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Show I Confessions of 1 A War Bride CHAPTER S4. I Am Advised to Chang Methodi With th Quetn of Smiles. I failed to find any clue for Certeti In whnt I could recll of the raving-' of the. Influenza victim, but after hi had Joined Ijaddy Lortmer It flaah upon me that Mary Thomas h knowledge- of the r -hunt's sunkei i treasure' It rnuit have come to hei through Hremer and it wm the pausi of her hasty vlalt to New York! 1 had never relieved th:t she wai wittingly a traitor to her count n when she carried the meweaye nboti the munitions whip. She was prohahlj only a dupe of spies w-ho played upnr her credulity through the hire o i buried treasure. That's a mm whirl j fnklra often use to fleere the unwan ! Search for such a vast treasure woiili j not fall to rntrh and hold a luxury lovtnr K'rl like the "Queen of Smiles Well. I onlv hoped she would find a: much as all the liberty loans to pet her If riches would only dMwtrar her mind from the pursuit of Jim Jr Martha Thomas came to see m that afternoon and I did what I hnd Inn (t ao resolved to do T told hei all abaut the "Queen of Smiles." "You've been extremely nice to that rlrl," Martha "and ' yet yon haven't rained an Inch In the direction direc-tion of savins; your dandy brother-in-law, have you ?" "Not yet." I frankly admitted. "And you're not jroln- to by your present methods" Martha protested. -Hrv i gueaayou d better atop sentl-mentaltitna; sentl-mentaltitna; over Oi at itfrT "I K'lea t did stop when I abandoned aban-doned her In the wtlda of Bear mountain." moun-tain." I surir en ted. 'Tve alwavs thought w ouitht to aave ba4 people, and reform them." T explained "but I rot considerably tired trying to mafce Mary over. She's pitiful, one day, and I want to wep over her, but she's dead set on hsvlng her own way abont .Tfmmy he nex-er will arree to giye him up: ahe'll think about It, or we'll talk It over ahe never comes to the point." "People who are rtever enough to be bad are usually nil clever enough to be rrood " remarked Martha i "T guess It's the same with nations. Isn't lf" I asked. for T like the returns re-turns when T hand Martha a theme "Certainly eractlv th same. Nations Na-tions are onlv big famll'es. in minv families there's some rr.v creature who Imposes on the others. Well. If they're smart enough to exploit others, they're smart enourh to be "of some use themselves. Among nations, there's Oermanv. How 1enflishlv clever she's been In making the world suffer Now that pace Is near, a lot of elllv person will have thlnrs to av nbotit mercv for the ronn'iered V"nfTtie 1 n7rrT7r"rFaT can he s devtlNh ss Oermanr ha 1. rains enourh In It to be decent ' The Hun must pav for the crmes he knew he ought not to commit." "So you think T ran never save Jimmy hov an" appeal to this girl's better nature? "Vfl hu we m t eh t vr ntt IcVt v bv dlscusslnn: the hlarirmill ancle with her "And snofl daddv' election? And break mother's hart?" "My desr" aM Martha with conviction, convic-tion, "vnur Mother T,orlmer Is a re. markahlv wM posted woman Isn't she? And von dop't sunnose she has klpperf some lte stndv of man. In her time, do vm And S'jrelv vou don"r tmartr-e tht she Is altorther Tinrant of te nature of th mm h has Hvcj with for over thirty yfir" fTo be c.ont'nued. fCopyrlght. lT. hr th N-wsonper Fnter- |