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Show s DUST i ovic ivadio J By horse he had ridden AFrEB would be taken back to Snodds. 13 3 saw them pass Hodge, covered with dirt and gasp4 ing from his run, staggered up Just a"d as Frank was helping her into the addle the to fast ef- - car. horse In the urgmg his Is is she all right? Bart panther. I I tried to ed. bulked to his horse, You did all you could to stop her arid the creature horse, I saw J understand. It took the Merry admitted. had stamina as you try. dly. Inza was still too shocked and is speed. dazed to say anything at all, but over the crest. Merry Now Inza was before her home was reached she again. horse and had recovered enough to warn her frightened Again Frank Frank not to tell her father what as gaining. mount to fly still had happened. his flying creature Hes an invalid, was her exAnd the splendid Hes had a nervous ,n faster. planation. d drum-breakdown and we dont let him above the staccato on the hear the animals feet anything thatll upset him in sound the least. another heard Weve never told him he road, nerves a nasty jerk, what happened that day in Mr. jve his whistle of a loco-Th- e Snodds grove. The doctor wont the distant whistle of the Limited, allow him even to read the newgates, of spapers. e were crossing crazed now Bernard Burrage was taking his butlnza's horse, crash daily afternoon rest in bed when aided by terror, would or turned, they reached the house, and that em unless stopped made it easier for Inza, who had cture of a frightful tragedy heart feared her own nervous condition Franks brought iiEg might cause him to suspect somes mouth. fast now. thing. Hodge was gaining Now dont forget, not a word to Urging his mount s close. my father, should he awaken, and and voice, he was she pleaded.. He reached for the Frank, Not a word, replied Frank. and missed of Inzas horse For the time being she withhad ie animal he bestrode in held some of the truth from her d. 03 he went to sprawl aunt, who was the housekeeper. She st of the road. Sabbath quiet of Fardale was ed by the mad clattering of feet on the town's main Persons astir were electri-- s they saw the runaway, stout-hearte- d nued vin-cnti- frfd (f en-y- J ' X draw-mgsid- e. iza still frantically fighting to along that street crossing. They dumb with the d or were as they saw the pursuing go tearing the railroad it, face white and his straining r efforts. lis ited. Lnute, Almost furi-urgin- making close to a whistled for the runc- exhausted girl fighting the last bit of her ebbing Hth to check the fear-mad- g creature. He saw Frank S also, driving his own in a final spurt to reach Inza Je her horse should crash into Mer-comin- fcwered l gate the flying Igh Fardale, king a must d bars. Limited, roaring would reach the after the run-- 9 hurtle head-oagainst bars. Jen 3 the bar withstood the i, nothing could keep the girl catapulting over the horses the bar and on to the fad track. gate tender gasped and tjf n those "Now Dont Forget, Not a Word to My Father. merely said that her horse had be- come frightened and run with her It and that Frank had saved her from a nasty accident. against Ill tell her the whole of it later, when Im not in such a funk mythe long run had told on Inshe said to Merry when Mrs. self, horse a little. Her last des-- e left the room for a minute. Clayton effort to check him had He have left her then and would d him up some. It was enough returned to the school, but she asked Frank come alongside. He him not to go so soon. Ive got to have a talk with just ran this way! Let go! Now!" she declared earnestyou, W Frank, that moment she hadnt Weve got our wires all crossed ly. n he was in pursuit, but wait for me to get out of Please up. she did not seem to Into something else. I and this at all made rig her obey instant- wont be long. It was queer, or maybe it wasn't, had come up on her right and but he was willing enough to wait. se caught her out of the saddle There was something about her, and jus left arm. That arm held he was beginning to think it was dangling, tight against him as more than the fact that she was irgcd on the right rein of his such a positive stunner, that now him made !? ready to do more than a missed the rear of the little otor car waiting. that had stopped So he sat in the pleasant library distance back from the gate. and talked to Mrs. Clayton, who reLimited boomed over the vealed herself to him as a widow as borse rider and res-giand Mr. Burrages sister. disappeared into a nar- Of course Mrs. Clayton was natbetween two small Ea urally curious about the details of buildings. what had happened when Inzas iftoT6 coming' on foot and horse ran with her, but he escaped i breathless with excite- seeming to be offensive by laughhe would let Inza tell it boy and girl at ingly saying herself. blind alIey. which cut She came down shortly in a dainty a slledHe was frock that had bewilderingly altered IroiLVhe Eround his arm her appearance. her up. I them t6 j1"''thebolding Outwardly at- least, she had sweat.covered t shaken off the shock of her uni sides heaving. adventure. ,0 Inza as pleasant ty ash! Spe,akng But I've forgotten all about d Which was not Walter, she said, laughing. That s 9 5U ,for now he was very me. the champion forgetter. SomeI shjkI' blmselfHe was Cher sh? body's sure to tell him about the 311 right' which runaway, and he'll turn a handqlte needlcss t0 spring. So Im going to phone him er. She ove?thldmghershak- - now and let him know Im all okay. but she them lw" berJ eycsIll make It snappy, Frank. Inza 8t hIm Mrs. Clayton smiled as aword00 g danced lightly away into the next She's always happened room to telephone. qUl 6 SUch a sensa-hin- g obU Frank' making things snappy," she modull a Performance in served. She can turn it,,. runaway horse ment into a blaze of fireworks when fcfore the jCrashed bito she wants to. d She excused herself now, and Inza Trnistory title with of found Merry alone in the library mad dog had when she returned. She came 5lVeb a k:rtH-fcat oing tWist by Pete straight to him and gave him both coVtUS.ed skeptics to of her warm hands. 01 tToo ut.this Was dif- she said, weve got to Now, " we go from here, witnesses find out where epared to!3'6 f'fltookT5 CnCe doubters. and theres only one way to do it. Bart .71 itaxi after"73 orne in Tony Ive got to talk to you aboutwhy 1 1 making sure the Hodge. I want to tell you Jd his red flag frantically. useless, a ridiculous thing to Like puffing a hurri- - some--thoug- h rl J - - d - ,k'Ck 'T'HESE are stirring times in motion radio, pictures I found Silas Gleason had said that. and newsreels for all three Then I had another talk with Bart. "Just turned yourself into a have reached a new high peak of achievement. With guardian angel, eh? I'm no angel, Frank. Til never the Toscanini symphony consprout wings. But I felt there was certs the National Broadcasta mystery about him that I wanted to pry Into. So I got out my pry ing company has deservedly and went to work. Maybe that won the greatest audience rewasnt nice, but I did it. Now, sponse, the highest tributes Frank, Im going to tell you some from music critics, composthings In strict confidence, and I ers and musicians. wouldnt do it if I wasnt sure you'll Norman Alleys Universal newsnever spill one of them to another reel of the bombardment of the confidentially. soul Bart much less than "I know what youve thought of living U. S. S. Panay is my friendliness with Bart, for Im anybody." Merriwell was uncomfortable. He graphic history that- U not dumb even If youve Imagined didn't feel like being made the brings to every citi- J, so. aczen a sealed receptacle of Hodges perHe flushed. of the outracount Was shs a ? sonal secrets, but she went on swift, geous conditions our is fac-in- g Im going to betray a confidence ly: government "Already, before coming here, ' to you. in the Orient. In she went on frankly, hed made a flop in two schools, though I didnt mean to do so un- and that had turned his father the field of fictional til today until I heard you give motion pictures f Bart credit for doing his best to stop against him. His dads one cf those Snow White and narrow men without un- the Seven Dwarfs, my runaway horse. That proved or Id say Walt Disneys derstanding first something to me, something I was hes a cold fish. sympathy. feature-lengtfanta- - VVall pretty sure of before. It proved Disney He inherited money and never sy, is a youre fair enough, generous glittering did to else of. All anything to speak milestone. Any day now, Dopey, enough, give an enemy his Just dues. And It makes you different his life hes been living by a pat- the little dwarf who never learned from almost every other fellow I tern, and he gets sore because his to talk because he had nothing to son doesn't do so too. They don't ever met. say, will take his place In your His flush deepened. Tve never hook up very well. Barts father hearts along with Mickey Mouse round it gets you much to knock never had a wild bone in his body, and Donald Duck. anybody, even an enemy, he said. and so he cant get it when his only Maybe I should have said, espe- hopeful flies high and goes into a Paramount and Warner Brothers . Every are cially an enemy. For when you nose dive or a crack-upgoing to remake some old piche untime fire that knock an enemy people know youve puts happens tures of theira, having failed to find got it In for him and the knock has der Bart. new story material as good. any But mother Barts a kick-bacthat hits you right beShes dead. He's got a step- Paramount has selected The Lettween the eyes. So maybe In my ter as the first starring vehicle case you should call It a plain bit mother. Well now maybe that explains for Isa Mirande, famous Italian ao of sense Instead of generosity, In. g tre,ss. This story, a it." za." was Somerset thriller by Maugham, But it doesnt Shes not the Well, then Its your plain sense first filmed some ten years ago, and of thinka kind youre Im going to shoot at, Frank. Her was an outstanding success among smile was compelling and he knew ing about. Only for her Bart Warner early talking pictures. he was falling for the spell of It. wouldnt be still trying. feel that It Is high time to Brothers InThen believe hes trying, you I had to work fast to get a little This time film "Trilby .again. sense Into Barts head the day he za? Claude Rains and either Anita Loubut handihes to Sometimes, took his heels and left you to Olivia de IlaviUand will play He was brought up as a ise or capped. protect me from that mad dog. and Trilby. Srenhall He came here to see me that rich mans son and he's apt to be I the intolerant size Thats way very afternoon, and if ever a fellow was sunk he was. You cant him. When you read that Well, what" made a film test in New York and imagine how humiliated and Wait a minute, Frank. Let me was sent to Hollywood under conashamed he was, Frank. He came to say good-by- , for he had made up lay It all on the line first. Bart tract to make pictures, it may not his mind to get out of Fardale be- went in for sports against the wishes sound impressive. It should, howfore the sun went down. He knew of his father, who never took any ever, for last year out of 52,000 just what hed made himself look interest in athletics. Now his fa- applicants, only 56 won contracts. like, and he just didnt have the ther lays Barts flops to the time Variety, the authoritative trade pastomach to face it out in the school. he's spent on football, baseball and per of the theatrical world, checked I was ready to burn him up my- other things outside the usual cur- up and found that of the 52,000 apself. I was just waiting to do it riculum. And hes threatened that plicants, only 6.050 had auditions. Is going to be That was why Id seen him at all. one more blow-ou- t Among these, 360 were given screen for Bart." too bad his all tests. Most spectacular successes life, just Then he told me that "But I dont see how I can ever since he could remember, he among the young players sent to But you can do a lot for Bart, Hollywood a year or so ago are had had an unreasoning fear of to do now is overFrances Farmer, Don Ameche, and dogs. It had made him hate all and all you need look his bad breaks and keep shootTyrone Power. dogs. And suddenly I understood, for I, too, am silly that way. I ing straight with him. Hell come have to force myself not to be afraid round in time. I've seen signs of it Motion - picture producer. are of dogs I know are perfectly harm- already. He has admitted to me around trying to think of scurrying less. A ridiculous little Dachshund grudgingly, that youre not the sort some new formula for making musiwere. of he fellow you figured can give me panicky jitters just by because they cant go cal But youve asked me to be on pictures,them yapping at me. Isnt it goofy, bigger, Rosalie making I and Inza. with cant him, Frank! friendly of the camera to the stretches eye But Hodge has some other quali- imagine our ever getting on that its utmost limits. It has armies ties that are not so admirable, ei- basis. of dancing girls, platoons of singYou never can tell whatll hapther, said Frank. It has airplanes, boats, footI know it! He ers, I know. Im coming to them. pen, Frank. Don't It ha more of everyball players, But first let me tell you how I had was all shot over his failure to stop thing than you have ever seen awan he and him you gave my horse, to go to work on him to make into one picture. A lovely I ful queer look when you said so crowded give up the idea of running away. Ilona Massey, whom you newcomer, he had done his best. The appealed to his pride. I told him he promptly heard on the radJo, have probably so sound to good story isnt going would look to me like an to see and hear want makes you can make it sound a for him, but you quitter if he did that, not just Nelson of her. more Eddy works how he tried. fellow with a silly fear of dogs. better by telling with all his heroic and valiantly litfallen a his soothe pride That was how I got under his skin That'll do that much, at vocal might. and made him give me his word not tle. Won't you least? to quit. Frank laughed now, his spontanewere Infinitely less pretentious, but said you brother L your in the array of public idols thatll Why. infectious laugh. in ous, generous that appeared hot over the piece Inza. And Id do much it introduces is the newspaper later. He said you be easy, for more you. Merry Go to Hodge. were ready fry ! Round. out she Gangsters her off the flung also, I deep go Laughing Well. I was. led by Leo Carrillo end that way sometimes, before I hands again, impulsively, and , j take over a record- she said, Now, I caught his hands. get all the angles on a thing. those ing company, and crossed weve and got "I guess j then hadnt seen the newspaper then, the fun and Let s not Frank. said all wures had clear, Bart it I heard the way noise begin. Mixed again. snarled and up sick them get the old dog was merely in the procccd- ; up (TO BE COMIMED) not mad at all, but when I read it i ings are Joe DiMag-gio- , baseball star, t Gene I Shortest, Autry and his Claims Ohio City 1 ) cowboy band, Kay No in and her Thompson Smallest JoeDiMaggio radio chorus. Cab here. We have a lovely front Calloway and Ted Lewis and their Berlin may have her Unter Den play yard of the post office just bands, singing Phil Regan and TaLinden. Rome her Corso and Paris yard the way and dont have the mara Geva. The story never tries across this but her Avenue de LOpera, of caring for it. to make sense. Just goes jocularly bother of 10,000 town little Ohio river-fron- t Federal avenue became a thoralong its way with blasts of music, other to the its name when from persons goes and gained the oughfare crooning to and boasts what is probably the new postoffee building was writes world, the in avenue smallest Pedesin erected many years agj. a Bcllaire, Ohio, correspondent DOYT IOOK SOir BUT -J- im it frequently as a short use trians Dealer. t Grunt! street. the Cleveland Plain Main twrnly-ltown's Amrthp, the to cut thorheld the hitth school of once Federal avenue, a narrow Until cement, blocks slur, with It is paved north the on (lihnUny championship in Ktnutha. used for sideoughfare bordering office, not the type generally It is. . . . l.uisc Barclay, A II C's Woman side of the Bcllaire post and approximately is walk and paving, in K hilc," studied to be a concert pi onlv is probably the shortest anist as did Itulli Bailey, smmdars world but is 50 yards long. smallest street in the leud on the same show . . . hbher McIt is half a block from the one on which the only be to believed of town and omy ten paces Gee is an imentor of numerous house traffic of any eight-stor- y hold paditets, incluiliny a dm ire uhtch there is no vehicle from the tallest b u i : p the National Bank building. enables Molly to open the icebox door First k!The street has no traffic lights lived here uilh a fool lever ulten she approai hes Many residents have parking-beca- use for never it uilh loaded platters in both hands have no and space and an entire lifetime oung-ster- s . . . I ranees Carton, leading woman in wide. 32 inches avenue, although it is exactly all day heard of Federal Attorney at I an, is the granddaughstreet in this s smallest can play is probably the woi.d of John Carton, fit si mun ever to ter it of approachU hilcomb long without thought print the poems of James or street thoroughfare. busses Biley . . . first lighter star, ls-- 7 raing automobiles, asked you to be friends with him." Inzas words gave Frank a small Jolt She had kept him there to talk about Bart Hodge, and that was not so good. Almost anything else, he thought, would be better. She saw a faint cloud pass over his face and spoke again "Now dont get me wrong, quickly: Frank. Wait till youve listened in on what Im going to tell you." 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