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Show NIE SMITHHEIJ) SKNTINKI. Synthetic Gentleman better see him. I'll phone yon when. Probably not before Monday, lie'll be pretty busy for a day-- or two. Of course, you'll he u round for your salary on Saturday. Might look me up then" Jack siecu luted. "Most of ns spend our lives trying to live up to the pur- traits of ourselves that hang uer Mir uiciiiul iii.'intcl-plcceYours v :m of a I'TAh I i ' - young vnr.-iTiicn you moved Into a lio.ise, hiiml. MlTHKIEl.l). ; ; HffQ M 'Jhmhd and coniiany, where that picture didn't fit. You hung up a new one, and you've got to lire up to that now. It was rhs Name way with me. The picture of Sober reflection, bucked by experience, had persuaded Hurry that he couldn't myself I liked was of an Irresponsible, get much on Ills wardrobe. The studs slightly dissipated young genius. The Salad Mixers de Luxe. s were nither cheap stuff. family portraits didn't apical to me. snd He hud sold sn overcoat once In this Yours did your new picture of your About micii. self, I mean. I'm going to try to he very town for three dollars. the meet often you Saturday's money would Just square like that the rest r my life. who man a man its always the hank Recount As for the hotel They were lingering over cigars and knows how to make the perfect hill Well. I'll give them my elollies." culTee now. anil I'll have someWhut Is a gentleman? Barry asked. salad dressing, and on the slightHurry decided, Jack smiled. thing left In my Jeans when I move est provocation does so. The out of here." The felluw who gets the right trouble with this party is when lie phoned Peggy again, and then dined frugally and went buck to his said. you so." get him off salad dressings "I snpiinxe "Family Barry room. Step by step, lie went over and clothes didn't make you one not he's practically a total loss. Its details, seeing everything In the new when yon were getting drunk snd forga decent salad Nevertheless, light rust by the events of tlie past ing checks. I wasn't one when I took dressing and a decent salad are few hours. At midnight, for the fifth or another man's name, and money, and boons to humanity. sixth time, he re rend the story In the made up to a girl who thought I was The right commin(llolie. Well, that's that," he said somebody else, . . . Pictures over gling of astringent, Tiints another word for aloud, tossing the aiier Into the waste- eces. green basket and winding his silver wrist-watc-h tradition, I guess. The tradition that with things Morano's (lend, young Rlilder'll makes men defend women, and go smooth, Wpnd dress-dow- n be free tomorrow, old Itldiler'll he home on sinking ships, and si) that i ing there you have Saturday, and that's that. Wonder sort or thing. When that stops being ; something. But u where 'Il he a week from now." r picture of ourselves, God help all j ten we are confront-o- f It didn't mutter niucli. Nothing matus, I told Put ouce , . . Come on; j ed by a monstrosity ters much," he told himself again, let's go to a movie I" t featuring whipped ' dwelling on Iat'a phrase, Not without cream, nut kernels, Put, It diMwn't. Shu's a grund girl. Out j sweet CHAPTER XII cheese, pre-- 1 , of my though. A week from now, served fruit, even vln Cobb she'll be playing tennis and going over The next afternoon around three marshmallows or to dinner at the Ridden. Wonder if o'clock Harwood phoned. pickled ginger. The old man wants to see yon. Peg'll be there. Wonder what's going Such an atrocity is never a salad. to hupien to those two young ample? Here at his office. Pd come quick If Put a crust on it and it might pass In Friday morning's paper, under I were you." for pie, but would be very low-graSo Jack had told him. "Personal Intelligence, he found a pie. Or Evans. mention of the Winslows. "Mr. and ' be Mrs. Peter Winslow are Bulling on the I'd glad If you'd tell Willetts, and Concerning Mr. Earl Browder. Aqultunla next Wednesday, " the Item the rest, Barry had said to the chaufAVING been discouraged by a LI read, "for an extended tour of the Con- feur. "It'll save me Introducing the police perhaps overzealous too. had He dreadtoo. was That tinent that Barry's subject, It would, force from speaking in Indiana, drama was ending with all Its prlncl-IH- il ed hla first few moments with Bidder Earl Browder, one of the almost e characters dlajaised of, as beginning Ids story with a pnlr of countless candidates for President, drama ahonld end. cold, culm eyes boring Into him. They now threatens suits for false arrest cold would sure be Wlnslow'a secretary called him Just of eyes; he felt As A1 Smith says, lets look at before noon. "Mr. Winslow wants me that the facts. Mr. Browder stands for And they were. to tell you that Rogers will be free communism stands for all commuIn an hour or two." "The big chief snt at his big desk In nism stands for. Therefore he must d a ofllce with How's Mrs. Winslow?" big, big look on the Russian government as "Much better. .Mr. Wlnslowls still door snd s little one. The big double the one ideal government, it being door opened Into the reception room. with her, though. the very flower and of "And the Iluinhldges? Barry entered through that and found applied communism. perfection "No; they went buck to Southampton himself facing Bidder and the smaller Now, in Russia any man publicly single door behind him. last night" advocating doing away with the exBidder was Once more, that was that Barry reading a radiogram, and isting national system and substitutthought, getting his bat and making he went on rending, A tall, thin man, ing some other system therefor tracks for the subway. He reached the with New England written all over would find himself in jail or even Tombs well In advance of ollldal or- blm. A youngish man for hla age, in a worse fix before he could say which might have been fifty. He wore Jackovitz der for the release of "Jay Rogers. RobertsonoffskL spectacles. His long, thin, So what I say is that Mr. Browder absolutely straight mouth was higher shouldnt crave to sue anybody. If at the right end, and hla right eye was he believes in the of what practice tbnn his left He he longer and narrower . . he preaches, which, of D0Se' ?nd doe, he ought to go around kiting i ut o'," cray "5, everybody on both cheeks, Lnirtih ?T,h ThewLt1h;W.n' man He wus still ou the pay roll, at least. That was Important, whut with overdrafts snd hotel bills, snd such things. about cuff-link- By Lansing, CHANHING POLLOCK Owrifbfc Churning Pollack pop-trait.- WITT Service. booooooocooo: CHAPTER XI Continued 1- 9- Ile didn't want to walk nil liijr, nnd lie did wunl to see whnt tlie other import hud to any of hint nlghtY event In the Cocouniit Imr. At Fifth avenue, therefore, he turniHl into the public library. The reports wen iinirli ullke Night dull proprietor killed rctriallng arrest and Jay Rogers, The Indictment ngnlnst now held for the Kelly mnrder, probably will In dlsmlxseil today." Rnrry ant, almost alone, In the newHwier room," turning the caae ver In III mind. Then he asked for ld (Ilea of one of the tabloid. lie waa nearly nn hour finding an account of the Winslow wedding. Without any dollnlte knowledge of the date. It wua a hit like looking for the proverbial needle In a hayataek. Burry's curiosity waa rewarded, at butt, when be stumbled upon a pictorial front page 'headed, Lawyer Weds Convict's Widow." The ceremony had taken place at 8L Stephen's. There were pictures of the church and of the convict George Selby (Inset) and Love Nest Where He Took Ilia Bride" The smudgy little Inset" might have been a portrait of Nicholas Murray Butler or Jack Dempsey, and the house might have been any house, anywhere, There was an obviously faked photograph of a holdup, and an obviously genuine one of "Mr. and Mrs. Winslow Leaving St. Stephen's" "Gosh," Burry reflected: no wonder Mrs. Winslow hud a nervous breakdown I" The atory, on the second pnge, was In the best tabloid tradition. Five years ago, It began,- "I'etcr Winslow, obscure young attorney, secured the acquittal of George 8clby, charged with participating In the rubbery of a candy atore In the Bronx. Yesterday, Peter Winslow, rich and famous criminal lawyer, and George 8elhy'a widow were the principal figures In what was to have been a secret, ceremony at St. Stephens"' mantel-pi- bitterish of-o- clu-sa- ! I well-nmd- richly-furnishe- U1 ERE one-four- th 1945-B-- , t s could say Good morning ss though that ended the discussion. "All right, Barry repeated to himself, "I'll take my medicine It'll soon be over, anyway. He isn't going to give a damn what I did for his son. If I can say anything to make It easier for those two youngsters and Jacky Wonder what's back or that little door. He was still wondering when the big chief looked up. You're Gilbert? Yes. sir." "Allas Bidder, eli?" Yes. sir They were cold eyes. Very cold. Mostly to end the silence, Barry said, I suppose your son told you. Nobody told me. I've known ail about you for two months. You've known " "I heard my wife's talk with my aon the day before we sailed. Through ths door to my bedroom. I henrd her Invite him to Southampton. Next morn- Ing, I arranged with Willetts to give me a full report of Ids doings there. And Barry was thinking In monosyllables, And. In his first letter, he mentioned Cruelty to Animals. a dog was tried before a judge for biting u boy. And another judge was appealed to, that he save an elephant condemned to die. So some one proves that, through many centuries, animals were accused of high crimes dogs, rats, pigs, oxen, roosters, storks, also ants, spiders, snakes, grass- r your red hair." Barry grinned. He also mentioned your taking hundred dollar bill out of an envelups addressed to Mrs. Bidder. The grin faded. "Yon haven't umde a move that I haven't known about He waited. "Why didn't yon hnve me arrested?" Reruuse I knew that my son wns In prison, aroused of this murder. I rend nlwut thnt less than sn hour arter I'd satisfied myself that you weren't my son. Jay Rogers. I'd had man following Idm nil almut Florida. The man's report agreed perfectly with the new simper Recount of Jay Rogers." "What was I to do? Sail? The doc- said that waa out of the question, I wired Harwood 'Rogers didn't kill Kelly. Find out who did. Twenty-fou- r later, I knew you were on the Globe, and why. and thnt you'd suereeded In Interesting Winslow." (TO BE COXTIMED) - s B per-cal- e the brutes might condemn mankind offenses of which they rarely or never have been guilty "euker things 1!VBh!er tor love slaughter; deliberate wastefulness of natural resources; wanton destruction of natural beauties; wars without rational cause; unnecessary greed; bearing false witness; neglect of our own young; "kennes; slothfulness; bigotry; mlo erance' THIS when wake up with Headache three-fourt- hs 39-in- Newspapers Vs. Spellbinders. TN MY reportorial youth nearly i every newspaper, big or little, waa bitterly partisan. We distorted facts and editorialized in news stories when dealing with the accursed Otherwise wed have (opposition. to a sacred cause. j been traitors I These times the average paper, ' i big or little, prints honest accounts j concerning both sides-th- eir rela- tive chances as revealed by pn their waning or gaining hopes. The ' political views of a columnist or a Pecial contributor may differ from th publishers policy still he gives tato tfiaspponful vinegar beaten them space, frosting when flavor- But the spellbinders go I WiU, keep 11 from right on or breaking when spouting fiction which everybody knows is fiction. And the volun-"Still- " ! teer debaters clamor with prejudice tad misinformation for their im-t-or uv?Vi!11 delPhinum plants -r munition. or pine boughs beBy the way, will all who fore putting on dried leaves. They ' ever heard of anybody being rs ' verted by one of these barber-sho- p j arguments kindly raise their right hands? Russian dressing, mix two tablespoons of Chopped dill tW0 tablePns Currency Joggling. 55 chopped tW R EING frightfully smart to begin tableP chHi wth, I know as much regarding one tablespoon of currency juggling as the next fellow catchup to one-ha- lf e. cup of I which is precisely nothing at all i Serve on lettuce Up to, say, $18.75, most of us know vegetable salads. : what Btl1 money ia or used to be But ' SynJiciir.WNU Service. ' when they talk in terms of billions or trillions or jillions, got' us going down for the they've third time with a low gurgling cry. , And the more a financial techni- dan, with both his pants Dockets full of figures, tries to explainthese governmental manipulations, the more convinced I am that, like the average specialist, he has concentrated on being expertly lgnnranf upon one involved subject rather than remaining, as most of us do broadly and comprehensively ignor ant upon practically all subjects. ' IRVIN 8. COBB. 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I small cally. loons, could to fit ke 39-in- two-third- hoppers, dolphins, locusts, gadflies, eels, and, being convicted, were burned, flayed, hanged, destroyed by slow torture. But think of the charges on which ; is , T ATELY - seven-eight- easy-to-ma- who The present Mrs Winslow had run away with George Selby while he was a cadet in a military school. They had come to New York, rented the "love xest." and been "blissfully happy until Selby ran out of money, and was compelled to take hla wife to a boarding house He had been arrested there, for tlie candy store robbery, In April, 1021. Peter Winslow had got him off, but, the following June, he waa caught In another robbery In Plillndelplile and sentenced to a long term In the State Penitentiary. With two other, convicts, "lefty" Miller and "Mugs" Scanlan, be had escaped In October, 1022. Penniless, the men "staged a hold-u- p that same night In Fnlrmount Park. The victim called, for help, and Selby killed him. Scanlan was shot dead by a police ofllcer, and Selby, attempting to get away, Jnmped Into the river, and was drowned.1 Ills body was found "Mayba I Was," Bidder Admitted. two weeks later, entangled In an anchor chain." It was nearly five oclock, Indeed, when Winslow had given Mrs. Selby work "Jay Rogers appeared, looking very In his ofllce. and "three yenra after white and haggard, and the last train Selby's death, love rulmlnnted In the had-leffor Southampton. "You can ceremony nt St. Stephens." talk to Peggy on the phune, Barry told Thnt explnlned a good deni, Barry him, and then you'd better have dinthought. remembering the soft, round, ner with me, nnd s good night's rest at pink little woman with worried eyes. my hotel. The Bremen gets In very It explnlned Peter's protective attitude. early, and you'll waut to be on the It might explain his quick Interest In dork. the Rogers case. In which. Harry had Jack looked at him quizzically. told Winslow, Peggy had been "putting Will I." wp such a game light to make a man "Won't your of her husband. "I suppose so. I'd like to see my "That sort of thing always gets me." mother." Veter had observed. A woman tied up "I'd like to see her Barry to some man who's not worthy of her, said. "She's been swellmyself, to you, all and In love with him. right. Peters Julie" had been In love with Yes. ler first husband, then. And he with At dinner. Jack declared, "I'll take her. evidently, to Judge by wlint the that Job on the i taper now, if my tabloids said of their happiness. Must father'll give It to me." have been something good In thnt "Why not?" Yon started me thinking. chap. Barry reasoned. Probably real-Ise- d I can see whnt his wife wns trying to do the old mnn's viewpoint He's got to for him. We're s curious mixture." be decent to Peggy, though. It's both He was still brooding over curious of us. or neither. , . . What's going to mixtures, and other things, when a happen to you?" clock struck somewhere, and reminded "Search me! "Look here." Jack blurted. 'Tin him that, by now, there might he a Bidder now. Who needs to know that message as to young Bidder's rc!.-I waa ever waiting him at hla hotel. Jay Rogers? I've been at Southampton all the time, writing letters to my mother, and everything. There wasn't. All Thursday afternoon Barry out You've been Barry Gilbert working on In Ida room and, at live o'clock, he the Globe, and likely to go on working called refer's secretary. "Nothing def- there. Wbat'a the matter with that?" Willetts Is the matter with It1' inite yet,T she Informed him. Tlie District Attorney's mnklng the motion Barry answered "Willetts, and Evans, all right, bnt Itll he tomorrow now and Winslow, and all the eamera-ellek-er- s on the newspapers. Thcre're been before anything romea of It. Against his better Judgment, then. several pictures of you already. I can't Barry phoned Harwood. Don't worry," understand why you weren't Identified the city editor said. Have you seen long ago." Bidder admitted. "Maybe 1 wus, tonight's Globe? Whole first pnge one Your old college churns don't exactly loud yell for thla kid's release. They'll run arter you while you're In Jail. They be so glad to get him off their hnnds In spite of hla friendliness. Barry don't get to be ariiege chums until noticed that Ernlo didn't say, Come you're In Who's Who." on down ; weve something else for "Anyway," Barry continued, "your you. Nor even, "Of course, we'll ex- scheme's out I want to come clean. pect you to cover Rogers getting out Don't ask me why. 1 was going to or Jnll." Why should he? "The big run sway a week ago, and I couldn't best waa Harwood's beat" not Bar- maka IL Hientleiueu don't do that.' I ry's and, anyway, the old man would said. I've got a new picture f uiyst-l- f a a gentleman." be at hla desk the day after tomorrow. "That's what doc the trick. 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