The evening world. Newspaper, June 2, 1922, Page 32

CHAPTER VIL (Continued.) i UNT ELLA came downstairs the next morning and found Constance and Audrey, white faced and wan, in the garden. “You people look as though you haven't been to bed all night,"’ she said. Constance shot a warning glance at her. “It is probable that early rising doesn’t agree with us,"’ she observed. Audrey turned away and walked slowly into the house. “What is it?” asked Aunt Ella. “Harkness has given Audrey up,” replied Constance, quietly. ‘So don't refer to him in any, way, will you, when she ts about?’ Aunt Ella regarded Constance curl- ously, hesitated a moment, and then said: “Connie, you don’t like Hark- ness, do you? I mean, you didn’t like him before this occurred. Why?" “I did not like Harkness because I had met him several times before he came here." “Met him!” Aunt Ella's voice was tinged with surprise, “But you did not say so. Neither did he." “No."' Constance paused, then said: “I will tell you what I know of Hark- mess, and then you will realize ex- actly why I am not sorry he has given Audrey up. To begin with, he is a member of the Eros, and a member ‘we could well do without. He is notorious as a reckness gambler and @ dangerous man in every way. His father is the great steel magnate, and Harkness has treated him shams- fully, The man is recognized every- where as a waster and a rotter.”’ “Did he lose his mother when he ‘was young?’ asked Aunt Ella, quietly. Constance looked at her with amazement. ‘‘Yes,'' she said slowly. “I believe she died when he was a baby in arms.” “Ah!” Aunt Ella had a curiously Judicial air. ‘‘His father is a stern man, wholly centred in his work, no doubt.” “He has some reputation for hari- ‘ness,"" said Constance, uneasily. ‘The son inherits his nature in part.” “I have gathered already that he ‘is a man of exceptional will-power,", said Aunt Ella calmly, ‘What he did last night has told me that." “What do you mean, Ella?’ Con- stance’s tone was sharp. “Sometimes, Connie, the people who sit and watch the stream of Ufe flow past them have more oppor- tunity of correct observation than those who fight and struggle in that stream. I am one of those who watch, I think I have seen the iruth more clearly than you have. That man Harkness loves Audrey." Constance roysed herself as though from a reverie. “Harkness, as you know him, is the product of his bringing up. Am » 1 right, Constance?” “You may be," admitted Constance diffidentiy. s “I am,” asserted Aunt Ella, “I think you should go to Harkness and ask him to tell you the truth, and if the truth is that he loves Audrey, as T am certain he loves her, then you should bring them together.”’ “‘Impossible!'' protested Constance. “The man would ruin her.’ Aunt Ella smiled gently. ‘Instead, she would save him," she said. “Has that never occurred to you, Con- stance?’’ Constance shrugged her shoulders. “You do not know Harkness as 1 know him," she muttered. ‘I tell you he is a devil—nothing else. He ruined young Kilfane. He has all but ruined Curteret. You don’t know what you say, Ella,” “All right,"" Aunt Bills face wore ® look of resignation. ‘But I would ask. you to remember, Connie, that Audrey and Harkness love each other as, I believe, @ man and woman can love but once tn all their lives. And you cannot kill such love as that." She turned toward the house, but * Constance pu’ out her hand and seized her arm. Then of the Connington interview. Aunt Ella reflected, and answered hon-committally, “What do you intend to do?’’ “He said that Audrey would find out about the Eros, sooner or later. I had never thought of that. She will, of course."’ Aunt Ella nodded. “She mustn't find out yet." All Constance’s agitation was obvious in her speech. ‘Audrey must go away to Bournemouth or Torquay, or some- where like that, for a little while. “I am going to the Eros this after noon,” said Constance. ‘And I will be there all the evening, You might speak to her while 1 am away. Sug- west Torquay to her. Then, if pos- sible, you could start to-morrow.” “1 will do so," said Aunt Ella. They walked together to the house, After lunch Constance caught a Was her usual custom, went upstairs for a brief rest. Audrey found herself alone, and as she sat by the window her réason. Aad then an idea oc eurred to her. She would go to town She dressed and slipped from the cottage. She caught a train very quickly and soon she was standing on the pavement outside Charing Cross Station. She hailed a ‘bus and stepped ¢ IPRA GOEL ONC CONSTANCE BRENT, divorced; proprietor of a gambling club in Lor Ce SRT A ca = EI sree ann ann ee THE E .Will Never, 0 “BY JoHN HUNTER A*STORY FOR THE YOUNGOF HEART. LOO YRIGHT THe MECLORE NEWSPAmEw SYNOMATE CHARACTERS IN THE STORY. ndon. AUDREY BRENT, her daughter, who has been educated on the Con- tinent, ignorant of her mother’s life arid business and chaperoned b AUNT. ELLA, who favors Audrey’s suitor, met at Monte Carlo, JIM HARKNESS, son of a steel magnate, but a philandering ne’er-do- well, given to gambling and racing. His closest woman friend is LOIS DENBIGH, an actress, who really loves him but réspects his ‘ey does not know that she is the daughter of British statesman, who has divorced her mother sixteen years before the story opens. Harkness, to protect Audrey, tells her he does not love her and she, for the moment, Jove for Audrey. A LORD CONNINGTO! fs r encourages the attentions of SIR RICHARD PRESLOW, nephew of Connington, who, knowing his uncle’s desire to reclaim his daughter, plots with his mother to bring about a marriage with Audrey. AUDREY SOBBED OUT HER STORY ON HER MOTHER'S BREAST. South Audley S| Audrey walked from tlié office and hatled a taxt. “978A South Audley Street,” she told the driver, Constance — 978A treet.” “The Eros Club, miss?” Audrey hesitated. adress 1 want, Brent."" “All right, miss." The taxi slipped away into the traffic, Plain surface. brass plate, and retiring discret! ck of surptt “What name?” “Miss Brent, eard-room. * “Miss Brent!" rival. when you come which had bre “I had no wisest. utes,"* she said much money viously imprese {ts occupants. the room and the HE front door of 978A South Audley Street was open, and beyond it was a quiet, green- baize-covereé door with a letter-box in it, and a very small brass plate adorning its otherwise Audrey studied the “The Eros Club." A man-servant answered the bell, face was the incarnation oe jon. “I want to see Mrs. Brent.” Au- drey quite expected the man to tell her she had come to the wrong ad- dress, and when he stepped to one side to allow her to enter she felt a Bc, T will tell her, madam,” he sald, madam, Will The servant found Constance in the tance echoed the name, as the servant Informed her of Aucsey’s ar- She walked slowly from the room. Audrey looked up and saw her. “Hello, mamma! You found out where you hi to town."* pught Aud Eros only served to em futility of her planning and scheming. idea it w “T—that is the she said, wondering lf she had made a mistake. ‘Mrs. some- you wait see, I have de yourself Constance Brent did not answer at once. The triviality of the happening rey to the phasize the as a club, mamma,"’ continued Audrey, “I im- agined you had some sort of shop. What kind of club is it? mitted to venture any further inside?" Constance reflected. train to London, and Aunt Ella, ag|that the boldest course would be the Am I per- She decided “You may come up for a few min- “But don't stay, be- 1 by the daint undoubte Constance she felt she must do something or lose | cause Aunt Ella will be anxious, How “Just enou me on untill I get home," answered Audrey Constance Kove her some notes and led the way upstairs, Audrey w 1 quality introduced @board. She opened her purse. All the |her to one or two of the Women, se- a) money she had with her was a few|lecting them with care, (oa then Au- shillings! Audrey stammered something and Jumped from the ‘bus. Her mother was in bus'nei where in the West, and that business was certain to have a telephone num- ber, She went into the Strand post of- fice and looked at a telephone dires- tory. “Brent, Mrs. drey left. At the corner of Mount Street she paused. The afternoon was emerging into early evening, and she remem- bered that she had had nothing to eat since lunch time. CHAPTER VIII. MAN came down the steps of a house some distance along Mount Street, turned, saw Audrey, and stood still for a moment. He was Sir Richard Pres- low, and the house was Lord Con- nington’s. Preslow lifted his hat. Good evening, Miss Brent. This ts a pleasant surprise. What are you thinking 80 seriously about?'’ “As a matter of fact, I was wonder- ing where the nearest tea-shop 1s." “I was just heading.for one,” lied Preslow easily. ‘‘Shall we have tea together ?"* “I shall be delighted,’ she an- swered. “Would it be impertinent of me if 1 suggested that we went to a show this evening, if you are staying in town?” he asked. , ‘We could choose some Jolly musical piece. Say you'll come." Audrey wonderéd whether she should go. “I am really expected at home,” she sald, ‘‘My aunt will be anxious about me. I had just left my mother when you met me, and she was under the impression that I was catching the next train to Sevenoaks," Preslow smiled away the objection. “That can be easily arranged. Tele- phone your mother and wire your aun 1 think you are going to say yes,’ he said. “Now, where shall we go? The jolliest thing in town at pres- ent is the show at the Arcadian— ‘Don't Tell Your Husband.’ Pretty dresses, music, good jokes and every- thing.”” An essentially feminine desire selzod Audrey she reflected on all this, She wanted to see this woman and study her, She steadied her agitation and spoke very calmly. “It will be great fun,” she an- swered; and tried to persuade herself that she meant it, Presiow booked the seats, and they left the teashop. They turned up towards Oxford Street, and as they did so Audrey came to an abrupt standstill. Walking toward them, on the same side of the road, was Jim Harkness. Preslow glanced quickly at Audrey. Harkness looked up and saw them. His eyes rested on Audrey's face for & moment, and there was an un- spoken question in the look, Then he lifted his hat and passed on. Presiow acknowledged the salute stiffly, She wondered at the hostility of it. Preslow was wondering also. “Curious thing meeting that fellow Harkness,” he said indifferently “Yes?” Audrey answered almost listlessly. “Do you know him?" “I know of him,” The answer re terest, “Why th asked, Preslow shrugged his shoulders answered Preslow to In she EDUCATOR DROWNS IN BATH. Ay pie daowned the -betniee Principal, was drowned in a bathtub aa at the home of bis VENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1922, (Continued from First Page.) ‘ The movement conveyed more than a little. Audrey felt vaguely uneasy. “There ts no need to know © Der-|same time meet the requirements of| ; ed oat aA alt rere ed PSPde se sich 1oen than in the culput of coke: Presiow. “In fact. in this case, the} On the contrary, they have con-| oven gan” According te the sonne more one knows the less one feels in-/atantly fought every effort to main-| authorities, “the data accumulated clined to know.” He laughed | tain the 80-cent rate, and finally have show rather surprising variations mind atria t Sew very. itt Arisa Cou ore it In the Su-! trom an average of § cents per thou- about him," she sald, “but I thought] In 1916, the Publte Service Com-| ging im some States to as high ae him very nice.” mission gave the gas corporations an ‘ " Preslow eyed her searchingly. Her|option to change from the 22-candle] COKE-OVEN GAS A BIG FACTOR im. Was it possible that | {s an “ the loved Harkness?” ‘He asked 's | fas corporations wanted to reduce the Matton a NG quick question. number of units from 650 British} yoriey price is Sen iaadddlte eee “Where did you meet him?’ Thermal Unite, thet the prise to tel ea antici oe cece one He expected Audrey to tell nim} consumer ohould (be reduced sooord-| to enich the price ef the creas ee wile ee monies Hist | not avall themselves of this option, | Teported instead of the price delivered strengthened his conviction that she} It is plainly evident that if any| ®# Public-utility supplies, as for coal was in love with Harkness, effort had been made to reduce the| S®% water gas and oil gas. “At Lucerne. He stayed at our| Standard of making gas to British It will be noted that coke- came on to Monte Carlo] Thermal Units, a much lower figure} ven gas commonly sells for 9 or es. a wt Ai ea at ene LT gs por Sreueehe we ” made and a lower price e gas, water gas and oil ga ieeat entoccitene a Nae aena public accordingly could be obtained.| are sold at an average for the he would go there. In making the 22-candle power gas,| whole country of 90 cents, or more ‘They reached a telegraph office. New York uses approximately from} recent! 90 cents to $1 (1918 fig- Audrey handed in her wire andj 600 to 650 British Thermal Units, the] ures catie over to Predow: highest amount used anywhere. I modern processes of mak- ‘Now for the park and the flow-| And what ts the reason? Ing gas yield by-products, and in * he sald. As set forth in the previous article,| many prop the value of the It {s probable that Harkness’s}one of the big items is that millions of] by-product great as the senses were stunned when he firat/S@lons of ofl gas are used in the} value of the gas itself. saw Audrey with Preslow. aac, rel of this costly 22-candle power} .. The principal by-products of gas He was in a desperate an - | 28. works are coke, ‘tar, ammonia (in one Over 200,000,000 gallons of gas ofl Lari Vera taauin coeraway were used in New York State an- Danie ttn ania fram Audrey's gate at Knockholt to| ually for the past several years, | UArihiieck light olla ang naphthalene, the time of this meeting with her and} Out of e total of 687,000,000 gallons |i Coe ana ammonia aro produced Preslow he had not slept. Yet he was|0f oll used in the entire United States | Oo GoKe ar mani are prado not tired. Instead he was consumed|in 1918 over 241,000,000 gallons were | MY aU gad plants) with a restless energy. used by New York alone, and the Ge vidence kos the enormous Chance had led him to Bond Street }money paid for this gas oll went to} ®™mounts of money for by-products and the path of Audrey Brent. the same interests that sell the oil. that can be secured from coke-oven Audrey had allowed Preslow to} If this gas oll were not used, the} 828, the following is most significant: monopolize her at the Academy. Why | Jargest percentage of it could not be ‘The total production of coke in Harkness thought of that he did not] Utilized in any other way. coal-gas plants is considerable, but Derg waa. otaceat Sis eoul, end(she LACKING HERE. those of coke made in coke-oven was, dallying with ‘this emooth.| Not since 1906, when the 80-cent| plants. ‘ spoken, oily creature he could have|&** law went into effect, has any “The quantity of coke sold fh with one hand. effort been made by the gas corpora- 1918 from coal gas workers using conan tions voluntarily to reduce the price wrapper. It sho had loved him as she had ce] retorta was only 1,800,000 tons, Joose-Wites Biscuit (mrany professed, she would have been at|°f 88% to the consumer, and the} valued at approxim Branches in Over 100 Cities home at that moment breaking her| Present price of $1.25 to $1.50 1s the} 000, but in the heart, om surely as he was breaking |shest in the United Stafes, accord-| 580 tons of coke w. 2 it m , Increase and output of ofl gas and Water gas, although amounting to about 20 and 40 per cent., respective- Crackers and milk—a good old- fashioned lunch that is always popular. Try Tak-hom-a Biscuit and milk and it’s better than ever. ‘ See if this isn’t so. Tak-hom-a Biscuit is always sold in the package with the red made in coke inted a value at the plant of $193,018,785. In the same year New York, out of its coal gas plants produced ing to population. his. As against this gross inertia on She had not cared. the part of the gas corporations to sham. conform with the progress of the At Bruton Street he halted irrés0-| times in New York State and city, lute, half-minded to turn down tol out of forty-elght | States, thirty | Ml¥ 602,000 tons of coke, the South Audley Street and go to thel have already ‘adopted “e’ Britis | Value of which was a little over Eros Club. But there he could se¢|thermal unit standard, averaging| 81000,000. Constance Brent, and then—— Heltrom 475 to 660 British thermal| If New York City had all coke-oven decided it inight be safer for the] units, plants which produced in proportion moment not to go. Millions of gallons of gas ofl are|to the figures mentioned, the gas to A ‘bus passed him, and on its side/ used in making the present costly} the consumer could be made very was the advertisement for the Arca-|candle-power gas, and the same in-| Cheaply at a figure so low as to be dian play which had caused Audrey|terests that are concerned in the| Startling. 80 much pain. manufacture of gas are also {nter-| The gas corporation might answer “Lol Harkness repeated thelested'in the production of gas oil| that Radice: Bc, be, able to. als name to himself. for making it. pose of its coke if all coke-oven plants Pay as He found a telephone booth and,| Now as to other citles of the; Were used in this city, but with the 750-752 8 Ave.| Saree Corner 46% St. ringing up the Arcadian, secured a] United States, new methods have|‘ecreased frelght rates the problem Ne box. been developed wherein less of this| WOuld be the same old one of com- Payment Plan applies everywhere within 150 miles of N. Y. costly oil gas is used, and prices have| Merce taking the product@from where h Apartment Homes on Weekly or Monthly Payments. UDREY enjoyed neither the|beon reduced very materially, it Is plentiful to where it 1s needed, Open Monday and A flowers in Regent's Park] Among these methods is the coke- eras eBreieey Mandards| has this Shtureay Sveninge nor the very nice Iitle din-| ven process, which develops such|‘0,my about tt: eos eA ner with Preslow after- coal-gas manufacture in this country, wards. The sight of Harkness had as well as the use of by-product coke ruined the rest of the evening as far ovens for city gas manufacture, 1s to as she was concerned. a considerable extent dependent on developing adequate markets for the The seats Preslow had secured at the Arcadian were in the circle. coke, “With the demand for anthracite The show was a good one, filled with bright music and clever dia- increasnig and the supply decreasing there will doubtless be a gradual in- logue. But Audrey heard very little of it. She saw only one person in the crease in the use of coke as a substi- tute for anthracite. As a result, we RiGee ates Cotter Ree BUN eee Le whole play, and that was Lois Den- bigh. Finished In Slive .. i i may expect a change in the habits of Table, Ex nf Arm and’o ede hair $195.00 The girl was beautiful, Audrey was Mustrated .. ENGLANDER LEVEL. forced to admit It. And she was clever. Such a girl could never be empty-headed. The people who said that Lols Denbigh was going to be the mete aeat greatest of all musical comedy stars - ct 5 i te were not venturing on an unsafe : rn lel prophecy. ; sl To the right of the auditorium a _ Dullvarion Pree box was vacant. Half-way through the Within 100 Miles first act its presence was forced on of New York Audrey's notice, A man lounged into It, and one glance at his lean, dark i : face made her catch her breath. Sewing MACHINES on "Greait Jim Harkness had come to watch Up to $110. tole Denbigh set, ahvarey watched als closely. To Audrey it seeme Tm that all her smiles were for Harkness. stint 46th St. TOT BIGHT Ave. 8thAve. tm Just before the end of the act Au- drey saw a uniformed attendant in the box and Harkness writing something on the back of a visiting card. He handed the card to the attendant and the man vanished. As the curtain came down on the act and the lights went up for the interval the attendant returned. Harkness fol- lowed him from the box. Audrey knew that Harkness had asked permission to see Lois between the acts. . The curtain went up on the second act. While the house rocked with laughter Audrey sat still, her eyes fixed on the empty box. Harkness lolled back to his seat when the scene was half-way through. The comedy danced its way to a conclusion. Harkness left his box again just before the final scene be- gan. With Harkness's going the theatre was empty to Audrey, You are interested in our friend Harkness?"’ ventured Preslow, in an undertone. Audrey turned to him, “Yes, he ap- peals to me."* “As a good man?” There was the faintest suggestion of a sneer in Preslow’s voice. “I don't know," she said, “But I was referring to his strength. He strikes me as a man who would never be at a loss.’’ “You are perhaps right. But then— Harkness has never done anything It had been a (Bud now tremendous by-products as to easily reduce the present costs one-half, and even more, Another process {# the Dayton Process, which experts agree can be sold for approximately 45 cents a thousand cubic feet. Some of the startling figures as tc the coke-oven method of making gas are presented by the Bureau of Standards, which shows the manu- facture of which has doubled between the years of 1915 and 1918, and fifty times more sold in 1915 than in 1898. 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