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Show THE HELPER TIMES, HELPER. UTAH iiiB )If? ' WHAT WENT BEFORE By chance James Lee meets Lucy Gresham, daughter of Sir John Gresham, ship builder. Lee seeks revenge for being unjustly accused of robbing the Gresh-afirm and being sent to prison. He blames Oliver Ames, Lucy's cousin, and Gresham's manager. Lee has Inherited wealth and changed his name from Warrington, in compliance with the terms of the will. He secures an lnvita- tion to Lucy's birthday party. Lucy Is practically engaged to Ames. Lee makes love to her, his only idea being to hurt Gresham With her father's fjd.Ames. Is married to Lee. He stuns her by telling her he does notlove her and hates her whole breed. Lucy hears Lee's story of his wrongs and his determination She believes In to be avenged. his Innocence. 'Llnforths," comof Gresham's, shows a depetitor termination to crush Jts rival. Lee tells Lucy that he is "Llnforths," and that he means to wreck Gresham. m 7 V Continued 9 Jocelyn was looking thin and peaky, and there was a curious restlessness lu her manner as she greeted Lucy. At first she talked very quickly about everything under the sun, and with the sort of superficial smartness she affected. Lucy began to wonder whether there really was a "vital" matter, and was half inclined to hurry through tea and go, leaving the whole question at that. But suddenly Jocelyn looked across the little tea table and said: "You aren't happy with Jim, are you?" Lucy had been prepared for a good deal, but she hadn't thought of this. "What an extraordinary question 1" she managed to say, with " lightness. "It wasn't a question really," "It was a t said Jocelyn sharply. itement of fact. What was his Reason for marrying you?" But if Jocelyn hoped by tjie shock-attacmethod to Jar Lucy Into unwary admissions, she found that, so far, at least, she hadn't k succeeded. '.'The best reason I know of, Is that he happened to want to." Lucy gave this reason perfectly smoothly, but her heart was beatcolor was ing fast and the dyeing her cheeks. Jocelyn looked tell-tal- e at her steadily. marriage Is a III tell you how I know it; because Jim loves me . . ." Jocelyn got as far as that and stopped to watch for the effect of her words upon Lucy. Lucy drew a breath and for a moment remained quite still; then she said : "In that case, Jocelyn, farce Is scarcely the word to describe my marriage. To Jim, at least, It must be a good deal more like a tragedy." She said It composedly, but for the life of her, couldn't put the lightness Into It that she had tried for. Jocelyn laughed. be"Jim simply lived here fore he met you," went on Jocelyn. 'He spent all his time with me. "I know farce. . . your I know it, and ... ill r-- f V ; . fj I I CONCORDIA MERREL "iq. I fi a Question Really," Said Jocelyn. an was It open secret that he was And . . , well, my property. then, the moment he met you . . ." gho broke off. Lucy couldn't find anything to say. This revelation of Jocelyn's bad come too quickly on top of Jhti'a own. Her mind was a whirl Kememberlng back to evening of her birtnnny Dan, Luct thouctit of what Jocelyn had ail then; she had wondered at the tristIon9. the . time whether the strange girl cared for Jim . . . She remembered, too, nhnt Jnrolyn had said about what Jim was where knowing Had it women were concerned. hern his treatment of herself that hnd nude her 3pcak so bltterlj of W.N.U. SERVICE him? It all fitted terribly well and easily. And Jim . . . ? Had Jim really loved this queer girl? And sacrificed himself and her, just for the satisfaction of his spirit of reWas this what Jocelyn venge? meant? Was It what Jim himself had meant? Jocelyn leaned suddenly nearer, her peaky little face white In Its frame of shining dark hair. "Do you think I'm going to let this stupid marriage of yours keep him from me? Do you think I'm going to let my life be cheated by vou? I tell you, I'm not, I m go ing to get Jim back. I know he doesn't care two straws for you. "Get him back?" broke In Lucy. "You are talking rather extravagantly, aren't you,- Jocelyn? Have you forgotten that, whether my wedding was a farce or not, he Is married to me?" "Oh, that's all my eye, these days. Legal ceremonies are quite easily unpicked . . ." If It hadn't Lucy rose abruptly. seemed to her that Jocelyn's outrageous words held a very big element of fantastic absurdity, she would have been unable to keep her temper. She had some difficulty as it was, but managed to say quietly enough: "If I could take what you have been saying the least seriously, Jocelyn, I might be rather concerned. As it is, It only seems to me that you have worked yourself up to a very hysterical pitch over I'm sorry If you are nothing. But do on Jim's account. remember that It's utterly hopeless, to try to . . . pull yourself together a little . . . Showy talk never helps anything . . ." But Jocelyn, now, was a great deal more sure of her ground. All that she had managed to glean from St Abb, was confirmed by what Lucy had said; or, rather, by what she had left unsaid. All that Jocelyn did not know was Just exactly what was the inner secret of the Lee marriage. But bluff had helped her with Perry, and she relied upon bluff to help her now. "Showy talk! Showy talk 1" she echoed. In a low, trembling voice. more "You'll find It's something than showy talk! What would you say If you knew that half the time when he "seems to be so busy with his work, he is really with me? What would you say if you knew that he has told me all about the stupid business of his marriage with you? Told me what a silly mess it is; told me that If he could get rid of you . . "Jocelyn!" Lucy's voice rang clear and sharp through the room, but Jocelyn went on, and stormy: "Yes, and told me that he Is only waiting to get rid of you, to come I don't care if he back to me is married to you. He loves me. He's mine. And it's darned hard You only got him on us both. ' away from me by . . . Well, we both know why he married you, I He admits it was just fancy a madness . . ." That held Lucy still; still and staring. Here was something new; something that changed the face of the whole situation. Jocelyn knew why Jim had married her. Jim had told her. Jim had been with her . . . Had said that he was only waiting . . . Could this be true . . .? Up to now, Jocelyn hail talked In generalities ; this was something positive. Lucy went to her quickly, caught her shoulders, forced her to look up, and said quickly, her voice scarcely more than a whisper: "Jocelyn, is this true? Jocelyn, think before you answer me . . . I beg you, think; and, if you never told the truth before, for God's sake, tell it now . . . Has Jim been with you a lot? Oh, I'm not asking from jealousy, or anything of that sort . . . Just tell me, and tell me honest" "I have told you." "But was It true? Did you mean it? Or were you just talking wildly. Tell me, Jocelyn, because it's most desperately Important to both of us." An almost Imperceptible moment of hesitation and then: "Of course it was truel Would I say such a tiling if it weren't true? What would be the good of saying It? If I seemed to talk wildly Just now, it was because I'm so ghastly hurt and unhappy. Her So ho overwrought" face quivered pitifully; and quite sudaenly she slid her thin, wiry arms tight around Lucy, hid her face on her shoulder, and burst into tears; saying brokenly: "Oh, Lucy I I'm glad you know at last I I'm glad you know. The tension has been ghastly. The secrecy and . . . and underhand-ednes- s of . . . of my meetings with Jim. It has been . . . awful I love him so, Lucy, and to know that he loves me and yet Is tied to you . . .Oh, Lucy, you don't know what it has been J" Lucy stood quite still, her heart Here again was beating hard. something new and something Or, so It seemed. Jocegenuine. lyn was so utterly broken down. .She seemed like a poor, brokenhearted little girl. If It were actof ing, Lucy argued, It was ... ... ... "It Wasn't COPYRIGHT - CHAPTER d ... Girl rVWL ... the most consummate perfection and finish. Jocelyn moved presently, drew away, turned, and flung herself in the corner of the couch, looking drawn and miserable. Lucy looked at her a moment, then asked: "What do you know of Jim's rea son for marrying me, Jocelyn?" said Jocelyn, "Everything sharply. "Jim has told you?" "Yes." "And has he really said that he to get rid Is only waiting to of . . . to . . . come back to you .' The words - would not come smoothly. "Not so . . . brutally as that When I said all that, I was beside myself, Lucy. You would not believe, you sneered and laughed at me and spoke of . . . showy talk. . . Jocelyn broke off on a sharply drawn breath. "But, brutally or not, he did say It?" persisted Lucy. Jocelyn nodded. ' "Oh, Lucy, I hate to hurt you. Really I do. I'm not heartless, truly. I've just had . . . about as much as I can stand; that's all. You know what It Is to long for him and know that he is longing for me. . . . And that there's Just this mad, Impulsive marriage of he his between us. . . . And knows now that It was a mad business and that . . . that lr . . . oh, that It hasn't been worth it!" It was some moments before Lucy spoke again; then she said, slowly "Oliver, yon ntterly surprising person," she cried, "I didn't know you were in town." And her voice was a real triumph of conventional lightness. He turned to her quickly. "Lucy, how are you? Yes, I came up to see your father about this nasty smack we've Just had from Llnforths." She offered her hand and be took Then: It in silence. "I am making my ceremonial call at a most nnceremonial hour," he said . . . "but . . ." She broke In with a rather forced little laugh. What would happen when he came face to face with Jim? Still, she must ask him In. There was no She way of getting out of It. opened the door with her key; went In, and Invited him to follow, with all the cordiality she could muster. . . . She took him Into the drawing room and breathed a sigh of relief at finding that Jim was not there. At first they talked chiefly of the Llnforths affair, and Oliver was very outspoken In his Indignation. "It's simply a dirty trick. Llnforths have always been our rivals, but so far they have fought clean. I can't understand It, quite." Lucy found It awfully difficult to endure. This was Jim he was : "Jocelyn, that night of my party, you hinted to me that Jim was a You said that . . . philanderer. some people knew just what he happened to be, where women were concerned. . . ." "Oh, Lucy, I was racked with jealousy. I admit it. I had thought he was so absolutely mine, that only an hour before he had been . . . well, letting me think that nothing could ever take him from me. . . . And then to see him, apparently bowled over by Of course, if I had you. known the truth of his reason for making love to you, I should have known that his heart was still with me in spite of everything." Jocelyn bowed her head Into her hands. "It's so awfully hard on us both," came her muffled voice. "So awfully hard, Lucy. To miss the only thing in life that Is worth so darned while. . . . It's so hard on us, Lucy. . . ." It was rather hard on Lucy, too; but that aspect of it didn't seem to have struck Jocelyn. And Lucy had determined to think only of Jim, and so she didn't let it strike her either, "Jocelyn," she said slowly. "Will you leave things as they are for a while? Perhaps only for a day or two. . . . Just to give me time to think and get this clear. It isn't altogether easy to straighten things ... Best Salaams to Your Husband, Lucy," He Said. speaking of. She had to swallow hard before she could say again: "I understand perfectly what you feel, Oliver." She felt that the truth about Llnforths must be blazing forth from her burning face. She ought to warn Oliver that she knew that Llnforths would stop at nothing. exBut how could she, without - plaining how she knew? "I think Gresham's ought to be prepared," she said at last, hoping that the words sounded less shaky to hira than they did to her. "Prepared for . . . well, even for a "Give ... out, all In a moment. . . . Don't Or If you do, try to see Jim. don't say anything of what has happened today. I must think. But I promise you. I'll try all I know. to be to make things easier fair to you both." Her voice shook slightly. Jocelyn was silent a mo- ... ... ... FORGOTTEN ' My vindictive campaign." "Oh, I'm prepared, Lucy. I wish I weren't quite so much in the dark. I seem to be able to find out absolutely nothing about the enemy. But if he thinks Gresham's will surrender easily, he's mis- -' taken. We've a big contract hanging in the balance now. We've es-- I timated as low as the thing can be I know what I'm talking done. about. If Llnforths estimate one penny lower, they'll be doing It simply to undercut us." look. "And then?" "You . . . Lucy, I think you "Tben? Why, if they can hold I know she said, couldn't," might out, afford to lose hand over fist, in a low, Indescribably pained why, they can beat us. . . . But voice. of course, they can't afford that no nodded said she more; Lucy I'm not really fearing it. And anyher head, but the adieus she tried way," he broke off, smiling, "what to speak would make no sound. right have I to bring such trouout went She turned away, and to you? Is life as . . . bles head Into the street, holding her as ever, dear?" . . . high and proudly. The question, asked with that But once she was out of sight of the house her posture of proud car- plucky smile of his, somehow troubles and perriage crumpled somewhat. She felt brought allall her her unhapplness, to shaky and wretched as if she had plexities, beaten. the surface, and the tears she had been actually physically She tried to think and didn't know been so manfully keeping at bay, That Jocelyn came swimming into her eyes where to begin. She blinked them away should be the girl Jim loved I . . . again. That he should have talked every- resolutely, and was grateful that only stayed a very little longer. thing out with her so freely! . . . he"Give my best salaams to your Told her even the reason of his Lucy," he said, as he marriage with herself. . . . That, husband, more than anything, convinced her took his leave," and tell him how of the truth of what Jocelyn had sorry I am not to have seen him. said. Besides, no woman could say I hope I'll meet him when I'm next such things If they were not true. In town." "Yes; thank you, Oliver; I'll tell Her own utter honesty supplied this argument. It was not possible. him." She went with him to the door; No one could lie to such a ghastly extent about anything so terribly biting her lip to keep back the Besides, it had sound- tears, but no sooner had he gone, important ed like truth, all the last part of than they welled up ltito her eyes, It. Jocelyn's breakdown had held overflowed, and ran shinlngly down the poignancy of genuine torture. her face. She was going toward . . . Questions revolved so dizzily her sitting room, when the sound in her brain that she felt she of the front door being opened with a bey made her stop and turn back. would go mad with them. It was Jim. He shut the door She turned homeward, saying half with a slam and demanded abaloud : "Heavens, what an nnearthly ruptly: "Was that Ames?" muddle life Is! And where's the "Yes," she replied, trying to truth to be found?" It was a cry from the depths of her poor, puz- steady her voice. "I saw him leave. I didn't think zled heart, and she felt the sting I could be mistaken. I know the of tears in her eyes. look of him pretty well. What did he come here for?" CHAPTER VI "To see us. He's been in town for a day or two discussing busiLucy Goes Away. ness with father." IlEACniNQ the flat, she "Business? The Llnforths afONfound a fresh and unexpected fair?" perplexity awaiting her: Oliver "Yes; chiefly." Ames. He laughed shortly. He was Just going up to the "What did he want to see . . , as saw her he apturned and door, us . . . for?" Her heart quickened, She looked up at him, her foreproaching. and she forced back the tears that head puckering to a perplexed to master her. had been fighting frown; drawing a breath to get the But the necessity for quick think- sound of tears out of her voice: ing steadied her. "What's the matter, Jim?" she Oliver, if anyone, would be like- asked. "I only asked what he came to ly to recognize Jim, and the time for such a recognition was not yet. see us for." he retorted. . . . She did not know whether "Just because he hadn't been Jim was In, but there was nothing since we were . . . married," she for It but to greet'Oliver with the answered, hesitating slightly over friendliness he would be expect- the last word, (TO UK CON TIT--' Sik. ing. . . . Che went up to him: j BY Elmo Scott Watson The Patriot's Mesienger XTO SOONER had the patriots won the victories of Lexington and Concord on that historic morning of 1775 than the provincial council decided that the news of the battle should be taken at once to London and be given to sympathizers with the American cause before the Britisii officials could present it to the public In a light favorable to their side of the argument The man who was to carry this message must be a man of discretion and courage, for it was certain that he would be arrested by the officers of the crown if his mission became known. So it was entrusted to Capt. John Derby, a Salem skipper, who was to make the journey on the packet Quero. Ue was ordered to make for the port of Dublin or any other Irish port that seemed wise, and proceed there to London. To his orders was atwell-know- n Sukey. Brown, however, did not ar rive in England till June 9, and by that time Captain Derby's quick trip In tire Quero had resulted In presenting to the British public first the patriots' side of the story. Although Captain Derby had fulfilled his mission sucessfully, he was not out of danger. There was still the chance that agents of the king would try to capture him and his preparations for departure from England were as mysterious as they had been for his leaving America. There was still danger, too, from the authorities when he returned to America and so he made a secret landing upon his return to this country. One other item In Derby's exploit Is interesting. In rendering his bill to the provincial congress for the trip, he made no charge for his own expenses. i rose-strew- n Jenten r--Dy HEROES tached this Imperative postscript: "You are to keep this order a profound secret from every person on earth." After a voyage of 29 days the Quero reached England. As a fur ther safeguard against betrayal of his plans. Captain Derby did not put In at an Irish port as he had been ordered to do, but sailed to the isle of Wight and then went overland to There Southampton and London. he immediately placed his papers In the hands of Benjamin Franklin, the Massachusetts agent In London, and the next day patriot sympathizers throughout England knew of the re sult of the battles. That the officials of the crown knew that an attempt would be made to bring this news to England Is shown by the fact that they were on the lookout for such a messenger, who they believed would be Captain Brown, commander of the ... ment; then she said: "You are right Much" better to leave It for a while. I . . . I will If I see him . . . be brav6. not say anything. 1 promI'll ise that, Lucy." Jocelyn took Lucy to the door. then There Lucy hesitated; turned swiftly, caught Jocelyn's arm and said quickly: "Jocelyn, you have told me the truth? You wouldn't . . . you couldn't say such things If they were not true? Jocelyn's queer, perky little face took on a hurt, almost martyred Sally Scz Washington's Spies A USTIN BOE might justly be called the Paul Revere of New York, with this difference that instead of taking one wonderful ride Roe took a hundred." Those are the words of Morton Pennypack-er- , a New York historian who recently discovered In an old chest In a home on Long Island some documents which told the hitherto unknown story of Washington's spy system while the British occupied New York city during the Revolution. The man who collected in New York the information about the British plans was Robert Townsend, the successor of Nathan Hale. This information he passed along to Austin Roe who carried the messages from Brooklyn to Sctnuket, L. I., where they were handed over to Abraham Woodliull. Woodhull then watched for a signal from a house far across the fields, and this signal nnnounced that Caleb Brewster had arrived with his boat to carry the information across the sound to Maj. Benatmln Tnllmndge delivered It to who Immediately Washington. Austin Roe's greatest ride and one which was more remarkable and Infinitely more dangerous than Paul Ilevere's famous exploit was made to save Newport, U. I., from the miles he covered British. Fifty-fivin record time on that occasion, and it gave to Washington the ine formation that 8,000 British troops were embarking at Whltestone for Newport and that Admiral Graves with eleven ships was already on the way to attack the French fleet of seven ships off the coast of Rhode Island. Receiving the message from Townsend he sped across Long Island to reach Woodliull while Brewster waited to carry the message. 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