The evening world. Newspaper, December 23, 1920, Page 18

Se 4 “THE EVENING WORLD, THU | ‘FINANCIAL NEWS. AND PRI ‘Was not nearly a» excited as on ons days of the week. There ‘not faneh evidence of Hyuidation offerings were easily absorbed. momentary uncertainty shortly the ing, prices turned up- and early afternoon ad In #tocks that recently have severe declines amounted to two to three points, “wan 2 renewal of Impressive in United States Steel. Atl the recent decline this stock etubborn pressure. It has been believed ‘the corporation has been buying Owa stock in the open market to t against employees’ subscriptions wpring. Also, it is known that tain large holders of steel who re- tly sold the stock to establish in- tax lonses have been big buyers Ing the paat fow days. rose well above 78, compared ith a low of 76 1-4 for the woek. ageressive manner in which ft ought stiffened the whole stock jist. Independent steels rose 0 nts or more, tobacco shares in instances rose three points, rails Ad. Ramely Ad. Rumely pf. pAjax Hubber .. Alatka Gold Alsaka Tuvean Alle, Qhalmwers Am, Awe Am, Hoseh (Mu. Am, Brake Shoe, Am, Can : Am, Oar & Fi Am Cotton O11 Amo Sumatra Am Drog Bynd Ain, Mteok Mitrien Am, | Suae. Aen. ‘Tel, & ‘Tot Atm, Wool. Ata, Wool of Ries 240M ‘Chem... Am ship & Om Cor Am Sensi & Kotin Aue Sent & Moti wt strong, while in the oll group | Am Writ. Pa, vt.. xican Petroleum rose three points, t "ng sprdheckeas gh mer Am, ‘Te. of Am fine . Anaconda ort covering played an fmportant | Aso Der Goods ".. rt in the rise, If brokerage esti- mw can be relied upon, the short Atebieon Ry... Atohdeon ity of ‘rest in the market at present {s/ Atisatle Goast Line than at any previows estimates place the size of this interest as ihieh an 2,000,000 Reldwin Loco . ‘Balto & Ohio This undoubtedly is too high, tsstopotis Mining if the short interest is only half | Ben Moto large as this it furnishes the mar- | eth Steet with an excellent back ‘a farther material decline and bound to be a potent factor when ‘are more definite Indications of change in the market trend, ‘News having a bearing on stock | cot values was practically nef- je, Considerable attention was id to the weekly statement of the of England, which showed that ratio pf reserves is down to 1.76 cent. a new low record, but It generally understood that this nt tively poor showing was due ‘year-end financing, and it Is an-| Hpipated that the statement next pr will show material improve- jiThe cotton and grain markets were dy. Whei ber bushel $ _ IED. CH,—Buddenly on Deo. 22, TAMES J. fod husband of Cecelia (nee Faran.) from bis lat home, No. 66% Av., Brookiyn, on Friday, Deo, 4, at 9.80 A. M; thence to Holy Cron ureh, Church Rogers Av., where ‘mans will be suid. Auto cortege. “FUNERAL DIRECTORS. SAVINGS BANK ci NSUAL DIVIDEND. SQUARE SAVINGS BANK Xo. 20 Union Bavares DIV: been tH for 7 ci ae Dee, Bi, 1020, on al) th entitied thereto ak the rate of ‘OUR PER CENT. ser Jen iF 13c8 tn. rose about 2 cents }¢ 1g | Heth Steel Lipath Wlaheeion ‘uxiyn Rap Tean Biiyn Union Gas Wo. R. 1, & Wee time. }Au Gull & W 1. ML & Bt P By ub. M. & Bt 1 of Chi, Proamatic Tool Chi, RT & Pw Chi, Alton By & Hedvon & Rio Ge. Del Den, Dome"Mines Rikbom Coal Eapernon-Brant sndicott-Johnson Mele os ‘ Bite B45 Famous Players « al, Mie, & Sm, Piahertody Con, ‘Textile Coro, Tiel, Lack & Wet Den, & "io Gr vf, lor. MWe 2% Mi 4% 25% 1 1 om 8% + 60% at thi ait ining declared colts fb S08 Bosal tite tat jan, 10 will draw Interest from a Glam 09D, Fisk Rene se OW Freeport Texas “ Gu, Wi, & We. 9% iM, MARE ORD, siecaem em aaee”: 0 ‘Bat, 10 to 12. Hen 10 to 8; Mon. ECOUNTS. OF ROCIETING AOCEP TH! Gen, Cie. Gh, Ble, Gen, Mot, | Bletropotitan Savings Bank =~ ee EP EARD ANS. (corner VAN Bifert). END. RIERED 1952, 186M, PIYIDEND. 0 ‘ENDING at the rate of au. ‘FOUR PER CENT. PER ANNUM Has ets he earn nt ae i Vay. a aan vy. pi will raw Insert" trom "Jana? iat” up i Our 1921 Christmas Club. a ee Evenings from 5 to 1. id. Pree. Praxcis Savings Bank 231 West 125th St. ‘Phe Trustece have decta Mer the six months ending [920, at the rate of 4% nm deposited on or before Jan. i, will draw interest from VAN WINKLE, President. G. MURPHY, Secretary. JOIN OUR XMAS CLUB Savings Bank oF THE crTy oF NEW york ‘Third Avenue and 147th at. credited Jan. Lat, at the rate of Four Per Cent. on accounts from. to 5 Mee from Jan. Ist. BRIAN G. HUGHES, President. WILLIAM M. KERN, Controller HOWELL T. MANSON, Treasurer HARRY P. REGAL, Secretary Interent Dec, 21, THE EAST RIVER SAVINGS INSTITUTION Great Nor. Grete Cavanean (CNM Btates Steel, | gen, Asphalt \@osieit & Barker, | Hlowston em MH, Cont | Intertoro Con. Inter, Con, of, Int, Agr. Corp. Tot, Harvester ing Int Int | tnt Paper o 6% 18% » 1% a 17% Bh om 13% a 40% Oy « OM + OY Inwiration Copper . ‘Mer Marine . Mer Marion pt Nickel... 406 40% aN Po ae 8h 10% 10% 0 om 96 Khe 2 10% Me 12% «11% o% 20% iNet Lam, ha'ee. wad © 4 + 9% eri a % * ” ” $et+et S++ testes bttttee tee US + 8% Me + 1h 81% + 1M 20% + 1% OH +2 OM ++ 3% DY + lh “a +1 @ +2 ma +h 06% + 1K M+ m+ % He + 18 Bh+ Sgasesge Pest ort | ++ ¢4Fstee -33 ete- e Fe | * wom — 4 1 + 1h 18% + 1% eo + 4h oe + % 0% +14 we+ % “a +1% ou So + % 18% + 1% 18% + % oo 8% + 0% ih + 2 7% + 1% o% + 10% % % a +1% 40% + ON mM + % we + 6 o% + 1% 8% — M 4+ % 10% + fe 10 00% + 1M 12 + lhe 40% + 2% 2+ uM 2h ‘ Iniand Ol, InvinePrie Oil Kaomas Oty Bo Kelly Sorine Kounecat Keymone Tim . Lower Ine . Lacks wanna Stew lee ft & Tire. Tabigh Valier oth Ine Lorittard ... Lanile de ‘Nant Martian terry Matty, Alkali Worka Maxwell Motors Maxwell Motenw tet May Dopt. Storer. Mex, ototoum Mivent Misiting aedy Midvale stort Minn, & At, b. Mo, Kan, & Tex.. Mo, Posific % Middle Staten OF. 12 Mania Sugar wh National Acme ..66 20% National Birouit .. 108 Nat Conduit vossee 8 Nat Bommet & sly, 40's Nat Toad. 06%, Nevada Cond . an 80 on 16 17% 7 ® the 30 a a Owens Hosting Pacific Devel Com, Pacific Gan... Pan Amer Petrol Fenn Rt Porm Seaboard Stesi terse 00 Pitfs Coal Pitts & W Pond Orert: Regal Duh N, ¥. 62 1% Wabash of A Wabash uf B Wells Fargo Wert Marylaod Wer tar, Com, West Vac, pi Wester Union... 81 Wert vihoume 40% Wheeling i Willyy Overland 5H White OM. 10% White Motors ry Wilon Co... a8 Wortsinaton 40 Woodwortts ...6., OTN ‘Total eales, 1,148,800, Bese ee 2 2 [HHEEEF FEF FESTHEE HEE FET SE t+ tT ttt tt eA - # $4 B555 ERSESe Pa CES . CURE FLUCTUATIONS — | IN OILS AND INDUSTRIALS THE OUTSIDE MARKET—2.30 P. M. QUOTATIONS INDESTHIA Le Mish, father pach ae hy 100 Aun Haat arias 2 a5 oy 180 Am Well Paver 4.3 ee ae 00 Hritivh Am ‘Tob be iy 1 > Tat 100 Britintt Am Tob eoup .. 2 100 Diievrus iene te te HO Coloma oe ey sess mn 3 Rewplre Tubo-# >. 8% Me LATS Gowstyent Tire. 0M WE Goortyone Tae WE ys. + ee) 100 Heyiiew Chem “aM 1300 Linpertal Tabiweew 50... ‘ 200) India Packing. 4 200 Lima Laseenotlye i os oe 200 Nor Am Paper ‘ ie 4% 100 Pooriews Motors \ ue 2100 Perteetion Tire We 1% oy Mado s . is 14 Hadjo Com uf... 14 ih Noy de Franoe Sh ad Standard te vm Standard G) Swreota.0 Tobaeeo Prosiucts 0 Triangle Film 400 US Distributing. Loo U & Bteam: U8 Ship United Profit United et Wayne Cra) ar) STANDARD O18, 290 Anglo-Am, O11 10% INDEPENDENT OFL8, 8700 Attied O11 w 250 Arkansin Nat i 2600 Moffon Wyoming " 4600 Garth Srmd_ O% 8% 100 Cities ery 20% 2% > 0% 700 Denny Of - Ww WM 300 Dominion Ont Cte SAE 800 Blk Basin Pot ee ee) 1500 Bnaineers Petroloum Le ite 1000 Federal - O11 eat % 1% 200,Gilllland Ol pf. 38 " 900 Glenrock Of 4% 8) 8M 2500 Granada Ott 4% 3% 4 500 Guffey Gillespie a a ae 1500 Hudson OtL Bit Wa, 1000 Int Petrol 15% 18% 15% & KL 24 B00 000 1100 3% 1% 2h 2% 4% M4 ” % ” % 1% 2% 1% a % 8 24 * 1 1 2 bid * enwe 2 ++ tt fF FF FEC E sere gm eo eeRS FF FRETS es Fer ereee = BE8oH5 aS wee = r istration tlona, muke Arment ARMENIAN SOVIET ANNULS U, S; LOAN Refuses to Make Good Funds Pro- vided for Purchase of Flour, statement that It was explained in 291-3-5 Broadway, New York EVTABLISHED 1848. A semi-annual dividend at the rate of Four Per Cent. Per Annum appear A despatch from London stating that the Armenian Soviet had annulled all foreign loans, “espectally the American loan," to-day brought from officials of the American Relief Administration the this undoubtedly re forred to notes given by the Armen Government for four furnished by the United States Gr after the armistice, The Relief Admin- hed charge of the negotia- that SAVINGS BANK: declared on all yy ye phate be fang entitled thereto, Amounts deposited on or before Jan 18 will draw interest from Jan. 1, 1021, pale 1d thereon. Deposits Received by Mail President, Tae) Mice Presidente. rere VAN BRUNT, Secretary. Corporation the object of Just rather than bonds for the flour. condition permitted, Armenian much,” said Pony, iby “Pindar. 108: 100; leva, ie MBCONER, ole: Kats Mai 100; Roydden, les five and Mary Rrb, Pateo, 107 Hite, 106. ate, 108: *Plantown, 1 Shore. 00 THIRD “RAOK-8700; peltas, hive eure ‘omnitien, 106; Mare. iidy "Hack fi Dancer, 110: Comacho, Gh i0n, “Approval, 103: 1a Link “Boy. Tongs. 100, eoltine: aM 118! Moran i Yapliank, Hank O'Day Durcown, 105 108: *Vore Hosd, 105, alo. eligible Dotias Hes FEPTH RACE $000 hile ‘Ter o*clumabia ‘tess, md 110; 0" aa crear! 0: joo wth Mec poe Ca ir inert tape 110) ean't (Aw Sean). Dav, 1s Te “appre tice allowauce vlalibed. RACE #700; wd, jo: ayn, LOT ft Hay Over, ta elegliste FOURTH RAOK— 3700. * "Anmackanain 11d: The Portuese, U round rel x Rell, 108: Kira, 1077 Abate, 2a is Ri 1 108) Ail 108; jan Capt, Paxton P. & Near Bast worker who has just returned from Armenta NEW ORLEANS. FURST RAOK—$700; claiming; three-year oli and upwant; makers: inite and sixteenth, 114; *O%d | MeKenna, Ilowion., 408, Taitslaw: hd tire emnlte. Tonlne ‘Wine, 10h; 108 Jeharity, it had been decided to accept ‘These bonds were to be paid when the country's economic “No one ever expected these bonds would be paid, so the action of viet doesn't cl the mut- Hib- Rowe, 108; “Reenrax, two-year tints 190 Had, 108, if Laborator, *Piank 105, Pain elaining Uiree.yearokle and upward: eis. f Ty, “Jas Thumav! bat mee | mares and ix fur. Toe ‘Mh 0 “K Yi won Day of lot; ‘Bau, horee aud Fon ge, TB: Lanoelot 118; Gen: i Taeut. Por: 100 Kay County Gas < 1 1 00 Merritt Out + 20M 10% 10%, 100 Mexioo O11 . 1% 1% Me 400 Midwest Ret . 135108 obly Ol. . we ‘Am Oil. x ou 1% 1% KM 4% ™% Th TODAY'S PRICES LIBERTY BONDS. Liberty 81-28 opened 89. lat 41-4a .85, up’ .50; 2d 83. 3d 86.26, off .04; 4th 84.06, off .0: Victory 33-45 94.92, off .06; 43-48 94.96, up .02. PORBIGN EXCHANGE OPENING. Sterling, demand, 3.63 8-4; cables, $.541-2, up 11-4, French francs, de- 100 400 Omar O11 mand, .0593; calbles, .0694, up .0002. 15000 Holns Go Lire, demand, .0343; cables, 0344, wm |e Inter RT oe o Ory 0001, Marks, demand, .0139; cables, 01405 up .0001. Canadian dollars, ) 5000 Sears Roobuck 7s 22. $42, unchanged, Belgian cables, 0627. demany franes, demand, .0626; Guilders, demand, — 8140; cables, 3160. Pesotas, demand, .128: cables, .4993. Sweden kr., demand, 1980; calbles, 1985. Norway ‘kr., de- mand, .1927; cables, 1592. “Denmark ler., demand, :U527; cables, 1632. Ar- gentine pesos, demand, .1680; ca- bles, .77. 1528, DIVIDENDS, ; Whe American Shipbuliding Com- pany declared an extra dividend of to, the stock of record Jan, 15. ‘hese are same dividends as de- clared in previous quarter, NOTES. ‘Two Stock Exchange seuts have been posted for transfer for consid- erations of $80,000 and $77,600 respec- tvely. The previous sale was $96,000. LYNCH WHITE MAN FOR KILLING OFFICER Mob Takes Him From Jail in Texas About Midnight and Hangs Him, FORT WORTH, Tex., Dec, 23.—Tom W. Vickery, a white man held on a charge of murder in connection with the killing Monday night of Policeman <eff Cc, Couch, was taken from the county jail here shortly after midnight by a mob and hanged, Several shota were fired into his body. ‘Twenty-five masked men entered the assistants ‘The prisoner, clad only in night clothes, was removed from his cell, taken toa grove near the packing house district, and hanged to @ tree. After firing & fow shots Into the body, the maksed ten disappeared, 1—On what continent-is the white, twocherned rhinoceros found? 2—By what cther name is Indi corn known? ora calle “OF what State is Dover eapital? G—What name gp piven to, the 8, open barg ployed in load- unloading ships? ‘What day is legally appointed in_some States for tree planting? T—What commonly. id article is a ~product of boiled-down horns, hoofs and skins? 8—By what other name the art a lithograph in of! col- the three. year-olde rt, TO SEVENTH RACE—#T00" claiming: three» F ane. mile eh fm eiateenth ance a vatvelly. 1h aie 10h *halute Mow, 102 of printing, known? f what is type metal com- | posed? 10— What cape forms Florida's southern point? ANSWERS. 1— N. 2--Malze. 3-0! 4—-Delawitre. 8 ters. G—Avbor Day 43 Typowravbys P= dowd, AutmOny amd Lk LU Sable ograpl Swisy francs, demand, .1523; one | * oe Win Sat Creek Prod ew. ™ 200, logos Tt 1100 a 0 United Tox oti 850 Wietertal OL new INNO 00 Avwu-tte Cot 1200 Atlanta Hig Leas 100 abot 3200 Cortes Silver . 200 Cream Gold sos 2000 Kt Raivador 1000 Gold Cons 1500 Gold Devel 500 Goldfield Florence. 1500 Geld Kewana 1000 Gold Silver 1 2000 Gold Zone 1000 Great Henst 200 Hecla Mining 1200 Jumbo Extenaion 1000 Keox Divide 5000 La Rose Sining 1000 Loulalaas Co 200" YfeNamara 1000 SteNamara Creseeut 00 Marsh 1000 Mawn ¥ 1000 Mutherlode 150 Mother Tae m £00 Nipissing. 4200 North Star 1000 tex Cons 200 Rochester Mines 1200 San Toy .. 1000 Silver Kiog Divide 100 8 Silver Toad 2200 Suro Min, 200 ‘Tonopati Belmont 1200 Tonopa Can Boy 3100 Tomo Diride 200 Tonopah “Eat 1200 Tono-Jim B..... 1000 Tonopah Stidwar, 200 Tonopah 1200 Tonopat 1000 ‘Tonopah | 1000 Tonopah 2000 US Continental 200 Tulted Kastern. 1000 Vietors 200 West End -€. 1000 White Cams 1000 Wijpert Hey : 1 FORKIGN BONDS. 95000 Denmark §* . 0 5000 Norway 8 - 9 ™% 50 2000 Am ‘Tel fs 22. 9K 03% RSDAY, DECEMBER 2 advance ke farm ‘SNEAK THIEVES BUSY; GET LOOT © WORTH. $30,000 ‘One Apartment - Entered During Wedding Celebration and Fur 1 Coat Is Stolen. Many robberies by sneak thieves have taken place in thet fast dys. The polive refused detaiis, but it is understood that the togwex will mount to $50,000, | Bungtars entered the apartment of Solomon Klatzey at No, 251 Bast [95th treet last nigit and took Jew- elry aworth $3,000, A sneak thief eny |teved the apartment of My. and-Mrs. {isaac Josephs at No, 530 West 167th Street while & wedding celebration wos in progress and got away with |a fur coat valued at $1,000, a beaded | vase worth $75 and $100 In cash, the |eifts of Mr, Josepha to his wife. Clothing, *ilverware and jewelry, valued at $3,500 were taken from the apartment of Mr, and Mrs. A. B. Lowenstein, No. 630 West 1724 Street After breaking the plate gtass win- dow in the jewelry store, of Mauri¢ Pignes of No, Kast 23d Street, thieves took watohes and other goods valued at $1,500, TAXI DRIVERS MUST SHOW U. S. LICENSE Name of the» Owner of Vehicte to Be Displayed in a ‘ame, For the further protection of that part of the public that rides in’ taxi- eaibs there will be displayed hereafter in every public conveyance on wheels i Federal certificate in a frame three and a half by two Inches showing the name of the owner of the cab and that he has paid the internal revenue tax of $10. Commissioner of Lic 8 John F. Gilehrist to-day issued an order to Thomas J. Drennen, Chief of the Bu- reau of Public Hacks, that he must not issue a license or renew, a fIcense to Whe owner of any hack or taxi uniess the owner has the certificate displayed, : Thid will enable the passenger to know with whom he is riding, and It will also enable the police to check up on the automobile license at the inbese of the hack —$—$—$<—<——$— TRIES TO SLAY FOUR BEFORE XMAS TREE four 82 30000 Am ‘Tel 6s 94. 10% 5000 Anaconda 1s 20 88 13000 Armour & Co 7 oy 43000 Cons Gas & 7% 7% | 2000 Diamond Match , 10 100 | 415000 Goodrich ‘Thre Ts 0 80 05% 93% | 00% os | 98% | 51000 Seaboard AL 6s. . « “a 7000 Sears Noebuck Ts 1% «8% . om PON 2000 Sears Rovbuck 74 23... oy 08 21000 Sinolatr © Tihs... B04 8614 | 6000 Sotvay et Clo Bs. 95K “9K% | 0000 8 O Cal T..... 100100 ,2000 8 ON ¥ Ze 25 109 100 1000 8 ONY tr 26 100 100 5000 8 ON Y 7s 100 “400 3000 8 ON YT 29. + 100% 100% 100% | 2000 8 ON ¥ ts 31 + 100% 100% 190% | 1000 Union Tank Ts. we don | 5000 Va-Car Chem Tie. Cy “” a + 100 | Kills Wife and Himself, Tries to YOU MARRY, Kill Her Mother and Brother. HARTFORD, Conn, Dec. 23—Louis H. Glinski 34, who killed his wife last night and shot himself after trying to ki his mother-in-law, Mrs. Matilda Gigle, and his brother-in-law, Charles Gigle, died to-day. * ‘The tragedy occurred inthe presence of the two young Glinski boys as a Christmas tree was being decorated, Charles Gigle says a dispute between | Glinski and his wife was over the per- sistency of the latter in working in a factory. i\ CHAPTER XY. | (Contioned.) i “J HAD the machine gun with | which you did the murder until your man there kicked me in the stomach and Jerked It away from me, It's In the hangar now, But we don't need the su, we've got enough evidence with- out it to convict you." Woods looked us over carefully, He was by for the calmest one of the part¢. “Gentlemen, I have already sent to the papers ‘a statement that I am able to produce testimony as to my whereabouts during every minute of the night when James Felderson was killed. “When the trial comes, I shail produce that testimony, If you think that machine gun is any proof against mie, just step inside and 1) show you that it is of an entirely différent caliber from the gun that killed Fel@erson.” We hesitated for a second, I think because of the brazen effrontery, the splendid calmness of the man. A doubt began ‘to form in my mind as to whether he had anything to do with the murder at all. Woods no- ticed my-hesitation and turning to me said with a smile: “Surely you aren't afraid of me, Thompson, when you so readily trust me with both your sister and your fiancee.” T longed with all my squl to hit the man between the eyes, to crush that half-sneering smile into his face with my heel, but I let the insult pass and followed the others inside, “Here is the machine gun, gentle- men. If you will notice, it Is a .36 callbre and not a .32 at all, If you will wait one minute, I'll get you the magazine. That will prove it to you beyond a doubt.” He left the hangar and the Coroner picked up the gun, “I could have ‘sworn that,the gun T had hold of was a .82. The barrel seems too small for a .86. Why, look here! This is a .32, Here is the calt- ber marked on it.” From outside came the sputter and crack of an aeroplane engine. Simp- son caught it first and dashed to the door, i “It's Woods's plane, He's going to escape,” We ran out of the hangar and across the field toward the aeroplane which, by now, yas enveloped in blue vapor. Before We had gone half-way, it was taxf-cabbing across the field, careening first to one side and then to the other. Suddenly it swerved and turned In our direction. We stood there, a little breathless, to see what It would do, The engines of the plane droned higher @s it came toward us ’ Suddenly Simpson clutched my arm and yelled: “Look out! He's trying to run us down.” OUR HUSBAND \ | 2 1-4 per cent. on the common stock | and the regular quarterly dividends | of 1 3-4 per cent. on the common and) preferred socks, all payable Feb. 1, jail and overpowered the jailer and his| OVER Instalment No. 39. THE APPROACHING DAWN OF A NEW LIFE, 6677'S only in novels Wat the man who has had a hideous day in his office comes home sweetly smiling with a box of candy under one arm, & bouquet of flowers under jthe other and honeyed compliments ‘on his tangue,” Hugh said one eve- {ning in a tone of bitterness after I had observed that our home life was |being marred seriously by his rest- lessness, his nervousness and general air pf irritation and. fatigue, Put, Hughie, 1 look forward all ‘day to your homecoming,” I retorted. | “I long to be gay and happy in the evening, to go about and have a little pleasure, and nowadays you seem to) ‘tired and irritable to enjoy anything. 1 sometimes cannot help Wondering what our home life ig coming to, any- way.” |W eMy God," exclaimed Hugh, fying Into a rage, “do you expect me to be la mere entertainer, to dance to your jtune every night when I come home from my business hoping to have a little rest? Am [to have no thought in fe but to provide for your amuse- iment?” When Hugh was angry, he jalways went ta such extremes, |“pon't say that,@Hughie, you hurt jme terribly,”. 1 pleaded ‘almost in tears Hugh had been ‘pacing the floor with his hands in his pockets. Sud- tenly, he fell nto a chair and buried his head in his hands. Hughie," { cried, running to him, throwing my arms’ around him and drawing his head down on my breast “T peally did not 1 khow you have lot of th worry you.” | Hugh shook me off and raised a leace that. was white and haggard. “Hugh,” 1 sald, my voice sharpened by determination, “there's something terrible the matter with you~I know it. ‘Tell me this minute what it Is.” “y do have the beastiiest luck, It seems,” he ropjied after « full minute lence, “You remem- per that last well we drilied in Lou- iniana-—how we got down 2,00 feet and struck & stream of salt water must haye beens a direct connection with the Gulf of Mexteo—that nearly put us out of business?" “You, Hugh.” . weve ‘had another tragedy ve 1 got @ Inv distence from ‘guglor, Uk MaeeeE Wk Khe Dunwed Bs to ¢ ‘ ————— EDITH SOHNSON mean to say that. ; in e field, that we've had @ gas fire. which means $4,000 or $5,000 more loss.” ‘A gas fire—how did it happen?” “The night shift was drilling into the gas sand. The gas pouring out of the wellat high pressure burst one of the electric lights on the derrick and took fire from the spark. Taylor said that they had a hell of a time getting it put out—took the steam from half a dozen engines to smother it. They couldn't cap it at all. “But, Hughig, you'll go on, won't yes," moaned Hugh. “We'll have to go ou, but going on always means more money. 1 have used up everything I had and father has ad- vanced me quite 4 few thousand. & simply can't ask him for more. Ne wonder #0 many of these fellows are wbout ready for the insane asylum when they finally make good.” “I am sorrier than eyer, riughie. for what I said about having a good time |and going akout and being amused.” “Ob, it’s aN in a lifetime," he re- Joined. looking at me with rather a wan smile, Yet he had found some relief, I thought, in pouring out his troubles, | “We'll pull somehow.” “Of course we'll pull through,” 1 re- plied stoutly, “I' do everything | jean to help. I'l economize and I'll be content to take all my recreations in the daytime and we won't think of soing out at wight anywhere until you | eel much better and get your affair ahip-shape. And what does it matter anyway, Hughie?—you ~and [are Koinig to have so much more to live for, anywa | Haugh looked at me in @ dull, dazca | fashion. | "Oh, 1 abgently. Hugh, 1 realized, had not caught my | meaning, Jf 1 only could tell him ho | would be wonderfully cheered and spired, and he would forget all abou hiv horrid money troubles. “Why. I mean.” [ sald faltefingly searching around in my mind fo words to convey my meaning, “afte: 4 while there will be three instead of | two in our life.” Understanding eyon, | “*So let's not spoil It nH by worrsins |too much about money.’ “Money? Oh. Alma,” Hugh » # nort of hushed, awed voice, ached out and took my lis know thy i a we through some day — suppose x0," he murmured dawned in Hugh's! 1 gently all the | Aer saiahs Lily har do Aid OyNnmiy dang | Shak Handed + t I ran wildly to one side of the field, not daring to lobk back, but only trying to reach a place of safety. ‘The,gound of the engines came crash- ing to my ears like the staccato roar of a hundred machine guns, My legs felt as if they were lead. I seemed to be standing still, One frightened ghince oVer my shoulder showed the machine, like some monstrous vulture, bearing down on me. 1 could feel it gaining and gaining. The heavy drone of the engines seemed to fill the air with Its noise, A pitiful sense of helplessness gripped® me. { knew I was going to die like a rat in the jaws of a, fox tervler, 1 screamed aloud in my terror dnd pitched head- long on the turf. With a roar, and a rush of wind that almost lifted me from the ground, the aeroplane passed over me its wheely no four feet from my head more than I am not gure to this day whether Frank Woods tried to kill me or not. I don't know whether he was cheated: of his game When I stumbled and the speed of his motor carried the plane off the ground, or whether he was just trying to put the fear of God in me. I will sweat, however, that as the motor pa d over my head I heard Frank Woods's voice raised In a de- moniacal igh. ‘As the drum of the motor passed I my head to see if the devil should be planning to come ‘back With Joy I saw he had risen to the height of fifteen or twenty feet, Sud- denly the plane swooped up as though Woods were trying? to loop, second it tipped sidewise like a catboat reeling ‘over in the wh and then there was’ the sound splintering wood and tearing silk, and the plane crashed miserably ground raised For smashed plane, the ( oner leading., Woods, in his effort to ran me had forgotten the telegraph res a! the end of the ficld. ‘Too late, he had them and vainly irled to lift hit machine eleay n, The wires had eau ne nlm erashlag to wn, seen t ea wing and enpt We found him underneath the ¢ i, the fail having ki We made ae inpre: of | to the | 4was vised litter out of one of the wing® and carrled him to the nearest hangar. As we placed an overcoat over the shapeless form, I heard * sniffle behind me and found the red- haired mechaniclan at my slide, “You didn’t get him, you dirty copa. He got away from you, after all.” Yes, he's safe now,” § murmured. “Sure! Att he would ‘a’ teen ul- ways if he hadn't been daft’ o1 he played the women, His tiki’ that skirt out this afternoon was what give him the noodoo.” The Coroner came over to him! “Now that we can’t get him, wil! you tell as’ about the night Afr. Woods killed Mr. Felderson?" He stowed himeelf distinctly hos- tile to the Coroner. "Oh, no, you don't, you fly cop! ‘Thigk I'll spill the beans and get me- self in Dutch? You can go to hell!” “I'll promise you won't be prose- cuted if you will tell us what hap- pened that night.” He looked-™a over suspiciously, but apparently reassured, he said; “Well. that’s falr enough, especially since 1 didn’t have nothin’ to do with the croakin', although 1 know pretty much how It happened, “The boss there tome over to the plant—the International, plant, you know—about two weeks ago, and hal me bring that plane oyt there over here. We always got along togethe tbe boss and me. Wasn't pals or ange thing. like that, but we understcod each other. I'd seen, for a couple of months, that {fe boss had somethin’ on his mind. I knew it wasn't any Jane, because they never worried him none. He worried them a lot, but somehow he just took ‘em as they come. He talked with me some—he claimed I Was the best mechanician he had over there—and [ figured it out at last "that what he was worry- in' about was money. He spent a lot, an’ was free an’ easy, an’ It worried him to figure that he was gain' to go bu'st pretty soon. The first day/t was here he brought a woman out, a swell looker—I didn't find out (il afterward that it was Felderson’s wifa —an' he kinda kidded her along about helpin’ him over the rough spots by lendin’ him a@ little of hen dough. sort of figured out he was goin’ to run off with the woman, ‘cause the next morning he come out and said we could take a month's layoff it we wanted. to, as he wae goin’ on his honeymoon. I thought he was goin’ to take me along, but when he said that, 1 made up my mind to beat it back to the plant to keep from goin’ bugs watchin’ them other guys callin’ their- selves mechanics tinkerin’ around them othempbuses when they didn't know their job, It's a darn wonder more of these fool dudes out here ain't been killed. “Somethin’ must ‘a’ ‘slipped up, bes cause he come out late that afternoon cussin’ like the devil. He had one whale of a temper when he got start, ed, the boss did. He took me with him in the bug and we cruised around the country for a while, Every time he spotted a straight stretch of road without too many trees he'd come down and look it over. Finally we found that straight stretch of road out by the golf links ut the country club, an’ that must 'a’ sujted him ‘cause that was the only place we-come to after that. He mounted that machine gun in there on the plane, an’ it was then I decided he was a-goin’ to slip somepin over on somebody, He didn't take me with him after that, but two or three times. when he come into the fleld he'd swoop down on that there square target he made and put over in the corner and I'd hear the ratti-tattar of that machine-gun a-goin’. I ast him what was he goin’ to do with it an’ he sald; ‘We're goin’ out one of these nights and kill a skunk. “phe afternoon of the night we went out to the country club he came out here, kind of excited, but cool, If you know what 1 mean, You copid see there was somethin’ on his mind, but just the same he. had his head with him every minute, “Get me’, He told me, as, soon as It begin to get dusk, to take ‘the plane out to the country club and land on the links. About a half a mile from the cl house, an',when I got there to t Jampe until T see him Nght a cigarette on the clubhouse porch. 1 done af# he told me, an’ he come out. He wasn't dressed in a jumper, but Just raincoat over his clothes. He told me to stay there, and after I started the eng |he strenked away. He left about § o'clock and was back In fifteen min, utes, Ho slipped me a fifty and told me to take the plane back an’ to forgit ‘at I'd brought it out, I agt him had he killed his skunk an’ he ‘laughed an’ said, f made him pretty sick anyway.’ I'd told the boys ‘to. have the flares out at the park as L -goin’ to test the machine, so 1 ditin’t have no ‘trouble in landin‘.” my poe had a cap an’ a | He stopped and rolled a cigarette, “That's all you know, Is it?” the |soroner asked, i That's all I know, so help me Henry—but ain't it enough?” He looked around at the three of jus who had been istening intently to hin story. | atk should say it ar gaia Simpson, Read To-Morrow’s Final instaimens, women. He never had no luck when \