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Show THE PAGE TWO address ; why dldnt he ask her er be might drive her borne? lit w a V wrs COPYRIOHT DODD. MEAD AND ' CO V CHAPTER VII ia "Oh ! Continued What makes you think such a thing?" "A young teacher at William Penn school who Is suspiciously Ignorant of these United States and occasionally, when she Isn't on her guard, falls Into rather an English accent I She's supposed to be Sam Schwenckton's niece or cousin; she lives at his farm and her name Is Schwenckton. But she's quite ' unlike the other county teachers. Rather distingue; a thoroughbred; the only teacher In the county that ventures to cheek me !" he grinned. "Gracious. Don't let it make a prig of you, this Job of superintending a lot of women teachers It's enough to ! i' won't have you spoiled like that ! Cut your suspicions they seem rather fantastic, dear!" "Yes," Marvin gave It up, "I suppose they do. May I see the photograph, please ?" Mrs. Crelghton pointed to a book on the table behind the couch. Holding a "cabinet-sized- " photograph near the table lamp, he examined It eagerly. It was the face of a girl of fifteen ; short, curly hair, fine features, a sensitive mouth, a serious, rather melancholy expression. TJftdpubtedly there was a resemblance .;f-th- eSi wide-opeInnocent eyes vlind sensitive month. And yet It was ct definite or strong enough to be uKinlstakable, by any means. lie could noffeel sure. Far from It. What resemblance there was- might easily be a coincidence. This photograph gave no suggestion of that vivid sparkle of his young teacher's face, her gay riot of color, her charm. It looked rather Insipid. And yet "Well?" asked his mother. "6f course it Isn't your young teacher?" "I can hardly tell I'm not sure " "Cut is there any resemblance?" she asked incredulously. he answered hesitatingly. "Yes," "Yes, there Is. May I keep this?" "Of course. But, Marvin, the thing Is too impossible!" "I suppose so. Look here, Mother, will you call on Miss Schwenckton and see what you think about her? Notice her accent. Sometimes she seems to me to be deliberately disguising It !" "Rut, dear, what possible excuse could I give for calling on her? Wouldn't she and the Schwencktons think It very queer? I'd feel embarrassed !" "But aside from my little suspicion, I'd like you to call on her just because she's so worth knowing. You'd find her a lot more your kind than that Quo Non Ascendus crowd 1" His mother's ears detected something In his voice, her swift glance saw something in his face, that caught her breath. "All right, dear." Suddenly she turned to him and clasped his hand almost convulsively. "Oh, Marvin, dear, do you realize that if you took up with a county school teacher, a relative of Sam Schwenckton, that would be tire last straw to your father! He'd never, never look at you again! Of course, I know that could not stop you If you loved " Marvin laughed. "Don't worry, dear! You're the only girl I've ever been In love Willi! What makes you Imagine Vm going to 'take up' with Miss Schwenckton?'' "Now perhaps," she said rueful'y as she noticed that his face had grown red. "I've Just put it Into your head!" "Perhaps you have," he slowly answered. "Perhaps If she isn't our English cousin " "Which she surc'y Isn't, dear! Livfarm and ing at the Scliurni-ktoteaching that s honl Lady Sylvia St. Croix! I'lithlnkal.le!" "Well, If she isn't If she's Just herself she certainly Is fetching! I!ut If she's the that I half suspect, I wouldn't touch her with tones !" "i'.nt why? Isn't that unreasonable prejudice?" If she's a tricky 'Not at all schemer, out after our money, she's lint the sort of girl she seems to be and it's only the sort of girl she seems to be that I might full for though I hasten to assure you I'e no Idea she'd full for me!" His mother laughed. Site had never yet met the girl who, If given a chance, would not "fall for" either one of her fine sons. And. of course, with the additional lure of their millions, viho could resist them? Surely not a county teacher of the Schwenckton breed! though, of course, she must be, ns Marvin Insisted, far above her relatives or he could hardly find her so Interesting und to presentable that ho would nsk his mother to call on her. Well, Ibis certainly needed looking Into! She would lose no time In calling on the yolug woman. "I'm curious to know, Mulder, how you'll Size up Miss Schwenckton. Will yon go to we ber soon? On Moid i?" n somethlng-morc-thim-mects- he-ey- NEPHI. UTAH S, Friday, April rather startling suddenness and assented with childish delight. The day was clear, the uir delicious, the roads In good condition. Marvin's car delightfully easy and comfortable; and Meely, freed from school-roodrudgery and, for the first time In weeks, from the atmosphere of the Schwenckton household, felt a sudden hilarious gayety, a tingling In her blood, such as she had not experienced since she had undertaken the serious profession of the teacher. "Oh!" she laughed gleefully, fairly bouncing In her seat, "what a lark ! it makes me feel young again !" "Me, too!" responded Marvin, his eyes snapping. "Pedagogy could dry one up at the roots, couldn't It? If," he conscientiously added, "one didn't fight to keep It a living thing." "I try not to take It too seriously," said Meely. "A shockingly Imprudent thing to admit to your superintendent ! I suppose," he remarked Ironically, "you look upon your work merely as a stepping-stone to something else?" "Oh, clear, yes ! I don't expect to be a school teacher all my days! Gracious !" "A stepping-ston- CHAPTER VIII pose?" "What why be If "im 1 sP "Of "Well?" A'ed the Mother. Course It Isn't Your Young Teac- her" program would give her a chaace to riot In a dramatic orgy speeches of Lady , Macbeth, Portia, Desdemona, Juliet she would have the time of her life! And as he would never see these women again she need not bother with her accent, which would be a great relief. Meely had assured herself, before launching forth, that the superintendent was not present. And once she "got going," she was too transported from the world about her to notice, towards the end of the session while she was giving "the balcony scene.'" that Mr. Crelghton had slipped unobtrusively and quite noiselessly into a back seat. When, therefore, the met ting being over and she putting on her wraps, she suddenly saw him coming toward her across the length of the room, she was startled and rather perturbed. "I've got my roadster out here I'll drive you home," he stated. She did not quite fancy this form of t a good high-ha- t nt m fwm I sup- guesser you are! But about that? Woman's place is in the home. Isn't It?" been for the past ten years. "It's You are a back number!" "You surprise me. I thought I was ahead of my times, because," she said with sad conviction, "I'm sure I couldn't make any man happy If I had to do his housewor-r-k.- " "Will you tell me," he Inquired In a tone of dulcet gentleness, "why you adopt a Pennsylvania accent when you talk to me and an English accent when you recite Shakespeare?" "Oh," she lightly responded, "that's Just my platform manner I've acted quite a hit " "Professionally?" he demanded, startled. "Both in private theatricals and professionally." "What, then, made you ever turn to teaching?" "Working my way to Hollywood." Marvin looked rather staggered, for this knocked out his suspicion as to who she was and put a very wet blanket Indeed upon a hope he was half consciously cherishing. "Do you think," he asked somewhat stiffly, "It's right to use our schools for your ambias a stepping-ston- e tions?" "I'd use every school In this county for my ambition If I'd the chance to! and all the trustees and even the superintendent himself. Now throw me out of your car ! Take my Job from meJf you think me base and unprincipled! I don't care! I've nearly enough money saved anyway to get to Hollywood. Anyway, I believe I could get there sooner by cooking my way out cooks earn so much more than college presidents In America !" "Do your parents uphold you In this ambition of yours?" "Now you are a back number! parents' influence having passed out eleven years Bgo." "Your parents are living?" Meely's Idea In addressing the county teachers on Saturday morning at their monthly Institute was not so much to be Instructive and pedagogical, as to be entertaining. So she chose for her subject "Shakespeare's Women." That the title, while looking educational m to marriage, e "Yes." "Where?" A perceptible pause. "Heading, Pennsylvania." "Any brothprs and sisters?" "No my only brother was killed In the World war and" She stopped short; she had spoken Impulsively; Marvin wondered whether emotion for her slaughtered brother or something else had checked so nbruptly her statement of a coincidence. lie would test her a hit. ".'hat'n odd," he remarked. "I have an Euglbh cousin whose only sm was killed In the World war and his only other child Is a daughter about your age!" "What's odd about It?" "Bather a coincidence, don't you think?" "Why, no. There must have been thousands of such coincidences, surely." (TO BB CONTINUED.) x -;- x; - x -;- x -: x :x ;- xx ; i m mx z m z :- x - xx'X Gretna Green Unlike Town of Olden Days x : x : x :'X - x - x ; - - - - - - - - - - The big Increase In the surplus of English women, as Indicated In recent census returns, has robbed Gretna Green (Scotland) of hopes of staging The good old days of a comeback. romance are gone forever, aver the townsfolk. Daughter were far more scarce a hundred years or so ago than now when parents so rarely try to shoot any young sports who purloin them. Gretna Green did most of Its rushing marriage business between 1751 and 1S.Vi. - - - - - - - - lhat One of the popular paintings of romantic passengers In a hurrying to the town on the post-chais- e - boundary line between England and Scotland and showing the pursuing father's vehicle In a ditch with the wheel broken down. This picture Is more In demand than the village blacksmith himself who used to lend a helping hand to parties bent on clandestine marriage to avoid the English law. Taking No Chancet Rochester (N. H.) man. In prepartrip to Canada, hai? a cobbler Insert for him -" In the Inner side of the rubber heel on his shoe. Just to be sure of money for his return trip. A ing for a $- Is - 1928 yW, . -..wv Zl I you I" In her pleased surprise at such Jolly Invitation (for to be In Marvin Creighton's company was rather perilously exciting and Meely was lonely) she dropped her cool manner with "What time will she be home from school?" "School closes at four. By the way, to avoid the curiosity of the farmer's family, it might be better, perhaps, to call on her at her school Just at closing time." "I'll be glad to avoid the curiosity of the farmer's family'," his mother assented. So It seemed that our young school mistress was booked for something of a reception at her school liouse at four o'clock on Monday afternoon : Mr. Crelghton plotting to visit her with the determination to bundle her out of the neighborhood, because he saw In her the final and strongest hindrance to his son's desirable marriage with Lady Sylvia St. Croix ; Mrs. Creighton planning to discover. In the course of a friendly call, whether the girl were no other than she whom her husband desired as his elder son's bride, desiring It so urgently that he would stop at nothing to gain Its fulfillment. The stage was all set, It seemed, for a scene dramatic enough to satisfy even Meely's Insatiable love of histrionics. 1 Sf" J , sdTy "But why?" he asked, surprised. "I'm not going home. I think I'll go In to Sunbury and treat myself to hotel meal and a cinema movie," she hastily corrected herself. "Good I'm going to Sunbury myself. Have lunch with me, will you? I'll even go to see a cinema with Helen R?Martin 6, wheth- "Oh, I won't trouble you ; the trolley will take me nearly all the way," she lightly dismissed him. "But my roadster will take you the whole way." "Thank you, no." mm T3 J' TIMES-NEW- t , f 14 I A III sjli l K !;! I'll - i V, W.vstW TilMimiiiiuiLtinninirnifiiiiMinMiwiiiiiiiii m iiiininij iimijimii ST It? T BK V t Jli ' it V til V t jLi V IB n Fokker's largest plane, for 14 passengers and wail, built for western air express of Los Angeles. Hamld, Arab prince of Bahrein, and retinue, In Irak where holy war against the British Is threatened. 3 New National museum In Washington, found In danger of collapse because of slipping of keystone. 1 ticular project. Neither Is there any mention of an economic commission to study the financial condition of the people along the lower Mississippi, as recommended by the President. In all other respects Mr. Coolidge likes It better than the Reed plan approved by the house committee. The Jones bill, as passed by the senate, recoguizes the principle of local contributions as sound, but asserts 0 that the previous expenditure of by local Interests In the Mississippi valley represents a full compliance with this principle. Iustead of creating a new commission, It provides that the work shall be in Immediate charge of the present Mississippi river commission under the direction of the secretary of war and the rupervision of the chief of engineers. Tills represents a continuation of present policies and la a feature which has been Insisted upon by the Administration. It also provides that the Jadwin plan, as recommended to congress by President Coolidge, shall be the basis of the flood control scheme. Provision is made for a board to reconcile engineering differences between the Jadwin plan and the Mississippi river commission plan. It Is expected that the construction of the flood control works will require a period of eight or ten years and that the appropriation for the first year will be from $30,000,000 to NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Chicago Disgraced by War of Politicians and Criminal Gangs. - $292,-000,00- BX EDWARD W. PICKARD XXTARFARE between Republican factions in Chicago has reached such a stage of virulence that the entire nation Is not only Interested but amazed and shocked. Leaders of both sides, most of them candidates for nomination In the approaching primaries, profess lofty motives and personal uprightness, but the evident truth Is that all of them are making use of the lowest criminal elements In the great city. It Is a war of gangs and whatever may be said of the candidates, there Is nothing to choose between the two crews of vicious thug? that are employed. Last week a long series of bomb outrages was climaxed by the bombing of the homes of Senator Charles S. Deneen, leader of the .faction opposing the crowd, and of Judge Swanson, running against Crowe for the state's attorneyship nomination. Each faction blamed the other for this affair, and the authorities up to the time of writing have failed to find the perpetrators despite offers of reward totaling $03,000 and complete Immunity. Unprejudiced observers are convinced that the struggle between rival gangs of "alky" dealers and bootleggers Is closely connected with the political conflict as well as being responsible for the numerous murders and bombings; and the gamblers and others engaged In organized crime also are d(ply Interested. ' $40,000,000. ANOTHER big measure naval was passed house the n DY n y the bill carrying appropriation The total of $48,000,000 for continuing construction of eight 10,000-tocruisers and two fleet submarines, $0,575,000 Is carried for modernization work and gun elevation work on two battleships, and nn additional $31,315,000 goes for naval aviation. When the marine corps appropriations came up the Democrats attempted to ascertain the cost of maintaining marines In Nicaragua. When this failed Representative Abernethy (Dem., N. C), criticized the sending of American marines to Nicaragua to oversee elections. n of 15 to C, on agriculture A vote the-hous- e com-niltte- e approved a revised McNary-Hauge- n farm relief bill. The Ketcham export debenture plan was rejected by a vote of 13 to 8. The measure Is similar to the revised plan offered by Senator chairman on agriculture, and reported favorably by that committee. It provides for marketing agreements with for the handling of surplus crops and the payment of losses by means of an equalization fee assessed upon the entire production only when price stabilization is not obtained through the use of government loans. Like the McNary bill, the house measure also eliminates restrictions upon the appointment of members of the proposed farm board and otherwise seeks to meet objections raised when President Coolidge vetoed the McNary-IIaugeplan In the last congress. Mc-Nor- y, von KOEIIL, Baron and Arthur Splndler, German aviators, secretly left Berlin on a projected flight across the North Atlantic, and made the first stage of the Journey, to Baldonnel airdrome near Dublin, In safety. There, at this writing, they still are awaiting favorable weather for the transoceanic part of Hie flight. They are using the Junkers plane Bremen In which Cnplain Koehl attempted a similar flight last year. The aviators asserted their plans scientifically formed anil that If they encountered cold winds and rain they would bend direct for New York to avoid danger of Ice formation on the wings. Colonel Lindbergh, after tils week In Washington giving rides to senators, representatives, diplomats and other personages, announced that he was ready to withdraw from public life for the time being, and soon after quietly departed for Lexington, Ky In his famous plane. From there he went on westward, bis destination being presumably San Diego. In Washington thew were reports that he was considering making a trip under the suspires of the State department. In San Diego a fiew plane Is being built for Lindbergh, similar to the Spirit of St. Louis but larger and more completely eotilnned. CAPTAIN single-motore- d ve a dissenting nn-e- by $300,000,000. Is provided 1 ote the the revised Jones bill authorizing (he expenditure of $.12.".n(i0.niKi for flood control on the lower Mississippi river. The measure t does not entirely the views of President Coolidge. While It declares for the retention of the principle of local contribution for flood wrks, it relieves local Interests of expre-slfurther contributions toward this par 2 Sheik: Dome of B. Fall Is too ill Washington, Atlee Pomerene, representing the government, went to Fall's home in El Paso, Texas, to take his testimony In the Teapot Dome conspiracy case. Regular court procedure was followed, defense attorneys questioning Fall and Pomerene conducting the The former secretary of the Interior still contended that the Teapot Dome leases were executed for the best Interests of the government and that the bond transaction with Sinclair was perfectly legitimate and was executed in payment of a third interest in the Fall ranch at Three Rivers, N. M. Henry M. Blackmer, missing witness in the oil lease case, has resigned as a director of the Midwest Refining company, which concern is owned by the Standard Oil of Indiana. It was believed in Washington that John D. Rockefeller, Jr., had brought pressure to have Blackmer quit. BECAUSE Albert to ' rpOUECASTS concerning the Kepub-lican Presidential nomination are becoming vaguer daily. Just now Low-deseems to be gaining some strength, and during the week he was Indorsed by the Missouri state convention and was allotted twenty-on- e of Minnesota's twenty-sevevotes, the remaining six going to Hoover. The Hoover campaigners In Ohio were being rather hard pressed by Senator Willis who In his speeches questioned the Republicanism of the secretary of commerce In view of his post-wa- r appeal for the election of a congress to support President Wilson; dwelt upon Hoover's long absence from the country; assailed his attitude toward agriculture and bis record as food administrator, and asserted that lie had not conclusively established tils dryness. Willis himself on Wednesday was Indorsed by the county W. C T. U. leaders of Ohio. In Indiana, whom delegation Is sought by Senator Wat-sou- , the fight against Hoover also Is becoming very lively, the senator especially attacking the secretary's attitude on International Issues. It had been believed Hoover would be unopposed In New Jersey, but Lowden has now entered the primaries In that state. Hoover's" board of strategy has estimated that the secretary lacks only 05) votes to Insure his nomination, and if that Is true It Is apparent that Mellon, controlling the Pennsylvania delegation, controls the situation. On the Democratic side the California primaries attract attention, for the fight there Is three-sided- . Smith, Walsh and Reed all being contenders. It had been hoped there would be a clean-cu- t contort between Smith and Walsh In South Dakota, hut the state Democratic leaders, for local reasons, have prevented this. Dry Democrats of the South assert that the only southern delegations that Smith can get In southern states are those of Arkansas and Louisiana. In Arizona the state central committee appointed twelve delegates, unliisl ructed, but It wos Miid they were favorable to the Smith candidacy, WITHOUT a i I I9?,fwi M .lf n ifimti,K--A,iww- 2 r L round-the-worl- d NEW oil regulations issued by the government appear to have settled the controversy between that government and the United States, and Ambassador Mdrrow is being credited with great skill in handling the negotiations. The regulations give evidence of Mexico's determination to recognize the rights held by foreigners in oil properties prior to the adoption of the Constitution of 1017. Those who take confirmatory concessions under the amended law get a confirmation of their old rights rather than a new grant of rights. The government at Washington is satisfied with the settlement, and if the oil men are not they will probably have to fight alone hereafter. Is to be summoned HENRY FORD the senate Interstate com- merce committee, which Is Investigating the coal situation, to explain how he can pay labor in his nonunion mines In West Virginia and Kentucky union wages or more. Neither the miners nor the operators are eager to have Ford explain his system, for ha is against the union and he puts the other operators to shame. Illinois mine operators declined to hold further wage parleys with the union until the latter agrees to arbitrate for a wage scale less than that provided for In the Jacksonville agreement, which meant that most of the mines in the state would close Strip-min- e down. operators of the Indiana district signed a contract with the United Mine Workers to continue operations under the Jacksonville wage scale until March 31, 1929. OF LABOR DAVIS the senate that the number of persons In the country actually employed at wages or salaries In January was 1.874,050 less than In 1925. Among the things that have brought about this slump In employ- ment he listed the floods in the Mis- slssippl valley and New England, the Florida tornado and the disturbance In the bituminous coal fields. The report precipitated a lively debate In the senate, the Democrats questioning Its accuracy and asserting the number of unemployed was nearer four or five millions. SECRETARY PILSUDSKI, dlctntor found himself up against a bunch of hard boiled Communists when the new parliament opened, and the disturbances were such that the police were called In and the sitting was soon suspended. When the diet reassembled the opposition succeeded In electing Its candidate for speaker, Dashinskl, by a vote of 2()rt to 110 for Pllsudskl's candidate, Bartells. There was great excitement throughout Warsaw and It was predicted there would be another coup d'etat of some kind. MARSHAL ROPE PIUS made a speech strong- ly criticizing the Fascist training of youlh and rebuking the Catholic Centralists. In reply Premier Mussolini's council of ministers announced that a decree law soon will he passed prohibiting the Catholic organization of boys called "Catholic Scouts." The decree will make the 'P.ullilla, which Is a Fascist children's organization, the only one permitted In Italy. This means the Italian government will take full charge of the trailing of the nsilon's vnnlh. |