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A Romance Of the Secret Service
BY GEORGE GIBBS
The YeIlOW DOUe
Author Of "The Flaming sword" MAD


cap etc.
eyes cleaned with a new hope. She took the
crumped rice papers out and looked at them.
Then In flash the thought came TO her.
you know the Information contained In
these papers," she asked in an accent OF
mo" he replied shortly 81 merely
glanced at them
You hadn't the chance to study them?'
still she hesi,ated, "But what--what is
Rizzio?'
lie walked to the door OF the room. open
ing IL suddenly Then he shut ii quietly and
coming back to the FIRE took the poker and
made a hole between the glowing Goals
Burn 'em !" he commanded.
She obeyed him wonderingly and together
they watched the package of rice papers
When the last vestige OF them had dlsap-
pearcd. they sat together on the davenport,
cyril thoughtful, the girl bewildered.
what is Riz2io?" she repeated HE told
me that he was an agent Of the English
Government"
II cant tell YOU" he whispered hoarsely.
you understand
mo, don't. It's your word against Ills.
would rather believe you than him. | want
60, cyril. God knows | want to"
Didn't / asl; you to bum the papers?
Didn't he try to prevent it,
cant you scec II he were acting for
England. It wouldn't matter what became
of EN- IL they didn't reach Germany"
"Oh. thought of that--but what YOU have
told me hewilders me Why should you run
away with secrets OF England--given you
by a traitor who is about to pay the penalty
with-with death" What does IL mean?
Why didn't YOU take those papers at once TO
the War Office Why did captain Byheld
give them to YOU? lIe--a traitor--to you-
cyril. II IL all so horrible / am frightened.
Your danger--l;Gzio's men, here--tonight--
all about us"
II they were English secret service men"
tErtl put ir quietly wouldn't they come
OF the law@"
=, Yes. There must be other reasons why
they can't What is the contest between
you and Riz2o? Tell me. Tell me every.
thing Will believe you. Haven't I kept
your trust? II ! could do that--for your
silent for Engands salIe?'
Her arms We're about his neck and her
lips very close TO his, but he turned his
head away so that the temptation might
not be too strong for him.
81 can't" he muttered. "I cannot speak
even TO YOU. | am sworn to secrecy"
SHE dropped upon his arms and then moved
away dcspairngly. IL was the failure of
him.
'Qh, YOU won't let mo believe in you. You
wont let me. It's too great Il test you're
but the worst witness is your silence.'
lie stood by the mantel his head lowered.
| at IS hard FOR you--hard for us both,
| he said softly. but can't tell you anythin'
| at her with pity. She had sunk upon the
divan her head upon her arms In despair
| too deep for tears.
| her shoulder.
You must trust in me If you can will
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Hunting, a Husband
BY MARY DOUGLAS
fCopyriDh'D
CHAPTER VII
Gaining a Mans Interest

CAPTAIN DONOVAN and | stroled out
~ over tho grass The moon shed a soft
becoming light on everything
We had Just left the prettiest girl OF the
house-party standing alone on the veranda
easy victory.
And what is SO funny7" asked the Cap
tain looking down at me.
,roh, human nature" answered slowly.
But the captain let IL drop there lie
spoke casually Of his life In camp.
20, do tell me more about it," said Gag
The Captain went on and on He spoke
on one theme. 1t was himself. There 1
learned Learned my first lesson. Let a man talk
about himself, II you would interest him.
But this must bore you" said Captain
Donovan, stopping before some hour glass
chairs, still grouped upon the lawn
"Oh, no. l love to hear IT," And began
TO question him What did he hope TO
lie was launched again, III all men were
as easy as this I thought triumphantly.
Then the Captains voice interrupted my
You're the most interesting girl I've met
here" he said. And / knew he meant IL,
too. Yet. what had I done? had listened
Ior perhaps an hour or so to man talking
Perhaps we should join the others" I
NO. not yet" begged the Captain, catch
did not pull IT away. What matter? 1t
ment he had imprisoned both my hands He
kissed me- But it fell unfortunately on tho
tip Of my nose. i did not pull myself away.
I did not even cry out. For the experience
was all too new and exciting to me. Instead
] rose slowly and said in as calm a voice
as could summon, Let us go back to the
house"
We did. on the way talked about the
trees--the half-hidden statues ANYTHING
that struck our gaze.
We parted casually. too, on the veranda
He Joined one of the laughing groups. |
watched him. lie laughed. He fiirted
Then II was that I realized that had
| made my first mistake. II came to me sud
| denly. ] had lost this mans interest. lie
saw me easily gained. Too easily, to be
| interesting.
Even the little blue-eyed Fee" would
have known better how to handle the situa-
ton l met her innocent eyes as / slipped
into the drawing room. you were gone
long" she said. did you enjoy yourself? %
/ knew Mt once I had lost one maybe friend.
l had made one enemy.
Then ] saw Dell Merle with n sober clad
figure beside her She was coming toward
me. / had moment of panic, 1t must be
Mademoiselle Nerin What should | do? l.,
who knew nothing OF France. Yes, il was
Mademolsele--
Tomorrow-Tate Clears the Way.
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Activities of Interest
Among Roxboroughites

Mr.. and Mrs Ralph Pope of 1853 Mana
yunk avenue, have returned from six
weeks automobile trip to the coast cities OF
Florida.
Mrs. William Somerset, OF Ridge avenue,
has returned TO Roxborough after spending
the winter in Florida.
Mr.. william +. Dixon, president OF the
Twenty-frst Ward Board Of Trade, spent
last week visiting the odd Fellows orphan
ages throughout the State.
Friends of Mr.. William Edward Shappell,
of Manayunk avenue. will regret to hear of
his illness from appendicitis.
The Junior Young Peoples Society of the
Roxborough Baptist Church. which meets on
Friday evenings In the social hall, has elected
the following offcers President, Mr.. Earl
Tlppin vice president. Mr.. J. Walter Kelly.
Jr secretary, Miss Ida Pfsterer, and treas
urer. Miss M. Elizabeth Adams.
Mrs. William Haeberlein will entertain the
members of her card club on Thursday eve
ming at her home on Markle street.
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the familiar smell Of his pipe tobacco which
came through the cracks and Keynote.
little later Betty Heathcothe came in pre-.
pared for what she called back hair talk
but found her guest so unresponsive that at
last she went into her own room and bed.
Doris lay for a while watching the line OF
was doing and what the night was to bring
forth. one memory persisted In the chaos
Of the nights events. Cyril didn't know the
contents Of the papers and yet he had com.
quieted her, and at last she saw the light In
hts room go out then, after Il time, In spite
OF her wearness She slept.
She awakened, trembling with terror.
listening for she knew not what. And then
as her wits slowly came 20 her, she was
her. They were suppressed. secret. and
strange but none the less terrible the shuf-
fling OF feet hoarse whispers. and the creak-
ing OF stralning furniture. She sat upright,
slipped to the floor quickly, and getting into
the dressing gown ut the foot OF the bed.
stood for a moment In the middle Of the room.
resolution she moved swiftly TO Betty Heath
cotc's room and, after assuring herself that
her hostess still slept closed the door softly
and passed the bolt
Cyrils room continued the hard breathing
of men who seemed with one accord TO be
trying TO keep their struggles silent. Aware
Of her danger, but considering II less than
the physical need for immediate action, with
trembling fingers she turned the key and
quickly opened the door
fun of II terror which a break might reveal
cyril What Is it?" she managed TO whis-
per.
figures upon the floor in the corner OF tho
room.
"Cyrl'" she repeated
CONTINUED TOMORROW
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Social Activities

soS,h and AM Mrs Samuel d. Warmer, OF 1876
tons tshteenth street. have issued invita-
evsn,, .or dance to be given on Friday
Elo,sa s., IN honor of their daughter, Miss
oysr marriner, who is at home from West
rlvsn conmittee In charge OF the dance 10 be
dslrh,'o on saturday. March 23, at the Phila-
FrsrnsS Sricket Club, for the benefit of the
Fh.n Fshn.an War Orphans, includes Miss Mary
Emilia %. Miss Mildred Longstreth. Miss
beth b9 ~ Noble, Miss Mabel Reid, Miss Eliza
MA ,,xyior. Miss Eloise Warmer and Miss
Jsm..w w,dener. The patronesses are Mrs
strssh 9, Fahnestock. Mrs. William w. Long
Pottsr Mrs N, Francis Noble. Mrs. Wilson
ReiS MISS Matilda Potter, Mrs Henry L.
Wsr,,r rs' Roland L. Taylor. Mrs. Samuel d.
b. WEI WEI Mrs Joseph Wear and Mrs. Joseph
a. Moame 40 Bruneau. wife of Justice Bruneau,
ru.st supreme Court of Montreal, is the
,.ss =. Miss Helen Louise Coates, Of 100
1lii = ,wenty-hrst street. Madame Bruneau
Sspr 90 to Atlantic City.
26saa.t Harry Q. ,tlls9n. d the First
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Copyright 1918. n. Appleton aud com7dhD
THE STONY rutts ran

-. THE STORY THUS FAR
Do, All Ens,and Is mystiaed by "rhe yellow
.S ssss Ti,. ss'a"s "s. iSss sSs ;Ss; ;Ss
ssarss have fard rp; tG oca Ensans ind nh1 OF
I ,hips ar SSe,enses have been sggals futile. The
R,i,.h %I,Y terrible That i%sre s % "lsss in tss
are Invariably simuta@neou@s @ @ with the movemsnt a
ton for .i,LiIf LEFTY HEATHCOTE had = reputa-
the resriet.s s, she moSt su.ssssfnl dinners y,
members ~. and Eneiand's most poweriui men.
az s"s sn1,y nsht the story onsns he
%ssy sSsG. ess"S .%SS "" EtSst Ss h,mss wsSie
'',si H. fT TsTeiis ESo .sSss .ro,.
81 S. S%nseS S'is BoR sh
a" Gsfi2H GfFTSiN '"'frf.sr %sTp .';''%s
The War os. ofS,, ,rs now on sTsss IN, su, s
n"rt4s "tms q tIe m, drnsr md even afsr he de-
S'rectsd i,r nsalnst his cour.se and his loyalty
During I" u 'Gi I" the nM "om,sr,a,ion ,rammers,.,
ask ss , Gaptan n,ield for some cisaretis paGer.
Minute ups"SSs."iui T'S S%,r,,"s 5 S!Sni,! a.I I
nsss;.d ns:. R,so him
"c;WSpSts WS., f,h.lo.. , threat q elSesnrs; ,,.,.
IlHihinerSIey taxes Doris nome thetr
ear is follnwed by another autonobile and the
race for The possrSsion nf the cigarette rancrs
bfsins. Hammcrslcy wins the FIRST advantage
wien he succeeds in eHertiny his nancce's
cscnne after she has promised TO guard the
nackase. whose contents She does not know.
however. her curiosity gains the upper hand.
ana she finds inscribed the movements Of
nr,tsh tropns. Doris Is torn between duty "a
britain and love for the man who now nurrn-s
arrested.
R,zlo does not give IN the chase, hut follows
Doris 10 l."dy Heathcotes g tate in Scotland.
'nst - Doris is about tc throw the papcrs
into the lire, following u dramatic scene with
the art collector, Hpmmcrsley'a voice ~
mneNpectedly heard In the hall and he enters
the room.
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Canadian Cavalry, will give talk this
evening at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Francis
Mc1lhenny, of Chestnut Hill. Mrs. McIlhenny
VIII lead a committee OF twenty-five women
in the coming Liberty Loan campaign, and
Mr.. Mcllhenny has fifty men under him in
the same cause.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alba Johnson. of Rosemont
and the Rev. Andrew Mutch. OF Bryn Mawr
have left for Augusta Ca, where they will
spend two weeks.
Mrs. Thomas Newhall, Of rthan. is spend
ing few days in Annapolis visiting her son,
Midshipman Blackwell Newhali, who is
studying there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel y. Lcidy. of Harvey
street, Germantown, announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Miss Kathryne
Leidy, to Mr.. Roy n. Springer. of Lenox
road, Jenkintown
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Russell Sparks. OF
Wynnewood road, Overlook, are receiving
congratulations upon the birth of son,
Walter r. Sparks. Jr. Mrs Sparks will be
remembered as Miss Kathleen Ritter Ftz
Gerald. Mr.. Sparks is at present attending
the signal officers training school at Boston
Tech.
Miss Helen W Haupt. of the Gladstone,
accompanied by Mrs. Edward l. Haupt, will
leave this week for the Windsor Hotel, jack
sonville Fla, to remain there few weeks
before leaving for St Augustine.
There will be a lecture and several muSi-
cal numbers given at the Academy OF Music
next Thursday night for the benefit of the
House of the Good Shepherd. at Thrty-ifth
street and Fairmount avenue. The Rev.
John Cavanaugh, of the Notre Dame Uni
versty, will lecture and male quartet
headed by Mr.. David McNichol will sing.
The subject of the lecture will he "And
What About Ireand?"
Mr and Mrs. Robert II. Comey have re-
turned from a trip TO Key West. stopping off
at Jacksonville, Palm Beach, Miami and a
number of other southern resorts
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Business Questions Answered

win you please settle dispute? II | buy
article for my store for a dollar and sell II
FOR a dollar and fifteen cents l claim | have
made az profit Ny friends says | lost money.
r. II. $.
Your friend is right. For while your actual
gross profit IL fifteen cents, your expense in
selling that article will be twenty or twenty
five cents Every article you sell has TO bear
It's proportion Of the expense, and as your
expense will probably be twenty-five cents,
Il costs you more to sell that article than
you make on it. All too many retail stores
have failed through ignorance Of this simple
principle.
CONTINUED TOMORROW
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Pennsylvsnis Historical society, hneSelne
for members, 1900 Locust street. at 9 p. n1. X
Meeting Of South Oak Lane Imprsveu1o&&
Association, Chelten and Park avenues, ~ q
D. IN. Admission free. t,
Electricity; Its Message to the HemosH
lecture by Gertrude II. Shearer, Oak Lane
Improvement Association, Oak Lane re-
formed Church, Seventh street and Sixty
sixth avenue, at p IN. Free.
Institute OF Architects, meeting. f3Oe|
Chancellor street, at p. IN. Members
Meeting South Philadelphia BUSINESS Mesa
Association, odd Fellows Hall. Broad and
Federal streets. Free.
Lecture on Geographical Distributisn a.
Important Types Of Mammals" by Dr..
Spencer Trotter Academy Of Natural Sci-
ences. Free
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Business Career
of Peter Flint
A Story of Salesmanship
by Harold Whitehead
tCopyiDht)

w. Whitehead wii ahstccr your business ares
tiDrs on bhUinO, setting, ddUeritSnD uud tWploh-
meat. ISk Uour questions Clearly dad grc all thc
tdctS. roHr correct name and luii address rhSt
be signed 10 al tfduirtre. Those Vhich are dnorB
Tious must be, ignored; Ans,cers 70 tcc1n'clI
questions utl BE- sent bD mail. Others WtI DC
cnarCrd ia this column. the most Interesting
problems o. irquirtrS wW be tgOgcd into the story
Of Peter Fiilf.
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Hama Of news for the society page will bs
accepted and printed In the Evening Public
iss. ana sr' az. e wss s fs
g. Ssns s sh3 tsi.eSsss rumbss q che sender. s.
y Ias' EofisE iistES'iE iEifter.H. Essains PuGils
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-24
AN OCEAN WAY STATION

TIME plan of the British and American
= aviation services to conduct transat.
iantic flights next fall exercises signiti-
cantly small strain upon the Imagination.
The profusion of war miracles increases
almost daily and the substitution of the
word commonplace" for wonderful" pro-
eeeds with equal speed,
1t is recorded of HumptyDumpty in
"Through the Looking Glass" that he ae-
complished a quota of Impossible" things
every morning before breakfast. An en-
hattled world seems to be bettering his
Example The air postal service between
New York and Washington is now con-
yentionally a part of the days work.
Another miracle gone stale receives the
calmest of acceptances. There is little
reason to doubt that the sensationalism
:. a. the frst trahsoceanc air trip will be
similarly evanescent
That same curious twentieth century
Viewpoint, so readily adjusted to novelty
In. however sometimes less adapted to
the restatement of an old but net gener-
Ally recognized fact. Almost as interest,
( inx as the first news of the proposed air
nervice between two continents were the
route maps revealing the Azores as sin
rulariy convenient waystation between
Newfoundland and Portugal.
The 1900 miles between st. Johns and
Punta sDelgada are to be covered in about
fwenty hours, and the 400 between there
( and Lisbon in few hours less. The pre-.
Vailing Illusion that 5000 miles of water
- any route separates the New Worlt
<ioiz,m the Old is thus promptly dissipated.
!. na9jated with prodigies as we may be
- little thrill is surely still permissible
1Sor the mental picture Of Gopcslo cabral
ntteenth century explorer, putting II
pfsefy harbqr Of ST. Michael's Island
- u for his native Portugal, bu
6n1vioutx Il the sset 9het ~ VA
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NEW YORK DOES IT WHILE PHILADEL
PHIA HESITATES

DOLICEMEN in New York are demand
ing better pay just they are here
But they have sense enough there to agree
on the necessity of paying "A living wage
a committee OF the Board of Estimate and
Airport ionment is considering how the
money can be found to give the men a
10 per cent increase in pay. It is planned
to make the increase date from July |.
The conditions there are the same as in
this city. Men have been resgning from
the force because they could get better
pay elsewhere. Those who remain are
dscontented. The executive authorities,
instead of saying they wished money could
be found to give the men what they de-
served but regret they are unable, have
set about finding the money
Our policemen are left hanging in the
air with the possible hope of relief some
time in the autumn-if anybody then has
the nerve to use heroic measures to get
the necessary money.
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no means negligible, for each individual
soldier counts in the legions of liberty.
But the spiritual value of this response
is most significant of ALL Materialism,
even so highly organized that of Ger
many must succumb TO the force of ideals
grounded in the eternal principles of right.
Contingents from the six Latin-American
republics which have declared war against
the Huns need not necessarily he large to
make indissoluble the new bonds between
ourselves and most of the southern sec
ton of the New World. Whatever their
numbers, the boys from Lima from Rio,
from Managua, Guatemala City, Havana
or La Paz will represents the might of a
glorious concept. They will be enlisted
in fraternity of freedom unprecedented
in magnitude in universal history.
Moreover as Pan-Americanism thus
takes on tangible shape as a buttress Of
the league of nations the fiimsy structure
of Condescension, which in the past has
sometimes handicapped our efforts toward
union. will he razed. The names of Simon
Bolivar, San Martin and Maceio eminently
deserve linking with those of our own
sons of freedom. The opportunity for
entrenching this truth is at hand.
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NOYON'S BETSY ROSS

vTIfIEN America Joined the Allies Noyon
w wanted to demonstrate" Noyon wanted
to hang out our flag from the old town hall-,'I
a fine Il Gothc-Rena issance town hall as
any in the land. Unhappily. NJ. Noel, the.
Mayor. could find no flag to hang Uhe Ger
mans had been out of the place only fewi's
weeks). so he called in French Betsy RosssI
who did her very best. Red white and blue.,>
it was, with thirteen stripes, but stars are !;
not easy. SO the American flag hung
from the Hotel de Vile was striped but Nj
starless and when an American ambulance
man. coasting down in his Ford from the
new front mot so far away that starr
less flag, he swore il should be his. He got1
ordinary, machine made commercial flag !.
from Paris. flag with somewhere near the
right number of stars, and took it to the :
Mayor. ~
Let me have your home made flag and
you shall have this fine. brand-new one with y
four dozen stars to it," he said-very mucn
an antique furniture man cruising about 4
New England with a buggy and Morganc
mare might. few years since, have traded a.,.
brand-new maple suite for some Maine farm \
cr's old mahogany
! like the spirit that made the Manor and,g
Noyons Betsy Ross go to- all their troubles.
1t means something to hang out flag that..
you have had to cut and sew YOURSELF
after you found the cloth. But they We're
willing to take trouble, those people atr.
Noyon--for they have certain sentiment
about Americans. They remember the gray
days when the commission for relief in Bels'S
gium'' was serving Noyon No doubt Britishsz
and French funds had more to do with "
making possible the vctuang of northern
France under the German occupation than
money did. but it was Americans who ac-
tualy handed out the beans So when, /.
America entered the war were already old .
friends to Noyon, They meant it when they
spread our flag to the breeze at their fif-sn
teenth century Hotel de Vile !-Bartong "
Blake in the Springfield Republican. :.
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UNITE THE RED TAPE FROM THE
MINERS

NFINERS in the anthracite region have
Nl not been exempted from the draft.
!. Ard nothing effective has been done TO
prevent the mine laborers from seeking
other jobs.
Plans had been made 10 celebrate the
departure of the drafted miners today by
holiday with parades.
Fuel Administrator Garfield has be-
sought the undrafted men to remain at
work because there is danger of fuel
shortage if they quit for a day
But why does he not call on the provost
marshal general to keep the drafted miners
in the mines? They can serve the nation
better by getting out coal than by going
to France
but it takes two years to make licensed
miner.
They tell us that they cant exempt the
miners without violating some regulation
or other. But what are regulations in
comparison with an adequate supply OF
coal for industry and the households?
Such miners as have been drafted into
the army should be returned to the an
thracite regions at once and the men on
the way to the training camps should be
turned back, regulations or no regulations.
1t is about time that the red tape be
cut into so many little, pieces that. there
is not left bit long enough toitsngle up
the feet of a single man On the way TO a
necessary war industry. ''''+
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4 SMILE FROM YOU
A SMILE from you is all ask
fSfh

A SMILE from you is all ask
To glorify my daily task.
The skies may weep, the winds may wall.
All outward founts Of JOY may fail,
All Costlier graces be denied
The morn for me is beautfied. !,
For just a smile from YOU may bring -
The birds and blossoms of the spring
Within my heart to sing and bloom:
May scatter sunbeams round my room:
May touch the frnges of the mist :"
And turn its gray TO amethyst.
Throughout the hours. it well may be, -,
Your thoughts not oft will stray to me.
Not many words | ask of you
From morningshines till evening dew
But as YOU pass me on your way,
Give me n sunny smile today.
Lillian Leveridge; in over the Hills o.
Home"