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a ngesrece Communism RIMINAL 19is and Russian Trade CHAPTER XX. KY'S revolution did the official world by it was, in fact, ERED nut take eur- K The prise; inevitable revolution was hailed by unin- structed as a hope, public opinion in England fulfilment of long-de erred and some statesmen who ought to have had more prescience joined in the acclama- tion. The worst of revolutions is that they never know where to stop, and when in the middle of a war they befall one of the allies upon whom the rest are counting they are a disas- ter of the first magnitude. “Kerensky was not fashioned by na ture to ride the whirlwind, A mount- ain top, whence he could indulge his gift of impassioned oratory, would have been a safer steed for him. His nerveless fingers never gripped the reins. He could not even bring him- self to execute mutineers and deserters in the field. It was Inevitable that a stronger hand should thrust him aside, Strange that we should ever have talked of Russia the “Steam Roller!” Of all the stupidities committed by the Germans during the war, I think that the locked train was the most inexcusable, because, as Ludendorff has since admitted, it was fraught danger primarily for Ger many herself, There had congregated in Switzerland a little band of revo- lutionaries who had fled after the disturbances of 1905. There, year in and year out, they frequented cafes and smoked and talked as only Russians can talk, until the whole world became unreal and danced be- fore them through a haze of cigarette smoke, For them revolution meant no half measures. They had drupk in the fatuities of Karl Marx until there was no room left in their minds for sober reasoning, and here in their own country was their opportunity. In Russia a torch was to be put to dry thatch and presently the Red confla- gration should spread until it con- sumed the world, The workers with sickle and hammer should unite over the whole world to wipe out the bourgeoisie. That was the measure of their intelligence. GERMAN’S CLEVER TRICK. All this the Germans knew. They would not have such inflammatory material loose in their own country, but as a means of paralyzing the army of their ancient Muscovite enemy it should be used at once, for with gra Ct4 SIXTH INSTALMENT. ETTER still,"’ calmly agreed Gerald when he 66 been involved, ‘for that implies it was a genuine professional thumping. “It was, more than serious, she was even grim about it all, And if Gerry West had laughed at her, at any moment of that perilous mood, everything would have been over between them. But Gerry was solemnity itself. ‘Go he said, almost bruskly. way that I've claim on this hero of her “In what way interfered?” manded Gerry. “That I've—that I've made love to the none too him,” acknowledged happy Theodora Lydia. “Why do you say that?" “Because she's seeing her lawyer @bout 11 “And this man Uhlan?” “He sent his attorney, a man Ramed Shotwell, to my studio to ex- Plain that because of his injuries he couldn't paint his twelve-thousand- 1 was quite willing to pay for that until old Shotwell put in another claim for twelve thousand dollars for damages in general and an dollar portrait. extra thousand for himself.” “So they're all trying after a bite,” tudying his en- Miss ecmmented Gerry gagement-nad. Hayden"-— ow. tell me. “Don't do that,” was Teddie's sharp om mand. “Don't do what?’ “Don't call me Miss Hayden.” “All right, Teddie,’ counsel-at-law, solemnity, learned that a prize fighter had conceded Teddie. She was ‘Now Raoul Ublan claims that he's fost a valuable commission through— through what was done to him. And the young lady who's interested in Gunboat Dorgan seems to think be- cause I had him protect me in this interfered with her de- acquiesced her without a break in his “But the first thing you must tell me is just what you intend Kerensky was reported paring a new offensive With the second revolution, in November, 1917, the Bolsheviks cam¢ Into power, Thby included nihilists anarchists and extreme social revoli tionarles, who were all soon to be en- rolled in a single body ae communists and followers of Karl Marx. Lenin has never swerved from his plan of making Russia merely the seed-bed for a general revolution in Europe on a class basis. ANTI-JEWISH SENTIMENT, Some months before the Bolsheviks came into power a curious document which has since much tention in England the notice of the ate Department in Washington, “The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion,” first published in Russian in 1897 by a Russian named Nilus, purported to set forth the details of a secret Jewish con spiracy for the domination of the world. A committee of Americans were preparing a report upon the document and I was asked unoffi- cially to give my opinion upon its authenticity. Besides the internal evidence, there was very little to go upon, but I reported that the “proto- cols"’ were almost certainly fabricated by some anti-Semitic organization and I heard afterward that the American committee had reported in the same sense There is one and in the Russian Bolshevik--that he knows what, he wants and allows no weak scruples or respect for public opinion to prevent him from getting it. ORGANIZING THE UNEMPLOYED. Toward the middle of 1921 it be- came known that the supply of gold in Moscow was running short, ‘This was borne out by a growing disin- clinution on the part of the Third International to subsidize revolution- ary movements abroad, but at the same-time the Third International awoke to the possibilities of turning the great masses of unemployed in all countries to account. A document that had been circulated in Norway showed how this was to be done. The unemployed were to organize themselves into bodies with a Central Executive Committce. They were to go down to the relieving officer and demand a rate of relief equal to the trade union rate of wages. The local authority would then be compelled to draw upon the national exchequer, and in a short time the country would be involyed in bankruptcy. These instructions were acted upon in London and other places. While some of the agitators advocated viv- ence and demonstrations in various parts of the country, the more sober and dangerous speakers were careful to be pre received at- was brought to \ one cnly virtue BASIL THOMS INVESTIGATION o atvuwee 92 to warn their followers against loot- ing. Those who failed to obey were persons with criminal records, for among the first members of Unem- ployed Committees was one man who had had seven convictions for steal- ing, bad language, &c., and another, own as “Cockney Charley," who had no less than fourteen convic- tions, Including two terms of penal seqvitude, Most of the agitators mong the unemployed were Com- munists with headquarters at the In- ternational Socialist Club, which had ed a subsidy of £1,000. It is add that they were re unnecessary to drawing salaries. FAMINE A NEW FACTOR. The famine in Russta brought a new factor into the situation. Russia {s so huge a country that there have been always periodical famines in one part of it or another. As long as there an efficient Central Government it was possible to relieve the want in ons Province by the su- rfluities in another, but under the Communists the entire railway system had broken down, and it was no was longer possible to carry supplies to the Volea So the Communists be- gan to appeal to foreign countri They represented the famine as hav- ing been caused by the intervention of capitalist states, and when this argument was unconvincing they ac- cused first Denikin and Kolchak and then the weather, The Central Gov- ernment did not seem to care how many of the wretched peasants per- ished, but they did want to convince the distant Provinces that it war only to the Communists that they could look for relief. Their great dread was trat some one else would take the credit from them. It was quite natural that when the Boisheviki came. into power and it as seen that nearly all the People’s Commissaries were Jews, so obvious a fulfilment of the “protocols” should not pass unnoticed. It is well to say at once that. the famine was due primarily to the re- quisitions of the Soviet authorities and secondly to the drought. Neither Kolchak or Dentkin passed over the stricken provinces and of this Dr. Nansen ought to have been well aware. WELCOME TO TRADE. About the middle of 1921 the Com- munists realized that it was impos- sible longer to maintain the pretense that Communism was an economic success. They had spent their gold reserve lavishly and they had got very little in return for it, and now they saw the day approaching when there would be nothing left. Faced with these prospects, there was nothing for it but to agree with their enemies, the capitalists, quickly. True, they could continue to hold the reins of power because they had been careful to dis- arm all the Red Army except a few trusted battalions but inevitably a Government which cannot pay its way is bankrupt as a concern, and has made it impossible for its subjects WHO'S WHO IN THE CAST. THEODORA LYDIA LORILLARD HAYDE: , a poor little rich girl, seeks freedom and a means of “expressing herself” by rent- ing a studio in Greenwich Village. she allows Taking her Art with a big A, RAOUL UHLAN, a well known portrait painter, to come three times a week to give her instruction. aside all restraint and seizes and and struggles. Leaving her trium’ “to-morrow at three. At the third visit Uhlan casts kisses her in spite of her protests phantly, he swears he will return MAJOR CHANDLER KANE, Theodora’s uncle, who admires and sympathizes with his niece. He tells her life is like a waffle- iron, making every one into the same pattern. GUNBOAT DORGAN, a ligh by Theodora to punish Uhlan for beating. Theodora had suggested tweight prizefighter, is summoned his insult and gives the artist a as a reward that Dorgan use her roadster, but to her surprise he kisses her, hinting that she is to take the place in his heart which RUBY REAMER, an artists’ had met the prizefighter. had been held by model through whom Theodora William Shotwell, a lawyer, calls to announce that his client, Uhlan, had lost a $12,000 portrait nose he had suffered in Theodora’s commission because of the bruised studio, that his feelings had been damaged $12,000 more and that medical and other expenses ran the cost up to $25,000. The girl tells him she will consult her lawyer. As he leaves, Ruby Reamer telephones in an angry voice. GERALD RHINELANDER WEST, who as a boy was a neigh- bor and later a lover of Teddie’s. goes to him with her story of the Jealous Ruby. He is now a lawyer and Teddie threatened suits of Uhlan and the doing." “I don't know what to do, That's why I came to see you. That's what I'm willing to pay you for. But It's not entirely unnatural, I think, to nurse a fixed aversion to be chased around the map by an army of re- porters and subpoena-servers."" “There are several things, of course, that we can do," explained Gerry, quite unruffled by this un- masking of the guns of irony. “But before we go any further there's a phase or two of the case T must un- derstand. It was in your studio, you say, that this assault took place?" “IT hate that word! interpolated Teddie. “Well—er—this incident. Now, had you forbidden this man Uhlan entry, warned him away, and all that sort of thing?” “No, he was coming there three times a week, to give me lessons, explained Teddie. “For which he was being duly paid “No, nothing was ever sald about his being paid,"’ she acknowledged. And Gerry's increase of gravity didn't altogether add to her happi- ness. “And the day he got his thumping —why did he come to your studio on that occasion ?’* For the second time Teddie hesitat- ed. Life, after all, wasn't so simple as she had once imagined it “He came to make love to me," she finally admitted, not meeting Gerry's eyes. ‘And TI had Gunboat Dorgan there to give him what he de- served." Gerry wagged his head. He did so with what impressed Teddie as quite unnecessary solemnity, SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1922, to pay any taxes, must fall, and 0 the Lenin Party announced publicly that it intended to veer to the Rixht ‘This announcement was hailed by « the people who wanted to begin trad ing with Russia as a genuine conver- sion. It was bitterly opposed in Rus- sia by the ‘die-hard’? Communists, who argued quite reasonably that the admission of the foreign capitalist, or, indeed, of any foreigner at all, would sound the death-knell of the Sovirt And then M. Krassin took upon him self to explain what the Moderates really meant by reversion to capita! {stic principles. They would die sooner than surrender the railways, 6 big industries, or land, or mines to private ownership: all they intended was to grant leases to concessionaires who would be permitted to work their concessions under Soviet control, siv- ing a share of their profits to the Soviet Government, which wou vide them with the necessary «+ A HUMAN TRACTOR. What the Soviet Government thinks of it is shown by a curious little incident. Early in the year M Krasgin sent to a firm of agricultural machine makers the working draw- ings of a human tractor, which had been prepared in Moscow by a Rus slan engineer. It was to be made on the principle of the trolleys used by platelayers on the railway, It was to have two levers, each operated by three men—forced labor, of course— and the seventh man was to steer. A plough was to be attached to it. The firm refused the order for the two- fold reason that the machine would scarcely be powerful enough to carry the seven men without the plouxh, and that it was inhuman to employ men to do the work of animals under such conditions, A Belgian firm undertook to repair and run the Odessa tramways. They had to pay a large deposit for th concession. As soon as the tramways were running the local Soviet stepped in and sequestered the tramway as Soviet property, and when the syn- dicate protested it was threatened with arrest by the Tche-Ka. It then demanded the return of the deposit, which at first was refused: in the end half only of the deposit was repaid It is dificult for those who do not know the Communists to understand this policy of sutcite. The fact is that only 10 per cent. of the Com- munists in Russia are men of educa- tion: the remaining 90 per cent. are {literate workmen, peasants and jail- birds who have achieved by the rev- olution a position of power and com- parative affluence which they never dreamed of under the old regime. ‘They have just sense enough to know that if foreign capital is admitted into the country and the Russians are freed from the Terror their day will be ‘done. Lenin and his colleagues may propose: they, the majority, dis- pose, and while Lenin may quite hon- estly mean what he says about a change of heart he is powerless to carry out his promises. THE END. Doubleday Page & Co.) 1 jabor. (Copyright, Yow, about thjs man Dorgan: He knew exactly why he was doing what he did?” ‘Of course!" “And he expected to be duly paid for this—er--service he rendered you?" asked Gerry, seeming to per- sist in his determination that things should not be made too easy for her. “No, he declined to have the mat- ter of money come into it at all,” Teddie rather falteringly acknowl- edged. “Then what was the understand- ing? “There was no understanding.” “Then what did he do when the thing was over? A silence fell between them, “He kissed me," slowly acknowl- edged truthful Teddic, flushing up to the tiptilted brim of her hat. Gerry swung sharply about. He swung about and stared out of the skyscraper window. “He had no reason, no excuse, for doing anything like that!'’ supple- mented the tingling Ted “Didn't he, now!" silently solilo- quized Gerry as he swung slowly back In his swivel chair and sat staring at her, Then he added, aloud: ‘And what happened after that? “He presumed on his privileges to the extent of taking my car out of the garage und going joy-riding in It." “Without your kmepledge and per- mission?" “Entirely! And bumped into a bus and broke my lumps.” “That's much better,"’ prised her by saying, “Why?'' asked Teddie, vaguely dis- turbed by her remembered failure to mention an offhanded proffer of this same car to this same knight with the cauliflower ear. “Because we Gerry sur- can settle his hash with a larceny action,’ retorted Gerry. ‘But our biggest nut to crack, I imagine, will be Uhlan!" “What can we do about him?" asked Teddie, with the faintest trace of a tremor in her voice. “There are quite a number pf things we can do,"’ coolly explained her sol- emn-eyed counsellor. “I can have him put out of the Camperdown Club, for one thing, before the week-end. I can demand an impartial appraise- ment of his physical injuries. twell, this attorney ‘if ept service, I can even ® Dotash ana oe ee Exercise May Take Varied Forms and the Partners Are Not Convinced as to Which Is Best. Playing Pinochle Ap- pears to Bea Form of Athletics to Which Both Are Quite Par- tial. vention in Atlantic City, Mawruss, it was regularly moved and seconded that if people would take exer- cise, y’under- stand, there ain't no reason, out- side of getting tun over by a taxicab or some- thing, why they shouldn’t live to be a hundred,” Abe Potash re- marked to his partner, Morris Perlmutter, one morning recently. “And | suppose as soon as the convention adjourned for the day, Abe, all them doctors beat it to the Boardwalk and took the equiv- alence of a ten-mile brisk walk by being pushed around in rolling chairs, ain't it?” Morris Perl- mutter observed. “Well, doctors is the same like other business people, Mawruss,” Abe said. “They believe that they get enough exercise inside of busi- ness hours to keep their muscles in good shape.” . “And a doctor gets a whole lot of exercise in his profession at that,” Morris said. “Sure I know," Abe agreed, “but supposing a doctor should take out six appendixes a day, which is figuring big already, that ain't going to make him an athlete neither. Which the kind of exercise a business or profes- sional man needs is something which will exercise the muscles he ain't used in his ordinary work. “Then I suppose~a piano mover af- ter he gets through with his day's By Montague Glass. SEE where at a doctors’ con- - work should ought to use dumbbells to limber himself up, ain't it?’ Morris suggested. “Not exactly,’’ Abe said, ‘but at the same time, Mawruss, it wouldn't do any harm to a professional or a business man which sits eight hours at a desk every day if he would take a two weeks’ vacation in the summer time and spend it piano moving, y'un derstand, which I don't know of any form of exercise where the muscles gets more general, all-around use than in moving a piano. WORK UP TO BECOME A PIANO MOVER. “And I know what I am_ talking about, because I helped the janitor move our piano from the living room into what my wife calls the library on account of a set of Kipling with two volumes missing and the Century Dic tionary being in it, understand me, and I give you my word, Mawruss, [ couldn't have felt more exercised if I would have done 850 holes of gollut with an automobile accident at the end of it.” “That only goes to show how soft you are,’ Morris commented. “Did I say I wasn’t?’ Abe sald. “Then why don't you take exercis» and get yoir muscles in shape?"’ Mor- ris asked. “I am going to,"’ Abe replied, “but get after ‘em for blackmail. there are several other can do. “But each and every one of them will result in exactly the end we are most anxious to obviate. By that I mean publicity, newspaper talk, che reporters you spoke of as chasing you all over the map. hat's the one thing, Teddie, must not and shall not have."* “No, we mustn't have that!" echoed Teddie, mysteriously voin- forted by the masterfulness of ‘his new-found sage who could achi such a cool-headed and clear-eyed view of the entire tangled-up muddle. It took a load off her mind to know that she had some one so adro:t and dependable as Gerry to stand be- side her in this fight against :ie forces of evil, She felt sorry, in fact, hadn't come to Gerry in the first place. Then she felt rather glad in remembering that since she had com¢ to him she hadn't come looking like a trump. “So the best thing you can di die," her new-found adviser And things I we that she Ted- say- ing to her, ‘is to leave this entirely in my hands for a day or two, All I'm going to ask you to do is to keep mum, to ait tight. Before the week- eV been thirty years younger.” Der! Exercise, Longevity and the Liver ‘ * wouldn’t do any harm to a professional or a business man which sits “I know you can. eight hours at a desk every day if he would take a two-weeks’ vaca- tion in the summer time and spend it plano moving.” “I can get all the exercise I want by leading the two aces and the ten of trumps in a pinochle game.” the trouble with people who start in to take exercise is that they won't do it gradually enough “You mean you should ought to start in piano moving by first moving a piccolo and then work your way up through fiddles, bull fiddles and buss drums till you get in the plano mov- ing class?’ Morris inquired satiri- cally. “Well, as a matter of fact, Maw- russ, a feller like me which has got along without exercise till he is fifty. five,’ Abe said, ‘‘should ought to be mighty careful about the kind of ex- ercise he takes, on account of over- doing. 1 find for instance that I can JUST THE SAME THERE “Well, for my part, If I've got to keep my liver in shape by exercise which could only be taken with a special clause covering it in your policy of accident insurance like horseback riding and, mountain climbing, Mawruss, I am willing to get sorosis of the liver to-morrow yet,"" Abe announced. “Just the same there is plenty of high-toned lawyers and doctors who spend their vacations climbing moun- tains like the Swiss Alps oder the Rocky Mountains,’ Morris — said. “Take Doctor Eichendorfer for ex- ample, and that feller spends four weeks every summer in the West IS PLENTY OF HIGH-TONED LAWYERS AND DOCTORS WHO SPEND THEIR VACATIONS CLIMBING MOUNTAINS LIKE THE SWISS ALPS.” get all the exercise I want by leading the two aces and the ten of trumps in a game of auction pinochle."* CLIMBING MOUNT MORRIS. “I know you can," Morris “Last Saturday night you pretty nes ly wrecked my dining room atte cleaning up the trumps there a couple of times, which a feller that couldn't play pinochle without slamming down the cards like he was calling a lodse meeting to order, Abe, should ought to limit himself to Canfield solitaire.”* “Say! If you've got a two color hand, you also play it with the muf- fler cut out,” Abe retorted. ‘*Many a time I think. wonder you didn’t break your thumb already, and even at that you usually managed to get beat by two points, such a rotten player you are."" “Ig that so! Well, if I was such a rotten pinochle player like you, Abe,"’ Morris declared, ‘I would save money taking exercise by something really expensive like horseback rid- ing or mountain climbing."’ “Is horseback riding and mountain climbing also exercise?’ Abe in- quired, “For the rich It 1s,"’ Morris re- plied, ‘In particular horseback rid- ing, which is said for the liver."* to be wonderful end, I feel sure, we'll have the whole thing straightened out. And, by the way, what's the name and address of your prize-fighter's lady friend?" He remained solemnity incarnate as he jotted Ruby Reamer's name and address down on his seratch-pad. “Has it occurred to you," he said as he wrote, without looking up, “that this man Dorgan might have been the proper person for Uhlan to take action against?" “[ imagine he saw about all he wanted to of Dorgan,"’ announced ‘Peddie, with the feicle-look once more in her eyes. “But not all he wanted to of you?" questioned Gerry, pretending to ignore her eye-flash indignation. It was not often that he enjoyed the luxury of finding Teddie Hayden on the defensive, and he intended to make the most of it. “It's quite apparent he isn't afraid of you!"" “1 was hoping you could make him that way," acknowledged Teddie She said it quietly, but there was a barb in it which Gerry couldn't quite overlook: “Well, we'll get him that way," he announced with vigor, as he rose to his feet. “If it's action they're after, they'll get all they want.’ ‘A. consciousness of clearing skies both elated and depressed the brood- climbing mountains, and they say that he can shinny up some of the highest of the Canadian Rockies the same like you and me could walk up Mount Morris of Mount Morris Park, 121st Street and Madison Avenue.” “Well,” Abe said, “I suppose some day he would get dizzy somewheres about 25,000 feet above the level of the sea, and the only way they would be able to identify the remains for sure as Dr. Eichendorfer would be on ac- count of the liver being so wonderfully healthy."’ GOLLUF WOULD HAVE MADE "EM HARMLESS. “At the same time, Abe,"" Morris said, ‘fall the big life insurance com- panies is in favor of exercise making people live to a ripe old age." “Say, when it comes right down to it, Mawruss,”’ Abe said, “between liv- ing to a ripe old age and not living to a ripe old age, there ain't much to choose from, provided you live to be reasonably old. Take for instance old Sam Minzesheimer, who was ninety- six last birthday, and to my knowl- edge, Mawruss, compared to the life that feller has led for the past twenty- five years, y'understand, 90 per cent. of the people in Sing Sing, Joliet and ing-eyed Teddie. What Gerry was doing for her was being done merely in the way of a professional duty for which he would be duly paid. But they had been friends once, and she had treated him, she remembered, rather rottenly of late. She wanted to say something about that, make some effort to explain it away, yet she didn't quite know how to get that belated mood of re- pentance into words, So, as she rose from her chair, she didn't even try to put it Into words. She merely smiled softly and grate- fully up into Gerry's eyes as he stood beside her, with the magnolia-white of her cheeks tinging into pink as he stared back at her, with his jaw- muscles set and a quick look of pain on the face that still remained pre- occupied, it's awfully good of you, Gerry," she said as she held out ber hand to him, “That's how I make my Itving,"’ was Gerry's unexpectedly brusk reply. But, apparently without knowing tt, he still held her hand in his. “It's awfully, awfully good of you," she repeated, as she reached with her free hand to restore the scarf which h ipped off her shoulder. t's not a bit good of me," on he Last Saturday night you pretty nearly wrecked my dining room table cleaning up the tramps there a couple of times, which a feller that couldn't play pinochle without slamming down the cards like he was calling a lodge meeting to order should ought to limit himself to Canfield solitaire.” rae J w “Golluf has given them magnates and financiers such clear heads that they can squeeze the last cent from gasoline buyers and wreck rallroads with all the same amount of enthustasm as if they would have San Quentin has had a wildly exciting ti eighty-year-old Standard Oil] mag nates and railroad financiers has,"’ Morris said. “And I suppose you think that thi: is an argument in favor of golluf!"’ Abe exclaimed, ‘‘Which if it wouldn’ have been for golluf, of them Standard Oil railroad financiers would have been harml long sine “Instead of which, Mawruss, gollug has given them such clear heads and energy, y'understand, that they ca: squeeze the last cent from gasolin4 buyers and wreck railroads with al the same amount of enthusiasm a: if they would have been thirty year younger. “There is one of them in partteutal which I've got in mind, Mawrus: and before he took ten years ago terrible dined off of anything more hes he used than one graham cracker and a gl¥e Bulgarian buttermitk, that it took a consultation of stomach] $5,000 an| of scientific specialists three hours at hour to pull him around again. “But nowadays, wriss,"" Albi continued, “he plays nine golluf every morning followed by family porterhouse for lunch smoth ered with onions, Bavarian cabbage sweet two slices of German che “Then in the afternoon he Lina down town and issues orders to raisq the price of gasoline 2 cents a quar in Kentucky, Illinois. Indiana an¢ North and South Dakota, and fore: closes the first, second and third mortgages on two railroads of whic the common stock used to be consi: ered high grade, gilt-edged widow} securities before he regained h health from playing golluf every day and that's what exercise done him, Mawruss.” THE STANCE FOR CORK-PU! ING. lways the case wi millionaires playing golluf,” Mot said. yery ay you read whefl some millionaire passes away on t golluf links, which, as a matter fact, Abe, golluf seems to be pretd near as fatal to millionaires nowada as Bright's disease used to be in old days when the favorite form 4 exercise for men past sixty used to taking the old-fashioned corkscrew the right hand three times a week ar inserting it into a bottle of five-st queur Scotch. “The proper stance was to pla the bottle between the knees aj after the play was complete, y'unde stand, providing the bottle was prc erly corked, y'understand, exercised the biceps, the triceps, forceps and a whole lot of muscl I never knew the names of at all. “Well, millionaires which died fre that kind of exercise, Mawruss, w usually surrounded by anyhow thd relations and passed away decently Abe declared, ‘but the regular dea| bed scene for one of these here gollu playing oil magnates is on the gre at the ninth hole, y'understand, wi no one to comfort his last momen but a couple of caddies and the ni worse player in the club than hi self." ‘And the following morning, A’ Morris concluded, ‘when an auto’ bile owner reads about it in the pay he says to his wife at breakfast: see where Blank the oll magn: passed away on the golluf links yd terday. He died of heart disease,’ that so?’ says the wife. ‘I never kn he had a heart “But that ain't Copyright, 1822, by the Bell Syndicate, by the Bell Syndicate, (Gerry prepares for action an the Commodore gets sealed orde. in Monday's instalment). “Well, he should ought to née taken up golluf the way some of them Mawruss, some, magnates an¢ exercise five off to get sucift Magenbeschwerden if hid holes of O'Brien potatoes nd sour » se cake you iJ te 2} a } i countered, almost harshly, as he p the scarf where it belonged. And would have been afraid of him, wi that sudden black look in his eyes, she hadn't remembered that Ge Rhindelander West was a gentlem a man of her own world and her o way of looking at things. And she rather liked that touch camaraderie which was expressing self in the unconsidered big-brothe, weight of his hand on her unavei shoulder, “[ feel so—so safe with you, reassured him, with that misty loo her upraised eyes which can seem much like a sigh made visible, {t was beginning to be a luxury, felt, to find somebody she could that way with. “Well, you're not!" he sald in voice that was almost a bark. “Why do you mean I'm not?” asked, perplexed, with a still m searching study of his face, “T mean because"—— He did not finish. Instead, with hand still on her shoulder, he stoo; and kissed her. Copyright 1922,