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Show SYNTHE TIC GEK By Channing Pollock CHAPTER XII Continued Ottpyritfht. Chuinlnf Pollock WNU korvleo. 20 tils ('Iukkos, and went on. ordering ytmr arrest: There didn't Heom much aenue In Bending It. I whu stuck In Ibid My Hon wim Inrkrd np In the Tomlin. Yon seoinod lirnt on getting him out. It wan a rhnnee. I telegraphed Harwood to give you every pousllile aid. I told him to rulrie your salary, and I algned a cheek for my wife to send you. She didnt know tlmt you weren't hrr boy, and ahe didn't know I knew anything. Nobody knew. I kept my n.oulh shut, and the wire busy. Two weeka ago, I hHrned that you'd acromidlHhed nothing and thut the date of the trial wua set, I went to my , and he said I could make the trip; After I'd hooked passage Hariibout the Momno clow. wood cnldt-Then I told my wife everything, uud came home." To deal with me? "Yes." Apparently that was all. Kidder hnd made Ids statement, coldly, calmly, as a Judge might huve spoken In charging a Jury. The rhurge over, he waited again no long that the pause became unendurable. Ilarry was atundlng like a prisoner In the dork.' After a moment, he an Id : "Wlmt are you going ; ' to do?" Listen to your explanation." "I havent any." There a a sillce ulflrcr In Hie next room." I felt aura Yea, Hurry answered. v there would he." Ta tiicre any renson I shouldn't tnrn you over to him? None (lint you dont know about." lie wns ns cold and aa calm as Kidder. Two cold, cnlm men, looking at men other. Kidder knew everything, lie knew wlmt Hurry hnd dime, for Ids amt, and hnd a mllee hdleer In the next morn." Knowing everything, he waited until Hurry could lie of no further use and then sent for the cops." A hard man nnd a nicnn one. That wua Hi ' The old niun wan waiting. C.o on," Hurry said. Gel your cop." "If I have yon arrested the cat's out of the bug." I don't 'get you." Kerry one's going to know that the man In my house wasn't my son that my ami was In the ToiiiIm." Harry's eyes flushed. "You would think of that. Well, go ahead; ring. My mouth's shut, too. I did this to give those two kids a break. Im not likely to apoll It now, am I? (jo on, ring, and let'a huve It over." The old mnu's hand uion the button. . Then Hie big door opened, ami a secretary entered. He glanced nt Hurry, and whispered to Bidder. All right. We're finished." The secretary glanced at Harry again and left the room. With cold, calm eyes, Kidder Indicated the door behind him. In there," he said, rising and walking away. Harry looked after him. Tough guy," Hurry muttered quite audibly, quoting Peggy. Ilia hand was on the knob now. Tough guy that bird." Then he braced himself and oiiened the door. . Nhii-tiel- doRCt-mli-- dm-tor- d THIS WEEK "Did It. mutter ao much to you?" ' Barry asked. And then was sorry he'd said We've all been long on eavesdropOld Bidping," he edded, quickly.der, your father We've all had good reason." . She was standing beside the long table. You asked If It mattered to me," she said. "Don't you know?" Why should It matter?" Don't you know that?" "We're been good he began. She was staring at him fixedly, Don't talk nonsense," alia com nuiuded. Barry sat next to her. Listen," lie said. You're a She laid her hand on hla arm. I've only one question to ask," she declared, and I count on your answering that honestly." "You can." 2U20 globe said to because I stayed, at was nuts about a girl'" Yes." Was that true?" Yes." Who was she?" , I told you a month ago." Under considerable stress. And you never reiwaied It Are you still nuts - judged and sentenced by individual men or groups of men. They have been ducked, branded with hot irons, put in the stocks, beheaded, hanged, burned alive. Is there injustice in turning the thing around for a change; at least no twelve women would burn or duck anybody. r a d ' For the first time in history, New Jersey, selecting a jury all women, has surprised some, annoyed others. Why? For ages women have been here;-please?- " itr I Gen. Smedley D. Butler, retired fighting major general of the United States marines, asks the Womens union to Christian Temperance start a campaign against drunken automobile drivers, and also help peace by working for a constitutional amendment forbidding the President or congress to send troops out of the country. You cannot change men by legislation, as was discovered in our prohibition mistake; you mu at change the men from the inside. Jail-bird- , j s. neer-do-well- ." 1 j Some day some woman, let us hope, will balance her fashion budget, decide Just what she wants to wear, and then wear it, as men have done, but the day is far away. These are some of Hie hats from which your wife, daughter, sister will choose this season: Hats shaped like East Indian war shields; hats heavy in gold embroidery; flat pillbox turbans, gold braided; Russian style hats off the face, with tall tiara fronts; hats of Persian lamb and embroidered felt; small toques, dipped down front and back, covered with soft feathers, the military touch predominating. Why, do you suppose, do women take so much trouble to spoil faces and heads naturally beautiful? It cannot all be the fault of ... Il.im-bltlge- air- -- Klddeiv-- T about her?" 8he used the absurd colloquialism as gravely aa though It were Shakespearian English. An Invisible ham clutched at throat Burry's It wua dark In the next room. There was a Quite dark, after the dazzling sun- that had to be lump there something swallowed Immediately, light of Kidder's office. lie felt an hysterical desire to langh, Harry closed the door behind him or to cry. Then, We wont talk about and stood trying to accustom himself that now," be said, calmly. to the new dimness. Why notr There was only one window here, He couldnt answer. and that heavily curtained. No way In Waa that pretense, too?" or out,- pxcept that by which Barry had Suddenly, he couldn't bear It come. A smallish board room, this You know damned well It wasn't," was, for staff meetings. Barry made be burst forth. Inexcusably. Yon out a lung table, with chairs about It, and several Ole cabinets. Beside these, know exactly how I reel. You've always known. Everybody'! always some one was waiting. that. known everything about me. It seems. The "cop"? I'm not going to hog off, If tlint'a Before Hurry could answer hie own Im as much a failure at faking as I what you wnnt, Hurry blurted You m at question, the figure turned end eame sense of everything else. Whats the know wliat I did" discussing It now?" forward. I wnnt to know why you did It." This may be our last chance to disPutrlda. I don't know myself." Iatrleln Ilumbldge, In a blue tailored cuss It" "Nor They were both standing. Looking ensemble. No." . straight at each other. Burry laughed. I think I do know," Kidder auld. Then, Pat said, I love yon." Pat I lie exclaimed. I thought yon Ilia glasses were attll In Ids hand, and For God'a sake listen Pm the he - was scrutinizing Harry through were a policeman." No,"' she replied, grimly. There's son of a Ilulf a' dozen naked, narrow, eyes, I lore you." people hi,te lieen here to plead for one outside, though. Bly father warned I'm a bum and a vagabond." you. One of ems still here. To listen I love you." to them, snybmly'd suppose you broke Before night 111 be a Into my bouse to do me a good turn. I love yon." You dld.i t exaetly do thut did your Pat" No, Hurry answered I didnt" I'll wait for you, Pat said. And Tlw obvious thing seems to be that we'll both start fresh." then bariteIn The to help yourself. you 8he was smiling now. servants arrived and mistook you for Will you marry me, Mr. Gilbert? my son. Hint enabled you to stay on. For answer, be caught her up la hla Then my son's wife eppeured Yon arms. silenced her by undertaking to get the lioy off. That's the story, Isn't Itr Ha was still holding her when the 1'retty nearly." man eame through the door. old. me "And then yon remained to face Will yon step In the Lecnuse yon thought yon could bluff old men asked, ae unemotionally aa your way out That waa the game, though ho had seen people embracing wasnt It? Blackmail one another In this board room every unwas was It angry. getting Barry day. of hie Uf& bearable ; tlila hard, mean old man Without replying, adBarry released twisting Ills motives, Incapable of Pat one of them a that might single mitting Then he pressed her shoulder, reashave been honest. Why should he resuringly, and followed Kidder. gain Silent? He was In for It. anyAt the big desk, Mrs. Rldder wee . way. standing. He recognized her at once, As a matter of fact" he found himthough she was younger and prettier self saying, that Isn't my game. The than he hud expected. "Forty," story you told Isnt my story. It's all Barry with the guessed, glancing at her wavy, what happened, merely dark bulr, and then realized that she i utb left out of It" must be mure than that She looked Then why don't you tell me Hie very much like her son, Barry thought uthr Then, Pat Said, I Lova You." Curious. That was the stronger Ton wouldn't believe me. You I didn't think strain, then, even though she seemed Sir. Kidder but about yon because couldn't under v'Uidn't you as soft and i land. I broke Into your house because anybody could be ns us granite as hard and gentle as her husband was domineering. .u cold, and wet and hungry. I tlmt old man." She wns a small woman, with plump You're tellln me? Barry grinned. stayed, at first becuuse 1 waa nuts We've been at him ever since he arms, and tiny wrists and ankles. She iilniut a girl, and wanted to be near her. Then Ieggy cume she's your arrived Ida eon, Peggy, father and I, hud large, brown eyes, with shadows own wife. We didnt under them. They had shown sufferan ugh ter you know and told Peter Winslow, tils count not after ing. those eyes, though they were to expect friendship I wns .me her story. sorry for her. hie paper went after father. bright enough now. Snappy," Barry Terribly sorry. Hut of course, you the wny But we talked reason. Peter, with Ms described them. coa't believe that." wife sick at home Peter said yon My wire," Kidder nodded toward Why not?" "Because you knew the story, too. couhln't've worked harder for your her. curtly. She came forward, her band extendl ou had 'em trailed all about Florida. brother." What was Kidders answer to ed to Burry. .You knew the fight he'd made; and 1 wnnt to thank you," she said, shed made for him, and you didn't give that?" He had to. This girl' meaning m dnmn. I haven't got a friend In the quietly. world.' she said. 'Just a sick kid, and Peggy 'This girl wouldn't've kept her Before Hurry could answer, Rldder a husband I'm strong for shut up In mouth shut If ahe hadn't thought he asked. Why didn't you tell me you'd one cluiuce.' was her the Tombs.' That's why I stayed on lert all this at Southampton?" "'Yes.' Peter argued, 'but be was In your house, using your name, to help All whair "Your accounts.'' Mrs. Rldder exht. At least,.! think It Is. Yon don't reallyHeworking.' was getting a good salary for You couldn't You never felt sorry for Evans gave them to me this plained. And . good clothes, and' a It doing You're anybody. got the truth now morning, but 1 didn't open the enveIne whole truth. Send for your cop. good home, and servants he wasn't lope until Just now. Then I brought It In bis for. Pd've worked paying J let'a have it orer." straight to Mr. Rldder." place. " The old man ant wntching him. "What's this mummery paying "So my mother pleaded, too, Barry your board? . . . Come about And tlien, suddenly, he thrust for In, Hlse curiwith ward the paper, he'd been reading reminded himself, swiftly, ous satisfaction. Then be grinned v hen Harry entered. (TO BE CONTINUED) Ilow do yon explain that?" he asked. again at having thought of that old man's wife aa hit mother. What la Itr , Wsihiagtaa I pasted Steamboat I'd like to meet Mrs. Rldder." he The wireless yon sent my wife two Oa September 7, 1784, George Washtier days after you broke Into my house. said aloud. "I'd like to thank In a certificate atatlng that he ington, and all To make her think that you were her And Winslow, of course, had Inspected James Rumeey'e steamson. When yon wrote that you'd never you." boat model, wrote. In "I . . .do It didn't do much good." Pat re- give It a my opinionpart: seen !rggy. Ton didnt know yon could . . . that the to take But Peters going help anybody. You were perpetrating sponded. discovery la of vast Importance may u cruel hoax to stay on In my house, your case, and fight to a finish, lie be of greatest usefulness In our Inland and feather your nest. la that true, or saye he'll slay home from Europe, If waters." Kumseys Idea of propelling necessary." Isn't his crart by forcibly ejecting a stream T don't 'want to fight," Barry an- of water frmn its stern It IsijV never proved Then why did yon send that sirs-.ge- r swered. Im. not exactly eager to go practical Fulton and others were to . to Jail, but It looks as though I waa bring Washington's optimistic predict booked for It. And I don't wnnt to tlon to fulHIImenL Tho Incident Hurry didn't answer. Ilow could one answer to that nmke any rumpus. That would only demonstrates, however, that as early .iurd. 'mean old man I sent It he-- hurt Jack and Peggy. I want to wipe aa 150 years ago, a few use 1 never hml a mother, und liked all this off the slate, and atari fresh." men like Washington clearly saw the Put nodded. Ilow could pretending Hint 1 hnd? Importance of taking advantage of all I know. You kept saying, 'Let's possible means of Improving comone siiy. f felt aorry for. her. lee. I wanted her in believe Hint ler Imv liiive it over.111 munication between the widely sep"Yon lii-- rd?" loved her?" 'Vie einrv und arated sections of the new Amerloaa Of course. I listened shamelessly." republic. ou Hurry lemiiUied sklent. by plane, covering 24,720 miles in 18 days, 14 hours, 58 minutes. Such a trip seems wonderfully fast now. Soon it will seem wonderfully slow. Air progress is rapid. 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