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laa “ {THE EVENING WORLD, W EDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1922.3 ofactStory #.Russianfamne AIS ts a semi-oficial, wnvar conditions in Russia first hand September of last year to May of this gave effort to feeding the starving children of the district of nished, truth{ul story of the famine written by a@ man who from his entire time and Samara, 1 @8 supervisor for the American Relief Administration, What actually saw or what came he writes in the series of ers. From the bare record of starvation cannidaliem that in some places followed in its train, upon official facts. . The writer Gov Shafroth of Colorado, and California, He was a member of the American was chosen to head the work in the Samara dis In to-day's article Mr. Shafroth | aitating the distribution of American relief supplies. Article III. SIMBIRSK AND THE COUNTRY|'” SURROUNDING. By Will Shafroth, District Supervisor American Relief Administration in the District of Samara from Sept. 15, 1921, a to May 15, 1982. Copyright, 1922 (New York F O ning World). by ‘Press Publishing Compa N our last night in Kazan, "Doc" Golder presided in our kitchen of the articles is an American. a graduate of the Universities of Michigan He served during t articles beginning to-day is what he to him in reports from his fellow relief work- to the shocking reports of the story is based He is the son of the late he war with the 78th Field Artillery. Relief Administration in Poland and J tells of the terrible conditions neces- wish to help the famine-stricken people of their province which was shown by the Government officials of ¢ Tartar Republic. Before leaving Kazan we stocked up with white bread, being able to get some of excellent quality for 8,000 rubles a pound. There, as in all the large towns in the famine area, even in the very worst districts, ul sorts of food were for sale in the market. Vegetables, meats and even ‘|milk, butter, and eggs were to be had for the money, but of course most of the people had none. We left Kazan on Tuesday bound compartment, and we partook |for Simbirsk, @ rail distance of about of a hearty meal of |three baked pota- onions, soup, toes, ter, At about 8.30, just as we emissary from Prime the republic rived, asking us to dinner. “Doc” sa‘d we had to go, as it would be a very serious breach of etiquette in that voyntry to refuse an invitation to @ man's house. Accordingly we ac- cepted, and set out immediately in the car which had been sent for us. We arrived to find the guests, three or four in number, awaiting us with our host. They were all Tartars and were dressed in the usual Russian blouse shirt, some with coats and some without, with loosely hanging, knickerbocker-effect trousers and leg- gings. We went immediately to table, where the hostess, a timid young Tartar girl, the wife of the first man inthe Tartar republic, greeted us. She did not eat with us, but waited on thé table, superintended the cooking, every now and then seating herself, joining in the conversation and sam- pling the dishes which were brought on. The meal began with some canned herring, evidently considered a great delicacy, with which a light wine was served, as the law permitting 14 per cent. alcohol had already become effective. This was followed by a vegetable and meat soup, with a dark rye bread. Next we had a meat stew with potatoes, and for dessert a real watermelon, together with a kind of muskmelon, appeared. This was fol- lowed by a glass of cocoa, and when we thought that the meal must be ovér, in came tea with cherry pre- serves, ‘We had not yet become accustomed to the tea drinking habits of the Rus- sians, and did not know that every Russian home, from the peasant’s hut to the palace, is equipped with a war and a supply ot charcoal with which to heat the popular bevery age, and that within a few minutes of the arrival of any guest the con- tented humming of this household pet can always be heard. At our Tartar feast instead of sugar ar- had train finished eating, @9Jang ten people were killed. relayed Minister of|Golder made the most of it by talking attractive | fF: hundred and forty miles, but not connected by any direct trains. Our car was changed around from cof-lone slow train to another, and it was fee, bread and but-]Saturday afternoon before we finally pulled into the Simbirsk station. The ahead of us, to which we had been attached, was wrecked This d “Doe"* almost us an entire day and to many of the peasants and work- men on the train and in the neigh- borhood. TRAIN OFFICIALS PAID “IN KIND.” Our engineer told him that he had never been over this section of the road before, and that he now had to do it ut night. He sturted with his train of thirty empty oil tanks from a station near Moscow, bound for the south. On his return with the oil he was to receive twenty-eight yards of cloth which he would exchange for flour, and each member of his crew was to get a like amount. The trip would take about two weeks. This run was very much sought after, as there was an opportunity on the way to buy marketable commodities such as salt, butter, potatoes and meat which could be sold for a profit in Moscow. But the best run of all was to the Ukraine, where each man could buy a few poods (thirty-six English pounds) of flour at a lower price than in Moscow, where it could be resold at a profit. Many people travelling in Russia at that time were food traders who went from place to place bartering commodities which were plentiful in one locality for food- stuffs which were obtainable in an- other. With the prevailing conditions of transport prices even in adjoining states varied as much as though they were thousands of miles apart. ‘A party of peasants, all loaded down with sacks on their shoulders, asked and recelved permission from us to ride on the platform car on which we were carrying our Ford. They had come from the Simbirsk Govern- ment, about a hundred miles away, to trade salt for potatoes, and they had secured the salt by giving milk for it. For three days they had been waiting for transportation, but there had been no room on the trains for them. WITH FREEDOM, STILL FAMISH- ING. One of the old women in the party got into conversation with the doc- Her first question was: ‘*What It is re- She has become of the Czar? ported that he is coming back." said that in the old days there had the che: se a ihe cherry preserves were dropped into} i. hunger, too, but always the Czar the tea, Another common substitute for sugar we found to be little pieces of hard candy, which Russian eti- quette demands should be held in the mouth while the tea is swallowed. Naturally, we had not been able to do had managed to gi them bread. Now it was different; there was noth- ing ahead of them but starvation, Another interrupteg her, saying: “Yes, we peasants are fools, Here is our freedom. We cheered; we clapped full justice to, this banquet, but our ; o, this banquet, but our) our hands, and here we have it. We hostet “Doc's s feelings were mollified by explanation that we were only in the habit of eating one dinner} |, im an evening. have to go hundreds of versts for a sack of potatoes and carry it on our We are dying of hunger. We out the pomeschik (landlord), drove A SPECIALLY ELABORATE MEAL. |iutting his pictures and mirrors into The house itself was amply though|our cowbarns, because they were too not richly furnished, but the meal ‘was obvioubly a very extra one for our, benefit the Tartar Prime Minister did not livésin that luxurious state so often} yard accpedited to the Bolshevik Commis-]We get what we dese . In fact all of us were favor-| Svoboda !"" impressed with the ability, the to co-uperate with us, and th MAYOR NITCHEL’ It was quite evident that | We large to go into our houses. We di- vided his land, and what is the result? are famishing. ‘The land is un- and the country is a grave- We ure not fit for freedom. e. Svoboda tilled (Freedom) This was typical of the attitude we found ong the peasants, They blamed the Government for thelr con- [in Russia; the sterilizing apparatus of- dition, and pointed back to “the good] ten did not work because there was no old days."’ But most of them didn’t] water, and the X-ray machine could want the old Government back, and|not function because it had no tubes. didn’t know what kind of a govern-|The supply of medicines was pathetic ment they did want. even to 4 layman, such simple reme- Simbirsk, named by the Tartars|dies as quinine and aspirin being en- “HiIl of the Winds,” is the capital of | tirely lacking. the province of the same name ly-| In a children's hospital we next ing on the west bank of the Volga, visited there were seventy patients, south of the Tartar Republic. Arrived] most of them under three years of there Wolf immediately made off to}age. Over half of them were sick present his credentials to the Govern- | from diseases caused by hunger. They ment and inform them of our arrival.] received a very little milk and the Shortly after a car was sent for us,| bulk of their small rations consisted and we were conducted to the head-|of rye bread. There was a lack of quarters of the Gubispolkom, other-|sufMctent blankets and bedding and wise known as the Central Executive |even beds, but the lack of medicines Committee of the Government. The| was absolutely pitiful. President of this body, who is in real-] The entire supply of medicines and ity the Governor of the state, was a] surgical instruments for the seventy young :nun, not over thirty-five yeurs| little patients was contained on two of age, with a corps of assistants con- | 81ass shelves in a small cabinet. There siderably younger than himself, many | Were only two thermometers, ‘There of them not of Russian origin. Al-| were no combs for the hair, There though Simbirsk at that time was} was no gauze for bandages, and there ranked as the third worst of the| was almost no thread. A building for famine districts, Samara being the| another hospital for four hundred first and Kazan the second, we found] children was ready, but thera was no the difference to be one of numbers | equipment for it. rather than decree of need. On the next day a trip into the country was scheduled for us, and, GOULD FEED ONE 21,000 CHIL] though we were toy! to be ready at 10 Mu o'clock, Sunday being even less of a ‘The critical food situation was \in- work day than week days, we did not dicated to us by the statement of the] get off until one. The country roads Governor that out of the 21,000 chil-]in general are mere trails, grown dren in children’s homes in the city, }over with grass, with four or five the Government would only be able] equally rutty sets of tracks on to ration 6,000 after the Oct, 1. In most of the sub-districts it was re- ported that over half of the popula- tion was living on substitutes, such as grass, twigs, bark, or anything In fact which could be mixed with a small quantity of flour to make ‘‘sub- stitute bread, In the ufternoon we had a look around the city. Simbirsk was a pic.. turesque place, with an estimated pop- ulation of about 75,000. It was fairly clean in comparison with Moscow and Kazan and we were agreeably sur- prised to find In the middle of the town a stretch of cement road being repaired, A large distributing home which we visited was the first chil- dren's institution that we saw, and it was decidedly a credit to the local officials. In it were 600 children between the ages of three and twelve who had been picked off the street. These children in the receiving homes were their seventy-five-to-a-hundred feet of width. They generally follow near the telegraph line pnd are traceable in this way. They are, however, per- fectly passable to an automobile with good springs. The first village to which we came was a typical Russian settlement of low thatch-roofed huts, clustering together on each side of the wide, grass-crown streets. The houses centred around two main streets run- ning at right angles to each other, and in the square at their intersection stood a large and rather pretentious Greek church. BREAD MADE FROM ROOTS. All villages of any size have a church, and no matter how poor or mean the huts surrounding it, the church ts always quite large and im- pressive looking, crowned with its bel- fry and topped with a Greek cross. In fact, there are separate words in the Russian language to denote a vil- lage with a church and one without. always the worst, and the poor little }yrnig village had formerly counted skeletons in this institution had passed|; 999 inhabitants—about 250 homes. the stage of undernourishment and were just on the edge of starvation. On entering they were first registered, and had their hair clipped. Then they were bathed, had their clothing disin- fected and were put to bed. True, the beds were only wooden bunks, and sometimes two or three would be in one bed; but the place was clean and well managed, and showed a@ sincére desire on the part of the Government to take care of the children. 15 PER CENT. WERE !LL. We were informed that about 20 per cent. of them had ‘hunger swelling.”” Twenty houses were completely de- serted and in others only one or two members of the family were left. Four hundred and fifty poods of seed grain had been distributed by the Gov- ernment, and we were thoroughly convinced that this had been sown and not eaten, though the people were undoubtedly hungry. Their bread, of which we received several samples, was very heavy and seemed absolutely uneatable. It was made from grass and root ‘flour,"* which causes the extremely prevalent ‘‘hunger swell. ing" in this region. From here we went a few versts Fifteen per cent. of the 600 were sick with such diseases as dysentery, measles, typhoid, typhus, &c. There were two cases of cholera, Their daily diet consisted of a pound of bread, two bowls of kasha soup, which is a very common sort of a porridge served in Russia, and some tea. A personnel of 126 was in charge of the institution. It seemed to be characteristic in a wreater or less extent of all Govern- ment homes that a much larger per- sonne! was keft on hand than was ac- tually needed. It was probably a sur- vival of the old system where every- body worked for the Government, and due to the fact that all these people nominally at least received a daily ra- tion the same as that of the children in addition to their insignificant pay of two or three thousand rubles a month, it had proved very hard to abolish it. This place was only a temporary stopping place of the children who, ufter the regular period of quarantine —generally about two weeks—were sent out to different children's homes in the city, of which there were over 100. We visited a few of these homes and found them neat and clean, but in all the children were receiving a pitifully small ration, Considering, however, the desperate food situation of the province the children's homes made an extremely creditable show- ing. HOSPITALS WITHOUT MEDICINE We visited several hospitals, among them the Government Hospital of Simbirsk, This was an extremely up- to-date and modern institution with a great many operating rooms, a fine sterilizing apparatus, an X-ray ma- chine and all modern improvements, But many surgical instruments were missing which could not be replaced further to a Tartar settlement, in which before migration started, about six weeks earlier, there had been 720 people. About 60 per cent. had al- ready left and they were continuing to leave at such a rate that it seemed as though there could be none left at the,end of a month. Two poods of seed grain had been distributed by the Government for every dessiatine of land which had been ploughed (six poods per dessiatine is the normal planting) and it was being sowed, The village had 20 cows and 25 horses. We asked to see how the people lived and were taken into a small one- room cabin. On one side of the room was the usual Russian stove, made of brick and whitewashed, with a flue extending up to the siling. On one side of the room was a sort of plat- form which served as a bed. On it were standing three children, so thin and white and emaciated looking that one almost wondered how they could stand. They had the swollen by of grass eaters, and when the 7 woman showed us the “flour'’ from which she made her bread, it was green, Those children were dying of starvation. They would hold out ten days, two weeks, maybe longer. But if food with some nourishment in it did not come soon, they would all die. As their mother looked at us we could see that she knew It. She dropped to her knees and began to pray to us, sobbing. We turned away, sick of heart, Thousands of little children dy- ing like that! It was unthinkable. In his fourth ar Mr. Shafroth tells of the conditions in Samara and of the organization of the work of re- Heving the starvation among the chil- dren and the method of its administra- tion. ical organizations and clubs, many old friends of the late Mayor will attend. charged there had been an effort at publicity which might be subjected to criticism, which was hotly resented by Hand, 8S. Stewart Crawford, Thoreau Cronyn and James V. Gwinn, all of whom were reporters at the City Hall ‘This is Mr. Mitchel's birthday . o F. Hurd ani chel's birthday anni-| VPC™ Mor Mitchel’s Administra-| Attomey George F. Hurd ersa a ” tion. ne exercises will open with a] ‘The Girl Scouts, Foreign Born Cit- QORY HONORED |e: 277s srs, hat ame seen SNP NEWS INFORMATION who was a chaplain with the Freneh also will be represented. eer \ Army during the war. George Me -D: HES” Bae To-Day. | See alter ie Cony |e eee ere metenrie sly 12 \ | Darwin James jr. will lay a wreath on GIRL. ON THE CHEEK | tee ees ‘July 1 the grave. A squad from Governor's scien] r aL a Island will fire a volley and taps wil| Tete@ te Tear Diamond Lavallitere Due To-Morrow, 4 —_->— be blown by a Regular Army bugler From Her Neck. Eeperanae,, Havana ace an a is hee GOR During the ceremonies army planes] Carmine Moninsera, thirty, a shoe- Latuania, Libau duly 5 Many Organizations Will Par-| wit! manoeuvre nigh over the scene.|maker, No. 31 Oak Street, was ar- | Revit Hambure : “oul 13 as 4 Among those who will attend for-| raj, Due Frid . ‘ é ned in the Tombs Police Court to- ue Friday ticipate in Exercises to Be | matiy are members of the Committee] jay charged with felonious assault on] Yandyek: Southampton ae ty ; of John Purroy Mitchel’s Associates, America, Bouthampton ... July 13 . Held in Woodlawn. D OresntaclvalDecthe "Wer Deperts| Man: Meer eet & Marewaal Sail T0-Day ; aiaee ment; delegation trom J. P. Mitchel rator, of No, 66 Oliver Btreet. The Mails Close, Balle, Post, No. 208, American Legion; |#heemaker te charged with having Adams, Q'town.. i004 Xt Wo Phe annua! ceremonial tribute to| ieren of the class of "39, Cohembta| slashed the giri's cheek on March 17. [ifsiapan, Kinerton "<<. 800 Aa "Nao, the memory of the late Mayor John] University, with which Mr. Mitchel] Carmine sald that he came to New Bail To-Morrow = Purroy Mitchel, who was killed at| ¥°* " uated, and a delegation from| york two years ago and later sent for 4 Malls Close Sait the Newspaper Club, consist the git, who was his sweeth Neythla, Liverpool; ROA, |S Sete’ Charles. Li . sisting offihe girl eart in ut $c Noon aries, La., when his army|(harios Hambidge, President: Harold] !taly. Tle showered her with presents | Meine Olav, 0.00 A's Noon aeroplane crashed a little more than| A. Vivian, Harry D, Kingsbury, Irv-| and then dlacovered that there was Susquehanna, 300 PME four years ago, will be held this after-] ing Pinover, Daniel Breen, William another man ig — — nd Marie re- . noon at 5.30 o'clock at his grave in] F Beaeell, Berita As HAMeTty, Prank iieeh, ine declared, was Seas chante poatiped, Hereen + 2.20 A.M No Woodlawn Cemetery. Besides repre-| wilson.” Aironet suaen Haninala ined ‘to tear trom her neck @ diamond | Catherine, Aton ite M on, € erce, ‘Wellington | javalileres which he had given her, Mo-| ,Unriatl ++. 3: 8.20 4.x) tatives 0! vic - WwW r : av O°] stun a YOO AN sentatives of various civic and polit-' Wright, Fred H. Adams, Charles S. ninsera was arrested yesterday, EA Sapo Halil...) 30 Pas 6“ om a U MANGE Fe, FE. THE HOUSE OF INTRIGUE® | AUTHOR OF "THE, PRA he Wi TLE 1 GERRY SAIN: Mie aly TED) WHO'S WHO IN THE STORY. a tee to way are “Hreaoe IN Greener VilNge. Herr LE teal te te die My nae 68 UNCLE CHANDLER, “the major,” before leaving for Hot Springs, goes tained a fixed indifference) to see her, telling his old chum, aia toward animals and a dis- turbingly bourgeois admira- tion for machinery. Horses bit at you as you passed them and dogs were rather smelly, COMMODORE STILLMAN, that she is “too pretty t loose? Her uncle is forced to be stisted with fer independent aiunees , BA N, a portrait painter, forces his att i al kisses her. To punish him she asks peo AL Ue doy GUNBOAT DORGAN, a _prizefighter, to beat him, which Dorgan dows. and Guernse: : heir heads . ; and rnsey cows put their ‘ Dorgan thereupon also kisses her and assumes rights over her roadster, much down and tried to horn you if Yo") to the annoyance of fiek geeks ‘ " ports- R we r them in scarlet §) RUBY REAMER, a model, who threatens Teddie with “the law,” because clothes. Rut a machine was a machine, and did only and always what it was or- dained to do. If you took the trouble to understand it and treat it right, St remained your meek and faithful ser- Dorgan has apparently, hrown her over. ATTORNEY SHOTWELL, representing Raoul Uhlan, calls to demand $25,006 for his client for the beating. So Teddie calls on CERRY WEST, one of her own set, a childhood playmate, now a law- She tells her_story, whereupon Gerry also kisses her. LOLIS LIPSET1T, a reporter on the Star, 1s called in by West, who takes yer. vant steps in spite oi Teddie's indignation at being kissed a i Lash id s a S: again, to fight her ene- N'Reatoring the viscera of, dae [mies Ledate, hesever, decides to pay Uhlan’ claim, = i owe ‘ave Lake ‘edate is visited by the Commodore, who ari j Ted sons) y e i e, rives just as she hands Mren. Teddie many repeated 1e880N8] Shotwell 4 $25,000 check for Uhlan, The Commodore, overwhelmed with sym- in patience, and one of her pleasant- est rainy-day occupations was to dis- sect and then reassemble one of her father’s larger and more expensive lucernal microscopes. ‘And this tends to explain-why Ted- die, even before ber toes could quite reach the pedals, had been able to run the Haydens’ big, royal-blue limousine, On one glorious occasion, indeed, and quite unknown to her deluded family, she had chauffed in secret all the morning of Election Day, chauffed for the Democratic Party, with strange banners encircling that digni- fied vehicle and even stranger figures reposing therein, to say nothing of a tin box of champagne wafers and a brocadgd carton of candied fruit on the driving seat beside her. But her Uncle Chandler, who was a stanch Republican, had beheld that alliance with the treacherous enemy and rescued the royal-blue limousine from ignominy while Teddie was re- galing herself on three ice cream sodas pathy, kisses her just as Dorgan enters. Explanations follow. The Commodore Jeaves te telegraph Uncle Chandier to return and Dorgan starts out to get back the check in a corner drug store. Reing less expert at such things than he imagined, however, Uncle Chandler steered the big car inta a box-pillar and broke the lamps and dolorously entered into a compact with his niece to the end that the doings of the day in question might remain a sealed book to the rest of the family. For Uncle Chandler resolutely main- tained when Teddie was not in hear- ing that the girl was a brick and a bit of a wonder, and that he hoped to heaven life wouldn't tame her down to a chow-chow in permanent wave and pettic i In time Teddie had come into pos- session of a roadster—a small wine- colored racer, upholstered in a dove- gray and neatly disguised as a shop- ping car. She loved that car with a devotion that was wonderful to be- hold. But time, alas, proved that her longed-for freedom was not to be reached on rubber tires. For a car, after all, is only a merry-go-round, hampered by the same old regulations. ‘Teddie, it is true, soon found herself on nodding terms with traffic cops, but three times in one season she had shocked Tuxedo Park by being twice fined and once publicly lectured for imperiling the peace and safety of the commonwealth. When the sympathetic Commodore and the belligerent boxer had gone, ‘Teddie, once again alone in her studio, — and a mist in front of their ¢ make them forget themselv I've got to take . You And you in prided herself on mot being the sort of girl who would willingly show the white feather, But Gerry had touched on something which had been be- wildering her, of late, more than she ke me in hand?" repeated Ted- experienced a sense of confinement, alwas ready to acknowledge. standing up very straight and feeling of compression, which had] “The things that have been hap- hitherto been absent from her newer! pening around here,” he had the , take you in hand," repeated pace: Gh lltes brutality to retort, “the things I'm|Gerry in turn She felt the need for untrammelled}now trying to straighten out for] “I rather think I've something to fresh air, the into open spaces you!"« And r bout t “Peddie, movement through craving to get out things, the membering thi loved you all my life,” and leave the suffocation of city wallsisense of her desolation returned tofsaid Gerry, quite simply, disregarding behind her. She promptly decided, |her double-fold, She walked to the }even the abysmal scorn in her voice in tact, to drive her car out to Tuxe-]window, looked out, and then turned} “Then this is no time to tell mee do, and even went to the telephone |slowly about. Teddie was neither|thing like that,’’ she retorted with to order it from the garage. obtuse nor unsympathetic; she was] spirit. ‘Then she remembered that she no}merely a girl who had been prodigi-) ‘And you're wrong there,"* con- longer had a c: ously preoccupied with her fight for|tended Gerry, quite unmoved. ‘It’ But this, in the face of the denuda-| freedom and the depressing discov-|the only, the essential time : : tions with which life had been con-Jery that it was a losing fight. LW HALY Garieas ona rballetiabiwes “Oh, Gerry, what's the matter with me, anyway?” she demanded with an altogether unlooked-for note of wist- about it? the di fronting her, did not impress her as a very vast deprivation. She merely called for another num- contenting asked ‘Teddie, disturbed by kening light in his eye. ecause heaven only knows how ber and ordered a taxi, ¢ulness in her voice Tae eetaieeial ah * et cht of three]. ,, ; < ng we can be alone here,"’ was his he rselt mi esate Sat ma ia Don't you know?" he said as he|not altogether satisfactory reply oapolines data! eS followed her to the window. ‘‘Don't] “I fail to any particular ad. s : ahd Pate ‘tid not go gloom-riding you know, you poor little muddle-] vantage arising out of our—our tem headed kid?’ porary jsolation,"’ retorted ‘Teddie in Central Park. For when she opened the door to what she thought to be a taxi-driver she found Gerry West there with his hat in his hand and a look of triumph in his eyes. “Well, I've got it back,” he an- nounced, only momentarily abashed by the iciness of her manner. “Got what back?’ asked Teddie, without so much as asking him to step inside. “Your car,” explained Gerry, enter- ing the abode of art on his own hook. “It's down at the door. And I had ‘em put on a new pair of lamps on the way over.”" “pm sure that was very kind of you," ‘Teddie coldly admitted. ‘Teddie shook her head, She was rather foolishly afraid that Gerry was going to be sympathetic, and she didn’t want that. Sympathy, of late, seemed the inevitable overture to the unmusical opera of mushiness. “Tl tell you what's the matter with you, Teddie,"’ asserted Gerry, wondering why she was refusing to meet his gaze. ‘You're inflammatory without quite knowing it. You're provocative, without being foolish enough to have fathomed the fact. The Lord made you so lovely, girl, that you put an ache in men's hearts with quite unexpected Johnsonian dig. nity, ‘eddie !"" was Gerry's sharp ery as he towered over her. ‘Don't you un- derstand?" ‘Understand what?" asked the girl with the exasperatingly level gaze as she surveyed the none too steady hands which he was holding out to ward her. That [ can't help kissing you!” he abandonedly exclaimed as he just « abandonedly proceeded to do so. “Teddie drew slowly away from him. He had seen children draw back Latico that way from a milk-snake coiled up in a chocolate box. Her eyes were blazing. Now I know you're no better than'’—— But that was as far as Teddie got. For the door was flung open and a protesting and much dishevelled Louis Lipsett was piloted into the room. He was piloted in without ceremony and by the lapel of his overcoat. 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