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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1932 actly like a rat with her kittens, turning fiercely on the last lot as soon as the new litter made its appearance. So. finding Mariner In the office visibly waiting for Ului, when he arrived with Edith on the morning after his selling adventure, he was prepared to do battle agnlnst an open proposal that they undertake the manufacture km (WXU Service Webster' Henry Kitcliell ffe Gzpyrighf fy Bobbs-Merri- Acting- In perfect! a in effort toIn aid tood faith a business Ruth Ingraham, iwajr, Edward Patterson, cashier of the Chicago agency of a life insurance company, ia wro.igl suspected by his wife, Julia, of Infidelity. Her practical accusation, in a letter from a summer resort, unfits him for business, and he takes a short vacation. Patterson's weakness is a shirking of responsibility, intensified by his moderately successful business life in a subordinate position. On his return from his vacation he Is deeply wounded by tits daughter, Edith, hesitatingly telling Ins that his personal belongings were la the "spare room," having been from the room which had been a Is and his wife's bedroem. 1. In CHAPTER II. Patterson accepts the situation as proof of his wife's belief In his guilt. Edith, IT years old, Is worried over the estrangement of her parents, having little more than a dim comprehension of the affair. Her mother only partly succeeds in her efforts to eomfort her, though a lengthy talk with her father, in which he hints of a more or less secret longing for "adventure" in most people, somewhat cases her mind. The son, Edward, Junior, Is at college. CHAPTER III. A business matter brings an "inventor," James Mariner, Into Patterson's life. Mariner needs ,000, with which to push his invenPatter- tion, an automobile choke, and After a brief in jon Is interested. Btlrri!n i ridMriAM tft fQ in Wlinsupplying the money and takyjarlner, III llio DUDiuiisa iBK .a pari manage Vta A t )i a lilrlnff work, a sense of freedom from the with d duties of his position the insurance company netping mm. Without informing his family, he resigns from his position vith the insurance company, devoting hlo whole time to the pushing of the invention. Is An old friend, Albert Willard, frankly skeptical of the valu of the choke. Patterson tells his wife of the change he has made. Though surprised, and in a way blaming herself for his act, which she considers rash, she accepts the situation. CHAPTER IV. Edith Is made aware of the change In the family fortunet the choke as yet being far from a financial success by her mother tell ing her she has decided to topartdo with the the cook, she and Edith housework. Edith senses in her father's act a longing for "adventvre," of which ho had spoken At Christmas Edith's school, a private one, puts on a play, In which the girl has a part Tho night of the lay her brother Edward comes from college for.thc holiday. With him is Roger Morgan, whom Edith had known as a hlld. The girl's acting in the play makes a el"hit," espeeast her cially with Morgan, wleh of the old time but she feels a 'ack Christmas spirit. A few days later her mother aaks,Elith If she wouldmuch mind leaving her present school and finishing her studies at the public high school. It will mean a saving of several hundred dollars, and Edith agrees, though regretful'y. a talk with Roger Morgan heartens her. Edward tells her he Is going to pay his own way through the university, and she decides to leave school and take a course In a business college, fitting herself to become her father's stenographer. At first he Is shocked, but her determina nt la evident. and-drie- CHAPTER V. Edith finishes her course and takes the position in her father's office. She cheers Patterson urging he goes by her presence. At her out as a salesman to sell the choke. Is not sltogether unsuccessful, H though he admits It was a trying experience. Mar'ner shows an InclinationIs to keep away from the factory. He working on another ia.et.tlon. Final with It he declares he Isanddissatisfied wants to take their selling policy a business trip through the country to California. Mariner's wife is there, and Patterson knows he wants to Join her. Mariner finally admits it. Patterson gives him 1500 "for the trip," though both know It means Mariner's connection with the business It practically ended. -- has CHAPTER VI. Patterson believe to selling the choke, and he win make a salesman. He becomes acquainted with a man of means. "Jake" Gorman, whi seems to take an, Interest In the choke and talk vague-ly of putting money Into it. Into Pat- -' the tenon's absence Gorman comet faetdry. Edith handles him with much business tact, and he It Impressed, he drives with him, In his car, to her father's club and leaves tho two men note from Roger, talking business.herA on her action of congratulating cheers her Immensely. independence, to show. Interest In Oorman continues no desire to but business the displays Invest money. Mariner writes from come to the California that he has the choke Is "no good," and almost the though having Patterson, same conviction becomes discouraged. not made German has up his finally mind about Inveatlbg, but hat not re- fnaed. He It about to bo married. Patterson telle hit wif and Edith that Willard hat refuted to lend him money bo nefds., advising him to give the ' He ean raise money by nstnea watting 4 mortgage on their homo.Hla wife' ungrudging and Immediate con- Infuriate kirn, Edith , to Jent teems them together. really In personally a measure of successcomes , a. - CHAPTER VII Patterson's Indlgna. itlon at hie Wife's unfair attitude for e long t time, flaues, and after a try- Ing ecene, during which bo loses hit i temper, though there la a partial reconciliation, he leaves the house. Gor. man seeralagly It hit Jact; hope. He gees to . him, finding, him (It It his wedding day) in a highly nervous state. In the course of conversation ' Patterson learns that Gorman carries no life Insurance and at once Interests him In a policy for a considerable sum. the They visit the Insurance office andcommade out Patterton't policy ia on. the transection It more mission than h could have made out-- of MarinerInvention" In yearn. Arriving wife almost hysterihome, he finds hit cal with fear over what might have been the result of their quarrel, and her attitude, with his reaction, convince them both that there has always been mutual love, though misunderstanding. Their reconciliation Is comsells the "choke conplete. Patterson for him. It etdrd, but cern," and that, "found himself" and he feels be hat ho knows. It the hit real bo sin ess, BfeltB returns life Insurance of selling to her schooling, her "bnetnoes career" over, but It Is an older Edith and a raHersoo's hepnlor heme, throng beginning of adventtfo," I j (bmpany Edward took the choke out of his pocket and handed it over to him but didn't at once launch out on his explanation ; gave him time for a curious and rather mystified examination first. This wasn't conscious drama on his part lis was still thinking about the effect of his words. Was it possible that an honestly acquired command of the English language was an asset and not a liability? Certainly he'd got on better since he'd quit pretending to be less educated than he really was. The man was asking questions, he kept on asking them. He must like the thing or he wouldn't hang on to it like that. He sneered at Edward's lighted match test but he repeated the thing two or three times for himself. Why? Suddenly Edward got a surmise as to the answer to that question and It THE STORY CHAPTER lf of Mariner's new device, lie was going to smash It flat Yesterday's experience had made a new man of hi in. "All right," Edward said, sitting down and motioning Mariner to draw up a chair. "Iet's have it out. What's on jour mind?" Mariner surprised him. "I've been thinking about this choke business," he said. "I don't think we've got the right policy. Whatever the thing amounts to, it's a question of selling ft and that's what we aren't doing. Except for a few agencies in the South, lt'a practically a local business. Our real market's in the West, and that part of the coutitry hasn't been touched. St. Louis and Kansas City and from there on, all the way to ..." California Edward pricked up his ears. He began to see what was coming. He switched his mind off what Mariner was saying and began to think. By the time the Inventor wound up "That's how it looks to me," he had pretty well decided upon his line. That's not a bad idea," he said, "If you can see any way to accomplish It Of course our main preoccupation Just now is to keep afloat. We couldn't afford to send missionaries out to convert the West even if we had the man to go." "Of course It would be essential," Mariner said, "to send the right man. I agree with you about that I'd even thought It would be well If I went myself; take my own car and drive all the way. Go to St. Louis first and get the work started there. Then, across to Kansas City. That's an enormous field. When I got that organized I'd go on west, to the coast That's the biggest field of all." "How long," Edward asked thoughtfully, "do you figure the trip will take?" . I I Suddenly Edward Got a Sufmise at to tht Answer to That Question, and It Excited Him' at the Sight of the Fleeing Cat Excitet tht Dog. Tho Man Was Afraid. excited him as the sight of the fleeing cat excites the dog. The man was afraid I He was afraid he'd buy. A stupid man, no doubt, not very quick witted, anyhow, inclined to If he didn't look out be credulous. people took him in, persuaded him of things; especially people whose intelligence he recognized as superior to his own. His defense was to frighten them, with his sneers, his bullying voice. When he succeeded in frightening them he avenged on them his own fears. This time, though, his defense had failed. The shoe was on the other foot. This customer, before Edward got through with him, was going to sign his name on the dotted line of an order form. A dozen? No. A full carton of two dozen was the tune he was going to dance to. All the same, when the order was finally filled in and the signature written down, a feeling akin to panic took possession of the salesman. The man might snatch the thing back from him and tear it up. He didn't feel safe until be had got outside. Lord, what an experience I Well, he knew, now, how the thing was done. He looked at his watch and found it was six o'clock. He'd have to call It a day. Ke could face Edith, now, at all events. He telephoned the office and Mariner, who happened to be there, told him she had gone home, Mariner seemed to want him to come back that evening. There was quite a bit of mall, he said; and then there was a matter he wanted to talk about ' But Edward told him It, would have to wait' He didn't want to talk to Mariner tonight He didn't wnt to talk to anybody. He telephoned (he house and told Julia he wouldn't be home to dinner; perhaps not till late. he didn't know. He didn't mean to do anything but have a quiet dinner by himself somewhere at the club. think, get himself to perhaps--a-nd gether, explore hie discovery; He bad an Idea that he might perhaps, bare of a new world lifted the . Edward thought be knew what It was that Mariner wanted to talk about. The inventor was Inventing something elsd. He'd begun throwing off mysterious hints about It weeks ago. At first it was" something he wasn't yet ready to divulge, even Id the broadest way, the nature of, except that if It turned out right it would be prodlgl ous the most revolutionary advance In automobile engineering that had come along as yet. Edward'i notional response to this sort ef thing had been an almost impatience with the man. There had been a time when Mariner had talked that way about the auto eholte. lie wag, Bdward reflected, ex - sky-lin- e "Oh, not so very long," Mariner told him. "Six weeks, perhaps." Edward repressed an Impulse to smile. Had the man any Idea how transparent he was? "You couldn't do the job very thoroughly In that length of time," he commented mildly. "Oh, of course," Mariner admitted, "I wouldn't expect to stay in every town and wait till the results came In. I'd give them a chance to take It if they wanted It, though." Edward glanced around. Edith had slipped out into the shop. "Mariner," he said, "for Just five minutes, let's talk plainly. If you're advocating this trip to the coast as a selling program, you're talking nonsense. There's more buying power up Sheridan road, from here to Milwaukee than there la along your whole route between Kansas and California. We haven't begun to cover Cook county. By the time we have eovered it well know definitely whether we've got anything or not We've both been shirking. You've done nothing for weeks ; nor I either, so far as the vital need of this business Is concerned, until yesterday. "Yesterday I was out in the street myself. I didn't sell much, but it was the most instructive day I've ever lived through. I knew now that our thing can be sold, and I know I can sell it What's more, I can make the salesmen sell it. My proposal is that we give up our grand ideas for the present and go to work I mean to. Tm putting it up to you." "Well, I won't have It!" Mariner growled. "I can't stand this place, nor this peanut business I've had about all I can stand of you, Patterson, if It's plain speaking you want. I've got on to a big thing. I've put my heart's blood into it I've been working over it twenty hours a day, and when I try to tell you about It, yoo won't even 1 listen. "And then you tell me I've been shirking; propose to make a peddler out of me That's the way people are, here in this part of the country. Out where my wife is visiting they are different. She's met some people out there with money who don't think In terms of nickels. By the time I've driven my ear with my new vaporizer on it out there, across the plains and the mountains and the desert in winter, I'll be able to show them that I've got a big thing." To say to the man, "It was you who persua.l' d me to put my savings Into this peanut business, and if you turn tall now and run like a yellow dog, as yon propose, you're a fraud" to say that and a lot more was OB Edward's tongue while Mariner talked. But when he ceased talking, the impulse to retort died away. As be sat there with hanging head, his face working and his bands oienched, be was merely pitiable. Suddenly he looked up. "I beg your pardon, Patterson. I don't mean what I've been saying. Between this new invention of mine and my and my wife, I'm beside myself. "Patterson. I don't know what she's doing out there.' I don't know what she may do. I'm not a proper husband for her; I'm not what she deserves. But Tve got to hang on. I've got to go out there. 0 dl I ought to be there now!" Edward's gaze fixed Itself out the window. You couldn't look at a man while be was saying things like that. There was another silence "I don't mean that, either," Mariner went on again. "I I can't seem to talk at all this morning without running wHd. Of course there's nothing serious. I don't want you to think that for a minute. But about this choke. I think there's a real chance to open up some new territory. I'll do the very best by It that I can. At the even at the worst been as bad since Mr. Mariner left Nowadays, when there was a bad mail, or when somej body they owed money to called up very leant, I can make It pay my way." ' and acted disagreeable over the teleHow much," Edward asked him phone, dad would put a choke in bis thoughtfully, "how much money would pocket and go out and make a sale. you need" "It's funny," she told him once, "the "Tii start with? Oh, not very much." way you used to say you never could "I don't niran that," Edward told sell things. You're a perfect whiz at him. "I iiican for the whole trip." dad." It Mariner mji!!1 wryly. "To be rid of "You know," he said reilectively, "If me." he commented, "for good and alL" I weren't so densely and fundamentalTve got to know." IMward said. ly ignorant about the sort of thing I'm "Ye!", of course," Mariner acquiesced. Oh, of course I know trying to sell "You rr- - rirlit from your point of view. our own Immediate line of patter. It's Five 1;' !:;..! dollars? I'll earn that when I stray away from It that I'm lost but if It were something I really understand, I believe I would be a good salesman, for a fact "It's been a perfectly astonishing discovery to me. I'm astounded every time I do It. I suppose that's why I enjoy It so much. It's making a new man of me, I'm getting unscrupulous. A year ago I'd have been horrified at this new scheme of mine, of paying com floormen in garages a fifty-cemission on all the chokes their boss sells. Now I'm proud of it It really is a good scheme. It works I The repeat orders show it" It was almost the most thrilling tiling In the world when dad talked to her like that, telling her things as If he didn't know he was doing it things she couldn't imagine him telling anybody else except mother of course. In a way, she was closer to him even than mother, closer to him than anyone else in the world. He didn't have to explain things to her or lead up to them, because she was there on the spot when they began. She was there when Mr. Gorman Patterson, I Don't Know What She's began. I Don't Know Doing Out There. Dad came In one afternoon, walked What She May Do. I'm Not a over to her desk without stopping to Proper Husband for Htr. I'm take off his overcoat, took a card out Not What She Deserves." of his pocket and banded it to her. It was a personal card, not a business In commissions between here and Kansas City. But that'll be enough, I one, with "Mr. Jacob Gorman" engraved on it. guess." "Who's that?" she asked. "Well, If you earn more than that, "I don't know," her father told her. I'll be glad to pay it after the orders "Seems to be a stray millionaire. He's come In and the bills are paid. I won't Just been getting excited about our honor any drafts, though," he added choke." bluntly, "on prospects or promises." "Really excited?" she asked. Mariner nodded. "That's under"Well, he seemed to be," her father stood," he said. "But about that check. Can I have It now? If I said. "I don't know anything about him. I gathered from some things that can, I'll start tomorrow." he threw out that he's some sort of "I can let you have It," Edward estate promoter. He had on a real about" He wrote it on said, that must have cost several for pnnt the spot and Mariner put It in his hundred dollars, and his car looked pocket. His manner had changed. His If It as represented thousands of dolface seemed actually to have filled out He had stopped at the garage lars. a little. and "You're a good sport, Patterson," he for something gas I suppose ofllce while he came the into he to said, "and I believe you're going waited. I happened to be in there make a go of this. I don't believe selling a carton of chokes. He looked you'll regret having gone into It I'm listened a minute and began ask and off now. This is going to be a lively me questions. I think be spoiled my ing day." and got so For a while after the door had closed sale. He was so Interested X the boss that enthusiastic imagine behind him, Edward set thoughtfully us for took a was it plant; at his desk. That cheat had pretty suspected the of a However, conspirators. ' pair Kweli cleaned him out Yet, hts feeling mucn was that Mariner's departure for good loss of that sale won't matter if . . ." had been cheap at the price. Suppose He broke that sentence off short, as he'd foreseen this ending on that night he had tried to stop himself; as if towhen he and Mariner had dined last half of that sentence was the if gether for the first time at the club, he didn't want to say. something and he'd listened to those golden "Did you 6ell him one for his car?" roseate those dreamed and prophecies Edith asked. dreams. Lord I "I gave him one, or rather he took But the queer thing was that he was He seemed to want it to play with, It glad he hadn't foreseen It; glad he hadn't consulted Bert about it as he like a child who has found some irre had half meant to do that night The sistible toy. He says he's coming around the first thing tomorrow morn very blindness of his Infatuation ing to talk about it." struck him as a piece of luck. She was as excited now as he. His daughter's voice startled him. she cried, "do you think he "Dad!" "Gosh, I hope he stays in California I" means to go in?" she said. "Dad, what do you suppose "I don't know what I think," he told Baby's been up to out there, that he's so excited about?" But she didn't her. "I'm afraid to think. Certainly it was from that point of view that he seem to expect him to answer that talked about It He couldn't under "What gets me," she went on almost at once, "is why he should care stand why it hadn't been advertised. what she does as long as she doesn't He talked about putting thirty thou sand dollars into a local newspaper come back. She treats him like a worm when she's here. He can't pos- - campaign as a preliminary. He made i sibly like her. Nobody could like a my head swim. I haven't really got person like that What does he want my feet on the ground yet Well, there's no use thinking any more of her?" She came over to him, pulled him about him until tomorrow. We'll see around In his swivel chair, sat down In what he says then provided he comes." his lap and hugged him. He set about opening his letters, "I think you're perfectly great, dad," she went back made, anyhow a and bet "I she said. Then she laughed. pretense of going back to her own you're glad mother isn't like' that affairs. work." to Come on, let's get Did he mean to tell mother tonight, "We're Just at the beginning," ne wondered? Or would he want to she totold her. "Making our real start until they knew whether Jake wait about I feel the That's it way day. turned up again or not She mustn't leads It It's a long road, my dear, but of course say anything unless he did. somewhere." He didn't leave her in suspense. enough, mother, with her first Oddly CHAPTER VI look at them, as they came in, thought they looked blue. The Sacrifice "Bad day?" she asked. "Don't you That one thing, the length of the care. , We've got a good dinner." road, was what Edith dared not let "No," dad said, "It Isn't that We're herself think about She didn't mind a little bit frightened perhaps, but not any of the incidents of the Job, taken depressed. Let's hear what you think by themselves as they came along. It about it." And he went ahead and wasn't ; hard, not so hard, after the toM the whole thing. : "What's your " first week, as school guest he asked, when be Inlsbed. The eighteen dollars her father "Will Jake turn up tomorrow mornhanded her in a regular pay envelope ing every Saturday afternoon Infallibly "I don't know," she said. "I hope gave her a thrill, though sometimes a he will, of course. But Ned, I'll be twinge, :oo, vhen she jappened to sort of relieved if he doesn't" know that the bank balance was espeHe nodded, as If he understood, cially low. There was a satisfactory was more than the girl did. which feeling about handing to her mothet are dafjrous, I know," dreams "Oh, Vid we're harder every Saturday night seven dollars for he said. "But you'll her board, and In having all through we were last October." boiled than the week, In the little black wrist-ba- g the Next morning quarter hours she always carried with her, money as If had hapnothing away crept own. If that was Indisputably her pened. Edith and her father sat and ever she wanted to go on a spree withlooked at each other. Every time they in Its modest limits she could. heard a car In the street outside Edith The lob didn't take on a really nightwent to the window. looked she head, mare aspect unless "He won't come now," dad remarked at a vanishing perspective of weeks He'd already said the same finally. made and months and probably year a few minutes earlier. "He told thing up of days so exactly alike; the am me has was coming in tke morning, sume the d.rty train every morning, over. It's a rile walk to the office, the same mall, the and the morning's course. That may have put of day, calls. of telephone same routine tm off. But It wouldn't, if he'd really Conditions at the ofllce bad never, meaat Anjtew, I'M gutaf i f "just 1 J ' r r out to lunch. Want to come along? "Oh, I brought mine with me from home. she said. "I'm not coming back," he to'd her, "not for quite a while, anjuow. There are some people I want to see, and I've got to go to the bank." "But what If he comes !" she cried. "He won't." her father asserted, but with more assurance, she thought, than he really felt He gave himself away by adding, "I can call up, of course. I'll do that; some time around the middle of the afternoon." Still, he hung about a few minutes longer, and it was with a visible Jerk that he finally tore himself away. Edith didn't eat more than half her lunch and she bolted that In a panic lest Mr. Gorman should come In and catch hpr nt it. Rut Rlie might have 1 ! nor I zed the whole lunch, for the hours fcni hy anil nothing hapisMici. (To Be Continued) 11 Checkerboard Mousse Is Brand Newt ! i P YOU a seek scintillating, mar--; velously different, dessert. Just ere-- ; ated in one of the best-know- ni experimental! Cbeck-- kitchens: j erboard mousse I Put a layer ot ; chocolate marshmallow mousse and! ! j I i ' apricot mousse that have - been) frozen to a mush, in alternate rowsj in freezing tray of automatic refrtg-- ; erator. Fill the tray half full. Add a second layer, reversing order of! rows. Freeze almost firm, remove-- , partition and finish freezing. Evap-- , orated milk always results fn smooth, "velvety" texture. 20 1 1 Chocolate Marshmallow Mousse ',' 1 tbsp. vanilla marshmallows cup evap- cup evaporated 1 orated milk roilk ! sq. bitter i chocolate Shave chocolate. 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The story is concerned with Sally Pembroke, a millionaire's daughter, who finds "the one" in a Five and Ten. Complications arise but are smoothed out nicely. '',. . The characters, in order of their ap. .. pearance are: Lois Parker La Von Hales Priscilla fiadkins Rhea Johnson Lemuel Earl Sam McGraw Hamilton Webster Myrl Norr Lola Guanell Mrs. Webster Jefferson Pembroke ........ Horace Acne Lois Shuman Mrs. Pembroke Floe LuVe Sally Pembroke ..... Joseph Wm. Reynolds .... Bob Kirkham John Wesley Roberts, Darrell Gafdher La Von Hales, especially, Is to Be X7a I. Hnl M.M.1..II.I Tjuaivu urcrv viui s tti j beore-the painful accident a few days in which resulted a performance, sprained ankle. Nevertheless, ' she said "the show must go on" despite the painful injury. Two hit songs of the 'shew .wete, "Tall, Dark and Handsome" and "Ber.d Down Sister" which were rendered by Rhea Johnson and the large chorus. ? : . n lUiiKlw-umwu- i - Mr. Smith: "Dear me, this Is very distressing." Wife: "What is it, dear? Mr. Smith: "I gave a student a special course in memory instruction. Now he has forgotten to pay me, and try as I will, I can't remember lis T n"" : l i,. |