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CHAPTER XIV.
The Dragon Takes a Hand.

HC ITaSOI JUNO q
The companys automobile honked
outside. Hardin frowned across the
table at his wife. you're surely not
going such a night as this?"
Gerty gave one Of her light, elusive
shrugs. No need to answer Tom when
he was in one Of his black moods.
This was the first word he had spoken
since he had entered the tent. She
had warned Innes by a lifted eye
brow-thcy must be careful not to
provoke him. Something had gone
wrong at the office, Of course! How
much longer could she stand his hu-
mors, these CHASTITY silent dinners?
1.-THE river on a rampage, and we
go for a drive!" jeered Hardin.
The flood was not scrious-yet
Tom loved to cry "Wolf" No ore
was alarmed in town-Patton, Mrs.
Youngberg, would have told her. OF
course, one never knew what that
dreadful river would do next, but If
one had to wait always to see what
the rivers next prank would be, one
would never get anywhere!
Innes was leaving the table. "Wcll,
I suppose I should be lashing on my
hatI" Gerty's pretty lips hardened as
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the day to suit himself? 1t would be
funny for the guest Of honor not to
, be present, wouldn't it?"
II don't see why you want to make
him a guest of honor" he retreated,
covering his position.
Gently, Gerty expressed her belief
that she was doing the best thing for
her husband in getting up public af,
fair for his successor. She did think
that Tom would see that it showed
they had no feeling.
II think it fine idea," agreed In
nes heartily. "I'm sure Tom will, too,
when he thinks about it," But she did
not give him any chance to express
himself. ''How are you going to man
age it. Gerty? You said it was going
to be progressive?"
"We shall draw for partners" said
Mrs. Hardin. "And change every half
q mile. The first lap will be two
miles; that will give some excitement
in cutting for partners" Easy, being
the hostess, to withhold any slip CHE
pleased, easy to make it seem acci-
| dental!
"When is this circus coming off,
inquired her husband.
"Mr. Rickard says he will be back
on the frt; that he'll be free on the
second"
"For half an hour, I'll listen tt
Mrs. Youngberg tell me how hard II
is to have to do without servants
as she's never done it in her life be-
fore. For another half-mile, Mrs
Hatfield will firt with me, and Mrs
Middleton will tell me all about hel
dear little kiddies.' Sounds cheerful
Why didn't you choose cards? Nc
one has to talk then"
There was an interval when nj:
wife appeared to be balancing nj:
suggestion. mo, l think 1t Will nave
to be a drive; for I've told every
one about it."
"Well," remarked her husband,
only hope something will happen tc
prevent it,
'"rom!" exclaimed >Gerty Hardin
"What dreadful thing to say. That
sounds like a curse. You make my
blood run cold"
"Shu" said Hardin, picking up MS
hat. "That was no curse. Yor
wouldn't 60 if it rained, would you?
"Oh, rain!' She shrugged at thai
possibility.
"Well, you wouldn't go if the vino
blows!" retorted Hardin, leaving tht
room.
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Lean. "Where's Hardin?" He spurred
his mare toward Hardin, who was
blacker than Napoleon at Austerlitz.
"You're needed. They're all need
ed" The other voices broke in, the
men pressing up. This threatened
them all. Blinn's ranch lay in the
ravaged sixth district. Nothing would
save him. Youngberg belonged to
water company number one; their
bitches would 60. Hollister and VIII
son Of the Palo Verde saw ruin ahead
Of them. Each man was visualizing
the mad onward sweep Of that de-
stroying power. Like ghosts, the
women huGGled in the dust-blowR
road.
"Where is it now?" demanded Blinn.
"It's. here, right on us. You're all
needed at the levee," bawled Mac
Lean.
The levee! There was q dash for
buggies, a scraping of wheels, the
whinnyirg Of frightened horses. Some
one recalled the flashes Of light they
had seen on leaving town. "Whsf
were those. lights-signals?"
(To Be Continued Tuesday,
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the girl left the tent. These Hardins
always loved to spoil her enjoyment.
They would like her to be q nun, Il
cloistered nun!
At the opening Of the door, the
wind tore the pictures from the piano.
Gerty ran into her room, shutting
herself in against further argument.
She came back into the room, pow
dered and heavily yelled against the
wind. A heavy winter ulster covered
the new null gown which she had not
worn at supper, though Innes could
have helped her with the hooks! But
there was always so much talk about
everything!
They had to face the gale as the
machine swept down the wind-crazed
street. --~--~ .----.---.--
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CHAPTER XIII.
The Wrong Man.

Mrs. Hardin heard from every
source but the right one that Rickard
had returned. Each time her tele'
phone rang, it was his voice she ca
pected to hear. She began to read a
meaning into his silence. She could
think Of nothing else than the strange
coincidence that had brought their
lives again close. Or was it a coinci-
dence? That idea sent her thoughts
far afield.
She was thinking too much of him,
for peace of mind, those days of wait
ing, but the return Of the old lover
had made q wonderful break in her
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sewing machine.
life. Her eyes were brighter; her
smile was less forced. She spent most
Of her days at the sewing machine. A
lot of lace was whipped onto lingerie
frocks Of pale colors. She was dis
c3ple Of an Eastern esthete. "Women,"
he had said, SHOULD buy lace, not by
the yard, but by the mile"
AS her fingers worked among the
taces and soft mulls, her mind roved
down avenues that should have been
closed to her, q wife. She would have
protested, had anyone accused her Of
infidelity in those days, yet day by day,
she was straying farther from her hus-
bands side. She convinced herself
that Toms gibes and ill-humor were
getting harder to endure.
It was inevitable that the woman Of
harem training should relive the Law
renee days. The enmity of those two
men, both her lovers, was pregnant
with romantic suggestion. The drama
of desert and river centered now in the
story of Gerty Hardin. Richard, who
had never married! The deduction,
once unveiled, lost all its shyness. And
every one saw that he disliked her hus-
band!
She knew now that she had never
loved Tom. She had turned to him in
those days of pride when Richards
anger still held him aloof. How many
times had she gone over those unreal
hours! Who could have known that
his anger would last? That hour in
the honeysuckles; his kissesi None of
Hardin's rougher kisses had swept her
memory Of her exquisite delight-de-
lirious as was her joy, there was room
for triumph. She had seen herself
clear Of the noisy boarding house. Her
self, Gerty Holmes, the wife of pro-
fessor; able to have the things she
craved, to have them openly; no longer
having to scheme for them.
1t was through Richards eyes that
she had seen the shortcomings of the
college boarding house. She had ac-
quired q keen consciousness of those
quizzical eyes. When they had isolated
her, at last, appealing to her sympa-
thy or amusement, separating her
from all those boisterous students, her
dream Of bliss had begun.
In those days, she had seen Hardin
through the eyes of the young instruc-
tor, younger by several years than his
pupil. Her thud Of disappointed anger,
Of dislike, when the face Of Hardin
peered through the leafy screen! To
have waited, prayed for that moment.
and to have 1t spoiled like that There
had been days when she had wept be.
cause she had not shown her anger
How could she know that everything
would end there; end, just beginning
Her clearinghouse training had
taught her to be civil. It was still
vivid to her, her anxiety, her tremu-
lousness-with Hardin talking forever
Of 6 play he had just seen; Rickard
growing sitter, angrier, refusing to
look at those lips still warm with bis
kissesl
And the next day, still angry with
her. All, the puzzled desolation Of
those weeks before she had salyed her
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-27
Raise Police Salaries.

Jefferson City, Mo, May 26.-The
police salary increase bill for patrol
men in ST. Louis and Kansas City
was signed by Governor Gardner
today. The increase is SIS monthly.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-27
| South Side
JOSEPH GREEN,
REPORTED DEAD,
RETURNS HOME
South Omaha Boy Back Home.
After Having Served Uncle
Sam Two Years and
Once Wounded.

Joseph F. Green, once reported
seriously wounded while in France
and later killed, arrived home Sat-
urday night and is now with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Green,
1902 w Street.
Two years ago Joseph enlisted
with the 9th Nebraska and after one
year at Camp Dodge. was sent over
seas with the SD division. October
10, last year a dispatch from WASH
ington stated that the young man
had been seriously wounded.
Nothing more was heard until just
before Christmas when the govern
ment notice of Joseph's death was
received. His mother was i'll and by
the time she had partially recovered,
kilograms were received that her son
had not been killed, but severely
wounded.
The young man was wounded in
the battle of Chateau Thierry, and
after released from the hospital he
was assigned to the 10th infantry,
Pennsylvania National guards.
Mr.. Green has a brother, Thomas,
who is with the Sd division of the
regular army of occupation in Ger
tn3ny
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-27
Mother Pleads With Judge
To Send Her Son to Jail

An aged mother asked Judge
Fitzgerald to send her son to Jail
for Is days yesterday morning in
police court.
Hes good boy. Judge. only
when he drinks he's bad. A week
ago Saturday he took too much and
was arrested. Judge Foster SEN
fenced him to 80 days, but released
him few days later upon his prom
Use to behave.
"He wasn't out three hours before
he came home in the same drunken
condition.
He earns SIS week and is good
to me, but l want you to put him
in jail for IS days to make him
behave.
"He doesn't get along we'll with
his stepfather, but my husband is
good to NE"
Judge Fitzgerald told the woman.
Mrs. John Remick, 63 years old,
that he would have to make the
sentence 80 days.
"All right" she said. Then turn
ing to her son, Arthur Belmont,
she excoriated him for his behavior
The young man said:
I'm sorry mother; I'll promise
you it does not occur again"
The family home is at l74l South
Twenty-ssyeath StIeak
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-27
Far Easta Powder Magazine,
Says Bishop Back From China
Bishop Homer c. Stuntz Tells of Horrible Civil War Be-
tween North and South of China-Predicts That
Country Will Be Split in Two Factions

Bishop Homer c. Stuntz and Mrs.
stuntz arrived in Omaha at 7
o'clock yesterday morning from a
mission to India, China and the
Philippine islands, on which thew
started on September IS, 1918.
Bishop Stuntz, who is Methodist
bishop of the diocese of Nebraska,
went to his former field, where he
had spent many years, to relieve
Bishop ]. E. Robinson If India, who
was very i'll.
II return to the United States
filled with the gravest apprehensions
regarding affairs in the far east
said the bishop at his home, 3l67
Farnam street.
China is torn by dissension.
North China is developing int the
Prussia of China. There are to-
day more than 100000 men undcr
arms in China, fighting each other.
They are poorly equipped and poor
ly Differed, but the bloodshed is
terrible. Eventually | would not be
at all surprised to see the Chinese
empire split into two, the nth
separating from the south.
Japan Satisfied Onlooker.
"And Japan looks on at this III
ternal strife, | think, with emit sat
isfaction.
THE peace conference, in trans
ferring the Shantung peninsula to
Japan, committed mistake of the
gravest nature. There was certainly
no excuse for this on the grounds Of
justice. 1t was a wicked thing to
do. Perhaps the peace conference
was powerless al the time to do 9TH
erwise but 1t has committed blum
der which may have terrible conse-
quences in years to come.
"Of course, in Japan, too, there
are two parties and what happens
will depend, as in other countries,
on which party is in power"
do you think there is a likeli-
hood of an outburst in the far east
soon:?" the bishop was asked.
Great Powder Magazine.
"The far east is one great powder
magazine at present." he said. "A
match may be dropped any day
which will cause the explosion. And,
on the other hand, it may shoulder
along for 10 years. 1t is a very
complicated and delicate question,
which we don't realize in this coun-
try"
Bishop Stuntz says that India is
turning toward Christianity at an
astonishing rate.
within 100 years India will be
predominatcly Christian" he said.
This fact is admitted by those who
have observed the trend of the peo-
pie within the last few years. 1t is
no longer a question of getting the
people to embrace Christianity but
of taking care Of the thousands who
are anxious to do so.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-27
CHANGE SEATS IN
CANOE and THREE
PERSONS DROWN
Boat Rocks, Occupants Are
Thrown Into Water and, Be-
ing Unable to Swim, Soon
Sink Beneath Surface,

Crete, Neb.. May 26.-(Special Tel.
egram) Sunday night, while riding
on the Blue river, just above the
Crete mills, three persons, the occu-
pants OF a canoe, were thrown into
the water and drowned in sight OF
a considerable crowd that had gath
cred on the river bank. The dead:
Francis Walkin, Doane college sen.
ior.
Royal Mcdonald, Doan college
freshman.
Evelyn Masek, Doane college
freshman.
Brauttsch, Crete high school
boy, one of the party, was saved.
The story as told by Young Brau-
titisch is that the four started from
the mill, going out in the canoe for
a boat ride. This was about 7:3O
O'Clock Sunday evening. When near
the center . of the mill pond and
where the water was 10 to IS feet
deep, Miss Walkin and Royal Nc
Donald started to change seats.
This rocked the boat and it cap
sized, Immediately all the occu-
pants were thrown into the water.
Only Brautitisch could swim.
He struck for the shore and secur-
ing a boat started back to where the
canoe had capsized. By this time
his three companions had disappear
ed. The river was dragged today
and the bodies recovered.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-27
Brief City News
Lighting Fxtures-Burgess-G randen Co.
Have Root Print It-Beacon Press.
Burglary Ins.-Wheeler & Welpton

improvement SluD NcttS-l lie
new Omaha improvement club will
hold its regular meeting Tuesday
evening at 8 at 1919 Military avenue.
Judge to Deliver Address-District
Judge A. C. Wakeley will go to
Bloomfield, Neb., next Thursday to
deliver the annual commencement
address to the high school gradual
ing class of that town.
Husband Asks Divorce-George j.
Litton asks the district court for a
divorce from Josephine Litton on the
ground of cruelty. He asks for the
custody Of their child. They were
married in 1913 in Council Bluffs.
Loeb Asks Accounting-Peter
Loeb says he was misled in the start
ing of a drug store at 1908 Cunning
streets a few years ago and he has
filed suit asking district court to
order an accounting of the affairs
of the Cunning pharmacy.
No Camp This Year-Cadets Of
the High School of Commerce will
not go to camp this year as planned
by Commandant Scriven of the
school battalion. The Cadets have
been waiting for tents and guns, but
they will not arrive until next year.
Socialist Meeting Tonisht-"Re-
construction Problems" will be dis
cussed this evening at Metropolitan
hall by Ella Reeve Bloor, former
candidate for the office of lieutenant
governor of New York. The meet
ing will be under the auspices OF
Omaha socialists.
Crop Conditions Excellent-Unless
rain falls this week in southwestern
Nebraska, the wheat crop there will
suffer greatly. the Burlington weekly
crop report says. Crop conditions
are excellent from 2 to 5 per cent
better than reported last week. the
report continues.
Appeals to Court----.".n II.
Swobe, dealer in investment securi-
ties, complained to the district court
that he has only received 20 per cent
Of the amount Of preferred stock in
the Brictson Manufacturing COM
pany which he sold, instead OF rs
per cent which, he says, he was to
receive. according to contract made
In January, 1917.-He asks full &C
counting Of transactions under his
contract and an award of the sum
alleged to be due to him.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-27
Company to Prepare
Stories of Famous
Authors for Movies

Famous writer's of the English
language have incorporated a COM
pany to produce their stories on the
motion picture screen in connection
with the Goodwin company under the
title Eminent Authors, Inc" All
the works of such people as Rupert
Hughes, Mary Roberts Rinehart,
Basil King, Gouverner Morris, Ger
trude Atherton. Leroy Scott and Rex
Beach will be included in the list of
plays to be made. Rex Beach is
president of the new concern and
Samuel Goldwyn, vice president and
chairman of the board of directors.
The plan of operation is to comb
the world for the most famous books
Of peoples whose names are we'll
known. Each picture produced will
be under the personal supervision of
the author. Distortion of the au-
thor's story will in this way be
avoided and the author can no
longer complain that the screen YER
sion is totally different from the
thought of the book. Immense
studios at Culver City, Cal, and at
New York City have been obtained.
The move is a radical departure in
the motion picture world as hereto
fore the authors have simply sold
the screen rights" of their books or
novels to. producing company
which generally had the whole re-
written to fit screen needs. Each
picture will be sold separately to
exhibitors.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-27
Four $500 Fines Are
Imposed In Liquor
Cases On South Side

Four $500 fines were imposed by
Judge Foster, sitting in the South
Side police court yesterday morning,
on men convicted Of illegal posses
sion of Intoxicating liquor.
Peter Ault. 5524 South Twentieth
street, proprietor of a soft drink
parlor, is alleged to have had three
bottles of Intoxicating liquor in his
possession at the time of his arrest.
William Hefflinger had just left the
soft drink parlor owned by Ault
when taken into custody and
searched. One and half pints of
liquor is said by the police to have
been found in his pockets.
Another soft drink parlor pro-
prietor, Tom Fish, 1909 N street.
was fined for illegal possession of
two pints of intoxicating liquor.
Fish stated that he was on his way
home when arrested and that the
liquor was to be used by him for
medicinal purposes.
Police raided the home of Thomas
Wesneski, 1921 H street, early Sun
day morning and found three plnts of
liuuor in the cellar.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-27

The momentum of 80 years OF
patient missionary work is begin
ming to show in a manner undream-
ed Of. Whole towns are turning to
Christianity. | baptized an entire
village of 50 people at one time dur
ing this trip. The plan now is to
baptize no one in village or town
until every soul is ready to be bap-
tized.
MY son, Clyde B. Stuntz, the
only Methodist American mission
airy in the Punjab district of India,
has 10000 waiting to be taken into
the Christian church but because OF
lack of help he can't receive them
at once, He has about so ex-Hindu
helpers working under him.
Many Hindus Christian.
"The Hindus, especially the mid
die and low cast Hindus and the
outcasts, see way out i'll Chris
tianity. Christianity offers their
women freedom and their children
education. Out of 100000 middle
and low cast Hindus, 100000 are
already Christians. We are also
converting many Brahmins. This
mass movement of India to Chris
tianity is the most remarkable Tea
ture in the Christian church to-
day.
Bishop Stuntz plunged into a
great accumulation of work that has
piled up awaiting him. He will es-
pecially devote his attention to the
activities of the Methodist centenary
movement.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-27
Sixty Babies Enter
Contest, One Boy and
One Girl Taking F rizes

More than 80 pretty babies. boys
and girls, competed in the Rialto
theater contest Monday afternoon
and first prizes were won by the
little son of Mrs. Emma Noble,
3l4 No 18th street, and the daughter
of Mrs. A. M. Hegelund, $40 So.
Goth avenue.
Choosing of the prize winning
babies was made by applause by the
audience and great deal of en-
thusiasm was aroused by the little
ones, all of whom were under SIX
months of age. The babies seemed
to enjoy their first appearance on
the stage and were immensely pleas
ed when applauded,
Today's contest will be for infants
from six months to one year, and
Wednesday the babies from one to
two years will compete.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-27
New Columbia Records.

The new selections on Columbia
records this month include three
popular war songs sung by grand
opera stars, IA other popular songs
two comedy monologues, two novel
ties, two home melodies, two hymns
two band pieces, two symphony
orchestra selections, and 10 dances,
comprising five fox-trots. three one
steps, and two waltzes.
Amparito Farrar sings the French
war songs, "Madelon," for Colum-
bia records this month in just the
same way this plucky soprano sang
it in a Paris hospital to our boys
Just back from the Chateau Thlerry
fight, the way she sang it standing
on gun carriages back Of the front;
the way she sang it in "Y' huts all
over France.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-27
Starts Suit Against
u. P. for Damages for
Death Of Soldier-Son

Mrs. Josephine Wineinger start
ed suit in federal court yesterday
morning for $37.s00 damages against
the Union Pacific railroad as the
responsible party for the death OF
her son, Leo A. Duke.
Duke was killed by Union Pa.
cific train while guarding railroad
bridge just east of Waterloo, Neb',
on April 9, 1917, while he was serv-
ing with Company D of the Fourth
Nebraska. He is said to have been
the first American soldier to be
killed after the formal declaration
Of war.
Mrs. Wineinger charges that the
accident was due to carlessness on
the part of the railroad in not giving
a signal before crossing the bridge
which her son was guarding.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-27
Doran Finds Shortage
of Men for Packing Houses

Owing to a shortage of help and
increased demand for labor, P. J.
Doran, manager of the South Side
federal employment bureau, will be
temporarily transferred to the Oma-
ha Office at the court house for aft
ernoon work. The South Side Office
will be opened mornings, but closed
during the afternoon.
Doran will continue to take charge
of the Office and the change is only
temporary. The office has calls for
40 men in the packing houses at
wages from 42h cents per hour up,
with 10 per cent bonus.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-27
Garage Proprietor
Loses $625 When Two
Men Come to Rent Car

A reward of 500 has been offer
ed by L. w. Rushing, proprietor OF
garage at 4426 South Twenty
fourth street, for the apprehension
of the two men who took $625 from
his safe Sunday.
A ruse enabled the thieves to OBJ
tain the large sum of money.
Sunday afternoon the two men
entered the garage and asked Rush
ing to rent them a car Forgetting
about the safe, which was open,
Rushing went to the rear of the ga
rage to obtain the desired car. Upon
returning with the machine he found
that the two men had left. With
them had gone $625 which had been
in the safe,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-27
3oy Scouts of Omaha to Hold
Poster Contest June 8 to Ia

Omaha council of Boy Scouts will
hold poster contest i'll connection
with Scout Week, June 8 to IA. Con-
testants must have their work at
scout headquarters in the Patterson
block not later than June 5. Car
toonists of local newspapers will act
as Judges of the contest. Posters
must depict scout activities and prin-
ciples.
The prizes will be: First, two
weeks at Camp Clifford; second. one
week at Camp Clifford; third; alum
mum cooking kit; fourth, scout
knife: fifth. bird book