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Show THE Thursday. November 14, 1910 NKPHI. UTAH TIMES-NEW- PAGE SEVEN 10 .Ways By F. VAN DE WATER was not likely ever to forget the thick foreign cadences. I managed to smile at my aston ished companibn and slid out from my place. "Will you excuse me just for an instant?" I muttered and without waiting for reply stepped around the high back of my settle to the next FREDERIC not I CHAPTER XII Continued Our neighbors were coming back. I rose to let them pass before she answered me and when we were Mated again, she briefly and quickly patted my hand. When the curtain fell and the , h use awoke, I must have shown jy.y thought for Allegra looked at booth. me sharply as I took up her cloak, and she said: CHAPTER XIII "You are a good egg, you know. I hit my foot against the wine I think you've suffered a lot tobucket and I said: night." I did not tell her how much or "Excuse me." Instinct supplied the words. Therewhy. I only answered: "Not at all." after, I had no others. In the booth, She wrinkled her straight little where I had heard the dire voice nose at me and jeered: raised, sat lone and Lyon Ferriter. "Spoken like a gentleman of the I had rushed for an avenue to the old school. Mr. Wagner got you end of mystery and had slammed up down and you know it He helped against a blank wall. If my face were stupid with me, though, if that's any comfort" for cold and nth 3. :ond- - the Ferriters' were calm. lone smiled, though I thought her eyes widened. There was no flaw in Lyon's greeting. "My dear chap," he said and real pleasure sounded in his easy voice, is splendid. Sit down." where the starters' whistles stabbed "this rose and held out his hand. He half at through the racket of cars and, I took it Instinct still controlled taxi-caher a I found helped tlast, in and gave the driver her address. "Must we?" she asked as I sat down beside her. I was a little stupefied by too much music on an empty stomach. I said: "You ask the blindest questions." k "And you," she answered, "don't seem to have any human feelings at all. Aren't you ever hungry or anything?" "Anything! I'm practically every thing. So what?" "All right she snapped, "H you 4 insist on being led, instead of lead ing me, astray! I d like to go to Mino's." Somewhere I had "Mino's?" heard that name. She misunderstood my hesitation and tried so tactfully to reassure a poor of her aunt that I smiled. "One of the things I want most in the world at present is a chicken sandwich and a seidel of beer." "My child," I told her. "your ambition touches me. It does indeed. Give me the address." . The cab swung east at my new fAorder. I asked: "Why should Mino's mean any"Why don't you play fair" thing to a boy from the country and what?" me. My mind was crawling from "It shouldn't," she answered. the wreck of another collapsed hope. "Maybe, you've heard Grove or me Perhaps I was beginning to have speak of it. He likes it and he used delus'ons. Maybe, I had only imag I to take me there a lot Perhaps," ined the guttural voice that I had she added, and I thought her voice heard once before as the herald of grew tighter, "he'll be there to- murder. I managed to smile and released Lyon's cordial hand. night." "That'll be swell," I said as heart"Thanks," I said inanely, "I just ily as I could but she marked the wanted to say hello." hollow sound. "But sit down," Lyon urged, mak "You don't like Grove. And it's tag room. tony fault." "Do," lone begged. "A glass of wine," her brother "No," I answered, "it's probably went on and signaled a waiter mine." "We'll go somewhere else if you'd "You're a godsend. The fact is that rather," she said meekly. "I don't we're killing time rather than" know why I said Mino's. If Grove his lean face wrinkled in a faint burned up with delight at seeing ei-- ; grimace "go home. We're also Jier of us but I don't know I just waiting for Everett who was to meet us here. We find Mino's rather more jave a hunch." "Always play them," I advised soothing than what the papers call 'the murder flat' her. Louis, another "Right" she said and her head glass." came up again, "we'll do Just that." "Thanks," I said again and shook Mino, himself, sleek as a black my head. I did not dare inspect now the fresh horde of doubts that cat, ushered us Into a wide, chamber where a band pre- - cried for attention. The most I sided over a square of dance floor. could do was to cover up and I tried y AOOUl uie pousneu rectangle ujai to keep my voice and my face quiet dancers were quitting, tables were as I went on: "I'm in the next booth, with Miss packed and beyond them along the stalls. walls were Paget I thought I recognized your "Dance?" Allegra whispered to voice." I hoped that by some sound or rr.e. I shook my head. The smell of sign he might show alarm. The food was hard for a starving man thick voice must have come from this booth. I was as sure of this as to stand. "We'll sit over by the wall then, I could be of anything, but Lyon was Mino," she told her guide. "Has drawling on in his faintly English accent: has Mr. Paget been in tonight?" 'Then I'll not ask you both to Mino seemed desolated that Mr. .Paget had not I did not share his Join us, though you'd be most welyricf- - I gave our order to the wait- come. I think I'm beginning to bore er and prayed Inwardly that he my sister a bit." The fondness, that would be quick. From the center of ever showed when he spoke of her, the dance floor, a master cf cere- softened his face now. "We've been monies spoke amid gusts of laugh here," said Lyon, "for when did ter and retired as two lines of girls we come in. Louis?" "Seven-thirtsir." the lingering pranced out on either side of the waiter replied. band platform. "For almost five hours, then. "The midnight show," Allegra said, lifting her voice above the din. Which only goes to show how much "Do you mind?" misery loves any company, eh, "I can take it or leave it I think." Mallory? I wish you'd have a glass "Doesn't" she mocked, "any tort with us." The band brayed on. My mind of music please you? Have you no savagery in your breast at all, Mis-jrr- gyrated with the dancing chorus. "I must go back." I told Lyon. "We were on our way home.' I've If I had not matched her own when food arrived, she had a rather strenuous day." "Good God." he said with a litwould have had her answer. Allegra lifted bcr seidel and grinned at roe tle shudder. "Who should know that better than I?" cross it He frowned at the welt on his "Here's luck," she called through hand. lone said in her husky voice: ibe racket "I think you're pretty generous to Suddenly the music paused, the complicated forma- speak to him at all, Mr. Mallory." dancers held "Accidents," I answered flatly, tion and before applause rattled, I heard a voice in the booth next to "will happen." "Which." Lyon supplied with a ours. The band reviving, blotted it The dancers stamped and crooked grin, "is scarcely news to out. h,rlcd. I sat with my seidel still our family, eh? Good luck, old to my lips. Reason told me chap," he added, as I mumbled ,islf-waI was mistaken. My ears defied it farewell and backed sway. "Nice of ycu to hail us." "It's not poison," AUegra said. As I returned to my table, 1 craned I could not answer her. I was back at the switchboard at the Mo- my neck into the booth beyond. It re io and the wheel bad Just come was unoccupied. That voice could oiT M.ss Agatha's chair and I bad not have come from there. It had that identical voice to issued from where lone and Lyon UTt a voice number while I rushed to sat That meant then that Lyon t its I managed to smile at Allr gra but the old lary'a aid. Eut the owner of that vo;c was dead. I must be my pretense was poor. She asked: And yet I knew 1 was What is the matter?" n s taken "It's more than that." I told her, amazement and she glanced at me again as though she expected to find something in my eyes that was not there. We moved with the crowd into the lobby and to the street beyond :s ot em-ploy- wil n itr. Utah nted Skins to st prices. Lake Ciiy low-veil- KURD nrhea high-backe- d ?" 1 K-.i- y Mew nond j- 4it i r we CFf. n. h.u. servic VAN pc HISTORY OF THE STATE ROAD COMMISSION OF UTAH ' next booth." She dropped her voice to match mine. Her earnest eyes probed and pried at the mask I wore. "What happened?" I jeered to hide my own confu sion. 'You seem, my child, to have the wrong sort of hunches. Unless your brother is under the table, he had no date with her tonight They have been here since seven-thirty.- " She was only half satisfied, and mocked in turn: And I suppose your stampede to their booth was just a social call, eh?" She was the one person in the world to whom I wanted to tell everything and I knew I would gain merit in her eyes by confiding in her. She was watching me with a fairer version of her aunt's derisive grin. I only said: "Curiosity rather. I thought I recognized his voice." Perhaps, for that, the recording angel pasted a gold star on my report "You are," she told me, "the most chronic liar I ever met" "You're just beginning to appreciate my virtues," I answered. After a moment, she shivered a little and drew her coat up about her shoulders. "Can the rest of them be displayed in a taxicab?" she asked. "I think we'd better go." I knew she was worrying afresh over her brother. "There could be no better showcase," I boasted, as we rose. The band blared its climax; the dancing girls skipped back to their dressing room in a rattle of applause. Beer rested uneasily in my stomach as I got my coat and hat from the check girl. I found myself shivering. Not even the smile Allegra gave me as I helped her into the taxicab dispelled my misery. She was of the flotsam, the dark whirlpool into which we all were caught and whirled about ever more rapidly. We sat speechless while the taxi rolled uptown until silence grew uncomfortable. I said at last to keep thought at bay: "I'll remember this evening. It's one thing more I owe you and your aunt I hope the pay-of- f will come some day." I knew the words were stilted while I spoke, but only half my mind had followed them. Lyon had been the murderer. Why? Lyon had spoken over the telephone, again in the restaurant In a voice not his own. Or were those blunted cadences really his, and the faintly English speech he employed, part of a disguise he wore? Beside me, Allegra chuckled. "Must you," she asked, "behave like Electro, the mechanical man?" "Meaning what?" I beard something more than jest behind her question. She said, with an impatient gesture: "Meaning many things. Among them, your pretense of dumbness. You aren't dumb." "Thanks." "Or not" she pushed her attack, "as dumb as that Why don't you play fair?" There was earnestness in her speech. There was appeal on the face turned to mine. The world at the minute was filled with many things I was unfitted to handle. Her warm voice was blowing away everything but thought of how much I wanted bcr. I tried to get out of danger. "I'm at least," I told her, "that dumb. How haven't I played fair?" She did not answer for a minute. Then she said in a quiet voice: "I've told you more than I've ever told anyone else except Grove. I I trust you a lot Why don't you trust me?" "I'd trust you with anything that's mine," I said. I meant it too. She laughed, but not as if she were amused. "So you say," she answered. "You fall over a wine bucket you're in such a hurry to sea who is in the next booth." She gave me the sort of look that always robbed me of my wind. Then she made it worse by slipping her strong little hand In mine. Her bright bead was against my shoulder. "You're pretty swell at that" she said. I think the angel must have run out of gold stars before he laid aside my record that night If I forgot all but my need of her, it was because ber eyes and ber soft mouth dared me; if. for an instant I let go of everything I'd sworn to hold fast and kissed her, at least 1 caught myself on the way down. It wasn't the sort of kiss I, or she, wanted, yet it left us both breathless. There was ringing In my ears and I thought the cab had a flat till I found it was the pounding of my heart The pressure of the diamond and platinum coronet against my forehead helped me to let her . After a little, when I did not speak she asked In a shaky voice: "We!l?" I said none of the thine I wan!rl to. I just psltrd the hand I ttiU he lei g-- and dnpnrd it flO DE 1909 - 1939 tf.'.v.'.v. "Nothing in the world," I lied, and sitting down, hid my treacherous face in the beer seidel. When I lowered the emptied glass, I added: "Lyon and lone Ferriter are in the COVT1 ID) RICHARDS, Statistical By H. V. (ConttnuM from I.at Engineer two, send for design No. 8797, and make yourself this perfectly charming style at practically no y expense. It s flattering to your figure, with soft front ful ness in a skirt that sways and rip ples gracefully with your every step, and a corselet waistline, topped by gathers. The wide straps button across In the tack, you see, making it stay put securely on the shoulders. Make the jumper of plaid wool, Week) a contlnn- - State highways and this resvonst-anc- e of the above, was tha erner- - bility has Rradually prawn to an genry appropriation of SCOO.OOO.OOO Important function. Heceut addl-t- n Act in tions to the enslneerins personnel the 1934, and also the emergency Act are engineer In 19S3. of 1335, known as the Works Tro- - landscape engineer in 1935. mana-grawith an appropriation of ser of planning survey In 19", aud $400,000,000. This last was div'deci trafflo safety engineer la 1940. equally between highway projects Highway Safety and projects designed to protect Utah's efforts to lesson the mim-o- r eliminate grade crossing. A ber of accidents on the highways was variation in apportionment Wlth ther accompanying toll ot made with respect to the railroad death. Injury, and property a In thnt the crossing funds. age, has been greatly Intensified in f on was basis population, jcpm years through the increased on mileage of the Fed- - activity of ninny public and private eral-alhighway system and one-- aseneles interested in problems fourth on railroad mileage. Under pertaining to safety on the high-tri- e regulations Issued for admlnls- - wayg. The trend in accident of these funds each State Is perlence continued, however, to be required to apportion these funds, - unfavorable, and In 1939 Governor within practical limits, to the in- mood requested the State Koad dlvldually operated railroads in Commission to take the lnltlntive proportion to the mileage of each n preparing a plan for a State-suc- h railroad to the total railroad wide safety program, in August of that year there was mileage. The secondary road funds,!both for highway and grade cross- organized, at the call of Governor ing projects were used on local niood, the Utah Traffic Safety roads and streets in addition to Council, consisting of prominent projects within the State highway citizens of the State. Prior to the system. Included with Works I'ro- - organization of the Safety Conn-grawas the allocation of one ril, the Governor organized a of the funds to Initiate a fic Safety Coordinating Committee This of State officials Including repre-ha- s Highway Planning Surrey. been made a continuing activ- - sentatlves from the following Stale ity under subsequent laws. This- departments: tho tax commission, ends to date the emergency ap- road commission, public service proprlatlons. commission, department of public. In furtherance of the aids to instruction, and attorney general's secondary highways and grade office. This official group, and thee crossing projects inaugurated In citizen's council, cooperating emergency appropriations the gether are now engaged in l beginning with the Ing on an agressive highway year 1933 have Included ap- - ty program. The legislature. In 1937, empow proprlatlons for these purposes.! With respect to funds for second- - ered the road commission to spon-ar- y highways the apportionment to sor a program of thin typo, And In States and the administration of conformlty therewith, it is now expenditure conforms In all re- - furnishing the financial support for spects to that of regular Federal the safety council work, having executive aid except that the funds may not furnished it a be used on the Federal system of secretary. Tha program under way Is highways and may be used on both and State secondary roads, lgned to effect: (1) recommenda-Grad- e crossing funds are aflpor- Hons to the legislature for brlng-tlone-d to States and by the State lng Utah's traffic laws into con-t-o projects on each railroad in ac- - formlty with the uniform national cordance with the method de- - standard, (2) Improvement in the scribed for Works Program funds. accident reporting system, In crossing funds need not be mlnatlons for drivers' licenses, matched by the States in any pro- - tuecks on drivers' records, and an effective system of revocation or portion, of licenses tor cause, Current appropriations for Fed- - suspension adequately manned and eral-alboth regular and special 3 o.uPPd Police force for highway are greatly reduced in comparison Patro1 b? stat an1 ical agencies. with recent years, as shown In of prosecutors, Table D. However, comparisons w'ta cooperation g within an eighteen-yea- r period end-- ; Judges, (4and enforcement depart-ln-of Investigation filled June 30. 1939. disclose the very met8' ex sting in the great extent to which State nn9 traffic frnm th ...Pmenterl nn. ways. State and local, with recom- mendatlon for the removal or propriatlons which began with the hazardous conditions, year of 1930. The table Pr?vem1 education through traffic discloses that apportionments to (5) public Instruction n achools Utah for the nine years ending"? 30, 1930 totaled I7.2S6.16S. as eluding driver training, and driver ",v luiuuhu pnmturoH w Hh "SnP.7 179 for h of publicity, nine years ending June 30, 1939. ajl available means ot all persontraining The latter Includes $9,743,675 reg- (6) adequate nel. State and local, responsible for ular Federal aid, $3,377,145 for pub- lav enforcement and education, lic lands, grade crossing and secof accomplishments, (7) a follow-uondary funds, and $11,946,256 In and a study of the effectiveness ot emergency funds apportionments. safety measures, together with coDevelopment of the operation In the, researches In traffic conditions made by universities, Administrative Function During the first two years of Its and by Federal, State, and local 1909-10- , the commission agencies, operations, had only such engineering and Powers and Duties clerical force as was available In The commIagIon Jg emp0Wered to The make all tha State engineers office contracts for the construe emlaws of 1911 authorised the tlon ffiaIntenance of the State an(, Dloyment by the commission of an hgnwayg t0 formulate and execute engineering and clerical staff nrnrr.m. ,nr thm .rnpnrti,r. nf State road engineer pubI)(J funds thereon; an(1 , con. beaded by and chief clerk. The eng neer also BectIon therewlth to cooperate with officiated until 1921 as the secre- the Federal government and polltl- Administary of the commission. cat subdivisions of the State; to In was trative expense part prescribe the Qualifications paid and br allocations for the county State duties of all Its employees; to In motor road tax and part from divide the State highways Into sec vehicle license fees or from bond tions for administrative control; to were avail as Issues such receipts and police the highways and sign easeot the able until the coming reKtllate the nlle thereof by the o line tax. The first two pubIc and egtab,Hh ft departlrient commissions divided the roads Into of nghway 8afety for (h9 purpose i.ur un.riH. wiiu mc.i of cooperating with other govern- commlssloners under the Governor memal afrencins and civic organlra- In personal charge of a district t,ons , TeAucinK accdents on the There wm also appointed in each highways: to landscape and boautl-county one or more representatives fy tna hehways and furnish Infor- ot the commission who were des- - mat0I1 t0 tn9 puI)ue regarding Ignated as State road agents. These Cf,ndition of the roads and places employees were directly In charge nf ,ntcrcgt ,n th9 Etal, (Chapter of all work and all State property. 39 aw of i!)"7 Including equipment. Beginning in The commission Is authorized to 1913 resident engineers were added of way and other to the field force for supervision purchase torights be used In any manner and construction foremen were em- property in the administration of the State ployed on minor work, the State roads, (Chapter 28, Laws of 1933). road agents continuing In g"neral The commission distributes to charge of work In their rep"Ctlve counties and cities, In accordance counties. There were also added wl'h the provision of law the State- to the central office force a bridge aid funds aDnronriated frnm tha engineer ind other supervisory as- -otor vehicle registration fund, com-third slstants. ui.. -- n(1 rp,,,iatlnns nrovld- f- mlsslon abandoned In 1917 the Plan nfnrm rronntln In the ot supervision of districts by the expenditure of these funds and several commissioners and dels cooperates with the local officials gated this work to tour dwtrlrt en- - Jn pattlng Into effect the Intent and glneers. A testing laboratory was purpose of the act. (Chapter 40. nl Instilled In 1919, In the ampnae(i oy Chan- L,wg of 1937( of the State Capitol and a materials ter l aws of 1939). Th' inr.ect1on and trading! of engineer added to the engineering staff. In 1939 the laboratory was motor fuels offered for retail sale moved to Its new bnildlng on the Is made the responsibility of the Capitol grounds. commission, (Chapter C8, laws of The organization continued In 1939). when the an- this form until liy Its name the commission may polntlre commission abandoned the sue and It may be sued upon any dls'rlct plan, put all maintenance- written contract made tinder Its nnder the snpervlslon ot a main- authority. It Is permitted to settle tenance engineer and Initiated the all claims not in excess of two bun- he patrol dred and ffty dollars arising out plan of maintenance h system. The laws ot 21 reqiired of accidents or Injuries cunsed the commission to appoint a Btate through negligence of emplorees road engineer, subject te the an- - fit the commission, (Chapter 46, proval ot the Governor, tor a terra Laws of 1939). of foor years, bnt this provision rs) (T B Continent) was repealed In 1923, leaving the commission free to employ ail Its subordinates and prescribe their itnallflcatlons and duties. In 192 the the commislon reestablish1 plsn of district eurervlsion with of four and five districts abolished the position of E'ste road agent. The comml'Votl was empowered In 192J to police the Of like purpose, and dee-vinel- Hayden-Cartwrlg- right-of-wa- corduroy, jersey or velveteen; the blouse of flat crepe, challis or jersey. Detailed sew chart included. dam-grnd- one-hal- one-fourt- Pattern No. S797 Is designed for sizes 11, 13. IS. 17 and 19. Size 13 requires yards of i's yarnsblouse: Send order to: 8EWINO material for jumper; d material for yards tor short-sleeve- 2 riltn.E PATTERN DEPT. Ave. Calif. 149 New Montgomery Saa Francisco Enclose IS cents In coins tor Size Pattern No Name Address m Trar-perce- to-th- siifo-fisca- full-tim- e des-loc- Speed of Torpedoes HA U Most modern type torpedoes can be adjusted before being launched, making their speed vary according to the distance they are to travel. For instance, the most powerful types about 21 Inches in diameter and more than 20 feet long can travel through water for approximately six miles at a maximum speed of 30 miles an hour before their power is spent. It adjusted for a shorter distance, however, the same torpedo will travel for one, two or three miles TUNIORS are simply mad about at a speed of 40 miles or better jumpers this season, and their an hour. Pathfinder. great favorite is the pinafore jumper I If your clothes budget Is just about used up and you're still pining for a pinafore jumper or Salt Lake's NEWEST HOTEL hJA wwwww www www Jisk Me Jlnolher s. ft A General Quiz Q d hlgh-hnflto- rt f""ia cuu.-ai.w- u p c ex-of- 1 1. Who 1 The Questions guage? speaks the Romany lan 2. Can birds look at an object with both eyes at the same time? 3. who asked "Am I my broth- er's keeper"? 4. The name Joe Miller is associated with a bonchead play in baseball, a stale joke, or the man oa the flying trapeze? 5. Where was "the shot heard around the world" fired? 6. How many vice presidents have later become President? The Answer Gypsies speak the Romany language. 2. The owl is the only bird that can; all others have to use one eye or tha other to see a single thing. 1. 3. Cain. 4. A stale Joke. 5. Concord. 6. 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