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Telegram Fiction by Vjlrt-L. ilLUlMj Priscilla Wayne BXorN HERB: I For BETH WARDEN, ehsrmlng daughter of a mldweatern druggist, love t run st 22 on the morning ahe walked Into the Centerlown bank and aaw J1U OUTHRlE standing behind the esse. From than on there are aweet 1 memoriae of nights together when Jim simont propoaea: until, unenprrledly, Beth'e family receives s wire from her atepalater. CHARMION LEWIS, an- nounclng thst the faaclnstlng girl, swsy aeveral yeara modellns In New York City. Is returning home for aummer vacation. Stepping from the plane s few davs later and catching s gllmpM of Beth with the hendaome Jim. Chsrmlon ' Sretenda to fail, and being caught by Jim. complains of s turned snkle while 1 e carries ner to the ear. On the nde home aha leerna of Beth'a dance date with Jim for that evening. Uulrkly forsettlns the ankie. ahe Inslata on going . along. As ths music alerts Chsrmlon acsln falls Into Jim a srmii. plrsdlng for the first dance. Beth watchea from a lonely corner. RUTH DENBT. an old 1 enemy of CharmionS. having ohaerved the Incident, determines to find out I before the evening la over, what CharmionS game Is. Whn Jim and Charmlon atroll onto the lawn. Ruth lollowa. Eavendropplng. ahe lesrna thst Charmlon returned home because Jim. eon of a millionaire, le working In Centertown. But tn spue of his Infatuetlon for Chsrmlon. Jim aaka Beth for a dste the nest evening, lihe accepts but ia forced to break It the nest day to work In her fathers drug atore. Charmlon, with an uncanny sense of what haa hap-pened. hap-pened. sppesrs st ths opportune moment. Bhe end Jim go for a ride while Beth works. Chsrmlon Intlmstee thst her atepalater. being s shy. odd girl, didn't really wsnt to keep the dste. Late st night Beth hears the two return. re-turn. The following dsy Jim calls for another date Supremely happy together to-gether that nlsht. Jim end Beth eonftae their mutuel lovs snd become engaged. She wesra his ring on a ribbon around her neck. When, aoon after, Jim la called borne by his father's lllncaa. he write to Beth. Chsrmlon Chsr-mlon lntercenu the letter. MOW OO ON WITH THE STORY neneely satisfied with herself, took he nap she had told her mother ihe meant to take. Beth was pensive at dinner be-'ause be-'ause no telegram had come from lim. She started whenever the :elephone rang and listened aharp-y aharp-y when shs hsard a car coming. "Jim expects to come home In t day or two," Tom Guthrie told His daughter as they strolled back to the drug store. 'Telegrams are such cold things. Don't worry, honey. He's waiting until he sees you to tell you personally per-sonally all the little things he wants to tell you." "Maybe," Beth said, but she could not shake off the icy premonition of disaster that possessed her. Ruth Denby came to the drug store often to see her friend and chum, Beth. Ruth was filled with her own worries, she loved good-natured good-natured Dan very greatly, and ahe was almost beside herself with jealousy jeal-ousy over Chsrmion's homecoming. "He's out with her every night, Beth," Ruth worried. "Why. he even broke a date with me. A date we'd had for almost a month. He Wat Sorry "It was to see thst picture at the Paramount, you know. He called me up and said he was awfully sorry, but he just couldn't go that night." "Well, maybe that was truth, Ruth." Beth tried to pour oil on the troubled waters. "Things happen hap-pen to change people's plans, you know. Maybe It wss quite true that he couldn't go." "Maybe. But not quite true that he didn't take her out to a road-house road-house and dance half the night." "How do you know- that?" "I followed, don't think I didn't And was I ever burned up about itl Why, Beth, Dan and I are engaged We've been engaged for months. "See this? Here's where I weal (Continued en Followlns Pasal CHAPTER TEN Chsrmion's black eyea ahowed little lit-tle glints of yellow green in their depths and seemed to narrow aa shs rsad Guthrie's letter. Once in her room she had bolted the door, and torn the letter open hastily. Jim's letter was very brief. He said that, although his father had been very low, he was definitely on the upgrade now. And Jim feared ha must be absent ab-sent from Centertown for at least another week. Her Lipt Curl Charmlon'! full, pouting lips curled as she read the tender part of the letter. It waa easy to infer from it that Jim loved Beth with daughter's ahoulder. "Well, why not take a nap, honey. Didn't you coma home to rest? I havs to go ovsr town a bit myself. "So I'll close your door so that you won't need to hear the telephone tele-phone and you lie down and take a real nap." Instead of taking a nap, Charmlon Char-mlon lay listening until ahe heard i her mother leave the house and walk briskly down the walk. Then she got up, stepping quickly, stealthily, like a cat. I She went Into Beth'a room. Beth'a tiny desk waa open. And! it took Charmlon only an Instant to find torn! of Beth's stationary. Back in her own room Char-mion Char-mion used the tiny portable typewriter type-writer her mother had given her as a gift She wrote a cool, Impersonal Im-personal note. She told Jim that ahe waa glad to hear hla father waa better, that in her opinion It was a wise thing for him to leave the bank and go I back to enter his father'a business. Charmlon paused, read over care-I care-I fully what she- had written. all his nsart. His father's Illness had cohered him, made just a little regretful at pulling away from home and being be-ing foolishly determined to have his own fling. But, now that hla father would recover and Jim knew what It meant to have a sweetheart and to plan on hav'ng a wlfs and home I of hla own, ha was all for getting ahead. And you could just better bet.l so Jim announced, that ha would get ahead so that his dreams and Beth's might all coma true. Charmlon hid the letter when ahe heard Mary come slowly up the staira. She pushed back the bolt of her door stealthily and sat down on her bed. "Are you all right. Charm'e?" Mary asked, opening the door. "Yes. Quite. Just trying to make up my mind to be laay. I need to take care of a few errands, but I can't make myself want to do It. I'm sleepy." Mary laughed and patted her Seemed pleased with it. Now she startsd a fresh paragraph. She told Jim that shs had been mistaken in her feeling toward him, that aha did not wish to consider hersslf engaged to him and that as far as aha was concerned ahe would like to have him forget the things they had said on tha occasion oc-casion of their last date. She reread the letter and finally, with painstaking care, copied Beth's name exactly aa It appsarsd on a letter Beth had sent her. Quickly, then, before anyone could come home and Interrupt her acheme. Charmlon dressed and hurried hur-ried to the nearest mailbox to post tha letter. Then she came back, and, lm- I GIRL ALONE I 1 kind, Mary, I think w ought to know about It." "Pleas let her alone, Tom," Mary said. She meant her advice In all sincerity. "Beth la a shy, self-re-stralned girl. If she want to eon-fid eon-fid la us, ah wllL I think It Isn't bast to urg her to, right now." Charm Ion stood. She looked the vry picture of distress and sympathy. sym-pathy. "Let me go to her, please, mother. I understand Beth more than either you or dad understand hr. " "After all, she's just another girl. Isn't she? She'll tell me If anything any-thing la wrong." Mary nodded. That'a right. We'll lot Charm I go to her, Tom. Bthl wlU talk to Charmlon, 1 know." "I'm worried." Tom aald. "Worried "Wor-ried alck that something's happened to make Bethle unhappy." "Now don't worry, dad," Charmlon chlded. Just as tha moat loving daughter would. "Let mom and me handle IL You go on down to the store. "You'r lat as It Is right Bow. Bethle will com down and tall you aU about It In a Uttl while, I'll Just bt she will." 1 bop so," Tom worried. "Be sweet to her, won't you, CharmleT" "Of course I will, old dear," Charmlon Char-mlon promised. (Continued Friday.) (Copyright, IMT. for The Telegram.) I Costume from Preceding rase) i his ring, around my neck, because I don't dare let mother see It. She's so set against Dan, Just because he runs a filling station. "It doesn't help (hat he'll own the filling station some day. Mother just doesn't think any man la good snough for her angel child." and Ruth fingered the ring Dan had given her. Bath Laughs Softly Beth laughed softly. Jim's fraternity fra-ternity ring, hidden under ths lace at her throat, seemed suddenly comforting. com-forting. "He'll come back to you If hs really -loves you. but you ought not to run after him, Ruth. Men don't like that." "Think I'm going to aland back and let' her take him away from me? Well, you've got another think coming If you do, Beth. "Charmlon Lewis, is one of the most selfish girls In this town. You know It, too, but you're Just too kind hearted to admit It "I'll not let her take my sweetheart sweet-heart away from me. If I've got to fight to keep Dan. then Til fight, don't think I won't." "No girl should fight for love," Beth said, hsr face a audden radiance. radi-ance. "Love Just comes and you can't beg It to come. You can't keep It from coming. If It's meant to be, love Just comes." It waa the very next morning that Jim's long-expected letter arrived. The postman came early that morning morn-ing when ths family waa Juat sitting down to the breakfast table. "Letter for you," Charmlon aald. She had a queer look on her face. For no apparent reason she had broken her custom of having breakfast break-fast In bed. She had appeared downstairs only a few seconds before the mailman came, dreaaed In her cutest pajamaa and looking perfectly lovely In spite of her early morning dishabille. Tom atopped buttering toast and looked at Bath's flushed radiance with amusement "Appeara to ms like you've got a letter from soms man, Bethle," he said slyly. "Open it and read It to ua." "Yea, suppose you tell us whsn your boy friend la coming borne," Charmlon suggested. She poured herself a cup of coffee cof-fee as nonchalantly as though aha had not even the most casual kind of Interest In the letter. Beth opened the letter. It waa a brief letter and the girl aat holding It in her hand Juat looking at It as though Its contents stunned her. All the lovely color drained from her face. I It waa easy to see that aha re- I strained herself from tears only by a great effort "What Is it Bethle? Ja Jim's father fa-ther worse?" "He doesn't say," Beth aald. She got' up, aa they watched her anxiously, anx-iously, and lsft tha room. Tom pushsd back his chair. "I'll go to her," he aald. "The poor little girl's had a shock of soma sort." "Better not, Tom." Mary warned. "If ahe had wanted to tall any of us about It she would have done It" "I know, but If It'e trouble of some |