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THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1933 By SAMUEL “MERWIN: - otis >| . HONEY BEE “THE ROAD TO FRONTENACTR ak Foe orice BY WILL B JOHNSTONE 2 wr LOVERS’ MEETING, SIXTH INSTALMENT. aikcbe ate mountalny tad ee ee RS. BOATWRIGHT stood WHO'S WHO IN THE STORY. the treasurer, who had reviewed th thinking. Betty had Fan UP BELLY DOANE, daughter of an American missionairy at T'ainan-fu, Pro- {700s within twelve nous, witness ——— he stairs and Brachey a i jolt Incantations, «i vince of Hansi, China, becomes infatuated o ship while travelling to rejoin approval sy oe ae itt wih (oy coca oo ons vs Tie Pastness Start in | WARDROBE TRUNKS AND OTHER SIGNS OF WEALTH Lae if - * et mv qwriterson Kis way to stigate Steps from the dispensary. ; - . band was talking; the other man was JONALHAN BRACHEY, a WB Rh ted 1 ; riter, on his way to investigate 7G), atr, Doane!" she 1. “How to Discuss Ward- ‘“ HE only way you could tell an extravagant moving picture actor silent: a gloomy figure in knicker- Mmers cf revolition in China. Brachey admits he is married, but tells Betty aia you find things at So ‘Tune? ~ from a Vanderbilt is by checking up their investments, The bockers. Sho studied him. Already he ang his wife have parted decides i better not to see her again, but He stood for a me: looking at robe runks and one has got all his capital in wardrobe trunks, automobiles and he was catalogued in her mind, and being teld that | aiman-fu is the centre of the bitter feeling against the foreign Bite py bad” heentd Wind Up Discuss- clothing and ain’t got even one share of stock in the New York Central permanently, Her duty was clear. Ho Shan Cogapany, he goes there, Chinese officials take him to the Mission . metal’ - . Rallroad.” Bho went out into the hall and Compound to fave him identity himself preverly and ‘there he sesa Secty. At Doane inclined his head. Yes, Jen ing Millionaires and —a. ‘st neithe e Iwo spe. ’ s about to leave Brachey dashes up- Was murdered—and twelve to fifteen ‘ “I would a whole lot sooner have only a four-carat diamond ring left opened the door. first neither ot the two speaks, but xs he is a y ID eS oe ee 40 @ i The two men were just mounting stairs and whi pers a fs words to her. This astonishes ae, Oye enn heir Expenses. \ sa souvenir of what a good fellow E was when T had it than a four-eslin« the steps. ELMER WKOATWRIGHIT, in charge at the Mission in the absence of message from a little college at Hung der Spritz-Wildcat, y’understand.’ “My dent," began her busband, — GRIGGSBY DUANE, Betty's fatner, who is at So Tung, where Chinese (ivan wane ot danger there beue And Through It All “f bet yer It costs a millionaire every month pretty near ax much to deny the reports that he fs goin “this is Mr. Brachey. He'—— of the Great Lye Society, or “Lookers,” have attacked employees of the Ho par \itcrming him of the traxen bet yer is s that he fs going “Yes,” said she, standing squarely Shan Company. Aeine, J gat oe ietaaare the Expense Ac= | to te divorced. as it does the average business man to actually get divorced." in the doorway, “I understand, Mr = Mins, BOM SHIT, strict housekeeper of the Mission Compound, is Dr Sent. He told Pao also that he bad ~~ COUNt Is the Most = Spe Brachey, I cannot receive you in this | nea Le ye tia Bs fey aa Butt and gets thorn he ‘sit! the telegraphed the American Legation . . “Every morning and afternoon millions of people who read the newspapers laugh at the millionaire who ttt dmissic! a ie knot achey wa arried joing te ume Cha 0. . : 4 7 hich any ordinary sensible human being would spend his last t to hid must ask you to go at once. If you could give me a few minutes the Highly Finan world the secrets of his home, wi 'y cent to le ‘ ‘Then she simply waited, command- moi Boatwris gniy ancial ingly. From her eyes blazed honest, invincible anger. Mr. Boatwright caught his breat! stood motionless; finally murmured: . “But, my dear, I'm sure you! Bis wife merely glanced at him Brachey fastened on the woman @ gaze that might have meant no more than cold curiosity, growing slowly into contempt. ‘Then, after a mo- ment, Boatwright caught his arm. “Really, Mr. Brachey'’——— “Elmer!” cried his wife shortly. “Let him g But Brachey had already shaken off the detaining hand. He marched straight across the court, stepped in- to the gate house and disappeared. Betty, all hurt confusion, had lin- gered in the second floor hall. At the first sound of Mrs. Boatwright's firm voice, she stepped, her brain a tangle of little indecisions, to the stair rail. Against the granite in Mrs. Boat- wright, the girl had to set a quick, strong impulsiveness that was certain, given a little time, to work out in pos- itive act. Very Httle time indeed now , intervened between impulse and act. Bhe seribbled a note: “Dear Mr. Brachey—I am going out to sketch in the tennis court. You can reach it by the Uttle side street just beyond our gate house as you come from the city. Please do come!—Betty D.” Bun, the gateman, at Miss Doane's request, sent a boy with the note. RACHEY came suddenly into view, around the corner of the wall of the tennis court from te the little side street. Betty could not know that she { seemed very composed as she laid her 3 portfolio on the camp stool and rose. I Then her hand was in his. Her voice , “It was nice of you to come, But'"— “When 1 asked for a meetin, 0 now, of course," But""— “As soon as I am free I shall write I will ask you then, to be my, Brachey began—“for one meeung” + «+ Her eyes were down; he wos set, as for a formal speech. “It was, as you may imagine, becaus a matter has arisen that seems to me of the greatest importance.” She wondered what made him talk “Walt,” said Betty, rather shortly like that. He was a stranger, this 2°t looking up. ‘You mustn't go like man! this."" “You didn't come alone?" shensked, There was a long silence. unaware that her manner, too, was ®>ruptly, he broke out: formal. “There is no way that I can stay. “Yes, Oh, yes! I know the way." I Would bring you only trouble. Of “But it isn’t safe, When I wrote Course I should never have come, but « + « LTheard what Mrs. Boatwright T learned that you were in danger in said. I was angry.” T’ainan, J can't talk about it!’ And “She was very rude.” he clamped his ips shut. “I¢ you hadn't heard from me, what Her eyes filled; she had to ‘would you have done?"” them down, “I should have left T’ainan this af- “Where are you going?” Her voice ternoon.” was no more than a murmur. She “But how could you? Where could *#!4 it again, a little louder: “Where you go?” are you going?” “The provincial judge has assigned “Back to the Inn, four soldiers to me. He was very »&Ps"—— courteous. He wants me to publish “YOu mustn't leave T’ainan. articles against the Ho Shan Com. 44ngerous!"’ pany."’ “That is the difficulty. I couldn't "You should have brought the sol- ®8¥¢ myself and leave you here." diers with you." “On your account, I mean, We're “Oh, no. I preferred being alone.” safe enough. I've heard them talking “But I don’t think you understand, at the house. But if you were to go e Wife. He drew himself up, at this, stiffly. “T shall say goodby’*—— Then, keep And then per- Ivs d It isn’t safe to go about alone now, out alone—on the highway : Not {f you're a white man.” “[ don't care about myself,” sald he, | “It doesn't matter. As I was about She glanced up at him, she knew i to tell you . . . you must under- he spoke the truth, however bitter his stand that I -°sume no !nterest on spirit. your part—I can't do that, of course— + He was talking on: his journey has been a time of | but after what happened thec night on painful self-revelation I used to the ship’'—— think myself strong. That was ab- E was having diZiculty with this urd, of course. I am very weak. 1 H set speech of his, Betty had no right to fall in love with you. averted her face to hide the Sometimes I can really believe that a warm color that came. Why on earth fatal accident out here—an accident need he come out with it so heav to myself—would be the best thing for T \ i ie “rfl ‘ig “GOOD-BYE, BETTY!” thing I seem unable to face."* {ERE was a long, long silence. Suddenly. with an inarticulate exclamation, he sprang up. Startled, all impuls she caught hand. His fingers tightened about 8, hi hers. “What?” “UN go." “Not away from T’ainan?” “Yes, It's the only thing. After all, it doesn't matter much what happens to any individual. We've got to take that chance, When I'm free—it I'm alive, and you're alive, I'll write, Meanwhile, you can make up your mind, All I'll ask of you then 1s a de- cision, I'll accept it.”” Her fingers were twisting around his. She couldn't look up at him, nor he down at her. “When shall you leave, T’ainan?”’ “Now—this afternoon, she asked breathless. He took her lightly, reverently, in his arms and brushed his lips against her forehe “Good-by, Betty!" “It's too Jate to start to-day, You can't travel Chinese roads at night!" II start early in the Viu—it you—I'll ning. I think I can “Oh—Rett id. Then he arose. morning."* me out this eve- “It may be a little later, Just for a lttle while. He con) he said, ‘But what's the good of my deciding not to come, 1 wil “You came cl dered this, “It's wrong Ot course, arto Tainan," “1 know" “And how about me!" she broke out. “I'm shut in a prison here. You're the only friend that’s come— the only person I can talk with, And you and I—if you're going in the Whatever had happened had hap- everybody concerned; but then, in a morning—we can't leave things—our pened, that was all! . . His Moment, I become inflamed with feel- very lives''—her voice wavered—"ike woloe was going on, ing, and desire, and a perfectly un- this."’ Something about a divorce. He was Teasonable hope.'* “Ti some," he sald, to be free shortly. He said that He ‘I wonder,"” mused Betty, moved ‘I wonder if it is like a net," said ‘was assuming, of course. Toa pain- Now by something near a thrill of she, ful degree. He seemed to feel that he Power, “if love is like that!" OANE, returnin from So owed it to her to make some sort of “It is with me, I see no happiness D T’ung, came slowly into the payment... for kissing her... in it. I hope you will never have to te Her king in und the payment, apparently, was to live through what I've lived through some excitement, were four or tive be himself, She was moved by a these past few weeks. And now I sit servants little wave of anger. She managed here—weakly—knowing I ought to go He paused to ask what was the to my at once and never disturb you again. [yer a Taiuie tone oLooke “We won't talk about fat.” But the thought of going—of saying , Th (as they called members of ‘The °F fait that I must tell you: I'll good-by—is terrible, It's one more Great Eye Society) from beyond the struggled words, BOATWRIGHT came in oh!" she .exclaimed, then: "How do you de, Mr : hare you spoken of that matter “Twas just beginning to, my d “Mr. Doane hasn't much t Routwright's voice w tr “Matters at they could be re bad a is going And f duwn to Hung Chan now." “To-nig sharply. n tretined his hi “Just this other mat w more briskly. "I won't keep you long. But I don't feel free to handle the situation in my own way, nt?" asked the wife, rather r,’* said the well ething must be done." uu Boatwright began, ets ‘8 man hére—he turned the wife interrupted, “if you will let met It is a man your daushter met on the ship com- ing out, Mr. Doane. There is some understanding between them—some thing that should be got at. The man is married. I refused to accept him here as a guest, whereupon Betty got word to him secretly and they have been meeting’ “Out in the tennis court! “Last night [ found them there my- self. I sent him away, and brought Betty in.” “Tell it all, dear!"* “T will. Mr. Doane must know the The man was Kissing her, He ‘ered no apology. And Betty was defiant. I secured a promise then from Betty that she would not meet him again until after your return. The man, however, would promise noth- ing."* “Where is she now?" Doane asked, outwardly so calm as to stir resent- ment in the woman before him, She replied, acidly n her room And where is the man?" Atan Inn, Sun the Gateman, would know."* “What is his name?" Boatwright produced Brachey’s card. Doane looked thoughtfully at it, then said, quiet, deathly sober, "*You may look for me sometime to-morrow at. We will make final arrange- ments then.'’ With that he left the room . by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) in next Mer (Copyright 19: (Betty Makes a Decision Monday's instalment of Mr. win's Story.) Conversation. By Montagse Glass. 66]! 'S so much more expensive to be extravagant no days than it used to was, Mawruss,” Abe Potash remarked to his partner, Morris Perlmutter, one morning re- cently, “which take it in the matter of ward- robe trunks, alone, y’under- stand, and a man twenty-five years ago could go twice round Hthe world for what he now S excess bag- gage on a trip to Pallum Beach in the winter or Bar Harbor in the summer. “Sure, | know,” Morris Perl- mutter agreed, “but so long as it costs only a few cents less to get a pair of pants pressed in a Pallum, Beach hotel than it does to get a whole suit made to order in New York City or Chicago, Abe, a mil- lionaire could travel with a bag- gage car full of wardrobe trunks and save money at that.” “Maybe a millionaire could,” Abe admitted, “but the average business man who wants to have a little left to put his sons through anyhow high school, y’under- stand, never feels that he can af- ford to check a wardrobe trunk unless the contents of the trunks weighs at least 10 per cent. AGE GNSS as much as the trunk and its fix- tures, Mawruss, he conse- quences is, Mawruss, he’s got the trunk stuffed so full that when he unpacks it. y’understand, he might just so well have’ sent his clothes to have accordion ple: ats put into ‘erm and be done with it.’ “Any one which has got to be eco- from his closest friends.” pounds,” nomical a wardre it should h an expensive article like trunk after he has bought ought to have saved the money in the first place by not buy- it," ing Morris observed * Abe exclaimed. “If sales- men for automobiles, wardrobe trunks and high grade furs talked that way, wruss, their bosses would quick tell them that they had been hired as salesmen and not as receiving tellers in savings banks, which you know us well as I do, Mawruss, it’s one of the first rules of retail salesmanship— whether it would be gents’ furnish- ings oder millinery—for a clerk to tell & customer that Mr. or Mrs. Vander- bilt, the case may be, bought the self same similar design only last week."" THE HIGH COST OF EXTRAVA- GANCE IS GOING UP. “Well, what would the clerk tell customer?” Morris inquired. ‘Should he ought to tell the customer that the article which he is trying to sell is exact duplicate of the one bought ot the day before by a second mort shark who didn't give a nickel how he looked just so long as he saved a couple of cepts on transaction by buying some hing which was a sticker or shopwo! hat's just why I said the high of gance is going up, Abe declared. ‘Before ple was educated up scientific salesmanship being used on them, Mawruss, they used to spend their earnings foolishly simply lecause money burned a hole in their pockets and they couldn't help them- cost sely They was trying to be ex travagant in thelr own way and looked it, Mawrus: “But nowadays, Mawruss, so far 1s the automobiles they ride in, the trunks they travel with and the clothes they wear 1s concerned, y'un- derstand, the only way you could tell an extravagant moving picture actor from a Vanderbilt is by checking up their investments; the one who has got all his capital invested in auto- mobiles, wardrobe trunks and cloth- ing and ain't got even one share of stock of the New York Central Rail- road, is the moving picture actor.’* “Well, ain't it a whole lot better Seven Times Near Death, Uncle Nick at 106 Says He He’ll Outlive John Shell’s 134 Years “T’'ll Beat His Meno AllHol- low,” Declares Aged Balti- morean, Who Insists He Is Stronger Than Most Men of Seventy. Puts His Trust in Providence Which, He Asserts, Saved Him From Drowning, Murder and Smothering in Cave-In. T who 1s not at all !mpressed by the reports of the great age of “Uncle John’ Shell, who died re- cently In Kentucky, reputed to be 184 years old. He is an “Uncle’ himself, Nick Hartman of Balti- who says he himself has seen 108 years pass him by. In thirty years or so, says Uncle Nick, he'll be b ing the mount- alneer's record “all hollow."? He ex- Plains that life has been saved no less than seven times directly by the hand of Providence and that he sees no that he should not “just go living.’ His apparent health and vigor back up his asser- tons HERE {s one man in America otherwise more, his reason on ils man Shell"? he asks, ‘was he active? Could he get around and do things the way I do? I doubt it. here's many 4 man at seventy who's nd healthy as I am, “I reckon I'll just go on living for good many years yet, and first thing be beating Sh hot as stron a you know 1’ I's record “Of cour we must all be ready to ly at my age, I am ready. But the haud of the Lord has saved die, expec To. “UNCLE NICK” HARTMAN. me from death seven times and I hope I will be saved for a while longer.” Uncle Nick is able to describe rather vividly several of the occasions when, he says, he was saved from death by Providence, The first was while he was still a boy, when he fell into the deep water behind a dam on the I’a- tapsco River. He felt himself sinkiny- and thought h- was a “goner’? until his guardian angel—or something— caused a log to drift his way. Other times he narrowly escaped drowning in the bay and the river. “It ws a miracle every time, too," he says. “Once we were crossing the bay when a big storm came up sud- den like, The waves swept me right off the boat's deck. I thought I was gone then, and prayed while I tried to swim, And what happened? “Why, the wind seemed to shift and blew the boat right back to where 1 was, That's what the Lord did for me that time. “Then, once, I was caught in a cave-in, when a clay bank fell all over me, The Lord kept that clay off my head, so's I could breathe, If it hadn't been for that I would have smothered. “The only time I ever really heard the voice of the Lord, though, wis when He warned me that two men were going to try to kill me on my boat. I could hear a voice, plain as anything, telling me to watch out for them. So I got two long bladed knives and waited. “When they came, I told them 1 was ready for them, and I waited for one of them to raise his arm before 1 But neither one started anything, They saw they couldn't get my nerve. If ft hadn't been I was warned, they would have murdered me sure."* Uncle Nick's latest narrow was last spring, when his scalp was spilt open in an automobile accident, He was unconscious ten nour fs woke up in a hospital. Now, - ever, he has recovered complet /. sailed into them. escape “After all, excess baggage only costs one-fifth the one-way first class passenger fare for every hundred “IT COSTS ONLY A FEW CENTS LESS TO GET A PAIR OF PANTS PRESSED IN A PALLUM BEACH HOTEL THAN TO GET A WHOLE SU IT DOES IT MADE TO ORDER IN NEW YORK OR CHICAGO.” that such an extravagant loafer should pattern himself on a million aire Rentleman like one of the Van derbilts, At on some retired gambler oder Keeper which ts What such a foolish would have done twenty yea * Morris said. “Why, I can remember when 1 Was a young feller, Abe, that one of the first things a fool and his money did to get parted, y‘understand, go together into some crook jeweler on the Bowery and say goodby to euch other over a four-carat diamond searf-pin with a flaw in it that you could put your thumb nuil into.’* THE EXPENSE OF GETTING DI- . VORCED. “Even so, Mawruss, if I would be an extravagant schlemiel like that, y’understand, I would a whole lot sooner haye only a four-carat diamond ring left as a souvenir of what a good feller I was when I had it than a four-cylinder Spritz-Wildeat, y'under- stand," Abe said, “because the condi tion of the second-hand diamond ring market ain't subject to such terrible fluctuations like the second-hand auto- mobile market. “And that is only one of the ad vantages of not patterning yourself on a millionaire, Mawruss, which if foolish spender is going to throw bluff that he is a young millionair Mawruss, he’s got a long, expensive road to travel, Mawruss. “Yes, Mawrt Abe continued, “wardrobe trunks, automobil and fine clothes is just a start in the ex, pense of being @ millionaire, y’unde stan Why, I bet yer it costs a mil- lionaire ¢ month pretty near as much to deny the reports that he is going to be divorced as {1 does for the a a average business man to actually get divore And then supposing a mil- lonaire’s liver or something goes back on him, Mawruss, does he take for a few dollars a prescription with dis- gusting tasting drugs in it like any ordinary human being? Not at all! He has for ten thousand dollars an op. eration with two big live respondents all present in the ope! ing 1cem, understand me, and they insert In the millionaire a new liver to help out the old liver. “And then, Abe, in spite of having the whole thing done in the open with still and moving pictures taken of it," Morris observed, ‘reports get spread around that the transfer Wasn't made trom a Strasbourg goose or a healthy young calf, y'under- stand, but from a man who had a wife and ten children to support and who was up against It so bad on ac- count of being out of work, that If necessury he would have had his brains transferred to the millionaire, except that I suppose brains is the last thing a millionaire like that ts worrying about For that matte awruss,"? Abe said don't believe a millionaire could find a doctor who would take a chance on inserting real brains be- eau pn if they was monkeys’ brains and the operation was suecess- fi ‘understand, the t use such ®& millionaire would make of them brains would be to cut down the doc- tor's bill a few thousand uollars,’* “And even with such evidence in front of his eyes as the newspapers every morning being full of the trou- bles he's got with his wife, bis ehil- dren, his prima donnas and his banks, Abe, it would be very difficult for a millionaire to be convinced by a doc- tor that his brains could be improved upon," Morris declared, “I give you right, Mawruss," Abe said, “and yet you claim it Is better for one of them got-rich-quick spend- ers to spread his money around like a millionaire gentleman Instead of an ex-gambler or rich retired saloon keeper. Which you take a four-carat diamond pin in a loud necktie, Maw- russ, and only the few people which sees it could laugh at the man who ts wearing it, y'understand, but every morning and afternoon, millions of peop’ who read the newspapers laugh, at the millionaire who spends pretty near a million dollara, hiring lawyers, buying letters, — staking crooked detectives and moving neaven nd earth to tell the world secrets about his home, his wife and his chil- dren which any ordinary sensible hu- man being would spend his last cent trying to hide from his closest friends," GETTING BACK TO WARDROBE TRUNKS, “TI don't deny it for a minute, Abe,” Morris said, “but what has all this ot to do with wardrobe trunks?!" “Who is talking about wardrobe trunks?" Abe said. "You wa Morris retorted, ‘you started in by knocking wardrobe trunks and you ended by knocking res!” Abe protested, “I ain't klockin; not wardrobe how, which in these days when there is Interstate Commerce Commissions and Railway Labor Boards to ceep down the earnings of railroads, y'un- derstand, it's practically the least that the travelling publie could do to check their clothing in drobe trunks, After all, Mawruss, excess baggage only costs one-fifth the one-way first class passenger fare for every bun- dred pounds “and something h to keep up the incomes of our railroad stockholders, Abe," Morris concluded, “otherwise in a couple of -eai one or two of our richest millionai pl be down to his last prima donnal (Copyright 1922, by ‘The Bell Syndicate, Inc. trunks «y- got to be done