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Show THE HELPER JOURNAL, HELPER. UTAH 1 HM' V &5 ill 7Ae uiJrf If - WWW T MAY DAY MYSTERY Ortavus Roq v Coheir WNUtltVICfe he didn't Intend to keep the bargain." Antoinette Peyton, senior at the Her cheeks were flushed and n university of Marland, resents Thayer's attentions to Ivy Larry's were dead white. Pat-erso- eeventeen-year-ol- coed, and d there is a stormy scene, the tension "No need to go Into detail "'Lo, It I didn't rewasn't very pleasant being Increased by Max Vernon, another student, reproaching Ivy for gard myself as his wife and told 'breaking a date" with him. Thayer him so. He was rather nasty about and Vernon threaten each other. it Oue thing led to another Larry Welch, Ivy's brother, profes- and then we had our first quarreL" sor at the university, Is appealed to She gave a short, bitter laugh. "One by Tony to end his sister's friendship with Thayer. Welch and Tony can find out a good many things Peyton are in lor. Welch does not about a man when he Is thorBee what he can do. Tony then tells I found out about him Bhe is married to Thayer, but is oughly angry. Pat Thayer .then. Berore we had his wife only In name. finished I told him that he might CHAPTER II Continued have saved himself the trouble of going through with a marriage cer"Pat Thayer proposed to me dur- emony. I told him I Intended to get ing the last five minutes of that a divorce Immediately, and then, football game, Larry. He kept In- Larry, was when the cloven hoof be sisting that Marland was going to came unmistakably visible. tie the score and I kept saying that "He refused to consider a divorce. we weren't trying to bring us good I had married him with my eyes luck by talking like a jinx. Til bet open. He didn't intend that I should we tie to win,' said Pat 'We won't!' have any grounds for divorce. And I answered. 'I know we haven't a if I cared to bring action, he'd fight chance.' 'You're not game to bet,' it In such a way that the Marland he taunted. Of course I said 1 was. campus would become a thoroughly Then he leaned so close that no- uncomfortable place, "I hated that Idea, Larry. I love body else could hear and whispered to me: 'Let's see how game Marland. I wanted my degree from you are. Tony. If Marland gets as here. I stalled him off and was surgood as a tie out of this, you're to prised that he seemed content to marry me right after the game.' wait. Then one day he came to 'Don't be silly,' I said, and he In- me and asked the loan of a large sisted that he was serious. 'And sum of money 1" "Good Lord ! You don't mean. . . you'd better say yes quick, Tony or I'll jinx the whole team.'" "Precisely. Blackmail. I refused She looked away, and there was a and he threatened to spread around tremor in her voice. the campus the story I had been "You can't understand It now, trying to keep secret. No divorce, Larry. There's no use trying to mind you; no annulment He inmake you understand." to let tended to insinuate "I do, though." the student body form its own opinI called him a blackmailer, "You don't I You can't! It isn't ions. possible sitting here In your class- and he cheerfully admitted that he He said I'd never miss the room, looking over a period of eight- was. een months and trying to make a amount he wished to borrow which person understand how a kid girl was true and, anyway, I loaned It could get drunk with football ex to him. In the months that fol citement and plunge into a serious lowed I loaned him more money. thing like marriage. It Isn't sane. Larry just to keep his filthy mouth And it isn't rensnnnhlo to exnert shut. And it isn't the amount But yon- to understand something which it was terrible to feel that I was I myself can't fathom now." being bled by a man whose name "Just the same," he said gently, I legally bore. Time after time I de"I do understand." termined to end it by suing for an "I hope so. . . . Anyway, I annulment Then I'd think about U . mnttn me 1.ucu jiittut luu liuuw wnHi uno- the embarrassment of staying on at pened after that. We tied the score. Marland after the gossip became Everybody went crazy. Then the general and I wasn't brave enough. game ended and Pat and I drifted It was my plan to wait until after I out with the crowd. And once we had my degree . . . then to end She paused for got outside and Into a taxi Pat an- the affair legally." nounced that we were going straight a moment, then turned Impulsively to the court house and get a license. toward the young man. "I wonder first I thought he was Joking, If you understand?" "Of course I do, dear." then I saw he was serious. I "And you think I was cowardly?" laughed at hfm, and he accused me of being a bad eport. "Not a bit I think you've been "I can pretty well summarize rather fine about it" what happened then. I tried every She noticed his manner of talkway In the world to argue him out ing; there was nothing soft or genof It He was gentle and conside- tle In his voice. It was obvious that rateand firm. He kept talking he was making a distinct effort to about paying my debt . . . and keep himself under control. She was surprised. It was the you can Imagine how that struck me. Besides, I liked him. The ex- first time In four years she had citement of the game had thrown known him that she had ever seen me off my balance. I retained him gripped by anger. There was enough sanity to strike a bargain something primitive In the ugly set with him. I said I'd go through of his lips and the blue of his eyes with It If he'd be willing to keep had changed to an Icy gray. the marriage a secret and merely "I've kept pretty quiet, Tony," he a ceremony until vacation time. I said, choosing his words with promised him we'd take a honey- meticulous care. "At first I was all moon In the summer If he'd do what with Pat Goodness knows I'd be I wanted. He protested, but finally the last one to blame bim for wantI even" he agreed. ing to marry you. She stopped talking. Larry gazed hesitated for the briefest fraction of an Instant, and his cheeks Intently at her averted face. "And then, Tony?" flushed 'T even didn't blame him "And then," she responded, with- when you told me that he wasn't out turning, "we were married." awfully keen about keeping his part . about . . of the bargain CHAPTER III about waiting until summer for a gallant attempt at cordiality. "Pat Thayer Just came in," he called cheerfully. "He's up In his room." Max Vernon stopped short "I dont give a d n where Pat Thayer is!" he growled. As he vanished inside the house the two boys stared in amazement The thing was so startling that even Rube Farnum was moved to shed his habitual lethargy. "WelL I'll be licked for a two- cent stamp! I ask you, Phil: did you hear little Maxie?" "Did It Say . . . what you reckon?" "Something hit him hard" Rube cocked one eye at the ceiling. "You reckon It's that little blond, Phil? Max has been awful keen for her, and they do say she's been rambling around a heap with Pat lately You never can tell !" They gazed off toward the street, each busy with his own thoughts. Their reverie was Interrupted by the arrival of a visitor. They did not notice her until she turned in on the walk and came straight toward the veranda. Then their faces broke Into smiles and they jumped to their feet "Hey, Tony !" they halted her. "How goes it?" Antoinette Peyton gave each of them a brief smile. Then her "Hello," she said. question came with startling sharpness. "Do you boys know whether Pat Thayer Is In?" It wa3 Phil Gleason who answered. "Yeh. He's up in his room. I'll call him for you." And then Tony Peyton did an amazing thing: a thing so staggeringly unprecedented that neither boy was able to move a muscle. Quite calmly Tony Peyton walked through tie door and into the sacred precincts of the Psi Tau Theta fraternity house. "Never mind," she called over her shoulder. "I'll go right up to his The main building of Marland university looks down from the top of a modest hill upon the quiet, residential town of Marland. The roadway which descends somewhat precipitously from the main building to Marland road Is lined on both sides with fraternity houses. Halfway down the hill stands the home of PsI Tau Theta, by all odds the largest of them all. Shortly after noon of May first at the very hour when Tony Peyton and Larry Welch were having their conversation in Larry's classroom two young men descended the hill, turned in at the PsI Tau Theta house, and sought accommodation; one in a saggy hammock and the other in a somewhat decrepit wicker chair. The lad who flopped In the hammock was "Rube" Farnum, a tall, angular, gangly junior whose nickname fitted his appearance rather more snugly than his background. Actually Rube was an urban product. Phil Gleason, his companion, was also a junior; but even In the first hot wave of approaching summer, he was immaculate Jaunty, even. He was short and slender and Inclined to be dynamic. He spoke al ways In explosives, whereas nothing ever excited Rube to more than a slow, amused drawl. The verandas of the various fraternity houses were not empty nor were they particularly filled. On several of the porches, young men slept calmly in hammocks. A few were reading. Phil Gleason at his glanced watch; frowned; shook the time- - ... I - 1 V. www .- ..." "Ain't He Too Sweet?" piece violently, and then turned his friend. "D n thing's busted again!" exploded. "What time, Rube?" Mr. Farnum reached into pocket and extracted a large reliable watch. "Twelve-thirty.- to he his but " "Humph! I got a class at Gleason's sharp eyes swung toward the street as a tall, graceful figure turned In on the concrete walk leading to the house. "Hello I" he observed softly "Here comes Man Should What the Wear." Rube eyed the approaching figure of Pat Thayer with tolerant amusement "Golly!" said he "1 wish I was a raw freshie so I could get a kick out of Just looking at that bird. Ain't he sweet?" Thayer, happily Ignorant of their caustic comment, mounted the porch steps and nodded to the occupants of chair and hammock. "Hello, Phil. Howdy, Rube." Thayer passed through the door into the big downstairs reception hall. Rube chuckled. "He's got It soft that bimbo. Star boarder here. Ever been In that room of his?" "Yeh. Second floor, front Bay window and everything. Fixed up like a boudoir of one of Louis lady friends." Rube "Ain't it so? And cocked his head on one side and listened attentively. The soft sum- mer air was rudely shattered by the motor roaring of a "I think," said Rube, "that our most shrinking violet Is about to approach in his gasoline chariot." They looked down the hill In time to see a long, low gray touring car of heavy and expensive type swing violently Into Fraternity row from Marland road. It Jerked to a halt under the two big oaks which dignified the lawn. Vernon climbed from behind the wheel of his car and started toward The two the fraternity house. hoys on the veranda gazed at him closely and turned inquiringly to Well-Dresse- Four-tenth- if" d e The Movies 's RICHARD BARTHELMESS ill1 NTO this Universe, and Why not knowing Nor Whence, like Water willy-nillflowing; And out of It, as Wind along the Waste, I blowknew not Whither, willy-nilling." Life, to me, Is something like that Omar "hits" me quite often. Some-bowe humans do things in Bpite of ourselves. In the shuffle of existence we sort of find our niches y y "willy-nilly.- " father died when I was one My mother, faced with the necessity of supporting herself and her baby, took to the stage. My year old. As I grew to boyhood my educa tion became a problem and thus when my mother went on tour she sent me to military schooL During vacations I sometimes appeared on the stage, but not with the stage In my mind as a serious future. Then came college days Trinity, Hartford, Conn. where I took part in amateur theatricals. One day a film company from New York came to a nearby village on location. I was Impressed with their work; but still my original purpose to enter business upon leaving college re mained. Then came another vacation pe riod and rather than remain idle I secured work at ten dollars a day as an extra in "Gloria's Romance," which starred Billie Burke. Then followed more extra work in a production of "Romeo and Juliet," followed by a lull rather unwelcome at this time. My mother, Caroline Harris, was a dear friend of Nazimova in fact It was my mother who taught Nazi- - w 11 J UK CONTINUED.) Extra Work Made by Untidy Hands Matters Worthy of Thought in the Home. In these days when detective sto ries are popular, many readers, young and old alike, believe that they have instinct, or at least qualities," which would lead them to dis cover clues leading to the solution of thefts and crimes, should they have a chance to exercise them. They seldom think of things the other way around, with an appreciation of how easy it would be for anyone to track them down. They are constantly leaving trails of what they do In the sin)ple and innocent activities of their days. Yet they wonder how it Is that mother, father, some one In the family, or one with whom they are boon companions discover what they have been doing or "what they are up to." It may be with no wish to conceal their actions that things are not spoken of earlier, but opportun ity may not have arisen or the "right time" for which they were looking, has not come. Then, when they do speak of the thing, It Is they who are amazed, for they can see the Information Is not totally a surprise to the hearer. Leading Richard .w ' Barthelmess. not yet Wark Sn . twenty-on- e girl, just bursting HAPPY little and she has never pep, tasted a "tonic 1" Every child's stomach, liver, and bowels need stimulating at times, but give children something you know all about. Follow the advice of that famous family physician who gave the world Syrup Pepsin. Stimulate the body's vital organs. Dr. Caldwell's prescription of pure pepsin, active senna, and fresh herbs is a mild stimulant that keeps the system from getting sluggish. If your youngsters don't do well at school, don't play as hard or eat as well as other children do, begin this evening with Dr. Caldwell's when this turning point in my life occurred, but had the call come the next day I would have been away on the cruise and probably become business man at the a second-ratend of my college days. After "War Brides," came several leading roles with Marguerite Clark followed by some great "breaks" In David when she knew unsightly, blem- ished skin was hurting her popularity she could find nothing that helped until a friend hinted constipation" and advised NR Tablets (Na 1 ture Kemedy). They toned and strengthened the entirt eiiminative tract rid her system of poisonous wastes thoroughly, natu- (A. V skio blotches van- cneens Riowea again. r - Vtf lenea. I T" u: paie t - J n b.Ji vegetable laxative and corrective onin jsyijL. "jt tontgnt. habit-forminAt All nniooicta' K " 25c j Syrup Pepsin. This gentle stimulant will soon right thingsl The bowels will move with better regularity and thoroughness. There won't be so many sick spells or colds. You'll find it just as wonderful for adults, too, in larger spoonfuls! Get some Syrup Pepsin; protect your household from those bilious days, frequent headaches, and that that sluggish state of means the bowels need stimulating. Keep this preparation in the home to use instead of harsh cathartics half-heal- th that cause chronic constipation "Newest Hotel 4 Griffith productions, culminating In "Broken Blossoms' and "Way Down East." Then out of clear skies came the I appeared In talking pictures. "Weary River," "Drag" both dla logue films, and It Is to talking pic tures that I look for that eventful greatest role of my career. Friendship friendship, as in most mat ters, It Is the little things that count Not promises of eternal fidelity, but thoughtfulness about trifles assures us that our friend really cares for us. The one who knows Instinctively what we would like for a gift, what subjects of conversation may he unpleasant to us, what subject we do not like to hear Jested about lks$m ,!;:;!! HOTEL TEMPLE SQUARE In who, knowing, too, when we wish to be silent, humors our wish that is the one with whom we love to associate. We can never retain a friend long If we are not willing to take pains to find out his peculiarities and respect them. Exchange. if taken too often. You can always get Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin at any drug store; they have it all ready in big bottles. Salt Lake City's e ' EVEN Diet Didn't Do This! mova to speak English when that wonderful Russian actress first came to America. Nazimova was about to start the production of "War Brides," under the direction of Herbert Brenon, They had been seeking for weeks for a young man to play the role of the younger son, Arno. While plans for "War Brides" were going on I I was getting terribly discouraged. had spenf weeks making the usual rounds of the Fort Lee and New York studios and had about made up my mind that there was no room for me In motion picture work. I suddenly decided to sign up for a naval training cruise to tide me over the summer. I had always loved the sea and this seemed like an opportunity to do something before go ing back to Trinity college for my senior year. On the evening when I was to de part on the cruise Fate smiled Iron Ically and decided to alter my life. A telephone call came from Nazi mova asking me to see her at the hotel. I was engaged for the role of Arno In "War Brides," and that was the beginning. I never returned to Trinity! I was TO UGLY PIMPLES L1P - 0&mmi&; found ANSWER CHAPPED f ' Signs. taken to task and the clues are not wrong which led to the discovery. Silent Clues. Or when there Is pasting to be done, and the top Is not replaced on the tube or the cover on the paste jar, clues are not wanting to point with insistent accuracy to some one, not the owner of the tube or jar, having been using said paste. When the cracker jar lid is not put on straight mother does not have to look inside and find the lowered contents, to know somebody has had an especial treat. But it Isn't always children who leave trails of their activities In their wake. Older people share with them the same traits of leaving trails which simplify detection of activities. Careless trails are nntidy and make extra work for the homemaker. 6. 1933. Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. "now does mother always know when I have been at her work bas ket even for a needle and thread?" is the query of surprise, often voiced How Indeed! by some daughters. The needle Is left on table or bureau wherever the sewing stopped. In her Flatter Them, Girla rounds of straightening rooms one A man likes to be called handsome such needle is generally discovered. On putting it away, the ncedlecase even if he knows he isn't. Is found to be lying open and the end of the thread on the spool not fastened off. These are not char acteristic ways of the mothers. They are of the daughters, who thus leave clues about, praiseworthy as the work itself probably is. Who has been writing at father's desk? Not that It would in itself be disliked, but the stopper to the ink bottle Is off, and that Is annoying. To quickly relieve The ink gets dusty and the next time father writes he Is bothered with chapping, roughness. cracking, apply soothing, tiny specks on the pen, which make cooling Mentholatum. strokes uneven. He does not have to be a Sherlock Holmes to know who Is the culprit and he or she gets (If dog-gon- e (TO " if "No." bowed. Tony gave them a hard little She walked smile and said good-by- . to the street and turned uphill to ward the Old .Main. Rube sank back into his hammock with a sigh of in finite relief. "And that," he remarked "Is most doeldedlj that." "Yeh. But what Is It?" "Darned If I know. Say, Phil-- did yon get a good lash at her?" "1 didn't get nnythlng else." "She seemed kind of worked up Right mad. I might fay." "She did. Sore as a goat. Wlmt you reckon?" Ha'.C. By smiling determination she had calmly announced that she was going to visit the room of a fraternity mem ber, and, what was even worse she bad carried out her threat The two boys did not know that Tony deliberately had selected this bold method of approach so that Pat Thayer would understand clear ly that she was not bluffing. When a girl visits a man th his room. explanations are often necessary, and Tony thoroughly aroused wished the man to understand she was prepared to let the campus know of their marriage. " "Well, I'll be everlastingly "Can you Phil murmured. beat It, Phil: I ask yon." "No!" snapped Gleason. "1 can't and neither can anybody else." "Do you reckon anybody saw her go upstairs?" "Suppose they did?" "They couldn't, you poor simp. Say, what the h l'g happening around here, anyway? First Max Vernon says he don't give a d n where Pat Thayer is, and then Tony Peyton goes up to Thayer's room. I'm worried." They reflected heavily upon the situation, fear for the good name of their own fraternity forming their paramount worry. "What you reckon . . ." starter Farnum, and Gleason answered the unfinished question. "Nothing, except that Tony is straight as they make 'era If they were pulling any rough stuff you can bet your last dollar they wouldn't do It in the open that way, in It's 0. K., Rube but discreet." For twenty minutes Rube Farnum and Phil Gleason sat on the veranda in miserable uncertainty. At twenty minutes past one Tony appeared on the veranda again. They glanced at her and saw that she seemed to be laboring under stress of some powerful emotion They also noticed that she was making a brave effort to appear casual. Awkwardly the two boys rose and Copyright by Herman dog-bit!- honeymoon. "But the rest of it . . . It's seemed to be summed up In her simple state- pretty rotten. That any man should ment She spread her arms help- have married you because you have lessly, and the young man stared a little money; that he should have at her. blackmailed you for two years; that "I had hoped not to tell you" he should have been well nasty in she was speaking In a soft, tired his attitude toward you. That hits voice "until after we should have me pretty hard, Tony; perhaps belpen divorced or had the marriage cause I care for you so much. annulled. I detested the idea of "Then there's Ivy. I was fair to a campus scandal or gossip or him about that Ivy's a nice kid. whatever it would have been. I and pretty even if she is my siswas waiting until graduation. Then ter. If he wanted to flirt with her But if I was going West or to France or that was their business. somewhere and quietly have the he's a married man and that kind ne rose abrupt whole miserable affair ended. Rut of a man . . "I'm going to have a pretty seeing Ivy with him that rather Iy. straight talk with Mr. Paterson changed things, Larry." "I understand. I wish you had Thayer. A pretty d n straight told me before, though. And, going talk." "No!" She was on her foot and bark to the beginning . . . what her hand was on his arm. This new caused you to to become Larry frightened her. "Can't you see that you mustn't She gave a little smiU of distaste. "Several things, Larry. I'll clash with Pat? He'd be liable to talk frankly because It la your get nasty and spread the story. Yon right to know. Before we were mar mustn't go near him now." "I've got to. Leave yourself out ried, Pat and I agreed that the marIt If you wish. I've got to conof a be to was mere form untt' riage We were to be good sider Ivy. His affair will) her rant oho another. summer. "What's the matter with him?" be permitted to run on." friends. Just as we hud been slm-"That's true," she said thought Inquired Gleason. he cimie to Marland but that was "(lee. . . . The un Is downall. It wasn't long aTlor the cere fully. Then an Idea mine to her "Let's right eclipsed, ain't It, Phil? Never looked up brightly. emonv that he nmile it clear that and she PVERYTHI.NG How I Broke Into room." Tony Peyton had done the impossible and thereby scandalized the two members of Psl Tau Theta, who stared In dumfounded amazement at the door through which she had passed. With quiet dignity and - V. Rube." His manner was forbidding. Farnum, somewhat nonplused, made a far-flun- g SYNOPSIS Welch, did see Max looking like that. Reckon they pulled him for speeding, or something?" There was no mistaking the fact that Max Vernon was In an ugly mood. He moved toward the house with short, positive strides, keeping bis eyes focused on the ground and would have passed into the house without a word of greeting had not Rube Farnum hailed him. "HL Max!" Vernon responded without glancing at them. You go chat conjpromlse, Larry. with Ivy. See If you can do any thing with her. Of course she mustn't know that I'm Pat's wife. But see If you can't get her to do what you want to stay away from Pat And meanwhile I'll go to Pat right now. I'll tell him that If he continues running around with Ivy I'll tell the whole campus. That will spike his guns. Don't you see that's the sensible thing?" He looked at her keenly. "Do you think you can bluff him, Tony?" "This time, Larry," she said, "I'll make him understand that I'm not bluffing." 1 1 I f Mm v U NfW FACTS ABOUT HEADACHES, siEFPirssNrss. nrRiiiTV ftc I" Acidity is a danger signal. 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