davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

people, very seldom leave behind
them any personal belongings on
such trips as they take from time
% time.
These general assertions result
rom the experiences of the Lost
md Found Department of the Hotel
Pennsylvania, the worlds largest
hotel. Careful records are kept at
The Pennsylvania Of all articles
lost and found, and a study of them
Yields some interesting data.
For some weeks past this man.
moth hotel building has housed an
average of more than twenty-five
hundred guests nightly. During this
period the average number of
articles turned over to the lost and
found department has been approx
imately fifty day. One in every
fifty of the people who came to the
hotel forgot something of value on
leaving.
They forget such things as keys,
razors, books, hairpins, kimonos,
fountain pens, sewing bags, scissors,
eyeglasses, socks, hats, tooth
brushes, cards, stockings, shirts,
nightgowns, pajamas and whole
string of other personal belongings.
The things just mentioned recur
over and over again in the records
of the Pennsylvania lost and
found book Other articles left be-
hind include corsets, bankbooks,
bathing suits and waists, electric
irons, cigar and cigarette holders,
sponges, suspenders, wells, watches,
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

hoisting new signs to the masthead,
the Recruit is having a hard fight
to continue running first among
Union Parks attractions. Off the
bow, for instance, is model veg
ctable garden that has been doing
very we'll in spite of everything,
and flaunts the advantages of farm
existence in the face of Naval De-
partment, placards. Then, almost
dead astern, is recently arrived
aeroplane, entering hard in the COM
petition. However, there's one thing
to be said-you can't wash clothes
and hang them on the aeroplane,
and you can on the Recruit.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

plums. drink q large on.,.;..
Of water. That IS sufficient nr.s
lunch time.
AT noon have mv largest ma,
buy 5 cents worth Of bread sho.'.
one-half loaf. Ten cents wo,.|
Of fruit purchased on the East s,s-
IS substantial rounding out for ~
meal. : drink several glasses =,
cool water. Mix, l believe, is f..
cattle, otherwise why was it mn !.
cows? Water, in the state in which
It falls from the heavens. is H.
beverage ordained by Nature so,
man. Anything else is art;sc;.l
and unnatural.
My supper is Ike my brssE
fast. Perhaps instead Of buvir,
fruit alone l might get three =,
four cents worth Of bread and
spend the remainder for slice of
watermelon.
at is quite easy to subsist on n.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
Cro,cds Fill Church

The celebration of mass in the
early morning took on new sig
nlficance with the burden of intense
devotion and earnestness that filled
the church. One old woman-old
beyond reckoning-attended it day
after day, although she had to be
wheeled to the church. She has been
paralytic all her life and has faith
fully taken her place in all the pill
grlmages that have come within her
reach. According to her daughter.
she still believes that she will walk.
and her spirit remains young in the
hope that has filled her life for so
many years.
There was a blind man who has
visited at many shrines and who
prayed and petitioned mechanically
for cure, as if it had become a mat
ter of form with him. There were
other sightless people whose peti-
tlons, written by their friends at
home, were put into the box along
with those of the pilgrims who could
see. There was the usual pathetic
sprlnkling of deformed children
among those who kissed the bone,
and one mother, not content to have
her child kiss the relic alone, raised
the baby to kiss the foot of marble
statue of Christ.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
$4 a Week for Meals

A BOUT two weeks ago William
IA Poster, thirty four, hermit, of
Palm Springs, Cal, "the
tourists FRIEND" came to New York
City with a three-sided assignment
he had given himself.
He was, first of all, going TO show
the New York public how to live
on 81 a week.
He was next going to demon
strate to this same public that it
S missing on a couple of mental
cylinders because it prefers lights
and pavements to trees and a fruit
diet.
He was going to visit a dear
friend who lives on Long Island.
When Bill spoke of routing COM
pletely the wolf from the porch with
"a worth of sustenance each week
It was kindly remembered by some
that Bill had spent his thirteen
years in the California desert un-
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
HOW forgetful are you? Would

you be likely to forget your
pajamas or your nightgown or
your toothbrush or similar articles
of ordinary use if you went away
from home for a day or two?
According to recently compiled
records, just about per cent of
the average general public would
have to answer Eyes" to the fore
going questions. About one per-
son in every fifty, in other words,
fails to remember the ordinary
things of life mentioned above when
he does his packing after a week
end vacation or business trip. And
"he" is said advisedly, because
from the records just mentioned
it is nearly always the man who
forgets his personal belongings and
not the woman. Women, contrary
10 what might be expected by most
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

have come to the conclusion that
it's going to take long time yet
for the tide to rise high enough to
wash the Recruit off the bar. Even
after two weeks of rain she still
remained firm at her moorings. Even
with the abolition of the bar as a
feature of New York life, the Re-
cruit is still stranded.
Realizing long ago the semi-per-
manency of the navy's landgoing
craft, the Salvation Army built a
semi-permanent home beside it.
Thus the crew has the advantages
Of land and water accommodations,
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
STU Hope for a Cure

All manner of ailments had left
their stamp on the children and
filled the parents with passionate
longing to have them well. The
most devout, as far as outward an
pearance could be judged, were the
mothers of sick children. And one
in particular carried her small bov
in straps-stretched out taut and
unable to rise to kiss the relic. The
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

shifting price list, Max's Busy Bee.
situated on Ann Street, between
Nassau and Broadway, continues to
offer sanctuary to the hungry on
exactly the same financial basis it
always did.
If there is anything on the artistic
and imaginative bill of fare rang
ing in price above 10 cents II is
not blazoned on the walls or dis
played on the counters with price
tag. The sandwich still costs 5
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
n ME national pilgrimage to
b the shrine of Our Lady of
~ Lourdes at Lourdes, France,

Lourdes at Lourdes, France,
began this week. 1t was
foreshadowed here by the novena
just ended. when thousands Of people
kissed the sacred relic of St. Anne
and prayed for healing.
For the first time in the history
Of Queens County one of the ia
nous relics of the Roman Catholic
Church found resting place with
IN its boundaries, when Archbishop
Bruchesi of Montreal presented the
Church Of Our Lady of Mount Car
mel, at Astoria, l.. l., with piece Of
bone taken from the shrine of st.
Anne de Beaupre. During the novena
$4,000 people kissed the relic and
hundreds of written petitions were
placed upon the altar. In other
years the Catholics of Queens
County celebrated the novena at
the Church Of St. Jean Baptiste on
Seventy-sixth Street. Father
Charles F. Gibney, the rector at AS
toria, believes that the pilgrimage
to Mount Carmel will now become
an annual event and that it will
draw Catholics from all over the
country. The church is singularly
suitable for such devotions and is
picturesque in its setting and in
terror.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

priest bent tenderly over the child
and splaced the relic upon his lips.
The little one smiled wanly. very
feeble, very helpless.
Women of the summer colony Of
Long Island found their way breezi
ly into the church, too. and kissed
the relic along with the people Of
the parish. 1t would be hard to guess
at some of the ills of the pilgrims.
but many were merely observing a
religious rite of the Catholic Church
IN paying honor to st. Anne. One
old woman with brilliant pink
blouse and blue shawl wrapped
closely around her head did grace
ful, spontaneous thing when she
took a rose from her dress, kissed it
and laid it on q small table whore
the reliquary lay between two tlam-
ing candles.
Numbers of the pilgrims were
more worried about their hearts and
souls than about their bodies. For
twenty who carried canes and
crutches, who limped and tottered
and twitched, eighty might pass one
on the street without exciting notice
or comment of any kind. But all
were alike in the fervor of their
worship of St. Anne.
Nurne'r Of Prayer Is Steady
A steady murmur of prayer rose
and fell as the hundreds of candles
around the altar famed and flick
ered.> The beads of the rosariez
tWlnkled as the unbroken stream of
petitions went on. But the volume
OF prayer reached it's height when
mass was over and the procession
toward the altra began. 1t surged
forward with the inevitability Of a
tide that would not be stemmed
Father Gibney passed rapidly along
the line with the relic in his hand,
touching the lips of the sick with it.
laying it upon their bruises and de-
fOrmities.
Father Gibney says of the Pilgrim
age of Mount CARMEL 1--WE don't ex-
pect miraculous cures here apart
from the power of faith. It is q
great thing for Long Island that this
relic has been presented to us and
we hope yetNto have visitors from
further afield The church is large
and can accommodate great num-
bers."
Twice has Father Cibnev visited
the shrine Of Our Lady of Lourdes
and hopes yet to see some of the
miracles happen at Mount Carmel
tnat are common at Lourdes. These
pllgrlmages, becoming more usual on
1hls continent, can all be traced back
to the same source. Six hundred
thousand sick people annually visit
the grotto and the cures effected
every year have become famous the
world over.
The old quarter of Lourdes is
united with the new town by a
bridge which is continued in an
esplahade leading to the basilica. the
Church Of the Rosary and the grotto
With its spring Of healing water
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
In Union Square

T F THERE are any sealed orders
4 for the U. S. S. Recruit to
up anchor and steam out of
it's roadstead in Union Square, the
crew aboard is only guessing at
them. Those who throng the
benches and watch the fountain
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

years of Broadway youth. IS not !"
price list, but the dispensers of the
food. Instead Of being still, Ike
complacent philanthropists, they are
actually anxious TO sell their wares
Their voices rise above the murmur
of the crowd about TIE counters.
Here they are, Come and gel
EN-"
Eat a Del Monte sandwich, .
cents!"
Its ice cold, boys. Don't crowd
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

cents at Max's; the doughnut, the
coffee and the waffle still pursue
the even tenor Of their way from
the financial standpoint.
But the strangest thing about this
caravansary, which has succeeded
in bunting the whetted appetites Of
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

with none of the attendant ills of
rough weather. Besides, weather
permitting, they can play the band
or basketball on a level stretch off
the beam.
Yet, in spite of the changing
color from camoufiage to gray and
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
Food for d Nickel

THOUGH the elusive sandwich
Il his risen on the tide of a bull
market from five to fifteen
cents, there is one place here in
town that has stood adamant against
existing change. Like the rock of
ages in the uncertain flood of a
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
s Mecca for Catholics

The intense misery Of the pill
grims, the intensity of their suffer
lngs, the sores of the lepers, were all
laid bare with painful realism. The
cures were treated skeptically and
the lndlctmen was serious enough to
STIR the Catholic Church to contro-
versy.
The present-day worship of the
bones of st. Anne may be traced to
the influence of the pilgrimages tc
Lourdes. 1t is really the fourth
phase of faith healing recorded in
history. The first was the cures in
the temples Of Esculapius and
other deities in the ancient ,r~~'l
the second was the practice of touch
ing Tor the kings evil, in vogue I'm,
the eleventh to the eighteenth cen
Jury; the third consisted of the
cures Of Valentine Great,ake.
(l629-16S3), and the fourth. the
miracle of Lourdes and other resorts
OF pilgrims.
In the United States severa. re.
lglous communities have beer
named after Our Lady of Lourdes
The sisters of the Third Order OF
st. Francis, founded in 1877 anc
calling itself the Congregation OF
Our Lady of Lourdes, has it's head
quarters in Rochester, MINI. An.
other was founded in 1883 in the
archdiocese of New Orleans.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
ff0S f'resensios.s Chu?c!s

The Church of the Rosary, built in
Byzantine style, was erected in 1889
and is situated Immediately below
the basilica. Not far from the
grotto are several other caves where
prehistoric remains have been found.
The Hospice de N0tre-Dame de Dou-
leurs is the chief Of the many estab-
llshments provided for the accommo-
dation of pilgrims. 1t takes its
name from the burden of woe and
suffering that passes within its por-
tails each year
When the visions of Bernadette
Soubrous became generally recog-
nlzed, the Bishop of Tarbes ap-
pointed a commission of inquiry and
subsequently, the cult of Our Lady
OF Lourdes was authorized by the
Pope. 1t came in for fierce
scorching at the hands of Zola. who
has written certainly the most ia
nous and possibly the most contro-
versial of the many books written
about Lourdes.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

The fame Of Lourdes is Intimately
associated with this grotto. where
che Virgin Mary is believed by the
Roman Catholics to have revealed
herself repeatedly to the peasant
girl, Bernadette Soublrous. This
was IN 1853. A statue of the Viz
gin stands on a niche in the grotto.
The walls OF the grotto are covered
"'th crutches and other offerings Of
pilgrims who have been cured. The
spot is marked by basilica built
over the grotto and consecrated in
1876.
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PONORkY, RACKOVE A RY-
BARI.

Nyni, kdy prikaz nejprisnei-
81 mi enlivosti jest jiz odvolan
dovidame Sc o mnohych tajem-
stvich, jichz jevistem bylo vJ-sr
ke more. 0 jednom mich vypi'A
vi Lloyd Seaman toto.
Anglicti i americti namornici
pfideleni sluzbou ku stihani ne
meckych ponorek, po nekoli!>
rnesich nedovedli sobe vysvetll
ii zvlastni chovani Sc velkych
bilych racku, kteri houfech l6
tall a vznyseli Sc, jako by ur-
citem smeru nekolik jen m;ilo
stop mad hladinou vody. Sta
rym zkusenym namornikum vel
mi dobre jest znamo, re morSti
rackove vzdy sleduji zraloky,
ably sebraly nejaky zbytek obe
ii vrazedneho utoku zralo!<G,
necht' .jiz obeti tou Jest mofSky
tvor ci lidske telo. Oni vsak ROY
nez vedi, re kanal anglicky il
ske MORE jest pro zraloky nii
lis daleko ma severn, ma toz pax
aby Sc kdy odvazili do studene
no more severniho.
Neminul jediny den, ably 30
sadky rychlych torpedoborcu
nepozorovaly tato hejna NOR
skych racku, az poslezc Ma zvla
Stni mySlenku, jako Il vnuknutl
pripadl velitel jedne anglick5
patrolni lodi. lined da lrozka2
ku zvyseni rychlosti lodi, by ta-
to predplula houf racku, pie
krizovala jich smer a tam V mo
re vrzeno pill tuctu bomb. upra
venych tax, by V rnznych hlouE
kach vyp,chly. Ia edlouho Why
divoce Sc zvyrily, openly, 20
nekolika minutach Ma povrchu
objevily Sc bublinp, olej "a III
1ni konecne trosky mrtvoly ne
,aecke ponorky.
Tajemstvi bylo vysvetleEO:
Morsti rackove po dvoulete zku
senosti presvedccili Sc, re ten
dlouhy. tavy stin v zelenave
hloubce sc pohybujici, zname-
ma pr one potravu, ze staci jen
jej sledovati a drive ci pozdeii
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&c hodovati budou ma lidskych
mrtvolach. TAX caste byly TIM
tmavym stinem lode potapeny,
TAX cetne byly lidske obeti a 90
vlnach rozmeteny zasoby lol.
II CA potravin, re nikterak ne
prekvapuje mas duvtpi bystryci.
t6chto mrchozravcu, kdyz dosli
ku pozani .ze nadbytek jich po
travy solvisi S objevenim sc po-
norky.
Use, oc bylo ponorkou znaine
nalo liste hody pro racky, neb
znacny pocet pOnorek znicen
byl bombami do more vrhanym,
a 20 kazdem vybuchu mrtv0l,'
Nemcu plovaly ma vode, ably "a
potravu racku slouzily.
Rackove snadno postrehli po
norky. necht' sc nalezaly V ia.
kekoliv hloubce. prave tax jako
zreli .ie anglicti a americti let
ci, ponevadz We vySi. v niz nad
vodami krouzili, pozornostl .jich
nemohla uilti zvlastni jasnost
vOdy odrazeiici sc cd pOnorenS
no predmetu.
Hhlubinove bomby, vrhane
namornimi hydroplany torpe
doborci. opatrovaly rackum ale
jeste mnohcm vetsi mnozstvi po
travy a sice vybuchem omraCe-
nymi rybami. kdekoliv hydro.
plan uznaenal We vode dlouhy,
uzky, tmavy stin. sdelil to jiskrc
YOU telegraph nejblizsimu torpa
doborci a ia nedlouho tento
mofsky chrt vrhal udane mi
sto a siroky okruh ieho hluLi
move bomby. ci jak namoinicj
.je zovou "popelnice." Bomby 0
patfeny Jlsou zvlaStnim zariZe~
MIN. by bybuchly urCite hloub
ce q do more vhozeno jich vzdy'
tolik. ably nejmene jedna Wy
buchla bezprostredni blizko-
sti ponorky. Hroznymi, rychle
ia sebou nasledujicimi vybu-
chy, rozvii'ila Sc voda a ma po-
vrch vpplavalo nekolik tun o.
mracenych ryb brichem vzhuru,
| Mkze obvodu az j pul mile cd
| nlista vybuehu voda jako by Bile
skotavym snehem pokryta by
la. TAX pripravovany byly hody
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Rychla zmSna srnysleni.

Dilovedouci: "Zadal bych
vas, byste mi vystavil odporu-
Ceni."
Tovarnik: "Nevystavim,
vzdyt jsem vas pro naschop-
host propustil."
Dilovedouci: "Uchazim sc .
praci u vaseho konkurenta a
on slibil, re mi praci da, jestli
dostanu cd vas odporuceni. jim
de praci dOstati nemohu."
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Jednou WHO'D prohibice bude, pr banketech nebu
de tolik reci.
=
Zda Sc, re bratf Slovan, Polaci hodlaji napodob
Nemce dnes take mnohonasobnym nepfitelem
Ma skolach Milwaukee ouslranena byla nemcina. Tim
pada posedn mocnes baSta americkeho nemcourstv
Nemecku byl0 Ameriky povoeno 6OOO.O0O buslu obi
doufemez ae ze chleba Berline nebude lacnejsi nez
u mas -
Bostone zrizena byla skoa kde ditky jso vyuco
vany bosevsmu. Mysme graduace absoventu dopadne
vece bede
Newyorska zakOnodama rOzhodla pro zdanen zmrz-
n.y. To mali Newyorcane oho nech prvoit ably zeny
nabyly hIasov1;iho prava
Portugadi jsou skutecnG zahadnym narodem, "a prve
81 peji vuec krae druhe ze 81 preji Manuea
nOtorickeho flamendra krale, tTe Manuel
nabitych zkusenostech sam pTeje byi kraem.
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pro racky a proto on; take po-
norky vytrvale nasledovali.

norky vytrvale nasledovali.
Rybari ma pobrezi anglic-
kych ostrovu zahy rozhodli, ze
omracene ryby mely by byti jc
jich koTisti a nikoli rackd a pro
to pousteli Sc v malych parnic-
cich svych dale ma more. TAX
snadnym zpIsobem ziskavali o
hromne mnozstvi ryb rybar an
glictl, welsti a skotsti, odvazuji
ce Sc daleko do nebezpecneho
pasma, pc kazdem dtoku ma pc
norky zpet vraceli sc lodemi
preplnenymi rybami, nazvice
sledi, makrelami a treskami.
Prehohate llovky tyto ziskali
V dobe nepomerpe kfStke, phi
nejmensi namaze poskozeni
vlecnych siti, jichz vubec nepou
z.vali, spokojujice Sc jen vel
kymi cereny, jimiz omracene ~
by z more nabirali TAX rychle,
jak jen pracovati byli S to.
Zaznamy anglicke admirall
ty naznacuji vsak rvonez, ze
velini mnoho takovychto rybaS
skych lodi bylo potopeno. Od-
vazice Sc priliS daleko do ne
bezpecneho pasma "a torpedo
borci, ably byly co nejblize MI
stum vybuchG zdrzely Sc tam do
sti dlouho, aby nektera ponorka
ia terc 81 je vyvoli1a j pres to.
zc torpedoborec sotva nekolik
mil ujel.
Kofist rybaru byla tim vet
81 cennejsi, cim vice bomb We
vetSi hloubce vybuchlo. L hlouh
ky male vybuchl ma povrch Wy
nesl jen slede a makrely, vet
81 vSak hloubky rozvirenymi vi
mani vyneseny byly velke tre-
sky platysove.
Namorlci vypravuji o zajima
We podivane, jakouz skytali jim
rackove S rybari O koTist primo
sc rvOuci. Pronikave kriclce, ia
ko by rybarurm lupicu spi!ali,
a mavajice divoce kfidly, sna-
sely sc ma samotne rybarske
cluny. take mnohokrate cast
posadky rybarske lodi musela
racky plasiti a odhaneti, ably o.
statni rybaTi pracovati mohli.
Pc dive posledni leta valecna
lod' 'stva spojenecka j americke
znacnou merou na hejna racku
spolehala. Straze v obhlidko-
vych koSich ma steznich prisnc
narlzeno mely pozorovati let Ii
smer houfu racku. znacicich
blizkost a smer csty ponorek.
A teto zrade Nemci pritrz u
ciniti nedovedIi. Jako neodbS:
ny pfizrak tahlo hejno rackli "a
ponorkou, prizrak nesouci ma
XII dlech svych pomstu zhou-
bu ia spachanG zlociny. PoVe-
recny rybarsky lid na anglic-
kem pobrezi pevne veril V to, re
stavalo nejakeho nadprirozene
no spojeni mezi temito mrcho-
zravci a vrazednymi ponorkami
marne bylo jakekoliv priroze
ne vysvetlovani, re rackove ia
dani jsou velice bystrym IRA"
KEN, postrehnouti mohou lined
v hlubinach plujici ponorku.
Jest po Nalce, ale nj velke w
delky anglickych rybaru nema-
il prestat. TAX sdeluje Sc z Lon
dyna, re velke rybafske spoiec
nosti anglicke hodlaji pozadati
parliament O dovoleni ku dyna-
mitovani ryb na vysokem mof;.
X cemuz pouzito byti ma hlubl
novych bomb. jez po valce We
skladiStich laden lezi. kazda
takcva popelnice. jak dokazu-
il, usmrti nebo omraci vsechn;
ryby V okruhu as 200 stop cd
mista vybuchu a ponevadz mnc
zstvi ryb V mori Jest pry nevy
cerpatelne, nevznikla by pobiJic
MIN ryb We velkem, pomoci h!u
binovych bomb, niiaka skoda,
naopak prospelo by Sc tim ryh;t
rum chudsimu obyvatelstvu.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-28

"Oh, Jim!" 1 cried, shrinking back
unhappily from the mounting fury l
could see on his face. IT'S because
knew what it meant that 1 hated so
to show you the check"
mo wonder" stormed Jim. by
Jove you must have given Phoebe
nearly all you had-and West takes
it from the kid. That's my partner!
You didn't like him from the jump.
Now he's lived up to your expecta-
tions."
1t was Jim who was living up to
my expectations. | knew
that love and happiness couldn't last
and 1 had dreaded Jim's flying into
a rage when 1 opened my case against
his partner. Still 1 had TO do it -
there wasn't any choice. With my
heart in my throat I found stumbling
words:
mo, 1 never trusted Dick West.
But didn't bring you this proof
against him because l wanted to say
4 told you So Oh. Jim. L don't
want to nag-or crow over-over
anyone. But l want you to save
Phoebe. Now that you've seen the
check, no matter how you feel
about me, 1 know youll take care of
her"
The line between Jm's brows
deepened and his words came tun,b-
ling over each other:
You know darn well I'll take care
OF her. And of him-now that you've
shown me what he is" Jim stared at
me strangely and, crossing 20 my side
laid his hands heavily on my shoul-
ders. His tone changed until he was
almost mumbling, only 1 couldn't
see it until you showed me the
proof. l couldn't take your word
Maybe you won't be able TO forget
that in a hurry. E"
I thought 1 could detect his old
impatience of me in his shaking
voice. and 1 covered away. His
stiff fingers dropped from my shoul-
ders and Jim sank down in a chair
and stared into space as he went on
furiously:
THE dirty scoundrel! He let my
little sister in for some shady deals
And sold her out. The way he
would have sold Terry out if you
hadn't been on to him from the first.
Poor little Phoebe-head over heels
in debt to West and scared to death
Blackmail-that's what it is, the
yellow cur! | was fool Anne. But
gou-you little brick-you saw"
Then l saw. dropped on my
knees at Jim's side and cried.
You aren't angry at me, Jim.
havn't driven you away from me
again? It's West"
Jim looked dow nat me in amaze
ment. Then he laid his arm around
my shoulders and drew me close so
my head nestled against him. The
color came back to his face and his
eyes lost their remote look. The
corners of his mouth actually twitch-
ed. %
You blessed baby!" he said.
Afraid I'd hate you for getting the
goods on me. Didn't you think I'd
be decent enough to own myself
wrong?"
There was a hint of reproach in
his voice. 1 nestled closer and lifted
my hand to lay it against his cheek.
"Oh, Jimmy-boy, I'm sorry"
murmured. But 1 was so happy