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Show THE7 uCT.dTi OFTHE NOftRIS I THE STORY SO FAR: An orphan, Charlotte (Cherry) Rawiingi knows al not nothing of her early history when, Iccedinc to the wishes of her guardians, udfe Judson Marshbanks and Emma Haskell, she becomes the secretary to HrJ Porteous rorter, weauny san Fran-.(scan Fran-.(scan invalid. Busy as she is. Cherry lees! the Judge from time to time and peets the memoers 01 mi household; Hi dictatorial old mottier; Amy Marsh. knks, debutante daughter of his dead Lrotber, Fred; and Fran, his gay young jjcorid wife. Shortly afterward Cherry tares through Emma, that her mother taevrr married) bad been Emma's 1 er, Charlotte; that ber father had been be judge's brother, Fred Amy's father Land that, shortly after Cherry and Amy r r rAborn, Cherry's mother had switched he 5wo babies! Poor Cherry Rawlings really the rich Amy Marshbanks. The Sdge confirms the amazing story, but protect Amy bis mother burns certain tapers that would have proved It to be ' mej Meanwhile, Cherry had fallen In tvef with Kelly Coates, a young artist lhi for a time had been infatuated fjttt: Fran Marshbanks); and Amy is letermined to marry Count Mario (Go-jo) (Go-jo) Constantino. Cherry Is jealous when frai intimates she had lunch with Kelly his Sausalito studio, but he tells her hasn't seen Fran In weeks. Old Mrs. larshbanks tells Cherry she resents ber tesrnce in the house. Judge Marsh-sinks Marsh-sinks is shot to death In his library (Bd everybody in the house Is under b.spicion. Kelly finally convinces Oners' Oner-s' that be is over his Infatuation for ran and she agrees to marry him. Amy iarries Count Gogo in Reno. Cherry itnntmra thprn are eunnnwder mark! on sn -t r. - : z : : . ' w, i n's negligee. The police find love let- PUt it 4: Kelly wrote to Fran. uw continue with the story. plicit CHAPTER XVI 1 forj rt s!. "jhis is the first I've heard of leriali4" said the old woman, in a :manc(bjie of desperate resignation, "afcf i only knew of it myself yester-bers. yester-bers. ja I'd put them in a place that lejned absolutely safe. They fer- Wi them out." i BEifoierry had finished. She went to reet kfe the chair opposite the older for iT Marshbanks at 016 fire- f'lello, everyone!" Kelly Coates s hpd in the doorway. ,.....! Cherry's heart gave a great ...bring, began to tremble with fear pain. Oh, she did not want to Kelly this morning, not after Iran's story of the letters, not after wonderful day he and he had jaq together at Topcote! Qfj She would have escaped, but there raf no escape. He came in, greet-g!Fran greet-g!Fran and old Mrs. Marshbanks i riaM Gregory, catching Cherry's mcani as he stood beside her, but ply cintb no other look or greeting, and 0 '"Soke at once of Amy's elopement. JiJJpj hoped it had hot too much dis-thorttelsed dis-thorttelsed her grandmother. gain.'i don't know any good of him!" HfrJ. Marshbanks said of Count Go-J).visibly Go-J).visibly touched by Kelly's solici- ltt'TVt all events, Amy is a deter niBed young lady and knows her M mind. She may mold him into JPheW the husband she wants," Kelly istwcijj comfortingly. And then to ' 00 m: "You telephoned that you areraf)ted to see me about some. iherig?.. f 'Could we talk for a few minutes, telly?" Fran asked, rising. "Some g has happened," Cherry heard say as they went away together. d I don't know how serious it be." erry's own heart sick with ap- ension, she went tnrougn me my big halls up to her own room w minutes later. It seemed to Cherry that life would never be ,.,right and happy again. She was try-" try-" .ngjto master her tears when May i cae in with the message that Mr. """Coates would like to see her a moment. mo-ment. Kelly looked at her a moment, ? then squared her gently about with dishisj big hands and asked her why mshi had been crying. I 'Tve felt-so horrible!" Cherry faltered, fresh tears welling in her yes. She could not face him. 'What about Marchioness? Nerves? s 'all this beginning to get you?" ph, Kelly, I'm so wretched about 0e letters! I. knew of course I -Jrniw," Cherry faltered, ""that you ifere fond of Fran; I knew that fust as soon as I met her, or you! Bui it hurts me so it hurts me so 6 when I was so happy thinking that yotj and I would be together to Jjhave this happen now! To have the police get them and the newspa-fcliers; newspa-fcliers; it spoils everything!" J- "Why does it spoil everything?" hesked gravely, still holding her ligatly with both hands behind her shoulders. "Look at me. Cherry. . This doesn't spoil anything. Do you l mean that you don't want to come w Sausalito now?" She smiled up at him through tears. "Oh, Kelly, but it makes it all so horrid!" she said, even though hope ias dawning in her voice. "Cherry, you just said that you knew I'd cared or that at one time some months ago, I thought I was crazy about Fran. I never asked to come to Sausalito and run m; I never thought of her doing 6 J such thing." "Didn't she tell you about the letters?" let-ters?" "Of course she did." "You you comfort me by just saying anything!" Cherry said, ifughing with wet lashes. She seated seat-ed herself in a big fireside chair, Kelly came to sit on the broad 4ri. holding tight to her hand. "Let's have it What about the letters!" IWSIf h y y -vnAiHLttNNORRIS had to tell them, Kelly she "She had them, Kelly. And a day or so ago the police found them." "So what?" "So what?" she echoed dazedly. Can't they use them. Kelly? Can't they make it seem that perhaps if you loved her , . . ?" "Why." Kelly said, "what on earth do you suppose was in those letters, dear? Plans for murdering Jud Marshbanks?" "You comfort me," Cherry whis pered, her eyes shut. "You don't know how you rest me, Kelly." He twisted about a little so that he could get an arm around her. "What was in them?" she asked faintly. "Well, I suppose the usual thing. That I was oh lord nerhaDS that I was happy in my new friendship for one of the most fascinating women wom-en I'd ever known," Kelly said, half amused and half impatient. There must have been more than that because she was so frightened." fright-ened." "I'll be damned if I know what scared her," he said, in a genuinely puzzled tone. "She was beside, herself. her-self. 'Kelly.' she said, 'it isn't for my sake but yours! Your career is ruined. And she wanted me to take her away. 'Take me away and marry mar-ry me!' she said over and over again." "And what did you say?" Cherry asked, paling. "I said that I loved you." Her eyes filled again. Cherry could not speak. -- "Then she said that I didn't know what might happen," the man pursued, pur-sued, still in the tone of one completely com-pletely bewildered, "and I asked her what on earth she was afraid of. She said, 'You don't know, you don't know how they sound! You've not seen them for months.' It was the darnedest thing I ever knew.' But as for the police and the press exploiting ex-ploiting them and landing me in jail, why, it's just silly." "And you really don't think there's anything dangerous in those letters?" let-ters?" Cherry asked on a long sigh. "I know there isn't. What gets me is that she thinks there is." "It's clearing, Cherry. Get on your coat and rubbers and tie something over your head. We'll gcr for a walk." "If I can keep my feet on the ground!" she said, adding in a longing long-ing tone,' "Oh, Kelly, it'll be so good to get out of this house some day and into the free, open air and to forget everything that's gone on here!" "Don't you think sometimes of the fact that if things had gone just a little differently you might be a rich woman, Marchioness?" he asked, as they walked along the wet sidewalks, leaning against the wind. "No; I never thought of it, really. I wouldn't want it I'll feel so rich as your wife, Kelly," Cherry said. "that it would just be a bother to me. Just to be over there, alone with you," she continued, gesturing gestur-ing towards the far -hills, "there's no money in the world that could tempt me to give up a minute of it!" "It's going to be a great adventure." adven-ture." Kelly said. "It's going to be heaven! I can't believe it yet." They paced along together, facing fac-ing the wind. "Oh, I'd forgotten, what with Amy and everything," Cherry said suddenly. sud-denly. "Yesterday when I was in Fran's room, and she was showing me the overnight case that the police po-lice had broken open when they got your letters, she went into the bathroom bath-room to take a shower and while she was there the wind blew in through her closet and I went In to close the window and one of her dressing dress-ing gowns blew against my hand, and Kelly she'd wiped a pistol barrel bar-rel on it! No mistake. Grease and gunpowder, and it was all puckered up "What are you talking about?" the man demanded, interrupting. "Fran had wiped the barrel of a revolver on one of her dresses?" "One of those negligees she wears. And that was what she had on when sh ran downstairs that night when we'd all heard the judge shouUng h no all ran to Our doors. The minute I saw it I remembered it, although I'd forgotten it until then. "Forgotten wnai: "That that negligee was what she had on." "But someone wouua nave seeu it ! ivd zjyy . LI AJt atlW I W.N.U.REIEAS" said breathlessly, apologetically. her if she'd picked up the gun." "Not necessarily. We were all so frantic! But, Kelly," Cherry went on impressively, laying a gloved hand on his shoulder, "this is the strange thing. Fran did have that negligee on at first but when the police and the doctor and all the others got there she didn't. She had on only her nightgown, for she was shivering with cold, and one of the maids went and got her an overcoat from the hall closet." "Ha!" Kelly said, his brow knitted. knit-ted. "Sure of that?" I m absolutely sure. The first thing I saw when I opened my door was that the halls were lighted, and May and Molly and Helene, the oth er maid, were coming down from the upper floor, and Fran halfway down the stairs saying it was noth ing, that we mustn't get excited, and wearing that negligee. But when the dpctor and the police got there, she didn't have it on." "She could have run upstairs, hung it up, and gone down again without anyone's noticing?" "Easily it was a madhouse for a while. And nobody was watching or checking." "She wiped that revolver on the first thing that came handy, a fold of her dressing gown," Kelly formu lated it slowly. "And then it oc curred to her that the stain would be a hard thing to get rid of. She couldn't count on anything she had to clean it with ..." "She grabbed that gun instinctive ly and cleaned it before she real ized that if those smudges were dis covered matters would be worse than ever," Kelly continued. "So she took the boldest course and as it turned out the safest one. We're not far from Fisherman's Wharf, Cherry; how about an oyster stew?" ' "Oh, Kelly, I'm starving!" She laughed her old joyous laugh as he caught her arm tightly in his, and they went along together at a walk that was almost a run. The restaurant was as plain as coarse linen and cheap chairs could make it but the fragrance of the boiling crab kettles outside scented the place appetizingly. "Honestly, Kelly, is there one chance in the world Fran did it?" the girl presently said. "I don't think so. I'd swear she didn't have the nerve. But it strikes me it's seemed to me all along that her position is that of someone who knows something, or thinks she does; she's protecting someone. But who? Amy? The old lady? I don't know . . . Here are our oysters." "It's just one o'clock," Cherry said, "and I think I'll telephone home that I'm not coming." When she came back she sank into her chair, gripping the table, trying to speak. "Cherry, what is it? What's the matter?" Kelly stammered, catching catch-ing at her hands. "It was Mullins," she whispered. "They want us to come straight home. She said she said she and Jud had quarreled over you. Fran has confessed!" When they went out onto the wharf looking for a taxi. Cherry held Kelly's Kel-ly's hand tightly. "Fran's confessed, eh?" he said more than once. "I wonder what that means? Why does she drag me in? She knows darned well that whatever she's up to I'm not in it" "But she could say you were!" "Yes, but that's not enough." "Kelly," she said, when they had signaled a cruising taxi and were on their way, "promise me something." "Anything," he said. . "Promise me that no matter what happens now, no matter how tangled tan-gled things get, you and I are forever for-ever and eternally bound to each other!" "Why, my darling, my darling,' he said, "my life is your life now. Here we are!" he finished abruptly, as the cab drew up at the imposing Marshbanks doorway. "Now we'll try to see what all this is about" There were four, officers there now, instead oi tne usual one or two; Fran was there, too, silent very pale, tragic-looking, with her white skin and raven-black hair. "I had to tell them, Kelly," she said breathlessly, apologetically. apologeti-cally. "I'm corry. I thought for a while that we could hide it But I had to tell." (TO BE COMISLEDJ Kathleen Norris Says: Our Third War Christmas BtU Syndicate 7 r -SiAr S'V. . J .v?- M J - There was a Sunday school tree for ual uplift for the luckier children who By KATHLEEN NORRIS MOW that Christmas is so close some of us who are getting on in years are remembering other Christmases. It rather sobers me to realize that my Christmas Christ-mas recollections go back more than half a century say to Christmas in 1893. We lived in the country then; father, mother, unmarried unmar-ried aunt almost every family fam-ily was supplied with one of these, and six children. My father was a bank manager on a salary of six thousand a year, which was considered wealth. We had a horse and a surrey, two cows, chickens, a cook and on upstairs maid. The cook did all the washing in a day when ladies and little girls revelled in white starched petticoats and embroidered em-broidered muslin nighties; she did all the cooking and put up 400 jars of fruit every year. The maid helped with ironing, made the beds, swept the rooms, and acted as nurse about half .the time. These girls were paid $22 and $17 a month, respectively. respec-tively. Befef was 10 to 16 cents a pound, "soup vegetables" came for nothing; bread was five cents a loaf; children's "pebble-goat" shoes cost less than two dollars a pair. We children had plenty of jobs; we had no sense of sitting back and being waited upon. My older brother broth-er had full responsibility for the cows, horse and chickens; my sister and I had to dust rooms, to fill 17 lamps every day, to set and clear the dining table, to sweep porches, to run errands for the grown-ups. When the semi-annual sewing orgy was on, and Miss Wilde came, we had to clear the sewing room every night, a job I think of even now with loathing. Scraps and threads and paper patterns-Church patterns-Church Important at Christmas. Christmas was a great time. Preparations Prep-arations had to go on about four fronts. Church was one important item. There must be special music, which meant night rehearsing with all its thrills of walks in the swinging swing-ing lantern light; there must be special spe-cial decorations. There was a Sunday Sun-day School tree for poor children, always a wonderful spiritual uplift for the luckier children who wrapped and distributed packages. Then there were presents to make and more rarely to buy. There was the tree to find, and fell, and trim. There was the kitchen excite ment of seeding raisins and chop ping citron, with all the grown-ups buzzing about And finally, there were family arrivals, cousins, aunts, Grandma, coming in cold and beam ing, and being welcomed by roaring fires and dancing children; dinner all ready, beds carefully assigned, red berries on the table and fragrant fra-grant wreaths at the windows. And the solemn ceremony of stocking- hanging for the last thing Christmas Christ-mas Eve. There was no war then, no talk of war. There had been a Civil war not too many years earlier, but as the family had been sharply divided between Boston and Richmond, it was never mentioned. What was going on in the Balkans, in Lady- smith or Manchuria concerned us not at alL That the machines that men were even then inventing would one day grow into such hideous pow er that whole cities would fall in ashes beneath them; that war would reach out across the wide oceans and engulf us, never occurred for one instant to the ladies who sat rocking before the great wood fire. Telephones were new and considered consid-ered a somewhat fearful power. No mention of automobiles, radio, movies mov-ies as yet. No wireless; no planes. Without all these the world was a WNU Features. HERRV CHMSFM k. poor children, altvayt a wonderful spirit wrapped and distributed packages. SPREAD JOY ON CHRISTMAS Kathleen Norris reminisces remi-nisces about the Christmas of her childhood. Everyone in the family was kept busy. Most presents were not merely bought. They were created by the giver. Church affairs occupied oc-cupied most of the younger celebrants' time with rehear-sals rehear-sals of carols and Christmas dramas. Out of all this activity blossomed the Christmas spirit which found its way into the hearts of the whole family. Today To-day it may be difficult to find the glowing warmth of Christmas. Christ-mas. But those who look forward for-ward to a better world realize the necessity of singing the eternal message: '"Glory to God in the highest, and on Earth, peace to men of good will." """" - safer-feeling place, whatever great good they may bring to mankind in the wiser years to come. Empty Chair This Year. There will be no Christmas like that old Christmas this year; not anywhere in the whole world. Not anywhere father, mother, children, kinsfolk sitting down together to turkey tur-key and oyster soup and mince pie. There is an empty chair this year beside Mother, and Aunt Emily is very quiet in her new black. The smallest baby gets his rattle and his new blankets, but he doesn't get a kiss from his Daddy. Daddy has been a prisoner of war for long and weary months. Everyone is resolutely cheerful, but the old gaiety is laid aside for awhile. The women's voices aren't murmuring about sage in the dressing dress-ing or the ridiculous cost of doll buggies. No, this year it's "Still missing, Grandma. But Jim was a wonderful swimmer, and we hope" "They heard last week; he may have leave in February." "They got the boxes off 'way back in October, but of course we don't know that they got there." "He's a lieutenant now, Uncle George in Italy, we think." And so on and on until the roll call of every beloved name and the Brown boy, and the Smith boy, and Mary Jones' husband, and Helen's father, is complete. Oh, I hope the boys know it know how our hearts are with tfiem, how we pray for them and think of them and thank them, on all the battle-fronts! battle-fronts! In the" long dull days of marking time in our camps, in the dreadful lonely white Aleutians, on the blazing roaring red lines of war, their mothers and wives and sisters are with them, every hour of the day. Spirit of Day Most Not Suffer. And at home we must do what we can to keep Christmas still Christmas. Christ-mas. If the turkey has turned it self into a lamb stew or a fish chowder; chow-der; if the ice-cream is only a rather rath-er weak frozen custard; if the presents pres-ents are only what was left after the boys boxes were shipped away, the spirit of Christmas need not suffer. suf-fer. There may still be wreaths in the windows and candlelight on the tree; the children may still arrange their tableaus and charades; the cousins and aunts may still come trooping in out of the cold to the welcoming fire. "I hoped you were in church, praying for me at that exact moment mo-ment Mother," wrote a boy from Sicily last July. "I thought of you all, Ellen and the kids and Dad and Betsey, and where you might be. I placed them all at home well, say getting ready for Sunday supper on th porch. But I placed ou in church, thinking of me and praying for me. Somebody must be, for I seem to lead a charmed life. Don't stop.? k pSfil xJh I 4 7639 JAUNTILY forward tilting or be-" be-" hind a youthful pompadour , . . either of these ways are right for the wearing of this pliant, easily adjusted beret with its flirtatious V Formation Planes fly in V formation, following fol-lowing their leader, yet have a clear vision and there is no danger dan-ger of collision. This method follows fol-lows the habits of large birds-wild birds-wild geese, for example. . - ' ' -3k. OVER 200 FUR SALONS MB AGENCIES THROUGHOUT WEST THERE IS A DUPLEX AGENCY NEAR YOU - QUALITY FURS AT PRICES TO FIT vnr tf iffsrv ( lis i s' TIIE WEST'S l"'J LARGEST Lr EXCLUSIVE 137 So. Main Street Shoulder a Gun or tAt Buy United Quinine Old Drag; Indians of Peru used quinine cen-; cen-; turies ago. They chewed bark of the , cinchona tree, or the "quina-quina" las they called it, to ward off at-1 at-1 tacks of fever. It came to the at-i at-i tenUon of Europeans in the 17th cen-j cen-j tury when the wife of the count of iChlnchon, Spanish viceroy of Peru, was cured of malaria by the powdered pow-dered bark of the tree. The Swedish ! botanist, Linnaeus, named the "miracle" "mir-acle" tree, "chinchona," in honor of ! the count's wife, but the "h" was lost through a typographical error and the name "cinchona" resulted. ; Why 'Strawberries'? i Originally It was "strewberries" jnot "strawberries." The original i name was "strewberry" due to the ; manner In which it grows. In other words, the berries are sort of strewn over the ground. Another interesting interest-ing point is that it's not a berry and ; it's not a fruit It's simply an en-j en-j larged receptacle which has on its ! surface small seed-like achenia I which are the real fruit. The die-! die-! tionary describes it as fragrant, : somewhat acid, edible, and very highly esteemed. Strain Drippings The drippings used for making gravies need not be strained. However, How-ever, before storing drippings, strain them through a cloth. They may all be kept in the same container, con-tainer, except sausage drippings which should be saved separately for seasoning. Cool them at room temperature before storing, and cover cov-er closely before storing in the refrigerator. re-frigerator. Fit for King ' A pork loin roast topped with a row of red cherries perched on toothpicks will bring "ohs" and "ahs" from the family. On the plat, ter with the toast serve whole cooked buttered onions and broccoli sprinkled with pimiento stars. Or, if you've no onions, mound glazed sliced apples instead. Garnish with sprigs of fresh parsley. ruffle and matching bag. You can crochet both at little cost in spare moments. Use a short yarn. Pattern 7639 contains directions for hat nd purse; stitches; list of materials needed. Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more time is required in filling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. 117 Minna St San Francisco, Calif. Enclose 15 cents plus one cent to cover cost of mailing) for Pattern No : Name ,, Address Hare's 1 Fur, Soles The pika, or "whistling hare," a rare animal found in its wild state only in mountain parts of the western west-ern side of the North American continent, has hair on the soles of its feet and does not have a tail. OAOKAGM for fast diuretic aid WHEN KIDNEY FUNCTION LAGS from this need .... Functional kidney disturbance due to need of diuretic aid may cause stabbing back chel May cause urinary flow to be fro quent, yet scanty and smarting! You may lose sleep from "getting up nights" often may feci dizzy, nervous, "headachy." In such cases, you want to itmulai kidney scthm fast. So if there is nothing; svstemically or organically wrong, try Gold Medal Capsules. They've been famous fa-mous for prompt action for JO years. Take) care to use them only as directed. Accept no substitutes. 35 at your drug store. Rear Propulsion Alligators do not swim with their feet, but with their tails. 10 MONTHS TO FAY FURRIERS Salt Lake City the Cost of One States War Bonds Big Crop Onions, while not a major truck crop in the state from the point of acreage, have returned to growers In California approximately a million and a half dollars a year over the last ten years. At one time, In 1916-1017, 1916-1017, California was the largest onion producing state in the nation; at present it is in fourth placa. Acid Indigestion Reftared tn I mimrtM r double money back When tiNM itonmch tdd mimw jwinfol tmffocat-tef tmffocat-tef (TM, avur stommrJi and hrtbumr doctors usually pernor i b th fsuitt-tvtin(r mpdinsea known for ivmptofltttfc relief medicines like those In Hf 11-an Tablet No taxativ. Bdi-an brlnr comfort In m fifty er double roar money Decs on return ox povua mm, mm m au muw His Way Teacher Say in a more elegant way: "The sap i3 rising." Freshman The boob gets out f bed. WNU W 5143 And Your Strength ad Energy Is Below Par ft nay hm eanMd by diaordet at M4-ny M4-ny lunctiom that pirtmta potaonou vut to aeenmuliU. Far truly many popla feel tired, vemk and miserable whea tee kidneys fail te renere exeee acids ud other vut Batter from the blood. Yoa may (offer aarglns backache, rheumatic peine, headaches, dizziness. 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