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‘the foreign situation. $3.87%. safety’s sake— Life Boats by law for the invest- ments ofGuardiansand _ | vest any amount from $100 upward and in- _ terest begins at once. LAWYERS 4 MORTGAGE co. ‘tions—} mission Charge s— How to Indorse a Stock Certificate—-H ow to ‘Group Investments. Ree at a Call, phone or writé for OaNo. Ee Wott Ask for latest available -news on active securities, | JONES & BAKER _ Specialists in New York | Carb Market Securities | 424 STREET OF FICE ‘605 hb Avenue “‘Telephoise Murrs.y Hal! 7129 ‘Traders were unable to find fresh ives in the news of the day on to base new market commit- ‘There wasmo outward ohange All foreign Standard Of Company of New announced a reduction in the of gasolene of 2 cents a gallon, ‘Trustees. You may ine & (Complete Stock Exchangu ‘and Curb Quotations Appear Daily” in Wall Street Final - Edition of The Evening World.) ' stock market price movements this ing were more inconsequential uninteresting than at any pre- time this year, At times trad- was almost at a complete stand- Bearish profeasionils seemed to sell the market because the fact that the short interest pw is so large that it is almost idly. On the other hand there a minimum of outside buying, most of the purchases recorded short covering by floor and the “New” York company on- nounced a further reduction of 1 cent @ gation, but this failed to have an unfavorable sentimental .nfluence on the price of oil shares They moved within an extremely restricted range, with gains and losses being evenly | dividea. Sugar ebares refused to become disturbed by the publication of a very poor annual report by the American Refining Company. A sustaining in- ftuence in the market for these shares raw and refined sugar. Various steel trade journals pub- lished their usual weekly report on of a dwindling volume of incoming lower prices, steel shares were prac- tically neglected and in the main held at about a parity with the close of last night. During the first hour of trading there was a concerted bear attack on General Motors, the evident inten- tion of the bear crowd being to un- settle the whole motor share list. But General Motors refused to de- cline more than a fraction and the remainder of the motor and accessory shares held steady. Money continued to renew at 7 pet cent., and while owing to the liquidat- ed condition of the market and the current small volume of transactions the demand for funds is unusually light, there are now only faint ex- pectations that the renewal rate will shortly be lowered to 6 per cent. ——— Wall St. Gossip is the recent advance in the price of | ‘ trade conditions, and while these told)’, orders, of reduced operations and|- Open. High Low. Mawka UO oeeeee 1% 1M Ne Ainara Sungate 1% 11M Seo Newt Sugar... 43% 43% 42% Mt Beach Magnow ft 101% | 16% wi% | 2M at 10% ow 3 % BAY me an 2% n% 19% 9% 1% Calif Proking cose. 6 6 Canad’ @ Macific .. Mle 113% ute Centra Leather 4. SK RBM Cerro De Parco .., MO oT Chandler Motors .. 71% 1% 58% «8% 26% LIBERTY BONDS. ‘Libert: 1-28 opened 90.60, off .12; Ist 45, 86.80, off 10; Ist 41-45, 87 2d, 86.82, off 04; 3d, 90. up .02; 4th, 87.06; Victory 43-4s, > CURB, Opened stead. Int, Pet. 15 1-8, up 1-8; Int.-Cont. Rubber, 10—101-8; Retail Candy, 71-2—8; Durant Mo- tors, 21; Simme Pet, 7 1-8—7 3-8; Maracaibo Oil, 211-2—22 1-2; Carib. 51-2—4 3-4; Tobacco Producty Ex- porta, 7—0. . DIVIDENDS. ‘The International Motor Truck Co. declared the regular quarterly divi- dends of 13-4 per cent. on the 1st and 2a preferred stocks payable April 1 to stock of record, March 22. ‘The Kerr Lakes Mines Company de- H. Kress Co, declared the regular Uber a9 13-4 per cent, pre- ferred dividend, payable April 1 to stock of record March 19. The United Drug Co, declared the regular quarterly 2 per cent, common dividend, payable April 1 to stock of record March 15. FOREIGN EXCHANGE OPPNING. Frenoh francs, cables, .0704, off ,0002. Sterling, demand, 3.87 3-8. Lire, ca- bles, .0366, uncharged. Belgian francs, demand, .0734, cables, .0735, up 0001, Marks, cables, .0156, up .0003. Canada dollars, demand, . uns changed. Swiss francs, demand, 1880, cables, 1685, up ,0010. Guilders, demand, .3420, cables, .3430, up 0005. Pesetas, demand, .1383, cables, .1288, ip .0003. Sweden kroners, demand, 2230, cables, .2235, uni No! way kronere, demand, ..1589, cable: -1594, wp _.0009, Denmark kroners, de- mand, .1660; cables, .1665, up .0005. Ar- gentine pesos, demand, , cables, .7870, unchanged, (anne ORE PROTEST AT PORT AND HARBOR PLAN Commissioner O'Malley Believes It Will Increase Cost and Delay Foodstuffs. City Markets Commissioner O'Malley in @ long statement to-day attacks the Proposed New York and New Jersey port and harbor development plan urged by Gov, Miller, With a formal protest of his own, Mr. O'Malley sent to the \e Mayor a protest fram West Side Taxpayers’ Association, through — its Preaklent, George H. Stowe. Mr. Gtexe 4 quoted’as saying the plan “would de- ro may tak the present primary wholesale et and force food wholesalers e thelr deliveries to the Jersey mead- In this sees added expe and cost to the consumer, Mr. O'Malley ‘objects to the proposed plan along the same lines and further, that it is another move for State con ‘airs. He says the cost of foodstuffs but cause delay and that, it will'e ‘ar more than to make needed improvements on this alde of the Hud- 207, LOST, FOUND AND REWARDS, MEWARD will be paid far rouurn of aavion, iuerald crom with 3 peudabt ‘peara| leat Hy atwemoon between, E 11th at, ‘sod a lotel. either ‘on sidewalk or {n° tant, Auniy tre, Joni Waaner St. Regis Hotel. HELP WANTED—MALE. STENOGRAT HON, apd and accurate, at once, Lewis Wrecking Co., Peltiam Naval st Phone Lili Westchester, ation. HELP WANTEO—FEMALE. HOUSEWORKER, general; competent jj, must be guod cook; two | Hi oa one, aire, FB ey Morningside Drive, cormer 126th st, ; ne wate ‘lee 108 wa PERSONALS. 1 WILL pay no bills contracted by my wife, Lillian B. Hay, or my son, Allan y, or others, without 4 written trom me A.W ole. BENJAMIN GROD Mareh 7 + beloved som of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Groden. Funeral on Thursday, March 10, at 11.30 A. M.. from his late residence, 697 Greene ay., Brooklyn, SERGEANT.-LOUISE B. CAMPBBLL’S, Bway 66th st., Wednesday, 11 A, M. FUNERAL DIRECTORS. At Your Service, Day or Night PRANK F. CAM FUNERAL Consol Clear...) Con JotOnl Mining Cont Candy . Ooaden O11 Com Producta .... Craable Stel .... 92% Cuba Cane Sagar., 28 Cima Amer Sugar, 2044 1 5% 1% 2% 11% Tnvinetble OU Island OU Inter Paper pf st Jowel Tea. RESUME INQUIRY OF “FASHION REVIEW” Girls Say They Sold Tickets on Representation Funds Would. Go to Disabled Soldiers, Investigation of the disposition of funda accruing from the recent Fashion Review was continued to-day by Assostant District Attorney James BH. smith, Representatives of the models employed for the show and who were not paid as promised, ap- peared before him, as did several girls employed to sell tickets, repre- senting the proceeds were to be used for disabled soldiers. Qne young woman said she sold $1,500 worth of tickets in Wall Street, another $30 worth on Fifth Avenue buses. Sophie Rosenberg, proprietor of the “Clarice” shop, No. 101 West 44tr Street, eaid she had furnished an exhibit of gowns and two models, and had lost five of the gowns valued at $790. * An attornes reBresenting Frank L. Ta¥bott and John C. Bernard, the promoters of the exhibition, repudi- ated letter purporting to be creden- pete crops the feviaw so sicker sellers Which stated the proceeds were to bi Used for disabled’ soldiers ’. Nias Pte oe MORE FORD CHIEFS QUIT. Neither of Can clals An WINDSOR, Ont., March 9.—B. Moss McKenzie, general purchasing agent of the Ford Motor Company of Can) and W. G. Wells of the superintendent's office have resigned, it was announced to-day. Neither announced his reason for retirement. NITRO-GLYCERINE TORPEDO CAUGHT BY OIL WORKER Held It Until Crowd Got to Safety Then Dropped It Down Well Casing. BRECKENRIDGE, Tex. March 9 Ci a twenty-quart nitroglycerine torpedo as it was blown from the casing by an unexpected flow of gas, Powell Wright yesterday held it until fifty persons and two bun- dred quarts of the explosive on a wagon reached safety. He then dropped {t back into the hole with the receding gas and escaped, * The derrick was wreoked by the impact and the well caught fire when the torpedo was lifted to the crown block by @ recurrence of et tamer pats Salas 9 4% | Kelly Soringfiold... Kennecott Copper. . Keystone Tire, Last. 7 m % THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 19213 WOMAN A HEROINE = IN HOW UP OF me) 10% 1%) 10% * Agent Telephones for Help aX | and Negroes Flee. 10 New York's hold-ap wave appar- Neo York Central oe fontly is going merrily along, acoord- Norfolk & Water Nora Scotia Stee! dahoma PF & R “ 31% revolver in her face, 4% 67 87 Pm te ge carrying canes hailed him at 434 6 38 ,erside Drive. ax 2% H,} ing to daring exploits reported to-' ” 3'* closed, in one of which a woman day. Several robberies were dis- heroine defied bandits who thrust a George Setenrich, twenty-three, No. 1030 Union Avenue, Bronx, was driv- ing his taxicab down Broadway early day when two well dressed youths 0% Street and asked 90 be taken up Riv- At 97th Street one tapped on the window with his cane and said they wanted to get out. Setenrich drove jto the curb and stopped, and when 4 |his fares stepped out one had a re- volver pointed at him, “Throw up your hands,” he said. “We want all you've got.” The chauffeur jumped from his seat and as his feet touched the side the youth with the revolver brought 6M 28 | the butt down on his head. He fell 7g | stunned and they went through his + 40% }Pockets, taking all the money he had, v2% | $19. Recovering, he tried to follow 42% | them, but they escaped. Ge Miss Jessie Hall of No. 1286 Bush- Stand Oil of NJ pt 106% Saou | Wick Avenue, Brooklyn, ticket agent Stowart-Wafnor .., 81% 31% @1% 214%) at the B R. T. Queens Boulevard ele- . Aim® 2 — ai% «6 | vated station, Jamaica, told to-day he a ae “tk |how she defied two negroes, one 41% 41% “Kru 41Q | @Pmed, and saved the company's 2% %@% 2% wt | money in an attempted hold-up about ey 1 o'clock Monday morning. “One man held a gun and grabbed a handful of change—perhaps $1— while the other wrenched open the dour of my booth,” ghe said. “Th men were about 19 and appeared to be amateurs. I grabbed the telephone and called: ‘768 Emergency, quick!’ The man with the money dropped it and both fled.” *Miss Hall said it was foolish for robbers to select quiet stations, as cash, the company making frequent collections. “It is perfectly all right for women to act as station agents,” she said. “Men agents are armed, but they usually give up whem faced by rob- bers, while women agents use their wits and get away with it. All sta- 2% | tions should have outside sirens, o| 26% 29% |erated by pushbuttons, to give instant @ = %S = |notice of hold-ups.” 3 Westin 56% 86%) Willlam McGovern, twenty-one, a Wai ee % = 47 |haborer, of No. 127 West 25th Stree, od ogee E vt 16% 161, | was urrested early to-day after he and b create %% 38%] two other men, according to the po- Wile Otrtanit +] 18% 18% |Iice, had held up Charles W, Mor- wi e-Orarlan, te! at on ue rison, a broker's agent, of No, 325 THIS MALT BREWS West 58th Street, in Eighth Avenue, near 46th Svreet. Morrison said one of the meh or- dered him to throw up his hands, Morrison seized the muzzle of the ONLY TROUBLE )| revoiver, but released his hold on it when, he sald, MoGovern cut his right Dealer Finds a Partition in Cans, One Side Filled With Water, Nicholas Schwartz of No held in $3,000 bail in the Yorkvi Court to-day on a charge™of gra larceny. by Rudolph Baumgarten of No. Avenue A, a dealer in malt and hops, Baumgarten said he paid $400 Schwartz for twenty cans of malt, but that only eight cans were de- livered and these contained only one quart each, the rest of the can con- taining only water se the malt by a partition, Schwartz was arr o'clock ‘this morning The River, on @ gran dating from’ 19 Sa ited t at 3. N. char FOUR FOOD DEALERS FINED. Four food dealers were fined an ag- sre) Cobb in 1187 Washington Avenue, the Bronx, was The complaint was made 1487 | Business and Labor Will Have Rep- his home. Police say he is wanted at South of $650 to-day by Magistrate| New York the Municipal Term Court for offering for sale misbranded and adul- hand index finger with a knife. Mor- rison called for help’ and the three men ran down Eighth Avenue. De- tectives Walding and Moorgor chased them and McGovérn was arrested. DAYLIGHT SAVERS TO INVADE ALBANY Ne nd resentatives in Special Train to Capital. Representatives thirty-four busi- ness and labor organizations of Greater to arated from | New York are going to Albany to-mor- row morning at 8.30 o'clock to present | 20 | to Gov. Miller arguments in favor of daylight saving at the hearing which the Governor will give on the Daylight Saving Repeal Bill, which was forced through the Legislature by majority party leaders, Waldo H. Marshall will head the Merchants’ Association delegation. Dr. m4) ‘Royal S. Copeland, Health Commis- sioner, will speai for the city's health Hee eh Sefer oP es James P. ent eo State Federation of Labor, hag’ announced he will oppose the re- pea) bill in behalf of organized labor. ree terated goods, ,lorannt Savon, No, 2296 | Second JERSEY CENTRAL is “andeloros, No. an qSeonna Avenue, were fined $250) “BROKE;”-MEN WILL an |. respectively, for {fers is- branded and” adsiterted “sive "oi,| WORK ON CREDIT James Pepe, 2042 First Avenue, was fined $200 for having 154 rH Wear Wailer te baats dic, exe) $1000 Shop Employees, Lad Of fined "$100" tor having stale eggs in her} Sevéral Weeks Ago, Offer to MAY BUY MANHATTAN. Director Galle Purchase of Opera House, Fortuno Gallo, managing director the Gallo Grand Opera Company, has Oscar Hammerstein for the purchase of the begug negotiations with Mrs, Manhattan Opera House, Mrs, Ha merstein has refused offers up to $900,- 000 which would involve the disuse of the property for operatic purposes, definite sum is involved in the Gallo Gallo 4 negotiations #o far, Mr. to-day he is merel: Negotiating for leclared trying to help Mre. over = financial Accept Road's I, O. U. . HOPWORKERS of the Jersey Central at Blizabeth, N. J., laid ‘off several weeks ago because, they were told, the com- pany had no furfds to pay them, have offered, it was reported to- day, to work on credit. Representatives of nearly 3,000 men met at the Dlizabeth Cham- ber of Commerce yesterday, after learning the company’s locomo- tives were being sent to Phila- delphia for repairs, and entered of No Hammerstein tide into an agreement to accept the troubles: 5 rants ° hattan weet alike her, wants the Man-| companys I. 0. U.'s for their will be Tow, Serene Aged Windmill Maker Dead. Andrew Corcoran, onaire windmill to-day after a long illn at his hon ‘stein. The otLact negotiations eighty-two, mil- manufacturer, died labor, the wage debts to be paid whenever convenient. Merchants of the town, it is understood, have agreed to accept railroad L O. U's in payment for merchan- me, | aise, No, 16 Kensington Avenue, Jersey City, C. BE. Chambers, Superintend- Aetiat $i nee vcat"aet| et of Motive, Power, 10 whom survived by two sons and twa daugh-| the offer would come, eaid to-day in St, Aloyistue’s Church, Jars | Ne had not yet. recetved tt. He Aeclined to tate his they never had more than $5 or $10 in| U.S. HOOCH STOCK | SHRINKS HALF: 10 B. RT. STATION LAST ONLY A YEAR ‘se Ignoring Revolver, Plucky Mitch of 20,000,000, Gallons Left Only Water, U. S. j Officials Declare. (Special from a Staff Correspondent | of The Evening World.) | WASHINGTON, March 9.—Bonded warehouses of the United States only contain about 60 per cent. of the amount of liquor which Government records show on hand, according to a high official of the Internal Revenue Bureau. | “According to the law,” said this official, “the liquor does not have to be tested by the Government for four years after manufacture, and when tests are made a large amount of that now in the waxehouses will prove to be water. Illegal withdrawals run- ning into millions of gallons are cov- ered up by the substitution of water, or leaving the empty barrels. The records of the Internal Revenue Bu- | reau show 40,000,000 gallons of liquor in bond, but in ity there ts not ore than 20,000,000 gallons on hand. “Thousands of empty barrels will be found when investigation is made.” ‘The same official predicted large numbers of fires at Government ware- houses this spring. A recent inquiry by the Internal Revenue officials shows a startling | amount of loss by “leakage” or “evap- ‘ oration” in the warehouses, and also by fire and theft. At the present rate of disappearance jit would seem that Uncle Sam's supply of hooch will be only a memory within another year or two unlecs it is replenished by manufacture. Here are the figures showing the alarming increase in leakage, evap- oration and breakage under Prohibi- tion. For the year ended June 30, 1919, the last year before National Prohi- bition became effective, the loss by or evaporation was: Whiskey, 460,897 gations. Loss from the sume causes In the bonded warehouses for the year ended June 30, 1920, was | 2,114,071 gallons. While only 1,211 gallons of rum “evaporated” in 1919, loss from the same cause for 1920 was 0 gallons. Gin “evaporated” at the rate. of 1,48 gallons in 1919, as compared with 17,708 gallons in High wines showed no evaporation in 1919, but by some strange freak of nature 593 gallons disappeared by “evaporation” in 1920, Alcohol, 9,684 gallons “evaporated” in 1919, as compared with 18,190 in 1920. Lost by casualty breakage for year ended Jane 30, 1919: Whiskey, 3 gallons; loss from same cause year ended June 30, 1920, 53,173 gallons. Rum, 1919, none; 1920, 4,198 gal- Jons. Gin, 1919, none; lons. High wines, 1919, none; 1920, 370 gallons. Alcohol, 1919, 168,380 gallons. Loss from fires in 1919, none; 1920, 182,860 gallons. Stolen in 1919, none; stolen in 1920, 23,007 gallons. a DAVIS SAILS FOR AMERICA. Distingsished Crowd at Station in Lendon te See Him oft. LONDON, March 9.—Jobn W. Davis, retiring United States Ambassador to Great Britain, left London for South- ampton this morning on his way to the United States. A large crowd of diplo- mats, Government officials and figures prominent in the soclety of the Britisn capital was at Waterloo station to bid him farewell. Among those at the station were Lord and Lady Reading, Viscount and Vis- countess Bryce, the Ambassadots of Spain, Japan, Brazil and Italy, the Swiss | Minister and representatives of the | French Embassy. Mr. and Mrs, Davis will sail for America on the Olympic. The Admiralty has ordered one flotilla leader and eight destroyers to meet the Olympic at Bp! ead and escort her.clear of the Isle of Wight as a compliment to Mr. Davis, WAATRR YOU KNOW? mri, Nob Pam, wu World.) 1. What is a bicentenary anniver- sary? 2. What is bitumen, the element in bituminows coal which gives it its name? 3. What fi patra’s wiles arms? 4. What name is given to the sur- ical operation by which a piece o' the skull is removed to relieve a pres- sure on the brain? 5. we was the oldest President of the United States? 6. Who was the husband of the fa- 1920, 18,344 gal- 272 gallons; 1920, victim of Cl a vampire died in her mous French Queen, Marie Antoi- nette? 7. Of what State is St. Paul the capital city? & What East Indian plant fibre is used in the manufacture of rope and bagging? 9, What explosive i id atu rating an absorbent mane, Wy ealae glycerin? ‘ 10, What is the name of the la island, at the extrem: of South America, divided from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan? ANSWERS, 1, Two hundredth; 2, mineral pitch; Mare Antony; 4, t ning: iiiam Hinman tc jute, 2, * J 7- ae southern end Pi S ds it | No, Corman, 1991. by The Pre. Publishing On (The New York Mvening World) UHAPTER XV. (Continued) ‘A gave herself up to the luxury of th monotonous motion, She felt proud of herself for what she was about to do, For she had decided in that moment that she would go to John's office and tell him frankly that their—friendship—must end. ‘ What a volatile thing their retation had been! She knew that John still loved her, that she could make his heart beats quicken and his pulses throb just by the lift of her eyes, by the touch of her finger tips on’ his coat sleeve, Her eyes narrowed as she remem- bered that scene she had with him, when, he had come to lend her the thousand dollars. How he had drawn back from her as she stood there in her room with her negligee caught in the door! He had fought against her—he had left her without even et etn But if she chose she knew she could bring him to his knees. “If I chose—but I don’t choose any longer.” It was delightful to feel that she was being noble. That she was delib- erately going to send back this man to his wife by her own power. ‘The actress in her id Siege bag res er of the part, and she saw her- cate: in John’s office telling him that he must forget her. She would say it with just the touch of a sob in her voice, that little thrill that Ethel Barrymore used, that would make one cry if one could not even see her! en she paid the taxi driver at the door of the office building she felt herself keyed to the emotion that she was about to act. “Mr. Amory,” Nina said to the ad- miring office boy. “Mr Amory berths he explained, eyeing her doubtfully. ‘when will he be in?” she insisted. “Anytime now,” he an: |. look- ing at the big office clock. Nina sat down on the hard bench in the outer office, looking about her with disgust. What a dull looking place, with tho great flat-topped desks and the filing cases! What a stupid looking boy, that one, who answored her ques- tions. She yawned; some of her dra~- matic fervor began to ebb away. If John didn’t come soon, she just wouldn’t wait—— Nina saw a mirror hanging on the back of a door down the passageway. She stood up and went over to it, eyeing herself even in the dim light with pleasure. How the softness of the moleskin became her! How dusky her hair wag beneath the fur turban, and that pale feather that touched her shoul- der was bewitching. She powdered her nose daintily and smiled at her own reflection. It would be difficult for any man to re- sist her. “Mr, Amory can see you now.” the lanky office boy told her. “I thought ‘you said he wasn't in?” she asked half-angrily. “He wasn't in except to special ap- pointments,” he told her, “but he'll see you now"— Nina's mood had veered. She was annoyed that any one could treat her so. Men usually, waited for her, and | that she should have to sit out in a stuffy office, while John sat compla- cently within— | The boy held open the door of the private office and Nina went in. She held out her gray-gloved hand to John without a word. John Amory was standing by the window. He bowed, but he did not seem to see the hand. The annoyance beneath the surface of Nina's mood grew into temper. But she cloaked it with a smile. “I hope I'm not in the way,” she said, lifting her dark winglike brows and leaning on his desk, “Won't you sit down?" he pulled a chair away from his desk at a good distance from his own. His coldness infuriated her as noth- You unspeakable sneak!" “Tl have to ask you not to scream. I don"t want the office force coming in, even if you do.” “You'll be sorry for this, I”—— “Nina,” he maid slowly, “we've had enough of this melodrama. I Want you to tell me quietly what you did with that money,’ If there is no way Of recovery, we'll let it go. That was my risk. I told your husband to-day I t he was mistaken about you. You haven't the courage to be @ bad woman—just a silly ore.” Emotion had ravaged the face that Nina lifted to him. “The thousand dollars is he! she said proudly. “This cloak I t at Gunther's, I like your heroic airs, John. I think they fit you after way you have treated your wife!” She pushed back her chair and left the office. ,. When Nina had gone, John went to the window and opened it. The cool afr swept into the room, obliterating the last traces of the exotic perfume that emanated eter- nally from the pe®on of Nina. Not until the office was fgesh and cold did John bring down the window with a crash. He stood for a while looking at the door through which she had gone, as though expecting her to return at any moment. Sure at last of his privacy, he sank down in the office chair and sat for a long time with his head in his hands. In the last ahalysis he had no cen- sure for Nina. It was himself that he despised and scorned. He could not keep his thoughts concentrated on her, for a littl white blur of a face with violet-blue eyes and a tender mouth came before his vision, “I don't deserve her,” he said so- berly, getting up to pace the room, He realized that love was a chang- ing quantity. He know the constraint he had put on bimself many a time whon he had been alone with Varia. Now he could offer her nothing less than the best. Would she want what he had to give her—for she knew the searing tires through which he had passed. “But I love her.” he said aloud. He saw her the way she looked across at him many an evening when the candies burned in their silver sockets, her light hair gilded with the flame, her face so dclicately sweet. “Lought to go to her on my knees,” be told himself. “Sf she will take me, cite make her happy. I swear J will!” He plodded up and down the office with head bant—thinking, thinking. Love is a changeable quantity. While he had frown to know Varia, to watch her pretty, unconscious ways, her thoughtful tenderness, she must bave seen him too. Love is not static. Had he ever given her any cause to love him? He cursed himself for a dolt as he walked the room, finally analyzing feria the characters of the two sis- ers. Nina, flaming and flaunting like a great Oriental poppy, ‘and Varia, one of those fairy-ijke cups of color that he remembered in his mother's gar- den—shirley poppies. ‘The one whose beauty caught one and made one cry out, the other whose fragile coloring gradually called forth the exclamation of wonder. “She's a flower,” he thought, long- ing for words to express her charm. He was like a boy again, thrilling with the thought of this wonder-child— his wife. ‘Was there @ second chance? “By Jove, Amory, what's up? Have you forgotten you're dining with me at the University Club?” Jim Cather asked, slamming open the door and pounding John on the back. “Sorry, old fellow,” John said slow- ly. He wondered how he could put in CHAPTER XVI. HE little apartment was very ing else could have done She forgot her resolutions, she only had one de- sire, and that'was to bring the old look back on his face, the old light into his eyes. =‘ “You're angry at me, John?” she asked, feeling her way. ' “No,” he answered, tapping nerv- ously on his desk with his strong fingers. “You're not busy?" she said in that sott, pleading voice, “No,” he sald again without looking t her. *“aLook at me, then!" she implored. She tilted back her head, and her long, dark eyes, sensuously soft, were on his face. He scowled and looked across at he er. “Well?” His face was hard and in- different and unmoved; even when she rose quickly and went over and touched his brown hair he jerked away from her. “Oh, John, you don’t love me any ." she breathed. He laughed. It was not a pleasant laugh; it struck the tympanum of Nina's ears with a harsh noise. No one ever laughed at her—no one ever could— Now John Améry kept his eyes on her face. They seemed to burn into her and the expression about his mouth was not pleasant as he talked. “You call that love? That. feeling that you aroused in me—J'd hate to tell you what I cali it! If I hadn't been a fool I would have known what you were when you ran off as you aid. But men never know when they are being fooled, by such women as sls ae now think T hate you—that feeling next door to love? I know you. I've known ever since that last play-acting of yours, when you caught yourself in the door so cleverly, “It you've wrecked my chances for happiness, that's neither here nor there. But you've come very near to wrecking your own. Do you know your husband came here to-day; de- manded an explanation?” ‘The spots of rouge on Nina's face stood out grotesquely against her den pallor. oaNo, I didm’t give you away. I'm going to meet the bills you ran up. Butt want to know one thing: Where is that thousand dollars that I lent you?” } “That's it, of course, money!" Nina sald with an unpleasant sneer. “Whenever there's a question of money you see the real man!” “Where is that money?” he demand- the time until he could see Varia. quiet. Sally Lou had gone out to do the marketing. Varia wis alone. She drew John's letter trom thi som of her dress to read it 5 Then with a new decision she went over to the desk and sat down. “Dear Adam,” she began and then stopped. She was about to make a decision that would affect her whole life. The course she chose now would decide her ultimate happiness. “I've thought and thought since you left me last night of what 1 should do. “You said that for the sake of prudery I ought not to ruin three lives. I’m just the same girl that you used to play with when we lived next door., Adam, you used to say then I’ took too many chances, that I didn’t care, “I don't want you to think that I'm afraid now. “Don't think that Iam going to stay with John because I ought: it's because I MUST. Perhaps ft should be happier with you, Adam. I know how kind you would be, how thoughtful and how careful for me. But now I don't know whether happiness is so important after all. It's some- thing deeper than that. Perbaps all women are this way—that they feel there is only one man; that he may treat them badly, neglect them, be indifferent, but they would rather be ignored by him than worshipped by another, “Te’s all been my fault, Adam, I thought we could be friends, but perhaps friendship between a man and a woman can never stay where it is begun. “I do like you so, I do admire you-I want you to be happy. Please don't think that just be- cause you can’t have me I am something better than other wom, en, There are so many horrid things about me, Adam, that you have never guessed and that I have hidden away. I am jealous, frightfully jealous at times, a! though no one knows it but m: self, When 1 tell you I've been jealous of my own sister, you can er things that 4f you knew would make you laugi: at the girl you think you.care for ed inexorably, 6,|_ “You'll have it back—never fear'’— ber bled with her fury. to-day"——~ —now. I want you to laugh and say to yourself, ‘Oh, she’s just'a sitly thing,” and forget me. (Read To-Morrow’