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was as quick as that of a trained
actress picking up her cue.

was as quick as that of a trained
actress picking up her cue.
HAS he been trying to kiss you?"
"Not yet"
"U-m-m -m-m-mw said Aunt Emme-
lin. That inarticulate "U-m-m- MN !"
expressed simultaneously pleasure
IN Susan's frankness, a deep salts
faction over the discovery of new
complication in the human relations
under her eye, and an appreciation
Of Susan's confidence in her.
81 should think twice about it,"
Aunt Emmeline continued, "if I
were you"
Susan waited patiently.
Hes ne'er-do-well," Aunt En-
incline said. II suppose that makes
him quite irresistible?"
NO." Susan answered. "I lust
don't believe it,"
WELL" Aunt Emmeline pursed
her lips, whether you believe it or
not, it's So"
"How so?" Susan persisted.
His father couldn't find a pre-
paratory school that would keep him
more than year"
"Ohv" said Susan, with a little
shrug. 1t was as if she had said, ooh,
thatw
He went to Princeton, finally"
Aunt Emmeline said. "He managed
to stay there until the middle Of his
senior year, and then he had to 20.
His father was starting on trip to
Mexico. He put Rodney In the New
York office to learn the business
from the ground up. When he got
back to New York after a month.
he found cablegram from Rodney
asking for money. He was stranded
at Shepard's Hotel in Cairo"
Susan smiled.
His father sent him out to
ssattle. to~the ofic] Of his lumber
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car plunge up the long hill that
leads out of Deep Harbor toward
the homes of the Binghams and the
Hanchetts, and stood watching it
until it topped the hill and disap-
peared.
Instead of turning to the grocery
store, she went on down the street
in the direction taken by the car,
to Aunt Emmeline's. Emmeiine
Peabody was not in the strict sense
Susan's aur1t-or, so far as is known
anybody's aunt: she was everybody's S
aunt-one of those spinsterish per-
sons with sympathetic ear, a clear
eye and a sharp tongue such as no
community can properly do without.
Aunt Emmeline knew everything
that was not printed in the Deep
Harbor weekly, The Herald.
There was no use trying to draw
Aunt Emmeline out and secure items
from her vast store Of information
by indirection. She never gave away
her treasures. They had price,
and the price was complete exposure
of ones object in consulting her.
who" Susan asked bravely, sis
Rodney Bingham?"
Aunt Emmeline's return question
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of it, lest an accident more serious
than Susans result and the town be
sued for damages. But Susan did
not say a word Instead she put on
her most treasured dress for dinner
and did her hair with even more
care than usual although no one
was coming. And after dinner she
sat for long time looking into The
fire in the living room. Then she
got up and went to the piano and
played over and over again, very
softly, some phrases of Debussy,
until her father stirred uneasily in
his chair and got up and opened the
front door, and stood looking at the
sky, as if anxious about the weather,
for all of five minutes.
* II 4
n T EXT morning Susan walked
vi down to the village as she al
way did Immediately after
breakfast, to get the mornings mail,
and to give her orders at Horn S
grocery store and the meat market.
1t was a chore she had done six
days week for perhaps six years,
and she might reasonably have been
bored with it, and, indeed, she had
often been bored with it. But no
competent observer watching her, as
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No MOthQr to Guido HQr
e7o "ory T The uAaSe boouzy and mel7o1 nea0 0v-,p0U
by LUCIAN CARY'
NLUyZ2H7ZD By A97HUh2 W. BROWN

able to guess the rest. He thought
of himself as an old man, wiser in
the ways of the world than he was;
and he thought of her as Younger
than she was, of course; and he did
not see that circumstance was slow
~ forcing her into the spinsterhood
which is so often the fate of the
finest girl in town from which the
most eligible young men have de-
parted. He was proud man, proud
of his reputation for building yachts
that could stand across the North
Atlantic, proud Of his father, whose
pistol and cutlass hung over the
front room mantel, proud of his
daughter Susan.
He was tall, gaunt man, a fore
boding figure, nodded for tragedy.
And if anybody had told him that
behind his air of stern uprightness
there was a strain of romantic non
sense he would not have been seri-
ously annoyed, because he wouldn't
have had the faintest suspicion that
the charge was true.
One day in April, when for more
than a week an incalculably slow
drlzzle had alternated with sheets of
rain and life in the white house on
the green had grown steadily more
impossible to Susan, until she felt
she would begin to throw things if
she stayed indoors an hour longer,
Susan put on a yellow oilskin coat
and an oilskin hat and cranked the
filvver. She felt she must do some
thing unnecessary, something ad-
venturous, something wild-and the
widest thing she could think of was
to drive ten miles down the State
Road to East SOutham and have tea
all by herself at the Post Inn, which
would be so entirely deserted at this
season and on such a day that she
would be free to imagine it peopled
with-well, with the sort of people
she liked.
But somehow or other, on this
gray and drizzly day, her magma
ton quite failed to supply what was
lacking in reality. The tea was a
failure.
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case Aunt Emmeline's "U-m-m-m-m''
was equivalent to eyes"
Susan rose.
SO she said, with gentle malice
you really haven't any scandal
about him, have you, Aunt Emme-
line"
"U-m-m-m-m-m!" said Aunt EN-
incline. mot yet"
Hes awfully good-looking, isn't
he?" Susan ventured.
"U-m-m m-m-m," said Aunt En-
incline.
4 N THE course of the next two
4 weeks occurred number of CO.
incidences like the one by which
Susan and Rodney Bingham had met
at the postotfice. Three times they
visited the little public library next
the town hall at the same hour. Once
they met at the teashop, and since
each had been alone they had tea
together. And once they walked as
far together as from the postoffice
to Horns grocery.
BY that time it was all over town :;
nearly everybody in Deep Harbor
had heard that Susan Beal was car
rying on with Rodney Bingham.
Which shows how incredibly gossipy
and meddling little towns are, MAX
ing mountains out of thank-you-
ma ANS and all that. The fact is
that no intimate word had passed
between them. Indeed, if every sem
tence that they spoke had been re-
corded by dictograph and produced
In court no jury would have hesi-
tated to render verdict of not gull
ty. Nothing had happened to JUS
tify the towns notion that they were
in love with each other. But the
town was right.
Susan went daily about the same
round OF duties as always, save for
the condolences. Outwardly she was
the same Susan Beal. Inwardly she
had curious sense Of elation, a feel
ing that life was worth living and
the world an extraordinarily inter
est1ng place in which to live it. It
occurred to her more tnan. once that
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HE State Road was so alippcry
IL that Susan started hcnc Tho
back way over & road that had
the saving grac, Of being dirt, bu'
which was hardly more than two
deep ruts in tn mud, such as one
would expect to find only in the
mountains of Kentucky and can find
anywhere in Connecticut ten rods
OFT the main highways. The fact that
the road led to Deep Harbor through
a walled lane that divided the Han
chett estate from the Bingham estate
had nothing to do with her decision.
Susan did not know either family
had, indeed, no particular interest in
either family; besides, she knew that
none of them came to Deep Harbor
before the first of June.
Susan went leaping along in the
f1ivver, her left arm bent in a circle
over the steering wheel, after the
fashion of those who drive fivvers
over Connecticut roads, her right
hand divided in its clasp of the wheel
SO that two fingers were free to
manipulate the gas lever. She was
dong twenty-five miles an hour
which was about as fast over that
road as seventy-fve on a speedway
when she swung round the blind
corner into the lane and down the
steep little hill toward Deep Harbor.
A hundred feet ahead. the rain had
washed clear the top of a deeply
embedded boulder; on either side
was a deep rut. The ruts ran be-
tween narrow, high banks. Susan
wondered If the rear axle would
clear the boulder, and showed in the
brake. The rear wheels locked and
slid in the soft mud as if they had
been creased; the front wheels
plunged into the ruts, straightened
out; the fiivver slowed down sharply
as the front wheels straddled the
rock, and, as gently as though manip
ulated by some giants hand, the rear
axle slid up on the sloping face of
the rock. Susan got out. The rear
wheels had been lifted just clear of
the mud-they had no traction. The
little car was stuck high if not dry.
Susan gave that quick instructive
look round that the driver who has
done a foolish thing always gives
even in the loneliest places. If Susan
had been driving in the wilds of
Beloochistan, hundred miles from
human habitation, she would have
given that quick look round to assure
herself that no one had witnessed
her carelessness. So would you or
|. The road was entirely deserted;
no one was coming down the hill
and no one was coming up the hill;
and In all human probability no one
would do either for the next twenty
four hours. Susan gave little sigh
of relief and little frown of dis
may-and, her eyes drawn irresist-
lbly upward, saw young man stand
ing in wide gap of the stone wall
at the top of the bank. The young
man wore overalls, with the clumsy
canvas gloves that men use in the
fields for rough work, and one
Of those shapeiess felt hats that are
neither brown nor gray but the color
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NTlTH never a look behind at
w the young man in the road,
she shot down the hill around
the corner and through the village
OF Deep Harbor toward the white
house that looked on the green, where
she lived with her father. Enoch
Beal, and Maggie, who had served
there for more than a generation.
But though she went straight
home, Susan Beal did not mention
her adventure in the lane to her
father. He was one Of the towns
Selectmen and he would have had
the place where the fliyver had stuck
high II not dry repaired within
twenty-four hours il he had knayn
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iOiii WllillH ner fathers
voice came with concentrated Bit
terness.
Mr.. Bingham" he said. ~ oh
Ject to your presence. Susan. come
in the house"
The window came down sbo~,
Inc two looked at each other
"Well!" said Rodney.
Susan put her hand lightly on his
arm.
i don't understand" she wbis-
pered- "But-you had better 90
now"
N0aney nodded and walked away.
he next morning at breakfast
Il ousan's father made no refer
ence to what had happened. He
put on his hat and left the house
"lthout mentioning it. But a mo-
ment later he came back.
Daughter" he said, 81 was verv
sorry to have to do what l did last
night. But I can't approve of vour
conduct. Young Bingham isn't a
man for you to know. No good can
come of your knowing him.
"Why, Father.'
He's black sheep-a scapegrace
"a ne'er-do-well."
"But Father"
Lets not discuss it, Susan" said
Enoch Beal. 81 know the sort If
young man he Is. He's disren-
utable."
But Father" Susan bepan
again.
That will do" said Enoch Beal
and he left the house.
Susan sat for perhaps ten minutes
going over the last two weeks.
He Thinks" she said to herself
that l am an innocent child who is
being carried away by an advent
ursr' He has hEard that Rodney is
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Jardy {Enslish) -.
o Sand English
,Cragamour e

Jardy {Enslsh) ...,...... 10000
Rock Sand (EngSish)N.s.... 10000
(English) ...... 10000
Ormonde (English) A....-... 10000
Val dor (French) ..a......, 14o,o 900
Cyllene (English) ....,..... $4,000
Prince Pa4atine (English) :. $4,000
Btngtou (English) ......... 10000
Your Majesty (English) 80. $4,000
Ard Patrick (English) ...... 10000
Galtee More (EnGiish) ..... 10000
Lancaster (Englsh) ....... 10000
Duke Of Westminster (Eng.). 1os, 200
(English) ...... 100. 900
,MtnoEu (English) 90 900
st. Blaise (English) ...,.... 100, 900
Meddler (English) .......@72,5 SEQ
Watercress (AmertcAnl $40. 71,nA0
Hamburg (Americanyk.... 10000
Hermis (American) $4,000
Hamburg (American1.a..... 1880
Nasturtium (American) go. $4,000
Meddler .(Engiish) .t.,... $4,000
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GAME
IN NORTH DAKOTA

Z Fargo, N. D., March 22.-Thousands
1df North Dakota farmers have been
feeding prairie chickens during the
past winter as q means Of conserving
what is considered The most import
ant Wild bird in the state. Spaces
about 10 feet square have been kept
clear of snow: comparatively close to
houses and barns, and table crumbs,
screenings and grain scattered thereon
daily and the wild birds were fedSaS
regularly as harvard fowls.
Steward lockwood Of the faculty
ofsthe North Dakota agricultural cox
-1ege made an investigation and deter
mined that the prairie chicken an
nuAlly eats many times ito weight In
insects. The crops of birds killed were
found filled with hundreds Of insects.
This led to the passage Of q game
law limiting the open season on prat-
rio chickens to one month. from Sep
tember 16 to October 16, rigidly- en-
forced, while the farmers of their own
voiltion united in an effort to prevent
their slaughter by anyone. No one
may bag more1than five a day.
Then Mr.. lockwood recommended
that the birds be fed during the win
ter months to save the lives Of the
weaker bids, and because past ex-
perience has shown that prairie chick
ems thus W%inter-fed remain on that
particular farm during the ensuing
growing season. t1aa
EE- Nyv~ ilf '.
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SPO2TLETS

Detroit. Mich, March 22.z-Joe
Lynch, New York bantam. and
frankie DALEY, have been matched
to. boz ten rounds here March. 81.
rhoroushbreds OF high class have
always brought big prices. During the
last Twenty-Five years horses Of top
grade have brought from $780, to
$500, 600. Turfmen and breeders in all
sections of.the world have been will
ink to pay fortunes for a horse no
matter where he was bred-in Ameri-
ca, EnglandA France, South America
or Acknowledgements he had the.
right, blood lines. Tracery, -bred@in
America, by an English sire. Rock
Sand, and out of Topiary. daughter
of a French mare, now aesds the list
rin-the matter OF prices paid for stall
Iona Prince Palatine. his rival on the
English turf, follows with 100000.
vas sold for t$125,o00. Rock Sand vas
sold twice, bringing $4,000 in his
ifst purchase. aCyllene also proved a
proftable investment. Hamburg. the
great American racer, was sold three
times and brought big prices each
time. Shs Blaise, sold to settle the es-
tate ofsthe late Acknowledgement, faith.
er. Of Major August Belmont, was the
first hofbe in America to bring $780,.
900. Some 81 the horses that have.
brought big prices are:
$Tr1ceFy (Anerican) ~. ..$265, 900
Prince tPalatine (EnglishA.. $4,000
BotAfaSd (South American). 200, 900
sIlytnY Fsox !English). $4,000
Cyf1ene (English1 ....... $4,000
Diamond Jubilee (English). 151.20e
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ILLINOIS NOSES
OUT WOLVERINES
NBIC TEN MEET

Chicago. III. March 22.-In a%sen-..
sational. finish, Illinois, nosed out.
Michigan for premier honors in the
Western Conference indoor track and.
Geld championships, scoring a total
Of 31M points. The wolverines
gained 17H points for second, while.
Wisconsin, finished third. With 10h
points. Three conference indoor rec-
'ords, were broken.
Fourth place went to Minnesota
with ION points, and. Chicago landed
fifth with 10 points. The remaining
points were divided as follows;
Northwestern 6A; Ohio state IS;
Purdue S and Iowa 4h. ~
Carl E. johnson, of. Spokane,
Wash, captain Of the Michigan team,
shattered the record forS'sthe sixty
yard hurdles, .leaping the barriers in
SIS. He clipped q fifth of q second
OF the record established by Waldo
Ames Of Illinois three years ago.. D.
e. Brown, of Illinois, followed by
winning the half mile jn-the record
kbreakink time Of 1859. The former
mark was 300 As. made by Osborne,
OF Northwestern in 1918. The Till
nois relay team closed. thes record
breaking by hanging up a new mark
Of $3.50 in the one mile relay. The
old record was 3:32 3-5, made by
Chicago in 1917. /.
The individual honors of the meet
went to johnson, the Michigan star,
who scored In points @#Hattwon first
place in Me fifty yard and sixty yard
high. hurdle and tied for third place
In the running high iump.
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Referee: Geise.,
Umpire: LAWYER

SHIELD AND SUHRKE THURSDAY
Suhrke's challenge to Shell will
be played off Thursday night at 1880.
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ISPO News
TAAdRICO BACKS
q TEAM WITH S, 600
CONTRIBUTION

Peoria, ILL.,. March "a team
from Tampico, Mexico. rolling in the
ME men events Drought an added in
gress 1today. Members Of the Ameri-
can colony in Tampico are said to
have contributed $6,ooo%t to send the
'bowlers here.
Mort Lindsey, New Haven,TConn..
ALL events champion Of the A. B. C.s
was also on the drives today shooting
In the team events with the AT
Johnson's of2New Haven. He will.
roll In the individuals and two men
classes tomorrow. ~.
Chicago, Milwaukee, indianapolis,
Muskegon and EscanAba,. Mich.,f
,bowlers were on the drives In, the In
Edividuals and doubles todayS while
tearns, from TampfcoL Mex, New
Haven, Columbus, Marshalltown.
Iowa, Aurof4. Ill, Chicago. Pitts
burgh, Cleveland and Erie. Pa, very
on IN the i've men entries.
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VALLEY CITY WINS :
THE STATE TITLE

Fargo. N. D., March '22.-Repeat-
ing -their1 performances Of last year
against Fargo, Valley City high school
won the state basketball Champion
ship by defeating the local team 1S to
16 in q heartbreaking contest. It was
a wonderful game, cleanly played and
bitterly contested.
Fargo scored arst on a free throw
by Berdahl.. This came after about
two minutes Of play. Valley City came
back with q field goal but Ffrgo made
the lead. The visitors scored once
more in this half while Fargo scored
one field goal and two free throws
more. The first half ended in a whirl-
wind Of passing and clever hoor work
with Fargo OF the long end Of q 8 to
6 score.
Clever Floor Work Shown.
Through clever floor work and good,
judgment the Valley City quint scored
three field goals before Fargo was
able to connect with the basket. This
put the western team In the lead ~
to 9. Then the Fargo team uncovered
a squirt. evening the soore and gain-
ing a four point lead before their OPP
ponents could stop them. 1t wassthe
most exciting part Of the great battle
and Fargo rooters> went wild. With
this four point handicap to overcome
and seven mfnutea left to play Valley
City took time out. When play again
started q free throw and two baskets,
each coming after a hard struggle,
placed the visitors in the led. Fargo
made n free throw. Coach Kimball
of Fargo sent Captain Rae in for the
last two minutes Of play but the neces-
sAry two points could not be gained.
Last Yeas's Work Repeated.
Valley City last year won the dis
|trict championship from Fargo in the
final contest Of the tournament played
At the 4. 6; ermory ~ one point
aatarday nikefs centest.was & reps
though Fargo played their opponents
IN q more even basis this time.
Every man on the local team played
b hard game. Berdahl played the floor
In his usual clever name and Bur-
nette and Chapman. in forward posi-
tons, we're in every play. Brock
mueller Scased~ three field goals and
covered the hoor in fine style. Vein
Esrtsn va 4 stone yalI on the de:
q sgood~game for the winners axscen.
ter and guArd respectively.
The lineups and summary: ~
Fargo Valley City,
Chapmap........L +. ..M.:...L Lyon
Burnette. F. ....!. wertin
Brockmueller. 80. C. ..... .BustAcke.
Weingarten sol g: Delaney
Substitutes: Rae for Chapman. Ford
for Lyon
Field goals: Busticker, s; Brock.
mueller. 3: Brunette. 2; Lyon. 2: Der.
dahl. Wertin, /. .
Free throws: Busticker, 2; Berdahl
4. . ~ 49, 1#%
Referee: Geise..
Umpire: Lawler. -
tsIBELn AND sUHRKE THURSDAY
Suhrke's challenge to Shell will
be played of Thursday night at 1880.
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Essex Almost Doubles
Light Car Endurance
Essen Has Performance Like the Costliest Fine Cars
Its World Endurance Record Has Never Been Ripaled

Essex is easy to operate. Driving does
not fatigue. Its quick response to the
lightest touch and its smooth, restful
comfort in motion, account for this.
That is why so many women are Es-
sex owners. They appreciate its safety,
too. Its controls are simple and instan-
taneous. Itmakes fast time, with secur-
ity, even in difficult traffic.
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POINT CONTEST
BENEFITS BOYS
Used in .Y" Athlet-
BIG Contest Keeps Interest
Of Boys Aroused.

Standings Of the teams in the ath-
attic contest being conducted In the
boys department of the local 7. M. G.
4. 10 worry close, reports Physical Di-
fecter Kink and the members Of the
different team are keeping close tab
kbig attendance every class day, and
the behavior Of the boys 10 almost per-
feet.
Tho secrst OF this enthusiasm is
very simple when. explained. The
members of the winning team of this
con<est are to receive free tickets to a
hlg~,bAnQuet to be held later In the
var.
sNach team has a leader and an as
sistant leader who receive special In
struction in their work and act as
supervisor and captains for their
teams.
Interest in the contest il kept at
fever heat by a scoring system devised
by tho director and the boys { thus
kbenefited to the highest possible ex-
tent in their work without being
aware Of IT. themselves.
Point System.
Presence Of members at class count
I point; If punctual. 2 points, pres
ence of leader counts /, and IL pune
tual s; cadets present draw 2 points
] and il punctual 8; a boy sent from the
koor because Of poor conduct looses =
points for his team. and It expelled f0r
/ more than a day he loses S more FOL
his team. If more than S minutes Nate
I hoy loses his swimming privilege for
the day.
The team winning the relay race
each day receives s pointf. n the
a record az the poitns are kept on
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FARGO ATHLETICS
ARE R~EORGANIZED

Fargo,SN. b, March 22.-Reorsani-
szationEo OF thafFargo Athletics, with C..
A.'Moherssmanager. was announced.
yesterday. y The Athletics have been,
amateur Baseball champions. Of the
city for Ave years and are again look.
ing forward to q successful. season.
Peter Macarthur is secretary and j. H.
Ellis field captain. The club is sup
ported by ~12Nleading business houses
best players in. the city in its lineup.
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year, haA bssn received ak the New
York HEADQUARTERS Of the club. Some
thing IKE 1lS7.SS per man vas COM
ink t. the sterling athletes, who. had
been staSrgerinG along lust one step I'm
advance OF the sheriff. The total
amount OF the check ID ~@&13.77h0e.
9nd tw~snty-nine players are in the
division Visor \
President .Breadon Of the st. Louis
has announced that he viii
continue to issue free spaase6 to- the
|"Knot Hole Gang even though each
boys complimentary ticket must DO
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The most important thing Essex has
proved is that weight and size are no
longer necessary to finest car quality.
It's 3O37 miles in SO hours is a, world
endurance record. The test was official.
Supervisors of the A. "A. certified the
Essex stock chassis in everydetail.
Never before was a car driven at top
speed for 50 hours. The grind was equal
to years of road use. Yet the Essex
showed no measurable wear.
What car, the Essex size and, weight,
can even attain a mile-a-minute speed,
much less keep it up for SO hours?