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F c}0 By NARY HASTINGS BRADLEY CopyrlKht by D. Appleton* Century Co., Inc. WNU Service CHAPTER XV—Continued —13— “What I think,” Mitchell expounded, “Is that she followed Nora up to find out what she could about the row that had been going on—her eyes wouldn’t miss that. And 1 think she went away because Dan came in. I tblnk Letty knew Dan was In it, somehow, all the time. Hut she sat tight." “She would,” Deck answered. ^When Dan prompted her to ask for the cigarette case and feel of It, and have Clancy feel of it, he probably told hen he was sure the diamond was hidden In it. She followed his lead all right, but when she saw how It worked out, when it came home to her Just what the consequences were, when she heard him exulting over Deck's fate, then It all rather did for bfcr for a moment. Hut only for a mo ment. Do our Letty that Justice, Alan." Deck nodded, unresentlngly. “Oh, 1 could have fried in hell if that would have helped her get Dan." “Donahey s talking to her now," •aid Mitchell. “She’s pretty well shot to pieces, but 1 don't think shell give Dan away.” Mitchell continued: “When Leila, here, brought out what Han* ini had been up to with Anson—” •That must have tickled Dan pink," Deck Interjected. I Interrupted by asking Mitchell when be bad first stisiiected Hamden Ills dark eyes twinkled. "Hard to aay. now . , . Thought It was yon. Alan, at the beginning, but I tried to keep an open mind. . . . The radiator marks poisled me Hut I didn't see my way till I saw that play about the cigarette rase and examined the rlga retire, and even thee I didn't auaprrt the beginning of It —(be andiroe. the dummy oa the bed. 1 kept bothering ever Anaon'n testimony.'* They spoke of Insanity ns the de fease Mitchell thought It would end la mistrial Iteck conjectured that with all llarrtden'a ree»urcre It would •ever come to trial. “And I'm not So sure It wasn't In- aamty—the Anson part." said Mitchell “No sans man would have choked that girl la death and put himself Into such Jeopardy over the little she had to tell . . . Well, he may pull hlmaelf to gether and fight It out. Y<»e may he the one tried, after all Don t lose hope, my lad " We could banter about it Itenctlon was at rung la ua. There cornea a time when yon are drained of horror, when la sheer self prrsr'vatlo* you revert t^ what Is normal and gay And la aplte of all my pity for that hard, desiderate man upatalra. my com passion for poor dead Anaon. I wav feeling now a very lively aenae of re Uef and aelf rejoicing We ata all the sandwiches; we •irank all the coffee and we amoked Innumerable Hgarrttes Then Deck went to get himself another drink, and Monty Mitchell and 1 aat there, •till talking. He told me that he decline*! to take heck a word about my foolishness but that he forgave It for the sake of my courage. "You slood up there, facing him, and put that accne together aa If you were seeing It!" . He had stood there t*»o. Reside me. Perhaps he was thinking of that, for he gave me a quick look and said, "Hy the way—how about that engagement of ours?” “You were pretty sweet," I said. “Standing by.” I realized that he had been beside me every moment In that house. I tried to say so. T'd like to take It on as a life Job,” he told me. And then, T think I’m rather desperately In love with you, Leila Seton." For a moment I Just looked at him. His eyes, usually so gay with banter, held a bright, de^p warmth. “Am I too late?" he said, and It was strange to hear Ids voice sounding like that. "Is It Deck?" I didn’t say anything—I was too busy wondering at myself. For It was not Deck, the Alan Deck of my dreams, the man who had taken such possession of my sympathies. Deck was vivid, exciting, romantic—and he was ready, 1 felt Instinctively, to play at love with me, to yield to a new glamor. Hut I didn’t want him. I was terri bly sorry for him, for all the disillu sion he had been through In his hit ler passion for Nora Harrlden; I was fiercely protective for him against any danger be might be In through he' death. I was ready to He for him, to steal those letters— Rut Deck, as a man, had grown nn- suhstantlnl. He had simply not been there. He had shielded himself be hind my explanations, he had been willing to use my sympathy on his behalf. He hadn't sprung to defend me ns Mitchell had done; It hadn’t been Deck who had crossed the room, before Harrlden's glaring eyes, to put his arm through mine. The comfort of that touch I would never forget. . . . Oh, Deck had been everything he ought to have been, but Mitchell had been so much more. And there was so much more to Mitchell. I didn’t think I liked handsome men any more, desperate reckless men who ran to you for sympathy. I was cured of them. I liked men with force and character and steadiness, with bantering gaiety and dark, qulxxlcal eye». So I shook my head violently about Deck. "You mean that?" Mltchell’a vole* leaped out at me. almost Incredulous ly Tle'a such a taking devil! Lefln—" He checked himself; ha didn’t touch me or make any speeches. He Juat •aid quietly, “Don't he—grateful—or anything Ilka that But—If you could manage to—la learn ta lova me “ T do. I do now • | told him as as suredly as If I hadn’t Juat found It out aa Instant baforu. I am atupld about wonta; I couldn't aay anything of • hat I felt to him. I only aot there, breath tree, looking at him. f'cling my own happiness and bin. . . • And then Deck was back, hta glass ta Ins hand. Monty Jumped to hta feet. Tlere'a a tonat—well make It a loving cup." he cried and caught me by the band, drawing me up bealda him. To l^tla—who Wives a lawyer!” The glaaa la Deck'* hand waa mo tl»nleaa. Ha lovkml at mo, -N# foolin'?" I looked at him. "No foolin’* Iwck put tho glaaa to hla lips. Vie took a long drink. “Well. I’m glad for you. Monty, old chap, and I'm damn »**rry for myself. . . . It a tho hell of a world." It was In the alienee following that pronouncement that we heard the shot. The shot that thin Harrlden had fired Into hit temple as he leaned over hla wife's body, the shot that ha would rather meet than tha courtroom with Its publicity and scandal — the shot that was tha only confession be ever made. Tint kND Display of Cartwheel Maker at Manchukuoan Fair. You Wanted a Western . . • In answer to many requests for a different and tmujMa! Western story we’re happy to announce the coming publication of . . . GUNLOCK RANCH by FRANK H. SPEARMAN TJERE’S an exciting tale of Western ranch life. It has all the customary and necessary parts of a true-to-life Rocky Mountain story plus a lot of unexpected angles that will maintain your interest to the final sentence. Jane Van Tambel is the heroine, an Eastern girl who comes out West to meet her father for the first time . . . and finds him a crook and thief masquerading under a cloak of respectability. The desire to turn against him is repressed until she meets Bill Denison, her father’s mortal enemy. Love appears, and with it comes an emotional conflict that Spearman portrays with mastery. Should Jane Van Tambel turn against her father or her lova for Denison f ^ TKia thrilling novel ttarU k for a Follow treat! Prepared hy the National OcoRraphlc Society. Washington. D. C.—WNU Service. T EXAS tips its ten-gallon stet son to a stream of visitors for whom Dallas is a re ception committee, and inau gurates the first United States ex position in the world’s bumper crop for 1936. After the Texas Centennial, the veteran exposition fan may as well start packing for jaunts to Cleveland, Ohio, and Johannesburg, South Africa. Although this is the first world’s fair in Texas, the United States has been a happy hunting ground for elaborate expositions. Philadelphia, Chicago and San Diego have each had two. St. Louis had one. New York and San Francisco have both set the date for their second, 1939. Such celebrations are becoming the accepted sort of birthday party for important national anniversa ries. The Philadelphia Centennial in 1876 brought the world’s activities in miniature to the front door of a nation just one hundred years in dependent. The Columbian Expo sition in Chicago in 1893 was in tended to show Columbus that he hadn't seen the half of it when he discovered America 400 years be fore. In 1907 the effectiveness of English colonization of this country was displayed by the Jamestown (Virginia) Tercentenary. The young nation’s first wavering westward steps were recalled in the Louisiana Purchase Centennial in St. Louis in 1904, and Portland’s (Oregon) cele bration of the Lewis and Clark ex pedition's hundredth anniversary in 1905. The South contributed to the country’s fair festivities with the Cotton States exposition at Atlanta in 1M. the Tennessee Centennial exposition at Nashville in 1M7. and in the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian exposition at Charles ton in 1909 Seattle waa "al home'' for an exposition in honor of Alaska, the Yukon and the Pacific coast in 1909 By that lime the United States had acquired the world s fair habit, and would have one at the slightest provocation. When the Panama canal waa opened in 1914, no one wanted to wait a hundred years for the event to simmer down into a centennial: so that formality waa waived, and the occasion itself was celebrated with important exposi tions both in Francisco and in San Diego Begaa Again After the War. The general enthusiasm for fairs was dampened somewhat, after 1916, by the World war, which ap peared to destroy man's appetite for the arts and industries of civili zation. Then Philadelphia gave its second performance, the Sesquicen- tennial in 1926. Chicago followed suit in 1933 with its own hundredth birthday party to which everyone was invited, and to which everyone went and then went back the follow ing year. In 1935 the San Diego ex position was announced along with centennial celebrations in Arkansas, Wisconsin, and Springfield, Mass. The past century might well be called the Exposition Era, for it has witnessed the sudden gaudy sprouting of the world's fair from the ancient family tree of the tradi tional trade fair. This new and dazzling era began in 1851 with that grand-daddy of fairs in the modern manner, the London Crys tal Palace exhibition, officially opened by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Since then, many crowned heads and presidents have seized such opportunities to com bine official business with seeing the sights. After London started the worlci’s fair fever, it spread through Eu rope and North America with amaz ing rapidity, with isolated cases cropping up all over the world from Melbourne, Australia, to Seville, Spain. Within 85 years Paris has had seven important expositions and' 1 reports another planned for 1937, establishing a world record for world’s fairs. London follows, with a score of five. It is often diffi cult to decide whether a busy in dustrial exposition or a big centen nial celebration is a world's fair. There are few set rules for play ing the exposition game, although an international agreement on the subject has been discussed and standing committees exist in most European countries. Almost any oc casion now is considered legitimate excuse for a world's fair. Kio de Janeiro ’taged one to celebrate the centenary of Brazilian independ ence m 1922. Antwerp to commemo rate Belgium’* century of inde- in 1930. and Brussels in honor of the centenary of Belgian railroads in 1935. Transportation’s Big Part Indeed, the latter seems symbolic of the tendency of the 85 years of fairs— away from the early arts and crafts and toward the accom plishments of science, especially in the service of transportation. In 1851 the only transportation exhibit sent to the exposition from the United States was an artificial leg! But at the Chicago Centennial in 1933-34 modes of transportation con stituted a more extensive display than did the exhibit of any one State or nation. There is no wonder, how ever, that fairs recognize transpor tation as important, since fairs are becoming bigger and better and more frequent largely because of the ease with which they can be reached. The world's fair today, with its bewildering mixture of amusement, education and commercialism, is sometimes hard to distinguish from its more workaday relative, the in ternational trade exposition for ad vertising purposes, such as the In ternational Petroleum exposition in Tulsa, Okla. The world's fair is a sporadic celebration, however, and thus differs from the perennial in dustrial exhibition, like those of the British Industries fair held simul taneously in London and Birming ham every year since 1915, and the Leipzig fairs which have been land marks of international trade for 700 years and are now considered the oldest and largest of the hardy perennials. Each fair offers a novelty of some sort, like London's original Crystal Palace. Chicago's camel-ride in 1893 and ita sky-ride In 1933, or the Texas Centennial’s rocket-ride; but there is no novelty in holding a fair. Always It has been ’‘fair** weather somewhere in the world, since Chinese tribesmen began to congregate at some convenient crossroads 3,000 years ago. when trade really meant trade and busi ness was on the barter standard. Ancient Greeks and their Roman imitators held periodic fairs gar nished with games and some reli gious trimmings. la Medieval Times Shrewd medieval European mer chants reaped the rewards of virtue when they all journeyed to their nearest religious center—and set up booths for a fair during a church festival. So general waa this prac tice that some languages combined the word “fair** with that for “church service.*' The hiring of servants and the settlement of mar- rirje contracts were transactions no more out of place on primitive medieval midways than the ex change of cattle or the sale of horses. Incidental merrymaking be came such a substantial factor that it soon set up in business for itself, primly differentiated with the term, “pleasure fair.’’ One of these, the St. Bartholomew’s Fair, was abol ished in London only as late as 1926. England retains traces of many primitive fairs, such as Goose Fair and Onion Fair, whil# develop ing the more modern trade show to a high degree of specialization, from the annual exhibition of Brit ish products to an international au dience with 80 different potential language markets, to the restricted Antique Dealers’ Fair or the Ex hibition > of Acetylene, Oxy-Acety- lene, and Allied Industries. The old-fashioned fair to which products were brought, sold, and carted away now is being replaced by the modern exhibition which is simply a huge sample case, where potential buyers make choices but not purchases. Such are the fairs which have made traveling buyers thrive where the vanishing traveling salesmen once flourished, around such international commercial cen ters as Leipzig, Lyons, Basle, Pra ha, and Nizhni Novgorod in Russia. The great Hindu market at Hurd- war in India is advanced to a lesser extent. Expositions have set the style for everything from jewelry to hotel facades. The Chicago Columbian ex position of 1893 was responsible for an epidemic of pseudo-Grecian architecture which supplanted the brownstone front throughout the United States until 1915, when the Moorish-Spanish buildings of the San Diego and the San Francisco fairs started a wave of low straw berry stucco structures topped with red-brown tiles. The Eiffel Tower, at the Paris exposition of 1889, served as a calling card for the steel construction which later came to stajn in modern ekyscrafara. The normal expression of salva tion in the life of a believer is a pas sion for the conversion of others. The early church soon began to ful fill the great commission of its Lord and Master. Its first missionary en terprise was in the great and wicked city of Antioch, only 150 miles from Jerusalem, but far from God. In this unpromising soil we find grow ing: I. A Model Mission ^Church (w. 19-21). Its establishment was in accord with the plan of God, for it was: 1. The result of a* faithful testi mony (vv. 19, 20). Those who were scattered abroad by persecution had but one crown ing purpose—“preaching the Lord Jesus.” 2. A gathering place for all God’s people (vv. 19, 20). The truth was preached to both Jews and Gentiles. 3. A living witness in a wicked city (v. 21). “The hand of the Lord was with them.*’ Little wonder then that “a great number believed and turned unto the Lord.” Note in verse 26 that it was in Antioch that the fol lowers of Christ were first called by the beautiful name “Christians.” In the midst of the most evil and de graded surroundings the sweet flow- ; er of Christian faith may grow. II. The Model Mission Church Be comes a Model Missionary Church (13 1-12). We have here the first step in the world-wide missionary movement which continues to our day and ( which has influenced the destinies ; of men and shaped the course of world history. This first missionary enterprise presents the essential principles and methods which sre vital to true 1 missionary work, even in our day. To begin with, there must be s proper base of operation, namely: 1. The home church (w. 14). God calls his messengers right out of the church membership On ; the Sunday that this lesson is taught missionary leaders of the next gen eration will be in the classes of ; How can you resist this appeal ing pair of kittens? Their “por trait” on a pillow top or picture will add charm to .your home aside from your pleasure in mak ing it. And how effective it is, worked quickly in colorful floss, the crosses an easy 8 to the inch. Since the motif requires but the merest outline, you’re finished be fore you know it! In pattern 5604 you will find a transfer pattern of these kittens ISVi by 14-inches; a color chart and key, material requirements; illustrations of all stitches r eeded. To obtain this pattern send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept., 259 W. Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y. Write plainly pattern number, your name and address. Follow Up “He barked his shin on a chair." “Then what?” “Then he howled." Heavy to Sink It “Money is round and made to roll,” said a spendthrift to tha miser. “That’s your way of looking at it," replied the latter. *T say that money is fiat and mads to pile up." Round About “What’s ths hurry—training for a race?’* “No, racing for a tram!"— Pearson's Weekly. •ome crons roods Sunday school. | How important it will be that tha j teacher present the truth of God's j Word plainly and faithfully Notice that this church was spir- ' dually alive It was a church that j prayed, fasted, and ministered tha ( Word of God. It was responsive to i the guidance of the Holy Spirit Next we have indicated tha type of men called to be 2. Tha missionaries (vv 2-4). a The strongest men in the church (v. 2l. When you want some thing dona, ask a busy man to do it. God's mis sionary program calls for the beat the church can give, not misfits or failures. b. Spirit-led men (vv. 3, 4). God chooses and sends men into service. He separates and places them. 3. Missionary experiences (vv. 5- 12). a. Minister to all people (w. 5-7). Paphos was a Greek city of high culture and low morals. It was ruled by Sergius Paulus, a Roman officer of noble character. With him was Barjesus also called Ely- mas, a wicked Jew. The mission ary messenger rejoices in the op portunity to preach to Greek, Ro man, and Jew. b. Meet satanic opposition (vv. 8- 10). The devil has his servants who live only to oppose the gospel. No tice that even as God has children so also there are children “of the devil" (v. 10). We-choose our spir itual family connections. c. Proclaim judgment on sin (v. 11). This is not an easy thing to do but is required of one'who is “filled with the Holy Spirit.” d. Lead men to Christ (v. 12). In this case it was the result of fear, which is a powerful factor in the conversion of some men. The Master’s commission, “go ye into all the world and preach the gospel,” has never been altered, modified, or abrogated. It is still the great “unfinished business" of the church. ' Learning From Suffering I have learned more of God, and of myself, by one week’s suffering than by all the prosperity of a long lifetime.—Bishop Hall. More Work, Not Less “We get out of our troubles only by working harder, not by working less.”—Roger W. Babson. Possessions To know how to dispense with things is to possess them —Reg- A Gentle Hint Sailor (to Benign Old Gentle man) — An adventurous life I've led Had an operation a little while ago. After I'd come to. the doctor told me he'd left a sponge inside me. 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