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helpers, were at this } in the thirties; he perhaps I thirty-six or seven, F thirty-three or four. Elmer Boat ; wright had lost the fresh enthusiasm: of his first years in the province was a daily routine of innumerabl: petty tasks and responsibilities. F his religion seemed at times to have settled into routine. With fewer petty activities to ab: sorb his energy until his life settled} into a mould, he might have exhibited some of the interestiur quality that is rather loosely called temperament; for that matter it was still a possibility during the soul- shaking changes of middle life. His wife seemed a wholly objective person. She was physically strong inclined to sternness, or at least to rigidity of view, yet was by no means unkind. Asa result, having no men tal lightness or grace, she talked hardly at all. When she disapproved, which was not seldom, she became silent. Doane never interfered slightest detail of Mrs. Boatwright's management. Like her, disapproved, he kept still. But he might as well have spoken out, for she knew, nearly always, what he was thinking. The introduction of Betty into the delicately balanced house- hold precipitated a crisis. ‘was served in the mission house at a quarter to eight. Not once in a month was it five minutes late. delay of half an hour would have thrown Mrs. Boatwright out of her stride for the day. During the first few days after her arrival Betty appeared on time. was clearly necessary. Mrs. Boat- wright was hostile. From the mo- ment she arrived Betty knew she was exciting disapproval. The way they looked at her neat travelling sult, her becoming turban, her shoes, sharply on her sensitive nerves. She was aware even of the prim way they walked, these women—ol their extremely modest self-control— and of the puzzling contrast set up | with the free activity of her own t slim body, struggling bravely agains: { H an increasing hurt, her nervously responsive young nature environment. id .Mrs. Boatwright at once gave her| 4 some classes of young girls. went to Miss Hemphill, { | ! nrose to provoke sober thoughts. Onv occurred tne first time she played ten- nis with her father; the day before Li Halen's suicide. A number of Chinese youths gather- ed and watched the play. the white ».omen attached to the mis- sion at this time was a tennis player; and the spectacle of a radiant girl darting about with grace and zest, was plainly an experience to the on- lookers. At first they were respectful | enough, but as their numbers f voices were raised, first in laughter, 4 then in unpleasant comment. Finally all the voices seemed to burst out at once in chorus of ribaldry i and invective, ‘ her play, alarmed and confused. ¥ walfted to the net. ‘ “I'm sorry, dear,” he said, “but t's ‘ won't do." : Obediently she returned to the mis- ‘ sion house, while Doane went over ti E the fence. But before he could r k it the youths, jeering, hurried away. . ITHIN less than a week Betty i W found herself fighting off a at the stake. her she seemed t hurt now. ) THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1922, Cpe Se. and TO FRONTENAC Ete, HONEY Bet HLUSTRATED BY WILL B JOHNSTONE tion, fighting to control the uprush The attache was talking Brachey caught bits | BETTY IS LATE FOR SREAKFAST 2 rt "s chief ory — HE Boatwrights, Doane’s chile Berry DOAN WHO'S WHO IN THE STORY. , nineteen years old, en route to join her father, Griggsby Doane, American Missionary in China, meets on the ship, JONATHAN BRACHEY, a writer, who after seeming indifference and rudeness, shows interest in her and induces her to give to him a sketch, signed, of himself she had made. his attentions objectionable “That's the place for you, all right They've got the narrow- T’ainan-fu, up a guide here at the hotel.” Five minutes later Brachey heard His ill manners make to MRS. HASMER, wife of DR. HASMER, and Betty’s chaperone. LI HSIEN, a young Chinaman, also on the ship, once a member of the Doane household and now a revolutionist and anti-foreigner. Soon after Betty arrives at the Mission Compound at T’ainan- a fiery speech, denouncing evils” and ther He Shan Company, possessors of concessions procured, he ‘arged, by bribery, kills himseii as a dramatic protest. fore thousands attending a fete and in a scuffle which follows Doane is at- You can pick “A. P. Browning, the Agent General of the Ho Shan Company, is stopping along with the European Province of Then go out there and have a look—see for yourself. and I'll give you a card to Browning.”’ Now Brachey looked up. to him, so momentous was the hour, that his pulse had stopped. “Thanks,"’ he finally said. ‘Bo glad to have it." But the particular card, seribbled by there across the table, For late that His act was done be- Say the word, was never presented. night, in a bitter revulsion of feeling, hey tore it up, In the morning, however, when he stopped at the desk, the Belgian clerk handed him a thick in New York. attorney, it had seemed, approached his with a fresh proposal for separa- letter from h He called his attorney directly after breakfast, to agree to the divorce fore noon had engaged a guide and next morning was pushing westward toward the ancient province capital. Incorporated.) (In To-morrow's installment Jonathan Brachey comes to T’ainan-fu.) STUTZSZOASHARE BUT SOON RECEDED TOSIGONTHE CURB Stock Held by Guaranty Trust Co, Will Not Be Interfered With by Ryan. coal strike most discussion has cen- tred around the difficulties being ex pertenced by the larger steel mills and allied industries. But these industries have thus far fared very well. Com- paratively few furnaces have had to be banked because of the shortage of coal. has been pronounced in other lines of business. For instance, it has become known that many wheat farmers throughout the West have been unable to operate their threshing machines because of a lack of fuel. Numerous other important cases could be cited. Bidding for stock of the Stutz Motor Company was resumed this morning on the New York Curb Market, which is the only market the stock now pos- and shortly after the begin- ning of business 100 shares sold at $20 a share, an advance of over the best thereafter another 100 shares sold at 16, but almost immediately the issue was 20 bid with no offerings. This awakening of interest in the market position of the stock is due that a large part of the brokerage fraternity believe that when 16,009 shares of Stutz owned by the Guaranty Trust Company is of- Wednesday, bidding is likely to develop. It 1s figured in V “AT FIRST THEY WERE RESPECTFUL ENOUGH BUT AS THEIR NUMBERS GREW VOICES WERE RAISED, FIRST IN LAUGHTER, THEN IN UNPLEASANT COMMENT.” bid yesterday. now is that the priorities ruling may, after all, have an adverse effect on big business, for a time at least, and the speculators who were so optimis- tic regarding the immediate market outlook and who became eager pur- chasers, not only have been able to easily fill thelr buying orde: have met such heavy selling that the market has been given a weak tone. has two men in her life, the one she —. struggled to adapt itself to the new loves, or who has stirred her, and the one she marries. She might marry. to leave the mission yet. Would be to invite misunderstanding.”" It was possible. ONATHAN BRACHEY watched his cabin porthole while Betty and the Hasmers descended accommodation Betty/enough, as every girl sees when life the head/presses, that marriage might at any ana|™oment present itself as a way out. The thought was not stimulating. She got out a paper and pencil and ‘And other more serious difficulties} sketched the roofs and trees of T’al- nun as they appeared in the moon- teacher, for detailed advice, to the fact earnestly read a work on pedagogics the steamer nibbled a roll. was gray and deeply lined. She slept then until mid-forenoon. Street that the o'clock when she hurried down to the dining room. The was nearly 11 y He went up to Shanghal on the once engaged on a north-bound steamer. |. value of mo of the busi- and the fact that it Is a going the oil situation and outlook is ev dently being shared in by some of the larger banking institutions. L: one of the largest national t the country, situated on Brondwa between Rector Street and the Bat- tery, called loans amounting to ap- proxtmately $50,000,000, and it is un- derstood ofl securities made up a sub- stantial part two hours earlier. rather shame-faced, a little bread and butter. away more northern ports at this time; competitive develop at the auction sale, and that unless the stock 1s offe block, bids substantially ent market pric Boatwright lifted her head for a cool bow. word did she There was an apology trembling on tip of Betty's had to hold it back and turn away. HE day after the suicide of Li Hsten rumors began into the compound. The act of Betty stopped short in] the fanatical student had, at tho start, ae’ Doane anticipated, an electrical ef- Her father lowered his racket.and) fect on public sentiment and reports Valley, where the disorderly young shoots of revolution were slowly into red flower. shaken man, in excess of But he was a Ww the problem of his romance there were two per- sons to be saved, Betty and himselr. He had behaved, on the one oc He could see his ne. tion now as nothing other than weak- ness, curiously despicable, in the light Reason had left Gusts of emotion lashed him. He now regarded the experience as tors of the Stutz Company are to meet late this afternoon, but people in a@ position to have accurate knowl} arding the purposes meeting state that no plan of reor- ganization or plan of refinancing will be discussed. It was pointed out that control of Company now willing to make loans on Stock Ex- change security in which oil stocks constitute more than 20 per cent. of the collateral. outrageously, of the pitile: came that the always existent hatred CLOMID) trading: 16A¥ Blehy, was One: to of fgreigners was rising, and might get out of control. was murdered on the Kalgan high- way, after protracted torture, during which his eyes and tongue were fed to village dogs. Detachment He couldn't Not with Betty there. He would surely seck her; find her : until this stock is disposed of at auc-fof interlor banks who are withdraw- wrench priest|! Shanghai. reorganization or dly premature, ed by friends of Ryan that mood no subterfuge would appear too oh TO eerie a na! Boulnarn mean—sending ortune Ryan, father of Al- a bidder at the auction sale next Wednesday, are Any attempt of unger Ryan to rehabilitate his is asserted, be of strange appearing ard O{l Company of New York or the heaw®@sickness that prove, for the ime, irresistible. the sixth evening she locked herseli inher little room and sat with droop- ing face and wet eyes by the open window. The spring air, soft, moistly Warm, brought to her nostrils smell of China; and brought with it hauntlike memories of her childhood She closed her eyes and saw mother walking about the compound, the same compound in which Luella Brenty, a girl of hardly more than her own present age, was, in 1900, burns He was, of ‘course, running away from her, from his task, from him. It was expensive business, he had meant to work up us far as ‘Wentsin and Peking before the ye Ho was, ufter all, but tak- ing that part of it first, At Peking, activity brought him at the two companies that have a practi. cal monopoly of the gasoline business in this part of the country, were marching into the province over the Western Mountains, and rumors bearing on the activitles of the new Great Eye Society—already known along the wayside as ‘'The Lookers" —were coming in daily, The Lookers were initiating many young men into their strange magic, which appeared to differ from the in- cantations of the Boxers of 1900 more in detail than in spirit. Tainan disorder native, helper fortunes will development of | o!l prices and expectations of another that company. Allan Ryan's con- nections with the affairs of the com- through which manently severed. pole chal id E. W. WAGNER EXPELLED FROM STOCK EXCHANGE Me Wax Head of B Failed Last Year, Announcement ing from the rostru he thing was to think, not fect To logic and will he pinned his faith impulse rose evi She shivered. There was trouble tins th Geka Got. now! ‘They were talking about among themselves, if not in her ores- | creasing, ence. That would doubtless expiain father’s preoccupation. She got out the bottom tray of her trunk and mournfully staring long at each, went through her photographs She had been a nice girl, there the comfortable American town, css nice, As if, In some way, over thereto the States, her na-lihrough the lungs while ture had changed far the worse. —an older man, who hi ‘d, was, In a way, mar at the time—had taken her yrms and kissed her, It was a shock It wouldn't be that matter dispensary, was He (gund {It Impossible to forget a % made this morn- word of hers. round, pretty face morous expression eyes, the movements of her Rekue dirnede@nhicn Vivid memories of her Pourmont, engineer of the Ho 3 . Wagner & Co., Shan Company, wrote er with Habilities of mc 000, had been expelled fr which failed last De with, if anything, moments he that fipulse to explain But his clear m there would be no good in it « Erowing vigor m that organ- instrument man in the i caused more of ulive, but barely so, at the time of financial district than nsation int had offices in many t cities in. the extensively in cotton calling in his employees, ing a fort about his compound. He added there room in case Doane later should de- thing was to let her forget; it we ely tried to hope, for her to forget than for himselt had to try to hope that UT on an evening the American Military Attache dined with him She couldn't think how ft had hap- nnd grain as well pened, how it ever begun couldn't even visualize the man, now, with her eyes closed. She couldn't be} cide to gather in his outpost workers and fall back toward the railroad Doane translated this letter for the benefit of Chang, the ta “Has he firearms?" here has been much criticism of the sure even that she liked him, He was a strange being. interested her by startling her. Romance had selzed them that. He said it would be different at| tai. Shanghai. [t was different; puzzling, saddening. There war doubt as to what Mrs, Boatwright! “He would say about it, if she knew Biss Hemphill. Any of them. Betty bad read that every w derstood in the Informed quarters, now, to’ study making in Hansi,’ get into the week's travel a certain element of danger Ision was de it in less than a And if you don't m: no|than the treaty ettlement for Or thought it necessar: thrilled Brachey. ry for you cigar, his face @ ask of casual atten. a "Though it is not nece in cash and of per veut, NOT ON THE TICKER IN WALL STREET An Intimate View of Financial Men and Affairs panilehe nity By R. R. Batson. An educational illustration of the manner in which mature judgment of the real. makers of markets and not the snap opinions of the smaller try of speculators influence the price movements of securities, has just been given in the reception accorded the Jecision of the Interstate Commerce Commission that a national emergency exists, and that fuel and traffic are to be equitably distributed. At first blush this decision seemed to be favorable to the stock market. Speculators who had purchased stocks in anticipation of securing a quick and substantial profit were consider- ubly ae conte It was the opinion of these sheculators that the priorities ruling would mean an early end of the coal strike and also of the railroad strike, They enlarged thelr market commitments and the stock lst took on a strong tone. But in banking quarters and among the executives of the country’s biggest tries such an optimistic feeling ndu does nt prevail. The priorities rul- ng has had a somewhat disturbing effect. In the first place the priorities ruling does not necessarily meu speculators first thought, that the two big strikes will soon be brougnt to a close: Secondly, there ere many im- portant big business executives who fear that with fuel being distributed under Government supervision the larger industries may not fare nearly as well as if they were to continus to get their fuel supply as best they may, a, as In dealing with the effects of the On the other hand, the coal shortage So, the weight of financial opinion but Although crude oll prices were re- cently cut from 25 to 50 cents a bar- rel, as matters now shape up another price cut may soon be ordered. The pessimistic opinion regarding t week nks in of these loans. Many of the other big banks are un- It was said this morning that the sharp break in oll stocks during the calling of loans made for the account ing funds from this centre. Gasoline priced have been lowered points, but these price reductions have not been followed by either the Stand- Standard O!1 Company of New Jersey, In spite of recent reductions in crude reduction, sizable wagers have been made in Wall Street that the next change in gasoline prices in this terri- tory will be upward. LIBERTY BONDS Liberty Bonds 3%8 opened 100.96, off .04; Ist 414s 101.62, up .02; 2d id 100.78; 4th 101,08 8-48, called, 100.54, off .04; 4 3-4s 100.84, up .04, CURB. Opened trregular, Standard Oil of Indiana, 106%, up %; Cities Service, 194, off 3; Intercontinental Rubber, 6%; Radio, 4%; International Pe troleum, 20%, up Ys; Carib, Cities Servi York Telephone preferred, 106%; P. Morris, 20%, off 44 Bs, 19%, off %; Ww FOREIGN EXCHANGE, Sterling, demand, 4.44 1- cables, 4447-8; up 1-8. French franes, de mand, .08° cables, .0828, Lire, demand, .04571-2; cables, .0458; up .0001, Belgian francs, demand, .0786; cables, .0786 1-2; off .0000 1-2, Marks 019 8-8; up .0000 1-4. Drachmas, de man, .0318; cables, .0820. Swiss francs demand, .1989; cables, 1901, Guilders. demand, .8876; cables, .3881; off 00001 Pesetas, demand, .1552; cables, 1554; off .0001. Swedish kroner, demand 97; cables, off .0001. Nor way, demand, .1683; cab) 1688; up 0005, Danish kroner, demand, .2149 cables, 2164; up .d0ud, STOCK QUOTATIONS Adams Fixpress Detroit Edison,. Du Pont De Nem, 137 Hikhorn Coal.. Endicott Johnson Famous Players Gen Aaphalt pt. General Cigar en Motors deb. i Safely Razor y Gt Northern pf.. Gt Nor Ore et 8m & Ref pf. ulf, Mob & North Hupp Motors .... Hydraulic Steel .. Hudson Motors .. All Amer Metal Atl Birm @ Atl. Atl Coast Line AUl Gulf & WI pf Austin: Nichols Jewel Ten pt Kansas & Gulf... Kelly-Springfteld. Beth Steel B, Beth Steel pf Booth Fisheries Keystone Tire Bklyn Rap Tran: Bklyn Rap Tr cts Brooklyn Un Gas 110 Lehigh Valley Brunswick Term . Louls & Nash McIntyre P Mines Mallinson & Co.. 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