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Show Saturday, May 8, 192t. i firfiOURNAE, LOG A IN 111), CVoiIE cuUNTY, (jTah Copyright by Harry Heudinl Understand? Why, my own dear girl, of course I understand. , It was just one of s the beautiful that grow in the heart of every little girl. I love you more and more just because of it. You need never be lonely again if I .can help it. And just suppose we keep our mythical Aunt Emma and let her be my own dear aunt, too? THE STORY THUS FAR STEINWAY an aged victimized in his belief in the spiritualistic powers of Zanetti, notrious fake medium. Zanetti works a few tricks of psychology on the old man and established his faith. Herman Steinway offers Zanetti one million dollars if the medium will produce the mil- -' lionaires deceased wife in the flesh, for just a few moments. Steinway explains that he must beg her forgiveness and hear her voice. Zanetti sends out his chief detective, Van Haarlem, on this job. Meanwhile, .Wallace Haines, a young assistant district attorney, is making strenuous efforts to round up Zanetti as a faker... Lucille Linton, to whom Wallace Haines lias just become engaged, has been doing social service work. In her acthe Gopher, quaintance with an she comes upon a valuable clue wjich she reports to her sweetheart. Now go on with Wouldnt that be fun? The corners of Lucilles mouth curved delicately. Tiny dimples drew a warm, fond look from her sweetheart's eyes. 'You do love methen, she said,, I . feel very sure of that, now. Ami youll man-- me, dear? he a iced . anxiously. She nodded, then kissed him on his smiling lips. lie was digging now' into the pocket or his vest and he drew out a little purple velvet box. Holding it toward her he touched the tiny spring and the cover jumped back. A beautifully - cut square diamond set in a platinum ring was tucked into the folds of the satin the story.' , around, theyd warn him against uttering a word. Guess youre right, dear," Haines finally agreed. Though Ill lie wafting like a cat after a mouse until I get that information. You wont negiect it, darling? I shall make it my first call in the morning. Meanwhile, Wally, wont you talk tonight just about you and me? ,Its such a glorious sensation having you here and knowing that youre all mine. Today, I was Lucille Linton. Tonight Im Lucille Linton, about to become Sirs. Wallace Haihes. Oh, I love .you, darling. Ill love being Mrs. Wallace Haines. I think 1 love everybody in the fairy-tale- HERMAN being CHAPTER IV lining. (Continued from last Saturday) Like it? Zahettis keen brain was She took the little his problems with his chief box he held out to her,! Wallace but she could not say detective Van Haarlem, Haines was trying to figure out a love probanything for a moment. lem with Lucile Linton. Wallace drew out the Van Haarlem was determined to fulfill ring, lifted it above r his promise to Zanetti and obtain a picture hand, then thrust the of the departed Mrs. Steinway. Wallace circlet down oven her Haines faced the predicament off winning pink, 'velvet-lik- e finger. ' This means youre the girl of his choice and making good in the district attorney's office at the same going to be my wife, he time. told her with all the It was with-- feeling of buoyancy then tenderers of his devo-that Wallace jumped into a taxicab when he tion. it seems too wonhad left Chinatown the evening of his visit' derful to lie true. But stuto the Chinese woman's fortune-tellin- g I guess all love is a mirdio. At seven oclock promptly he "Was ringacle, one of the most exing the bell of the little apartment Lucile quisite forces of life. Linton shared with another girl who worked Im so very happy, at the Memorial League. She greeted Wal- - Wallace, dear. , It seems lace with a bright smile and he reached over as if- the whole drab and patted her cheek tenderly. world Ms suddenly I Now, Lucy dear, he "began 'when he grown' beautiful had turned her around in the living-roodont know what to say and inspected her dainty frock, youre not to you now They sat together for going to fuss with anything for me. Ill play the part of husband this evening and a long while, silently thinking help out the wife with preparing dinner. their own thoughts. At last, Wallace released her from his Hows that sound?" You mean that youd .Lucile laughed. arms and she stood up You're a starving hus play the part of.husbahd and begin to scold U Lucille me because you didnt like what Id planned laughed, for your dinner. Oh, I know, dear IVe met suddenly reailizing they had had so many grumpy husbands in my charity no dinner. And Im a fearful e not to take better work. Its sometimes funny howr huge a care of you than that, dear. quarrel can grow when it starts only from a Thatll never do for a beginning. little argument over dinner. Really, youd -- Ill get the salad plates --out at scarcely believdttrtny dear, but I've met peo' once. bke The salads all ready, been that." ple And am I to be considered a husband ready for the past two hours. Haines stood up and walked like that, your Highness?" Youre not to be considered a husband about the living room where at all, Wallace. She paused for a moment Lucille prepared the light supper on a little gatedeg table. It and looked at him shyly: Not, of course, was a comfortable room and until youre married and deserve the. title. Lucille had given it the touch Wallace brightened perceptibly. ' Look here, Lucile, he said seriously) taking her that was , inimitably .feminine. small hands into his, why mot 'lets stop" A mahogany secretary t desk Joking about cur affair?. Ifs'serious Wvtjx 'Stood. hetweenAjtw' cretonne-draped windows. On the table a green vase me, honestly. I I dont believe Id know how to get aong without you. It would be lamp showed its exquisite design beneath a about the most miserable prospect 1 could shade of glowing pink and , amber silk. imagine. And you'know I love you. Crazy There were two chairs, a huge mohair fireabout. you, sweetheart. Will you many: me, side affair into which Wallace. Haines had always like to slump when he had called Lucille?, . She turned away from him but T. would previously to 'talk over matters of charity not release her hands. ' investigation with Lucile. When she turned her head toward- him I suppose I ought to confess-- ' that well again, he saw that she was crying softly. have to go easy on furnishing our new What is ft, darling?" hecoaxed. Whats home, Wallace- - said, after.awhile. Therell the trouble ? Surely telling you how I feel be enough money to get good things, and toward you telling you that I love you with quite a few of them. But my Princess all my heart and soul that hasnt madp you wont have the royal 'setting for her lovely . sad, dear, has it? self always planned, unless that Chinese She shook her head and led Him to the fortune-tellin- g .woman is a liar settee, where she saVdown beside him. Oh, yes, you were going to tell me I didnt want you to ask me that, dear abcut the Oriental vampire, Lucille suduntil Id had chance to explain something denly reminded him. Nows the time to you ought to know. Something about which confess; you know. A wife should know all youVe lived in total ignorance. I mean her husbands secrets. Wallace drew her head to his shoulders Is that so? Well, I . Haines laughed, and kisSed her cheek gently. be such a good plan. would think that His hands' brushed the shining gold curls dont on the Chinese woman, the But heres dope that frayed into golden circlets on the cloth ' , ' anyway. ' " of his Coat. ,IIe entered into a de'tailed account of his I don't carertvhat it is, my own precious -afternoons experience in Chinatown, telling in darling. I dont care what youve done events that led up to his having all her the all that nowTThats the past. Youre mine She listened interestedly, fortune told.. his matters.) d across the little, dined as together they wide She looked up at him with eyes. table. , ' I mean I mean about my' family, she . You mean, dear, that youve - honestly I mean that I have explained presently; dean up these fakers? she inout to set deceived you about them. I have no aunt in You did speak of it some time letterrupted. foolish the West to whom I write those ters. Ive no one. Not a relative. My ago but Id no idea they meant to carry the . mother, died, and she didnt know where , I thing so. far. Why, tny dear little girl, IIame3 said, was living when she needed me most. me everything. ran away from home and , went- - on the it means everything tocan. with pride point District the If Attorney 1 ' stage when was fifteen. . difficult this in work to accomplishing my She waited, wondering what .was going 'forme. mean will a promotion big it feat, . on in Wallaces mind.. . In any event, the results I can show in cleane You see, Ive only made up a up this towns sneaky mulctors of theing .aunt, she went on, after a moment.. public will plate me in high regard in politiIts been frightful knowing that I am, allI cal circles 'Definitely, however, IVe been alone. Thats why I did it. The stories my present salary if told you of my Aunt Emma were ah myths. rrorrised a job at twicearrest and conviction the can I accomplish I wonder if you coul$J understand? ' Zanetti. the great He held her close to him and kissed her She was watching him with wondering hair again and again. She raised her fingers WHILE h-- a - I"' m band-to-b- e? wife-to-b- " - Ie -- lamp-lighte- . -- .11 make-believ- FACE ELEVZSX maid in Steinways home. It was this girl who had inadvertently told him the location of Mrs. Steinways portrait. The information had been given to him two days after the Gophers futile attempt to- search the house for a photograph of the woman subject Zanetti demanded. Now it occurred to Van Haarlem to have the Gopher make a second attempt to obtaining this portrait , He got off the subway and walked briskly across the several blocks to the Gophers n basement, quarters on a squalid, street in the lower part of the city. Van Haarlem rapped lightly, fearing he might awaken the Gopher's suspicion and he woyld therefore be denied admittance. Hello, he said, to the grumbling excrook. Ive got to see you at once about something.. Van Haarlem had his foot rfn the door and was pushing directly past the by this time. t leering to come see me about use aint no like other affair he warned. that anything Cause I ain't goin tdo it. I made up my mind that I aint goin ttake'no more chances like that. I made up my mind ' Shut up, Van Haarlem commanded, you aint got a mind. How can you make it up? , t (To be continued next Saturday) - . ; run-dow- votfettanight Ami so Lucille and Wallace talked of their romance, They built the gorgeous castles of their dreams in the .air. They and talked over the planned and infinitesimal details, which every newly engaged couple has. talked over since .the beginning of civilization. Meanwhile, Van Haarlem was settling his problem ira lesaromantic way. He had run down every known clue which might lead t to obtaining a vivid description of Gretchen Steinway. There had been the first preposition made to the Gopher. But the Gopher had bungled things that night he entered Steinways ' hotne. A chair placed in the center of the kitchen at the OVERPRODUCTION IS PREDICTED - IN PORTLAND CEMENT INDUSTRY back of the house had caught his foot. He had leaned against , ii in a table for support in the dark So great were stocks of portland cement ened room and(a bowl of flowers in the warehouses of manufacturers at the had cone tumbling to end of the first quarter of 1926, and so unthe floor with an favorable did production and shipments awakening crash. The compare witb those for a similar period last Gopher, having plied t year that the question has been'raised in thjs trade many times the minds of muny authorities as to whether before he had become t,he cement industry has not expanded to reformed, real i z e d the point where overproduction may become that the whole house- a chronic state. hold would be after' Figures given out by the U. S. Bureau of him in less than ten Mines show that finished cement in storage .minutes. He had at the end of March totaled 23,2)2,000 barout climbed t h e rels while unground 'cement in the form of kitchen window, made clinker equalled 12;277,000 barrels more, . his i way over the of 35.489,000 barrels. Cement total a giving high iron fence at the rear of stocks a year ago were 20,469,000 barrels the place, and come away with and clinker stocks 9,962,000 barrels, or less information than when 30,431,000 barrels in all. he haft entered, this . During the first three months of Van Haarlem wait dis- field cement the Portland produced year gusted with him. He had .25,911,000 barrels. In the same period last forced the Gopher to give the production was 28,145,000 barrels. back to him the yellow bills year in January, February and March Shipments he had paid in aavanie for For . of this year totaled 20,991,000 barrels. ' the job. 21,-- were same last months the year they And now, after 'a full barrels. weeks futile efforts of ob-- ( 456,000 stocks now on hand reflect the The large taining the description bf this recent marked expansion in cement manuwoman Zanetti was to create facturing facilities, which is continuing this in the flesh for her million, year, and abo a failing off in demand for aire husband, Van Haarlem 'cement from last year. Annual productive was at the end of his, wfts. at the beginning of 1926 was escapacity He paced the floor of timated ai 190.000,000 barrcs, and it is exZanettis studio, trying to mills and extensions under conthat pected faexplain to the hawk-eye- d will struction this to the 200,000,000 ker just why he had failed in mark this year.bring First quarter production his efforts tp date. 55 per cent of present capacity. was about at It seems to me," Zanetti Tola Shipments in 1925 word 156,724,-00- 0 flung as a last weapon, that barrels. Manyfactwefs expressing younger detectives have new- , doubt that demand this year ?re will equal ,thpt methefficient more er and showing for figure, especially m'view ods. I 'know Pf- i.two. chaps, "the , first quarter. been whove just discharged fiom the regular police staff. GENERAL BUSINESS AND Theyve' proven themselves THE STOCK MARKET excellent sleuths, though I t dare say their methods are (Continued (font page seven) not recognized legitimately. and these high prices are not normally high so? Van hat Oh,,, either by assets or earnings. This I justified 'Well, drawled. Haarlem need not apply to genhowever, statement, in posiany aint guess you While business. eral every section and in-- 1 Zaneton me, "think I can help you, Wally, I mean really tion to pull threats like that to some extent, suffer from must, and truly help you do this thing. Iftq a tip ti. You see, Ive turned some mean tricks dustry recent the stock market collapse, yet feeding, for you in my time here. And I aint worry- - clothing and that may prove valuable. 116,000,000 people, sheltering not getfor out me you chucking Whats my cue? , , vAiiVPflfrer now Im here to say nothing of foreign trade is some job. ".tula Ju-slisten to this; Today when I went o fe'l you ts the dough thats worryin me, There still Should be plenty of business for l On the other hand. around to the Gophers basement hovel to son Im lookin out for my share of that those who deserve it. see little Mftlyr what in the world do you fat fee youre goin to get from old Steinway. vhde the volume of general business con-i- rt tinues'well above normal, the trend in ac- suppose I found him doing? He was curs- I been bluffin you on the work Ive as ms prices, and earnings is now down- mean terms. tmty, in no set Zanetti It a we, in way; ing done. Were partners,-ain- t ward. Compared with a year ago, a number if one of Zanettis men, so far as I could I dont need to tell you how tough its been basic of barometers appear increasingly un1 s been had old from the mumblinggs, girl. gather to get a line on that ' Practically all groups of commotrying favorable. made him a crooked proposition of some workin night an day on it ' dities are in price. This includes declining to do And the thing theyd kind. hed tried Then you mean that the task is a hopethat conbuilding materials, notwithstanding asked and almost got caught. eyeless one to accomplish? Zanetti Asked, levels. near record is struction proceeding ' Haines threw down his napkin and snapVan Haarlem keenly. facing an Farm power, important purchasing 11 1 , tell you ped his fingers. I wouldnt say that yet: decline in a of as the is result tor, lpwer Can you find eht what it was, Lucille? what well do Give me a day just one agricultural priced. This certainly will not hour day and Ill Can you lead this Gopher crook along and - more full, twenty-fou- r the purchasing pow'er of the country as tter per feet or rll help do. to asked him deser d hkve what that .out iplionk they & fin) just Thjs is eJ1 indjcated by the Bab-chuck my job and you can call in your sonchart which now stands at 9 percent younger dicks to try their luck. Is that fair above normal compared with a high point bf enough? 15 per cent in January. Zanetti considered a moment before re There is, however, no justification for , . , plying. that business will Soon be plunging saying ask for shall Are you certain that you Into the depths of depression. Business has Steinway been no further extension of time? Mr. and in nly a few instances has "ingood exI have is becoming most impatient.; What is now going flation predominated. hausted every reason I can think of for post- on in trade is a more healthy stabilization. before poning the seance. It must be done Many stock prices, however, in the mad upthis week is over. Or both of us will be the ward whirl of the past year, far out-ra- n ' losers. dtalr'and lighted a cigarette. the business improvement. This is especialto- Van Haarlem gritted ms teeth and set Suppose I sftp around there myself ly true of the industrials, and it is only to dewas an intense Dame of be expected that a recognition of real condi'Wight. Wed better, not lose a day on so vitab his jaw. There termination m his heavy fea.ures as he tions a thing. Tomorrow may be too late, has brought about a sober estimate of ' Oil, no, dear. Please don t go, I mean banged out the door. values with a consequent break in highly inthe He rode downtown, thinking oyer that its not only dangerous fry you to go terno avail. flated stocks. That there will be rallies in 'down' in Hat neighborhood, but your pres-o- f various clues he had exhausted movement is relatives, this declining stock market th.ee may breed uspi'uon. 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