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Show THE MIDVALE JOURNAL Thursday, February 26, 1931 Tbe eale B~ r D been kept In a big leather hat trunk that must have been her mother's. She opened It and looked in with the idea of seeing whether her uncle's address was there, but as the trunk was nearly full she decldPd against going through lt. She didn't much want to, anyway. She took it, as it was, along with her own small trunk in a taxi to a convenient railway station. It hadn't mattered much which station except that It had to be oue that bad a train that went to Denver. The next day she took her suit<'nse with h er to the funeral and went from the cold little chapel straight back to the station. She spent that night at the Y. W. C. A., where nothing happened except that by lund \"ertence she piek ed her new name. She'd had one all chosen, but wlwn they gave her the ~----------------------------' 'rhe doctor had been giving some inWebster Kitchell Beary THE ~.TORY structions to the nurse. Rhoda interCopyright by The Bobbs-Merrlll Co. cepted him on his way to the door. public dance Martin At a WNU Service he wake up again?" she asked "Will F<>rbeg, a ne;wRpaper man. cuts him. In on Rhoda. \Vhite"s dance with Max JJewis, whom Martin InHe looked at her steadily a moment prise Florabel by how much more she stinctively dislik~s. He overbefore he answered. "No, my dear knew-and she never !alled. hears a conYersa.tion between By the end of two months she could child, he won't. 'l'his Is the end.'' And Lewis and a woman, which he realizes concern& Rhoda.. He rewrite a clean page it she didn't try then, turprisingly, his eyes tilled up calls a. "blind ad"' Inquiring the to go too fast, and she was taking slow with tears. "You're only a little girl!" where ..!-outs of "Rhod3. McFardictation that Florabel read not from he said, as If It were a discovery. land" and sensea a newspaper t~t<erY. He believes that is Rhoprepared exercises but out of the "Won't you let me get some woman da's real name. She refuses to here in the hotel to take you In until newspaper or anywhere. deny or admit it. However, It Then one day n client appeared at your friends can come ami get you 7 recalls her childhood In California. Her mother dead, she the desk in the . middle of the lcssou. And won't you let me telegraph now, I• had been happy until miR!ortune Rhoda caught up her notebook and for them?" befell her father, Professor Mc-She told him, afraid hf'r ,-o!ce was fled, but not very far; only to the Associated with the Farland. her sudden panic, that she betraying neat·est sofa. When the man had finWilliam uncle, blow Is her and that she'd rather telegraph would Royce. They move to Chicago, ished dictating his letters and gone where her father I~ engaged in by herself In her own llown lie and go away she went back to Florabel. "Let r mysterious work. Rhoda takes mu~t haYe sounded words The room. me see if I can't write them from my up stenography. assented, though a he since notes," she pleaded. "lie talked loull all right, enou)rh for me to hear him, all l'ight, little dubiously. Even with the door shut she could and I know l'\•e got e\·erythlng." CHAPTER 11-Continued her fa tiler's terrible breathing. hear shocked Florabel had peen rather -3to think, bat 11he coul•l wanted lShe The only qualms of panic she ever and she made llhoda promise not to not. Rhe could only listen. It lasted a felt when going about alone on her do It again, but she did let het· tran- long time. When It stopped the cessa11mall excursions to the shops, the scribe her notes on the typewriter and tion brought her bold upright In bert, library, a near-by mo,·ie theater, took there were only a few small mistalces. unaule to draw her own breath for a clients the form of a belief that she 11a<l What they did after that with for matter of seconds. It came at last permission ask to was knew, they 11een him or that he was following her. and talce with a soh of relief. It he was the source of the money Rhoda to sit beside the desk She cried, rather peacefully until, were They pra('tice. for dictation the they lived on, then It meant that he a while, she lu>ard the nurse after knew where they lived and that he mostly awfully nice about it. to tell her. She buried her. coming People were like that, in the main, was, for some reason she couldn't crook of her arm and lay the in face fathom, biding his time. Hut she was, according to Rhoda's experience-kindly, glad to help one out of a diffi· perfe<.tly still, and the nurse, believing lUI a matter of fact, too healthy and much hH asleep, went away again, shutting bappy, even too well occupied, to think culty If It didn't mean taking the door after her. did. It when sometimt•s tt·ouble--and about him much. At that, quite suddenly, her mind unllerstand couldn't she thing The Really she'd never lacketi friends. to work. W'hat hall her fath<>r went her to cruel But her father's often repeated in- was why they had been so to tell her, in that last trying been lltructlon not to tell who they were or father. He ue,·er could hu,·e meant, But consciousness? his of flicker where they <"!lin!' from, to answer no whatever It was he'd done, to hurt at de<;lded she thinking nbout that, personal questions at all, brought It anybody In the world. Yet as she last, wouldn't do any good. The fragabout that most of hPr friendRhips remembered with better understanding The Four of Them Should Keep mentary words worked out to two ophappened had that thin;;s the of some were with members of the stafT of the House in lt. posite meanings. left they before weeks last ' the in hotel, rather than with residents. tellbeen have course, of might, He town whole the There wa:~ one exception among the home to come east, writand register card to sign she'll begun guests: a middle-aged pretty woman must have turned upon him as I! he'd Ing her to go to Uncle William Whitehouse Rhoda one, old her ing his who always wore black-a widow, been a leper. They'd broken him, that she'll find his address among McFarland. Half-way through she'd papers. But he might have meant that Rhoda supposed. She didn't a;;k many somehow. what she was doing and stopped. seen She couldn't believe, any more, that she was to look out for Uncle \Vilquestions because she was deaf, so good let him get possession ot Well, Hhoda White made a <'leaf that ~-ou had to shout to make the happy time he'd used to talk liam and not and she was glad that pap('rs. And sine~ her uncle was enough name, the they'd wh<>n holiday long about-the school a to going was She her hear. She'd as he she hadn't discarded Rhoda. where you learned lip-reading so that roam the world doing whatever they almost as much an ogre to her that. of deprived lonely, elt f ha,·e the you could tell what people said by pleased-would ever come. But the had been four s·eat·s ago, It was '.rhe very next day she found a job adopted. she possible that It !alter interpretation looking at them without hearing their scheme that was to make What the doctor had said was the and met Baue Jennings. The job was voices at all. The school was down- obsessed him more and more. He alworst. at the News, where li'lorabel had told town In one of the big buildings of the most ne,·er talked to her now; he thing that frightened her her they took girls without experience loop, and 1\frs. George, who!le deaf- · didn't even want her to read to him . "You're only a little girl!" the stenographic department and in That, of course, was nonsense. She ness had come upon her sudllenly, And he couldn't be >ery weiJ, either. ed them, themse!Yes. If you were train hated to venture down into that con- His face had a queer blue color some- was sixteen and lots of people thought good you had a chance to be promoted fusion alone. IJer need was a godsend times that frightened her. He lnsisterl she was older than that. She could to be private stenographer or even to Rhoda, who YOiunteered to go with it was nothing, and when she found pass for eighteen, well enough. He'd secretary to one of the executives. out, acci1lentally, that he'd been to see said that only because he was sorry l1er every morning-. 'rhe only technical untruth Rhoda She went into the class with M1·s. the doctor who lived In the hotel he for her. But sixteen was still a child told the employment manager was that George, and haYing nothing el~e to do, told her it was for a touch of Indi- according to law. You weren't of age her name was Rhoda White. she sat and watched and learned lip- gestion. Florabel was urging her now until you were eighteen-or was it Her acquaintance with Babe had reading herself. It took Mrs. George to go out and find herself a regular twenty-one? And If Uncle William progressed slowly at first, and it three months to learn, but in hal! that job. She was better fitted for it than knew where she was and learned of wasn't until she'd been working for most Of the graduates of the schools, her father's death, he'd come and get time Rhoda was infallible at it. until her, and she wouldn't be able to get the paper six months that the older It made life more amusing. She and. as good as she'd ever get experiaway from him. Well then, the only girl approached her with a proposal liked to ride In the elevated and watch she'd had some actual business that they llve together. Babe was expeople talk down at the ('Dd of the ence. Rhoda wanted to do it, but she safe thing for her to do was to dis- cited about an ad she'd taken, of a car. And when she and her father felt sha couldn't without telling her appear before he had time to find studio for rent cheap; unbelievably had dinner in the restaurant, his long father about the plan before putting out what bad happened. Looking back now on those days, cheap, seventy-five dollars a month. preoccupied silences did not leave her 1t In execution. So she put Florabel off, saying she after the passage of two years so It was really a whole apartment; two restlesfi. She would be sampling conbedrooms and a kitchenette, beside the versations from all over the room. It would go looking for a job some time, packed with life that they seemed studio itself. Her scheme was that was there that 3ee didn't she that but longer than the four that had prewas a real bereaYeme-nt when Mrs. hurry. any ceded them, she wondered that she, a they get two other girls and that the George lett the hotel and went to New At the end of one of these conversa- mere chlld of sixte<Jn, had · been able four of them should keep house In it, York to live. getting, that ls, their own breakfasts But,the best fl"lendship of those four tions she saw something in her friend's to follow out that resolution so stead- and suppers. The other two girls were hot..:.! years didn't be1;in until after face that made her aslc, with a catch ily that no one had tried to pnt an dancers, membet·s or the corps du It was with In her breath, "Is there any special obstacle in her path. ~Irs. George had gone ballet of the opera. Except for a telegram, purporting Miss Bacon, whose rather incredible hurry that you know about?" her over hesitated They taught her to dance--the other Florabel visibly to come from Ji'lorabel In Denver, first name was Florabel, the public stenographer. Rhoda had been saying answer. "I sort of hated to tell you," which she had slipped out early that girls had a phonograph-and it begood morning to her and sometimes she said. "Why, I'm not going to be morning and dispatched to herself, came a passion with her. She'd dance 11topping besllle her desk for a worcl here very much longer. You see, I'm she had nothing to show anyone as an with anybody, who could dance well, ()r two, for months. But In her lone- going to many Mr. Gage. You know. Indication that site had a ·friend in the In a perfect oblivion of delight. She liked her job and wasn't long liness after Mrs. George had gone, she And of course that means I'm going world-and the telegram wasn't mnch I'd Lamb, oh, And l!ve. to Denver promoted to be special steJ ,ogto getting good since 1:1' you looked at it closely formed the habit o~ making longer got" I before settled you see you saw that it hadn't come from rapher to one of the younger n1en on visits when she saw Miss Bacon wasn't like to little the remember Rhoda hated to the executive start'. 'l'he only imperDenver at all. busy. her In said, She'd follo-wed. that scene perRhoda not. Miss Bacon was She couldn't have done it, of course, fection in her whole scheme of life mean pretty some qewilderment, hurt was the little tremor of fear she felt, It she had not had plenty of money, ceivl!d, as old as she had thought; her on, so and Independence about things, now and then, that it was too every and, likely enough, not then if the being rather 1:tout and her wearing 'l'hey'd cry. Florabel made she'd and last. to good hotel people hadn't been accustomed spectacles malle her look so. But she hour. the w!P:,n though, up, rt made There was no real threat, was there, to her paying the bills. She paid had a jolly young vole!' and a nice emile. She didn't ask any prying ques- She helped Florabel slY' J) and she went everybody in cash, that morning, and in Martin Forbes' imaginary discovtions. She talked quite a good deal to the wedding anll saw the couple when this was done she had a !Htle eries? She didn't know any one named over three hundred dollars left, fifteen Lewis nor anyone who could be spoken tn a nice friendly way, about her own oft' on the train. He herself. Gage, 1\Ir. liked She lonerathpr was she twenty-dollar bills and a few small of as "C. J." The only person who afl'airs. Probably lie jolly. and Florabel, like fat, was could he advertising for her was her any ones. ly herself. Not that she hadn't he when though, solemn, rather looked The papers her father had tried to uncle. For all she knew he might relations, but that they dilln't do her his her gave He her. to good-by said tell her something about had always have been doing It for years; off and any good. Her father, It seemed, had told and it on address his with card h\d several wives who had died, one after another, and the children didn't h<!r to keep it carefully. If anything ***************************************************** like one another very well, and quar- ever happened to her, he said, and she reled. Florabel had been the youngest found she wanted any help, she was to and she'd had a horrible time until write or telegraph. She refrained from asking him what !!he'• managed to learn a trade that A London actor who toured in his sat on the electric light bulbs untll thought might happen. Of course he made her independent. years, writes Peggy Wood In the they got warm, making pitiful clucks early knew. Independence was Florabel's sacred she really· Evening Post, tells a story all the while. Saturday an later, When, about a fortnight word. Everybody, she said, even a The leading lady complained that company of an English pigroad a of girl who was almost sure to get mar- hour after she and her father had wretched chickens were ruining "Shore those know, play-you and-chicken ried, ought to have a trade. Then finished theit· late dinner, the blow fell her scenes, but the impresario knew it anything unexpected happened, she hadn't been surprised at all. She Acres" and "The Couu~1 Chairman" she'd got something to tie to. "Of had had the doctor there within ten type we used to have ill America- they were worth a dozen leading ladies minutes, but she'd known then that It where they "trav~ed" a lot or chick- to the audience. course, not If she's rich," she added. was too late for his remedies to do ens who were takell from their coops, "At "I'm not rich," Ithoda said. which were alway! l"elegated to the real good. any least I don't think we are. Father exJapanese Eel Dinners rooms up In tt,!J tues-and the dressing unendurwas It The one thing that pects to be pretty soon. I wish I Eel meals are as popular among could learn stenography. I suppose able to remember and Impossible to ones, of course, without t.<!'at-and let Japanese as are Maryland chicken forget was the way her father had Ioo~e on the stage in Act n; to peck dinners in Baltimore. In some JapIt's awfully harll." "It's spelling that Is most im- p!('aded with the doctor for one more about at the corn scattered 'for them anese cities eel houses are nearly as He frantically believed that by the property man. porbnt," Florabel told her. "Can you day. numerous as weiner stands at a couneDough of the drug they were putting This was for atmosphere J.U:l held ty fair. When the diner enters an eel spell?" "Oh, I think so." Rhoda said. "Spell- into his ,·eins would give him the little great advertising possibilities. The house he is led to a large tub of live handful of hours that was all he only trouble was that their legs ~"l're eels. He malies his choice ot the Ing isn't hard, is It 7" her. told needed. "It was for me, E'lorabel always so cold from their bitter dre!<l!- wriggling creatures, It Is speared, split They did give him more stuff' out of ing rooms that instead of pecking at along the back, cut Into small pieces Rhoda, as it turned out, was ()ne of those lucky people who simply the hypodermic syringe, but this time the corn so temptingly spread, whlle and, with soy sauce, is cooked over a can't misspell a word that they've ever It was morphine and unller It he re- the actors said their lines, the hem. d:'arcoal fire. laxed, so that for a while he talked made a break for the footlights and seen In print "I could teach you myself," Flo;abel to her, comfortably but confusedly. Quite Properly, Too volunteered. "I'd like to, first rate. He thought it was just after her mothin South America was :.-evolution A A Few Slip• I haven't much to do, hardly ever, In er died, when she five years old. quelled In thirteen hours. As a result But a little Inter after the nurse Ir 1n your' painting, Housewife, you of this lndifl'erent display, It is ruthe middle of the morning or In the ltad come he ron~ed, as from a sleep, have slipped ofT the edge onto the mirmlddie of the afternoon." mored, this revolutionary side ts to at Rhoda in a frightened way ror or window pane, don't be annoyell. stared There never was a more enthusiasrelegated to the second divlsion.be tic pupil, and Florabel seemed as ex- and tried to speak to her, waving the Be nochalant, and after the paint has London Humorist. cited about It as she was herself. She nurse away as he did so. The only dried, with hubby's old safety razor worked over the preliminary exercises intelligible words she had been able blade remove all trac4's of the slips. Succeas Note until her hand cramped and then untU to hear, when he lapsed Into uncon- It Is much easier than trying to reIn you gotta look out look a get To lt came uncramped again. She was sciousness, were "paper~>" and ''your mO\'i' the wet paint at the time of the for yoursel!.-Cinclnnati Enquirer. accident. det ermined, at every lesson, to sur- Uncle WilHam. .. -- Cold Chickens Sought Warmth of Footlights on ever since she'd di~ppeared. None of the ~Iris knew her story, and they wouldn't give her a'IHY If they dld. (The two dancers were away just now on tour with the opera, so she and Babe had the whole studio to t.llemShe would~.;'t risk asking selves.) Babe any questions, th~ugh, about Martin. How well, she wondered, did 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 up In one of the little bedrooms that had been partitioned off the loft when she heard the click of Babe's key in the studio door. Site llste.ned and felt her skin pringle as she tho~ogl::t she recognized the voice of the mRo who wu urging Babe to let him <eome Jn for a smoke. Babe was firm abcut it and sent him away. , Hhoda put on her bathrobe and sllppet·s and came slithering down into the studio. "Who was that who 'brought you home?" she asked. "You ought to know, deaF.~," Babe told her. "He's your friend, not mine. When he found out I lived with you I couldn't push him ofT. lie brought me home tn his runabout, hut It was John ·Alden stuiT I wns dolflg all the time, ann I knew lt." "Was It :lfax Lewis?" Rfl,' da asked. "None other, darling," said Ba~<~. "I had for~otten you had two of them on, tonight." There was a s!lence for a moment after that. When Babe spoke again It was in a different manner. "He askert me one queer thing about you, Red. He asked If your real name wasn't Rhoda ~IcFarland." Sally Sez Prosperous C()mmunities are often built on the home-spent dol· lar. Patronize home industry. These Brands are Intermountain Made and deserve your support. Hewletts' Jams Home Fruit Home Sugar Home Labor Be-st Quality CHAPTER Ill Flat Burglary Martin Forbes tolrt himself firmly MOTOR OIL as he went to bed that night that he'd had his lesson. Rhoda had treated Flows Freely in Cold Weather him not as a friend hut as a reporter trying to run down a story. It must be a pretty good story If she was so EucrnJCAL PRoDUCTs CoRPORATION afraid he'd get it. All right, by golly, Salt Lake Cl!t 1046 So. Main he'd be a reporter, and the first thing tomorrow morning he'd go after that story and nail It down. That manNiver he'd been so proud of at the time--getting rid or Babe Jennings and Ma x Lewis by introducing them to ('fieh other-ap)Jeared THE ONLY HOME OWNED MILK now ns likely to have been a downTune in on MORNING MILK PROGRAMS ric;ht Idiotic blunder. Babe and Rhoda KDYL 7:00 to 7:38 p m, Sun.-"Arabeaq~~•• might inhabit very different spiritual KSL 10:00 to 10:30 a m, Week Daya worlds, hut wasn't it likely that if 10:00 to 10:30 p m. Tu... and Pd. KSL Babe knew her well enough to call hel' (Twin Falls) 9:45 to 10 am, ft. Da. KGIQ ned and get away with It, she'd also know the crude material facts about ASK her-whet·e she lived, where she FOR worked, and so on-which were all THE ONLY HOME SUGAR that Max Lewis was interested tn? For Every And wouldn't Babe spill anything she Purpose I Baking knew to anybody who was Interested In finding it out? Why the devil hadn't he thought of that last night? Well, it was probably too late to repair the error now. He'd got to get hold of Babe, though, at the earlle.wt Standard Slnee 185% possible moment. The more ne thought PRIZE STORY 1 WEEK'S THIS about the posslblllties of his blunder One of the b!gcest thine• an lndindual the worse t~1ey seemed. ean do 11 to help the communlt:Jo to cnnr and prosper. 1 like to use Inter-Mountalll Next morning he dressed, bolted his made produeta to help ollr faetori.. and breakfast and was waiting at the foot lllines. In lUling Inter-Mountain made procl• of the elevated stairs a good quarter actt I h~lp llnemployment to lte nllevedth.u putting more money Into circulatioll of an hour before Babe could be exand lneldentali3' maldnc .,,. eommanltF pected to appear. more pro&TeasiTe. AIRS. CARL W. STEPHENS. By the time he'd finished his second Can Valley, NeYlUia. cigarette he felt as if he'd been standing there for hours, as if everybody that came along wondered what he SPUD BAR-1\DLK SLICKER BAR was doing there. And then, so surACE HIGH BAR and' blink to had he prisingly that shake his head to make sure that his imagination wasn't deceiving him, l1e saw not Babe, but Rhoda herself coming down the stairs. What would she do when she saw him? Toss her head and walk scornfully by without speakIng at all? Or pause to make some other blighting aspersion on his good. faith in having tried to help her. She didn't do either of those things. ~.J.~ur For ner face lighted up at the sight AN INTERMOUNTAIN PRODUCT of him, and when she came within reach she held out her hand. per week will be paid for the beat 50 word article on ''WhF • "This is an awfully nice way :tor the Ul!e Intermountain made GooU.. should :rou sorry "I'm said. day to begin,'' she -Similar to above. Send your 1to17 te I called you a reporter last night." Intermountain Prod11cts Column. P. 0. Bo>< 15t5, Salt Lake Clt:Jo, If your atoey "I am one," he told her. - appeen In thi8 eotumn :rou "Oh, I know you are, but you weren't • will reeeln ehtck for.·-·-·····being one last night. I don't know why I said that. I suppose because I have red hair." "This is turning out a much bette1 day than I thought it could," he observed. "I wish I'd known last nlghl that this was going to happen. How did it happen? Do you often com4 down these stairs about this ttme1 Have you got a job near here?'' KDYLt "The door's about fifty feet away,'• Exercises [J.t!-4ridoiCI'Illgl>nart<Jnlllll' Health the for worlced "I've him. told she every mornine at News for two years." Tuesday ~2~~~~~~~ KSL1 10:00. "Look here,'' he demanded, when morning at 10 :30 he'd digested this fact, "did you know KLO: Ever:r morning at 10:16. who I was all along-last night, I TUNE IN ON VITANUT PKOGJLUIII mean?" ASK "I thought It might be you. I wasn't YOUR sure, though, till Babe called you GROCER Marty." FOR "Honest 7" "Honest.'' She answered him quite simply, not seeming surprised at his pressing so Hailed on request. Contain~~ authenU. infol"'mation for nery home owner. minute a point. He didn't quite know himself why it was so Important, but it was. "\\'ell,'' he said, "we've got a lot of lost time to make up for. H I'll agree not to talk about anything you don't want to talk about, will you have din· ner with me tonight?" "Yes,'' she said, "but I'll tell you what I'd rather do if you'd just as leave. I'd rather you came to supper at the studio. Give me a pencil and a piece of your newspaper, and I'll write WANTED: Names of Ag~nta to tell Chriftdown the address." Dlu Carda In 1931 through your loeal printer. Pla- for 1931 being made new. He'd have asked her what sort ot Bea:d In yo11r name for detail• wiUcb will studio It was If she hadn't glanced uv make your selling easier without the trOilblea, m.lotak.. and dela7• you bad ill as she handed back his paper and Write npre-..entlng •astern factories. pencil and exclaimed, "There c,me1 W. N. U.-P. O. Box 1545, Salt Lake COQ'. . . .. Babe 1 It must be getting late." CLAUDE NEON LIGHTS ~~J!lk BEET SUGAR . --- Sperry Drifted Snow Flour :~:OSTLER'S Chocolates APEX HAIR OIL $5 00 $5 00 FREE GARDEN BOOK PORTER WAlTON CO. -- ('rO Iilli: CON'UNUlllD.) |