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Ray Consdlidated Copper Com- mect to-morrow for dividend and on the expectation that will either gtispend or substan- attracted oven at this figure The Best Free or safety's sake- | tae Monae Sere stock market to-day failed to MET. Sead heats, eoatiar two weeks of more. Trading “way ‘most perfunctory sort and operations were re- for tife price changes that ‘There was no news from the Allied conference being held In to stimulate interest tn the But there seems to be an with Germany will-not occur. is being expressed by the course foreign exchange rates. Demand @ real feature of the financial day was a further sharp break in cotton level of the Inst five 1:7* cents a pound in forenoon trad- drop of 50 points or $2.50 a close of last night. the.stock list price movements much mixed, Pennsylvania by bears presumably be- annual report published this week showed that the; Can. dis. demand, was barely earned. On the hand Kansas City Southern re- to buying by a newly formed pool and rose about two paints. were irregular. Directors tor unfavorable to the copper group to-‘lay was the offering of copper meth? at 121-2 cents a pound, a new price: Yet consumers failed to be Atlantic Gulf first showed ‘a loss of two points and then rallied tt nearly four points from the low on short covering, Other shipping shares were generally lower, thougif price ‘were inconsequential. Texas Coal and Ojt.and General As- _ phali were the features of the oils, , both dropping two points on selling anbabalald AND FINANCIAL. Book for Traders Semaphores LAWYERS MORTGAGE COMPANY fg Guaranteed First Mortgages Only Capital and Surplus $9,000,000 59 Liberty Street 4 Herriman Avenue $e met colle denen Lin ni y by floor traders. agua continued to reaew @ at 7 per cent. Trading almost letely flat- tened out during the afternoon and price cl continued to be highly variable but with gning predominat- ing. Stooks that were weakest in the morning most) early losnes, includ nsylvan| resulted in an extreme advance of more than four points, In‘the equip- Ment group gains averaged about a point. Oils and motor shares were irregular, The cotton market continued to lose ground, and the March option fell below 10.60 for an extreme loss of $4. abate. Wheat and corn closed a cent higher, Wall St. Gossi LIBBRTY BONDS, First 48 86.90 off .20, First 41-49 87 off .04, Second 86.90 up .06, Third! 90.08, Fourth 87.08 wp .02, Victory! 38-45 97.54 Off 02, 43-48 97.54 off .02. FOREIGN BXCHANGE CLOSE. Steel, demand, 3.87 7-8, cables, mand, .0718, cables, .0714, off .0096, Lire, demand, .0365, cables, cables, .07: off 0005. Marks, de- mand, 0168, cubles, 0169, off .0004. 760, unchanged. Swins francs, demand, cables, .3420, unchanged. 0001, DIVIDENDS. ‘The Associated Oil declared the regular quarterly $1.50 dividend, pay- able April 25 to March 21. ‘The Cities Service Company de- on the bankers’ shares, payable April 1 to stock of record March 15. The American Cigar Company de- cent preferred dividend, April 1 to stock of record March 15. Company deciared the regular qua: terly dividends of 11-2 per cent. on on the preferred B stocks, both pay- = April 1 to stock of record March *ehe G. W. Helme Company de- clared the regular quarterly ‘aividende | of 21-2 per cent. on the common and 13-4 per cent, on the preferred ntooks, | both payable, ‘April 1 to stock of rec- ord March The. Lehigh Valley Railroad Com- pany declared the Aagred quarterly dividends of 18. cent. on the common and 21-2 per cent. on the preferred stocks, both payable’ April 2 to stock of record March 12. ‘The Pierre Lorillard Company de- the regular quarterly divi- of 3 per cent. on the common and 13-4 per cent. on the preferred stooks, both fawn der April 1 ify stock of record March 1 facturing Company declared the reg- ‘olar quarterly dividends of 2 per cent. ‘on the common and preferred stocks. The common ts payable April 30 to stock of record March 31 and the brhekh ig April 15 to stock of record March 3 President Approves Obiaule Measure—Agricultural Bill Sent to Him, WASHINGTON, March 2.—Presi- dent Wilson signed to-day the $10,500,- 000 Diplomatic and Consular Appro- priation bill, while Congress com- Pleted and sent to the White House the Agricultural Bill carrying ‘This action left only three regular appropriation bills, the Gundry, Civil and those for the Army and Navy, be- fore Congress, while the President's desk was clear of supply bills until the Agricultural meas reached it, Milkman Rescues Family of Four. (Special to The Evening World.) MALONE N. ¥,, March 2.—The faint | \ory of a woman reaching the ears of | Joe Raymond, q milkman, as he left a | 4 Second jouneh of four parsons trom death wy cont exe from a furnace. When Raymond rea cued the family two were already un conacior BANKING AND FINANCIAL. GREAT invention that has made modern railroading possible is the wonderful sys- tem of semaphores —those silent guardians of your safety in travel. This same system of safety should be applied to your investments —it can be if you restrict your investing to guaranteed first mortgages. Paying 54% regularly, backed New York Jamaica recovered their while short covering in Atlantic Guit Liberty 31-28 opened 91.14 up .04,. 3.48 6-8, off 3-80. French franc, de- {4% Wis +0366, up | Anaconda . Belgian franc, demand, .0747, | 1660, cables, | up 0002. Guilders, demand, | Pe- tetas, demand, 1389, cables, 139, off | stock of record! | clared a dividend of 36 cents a share! clared the regular quartérly 11-2 per | payable | The American Smelters iar quae: | “ the preferred A and 11-4 per Coal | D, i ‘The Westinghouse Electric & Manu- i Net High Lem, Lam Ca'en Ade Romely .....° 17 nu % 1 Ady umety pf... 80 “e Ax Bither .... i WM aR + 1% Atma Gold 6.56, 1M IM 1h Alesha Janewu 1% 1% 3% + % Alia Chalmers 4 OH AK Am Age Cusm oe M4 w= % | Am Mang Nowe .. G2 02 Bt Am Best Samer ., 40 4 40% 2 Am Bono Mag... Oi HYD 1 Am Can pf . Am Car & Piry,. Am Cotton O11 Aen Diag agent Am Hide kL wt 44 Am too, + 0% Am Int! + 4% [Am Liveced Ol 6. 47% Am Covometive : Am #hip & Com | Am Seelt & Ref, 1% Am Hen & Hef pf., 80 | Am Steol ener “4 Am, Sumer . + ee | Am sume ot. .0.. 101% | Am Seer. ix ‘Tet & Tel... |2maveewe dh hottie ‘cle 11% Grain, . AW MBO Reo ceere | Keuzacott Copper. National Acme». Ferceesee? ® ererererse Rail Stee) Sorings.- Ray Copper . Reading Iteadiog 191 pt Tending 2d *. Rep Iron & Stoel, * | Rep Iron & Steel pt Republic Ofotor .. . Royat Dutch NY S AND PRICES |: Net High, Low, Let, Cha'ee: Jae Toe By By Bh Kan Clty So. 0% RI + 2h Kan ily 8 ot 48% eet & Kelty Spelingtiedd,.. 04 By % 1th % Keyestone Tire. Lee Rtiver & Tire Lehigh Valley . Low's, Loe tat, Tne Leone Wits . Lorillard... Man Blovated x Motor Int W#.. Mex Petroleum Middle Biates M41 Midvale Steel Minn & st ts Mo Kan & ‘Tex MK & T of Missouri Pacific Mo Pacific of, Mont Want National Biscalt ... National Combat Nat Bo & Bop, NYNH&H, 15% + % Be) mu + IK 5 Aw + Col Caw & Whee 2% ‘Catumbia Graph... a Coos Clwar ....., mom * Yonmol Gat... 106% — %% Compo! Textile... Stowert-Warmer ey Con Teter Cal tin. wm +1 ont Candy . . —% WH+ % Conden OW ,, ™ ™m%— % Coen Prodinta 39% «98% — 1% Crucible Bteet 1% @%— % Cuba Cane Sugar . my BY Cigen Amer Bupa, Del & (adson. Den & Rio tirande. De & Bio Gr ef. Dome Wives Dul, So Shore & At’ Badicottdobrnon .. ‘Brie Invites Them to Come fo New Home in S Street Friday Afternoon. WASHINGTON, March 2.—Woodrow: ‘Wilson will receive Democratic Senate Jeadera and other official friends at his new home in & Street Friday after- noon after his retirement from the Presidency, \t was said to-day at the White Houre. Mr. Wilson will go direct from the Capitol to his home after the inauguration of President Harding. The President wan represented as! yishios. to attend the inavguration of Harding on the east portico of the Capitol and ie Conaressional Traggurat | Committee has offered “to. provide al echalr for him, Whether Mr. blot will attend the ceremony wn it is understood, upon his negotiate the stops Neaata to” the: rtico, Peiven If the President does witness the inauguration of his successor he Pill not “ride with him to the White joune, oreo. booren._JAMEs. CAMP RELL Fu- 66th at. | NBRAL CHURCH, March Biway FUN ERAL DI RECTORS, TRANK B. CAMPBELL, Union Bag “& Pap 72 Union Oi Union Pacific Union Pacific United Unket United United % oe 120% ne OT My = Alloy a Food Prod Un Ry InvgCo i. UN Un Retail Store. 65% Ceneral Motor Deby UBC I Phe, 16% Generl Motor 7 p « USC Pwd... Goodridh . 5. . U & Rubber a% <ireet Northern pt. U & Steel Pp Great Nor Ore. 0 6 Geert ‘of 1% re Se Utah Copper ...s. 48h Hewtine Oi Utah Seouritier .. 108% Heme Metep Vanadium Stoel Fy Minois Central... u Va Cato’ Chemie ok Infishoma Refining oe ay Ye Cato Camaigt eo Indian Refining 9% om Vivaudon cm Inspiration Carper ooh Mu +S | we . Inter Cons Com. 4% sok Inter Aart Oory.... i ate bth Inter Aart Coro of. 46 od Anter Harvester * cos tr Inter Harvester of 107% 103% au Toter Papet oo 60+ wy ah et Inter Mer Marine . ne Py Inter Nickel .- a nll a i “s Wil e-Ore hied ig atl a Sones Rover fc bis | Jorn Tee . ns ‘ | Towel Qa ple Mt ON , | Se-dbvidend. ‘Total eaten, | WILSON TO RECEIVE |ASKS FOR aT i. ep PARTY’S LEADERS, TOFIG Surgeon Geteral Coctiriins Urges ‘Congress to Provide Facilities at Ellis Island. (Apecial Prom Staff Correspondent of The Brening ‘orld. WASHINGTON, Mar, 2.—Surgeon General Hugh § Cummi: of the Public Health Service has submitted to |? Congress a supplemental estimate car- rying an appropriation for meeting. the emergency situation at Ellis Island: growing out of danger from tmmi- grants of typhus fever, Congress is asked {o appropriate $495,620 for additional disinfecting fa- cilities and bathing accommodations at Bilis Island, The typhus situation in Continental Burope in such that the Public Health Service here feels that immedate steps should be taken to pro- vide for better care of the immigrants who have been exposed to infection, It ts.also recommended that barracks sufficient to accommodate the maximum number of immigrants on any voa~ sel be constructed. Conditions at New York, where ships are tled up with im migrants awaiting examination are mentioned, (Special 10 The Brening World ) N.Y, March 2.—Rorwoe Whiter, Democrat, wan elocted Presiv dent of the village yesterday ovis Theodore Schmidt by almost 2 to The reat of the Democratic tloket “THE FU: WERAL CHURCH” -Sectarian) carried by 2 to 1, Out of 2.684 voter er receiver 2.276, Schmid Milisn: tsa Republican “contre, Khe Democrats won fer the first tions in eight. year: here Was a bund | wagon parade after election, number of voter wae the La can 2 t ever “FLUCTUATIONS W ous ‘AND INDUSTRIALS 4 THE CURB-2:0 P.M. Abaree Hie Low, lan 4 INDUNTRIALS, | Col. . “ ” 1 w ot 1% 1% 0% 0% “ " 1% 1% 2 , a * ’ oi MA 1% 4M % %! % % " 1 ' 10 Prairie Pipe Lane ™ 200 1500 4 0 of Indiana new.... 6# 08% 48% on 200 Cities Service B pt. 1000 Denny Ol . a % 3800 Fk Basin Pet oa DY Pe 1100 Engineers Petrolia .... ie ti 1000 Federal Olt i IS 800 Glenreck O11 2 i 8 | 18 Guffey Giilexpie 48% 1 129 Hudson O11. s 8 & ‘XO Key Coumy us. Me 1 1M 200 Maracaibo Ot 2 1K NK 200 Merritt OU 19% ae 1% 50) Mexico OM . 1% 1% | M] 190 Midwest Ret .. 140% 140 140 5000 Noble Ou % * 300 No Am Olt 2% 3% 500 Omar OU 8% 400 Producet & Refiners.... 4% 4% 4% 400 Red Rock O11... a. Sl 100 Salt Creek Prod new... 9% 0% Om 300 Simma Pet he 000 Skelly On . % Om #00 ‘Texad? rts ha, | ae | 1500 United ‘Tex Olt. vou. OM 700 Victoria Oil new. s 8 4% % % nt ee ee . s 5 58 8 % 6s we ¥ 12 12 3800 Candelaria MO, ua 6 400 Con Virginia. - ” 2100 Cortes Silver 6... 04, TL a 200 Cresson Goid it Wy 400 Dundie Arie 1 2 5¢00 Bureke Croesus % ” 800 Pureka Holly 1% ue 400 49 Mining .. * % 2000 Gold Cons, 1 ‘ 1009 Gold Devel 2°08 lg 19200 Goldfield FYorenoe ed 1000 Gold Kewana .. Pe es 3800 Gold Silver Pik. 7 # 6 5700 Gold tone w 1000 Great end. 3 3 200 Hecla Miniog th % 300 Iron Blossom a * 1200 Jumbo Hxtension . ‘ 5 18500 Knox Dirlde 6 6 2000 MoNamara . 6 6 3500 MeNarwara Crescent Tee See a s 3M 4200 Murray Mosridee a ‘500 Nipiming . i 1600 North Star « 2200 Ophir Sliver i 900 Prince Con . * 300 Platinum Pallediom .., wy 8K 1060 Rex Cons . Sati) Ohamary 140 Rochester Mines St 1000 San Toy ...0-ss oe) Ge 1200 Stiver King Divide... 2 2 @ 300 Simop Sllveg Lead...... te fe the 300 8 Silver Lead... wow of 1200 Success Mining. . a ys [1700 Wonopen & Belmont ee [71000 Tonopah Cash Bos ES #400 Tonn Divide. . ie 1M 200 Tonopeh Extension, Ae) Ave 1000 Tono-Jim W.. 6 1500 Tonopad ee) 100 Tonopah 1% aM 1000 Tonopa * 9° 1200 ‘Tonopah > 8 1000 ‘Tonopah Rescue Puls » ° ” ‘ ia ‘ 3 7000 Boa Paulo Ss. 1% he BONDS, ue 18000 Allied Packer 6s ” 1000 Inter RE 7s. 38000 Louls & Nash Diy 5000 Morris & CO THE. c.0+ 1000 Prov & Gam 7s 23, | 10000 Pan Am Pet 7s. 5000 Hears Roebuck Ts 21. 1000 Sears Roebuck Te 23. = ® WORE 1 OVERCOAT 20 YEARS. Witnexs at Will Com ke Arthur Land, secretary of the Alox ander Smith and Sons Company, car- pet manufacturers at Yonkers, testified to-day in the Surrogate’s Cotfrt at White Plains that the late Bugene Tymeson, well-known Yonkers inventor, wore the game overcoat for twenty years to Land’ t Says You- knowledge, Tym fine argivion relatives are Contesting This will, oh he left ‘fis eatate, valued at 43 01000, to two women pot iy to 4 he sald | me | @airy ined 950 for Ad The Cohen Dalry Company, (No. Heater Street, waa fined. $90 in the Court of Special Sessions to: on the corm ; Women’s |to $2,082.50. The total disbursements \were $273,693.82 and the cash balance pexpenses of the Camp Fires of 1918, . TRAN “AIRGHTS te ON POLICE FUNDS i ceeibet Nes Accounts, Asked by Alderman, Furnished by Commissioner. Alderman errand, feader on the Republican side of the Chamber, made public to-day at City Hall the reply lor Police Commissioner Enright to his request to be furnished with tran- soripts of the accounts of the Police Reserve Fund, the Police Relief Fund, the Canteén Campfire Fund, the Po- dice War Rellef Fund, the Welfare and.Contingent Fund and the Aero- Pt jplane Hangar Fund. . Some of the items in the accounts furnished were as follows: ‘The total recelpte from the Police |serve Fund were $384,615.04. Among ‘the disbursements for uniforms and ‘Loufs Markowitz for” 5,970 nickel shields and another to Maurice Hy- man for ane nine uniforms for the ing Corps amounting is now 6110;921.22. The total receipts of the Police Relief Fund for 1920 were $686,204.37. Of this amount 419,718.56 was derived from the .1920 Police Games, which cost the fund $70,878.29. Items under the disbursements are a $63 pre- mium on the bond of the Police Com- missioner as custodian of the fund, $38,515.63 for the relief of widows and orphans, $25,000 as a loan to the Hos- pital Fund; and $60,000 on account of the Police Sanitarium. In the Pplicce Relief Fund Home 'Gervice Account, under which stores are maintained for economical pur- chases for policemen for their homes, the receipts ¢rom the stores have amounted to $602,351.85. The account has to its credit in bank $43,318.24 The Loan ‘Account of the Police Pe- Nef Fund, through which policemen inay borrow money to pay for uni- forms has loaned $53,234.36 during the year and has taken up loans amount- ing to $34,944.16. It has $19,242.44 to its credit. ‘The Police War Relief Fund turned over to the Welfare and Contingent Fund at the close of 1919, $2,878.34. The hospital bil of ax Kaufman, shot by a policeman jn performance of a duty, was met by the payment of $1,088.04, after Comptroler Craig re- used to sanction it as a charge against the city. The fund has $1,786 on hand. ‘No disbursements haye been made from the Aeroplane Hangar Fund of $1,000 denated by L. B. Beaumont. Of the Camp Fire Fund into which members of the department volun- tarily contributed §1 each to pay the the surplus was put into the fund to establish the canteen at Police Head- quarters, which is conducted at cost. The receipts and expenditures for Commntent, 1921, br The Pres Publishing CO, " ciao ey am Bring We) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING INSTALMENTS. « | ae meagan Pe vy eS "Secs sae hie Eeeiiaees ‘So peopeoa ee her Te atent Soe ina, who Is, peewant: ike John. why be Vaan varie ‘Shortly Vertes trend: RG NRG Ty sone Weide eres, being engaged to Two ten at once—Raper Hams tng finds Nine somien te women tha th he cod ts rug Sk ferns & eee troubled, me seeks ier friend, Adam Phill! on itersey. ‘She telie of ag te Sh et beeroding, fo mabe love to her, She earew irons, ot fuate of Yonn’s, Sbelee teip tram: Artaonay he ia to be In bese form ane but she cmught wp her rae and st in the doorway OW carefully she would man: hed a high excited laugh. age this bit of acting with]: a erhaps if you knew everything, Adam, Adam was so safe bay) wouldn't be quite so happy!” she and could do the part to per-|°"P. nant door slammed loudly atter fection. She remembered how once/ her, the very walls seemed to shake he had played ,her lover in tab-| With the reverberation. ‘eaux and how’ they teased him when all the time be had known and she had known that he had lost his 0 iFiolt Day of 1918 for the Poljce Re-| heart to a girl from thé South. “I won't go too far, not a bit,” Varia told herself, “but just ad that | ‘equipment is an item of 2,388 to| John will see that other people do like ae” She feit a little down-hearted when she thought she was trying to win her husband's jove by a subterfuge, but she shrugged her shoulders and began to think of the immediate fu- ture of her dinner, and the long eve- Jone. ehe would have alone with ohn— She was even in a foheabid to home and dress and aay. or his_ comin, ft I only win!” thought Varia, as she walked rapidly on up the Drive. “And if I lose——" she knew she could not think of the eng, CHAPTER Ix. ARIA turned away from the mirror as the bell rang. She had put on a new frock that had just come home, @ golden brown tulle st a vivid girdle of orange, To-night she had rastarka a spe- cially nice dinner, and the kind John liked. She had chosen the steak her- self and made those tarts of which he had spoken last week. Perhaps i\ had been her fancy, but this morning he had seemed to look at her differently, a quisziqal kind of look that enveloped her and made her hot ot moment and cold the next, long after he had left for the office. “Oh, hete you a Nina Ms age coming into the gray guest Varia lifted her lips tut ‘Nina brushed her cheek with a kiss. “Is this your room?" was her’ first remark, as she threw off her furs and looked curiously around, “awful look- ing dressing table, Varia. Lost your taste since your marrta e? No cur- tains,"and that silly picture of the Madonna. How you can stand that sort of thing about?” Varia pretended to straighten the shell toilette articles on her dressing table, while Nina, turning from her observation, saw that Varia’s face was hot with color. “Hm!" Nina said expressively, “you keep all your things in this room, John has his in the other!” “Let's go into the living room, Varia put in, hurryings ahead, “I wanted to show you". But a taunting little smile played about Nina's lips and when she had thrown herself a8 on the wide couch she merely asked, “Any cigar- ettes “(ve called up up twice this week 1920 are not itemized and balance at $35,521.94, with assete in stock of $2,113.18. ct ge WOMAN’S SALARY $2,394, MAN’S $2,459 But State ‘Income Tax Figures ~ Show Head of Family Earns Only $400 More. ALBANY, March 2.—Single women in New York State, sybject to the State income tax, made a creditable showing with the single men in 1919, Mark Graves, Director of the State Income ‘Tax Bureau, told the conference of os- sessors al annual tax conference in family was $2,857, the statistics showed. Mrv Graves said the audit division up to yesterday had completed the audit of 721,941 returns, issued additional assess- ments aggregating $959,673 and made refunds totalling $234,231. It had de- velophd additional incomes amounting to 90% | more than $10,000,000 and found 600 4e Unquents and collected $165,500. agen. | Public Debt Increases $58,000,000, WASHINGTON, March 2.—An_In- crease of $58,449,845.36 in the public debt during February was announce! to-day by the Treasury, the gross total Feb, being $24,061,684,72 pared with $25,99, SEIZED LIQUOR MAY BE USED IN CITY HOSPITALS Commissioner Coler Asks Offi- cial Ruling on Free Acquisi- tion of Contraband Hooch. ' IRD 8. COLPR, Commissioner of Public Welfare, has asked j Corporation Counsel O'Brien ‘Wt the city has the right to ace cept, for the use of hospital part of the liquor seized under the Volstead Act, and soon to be distributed tree. Mr. ser wants to got some for the™bity’s hospitals if legally possible. About sixty-five other Beret ‘of Health Desamsat onriaty ~~ ehar, @ company a) why Juaris of adulterated cream. | \ | hospitals have applied for some of the liquor, and couldn't get you,” Varia declared. But Nina sald irrelevantly, “You look rotten, Varia, You're losing your | complexion; it was the best thing ou had. Pretty thin too for your eight!” “No, I think it's only this dress, ‘ ‘sone off the shoulders so, and so slimsy it makes me look| thioner" — But Nina only arched her brows and threw a malicious gleam from her long, dark eyes. » “But I'm dying to hear about you, Nina, What have you been doing and where have you been?” Nina shrugged. “Dad pay for that frock? 1 thought so. You couldn't wear frocks like that if John paid the bills! 1 pase you to do something for me, will Tell dad I've got to haye my all eas ance again. It's simply outrageous seasjon here to-day. for him to act the way he haa been ile the single male, not head of aldoing, just because I wasn't married family, had gn average income of $2,469, |in white #atin and pearls! z youn f of the singlo female, | there twice and he's simp! Tate og tachatent i ar ac aie sible, Cue you can work him, Varia average income of the male hedd of a|%cn"as who caught the expression on Varia's ae she sat up straight for the first time, “He's said something to you! What Is it! Tet] me!” she demanded. “Ta much rather not tell you—T know he'll get over his feeling, he does in the end. But he She looked up pleadingly to “Oh, Nina dear, don't feel hurt me!" Nina demanded harshly. ‘Ho said that the more times you came to bim and begged him for money the longer you'd have to go without it—that you'd married Mel, and now you'd have to stick to him.” Nina sprang ses Ber eyes flashing. “Oh, he sald that, did he, the old fool! Well, he'll a who'll get the better of him!" Her face was black with fury, and her pouting red lips were set in a@ hard line, “Oh, Nina, don't’ —— 3 all very well for you to howl, ‘Oh, Nima, don’t.’ A lot you know about it, getting your allowance every month and takilig all John's beside! It's uae 1k like you to have gone to Dad and told him the — thing’ — Bho suddent, Warta'e, face waa dead wistte: she said in a voice that was soft, “It isn't true, you know tt Isn’ put if you do need money badly Vil give you half of my allowano “Oh, you will, will you?” Nina turned on her like a wildeat, “You take my leavings—-yes, that’s all Johu is, my leavings—and then you think you'll patronize me by offering me @ paitry little sum of money every month, Well, 1 don't give that for your money!" She snapped her fin- gers in Varia's face, Varia rose and stobd with one hand ‘on the back of her chair,~ "You can't talk to me like that"— Nina plunged pid ue room, She was #0 ang she wanted to Sur ‘rome ‘one break but “Ee Every vestige of color had fled frora Varia’s face. She sank down in her chair, her knees shaking, she felt as weak as though the combat bad been hysical one. hat Nina shonid aot like thie! Nina, whom she had always loved. Often before Varia had seen Nina ee one of these furious rages, in whi she would fling things about her and bri ture or bowl at tiie ight 5 But she had never turned on Varia before; she had never shown the vein. of cruelty in her nature. How words could sting! “My leavings!" and “Perhaps if you knew everything, you wouldn't be quite so happy!" ‘Varia covered her face with a hoe Ing hand and thought ~-as s! there that all her idols had allen shattered at her fect. “Life was very cruel,” “Why, Varia, what are you ates, here like this in the dark for? It was John's voice, as flooded the room with Lie he fooked. down at her curiously, She shielded her cyes ‘trom te searching rays, and tried to answer. Bat she could not tell him what had~ happened ‘Dinner will be ready in a few min-~ utes," she said, rising uncertainly, and looking across at him. She escaped inte her own room and * looked at her white face; it stared back at her, showing her trouble so plainly that’ she-colored both, cheeks with a touch of rouge. When they were seated across from ¢ach other a few minutes later, Varia felt her heart thumping with curious ioud knocks. Between tnem was only a length of gleaming mahogany, Two candies in their silver holders sprayed yellow tlowers of light into the dimness, the Chinese bowl of daffodils that cen+’ tred the table did not hide John face from hers. She felt her breath chtch as she” looked up and caught his eyes search- ing hev face again. How dark his: eyes were! If she could only know what he was thinki she heard lerself saying, “Are you going to the next Yale eo?" “I'd like to run w pore tol said he mig! to New Haven: t go in his ban | ontWhat kind df a car is it™’ ane asked with pretended interest, while “Ye i wonderes if his eyes meant that beginning to be interested in Ber actually care to hear what she weal Lou brought on the steak and Varia watched John as he han- dled the carving knife so deftly, How strong his hands were, and those smooth oval nails! She had never Ronen before what fine hands he lece, Varia?” ‘Oh—yes,” she answered, catching herself back. , He lingered over his demi-tasse and again she felt his eyes on her face’ and she wondered if he could bear > the heart-beats that seemed to ecli through the silence. The sharp insistent bell of the tele- phone startled them both. John roused himself as though he had been deep in a reverie and Varia heard his voice as he answered: Not this even: | want me right away? Very well!’ she heard the click of the receiver as) he hung it back on the hook and he came back into the dining room. “I may not be home until late. Willsyou want anything? “No,” she answered, not meeting his oyes, Of course he had the right to spend the evening where he chose! They were only friends—and yet this eve- ning she had hoped—— "Good night!" he called. As Varia_respondedy she blew out the candles and went into the living room. She was alone again. ‘The + emotions that she had kept so well un- der control got the better of her now and_she flung herself down on the couch and felt the relief of tears, % She sobbed on and on in the stifl- ness, with a desperate sense of heart- break. It must have been Nina w! had telephoned; no one else cane have made him leave at a moment’, notice. Pushi back her damp hair she propped herself on hosg elbows and ear \y u’s voice saying, ‘ sir, right that way aie “Oh, here we are!" Adam cried ad- vancing into the room, and sceing only Varia against the pillows, As 9d gave him her hand she tetas to si you see, Adam, I nothing but cry lately!” she sald * though It were all a joke. But her face pitifully tamed with tears and her tle that tried ta smile Phi the white ES face touched Adam * he said gruftl motu pH his hat and stick aed sate it to the girl, “It'g Just _that I'm @ foolish cry- baby,” ‘she “angwered a “Oh, no, you're not," he replied that same gruff voloe tbat hid his tecn. ing. “I remember the time that you sprained your ankle there was never. a tear out of you. It must be pratty. bad if you ery over it, Varia. 1 “Don't sympathize "with met" she” begged, trying to smile, "You ‘now that’s not the way to--to treat m: He bent a keen lgok on her face then he said In a deep voice: ‘Where's John.” “Why, he just—just went out." hina here, Varia, you've played 3 game long enough with me. Ta Foun acting like a scoundrel?’ rom me an truth!" he demanded. no, Jobn's wonderful; if any on ie io blame ua only 1." “What does he leave you alon this for, then?” he deman 2m r (Read To-Morrow’s Reais Ime! stalment.) / é