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Show Ask Me O Another u tin eh A Quiz With Answers Offering Various Subjects Calm With the Calm What countries have dictators rior, but, of course, he did not at present? actually hold such a title. ' 2. Is there any guide to the . 5. Military rifles drive their bullength ot sentences when one is lets at speeds of from 2,000 to 3,000 feet per second. The Ger-licpreparing a lecture? bullet, one of the speediest, , 3. How is GPU (Russias secret is capable of traveling almost a police) pronounced? 4. By what title was Commodore mile a second. 6. In the 33 years of its existPerry known to the Japanese? 5. How fast do bullets travel? ence the Carnegie hero fund has 6. How many Carnegie hero awarded 19 gold medals, 551 silver medals have been awarded? and 2,395 bronze medals. 7. What is the famous hot 7. The Great Geyser is a hot spring in Iceland? spring of southwestern Iceland. 8. Who are the rulers now in Although in medieval times it sent jets of hot water three times daily to a height of several hundred feet, weeks now elapse beAnswers 1. The principal dictatorships tween its eruptions. 8. The rulers in exile at present are Russia, Austria, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Hungary, Bu- are William II of Germany, Alfonso XIII of Spain, Ferdinand of lgaria, Albania and Mexico. 2. There is the generalization Eulgaria, Haile Selassie of Ethis of Saxthat sentences should not be long. opia, words is a safe maxi- ony. Prince Otto of Hapsburg, Twenty-fou- r heir to the throne of Austria and mum. 3. GPU is pronounced Gaypay-oo- Hungary, may be added. but only by foreigners. Russians do not mention the name, Time Repays Labor sometimes referring to them as three-letter men. Time is an Estate that will prothe 4. For diplomatic purposes duce nothing without culture, but Perry created for himself the title will always abundantly repay the of Lord of the Forbidden Inte labors of industry. Johnson. 1. h CIR1S "I know sol Quentin shouted, room door, bringing aD his skill, suddenly mad with impatience. every ounce of strength and knowlJust lie quiet there, Spencer, he edge and inspiration that he could v. . "ghat couldn't fct done, Serene," i paid quietly. "I have never added to the patient "and weD get muster to the saving of Spencer ease. But Xm positive I you out of this if we can. Morrison's life, and Serena was In Wieve I know Dr. 'I've got an even break? Spen- her bedroom only a few feet away - little win . aig W' Mt Ot XW-CmU- mm4 1- 8- Cud-vwt- fc fant seriously suggesting asay do as you think best, t".. . the other doctor said 1 would have entire hi fa anything you saw lit to da Bat I personally must decline the rapenslMlity. MJ have nothing to do with it," said briefly. Serena turned "To ble tbfa .H ut k: .."Spencer had acute Indigestion, and he's got a bad heart, she said. "But believe me, if theres any in- vestlgatlon. If there's one word of talk, youre In this, too, Quentin Hardistyl fll not stand It I'll not face a coroner and be Questioned, while you are qjuieOy enjoying yourself aver there on the lawn with your wife, laughing and carrying the children into the house! "X dont think thatll happen, Qusntfa said. But Vicky saw that I wish you'd his face was pale. ae earlier! do you know whatll hap1 know. I pen! Serena said. can faB you! We had a coroners when Gita's father Imnsstlgstlon I know what it means! You'D fa sign that death warrant or ID have to drag your it You and Ive talked 1 wed do if he died; you can't at if they put you on oath! i knows what weve been to each other; you had a motive for gfafagi me something that would put him to sleep. He told Dr. Cud-- . worth here that I wanted to get rid of him. . "Vie, do you want to stay? asked in an undertone, as breathless voice died to silence, nt your sort of thing. "Xa Vlc wont go, Serena said utwMfaheat "You dont think Vic flnssnt know that you love me, that you've been following me, making me presents, writing me letters. q., Mw looked at Vicky, looked away; he spoke quietly. r knows just how badly Ive he said. her, Serena, She .always known, from Die be-glaring. Im not trying to wriggle etttfOat. If you were really fool to give Spencer sleeping or anything else, Ym in it you. There's no question that you sen drag my name and my children's names in the mud, if you You can take those let-- i 'Want t faro into court Tetters saying, Tf it weren't far Spencer . . . Serena interrupted him. "Totters saying everything. .Quentin said in a low voice, with ''a level glance at her. "Letters saying everything!" he repeated. "But one thing isnt true,.' he went ; on slowly. "I've never loved but one woman in all my Dfe; never, ' no matter what I said or wrote or did. Ive always loved my wife, -' ways, always held her in a place by herself! Vicky went over to him arid dropped her hand into his, but he did not glance at her or seem to know fast she was there. Serena said. "Sol "How nice! the biD alone. How very nice! pay "Ha you and I'D both pay!" Quentin said. "And she'D pay, toa It means disgrace for us aD. Than was a sound at the door of fas Invalid's room; the amah came Ut with an agitated face, shaking her heed. Serena gave a short and, turning, went across the haU to her own room and went fate it and closed the door. The two doctors and Vicky faced the fhtMM woman as she came toward them. Her Jargon was unintelligible to Quentin. The promised nurse, hatted, coated, cold, rosy, cams .upstairs. "Amah says Spencer heard your voice and wants to speak to you, Vicky interpreted. "liy God, when I saw her face I thought fae poor fellow was gone! Dr. Cud worth ejaculated. "So did II Vicky said. Quentin had "Do you mean rfHhiMii her arm; his Angers bit Into it like a vise, he was almost What dyou mean? Isn't ghwitg ' he gone? "Oh, no; but Quentin, theres no hope. Vicky said. "Haiter say other doctor come now, the amah said in a singsong. "Yea come in with me, for God's f.k, Hardisty, and see what you think!' Cudworth said, as they sD went together to Spencer's door. Vicky heard Quentin mutter as if ' he sprite to himself: "We aD stand there talking while the poor fellow dies! ' Then they were in the sickroom; Vicky watching her husband'a rsth-c- r than the patient's, face, her own i face redecting the fluctuations of feeling she saw there. , "Quentin, the sick man said, r clutching at his hand, aD personal ?' feeling forgotten in the grips of life and death, "you can do something - for me, can't you? For Gods sake got mo out of this, operate, dP anything!. That ass there, he whis- ' pered, with a flickering glance at that agitated Cudworth, tells me Im washed up. Theres something you can do? Quantin spoke urgently, definitel' w tt; WIKJ juste Otfct nt fa t puri; oar fa ui her." WORT ID fa : UTS . i Mr! Uk ol) te mi R a HI' ns ils't I' a. mm 1- : H Ai. Ai! ejac-"idat- B ie - f i: I X 1 J cer asked. Hot quite so good. We won't know quite what chance you've got until weve gone a little further. Ah, heres our nurse. We want a surgical bath here, nurse, as fast as you esn manage it; weve no time to waste." Vicky ran downstairs, ran upstairs for sheets; Serena was not in evidence, and nobody asked for her. The nurse suggested a rubber sheet and Anna panting in with the big bundle, was sent flying back to the Hardistyi' for one. Presently there was nothing for Vicky to do except sit on a chair in the ball and wait and think and wait Quentin came out with a nurse's white apron tied on him back to front and asked for soda, Just plain kitchen soda And you might as weD go home, Vic; this'D take it out of you. Na I'D wait Quent has he a chance?" "I'm afraid not but we'D try. Theyre putting him under now; we'D know in an hour. "She couldn't? Vicky glanced at the closed door of Serena's room .She wouldnt have dime it! she whispered. I dont know. But it's not for him Pm fighting, Vic," Quentin said. "It's for aD of us. Its touch and go now; if he lives, we live, and if he dies, I may have gotten you into something youD never get out ot my desr. "YouD lx. In It too! ID be in it toa Oh, she couldn't get me in as an accomplice, Quentin said. But she could do enough to ruin us alL Wed have to go away, Via Wed go away. And the story would follow us, and follow the children. Thats aD Ive done to you! Quentin said. The woman the amah has produced a bottle, half full, that would kiD ten men. Our one hope is that . ! y;-. "Vter get to a telephone and teD Anna fa come over right away with that big package thats on my desk; its from Lengfeld's she can't miss Rush it! And Just as soon as youve done that, get the amah to get plenty of hot water, boiling water. I suppose there's a table here, a fang table, flat "You think so, Doctor? faltered the other doctor. it ; "Ive Get an Even Break? Spencer Asked. It was about a dose, and in lemonade. Lemon is the only anti-aci- d that touches it! If anything saves him, thatD save him that ia if we get to the kidney in time. You wiD! Vicky said, with her faithful eyes on his and her world rocking about her and her Ups ten-tim- white. "You oelieve in God, don't you? Quent asked,' almost absentminded-ly- . - "I da "Then while Pm in there, you pray, Vic. He kissed her without smiling, without seeming even to see her; released her from his arms. My God, you sre a tower of strength to me, he said. You are a rock of help! Pray for everything we've got, while Pm in there the kids and the home everything! I always I always thought thought," Quentin muttered, turning away, that I'd like my boys to be proud of their father. My kids." He went into the sickroom, and Vicky waited. There was a big Spanish chair in the upper hab of the Morrison place, and she sat in it and clasped her hands to keep them stUl and prayed. A Navajo blanket, richly striped with yellow and black and scarlet, had been hanging over the black iron railing of the stairway; she wrapped it about her; the night was bitterly cold CHAPTER XV Silence and night and vigiL Unseen somewhere a clock struck the outside in hours and the the dark a rising wind whined uneasily, and now and then a broken branch skittered on the tiling of the roof. In the upper haDways of half-hour- s; the Morrison house me lamp burned softly, steadily; from the n door that led into Spencers room came sounds: Low volcea the creaking of a bed and the clinking of ice, and once a sort of bubbling groan that made Vicky's heart stop for a moment in terror. She prayed, trying not to think, drowsed, awakened with a start to find that it was not aD a strange dream. She reaDy was here in the Morrison house in the middle of the night, Quentin was behind that bed half-ope- somehow living through the hours that would decide whether or not she would be tried on a charge of murder. What was she doing? Vicky wondered. She had swept away from the group hours earlier, had closed her bedroom door upon whatever she was experiencing, suffering. Furious with fear, the accusing eyes of both doctors upon her, their flat refusals to perjure themselves in protecting her stiff ringing In her astounded ears, and Spencer struggling in death throes of her causing, she had angrily withdrawn. Had she flung herself down on her bed and fallen into dreamless sleep? Vic wondered. "But I'm just magnifying the whole thing into an absolute bugaboo! Victoria told herself. "It won't happen that way! Spencer wUl die iff an operation, Quentin can sign a certificate about that; anyway, and Cudworth won't talk, hes got his own professional reputation to protect be doesnt want to be mixed into any murder trial! She'D go away, and this time next year we'D be worrying about something else! She could reassure herself for a moment; then the solitude and silence of the night began to work their speD again, and Victoria felt with a sort of desperation that if Quentin didnt come out of that room pretty soon . . . The amah appeared presently, looking like a little old mahogany cotton carving in a coat. "Fix room for nurse, she whispered, and Vicky was glad to go with her to the spare room, help her in the warming human business of making beds and arranging towels. He wasnt dead yet, anyway! Before they had finished, Quentin and Dr. Cudworth joined them. Quentin looked exhausted; his hair was tumbled, and his operating gown, one of Miss Fierces aprons put on backward, was spattered with red. He took off the apron. "Excuse my appearance, Vic, he said, sitting down panting. "My Lord, but that was quick work! "How is he? Vicky asked. But even before she asked It, the blood had come back to her heart and she had had time to feel an al most frightening first ecstasy of hope. Dr. "Hes doing remarkable, Cudworth said. "And he can thank your good husband here. You are, in my opinion, a genius. Dr. Hardisty. "Oh, Quent, there isn't really a chance? "Magnificent constitution, and his own feeling wiD help, Quentin still ghastly pale and breathing hard, said to the other doctor. And then to Vicky, Everything is as good as it can be; better, I would say. He open:d his eyes and looked at me; it didn't take him five minutes to get his bearings. Vicky sat down in a winged chair and put her hands over her eyes and began to cry, and Quentin, leaning over to pat her on the back, laughed with tears in his own eyes. of myself!" "I'm she stammered, looking up to smile through wet lashes. .But but it saves us sD! It saves us all, Quentin. I've . beep sitting out there alone, thinking and thinking. "Did she come out at all? the local doctor asked in the pause. "Mrs. Morrison? She's probably packing," QuenI imagine she'D get out tin said. right away. It would be the best thing aD round if she did. Oh, but Quentin, the relief! Vicky's eyes shone like stars; it was too good to be true,' too good If you hadnt come to be true! she said back from the hospital! with a shudder. If youd stiU been in Germany! Quentin, wiD there have to be an investigation now, will there be any talk iff poison? I don't think so, Quentin said somewhat uncertainly, looking at his colleague. The other doctor repeated the phrase more decidedly. I'm extremely glad to wash my hands of the whole thing, Dr. Cudworth said. He's warned now, and I think we might give the nurse a hint; it seems to me we might I am going to talk to both nurses; I've had this girl telephone for another, Quentin said, and once again Vicky thought that he was black-and-whi- two men; the Quentin who was the children's adored "Dad, easy and quiet and quite willing to take their word for anything, to listen to them, to learn from them, and this other Quentin, who held life and death in bis big square hands. It would be better to get him into a hospital, of course, but we can't move him now. You say Serena hasn't shown up at all? he asked Victoria, when they were all out in the haD again. Not a sound. WiD you wake her up? I'm going to take a look at Spencer. Amah here wUl let the nurse go down for some coffee. Ive got to talk to Serena Victoria crossed the upper haD, turned the knob of Serena's door, and sprite from the threshold: "Serena! There was complete darkness within. Serena's apartment was on the western side of the house, and the first dim grayness of dawn that had struck into the kitchen, and that was now timidly attacking the eastern world, had made no entrance here. There was black night beyond Serenas window, and in the room vague, darker shadows. Vicky groped inside the door casing, found a switch, and inundated the place with soft, rosy light Everything was orderly enough. Vicky had seen these pink taffeta fittings before, the d doD and Manwalls, the darin lamps, the black worsted dog with the beady eyes. But there was in the silence here now something Indefinably frightening. Her heart beat fast with terror. Sereua, stiU wearing the pale lavender dressing gown in which Vicky had first seen her last night was lying flat across the unopened bed. The delicate pink taffeta covers stiff were spread in their daytime position, and flowed over the dais in thick rich flouncing and folds. At the top of the low wide bed, a halfcircle of finely pleated silk rose like a mooa Beside the piDows were the night tabla and the pink telelamps, the phone, the book in a tooled veDum cover that Serena had been reading. "Serena Spencers better. They think he wiD live. Quentin wants to speak to you! Silence. The rooms mistress lay as she might have lain in a moment of sleep. She was lying on her back, her beautiful hair loosened and falling in a. cascade .over her shoulder, one arm hanging relaxed over the edge of the bed. Vickys heart suddenly rose into her throat, and she felt her knees weakea She dared not turn her back' on this room. Instead she backed slowly away, heard the men emerging from Spencers room; turned to show them an ashen face and to clutch at Quentin's arm. Frederick-Augustu- h The silentest thing is a bomb unDon't peck and pound at conditions when theyre calm. The man who is always running after new friends gets the most snubs. The worlds real revolution Is the steady change to a better and fuller sense of humanity in the hearts of men. Creditors are grateful to debtors who pay promptly, but there is no use denying there is a sense of trip umph in collecting an old account. Belief may be one part credulity and all the rest a desire to get til it explodes. something. Proof of the Value The value of time is most vividly shown in what the universe has made of itself. About the third day the good time a man pretends he Is having when his wife is out of town is thoroughly deflated. We don't know but that Ed Howe said this: "When you can read a man like a book you usually find him a primer. The young man who says what he likes gets over that folly. He who laughs last will tell the anecdote wrong when he repeats it. pink-brocad- long-legge- Oh, Quentin, shes YOU GET EXTRA PROTECTION AGAINST BLOWOUTS-ei- ght extra pounds of rubber are added to every 100 pounds of cord by the Firestone patented Gum Dipping process. By this process every fiber in every cord in every ply is saturated with liquid rubber. This counteracts dangerous internal friction and heat that ordinarily cause blowouts. YOU GET EXTRA PROTECTION AGAINST PUNCTURES-bcca- use under the tread are two extra layers of GumpDipped cords. YOU GET EXTRA PROTECTION AGAINST SKIDDING because the tread is scientifically designed. YOU GET LONGER NON-SKI- D MILEAGE because of the extra tough, tread. Firestone Standard Tires give you all these extra value features because they e are tires built with only asleep, I guess, but don't go in there! Don't Shes lying on her bed she didnt go to bed I sprite to her and she didn't stir. What's the matter, Vicky? Quentin asked, surprised, weary. What did she say? Has she fainted? He went toward Serena's door. Vicky, with a little gasp iff fright followed along beside him. Again she looked at the rosy besuty of Serenas room: the pink lights on delicate pink silk, the litter of beautiful luxurious nothings with which Serena had surrounded herrug, silver frames self, a rabbit-skiand vases, tortoise - shell fitting mounted in gold for the desk at which Serena wrote only love notea Wait a minute! Quentin said sharply. He went to the bed, touched the figure lying there; gripped the unresponsive shoulder with a big hand and shook it Serena! he said. And thea turning to Vicky and the other doctor: long-wearin- g first-quali- ty high-grad- materials and patented construction features. You SAVE MONEY because you buy this high quality and extra value at such low prices. Before leaving on your vacation trip, join the Firestone SAVE A LIFE Campaign by equipping your car with a set of new Firestone Standard Tires todays top tire value. See your nearest Firestone Dealer or Firestone Auto Supply and Service Store. n Look here! What to it? Cudworth asked, advancing into the room. Dead! Quentin said. Vicky was clings Oh, no! Who would do it, who would do it? She's done it herself, eh? Cudworth asked. He. stooped and picked from the floor something that glittered brightly in the soft light Ye didn't care for that investigation, did ye, my lady? the rid man queried, starir.g down at the dead! woman with a shrewd light in his Oh, no, Quent! ing to his arm. eyes. Suicide! Vicky whispered. Yes; she did it herself," Quentin muttered. Look there! (TO BE COM IMED) Personality Habits Set in Childhood; Bossy Children Aggressive, Report Says The child who bosses his playmates in nursery school wiD be among the college students whose and personalities are aggressive, according to a report made at the annual meeting of the Midwest Psychological association. Ross Stagner, of the University of Akron, reported results of a study of 130 college students at the People's Junto college in Chicago. The facts were collected in 1934-3when Stagner was teaching in this Junto college. When those students who report having been bullied by others in childhood are put in one group and those who were not bullied In another, he said, the 'bullied' group is considerably more emotional or sensitive. They worry more and are more inclined to feel inferior. "Summarizing the results of the study, we msy say that marked changes in personality between J HaijAi Information on childhood and adolescence are the exception and not the rule. A ten- tative explanation suggests that personality habits are established during the first few years of life by the treatment of parents, friends, etc., and as the child practices acting in a certain way, he gets more and more set in that way of re- D0NT RISK YOUR LIFE ON SMOOTH WORN TIRES DO YOU KNOW THAT last year highway accidents cost the lives of more than 38,0C9 men, women and children? Thu! a million more were injured? 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