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Show BASIN RECORD HOW TO FIND OUT Woman’s Place in Home? IF YOU HAVE. ACID STOMACH Well, Not Absolutely By HAROLD TITUS - Copyright by Harold Titus CHAPTER VII—Continued OPENING _ His last line was: “This deal Steve is only way out, in MacDonald’s Money hands must be Thursday at four p, m,” To the operator, he said: that. STORY And Pll wait right a man : until snap canoe, craft was beached and there Mac. Donald stood with bared head while tears ran down his wrinkled cheeks. “Oh,a gude lad he was! A fine, gude lad. ’Nd a grand angler... . Why .. . Why’d he chance th’ rapid?” Franz debated with himself craft“ily. ° “The queer part of it all, Mr. MacDonald; is that the fellow was not Young Jim Flynn. The real was drunk over was doesn’t matter. What he was doing here I could only guess.” He said that significantly and the Laird stared at him in sharp query. “My guess Flynn would tried to ' ‘had gotten be buy this: from nowhere, that you that he and knew his son was a worthless bum, that he found this fellow who makes a _ good enough appearance and who surely is a darned good fisherman and sent him in here with the deliberate. purpose of winning your confidence and friendship.” - “Ye think so? Ye think that, lad? ... 1 wonder...” An irate gleam commenced to show in the Laird’s eyes, “sQueer happenin’s, _ queer things. Ah, I’m sick of it all! Age rides heavy on th’ shoulders! A great relief I felt when I signed his option but if. he’s’ gone, ut’s gone wi’ him ’nd I’ve got th’ timber back again! If Jim Flynn’s a smart trickster, no more will I have _to do wi’ him but [ve th’ property back noo ’nd just when I'd com-menced to reckon on other invyest- ments.” It was . hour to | Franz’s snatched have Cleverly opportunity, from been his what. happened defeat he played yesterday. his cards. Each word he spoke was well calculated. They walked back where the old man while Franz sympathy to the Laird’s paced the room listened and waited in evident . .. waited. _ His waiting was rewarded and, at dawn, he started for Shoestring himself, an option in his possession. _ He presented his document to the register of deeds and watched that worthy scratch his head as he : read it. “Well, that’s the second option on this description!” he declared. “Second !” Franz’s voice was shrill. was in Young Jim Flynn “Sure. waited He_ it. with yesterday _ around town until this noon for a »° telegram.” “But... Hes But Why, 7 ghosts he couldnt... 40 not transact busi- _ ness. He had been thwarted again but his agile mind grasped one shred of “His wasn’t hope. was . a it?” : seven-day : “Yes. ‘Dated “Record this, teen. option, ~ Thursday.” then. It’s : for fif- He went out of the building and walked slowly to the edge of town, throwing himself down under a tree and trying to plan. Telegrams had _ been exchanged between Shoestring and Chicago relating to this .transaction. Now, if a man could*know what instructions contained. ... Down at the those railroad messages station, which was also the telegraph office, a figure stood for long _ shadow of the building, in the deep After a _ time, seeing no one. hearing no one, but the latter slipped an fron bar beneath outwits him. She panted. “I should not go before he is dead. He is old; sick. and him only a dozen. miles before the route entered swampy country that could be handily traveled only by teams, but it completed that much had McNally before trip of the put his weight on it catch give with a a tinkle. Slipping into Drake, the in country first plan Franz’s taken had which the : - arrival the Until of Steve well- a beneath cached canoe. pack-sack concealed i: many months had progressed fashioning, steadily. Once upon a.time, he had Sought to attach himself to Old Jim Flynn, render the services of which he was capable and profit thereHis imfrom, as most men profit. pulse then had been rather decent ;: he was willing to give value for what he received. Then Kate Flynn had come to Good-Bye with her father. In.the beginning she appeared to like him, but her intuition had it that the man was not what he appeared to be on the surface, that he was not one, even, for her father to depend on. this became clear to Franz would know ae VIII Young ing leader, Jim he experienced a moment of great surprise. Then Franz’s words at came Steve against to prove him back. had no he had attempted murder. Sure enough; the shotgun was gone. He was chagrined at not haying taken more precautions. How-. item When of his hold Steve over Drake Mary aided the he told town to himself, have pur- chases loaded, Franz hailed an automobile, parleying with the driver, and was driven northward on the Good-Bye road. The car could take Bott Pec See aa SiNae a ere de a in SNP Gls SNA a la ich chase Sake ce ae ae PER eSGs should care of cent rassed. — “I say what is You live alone, They tol’ me at good. I not like don’ work, Be so: you are kind. I can cook good. school I ean cook some. Some girls Me, I work. My father die. I come here and cook for you. I do it all. Sweep. Wash. Sew. I be your girl.” Red swept into Steve’s cheeks, She searched his face with a probing gaze, almost as a faithful dog might, expecting largess. “When Old Jim come, I go away. When white girls come, I go away. When you go to town, me I stay by camp. I think everything when I got bark and split cedar. What you say, Jim?” _ of weekly salary of professional and ‘business women in New York city was $58.” 2 These facts about women were gathered in a research project undertaken by Mary Sydney Branch, instructor in economics at Western college, Oxford, Ohio, and fellow at the University of Chicago, for the ChiOmega Sorority. Her findings, with complete satistical reports, were published by the before the law, was little better than that of a child, .a slave, or a lunatic.” Single women couldn’t hold office and married women couldn’t manage their own property. Even today, Miss Branch related, some legal discriminations still remain, In 27 states the right of jury Service is withheld, in three states the husband can take his wife’s wages and in some states a woman cannot go into business without consent of her husband. FOR BETTER over fifteen Miss Branch toward building a better social and economic order, Ocean Derelicts Where a vessel will drift, once her crew has abandoned her, and how long she will stay afloat, are problematical, She may sink in a few ‘days and she may float for years, The American schooner Myer G. Sargent appears to hold the long distance record for floating as a derelict. Abandoned for some reason by her crew off Cape Hatteras she was next observed 600 miles to the eastward, but soon after she was sight- 5 If you have Acid Stomach, don’t worry about it. Follow the simple directions iven above. 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The average weekly salary paid to women factory workers in Mississippi in 1928 was $8.29 and in Rhode Island $16.36, . the United States, 7,740,000, are women. “Women are beneficiaries of 80 per “Women represent 80 consumer buying power. 10,632,227 Sleeplessness Loss of Appetite Mouth Acidity Nausea Sour Stomach — Auto-intoxication the girl In way, and failed. He tried blackmail, a coward’s weapon, and failed was no longer of major importance, again. At MacDonald’s, because of ‘The man could tell‘his story of hayhis regard for the old Scot’s nature, ing discovered the genuine Young he was forced to stand by and see Jim elsewhere in the country al- the last plan he had laid for permost any time, now; it would make Sonal gain go crashing down. little difference to any person. but But he was no quitter, this Franz! Kate. And when he read those telegrams, Early on a Sunday morning Mceat Shoestring, hope came to life ‘Nally harnessed his light team and again. Money was coming into the started for town to meet the arrival country; money in a quantity which due the next. day. was in itself disturbing to consider, Drake would have driven to the But that money meant more than railroad himself but the fire hazard | the possession of so many thou-. continued to increase, and if a burnsands. It renewed his faith that ing started he wanted to be on the some day he would be the agent for job; furthermore, he was hoping a transactio n involving the transfer that LaFane would come, either of the. much coveted MacDonald with Young Jim or bearing word of him. He must be present to have property. He had unmasked Steve Drake at the earliest possible moment for the Laird at the proper moment,. whatever news might be forthcomIf that option could be caused to ing. lapse he felt certain that the eccen- Had he gone to Shoestring himtrie old Scot would refuse to renew self he might have observed things a deal with one who had _ hoodthat old McNally missed. winked him or with a corporation For one thing, he might have seen Franz idling within the build- which had had such.a one in its service. So, the option must lapse. ing, watching as Mac escorted the bf * * ae * ae E arrival toward the waiting wagon. He was even close enough to hear Steve was in thd store when McMcNally say as he looked down at Nally drove into the clearing. Mae the brief case which was lifted. in had planned to spend the night at the last farmhouse between headquery: ee quarters and town and Drake, after “Oh, that’s all right. Jim’ll breakfast, had busied himself there likely take it right down to the Laird’s. Anyhow, we got a safe ’n to be present at the arrival. th’ store to lock it up in.” He had awakened as usual when After the team trotted up into the chorus of bird songs commenced ever, us Of Frequent Headaches Feeling of Weakness Indigestion the wage paid to men. In New York state it was 54 per cent. ; the federal government in 1928 was “Of the 18,000,000 stockholders earned 59 per cent of . her departure from the squalid He had evidence that tol’ tories women HERE ARE THE SIGNS: Nervousness Neuralgia This was bad enough but, added to these other failures which could be laid only at the feet of the one who posed as a Flynn, was the When Steve re-entered his cabin on the return from town to find it in a sorry state of disarrangement the Laird’s boasted that they by old people, Take That is right. I do. Now, what did a man say to a proposal such as this? Steve Drake said nothing at all. He had not a word at his command for that interval. In Mary’s plan was nothing unclean, nothing offen- what decency had been in his character before was consumed by the pan after he. had taken up the fire of his greed and ruthlessness, Nothing remained for him -in his many details that were await‘ing his decision Steve re-read that relationship with the Flynns except gain, telegram from Kate Flynn and alBut he did not betray himself in though one phase of her reaction the beginning. He pretended a congave him a feeling of vast achievetinuing friendship with Polaris unment another factor gave him pro-| til his connections with rival timber nounced dismay. owners were perfected. Then he If LaFane failed to do for Young had commenced his campaign Jim what Steve had hoped he to might do, Kate’s heart would be undermine Old Jim. Everything seemed to be going well. broken. If he were making progThe arrival of the man for whom ress, Steve had no word of it and he was to form such an antipathy each day that was added to the abfrustrated the success of that sence of the two reduced his hope scheme, His hope of sending Jim ‘by just so much. Drake knew that the time for Flynn tobogganing into ruin so his holdings might go to add to that his unmasking was at hand. Beempire yond a doubt Old Jim would send growing of timberlands which Franz’s principals desired an attorney to close the timber deal was quickly cooled and the chances were that any lawby the new Signs of life about the job which yer or agent so trusted would have followed the arrival of an outstandhad dealings with Polaris in the past, and well. school Some of the other facts in “Women and Wealth”: In 1,600 representative Illinois fac- received by women, “Seventy-seven thousand women had an annual income of over $5,000, the average being $19,129. University of Chicago Press under “But he die pretty soon. I can the title, “Women and wealth.” go. Yo’ng Jim,” she said, “you treat Miss Branch, in presenting her me good. You are the only yo’ng study of women as taxpayers, ownman who ever treats me good. You ers of property, gainfully employed are... you are .. .” She. hesi‘workers, and as managers of the tated, seeming to search for the family income, briefly traced the proper word. Then, successful, progress of women’s rights and ecospoke it with as much emphasis, it nomic position. ‘$s likely as she had ever placed on “Several generations ago,” she an utterance. “You are kind.” Steve laughed, deeply embar- said, “a woman’s economic position, more than a start on the way home When CHAPTER At stay ‘em. From there Franz went afoot, headed toward Good-Bye lake. He swam the lower river and, at night, rolled himself in a blanket taken from a And in the little camp beyond the Mad Woman two men lay under the arching stars and talked on and on, - “You’ve got it to do,” LaFane said again and again. “You can do-it; you must do it. In less than a week, now, you’ll be as fit as you ever were. . . . And you can and you must; you can and you must!” The boy beside him trembled a little. on Moose lake when this fellow showed up and passed himself off for the one they’d been expecting. He admitted it to me but I didn’t think it was any of my affair so I said nothing to anyone.” “But who was he? What was he doin’?”. chs “J can’t answer that. Who he way, “God’s in his heaven, all’s well with the world. The option is grand news but indication of what you have done with Dad’s trust brings the greatest happiness I have known. Twenty-five thousand currency will be delivered to Good-Bye Tuesday. Have team at Shoestring Monday noon, ore “Kate.” He spoke in a hushed tone, as one does of tragedy. He led the old man slowly to where the wrecked Jim the the room he closed the window cautiously behind him. He found Steve’s message, signed with the single word, Jim; and after further searching, located the reply: And this day was one of those occasions. He stood on a high point beside the Laird and showed him where he had found Steve Drake’s Young of a window sash, and heard the “Send here out Drake, s an answer comes.” Se. 8, - e. & > OG eerie Butter would not melt in Franz’s mouth at times, McNally had said. _ OF THE Service tience, apparently for his appear. ance, : with his four-year-old son, is rescued from a blizzard : Young Jim stared at him and his by Jim Flynn, big timber operator, whom “Hullo, Mary! Something: wrong? Drake has robbed. Flynn gives lip twisted as he fought back emoDrake another chance, and the father, until his death, impresses Has Franz been after you again? J on the tion, .. ; boy, Steve, the debt they owe “Old Jim.” Twenty years later, Steve meets haven’t seen him in days and I’¢ “I don’t hate you,” he said quiet- “Young Jim” Flynn, his benefactor’s son, Sent by Old Jim, incapacitated wondered about you.” through an accident in which Kate, his daughter, is temporarily blinded, ly. “I’m only hating myself... to take charge of the company’s——the Polaris—woods operations, “Nothing wrong. Franz don’t the youth | the myself that was!” sé is indulging in a drunken spree. Learning of Polaris’ dire straits, and come by our camp.” hopBusily, then, the other began ing to do something for Old Jim, Steve hastens to the company’s headquar“Well, if nothing’s wrong dumping the contents of the grub ters. He finds Franz plotting against the Tlynns, Worsting Franz in a fist What brings you _ here again, sack on the rock. He smiled serene- fight, the Polaris crew assumes that he is Flynn’s Son, and Steve takes Mary?” charge, as Jim.” A photograph of Kate Flynn, which Steve finds, ly as he cooked that hearty break- immensely “Young increases his desire to aid Old Jim. He gains the warm “You want me?” she asked -so friendtast. ship of LaFane, queer woods scout. Steve adds to Franz’s hate by driving simply and directly that it quite zs * e ee g e him away from Mary Wolf, young Indian girl whom he has been abusing, took his breath. escapes a death trap set for him. Franz discovers Drake’s impersona_ Steve Drake wrote his telegram and tion, Threatened “Want you? Why... What... with disclosure, Steve accuses Franz of setting the death to Kate Flynn with great care, He trap, exhibiting evidence, and the man dare not act. Steve sends LaFane to That is, I don’t know what you’re told all that had happened as briefly find Young Jim and sober him up. Se parating the youth from his compandriving at,” he evaded lamely. as was possible but re-read it care- ions, the woodsman begins the work of “sobering.” Steve wins the friendThe girl stirred slowly on the log. ship of MacDonald, owner of timber land the Flynns need, by his angling fully to be certain that -no word skill, and the Scotsman gives him an option for Polaris “My father, he die bye-’n’-bye,” to buy his timber. important to the proposed transacA first payment of $25,000 within seven days is required. she said. “Not long, now. He gets Knowing of the tion had been omitted. option, and wanting the timber for a rival company, Franz plans to put worse. He breathes fast ... So.” Stephen oe CHAPTERS WNU Those who seek to refute man’s contention that “the place of women is in the home” have plenty of arguments to present today. They can say that: ; “Thirty-eight per cent of the $9,000,000,000 of income reported to aN lind “ _ UINTAH His Breath, Sive. 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