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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH Kathleen Norris Says: CEnALDK a Duka McCkla, private detective, l guarding the wedding presents at tha Ila tenses that old Bigelow mansion. Mist Adelaida Bigelow It afraid of to loathing mora terloua than theft. Ha meeta tha bride and groom to be, Veronica and mothCurt Vallalncourt, and Veronica' er, S bll. and her brother and titter, Mhile at a night Stephen and Victoria. elub McCale spots Vallalncourt In of the club linger, Shari Lynn. Ila talkt to Jerry Tate, a newspaper man, and learnt that Vallalncoort la a big spender and gambler, and that ha wat tha heart Interest of Mrt. Stephen Bigelow for a thort time, according to rumor. At toon at he met Veronica, be concentrated on her. com-pan- y VI CHAPTER "For almost nothing, but thanks anyway." He left the Club and trudged through the midnight city, a sullen gloom curtaining his thoughts. lunchThe lights of an room winking through the murk drew Duke Inside It was a dismal enough place, peopled with a few stragglers. The restaurant door banged and a tall, wasted figure In a bedraggled coat and hat slouched to the counter. There was something familiar about that back. Instinctively, McCale half rose to his feet to see, but his movement was too late Joe Leach saw him as he turned, tray In hand. He. shuffled over and at all-nig- down-at-hee- BROWN fishy. 1 wasnt pulled right off the tail, see? It was over a week before Stevey came in to pay up. We hadnt heard from him to the contrary, so I kept on the job. But the blonde bombshell never went near Parecinls studio again. She must have backed down somewhere along the line " They probably had a nice talk and patched it up. My guess would be that she wanted to continue her studies with the idea of going on the stage, or aomething of the soit, but Stephen put his foot down. The family probably wouldn't stand for it." Yeah. Funny, Isnt it? Not that either of them seem socially conscious." "Your Insight is amazing. They are both good family, but not quite as you say." "Well, whether you know It or not, Stevey was quite a gay dog once. Used to do a bit of chasing in the old days "I dont doubt that, but I think heart-to-hea- hes in love with his wife. Umm. Better to have loved, et cetera. He sure seems nuts about her." "Decidedly. down. "HI, shamus," he said. "Well, all turned out In tails, I see. Excuse me, but you look as though youd Just been thrown out of the Rltz What are you disguised as a magician? McCale grunted noncommittally "Wont talk, huh? It Just happens Im a bit of a dick myself, bud, so Ill dig down In my bag of tricks end pull out the fact that youve been hobnobbing with the elite the Bigelow tribe to be exact What have they been having a soiree? "Good God. Have you had a tall on me?" "Deduction, shamui. No. To be honesty, every agency In town knows you've knocked off the Bigelow job Howd you do It? What's It all about?" 'Whatd you give to know?" "Oh, Lord. Im Just curious." "It might be worth your while." "Look. I wont argue with you Either you tell me or tell It to the marines. Im Indifferent now. What He made a slight does it matter? movement as If he were about to get up and go. All right, all right. I Just thought I might soak you tor a five. I lost my pants In a game tonight The truth Is. Stephen Bigelow called our on you, office to get the late this afternoon." "Called your office? To get dope Duke gave a raucous, deon me? risive howL "Thats too darned funny. Whats the connection between your outfit and Stephen Bigelow, I low-dow- n mean?" "We did some work for him once. "You did?" "Uh, uh. What kind of work the usual? "Sure. "Who was the dame?" "His wife. McCales spine began to prickle He hoped his sudden Interest did not show too much on his face He not show too much on his face. Five Dollars' Worth Of Information pt' - tu n M a One night late she came out with middle-age- d guy, .Thats all of my little offering Do I get the fin? "Oh, sure. . . . Take it" He slid the money over to the big man. He had the exasperating feeling that hed been cheated. He shrugged it away, McCale had set his alarm for seven-t- the next morning. It had shrilled in vain. A feeble ray of sunlight flickered across his face as someone shook him by the shoulder. Shrugging out from under the none too gentle pressure, he blinked, yawned, and saw by the clock that it was much later. McCale began to dress as Rocky headed for the Inner sanctum. It didnt take him long His toilet completed, he went directly to the office windows to pull back the curtains on another dreary morning. He took the cup of coffee his assistant handed him and waited until they sat facing each other across the desk, before beginning conversation. hirty he said, between sips of black liquid, "lets have or keyhole view of your birds-ey- e the goings on of last night. "Well, the hot set-up- ? like that" it" I l.ke "You think it was the truth Now, see here, in spite of the fact that it or the level, I think it was ing to smell to heaven" "You've no taker In me McCale grinned and lit a ngare'te "Smart, as usual. The old dame ht was w liking acts as though through a bid du.rn but doo-- ii t dare wake up" ' Very aptlv put The Selfish , Dishonest Wife FEATURE "I dont ten-thirt- y to the old bird for lessons, keeping It from the family for a surprise, or so he said. Now, how do you U you think? "You may not think Its worth the but here it is. About six months ago this Stephen Bigelow came in to see Watkins. Wanted a tall put on his wife. He didn't say A Jittery Family, much, but the boss figured it was the old divorce routine. I got the Thinks Rocky night job following her around to "Nothing sensational to report, the nightclubs. She went out a lot boss, outside of a lot of nervous runalone. I trailed along for a couple ning in and out till about one a. m. of weeks. Shed stop In at a lounge at about everyone I had a look-se- e bar now and then, always met peo- but the dame called Victoria. Shed ple she knew, but never seemed to gone out someplace to dinner when gather in anyone particular. Then I got there and must have slipped one night I followed her as far as in without my lamping her. if she a studio building in Copley Square came home at all. A dumb elevator boy couldnt place "No trouble with the servants? her or tell me where In the building I only saw the butler. Very suhe took her. I'd wait and In a few guy. He kept looking in the perior out come alone. hours shed This room where I was sitting dining happened two or three times a week witsi an eye on the door. I dont until one night, late, she came out know whether he thought I was gowith a middle-age- d guy. They went to snitch some of the flngerbowls ing to a quiet little restaurant around or sample the family bourbon. Anythe corner. I tagged along It how, he kept popping up at odd molooked like the old, old story to me. ments until around Say, "You found out who the man what a parade of junk they've acwas?" cumulated "Sure. Well, here's where the Yeah. What do you think of the drama falls apart. Hmm. I see In general. I mean. Atwhere I don't get paid off. He was that kind of thing " mosphere a piano teacher, name of Parecim be "I may wrong, but outside of Not an old foxy grandpa with a old little the lady, they're a bunch weakness for blondes, after all. We turned the news over to Stevey bov, of screwballs She's okay A little and damned If he didn't seem re- jumpy, but for that matter, the lieved. He came in a week or so whole caboodle ain't my idea of afterwards to pay his bill He told what I've been led to think of as us his wife had once shown great calm, quiet, unruffled blueblaods. all as jittery as a hangtalent for the piano, but had lost They're " the use of an arm from nervous over "Definitely " shock or arthritis or something "Well, here's five to your one that She was getting back her old walthere's something cooking that's golop agun. slowly She'd been going five, I She meets me last night, show me around, sort of impersonsl-like- . I So far as the was concerned, might have been the plumber helper come to repair a leak. Very cool and calm, but burning up with gomething inside her. Acts all the time as if she's scared stupid but wont admit It If it kills her." Rocky poured hlmstlf a second cup of coffee and took a deep breath before he continued. She went to her room early, about nine. I didnt see her after that. Veronica, the bride and Joy, he looked at McCale to see whether he was amused by the play on words, "of the old lady she is that, isnt she? it sticks out all over stayed home all evening, too. She was in the back library most of the time "Did she look good to you?" "Oh, yeah, if you like the placid type. She had two visitors Guess? TU buy It. Dont play guessing games with me so early In the morning "Well, the present and the past Glamour Boy Number One, and good old dog - like, ever lovin Chris." "Oh. He Impressed you that way? Christopher Storm, I mean? "Remember, I only got a short gander at the past and present crown princes, as they entered and left. He was the second one, by the way. Mr. Big came first "Go on." "Well, Id just got settled In the silver and crockery department, when t Johnny Weismuller comes swinging from tree to tree calling for his mate. Such a flutter they get into over him, dont they? The butler scuttled around after him as If hed just brought the fatted calf. comes down Then the bride-to-b- e the stairs In a flurry. But a flurry, I said. And he just tells her he'i off to dinner with some friends. She looks at him with the trust of a bird fascinated by a python. You know What enormous eyes you And off they have, Grandmother. go to the library. "I take It you didnt warm to Romeo." Not me. Obvious as heck, dont w N know. The boys got something. Just what Is It?" "Its as old as the world, chief. The Vallalncourt can Just make his eyelashes go boo." 'Take that needle out of your arm. He's In love with the girl." "All right So hes In love with her. "Whats your Impression of the girl? You didn't show a great deal of enthusiasm. "I guess I don't like 'em quite so chief. know what I mean wide-eye- Shes nice. You nice and when youve said that, youve said everything. Right out of a Mignon Eber-hanovel, If you get what I mean. Just beautiful and wispy and too d dumb to take off her rt rose-colore- glasses." Rocky had already settled for himself the fact that Veronica Bigelow was both beautiful and dumb. McCale leaned back in his chair and smiled, for Rocky was a good guy, mostly amusing. Searching for the coffee pot, Dukes eyes slanted up quizzically at Rocky as he said, Well, boy, what's the word on Christopher Storm, now that youve dusted ev-- i eryone else oil? Odd Goings On In the Mansion "J. Bell Syndicate your flour . . . You are sure to get just the right rise in your mixing bowl, followed by that final rise to light and fluffy flavor in the oven . . , That's the story of Clabber Girl's balanced double action. nfcll.il.. (j Late in the afternoon she and her croud are giggling at a bar in some shionubts lounge." anoe" V' Ethel Davis can away with what she does? How is it that while thousands of women are steadily meeting their obligations as "wives and mothers, Ethel can break every law in the book, and not be thrown out of society as the outlaw she is? getting the marketing and the dusting done pronstly, but if she is a real wife she does try to improve, she does feel sorry for poor old Tom, she does grow spiritually year by year. Ethel was Not Ethel Davis. completely satisfied when she married Ferd Davis seven year ago, and she is as smug as ever now. She has two children, a boy and a girl, and she talks as if no woman alive had gone through the ordeal of having children before. Ferd carries up a tray to Ethel every morning, and a high school girl comes in for 50 cents a morning and gives the children their breakfast and starts them off to nursery school. Ethel gets up at 10 and goes downtown to lunch with friends. Then it's a beauty parlor or a movie, and late in the afternoon she and her crowd are giggling at a bar In some fashionable lounge. Perhaps then she telephones home to the woman who comes in at a dollar an hour every afternoon that she won't be home to dinner. If she does come home it is to cuddle her babies, give them candy and toys and shriek like a siren if Ferd comes in hungry, The children tired and critical. scream too, and cling to their mother. Ferd is an outsider in his own i i n " "She may uake up into real a 1. 1 f W & All wives have faults; so have all men. We all fail each other part of the time. A wife can be irritable when she is tired, but that may make her only the more loving and sorry when the time comes to make up. A wife may be extravagant In one glaring instance, but she is sorry for it, and a little scared, when the milliners bill comes In, and she makes Tom's favorite dessert for dinner and resolves to wear that hat for two solid seasons. A wife may know that she is too fussy, or too suspicious, or too slipshod about notice it. Well, do order of their aphe asked, a sour smile U- - RuS HOW so youd go on in the on his lips "Oh. of course. No offense, pal," Rocky waited a moment, looking at McCale skeptically, not quite sure he wasn't being made fun of. Then he resumed "l.t t s see First there is Mr Stephen Now there's a jumpy guy weddtd to the bottle to bully tjtm By KATHLEEN NORRIS is it that a woman heart." peal SavuujA. Bondi.! Snip 1L. " 1 U)tfuL to ilia. (Mao. CL P. Marquand has done him to a turn, on both sides and In the home. Hates to Go on Living. middle. More than once. That guy Ferd gives me this account of his was born to the Yankee purple, has typewritgone to the best schools, and never marriage in a seven-pag- e stepped out of line in his life. He ten outburst. He says hes been may be a little shocked at the Bige- considering everything; desertion, lows. but they are Bigelows, aren't kidnapping his own children, dithey? So they couldn't be wrong. vorce, suicide. He wants to know Veronica has tossed him overboard, if there isn't a tribunal where a but would he say a word about it? marriage like his could be rated; Would he nde up In his Stanley isnt there any standard, any graph Steamer and rush her off to the by which his friends could know nearest Justice of the Peace before that his rating of marital happiness she makes a fool of herself? No is about three per cent? sirree. It Just isn't done by people "Nursery school includes lunch in our set. doncha know?" and naps, writes Ferd, and costs me $70 a month. The school girl "He did come to see her. a Had short confab gets $12 and old Minnie about $80. "Oh, yes. with her in the library. I didn't get My salary is $75 a week, and coma chance to eavesdrop, of course, missions. Ethel cashes small checks but I did see them when they said at the grocery and drugstore about week. goodnight at the door He had the three times a "Of course I can't swing it. I most miserable for commisexpression on his puss sweat myself crazy all my life sions; I've borrowed when he kissed her good-by.insurance will carry. My father left "He kissed her? "Don't let it throw you. It was a farm that I'm crazy about, to my bachelor brother and me; now I'm just the old act She sort of put her head up going to sell him my share. But and he gave her a solemn brotherly then what? Dont say talk to kiss on the forehead before he went Ethel'; all she does is get shrill, and into the night like the last act of mad and say that I needn't think I I could have married a servant. an old melodtama "Theres divorce, of course. But spit in his eye, the dope!" You are to this my. taking "My. "Not You it art right when you measure the required amount of Clabber Girl into WNU Features a Rub in gently-warmin- , soothing g, Kyr. $ Vi - for fast Ben-Ga- y conrelief from muscular soreness and pain. tains up to 2 Vi times more methyl salicylate and menthol famous agents known to every doctor than five other widely offered Insist Ben-Ga- y pain-relievi- rub-in- on genuine Ben-Ga- y, s. the original Baume Analgesique. Also for Pain due to RHEUMATISM, NEURALC1A, and COLDS. Ask for Mild Ben-Ga- y for Children. what of Sharon and Ferd? Id die for my kids, but I dont seem to know how to live for them. Is there any way out of this mess? Ive gotten so low that I hate to go on living." I think there is a way out of this mess, Ferd, and you indicate yourself what it might be. Many a man could take it, when faced with your problem, but not quite so simply as you can. Go to the Farm, Tell Ethel that you have decided to live on the farm with the children. Any man has the right to decide that he will be a farmer instead of a city clerk. Move out there, perhaps notifying certain shops in your city that you are closing your account with them. If you must borrow to get the farm paying; bor row. Chickens and milk, potatoes and apples are bringing higher prices than they ever have in the history of the world. EthJ will have to come with you, or leave you. Either way you will have the right to make terms. You cai.not possibly take care of babies of 5 and 4 in a city apartment, but you'll have no trouble with them on a farm. The nearest farmer's wife will run their clothes through her washing machine, and they'll be with you all day long, in a child's paradise. 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