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Show THE PAYSON CHRONICLE, PAYSON. UTAH 1 i 14t4SZuSSJS SYNOPSIS shout him? No, he told her, as they entered the building together. Hut I think he's np to something queer and Im going to try to find out what It Is. And If you happen on anything that gives you a line on It let me know. ' He thought she hesitated as though she had something on her mind, but all she did was to nod assent and say as she walked off that they'd see him for supper tonight about seven. Martin's own day's work was yawning for him In the local room, but be didn't go there. He went Into the morgue" Instead, on the chance that he'd find there some scrap of Information about Max Lewis. The search was much better rewarded than hed expected It to be. Max had had his promenade In the public eye by virtue of a breach of promise suit for one hundred thousand dollars that had been brought do when she saw him? Toss her head him by a chorus girl. He had against and walk scornfully by without speakImwritten her the usual ing at all? Or pans to make some becile love letters. All that gave them other blighting asperaton on his good interest, either to the public or to the faith In having tried to help her. chorus girl herself, had been the fact She didnt do either of those things. that Max, though It wasn't clear that he Her face lighted up at the sight had any property of bis own, had a of him, and when she curae within vested right, so to speak, In an aureach she held out her hand. rich bachelor uncle who thentically This Is an awfully nice way for the might be expected to come down and Im sorry settle the day to begin, she said. girl's claim. I called you a reporter last night. The only direct find for Martin In I am one, he told her. the mess was the uncles name and Oh, I know you are, but you weren't address. It was Charles J. Forster," I don't know being one last night. I because I told the employment manager was that I said that. suppose why her name was Rhoda White. have red hair. Her acquaintance with Babe had This is turning out a much better progressed slowly at first, and It obI It du.v than could, he thought wasnt until shed been working for I wish Id known last night served. the paper six months that the older that this was going to happen. How a proposal did It happen? Do you often come girl approached her with was exBabe live that they together. down these stairs about this time? cited of an about ad shed taken, Have you got a Job near here? studio for rent unbelievably cheap; The door's about fifty feet away, dollars a month. seventy-fiv- e she told him. Ive worked for the cheap, It was really a whole apartment; two News for two years. bedrooms and a kitchenette, beside the Look here, he demanded, when studio Itself. Her scheme was that hed digested this fact, did you know get two other girls and that the who I was all along last night, I they four of them should keep house In it, mean? their own breakfasts I thought it might be you. I wasnt getting, that Is, and suppers. The other two girls were sure, though, till Babe called you dancers, members of the corps du Marty. ballet of the opera. Honest? They taught her to dance the other Honest. had a phonograph and It be- girls She answered him quite simply, not seeming surprised at his pressing so minute a point. He didnt quite know himself why It was so Important, but it was. Well, he said, weve got a lot of lost time to make up for. If Ill agree not to talk about anything you dont want to talk about, will you have dinner with me tonight? Yes, she said, but Ill tell you what Id rather do If youd Just as leave. Id rather you came to supper at the studio. Give me a pencil and a piece of your newspaper, and Ill write down the address." Hed have asked her what sort of studio It was If she hadn't glanced up as she handed back his paper and pencil and exclaimed, There comes Babe I It must be getting late." Babe sang out a rather knowing hello to the two of them, but, even if It wag late, came on unhurriedly. Rhoda called back over the Intervening heads, "Martin's coming to supper with us tonight, and then with a nod vanished Into the entrance to the building. The Implication hed perceived In that last remark of Rhodas disturbed Martin so much that he forgot to be The Four of Them Should Keep polite. House In It "Look here, he said to Babe as she I Lewis that bird did came np, that came passion with her. Shed dance Introduced to you last night find out with anybody, who could dance well, where Rhoda lived from you? In a perfect oblivion of delight. You two make a pair, all right, you She liked her Job and wasnt long and Max. It seems you both went gagetting promoted to be special stenogga about Red last night Why, Max rapher to one of the younger men on took me home, and since I told him the executive staff. The only Imperhe and I lived together, I suppose he fection In her whole scheme of life knows. Why shouldnt he?" was the little tremor of fear she felt, He was too d d anxious to find every now and then, that It was too cut, that's all. Hes a bad boy If I good to last know one when I see hfm. How much There was no real threat, was there, more did you tell him about her? In Martin Forbes' Imaginary discoveries? She didnt know any one named Why, we talked of little else, dearto know wanted Lewis nor anyone who could be spoken He Babe. said est, The only person who of as C. J. all about her, and I tried to be acLook now. am be I like could advertising for her was her commodating uncle. For all she knew he might here, who elected you Red's guardian? Ive known her about seven hundred have been doing It for years; off and times as long as you have and I'm not on ever since shed disappeared. None of the girls knew her story, and they trying to get her In dutch with anywouldnt give her away If they did. body. to to ne didnt know what say that, (The two dancers were away Just now on tour with the opera, so she and but the look In his face must have anBabe had the whole studio to thema swered for him, for with complete She wouldnt risk asking on. What went she selves.) of manner, change Babe any questions, though, about Is It, Marty? Is there anything wrong Martin. How well, she wondered, did with him? Do you know anything Feature Items for Friday and Saturday Mar. Soup u.i, , r, i's ?, Y l5an2! iie whpaper niiy .Ittrartej by one of -on her in cuts Hj 'hU-ijr- n.tme he learns and " hum he h'"1 di lb- "i; ,..'1 lie WN-e- over-,,- 'i between Iewts which he ... ui Kn Hhotla bcnsutS a the A..,er St. lie, h informs "O J.. Inr a "blind aJ" Maned ,r the w bet eabouta of I,hotyt 'which judging from the l,d" is He oierhe.ud, he is convinced She refuses to reAl name i n v man , -, 1 it. f oi admit of cutrso, lmve boon tellP, and "to er P" t" Uncle 'Villiam his sIhmI find his nddrt'ss among hate meant, that Hut he mu-'li-t for Unde ,ift3 to looh out not let h'm get possession of lapers. And since her unde was "it ns much an ogre to her as he tt was the yiteen four .'eats ago. she that adopted, interpretation the doctor had said was the her worst, that frightened re only a !l"!o girl !" She me, of course, was nonsense. tecn and lots of people thought lias older than that. She could Hed for eighteen, well enough. that only because he was sorry r. But sixteen was still a child ling to law. You weren't of uge or was It you were eighteen And If Uncle William where she was and learned of ather's death, he'd come and get and she wouldn't be able, to get from him. Well then, the only tbit g for her to do was to dls-pbefore he had time to find what had happened, king back now on those days, the passage of two years so ed with life that they seemed t than the four that had pre-- I them, she wondered that she. a child of sixteen, had been able iow out that resolution so stead-t.a- t no one had tried to put an cle In her path. cept for a telegram, purporting ome from Florubel In Denver, b she had slipped out early that to herself, ng and dispatched lad nothing to show anyone as an atlon that she had a friend In the and the telegram wasnt much since If you looked at It closely 1 saw that It hadnt come from Jer at all. e couldn't have done it, of course, le had not had plenty of money, likely enough, not then If the a people hadn't been accustomed r paying the bills. She paid body la cash, that morning, and this was done she had a little three hundred dollars left, fifteen bills and a few small Wil-;in- d fttt .r 1 e papers her father had tried to er something about had always kept In a big leather hat trunk must hav been her mother's, opened it and looked In with the of seeing whether her uncles ad-- I was there, but as the trunk was y full she decided against going Sh It. She didnt much want to, iy. She took it, as it was, along her own small trunk in a taxi to 'venient railway station. It hadnt tred much which station except it had to be one that had a train to Denver. next day she took her suitcase her to the funeral and weut from httle chapel back to straight "bon. She spent that night at C. A., where nothing han-P!tbnt b.v Inadvertence she d her new name. Shed had one wba they gave her the I n er 'f to sign shed begun writer old one. Ithoda Whitehouse IIalfwa-- trough shed Iiwhnt she was doing and stopped. Khnda Whte mde a good ?''e 'vaa K,ad that r.adnT Rhoda- - Sbad fit L Mp L y' . drived 'Irninss:.ev , l ",'re f f 3 Honey Butter Pound i 10c can, keep fn.tpvu'Q going. 30c Babe know him? The thing to do now was to go to bed, and to be sound asleep before she came home. But she was only half undressed np In one of the little bedrooms that had been partitioned ofT the loft when she heard the click of Babe's key In the studio door. She listened and felt her skin prlngle as she thought she recognised the voice of the man who was urging Babe to let him come In for a smoke. Babe was firm about it and sent him away. Rhoda put on her bathrobe and slippers and came slithering down Into the studio. Who was that who brought you home? she asked. You ought to know, dearie, Babe told her. "Hes your friend, not mine. Whea be found out I lived with you I couldn't push him off. He brought me home in his runabout, but It was John Alden stuff I was doing all the time, and I knew It Was it Max Lewis? Rhoda asked. "Non other, darling," said Babe. I had forgotten you had two of them on, tonight." There was a silence for a moment after that. When Babe spoke again It was In a different manner. He asked me one qneer thing about you, Red. He asked If your rsel name wasn't Rhoda McFarland. To be Continued iTed connection will make ary to construct a new plant number of years at least. This uld be encouraging news for the rmers under the Strawberry Proconject. If a new plant had to be have would Waterusers the structed - forego part of their annual 1 pOllllGS 19c is Mrs. Inin ar Cloward entertaijr p Miss Opal Schearer, a popular young of of friends at dinner followed ht ad- of week bride the was the guest Bible honor at a a bridal shower given last with bridge. Present were Mr. and Mrs week by Miss Echo Haynes and Miss Floyd Harmer, Mr. and Mrs. Powell Wanda Staheli at the home of Misf McDowell, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Smith, Haynes. The guests numbered the close Mr. and Mrs. Gould Dixon, Mr. and friends of the bride and included Cry- Mrs. Page Ieeiy, Mr. and Mrs." Sterstal Schearrer, Evelyn Douglass, Mrs. ling Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Earl Smith, Mrs. Dean Schearrer, Mrs. Barnett, Mr. and Mrs. Armon Harmer, Mae Dixon, Mrs. Dean Wightman, Mrs Mr. and Mrs. Quincy Burdick, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Cole. Mr. and Mrs. Smith Bernice Reece, Melba Viertel, Erma and Mr. and Mrs, Barnett recieved the Wilson, Bernice Ballard, Ida Betts, bridge favors. Dorothy Kitchen Ella Larsen Margret A contest one act play The Bank Peterson, Vera Pfieffer, Jean Dixon, Mrs. George Schearrer, Mrs. George Aceout, was given by members of the first ward M. I. A Monday night. Staheli and Mrs. Thomas Haynes. In the cast were: Mrs. Bert Staheli, Lorin Partridge and Miss Gwen Mrs. Ned Wightman has been visit- Wride, Mrs. Kathryn Betts was the ing during the past week in Provo with director. It was voted to enter Sarys her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Pet- Old Home, in the Stake contest. It erson. was presented several weeks ago with Mrs. Harriett Francom. Mrs. Lorin Thursday of last week the E. T. C. Partridge, Mrs. Nellie Haskell, Miss sewing club met at the home of Mrs. Madge Elmer, Mrs. Mary Joppson, Dean Wightman. Candy making was Ixiah Francom and Jordan A. Law in the cast the diversion of the evening. 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W. .c the Association np power or power to waste, to pay vzut-'ir'Tf- Radishes (Large Bunch) Each Oranges (Medium Sunkist) Per Dozen t HI petary of 1 OUT divi-fro- - C . . . Tender and green, try it for Sunday Dinner. bad told everl'body n0r'E wondered what he And tben ,ur' h ' to blink and . ! end t0, rake sure that his 'ni t deceiving him, he ut I;hoda herself com-f wn tU s,airWhat would she McDonalds Asparagus n Kiris without experience nugraphif department and es. If you were cbance t0 promoted nr "! e 7a atenographer or even the "Stives. oVv technical untruth Rhoda moment. The more he thought 0S' ll)illtip of Ws blunder e ruVir! Cocoa Sc Use Utah Products ;'V-n,seU- F; . . . 1923-193- that. seemed. TOdas'tT1!.1'8 h dressed- bolted his iSt waltJn8 at the foot tt, eiJn5,a8tairB ft fcourYof good luarter Babe could be ex-t- 0 appear. he d finished his h!1f second Let Ilero f Vi 43 he d been Un 88 lf quality at a substantial saving. 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