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Show Thursday. April 15. 1937. THE a yfri7t?s .r is, i l M via bii Bee had mailed It, her sister realized, on the way to the train ; but a place to stop a letter be fore she met Davis on the day be had failed completely I Had he come on that train? And bow was he? Agnes put herself be side Bee on the platform awaiting liiin for that meeting yet to occur in her mind, though her sister had accomplished It eight days ago. She could gee him stepping from the car slowly but unwaveringly, with lips pressed tight and white; with his eyes looiclng at his wife, who could not help contrasting blrn on this day of Ills public failure with Jeb Braddon, whom all people more . - EDWIN -. BALMCR than ever praised Bee would 'tV 'VlT CHAPTER , . Wt"5E wVy C ops r.g ht fcj fdwfn 8!mr ihi,v,. the deck while the ship sailed ; when It stopped, swimming and diving. her mother and Jeb paying for It all, never tired of A0NK8 and left Chicago for New It until he returned to Chicago to York on the Century the next day. make more money, and more and It Saturday, and throushout more. She might be with him; but she the morning. Myrtle Lorrle was on the witness ctand; the noon papers had no wish to be. were full of her defense of herself. Here was no one, but her mother, ISee and Davis went to the rall- - whom she well knew. Here were X mi roud station, but Jeb did not ap-The Ignominious testimony regard to bltn, which Agnes bad given on the previous day, bad been printed fully not only In Friday's late editions, but was prominent In the morning papers. "You got complete coverage, darlBee assured Agnes. Bee was ing-" the only one able to assume any levity over It. "Not only In the news but In the chatty little social columns. Some one has commented thut If there is an absolute zero In ways of announcing a broken engagement, possibly you hit on It." At Albany next morning. Agnes read, at lust, that the Jury late In the evening had acquitted Myrtle Lorrle on the fourth ballot They gulled Agnes and her mother, Beatrice Glenelth and Itogna, their mnid on Wednesday, Bob and several friends seeing them off. The three days in New York with her husband had proved even more t for Trlcie than she had anticipated. They stayed at the same hotel, of course; they preserved, outwardly, all appearances. Trlcie mentioned "Cash" but once; and then noi even by the name of "Cash." Trlcie asked and this was not until Tuesday: "Bob, Is she In town?" "No," Bob told his wife. "Not since before you came." For he had sent her away on Saturday. Cash had not wanted to go without him; but he had told her she must. "No; he wouldn't like It, he assured her; but they both must do It Thus be would krep his conscience clear; such temporary abstinence was enough for virtue In these days. Prosperity, power, and Impunities! They strutted on the ship, with their wives or the women whom they preferred to their wives these men of America new to the millions which tbey believed and they boasted they had "made." There was no escape, on the ship, from those people; and none, that summer, In Paris; for Americans, as never before, possessed the city. BeatrlcT Glenelth had never Intended to linger In Paris. She fled to a little quiet village of the Hautes Pyrenees ; .and she and Agnes settled, at last In a tiny Inn a few kilometers from the border of Spain, where no man was In the least like Bob and the noon sunlight shone sharp and warm, but always there was a breeze down from Maladetta or the snowy summits of Mt Perdu. There, week after week, mother and daughter waited. Waited for what? For human nature to change? For years to reroll themselves? For the world to fit its ways again, as once happily It had, to the complete fulfillment of an Individual's decent desires? Trlcie did not deal with such matters through her mind ; her emotions always controlled her. She 's wanted what she had had her desire and devotion, which she had done nothing to lose. If she had "done" anything which deservedly would have alienated him, she might have seen the "justice" of what had occurred ; but she Aleur. In dim-cul- bus-band- had not hours with the sun, and the wind from the mountain passes; with the tinkle of bells of cattle on the hillsides; the herder's whistle, and sometimes his song . . . But Agnes did not dream of Jeb's big new boat. She lifted her hand with the letter. "Jeb has not, sister, quit his claim on you," Bee's handwriting assured. "That Is not J. E. Braddon. Me does not speak about you much ; but he does a lot of listening, when you're mentioned . . . lie's giving yon time to get yourself straightened out" . she married Cathal O'Mnra? What did It mean that as she lay In the late afternoon shadow, she so much as played with the fancy? ("And now my times with you are spent; there's nothing of you left for me In all the future. We'll be In the world, both of ns, but I may never again speak to you or see your face.") Agnes stirred, and twisted a little. She wanted to be la the world with Cathal O'Mara. Suppose They traveled slowly through Provence, Into' northern Italy In the autumn, on to Interlaken below the Jungfrau, and reached Paris, at last. In November; and there they were when the crash came, and the cafes and the counting-housealike the Cafe de la Palx and the Amer ican branch banks on the Place de la Concorde and Boulevard Haus mann became places of panic. To the crowded hotels of the Rue de RIvolI and about the Etolle the cables carried to Americans only "Mil messages of catastrophe. lionaires overnight became penniless, or worse. Little slips of paper told them: "All you had Is gone; and you owe more." A few words on a cablegram slip less than a score of syllables, sometimes and a man who last week strutted and boasted that be was worth six millions shut himself alone In his suite at the hotel and shot himself. What had changed? What curse caused this Incredible calamity that spared no one? The Gleneiths, mother and daugh ter, moved among groups utterly confused. Beatrice had a cable from her husband In Chicago: "All right enough with us. Don't worry." She was not dependent, as many about her were, upon monthly remittances from borne, or upon renewals of a letter of credit Bob had provided generously In advance. Some wives. In her situation, were however cashing their letters of credit and cabling the proceeds home. So astonishingly had the situation reversed Itself t Then the second big "drop" An-gu- st aid admired. Agnes knew that she had been "good" to Davis that night Never would she have blamed or reproached him; she would have been sorry for him, and shown It But that was what, last of all, Day-I- s desired; he could have borne reproach better than pity. Agnes wished she could have been there to prevent Bee's pitying him ; to show blme something like admiration. She did not believe that she could have felt for him admiration; but she could have feigned something to satisfy him; she knew bow Davis had needed some word of praise that night Agnes waited for ber mother to finish the letter. "We ought to be home. Mother." "Yes. But how can I go?" "Why not?" "I will return, I told your father," ber mother said, "when he asks me to. I must wait until he does so." up her home the BEE gaveChristmas. week "Not before Christmas I" Duvls protested to her. "What would Christmas be to ns in the house, under the circumstances?" Bee retorted. "And the boys are too little to know. Let's get It off our hands." "Oh, God!" breathed Davis, and held her to him. Technically, Bee could have kept the house; It was In her name, and her father offered her a monthly allowance large enough to pay grocery- and furnace-bills- , light telephone and wages for one servant; but Bee spared Davis even discusShe dismissed all sion of this. It had come much closer to the Gleneiths than merely to people they knew; but the two of the family In Paris had not yet received a letter written that day. They had only Bob's second cable to his wife: "Some temporary losses, of course, but nothing serious; no necessity whatever to alter any of your plans." Bee's letter arrived the next week : o'clock, Tuesday. Just before I go to meet Davis. en for It'a your turn Well, April we Kot It Today at noon Collitt, Ayreforth and Remble admitted InThe aft. ability to meet obligations. ernoon papers have It In headlines; also our phone has been busy. It appears to have surprised many friends. how or tells Nobody knows much we're short; but It's a tew not hundred counting; thousand, what's owed to Father when he threw In a lot of money last week to try to save Davis. Father shouldn't have done It. He's been taking losses on his own that would sink anybody else. Why did I let Davis In for this? But I never dreamed he could get in so deep. I didn't know that men could lose more money than they ever had. It seems they can. Of course, I never figured that It a time when It might happen so atmuch difference to would make are others besides And there Father. ourselves to consider. Davis seems to have done bis bit, you see, dear. In making paupers of many trusting people. Every one is grateful to Jeb In these days, Agnes everybody lucky enough to have taken his advice. He's been Insisting on the utilities, and especially the Insull properties, you know. Of course they're down; but In comparison with other things, they're just Gibraltar. A lot of people are thanking Clod tonight for J. E. Braddon. I'm going to the train, now, to meet my husband. B. Both boys perfectly One, Alotber. PAGE SEVEN snake lurks in the grass. A sleeples Nuit blanche. night. Sui generis. (L.) Df its ow kind. Vient de paraitre. (F.) Just pub lished, or, just out. Maladie du pays. (F.) Home sickness. Mieux vaut tard que Jamais. (F.) Better late than never. Ab initio. (L.) From the begin ning. Dal segno. (It.) Repeat from the sign. Polisson. (F.) A rascal. Femme couverte. (F.) A mar ried woman. guest-chamb- becoming clothes, selecting designs from the Barbara Bell patterns. Interesting and exclusive fashions for little children and the difficult junior age; slenderizing, well-cpatterns for the mature figure; afternoon dresses for the most particular young women and matrons and other patterns for special occasions are all to be found in the Barbara Bell Pattern Book. Send 15 cents today for your copy. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., 149 New Montgomery Ave., San Francisco, Calif. Price of patterns, 13 cents (in coins) each. well-planne- easy-to-mak- e ut In March, Davis got his job; and as before, he acted without consult or Jeb ing either his father-in-laabout It He borrowed ten thousand and dollars on his formed a new partnership with Ken O Bell Syndicate. VI RS. DICK EVANS has come her two mornings .make Edto town and brought Ann and die's suit ars rt-- y dress. Won't Eddie LeRoy with her. She lives jifTi help me with my doll clothes in Palm Beach In the wintertime "Indeed I will, Ann, and then and, of course, knows all about style. That's why she wears this we will have some of those oat directorie type frock that is both meal cookies you like for lunch, The Patterns. new and figure flattering. In the floral print she has chosen she Pattern 1272 is available In sizes is perfectly gowned for the parties 14 to 20 (32 to 42 bust). Size 18 re that will be given for her in the quires 4 yards of 39 inch ma Lome town. The kiddies are wear terial and 2V4 yards of ribbon for ing the simple styles appropriate tie belt. to childhood and therein their Pattern 1275 is for sizes 6 months to 4 years. Size 1 requires IV. smartness lies. Auntie Rose Sews. Too. yards of 32 inch material. Little Ann is asking Auntie Rose Patterns 1403 comes in sizes 2, If she makes her clothes too. 4, and 6 years. Size 4 requires lVi "Sure enough, dear," comes the yards of 36 inch material. Pattern 1212 is designed in sizes reply. "I made this percale for mornings and have a beauty in 34 to 43. Size 36 requires 5 yards yellow crepe cut from the same of 35 inch material plus Vi yard Business was looking up for a while; many leaders believed and proclaimed that the worst was past and prosperity restored. But within two months more some of them who had backed their beliefs had shot themselves while "cleaning" revolv ers, died of monoxide gns poisoning In their garages, or had leaped or fallen" from their office windows. Arthur LInsdale, a neighbor of the Gleneiths, rose from dinner-tabl- e and went to the lake shore alone and put a bullet through his head. He was Important enough so that cables carried the news that night to European papers; and Beatrice Glenelth read It In her room at her hotel In Florence. She sent Rogna for her daughter. "Agnes, we're leaving for home. . . . No; your father has not cabled for me; and I've had no letter today. It's this: Arthur shot himself. He's just your father's age. I've often thought of We're leaving them as alike. at once." WNU Service. THERE ARE NO SPIDER-WE- B CHECKS in My FURNITURE. I PROTECT IT BY USING ONLY GENUINE O-CED- pattern to wear to the contrasting for the collar. Send for the Barbara Bell Spring meetings." "I'll bet you can sew fast, too, and Summer Pattern Book. Make the way Mother does. It only took yourself attractive, practical and Bid-or-- 's MELVIN PURVIS FORMER ACE FORMS NEW CORPS OF SECRET OPERATORS! G-M- When Bee's mother and sister were on the water, she met, driving to market, a neighbor of hers whom she had often seen when she had lived In her own house. It was Joyce Mereday, whose husband, though out of a job since January, had held on to their home, though It was well known that the grocer and the butcher had not been paid for months. The garage men would not carry slow accounts, and so Gene had got rid of his car. Joy was walking from the market She had no servant since Christmas. Bee asked her to lunch ; and Joy got Into the car casually enough, and as they drove, she referred easily to her children, who were being sent to the public school ; they took their lunch with them to save walk two extra times the a day. Joy was older than Bee, and her girl was ten, and the boy two-mil- ' Au grand serieux. (F.) In dead ly earnest. I.atet anguis in herba. (L.) A ... Beatrice Had a Cable From Her Husband In Chicago. her maids and turned title of the house over to the bank which held Davis' biggest note; and she sold everything she possessed that would fetch a price except her engagement- and wedding-ring- . So the girl whom her father had always called Dark One returned "home," to his house, with her babies and her husband. "Bee Ayreforth is perfectly wonderful with her husband," the neighborhood said. "This will make them much closer together." For the neighbors knew that Davis and Bee needed to be brought "closer" whatever that meant The neighbors did not yet know though Davis and Bee did that she was bearing him another child. Yet Davis could not feel that his wife "loved" him ; and he longed as never before for love to reassure him and give him boldness. He became more sensitive to comparison of himself before her with men who continued to succeed, and so he avoided the homes of many of Bee's friends. By himself in the day, he called on the men at their offices; he looked up mere acquaintances and even strangers who were suggested as possibly having a job open. lie put down bis pride mercilessly, except that he refused to take the position which his fatber-tn-lapatently made for him In his Foreign Words and Phrases Smart Flattering Dresses longer supported, and her father who lodged and boarded them both. and who paid even the uunteumid; and opioxlte sat Jeb Braddon, whose opiuions constantly were asked, and given, when, expressed. the renpect and authority of success. Davis, sometimes, could scarcely eat. At night after Jeb had gone, Davis did not sleep. He luy alone In a room which bad been next to the room which had been and now again wus Bee's, and wherein she slept once more In her ow n bed. Some nights he never got up to disturb her; but often be could not keep himself from entering her room and waking her. Or did he wake her? Had she al ways been asleep? "Bee." "Oh I You ! . . . What Is It?" "Do yju love me?" "Love you? . . . What more can I do to show It?" "By God, Bee. I'm going to sup port you. At least support you I" Llns-dale- ten-roo- came. Not Infrequently, therefore, four down at the dinner tattle Fa ther In his own place, the Dark One In her mother' place, Davis on one side, Jeb on the other. Cram lb still served the table; but the bouse staff had been cut In two. So there sat Davis at the table si lently between bis wife whom he no Nat Uemble. CHAPTER XI s Six Day and night, Trlcie relived her married life in review. A letter arrived, once a week reg ularly, from the husband; and always, on the day one came, Trlcie answered It Bee wrote her mother and her sister once a week, but alternately; and she always assumed that they shared her letters, as Indeed they did. She had moved her household to Mackinac Island for July and Davis had been with her most of July, but in August he came up Jeb had aponly for week-endpeared several times In his big boat, and always had stopped. She and Davis had gone up with Jeb, and several more people, Into Superior for a week. Agnes lowered the letter and lay back In her gayly painted chair gaz ing toward Maladetta but regarding. eally, her own life on the Illinois shore four thousand miles away. Plainly she saw herself and them all In perspective; her home and the city below It and the long and level weep of the lake. Back and forth npon It, Jeb journeyed In his splendid luxurious hip, picking up people, dining them, witning them, setting them at little tabies for bridge or to dancing on be NEPHI. UTAH TIMES-NEW- INVITES ALL DOYS AND GIRLS TO JOIN HIS NEW MELVIN PURVIS, LAW-AND-ORD- PATROL! ER former ace who founded the Junior G-M- OPERATORS-Theyhavespeclalcode- Corps, has formed a great new organ- ization Melvin Purvis' Patrol. Members are Law-and-Ord- er rr9 ... SECRET LOOK HERE, TEDDY MOW CAN WE TELl WHETHER A CLUE IS DEAL--O- R A FAKE ONE LEFT TO DECEIVE US ? rn P'jfi 4"' Jke ivT ' HV"' 4 gfrffr I J t . rfTV!25 , . ' '' S GEE. THAT'S RIGHT...MAYBE WS OUGHT TO WRITE TO MELVIN PURVIS AND ASK HIM WHAT HE DOES ! e s, passwords, and special equipment. Below is a "candid camera" snapshot of a squad of Secret Operators who have a special problem G-M- f Pvr i 1 , " JCM I ec t itc cu? tucv OFTEN TRAP THE PERSON WHO LEAVES THEM! I CAN ANSWER THIS LETTER OEST BY TELUNG ABOUT AN EXPERIENCE OF MY UWN. ..AND WHILE IM DOING I I eight It was when Bee and her- guest were at the luncheon-table- , with Bobby and Davy between them, that Joy suddenly broke down. Cravath had just served her and Bee, and he had laid before the little boys exactly what they ought to have, when Joy dropped her fork, which she bad lifted to her lips. "I can't eat! How can I eat? How, can I put this food In my mouth when my children my children are hungry?" Bee jumped up and caught her In her arms. "No! Noi" Joy cried. "I can't I sent my girl and boy to eat I school again with bread and with a little butter spread on It t All I had In the bouse I That's all they've bad I . . . for days In their lunch-boxe- s And oatmeal at home. That's a box of oatmeal I left In your car; all we'll have tonight and tomorrow. . . . And my Sally said to me this don't morning: 'Don't mind mind, Mother. Nobody knows.' You see. Bee, they go off by themselves to eat, Sally and Gene, so nobody does know, from them. And they eat the oatmeal morning and night at home I They're such little sports I" Bee made the mistake, that night of letting Davis learn of this. She would not have told him, but she had to explain two circumstances-Bob- by's report to bis father that a and the big lady cried at lunch-timfurther fact that Bee was without ten dollars, which was to have office. Jeb was still doing splendidly. served her for the rest of the week ; The Insull "equities" were still for she had made Joy take It (TO BE CONTINUED) quoted high. Jeb had proved himself much, much wiser than other Must Think First men; he prospered in the panic; "Mr. Goudy, the great typogand Davis could not bear the thought of him. Yet he bad to see rapher, when he was asked how he Jeb at the house. designed a new font of type, broodBob Glenelth was the one who ed a while and then he said, 'Why, usually Invited him. Glenelth bad you think of a letter and draw liked him best of Agnes' friends, around It But whiflver method the and now he was doing business with writer adopts, or finds forced upon Jeb; for Bob badly needed some him, his first problem is to teach new financing which Jeb had proved himself to think; and to find which is hospltnble to able to arrange. Jeb liked to come to the housti. thought" Christopher Morley. - ... ... e Sis members of KinKsIey Cotton's Sqntd of Secret Open tors. Flushing, Lons Island. Left to right: Kingsley Cotton (Head Secret Operator). John Appleby. Edmond HrLftt, uicoa ixuton, Stanley fields ana I eddy orace. 1 was inTestisatinf a bank robbery (HERE ABE THE GLOVES ..." WELL, WELL. THIS IS IS INTERESTING THIS MAN MULLINS . f THEM THESE GLOVES WERE PROBABLY LEFT TO THROW US OFF THE TRAIL. THERE'S A FAINT TRACE OF CIGARETTE STAIN ON THE LEFT CLOVE. I HAVE A HUNCH... LEFTY LOUIE THE ... DIDN'T DO IT I MULLINS. OUR CASHIER. 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