out.” he went on ur- | gently. “And you haven't even en-| gwered my last letier, If I have of-! fended you"—— “You haven't," said Vsther, as he paused. “I'm not at all offended,” “vhen why, in the name of al holy—~he began again, wo eee | things ber can also He went o bit of a set-back to hear this news.|take her hand. beg of you clumsy idiot how hurt I've down in this turned wouldn't you Micky turn Ing down in them spoke aga She carried toast; she on the round “Now we're going t and bow on? Micky, about you, she's gick to death of sound of you “L never sa quickly. She had He money had half good thought gloves w. And pe long some to this with guch angry <defianc ey He realized was going to hi of all betw “More tea the table, an yes, thanks,” hy meal You didn't t You You pretended to be some one t's absurd to feel hurt | keep Why [+f hardly know y ed with a ttle taken wondered f the was She cut him short. 1 me the truthgabout ade out you" were nt to what fect right to, you are: I suppose, leceived I suppose you that, et ver ps , a Away, but he's got some appointment |"“Micky brought his fist down with now; he does not say what, and/a bang on the back of the big arm- Oat) he gave a little excited | Chair. ih ai fi “ > yo yyord of henor, laugh—"he says that he’s going | stiey “Shepstone, that? wh ig 1 anid send me th pounds @ week for a8 | way only because it seemed the best long as he is away. . . . Isn't it| Way to m you trust me. I had wonderfully guod of iim? I suppose | Mbsolutely no Other reason for prey —be anything but what v you'd have gone off at Vd said L was unfortu- to be neh, 1 know" shoulders, ddreseyou just broke into an “I suppose you thought understand that a num. be an.expensive flat.” ver to her and tried to wo forgive me; L forgive me-I'm a you don't know bout being turned put a angry to “but fe wa T havén down; I wish you saying that [ have ou,” she add- angry, laugh. awayi ‘he stood star- the fire; neither of n til] June returned. 4 tray of cakes and ho down with a thump table b e fire, b edt to a cosy. ou two dec t Well, n getting Id Esther so mush ir natne © id so," Esther protested oft wa her coat now. the coat his r; it was not anyway.’ He and expensive bh Mar Deland wore. ed to ibe able to give little girl who sat there in her bought enough, furs that thts pride of her's the hardest barrier en them. June demanded across d Micky said, “Oh-er— hurriedly. As long as unfinished Esti would have to stay in the room, he thought; she could |leave before; but in this he was m ‘The thin, aristocratic-|taken, for Esther put her cup d not well 1 wn very almost at once and looked at June “Will y run away feo Mrs. think me very rude if I she asked. “I've got to Elders and tell her I am | staying on—I thinig she bas been try- my to let my room." yune “Come back “Thank turned to Mi Won't say g with an e a moment soon as he June “What her?" She | wanted you Heally, ne wont’ co tf she does.” “No,” gaid she will.” chagrined Ja’ anything as ed “So you ari looked ‘ertainly; there might have been | Well, if you really must ge you,” Micky, “Ive what you've | You ve fed her up with accounts vot what a wonderful p disappointed. “Oh, she sald you've seen her.” said Esther, she icky, who had risen, "1 oodby, then,” she sald when rt to speak lightly. He held open the jate came rounded on have door for her, and she had gone. Aa buck to his chair him you gaid to annoy voked quite angry!“ to like each “other you are the Hmit! me back again, you nee Micky. “I don't think He laughed a rathet ugh. t haven't said fur as { know,” he add said, 1 fancy son e," said June 1 am." He frowned, “IT came t Shepstone her a berth. June laughed. “My dear She doesn't mine either, added rucfu' means—that 1 tell you about Missa You asked me to get boy, you're too late! want your belp now, or for that matter,” she ly. "She's a lady o wonderful man of her's | who's tucked up in Paris having the time of his life is going to alle three pounds a week.” oe Se paused pectantly “Well prised?” she Why don't and looked at him ex- you look sur- asked Micky swallowed hard “[ am surprised!” he i Jolly surprised rie en?” Micky laughed to went down the stair, 1f he was getting clever. o, waa not #0 quick to had believed, ticed the constraint good new: and Esther, “Too for anything. It's himself as he ; he wondered r if June see a thing as he @he had not no- between himectt that He picked up a taxicab at the cor- ner of the to_his flat, There were the tabje; he flicked disinterested): last one was Micky stood staring down which he had been at suc! copy, velope. ‘Then Ashton wrote road and was driven (adi several letters lying on them through yi then the sto from Aabton, aah r quite a ein: at the handwriting, ‘h pains to he ripped open the en- from Paris; “Dear Mic Just a 1 You my addrons, "as" promised.’ end 8 are Koing ‘well ve staying on ‘here for the ange Tam have run up you remember widow? My money, anc are looking promising! for the present, against Maisie her, Tubby Clare’ fon, gne's got at the present as i lare—- little pots of ™oment The mater would be pleased {fT could man. age to pull it say Driver other day—he hadn't 4 wo wasn't Joy Tid Remember And Not # single was thinking jand only living to seo him Micky’ « t Into told himself; slightest Ashion out; t & moment's ush (Read to-w ment.) told me to every not -one word about the fire. off, By the way. you I met very rd to sn Ing over here T dara him Surely he » by himself? ° ‘our R. F. ASHTON, Esther! girl who and day, again, hed the letter and tossed That settled tt, he no longer had‘ the punetion in cutting ellow war not wort consideration worth mention of the of him night orrow!