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Show I THE BULLETIN. BINGHAM. UTAH THE-'-GIFT-WIFE..- . By RUPERT HUGHES O RUPERT HUGHES WNU SERVICE CHAPTER XII Continued 13 Jebb's whisper reached her. She started, turned, saw him, checked a cry with a swift hand to her mouth. Then she rose as she alone could rise, like a lark came to him fleet-ly, lithely, oblivious of her unwonted costume. Their hands met in a fierce clutch and she dropped at his side. "I I didn't know you at first in those clothes." He could have cursed himself for such sublime inanity, but her greet-ing was small improvement on his: "Bidden" you know me? I knewed you the feerst meenute I heard you weesper." They stared at each other and she flushed a little deeper as she asked: "But you didden' call me hanim effendi or madame like that you used to what it was the word you call me joost now?" "Mirumal" She closed her eyes and breathed deep as if the sound were perfume. Of all Fate's practical jokes this seemed to Jebb the meanest, that he should meet Minima like this in a crowded hotel parlorl and that an-other woman should be coming for him at any moment. CHAPTER XIII Rarely has a Woman's Five Min-utes been longer than Jennie Lud-lam'- rarely has it seemed shorter. Minima was saying with a child-ish giggle: "You didden' know me at feerst. See if you know me now?" And she She was so beautiful, now, alone; so doubly lovable here in the sur-roundings of civilization. She would honor him and his name anywhere. But he and his name would not honor her. What protection could he give her when he could not protect himself? He had fought the battle through in Uskub and had chosen the honorabler course, had silenced his love and fled with it That she had come up with him and that she was here at his mercy did not change his duty. He was wondering how to broach the subject to Jennie Ludlam and her brother and the ring, when he heard his name paged along the corridor. He called the boy and was in-formed that Miss Ludlam was wait-ing for him in a lower alcove. Jebb answered: "Ich komm' sofortl" The boy went his way, and Jebb turned to find a troubled curiosity on Minima's face. "Miss Ludlam is er you remem-ber that ring I had?" "Yes." "It belonged to her." "But you did say you buyed It in Cologne." "Did I?" "You sayed it had no associa-tions." "It hasn't." "And I find you here; you wait for her: the beautiful Mees Lood-lam?- " She rose and crushed the Jealousy, the disillusionment, the shattered "There's your brother now," Jebb exclaimed. "No! Impossible! So it is!" and she left him and made an almost haste, catching her brother just as he was asking for her at the desk. His eye fell on Jebb. He stopped short, snorted like a bull, and charged. "So here you are, eh? I never ex-pected to see you again." "Again?" cried Jennie, "you've seen him?" "Have I seen him! Didn't he give me the slip in Munich?" "You've met Mr. Pierpont before! Isn't that funny?" "Pierpont? That's Dr. Jebb." "Dr. Jebb! why" she turned to Jebb. "That's the name," said Jebb. "And I got your ring away from him, Jennie. See, here it is." And he fished it out. "He wouldn't tell me how he came by it, though." "Wasn't that delicate of him?" And she beamed on Jebb till she frightened him. "Delicate!" gasped Charlie. "Del-icate! Then you really did give it to him? Then it is true that you" "Sit down, you old dear, and I'll tell you." She toppled the mountain on to the wailing divan. "It's an old story to you, Mr. Pier-pont," she said, "but you won't mind hearing it again. Well, to begin at the beginning, you see, Charlie, you wrote me that you were going into the mountains for a month or so of hunting. Just after you disappeared, Charlie, I had a call for five thou- - nnrl rinllnra mnro ma to i n nn mw the sum in English bank notes. Then he said: " 'You must have something to get along on till you hear from your brother or till your bank reopens,' and he actually wanted to give me a thousand dollars more. But I com-promised on five hundred. The next morning I had the money at the brokers' bright and early and I made a solemn resolve that I'd nev-er speculate on margins again." "Did you keep the vow?" grinned Charlie. She pouted meekly: "Well, I might have kept it if the stock hadn't gone skyrocketing up again. It never rains but it pours, you know, and in two days that aw-ful bank was reorganized and re-opened, and my letter of credit was all right But when I came to look for Mr. Pierpont he had paid his bill and disappeared, taking his little niece along with him." "But the ring the ring," said brother Charles, voicing a curiosity that was aching in Jebb's breast "how did you come to give him the ring I gave you?" "Such a silly question, Charlie. Can't you see I felt so ashamed of taking his money with no security, that I forced it on him. He didn't want to take it but I made him. When he learned it was worth only about half what he lent me he con-sented." Charlie rounded on Jebb: "Well, why in thunder didn't you tell me all this on the train when I accused you of stealing the ring?" "That was his delicacy. Can't you stock in the oh, that awful invest-ment you let me in for." "Rock Island, you mean." "That's it You told me to hold for a rise." "Well, I see by the paper that it's up twenty-nin- e points." "Yes, but at that time somebody attacked it and the bottom fell out for a few days. I had word one afternoon from my brokers in Mu-nich that if I didn't cover the drop by morning I'd be wiped out." "Is that so! Somebody was ham-mering her, I suppose." "Well, whoever hammered it it hit the toboggan and I stood to lose , all I had put up. That very eve-ning the cablegrams announced that my bank in New York had been looted by its president, and had closed its doors. I found where the cashier of my Munich bank lived and telephoned his house. He said that my letter of credit was good for nothing unless the bank opened again. I was simply in despair. "At that moment who should come along but Mr. Pierpont here. I didn't know him and he didn't know me, but he heard me crying, and said, 'Pardon me, madame, is there any-thing I can do for you?' It sounded so good to hear an American voice and he spoke so gently and I was so weak that I just up and told him the story. "Well, what do you suppose this angel of a Mr. Pierpont did? I can hear him now 'There, there, my poor child' " she laughed moistly; "he called me his poor child when I'm old enough to be his mother!" But Charlie was impatient: "Go on. What did he say?" "He said, 'There, there, my poor child; if you'll stop crying, I'll give you the money.' I said, 'You'll lend me twenty thousand marks me! a total stranger!' 'Certainly,' he said, 'you are an American,' and I said, 'But I have no security,' and he said, 'You're an American' as if that proved anything! "He wouldn't listen to any argu-ment or scruples, he just asked me to excuse him while he went to his room and got at his money-belt- ; and when he came back he handed me I see, Charlie? He didn't want to in-volve me." Charles could understand that he owed Jebb a handsome apology, and he put it in his own terms. "I guess the drinks are on me, old man. I've made a Jackass of myself, and I admit it What'll it be?" But Jebb declined to liquidate the account. And then sister Jennie said she must run up to her room and write him a check for twenty-tw- o thousand marks. "Would you mind making the check payable to David Jebb?" "David Jebb?" "That's the name you gave me on the train," her brother put in. "That's my real name," said Jebb. Now Charlie was off again: "But why did you call yourself Pierpont to my sister?" ' "Hush, Charlie, don't make an-other exhibition of yourself. He was traveling incog. Very rich people often do that." Brother Charles and Jebb were such mutually discomforting com-panions that when they were left to-gether Ludlam grew restive: "Come on into the cafe and have something." "No. thanks." "Well, will you excuse me if I do? I've Just got in from Munich and I'm horribly thirsty." "Don't let me keep you." Left alone, Jebb was overcome by this new turn of the wheel. The money meant so much to him jusi now; it meant power, salvation from infinite humiliations; it meant funds for the pursuit of Cynthia. Then the luxury of being a minor Croesus faded before a keen anxi-ety fnr Miruma. He must find her She must be told the news, the news that solved everything. He would go to the desk and send her his card, imploring her to grant him a hearing. He paused what was her name? Miruma was her first name what was her last? Had she registered as hanim effendi? or madame hanim? or Mme Fehmi Pasha or what? (TO BE CONTINUED) "But I compromised on five hundred." trust back in her breast Jebb rose to her side whispering: "Hanim effendim! madame! Miruma! I beg you! I can explain if you" "Please! if you would not have me shame myself here please speak nothing let me go" She hurried away as fast as she dared, slipping through the crowd with a lithe panther-lik- e grace that impressed him even then. He stood fast and saw her vanish. And then he heard a voice back of him a sweet and womanly voice: "Is this Dr. Jebb?" He was brought sharply to book, by a gasp of surprise. "Why, it's Mr. Pierpont. The card said it was Dr. Jebb." His worst fears seemed realized by the swift change from the formal greeting for Dr. Jebb to the gush of cordiality for Mr. Pierpont. And his uneasiness was increased by the hid the lower part of her face, peer-ing over the white, white hand that mimicked a yashmak. "Oh, I knew you as soon as I saw those eyes." "Jebb Effendi remembers these eyes, then?" "They are the most wonderful eyes in the world." "Mazallah! A compliment!" "You're no longer in Turkey. Don't be afraid." Then he flew to safer topics: "But how did you ever get here? and when?" "Didden' you received my let-ters?" "No." "I sended you twice letters!" He explained the Trieste contre-tempt- s briefly, but neglected to men-tion the Ludlams. She looked sad: "Then I deed not helped youl I hoped so much to help you. You have finded the guzeljik the pretty leetla girl vitout me!" "I have not found her." "You deed not try the Budapest place, then?" "What Budapest place?" "I sended you in my letter a post-card. You did not been to Buda-pest?" "I came through there, but I didn't stop except to eat" "Only to eat! Yazik, aman, aman! What a pity! The child was perhaps very near you. Leesten. The day after you have goed, Jaffar is breeng to me a picture postcard. He say he find it tack up on the wall In the room of one of the other servants. The man say he find it long time before in the room where Jaffar maked your clothes dry after you first earned to my home you re-member?" "Do I remember!" "Jaffar say peerhaps the picture is fall out of your pocket out, and shall he burn it. I take it and send it to you in a letter." "It is in Trieste now, then. You say it was a picture postcard?" yes he is a carte postale in many colors a picture of a bttle ada how you say island. And it say I cannot pronounce the majar language but I can spell if you have a pencil" He gave her a card and his fountain pen and she wrote "Margit-Szige- t Budapest." "Who is Margit Seegit? I won-der?" "I think he Is the name of the is-land. The picture is of a beautiful park. And on eet is writed in a writ-ing like the little writing you send-ed to me, 'Dear Mother: Do not worry. I am having a nice time here in theese beautiful place weet Mees-te- r Pierpont Do you know a man name Pierpont?" Jebb nodded impatiently. "Was that all?" "No, then comes, t'Your loving child!' and then in beeg letters like a child is print them, the name of the leetla girl yes? Are you remembering such a place?" He shook his head blankly. "I must go to Budapest by the first train. Surely I'll find the poor little waif there. You are an angel to write me. And now we've talked so much about my affairs. Tell me about you. What brought you to Vienna?" It was a brusque question and she answered it with a blush of meek confusion that told him more than he had dared to believe. She had followed him like another Ruth. "But tell me, are you did Fehmi Pasha grant you the the talaq?" "I am nobody's hanim now. I am joost me. I am free now." sight of what Mr. Pierpont had af-fianced him to. For he saw before him a short lady whom even a flat-terer would call plump. So this was sister Jennie! As he stared at her in a daze, she smiled tenderly and said as she pressed his hand and kept it: "Was this one of your jokes send-ing up a strange name and asking for my brother? Was it just to sur-prise me?" "Is isn't your brother here?" "Why, no, he's in Servia some-where in the mountains hunting big game. Don't you remember my tell-ing you in Munich? Do you suppose that if he had been where I could reach him I should have accepted all that money from you?" "N-n- I suppose not" "I'm awfully glad to see you," she pattered on. "Do sit down," and she dropped into Minima's place on the divan. "It was awfully embar-rassing to me that you should dis-appear so completely, and leave no trace." Knowing nothing else to do, he just shrugged his shoulders and smiled. Meanwhile, sister Jennie sat and purred over him, like an amiable tabby with a disabled mouse be-tween her paws. As his eyes rolled distressfully he saw brother Charlie steam into the hotel and push to the desk like liner crowding up to a pier. HOW-T-9. SEW 4- - Ruth Wyeth Spears S? i BOARD HINGErffllil X f flj i F S FASTEN rX2"BOARD I ; i ' r TO CLOSET WITH A j THE II II I H I Ik-JCUR-TAIN INSIDE, . Curtains for cupboards beside windows. X7IIY not build cupboards at each side of a pair of win-dows and a comfortable seat be-tween? This takes very little space and adds useful storage room; as well as a cozy place to sit. The cupboards are hidden by hinged curtains that are a part of the general window treatment. The chintz for the valance and seat pad is in tan, yellow and blue-gree- n. The blue-gree- n edges the curtains and valance and is used also for the two cushions. The frilled glass curtains are clear yel-low. The closet curtains tacked to a hinged arm may be swung back Just as you would open a door. 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Thousands of fishermen with no time and others with no Inclination to catch their own bait, have creat-ed a demand for a business involv-ing thousands of bait catchers, wholesalers, retailers and extensive hatching properties. Like other more prosaic busi-nesses, the bait industry is mod-ernized to satisfy with super serv-ice, extensive, varied stocks, and high-spee- streamlined delivery. Minnows, shiners (silver or gold), worms, perch bugs, bass bugs, crawfish and frogs are packed by the dozen into attractive cartons and delivered almost to the angler's hook or sold over the counter. The precincts are unbounded Bait stores are found in city shop-ping districts and along the nations' highways hard by nearly all d fishing spots. On the Great Lakes minnows are frequent-ly sold boat-sid- e from barges an-chored off shore. No accurate estimates have been made of the bait industry's size. Some dealers place total annua) business at $300,000 or more Hatch ing properties and leased swamp-land is estimated at several hundred thousand dollars additional. Eben (Hi) Hidorn, of Rensselaer, N. Y., is representative of the na-tion's fresh water bait sellers. Lo-cated in the upper Hudson valley, his clients are mainly Albany, Troy and Schenectady fishermen bound for Adirondacks and Catskill lakes and streams. Hidorn selects minnows from large showcase tanks, but only lively .ones. Logy minnows art thrown out Crawfish are chosei from big hatching vats for Individ ual requirements and perch bug' are pinched at the tails. If the squirm they are used. The bug are stored in refrigerators. His plant consists, besides cella minnow and crawfish tanks, boxe for earthworms and four breedin ponds. Two are for minnows an two for perch bugs. Running we. water is used in the tanks in pre erence to city water. From the "store" Hidorn estima ed last year's sales at 72.800 mi' nows, 250,000 worms, 65,000 era. fish, 30,000 helgramite or dobsi and 75,000 perch bugs. He b lieved the worm estimate low, ho' ever, for he said one man aim bought 100.000. |