The evening world. Newspaper, May 4, 1922, Page 28

THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1922." rette In her mouth, her arms clasped round her knees, she settled down happily, overlooking the desert. The noontime hush seemed over every- thing, Not a breath of wind atirred | y i { f (| the tops of the palms; a Nzard on a } ll it M i ARIA al LUN {| rock near her was the only living - UL Ly thing she could see. She glanced over THE MOST TAL ED ny s R TE her shoulder. The men, with their UT STORY IN N YEARS big cloaks drawn over thelr heads, { COPYRIGHT BY SMALL, MAYNARG UC, PUBLISHED Fy Pema were lying asleep, or at any rate only Mustafa Ali PRICE SECRETS Purchases for Its Thou- appeared, to be CHAPTER 11. bs eeeeeneelll OTN) =RS ‘ORY, 1S yop animals, the bare idea made her ‘“ 99 ‘commen ay atin ace, quiver "and bring her hand. down| ye ania, starine fxedly in th tivecs sands of “Economy” Stores DIANA MAYO, nineteen, beautiful, aristocratic English girl, deter- mines to make an expedition into the Arabian desert from Biskra. Efforts of her brother, ANTHONY MAYO, by whom she has been brought up, virtually as a boy, tries to dissuade her. So does JIM ARBUTHNOT, who loves Diana and wants to marry hér. Ata E might have some tatent feelings with regard to the inadvisability “of her be- havior, he might even have Some prickings of conscience on the Subject of his upbringing of her, but heavily on her horse's méck. The nervous creature started sharply and ridden to meet the caravan and was with the chief of the armed guard. With the thoughts thatit had pro- voked the caravan had lost all in- terest for Diana. She wanted to get tion In which they would ride later. Diana threw the end of her cigarette at the lizard and laughed at {ts pre- cipitant flight. She had no desire to follow the exampla of her escort and sleep. She was much too happy to lose a minute of her enjoyment by Give the A&P Gigantic Buying-Powers h 45,000,000 Ibs. BUTTER it was thoughts of his own comior! ball given to celebrate her departure she tells him she has none of | @0y from tt. fo forget tt. aad he} wasting irgeetere: tac ule Annual 28,600,000 doz. EGGS that ‘were troubling him most. That the feelings of a woman, has never been kissed and can obey nd|jixe her guide, had stopped to speak | roy satiated with nerself and hee cont ad @ she knew, and the knowledge was man. Her expedition into the desert is led by with the traders, Diana's horse was} joo;. she had not a care or a thought Sales 175,000,000 Ibs. FLOUR not conducive to fleet, and it was some time before ty kinder feeling MUSTAFA ALI, an Arab with a fine outfit of well-bred horses. in the world. ‘There was not « thing 300,000,000 Ibs. SUGAR towards him. He always had een ee caught her up. There was altnat she would have changed or al- f and always would be supremely self jook of annoyance on Mustafa Ali's} tered, Her life, had always been 0 84,000,000 cans MILK (canned) a. face as she turned on hearing them| happy; she had extracted the last ' . The whole of their life together behind her and signed to him to ride] ounce of pleasure out of every mo- 250,000,000 cakes of SOAP had been conducted to suit his con- . J beside her. ment of it. That her happiness was & Over veniences amd not hers. She knew, ' “Mademoiselle {s not interested in} que to the wealth that had enabled “WHERE ECONOMY RULES” | 360,000,000 Ibs. POTATOES Lec US bab cceinatiy Wan sactisu: i the caravan?” he suiad <onbay wea | BOP? Indulge in the sports and con- sib “No,” she replied shortly, and as! ant travel that made th larly desired on his vinit to America. for some dctails connected with her] total o her desires never occurred to Our COFFEE Sales are over 50,000,000 Ibs. a year. ae Tt was a hunting trip, but not the own expedition. The man talked eas- her. That what composed her pleas- ; ai . REA TkA iivens wakes utilis escur: ily and well, in fluent: B¥ansh, and|uce in lite wae deesinle ont bescess Our Sales of Tea in one year, make 168 Million Gallons: ¢ tomed to: it was a wife and not big f after giving the required information, | she was rich enough to buy the means SPECIAL FOR THE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT i : : volunteered anecdotes relating to va-lof gratifying it did not enter her game that was taking Sir Aubrey i rious well-known people whom he had| head. She thought of her wealth no across the ocean on this occasion. : ‘ guided in the desert. Diana watched| more than of her beauty. The busi- through as expeditiously as pos- His bear@ had been his only draw- Extra Fancy Spanish It had been in his mind for some time at him interested He seemed a man|ness connected with her coming of y P Aistasteful, but a son to succeed him sible, with as little attention to de- dispensable. She would save him respective modes of riding. The Arah's| dispensable for thelr huating trips, Save 4 Cents Bottle Save 10 Cents Bottle to go through with a proceeding that 4 - |laugh of amusement and drew the as an ineyitable and somewhat un of about middie age, though tt was|age, when the big fortune left to her ‘ difficult to guess more than approx!-|pby her father passed unreservedly mately, for the thick, peaked beard] into her own hands, was a weari-|§| - that hid both mouth and chin made was imperative—a Mayo must be fol- ‘ back from Diana's point of view, for} tai! as the old family lawyer had endless trouble, as all arrangements exaggeratedly short stirrup would/ang which was Aubrey’s choosing, he regarded in the light of a sacrifice man on to speak of his horses. The/ bene 9 = is an Dark =a pleasant necessity, Women bored some necessity that had been got him look older than he really was. : - Bottle © MEd iy, 5 Says: An Str was he> point, Small Bottle Large Bottle : she judged men by their mouths. | atiowed, and an absence of interest could be left in her hands and have given her agonies of cramp./not hers, she was not extravagant on the family altar, his wish was to one Diana was riding was an unusu-| Save 13 Cents him, and the idea of marriage was sential for the big property that the % ‘ “ Eyes were untrustworthy evidences|that was evidenced in the careless family had held for hundreds of years, of character in an Oriental, for they | scrawl she attached to each document No woman had ever attracted him, \ \ usually wavered under a European's. | that was given her to sign. The mere but of all women he had met Amer- Mustafa Ali's were abet bien) now 88! money in itself was nothing; it was . ican women were less actively irritat- WN she looked at him, and it oceurred to} only a means to an end. She: had ing to him, and so it was to Anterica \ her that they had not seemed nearly| never even realized how much was that he turned in search of a wife. 5 so shifty in Biskra when she had en-) expended on the continuous and lux- ’ He proposed to take a house in . gaged him. But she attached m0/ yrious expeditions that she had made York for a few months and later on = B importance to the thought, and ‘dis-| with sir Aubrey; her own individual in Newport, and {t was for that that : ah a : missed it as much less interesting than | tastes were simple, and apart from 5 Diana’s company was considered in- - the great difference displayed in thelr! the expensive equipment that was In- Stephens’. Having made up his mind She pointed the difference with a (To be Continued.) get it over and done with as soon a ally fine beast, and had been one of | posstble, and Diana's interference in the greatest points in the guide's his plans had exasperated him. It i - |favor when he had brought it for her | was the first time that their wills had - |inspection. He was enthusiastic in| crossed, and she shrugged her shoul- = E its praise, but volubly vague as to its ers impatiently, with a grimace at antecedents, which left Diana wit the recollection. A little more and it the conviction that the animal had would have degenerated into a vulgar either been stolen or acquired in some quarrel. She banished Aubrey and : te irregular manner and that {t would j ~ bis selfishness resolutely from her 5 ae he tactless to pursue further inquiries, mind, It wan very hot, and she lay tM nod After all, it was no tbusiness of hers. very still in the narrow cot, wishing It was enough that her trip was to y she had not been so rigid in the mat- WITH A GAY LITTLE LAUGH SHE WHIPPED ouT THE |e Conducted on the back of a horse ter of {ts width, and wondering if a : that it was a pleasure to ride and scdden movement in the night would] 'VORY-MOUNTED REVOLVER, AND AIMING AT A LOW ROCK, | whose vagaries promised to give in- precipitate her into the bath that] FIRED. terest to what otherwise might have stood alongside. She thought regret- been monotonous. Some of the horses ~~ om | fully of a punkah, and then smiled] already,” he said in a low voice, with that she Had seen in Biskra had been @erisively at herself. @ glance at the ,roup of wat the veriest jades. “Sybarite!” she murmured sleepily. | Arabs. She asked Mustafa All about the “You need a. few discomforts.” Diana jerked the little weapon back country through which they ‘were * Speed is Aino prgreste Aue into its place reluctantly, “I don't} !zation was proving Infinitely greater passing ent re Sid re seem ohare next morning a’ and/ understand | Wee or e much Information that was really of Bie ithe ‘Unie that thay Ungaro’ at| cust be the tyne Bre mcunted and | raz anticipation, “And for a whole} irterest, or what secmed important to cae S 0 A P Save 9 Cents the oasis after the baggage camels| wheeled her horse alongside of sir] MOth this perfect happiness was to] him appeared trivial to her, and he ’ had started. Sir Aubrey was morose] Aubrey’ and held out her hand,| %¢ hers. She thought of her promise| constantly brought the conversation and silent, and. she exchanged most|“Good->ye, Aubrey. Expect me al|to Aubrey with impatience. To give Bi , of which she was & of her badinage with Stephens, who] month after you arrive. I will cable}up the joyous freedom of the desert red, or to Oran, of which she knew | Was superintending the packing of|to you from Cherbourg. Good luc! tor th - iy nothing. The arrival at a little oasis | ° | the tifin basket that would accom-|I shall roll up in time to be best man,” |" the commonplace round of Amer-| where the guide suggested that the| SAUCE \ pany her in charge of the man who] she left him go, calling to Mustata|!can social life seemed preposterous. | midday halt might be made was op- | Tall Can : MILK °:; 2 Cents . had been selected as her personal] Ali as she cantered past him. He had|The thought of the weeks in New | Fresh Packed from Choicest Milk-Producing Districts portune, Diana swung to the ground, THE ORIGINAL WORCESTERSHIRE servant, and who was waiting, with|she added, laughing, and with a nod and, tossing down her gloves, gave ‘Mustafa Ali and about ten men, to] to, Mustafa Ali she turned her horge's =i 2 herself a shake, It was hot work Tide with her. head southwards. Save 1 Cent Box it’s stili not too iate to change your| ¥®% “gry with him, and contempt} been visible for a long time coming riding in the burning sun and the rest The time~ for starting came.| For a long time she rode in silence. mind. Wor Heaven's sake give up| ¥4* mingled with her anger. It was] towards them drew nearer, and Diana Pkg would be delightful. She had a thor- Stephens was fussing about the horse} The quarrel with Aubrey had left a this folly. it’s tempting Providence.” | "consistent with the whole of his} reined in to wateh the long line of | Me For the first time there was a gen- lifelong attitude toward her, and the slow, lurching camels passing. The will wine ring in his. voice, and. for a discovery of his altered ideas left her great beasts, with their disdainful ‘wavered, ‘but only for rather breathless and more than ever|tread and long, swaying necks, never i Then she looked at him}etermined to adhere to her own| failed to interest her. Tt was a large dH S Save 3 Cents that Aubrey would’ find the wife he|oughly healthy appetite, and super- that Diana was to ride. nasty taste in her mouth, She knew deeply-rocted convictions caravan; the’ bales on the camels’ % 8x sar 12¢|Babbitt’sCleanser . ca5e Se Eine ae te Tite scheint OE See ee ae ei Anmy | as looking. for quickly and release intended the laying out of her lunen was responsible for them, backs looked heavy, and beside the . Pure Peanut Batier oz. wt 15¢}Bon Ami Powder. . ria 10c Up to your standard? Don't look so| uaconventional, but she had been|*¢? from an obligation that was going gium. I wish you were coming to| fought up to be unconyentional. ghe|to be very wearisome, Aubrey was oY, tilled them, and if he ch : ; : gk eras" DEE sSdow thash Cat wabrhis ook ani, | eke eae tae wees : Sultana Jell -Ivory Soap Flakes . rk 9c/Pacific Toilet Paper . %!' 6¢ LAUNDRY ArgoStarch . . ., Pes~9c|La France tasters’ . Pio Ge (Ee REARS TABLETS «TE OD that it would be as daintily packed. Stephens was an artist with a picnic Jook after me, but it couldn't be done.| had never even thought, when she| counting on her. and it would be un-|basket. She was golmge to miss For her own part she saw no reason jean little donkeya and others on foot Sir Aubrey would be lost without] Planned her tour, of possible criti-| sporting to let him down: she would| Stephens, She finished her lunch to. change principleé she had been| there was ah armed guard of you.” cism; it would have made no differ-|have to keep her promise, hut she]auickly, and then, with her back Sold Everywhere ‘The {dea of a tour without Stephens] efce to her if she had thought, and] would be glad when it was over. 4u-| propped against a palm tree, a c im the background seemed suddenty| She had been amazed and amused at} brey married would settle definitely momentous, and the smile she gave|the sensation that her proposed trip} the possibility of any further dis- him was more serious than she meant} had caused. The publicity to which|agreements between them. She won- brought up in. If Aubrey really! mounted men. It took some time to Don't be ridiculous, Au-| thought there was danger in this ¢x-| pags, One or two of the camels car- ‘rey. You can't expect, me to change | Podition he could have sacrificed him-| rieq ggures, swathed and shapeless my mind at the eleventh hour, 1t's| Self for once and come with her. AS! with q maltitude of coverings, that Jim Arbuthnot had said, it was only! Diana knew must be women, ‘The s Blossom Sandwich Ib 33c > Snaparoons' ._. ._ Ib 2ic Assorted Sugar Wafers pkg 15c GRAND- c Pkg | MOTHER’S | ! | GREAT l Cl } CO. © yit to be. She went back ‘fo her|'t had given rise had annoyed her|dered vaguely what the» future Lady negligible length of time.| contrast ‘between them and herself | The Largest Retail Grocers in the World CHICKEN STUFFING “More stuffing please.” The children like it and when it’s good it makes roast fowl go twice as far, but make it tasty and inviting. When mixing the dressing add a table- spoonful of horse between her knees, exhilarated MMS} with her new authority. She had looked forward #0 eagerly, and real- York were frankly tedious; Newport would be a little leas bad, for there were alleviations. The only hope was any use waiting any longer. You| with their own affairs and leave her won't want to hurry yourself too much, and you will want to be in brother, who was pulling his mous-|'ftensely; she had been scornful that| wayo would be like. but she did not tache savagely. “I don't think there's| People could not occupy themselves|expend much pity on her. American Sy 5, Lae bes Pe ang girls as a rule were well able to care eal with her, But that Aubrey | for themselves. She stroked her horse y >e »?p. fi should join in the general criticism] with a little smile, Aubrey and his With Every Parchase of an Biskra in time for dinner, and present such a complete volte-face | possible wife seemed singularly unin- ‘As casually as she could. to the opinions he had always held| teresting beside the vivid interest of He swung towards her. “Diana,| W@* beyond her comprehension. 3he|the moment. A caravan that had she sajd selfishness would not al sewi was almost ridiculous. It made her HOUSANDS hou ives int this vicinity use } . You know the character] !w him to make that concession any | req, stified even to look af them. She Elgin Ovens, of | the Elgin Bakes and fed the authorities gave him. He is not| More than her own obstinacy would| wondered what their liven were like Dap wring! with 757% less gas than the gas range oven To every new purchaser of an Elgin Oven, we can promise the same fuel saving. And in addition, an Elgin Cookie Pan, made of the best Polished Blue Steel, will be given free with each Elgin Oven purchase, likely to throw that away. In any|Sllow her to give way. It was too case I can take care of myself, thanks} Much to expect. And this was the to your training. I don't mind own-| “desert! It was the expedition that ing to being. conceited about my|8he had dreamed of and planned for . shooting. Ewen you admit that I} Years. She could not give it up. The S am a credit to your teachin, idea of danger wrought a little laugn With a gay little laugh she whippea|t® her lips. How could anything in ‘out the ivory-mounted revolver, and| the desert hurt her? It had been call- aiming at a low rock, some dis-|!tg to her always. There was nothing tance away, fired. She was an un-|Strange about the scene that lay alll jogo even in its highest form, based usually good revolver shot, but this} round her. Her surroundings seemed| 4, mutual consideration and mutual time she seemed to have missed.| diy familiar, The burning sun] forpearance—was repugnant her. Bhere was no mark on the stone.| overhead in the cloudless sky, the! ghe thought of it with n shiver of Diane stared at it stupidly, a trown| shimmering haze rising from the hot, | aneolute repulaion, ‘To Aubrey it was if they ever rebelled against the drudgery and restrictions that were imposed upon them, if they ever longed for the freedom that she was revelling if, or If custom and usage wore strong that they had no thoughts beyond the narrow life the led, The thought of those lives filled her with aversion. The idea of mar- The Elgin Gas Hot-Plate is made in one, two and # ot perplexity creasing her forehead.|4ty ground, the feathery outline of} distasteful, but to her cold, reserved i | ‘hen she looked at her brother, and|#Me clustering palm trees in a tiny | temperament it was a thing of horror three-burner sizes to fit individual needs. Combine it * back to the revolver in her hand. | distant oasis were like remembrances] ang disgust. That women could sub with an Elgin Oven, and you have economical, con- ir Aubrey swore. “Dian What | that she watched again with a feeling ® senseless piece of bravado!” he] f sladness thet fuller and deeper cried angrily. than anything that she had been con- Ghe tock no notice of him. She] stious of before, ‘ venient baking and cooking facilities in-emall space. Handsome black, nickel and white enamel finishes. mit to the degrading intimacy and fettered exjgtence of married life filled her with ‘Bcornful wonder, To be bound irrevocably’ to the will and pleasure of a man who would have the right to demand obedience in all that gonstitutel marriage and the strength to enforce those claims revolted her For a- Western woman it was bad ‘ : bapetooes but for the women of the Made by Elgin Stove & Oven Co., Elgin, Ill. East, mere slaves of the passions of the men who owned them, unconsid- ered, disregarded, reduced to the le See the Elgin line at your dealer’s; or if you cannot locate an Elgin dealer, write Beh & Co., 1140 Broadway, New York, for name of nearest one. was still staring at the smooth rock _ - face, “I don't understand it. How CHAPTER I. could I miss? It's as big as a house, ehe murmured thoughtfully, and HE was radiantly happy—happy in the sense of youth and Strength, her perfect physical fitness, happy in the capacity of her power of enjoyment, hapoy with the touch of the keen, vs. —_— SS