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Show AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN -llf'V.J'JIl'? Wtf J'Ail V'M .1, .....j .-..Li,., y George Agnew Chamberlain - - Gorf Agntw Chamberlain WNU Sarvtea xV Continued 10 . . . ... -a saddle and lse Suddenly Joyce be- l5e' . .. TV riff I "What are 7"" L's limply nothing else . .riprf Jovee. tnoi w -.:.a J " . ...... W.- -J a rth. 11 .I'm crying about Tro- Lij TV-W -mease don t. ve me io I can't do a Don't you suppose C on a bit; we may both V Rayo. The battery's tra npd. Brief forgotten nf fresh disaster. Im.l, ..rtrl (paring out jkhlon. "Here it is, thank ink. Get in, joyte. and worK me cnunc. nut and in a moment g with all his might. No spark. Then he Degan i and Judgment, giving (enough to do the same. the motor teased n asn of life. Then more Jen a roar, so sudden, so it seemed the old car itself to pieces before shut off the throttle. fcig was deafening, more line gun than a motor. she screamed though idy at her side, "I can't qqJjfiwX; he yelled at iifroteet" 'Take-' your accelerator and push r Was at the wheel, back-i back-i cautiously for fear of i niggerheads. but final-iing final-iing out on the Toluca eg into second and at h. Joyce turned, kneeled and looked back. The closer now, quite close; lem were already dis- iheir carbines unslung, 1 to kneel on the farther Ibarranca. iind the bumps, Dirk," ver her shoulder, give Id take everything that e shooting is about to off are they?" asked t there Joyce was is there a woman alive by sight the difference undred yards and a half don't know," she said: )he least idea." you have!" he shouted "How far? Is it ten bile?" iow," said Joyce. "I'm Stubborn; I just don't en she cried. "Never it comes!" pullet struck in line but the car; it ricocheted over them with pine. That was enough i opened the throttle nt the flivver careening ?rairie, making note of he Would have tn (alro Pack to the abandoned 'UUets followed but none Ft as the first and pres- fs silence. Joyce sat ank back, signing hpr 'e're safe. Dirk. Hr.rtn't Pse the tires a bit? Thov Mty soft." fight," said Dirk- slnu. How lone has tiiic cnin r.ked in that gully?" pCi" Said Jnvrn fit a year? No; it can't pu a chance to figure it a1 T:i p". uiric. iJuw many u ueen at La Barran- Kid Dirk P tee to that,"' said aoesn t seem possible. I. leSS than f... i- . , lwu weens: twelve years- r P days. Somoh nil, 1. I ii p sense." ?APTEB XVI KsroaTs-tKoTeTe" in to do i v sua ana the f". i 'aithful to the last. I lOlllril . !:.. . . Kin t; l: arj 'complications, ttwSan Cnrlos and ere fpa:t L . -' nia and cer- 7 ""led srn.;.. B en h, r across kord.. '0U Iul1 of Fment the ,., J0.?' A oon as we f Wait M then?" asked rreno American con- sul in Toluca," be answered grave ly. "Does there have to be a consul? "Either that or some authorized officer from the embassy. Any preacher in good standing can do the trick, but the presence ox an American official at witness is what makes it legal at home." "I see," said Joyce slowly; then she raised her eyes to his face. "Dirk. I'm yours. I'll do whatever you want me to." He reached out to lay his hand on hers. "I love you, Joyce." "And I love you. Dirk. Is that why we must hurry soT You'd think it would make us willing to wait. He frowned. "You haven't told me your reason for rushing to Mexico Mex-ico City, but I think I guessed it" "To attend to General Onelia," said Joyce, also frowning. "I thought so," said Dirk, "and that's why we're going to marry today. to-day. When you take on Onelia or Q t 4 , trr "A Person of Your Particular Looks, Size and Adorable Build." the ambassador or any other small fry I want a right nobody can dispute dis-pute to be in the ring to sit in your corner." She smiled. "Again I love you, Dirk." Going out in search of the finest car available, he walked on air. He was glad to be alive, glad to be relieved re-lieved of the strain of driving and to sit in the back with his arm around Joyce, both of them wrapped in the same rug. Arrived in the city they drove straight to his little house and from her first glimpse of its exterior to the last long look within Joyce was conscious of pleased wonder and a steadily increasing in-creasing Sense of well-being. Here was a nurtured loveliness, unpur-chasable unpur-chasable in bulk, individual to the core yet with arms held wide to all devotees of good taste. She was happy in this house. Even Pablo, masking amazement, all but choking chok-ing on suppressed joy at the return of his missing master, seemed of its warp and woof. "What about a hot bath to start with?" asked Dirk. "Splendid," she answered quickly, quick-ly, then her lips drooped. "I haven't anything to put on." "Don't . . worry," said Dt ric "search the world and you couldn't find a costume more becoming than what you're wearing to a person of your particular looks, size and adorable build." "Silly-head!" "I can furnish you a soft shirt for a blouse and by the time you're ready for them the Jodhpurs will have been brushed and pressed as sweet as a flower." He turned to Pablo. "Pablo, this is the senorita Joyce Sewell, from whom you may take orders as coming from myself, only more so. Give her into the charge of Paulina. As for the rest, I leave it to her since she talks Spanish better than either of you." ..- Pi it .had . Jiat. dLuiiiRsed .the uMntdJ car and without bothering to inform Joyce or even waiting to wash his hands he started for the embassy proper, passing the chancellery by. The great iron gate was opened by a strange porter but the man on the door was an old friend. "Good afternoon, Antonio." "Buenas tardes, Don Deerke," cried Antonio, excitedly, "buenas tardes, buenas tardes!" "Is the ambassador at home and awake?" "Si, senor, como no?" "Tell him a Mr. Van Suttart would like to see him. Be sure you give the message. Just as I say it." As they entered the vast living room the ambassador himself emerged with a rush from his study, stopped and stared. "Well!" he gasped, "I'll say you came on the run!" His eyes moved up and down. 'Haven't you changed those clothes since you left?" Dirk glanced downward ruefully. then looked up and grinned. "I admit ad-mit it's pretty bad. sir, especially since I come as a private citizen." "What do you mean? I haven't fired you yet." , "I was merely anticipating," said Dirk, looking around. "What are you bunting for?" "Two things. A chair with a washable wash-able cover and a drink." "Forgive me, my boy. Sit anywhere any-where you like; there's nobody to kick about it since I'm a grass-widower from a week ago till the Christmas holidays. I'll ring for your usual Come on, now; what's on your mind?" "I'm here for assistance, sir. I want you to help me marry Miss Joyce Sewell of La Barranca this afternoon." The ambassador collapsed into the nearest chair and groaned. Then they talked talked as only two men who possess an identical background back-ground can talk. The rapid fire of questions and answers covered not only Dirk's absence but swept from such broad considerations as hi ancestry an-cestry for three generations back, down to the trifling matter of his present private income in dollars and cents with salary omitted. Yet there was no confusion. When they got through there was nothing either of them didn't know about the inner and outer workings of Dirk Van Suttart. "Let's see where we stand," said the ambassador, summing up. "You want to marry Miss Sewell. Well, she's certainly of age as far as that operation is concerned, so stopping stop her is definitely out Then you state you can't wait even to telephone tele-phone your people because of the urgency of securing Onelia's aid, because what they say wouldn't make any difference anyway, and finally because they're probably in Europe." He scowled. "The first of those three reasons is what's bothering me trouble heading straight this way." "You needn't worry on that score," said Dirk. "As a matter of fact sir, Miss Sewell emphatically doesn't want the aid of this establishment estab-lishment She says she can get along a whole lot better without it Her idea is that ever since embassies embas-sies have been run for trade and to hell with the trader they've become mere stumbling-blocks to the pioneeralso pio-neeralso a constant pain, an eye sore." "Eh?" exclaimed the ambassa dor, astonished; then he asked with genuine solicitude, "Are you sure she's quite all there?" "Quite," said Dirk confidently. "The truth is, sir, I'm inclined to agree with her. Give her a chance and she'll make a monkey out of Onelia which is more than we have ever been able to do." "Dirk I'm calling you Dirk be cause I want you to think of me as sitting here in place of your father- in less than two weeks this girl has managed to do extraordinary things to your mind, so much so that I beg you not to trust it until you've taken advice from someone capable of judging her with impartial impar-tial eyes." "I agree to that" said Dirk promptly. "What about yours? Do you think they would be impartial?" The ambassador frowned, then smiled. "All I can say is I'd try my best to make them so. When can you bring the paragon around?" "Don't think me impertinent, but there isn't time for that. Besides, since she has nothing but riding clothes she might find it embarrassing." embarrass-ing." "I take it you're inviting me to your house," stated the ambassador. ambassa-dor. "Yes, sir," said Dirk, "and I'd be a lot more humble about it if you hadn't waived your ambassadorship ambassa-dorship to act as my father." "That's a bull's-eye," conceded I the ambassador. "Let's gu ttie quicker the better." "Do you mind if I have a wash, sir?" begged Dirk. "I mightn't have time later on." "Help yourself; you cert.uniy need it and you know the way." Dirk washed all he could reach without undressing, then paused long enough to do some Important telephoning; consequently several minutes elapsed before he found himself in the ambassadorial car and only then did he feel a first twinge of trepidation. Almost an hour had passed since he had abandoned aban-doned his prospective bride without warning. How would she react to such cavalier treatment? How to the surprise he was about to spring on her? Absurd as it might appear, what Joyce thought about anything seemed to him a lot more important impor-tant than what the ambassador was going to think about Joyce. Even so he was in for a shock, for the moment Pablo opened the closed door of the living room and stood back that his master and his master's chief might pass they crashed in upon an astonishing scene. Before them, back to the door and with hands thrust in her breeches pockets, stood Joyce in an unmistakable posture of battle. Beyond, Be-yond, a veritable lioness of a hat-less hat-less woman not only in appearance but by virtue of her roar, paced the room from side to side. Words were tumbling out of her In an unceasing un-ceasing and reverberating nimble, yet Joyce's voice, accurately pitchedrceiild -acpose'4-aite- "" "It's no use, Margarida." she was saying. "You can yelp all you like but you're here and you're going to stay. Try to get out and I'll ride you down the block. That's why I've kept on these clothes." "Joyce, please!" cried Dirk in an agonized voice; then he collected himself and faced. the older woman. "Licenciada Margarida Fonseco, may I present his excellency the ambassador of the United States?" He laid his hand on Joyce's shoulder shoul-der as she turned. "Chief." he half gulped, "this is Joyce Joyce Sewell." The ambassador found himself looking into as straight and-jjlue a pair of eyes as he had ever seen eyes of a blue that at the moment was almost black. He took a hand cool to the touch, slender, yet amazingly amaz-ingly firm, and the next instant a current of courage and the will to fight swept up the length uf his arm straight to his heart "My dear," he heard himself saying say-ing after quite a pause, "don't you think we might all sit down?" "Of course," said Joyce; then hesitated, hes-itated, looking doubtfully toward Margarida. At that moment Pablo appeared at the door, stood back And announced an-nounced loudly: "General Sebasti-ano Sebasti-ano Sanches y Robles. ex-minister of war." "General!" cried the ambassador, advancing with outstretched hand. "What brings you here, of all places and people?" "I don't know," said the general, glancing around in a bewildered manner, "I really don't, Excellency. Excellen-cy. I came in answer to a mysterious mysteri-ous message from the youni; lady who caused us so much trouble, brought about my downfall .u d thus established my reputation tor all time as a prophet. Is she l. re?" Joyce stepped forward 'Presents, 'Pres-ents, mi General. " She snrN-d, but almost immediately turned sober. "If I did you an injury, I'm more than willing and ready to make amends. General, I'm goin to tell you a story. Frequently I shall have occasion to call upon Lie. nciada Margarida Fonseca for co!. Urination. Urina-tion. Whenever she denies a point you may take it she means the contrary. con-trary. Let her face be my star witness; I defy her lips." fro BE COMIM H Opinion May Be Ri'enf, fciif Don't Meddle W ith Affairs of Others. DEAR MISS DENE: My best trifnA la In Iava wltk MftH whom all our crowd know to be a loafer. He proves this by not getting get-ting work and by spending most of his time In my friend's home, gladly glad-ly accepting the hospitality her parents par-ents foell.shly offer him. He eats most of his meals there and of rourse never takes his girl even to the movies. We try to persuade her to give him up but so far without success. Can we stand by and see her tying herself to a man who will make her miserable? I have read your column often and like the advice ad-vice yon rive. Should be obliged If you would offer some advice to me. Gwen. ANSWER Whether it's your best friend's true love, or your cousin's 1 fiance of your brother's wife who's j causing you sleepless nights of anx-I anx-I lety, make up your mind to this def-I def-I initely. You can't persuade an in- fatuated man or woman to give up romance, not if you shout common-1 common-1 sense slogans at them for the rest of your life. Hands off other peo- pies' happiness, even if you know they're going to make a mess of It I You naturally see all the worst i side of your chum's chosen mate. You know a great many practical details about him which she over-, over-, looks. You look at him impersonally impersonal-ly and coldly and find him wanting. ! And from an absolutely common-! common-! sense point of view you may be 1 right But don't forget thit: that the girl uho u in love with her man knows more about him than you do, in many uvjyj. She may understand that certain cer-tain weaknesses of his have held him back and made him failure. She may realize that her influence end help can put him on his feet end give him wmethmg if toerh for.-She will. menu whSe you and the resi of the crowd are still sitting on the spectator's specta-tor's bench and booing loudly And often what appears to outsiders out-siders a man's shameless willingness willing-ness to eat his sweetheart's family out of hearth and home is nothing more nor less than an indication that the Infatuated swain is pleasing pleas-ing his lady. For if a determined girl wants to see her suitor every day and all the time she can usually persuade him to be in constant attendance, even though his compliance with her wishes puts him in a bad light with his friends. Very often a man is criticized for monopolizing a maiden's time without with-out doing anything to entertain her. The world cries "shame," and wags its head compassionately over the sad fate of the deluded damsel. And all the time the poor man is merely carrying out his lady's orders. or-ders. I suggest, Gwen, that you give your pal a chance to see what she can do about improving her shiftless affinity. Perhaps she is wiser than you think. Here's an Easy Dress 'For You to Crochet A simple mesh with puff stitch dots is quickly and easily crocheted cro-cheted into this charming dress. Use mercerized cotton in fresh Spring colors. Pattern 1658 contains con-tains directions for making the dress in sizes 4 to 8 (all given in Thousands of Ideas for Inventions, but Few Get Through Patent Office Every minute of the day injhese United States'r thousands' of persons are having productive brainstorms, bearing new ideas in the bathtub, or chewing pencil stubs as they struggle strug-gle through the final phases of their "invention." Of the hundreds of thousands of ideas produced, few of them get through the patent office, but this lot relatively small as it is, appears large enough, judging from the rapidly filling shelves in the patent room of the Chicago public library, notes a writer in the Chicago Chi-cago Daily News. Here every month are added anywhere any-where from sixteen to twenty-one heavy volumes describing the pat-J ents issued by tne unuea siaie mi the last month. Each patent is numbered num-bered and described in the inventor's inven-tor's abdication by drawing and text. The idea of the patent record is to give anyone who wishes a peek at the workings of any patent that catches his fancy or upon which he might want to improve. (Patented articles usually bear the ru.r ber of the "UcehseTT The patents are issued at ti e rate of about 3,500 a month. In :936 a total of 39,793 were issued: i;i 1935, 40,638; in 1934. 46,239. In Hi?.' when so many people were home tanking, there were 53,573 issued Everything is listed in the patent books. Next to a description of a scientist's new method for the recovery re-covery of hydrocyanic acid from oil products might nestle the nc.v vegetable vege-table slicer conceived by resident of Harrisburg: the air-cool' a shoe, with a spring bellows in t: heel, by an Anguilla, Mass., mar. e disappearing dis-appearing ink specially v'dvod for marking laundry; a m.n!.ine to slice ham thinner, or a m igger, homier, leak-proof burial .'I, the invention of a couple of IV 'i .'iters. First Ambulance Service in N. f, Bellevue hospital, New V i k City, started the flrt ambulance tcrvic ui June. lUoa. DEAR DORIS DENE: I have a alster-in-law who Is the bane of my existence. She Is a competent housekeeper and excessively tidy. Whenever she comes to see me she manages to make me feel that my home Is badly run and my children are not cared for as they should be. She makes a nervous wreck of me, yet my husband is so fond of her I cannot forbid her to enter my home. What can I do to overcome this nervous dread? Mrs. R. S. P. ANSWER If your sister's criticisms criti-cisms get under your skin, it's only because you feel that there is some truth in them. For if you were ( convinced that you were doing your honest level best to run your house right and give your children the proper care, your own self-respect would bolster up your confidence and take away all your fears. Figure it out this way: Take some one special thing which you know you do well far better Indeed than your sister-in-law does it. And suppose sup-pose she came to you with one or two little suggestions about improving improv-ing yourself in your own particular line. Would you cringe with fear? You would not You'd laugh off her unfriendly little hints because your confidence in your own particular ability would help you to ignore the over-criticism. Girls in business offices often tell me that one particular boss is worse than another because he always makes them nervous picks out their weaknesses, weak-nesses, fastens on their chief flaws. Te''arisu'er 'li that lhe particular eni? player in question has scented the truth: that uhereas Betty may be an excellent stenographer she is careless and indifferent about her filing. Or uhereas Marie is a model of efficiency when it comes to office routine, she is hopelessly bad at typing and prefers to let it slide. Now the sensible woman who is faced with criticism which renders her a nervous wreck, does one of two things. Either she seeks to strengthen her own weak points so that she Is able to stand up to her critic. Or else she helps her own self-confidence by figuring out that she is a pretty good average. If she knows herself to be an indifferent in-different housekeeper but realizes that she makes up for this defect in many ways, she can begin to pat herself on the back, once in a while. Let her concentrate on her own strong points and remember them when she is faced with accusations of inefficiency. C Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. fia: .t . -fp: cfc.'MPa' J 'V, Pattern 1658 one pattern); an illustration of it and of all stitches used; material requirements; photograph of detail de-tail of stitch. Send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) for this pattern to The Sewing Circle, Needlecraft Department, 82 Eighth Ave., New York, N. Y. Please write your name, address ad-dress and pattern number plainly. Elevator Fee Many apartment houses, hotels and office buildings in European countries charge their elevator passengers-lor "riding- both tip -and three cents in American money for a round trip. Collier's Weekly. 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