OCR Text |
Show THE PAGE TWO TIMES-NEW- Friday, March 30, 1928 NEPHI, UTAH S, Sylvia of the Minute -- s CHAPTER Vr Continued By HELEN R. MARTIN 17 Copyright by Dodd, Mead "What put this Idea Into your head, that he might marry a county teacher?" Mr. Crelghton anxiously asked. "If he'd go that far disgrace me with low marriage " St. Croix realized, as he told his father the grounds of his fears, that they sounded rather Insubstantial. "But he must have been closeted a long time with that girl this afternoon, for It was nearly two hours after closing time," he explained. "And he seems to haunt her school-hous- e Co. WNU Service being unable to live under the same root The hardest part of It to Marvin was the distress It caused his mother. If anything could have made him deny his soul it was that While he freshened up In his bathroom, reveling in Its conveniences and comforts (there was no bathroom at Absalom Puntz") he wondered how Miss Schwenckton, who looked so !" "She's young and pretty, I suppose?" dainty and seemed so fastidious, endured the crude life at Schwenckton's "Young and pretty, yes, but deadly farm. She didn't fit Into the picture. common !" He knew the party must break up "How do you know? Ever met her soon, for It was nearly dinner Mma yourself?" and most of these people had several "Yes. She's a relative of the farmer, Sam Schwenckton, and boards at miles to drive; and a few empty cups his farm. . I met her that night Sam and saucers about the 'hall which the servants had overlooked told him they Schwenckton snitched, my watch." had already had tea. "Attractive?" How did his mother, comparatively St. Croix nodded. , "But an Impossible little vulgarian. I can't Imagine Intelligent, stand that crowd? And why they let such Illiterates teach our yet, how else would she fill her life, emptied, through her great wealth, of schools. She murders the English lanthe wholesome necessity to work? Suguage as terribly as any uneducated as perfluous wealth was a Pennsylvania Dutch girl does!" "I scarcely believe, St. Croix, that surely as poverty. The visitors were gone at last and Marvin could be attracted to such a Marvin went downstairs to take his girl as you describe. He doesn't usumother In his arms. ally let his senses blur his Judgment" It was cozy having his dinner alone "I'd think, too, but for whut I've with his mother; and the taste and Been with my own eyes. Father. If he comforts of his home, after his dose could tolerate her for two hours of Absalom Puntz' menage, were ceralone In her schoolroom with her and then walk home with her for a tainly soothing. "Father thinks a dose of plain living mile I should think he must be pretty will cure me!" Marvin smiled as he far gone I" "It wouldn't matter how far gone helped himself to fillet of steak and he were If It weren't that the young mushrooms the butler was passing. fool's apt, as you sny, to marry her! "On the contrary, living at Absalom Consideration for hts family, for his Puntz" has made me realize, as I never mother trifles like that ! would not did before, how much unnecessary luxury we have here, which I always took stop him! Well, Ml nip it! Ill Infor granted, not knowing any other vestigate the thing and If there's anything In it, I'll hlbe the girl to go way of life. So this throwing me out on my own Is Just having the opposite away." effect of what he Intended it to have." "But wait we haven't much evi"I don't like to think of your living dence; It would be a pity to let her hold you up for a pile of money if In such discomfort, dear," his mother answered, "though you're not looking there's nothing in It." "I'll soon find out whether there's any the worse for It! But how In the world do you stand their food?" anything in It." "It's good. I walk about the coun"But how?" "If I can contrive to get In touch try so much that anything tastes good. I'm getting to like sauerkraut and with her, the rest will be easy !" "The danger of Interfering is that boiled beef and cabbage! Bully! And It often starts Just what you meant fried ponhaus ! And even smearcase !" to prevent !" "Imagine St. Croix eating at the "I wasn't born yesterday, St. Croix. table with those Pnntzes !" Mrs. Once I meet the girl, I'll soon find out Creighton smiled. "Sauerkraut and enough to guide me. If I waited for smearcase and ponhaus!" "It's not their food so much as the Indisputable evidence, I might be too late. I suppose I could drop In to see way they eat It that 'krelstles' me. her at her school Just at closing time, Know what 'krelstles' means? Of don't you think? Do you know what course you don't Means disgust, rubs time In the afternoon the school me the wrong way, gets my goat. 1 closes?" can't watch them eat; they are too "About four o'clock." darned Industrious about It." "I'll look her over on Monday. It "Marvin, I want to ask you some won't do to dally with such a possibilI'm worried. St. Croix Is phithing ity ! I'm fast coming to the point of landering, I'm afraid, with a very comMarto the fact that resigning myself mon and I do dread what can vin can't be coerced. Very well, then, come girl of such entanglements. It's so we've got to circumvent him !" Imprudent ! You get about the counobstinate ass !" mut"Conceited, so much I thought perhaps you try tered St Croix. had heard or seen something of It, ! one of kind has He the "Nothing have you? Do you know who the of the few qualities In which men difIs?" fer from sheep. Backbone. He has girl"No," Marvin responded gloomily, backbone. Stands upright on his own. his heart sinking; that car of his Refuses to get down on all fours and brother's near the William Penn run after a tinkling leader!" school and Miss Schwenckton pretend"Steps out from the herd and ing she had remained In school to throws the whole works Into disorwhen she had been out on the work der!" St Croix contended. that weird business of her "He would say he was starting them road and her clothes "How did you on a better path away from the changing of It. Mother?" hear laughter house." "The girl sent a box of fudge here "Sounds as If yon agreed with him, to the house for him, with a Terse Father!" paper the "You know better. But I respect written on the wrapping home-madas the his backbone. Gets It from me," Mr. poetry ! being as It I him to he when gave candy moCrelghton concluded, as at this ment the waiter presented the bill came home and he was so embarrassed and angry I knew he must be and St Croix rose from the table. Involved rather deeply and I've been worried !" CHAPTER VII "What makes yon conclude. Mother, that she's a 'common' girl?" Marvin When Crelghton reached his "Her poetry ! father's house that same evening, he "Whm you receive this bos of futrh found, to his dismay, all the driveYou'll mebby think It stn't so mutch. ways about the place filled with limouBut In one piece I put a kins. sines. A party on? But that was unYou'll know which one the sweetest now no "tin." that he likely, for longer lived at home, he and his mother valued Marvin laughed Joyfully the author these Thursday evenings together too was not Miss Schwenckton! much to let anything Interfere with of that "St. Croix certainly takes his them. Tills evening he especially chances, playing 'round with one of reasee her alone for the wanted to Dutch girls! First these Pennsylvania sons he had accurntely stated to Miss thing he knows he'll huve a lawsuit Schwenckton he wanted to see the on bis hands. But I think." he tried photograph he had asked his mother to comfort his mother, '"we may alto unearth and he wanted very much on Croix" playing safe. to hear about the English mall she ways bank Is St of course always danPhilandering had received. where a suit for damages offers He surmised that he had probably gerous a big haul but In St Croix' philoscome In at the tail end of an afterof life. Prudence and ISespect-- ' noon club meeting the "Quo .Nn ophy Ascendns club," probably. Well, he XfrXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXX'XXXXXXXXX'didn't want to be caught In that bedlam! So he stole In at a side door and went upstairs to his own rooms. The familiar sight of his bedroom and study, to which be could now If any reader should find one of hit come only on brief visits In his fawindow panes perforated by a perfectther's absence, depressed him. It all round hole, without apparent cause, seemed so unnecessary, this bitter ly first question he should ask Is. the controversy between him and his Has there been a thunderstorm In this Yet It was not a light thing neighborhood recently? If the answer In of recent growth, but Is In the affirmative, he may conclude their essential differences of temperament and character and outlook his that Jupiter Tormns. the lord of the father being quite frankly primitive thunderbolts, in playful mood ha sent one of them through the glass. In and "human" (he claimed) In his goswhile he himself ordinary English, the pane has been pel of was Inherently, unconquerably socially struck by lightning. That Is what probably happened to minded. From bis boyhood tip bis faof ti New York ther had tried In vain to knock out the plate glass window building recently. A minute hole apof him his unbusinesslike consideration of the other fellow's point ot peared mysteriously In the glass. Three employees were at work inside View; and H had ended at hint lo their Joy-kill- e ability are auch Influential factor! I think we needn't be anxious." "Well, I hope so," she sighed. "Another thing I wanted to ask you do you know, I'm beginning to think, Marvin, that there's more to this affair with our English cousins than meets the eye?" "Aha! You are? Well, so am It Go on what's yours?" "You know that for months St Croix has been planning to go to England to see Lady Sylvia and, Marvin, they keep holding him off I Their latest letter says Lady Sylvia has gone abroad. Now, of course they've no' money to let her travel about the continent, so I'm sure she must have taken a position as traveling companion or governess. I'm beginning to suspect, dear, that she's as much averse to this rather ridiculous marriage scheme as you are yourself!" "V should think she would be! Probably she prefers earning her own living!" "But she can't earn enough to save the estate !" "It's possible she may think more of her than of the estate." "Well, her parents don't admit anything like that they probably hope to persuade her to bring her "round." "Vain hope, If she's a girl that's worth anything." "Yes only you must remember that the English don't regard such marriages as we do, they're so used to them." "If she marries St Croix, she's no better than any other courtesan that sells herself!" "What are your suspicions, Marvin?" "My 'suspicions'?" "You said you agreed with me that there seemed more to this affair than meets the eye." "Exactly. But let's not go so fast. About the girl's being 'abroad,' now perhaps It's here, to America, that she has come to earn her living!" Mrs. Creighton looked startled. "What makes you think that? Do you know that she has?" Marvin regarded his mother uncertainly a wild possibility flashing upon his mind. Ills mother was always perfectly open with him, but she was conscientiously loyal to his father and If his father had asked her to keep a certain secret she would certainly try to do it. "Mother," he asked, his quiet tone concealing his strong feeling, "do you know that she's here?" for perhaps he was being "worked"; perhaps the girl had been brought over here and placed where she was bound to cross his path, his father hoping that when his son met her without knowing who she was, he might "fall for her"; and all this talk about St. Croix marrying her was perhaps a bluff to throw him (Marvin) off the scent I Could this be possible? Was the girl conniving with his father to trap him, that her family and her home might enjoy the Crelghton millions? And was his mother playing a silent hand? But a girl that could lend herself to such a plot! He felt a revulsion of feeling against her at the bare thought of It and his heart sank like lead In his breast. He would demand the truth from his mother; she would not deny It He put down his coffee cup and took both her hands In his. "You know, of course. Mother, why I asked to see that photograph?" he hazarded. "Why, no, Marvin, I don't," she answered, very puzzled. "Why did you? And what on earth makes you think she may be here?" "Mother, what do you know about this Idiotic business? Let me bate the truth !" "I don't know a thing about It, dear, that you don't know, or not as much, evidently. What do you mean?" "You don't know whether Lady Sylvia St Croix Is In America?" "Of course I dont Why?" The possibility still remained that his father and Lady Sylvia might be working without his mother' knowlself-respe- edge. ITO BE CONTINUED.) deep-roote- d the window, and all three heard a distinct report I'vrtliies of glass fell on one of them. Search failed to reveal any bullet or other object that might have caused the hole. It seems to have been diie to one of (he fnyv' terlons pranks of lightning. Wherein the Difference there lnu't much differ ence between p honeurosis and nervousness, except In the matter of the hill for diagnosis. Ohio State Journal. We Imagine If a man Is able to si find ahusa It able to stand prosperity. b jlLsv s. 'j 1 submarine recently raised, as It now appears iu dry dock at the Boston navy yard. 2 Julio Maniu, leader of the Peasant party In Rumania.' 3 Norman H. Davis presenting the Woodrow Wilson foundation medal to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. S-- d CURRENT EVENTS Gigantic Combination of Capital Announced at New York. of Hindu princes in a ceremony modern, in manner, medieval in splendor and ancient ritual. The wedding, which united Miss Nancy Ann Miller of Seattle with Sir Tukoojirao Holkur, former mahara-ja- h of Indore, was witnessed by thousands of Hindus, dressed like true princes and princesses and wearing the costliest jewels money can buy. After the ceremony, which ended ten days of ritual whereby Miss Miller became a Hindu, princess and a member of the Holkar family, bride and groom were hosts at a banquet to 10,000 guests. New York World FEDERAL supervision of the coal tentatively suggested by Senator Gooding (Rep., Idaho), was indorsed on behalf of the United Mine Workers by John L. Lewis, president Lewis, who has informed the senate Investigating committee that his organization is ready to meet with operators to suggest legislation to stabilize the industry, declared that the unanunion would be "practically imous" in supporting federal control of coal production and marketing, because the Gooding proposal Is the most constructive made to date. The coal commission idea has been indorsed also by several coal operators during the inquiry, but others refused to commit themselves. forty-niner- COOLIDGE believes still be helpful to Nicaragua by assisting the people of that country to choose Its government despite the action of the house In rejecting the McCoy PRESIDENT States can bill providing for supervision of the coming election by the marine corps. This view was reflected by an announcement from the Navy department that two additional battalions of marines had been ordered to Nicaragua to reinforce the 2.700 already on duty there. The two additional battalions will bring the total of United States forces In Nicaragua to 3,700, the greatest number ever to operate In that country at one time. Should the marine force be unable to cope with the situation, about 1,500 blue Jackets and marines on board five cruisers In Nlo araguan water? will be available for shore duty. Secretary Wilbur said the additional marine force were to be used primarily for overseeing the coming elections and not for action against General Sandlno, rebel leader, although the troops may be employed to further the general activities of the marines In Nicaragua. Tb problem now confronting the a Washington government. In- - Mr. opinion. Is that of deviling some plun under which the United States can fulfill Its obligations under the Stlmson agreement according to the original spirit of that pact one of helpfulness to the Nlcaraguan people In the selection of Its public officials. that "we may have something" by the builder of the collapsed St. Francis dam featured the first official Inquiry to fix the dam blame at the corotwr's Inquet-- t over the bodies of C!) of the dam victims. William Mulholland, seventy-two- , chief engineer of the Los Angeles municipal water board, who built the dam, declared : "The only ones I now envy are those that are dead." Los of life In the disaster Is now computed at 449 person 272 known dead and 177 missing and believed to have perished. While resrch for dead continued, more thnn 100 tractors being used to tear through big piles of debris, authorities In the stricken zone decided to confine efforts only to Innd. Debris on unreclnlm-abl- e area occupied by the old bed of the Santa Oara river will lie burned. Authorities snld It would be Impossible to put a large enough force at work lo recover bodies on tinrcclalitt-abllasd mlthin n reasonable time. Evidence that n dynamite exploHon may bme caused the collapse of the dam and telensed the flood of death on the Siitita Clara river valley was e upon the instruction of the cabinet, Gov. Gen. Will-ingd- of Ontario approved orders in council 'commuting to life imprisonment the death sentence passed on Dorris McDonald and confirming the death sentence passed on George McDonald, her husband, both Americans. They were found guilty of the murder of Adelard Bouchard, Lachine (Quebec) taxi driver. MILLION DOLLAR trades A TWO school as a memorial to his fa- ther. John Wanamaker, Is provided In the will of Rodman Wanamaker, PhilThe document adelphia merchant disposes of an estate of from $75,000,-00- 0 to $100,000,000, instead of $50,000,-00which was the first estimate of its value. 0, London Daily Experss says Balfour, lord president of the council, former prime minister and one of the outstanding British, statesmen of the present generation, is suffering from heart trouble and has canceled all hisaengagements. He has been ill for some time. In January he suffered a severe attack of laryngitis. THE 'TMIE $274,000,000 new warship con- struction program was approved by the house and sent to the senate. The vote was 287 to 57. In passing the Butler bill, the house voted for the construction of 15 cruisers of 10,000 tons displacement each and one aircraft carrier of 13,800 tons. The measure carries a provision requesting the President to "urge the necessity" of another International conference for the limitation of naval armaments and gives him authority either In whole or In part in the event of a limitation agreement of the most pitiful tragedies In annals of the American navy was revealed In the Charlestown (Mass.) navy yard. Eight remaining bodies were taken from the submarine now in dry dock there. At the RECEIPTS from the March 15 tax returns reported to tha same time it was made clear what occurred inside that vessel after it was Treasury department to the close of rammed and sunk by the coast guard business March 17, aggregated On the same date a year ago destroyer Pauling, on rum chasing the returns aggregated $197,090,398. duty, near Trovincetown December 27. Ccnditlons shown as the water was an Increase this year of $17,858,009. Should this proportion hold good for made it evident pumped out of the that every one of the 40 men in the the entire collection on income for the submarine had found temporary safety last calendar year, the treasury would In locked compartments and had died receive about $100,000,000 above It many hours later either suffocated by estimate. deadly gases or smothered by the exhaustion Of the air. TWENT?-TVof the 2R rnnntrl. men had lived foq Thirty-fou- r 1 represented on the preparatory undetermined number of hours lnicommlttee for a League of Nation ui ruSiuc iuiu vuuiimiiiucmwi Disarmament conference lined no Five or six men who bad lived apagainst the Soviet plan for Immediate proximately three days In the forward complete disarmament torpedo room had died. It was IndiHugh 8. Gibson, the United State; cated, sleeping peacefully In their David Whitmarsh, Cuba ; Baron bunk. Some of them had partly unBelgium; Jonkeer Rutdressed to make themselves more comgers, Holland; E. Heening, Sweden; fortable. M. Sokal, Poland, and M. Markovltch, Yugo slavia, added their criticism to A, LINDBERGH Is other, making the Russian- defeat COL. CHARLES a congressional medal of overwhelming. honor man. President Coolldge pinned the coveted emblem, the highest decTOORA Bnyes, comedienne who de-oration of the American government, lighted audience - In Broadway c hero upon the blushing and London theater for more than a score of year and cheered many perduring a brief. Impressive ceremony March 21, on the White House son privately by her generous act, grounds. died at a Brooklyn hospital. Vice President Dawes, Speaker She had gone almost directly from (Rep., Ohio), member of the singing at two benefits to the hospital cabinet, and high officer? of the army for an abdominal operation. She wa and navy witnessed the presentation. apparently well on the way to recovery when a relapse came. Bunk of the Soviet Union has Miss Bayes once wrote that she win THE the New York law firm born In Jollet, III., and other source of Simpson, Thacher and Bartlett to fixed the date as 1S80. Her real nam fight the Bank of France's attempt to was Leonora Goldberg. She Is surreplevin $5,210,000 In gold sent here vived by her husband, Benjamin L. by the Russian Institution and Is preFriedland, whom she married three for year ago on the steamship Leviathan, pared to bring a counter-clailosses It may sustain through the and by three young children she had French action. adopted. It I estimated that the Rumlan bank I losing from $700 to $1,0(0 In interESTIOATION of the lH'.'S est Tlally on the metal, which lies In Preside the vaults of the Chase National bank campaign by a pedal senate commitand the Equitable Trust company. tee ling been proposed from two Had It not been for the French action sources. the gold might have been out of the Senator Nye (Rep.) of North Dacountry by now o else used a the kota, chairman of the Teapot Doma basis of credit with private American committee, which has been Innulrlfi Interests. Into past rainpnlgn funds, says that. If Simpson, Thacher and Bartlett are no one else proposes a resolution ti French-Soviet frrufinizirig the treaty have a committee check tip on the to determine whether the Bunk of of the two parties, he will France's acfion is fn accordance with ln o. Its terms. Under the treaty, all Halms In a fori'ml statement Si tmior Cjip-pe- r by French national against the Soviet (l!ep ) of Kmiisiis gave notice that government are subject to diplomatic lie would seek to have the Semite proA spokesman adjustment. for the vide the machinery to Inquire Into et Bank of the Soviet Union said that. pemlitures In the coming cnmn!yn. ONE Nlc-aragu- ADMISSION ACTING AMERICAN girl was married ANMarch 17 to one of the wealthiest announced it regarded as an accomplished fact the biggest communications merger on record. This, it stated, was the combination of the Mackay companies, operating 5,000 Postal telegraph offices in the United States, and the International Telephone and Telegraph company. The deal brings together companies with combined assets of $225,000,000 and with about 125,000 miles of Joined cable, telephone and telegraph wires In the United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba and Central and South America. The merger as outlined will see the ascension of the Behn brothers Sosthenes Behn and Herman Behn whose family fortune was founded in I'orto Rico, over the Mackays, California The Mackay fortune was founded when John W. Mackay, father of the present head of the Mackay companies-, discovered the famous Comstock lode in 1S45. The elder Mackay later started the Postal Telegraph company. His son obtained control of commercial cables and last year the Federal Telegraph system on the Pacific coast Mr. Mackay's personal fortune Is estimated at $50,000,000. THE although the treaty has been In force for some years, the Bank of France has never filed a claim for the gold until the present action. said to be In the hands of investigating authorities. So much credence was placed on the findings of deputy sheriffs assigned to the flood area that every reservoir and dam In the entire Los Angeles water system was put under a heavy guard. NEWS REVIEW OF Cool-Idge'- Here was an acid test of his suspicion. "Are you sure St. Croix means to go over to England and try for her?" "Why of course! Why should I doubt It? He's crazy about It I You know that, dear. ' And so Is your father. What Is In your mind, dear?" ' Marvin dropjied her hands, leaned back In the deep couch and folded his arms. "I suppose I'm a fool, buf I had a suspicion for a moment that Father had got the girl over here and was Jabbing her en to me on the sly !" Lightning Thought to Drill Hole in Glass rl yH w-CSp-V- S-- $215,-550,00- 8. S-- 4 Jt s, - trans-Atlanti- Long-wort- h AN |