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THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1933
THE. CLINTON CHRONICLE, CUNTON, S. C.
PAGE SEVEN
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tLlNOR4 BARRY
Blue Hose Victors
In Furman Meet
j Presbyterians Make Grand Slam
In South Carolina Track Cir-,
cles for Season. Baptists Top
pled By 81 to 45 Score. State,
Meet Here Mav 6.
'|OI>AY
FRANK PARKER
STOCKBRIDOE
SEVENTH INSTALLMENT
The s\ory so far: Joyce Ashton,
poor stenojrrapher, in a skidding taxif
\Vith a—greatly iugcrled team, the'
Presbyterians ovenvhelmed the Fur-'
man Hurricane ho’-e SatunJay by tb.ej
score of Rl to 45 to make a grai.-i'
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No. 1. • 4-27-2P
DIKIOIBLES ,
1 hojie the fate of the airship .\kron'
will not throw congress into .such
sleep? Looks hotter to see you smok- -^g^ive you up to any one
ing, Frills. It gave me a funny feel- a fight.”
ing when you refused a cigarette yes-' “Don’t be so melodramatic.” retori-
cab accident in Chicago, suffered loss' terday.” Joyce, “and let go-my wrist. 5 oj
of memory. Two years later she wokej Joyce had taken a cigarette when he | hurt me. ’
one morning aftei:^ a ^all from her; came in and lighted it quickly. As he i Her very calmness,^ seemed to dis-
FRYKRS—The kind you like. Crate-
fattened, butter milk-fed, reds and
rocks, 40c each. Also pure-bred nul-
slsm.of their South Carplina track tnat it will J'c^use to appropn-rocks, 50c each. R., S.
wiruour ■‘Schedule. The slv.fting nec-| funds for further dt^velopmeut. of|
essary by the injuries of five of :^oach j ikgf f^*’*^han'-air-craft
^ McMillian’s stars.
horse to find herself, ^der the name
of Frills, married to Neil Packard,
rich California fruit packer. From
letters in her desk she learned some-
^thing- about her life in the two-year
interval, and realized that she had
;been a" heartless, reckless young wo
man and that she is seriously involved
in an affair with a man named Mait-
him. Mechanically ■'he took hi'?
away. Then, resting both elbow
approached her, she retreated a few arm
steps. Before she could reply to his I band »»«>. inrn, ifsnag uum eioow..
words, however, he •became aware of his knees, ho plunged his hands
Dickie who jumped up at him with ir-1 through his short black hair with an
sant friendline.ss. i tloquentiy despairing gesLure.
“Well! Hullo, old fejlcv. Wdmre did.' Joyce’s spirits ro.se a little. SVy? bc-
yoii come from, bov? Say, youVe alHg^'n to fee! more confident of victory,
'right! How come. Frills? You’ve nev-1 She ro.se, and still holding Dickie, she
or hail any time for dogs before?” He continued, “You might as well go now.
land. She decided that at all cost,? , look up at her questioning!?,.
she would end it, but she found Mait-; “I e.xpect to have more from now
I haven’t anything more to say. It
won’t do any good to talk about it.”
Bob Perrin, who had n«ver run the
sprints, did both of them in fairty
good time, placing in each event. The
redoubabtle “Turk” Osman ran th^
220 and won second. George Oliver
took a tr>' at the two-mile and won it.
Individual scoring honors wore vvon
’'y Oliver, of P. C., and Lyles .Alley,
of Furman. Each man won two-first
I have long believed that thi dir-j FOR RENT—Seven-room cottage on
igible4s a far more valuahb- iiiUtHiy: Musgrove street. Apply to H. D.
arm than the aii’plane. We d''n’t .?iop Henry. tf
building airplanes because score? of —;; —^ ^ —^
brave young officers are killed every j STAMPS and .seals. Fwen-
year when military planes cr.ish. Ihe' . ty-four hour service.-Chronicle-Pub-
safety of the nation is more ih\por-1 bshirg Co
tant than a few lives.
The time will come when the airship
lit
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Alley won both .sprints, and Oliver dull ='cnger tran.^portation all over the* _ '
a strong-man act by taking first inj "'®*'!^' that I am firmly convinced. J t OMMF.Nt EMLNT kN VIT.\T10Ni>—
i)oth the mile and two-mile. I But riojn ivate concern can spend the * Samples gladly furnished. Wide sc
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.speed,
take up .so much of it.’’
.Mainland looked frankly bewildered
land hard to mai\p.ge. Her troubles
were further complicated when .she
read a letter referring to a baby—
was it hei-s?—that the writer, Sophie,
thought Frills ought to have with her.
Much to the surprise of Sam,' in her , at her tone. „ , . ,
husband’s employ, she asked for a ; .‘km I going to be treated to more of Joyce said notl'ine. Maitland walked j •‘^tnan < i
this upstage stuff? I don’t gel you--”, out without another word
Osman Betters Record
Osman, P. C?s captain, took a rest
in the 440, one of hi.s usuak raoys, and
on,” replied Joyce coolly, though her I He lifted his head and looked at her
heart was beating with' suffocating i seai-chingly. He was still nonplussed. .
becau.se I shanT have you toj Tlieh He'got to his feet and said, with]prdceedi^d To I)ettei’'tne ou. mark
une.xpectod calm, “.All right. Whatever Newman on the This
you say goes. But don’t think for a f ^'^4 oldest rec
Chronicle
ot
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money necessary to the perfection of lection, attractive prices
the dirigible. It must be clone by gov- Publishing Company.
ernments. and the expenditure ju.sti-] — -
fTeri'y the arfshTpVTaT^ BENT-^Apartment for couple,
of national defense. i Centennial street. Occupany
‘But what’s the-big idea? .minute that I’m th’ov.gh.
ords on the South Carolina books, and
rv .j:.i ^ splendid job w’.irn he
dog and he got her one.
. (Nowr Go On With the Story)
Joyce’s heart sank as she examined
stffytft5ihg!y slow at un-; duf-attempti^^t^ to kiss her again.
der.standing plain English. I mean
that wh.atever there ha^^ieen between
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her guests, wondering who they were, j is all . . all over now. 1 m through.
The .second speajier wa.s a short
blonde girl, whose plumpnes.s gave
definite threat of tuiming her into a
fat woman at middle age. Her fea-
ture.s were of the curved baby variety,
her eyes small and gray, and her
mouth lipsticked into a pouting cupid’s
how Ijf the most vivid scarlet.
Both girls were dressed in smart
sport clothes. The blonde’s costume
was of the latest cut and mode, hut
compbtely wrong for her figure and
height.
The other young woman, who looked
several years older, wa.s a thin bru
nette with shan> feature.s, stiffly mar-
- ceiled hate,- large- jfree«ish-gr»y-M,^yo>»-|- —
.\s .she .spoke Joyce moved toward the
door. “Please come downstaiiL?, I pre
fer not to dkseuss the matter up
here.”
Maitlrnd followed her and attempt
ed to
Joyce
When Joyce woke, it was past six j
o’clock. Dickie hud left her, and, j
slightly alarmed, she hurried do?vn-j
stairs to* find him. Suppose he had'
gone' home! 4She di•■covered 'mm, how-1
over, in the kitchen calmly fini.shing
his dinner, while Koxie, still not cpiite
BUI Clark and B^ Graham showed
Saturday that as fur as they are con
cerned, somebody is going to step if
ARMY TOO RXPENSIV|E -
A high officer of the army has had
March 1st. Rwently occupied by S. M.
Drummond. Apply to H. D. Henry. Ic
H.ATCHI.NG—Lt‘t us hatch your eggs
^ the couragfe-to tell the-werl4That thethe' eteetriT way.~ Tt
army costs too
Major General
Johnson Hagood,
ins vires, jfpu
chicks. Prices 3c
more and stronger
per egg less than 100; 2'”C 100 to 300;
commanding the Eighth ( orps area, i 2c 300 and over. Eggs set every Mon-
they keep P. C.’s ixlay out of the run- says: “It takes three hundred million D}ay. Thornwell Orphanage
dollars a year to run the ahny under |
its present organization. We can get,
l)Ul his arm around her, hut * "'utched him cUv e’y.
ste|)ped ha.vtily aside and ran' She returned to the living-room
ning in the Penn Relays next week.
Bill won first place in the quarter,
coming within one-tenth of a second j a better organization for less,
of the state record. Graham v as a | That is a slap in the face for the |
sjilit second behiml him: I bureaucrats who have piled up fat of
Farm.
Poultry
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— HARDWARE —
Besides Osman’s half, the prettiest' jobs in Washington for army of-j ^ * Binder Twin6 and Re-
' - - - I - ”- Grain Cradles.
was
down the stairs into the living-roiiu.
dinner, and there fi>und
and languid manners
B< th Women were smoking cigar-f
ettes, and Joyce nervously lighted one
to b -kster up her own courage. Then
nhe uailed for some one elae tu speak. \
‘‘V''hat ditl you do all day yester-'
<lay?” demanded the blonde one, “You!
werim’t in bed, were you?” j
‘‘No. I felt rotten,” replied Joyce. ^
‘‘You had it coniing do you! It’s a
wonder we’re not viewing I he re-'
main.s today. How did it happen, any-1
how, Frills?”
‘‘Oh, forget it!” said Joyce. “It’s all
over now. I hate^mst-mortenis.”
“.Sure, so do agreed the dark
one, ‘‘guess it gave you a shock
though, didn’t it. Frills? You don’t
seem to have much zip, today, some
how. That’s what Mait noticed about
you, said you acted half-dead.”
“Did he? Well, that’s the way I felt,
but it’s better thatf being completely
out.” " ' '.-W'l
“I’ll say,” a.Hsented the blonde. Sud-
race of the afternoon
two-rnile. George was running this
distance for the first time and not
only won it hut ran it in near record
time.
Hose On Injured IJst
Four of the Blue Hose wore injured
Oliver’s if icers who ought to be out in the]
field or working at something else. ]
niere is nothing the United States
needs less than it needs an expensive'
a^'iny. Gonerul Hagood admits that he,
has twice as many stuff officers and^
clerks as he needs, but he can’t 'get
pairs.
this week. Powell Freeman had a sore ^ of them under the present set-up.
“Oh well, all right,” he agreed, “hut
. . . Frills, for Heaven’.s kake, think
what you’re .saying and doing! You
denly she started violently and let out jcaii’t mean it, sweetheart! What’s the
' use of going through all these noble
dramatics for nothing! It’s such a
n terrific oath . . . “Who let him in
here?” she screamed shrilly, for
Dickie had come up beWnd her and
pushed his cold little nose against the
plump pink hand which hung over the
arm of the chair.
“VVTiere did the cur come from.
Frills?”
“He’s mine. Bony he scared you.
< ome here, Dickie.” She jumped up,
and sitting back in a chair, took Dick
ie in her lap, facing calmly the bat
tery of disgusted surpii.se on the two
facesr
“.^•re you coming out to Tes.s’ tea at
the rl-.-b, Frilh ?” said Ethel.
the table another pile of letters with
a telegram on top of them.
“Please mail brown envelope left on
my desk to me hotel Blackstone love
Neil.”
But where wa.s Neil's desk? won-
[ 'lered .Jtjyce, puzzled. She glancedj Breabytertan. Time;
waste of time, when we cpulil _be
happy. Every minute when we re not | , ngu(.|y about the big room but she
together seems a waste of time to f^ie i there was nothing<*««.o
. . . Oh, sweet, I love you so! You' v/orkmanlike as a desk in it.
know that- He came up to her, hi:. ^ When she had finished Iv r dinner,
voice thick, his handsome face intense.' remembered Neil’.s t-degrem. She
Joyce hastily moved aroun l to put a
chair between them. “If you can’t | imnlediutelv. Tliere must be
arm, Paul Yea rout a pulle'd ninscle
Bunt Woods and Bill ('lark had ,ba<l
knees. Yoarout did not participate at
allv Woods ran only one race, ami
Clark only one. Freeman won the jav
elin throw lull faiU’il, because of his
.•(ue arm, to get the di-.tance hv* has
iieen netting this year,
j-—Jordan, a tw?+-miler, war. in Flor
ence, anil (lid not run.
Carothers and Underwood tied for
;ir;.t in the pole vault'for tlu‘ third
lime thi:- season.
The team will rest 'next week-i nd.
The state meet comes May G.
Summary of Meet
lOO-yard dash; Alley, Fu man,
first; Woods, Preshyterian, s. .•ond;
Perrin, Prt.s'hyterian, third. Time, 10.1
second.?.
High jump: .Adair, Furman, first;
Sims, I’reshyterian; ( lark, I’rtm.byte-
rian. Height, 5 fiu^t 9 inche.s.
Shot put: Truynham, Furman, first;
Ewing, Pi eshytei ian; Rampey, Pres
byterian. Distance, 40 feet .5 inches.
Pole vault: Underwood, PreshyU;-
rian, and (’urothers, Pre.sbyterian,
tied for first; Robinson, Furman.
Height, 11 feet.
22Q-yard dash: .Alley, Furman,
first; Osman, Presbyleri m; Perrin,
Hpconrhr. “
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.Ir., in Manila. But Frank .Nlurphy, known to us. - .
doesn’t care about easy jobs. ' j P* Nrk«*»*fa "
(.’ongress has voted to give the] vOlUl * • l^OmS
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pretty close eye on Japan himself.
Feels Much Better
Ham
keep your- hands off me,” she
curtly, wondering at h< r ; .n • ;elf-
po.sHPssion, “I’ll-simply refuse to talk
at all.” She eye>' him warily, prepared
if he made a
u
. tudy
iiiuise.
library.
“Whv no . . . No, I’m not goihg any- ,
wh«-e‘thi# m-ek," heavily, but'
trying to speak in a yavdess manner. I .
—eft,—Ethel,” said Calance
around in less
to flee to the kitchen
move tow'ard her.
Maitland stared at her. He was
“ he conbrolied
o’lvious effort and
another cTgarette with hands
he
)wn
said, ‘ Oh,
iiuietly . .
“you’ll never go arouuu ... -‘•“■•ul a
a hundred and fifty if you
4»ut- tm. - the. Ihan .Qd>gg_ . a yiyu/-^ ^Trar -it:
month, you poor fat lazy female. i j
Ethel got up resignedly, and yawn
ed. ‘-We’lP^ome over tonight. It surej
isn’t natural to see you so quiet, gal.”
“I khow Nvhere you can get a cat
and a parrott, if you’re going in fo:-
pets,” said Clarice, on her way ouL
“Thanks,” said Joyce coldly.
8he was so thoroughly di.?gu5ted
and repelled by Ethel and Claiice that
all
righi
I won'
sit
or “den” somewhere TfT the
Perhaps they even culled it aj
Where would it he? .A lit-1
‘le reflection suggesteil to hej'that I he
nafti'ui location was probatdy keyimd
n'c I’s (l'■:‘,s.■^4ng loom, in th* wing
oo.site her own boudoir, rhe did
remember a second door in the d?’*
mg-'room but when she went vi’) to it,,
she fi und tiiat there was ene, just at
OJ)-
not
Javelin throw: F'reeman, Presbyte
rian, first; Peden, Furman; Caroth-
ers, Presbyterian. Distance, 173 feet’
S inches.
120-yard high hurdles: Woods,^Fur
man, fir.st; Lowry, Presbyterian;
Fisher, Furman. Time, 10.5 second.-:.
llO-yard run; t'lark, Presbyter'an,
fir.st; Graham, Presbyte. ian; I’onez,
7 inches.
Shot put'/f^iibanks, Pre.?bylerian,'
firtl; 1‘Oreliaiid, Presbyterian;
Furman. lM.stu»ue, -‘iti feet H
vault;. V> diianks, ilso i, am
“June 2Hth, ll>3‘2, I started taking
Kruseher* Salts. Have lost 20 pound.s
I from June ‘JSth to Jan. in Feel better
than have fell for four years. Was
. iimier for- 1 h
MINLSTER ... .A WOMAN j He 'said I had gall ‘■tones a*!'! should
Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen is to be have operation. Kru.schyn did alt and
United State.s minister to Denmark, j more than I expected.” .Mrs. Late
My first reaction to that news is that' Bright, AValker. Mum. (Jan. 10, 194:)),
it is Denmark’s gain and .Arnei ica’s | and at the same time
hxss.' *• I gain in physical artract-veness and
There is no jiarticular glory attach-• spirited and youthfa! take one-
ed to being the diplomalic repi esen-1 teaspoonful of Kr i>chen in a
tative (if .-Xmerica to the minor gov-• jr)ass of hot w-ct*a-i before ius-akfast
ernmenls of Europe. President Hoover nu>rn::‘g
inches.
Pole
. (lillis, all of Presbyterian, lied fim
•st. Height, 9 feet d im hes
22n">m!d dash- Scott,' Furman fir.st
aid to me: "Any man who is a
.Scott enouyh juditician to tie a county
’ ffiaiinian, knows how to wear e.t
iiiHs: clothes, and tiaji good lalde luan-
neis, is qualified to lie mini.-'tei to
most Eurojiean couritnes'."*
•—iMm h: --(-Mverh—howeV4^Ht'. w iU —r-Hf4ac4..,
I Hiiv* II LirilJ LJItlL LilLlC *V ck • T\ .1 i ti"’ 4. tk
♦ I i *-*u V 1 ‘ (I .. oil Brad ey, Presbyterian; Winget, Pres
th-e fooT )t the narrow bed, in the wait o r
»t ■ u *1 i ... !)Vfenan. ftme, 2S.2 second.-.
(qiposite the batliroom door. • . . ..l t - -
_''glofy‘“TiiK)n tier new job, amt will
irry herself in a way to reflect credit
•A jar tha' la ! - week-
'rifle a‘ Younv1 barn.
driH' -t-oi'e in th wu'ld..
Old g'el - K'-ii .‘hen■.
'• a'.- ‘ » f> I'lCt' vi».^ Id; --
f' (•nt and doub f* chin :in
living”*
;di4^‘‘joy”oT
satisfied after
iiionev
the fu.-t jar
i cosi.s tuit a
o.y or any
hut ( ■• SUr,*
t he S Vb PI
]>'(oninent
I ;igaiii feel
Pa:-k
It
.Ls-
ruin,
first; Gueiurd, Prt'sliyterian;:
Distance, IGl feet tl'
, , , ,, . T pu.shed on the electric button
^ ^ y “ * o\ti. inside the room when she hud opened Puj-n-an
A.s they sat down Joyce had a feel-a .shaded desk lamp ’
ing of being on a stage and not know-light. Exactly in the mid- i2o:ya,-d high hurdle's: Guerar.l,
mg what her lines were. How would luminous circle, lay the "b-1 Wilbanks, second.
Time, 17.8 seconds.
■tax-etin thruw: ■WrlimTTirsr Prrfrbytig---opun.JJm .sl J^,.mBK , i..Q-JJI.E .mmiN-lCUt
fii>t
s.t:x to a hi
.Nolxidy can know
selection of om- of, "The Pa|>er Everybody Reads”
their
h diplomatic post.;
.Mrs. Owen without
admiring ami liking
%,
her.
this BCt^end? A return of the panicky
terror swept over her, which turned
into resentment against the man who
was re.jponsi'ble for getting her into
this uncujTifoi'la.ble situation.
to*
ahe could not bring herself even
attempt an imitation of whaUsTTe .sup- talk about,’*' she began,
rvMied was the Frills manner. She ac- j I* said. It’.? all over, a
“1 can’t see that there’s anything to
“I meahl wTiaT
posed was the
companied them' to the door, and
watched them .get into the bright
green car. . / '
At the opening to the highway they
turned aside to let another machine
enter, and Joyce’s heart gave a dis
concerting leap when she recognized
Maitland’s handsome face in the gray
roadster that was enteying. Stic turii-
ed and fled upstairs. “I can't face him
till Tve at least powdered.”
Listening carefully she beard Mait-
jeet of her search, a long brown en
vetope, “Well, that was ea.sy,” thought
Joyce, relieved. She cro.ssed the floor,
looking about the room with 4hterest.
What Would his study reveal ,of the
cht'lacteE” of Neil Packard — of her
hushariTf?
Joyce sat down at the desk to ex
amine a fiquare photograph frame
440 yard run: Winget, Presby‘(ii i»n,
first; Curtis, Furman; Morgan, Pres
byterian. Time, .53.4 stconds.
22C yard low hurdle.?; VVilbanks,
Pre.sbyterian. first; Pyron, Furman; iPidicemt-n
,,^reyprmdc(l wa? am
MELROONKY
.Nearly forty years ago, Theodore
Roosevelt, then jiolice commissioner of
New York, advertised for bright
young men of good character to b?;-
edme pplicemt-n. .Among those who‘
Side Quit Hurting,
Ciot Stronger, Well;
CARDUl Helped Her
named Edwar*
Muli'ooney.
Fl ow f in, Pre.sbyterian. Time, 33.2 .sec
arid I want you! Jovee sat down at the desk to ex- , . man ,,
to l.t me .lone.” Umin'e a ,e(|U,.'e photoitraph fiome tvi|ba„ks, Preohy;.. i.n, Mulrooney '■poun.le,l the piiv-ment
“But, good God!”, he exclaimed vio-jniore -Carefully. The picture, , fj^Ht; Forehand, Presbyterian; Blair, learned jaU about the bu.slne.^.- of
lently, “you can’t just calmly throw | showed a man and a pretty girl, "'a»;purman. Distance, 107 feet 9 inches.
880*yard run: Forehand, Presliyte-
Mib K. L. Weal, of Huntsville,
.Ma. V rites: “I was weak and
run (to’v-.. 1 had a pain in my side,
ami I kept Uwing weight, 1 grew
no. vous ov«r my cuiiUiliuii—this was
er-tirdiit ftte-fHe, t.w -t am v«ry
1 ”
rt
I
me down that way, Frills, without m
reason, without a word, without an
explanation of what it’s all about.
You sit there and say in that frozen
voice, ‘It’s all over’—you, who only
Friday night planned to go away with
obviously an enlargement of a small
$nap. The girl was perched upon a
shelf of rock^ while the man stood
close beside her. His right arm was
around her waists her left hand curled
about his neck. Both were smiling
broadly, and the girl’s right hand
Presbyterian;
2 minutes 8.8
rian, first; Barrett,
Webb. Furman. Time,
seconds.
Broad jump: Guorard, Presbyterian,; -
.McCall, Fur-j in.siyctor, and
pointed to the post
first’ Meindell, Furman;
man. Distance, 18 feet 11 inche.?.
me Wednesday, you, the only girl ^
who ...” I waved an imp'ident g’. eeUivg.
With flaming face, Joyce interrupt-! “Do 1 look that way when 1 smile^JJUjcided to take it to her own room
ed hastily, “An affair like this can't I wondered Joyce, “so ... so ?elf-confi-j prepare for mailing. Before she
land enter the house without ringing, ^ ^
d then whistle a few notes, whicht, . . can’t on forever, so it might as Dlent and . . . saucy?” She stared at; the desk, however, she
she knew must be his way of signal*! well end now--" , ‘he picture. “Neil has a
imr Frills. S^e stood irresolute for “But‘why, why, why? Juda.s.
policing the world’s greatest city. He
never took a <lrink, never gamble<l,,
never dissipated in any way an^l nev
er took a dollar or a favor jfor doing
his duty—or for not doing it, for that I
matter. He rose through all the
iherv wa.-. ap-
which Tlieodore
Roosevelt once held, police coinmi.H-
sioner of New York.
• Now, my friend E?1 .Mulr.'oney has
been asked by the governor of .New
lifii I a:ii w* 11 and don't easily
t • > rvima I kn.-w I ought to taka
Mv ,-tunt told me 1 ought
til try (’urdui. ad.ich 1 did. I began
III f.ei tn-ller I kept It up until 1
i.H'l taken tliree or four bottles. My
s( 'e quit hurting and 1 was soon
f<. ling strouK and well."
('.irdiit U sold at drug stores h^rs.
mom.nU, .troking Dickie.‘lt had never talked thia t.ay before:
not occurred to her'that he might He leaned forward and -
come upstairs without an invitation.
Thej’efore, she was distinctly startled
to
left
discovered
nice smile* j something which set her heart thump-i York to be the head ot the .-.tate beei’j
you'; There's something about it th'.it’s jnig with mingled pain and plea.sure. j commission. The great danger in the
! quieter and moi'ie sincere than Frills'j In one of the side drawer.**, which .she i legalization of beer, and the pjobablej
.su(’t!(efily grin. • | had opened to look for ^a jien, she] repeal of prohibition
seized her
claiming.
wrist in “an iron
‘Frills, do you
grip, f-
There was a short. row of books found a few loose snapshots.
, quor business may again
18 that the li
become the'
when he calmly walked into the room,!going to be thrown out like
I no more rekson in the
Well
ti^irik I’lu standing on the desk top, held in place; One picture Joyce lingered tr.er. It tool of crooked politicians and the
this wlh: by two heavy bronze bears; and aiwas Neil sitting beside a sweet-faced hi^ndmaiden ot crime. With I.d Mul-
looking for her. ; i -i u
She faced him apprehensively, un- yoii re through
had; well mistaken if you think
ino more rekson in the world than that [basket in which she found stationery' elderly woman against a ba^’kgri.'inu roonoy in charge the crooks and graft
1, you’re dam^’iand leaflets inscribed
eomfortablv conscious of what had, well mistaken ii you think so. I’m p ! backing Co., Inc., Mai
7 J y (before ing to stick around and find out wha
^v«ythi„* O, K,'you’re ’up to, believe me, YouTe go
now? Did you get « goood night’s' ing to be mine, and by God, I don 11 address the brown .envelope, and de-j -
Packard Fruit'of roses. That was undoubtedly his ers won’t have a ('hinaman’s chance
Manzanita, Gal.” So mother. She wondered if* Mrs. Pack-'to gel in their dirty work.
Neil’s business,
ard were living, and if so, what she
Sre could find no pten with which to'thought of Frills.
(Corrtinued Next Week)
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