The evening world. Newspaper, March 4, 1921, Page 32

Ate Age Chom, Am Boot Hamer... Atm Horch Magneto, 64 ps of The Evening World.) | for a few specialtics in| al influences were at work | ‘this morning swayed back in Hetless manner and with- p trend, In banking quar- se shauguTAl message of Presi- was awaited with the Interest, and even in profes- quarters, which are not to give to fundamental | importance that attaches to them, there was Gispoaition to wait for the of the message before | into new important market | Am Intemational Ara Linered Ol) Am Loceanotive Am Ship & Com Am Smelt & Ro Sart & R of geome to be @ large and im-) element in Wall Street who that the policies of the new | | istration will prove a panacea ‘existing economic ills. to disregard the fact o distress is world-wide, but | to believe that by a simple | ~ of the Harding magic wand ot can almost immediately ack to.a condition of ex- | Atlenca Birmé Ad Ant Gut & WI Att Galt & Wi pf Rat & Ohio of. Rerceiaie B.. that may be, Wail Street) He ‘with the hope that the mew | Heth Stel § » 0. Beth Ste B pamme invotving a roudjustment of tt loans and of Treasury : in the shape of a funding lA new and single long term bond: ding into a tong term issue of rhment obligations to our with ah annual j tax reform, tariff reform and interest im rail- Hentral Leather pf. ‘Chander Moton, . Cheapeake & Ohio thie, KT & Pac Thc Ge Western. . Thic Gr Wem of thie de Northwas this morning displayed o < of nervousness over the pos- |t that a raid would be made their position if it was found /,,, | the Harding message included ¢ (Precommbndation of these poli- |¢ While the general market was | Col Greshootone ul , it steadify main- |¢ rd a firm tone. © 5 Were deterred from making Can InCal Mtin mi out of the overnight announce- |C the Atlantic Gulf and West | ny had decided not 40 |Corm Prxtucts ‘on the preferred dividend |: daysshence at least. dropped five points to |; itler showing a tose. ot r showing @ of) Den & Ro Gr.. &, rallied two points from} pon @ lio Grul.. the rest of the market ee by the weakness of | prio erat market peeoeed evern' announcement o! ot a inent Btock Hx- lis waver on. ris who depressed the dividend soon will be ~ "were driven to cover apd that |" wy“ Wik three points. i _fexues were generaily firm jp af Crucible, which the high tonched on |‘ eg pote also | « & firm tone, Ins 1M | Great Nor Ore! off shares averaged about a| (rem c commodity markets also : ter degree of financial | youston Oi Cotton ross 49 points and | somneia d 3 cents a bushel, Money | goapirat 7 per cent. rates were firm, demand |; img crossing $3.90. ort & Penbody ‘Ol & Southern Dol Gas & Rlectric dum Cane Scmar Suit Onoe Sug of ban Am Suear, Ki Famom Playem ... Froeoort Texas . Gen Motor of. Greene Cananea Gu States Steel Hilt Mu & Non of AND FINANCIAL, Open. 2a% i 1% om Am Car & Foundry, 120% Am Cotton’ O11 Am Drug Bod... Am Hide & Leather Am Hide & L pt. ah on ® “4 we “s my ca a 0% om a“ ™ + 105 ~ 101% Oy 1m 18 08 wh 2% 100% OK Oe. wh Butts Cop fe Tie Bute & Guperior 12% 14% a “4 oe “wn a sited a ow on “ 704 108 4 my 101% MN 101 110% NT% 117% er oy 6 24 aN a cok » ou ” ” 2% % wu wr o% 6 10% Man aad 86 er O's B a% 8% 1% oy mK 2% 4% 48% a% 0% 50% 8% 8 aa Mi 2% 1 1 mh my By 30% % 2% 1% 13% 10% 6 6 44 We 38% Ny 2 Kanes Clty So of Kelly Speingtiela Kenacantt Copper Lackawanna Steel Tee Rob & Tire Moy Dret Stores. Mexican Petroleum, 107 bs Middle tater OU, . Minn A&W Mo Kan & ‘Tox 41% | Nat tex Ry 20 of Nat Clonk &, Suit 166.4 | Neweda Conpot 20% | Now Ori T & M.. 90%] NY Airtwake GINYNH & A Norfolk & Wertera 101% | Northern Nova Beotia Steet 117% | Nanally CO... Okihoma & RB Peeific OF iw 8014 | Pan-Afffor Petroleum Pan Amer Pet B oy | Penn RR ‘8% | Benn Seaboard Stoel omy [Pitta & Wont Va... Pitts & Wen Va wt 7 (Pullman Company. . 114% ama a5% | Duo Pub Berr of NJ go | Pitta Coat oo. Ray Copper ... Reading let pf. . Remington Type. ... Rep Tron 2 Steel... Royal Dutth N Y.. tL & San Fro HL & GoW... mL & GoW of, Senboand Air Wino. SOMNI of Stewart-Warner « Svomaring (Boat ‘Tex & Pac Coal ‘Times 80 Aut Sales United Pool Prod Un diy 1yr Co... Un Ry lay Co of, Un Retail Stores |U8 CT Pipe... | U @ Ind Alcohol U 8 Rub tat pid ‘Vanadium Stoel Weber de Heil Went Md 2d pt | Wheeling & L B.. Opened steady Int, Cont, Rubber, 10—10 1 2; Retail 37—87 1-4 21-4 ; Carib, 6 3-8—6 5-8 FORBIGN EXCHANGE OP! 8.90 1-4, cables, cables, Maracalbo 805 Fifth Avenue Murray Hill 7120 in B Principal Cities ebanged. Lire, changed. Belgian .0753; cables, 0764, unchanged. Marks, cables, .0163, up .0001 demand, demand, . demand, Sweden kr. | tives, representin, railroad mileage in the will meet in the Grand Cenjral Term!- nal Building this afternoon to receive reports of its Labor and Standing Com- mmittee was in FOUND AND REWARDS. rea ; aD aueaoet pon GE? CAMPPETL es vas 52 7, M. is expected | developments | to dispose of th body of twenty-two, eared from Ant, Pet. 14 7-8-3; cables, LIBERTY BONDS, Liberty 31-28, opened 90.90, off .02 33-48, 97,48, off .02; 43-48, 97.62, up .02, 86.90, off 10; a ad, 87,06, up .02; 87.14, off .04; Victory CURB, 07 0867, demand, Canada dollars, unchanged. 0, ‘The Labor © seasiva most of vance of the meetin given out as to th From the fact bership met in Chicago Feb 18 to con- alder the labor matters now before the iroad Labor Board, to-day's meet-| 2 @ foundation tor general and permanent character, by Wartime Biack well was found floatin on the east sid Eat that to mark 1668; cables, cables, 1395; eubles, demand, 2248: demand Denmark kr. d, payable rd March 31, but to-day nothing | or proceedings. the full men o oilman Fin: WILSON WINDS UP PERSONAL AFFAIRS | Angeles, whose novel revel the His Wife Attends tails of Moving Into Her New Home This Morning, WASHINGTON, White House awaits the coming of President and. Mrs, Warren G, Hard-|tonants, some of the haughty of ther ing. Practically every detail in con-|galving thelr pride by denying thelv | nection with the winding up of the/act of surrender was due to Administration of Woodrow Wilyon| vanced summer rat Numerous De- 4.—The] strongly to assertions that a i Durant, 8—8 1-4; Simms, Rdg. leo ¢: thelr last this evening and with the assocla-] mot Wee een y at pil ed tion offices to-day crowded with ten-ling yesterday ants seeking advice as to their legal] jany’s annual The President apent most of his time|Fights in case of their entry into the tits directors accumulated | trike, it @pears rf asonable ~ to | ity president, said a stiff working the total number of revolters | achedule was anticipated during this at 1,500 by to-morrow month. Touching on business condi- President of the Pro-|iions in the United States, Mr. Vau- tective Association, seems spot Ht) clain said that he was optimistic rll sees ment is spreadiig| NIP BIG DYNAMITE PLOT. House busily respective affa going over a mass of Wiison | estima looked to see that in shape for everything was the arrival of Mra,| W. G. Stee ersonal article to Mansion was the leaye the Executiv try presented to Mr Government of France. This tapestry, wnich depicts the cele- | Ultimate marriage of Psyche, is valued at more than $75,000. While the c bration of t demand, Argentine pesos, pmaand, .7840; cables, .7860 DIVID! The Manufacturers’ Light and He Company declared the regula cant April 15, 10 stock of re 70 DISCUSS RAIL LABOR. The Association of Raliway Execu & per cent United ‘States, cleaning up business, Pp, Tumulty, secretary correspondents many friends who called Charlies L. Bw tary to President Wilson, will go to managing director Warren John- Tumulty, go to the latter's Jaw office, and Miss relat will return to her home in Jersey City Jonnson will York to become associated with a bus- \ness concern Immediately aftey Chicago to becom go to New last night to work and had sign which he ged as a measure “intended tion of a ¥ important in the effort of the road cir labor problems, _ PRISONER DROWNPD. Joseph Whirpley, & prisoner who dieap- Island on were Repew! Legislation; tifleation Approp: | ment to Wa tural Appropriatio ot malmnoriant pl f ona Hundreds of letters from al! sections | *! Yorporation, 10-60 year 5 per| revived yesterd: 1 ag aaa gue wae eat sinteing fund mold bonds, A| Randell of C appreciation | ea eimptio 110 and intereat May J | conslating of = [Regen ?a fiat or the arash vonds’ ia! merce, War ready for diatrip Agricu and scores A majority of _ ge EVENING woutd -FRTDAE: MXROE 4, Tort. | Working for a Noble Hospital Memorial =| For the City’s Soldier and Sailor Heroes o% “ 48% “ 7% 16% 55% 4% w% oy aM 10% 10% Bi | mt, | 74M 106 48% 28% 86% 12% MRS JOLIAN GOLOMAN: MRS. Mid rw Mae ecu Srein sr | Met at a luncheon at the Hotel Com- | cess. 106% |Modore to formulate plans for a drive| “The hospital will be a memorial to 32% |in behalf of the «People's Hospital,|the soldiers and sailors of the city ed ut 115th Street who died in the great war, which will ve erec MRS.M.KOTCHE MRS HERMAN Horrmane MAcsah NATIONAL POC! The photograph shows, from left to right, Mrs. Julian Goldman, Chair- man of the Fund Committee; Mrs, N- Echstein, Mrs. H. I. Schwartz, Mrs, Kutcher and Mrs, L. Mrs, Herman Hoffman is seated. Prominent women of the city who|and Second Avenue, report fine suc- - | ae Own Novel Way. Father of 11. oe —_— —— ee {Special to The Brening Worl.) PHILADELPHIA, 4*] LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 4—1 Minnelli, sixty-two, three days against has given landlords here the p choles cannet read headquarters of the “strikers,” in| marry her, the Merchants’ Trust Building, forty-one y years. numberof the landlords affected b March ist have been added to at the | eise."* Mrs, |rate of a hundred a day, and early |” sto with the measure of success diready evident and more pleased still at the way the mov Wil- | rroughout the city dhe: “The full success of the strike is assured. The landlords see what concerted protest, backed by action, can do, and are beginning to reali the enemy Is fully organized for, the by tendering thetr as they join, stri Jf8'8 landlords rent sums equal in amount se. aeioURe | to the rates as provided in a recently enacted city ordinance, now und temporary injunction. This t jer ere vpon the lease investment and a] “"hpy, ing outlay, Steele asserts that us a rei the “sirike' fents throughout the dis- tricts affected being reduced from will It_of hi $5 to $15 a month bp gt Following an overflow mass mect ing last night at a Community School] yy. building, another big protest gather. g will be held Saturday night. Strik- : a ie nesert that many Oat dwellers, as| READING gred |) aympathetic move, are vacating | nounceme been | their apartnents or planning to do80:| General Monager F. noon.) "nie Mutrike” wm conducted here is] he will meet of the] ine tdea of William Mefyis, and the! (itive etrikers are being counselled by Wal-|ine Railway syate! ter Gould Lincoln, attorney for their] March 15 to diee Y | oreenization i a reduction in the |, Part of the “strike” ie centred in #} pay. ‘The new rate will hecome effec © large Jewish district tive April 1 as For- v. & STRRL SINKIVG FUND, completed trustees, have fund of the United States as been drawn for | resolution ribution. ~ the WHAT’S GOING ON IN AMERICA’S BIG CITIES LOS ANGELES SUN MAN, 62, FIGHTS <3) OF SUCCESS SHINES | DEPORTATION OF i) ON RENT STRIKER PROMISED BRIDE NEW ENGLAND'S. TOUT THE WAGES OFANSKILEDIEN Reduction Probably to Take Effect April 4—Confer- ences Called. California City Is Solving|She, 53 and Illiterate, Held in Housing Problem in Hs | Philadelphia —He, Widower, a storekeeper of Sympathetically, {t seemed, Southern Duluth, Minn, is in Philadelphia to California sunshine shone’ unusually |efrect the release of Miss Carmina bright this ufternoon upon tho more Spina, fifty-three years old, his prom- | than a thousand rent strikers of Los ised bride, who arrived last Friday ast from Italy but was ordered deported | prices | because of her age and because she | ew Haven and Hartford, the Boston and AYbany and the Boston jand Maine Railroads have called con- of ungkilled which the extent of a proposed cut in wages is to be discussed. April 4 is |the date tentatively set for the re- duction, which on these roads will affect wpproximately 7,000 men. understood that the other roads will take similar action. The Federal Grand Jury has just reported that it has no grounds for beheving any attempt was made to bribe or corruptly influence William J. McCarthy, Supervising Prohibition Bnforcement Officer, or any of his MoCarthy had been repre- rejections of to more than a of preparing eviction notices or doing | widower with eleven children, de- sums in percentage. jclares he has known her from child- Reports late this afternoon to the! hood and decided five years ago to the war upset his s been in the country 8, and a citizen thirty run | plans, He’ h made decided concessions to their)” Despite threatened legal action by the promoters of the proposed mass eting next against alleged misconduct by col- Donretery of vie enante’ ored French colonial troops in occu- and the occupancy of the Executive Broetiya Agnoutation; cauerta (that pied Germany, Mayor Moore declares 'Mansion by the President and Mrs.{the original thousand “strikers” of | popolitan Opera House or anywhere Wilson has been completed, will be no meeting “in the Met-| sented as telling bribes amounting million dollars. The Mayflower will sail into Ply- mouth Harbor again on Aug. 1 next, this Ume with President Harding as the prinepal figure in the celebration to commemorate the tercentenary of the landing of the forefathers. prohibition of divorce is the Volstead . ckholders of the Baldwin Loco- » Works in their annual me far more needed than act, in the opinion of Rev. J. L Cor- rigan, a professor at Boston College. “Tf divorces multiply at the same rate in the past,” he told ’3 Catholic the college have annually in United States one divoree for every five marriages.” in the future a md Anarchists a Blow-Up of City, CLEVELAND, March 4.—Plots which involved the planned assassination Anish fight.” A a tant | Cleveland citizens connected to the Members of the ssociation, as fa Loyal American League, the destruction ‘dynamite of downtown buildings, and a clergyman are of his taxable Faster are, Johy J. Mitcheil, Internal Revenue Collector, announced to-day. but those at ganda throughout the city are bo- n nipped by the st here lest Tuesday night of eignt sald to be membera of an anar- sum includes 11 per cent. income) © etic prot. a anaE arrests were slighty larger one upon the furnish-)the Department ‘with n League sume paid for’ masses for the dead Iso are taxable as personal se! now to ha contributions for — SEIZE 3 IN RAID FOR DRUGS. Higgins and Melsenzaht oth Street, near Ninth . last night, where they arrested three men on @ charg When they broke into the room. detectives say, threw white powder down an airshaft, by agerits of Justice working {n co- facing charg ded « fiat on tapionage officials belleve will le of selling nar- ding Ohief to Meet Men to Dis- cuss Wage Reductions, heroin worth $10,000, by the top floor of the five-story building. ‘Those arrested said Robert Clark, 43 West 450n Street: Salvatore ‘Trenticosta, thirty-four, of No. was made yesterday by, 100 oF more represen - twenty sient. of the employe Philadelphia the necessity of police say Trenticosta was also eae LOCOMOTIVE EARNINGS DROP, URGES ANOTHRR ISTHMUS CANAL. amend-| yp Morgan & Co. as sinking fund| WASHINGTON, Margh 4.—The pro- the ninth} posal that the United States construct annual drawing of bonds for the] another canal between the Atiantic and Pacific Oceans vie Lake Nicaragua was Representative creased $3,188,969, annual report issued profite were jesse by § profits available according to aterdar., Grom tefetred and hare dividends decreased SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING INSTALMENTS, Grey, om the ove of har expected marrings to John Amory, Loveline on proposes unde aeerpteds “At thet wed ‘married Varian “Varia is stunued tp Nie toi? with « former lover, Pee Ae tee eee Scliwell. ella her thay be ie iq terrible straits, Being engaged to Wo men at once—dupe jovelees existence. One day, when she te out. comes home ‘the spertment with the mensig that het is inousand, dollars to er howim and se Tau, Varies of Nina’s call on John roubled, she seeks the counsel of ah old friend, Adam Phillips, aa attomey, SL bee wehapolnem sad seks him to ald her jn | ohn by mae er E who that ver lowes haw, ‘ ‘Audrew fries, tend of the" gia and colleen mate of Ohu's, call One to be in’ New York only three days. 6 day ‘Nine calls on her sister and asks her to interoede with thelr father, who Allowance ince her ent” “Immediately after rupber John Teares the house, saying bi ‘As sho is wobbing because of hls apparent neglect Adam comes mistreating her, and she replies that the marriage was merely « mistake, het f Shortly afterward, John takes wer to the Biltmore for dinner and she sees Nina with CHAP’ x. | The |a8 she bent over her ovén and flew Continued.) GAIN and again Jobn's eyes sought that table in the corner and Varia, with a suffocating pain wrenching at her hedrt, wondered if he had brought her here because he knew Nina was dining out? She found herself watching them covertly, and she saw with a start that the man with Nina was not Mel Rogers. “Who is with Nina?” she asked John. “Goldman, the muiti-millionaire,” John answered, as though he did not like to tell her. “But he's married, John!" Varta said in a shocked voice. Nina dining with that old roue! Other women did such things, but not one’s.own sister! Just. because he had millions he could beautiful woman——Varia’s thoughts plunged on headlong. the most ‘The dinner that John had ordered 80 carefully went for nothing, Varia felt the taste of ashes in h and she only longed to get away from these lights, from this pretended gayety, from the music that seemed to mock and hurt her * mouth, “Let's go on,” John suggested, and Varia consented with dry lips. “I'll ‘phone for tickets to q show,” John told her when they were yon their way out. V: saw Nina and her escort coming to- loitering about, rd her. But as she drew nearer, Varia had a sick Sensation of appre- hension. Nina was wrapped in a cloak of moleskin, so luxurious, so rich that there was no mistaking its value. Nina did not see her sister. Varin watched:as she went out with the fat, red-faced man beside her. Only this week, Nina had been storming because she had not money enough! What about this cape? What did it mean? CHAPTER XI. RY as she would, Varia could not get that last picture of Nina out of her mind, Nina, wrapped in that wonderful coat, with her head titted buck, looking up into the eyes of that red-faced, fat old millionaire! In a very desperation at last she flung on her clothes and took a bus that would drop her not far from N 's flat. ‘Oh, it’s you!" Nina grested her and went along the narrow hall that led to her bedroom, Boxes and tissue paper littered the bed, and cluttered up the free space on the floor. “I've just been getting some things,” Nina explained, pulling a bandbox from a chair and kicking it under the bed, “it’s nice of you to come, Varia. I was rather a wretch the other night! But Dad sent me the allowance and Mel has made a lucky strike! Sounds like an adver- tisement,” she rattled on, clearing a space for herself on the bed and clasping her arms about her knees. Varia was so relieved that she could have wept or flung her arms about Nina. Instead, she just stood there Jooking at her. Nina's cheeks were bright with ‘excitement; her heavy dark hair had come unloosed and a coll hung low in her neck and she had a gipsy-like charm that caught Varia afresh. “What an adorable dress!" Varia cried, catching a glimpge of a lav- sfider and silver frock that showed hrough the open closet door “Don't let's bother about o now,” we're going to get out of this stuffy hole, Mel says I shall have a car and per we can run down to Palm Beach" ‘The bell interrupted them and Nina came back into the room bearing an- other box in hgr arms. “A frock,” she said carelessly and about a long box. The open box showed a velvet gowa exclaimed in wonder “Why, Nina, it must have cost a fortune! Nina hung it carelessly in her closet and Varia saw with startled ¢ the closet was already overcrowded, a dress of brown duvetyn and that wonderful fur coat again, a neglix¢ with bands of fur made in favorite flame color. glimpse. Varia’ said as she stood up and be to put her fur ubout her neck, ‘but"”— “IT know what you're going to 8a, ing; that oldman is as stupid as he looks. He's tre; afterward, met Me! there’ by. Varla, walking slowly down € vent Avenue, wond glimpse she ha gowns, of Mel's “lucky strik the back of her mind. showed in Nina's ¢ talked so quickly nothing that she could p on. the impression pe t her fing sisted. her morbid fears. ‘Lamb chops and fresh telephone in its 1 on the her apron, cried bitter tears of dig- appointment she eryin othes Nina said petulantly, kicking the door shut. “I want to tell you about Mel—he's doing wonderfully— began pulling off the wrapping paper of an exquisite shade of rose. Varia 8 that But Nina closed the door quickly when Viria had had just that one “You looked wonderful last night,” an Nina laughed, “but don’t say it, darl- ness friend of Mel's and it was policy for me to go out to dinner with him. But he bored me to ‘death"—— she yawned behind a white hand. “We Went to the thea- The sisters kissed each other good- d why it was that in spite of Nina's words, in spite » boxes and the of Nina's new ” there was something like aprrahension at Was it'the nervous excitement that ss of the way she Surely it was ‘But when she was once more in her own kitchen with a pink and white checked apron covering her Qresa, getting the dinner on Sally Lou's afternoon out, she shook off een peas, mashed potatoes, that were as light and creamy as a cloud, salad with John by pretending to make lowe lo iy Sy. iF Bee to set her table that, like a bride's, was spotless with her beautiful damask, her flowers and her flat pol- ished silver. The telephone on the desk called her, and she ran into the living room and knelt on John’s chair as she can't come home to dinner? Oh--" she caught her breath and then. tried to si it's quite all right No, no differ- ence in a casual voice, “Yes, But when she had put back phe pe, whe sat down ¥ and, burying her face in She had lain awake planning this dinner for John! She so wanted hun ty See that she was a good cook. Then t up angrily. Here she was and John, whe was going out to dine, had given her nover a thought! 1 guess,” said Varia aloud, with @ rebellious toss of her head, “that I'm not going to ery about him, when he dvesn't even think of m - but she made no effort to move and sat there buried in deep thought, until a amell of burning started ber on the run for the kitchen, Her, pie was ruined! Varia laughed a funny little choked Inugh, and haw. ing scraped the burnt, smoking mass out she cleared a place on the kitehey table, seated herself on the high stor and ‘began her own dinner alone, while the thoughts that she tried to bury came surging back to her. Where was John dining? Was there uny chance left for her? And yet— and yet, didn't he haye the right to din where he would when Varia was nothing but his housekeeper? Perhaps, John would come home early? Varia put on a little white dress of taffeta and a long chain of silver that Was set with unpolished turquoise stones, Her arms and neck were very white; her face, too, seemed coldrless, but her eyes looked as blue as deep mountain lakes and had a ike quality of mysterious depth. : What could she do all evening? She turned off the lights, put a candle on either aide of her music on the piane and having lit them, sat down to play herself into peace. The bell! John must have known she was longing for him. * * * “Oh, it's you, Adam,” she said with a drop in her yoice. “All alone?” aria nodded. Adam Phillips, taking off his great coat and shaking his hat, said casu- Snowing out doors: “Would you like some music?" “Nothing better,” he answered, sinking down into the wide chair, where John usually read the papers, Varis ly straight on the plano soft hair like an aureole her face, her features andie light. Adam, watching her, thought she med Jike some picture he remem- bered, Mut could not place. She was so infinitely girlish! She pulled at his heart strings, made him think of a garden he knew'as a boy, where white lilacs lifted their plumes to t del the sky, where wild violets, deeply biue, like her eyes, hid in the deep grass. * . “God, stop it! Her hands came down with a crash on the keyboard, she swung around and faced him? : “What about me?” she said, “how am I going to stand !t much longer? What does he think I am, a stone- woman”—she unlaced her fingers anit stared across at Adam, who was lean- ing forward studying the rug at his feet. “Adam, Adam dear, I didn't mean it!” she’ begged, “being alone like this—somehow it makes you say wild things—you can forget it, can't you?" He said nothing, but’ still stared before him, “You know that silly thing, Adam, ked you to do?;1 release you— »w Lever could have thought that anything would make John jealous!” “Look here, Varia, you can’t go on living like this. It isn’t natural, Best thing you can do is to go away." “Oh, no, not that!" You're’ young. You'll get over it n’s 4 good fellow and ail ot the only man"—- Varia stopped him, Vd never hold up my head again. ‘ou're not a woman, Adam; you can’t know. To know that a man can't Jove you, when you have done everything, when you have thought about him—and worked and prayed —somotines I wonder what it is, Jf there |g son b couldn thing about me that dis- gusts John,” She put her hand over her eyes and sat there very still, I'm not crying, Adam, it's too deep for that" — ‘Look be stand it!" be cs hands on he mulders and Apoke in a rough voice, “I've known you long enough, and I'm not going to stand it! Wibether John had entered very quietly or whether they had been too intent to hear him was of no matter. He was there. A pause as long as two heart-beats, us long us ebernity, caught all three in its grip. Then Jobn laughed and sald, com- ing forward: “That's right, old man; donit get away with It" Adam held out bis hand and John took it, and, turning, offered hisbox of cigars, and Varia heard John aey- ing something about “the Ddeastly weather,” and Adem answering easily She had turned back to her piano and was running her fingers idly over the keys, and 48 an awkward silence settled down for a moment Varia sprang into the dashing music of something she heart the other night with Liners Mat e “ The twinkling notes oped from her fingers like liquid fire, and she played on to the end “Good night.” Adam sald, getting y a, who introduced a to authorize « ot wining ‘Unfilled orders for new lecellancous work amounted to at the end of 19: 1 compared with i apple’ pte, uch’ a lot to do, even in getting that new dressing she had learned to make, and John's favorite dessert— abruptly, to hia feet. “Hope TN be in. next time you come,” John answered. such a simple little dinner! Varia (Read To-Morrow's Interesting Ine a4 ‘om, growing flashed alent ‘