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Show THE TIMES-INDEPENDENT, SYNOPSIS the pane lungs: diy, board the Nord-Express, with Osgliad as his immediate destination, Dr. wivid Jebb is bound for America. AcSmpanying him is five-year-old Cynthia theiatcher, his temporary ward. of his ts to one On the unconquerable safeguard is dead and whose in America. CHAPTER ss vice-an child, whose mother fa- waits for __Upon the leaden silence came ripple of a childish *‘Hello!" And an tlrough exquisite a of the voice: face cascade peering curls was Sirust into the fog of smoke: : *‘Nunkie Dave, are you dere?" ""Jebb leaped to his feet and caught We child to him in alarm. : » How did you get here, sweetart?" ==*‘T just come long de hall, Nunkie ave." --*She calls me Nunkie Dave," he Mogplained. "It's shorter than Mr. Thatcher, may I present to you . William Gaines? There's a good L§2al of him, but it's all wool and a -ard wide." ‘And it washes," said Gaines. He mew better -»ung. on but -iut out aa "T'm than to patronize Won't you come them the with other one plunged hand into his Gway; Gaines suspected them. He kept calling her and dancing impatiently. Eying the engine always he did not notice that a guard passing through the train and finding the vestibule door open, growled, and slammed it from within. Suddenly the train _ started. Gaines left the change to the woman, dashed to the door, found it closed without handle or foothold. Like a melon on a stream, his disgusted face was swept past the window and past the staring, horrified face of Jebb. Jebb thrust his head out and watched the smooth long side of the train glide with increasing speed past the bewildered Gaines, who searched and clutched in vain, and was left staring, the costly golden apples dropping from his hands and bouncing uselessly about the platform. CHAPTER I In the hurrying crisis of his affairs, the loss of his protector stampeded Jebb's usual self-control. His sorrow for Gaines' mishap was nothing to his sorrow for himself and the child, He dashed into the _ corridor, shouting to the guard to signal the train to stop. The guard was slow to be found and slower to under- stand; and once understanding, was aghast at the lese-majeste of stopping one of the Kaiser's trains sim- ply to pick up a passenger. Be- "~She looked at him in dismay. His [Tiir round capon-lined torse was make @ globe. She murmured: s E"I'm ‘lighted to meet you, Mitha --ainth, but you got no lap to thet sides, had not the passenger all the by the government ordained rules disobeyed and from the iron-roadwagon without permission descend- 3."" Then she took command. "If ~5u move ober, I like to look out de Jebb would have stopped the train himself, at whatever risk of fine and imprisonment, but there was no bellrope to pull, and he had failed to note the device installed His wrath and his anxiety and the necessity of putting them into German, choked him. He was frantic with fear, not for himself, but for the child, whose destinies were once more entirely in his untrustworthy hands. ed? [ inda." CE "‘By all means, Miss Thatcher." fh And Gaines hunched his bulk " Bide, far enough for the little queen ) establish herself at the pane. y "What did your Nunkie our name was?" Dave say "My name Thinthy Thashel." ~ Gaines threw up his hands in hor- or. "Thinthy Suitcase!" ys The child shrieked with joy Cynthia had come out into the corridor and was staring at him in such bewilderment that she forgot to bemoan her oranges. Jebb's face was pitiful. He was in the ultralonely and fearsome plight of one who cannot trust his own soul. at the yaelZ man's stupidity. She corrected theim as if he were an overgrown in- 'Snt-"Thinthy Thashel" was the eeeame and no other. ™% "‘That's a beautiful name," said maines meekly; ‘‘the beautifullest As he stood, alternately wringing his hands and pleading with the wooden-headed guard, the train, leaping forward toward full headway to make up the lost time, took a sharp curve at high speed, and lurched round it, hurtling the child violently along the corridor. Jebb ame for the beautifullest girl I ever -aw.'" "" She threw a look of confused van- at Jebb, then flattened her tiny ¢ nub of a nose against the pane, jost unbecomingly, and watched the ickening sights as the train ratd into a village. Behind her back the men fell to Jebb lame for a That's child," said ship's doctor into my confidence and a great have Gaines; a rush. She's only five, ind she has already crossed the cean, bidden her mother a long iiod-ty, lost her father forever, @ teen left alone among strangers in ym land whose language she doesn't fnderstand. And now she is sent gieck across the ocean in charge of a man like me. We've become eat chums already. She likes me, d I-I love her. '"T've never had a child of my , Billy. I never expect to have. t I've helped dozens of children to the eds world, of and them I've had brought em. and And me I've had to hurt sometimes I ever t in my keeping that was sound nd well and beautiful and not meant my "I was so happy to have nore about children ses on earth. And than Dave and she all I Of me the I was her was my little ynthy. ; "And then that sot lurched into me damn him!-no!-poor dog! perveaps he's like me-a decent fellow e-tenths of the time, and heart- roken with an affliction he couldn't more "sy help than a can dwarf jelp his size, or a rattlesnake his ison. But he's finished me. It's } tough world, Billy. The only deent thing fate has done for me is ) show me you." - He reached out and their et-in no secret clutch-but . frank otherhood. grip of It was the some hands in the universal time be- bre their clasp relaxed. Meanwhile Miss Thatcher was tryz to drown the racket of the wheels Thinthy."' Dave ‘"‘Nunkie answered: Jebb would love to, sweetheart, but the train might start." The argument carried little weight in the presence of the oranges. run fatht-buy quick- "Nunkie, let won't Thinthy back. come Gaines, whose heart was as soft fat and big as his bulk, smote his knees with his fat hands, and rose: "T'll get you the oranges, Miss Sashel."' Jebb checked him uneasily. sense, Billy, she doesn't need we set out like yo children on a junket. unkie her. nurse. taught somewhere." were appealingly displayed. "Oh, see de awnjes!'"' she cried. ‘"‘Thinthy wants awnjes. Nunkie must go get awnjes for poor ickle Thinthy horrible knives. orned the idea of a purse my training has up 1. couldn't lelp them at all, and I've had to see hem slip away from me like little owning, frightened things. "This is the first child, Billy, me But Jebb shook his head and reThe child grew peated his reasons. frantic. Jebb was dismal "T know just how you feel, honey," said Jebb, ‘"‘but I'm afraid to risk aimed and twisted and defective d wounded and sick. They've been raid of me, lock naughty old train go!'"' hun- to him His all too experienced excitement was interrupted by the frenzy of the little girl. She had discovered that the station had a refreshment room, had a room refreshment the and candies fruits and where window he'll be an old woman before she arns to pronounce it." But Jebb was gazing at her very olemnly. "Poor little tike! Her history be- ins with an Of course I've got you now, but I want to be on board. I'll take the _jalking about her: | "Cynthia Thatcher! threw his victim ugly look. der a sng which she shouted into She oughtn't to have them. ‘"‘Nonthem. She-"' I can't see a ‘Nonsense yourself. with lady perish like Miss Tantalus reach." oranges just out of her "But the train may start." for "T'l] bet my hat we'll be here ‘This is just the sort of a week. stays a place where a train always Anyway, it's just a few long while. steps." the door He had squeezed through and was brushing both sides of the restrain corridor before Jebb could but The car was vestibuled, him. the Gaines knew how to manipulate door from within. The anxious Jebb saw him appear glance foron the platform outside, himself of ward and aft, and satisfy remain. the train's intention to fat skip, Then he skipped, as the The counter. to the refreshment out of sight. woman in charge was She She was not easily summoned. German. did not understand Gaines' He picked out three oranges and put out one arm to catch her. He put his other hand against the nearest support to steady himself, just as the whipcord snap of the cars sent a heavy door sliding shut. Its whole impact fell on Jebb's thumb. He managed to pull the door back enough to release his hand. He was used to the sight of other people's wounds, but the vision of his own lacerated flesh, and the peculiarly exquisite anguish of a mashed thumb, sent a queasy thrill to his stomach. His knees turned to sand. He fainted and went toppling and bumping to the floor, where the careening train rolled him like a loose barrel. Cynthia screamed. Passengers appeared at all the doors and jammed the corridor. A woman wrapped her arms about was sobwho child, the distracted bing: Nunkie "Nunkie Davie's dead! Davie's * Brought London Here --- By A man knelt and raised his head. "En = servez-vous!"' Frenchman ironically. said the Jebb took him literally and helped himself liberally. *‘You must have a copper-lined throat," said the Yankee, "‘to swig it straight!' Jebb gave a further demonstration of his prowess. He sat up on the floor of the car and, winking conceitedly at his fellow-countryman, drank his good health. When -the flask was again in his hands, the Frenchman turned it upside down with a rueful countenance. Only a drop or two leaked from it. With angry irony he said: "J'en vous remercie."' "Huh?" said Jebb. The Yankee interpreted with a laugh as he got Jebb to his feet. "‘Monseer says he's much obliged for the flask."' Jebb threw his victim an unfailing an circulation of The staff of the House News conhis sists of Editor Neal Smith and a- dark-eyed star reporter Virgini who The also is his 10-year-old twin. may News not papers fare go, financially as successful, nevertheless. It is a labor of love, clusively for the mother so well but it is written ex- of the de- voted twins, who is in poor health. The little paper is printed in pencil by Neal, who does the art work. ‘Th' big story this week," said get the little boy, working hard to out the edition, ‘is about Nellie- she lives on the next street-who her fell off the porch and scratched We're bannering it!" face. Most of the time the paper is four sheet of writing paper pages-one sometimes, but two, in doubled eight. when there is a big story, it is and Wallie Warfield Mrs. When ge front-pa were VIII King Edward chilnews the world over the two dren were just as busy as metropol itan editors. BOARD, Vale - ¢ os 3 PIN, BASTE AND STITCH Ti tp ADELEINE CARROLL has the grandest bunch of fan mail in all Hollywood. It comes from France, from a group of French children who are living in her chateau 7 ¢ in the country, secluded from the danger of Paris' air raids and gas attacks. The children take time from their «studies and games to "I pay for what I drink. How much?'"' The Gaul understood without translation. He struck Jebb's hand aside, and the money jingled on the floor. Jebb was for trouncing him then and there, but the Yankee restrained him, pacified him, and guided him along the corridor to his own compartment. Jebb swayed a good deal, but it may have been the train. He dropped into his seat dazed. But it may have been the dizziness of his suffering. The Yankee brought to him the scared little girl and the coin, which he had gathered up in the corridor with the instinct that leads to pick up other people's hats for them. Jebb thanked him for girl but waved the people runaway the money little away magnificently. ‘"‘What's a little silver to me?" he said a trifle thickly. The American laughed and, laying the money on the seat, vanished to his own compartment. With complete disregard of all his his unJebb wrapped asepticism, his about handkerchief sterilized It was shrieking bleeding thumb. deunleashed an but and throbbing, mon within him was shrieking and He was sick, sick, throbbing too. too grievously tormented to bind his own wound properly. BE CONTINUED) ‘"‘We were in favor of the marriage," Virginia said earnestly. ‘So we put down just what we thought- and you can see what happened. They did get married!" Another good news week was the one preceding the marriage of their elder sister. They ran stories about what the bride would wear, what they thought of the bridegroom, and the prospects for good weather for the event. When the wedding took place, they couldn't think of anything to say about it. "Ey'ryone was there, anyhow," Editor Neal said. ‘‘No use writin' what ev'ryone knows about." In a recent issue there was 8 squib about a fire on the next street. Virginia covered the fire, ran ove! and got an eyewitness story-anco then dashed in time When breathlessly to make they back just the edition. see an illustration in tw the like, they a newspaper transfer it to their paper by rub prin the laying wax, with it bing on their paper and rubbing hard. Neal does a weekly comic-stri which he calls ‘‘Herky Boy," an which is one of his favorite feature h laugh." mommy makes "It said, ‘‘even when TURN, BASTE AND PRESS @ EDGES OFE OPENING Garment she's lonely." bags made sé EAR MRS. SPEARS: I thought you might be interested in how I made garment bags for each member of my family, almost entirely from things I had | on hand. The foundation part of each was made of %-inch board; a screw-eye; a hook from a hang| er; and five small screw hooks write to Miss Carroll, who reads underneath. For the bag, I comtheir letters as she rests between bined muslin flour sacks with odds scenes of ‘My Son, My Son!"' u and ends of figured cottons and i trimmed the joinings with bias The famous Brighton Belle pulled tape. I followed your directions in out of Hollywood the other day for SEWING Book 2, for initials of scenes in that same picture. The bias tape to mark the bags." station, however, was a replica of At the upper left is sketched the famous Victoria station, the the foundation that this reader train was a replica of the Brighton used. If a zi»per is used for the Belle, which covers the 62 miles beopening, the 36-inch length is best. tween London and Brighton in 40 If you put it in a curved line, you minutes, and the men who filled it will have a wider opening. Each were extras, not British Tommies. step in applying the zipper in this But to many who watched, the way is shown here. from odds and ends, lustrates the five standard meth ods of repairing all kinds of fab. rics. Thirty-two pages to delight every lover of fine handwork. To get your copy send 10 cents in coin to Mrs. Spears, Drawer 10, Bedca Hills, New York, to cover cost. Confetti Popcorn Ais atmosphere was the same as it would have been in the original setting. Producer Edward Small could not shoot the scene in London because of the present war, but in portraying a scene that dates back to the last one he brought to California, for a moment, all the feeling that fills the railway stations of Europe in these times, as trains filled with soldiers leave for the front. ugly look, drove his fist deep into his pocket, and with a sneer offered a handful of money to the Frenchman. (TO one. Virginia Ruth Wyeth Spears «82 teeth apart and poured a liberal potion into his clenched throat. A shiver quaked through Jebb's whole length; he strangled, gulped, opened his eyes, looked about feebly. *"‘What's the matter?" "You smashed your thumb, old boy, and keeled over. Monseer here had some brandy handy and I forced it on you." "No, no!"' gasped Jebb helplessly, ‘not brandy!'' **Yes, and good, too, by the sniff of it. You look a little green, old man. Have some more." *‘No!"' cried Jebb as he pushed it away. "You better," said the Yankee, holding it under his nostrils. "Yes,"' said Jebb, with a deep breath. He seized the flask greedily and took a generous draught. He offered it back, but as the Frenchman put out his hand, Jebb reconsidered and set the bottle to his lips 2 gain. Cleveland Twins Edit Paper for Sick Mother lation. It has 4y- * It's an Ill Illness- "He's fainted, that's all. Has anybody got any brandy?" As Cynthia was withdrawn from the scene, a Frenchman produced a flask: "Je n'ai pas de brandee, monsieur, mais voice du cognac." *"‘Meme chose, monseer,"' said the American, as he pried Jebb's set dead!" CLEVELAND.-The House News, published almost weekly by young Neal Smith, has perhaps the greatin est reader interest of any paper the country-and the smallest circu- HOW."0 SEW Dust * Fan Mail From Far HUGHES pocket. He had no small money. He found a bill. The woman went for the change. Her motives for leisureliness might be suspected. and sit "Sa my lap?" brandished while "T hope to the Lord, nothing happens to hold us here long, Billy,"" he wailed, almost childishly. "I'll not feel easy till I'm safe on shipboard. the He said, without condescenwith perfect gravity, as he his hand: delighted to meet you, Miss wewatcher. of her Jebb was most nervous of all. He raised the window and poked his head out. There was no one to question. He went into the corridor to ask the guards. His only answer was a blunt "Weiss nichts'' accompanied by a convincing look of stupidity. Jebb went back to his seat and played a devil's tattoo on the leather. "bb. Cynthia, this is an old friend abet your Nunkie Dave's. Miss Cyn- Ca power At about the twentieth repetition of the little epic the pony stuck fast in the mire, for the train joggled up to a short stop. Outside the window was a small station. Some trifling accident, or a train dispatcher's signal had caused the delay. The crew did not descend or open the doors. The guards had no explanations to vouchsafe, though timepieces were whipped out of pockets in all the compartments and passengers were worrying lest the halt compromise their chances of making the boat to America. I-Continued a Paty the She fipped him, she lathed him, She dwove him froo the mire; I would not lend my pony now-wow Faw aw dat la-deeth hi-ah!" for liquor. Jebb to him again, and the all "T had a ickel po-nee, Hith name wath Dappie I len tim to a la-dee To wide a mile away. tin they meet Big Bill Gaines, former issmate and fraternity brother of Dam=mal's. He tells Gaines of his mission, rwhelming desire the urge coming with Star - * * 8 NOTE: The Sewing Basket in every thrifty household should contain a copy of Mrs. Spears' Sewing Book 2, in which she il- AROUND THE HOUSE "is A case of appendicitis was responsible for the March of Time's exclusive film of the island of Guam. Victor Jurgens, the 26-year-old camera man who last year filmed the March of Time's memorable motion picture story on Japan, was stricken with appendicitis while on his way to Guam; he was operated on at sea by navy surgeons, recuperated at Guam, and spent his time filming all aspects of civil and military life on the important little island. It is part of the new release, ‘‘Crisis in the Pacific,"" and is one of the best films the M. of T. has given us. 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