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Show I THE SALINA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH JOSSELYNS WIFE By KATHLEEN NORRIS Copyright by Kathleen Norria CHAPTER II 2 the way up in the train she was busy identifying the urious groups All about her, us either being hound for the Ilose house party, or being unworthy of that classification. Ellen was so excited by this time that she could not breathe naturally; her cheeks were blazing, und tier heart beat fust. With her little new subcase she got down from the train in a sort of joyous panic ef expectation. The Hoses chauffeur made himself known and Kilen, a elderly man and an exceptionand ally handsome young woman ail got Into the limousine. Ellen Imagined the pair to he and daughter, and thought It would he romantic to he rich and travel abroad with an adoring father. The lady looked at her amiably enough, but did not speak. Presently they turned In at a gute and could see a splendid stono mansion, lying along a hillside draped In hare vines, hut with heartening smoke arising from a dozen chimneys. They all went up the stone steps, and were admitted to an enormous-warhall, where fires and tables and rich rugs and great bowls of flowers all were Jumbled together before her confused senses. Here wua Mrs. Hose, magnificent und distrait, murmuring that the children were about somewhere ; perhaps they hud gone out, giving a maid directions In an aside, und looking n little blankly at Ellen until the girl reminded her brightly: Its Ellen Latimer Well, of course it Is, you dear child, she said then, with a wanning kiss, and you came up In the car with Mr. and Mrs. Josselyn. Tom, this is a little friend of mine, Miss Latimer; and this Is Mr. and Mrs. Josselyn, Ellen. I hope you all talked to each other? Ellen was just going to sny, We but the young Werent introduced, and beautiful Mrs. Josselyn spoke first, with h sort of pretty languor, "I always talk, on all occasions! and then they all laughed. Ellen knew, suddenly, that the two women did not know each other very well, and that the man was quite at home In this house. YVlierdd you put us, Abby? he asked. Dont come up; I know my way about." Ive got to go up," Mrs. Rose said. conversation Interrupting a she was having with un elderly nmld. I declare, she went on, mounting a dark, curved stairway that was spread with rugs, ornamented with potted palms, and lighted with a stained-glaswindow, "I declare, I get perfectly frantic sometimes, when the children have these affairs. Arthur brought down four hoys from Harvard on and Lucia presumably Wednesday, not out yet, If you please all I can say is, that I dont expect to live through It until she Is out ami Its rush to this, and rush to that I dont know what they're doing now Ellen perceived that the matron was really deeply enjoying the responsibility and confusion, and the strain on meals and beds. They went upstairs now, and had left the Josselyns at the door of a delightful room. Which explains," said Mrs. Hose, "why Ive tucked you la here, on a couch In my sewing room, my dear. You needn't hesitate to come In and out, for Mr. Hose Is up at Great Harrington, for the golf." Its lovely," Ellen smiled. Its a perfectly wonderful house, she added bashfully. Mrs. Rose said It's comfortable, And Josselyn dhl It. carelessly. with a sudden twinkle she added: llow did you like the bride and gray-haire- fu-th- er snow-powdere- 1 cups for more tea. It was a wonderful hour. She was ahie to see now how really beautiful young Mrs. Josselyn was. Her golden brown hair was wound carelessly In glorious waves and coils above her white forehead, and her white hand, heavily ringed, lay against with the dark wood of the chair-arall the pure beauty of alabaster. She sometimes raised her glittering eyelashes, brown eyelashes with a hint of gold in them, to smile lazily at her husband, hut for the most part she was inert, makijig no effort to be more than a lovely picture. Mrs. Hose asked her about Iarls, and she answered casually. Ellen did not know that she was trying to make the older woman think that travel, wealth and the free purchase of gowns and jewels were but an ordinary part of the days work to Lillian Keeler. Ellen was deeply Interested and even thrilled by their talk. Her loyalty and affection were bound to Mrs. Hose; she decided that young Mrs. Josselyn was not a gentlewoman. All those blazing Jewels at Informal tea! A clock In the dimness of the room boomed half-pas- t five. And with a cold and joyous rush, the youngsters came In for their tea. Latimers last happy the Hose house. The little velvet dress did not full from her ns the clock struck, hilt she would hnve been happier running away from them all Into the night, hare of feet and hair, and In her shabbiest kitchen dress, than she was to be here, In all their luxury and warmth. They were Introduced, and they nodded, flinging furs and wraps Into the arms of silent, patient, waiting maids. Ellen marveled at their siorts-clotbethe soft Swiss coats, the smart, shaggy little caps, the velvet skirts with their big buttons, the silk blouses so Imwhite. I.ucla was not maculately pretty, but how smart she was, and how she chattered ! Doris was pretty, and everything else that Ellen would have liked to be as well. The five boys were all quite young, fresh-faceThat minute was Ellen In s, low-tone- d ? "I thought they were father and daughter! Every one docs. Ive known Tom Josselyn all my life; we knew his first wife well. She only died a year ago, and ten months later he married this Lillian Keeler. Nobody knows anything about her. Doris Rotter youll meet her tonight says that she was a model for Madame Yvonne, hut I dont believe It. Young Gibbs Josselyn. the son one of the dearest fellows that ever lived has never gotten over It. Tom Josselyn Is sixty-fivyou know, He broke with and shes twenty-eighhis father the day he heard the news, hasnt seen him since. He was In the firm, too. I guess the old man felt It pretty much. Now I hear that Giggs Is going to study painting lies a Well! now I'll leave gifted fellow. you. Brush up a little, and then come down and have tea. It was Just like an English house party In a novel. Ellen smoothed her hair, and put on the gray velvet dress with the fresh frills, and went down to the library in a tremor of happiness. She was early, and hud time to enjoy a book of photographs and a fire before her hostess came down. Then the Josselyns came, and an old aunt of Mrs. Rose, and two friends of the aunt paying a Ellen was much the youngest, and Mrs. Rose enchanted her by letting her pass sandwiches and toast, and bring back the t. tea-cal- l. tea-hou- r. naturally. They reached the Red Lion" an hour after the others, and immediately had a large and noisy lunch In a sort of club lunchroom, with stags antlers and bearskins, a roaring open fire, and exposed rafters of dark wood to give a rustic effect. After lunch skis were brought out, and Ellen wus dragged several cold miles on a sort of combination walk, scramble, slide, and skate. The boy called Red drove her silently home; lie bud hud a good many coqktnlls before and after the walk, and drove recklessly. They got home none too early to dress for the dance, an experience that Ellen never forgot. The young guests In the house had been indifferent to her yesterday ; today they actively disliked her, and she afforded them delicious material for laughter. No one asked her to dance; she might have been an Invisible witness to the gayety, as she heartily wished herself, for any attention that was offered her. The girls, perfumed, powdered, laughing, pushed by her without a glance, and the boys, gathering eagerly about them, saw her ns little. At twenty minutes to one Ellen found herself watching the bridge game. Mrs. Hose was playing with Mr. Josselyn, and It was evident that the luck was running against them. Theres no bidding hands like these I declare I never saw anything like It !" "1 suppose we cant start another we said we would stop at one, young Mrs. Josselyn smiled. Ellen saw Mrs. look as the Rose give her a venr-niouJeweled hands tumbled the cards Idly, and the army man earnestly and quickly added the various scores. Im going upstairs, now, Ellen put In I ant n sort of a headache shyly. I think Id really better! And Mrs. Rose, will you tell me about trains toI think I had better Aunt morrow Elsie expects me She had nerved herself for opposition, but Mrs. Rose made none. Im sorry you cant stay, she said. Better stay and have a little more good time. Auntie will forgive you! Anyway, come down nnd have some supper now ! Hut Ellen murmured of her headache again. She slipped upstairs. And, once in the safety of her own room, she began to undress automatically, with scarlet cheeks and a heaving breast. They lmd been rude to her, they had been rude to her! She had only wanted to he Innocently happy, she had only asked that they he reasonably kind, and they had turned her world upside down, and scarred the old happy confidence forever! In Mrs. Hoses room, beyond the bathroom, a fire was burning, nnd Ellon went In to it, and sat down. Huddled in her wrapper, she was dreaming over the coals, when the door was pushed open, and she turned with a smile, expecting to see her hostess. Hut It was young Mrs. Josselyn who enme in, wrapped In a splendid oriental robe, and with her thick, soft hrmvn hair hanging In a loose coil between her shoulders. I saw the door open, said she, dropping Into the chair opposite Ellen. Vm tired to death, but I dont feel like going to bed She stretched her slippered feet to the blaze, locked her hands behind her head, and yawned, as unselfeonseioi as a cat. Ellen studied the lovely white arms, the smooth low forehead from which the hair was swept, the dropped bronze eyelashes. She dared not open a conversation, and risk another snub. The other woman took a framed picture from the table, studied It for a few minutes, and again moved her eyes slowly to Ellen. So youve been having a perfectly rotten time?" Ellen laughed nervously. Why, no, I couldn't sny that I suspected It, the way you hung around the card table, said young Mrs. Josselyn, frankly. She extended the picture she held to Ellen. Know him? she asked briefly. Ellen shook her head. She looked at 1 s groom The elaborate dinner was served, and the young people began to dance. Then Ellen slipped upstairs, equally, unable to review the events of the day, or to anticipate those of tomorrow, with any equanimity. There would be a big dance tomorrow night, and a ride to the Led Lion for lunch. Ellen did not ride. Well, she would go with old Mr. Josselyn and Mrs. Hose In the closed car. Unless she had a wire from Aunt Elsie saying that Grandpa wus dead ah, If only she might ! Hut Grandpa was far from death, and Saturday had to he endured. It was all worse than Ellen's fears. Mrs. Hose was not going on the ride, after all ; she and the aunt and the Josselyns were going to play bridge. Lucia unbent from her Indifference long enough to urge Ellen to try to ride. Hut Ellen, although she was eager to dare It, did not like to risk the danger of making herself absurd on a horse. There was another choice, but that, too, Ellen did not see until long afterward. She might simply have pleaded Indisposition, have begged to be left quietly at home, and so have watched the bridge, which Interested her, and have had another pleusant Hut Instead she let Lucia separate herself from her friends to drive the funny girl from Long Island In a small roadster. The roads were heavy, but Ellen knew nothing of cars, ami did not know that really difficult driving was angering the already exasperated Lucia. For perhaps fifteen minutes out of the long two hours the girls talked s Able to See Now How Really Beautiful Young Mrs. Josselyn Was. She Was well-groome- superficially poised In spite of their youthful clumsiness. There were nine of them, altogether. They talked only to each other. In a sort of running fire of growling and tittering and laughing. It was impossible for an outsider to follow their conversation, and even when the older people had drifted away, and Ellen was left with them, they made no con- cessions for her. Oh, what a fool she was to come here at all, she thought, undressing late that night. And how she hated them all ! They felt her unwelcome, and shabby, and different, and the bitter thing whs that Ellen knbw that they were right. She could not speak their language, nor understand them when they spoke; her little attempts at merriment fell flat, her best gown was not as smart as their simplest sporting outfit. She had gone downstairs timidly. In the fussy little lace dress, to have them presently follow In their exquisite simplicities of sheer linen and lawn, with girlish touches of pink baby roses or childish wide Homan sashes, plain silk stockings, plainly dressed little satiny heads, with Jeweled pins tucked trimly against the coils and plaits. How fresh, how virginal, they were ; schoolgirls Just on the threshold of womanhood, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen! Ellen's twenty-two years seemed suddenly grimy and gray. A sense of Injustice seized her. She hud never been as young and sweet and confident as they were! They were all In love witjh life, and with each other; It was a pity that they could not spare a little love for Ellen, too. Hut Dorothy complimented Lucia, and Lucia. Doris, and Doris In turn told Mary that sne looked adorable. No one of them gave to Ellen the word for which she hungered, or, better than praise, made the slightest effort to bring her Into the group, gave her any reason to beljeve that with eyes like hers, and cheeks like here, the lace gown mattered not at all. 1 1 a young man, thin, earnest of mouth and Jaw, keen of eye. Even In the picture she could see that the thick crest of hair was gray, and even In the picture the handsome face showed character and power. At one corner, In a small square hand, vvae written: "To I.uclas Mother, from (Bdlted by G. Douglas Wardrop, Editor of Radio Merchandising.) T. O. J Jr. Hes not spoken to his father since our marriage, Mrs Josselyn said, disIve never met him. passionately. Hes good looking She stared silently for several moments at the faee of her unknown stepson before replacing the silver frame upon the crowded table behind her. Ellen, whose sense of the romantic had been touched by this situation, looked at her with new Interest. Mrs. Josselyn, again stretching her lithe body with luxurious pleasure, apparently dismissed the subject from her mind, for when she spoke again. It was of Ellen. So youve had n nsty time, and they treated you badly? she said "Well, thats your fault, my Three Tube M Circuit, Using UV 199 to play their Diagram for Portable dear. You mustnt-trFrom Dry Batteries. Tubes, Operated game; they'll have you there. Make them play yours!" former, should he conneeted to the By LEON BISHOP "Easier said than done! Ellen said, grid of the tube. The other side of is a diagram for a portable Here sensitive and girlish. ihree-tub- e circuit, using the secondary should he connected to Tell em you hate walks, and you the negative side of the A battery 191) tubes, operated entirely from think theyre all silly. Tell em you UV not the negative side of the tube and dry batteries. wont dance until you feel like It filament. Remember, there is a big 180 a degree type Procure they'll fall for anything! Im going to difference between negative tube filaWind the stator, S, with 40 ment and bed good-nighshe said sleepily, A battery, for negative turns of No. 22 double cotton covered you are und was gone. a rheostat. using wire. Starting from the ground side On a portable set two jacks are of the stator, tap every four turns for sufficient. The first, or phone jack, Is CHAPTER III five taps, utilizing 20 turns of wire located across the primary of the connected to the switch, SW, which is second AF transformer. By this The morning came with glorious win In turn connected to the aerial circuit. method of connection it Is possible to ter sunlight, nnd Ellen Latimer, turnIt, may have any- listen In on the phones while the loud rotor The circuit, ing luxuriously under her warm soft where from fifteen to forty-fiv- e turns Is in operation without cripblankets, stared blankly at a clock of speakerthe loud amount the of wire, depending upon pling speaker output. The that was rapidly moving toward nine developed in the circuit. second jack Is exclusively for loud regeneration o'clock. had must all have They 77 -- egeneration is too strong, the numspeaker reception. breakfast by this time evidently nober of turns may be reduced until volts is suggested for the Forty-fiv- e body cared whether she was alive or Is subdued. violent first tube and 07 volts for the detector regeneration dead. but is two amplifier tubes. This is not a single-circuiEllen had had a white night, one of tuner of very simThe operation of the set is really the few In her experience. For long really a hours she had lain awake, thinking ple adjustment. Radiation from this simple, there being practically only two real tuning adjustments. These soberly about the events of the past circuit Is almost Impossible. and the two days, and, quite unconsciously, asAcross the stator, 8, is connected are the variable condenser, C, is used R. pracSW, The switch, rotor, a .0005 mf. variable condenser, prefsimilating their hitter lesson. The conThese girls were not better than she, erably the type. Care should tically for selectivity only. the rotary plates denser dial readings may be recorded not wiser, not really happier. But be exercised that to be consistent their circumstances were utterly differ- are connected to the ground, as this and will be found in to time from time recording the ent, and it was Ellen who was to will eliminate body capacity effects. same stations. not of the fur is to blame, they, The grid condenser, Cl, bridge trying In a panel layout the variable conthe gulf between their lives. She still mica type, .00025 mf. The grid leak, the left and the had her good home, her own admiring GL, should be anywhere from two to denser should be at vario-eouplThe switch at the right. and affectionate group, her books to five megohms, the higher the better. should be above the dials in contacts read by the fire, her garden to dream 30 The rheostats, R and R, are is sugover In the spring, and the swimming ohms, one rheostat controlling the de- the center of the panel. It the dials a litand boating and tennis that absorbed tector tube, while the other rheostat gested that just below switch be Introduced into tle push-pul- l all youthful Port Washington from controls the two amplifier tubes. A battery circuit to turn the the October. I.ucla and Doris were June to The A battery consists of three tubes on and off. The two rheostats not real, and Ellens life dealt only colls of dry battery. Oftentimes a can go at the right of the panel, with with what was practical and sane. One three cell C battery, now common on the two jacks directly under them. might sigh for the prettiness, the gny-etthe market, may be used where com- The grid leak, GL, and condenser, 01, the irresponsibility, of Lucias life, pactness is not essential. Three blocks should be located as near the detector ones face might burn because this of B battery will be sufficient for tube as Tlie lead should not pretty butterfly could he so triumphant- loud speaker reception on tills cir- be over possible. one inch long. ly rude, and so but It cuit. It would not he advisable to get This circuit is typical of all the was wiser to forget It all, or rememthe exceptionally small size B" batfamily, only It is debering. remember, too. that the dainty tery, hut preferably the middle size, tubes for portfor dry battery signed superfluities were a mere accident of a? there is some length of life to this able use summer months. the during income. Ellen Latimer would have battery. It can quite readily be seen that the something that Lucia Torrey might The condenser, C2, is .002 parts suggested in this circuit can be envy some day, and through no acci- mf., and must he connected as shown. got into a small space if the descripdent of birth. audio tive panel layout is followed. This The transformers, frequency The breakfast room deserted. AF and should of be will give excellent loud speaker the circuit higher AF, Ellen was the first of all the househe exercised reception, as well ns real DX, which should Care ratio type. hold to appear. She smiled over her that the outer winding of the second- is characteristic fo the carefully served courses, and presently ary, unless marked G on the trans- - class. New York Sun. was hanging absorbed over a jig-sapuzzle that had been scattered upon one of the library tables the day beContact Cleaner for To Make Handy Torch fore. Her train went at half-paUse on Your Sockets for Soldering Joints eleven, It was not yet ten oclock. As the young people straggled downA. DENGLER JOHN By The small alcohol torch would not stairs she looked up to nod at them If set is to work at blow wind and a the in your lit receiving stay high composedly. She presently went quiet- torch was out of order, so the follow- maximum efficiency, it is absolutely ly upstairs to pack, and pinned on the ing was improvised in order to solder necessary that the tube socket conhat, and fastened a little the antenna joints on a recent instal- tacts be clean. A dirty or corroded dump of fresh violets, from a vase, lation ; contact will often spoil what would against the sober lltttle suit. It was a small baking powder can First, only goodb.v now, and the whole ex- with a cover was secured and a hole perience was over. was punched In the cover. Next a The limousine's coming round, piece of cotton waste was rolled into dear, Mrs. Hose said. They stepped a hall and a piece of stiff wire was out to the stone veranda that Ellen twisted around it in the form of a had crossed with such high hopes two handle. The handle was pnssej days ago, and looked down upon a through the hole in the can top and panorama of scattered homes and gar- the burr on the punching pressed dens powdered with the light snow and down so that it gripped the handle. washed with brilliant sunshine; stone drive-wajfences, brick fences, clean-swep- t Socket Contact Cleaner Cut From everything shining and prosperous in a hath of Sunday peace. Piece of Round Wood. Ellen began her thanks and good-byotherwise be excellent reception. Aa Dont say one word, dearie, a rule, these contacts are cleaned with said kindly Mrs. Hose, Im only sorry a piece of sandpaper or emery cloth to have Her you go. eyes suddenly held in place on the end of a stick. were fixed upon the gute, and Ellen, This method, however, clumsy, and powerturning, too, saw a a good job is rarely done. If the litfully built roadster turn in, and come tle instrument herewith described Is quickly up the drive. Now, whos used for this purpose, it will be a simthat?" wondered the older woman, disple matter to do this work, and clean contentedly eyeing the two furred men contacts will always be assured. This who occupied the car. I never sit contact cleaner can be used on both down to a game of why. It's Ward! or sockets. standard and UV-19- 9 Its my husband and Gibbs Josselyn! It is made of a piece of round wood She turned agitatedly to Ellen. For 1 Inches inches in diameter and 4 heaven's sake, what shall I do? One end of this piece of wood, long. aware of an emergency, had Ellen, for a length of one inch. Is cut down yet not at all grasped the situation of an Inch In diameto when the two tneu came laughing up end is also slightly cut ter. The other the steps, and greeted her hostess. Quick and Easy Method of Soldering down for a of about one-halength Those Outside Joints. Mrs. Rose dazedly kissed the small, Two round pieces of emery inch. man who was her husband, Inch cloth of a diameter one-hal- f After preparing the Joint to be soland dazedly introduced Ellen of the contact ends the than larger "Ward, this is Nellie Buckleys girl dered in the usual manner, the ball of cleaner are now forced over the ends youve heard me talk about, and Miss waste Is soaked In gasoline and set on by means of two copper rings fire with a match. The blazing waste Latimer Mr. Josselyn, she said of an inch wide. It might be Is held under the joint until the flux to cut slits about advisable flows, und then the joint Is touched of an inch deep on the edges of the A a of further solder. wire with piece emery cloth disks so that when forced application of heat causes the solder in place a smooth surface will be obto flow in the joint. tained. To use this instrument It Is When finished with the torch, put only necessary to remove the tube, inthe hall of blazing waste into the can sert one end of tbe contact cleaner In (To be continued.) and the cover fitting Into place will the socket and, while applying presextinguish the flame. Radio News. from side to side. It will It twist sure, Sensational Dancer the contacts can be found he that Lolo Montez, a Spanish dancer, A Bargain? In this manner very easily. cleaned stirred Europe and America with her described by the The time and labor expended on tills An old motor-ca- r adventures during the first half of the on the contact cleaner will be amply repaid been as auctioneer having Nineteenth eentury. After many esWales-b- y a at was road bought by the knowledge that the efficiency recently," capades In Europe she came to the sale of the receiver will not be lowered by farm (Lincolnshire England) United States In 1351, and died here for $3.50. Imperfect tube contacts. Radio News. In 1S01, the face of ruml-natlngl- y. multi-audi-ple- x vario-couple- r. t! 30-oh- t, two-circu- it e y, multi-audi-ple- x by-pas- s s multi-audi-ple- x st s, low-hun- three-quarte- rs lf gray-haire- d one-quart- er one-quart- |