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Show THE HELPER TIMES, HELPER, UTAH L im f -- ' Why, Max took me home, and since officious every lime he was with I told him she and I lived together, Rhoda, nor to do anything tonight I suppose he knows. Why shouldn't that would add to her disouiet It was probably nothing but Imagina he?" ne was too d d anxiopg to find tion. out that's all. He's a bad body If It wasn't though, imagination I know one when I see him. How that something had happened to onmuch more did you tell him about set the girls. Babe eventually gave that away completely. It transpired her?' "Why, we talked of little else, that she had a fairly heavy date at dearest." said Babe. "He wanted nine o'clock and she seemed worto know all about her, and I tried ried over the Idea of leaving Rhoda She even to be accommodating like I am in . order to keep now. Look here, who elected yon offered. In what she meant for a Red's guardian? I've known her confidential aside, to break this about seven hundred times as long date so that Rhoda, if Martin went as you have and I'm not trying to home early, 6hould not be alone In the studio. get her In dutch with anybody." Rhoda vetoed the proposal with a He didn't know what to say to that, but the look in his face must vigorous shake of her red head and have answered for hlin, for with a the cloud over Martin's spirits liftCOPYRIGHT V re SERVICE. complete change of manner, she ed as be realized that she meant went on. "What Is It Marty? Is to let him stay on and hare a visit there anything wrong with hira? Do alone with her after Babe had gone. you know anything about him?" The last thing Babe did before, "No," he told her, as they entered the building together. "But In full panoply, she left the studio again it was in a different man- I think he's up to something queer was to go to Rhoda and hug her. ner. and I'm going to try to find out "Don't you worry any more about "He asked me one queer thing what It Is. And if you happen on it, precious," she said. "Something about you, Bed. He asked if your anything that gives you a line on real name wasn't Bhoda McFar- it let me know." He thought she hesitated as land." though she ha.d something on her mind, but all she did was to nod ' CHAPTER III assent and say as she walked off that they'd see him for supper toFlat Burglary. told himself night about seven. MARTIN asFORBES Martin's own day's work was he went to bed that night that he'd had his lesson. yawning for him in the local room, Rhoda had treated him not as a but he didn't go there. He went friend but as. a reporter trying to into the "morgue" instead, on the run down a story. It must be ji chance that he'd find there some pretty good story If she was so scrap of Information about Max afraid he'd get it. All right, by Lewis. The search was much betgolly, he'd be a reporter, and the ter rewarded than he'd expected it first thing tomorrow morning he'd to be. Max had had his promenade In go after that story and nail it the public eye by virtue of a breach down. That maneuver he'd been so of promise suit for one hundred of thousand dollars that had been proud of at the time gettingj-iBabe Jennings and Max Lewis by brought against him by a chorus written her the usual Introducing them to each other-appe- ared girl. He had imbecile love letters. All now as likely to have been a downright Idiotic blunder. that gave them interest, either to Babe and Rhoda might inhabit the public or to the chorus girl her been the fact that Max, very different spiritual worlds, but self, had wasn't it likely that if Babe knew though it wasn't clear that he had her well enough to call her Red and any property soof his own,in hadau-a to speak, an get away with it, she'd also know vested right, uncle who the crude material facts about her thentically rich bachelorcome down where she lived, where she might be expected to worked, and so on which were all and settle the girl's claim. The only direct find for Martin that Max Lewis was interested in? And wouldn't Babe spill anything in the mess was the uncle's name It was "Charles J. "It Would Be an Awfully Easy she knew to anybody who was in- and address. terested in finding it out? Why the Forster," and he was spoken of as Place to Get Into." devil hadn't he thought of that last a capitalist with large oil interests in various parts of the country nice is going to happen soon that'll night? Well, it was probably too late to Charles J. Forster, "C. J."! That make you forget all about it. I've tied it up, but not quite. got a hunch about that that's repair the error now. He'd got to practically get hold of Babe, though, at the Not well enough for Martin, who enough to bet money on." Martin bit down the question he earliest possible moment. The more was a good reporter. He went downstairs, stopping on wanted to ask the moment Babe he thought about the possibilities to in the want the the ad way copy had really gone and said something of his blunder the worse they personal column for the address of nice about her Instead : what a seemed. Rhoda McFarland. Next morning he dressed, bolted good loyal sort she was. T think I'm on a story," he told "Oh, she is!" Rhoda assented his breakfast and was waiting at the foot of the elevated stairs a Snow, in charge of the advertising with a shaky laugh. "But she's good quarter of an hour before file. "If I'll promise to be discreet about as easy to see into as a goldShe promised she Babe could be expected to appear. about it, will you find out for me fish bowl. is who's been run- wouldn't let you suspect that anyBy the time he'd finished his sec- who the ond cigarette he felt as if he'd been ning this ad?" thing had happened here, and she's Snow thought he might do that gone off now without the faintest standing there for hours, as if everybody that came along won- and went off to look it up, coming idea that she's given anything dered what he was doing there. back within five minutes with the away." Before Martin could think And then, so surprisingly that he name written on a slip of paper. of anything appropriate to say to had to blink and shake his head to was C. 3. Forster, just as that, she went on, "I'll tell you make sure that his Imagination Martin had thought he would be. what it was: there was a burglar wasn't deceiving him, he saw not His address was the Worcester here this afternoon." "Did he get away with anything Babe, but Rhoda herself coming hotel. down the stairs. What would she Important?" The next step would be to InterHis choice of that word seemed do when she saw him? Toss her view Mr. Forster and try to perhead and walk scornfully by with- suade him to tell why he was ad- to strike her but she didn't comment upon it then. "He got three out speaking at all? Or pause to vertising for Rhoda McFarland. make some other blighting asperThis was a step he didn't want to hundred dollars of mine," she said. sion on his good faith in having take without Rhoda's permission. She went on in response to Martried to help her. So he made his way to the local tin's start of astonishment, "I'm She didn't do either of those room "and went to work for the ashamed to admit I was so silly as to keep a lot of money like that things. Her face lighted up at the newspaper. sight of him, and when she came At half past five that night he ar- in cash In my room. I'd had it a within reach she held out her hand. rived at the address Rhoda had long time, and I thought it was "This is an awfully nice way for given him and paused for a survey safely hidden." Martin asked if they had any the day to begin," she said. "I'm of the premises from outside. It was sorry I called you a reporter last a remodeled dwelling with a con- Idea when it had happened or how night." verted basement which was now an the man had got in. "I am one," he told her. "It would be an awfully easy antique shop, and a first floor, "Oh, I know you are, but you guessing from the sign painted on place to get into any time during weren't being one last night I the glass, that housed a dressmaking the day," she admitted ruefully. don't know why I said that I sup- establishment. It served some com- "The dressmaking people like to pose because I have red hair." mercial purpose during the day, leave the outer door unlocked so "This is turning out a much bet- anyhow, but it was now dark. It that their customers can come right ter day than I thought it could," he uinst be a rather lonely Our door wasn't broken, but place at up. observed. "I wish I'd known last night he thought I suppose a burglar could have the lock easily enough." night that this was going to hapSomething had happened In the picked pen. How did it happen? Do you "Was the three hundred dollars at least had hapsomething often come down these stairs about studio; to one of its tenants since all he took?" Martin asked. this time? Have you got a job pened "Wasn't it enough?' she counhe'd seen them that morning. He near here?" tered with a sober smile. "The door's about fifty feet sensed it the moment they let him He was afraid it was thin Ice, in, and he grew surer he was right and he didn't want to get her angry away," she told him. "I've worked as time went no on. was There for the News for two years." of cordiality about their wel- with him again, but he ventured to "Look here," he demanded, when lack come. They were trying hard, he answer, "No. That is, I wasn't surhe'd digested this fact, "did yon prised at the burglary but I was know who I was all along last saw, to keep up the festive spirit surprised that he took money. a of a got party. really up They'd Haven't you missed anything else? night, I mean?" "I thought it might be you. I good supper creamed sweetbreads A document of some sort, or a letwas with foundabacon fried the wasn't sure, though, till Babe called tion of it. photograph? I'm The studio was an at- ter or perhaps a see." you Marty." you guessing, just once to live tractive in, you'd place "Honest?" She remarked, "I don't think got inside the door, and It was plain "Honest." . You're exactly guessing. you're were of the But girls it proud She answered him quite simply, about Mr. Lewis and the thinking tonight something had gone wrong. things you heard that woman tellnot seeming surprised at his pressIt might, of course, be nothing last night. But I haven't ing so minute a point. He didn't more than some small domestic ing him, quite know himself why it was so any document or any letter I flared had between that up quarrel mean I haven't lost any and I important, but it was. seem like that. "Well," he said, "we've got a lot them, but it didn't don't own any photographs, except a was All Rhoda that of lost time to make up for. If betrayed of Babe and Doris and Isabel." In of he'd lack felt the I'll agree not to talk about anything buoyancy "I was thinking about Lewis," he her last and again during confessed. night yon don't want to talk about, will "I know a little more encounter this morning. about him than I did last night 1 you have dinner with me tonight?" their brief "Yes," she said, "but I'll tell you He noted that when he and Babe wanted to find out what he was up what I'd rather do if you'd Just as were keeping things up between to, especially after Babe told me leave. I'd rather you came to sup- them and she went so to speak, he'd taken her home last night and per at the studio. Give me a pen- off duty, she seemed to be listless asked her a lot of questions about cil and a piece of your newspaper, and .depressed. As for Babe, she you." seemed to be bursting with someand I'll write down the address." He saw her face flame at that He'd have asked her what sort thing, 'ohe was excited and she and he thought she held her breath of studio it wag if she hadn't was trying to be mysterious. while she waited for him to go on. Martin found himself getting "He Isn't what anybody would call glanced up as she handed back his One minor a valuable citizen but, at that, he paper and pencil and exclaimed, rather Imaginative. "There comes Babel It must be episode while they were at suppe doesn't seem like the man to break made him wonder whether he was In here and steal your three hungetting late." Babe sang out a rather knowing imagining the whole thing; dred dollars. He wrote some indishello to the two of them, but, even The bell rang from downstairs creet letters to a chorus girl once, if it was late, came on unhurriedly. and the rather nondescript visitor and she sued him for a hundred Rhoda called back over the Inter- whom Babe admitted announced thousand. Probably she wouldn't for the have done it if he hadn't had a rich vening heads, "Martin's coming to himself as a name-take- r supper with us tonight," and then new city directory. He wanted to respectable uncle she hoped would with a nod vanished Into the en- get the names and occupations of buy her off. His name's Charles J. trance to the building. everybody who lived in the apart- Forster. He lives at the Worcester The Implication he'd perceived In ment. Babe recited them while he hotel. Did you ever hear of him?" that last remark of Rhoda's dis- wrote them down in a little leather Apparently she attached no imturbed Martin so much that be for- bound notelxHik, He had to have portance to the question for she answered it with a mere absent shake got to be polite. Rhoda's name spelled for him. "Look here," he said to Babe as There was no real reason for of the head. Iler thonghts were t came she up, "did lint bird Lewis doubting that he was what be pre- somewhere else. that I introduced to you last night tended to lie, yet Martin did doubt (TO I!B CONTINUED) llnd out where Rhoda lived from the man almost to the point of askPretty Spanish Name you?" ing him to show his credentials. "You two make a pair, all right, Also he thought the man turned a The name "Juanita" Is of Spanyon and Max. It seems you both rather penetrating look on him. But ish origin and means the Lord's went gaga about Red last night. he didn't mul to do something grace. SEALED TRUNK HENRY 7 KITCHELL it WEBSTER 'XL WHAT 1 WENT BEFORE At a dance Martin Forbes, newspaper reporter, meets "Rhoda White." He overhears a conversation between Max Lewis and a woman which he believes concerns Rhoda. He recalls a "blind ad" inquiring tor "Rhoda McFar-land- " and senses a newspaper story. He believes that Rhoda's real name is McFarland. She refuses to admit or deny it, but Her life in Martin was right. California had been happy after her mother's death until misfortune overcame her father. Professor McFarland. They move to Chicago. The professor dies suddenly, vainly trying to tell Rhoda about "papers" in a trunk. Rhoda gets a job as stenographer. CHAPTER II Continued Iler acquaintance with Babe had at first, and it wasn't until she'd been working for the paper six months that the older girl approached her with a proposal that they live together. Babe was excited about an ad she'd taken, of a studio for - rent cheap ; unbelievably cheap; seventy-fiv- e dollars a month. It was really a whole apartment ; two bedrooms and a kitchenette, beside the studio Itself. Her scheme was that they get two other girls and that the four of them should keep house in It, getting, that is, their own breakfasts and suppers. The other two girls were dancers, members of the corps du. ballet of the opera. They taught her to dance the other girls had a phonograph and it became a passion with her. She'd dance with anybody, who could dance well, In a perfect oblivion of delight. She liked her job and wasn't long In getting promoted to be special stenographer to one of the younger men on the executive staif. The only imperfection in her whole scheme of life was the little tremor of fear she felt, every now and then, that It was too good to last. OThere was no real threat, was there. In Martin Forbes' imaginary discoveries? She didn't know any one named Lewis nor anyone who could be spoken of as "C. J." The progressed slowly only person who could be adver- tising for her was her uncle. For all she knew he might have been doing it for yenrs ; off and on ever since she'd disappeared. None of the girls knew her story, and they wouldn't give her away if they did. (The two dancers were away just now on tour with the opera, so she and Babe had the whole studio to She wouldu't risk themselves.) asking Babe any questions, though, about Martin. How well, she wondered, did Babe know him? The thing to do now was to go to bed, and to be sound asleep before she came home. But Bhe was only half undressed up In one of the little bedrooms that had been partitioned off the loft when she heard the click of Babe's key in the studio door. She listened and felt her skin pringle half-doze- 3 3 - . The Four of Them Should Keep House in It. as she thought she recognized the voice of the man who was urging Babe to let him come In for a smoke. Babe was firm about it and cent him away. Rhoda put on her bathrobe and slippers and crime slithering down Into the studio. "Who was that who brought you ie?" she asked. "You ought to know, dearie,"' told her. "He's your friend, not When he found out I lived mine. with you I couldn't push him off. II; brought me home in his runabout, but It was John Alden stuff I was doing all the time, and I knew it." "Was It Max Lewis?1' Illioda asked. "None other, darling,"' said Babe. "I had forgotten you had two of them on, tonight." There was a alienee for a moment after that. When Babe spoke Q n FISH FOR LENT Act in Time! Deal Promptly Kidney Start ii Ash route now. Prloea down to Sill levels. Special offer: Salmon. Sableflsh. Smelt, Ling Cod. Hod 8napper. Baas. Sole. I'atrtah. at 16c lb. Express paid. 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But even she was not safe, writes Trescott Lecky of the department of psychology, Columbia university, New .York, In an article comparing the Intelligence of dogs and cats In Popular Science Monthly. Cajolery, threats, beating and starvation were of no avail. Finally, the owner decided i give the dog the "silent treatment." She paid no attention to it. She was in the habit of taking it along on her daily walk, but now went out without it. When she sat reading or sewing and It came up to her, she turned her head and looked away. Garfield Tea Was Your Grandmother's Remedy For every stomach and intestinal ill. This good herb homo remedy for c onstlpatlon, stomach Ills and derangeother ments of the sys tem so prevalent these days Is la even greater favor as a family medicine than in your grandmother's day. Unlucky Thieve Eldorado (Kan.) man parked his car in front of a friend's house and went in for a visit As he came out he heard a noise in the rear of his car. 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Old Trail Still Used The Grand Portage originally was a nine-niil-e trail that ran west from Grand Portage, Minn., to the Pigeon river, In the east tip of the Arrowhead country. It was built by fur traders in 1783 and was the first white man's road in the state. Its outline can still be traced today and part of It is in use. A Sextette Four enemies are fighting the home, according to Edward Saplr of Chicago university : The cramped modern dwelling, the motor car, the Independence of woman and labor saving devices. He should add the neighbor's radio and the fellow who distributes dodgers. Los Angeles Times. Punishment by Ostracism Ostracism was Introduced In Greece by Clisthenes about 510 B. 0. Aelian says that Clisthenes was the first to be ostracized. In B. C, Hipparchus was exiled and a few years Inter Xanthlppus and Aristldes were banished In this fashion. Exchange. 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Yuml Yum I Hospital patients of long tenancy can appreciate the words of a former convict In a current article, he was asked by an Interviewer what made him long mostly for freedom and he replied, "I was working In the warden's garden and through the window there drifted the odor of ham and eggs." "To Thine Own Self" Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not In your power, and consequently should not be any part of your concern. Kpictet us. America Claims Grapefruit Grapefruit Is an American fruit, according to the United States Department of Agriculture, which states that the United States produces about IK5 per cent of the world supply. The most Important competitor, the Ifle of Pines, a Cuban territory, produces but 2 per cent of the world crop. |