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Show THE PAGE TWO TIMES-NEW- Sylvia of the Minute CHAPTER IX Continued 20 as at this Instant they heard the car start away again, the accusation In her Inquisitor's gaze deepened ; for Mr. Creighton was sure that it was seeing his father's car at the door that had made Marvin drive on. The girl was a liar and a schemer. In the very act of waiting here for his son, she had denied that she ever remained here for visitors ! If she had not a guilty conscience, If in her relations with Marvin there were nothing to hide, she would not, of course, find It necessary to lie. A dangerous wencb ! Marvin could thank his father for saving him from her. Mr. Creighton felt ruthless. With his usual directness he came to his point. "You were expecting my son? That was, of course, his car that stopped here and then, at sight of mine, drove on wasn't It?" "Not being an adept at seeing through a brick wall, Mr. Creighton, I don't know." Her evading a direct answer to his every question only confirmed him in his darkest apprehensions. "Miss Schwenckton," he said abruptly, "I would make It worth your while to resign from this school and go away." "Away from your son, Mr. Creighton?" she Inquired pleasantly. "Exactly." "But in these days of airships whither can I flee that he cannot follow? If I take the wings of the morning and dwell In the uttermost parts of the sea, or ascend up Into heaven, or make my bed in hell " "What Is it worth to you to get out of this neighborhood and stay out?" "Well, not being very experienced " In these transactions " 'Not very experienced I" "Not very," she imperturbably repeated, "so TO have to ask your advice. What's the most I ought to ask? I want to do as well as I can for myself, of course." "Come, Miss Schwenckton, I'm serious please don't try to play the fool with me ! You must know that I could get rid of you less expensively. A few words from me to your trustees, and you would lose your position. But I've no desire to injure you. I prefer to help you " "Help me out of the neighborhood?" "I'll amply compensate you for the loss of your school and something substantial over." "You really and truly are offering me money to give up this darned school and go away?" "I am." "But," she exclaimed, a glad surprise coming into her eyes, "this is the first time in all my life that I've had money thrust at me! Will you give me any amount I ask?" "Of course not you'll have to be reasonable," he protested, feeling shocked that a girl who looked like this should after all be sordid and unprincipled. "Just what would you call reasonable. Mr. Creighton?" "Name what it's worth to you to leave and then I'll answer you." "Well, then, let me see well, I'll take my railroad fare to Hollywood and enough more to support me (and my family) for six months while I'm convincing the picture makers at Hollywood what a gold mine I'd be for them." "Your family? You're not going to tell me you have some children to support?" "No, I won't go so far as that. Only some parents. Two helpless little parents." "If I give yon a check for five thousand dollars, when will yon leave?" caught her breath. The sum A thousand seemed vast to her. pounds! It would liberate her from this schoolroom prison, relieve her mother's needs and waft her to faraway California with a sense of ease and security such as she had not known In many years! "If you will sign this statement, giving up all claims upon my son " He took a folded paper from his breast pocket and laid It on the desk in front of her, pushing aside the letter she had started to write to her mother. "All right," she answered him gnyly, though not at once signing the paper. "And If I fall at Hollywood, I'll marry one of your sons and then my husband can pay back to you this loan" "One of my sons! I've only one son who'd be fool enough to give you the chance, young womnn !" "But Mr. Creighton," she asked In genuine curiosity, "how did you find out about us? Did St Croix talk In Ms sleep?" Mr. Creighton stored nt her. Now why, he wondtTed, was she putting up a bluff like that? pretending It was And now, Mt-el- y St. Croix 1 "St Croix!" he repented, wltb a "Don't waste your talents. laugh. Miss Schwenckton, trying to deceive me I My son, St Croix, will never cause me a moment's anxiety as to his choice of a wife '" "A wife!" ilm breathed. "My goodness! What's all this about, any- way?" "I'm sure you know quite well what it's all about." "If it'a not about St Croix, I don't!" She looked so sincerely puzzled and astonished that fur an Instant be believed her almost But only for an Instant "I'll never bv to pay any girl lira thousand dol- - HELEN R. MARTIN Coprrljht by DeOd. Mead Co. WKU BottIo Iars to keep St. Croix from marrying her!" he repeated. "But but," she faltered, "If It's Marvin you've been talking about do you mean Marvin? But you can't possibly but what on earth makes you think Marvin wants to " She pulled herself up with a Jerk ; If she were not careful he would realize that there was no least need for his paying her that bribe! "Oh, if It's Marvin you mean," she rattled on, "then I'll reconsider! I don't think 'I can sign away Marvin! Or, If I do, that'll really cost you something! Marvin is really worth something I" "You're mistaken. He's worth the hunpuny salary he makes fifty-si- x dred dollars a year. Not a dollar more." "I know I didn't mean that kind of worth. I meant human worth. I wouldn't however, get money from you, Mr. Creighton, on false pretenses. I really have my doubts whether Marvin would want a wife who could not tell how many states there are in his country. Do you think he would?" "I'll tell you what sort of a wife Marvin wouldn't want when you've signed that paper." Without a moment's hesitation she took up her pen and affixed her name, "Amelia Schwenckton," to the state' . "When will you leave?" he sharply repeated. "The very moment I've the wherewithal to leave!" "But," he Informed her In a firm tone as he handed her the check, "If you dare to come around here again, fiilllitt n2-- you will be dealt with, Miss Schwenckton, in a more summary manner than you will like!" "I'm afraid, Mr. Creighton, TO have trouble cashing this and It would put you in such a funny light, giving five thousand dollars to such a dangerously alluring girl as I am apparently! If you've the real money about you " He had been wondering whether she would prove so sophisticated as to realize that He had no Intention, really, of letting her leave the room with that check. "You are Indeed 'experienced,' Miss Schwenckton, for one so young!" he said ironically as he took back the check and gave her a roll of bills ten notes. And It was at the very moment of her receiving these that again the sound of a car stopping outside Inter- rupted them. "He's come back again," said Friday, April 20, 1928 NEPHI, UTAH S. riM? - n gas-proo- Mr. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS again." n Little did they dream that the first Machine Is car that had stopped and then driven Beaten in Illinois the on had carried away Mrs. Creighton, G. O. P. Primary. who, the moment she had recognized her husband's car parked nearby, had been startlingly convinced that MarBy EDWARD W. PICKARD. vin's fantastic suspicions of a plot pISGUSTED and Indignant citizens between his father and Lady Sylvia of Illinois gave the St. Croix was not after all fantastic! machine a terrific wallopFor what else In the world could bring ing in the Republican primaries and to husband her the schoolhouse? felt that they had in a measure reShe had decided, after a moment's deemed the state and especially the debating with herself, not to intrude city of Chicago. Governor Small was upon their conference. She would let defeated for renomlnatlon by SecreMarvin know, when she saw him on tary of State Louis L. Emmerson by Thursday, what she had discovered. a majority of more than 400,000, and It was so evident that he was deeply State's Attorney Crowe of Chicago interested In the girl was his interest was beaten by John A. Swanson by too deep to be turned to aversion by nearly 195,000 votes. Frank Smith, the fact that she was Lady Sylvia St whom the United States senate reCroix and In league with his father to fused to seat after his election last Intrigue him Into marrying her? as year, went into the discard, the senhe had declared such a fact would dis- atorial nomination being won by Otis F. Glenn of Murphysboro. Big BUI gust him! A half hour after she had driven Thompson, mayor of Chicago, protagaway, Marvin, driving out toward Ab- onist of the "America First" camSmall-Thompso- 111? paign and relentless enemy of King George of England, sougfit .only one office, that of committeeman for his ward, and the voters denied him even that. The same fate befell President turned ! Aa he came nearer, the sight of a of the Board of Education Coath who car standing before the little building carried out Thompson's orders to dismade his heart sink like lead In his miss Superintendent of Schools breast. Was Miss Schwenckton havIn congress and elsewhere great "And If I Fall at Hollywood. I'll ing a rendezvous again with St. Croix? Aa soon, however, as he was near satisfaction was expressed over the Marry One of Your Sons and Then e My Husband Can Pay Back to You enough to recognize the car, he saw, to renomination of the veteran Martin 15. Madden of Chihis startled surprise, that It was not This Loan." cago, long one of the most useful and St Croix', but his father's! ment that she gave up all claims of he was convinced. Just as hisInstantly mother Industrious members of the lower every description upon the son of Mr. had been, that his suspicion of a co- house. His constituency has become Creighton. llusion between "Miss Schwenckton" almost wholly negro, but he decisive"How unbusinesslike you are!" he and Ms father, to entrap him Into a ly defeated his colored rival. For said as he received the paper from her marriage, had been well founded. congressmen-nt-Iargthe Republicans hands and tucked It Into his breast He did not, with his mother's deli- named Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormlck, pocket, "to sign this and give it over cacy, decide not to Intrude upon them. daughter of the late Mark Hanna and to me before I have given you my On the contrary, he lost not a moment widow of Senator McCormlck, and U. check. In parking, alighting, and striding It. Rathbone, dropping Congressman He took from another pocket a bank straight Into the schoolhouse to con- Dick Yates. The voters of the state book and rapidly filled out and tore front them his heart and brain In showed strong preference for Lowden off a check. as Presidential nominee and he will a whirl. of the state's "Now, then," he said, not at one? At the sound of his approaching have at least forty-nin- e banding It to her, "when will you go?" step they had stepped down from the delegates at Kansas City. Illinois Democrats put through a "I think I ought to give the trustees platform, Mr. Crelghton's face stern a chance to get a teacher In my place, as the Judgment day. Miss Schwenck-ton'- s slate practically uncontested and by don't you? Think of all those chilas Interested as If she were In their preference votes determined sure dren running "round loose for days a theater seeing a play, as they stood that Al Smith will have fifty-twwithout getting educated! My conlooking expectantly toward the door. Illinois votes In the Houston convenscience won't stand for It !" Marvin's long stride halted at sight tion, and he may get the entire dele"A conscience that can stand for of them. gation of One murder of a negro and several "Well?" his father peremptorily Inbribes" "But your conscience seems to stand quired. "What are you doing here?" kldnaplngs and assaults marked the Chicago primaries, but the picture of for them! If you think bribes so base, "My duty as the county superintenda saturnalia of slaughter and other why do you go 'round offering bribes ent. Karnlng my salary." crimes presented In the press of Ixm-do- n to your sons' prospective wives? Cor"An easy, pleasant way to earn and Paris was scarcely Justified after work on your young rupting the I'oor Working Girl! By by the activities of the gangs of thugs the way, Mr. Creighton, this won't be teachers !" a bribe. It will be a loan. I'll pay you "I'm here much oftener during that worked for both the Republican back If I have to marry one of your school hours," answered Marvin, won- factions. sons In order to. For I prophesy, Mr. dering whether this tone of displeasCreighton, that when you know me ure were nssumed and why. REPUBLICANS of Nebraska bevotes better, you're going to want me for a wished to see me about some"You I daughter-in-laOh, yes, you are! tween Senator Norrls and Lowden, Mr. Creighton?" Miss Schwenckthing, When I come buck from Hollywood ton addressed Marvin composedly and they renominated Senator HowI'll prove It to you for I'll stop and the elder Creighton recalling that she ell. The Democrats were solid for Gilbert M. Hitchcock for President. pay you a visit Or, I'll stop off and had spoken of him as "Marvin." be your cook until I've earner! that five to Investigate," replied Mar- Vermont will send a solid delegation "Only Inthousand dollars. In America a cook vin, "why, at this hour, your school to the Republican convention must earn five thousand dollars In the Is structed for President Coolldge. Most still open." bat of an eye " Of Nevada's delegates will be for (TO nB CONTINUED ) Hoover, and so will all of Michigan's. XXX4XXXXXXXX'XXXXXX-X'XXX'XXXXDespite the progress made by the Hoover campaign, there were signs of increasing opposition to the nomiin 1680 Belief nation of the secretary of commerce. After a tour of Indiana and the corn testified seen had tie A writer, looking over the annals the neighbor boy belt Representative Dickinson of curia shoe a his nt throw of Newburyport, Mass., dug up grandfather. one of the agriand Republican Iowa, Then suspicion fell on the grand- cultural leaders of the house, preous case of the witchcraft craze. I! was in 1080 that some very strange mother and she was convicted and dicted that If Hoover were the ReMeanwhile the happenings took place In the house of sentenced to publican nominee Indiana would go an old resident; pots and puns rattled grandson went away and the disturbDemocratic In the fall, and other A was ances reaped. at unearthly hours of the night and reprieve granted slates of the Midwest, normally Remissiles (lew through the air In the and later the case was dismissed. publican, might follow suit Some of most mysterious manner and on one the party lenders In Washington are occasion a brick from the chimney to suspect that Hoover may "Show Me" beginning ended man old and nearly struck the not be the best vote getter among Inventor An filters English the bis earthly existence. Ills wife wa era tellings and metallic sounds from those seeking the Presidential nomitried and convicted of being a witch music by passing It nation. Idaho's delegation to the Rephonographic and sentenced to be hanged. A neighmore 50 feet of tin tubthan publican convention will be solid for bor suspected a boy, the old man's through Senator Borah. filled with peas. ing In man telling the aged grandson, and he could determine the cause, hinted members of the National Think It Over be had a knowledge of astrology and club gained a victory tin slvnder shrub Know that which of witchcraft astronomy. Suspicion when the national affairs committee Is seen to bend conquers when It fell on him and be was tried and esof the club adopted a resolution urgcaped conviction only when another yields to lbs storm. ing repenl of the eighteenth amendment. Th resolution was to be pre j Repre-sentativ- e o fifty-eigh- t. It-c- alling in Witchcraft Strong Sal hrt&fp 1 Head-oview of the new plane built at San Diego, Calif., for Colonel Lindbergh, similar to the Spirit of St Louis but more completely equipped for night flying. 2 Scene at the funeral of the late Chauncey M. Depew In f New York. 3 New uniform tested by ordnance officers of the United States army, which protects the wearer at all points. Creighton bitterly, "in the hope that by this time I'd be gone! You have played your game well !" "And this time," she answered blithely, her head bent to listen, "though your car Is still there, he doesn't seem to be driving away salom Puntz', felt, as he drew near William I'enn schoolhouse, that that spot was fast becoming to htm the-pivot on which his whole universe 4 h-r- i Year WET sented to the full membership Tuesday of this week for action, and a hot fight was anticipated for the drys were putting up a forceful opposition. The club, whose headquarters are In New York city, is national as Its name Indicates. President Coolldge Is an honorary president and among the members are Vice President Dqwes, Herbert Hoover and Frank O. Lowden. A vote of 53 to 23 the senate passed the McNary bill for agricultural relief. Various amendments were first made, but the equalization fee and other features objectionable to the President remained untouched, and consequently his veto was expected. It was stated at the White IIouse that Mr. Coolidge would like to help the farmers, but cannot see that any good purpose would be served by his signing the McNary measure. He Is convinced the equalization fee would be declared unconstitutional by the courts. The President also made it known that he was not likely to sign the flood control bill unless it was materially modified. Elimination of local contributions, according to his judgment, means that It becomes a matter of bestowal of favors upon certain localities. When one locality Is taken care of he thinks it Is inevitable that other sections will demand action on the same basis. One objectionable feature from the Presi dent's standpoint Is the provision under which the federal government presents a locality with valuable property and then proposes to pay the locality for damages. T Y the warm approval of the Secretary of State Kellogg is moving forward on the anti-wa- r way toward a multi-laterof the treaty. With the French government he has sent notes to Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Japan asking those powers to state their reaction to the proposal for the conclusion of a treaty renouncing war as an Instrument of national policy. If the responses are favorable it Is hoped France will recede from her demand for the Inclusion of numerous reservations. WITH AT THIS writing two Germans and Irishman are flying over the Atlantic ocean In a German Junkers plane in the attempt to make the first east-wenonstop air passage. They1 are Baron von Huenefeld, Capt. Hermann Koehl and Col. James commandant of the Irisjli Free State air force. Taking off from I'.aldonnel airdrome, Ireland, the plane passed over Galway and In an hour and a half was well out over the ocean, speeding through a The prospects were that the fog. flyers would encounter unfavorable weather conditions off Newfoundland. e, H. S. FEDERAL Judge W. threw out of Pittsburgh court the suit of five former mem- bers of the Ku Klux kian to restrain the order from operating In Pennsylvania, ruling that he was without jurisdiction and that It was a matter for the state courts to handle. The opinion climaxed three days of senwhich sational testimony, during ktnnsmen were charged with burning men alive In Texas; organizing a "night riders" terrorist branch In Oklahoma and Ohio; horse whipping "offending citizens" and causing riots and other disorders. of Harry F. Sinclair for the Tenpot Dome conspiracy got under wny swiftly In the District of Columbia Supreme court because Justice Bnlley took the examining of veniremen out of the hands of the lawyers and qualified twelve Jurors f In three and hours. One of the first witnesses was Mnhlon T. of Albert It. Everhart, Fall. lie told the Jury the whole story of Sinclair paying Fall more than $.100.0(10 within a few months after the then secretary of the Interior had turned the Teapot Dome oil reserve over to a Sinclair company. The money was paid ostensibly for a Interest In a ranch and for Improvements to the property. Everhart said Sinclair neither asked nor received receipts for the payments. TRIAL Of the money paid $233,000 was In Liberty bonds. A decision wrlttenby Chief Jus-- 1 tlce Taft the Supreme court ruled that congress has the power to delegate its legislative authority to the President in the administration of the flexible tariff law. Justice Taft in his opinion Compared the delegation of power to that vested by congress In the Interstate Commerce commission which controls railroad rates. He held that the tariff law was designed to secure revenue and that the declaration for protection of domestic Industry did not Invalidate it. Three opinions bearing directly upon current prohibition enforcement methods were handed down by the Supreme court. One, which sustained conviction of an alleged dope peddler, was accompanied by dissenting views In which Justice Brandels scored the use of entrapment methods In law enforcement Another opinion upheld the validity of padlock injunctions against property even after an alleged violator of the dry law has been ousted from the premises. The third sustained the conviction of John P. Donnelley, former prohibition administrator in Nevada, for failure to report an alleged violation of the Volstead act for prosecution. TV J7EDERAL troops In Caracas, tal of Venezuela, backed up by university students, staged a revolt last week and engaged in a battle with loyal troops at the San Carlos barracks. The mutineers were speedily defeated, several being killed and many arrested. Since early In February there have been student riots on various occasions In Caracas. In putting down these demonstrations the government placed many students under arrest, and the casualties have been reported .heavy. any Italians ahould JUST why to kill that nonentity King Victor Emmanuel Is a puzzle, but they did attempt It last Thursday. A big bomb was exploded In Place Julius Ceasare, Milan, while the streets were crowded with people waiting for the king to arrive for the opening of a trade fair. The monarch had not reached the scene but fourteen persons were killed and some forty Injured. Is visiting in Eng. HENRY andFord was the guest of honor at a dinner given by the American Society of London. It was announced that the automobile manufacturer would make the first speech In his life, and he did, but It was only twenty-nine words long. Said he: "I Just want to say Mrs. Ford and myself are greatly honored tonight to be present to meet so many distinguished representatives of two great nations. I thank you." Ireland expected Mr. Ford and prepared a big reception, but he declared he would not go there as long as the Free State's adverse tariff continues. SENATOR JOHNSON'S dam pet bill, reported favorably by the Irrigation committee, apparently Is going to have hard sled-- ' ding. Senator Ashurst of Arizona filed a minority report assailing ths measure as "a reckless and relentless assault" on his state. Asserting that the bill was drawn wholly In the interest of California, the Arizona senator declared that It "proposed to sever Arizona's Jugular vein," by denying It rights to Irrigation and power from the Colorado river. When the measure was reported by the committee. Senator Ashurst gnve notice that he would conduct a filibuster, adding that If the proponents of the bill expected to pass It at this session the senate would sit "until the Ides of Novemlier." one-hal- son-in-la- one-thir- d and automobile their best arguments to the senate finance committee for ref-a- l of the admission and automobile taxes. The theater group, hended by William A. Brady and Frank Gllmore, said the legitimate theater bd been "handed the worst of It" atid that the spoken drama had almot disappeared In The automobile mer many states. promised ruts In prices equal to the tai If the latter is removed. THEATRICAL , |