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Show PLEASANT GROVE REVIEW Modern Contract Bridge By Lelia Hatttrtlcy How Old? 1m JKWmJMLAmm(B 0 Xl-Cnliud -15- . ,,rd and stood i I . mild, marveling, Lmewitha man like itk this!" . ioi Ke w , toL" cried Gloria. "A fee fool. Oh!" L King wasn t your have umounceo. L w beginning," she Lt I told you I was a idn't know tlll'D qune ere . s"'"e men." L Dot measuring every Sbe meant siuipiy mm itermlned to have done i King, holding bitteny rould go to anyone to be through with. King. , followed her as she ,p ber few personal and jsesslons. A faint color 0 bil usually colorless gbe saw the look in his glared, at iin" wonder- n" f she asked, her Vjei "What are you Ld "1 was Just think-' fcrtyoa are," he replied. are wondertui i ado eome to me!" Wt bis rather too ardent with that cool little Hi had been her weapon U She was not afraid 8 yon," she said frank- 1 was a woman In dis Ik. taff no alternative.'' lou m, don't you?" ilj heard her. To his tuition was clearness it- bad come alone Into fith Mark King. She with him all these days But she anil King had tired of each other al- fhipa, Gratton did not the reason was ; he was atisBed with the out-bad out-bad always coveted her. 1 1 step closer and the towed how the muscles fat were working. Glo- ildeoecL But-net- yet ft' Btton," she began. f ne cried out- "Gloria !" a suddenly flung out, P ber. She tore them Whed herself free from parted back. juried, shrinking not so f hltt) as from the thing f Plainly at last. "Sure- sot think . . . you rois- my being here at M with Mr. King. . . pen uratton wildly. "I n nouing. lou gave pan; yog saw your mis- Hated ,bim. You have f I base always Joved il jon." a flamed red with " hot drew back from him. t his arms out. w what 1 mean, what I was muttering. "That lag-thing Innocence Is all it ran,ea- -You contemptible. Beast!- toeC?U, ,nat P'aee is a. 10 the mountains hurst "t scathingly. , you" wretched -tfaht- came Uir "n His arms SWCiit nr. . that i ' v " I , ,7' laJ by the Are iftll 'b0,h hands m.l wlhefffrt He t,, -hi, fact We.,f,a"( "You ,J And she -.. iD Neman's Hi?" danger '.' I"' irom him J ''lit'i i SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS Mark Kin, inspector, and hi partnsr, Ban Gajrnor, share with a desperado, desper-ado, Swen Brodia, ami Us crowd, Imowledf el a vast star of bidden gold. Kim U impressed by Gloria Gaynor's youthful beatify. Amon Caynor'e guests la Cratton, whom Kln l one dislike la a spirit of adventurs tht girl accom. paniea Gratton on a "business" trip. At Coloma ah find bar father badly hurt. Ha (Was her a saessafe for King. Gloria realize she haa compromised herself by her Journey with Cratton. He proposes marriage, and Gloria, knowing her adventure ia the subject of gossip, apparently accepts him. King, unseen by Gloria, watches the ceremony from a window. At the last moment the girl refuses re-fuses to utter the requisite "yea." King enters snd Gloria appeaUv to him for protection. Gratton, dismissed, reveals his knowledge of the treasure, and makes threats. With his departure King, heartened by Gloria's appeal to him, urges her to marry him. Really in love with him, and seeing a way out of her dilemma, dilem-ma, the girl consents. Gaynor's message to King reveals the location of the treasure, and urges him to go at once and secure it. Alter the wedding ceremony, cere-mony, Gloria asserting the necessity for rest alter her trying experience, King leaves her and prepares for his trip. Next morning Gloria insists on going with him. On the Journey her overwrought nerves give way. In hysteria, she admits ad-mits that aha married him only to "save her name from gossip." King renounces her but refuses to take her home, declaring he is under promise to her father to lose -no time seeking the gold. Sbe, unable to find her way home alone, has to accompany him. King finds the gold. Gloria bitterly resents his giving her orders. King arranges to start back, but his horse has broken away. Their food la almost gone and the snowfall continues. Gloria refuses to help King in any way. and in his despair ha strikes her with a rope's end Then he leaves her. bitterly regretting his action. He decides he must make bis way out alone and send back for Gloria. He explains the situation, and leaves her Alone, Gloria sees Gratton stumbling through the storm, and gets him to the safety of the cava. "Mr. Gratton," she said swiftly, "you have made a mistake. Mr. King has never offered me violence of that sort. Remember that, though we are alone and in the mountains, I am the same Gloria Gaynor that you have known, and be sure that you treat me as such." He nursed his battered lips and stared at her. The blow had dazed him. His desire went out of him. "I wish to God I had never seen you," he groaned. She had meant from the first to take the upper hand. Now she was almost glad that this had happened. For now she was very sure of herself. her-self. She dropped the stick and wiped her hands. "We have other things to think of," she said. She began dragging the blankets from her bed, tumbling them to the floor. "Take these," she commanded. "I was a fool for ever leaving San Francisco," he muttered bitterly. "You let me think that you cared for me, and how you treat me like a dog. I spent time and money trying try-ing to be the one to find gold In these Infernal mountains." Gold ! He stopped at his own word, his eyes flying wide open. Here . wasKIng's camp istralght here had King come after Gloria had brought him her father's message mes-sage and old Honeycutt's secret Then the gold was here. - He began looking about him eagerly. Presently, Present-ly, he came upon the bag which King had meant to take out with him that day the horse was lost. .. He went down on his knees by the sack, got a heavy lump In his hands, rubbed at It, and Anally sat back staring up at her with new flames of another sort leaping in his eyes. "It's next thing to solid gold!' he gasped. "There are thousands thousands Millions!" It struck Gloria that there was small Justice In Grat ton's reaping any reward, having done nothing to earn It "We have the things to move. Come, hurry." "Why should we move, after all ?" he demanded sharply. "Now that 1 have got op here, why not stay? King would know, where to send for us, and and those cursed dogs of Brodie's would never think of looking look-ing up here, even If chance did lead them along the gorge." - "Then, If we go down quickly, If we get your bag of food and put out the fire down there, and come right back up. It won't be very long before our tracks will be gone. Come; let's hurry." She went ahead and began to clamber down the cliffs. Half-way down she wondered why he was not following. She looked up, just In time to see him, standing at the mouth of the cave, clutching a heavy bag; be had been tying the moutb of It Now he cast It outward so that It fell, rolling and dropping, to disappear at last In the snowbank snow-bank below. And then be begun, though hesitatingly, to follow her. "That's one thing Mark King won't get," he announced with emphasis. em-phasis. At last he stood beside her In the snow. "That bagful is mine I There's a fortune In It and It's mine." His avarice disgusted her. Just now the thought of gold sickened. "We are wasting time," she reminded re-minded him. : " He followed her to the cave, casting cast-ing a last look behind him. Gloria was trying to put out the Sre; tf ili fortune should lead Bro-DTer Bro-DTer crowd here, U would be Jasi well If fhey found oo -wmoldering sticks to tell them that the fugitives fug-itives could not be far off. She called to Gratton to help her. "Maybe." be said thoughtfully, "I'd better bring that bag In here and hide It" "No." she said. "Leave ft where It is. We must hurry back to the other cave" But he grew stubborn over It' IteedlcsafJeLexpostuiations. be teft ber extinguishing the Ore and Bp Jackson Gregory Copyright by Charlas Bcrlbnar's Sou (TNUhrrlH) went back for the gold. He appeared, ap-peared, dragging the heavy sack after him, and disappeared swiftly, going into the deeper dark of the further end of the cave. What a treacherous, thieving, petty animal he was She started and whirled about There was a new sound in the air, a low mumble, a vague murmur. Men's voices. Gloria whirled again, this time toward the dark into which Gratton Grat-ton had 'gone. Blindly she hurried after him; clutched at his sleeve. "Listen!" she whispered. "They are outside. They have followed you!" The voices came nearer, rose higher. Gratton began to shake as with a terrible chill. "If they find meoh, my G d, if they find .nie They killed a man they thought had the bacon I had it all the time I My G d, Gloria, if they find me " "Sh 1" she commanded. "Be still ! Maybe they" will go by" j Then again came Brodie's deep sinister voice: . "Back this way, boys," he shouted. shout-ed. "He's gone in here. We've trapped the dirty white rat." Gratton, had he been left to his own - devices, would. , have stood stock-still where he was, frozen to the ground In terror. Gloria tugged at hlnij whispering pveLamLover : "They are coming! Don't you hear them? Quick! We must try to hide." At last he seemed to awaken from a trance; he started- and began hurrying with her, crowding by her, stumbling on ahead in the -darkness, seeking the cave's unfathomed depths of darkness. Gloria, look, ihg back, saw Brodie's great bulk outlined against the snow outside. He came in ; she saw his -iMfle ; bis figure was absorbed in the shadows. She bumped Into a wall of rock. They could, go no further. iThls was the end. Brodie shouted: "Gratton 1 Better step out lively like a man now. We got you anyway." any-way." Then he began to gather the scattered firewood; a match flared In bis band ; his face leaped out of the dark like a devil's. Gloria's heart sank In despair! she felt as though she were going to faint Btit all the time ber bands had been groping." At the moment when she felrthat her knees were giving way under her, she found where an arm of the cave continued, narrow, slanting upward steeply, cluttered with blocks of stone." She tugged at Grafton's sleeve; she crept Into this place and felt him close behind her, crowding, trying to press by her. A few feet further on they came to the end of the tunnel. They were In a pocket with no outlet save the way they bad coma She stood, turned toward the front of fhe cave, and' waited. I Brodie had lighted his fire. The other men dully she counted tbem now; there were five of them all told were gathering wood, heaping it .on. The light flared higher, brighter. She could see be faces of the men now, their eyes of wolves. Brodie carried his rifle as though he fully Intended using It At his side a man they called Benny fidgeted fid-geted and blinked. By Benny stood a scarecrow of a man. Brail. Close by. were a squat Italian and the man who had brought the "judge" to marry ber to Gratton. the Ieer; Ing Steve "JarrnloV ifore fire, boys." called Brodie h think I see where he Is." .i. If appeared, clear that Immediate discovery waT inevitable Gloria thought - of King with wild longing, long-ing, while Gratton cringed- and tried fo screen his body with hers. "Here's the grub he stole!" It was Benny's cracked, nervous voice, full of wrath. The tight f ,ne fire Bared higher, brighter. Suddenly the man Jarrold called sharply: "There's some one with him. There's two .of 'em, Brodie. Go easy V " ' Gloria, pressed back against the rock, her flesh quivering. She saw two men and then another two coming com-ing toward her. The first sound broke "from Gratton's Hps now, a little gurgling moan. Then Gloria, with more shuddersome thought of rough hands upon ber than of a rifle ball, broke away from her cowering cow-ering companion and came hastily to meet them. "I'm coming out," she cried. It was ail she could do to hold herself erect and come back Into the more open cave. In the flickering flicker-ing half-light she looked a slim, frightened boy.' "All of a sudden the woods Is gettin' all cluttered up with folk," grunted Benny. "Who In blazes are you, kid? Afi Where's your mamma?" : A shout broke from Jarrold. He clutched her shoulder and drew her closer to hinj, his face thrust down to hers. "Let me go!" she cried. "Easy does It," said Jarrold "Easy kid. I've a notion I've seen that face of yours somewhere." "Never mind the kid," Brodie was growling savagely. "It's Gratton Grat-ton first Out with him, Benny." The others bore down upon Gratton. Grat-ton. He shrieked at them; he begged , shrilly ; he battered them with his fists, striking weak, vain blows. Benny, though the smaller man, had him by the collar. "So!" said Brodie heavily. Gratton began an incoherent pleading, arrested Impatiently by Brodie's great voice. "Shut up! You've had your innings; in-nings; it's mine now. You swiped grub when it's the same thing as slitting a man's gullet. xNow yon get yours !" .. He jerked up his rifle. Benny and the Italian let Gratton go and "Back This Way, Boys," He Shouted. Shout-ed. "H Has Gone In Here. We've Trapped the Dirty White Rat" jumped nimbly aside. Gratton stum bled and sagged. "Stop!" Gloria shrilled. -7 She broke away from Jarrold's grasp and ran toward Brodie. "You don'l know what you're doing. You" "Close your trap, kid," Brodie thundered at her. "Unless you want the second bullet." "Easy does it, Brodie," Jarrold shouted. "She ain't no kid, I tell you. She's a girl. That's Ben Gay nor's girt the one Gratton wanted to marry, the one King took away from him. Keep your eye peeled ; King would be around somewhere !" Brodie said ponderously, "Ben Gaynor's girl, you say? Then we're red hot on the right trail, boys ! You know what her and King would be after!" "The gold Is here, Brodie I" Grat ton cried out wildly. "King has got to it before us, but I've found It '1 was coming back to tell you" Brodie bad small liking for a cow ard and now his bull's voice cut Gratton's chatter short. "No solid mountain of gold Is go Ing to save your hide " Benny began to Jig up and down in a frenzy of excitement "Hold your hand. Brodie, yon bin fool," be shotted. "If he does know where It is. give him a show to lead Os to It Before King gets back If yon popped him oft now. bow would yon know where to look?" Brodus snarled at Behriy." But ht saw the wisdom of the conimnnd t hold his band, uratton began a japid, vehement talking-explainlnc arguing, pleading! be" bad nor meant to steal the food;, he coulii lead them to the gold. "Shui up!" Brodie cried disgust edly. "So's you keep your lyln. face closed I'll give you one show. Step lively; where is it?" ITO BB CONTISI'ED.I ' - ' Doing and Not Doing A man can do what he ought I do and when he says te cannot, n is because be will not Frichte- No. 21 Redouble tf a Take-Out Double WnEN your partner's original bid of one has been doubled, you may sometimes be justified In answering the opponent with a redouble. re-double. Such a redouble signals to your partner that you hold the remaining re-maining balance of honor strength and that your side Is In a position to exact a profitable penalty be rau3e the fourth hand must be practically prac-tically a blank. The announcement Of strength conveyed by such a redouble Is never based on distributional tricks or on assistance for the suit partner has named. It has to.do solely with holding of exceptional honor strength, at least 3 honor-tricks. When you have a 3 honor-tricks and can account for at least 2 In your partner's hand (the 2 required for his original bid), It becomes apparent ap-parent that the 3 honor-tricks shown by the doubler must be practically the only strength which his side pos sesses. In the main, redoubles of this type work to best advantage only after partner has opened with a no trump, and of course they are most profitable when the opponents happen to be vulnerable. Rebidding After Making a Take-Out Double When you have forced your part ner's bid with a take-out double, unless un-less his response Is higher than necessary, nec-essary, regard it with extreme pessimism. pes-simism. Keep in mind that his bid, being merely a compulsory response to your own double, means nothing at all. As you have no means of knowing whether- or not your, partner's part-ner's response was made on strength Just short of a Jump response or on a "bust," you are usually In a dilemma after receiving a minimum response to your take-out double. It is unsafe with a really strong hand to pass such a response, and pqually unsafe to raise It unless reasonably rea-sonably sure of your ground. To dve even one raise af tc-r a part ner's minimum, response to your take-out double, you should have exceptional trump support with about 5 assisting tricks 6 Is a bet ter margin of safety when vulner able. When Your Partner Has Been Doubled When your partner's suit bid has ,ieen over-called' with a take-out louble bv the next opponent If you have normal trump expectancy with total of four or more assisting tricks, give the maximum raise fi-hlcb. your Jmnd affords. A thoroughly sound bid at no trumps, or In some other suit, can st course be shown. BuLdo not venture a weak take-out - which might be doubled and fare badly In this position. If your partner s bid ivas at no trump and you hold about xk -. honor-tricks, your best re course lies In a redouble, as pre- lously explained. When a player has made a bid vhich has been doubled by the ad-ersarv ad-ersarv on his left passed by his partner and by the next adversary (for a nenaity) he can. If In serious difficulties, send out an S O S to bis partner. This call for help Is made with a redouble, which his partner must never read as a strength signal sig-nal but as a cry: "Rescue me from this predicament The rescue redouble Is seldom used when a player has opened wltb a suit hid, but Is often resorted to by a no trump bidder to call for his partner's help. The partner should hid his best suit Penalty Doubles It is mostjmportant thatthe penalty pen-alty double should never be confused con-fused with the take-out double, because be-cause the latter calls on the partner part-ner of the doubler to make a bid, whereas the former says : "Partner, leave me In, I am sure that I can set the bid or I should not have doubled. We will collect extra penalty points for every trick that our opponent falls short or bis contract' Rarely should yon Interfere with your partner when he makes a penalty pen-alty double. Remember that a bid of more than one no trump can never be doubleff except for a penalty, pen-alty, but that a suit bid of one or two may be doubled for a take-out ThM-e Is but one type of penalty double which the less experienced nlaver should use with any degree -of latitude. This Is what Is known .1 "free" double. The free double when an opponent's bldslf wiRKfnl. would give him the game whether or not It was aouDiea. rtwnnse a bid Is rated as "free, however. Is no reason wtiy ft should hi- rasMv jit Injudiciously doubled. rn a doubtful double of any bid,. the percentage Is against you, owing to the Increase or inc vaiues. nu the-outcome 1 a-dose jquestion re momher that the odds are greatly to favor of the bidder should he re double. Trt nftfezuard the doubler, the forcio system provides the two tries rule: - a-x-o npnaltr flonhie mUFl De oaseo on the expectation of setting tht nporient two tricks. S T " nairarajar.i iWNUSrvice I 4?' ' liliiiilillli WMg0&& -piSilliiI jjiBaemBSaasann1 He doesn't look a day over fifty. And feels like forty. . At the age of 62. That's the happy state of health and pep a man enjoys when he gives his vital organs a little stimulant 1 When your system is stagnant and you feel sluggish, headachy, half-alive don't waste money on ftonics" or "regulators" or similar patent m edicines. Stimulate the liver and bowels. Use a famous physician's prescription every drug store keeps. Just ask them for Dr. Caldwell's syrup pepsin. This appetizing syrup is made from fresh laxative herbs, active senna, and pure pepsin. One dose wilt clear up almost any case of headache, biliousness, constipation. But if you want to keep in fine Scientific Advice for the Short in Stature News for short men. Do not despair, de-spair, for you may. yet add a cubit to your stature. If you but lie down. Height, says Dr. Carroll B. Palmer, Increases slightly in the reclining Individual. In-dividual. The Increase varies with height and sex and is somewhat greater in men than In women. The observed extension was sometimes some-times as much as one Inch. Doctor Palmer came upon this odd phenomenon phenom-enon In the course of an Investigation Investiga-tion at Johns nopkins for the purpose pur-pose of finding a basis of comparison between the height tables of Infants. Museum of Sounds An "audible museum" or a museum mu-seum of sounds has been organized in Berlin under the direction of the ministry of ports. Here there Is a gigantic collection of phonographic records representing calls, music and characteristic noises of all kinds. This includes the wail of thftJLorean the merry song of the Rumanian tailor, the whoop of the American cowboy and the lingering call of thepanish jilght watchman. There are also records of the voices of many distinguished persons. No Such Luck Mother-in-Law I'm late. Did yon think I was lost, Henry? Henry No. I never was an optimist opti-mist Lamentation should last about one- tenth as long as laughter. 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