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Show THE LEIII SUN. LEW. UTAH By .TEMPLE BASLEV 0 PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY WNU SERVICB THE STORY Vnune pretty Jane Barnes, who lived with her brother, Baldwin, In Sher-J Sher-J Park near Washington. was not particularly impressed when she read ,Tot rich attractive Edith Towne had been left at the altar by Delafield Simms,. Lit hv New Yorker. However, she still mused over it when she met Evans Snnptte a young neighbor, whom the war had left completely discouraged and irwindent Evans had always loved Jane. That morning Baldwin Barnes, on S- wflv to work in Washington, offered assistance to a tall, lovely girl in distress. L found a bag she had left in the car, containing a diamond ring on wph was inscribed "Del to Edith Forever." He knew then that his passenger been Edith Towne. Already he was half in love with her. That night he 5?.Piied the matter with Jane, and they called her uncle, worldly, sophisticated rrpHerick Towne. He visited them at their home, delighted with Jane's aim- lipitv He told them Edith'i story. Because her uncle desired It, Edith Towne hA accepted Delafield Simms, whom she liked but did not love. She disappeared immediately after the wedding was to have taken place. The next day Jane weived a basket of fruit from Towne, and a note asking If he might call again. Mr Follette widowed mother of Evans, was a woman of indomitable courage, impoverished, she nevertheless managed to keep Evans and herself in compara-five compara-five comfort by running dairy farm. Evans, mentally depressed and dis. tiiusioned had little self reliance and looked to his mother and Jane for guid-.nee guid-.nee Ed'ith Towne phones Baldy In answer to an ad. She asked him to bring hpr nocketbook. Jane calls on Frederick Towne In his elaborate office. He gives i ucv his stenographer, a letter to Delafield Simms, In which he severely criU-pK' criU-pK' him Unknown to him, Lucy and Simms are In love with each other. Towne takes Jane home in his limousine. She introduces him to Evans, who U jealous of Towne. Baldy goes to meet Edith Towne at her hiding place. CHAPTER VI Continued 9 They laughed together. Baldy was great fun, Edith decided, different "You are wondering, I fancy, how I happened to come here," she said, leaning back in her chair, her burnished bur-nished hair against its faded cushions. cush-ions. "Well, an old cook of Mother's, Moth-er's, Martha Burns, is the wife of the landlord. She will do anything for me. I have had all my meals upstairs. I might be a thousand miles away for all my world knows of me." "I was worried to death when I thought of you out in the storm." "And all the while I was sitting with my feet on the fender, reading about myself in the evening papers." pa-pers." "And what you read was a-plenty," said Baldy, slangily. "Some of those reporters deserve to be shot." "Oh, they had to do it," indifferently, indiffer-ently, "and what they have said is nothing to what my friends are saying. say-ing. It's a choice morsel. Every girl who ever wanted Del's millions is crowing over the way he treated me." The look in his eyes disconcerted her. "Do you really think that?" "Of course. We're a greedy bunch." "I don't like to hear you say such things." "Why not?" "Because you aren't greedy. You know it. It wasn't his millions you were after." "What was I after I wish you'd tell me. I don't know." "Well, I think you just followed the flock. Other girls got married. So you would marry. You didn't know anything about love or you wouldn't have done it." "How do you know I've never been in love?" "Isn't it true?" "I suppose it is. I don't know, really." "You'll know some day. And you mustn't ever think of yourself as mercenary. You're too wonderful for that too too fine" She realized in that moment that the boy was in earnest. That he was not saying pretty things to her for the sake of saying them. He was saying them all in sincerity. "It is nice of you to believe in me. But you don't know me. I am like the little 'girl with the curl. I can be very, very good, but sometimes I am 'horrid.' " "You can't make me think it." He handed her a packet of letters. "Your uncle sent these. There's one from Simms on top." "I think I won't read t I won't read any of them. It has been heav-enly heav-enly to be away from things. I feel !ike a disembodied spirit, looking on but having nothing to do with the world I have left." They were smiling now. "I can believe that," Baldy said, "but I think you ought to read Simms' letter. let-ter. You needn't tell me you haven't any curiosity." "Well, I have," she broke the envelope. en-velope. "More than that I am madly mad-ly curious. I wouldn't confess it though to anyone but you." "They can cut me up in little Pieces-before I break my silence." Again they laughed together, fhen she broke the seal of the letter. let-ter. Read it through to herself, wen read it -a second time aloud. "Now that it is all over, Edith, I - 10 ieu you how it happened. you think it is a rotten thing did. But it would have been worse " i nad married you. I am in ove with another women, and I did nt find it out until the day of our wedding. "She isn't in the least to blame, cuft.Tebow 1 can'1 feel toat 1 am the cad that everybody is call- ti.u Things are bgger some-mes some-mes than ourselves. Fate just took me that mn; j . a ii"is ana swept aay from you. me " n't her fault CKn " 1 0 in, wuuiuu l her to 2 me' althugh I begged uer w do It And .u. course e irT'tl1, P0r' but she isn'1 ma7-wiU ma7-wiU ! Lmy money- -The wTld oewt is but' toe worl wme to roe. and if it ever comes Mm! u&RnrEiE TIITJS FAR to you, you're going to thank me for this but now you'll hate me, and I'm sorry. You're a beautiful, wonderful won-derful woman and I find no excuse ex-cuse for myself, except the one that it would have been a crime under the circumstances to tie us to each other. "In spite of everything, "Faithfully, "Del" There was a moment's silence, as she finished. Then Edith said, "So that's that," and tore the letter into little shreds. Her blue eyes were like bits of steel. "He's right," said Baldy. "I'd like to kill him for making you unhappybut un-happybut the thing was bigger than himself." She shrugged her shoulders. "Of course if you are going to condone dishonor " He was leaning forward hugging his knees. "I am not condoning Re was a whimsical youngster, she decided. anything. But I know this that some day if you ever fall in love, you'll forgive" "I am not likely to fall in love," coldly, "I'm too sensible" "Oh, I know. You've had strings of lovers you're too tremendously lovely not to have. But they've all been afraid of you. No caveman stuff or anything like that Isn't that the truth?" "I should hate a caveman." "Of course, but you wouldn't be indifferent in-different and you'd end by caring-" "I dislike brutal types intensely-" He sat with his chin in his hand, his shoulders hunched up like a faun or Pan at his pipes. "All cavemen aren't brutal types. Some day I'm going to paint a picture of a man carrying off a woman. And I'm going to make him a slender young god and she shall be a rather rath-er substantial goddess but she'll go with him his spirit shall conquer her" She looked at him in surprise. "Then you paint?" "I'll say I do. Terrible things-magazine things-magazine covers. But in the back of my mind there are masterpieces master-pieces " : He was a whimsical youngster, she decided. But no end interesting. interest-ing. T don't believe your things are terrible. And I shall want to see them" "You are going to see them. 1 have a studio in our garage. I sometimes wonder what happens at night when my little fliwer is left alone with my fantasies. It must feel that it is fighting devils" He broke off to say. "I'm as garrulous gar-rulous as Jane.- Please don't let me talk any more about my sell" "Is Jane your sister?" "Yes. And now let's get down to realities. Your uncle wants you to come home." "I'm not goi-:- I know Uncle Fred. He'll make me feel like a returned re-turned DrodisaL He'll kill the fatted calf, but I'll always know that there I And hogs," Baldy supplemented, dreamily. "Some people are like that" "Look here," he said suddenly, if I were you I'd go back." T will not" "I think you ought Face things out Let your uncle understand that there are to be no postmortems. It is the only thing to do. You can't stay here forever." "Did Uncle Fred make you his ambassador?" coldly. "He did 'not When I came, I felt that I would do anything to keep you away from home as long as you liked. But I don't feel that way now. You'll Just sit here and grow bitter about it instead of thanking God on your knees." He flung it at her, unexpectedly. There was a moment's intense silence. si-lence. Then he said, "Oh, I hope you don't think I am preaching" "No no " and suddenly her head went down on her arm, that beautiful burnished head. - She was crying! "I'm sorry," he told her, huskily. And again there was silence. She hunted for her handkerchief, and he handed her his. "You needn't be sorry," she said; "it seems rather refreshing to have someone say things like that. Oh, I wonder if you know how hard we are and cynical the people of my set And I don't believe any of us ever thank God." They talked for an hour after that. "There is no reason why you should hurry back," Baldy said, "but I'd let your uncle tell people where you are. Then the papers will drop it, don't you see?" "I see. Of course I've been silly but you can't think how I suffered." suf-fered." She would not have admitted it to anyone else. But she met his sincerity sin-cerity with her own. "I was going to have our lunch served up here," she said, "but I think I won't. The dining-room down-stairs is charming and if anyone any-one comes in that I know I shan't care as long as I'm going back." The food was delicious, and having hav-ing settled her problems, Edith showed herself delightfully gay and girlish. There was heliotrope in a Sheffield bowl on their table. "Martha grows old-fashioned flowers in pots," Edith said. She picked out a spray for him and he put it in his coat. "It's my favorite." She told him about Delafield's orchids. "Think of all those months," she said, "and he never knew the flowers flow-ers I liked." There were other people in the room, but it was not until the end of the meal that anyone came whom Edith recognized. "Eloise Harper and she sees me," was her sudden remark. "Now watch me carry it off." She stood up and waved to a parj ty of four people, two men and two women, who stood in the door. They saw her at once, and the effect of their coming was a stampede. stam-pede. "Blessed child," said the girl who was in the lead, "have you eloped? And is this the man?" "This is Mr. Barnes," said Edith, "who comes from my uncle. I am to go back. But I have had a corking cork-ing adventure." Eloise, red-haired and vivid in a cloak and turban of wood-brown, seemed to stand mentally on tiptoe. "I wouldn't miss the talk I am going go-ing to have with the reporters tonight." to-night." One of the men of the party protested. pro-tested. "Don't be an idiot Eloise." "Well, I owe Edith something. Don't I, darling?" "You do." There was a flame in back of Edith's eyes. "She. liked Delafield before I did." Bermuda History on Back of Some Coinages The history of the Bermuda islands is-lands holds a fascinating story to coin-collectors. The background of Bermuda's monetary system is revealed re-vealed century by century on the backs of its currency, and at Hamilton Ham-ilton and St. George's one can find old curio shops containing rare pieces of Bermuda coinage dating back into the Seventeenth century, according to a Hamilton, Bermuda, correspondent in the Indianapolis News. Bermuda has used silver, gold, copper and tobacco as the basis of its monetary system. Today Bermuda Ber-muda is on the same money standard stand-ard as its mother country, but in the shops American money is accepted in payment of goods. Doubloons, pistols, piece-of-eight all the coinages of the Spanish Main tobacco, palmetto, even peppercorn pepper-corn once circulated in Bermuda as mediums of exchange by which to buy or rent a house, purchase a slave or pay for building a private sloop. In 1615 the Bermuda company was formed, and almost immediately a special copper coinage was used in trading with the company's store and for other small daily transac- "Cat." said Eloise lightly. "I liked his yacht but Benny's is big-ger, big-ger, isn't it Benny?" She turned to the younger man of the party who had not spoken. "I'll say it is," Benny agreed, cheerfully, "and it isn't Just my yacht that she's after. She has a real little case on me." , The second woman, older than Eloise, El-oise, tall and fair-haired in smoke-gray smoke-gray with a sweep of dull blue wing across her hat said, "Edith, you bad child, your uncle has been frightfully worried." "Of course, you'd know, Adelaide. And it does him good to be worried. wor-ried. I am an antidote for the rest of you." Everybody laughed except Baldy. He ran his fingers with a nervous gesture through his hair. He was like a young eagle with a ruffled crest. Martha came up to arrange for a table. "Bring your coffee over and sit with us," Eloise said; "we want to hear all about it." Edith shook her head. "I don't belong to your world yet And I've had a heavenly time without you." They went on laughing. Silence settled on the two they left behind. And out of that silence Edith asked, "You didn't like the things we said?" "Hateful!" "Do you always show what you feel like that?" "Jane says I do." "Well, if it had been anybody but Eloise Harper and Adelaide Lara more. Adelaide is Uncle Fred's lat est." She rose. "Let's go upstairs. If I stay here I shall want to throw things at their heads. And I don't care to break Martha's dishes.' They stopped at the other table, however, for a light word or two, then went up to Edith's sitting-room on the second floor. When they were once more by the fire, she said, "And now what do you think of me? Nice temper?" "I think," be said, promptly "that they probably deserved it." She laid her hand for a fleeting moment on his arm. "You are rather a darling to say that. I was really horrid." When he was ready at last to go, she decided, "Tell Uncle Frederick to send Briggs out for me in the morning. I might as well have it over, now that Eloise is. going to spread the news." "I wish you'd go in with me tonight." "Oh, but I couldn't" "Why not?" She weighed it "And surprise Uncle Fred?" "I think we'd better telephone, so he can kill the fatted calf." "Yes. He doesn t like things sprung on him. Hurts his dignity but he's rather an old dear, and I love him do you ever quarrel with the people you love?" "Jane and I fight Great times." "I have a feeling I shall like Jane." "You will. She's the best ever. Not a beauty, but growing better-looking better-looking every day. Bobbed her hair and I nearly took her head off. But she's rather a peach." "I'll have you both down for dinner din-ner some day. I think we are going to be friends" again that light touch on his arm. He caught her hand in his. "I shall only ask that you let the page twang his lyre." Then with a deeper deep-er note, "Miss Towne, I can't tell you how much your friendship would mean." v "Would it? Oh, I am going to have some good times with you and your little sister, Jane. I am so tired of people like Eloise and Adelaide, Ade-laide, and Benny and Del . . ." (TO BE CONTINUED) and is unique as the first British colonial currency. Specimens of it are exceedingly rare. The device of a ship was revived on a copper issue of 1793. These "ship pennies" were struck by Matthew Mat-thew Britton of Birmingham, by authority au-thority of George III. The total value val-ue was not to exceed 200 pounds sterling, but part of the issue was captured by the French. Only about $600 worth arrived in Bermuda. According to a proclamation of January 1, 1662, strangers were to be paid with tobacco at two shil lings and sixpence a pound. This last clause practically declared tobacco to-bacco as legal tender, and there after for half a century all taxes, assessments and other debts were reckoned in terms of tobacco. World's Queerest Chimney What must be the world's longest and queerest chimney is to be seen in South Wales. It is two miles long, and was constructed up the side of a mountain from a nearby copper mine. The reason for its lengih is that with the former chimney, of ordinary size, the poisonous poi-sonous fumes issuing from the "smelting" were harmful to crops. The chimney also has a full-sized stream running through part of it Star BDusl Real or Reel Romance? Proof in the Pictures k Knight Does the Lyrics l lly Virginia Vale I VIVIEN LEIGH, the English Eng-lish girl whom you'll see in the movie version of "Gone With the Wind," arrived In New York a while ago for a vacation. The vacation had begun a week or so before, but she had spent the first part of it in the country nearby, near-by, resting; after 22 weeks of work, with only five free days in that time, she needed a rest! In many ways she really resem bles "Scarlett O'Hara." She hat the squarish Jaw and pointed chin that you're familiar with if you read the book, and her eyes, though they're hazel, are near enough to being green so that the effect if almost the same. As for her Southern accent It should pass muster even with the most critical of Southern audiences. She'll have to abandon it when she returns to work, for her next assignment in Hollywood Is that of the young wife in "Rebecca," an other popular noveL She will play opposite Laurence Olivier it's ru mored that their interest in each other is more than mildly sentl-mental, sentl-mental, but In Hollywood that ru mor has a way of bobbing up when ever publicity is needed for a new picture. If you want more data about Miss Leigh for your scrapbook she was born in India, received her educa tlon in Germany, Italy, France and England, and has a five-year-old daughter. It's a new version of "Smiling Through" that will be Jeanette Mac Donald's first picture under her new JEANETTE MacDONALD Metro contract. The well known author, Alice Duer Miller, is writing the adaptation, and as usual the studio stu-dio will spare no effort to make the MacDonald production an excellent one. Another foreign actress, Ingrid Bergman, makes her bow to America Amer-ica soon. The picture, "Intermezzo," "Intermez-zo," is an American version of one she made in Sweden. She is returning return-ing to Sweden when it is completed. $ And, while we're on the subject of Sweden, Paul Muni's superb acting aided greatly in obtaining for War ner Brothers permission to fecreen the life of Alfred Bernard Nobel. Hal Wallls, of Warner Brothers, talked with his nephew and showed three Muni pictures, "Pasteur,1 "Zola" and "Juarez" the most convincing argument that could be offered. No less a person than Sir Robert Vansittart chief diplomatic adviser to the British government has been engaged by Alexander Korda to write the lyrics and dialogue for Korda's forthcoming technicolor production, "The Thief of Bagdad. He's doing it between diplomatic assignments. Korda is shooting the works on this new picture; it is one of the most ambitious productions ever to come from bis studio. - Michael Fitzmaurice has been typed as an unlucky suitor so fre quently on the air that he airaia it will affect his private life. In one day not long ago he was Jilted in "When a Girl Marries," treated as Just a brother in "Myrt and Marge, and taken for a ride after winning the heart of a gunman's moll in "Gang Busters." As you've probably noticed by her pictures, Deanna Durbin is growing up. 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