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Show Art' irtii 'l rtrffnnf rtmwJiMitd I THE PAYSON CHRONICLE, PAYSON, UTAH APRIL 10, 1931 Kin i amwjrt lTstott "No. T'crirTc.z-jrviizs iBpPCO' LAI. E D I RUN K .9! Jf .59 .00 .00 15 "jSSil , HENRY KITCHEI.L 02 T irn i I M ys td w; rVv -- ;r-- v, IVEBSTLR TMB MW ng )r- - he ss S E Rv C E. L&iE m SYNOPSIS jrs ie. llf 11 HV ,,Tril V . e h i' il i ... '.urn aIkiso nan u ho 1I m-i.''i ,U whom he i.Wl, . h 1.1 .. iv! I i . rIs j.'ml i m Initot onlit o' - 'V tv, ,,, u u ..in w bn h he u ii SenviiK a Mb il i ,., n, t Mm ' he inform ' the i -1 st Iln. m" newspiper oi e of ,itu. ted in-by - on hoi Ho . ,.,ri n rDnoe publo a At i i .. -, ' u,.il n- mi" Myn ii 'r. J hoi i Ixoiie of I .hoti.i blmh Jtnl y in is f'oi.i tieis, In ..rrt lie - V.iMlt-J, n i oLiils Shi tel uvos to ""ne - deni or uil.mt It fn Uln.da u Tilt CiiAI'll il II Tint ot l lie ail ei list n nt Tile vi .iv i right) her il.viai Jnl l me iMaitm ,A.fo ma iei.il. a In i ib blhoi'd ill a it, happy H, i nn, tlier ue.ut, she vsur ir. a mu. ill pi ., lal.Hi, e i tunes A ,1 mi-- f n'i i iui in,' i is lit r mu boi unit s m In i " e tier fatln r i'Si the blow n o w di 'dnli n. .nJ bl Ilie'v 111 r to -- n ' Imasi, whole he is en-i- n si.ine in s to r io u s woik idn it Ih'i,1' I tine, le mis lin-,',,j n.imui.l stem h."I'hy When the .'.till l,r fallier (Ins suddenly, ,S v.unli ' living to gne her a nust.iKi Sue has .n a trunk I il" s about after h.s ileaili, feelsome mom i an-umie her id. limed b. he ing 'ie w.il the ihangis her n. one to "White mid in the news-p- i buomts a stenograiher fib e while I l lies is w oi k n g ,p i a with feiow .s wnikn, ghi iising babe" Jt iin.ngs li ibe who had been at the dame the night bernre, tills her if lilioda's her l.nvis li.nl a!;e real name was not .Mi Farland. ( rt . i Would Be an Awfully Place to Get Into. ' That is, 1 wasnt surprised at tiie burglary hut I was surprised that lie imk money. Haven't you missed any tiling ehe? A document of some sort, or a letter or perhaps a photoThe tiell twin; from downstairs and graph? 1 in jult guessing, you see. the rather nnndosiript visitor whom She remarked, I don't think you're Iiahe admitted announced himself as a You're thinking gmssing. exactly name taker for the new city directory. about Mr. Lewis nnd the tilings you He wanted to get the names and occuheard that woman telling him, last pations of evert body who lived in the night. Rut I haven't any document Rabe recited them while apartment. or any letter I mean I havent lnt he wrote them down in a little leather any and I don't own any photo He had to have bound notebook. graphs except of Rube and Doris and lilioda's name spelled for him. Isabel. 'there was no reu! reason f,.r doubtiI was thinking about Lewis, he ng that l'e was what he pretended I know a little more confessed. to he, jet Martin did doubt the man about him than I did last night. I almost to the point of asking him to wanted to find out vvl.at lie wns up to, show his credentials. Also he thought especially after Rnbe told me he'd the man turned a rather penetra'ing t li.en her home pist night nnd asked look on him. Ilut he didnt want to do hera lot of questions about you. something officious every time he was lie saw her fuee fl ime at that and with Iilioda, nor to do anything tohe thought she held iier breath while night that would add to her disquiet. she waited for him to go on. "lie It was probably nothing but imagiisn't what anybody xvou'd call a valunation. but , at that, lie doesnt It wasn't, though, imagination that able citizen man to break in here the like seem something had happened to upset the steal and your throe hundred dollars, I'.abe eventually gave that girls. indiscreet let era to a some wrote lie It transpired that away completely. and she sued him once, chorus girl she lmd a fairly heavy date at nine a hundred thousand. Probably she for oclock and she seemed worried over wouldn't have done it if lie hadn't had the idea of leaving Iihoda in order to lie hoped a rich respei table uncle keep it. She even offered, ia what she would buy tier oft. Ilis name's Charles meant for a confidential aside, to J. Forster. lie lives at the Worcesbreak this date so that Rhoda, if Martin went home early, should not be ter hotel. Did you ever hour of him?" Apparently she attached no imporalone in the studio. tance to the question for she answered Rlioda vetoed the proposal with a It with a mere absent shake of ttie vigorous shake of her red head and Her thoughts vveie somov. here head. the cloud over Martins spirits lifted else. as he realized that she meant to let him stay on and have a visit alone I want to tell you one oilier tiling with her after Italie had gone. I did this morning, IVoid i." lie went Ttie last thing Rnbe did before, In on, and this brought her focused inI got full panoply, she left the studio was quiring look back to his face, want-aIn to go to Iihoda and file, the look to them up. Dont hug her. you worry any more about It, the real name of the man whos been preof Iihoda cious, she said. Something nice Is advertising fi r the address McTarland. IiS the same man. Charles going to happen soon that'll make you The O. .T. do you forget all about it. I've got a hunch J. Forster. about that that's strong were man talking about last they to bet enough money on " night. Martin hit down the The Hash of incipient pain he'd seen he question "anted to ask the moment Babe had ln her face changed to a look of really gone and said something nice mere perplexi'y before he finished vv about her instead: what a speaking. "Rut I don t know bo he good loyal sort she was, is! stie told hipi vehemently. Then, Oh. Hie is!" Rhoda assented with a suddenly intent, she asked, Did you shaky laugh. "Rut slip's about as do any tiling else? easy to see into as a "There was only one tiling left to goldfish bowl. She promised she wouldn't let nnd tint was to look him up nnd do, jou suspect that any thing had happened here, nnd ask him vvliv he was advertising flic's gone off now without the faintest for her. And and I didn t want to Won that she's given anything away. do that unless you said yu wanted Refore Martin could think of nte to. anything appropriate to say to that, she went You might have aslo d him, she on, "111 tell you what It was: there said. "After what I toll you last "os a hmglar here this afternoon. night you might have argued that it Lid he get away with anything was no affair of mno vv'iat you found important? out about her. Rut I'm gad you His choice of that word seemed to didnt. Please dont do it. Martin. Let "r.ke her but she didn't comment me tell you a little, and then don't Pun it then. He got three hundred try to full out any tbiug more. dollars of mine," she said. She went I'm Rlioda White now but I used on in response to Martins start of "I'm ashamed to admit I "ns so sidy as to keep a lot of money that ln oasffi In my room. Id hac ' ,,,ns '"-- and I thought it was Sa .' i No. 1 m h m i b I Ni ? d , hidden. R" ko,l if they had any idea had happened or how the nun find got in. 'R " mid lie an easy plan k't into any timeawfully during the day, n;;;;(!l'lni:ttc"! The dreL 'fully. ' people like to leave the outer Ull0cl''d so that their customers cun' " U1, tt,Mlr,in hrri '!t hHn!Picked lit,Mts suppose a burglar could the lock easily enougb." IPe three hundred dollars all AL'It''' ".''i n jr I a ''as M irtsn 1 wont do anything you dont me in," lie said. Then he did If liu'e rudimentary arithmetic. bat was two years ago youre only eighteen now." ' Do you mind?" she asked him seriously. An, he sjthl, "1 dont mind at all." After a while she said, You must have worked awfully hard today, to have found out ail that about Max lewis and the chorus girl. How did you do it?" "It was all in the morgue, he told her. "It took about ten minutes." She'd been vvorkiug for the paper two years and she didnt Know what tin Martin, with a morgue" was. true reporter's pride in the whole news gatl oring side of the organization. told tier all about it. He was startled when a sudden movement of tiers, a sort of shudder, roused him to look around into her face. "What's the matter? lie gasped. I think it's horrible," she said It means that there's no shakily. forgiveness nt all. Anything that anyoie has ever done or that people think he lias done is kept there, wait ing lit tie got out and told all over og.i'ri. Anyone vv ho wants to go and open a drawer can tlnd it And they call it the morgue. Martin, I didn't K n vv any tiling could be as cruel as that !" l'.ut you've got It all wrong," he A doesnt newspaper protested. keep a 'morgue' for the purpose of in tiniidating people with their pasts. Nine times in ten the file's used for writing handsome obituary articles. When a man dies they want to be able to tell how important he's been." Rut nothing lie could say on the subject seemed to ehauge her feeling Let's try to forget about about It. It, she said at last. On his agreeing to that and hed have agreed to almost anything just then she pushed her advantage s Let's forget about little further. everything that's mysterious and depressing, will you? Will you agree that the burglar was just a plain burglar who was perfectly satisfied with my three hundred dollars, and that Mr. Fors ter and Mr. Lewis were only trying to find me to settle a bet, or for some silly rason like that? And then. Martin, will you take me somewhere for tl e rest of this evening where we can dance?" You bet I will," he said. Ill agree to t lie whole program for the rest of the evening if youll let me say just one thing first. She considered this request a little dubiously, but finally said, All right; just one, though. "If you're really eighteen years old . I really am," she Interrupted, " almost. My birthday's in two weeks October thirty-first- ; IlulloweeD, It Is." We'll have a Hurrah!" he said. Halloween Well then, on party ! youll come of age and you'll have no more reason to be afraid of your uncle than I have. He'll have no more authority over you than hell have over the king of England. And even in the meantime I don't see that be could do very much. Thats all. Now lets go to the Alhambra. And heaven help Leander Higgins, or anyone etee who tries to cut tn on us tonight! Downstairs tn the tiny vestibule she ftcticed that there were some letters The postman had in their mail-box- . while they come, she remembered, were so excited about the burglar that they both forgot to go down and get She didn't want to lie the mail. e bothered with It now, though. All wanted to do was dance. She forgot the letters again when she came home from the Alhambra, hut Martin remembered them and went downstairs with the key to bring thun up. When he came back he'd r lerely said, after looking at her a Good night. Rhoda," and minute, gone away, although the idea of a kiss had hung palpably between them for She wouldn't have mindan instant. ed his kissing her good night, but she cut a real thrill out of the fact that he didnt, although he evidently wanted to. She realized that when he did kiss her he'd mean more by it, and there was a touch of real Scotch thrift about Rhoda that appreciated the a t economy. It was the same quality in her that made her put off letting herself drift over away into a pleasant the hours just passed until she should have finished her evening tanks nnd got Into bed. Otherwise she wouldn't have looked at the letters at all. One of them was addressed, in an angular feminine hand she didn't know, to her, Miss Iihoda White." It was with a rather Indifferent feeling of perplexity that she sliced open the envelope. Rut with her first incredulous stare at wtiat wns written on the stilt folded sheets of note paper it contained, she felt a fright that Martin hadnt gone cncd wi-l- i Dear home, for the thing began: Mis McFarland. Site was trembling so that she went over and sat down "u the couch before she read any further She felt ns If tilings were closing in on her somehow; the way a bird feels, perit haps, w lion the beati rs are driving man a which bel ind wall toward tl.e Is v, a!tir g vvitli a gun. I hope I haven't frightened you, beriming like that," she snid. "but never you do not know me you may have even heard of me and I wanted to make sure that you would read thl letter, bectm-- e it D important to me whether it Is to jou or not To be Continued day-drea- nsk.d, it iniumi,;." r s' e countered riid it was thin lie, and he n t w i nit in ,,r a r y vvph lam a aU, tut lt ventured to answer, Feature Items for Friday and Saturday, April Phone 17 a , For Butter Wrappers 10-1- 1 Lux Buy 3 ' PALMOLIVE t For all fine Laundering ,0c cakes Large Size . . SOAP for 1 full-siz- e package PALMOLIVE BEADS Limited Supply Buy Now! Cheese pound . . Honeyed or Plain 7 2 Pounds . . . 29c Peas 1 5C 3 for 3 Sc Utah whole Milk . 19c (J Graham Crackers and get FREE ' i lii vvi.nl G Del Monte early garden, No. 2 cans, . . . . . Bananas Ripe, firm, and with that real Island flavor j Store No 26 A pOtlllQft Payson, Utah This Section Dedicated T o Scouts The Court of Honor of the Nebo ent work; Glenn Mayers, PioneeringwoodcarDistrict was held Monday evening in ving-cooking-athletics; the Junnior High School. There were FIRST CLASS ten boys appearing for Merit badges, Roe Wylde, Russell Jones, Leo Hanmaking application for twenty diff- cock, Clyde Dixon, Wayne Beck. erent badges; five boys appeared for SECOND CLASS first class, seventeen for second class, La Var Howard Cloward, Johnson, tenderfoot. and fifteen for S. Dixon, Jack Paul Paul Schearrer, Glenn Mayers of troop 93 made Earl Peterson, Dalton, Loveless, Ralph application for life Scout. 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