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Show t V GENERAL' ARED WHITE SO FAR: Colonel Flag- I"E ii. .distant chief of U. 8. In- itt-n-rtment 0-2, estimated l 200,000 European troops in for n w Both he and the Pres.- '.l nowerless to act because Con- CHAPTER IV-Continued. t, the end of a week, Benning had li something of Fincke's confine, confi-ne, together with a know edge of Workings of Van Hassek s head-.,.. head-.,.. t the palace. He had Mted the habit of going for a walk ! evening whu uic li? to me mat"-""- ,an was an artilleryman, on tem-.r, tem-.r, detail at headquarters be- ase of knowledge of the United But at headquarters, Fincke," jjujag prompted, "life is not too jctive. Isn't il yur experience that t. headquarters gets its claws on officer he's sunk?" The Austrian responded with a punt of contempt. "I'm an artilleryman, not a staff jgcer," he snapped. "My battery i seventy-sevens is at Jolisco for arget practice and I'm in Mexico City only until the show opens!" Benning laughed and said, "But nth your fluency in English, your M isn't likely to part company nth yov" when our troops head into Ik United States." "I've Colonel Bravot's word for it!" Fincke said hotly. "Yes, and I'll remind him of it as soon as he reams re-ams from Washington, which ought to be any day now." Benning prolonged the promenade lift Fincke, stopping from time to to at the bar of the Gonzales near tie park for Scotch-and-soda. Once the Fincke artillerist enthusiasm was aroused, the Austrian needed little urging to talk. At first he boasted of his own guns, then branched off into the subject of Van Hassek's superiority in artillery. He painted a picture of well trained regiments splendidly equipped with the best armament. What a wonderful show, Brom- litz!" Fincke exclaimed after he had elaborated the weapons in detail. "Particularly when we pound their artillery to pieces with our superior ranges. Himmelcreuz! They will be ess in counter-battery." ot too fast, Fincke," Benning cautioned. "We mustn't forget their tremendous manpower once they get them equipped." S i "But a million men can crush the if Americans before they can get themselves ready!" "" "A million men, perhaps, but how can we ever expect to get a million men mobilized in Mexico without rousing the Americans finally to action?" ac-tion?" Fincke stopped in his tracks and lis blue eyes looked gravely at Benning Ben-ning through their thick lenses. The Austrian lowered his voice. That is not mere surmise. Brom- Ita This I will tell you in the deep est confidence. One day in General Van Hassek's office I gHmpsed his e map of the United States and are red arrows pointing in the south, the ast, and the "est I had only a impse before e returned the mart to his desk, W I caught figures enough to con-Tice con-Tice me of a million men." Benning managed an indifferent ile and decided to close this dan-ferous dan-ferous subject "With a million men, Fincke, a feat deal might be done," he said, w added, with a glance at his nst watch, "but it's getting late what do you say to some dinner?" din-ner?" e two went to a Mexican cab-! cab-! on Avenida Hidalgo, a favorite W of officers of the new regime. Bennmg ordered dinner and picked ' fiis meaL A54rently he was entertained by the show about 2 Actually Ke was only vaguely c.ous of Ms surroundings. His was by with Fincke's disclo-lm disclo-lm a piecin8 together of the ly Van Hassek had told him. Benning mad hi n. .1 . vjL)iua. .lucre wL corps et t0 check, and erlCation of Fine's dia-Jffes dia-Jffes That should not be diffl- " y Van Hassek would a ft,, tt . t"j ui aiiacK heT Wted States and Benning now that he must find some ?ct?Plhe,VanHassekbrain. t ftkol 6lance at " Van Has- taH . map might answer n i id . , "j u meant et his eyes on that map. U thniinr,. , . 4e - ere mterrupted by CIJ" in springing C fa Mto hlS feet A rk. erect m Mexican unit- j eiT tahl . , nausea ai JtS n-kn-ledge the Aus- "My Colnnol i . youhJC- , m overjoyed to 1 whl He to to Ben- "fted t . wno nas re- ce ?m Eur.P to ur . Colnn: ;J ' ctueI of serv- ajor. our chipf r- jjj wavox." r" 6hnt as if trying to aorT J' mrh some vague clearp? aJInoment his black BJlSS he Passlon with thie?Se'ngthecolel.Bravot. Ser. """'-takabU vMUjos, tne masque- aiiTrs-i-.. r Tr -k j, -vir x rJ1 yi i xyi a INSTALLMENT THREE gresi and the teneral public (ailed to realize the i!f niflcance of Uw troopi. To obtain more definite proof, Captain Benning, Ben-ning, American Intelligence officer, went to Mexico City where he posed at Brom-Utz, Brom-Utz, former American army officer who had been captured in Paris after turning rader in American uniform on whose trail he had been camping at San Antonio. Benning had little more than settled set-tled down at his allotment of American Ameri-can newspapers the next morning than Van Hassek's majordomo, Captain Cap-tain Schroff, came in with a summons. sum-mons. , "Excellency directs that you report re-port to him immediately," Schroff muttered. Benning promptly went down the tiled corridor to the Van Hassek suite. He had spent the night on pins and needles, knowing that once the Bravot memory clicked the Jig was up with him. What did this summons mean? However, he kept his faith in his masquerade. Since leaving Bordeaux he had effected ef-fected those slight changes in appearance ap-pearance that are the most effective masquerade. The Atlantic sun and wind had given his face a deep tan, and he had cultivated a thin mustache mus-tache cut at a rakish angle. At San Antonio his hair had been rather full, now it was cropped close at the sides and the length of his head increased by a bristling pompadour. His new Mexican uniform, cut wide at the shoulders, gave his tor.so a different appearance from that of the civilian clothes he had worn in Texas. ' There was a catlike animation in Van Hassek's one straight eye that Kissed him ardently puzzled Benning. The peculiar smile on the general's thick lips was equally baffling. "Sit down, Bromlitz, I want to talk to you," Van Hassek invited. "Tell me, are you very much in love?" . Benning blinked at the amazing query, then smiled back with a shake of his head. "There was a young lady in Luxembourg, Lux-embourg, eh?" Benning's mind instantly picked up the Van Hassek purport and he confessed, con-fessed, "Yes, Excellency." "Her name?" "Mademoiselle Lucette Ducos." "And you promised you would bring her to Mexico City with your first month's pay, Bromlitz?" "Usually, in such cases," Benning evaded, "one attempts to make parting part-ing as painless as possible." Van Hassek chuckled. "But sometimes some-times such promises come home to roost, Bromlitz." He pushed his call button and "Schroff came in. Van Hassek grunted Instructions. Schroff left the room to return in a moment with a young woman. Ignoring Ig-noring Van Hassek she rushed up to Benning and threw her arms around his neck and kissed him ardently on the mouth. "Chere!" she exclaimed. "Oh, but Henri, I couldn't wait fci you to send for me! My uncle gave me a ticket to Vera Cruz and here I am!" Benning coldly received the caress. ca-ress. He saw that she was French, undoubtedly the French operative. Lucette Ducos, who had been Bromlitz' Brom-litz' undoing. She was small, trim, and had a doll-like face, but with an intelligence In her large blue eyes that set her apart from the doll variety. va-riety. A glance gave Benning his appraisal. ap-praisal. A girl to turn any man's head, and he understood at once Bromlitz' mad infatuation for the girl. He felt a stir of revolt at the thought of an ally from the French secret service, but promptly remembered re-membered that he had a role to play. "You shouldn't have come here this way, Lucette," he coolly told her. Fve a man's role to play here and it's no place for a woman." Van Hassek came from behind his desk to intervene. He took the French girl's elbows in his chubby hands and his voice was ingratiating. ingratiat-ing. NEXT WEEK ' Ippl , . y 4 IK 'H '1 J'. ; AI'm A1. -e&Xi&VWJA Yfc a..-. I jar- 0S (5 traitor to the United States. After a brief Interview with Van Hassek, leader of the foreign armel forces In Mexico, Benning was accepted at a staff member. mem-ber. Here he strove to gain tlw eon fidence of Fincke, an enemy officer. Now continue with the story. "Mademoiselle, now that your identity has been established to our satisfaction, you're welcome in Mexico. Mex-ico. If your Heinie doesn't treat you as he should, my little cabbage, just you come back and report the facts to me!" . Mademoiselle threw her arms gratefully about Van Hassek's flab by red neck and kissed him on his cheek. Then she turned to Benning. linked her arm in his and gleefully took him out of the room. In the street Benning called a taxicab and drove to the Alameda, where he picked out a seat under a shady cypress.. cy-press.. "What is it you want here, mademoiselle?" made-moiselle?" he bluntly demanded. "Information," she replied crisply. crisp-ly. "Naturally, my government sent me." "I should have guessed they had something like this in mind," he complained. "But why do you wish yourself off on me?" "There are excellent reasons," she answered, regarding him with a level smile. "For one thing we are both after the same Information and ought to be able to help each other." Benning had decided that Inevitably Inevita-bly he must accept the French girl as an associate, since he was already al-ready in the palm of her hand if by caprice or stupidity she betrayed his masquerade. "I'll be glad to give you advantage of anything I may learn," he told her. "But of course we must work separately." , "As you please," she agreed, and said with unabashed frankness, "but at least we'll have to live together." to-gether." Benning demanded, "Why do you propose that?" "For two reasons. First, Van Hassek Has-sek thinks I'm your mistress and I want him to continue thinking that, for the time being, at least" "Your second reason?" "That," she said, looking at him again with her level smile, "is the Important one to you. Bromlitz escaped es-caped from Vincennes three days after you sailed for Vera Cruz." Benning sat glaring while his mind swept to an estimate of that calamity. ...... "Don't blame my government," Mile. Ducos spoke up at once. "It was wholly the fault of a stupid secretary sec-retary from your embassy who was sent to the fort to interview Bromlitz. Brom-litz. An hour after he left, a guard found your secretary bound in Bromlitz' Brom-litz' cell. Bromlitz had escaped in the secretary's clothes and spectacles." specta-cles." "You've no doubt Bromlitz will make his way to Mexico?" Mile. Ducos smiled unconcernedly. unconcerned-ly. "Not the least But now that we understand each other, monsieur, mon-sieur, let's find a place to live. To night I'd like to have you take me to the Avenida Hidalgo to dine and dance." On reporting at the palace next morning, Benning was steeled by a new determination. He meant to play whatever risks were necessary promptly to close his mission in Mexico. With Colonel Bravot on the job, Bromlitz at large, and the French operative on his hands he knew he skated now on very thin ice. With Mile. Ducos he had struck a bargain. She was to keep strictly away from headquarters. He promised prom-ised her any pertinent information he picked up and allotted her the task of checking on the air service. Also she was to keep on the alert for any cancellation of military leaves to Mexico City, which would be a significant development They set up together in an inexpensive in-expensive suite on Jesus Maria. When they were alone In their apartment apart-ment Mile. Duces attitude was one of a purely professional associate. asso-ciate. But when they were together in public during evenings that followed, fol-lowed, she kept up the ruse of a romantic attachment They had gone to the Avenida Hidalgo for dinner one evening when the French girl's covert flirtation with a bald-headed Italian officer in a colonel's uniform brought from Benning a sharp rebuke. "Doesn't it strike you a bit inconsistent incon-sistent mademoiselle," he charged, "for you to pose as my fiancee and at the same time flirt outrageously behind my back while we're dancing danc-ing together? We agreed that you were to limit yourself at present tc finding out about Van Hassek's air service." She looked up at him and smiled as they danced, then put her lips close to his ear and spoke ic a low voice. "Would it interest you, monsieur, tp know that I have learned most o? what we wish to know? Van Ha sek's air bases are located in Tarn-aulipas, Tarn-aulipas, and he has a total of more than a thousand planes, with more coming by ship in the near future Colbnel Boggio. if you will take th trouble to study his insignia, is ar officer of the air servite." (TO BE COSTISUID) 3VJ THE LEHI SUN, LEHI, t . Kathleen Norris Says; 'Where Is God in All This?' Bell Syndicate i 'Pi fan- " I Kui'MMtftta -ani iii'iiwflnrn liw in. n.1 - -"' aif , ........ "God," taid the lovely mother of a houseful of sotu to me, on the church Ueps last Sunday, "could stop all this overnight. WHY DOESN'T HE?" By KATHLEEN NORRIS WOMEN by the hundred write to me pathetic and bewildered letters about the fearful wars that are rocking the world today. Most of them are praying women, and they have been prayine a lone time for peace: some of them, like myself, have been for twenty years members of peace organizations. organiza-tions. Their faith has been heavily tried during the last eighteen months; they feel that their fervent and incessant inces-sant prayers are unheard. "Where is God in all this hor ror?" they ask. "Why doesn't God help us?" "God." said the lovely moth er of a houseful of sons to me, on the church steps last Sun day, "could stop all this overnight. over-night. WHY DOESN'T HE?" Personally. I don't see how any thinking woman can ask this. As well scratch a match, apply it to curtains you have already soaked in gasoline, and then wonder that the house burns down. To rush about then screaming, "Oh, God, hear usl Put out this fire!" would be nothing short of blasphemy. A Plan Never Tried. A lone time ago wise men, good men, agreed that the world should have a new plan. Enemies should be forgiven; won by love rather than hate. -Evil should no longer be overcome by evil, but evil Should be overcome by good. Did they ever try this, among the then scattered and weak tribes that were the beginnings of the nations of EuroDe? Never. Never once. They always said just what good and wise and Christ-professing men are say-int say-int todav. "We'll destroy this one enemy and trample him into the dust And THEN we'll all live in peace and harmony forever!" If 15 hundred years ago the law of love, brotherhood and forgiveness had been observed, what would have happened? Christian lands would have been Invaded by infidels, answer an-swer the histories promptly. Well, it is highly possible that bands of Asiatics might have penetrated into central and southern Europe, and attempted to foist their types of civilization upon the hardier and more enlightened northern stocks. For a generation or two they might indeed have influenced them. Then the higher law that recognizes love as its root and reason would have triumphed. The invaders would have been absorbed, would have been won to the new and mi raculous creed. Europe Eternally Warring. But it wasn't the danger of bar barian invasion that began to de stroy Europe a thousand years ago and that has been eating at her vi tals ever since. It wasn't the out sider. It was the Christiana fhem-!vm. fhem-!vm. eternally warring. It was re ligious wars, territorial wars, boundary boun-dary wars, family wars; one war for 30 years, one for 100 years. It was wars of Christians against innocent if unconverted, alien races; it was militaristic power, and militaristic abuse, generation after generation. Was there ever forgiveness, resti tution, apology? Never. Among these brothers and all of the Euro pean nations are brothers, and the same blood flows in au ineir veins, was not the insolent reply of Cain rathr than the law of Jesus Christ made the international answer? "Am my brother's keeper?" Being Schooled in Bate. We are being carefully schooled in hate for everything Germ a to-daT. to-daT. because of one mad German house-painter who has been raised by war and famine, pestilence and eniDt to oower. We forget that among the Germans are home-Iov- tng. music-loving, law-loving people. We forget that all European civilization, civiliza-tion, our own included, has been following fol-lowing one line for hundreds of UTAH WNU Service.) LIVING HATE ITars are so obviously wrong. This one wiU end, with both sides retiring to lick their wounds, bury their dead and begin to rebuild. And Kathleen Norris wants to put an end to all this. Read her sane, American plan for peace. years. Our marital, property, business busi-ness laws are similar; in our home towns are the same books and rugs, the big chair for Daddy, the comfortable com-fortable low rocker for mother, the cribs and play-pens, the delicatessen delicates-sen store at the corner, the kindergartens kinder-gartens and libraries and concerts, and the ringing of church bells. These people who are killing each other have everything in common. They even have in common the hallucination hal-lucination that a greater nation has the right to oppress a weaker one, to enrich herself infinitely at that weaker weak-er one's expense. Or perhaps I should say that some of them are only outgrowing that hallucination a little faster than the others. Discuss Terms for Peace. If I had the power today I would ask each warring nation throughout the world: "What are your terms for peace?" I would have all the world know and discuss these terms, adjust them, modify them; concede this island there, that trade concession conces-sion there. I would have the President's Presi-dent's opinion, the pope's opinion, the opinions of rulers and kings. I would know at last just what all these men ane fighting for; just what trade advantages were threatened when these great nations went into war. This should have been done 18 months ago; 18 years ago, before we ever heard the names of HiUer or Mussolini. This should have been done when beaten and crippled Germany Ger-many was attempting to struggle to her feet as a republic, when we were all laughing at her, and buying million mil-lion mark notes for five cents. They were playfully called "book marks," do you remember? They should have been called marks of starvation, marks of ruin, marks of revenge. Try God's Way. We know only one thing of this war. It will have to end. One side, the side counting the most ruin and the most dead, will take a certain amount of ruin and loss when it ends. The other side will take slightly slight-ly less. Both will retire to lick their wounds, bury their dead, and begin to rebuild. They've done this since the days of Charlemagne; they'll continue to follow this pattern pat-tern until there slowly seeps into hearts of the rulers and war-makers not the people, not the men and women who die in the wars and pay for the wars! but the rulers and war-makers, that it might be as well to try God's way. It might be as well to see how long these boasting dictators would last with God against them. How long injustice and religious intolerance intoler-ance could flourish, with All-powerful God opposing them. How quickly quick-ly little centers of love and faith and brotherhood would spread until they touched borders, and all His world be inundated with the greenness green-ness and glory of peace and confidence confi-dence and security. Until that day begins let's blame men, the insincere men who say love and live hate, who say forgiveness for-giveness and live revenge. If ever we really turn to God He will not fail us. But until we do let's at least refrain from blaming Him for what we da Concealing Dinner Table In extra large living rooms, made to serve as a dining room as well, it is frequently desirable to have a decorative screen to conceal the dinner din-ner table while it Is being set or cleared. Such screens, in three or four hinged sections, can easily be made at home by applying panels of pressed wood oer wood frames. The finished screen can be left in its natural brown color, varnished, painted or corered with a decorative wall paper. 'historical 1 t i U Zlmo. Scott Motion (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Shared Washington's Birthday "PHE fame of two American art- ists rests largely upon their association as-sociation with George Washington and their portraits of him. They were Charles Willson Peale and his son, Rembrandt Peale, and coincidence coinci-dence also plays a part in their relationship rela-tionship with the Father of His Country. For Rembrandt Peale was born on Washington's birthday-February birthday-February 23, 1778 and his father died on Washington's birthday February Feb-ruary 22, 1827. Being the fon of an artist it was only natural perhaps that Rembrandt Peale should become a painter. So it is not surprising to learn that he began be-gan to draw at the age of eight and by the time he was 13 he had painted a portrait of himself. Charles Willson Peale had made the first known portrait of Washington Washing-ton (painted in 1772 and depicting him as an officer in the Virginia militia) mi-litia) and had served as a captain of volunteers under him at the Battle of Trenton When Washington became be-came President he was constantly Importuned to sit for his portrait Some of these requests he denied, but . he could not refuse his old friend, when In 1795 Charles Willson Peale asked him to pose for his talented tal-ented young son, Rembrandt In fact, he granted the boy three sittings sit-tings in his father's studio in Philadelphia Phila-delphia and the portrait reproduced below was the result This portrait of Washington was the only one which Rembrandt Peale made from life, but another of his pictures of the First American, not drawn from life, is even more famous. fa-mous. Known as the "Equestrian Portrait" it is entitled "Washington Before Yorktown" and it was not made until 1823. But when Chief Justice John Marshall, who had served under Washington in the Revolution, saw it he exclaimed "It is more like Washington himself than any portrait I have ever seen." In 1796 Charles Willson Peale decided de-cided to give up portrait painting and recommended his talented son, 7 s r. I x Portrait of Washington, made by Rembrandt Peale when he was only 17 years old. Rembrandt to the public as his sue cessor. But the son was not imme diately successful and went to Charleston, S. C, where he had his studio for several years. In 1801 he went to England to continue his studies under his father's Instructor, Instruc-tor, the famous Benjamin West but after a short time there his health failed and he returned to his home in Philadelphia. He intended to abandon art for agriculture but after painting a few portraits, he was surprised to find himself hailed as a worthy successor to his famous father. In 1804 he advertised himself as "Rembrandt portrait painter in large and small, head of Mulberry court leading from Sixth, three doors above Market street" and explained ex-plained that he desired to be known by his first name alone, "the adjunct ad-junct Peale serving only to show of whom descended." Three years later he visited Paris to paint the most distinguished men of the day and was successful in this enterprise. After a second trip to Paris In 1809, he came back to America the following follow-ing year and from that time, until his death in I860, his fame as a portraitist por-traitist a painter of historic scenes and a lithographer (one of the first to practice the art in America) was undiminished. Although Washington sat for his portrait by the 17-year-old Rembrandt Rem-brandt Peale in 1795, it was not until un-til 1823 that the artist finally finished it He spent those 28 years in working work-ing on it to make it suit his ideal of a true likeness of the great man. He took it with him when he went abroad and exhibited it in Italy and England where it attracted a great deal of attention. After his return to America, the portrait was bought by the United States senate and it now hangs in the vice president's room in the senate wing p'Ci CapitoL 7 ii uoniiorus WW Mm Wadin; la "Can I see Mrs. Dobson?" ashed th charity collector, "I'm sorry' replied the maid, "but Mrs. Dobson can't see you now. She i in the middle of a plate of soup." Some men smoke impromptu cigarettes the kind you pick up as you 0 along. For His Comfort Stranger (savagely) You're sitting sit-ting on my hat, sir I Old Gentleman So I feel, sir J And I hope in the future you will wear soft hats, and not these hard-brimmed hard-brimmed abominations. Soon to Know Sergeant Hi, you can't go in there, Private Why not? "Because that's the generaFs hut." "Then why has he got private on the) door?" "Stop asking why. Do you think Tus a fool?" . "I don't know yet, I only came here yesterday." Still Feeling First Draftee You know, I feel like I'd like to punch that hard-boiled hard-boiled top sergeant in the nose again. Second Draftee Again? -First Draftee Yes, I felt like it yesterday. HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS If curtains are dry before being starched they will keep clean longer. Turn the handles of pots and pans on the stove out of reach of small children, Hot pans should never be set on porcelain surfaces as the heat cracks the porcelain. Milk scorches easily, so heat it in a double boiler or warm it over low heat in a pan set on an asbestos asbes-tos mat. To help keep the milk from sticking to the sides, rinse the pan in cold water before heating. heat-ing. ( To lime your house plants, save all egg shells. Keep the shells in a jar of cold water and use the water on the plants. When preparing bread crumbs for escalloped dishes, croquettes, etc., tie a cloth or paper bag over the mouth of the meat grinder and put the bread in. The crumbs will then be deposited in the bag instead of being scattered on the floor. 3; OOPS i PN0RM0US1 1 AtR-Tirul f. VOLUME In,..: "! I NO HARD V-;ntRHELS; Join in Hand Then join in hand, brave Americans Ameri-cans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. , John Dickinson. Delicious for parties and pleasure . . . saves coofcihg fme end money... nounVing... order, today, from your grocer. Modesty Esteemed He who does not think too much of himself is much more esteemed ihan he imagines. Goethe. DONT BE BOSSED BY YOUR LAXATIVE-RELIEVE CONSTIPATION THIS MODERN WAY When yon feel gassy, headachy, logy duo to dogged-up bowels, do as million do take f een-A-Mint at bedtime. Next morning thorough, comfortable relief, helping you start the. day fall of your normal energy and . pep, feeling lilce a million! F een-A-Mint doesn't disturb your night's rest or interfere with work the next day. 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