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Show nnr.v ,-.- I I The tinued 11 Td like to wring Len Hardesty's neck," said Aunt Olympia. "This is what I call a blow below the belt." 'Len Hardesty." Adele looked suddenly sick. "Aunt Olympia do you think Len did this to my sis- ter?" "Oh, naturally," said Aunt Olympia philosophically. "That's his business. But he never seemed to notice Helen he never paid any attention to her or what she was doing. I didn't suppose he even knew about it. Those lousy newspaper men! They know everything. Can't keep their minds on one girl even a beauty got to be nosing into ev- erything!" Adele stood up. She looked dazed. "I told him," she said faintly. "I told him Sunday. I thought it was funny." "You told him Sunday, Adele? Oh, that's it. then! He cocked up that speech and sicked the A.P. ... us." "But Aunt Olympia would he do that?" Adele stammered. And onto her face was so white and anguished, her wide eyes had turned to such midnight darkness, that Aunt Olympia's heart went out to her. "It's his job, my dear, and a job's a job." Hilda appeared in the door. "It's Mr. Hardesty, looking like the wrath of God and if he didn't sleep in those clothes then I'm no laun- dress." Adele started swiftly for the side door. "Don't go, my dear," said the Senator gently. "It's always good politics to hear both sides." Adele turned obediently and went to the window and stood with her back to the room, to the door Len Hardesty would enter, staring out into the garden with eyes that saw nothing. Helen and Limpy stood up, rigid, white of face, as Len HarAunt Olympia desty came in. poured herself a cup of coffee. The Senator patted his lips with a napkin, despite the fact he had eaten nothing. "Hello, Len," he said. "Bring some hot coffee, Hilda. Sit down, Len." "The wrath of God" well described him. He was pale. He had not shaved. His eyes were black and He glanced just once at Adele's slim back silhouetted against the windows. "Well, there's the devil to pay now," he said dejectedly, "Well, pay him!" said Olympia crisply. "You've got your fingers on his haven't you?" "Oh, I'm paying and don't think I'm not," he said doggedly. "Senator, I I give you my word, I never anticipated this." "Was it a nightmare?" asked Aunt Olympia. "Oh, I know I should have realized I was stirring up a hornet's nest, but we've been in such a damned hole over the whole mess 1 just thought it would be one more from the bag of tricks." "You wrote that speech, Len Hardesty, and don't you dare to deny dark-circle- d. purse-string- s, jack-in-the-b- it." "I don't deny it. And that's all I did do. I thought maybe it would stir up a little local fuss and maybe entice a few rabidly Americanistic partisans, and God knows we need them. I thought it would shut the Senator up on subversive activities, which the Governor doesn't know a tinker's dam about." "If that's all you did, how about these papers?" demanded Aunt Olympia. ' "The dirty skunk! d'Allotti, I mean. It suddenly dawned on him that if he could drag you into it, Senator, you'd get him out to clear your own skirts. Use your pull with He called the the administration. newsmen after I left. A pal down there tipped me off and I flew back down. I've worked like a devil on it but I couldn't stop it." "You'd better have a drink, Len," said the Senator kindly. "You look all in. Ring, Ollie." and soda for me," he said "Scotch w briefly. "You'd better have ham and eggs. Bring him some food, Hilda. After all, we can't starve snakes on our very doorstep. It would give us a bad press." "It's not irreparable, "Get him out! I'd get him into the electric chair, if I could!" "Work that in, in your own suave and diplomatic language. You will bring out that he was received at all the best houses in Washington, and if you meet a man at the home of the President or a cabinet member, you cannot very well ask if he is a spy. You'll use your record which is okay, for I've been combing it myself. Of course, you can prove that Helen didn't show him any papers because you never took any home wiih you and they were locked up. This really should make a sort of martyr out of you and win you any number of votes. You know voters." "But how about me?" asked Helen faintly. "What does it do to me, Len?" Len looked at her. Helen looked more anguished. Aunt Olympia thought, than she had at the funeral so long ago. "It's a tough break, Helen," he said. "You've just got to keep your head up and take it on the chin. He's using you as a cover-u- p and everybody will know it. You didn't tell him anything, and stick to it. You merely met him." "She couldn't tell him anything confidential," said the Senator stoutly. "For I never told her anything. Most of it was so technical I didn't really understand it myself. I just believe we ought to have strong defense; and anything they said was for better defense, I was in favor of." "Helen," said Len, diffidently, "do you mind telling us about the map you gave him?" "Map! I never gave him a map!" "She couldn't! I haven't got a map myself." "He says you gave him a map of our national defenses." "She never had a map!" "He Couldn't possibly mean that relief map of the United States, could he? Don't you remember, Uncle Lancy? I asked you about it. He brought the map to show how vulnerable we are and I asked you." "Was it your map, Helen?" "No, he brought it. He marked all our vulnerable points with a red pencil. And I asked you, Uncle Lancy, agd you said the Mexican border was defended, and the Atlantic seaboard had strings of defenses all across the country and that all the shipbuilding places were fortified, and Boston and Manhattan and Don't you remember? Washington. I marked them with a blue pencil." "And you gave him the map?" "No. After we had it marked, he rolled it up to take along and I said I wanted it to send as a sort of souvenir. I kept it." "Have you got it?" "Yes. It's up in my desk." "Will you get it?" "Yes, of course." Aunt Olympia turned to Limpy. "Do you feel better, darling? Do you want an aspirin?" "No. I just want a good sharp stiletto with a poisoned point. Helen is so good " "Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind," said Len moodily. "That's what I did." "Well, experience is a good thing," said the Senator sympathetically. "I know I've learned a lot that way." "Here is the map," said Helen. "See, Uncle Lancy? Gabriel drew the blue lines to show where we are vulnerable. I didn't know anything about it myself and you told me about defending the shipyards and the cities and the harbors " The Senator examined the map with two pairs of glasses. "Dear me, Helen, you did a very bad job of it," he said reprovingly. "You must have those forts 200 miles off. And those submarine bases tch, tch, tch, tch!" "I didn't try to be accurate," said Helen. "I didn't know enough, in the first place. We weren't being technical about it. But when he was criticizing our unpreparedness, I just boastfully drew red lines around every city I could think of." "Is anything of secret nature indicated on this map?" asked Len. "Lord, no," said the Senator with unwonted profanity. "There's not only nothing secret; there's nothing right. I'm afraid I didn't make myself very clear, Helen." "Yes, you did. Uncle Lancy; but you weren't trying to be explicit and I didn't think it made any difference whether I put the red marks north even yet, Senator," said Len Hardesty. "Now or south, or even if I missed the if you had a good publicity man town entirely; we were laughing; like me, for instance " "He's on his way out here, now," it was just a joke then!" she addsaid the Senator. "Cece, too. We ed pathetically. "You can give photostatic copies phoned him." "He'll work out the details. And of this map to the press," suggested if he's good enough, he can even Len Hardesty. "Not till after your make capital of it. Of course, he'll speech. That's the highlight. And hook-uto rest assured, the nation'll be on the get you a nation-widanswer the charges. He will not air, from White House down to white let you make any statements until wings . It's more easily reparayou have spoken straight to the na- ble for you than for me," he said tion. He will have you start off by with another glance at Adele's silbefore the window. "Well, saying that from the beginning of houette time it has been the practice of I'll be getting along. Senator. I'm cowards and curs to hide behind sorry. We're reduced to snatching the skirts of a woman preferably, at straws; I thought this was a straw and snatched at it; I didn't a young and pretty woman." realize it was tied to dynamite." in second the after "Now, place, The Senator held out' his hand. holding him up to public scorn for "Good-by- , Len. It was a bad break. a to behind ease out petticoat, trying e you will adroitly mention that his You look thin. Doesn't Brother see that you gat your three to to is use your you get rnpff influence to get him out of the jam." squares a day?" e p . Wil-ki- r T ''" ro troupe r:-- I iV-- al'erge. There- Vvr- -- Ja ATTERN u Ailotti had e . Q EPARTHFfjt ra i.e to the ,rv . of '33, In sl.TIAilt went further. He trailer wit-"- Re- - frv.-r-. ord. virtually or cerat the charge, f;r been receive e.c By ETHEL HUESTON C. CHAPTER j ca:e Honorable UneBe Laney O lobas MmM crs-n- I I IT AM PHI I t- J -S evi-- s a n as it is charming. He c try weather remaking, in challis . "You look terrible," said Aunt plete. inquisitors .iv;a-- e ue t Olympia cheerfully. the entire case, and wrote hirr.se-- . offer swell of of a "You're couple Just:,e sports." partment v: every x.-r.he said moodily. "You've ruined the whole campaign for me. Remember how I used to love campaigns? Not any more!" CHAPTER X It seemed to Aunt Olympia that she had been called upon that day to endure more than could reasonably be expected even of a President's wife. But the day was not over. She had no more than seen them all comfortably relaxed and settled down when Dave Cooper arrived with Cecil Dodd. Dave looked disconcerted, almost disheveled. Before he could say a word, Cecil Dodd crossed debonairely to chair, smiling, and said, "Hello, Limpy! I brought you a Lim-py- 's present!" Aunt Olympia's backbone stiffened starchily. "A present for me, Cece? How nice!" said Limpy. "Limpy's too young to be receiving presents," interrupted Aunt Olympia. "She's not of age yet." "She's not too young to be receiving this," said Cecil Dodd. "This is a political present. Any fan can receive political presents. Look, Limpy. It's a little Slopshire pin. I had it made to Slopshire-for-Senat- order." or "Let me see that pin!" said Olympia angrily. "What does it say on there? That doesn't look like to me!" "Oh, there wasn't room for all that!" explained Cecil Dodd. "I had to cut it down to Slopshire, or it to be a witness, other member of year-roun- - hs house r.oid .rom Hilda up. The Opposition was obliged to drop althe issue, but their fingers werene- As for burned. ready slightly in en. there was no more pleasure behad r.e her. for the campaign come terrified cf the whole business. to Brick imShe wrote franticai: from the withdraw to ploring him rotten mess before it was too late. And she was not greatly reasureJ she by his loyal declaration that had nothing to fear: they didn't play politics that way in Iowa. The campaign was spoiled forHarAdele, too. She wrote Len note. brief a desty "I can't see you or speak to youI again, Len, until it is all over. is try not to think of you, but that too hard. When it is over, if you feel the same, we will try to talk it through and see where we stand.I But I simply can't see you. couldn't draw a free breath in yourpresence until Uncle Lancy has either won or been defeated." Aunt Olympia remonstrated with her, reminding her that this was Len's job and he had to do the best he could: reminded her. too, that his contract with the Governor would be up this year, and the Senator could use him in '44. Adele was Si .tu ,.,;tu mini iui.g sleeves 3 luot icnjui yaru Ijwnn rHsnort sieves witW n5n UBi , Shadows As a song bird is shut up , a new sow have learned in which it could not the light, so in our withdrawal into the shadow we are to be taught some new sweet song m the night which we may sing ever after in the ears of sad and weary ones J. R. Miller. , wouldn't go on. And I didn't think enamel would ' look good on platinum, so I just had it engraved." "Look at this, Del," said Olym- brats." pia. "If those are diamonds around The teased Limpy, who, aftthe edge of it, Limpy can't have it er the girls first flush of confusion, rather till I pry them out." enjoyed it. "Aw, Uncle Lancy!" wailed Lim- "I can't understand why you pyshould be surprised," she said loftiThe Senator put on his glasses. ly. "I had admirers at home, didn't "They don't look like diamonds to I? Who got Carl Walker to sing in me," he said firmly. the choir best tenor we ever had? "They're brilliants," said Cecil You'd think I was some beldame hastily. hobbling around on a tin trumpet." "Certainly," said the Senator. "I When Aunt Olympia couldn't stand could see that. And if they are it another minute she asked the diamonds, they're only chip dia- girls confidentially to drop the sub monds. Cece says they're brilJ?or Limpy's own good," she ject. liants." assured them. "I don't want her to a brila diamond what's but "Well, get her mind set on him." liant?" demanded Aunt Olympia. "She's used to being teased," "Rhinestones are brilliants," said the girls told her. "We all are. Adele helpfully. doesn't mean a thing to us." Teasing "Sure! Brilliant rhinestones!" cor"But if we keep dangling him beroborated Cecil Dodd. fore her eyes she may get to think"Del Slopshire" ing of him," pleaded Aunt Olympia. "Uncle Lancy!" from Limpy. it upsets me. If we don't "I feel very much honored to have "Besides, rid of that button I'm aot to en get little Limpy flashing through the straight to the polls and vote for campaign in a Slopshire pin," said Brother Wilkie.' the Senator determinedly. The girls considerately droonpd "Sure! Let me pin it on your the subject. But there was no dropshoulder, Limpy!" Cecil Dodd. As the camDaipn Before the rapt eyes of the rest of ping hotter, it was inevitable that grew the family, the outraged ones of he should be with them almost con Aunt Olympia, with Limpy smiling And even when Aunt Olvm stantly. pleased approval, Cecil Dodd deftly pia did connive to send him off nn attached the tiny pin to the shouldistant missions, he returned der of her frock and smiled down quite so soon with favorable reports of into her face. his activities that Aunt Olympia "Lord, it's been lonesome," he swore he had just hidden behind a said devoutly. "I thought we'd nevtree for five or ten minutes. er get back." During September there was a "Lonesome!" boomed Aunt Olym- succession of deluging but the in "Lonesome the campaign had to go on.rains, pia irritably. She bought thick of a political campaign? Lone- raincoats with umbrellas some while the Senator is being ac- and galoshes formatching the girls and made cused of high treason and likely to them drink hot lemonade every be knifed at the polls if not strung night. Even in raincoats, from a gibbet? Of all times and tographed well. She boughtthey phoplaces to be lonesome, that beats for the Senator who believedaspirin in it anything I ever heard!" by the dozen boxes. "I hope you didn't have a good When at last it that the time while I was gone," said Cecil. sun was to shine appeared again they took Limpy was slightly disconcerted. the trail back to Shires, to get their "A good time? Oh I can't remem- clothes and bedding thoroughly dried I out and laundered. ber exactly what we did know we had a lot of trouble . . . "There's no place like home to No, we didn't have a good time at dry out," she remarked contentedly. all, Cece." "Did you say dry out or dry up?" "Put him to work," said Olympia, asked Limpy. Aunt Olympia laughed waving the Senator to take him "No hope of drying up till the away. "And if he's got money to go around buying platinum pins and election," she said. "We're lucky brilliants we can cut down on our even to get dried out." expenses by reducing his salary." (TO BE COXTISVED) ... t dark place to learn "Do you like that creature, Limpy?" she asked hopefully. "Oh, sure, I like him. He's all right. Yes, I like him." "I mean, do you like him better than anybody else?" persisted Aunt - in ja&ua Ulilllll.ng . 6, In the y THROAT Has a cold mads it hurt even to talk? Throat rough and scratchy? Get a box of Luden'f . Youll find Luden't special ingredients, with cooling menthol, a great aid in helping soothe that "sandpaper throat!" tWj j VjAKE your school-girter an every-da- y daugh- - l (1 LUDEN'S 5 frock and Menthol Cough Drop housecoat both, with this one simple pattern 8633. 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When the message was passed on to Adele, tears came to her eyes and she got up and left the room. But she did not weaken. Aunt Olympia was none too happy, either. She couldn't turn her usual robust enthusiasm into the campaign because she had to watch Limpy; rather, she had to watch Cecil Dodd. It seemed to her as a simple act of loyalty he might have postponed his admiration until after the election. She even suspected, bitterly, that he was working for the Opposition; it would be like Len Hardesty to bribe him to do this just to get her mind off the cam- Olympia. "Oh, no, of course not! I like Helen and Adele and you and Uncle Lancy best; and I like our grocery man back home and I'll like Len Hardesty again as soon as Adele gets over being mad at him. I like Dave and Martin and Hilda and I don't really mind Brother Wilkie, though I don't care much for the mak or flar ti f0. up it will be adorable m chintz ham or percale. 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