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Show THE BULLETIN ATTERN THE O RUPERT HUGHES Bsa By RUPERT WNU SERVICE CHAPTER XIV It The perplexity of Jebb solved itself. He beard a rustle and Minima came to him as swiftly as she had vanished. He greeted her with effusion: "Thank heaven, you came, for I was just" "I came to bee that you forgeeve me for to be so rude to you. Jebb Eftendl has been so kind to me. It is to heem I owe that I am free. I am very bad. I have not the right to be angry that "Deceived you. Say it!" said Jebb humbly, but she would not accept the word. "That he did not teUed me the things I have no right to know. Let us be friends once more yes? Tell me you forgeeve me for to be Jealous." "Oh, don't" he was going to say; "don't stop being jealous of met' but he caught himself. There was no time to explain or to let Minima escape. Miss Lud-lawas at Jebb's elbow with the check folded and palmed, as if it were a slight tip. She pretended to shake hands with him and left the money as she released the clasp: "There you are, Mr. Pier Dr. Jebb, and I can never thank you enough." "Don't thank me at all er er Miss Ludlam, may I present to you may I present to you Miss Madame for heaven's sake, hanim effendim, what is your name? She's my dearest friend on earth, but I don't know her name!" "I am Madame Minima Janghir. I did take my father's name." Miss Ludlam was staring with both ears at this mysterious conversation. She was as much interested in Minima as Minima in her. Each was exotic to the other. Miss Ludlam sat down and motioned the other two to sit To explain this ring legend himself was intolerable, so Jebb rose and said: "Won't you two talk to each other a few moments, while I go find out bout the trains to Budapest! I must take the first one." Seeing that Minima was afraid and deeply troubled either at this news or at being left with her supposed rival, Jebb added: "And perhaps Miss Ludlam will tell you the story of the ring." Then he decamped, leaving Minima very erect and disdainful toward Miss Ludlam. When he came back the story had evidently been told, for the two women had their heads close together and were on cordial terms. He said: "I find there is a train at 0:4ft my old friend the Orient Express. It gets me to Budapest an hour before midnight I think I'd better take it There's just time enough for a good drive about Vienna before train time. Would you care to go?" Minima was willing enough to go anywhere with Jebb. and she asked only time enough to get a hat and a wrap. When she was gone, Jennie Ludlam, who could see through a millstone with a hole In it and had guessed at once that Jebb and Minima were infatuated, lingered to say: "She's a perfect dear and such a beauty! I'll take care of her for you while you are in Budapest Your generosity to me was princely. I wish I could repay it in some way but you are so rich. When you come back I have a scheme which might interest you as a physician; though I dare say you don't practice any more; but perhaps you would lend me your advice. This is for charity, too." On a sudden impulse, he made her sit down, and told her briefly the story of his curse, his other personality, the loss of the child, and his arrival in Turkey. And her sympathy came in a rush of warm thoughts implied in a pressure of his hand, a tragl-ridirulo- he" m - look - of compassion, and o a few words: "I understand. I had a brother. a younger brother Wcntworth was his name he would have been about your age now, and he would have been a great man if if it's about a memorial to him that I want to talk to you some day oh, be glad, that you have at least half a life left to you. Dr. Jebb. and. don't despair. You have helped so many in distress. You have helped me. You can. you shall help numberless others. And perhaps some day" He looked a "God bless you!" but he said: "She is coming now." And he rose to meet Minima. Sister Jennie rose, too, and said: "You're a vision, my dear. And since Dr. Jebb Is called to Budapest for a day or so. I want you to go with my . brother and me to the Opera tonight" Minima accepted with a bashful gratitude, and Jebb and she set out for their drive. Along the broad glory of the over the Danube by the Ring-strass- e Aspern Bridge, and down the the horses galloped. In the Prater the turmoil was gay, The long colonnades bewildering. ot chestnut trees in the Haupt-Alle- e ere choked with people. And the Prat-erstrans- dough for me. Prooklyn Rapid Transit closed two points off last night in New Yorick." Checkless repeated more news: "Now the newspapers say the Kink of England comes to Carlsbad next mont'. Now he names de odds on dis afternoon." de horse-race- s But Jebb was not interested in Jebb had a Hungarian horse-racecuriosity to see this Margaret's Island where he and Cynthia had been together. Here George Checkless took pleasure in acting as Vergil to his Dante. They crossed a heavy bridge to the huge emerald set in the tarnished gold of the Danube. He found himself in a rose gar "Why?" "Don't you see? don't you real- den and here as his nostrils wid ize? it would it would be unfair ened over the fragrance, his arm to you; it would be compromising." was suddenly clutched by a peasant "If you do not want me" evidently a gardener, who bombard ed him with a shower of gutturals of The distress her "Oh!" sight unnerved him; his love was at bis which he supposed to be peasant very lips. But he could not say Hungarian. "What's the matter with the old anything without saying everything. When they reached the hotel It boy?" Jebb asked Checkless. "Does was so late that he had no more he think I'm going to carry off his than time to make his train, and she garden?" At length the interpreter Interpret less than time to dress for the Opera, which begins at seven in Vi ed: "He says how dare you came here." enna. "Isn't it a public garden?" So their good-b- y was a mere exto meet "Yes, but he says that you came of change hearty promises in the here monf or so ago and brlnged again, and a short hand-gri- p a little girl vit you, and then valk crowded hotel corridor. off and leave her to strangers to Of course, that evening sister let slip an allusion to the pathetic protect" To Checkless amazement this hei nous accusation seemed to fill Jebb with delight He embraced the d gardener and treat ed him as a long-loprodigal. air was tremulous with music from the Viennese and the Magyar bands in the cafes. At the entrance was a circle where stood a naval monument on a stone column with bronze prows protruding. It reminded Jebb of the entrance to Central Park via Columbus Circle and its monument He longed to be there again, and above all he longed to have Minima there with him. "Jebb Effendi goes to Budapest thees evening to find the little child. Could I not help by to go too?" "You could of course you could, but but I could hardly take you with me." s. earth-smudge- o a sort of delirium. When I came to my senses I was in another coun try, and I couldn't remember. Checkless almost swooned at so much history in such essence. So! Den all yet got to do it is to find the gentlemans and lady vat and keeps the child in cold storatch say: 'Here ve are again.' " "We must find them at once. What was their name?" On hearing the question translat ed, the gardener made them wait and while he went to the tool-houbrought from his coat a soiled and wrinkled card bearing this, and this only: NIKOLAI POGODIN se affliction of poor Dr. Jebb. thinking Minima knew of it; and of course Minima extorted the whole story from her before they parted. As she crept into her bed her heart was full of pity for her beloved, wrestling like another Jacob with a ghostly enemy, but her heart rejoiced, too, with a radiant happt ness, since now her intuition told her that this, and no other cause or person, was the reason for his as perity with her. Also in Pest there Is a Hotel Bristol, and Jebb woke there the next morning. He had not been long in Budapest before he learned that the Margit-Szigwas, as Minima had imagined, an island in English, Margaret's Island. But though it split the Danube, it lay so far to the north that he could not see it from cl bis window. s; He took his breakfast at one of the s on the promenade, one that have never of the coffee-housclosed since they first opened. It gave Jebb untold relief to find Eng lish the favorite language of the town, the affectation of the Magyar. He had not finished his breakfast when a man at the next table ad dressed him in a rather thick dia lect and introduced himself as a though his name was even when he unpronounceable, handed Jebb his card with a legend like a line of pied type: Gyorgy Czeklesz. He asked Jebb to call him "George Checkless" for short and for easy. He explained, without being asked, that be had been swept into America on one of those tidal waves that nearly depopulated many an Hungarian village; he had become naturalized, had prospered, and returned to his country with Yankee ideas. After some desultory conversation Mr. Checkless rose with a: "Excoose, please. I got to go and bear de newspaper." "Hear the newspaper!" "Sure. Ve got a telephone newspaper. Ain't you beard him? Come listen once." He led Jebb to a telephone-lik- e affair on the wall and putting the receiver to Jebb's ear watched while Jebb listened to a clear voice spilling consonants lavishly: "You don't understand it? No? Let me listen." He took Jebb's place and a startled expression came over him. "Dere goes anudder bunch of coffee-house- es fellow-- American, gen-tlema- B 33-in- the card. He dined with Checkless at the Bristol. When they had ordered dinner, Checkless went to telephone He came to the telephone-papeback beaming: "A man has called up the paper and says he knows somet'lnk. They give him this address and he comes here any minute." At last a hotel servant brought a man who had asked for Jebb at the desk. Jebb asked Checkless to ask the man to sit down and feast The stranger answered rather petulant ly for himself: "Ain't I got any English? Ain't 1 gone to New York many times?" "You are not Mr. Pogodin, then.' "Me him? If I was I should yoomp into the Donan. He is one dam' reskel, that faller. My name is Las-zl- o Pataky, proprieting the Pension Pataky, rates reasonable, food sub r. 149 MIS' Making Amends Was Bit Out of rapcrhanger's Line Whitley was having some dec orating done, including the of the dining-rooand the bath-rooHis wife was away, so he left the men on the job when he went to business. When he returned they were just finishing. But there had been-sommistake. The dining-roownflei paper was in the bath-rooshowed an elegant! the dining-roodesign in green tiles and purple' m m. I m m water-lilie- s. USING this one clever pattern you can make a pretty complete play wardrobe for your young hopeful. It includes a t, a sweet little scrap of a frock, and a nice, scoopy, bonnet, and every one of the three trifles takes practically no time to make. They're all just as comfortable to play in as they Lady, lady . are cute to look at. consists of straps It If HOUSECLEANING time; The itl and gathers in the back, and is Better perfectly straight in the front. All your furniture, all your woodwork and The yoke of the frock is extended noors cso nave sgsin tnat silken son ana into wings of kimono sleeves, and lustrous look tbtj used tt bart. the winter film of diitasw them! sun-sui- eye-shadi- ng sun-su- it O-Ce- dar Watch Lowly Maggot an Aid To Flower Breeders 0-(SHa- r of the loathsome maggot in of more development lovely flowers for the gardeners MOM, WAX, DUSf MS, CLEANUS AND n of the world constitutes a FLY AND MOTH SPRAT of science of the phase flower breeding. Ilasty Judgment Often in his work the flower Haste in giving judgment Is breeder obtains outstanding, sin criminal. Pubilius Syrus. specimens which give of sensational. becoming promise new flower creations. This re markable plant individual must be f TSE V the little-know- gle-pla- nt from protected (cross-pollinatio- contamination by n) brain-burnin- process. The explanation probably g Is to be found, Dr. Quastel said, in some physiological substance, as yet undiscovered, which is extremely sensitive to the narcotics and which acts as a carrier of hydrogen in the neighbor the breeder encloses it, as it grows, in a muslin cage. If the plant is to mature prop erly and produce seed, however, its flowers must be pollinated, but only with the pollen grains of that plant itself. Scientists call this flowers. So "selfing." Pollination by hand of all the caged plants on a flower breeding Mr. Pataky was a man of great be long, tedious work, would implot was He chiefly excitability. Ferry-Mors- e so Gordon Morrison, Mr. and that with the fact pressed Mrs. Pogodin had gone away owing Seed Station hybridist, enlists the him money, and that they had re- aid of the maggot. It is the mag' fused to pay for a vase and a pitcher got of the objectionable blowfly, moreover. Blowfly maggots in the child had broken. the pupae stage are placed in the to offered for the flower When Jebb pay cage, subsequently matur breakages of Cynthia, Mr. Pataky ing into flies. The insects are ex The of almost amiable. became gist and they fly from duel with him tremely active a long to flower on the caged flower was that Mr. and Mrs. Pogodin tried an excellent job of to sell French typewriters in vain plant, doing from one blos spreading pollen with the American competition som to another. The plant then makes. proceeds to produce its prized (TO BE COMTIXUED) crop of seed. Thus the maggots do their part to help make the on world more beautiful. Even so, let's hope flower breeders find a complicated chemical process of tisway to put them out of existence sue respiration. after they have done their polThe report formed part of a symlination chore. chemof a new field on the posium istry of life the precise processes Actions the Criterion by which the body transforms foodstuffs into the energy of living by A slender acquaintance with the or burning, the world must convince every man process. It has been impossible to that actions, not words, are the study this in living organisms, but true criterion of the attachment light now is being shed on it by of friends; and that the most lib e It eral professions of good-wi- ll techniques. improved are is the basic process of life itself. from surest far the very being A revolutionary development, demarks of it. George Washington. clared Prof. R. A. Paters of Oxford, has been the finding that the three-cornere- d oxygen-combinin- ed Brain g, test-tub- The brain, like every other part of the body, serves as a furnace in which sugars and starches, the fuel of life, are "burned" by means of the oxygen carried in the blood stream. This process provides the energy for mental activities. Even in relatively low concentrations, Dr. Quastel explained, the narcotics greatly inhibit the consumption by the cerebral cells of certain of the breakdown products of the sugars and starches notably the blood sugar glucose and the pyruvic acid which Is one of the intermediary substances in the Watch, the clean wood (die or linoleum) take on the uatma ft and mktn ink you loved s yeir, tin yean, ago. Askfor gnmm lime." Experiments Show Narcotic Effect bio-chem- i "What are you going to do about t?" demanded the householder. "I dunno," said the paperhang- er, scratching his head. "I'd will ingly move the bath but it I a , plumber's job." long-despis- Narcotics, such as tobacco and at cohol, dampen the fires of the brain. Test tube experiments with minced brain tissue and slices of the cortex, the "thinking" part of the brain, which show this hitherto unsuspected effect were described before the British Association fur the Advancement of Science, by Dr. J. H. Quastel, Oxford university UKII.E PATTERN DEPT. Krw Montgomery Ave. Calif. Saa KraarUt'O Enclose IS cents In coins tor Size Pattern No Nam Address SEW INC Checkless gleaned from this: "He is a Rossian name, and he sells French typewriters in Poland." "I see that" said Jebb. "But this does not tell where he lives in Budapest; ask him." The gardener turned the card over and put an earthy finger on a penciled address on the back of the card. But it had been blurred till nothing was legible but "Pension ky . . . Ulloiut" said Jebb. "Who Is Ulloi-ut?- " "He is a street one of the longest streets in Pest" The gardener could remember nothing more. The number of the house had been there, but it was rubbed off his memory as well as n, Checkless pieced together the man's fragmentary story. jte stop-by-ste- VARSOVIE ET PARIS Abruptly Checkless was smitten with an idea. XV CHAPTER "I got it" he said. "Ve go to the telephone newspaper and tell After much parley, Checkless them they got to tell everybody in pieced together the man's fragmen- Budapest all about it and maybe tary story into this narrative: sure somebody telephones to the of"He says one day in the efter-noo- fice something about it" you are came here vit a nice The vocal advertisement was aclittle gyermek child, and he makes cepted for its news value without notice of her, she is so pretty, and charge and put upon the wires while she loves his flowers so. He cannot they waited. understand it vat she say, but he loves her because she is so lovink The rest of the day Jebb spent in for his roses. But you did look tired wandering up and down Ulloi street and sick and you sit on a bensh studying every house and seeing in and go like you take a little sleep, each one a den where Cynthia was "The little girl she plays all the incarcerated. I P, rows of braid trim every possible edge of both the frock and the bonnet. Simple as it is, the pattern p sew chart includes a as well as complete directions. Gingham, seersucker, percale and chambray all come in colors which are particularly nice for tots' play tugs like this. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1928-is designed fur sizes 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 years. Sie 3 requires 3 yards of material without nap for the ensemble; 5'i yards ricrac braid. Send order to; Flaubert e st time and talks vit the gardener. He does not know what lengwitch she speaks it but they make signs and become grand friends. She helps him trim the rosehedge, and gets vit the thorns sticked, but is very brave and does not make a cry Ink. In stead she makes such a la ugh ink "Soon a lady and gentleman is sit on another bensh and watches the little girl, and they call her and she talks by them. But they are not understanding her either. The man is take her on his lap and lets her listen his watch, and they tell the gardener they weesh God had to them a little child gave like that "Long time the child plays here, and then she makes a looking for you. But you are not there. You had gone out of sight The little girl is afraid, but she tries not to cry. The lady and gentleman stay a long while to keep her brave, for they say all the time you surely come back. Then the lady and say, Ve take her to our house and if you see the man you tell him we got the child.' "The gardener says. 'You better tell the police, too.' And they say. Yes, they tell the police; but all the same they like to keep the baby. "Long times go by and the gardener is almost forgetted it alL When today comes you again and he has got such a big mad at you he wants to fight it It is you are looking for a child and you look like a mans vat looses a child." "I am the man," said Jebb; "I was ill, and I wandered away in a EPARTHENT lllliilliUiAAiAi, HUGHES Machines-a-ecrir- tAAAAA oxygen which comes out of the cell in the form of carbon dioxide is not the same oxygen which entered. The final combustion with Its liberation of energy, he said, now is known to be due to a succession of d oxidations with and highly specific stages. Each stage, he said, is known to depend on certain catalysts, or enzymes, normally present in the body. 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