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Show SOUTH CACHE COTTIER WuffllQ ffiammcBEPs EmUle iSgy IE K3 II ILK IE Lorin. SYNOt 3IS Brook: Reyburn visits the office of Jed Stewart, a lawyer, to discuss the terms of n estate she has inherited from Mrs. Mary Armanda Dane. Unwittingly she overhears of Mrs. jed tailing to Mark Trent, nephew Mrs. Dane Dane who has been disinherited structha'' lived a' Lookout House, a huge ure by the sea. built by her father and divided into two, for her and Marks father. Brooke had been a fashion expert, and Mrs. shut-in- , hearing her on the Dane, a radio, had Invited her to call and developed a dee.j affection for her. Mark discloses that Mrs. Dane had threatened to disinherit hhn if he married Lola, from whom he is He Says he does not trust now divorced. Henri and Clotilde Jacques. Mrs. Danes servants. He says e is not interested in an offer of Brookes to share the estate with him. Leaving her department store job, go stepping Brooke refuses an offer to 1 Jerry Field, a carefree young man marry her. At a family conference she learns she must liv a' Lookout House alone, since Lucette, her younger sister who is taking her job, her brother, Sam, a young playwright, and her mother plan to stay in the city. Jed and Mark are astounded when they hear from Mrs. Gregory, a family friend, that she had witnessed a hitherto unknown will with Henri and Clotilde two weeks before Mrs. Dane died. Brooke had arrived just as she was Jed suggests that Mark open his leaving. part of Lookout House, get friendly with Brooke and trj to find out about the will. Jed agrees to stay with him. Mark accepts Brookes invitation for a family Thanksgiving dinner at Lookout. Mrs. Reyburn announces on Thanksgiving eve that she Sam and has been invited to England. Lucette decide to move in with Brooke and Sam plans to produce a new play locally. After the Thanksgivirg dinner Brooke tells Mark that little of Mrs. Danes silver collection is left. Jerry Field and his sister Daphne drop in and announce they will be neighbors for the winter. Sam adds them to the cast of his play. Later Inspector Harrison of the local police visits Mark and is informed about the missing wiU and silver. As Harrison ' leaves, Lola arrives. She announces that she and her new husband, Bert Hunt, have started a neighborhood filling station. Mark almost makes a break about the missing will and Brooke with wants to who tering on his shoulder. Always she had distrusted the man of whom Mary Amanda Dane had been so fond. Why should he have lied to her about Mrs. Hunts presence at the garden door of Lookout House? Because the woman was there to see him of course. With her thoughts still on Henri and his evasions, she slit one of the envelopes in her hand and drew out the letter it contained. All thought of Lie butler fled az she saw that the letterhead was that of the firm for which she had been fashion adviser. Dear Miss Reyburn, she read Any chance of your wanting a Job? We are opening a dress shop at Palm Beach under the name of Carstons Inc. Very swank, very expensive. Celeste wiU be business manager. Wed like you to be top mannequin with a salary, of course, and percentage on the sales of the frocks you model. WeU put on a fashion show later in the season. Society girls as mannequins. We'U open this year January first. Dont say No untU you think it over. Come in nd well give you more details. Celeste and the directors are aU for you on the job. Yours truly Brookes face flushed as she reread the letter. Of course she couldnt accept some girl who needed the money should have the chance but it was thrilling to know V 9 Continued Youre a darling, Brooke. I appreciate now the color, and the sense of Gods in His Heaven, alls right with the world you brought into Mary Amanda Danes life. I had intended to start a boycott against you and your family here because you had cut Mark out of his inheritance, but he asked me to be nice to you. I adore that boy. I would do anything for him. He lived in a nightmare of humiliation with a wife who came home night after night barely able to keep her feet. Why, why cant women realize that its their privilege to keep He up the standards of decency? stood by her, though, and held his head high, and wouldnt allow his soul to be warped by the experi- House. ng off She was thoughtfully drawiher gloves as she approached the garden door of her house. A stream of light laid a golden path on leafless shrubs and graveled walk. A woman was at the door! A woman in a fox cape. Mrs. Hunt! Talking with Henri. Brooke stepped into the purple shadow of a spruce.. She could see and she could hear: If you keep a level head we cant lose, Henri. The mans murmur was indistinct. He closed the door softly as the woman went down the steps. She flung a furtive look at the windows of the house before she vanished in the dusk. That seems to be that, Brooke herself, before she started around Mark Trents house that she might enter her own front door unobserved by a possible watcher in the garden. As she entered the living-rooat Lookout House, she rang for Henri. The green parrot squawked, Stop!, ruffled his feathers, and hopped up and down in his cage. She was standing near the fire, letter opener in hand, looking over the mail she had found on the desk when the butler entered. Did anyone call, Henri? On the phone, Miss? At the house. Henri opened the door of the parrots cage. Mr. Micawber hopped to his shoulder and began tweaking his ear. i Never mind about the pariot, Henri. Answer my question. But I take him out like this for a walk around three times a day, "Iiss; the old madame wanted him to have a change of scene. Not a Person called at this house. Were youexpecting someone? 'Yes, the lady who is to have charge of selling tickets for the play Phoned .that she might come this said to m . WNU Service. should worry. I get a sliver of commission on my sales. The girl who Should Help has taken your place had just one What I say to you Browne Mrs. of those days, today. Madame Ceto bear any fruit. lenses of his leste was on the warpath. I brought never seems spectaBrowne Mr. Try pruning it a cles. He pulled a piece of cracker Jerry Field down in the car. He was little. of his blue coat. from the pocket a gob of gloom when he came in Sure, I taught him. Ive been at and you were not here. By the way, WHAT SCORES! work on that bird ever since I who do you think runs that new stout fella! came. Here, in the white cottage? The parrot twisted his head comMark Trents and her pletely round, blinked lidless eyes, husband ! before he nipped at the reward which Sam had thrust through the CHAPTER VI bars of his square cage. That birds a peach, Brooke. You Brooke stood before the fire in the can teach him anything at Looktry softly lighted living-roohard enough. Boy, I wish I had out House. Three days had passed him in the play. Hed show some since she had received the letter of the stiffs how to speak their offering her the Palm Beach posilines. tion, since she had heard that the Whos the biggest problem? Hunts were the proprietors of the n Daphne Field. Shes pretty she had been patronThe Job Hunter Yes, sir, I can enough but dumb. Shell stop the izing. She had refused promptly show, aU right, but not because the business offer and had dropped deliver the goods, Ill tell the shes an actress. Hers is a feed-pa- rt it from her mind, but she couldnt world. The Boss That will be fine. But for the leading woman. Shes forget the other. Sometimes she one of those darnfool girls who go wondered if she would ever think of will the world listen to you? off their heads in a crisis in real anything else. Questions were everlife, I mean, not in the play. Glad lastingly popping up. Had Lola Hunt shes not in the lead. Laura Crane, gone to Mark Trents house to tell READY TO BRING who is, is good; shes got plenty on him about it, or had he known althe ball. ready? Why later had the woman How is Jerry in his part? been talking so confidentially to YOU RELIEF Okay, but I dont like the man Henri at the garden door of Lookout who is playing the male lead. Hes House? What had she meant by: a spotlight hog. I wish Mark Trent If you keep a level head we cant would take it. Hes just the type lose, Henri? What was behind that IN and a natural. I think hes great snapped off wit of Mark Trents? and hes darn friendly, but Sam Why was she spending a moleaned against the mantel and faced ments thought on Mark Trents his sister. Have you ever thought problems? of her Hadnt she that he is not particularly keen own? She frowned atplenty the empty about the Reyburn family? gilt cage. Where was Mr. MicawBrooke said thoughtfully: ber? When she had come in this Would he be likely to be keen, afternoon, Henri had been as you express it, about a family his hands. He had gone wringing completely which was spending money that he French as he chattered, but she had felt should be his? I think he has gathered from the jargon that when behaved decently. he had stepped out on the lawn Who said he hadnt? I have a with the on his shoulder, the kind of feeling, thats all. He told door hadparrot behind him and banged The Reason Jed Stewart that we might take the frightened bird had flown away. his we liked from house for anything It wasnt that she cared for the par- BAYER ASPIRIN WORKS SO FAST stage setting. But all things considrot, she detested him, but Mrs. Drop a Bayer Aspirin tablet into a tumered, Ill be glad when the show is Dane had loved him and she felt bler of water. writI think sometimes Ive over; as if she had broken faith with her By the time it hit the bottom of the ten a smash hit and sometimes that benefactress. it it disintegrating. glass I of is a lot the play just tripe. Wake up, sister! Lucette prodThis speed of disintegration enables g darent hope for one or two ded from the doorway. Sam and I genuine BAYER Aspirin tablets to start n critics to give me the have been staring at you for three taking hold" of headache and simion it. Anyway, a manager minutes, trying thought transferlar pain a few minutes after taking. who liked those two sketches I ence. Nothing doing. We couldnt pay as high as you wrote for the Workshop is coming penetrate your skull. Youve been YOU can for remedies claimed to for the opening to give it the once- scowling as if addressing a hall full relieve the pain of Headache, over, and hell bring a New York of women who refused to rally to Rheumatism, Neuritis, Sciatica, e battle-cry- : etc. But the medicine so many producer. your the doctors generally approve Really, Sam! How perfectly Old age isnt necessary, it is of families thousands one used We by grand! Watch out nothing but a 15? a is Bayer Aspirin daily Hi! Soft pedal! Here comes Lu- that you dont germ! it up! pick about 1 apiece. dozen tablets cette. I dont want her to know Brooke laughed. I had no idea Simply take 2 Bayer Aspirin that theyll be in front, it might rat- that tablets with a half glass of water. of her elders made the precepts tle her. an impression on our little sisRepeat, if necessary, according to There was the sound of running suchhad directions. Sam? feet on the stairs, a gay voice sing- ter, No. I you, Usually this will ease such pain is Mr. Micawber? Where room. dashed in a remarkably short time. into the ing. Lucette Brooke told him. For quick relief from such pain Her black hair was silky; her thin No kidding, what do you know which exhausts you and keeps frock was only a shade redder than about that! Ill bet Henri let him you awake at night ask for her lips and cheeks and fingernails. go. genuine Bayer Aspirin. She dropped to the rug in front of He wouldnt do that, Sa n, though the fire, hugged her knees, and he should have known better than to looked up at her sister. to the open door with him. Henri How soon do we eat, Brooke? go takes all the care, of him,, thank Im starving. heaven. I think he adores him, if Henri waits till he hears you he can adore anything. Curious, tumble downstairs before he an- Mr. Micawber likes Henri and nounces dinner. What kind of a day he doesnt try to conceal the you; fact did you have? he dislikes Lucette and me. Im that Hectic. Every woman in the really troubled about the parrot. He cent a tablet city apparently has gone sports-clothe- s may be flying outside, and Mrs. virtually minded. Theyve stopped Dane was so careful never to exWNU W 4237 boasting of the extreme age of their pose him to draughts. Who is callto and have frocks and hats begun ing, I wonder?" Brooke asked, as HOTEL BEN LOMOND spend real money. They are buy- the butler passed in the hall on his ing for themselves and for Christ- way to the front door. mas gifts in spite of the fact that (TO BE CONTINUED) prices are being stepped up. I horn-rimm- ed filling- -station ex-wi- fe m filling-statio- MINUTES first-strin- low-dow- one-tim- ence. Brooke left her town car in the garage when she reached Lookout Eye Little Joan was learning to sew, and had been trying for several minutes to thread her needle. At length, losing patience, she said crossly: I do believe the nasty eye isnt looking for the cotton. Windsor Star. afternoon. Probably she couldnt Sam, did you teach the parrot that make it. Thats all. police radio call? she demanded, Her eyes followed him as he left as her brother entered the room. the room with the green bird mutHis eyes twinkled behind the is suspicious. CHAPTER ILdDIHUIRKGr A Mean How Perfectly Grand! that she was wanted. Palm Beach. All sunshine and fragrance and flowers. What a contrast to this stern and rockbound coast with the pound of surf, the wail o, the siren, and the cries of gulls, to which she was anchored for the present. The contents of the letter glowed in her mind as shr dressed for the to g evening. It was know that her hard work had been heart-warmin- appreciated. Not until later, as, snuggled in a big chair before the fire in the living- she waited for Lucette and Sam to change Tor dinner, did the memory of Mrs. Hunts presence at the garden door recur to her. Now if surged to the top of her mind. Witn unseeing eyes on the green parrot back in his cage, she thought of the womans warning to her, of her threat to Mark Trent it had been a threat, in spite of that sugary darling. What had she meant? What object could Henri have had in denying her presence? Why should the remembrance of the If you keep a low voice declaring: level head we cant lose, Henri, send icy prickles crawling up her spine and coasting down? Brooke thoughtfully smoothed the lace of her dinner frock, lace the very shade of the high lights in her hair. If this were a movie, there might be a trick cupboard in the green paneling in which the silver had been hidden,1 but there was nothing so exciting here. She had been at Lookout House when the walls and trirr. were painted. Calling car 51 Car FI Car 5! The frenzied call brought Bfooke to her feet, set her heart thumping madly. Then she laughed as the parrot with a squawk preened his green and yellow feathers. She made a disdainful face at the chuckling bir Mr. Micawber, sometime when you yell like that Ill forget that Im a perfect lady and wring your neck. -room, 1 Erected Exclusive Gilded Gallows for Use of Alchemists of Medieval Times The medieval alchemists did not enjoy a very high social standing. It was popularly believed that they consorted with demons in their efforts to learn the secrets of nature. Moreover, as time went on the profession was afflicted with an increasing number of charlatans, more adept at extracting gold from the pockets of gullible patrons than from lead. Consequently alchemy was officially frowned upon by both church and state, according to an authority in the Chicago Tribune. Men of keen scientific abilities, like Bacon and Aquinas and Ray: mond Lully, were compelled to keep their scientific interest as secret as possible. Bacon, one of the greatest scientists of all time, was threatened with imprisonment by Oxford university unless he ceased experimenting. The Dominican order prohibited the study of alchemy among i its members. In 1404 all alchemists were ordered to leave England, although this edict never was thoroughly enforced. On another occasion a certain duke of Wurttem-berwho probably had been fleeced, erected a special gallows for the exclusive use of alchemists. Appropriately, the frame was gild- g, ed. 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