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Show , THE BULLETIN. BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH JT; News Review of Current Events the World Over President Hoover on Business and Pleasure Trip to Porto Rico and Virgin Islands Mayor Walker Under Fire. By EDWARD W. PICKARD 000 and those for the first quarter ending March 81, well above $500 000,000. At least one-fourt- h of the total tax due was paid with the Income tax returns filed, so thut collections for the first quarter will run somewhat above the average for the four quarters. Indications are that the higher tax rate for 1980 Incomes will fall, to offset the losses caused by the economic depression by around $100,000,000. SO VARIED are the interests of different countries thut the tar-iff armistice convention called at Geneva by the Ledgue of Nations Is forced to report tbat it has failed to reach an agreement, though It has hopes that within a few years enough nations will rat-ify the pact to make it effective for Europe. The conference was called by the league in an effort to secure a truce on the raising of tariffs and later to obtain a general reduction of tariffs. Only eleven countries ratified the truce clause and all eleven made Important rescrva-tlon- s. The usual reservation was, "If surrounding countries would also ratify." PROBABLY twenty men perished H sealer Viking was H blown up in White bay, Newfound-- B land. Of the survivors 118, many fl of them badly Injured, managed to I reach little Horse island, where a I few inhabitants tried to care for I them with Inadequate food and no fl medical supplies. Several others H were picked up by vessels that sped H to the rescue, called by the mes- - fl sages of the young girl radio op-- B erator on the island. Besides the B large crew the Viking carried the fl members of a moving picture ex-- fl pedltion. If , : V PRESIDENT "stag party" sailed from Norfolk, Va., Thursday morning on the reconditi-oned battleship Arizona for a y trip on which the Chief Execu-tlv- e planned to combine rest and pleasure with busi-ness. Included in and making nine public appear-ances. Besides this, he Is contem-plating a trip to bis home In Palo Alto, Calif. The subjects of his speeches have not been announced, but It Is understood he will take the opportunity to set forth his own estimate of the achievements of his administration so far and bis alms for the future. Thus he will be in a measure taking up the challenge put out by the progres-sives at their recent conference In Washington. The speaking calendar for the President as arranged Is : April 13 American Red Cross In Washington. April day, n Union, Washington. jjy 4iiitcrnatlonal Chamber of Commerce, Washington. May 21 Fiftieth anniversary of the Red Cross. Washington. Gov. Theodor. "i party were "tarV,,"J " ley, of the Interior Wilbur, Capt. William Furlong, who handles navy Island matters: Capt Charles It. Train, naval aide; Col. Campbell Hodges, army aide; various other officials from the White House, and a bunch of newspaper men and pho-tographers. Capt C. S. Freeman was In command of the Arizona and the vessel carried a full com-plement of 00 officers and 1,244 men, for it was making a shaking down run after being rebuilt The first stop was at Snn Juan, Porto Rico, and the President for two days was to be the guest of Gov. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt at La Fortaleza, the old mansion In which governors of the island have resided from the early days of the Spanish regime. It was planned that Mr. Hoover should make a tour of the Island In order to observe Industrial, agricultural and social conditions, meet the leaders of the political parties and gain a general Idea of the success Governor Roosevelt has attained In meeting the problems of the Porto Rlcans, which are many and se-rious. The governor in his official re-ports and la communications to the American papers has given de-tailed pictures of the distress ob-taining In the Island. Sixty per cent of the people are out of work, be aald,. either all or part of the year. The population density Is exeeed- - ! 1 Liw:J ONE of the hopes of the American Fed-eration of Labor the affiliation of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen with the feder-ationIs soon to be realized, according to dispatches from Washington. Re-presentatives of both bodies and of May 30 Memorial day, Vauey Force, Pa. June. 15 Republican Editorial association, Indiunapolls, Ind. June 16 Dedication of Harding Memorial. Marlon. Ohio. June 17 Dedication of Lincoln Memorial. 8prlngfleld, III. In addition to these engagements, the President Is to review veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic at their reunion June 16 in Colum-bus, Ohio. THEODORE G. JOSUN, of the Boston Transcript, has been made secretary to President Hoover to succeed George Akerson, resigned. Mr. Joslin is a close personal friend of Mr. Hoover. His main duties will be arranging the Presi-dent's calling list hundling visitors at the executive offices and main-taining contact between the Presi-dent and the correspondents. The new secretary Is an experi-enced political reporter and has a wide acquaintance among public men. He Is a native of Massachu-setts and Is forty-on- e years old. :; vv 1 vj Luav i, .a.. SJ SENATOR of California, who Is one of the most in-dependent m e tu-bers of the upper bouse, thinks the recent conference of progressive lead-ers was a "fine thing" and that the leaders of the pnrty ed by few countries, it is u 10 the square mile and even intensive agriculture would not support this population. So It Is Industries that Governor Roosevelt says must be developed. More than 85,000 per-sons are suffering from tubercu-losis, 200,000 from malaria, and 800,000 from hookworm. ... From Porto Rico the Arizona was to proceed to St. Thomas, prin-cipal port of the Virgin islands, where Mr. Hoover was to he met by Dr. Paul M. Pearson of Phila delphin. the recently nppointed civil governor, and Waldo Evans of the navy, the retiring governor. With them he was to study the problems of the group, which are ns serious us those of Porto Rico. The Virgin Islands used to prosper on the manufacture of rum and the transshipment of F.uropean cargoes for the entire Caribbean region. The prevailing economic distress is the result of prohibition and the conversion of coal horning vessels to oil consuming ships. Only a few days aco the control of the Virgin Island was trans-ferred from the Navy to the In-terior department, and now In Washington It Is suggested that one result of the President's visit may be the amalgamation of the group with Porto Rico as a single political unit administered by one governor. Secretary certain affllfated Doak railway workers' unions were en-gaged during the week in drafting the terms of an agreement for the amalgamation. Representing the federation In the conference were President William Green, Secretary Frank Morrison and Vice President J. M. Bugeniazet, who also is sec-retary of the International Brother-hood of Electrical Workers. Sit-ting In for the trainmen were Pres-ident Albert Whitney and James Farquarson, legislative agent The drafting conference was the culmination of negotiations that have been In progress for a year, in which Secretary of Labor Donk, in his former capacity as legisla-tive agent of the trainmen's or-ganization, is said to have played an important part UNEXPECTEDLY heavy war veterans for loans have made it necessary for the treasury to raise $200,000,-00- 0 In less thnn a month. Secre-tary Mellon announced a requester by Veterans' Administrator Mines for $500,000,000 to cover payments on 1.372,000 applications received up to March 15. It hnd been esti-mated $.100,000,000 would suffice, and per cent treasury certifi-cates were Issued to get that sum. Hlnes said, however, the $500,000,-00- 0 would be needed by April 11. has been TADJIKISTAN of Soviet So-cialist Republics as the seventh constituent state, the actlou being taken by the sixth biennial all-uni- Soviet - congress In Moscow Just before adjournment The Tad-jikistan republic, organized last, July, was formerly a part of Uzj bekstan. It comprises slightly more than 00,000 square miles with a population of 003,000. lying In a cove formed by the frontiers of Af-ghanistan, India and Chinese Tur-kestan, its capital Is Stalinabad, formerly Dushambe. Rykov, former premier, and oth-ers who were removed from office recently, were restored to favor during the session of the congress and made members of the central executive committee. should can a liar meeting, lng: "Only good can come from such gatherings." He Is convinced that "something is radically wrong somewhere" with the Republican party. Mr. Johnson gave out a state-ment In which, he agreed with some of the progressive, doctrines and disagreed with others, but said that "public consideration, study and discussion constitute the con-tribution and value of the confer-ence." He asserted the country was naturally Interested In unem-ployment representative govern-ment, the power question, monop-oly's eucroachments and public utilities, adding :' "Some xst our Republican breth-ren not only belittle the effort but would transmute It Into the one public matter of concern to them politics. But a philosophic onlook-er who lone aeo marked his own DEVELOP-ment- s campaign to clean op New Tork city politically are com-ing rapidly. During the week formal charges of neglect and unfitness were filed against Jim-my Walker, the dapper and debo-nair mayor of the PIETRO arch-bishop of Pisa and one of the most eminent members of the sacred col-lege, Is dead in Pisa at the age of seventy-thre- e yenrs. In his ear-lier years he gained fame as an astron-ornp- r find teacher lit minriirieriS course, and prefers In his own way to follow It, might suggest thnt only progressives. In the Interim between sessions, bring these vital questions up In public meeting for public discussion. Can anyone Im-agine the standpnt wing of either party meeting together with earn-est and able experts and publicly discussing economic problems?" V EATH once more has changed the political make-u- p of the house of representatives which will assemble In December. James B. Aswell of Louisiana, Democrat and ranking minority member of the agricultural committee, passed away at his apartment In Washing-ton after a heart attack, lie was sixty-tw- o yenrs old and had served In congress for nine consecutive terms. Mr. Aswell's death leaves In the house 217 Republicans, 215 Demo-crats and one Farmer-Laborlt- Representatives John F. Quayle and David J. O'Connell, both Dem-ocrats of New York, died last win-ter. Their successors, Matthew V. O'Maley and Stephen A. Rudd, are both Democrats. Representative Henry Allen Cooper, Republican of Wisconsin, died last March 1. His successor has not been chosen. MAL DAUOHERTT. brother of Attorney General Har-ry M. Daucherty, was sentenced at Washington Courthouse, Ohio, to ten years In prison and a fine of $5,000, He was convicted recently of abstracting funds from the now defunct Ohio State bHnk of which he was president and was refused a new trial. EVERY one has now filed bis tax return, or should have done so, and the cvMcrts In Washington are busy fl' tiring up how much I'ncle Sum ill r ' Treasury official could not yet make definite prediction as to Hie ! collections for the first quarter, hut they hoped that the receipts for I March would run above S400.00O. 1 metropolis, now re-galing himself In Samuel California. The Seabury charges were pre-sented to Governor Roosevelt by leaders of the city affairs commit-tee and were said to be of .such a nature as to compel the governor to take some action toward widen-ing the investigation now being conducted by Snuuiel Seabury and confirmed by police and magis-trates. Governor Roosevelt hod let It be-come known that he would not re-spond to any public clamor for a eity-wid- e Investigation and thnt he would act only upon specific charges, such as led him to appoint Seabury to Investigate the conduct of District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain. Previously Seabury had been put In charge of an Investiga-tion of police frameups In vice cases and of the conduct of city magistrates. The governor was asked by Craln to revoke the appointment of Sea-bury on the ground of bias, but re-fused, and Craln was summoned to appear and answer the charges made against him by the City club. Republican membprs of the state legislature were still trying to put through a resolution for a general Inquiry Into New York conditions, but were blocked by several recal-citrant members of their own party. DURING the next three months. announced at tbe White Hoase, President Hoover will carry out aa extensive speaking pro-gra-delivering eight addresses of philosophy; he ifA was mnde arch- - Cardinal Maffi bishop In 1003 and four years later was raised to the purple by Pope Pius X. The same pope, It was rumored, considered deposing him because he supported the modernists in a contest with the reactionaries in the ' church. . Twice, afterward, Maffl wns con-sidered a papal possibility. Hs was always a great 'friend of thfjsv Itallan royal family, and he off-iciated Inst year at the marriage of Crown Prince Humbert of Italy and Princess Marie Jose of Bel-glu- For this he was given the foliar of the Annunzlata, the high-est gift of the crown. Cardinal Maffl's death reduces the Italian membership In the sa-cred college to 28, against 30 tot-eiC- T members. Therefor It Is ex-pected In Rome that a couslstory win be I M before long at which the imimp .. m rreti'e a number of mnt'ii-i- s mill give the Italians at least equal strength wltb the for eigners. a. 191. Wraiara NewaMPer Daial XW Sealed m V , TRUNK 6kVJrSS KhIeTnCrHyELL SAt"! i WEBSTER Jjl ? conrmcHT h rh feavict "Til tell you what HI do," he said. "If you won't let me take you home, I'll follow you myself and see that he doesn't" She was angrier than he now, and apparently colder. "Why are you so anxious to flud out where I llveT' she asked. "Because you think I'm Rhoda McFarland? And there must be a story about me If Ho advertised for and you want to get It for the paper) Is that the way reporters do J" It didn't occur to him until quite a bit later to wonder bow she knew he was a reporter. For the mo-ment he Just sat and stared at ber, stupefied at the gross Injustice she had done him. Before he could get himself together to controvert the monstrous charge, he perceived the harmless, unnecessary Illgglns standing before them. Ithoda sow him too and sprang to ber feet "Do you want me to dance this one with you?" she asked him. "I'd love to." Martin, boiling away Inside like a teakettle, folowed them as far as the edge of the dance floor and stood there a while making up his mind what he should do next Not really that, perhaps, he con-ceded afterward, so much as fan-ning bis perfectly righteous Indig-nation and rather enjoyed It Presently, though, his reflections censed to be even dubiously enjoy-able. A chill misgiving blew over him that Ithoda might be right after all Lewis, he noted, was dancing wltb Babe Jennings with V time, and for a while though whether it was days or weeks she couldn't remember they'd made a sort of pretense of having school at borne wltb him for teacher. In-terrupted harassed days those were, with people coming to see him and being sometimes told that he was out even when she knew be wasn't ; reporters and men wltb battered-lookin- g cameras taking pictures of the house, when they couldn't get anything else. There were a few days toward the end, just before they left Cali-fornia for good, when be had been away from borne all the time and she bad known, somehow, that the trial was going on. Also she had known before she saw him on his return, though again the source of her knowledge eluded her memory, thnt the outcome of It had been favorable to him, that he had "got off." She must be right about that since she still so vivid-ly remembered her disappointment and perplexity, when she saw him again, over the fact that there was nothing triumphant about him; that he had been, If possible, whiter and more bitterly silent than ever. She'd hoped he would tell her what the trial had been about He had never, even In after years, told her that Only once, tbat she knew of, had lila spirit flashed up. This had happened when her Uncle William he must have been her dead mother's brother; he couldn't have been ber father's had come to see them, after the trtnl nnrl hpfnro thpv atnrtpfl pfifit. WHAT WENT BEFORE At a dnnc Martin Forbes, newspaper reporter, meet "Rhoda White." He overhears m convema-tlo- n between Mas Lewis and a. woman which he believes con-cern Rhoda, He recalls a "blind ad" Inquiring tor "Jthoda McFar--i land" and semes a newepaper tory. Ha bellevea that Ithoda' real nam I McFarland. CHAPTER I Continued 2 Something had happened to him. He'd never felt like that before. But when you told me your name was Rhoda, and my saying I had an as-sociation with the name that 1 couldn't spot Well, I have spotted It now. For the last week there's been an advertisement In the per-sonal columns of the News for the address of Ithoda McFurland. The reason I'd jotlced It was that It was always a blind ad ; the adver-tiser, I mean, never giving his own name." He had Instinctively avoided looking at her while he was speak-ing, but the quality of the silence after he'd finished drew his eves now wasn't the time to go Into that He must find Rhoda and tell her what he'd overheard. Then if she needed help, he'd help her. The music stopped sooner than he'd expected It to, and he got up precipitately. If he'd seen Babe Jennings coming along he'd have sat still for another three seconds and let her go by. As It was she saw him and sang out to him as she approached, "Hello, Marty l What have you done with Red Whiter He could think of nothing better to do than stay where he was and answer her. "1 had to let her dance away with another man," he said. "But I've got the next one with her and I'm going to find ber EOW." The thing he feared, but hadn't seen how to avoid, happened. With a mighty upheaval the big man on the other sofa got to his feet and turned around. Babe gave a sort of gasp or squeal of surprise, and then waited to see what was go-ing to happen. "Ob, hello!" Max Lewis sold. "I dldnt know you were here. Did I hear you say you were going to around to her face. She was deeply flushed. "Well," she asked, as she encoun-tered his gaze, a sharpness that Bounded like panic audible In her voice, "what has that go to do with me?" He wanted to say. "Too are Rhoda McFarland, aren't yon?" but his nerve railed him. He didn't try to answer her question. "Was it Rhoda McFarland you heard them talking about?" she asked at the end of another silence, her voice now In better control, "and did you think there couldn't be more than one person named Ithoda?" , . At last his mind was on the rails again. "I didn't hear any name mentioned at all. I'll tell you what I did hear. The man said, 'She's the girl, all right' The woman asked him bow he knew. He said the girl was a cagey little brat-mea- ning, I suppose, that she hadn't told him as much about herself as he tried to find out but that he had got her first name. That name, apparently, cinched it since the woman had already half recognized your face the girl's face, I mean." She noted the slip and pounced She couldn't remember ever having seen him before, but she did the falsely gentle smile with which he had reproached ber for having forgotten him. He'd been an ogre to her ever since. Her father had not been afraid of him. He'd sent her from the room on Uncle William's saying that her father could probably guess what he'd come to see him about She'd obediently gone, but only as far as her bedroom, and the boom of the ogre's voice had come through the thin walls all too clearly, ne'd come to try to make her father give her away, for ever, to him. He'd spoken of her, terrl-fylngl-as "the child"! But her father, though quiet and concilia-tory at first, had finally defied her uncte and told him to go straight to h 1! She'd never heard blm swear be-fore or since and she had thought that the reason of his asking her, after her uncle had gone, whether she had heard any of their talk. Anyhow, It had been why she told blm she had not She hadn't understood much of It at the time, beyond her uncle's as-sertion that her father had dls- - U(i tt.v v.', UHUVB will, 0IIDO TUIlCf , "I suppose that's what you heard," Martin replied. "I said It" Then he had what he welcomed as an Inspiration. "Ob, I beg your pardon," he went on, as If Just awakened to bis social obligation. "Miss Jennings, will you let me Introduce Mr. Max Lewis?" Babe said she was delighted, and It seemed to Martin that her en-thusiasm was unfeigned. Appar-ently Lewis thought so, too. Any-how, neither of thera objected when Martin nodded them a cheer-ful farewell and slipped away into the crowd. Later, but not until an hour or two later, going over the evening on foot as it were, he was able to surmise that his complacency over the apparent success of his maneuver, getting rid of both Lewis and Babe with a single well-place- d introduction, might have had some-thing to do with his discomfiture in the scene which followed with Rhoda. She, of course, couldn't have known how much deeper he'd plunged into ber affairs while she'd been finishing out the dance with the negligible Higglns. And It wasn't surprising, if she'd felt when he came up and took her arm, detaching her from her most re-cent partner with barely a word, that his manner was assuming a good deal too much, as If their friendship had been a matter of upon u angniy. - oy ao you seep talking about me? What makes you think it hus anything to do with me?" "I beard the woman call him Max," be went on doggedly. "He was Max Lewis, all right I got a look at him later. I don't know who the woman was. 1 didn't even see her properly. It came out In their talk that she'd been going by on the sidewalk Just as Just as this girl they were looking for turned in. The woman thought she recognized her, got hold of Lewis somehow, and had him come to the dance to scrape an acquaintance with you. I can't help It I do think It was you they meant I knew he told you bis first name, but I didn't know until then that you'd told hira yours." "1 dldu't," she Instantly put in. with the emphasis, he thought of sudden relief. "The only person I told my name tonight was you. He might have heard me tell you, though," she added. "I saw blm crossing the floor fight near us while we were talking about It" For a moment he thought she'd given In and admitted she was Rhoda McFarland. He moved his hand to cover hers as he said, "Then It's my fault really that be found out and that makes me the natural person to help you." He thought It wasnt his touch she minded, for It wasn't until he Martin Nodded Them a Cheerful Farewell and Slipped Away Into the Crowd. a contented absorption Inexplicable under the hypothesis thut his only Interest toulght lay In taking or following another girl home. When Martin perceived this, he turned away disgustedly and went home himself. CHAPTER II Why 8h Changed Her Name. RHODA tried to tell herself she glad she had snubbed Martin Forbes. She enjoyed, after a fashion, the consciousness of his glaring at her from the edge of the dunce floor, but when she per-ceived that he was no longer there and came to the conclusion that he'd really abandoned her, she found rather suddenly thnt she was tired of the Alhunibra for to-night and wanted to go home. And although she maintained thnt Mar-tin's suspicions of Max Lewis were wild nonsense, she was rather glad that Leander Higglns offered to take her home. Their trip, mostly by trolley car, was entirely without Incident Of course It would bel Martin bad made up the whole thing out of bis own head. She was as friend-ly as she knew how to be to Le-- Dtuln. oil tl.A ,n n .l.A . n , 1 Ann graced nimseir ana wasn t a fit per-son to bring up a child. She must though, have stored up a good many uncoinprehended phrases of that talk, or how could she have been so sure, two or three years later, when she read In the newspaper of a sensational prosecution of another professor under the Mann act that this was the kind of trial her father had had. Her father, of course, hadn't been sent to prison. He had "got off." But why. If he hadn't done the horrible thing, hadn't he gone back to the college and she to school and Ann and Alice and Amy come to play with her again? Probably because people had thought he'd done It, anyhow. Their departure from the little university town out In California had felt like running away to her and, she was sure, to her father also. There was one Incident about the Journey which she remembered very clearly. .. Her father's voice had flagged and she'd looked up to see If he'd fallen asleep. He wasn't asleep, but staring out over the desert with such a look of pain In his face that she burst Into tears. He'd comforted her very tenderly and had said to her the only thing, she thought, that he'd ever, said In direct reference to the catastrophe: "I've got you," he told her, "and fhpv pnnt tnkp vnn nurnv from ma months rather than of minutes. He'd been entirely unconscious of this manner at the time. All he'd been thinking of was the Impor-tance of what be had to tell her and of what she in return would have to tell him. He was aware that she looked at him a little oddly as he started to lead ber away, and he explained bis action, adequately be felt, by saying, "We've got to find some place where we can talk. Sha'n't we get out of this? I'll take you home if you like." At that she got rid of bis hand rather brusquely and turned to stare at him, still half perplexed but in rapidly mounting exaspera-tion. "I don't want to get out of this," she said. "I came here to dance." Before he could speak, she added, more amiably, "We can talk now. though, can't we? And look, there's a place we can sit." The sofa she darted off to take possession of oc-cupied perhaps the most public place In that entire public dance ball, opposite the head of one of the flights of the grand staircase. "That's all right isn't it?" she asked. "I suppose so," he agreed dis-contentedly. "At least It's got Its back to the wall and no one can hear what we say without stand lng right in front of us and lis-tening." "But what have we got to say," she demanded, "that anybody shouldn't hear?" "Please," he told her. "Of ' course. I don't know how serious it la. You'll know better than I. - It sounded to me like something you ought to be told about." "Sounded? Do you mean you beard people talking about me?" "I think they were talking about you. I'm practically sure thev were." H8 chain of Inferences had been stratxtit enough once, but It wax tangled now. "I'll start with something else," he said, after a , moment's silence. "Do yoa remem-ber asking me why I looked funny I spoke of helping ber tbat she snatched her hand away. "But I don't need any help," she told him vehemently. "I haven't anything to do with these people. I don't know who Max Lewis Is, but I don't believe that he had any reason In the world for getting Introduced to me except that he thought. I'd be nice to dnnce with." "They were trying to find you," he stubbornly persisted, "before somebody else did; somebody they are afraid, of, or are trying to take advantage of; an old man they spoke of as 'C J.' Do you know who It Is?" "I haven't the remotest idea in the world." There was no doubt she meant that. Apparently the question was a relief to her, for she added: "Can't you see how It's all nonsense?" "Sit still another minute any-how and listen to the rest of It. Then perhaps you won't think It's nonsense. "It was the woman who seemed most excited about you. She told Max It was his Job to find out where you lived tonight. She said It didn't matter whether he took you home or followed yon home. She said that as soon as they knew thnt. they'd have C. J. whoever he is where they wanted him. She said there wasn't any time to waste be-cause you might see that ad in the paper any day and answer It" She snntched her hand away long before he'd finished speaking Now, in furious exasperation, she cried. "I I I!" Why do you keep talking about me? Why should I answer an advertisement for Rhoda McFarland? I won't. I'll tell you that much, anyway. And 1 won't let Mas I?wls take me home. I either. If that's any satisfaction." ' "How will you keep him from following you home?" ' He saw she flinched at that, and added. "If me go with you now We can give them the slip Whv not? Why won't you?" "Because It's all nonsense." she said weakly. "Because I want to stay and dance." I but at that point she said good night to him firmly. It had been only by the exercising of a good deal of resolution that she'd kept her mind on him up to that point And until Babe came home she wanted to be let alone. As she glanced around the studio after shutting the door on Leander Higglns her eye fell on tonight's News scattered about the floor, as her roommate had left It. Was that advertisement really In the pa-per, or had Martin Forbes made that up. too? No, there It was in the personal column. Just as he'd said. "Rhoda McFarland will learn something to her advantage . . ." She dropped In to Babe's chair and the section of the paper slid from a slack hand back to the floor. It bad given her a surprising shock to see her discarded name In print like thnt. It brought things back that she'd thought she was done with for ever; some things that she hadn't thought about In years. Their yard at home, with the ven-erable live oak In the middle of It. In whose branches she and ber three Inseparable friends used to scramble about like young mon-keys; the three A's they used to call them, because their names all began that way Ann, and Alice and Amy. They were all in the same grade; seventh It was, when her father told her one morning that she wasn't to go to school any more for the present For the present I Slre'd never gone to school again; not since that day. And Amy and Alice and Ann faded out of the picture. They didn't come to play In her yard any more And she had understood that It was because something that was spoken of. when it was mentioned at all. as the trial; her father's trial Prof. Walter Whifelmuse McFar-land She'd hnd a glimpse of his name once In black headlines In the newspaper Her father bad stopped being a professor at the same time she'd stopped going to school. He was at home all the And I'm going to see to It that you sha'n't be the loser by this thing that's happened to me. In the long run It may be Just as well for you that It did happen." At the time she'd had no Idea what he'd meant by that But the events of the later years of his life made It clear enough.. He'd had a scheme of some sort, now that he wnsn a college professor any more, for making her rich. A scheme that he'd never brought off, to be sure, but one that down to the very night of his death he'd never lost hope about As It bud worked out. It was that hope of his, always on the point of coming true, that had been the cause of most of her unhappl-nes- s during the four long years they had lived In that Chicago ho-tel. She didn't know that she re-gretted them now. That made a pretty hard sort of problem to work out. Most people, certainly, would say It was a horrible way for a child to be brought up. The hotel itself was all right, one of the less pretentious ones of the new residential type. Their two rooms up on the tenth floor, fur-nished in imitation black walnut and taupe upholstery, especially perhaps the floor lamp with Its heavy silk shade, had carried out the Idea that they'd come to live In a palace. The kitchenette, with Its electric stove, had seemed a marvelous toy to her; and their white tile bathroom, with Its mod-ern plumbings and Its neverfalllng abundance of hot water, had been a luxury. She'd taken It for granted, dur-ing those first few days while breathless she explored the won-ders of the hotel, thnt the wealth her father hinted at was already In his pockets. It wasnt until he ex-pressed concern over her loneliness It was beginning to strike In a little that she asked him why. now that be was rich, he had to work so hard and couldn't take a little time iB to play with her. (TO BS OONTINUKD.) |