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He and Fran had been off all day, heaven h. to let anyone know rw" w""e a men to have to H an2ed names Why "t again, to n t'" - . g you're " " w ourungame ana wait. let J nll is dS other chaufTeurs-it was too never asked me for money stated littles . low he didn't But it's there, ftttogethimmtotte fnr ine And rt tear-swollen eyes Drignt-'.!. Drignt-'.!. . half interest. "I knew crazy sduui - Amy. Take or need and then were somberly. mean tnis, n of it I don't want it ... nft these bius. j an allowance . . . e sena ju re very kind, Cherry," Amy iB decisively, "but I coman t aldn't solve anything. I know fciean weu . . listen," Cherry interrupted Don t De so siuy. ... nu went to Gogo now and that while things never would they were, you couia ciear up ebts." erry," Amy said in a whisper, nly breaking, "if only I naon t ed him! xou aon i imuw uuw . I XT-HI Gogo spenas money i " three thousana in one race, evening at roulette! Once he wenty-seven thousand in one n not put up with that tor- Amy." Cherry said seriously. ; I know I won t, Amy said j. su'll want to come back some Cherry went on. .. . i i : .i laiow. Amy S wmsper was ai- inaudible. "He doesn't deny he wouldn't have married me hadn't been for the money. aid. ien why not try, Amy, since v will make a difference, why ty putting this plan to him. All tbts paid, and an allowance. lence. Then Amy said, "But should you do this, Cherry?' why shouldn't I?" Cherry in return. "I want to. I'll feel that I'm really Amelia banks any more than you'll eel that you're Charlotte Rawl- It'll always seem as much as mine, and I think that's ay that s tne way, perhaps," y went oh,'suddenly shy, '"that at our father would want it :er all, we are sisters, and so 5t fair," Amy said, with a re-:! re-:! her sullen manner. hy, Cherry said suddenly. ther girl looked up wearily without hope. "You wouldn't Gogo to go away and leave Cherry asked. "You wouldn't So end it all here and now?" had gone too far. Amy's head ap in anger and pride. :y, of course I wouldn't!" she oldly. "I'm his wife. I'm the sh and wa Constantino, after alL No, ork it out some way," Amy K rising, "without your help, 7, but many thanks to you just Ticream, dreadful in its high- a violence; a woman's voice d, U taing, "No, no, no!" had rung the quiet of the late after- Kelly abruptly left the room. was a moment's terrible si- and then Fran's voice, hys-I hys-I and choked with tears: "No, ! They shan't! My darling, Wt! You didn't do it! I did!" a silence again except for a distinguishable murmur of voices downstairs. Cherry i Mrs. Marshbanks remained Mess, their eyes fixed on each The older woman had col- mt0 he chair, her face was ? an endless moment Kelly. came back into the iace grave. lf arrested Fran?" Cherry a- w ass. not Fran. They told much for him! He was beside him, self with his idolatry of her, he couldn't bear the thoueht flf her being down there with her husband, dancing, being admired, perhaps spending the night at the club. He's only a young boy, of course, and the tastes of luxury that Fran gave him demoralized him, of course. She bought him silk shirts, extravagant lounging robes and neckties, gave mm money ..." He said his mother was rich and ran a big hotel and she sent them to him!" May put in. She had come In to light Cherry's lamps. "That night the Judge asked him to take the revolver and clean it," Kelly said, "reproved him for lazi-ness lazi-ness and told him that he and Mrs. Marshbanks were going on a little holiday to Mexico City and would not take him or the car. The poor young fool blurted out that he loved her, that she had belonged to him for months, that he was going to give up his position and find work worthy of her. "He says the judge lunged at him, across the desk, and that he fired. "It may have happened that way." "Fran!" Cherry gasped. The old er woman was apparently incapable of speech. "Fran knew immediately," Kelly went on. "She heard their voices and was halfway down the , stairs when the end came. Rousseau only had to slip out, go to his room over the garage, partly undress and come running in with the others, as he did. By that time she'd rushed into the library and, I suppose, wiped the gun on her dressing gown with the feeling that there might be fin gerprints on it" "He was the one person we never thought of because he was here, right under our eyes," Cherry mar veled. "But, Kelly, whatever made them first suspect him? What gave him away? "One thing, they said, and then when they began to smell a rat, everything else fell in line. Espe cially when they planted him." "And what was the plant?" "Their taking Fran. That was all a plant to see what he'd do. He loves her, you know, and the minute he thought she was in trouble he heean all sorts of maneuvers to draw them off. He invented strange Chinese who'd been hanging hang-ing around the kitchen. He invented invent-ed a telephone call that he'd taken that evening at eight o'clock. He made up a conversation with the judge that he'd had in which the judge said that 'an old enemy' whose prison term was just up had written him threatening letiers. "Mullins says they asked him a. J finally sort of carelessly, ne saw if he knew the judge and Mrs. Marshbanks occupied separate bed' rooms. That was, Rousseau an swered, he believed to be not an un- 11.Q1 iat arrangement among Amen cans. But it was one to whicn tne elderly husband of a handsome wmmff woman migni uujev., w W.N.U.REIEAS suggested. And that made him flush up, poor kid, and he said he knew that the judge had agreed to that, Uideed he had suggested it Well, Mullins didn't show anv nirnr at the chauffeur knowing an Intimate Inti-mate detail like that but he went off on a side line Rousseau's salary, sal-ary, days off, friends here all that sort of thing. Had he a sweetheart? Yes, back in France. When were wey to be married? As soon as she could come to America. Her name? Marie La Crosse. "Mullins let him think evenrthina was satisfactory, but he went and had a look for Rousseau's naturalization naturali-zation papers. He hadn't any. He came over as a cabin hov nri jumped ship in New York. He's been in this country five years, which would make him a little short of fourteen when he got here. His story struck Mullins as queer all through. It seemed odd that a bov that age should be eneaeed when he left home, but Mnllin h. , ...H wuj H UV doesn't know anything about French marriages, so he cabled our consul at Lyons, and they got hold of the prelect of police and asked for the address of Marie La Crosse. There was some delay, and then the answer an-swer came back that Charles Rousseau's Rous-seau's aunt Marie La Crosse, was still living with his parents just out- siae oi Lyons. After that every. thing pointed one wayl" "And Fran loves him!" Cherrr mused. "But the thing I can't forgive for-give her, Kelly," she added with spirit "is that she would have got you into it!" "She was only sparring for time. then. She gave those letters to the police herself. But as you know. there wasn't anything in them," the man said. "That was lust a blind." "Kelly, will they hang him?" the girl asked fearfully. "Mullins says probably not He's only a kid to begin with, and it wasn't premeditated. No; they'll give him a pretty stiff sentence and she'll spend all the time he's in jail working for him, comforting him, It's the end of Fran, of course, as far as her present life and friends and ways of living go." "And it's over!" Cherry said, In a wondering voice. "Yep. No more Marshbanks mystery. mys-tery. He's signed a full confession and turned over to them some of her letters." "Oh, Kelly," Cherry breathed on a long note of relief, "can you be lieve that the men will get out of the house, and that we'll have nothing noth-ing else to do but be married! Oh, and it's going to be spring, and I'm going to . . . " "You still have to talk me over to this plot, Marchioness," Kelly said, as she paused. "Well, I think if you'll send me up some tea, May, I'll go to my room," said old Dora Marshbanks, rising somewhat stiffly. "Ah, stay here, Gran," Cherry said, "and we'll all have tea together. to-gether. Maybe Amy'll come in too, and we'll talk plans." "I know someone else who wants to talk plans," the old woman said, with a glance at Kelly. "But there's no hurry," Cherry said, laughing. She had been sitting sit-ting up in bed. Now like a joyous child she collapsed, slender, silk-clad silk-clad body, loose mop of gold-and-tan-streaked hair, fragrant warm young cheek against him. Laughing, she put up her face for his kiss. "After Monday week Kelly and I'll have all the time there is together!" she said. "Won't we Kelly?" "Just as you say, Marchioness," Kelly answered meekly. THE END oryoa'uies ago. after they had sam. "But o.uod ait for ...' j . - in uuur tiuu uj " and Mrs. Marshbanks C de 016 arrest. and ' N: we've all been blind Z V- K w" right under u me time. It was Rous- me h.u me old woman's "u resonance. lik hoii ;;ssu!" Cherry whispered. ' "WW On etlv .,,:.. aDout Cherry e U.Flan have been lovers t 'bnylHe'inottwenty!" about 7 When Judge hired ieir 8 Jear aeo aft;. . "Ken, Degan back to Orit 1 fnt on- "From the ofhiANm, made br. of. ne teu macUy in love Me. p" se; "at wasn't so 71 Iran became witn him too. J .l P'an davs in th visJU!tfnothering him at ft su She cava in on Caribbean Conspiracy by BRENDA CONRAD Both Ann Heywood and her friend, Copt Peter Wilcox of G 2, knew- that the urbane, well-informed and slishtly reptilian Mr. Taussig was up to no good. But his credentials were Impeccable and fee authorities were complacent compla-cent It wasn't until a foolish fool-ish young wife, seeking to help her husband's career, put Into Taussig's hands the very documents he wanted that the real peril of his presence became clear-md then it was almost al-most too kite! Look for this exciting story LN THIS PAPER Kathleen Norris Says: The Modern Stepmother Problem BU Syndicate WNU Faaturc. I CHILDREN COME FIRST Tht welfare tnd progress of their children sheuld be the first consideration of ull parents. par-ents. Usually this is the case. The exception is presented this week in the story of mother who is upsetting her child's personality by cruel end spiteful actions against her former husband and his second sec-ond wife. She had divorced the man and turned full custody cus-tody of their, child to him when the child was three years old. But now, three years later, she is systematically systemati-cally undermining the child's confidence in the second wife and the father. The stepmother step-mother asks Kathleen Norris' advice en how to stop this dangerous' menace to the child? s well-being. iMteritys nnt tow Crf tosinf htr father to tend mammy a fur coat. "Sh said thi umild give me the prtttieti doll in Watson's if you would give her a fur cm!." By KATHLEEN NORRIS -T CTTDUnCTT T 4,, nnm more confidential secretary secre-tary who pitied a lonely and misunderstood man," writes Alice Carter from Buffalo, Buf-falo, "but it didn't seem that way three years ago, when Fred and I were married. His wife was entirely willing to divorce him and hand over to him full custody of their three-year-old daughter, Carol. Fred's and my love was the only thing in my life that mattered, mat-tered, but I adored the child for his sake, and indeed, until recently, when she has been getting somewhat out of hand, Carol was as sweet a baby as I ever saw. She is yery pretty, and her mother, who has her every other week-end when she is anywhere nttr, spoils her. She has eonsulted Hollywood talent scouts about Carol, and got Carol a permanent when she was only live years old, which annoyed Fred and me, who want to keea her childlike. "But these things aren't th problem. prob-lem. What Is, is that Arlene systematically syste-matically goes about undermining my influence with Carol. She tells her that I am ne more to her than to any other little girl at school, and that when my own baby comes I will not care for Carol any more. She says Bet to S'-k me what she may do or not do, but to wait until Daddy comes home. Confuse Child Is Impudent. "Carol is Becoming confused by all this, and with a child that means impudent and unmanageable. A few days ago she said to me. 'Mommy says you like money. She says you would never have married Daddy except for his money. She asked me if Daddy had bis face lifted before be-fore he married you.' ' "The commonness of this eort of thing distresses me, as does also the fact that Arlene takes Carol off an rather peculiar week-end visits to various elubs and mountaia cabins. cab-ins. CaroL at six, naturally notices nothing amiss, but the time is coming com-ing when she will. Yesterday's event was Carol's tossing her father to lend Mommy a fur coat "She said ibe would give me the prettiest doll In Watson's If you would give her a tur coat' "I don't know," Alice's letter goes jn, "whether this stems actually pernicious to you, but it dooo to me. rhe coBstant nervous pressure M ihe child is certainly bad for bor; the divided allegiance, tko unfair ippeal to her little sympathies, all jpset her normal relationshiB witb ler father and me. If Arlene would inly marry again things would be setter, but she is one of scores of women who prefer freedom and a generous alimony to domestic responsibility. re-sponsibility. "Now she has written to ask Fred lunch with her, to talk about jur small girl's welfare."- Forhaps . am bitter, but rt doesn't seem to ne that that welfare has concerned er much up to this point But Fred is rather touched by her nv rest "Lots of charm in Arlene,' le said at breakfast I have had lull care of Carol for more than fcree years; ber baths and naps, lressing and exercise, school and dothes, days in bed with colds, gym ind doctor and dentist Partly bo-:ause bo-:ause of Arlene's alimony, I have lever had a nurse for ber. Wo have lacriflced many an evening ongage-nent ongage-nent because our only servant is an Jd oriental, and oot quite suitable ti a nurse for a smsll girL "Now her mother resumes Inter-nt Inter-nt and is annoyir.f and upsetting ne as only a clever and malicious woman ean. Can you suggest any way by which we ean settle this? Arlene Uvea in a town 12 miles away, so that she and the child would not meet ordinarily." Child Most Have One Guardian. Alice, this is just one more variation, varia-tion, and a net uncommon one, of the second-wife problem. My only suggestion would be that you have a talk with Fred about it, and insist either that Carol go to her mother to stay, which I can assure you in advance ad-vance wouldn't be Arlene's idea at alL or that she be handed over entirely en-tirely to you and her father. Fred is 42; Alice just 20 years younger. But even women much older than Alice often become dazzled daz-zled by the prospect of a happy marriage, mar-riage, and pay small attention to the settlements and promises that precede it. Now she finds herself fretted on three counts; Fred's reawakened re-awakened interest in Arlene, Carol's Car-ol's growing Independence and rudeness, rude-ness, and Arlene's machinations to destroy her domestic peace. Fred might well spike Arlene's guns at this proposed luncheon by telling his former wife that there is to bo a new baby at his house, that Carol is growing somewhat unmanageable, un-manageable, and that be would be glad to turn the child over to her completely. Ho would be perfectly safe ia doing this, especially If ho suggested that Arlene's alimony would be expected to cover the child's expenses. If Arlene begged off this responsibility, as she would do, he might thea decree that the week-ends must stop, explaining that they are growing demoralizing to the child. Since Arlene abandoned her baby at the age of two years and preferred pre-ferred to take ber owe way. she certainly cer-tainly will not want tbe responsibility responsibili-ty of a six-year-old now. - It is an exacting age. There are considerations considera-tions of school, lessons, clothes, gym, dentist health, parties, friends. Arlene might try it briefly. But she would Inevitably turn toward a boarding-school, and because boarding board-ing schools are expensive, that would mean that the child was once more restored to her father and stepmother. step-mother. There is a hint In Alice's letter that Arlene may bo an unfit guardian for a small daughter, and if that is true, she win be all the lees willing to have a witness to ber affairs. Faronto Most Consider Child First. Children ought to be the first consideration con-sideration in the life of all fathers and mothers. Many a woman, if she knew the Irreparable injury that quarrels, separations and legal questions ques-tions would do to the growing minds and hearts and souls ef her children, would adapt herself mere heroically and self-sacriflcingly to the home conditions she has thought insufferable. f prnrmm t (tU) SEW1NQ CIRCLE cjjj) Barbara Ball Pattern Ne. Ml? la do iCt for airea 11, 14. II. IS, 30; 0 a ad a Corraapaadlng Bust meaauremeata 39, 2) 14. 36. M. 40 aaa 43. 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