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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.
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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
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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. Let it be.* I
said, and there it is to this day.
“Does it pain you?" his lutenar
Inquired.
“No pain at all, but—f do gel
terribly thirsty!*'
.Not Ouitr Enough
for a Selling Order
Mrs. Raysun came dashing mlo
the room where Raysun was ab
sorbed in his evening paper.
“It’s exactly 96 degrees on the
back porch." she announced.
"Um. huh." Mr Raysun replied.
Ten minutes later Mrs. Raysun
popped in again. "Juat think, dar
ling.'’ she cried, “it'a now 101 ’*
“OK with me," from Raysun.
“Henry Raysun." Mrs Raysun
soon thereafter interrupted her
man as he was looking over tha
stock quotations, “just think, it's
now exactly 107!"
"When it gets," replied Mr.
Raysun dryly, “to 110, sell!’’—
New York Sun.
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