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And every cloud shall roll away,
That darkens love. twixt you and me-"
One by one the lights In Ogden
Fenn's house went out, until there
was no light left. Frank Manners
sat on In the darkness. And for a
long time hee cried like little
child. -
When a flash Of his torch upon
the face Of his watch showed that
after the extinction Of the last light
a full hour and a half had passed.
he rose to his feet, and for a few
moments stood and looked upward
at the amazing scarf of-stars that is
flung across the Nubian shoulders
of the night.
AwalSens Fem.
He spoke aloud in his quiet, we'll
bred voice:
Am I about to do right or
wrong?"
As is customary when men turn
their faces upward and ask ques
lions. there was no answer.
Very well,',' then said he. Here
goesw
Tam walked. She could see that
head and shoulders were framed in
her window. They were black and
flat as If cut out of cardboard.
There was just enough starlight to
outline them.
She came of gallant stock. And
she was the proud possessor of an
electric torch. She pointed this at
the black cardboard head and
touched the button. IN the scientific
miracle of the flash the flat card
board changed into reliefs and mod
elings and chiselings. II changed
into the face that she loved best in
all the world.
There was a wonderful story smil.
ing in her fathers eyes and about his
mouth. The smiling seemed TO say
to her "silence-courage."
For the protection Of his isolated
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When a Girl Marries


ficient extent to make me feel that
l could go out among the crowds
in the lobby without attracting too
much attention. So / hurried out,
conscious that for the second time
in twenty-four hours I'd taken ad-
vantage of Evvy's newly estab-
lished loyalty by keeping her wait
ing in a public place.
AS ! had hoped, Tom was with
Envy when ! arrived. and with
ready tact htey smiled their &C.
ceptance of my words when l hur-
ried across the lobby calling:
What a nice surprise! You're
always stumbling across a friend
or a relative, Envy. 1t really pays
to be late for luncheon appoint
ments with you. To think of your
running across Tom like this
over the lunch table | explained
this bit of stage affect:
you see. Tom, ] don't want any
one who may be on my trail to
identify you as my friend. That
would interfere with our helpful
ness. So / wanted to make 1t clear
to any eavesdroppers that you were
there as the other woman's friend,
moreover, by accident"
Agreed and accepted. Donna
Anna" smiled Tom. Anything
which makes me feel you've found
at last that I'm a friend to trust
suits me down to the ground. And
you don't have to tell the world a
thing about tiff only you'll tell
me-"
who wouldn't do whatever you
ask when you look so bewitching-
like a slim edition of lovely
Titan
Tom" cried Envy, warned by
my fluttering eyelids and the angry
color flooding my cheeks. Annie
has never liked the pretty speeches
you make to charming women and
chant over precious tapestries. too.
You're right, Envy. I will drop
it. Bad habit anyway. And now
let's get down to business. I'm
ready to go to South America or
to Northern China, Donna Anna.
Just give me your orders"
Looking about cautiously, / said
in a very low tone:
Please go to police headquarters
and tell the proper officials TO have
a squad of plain clothes men at the
corner just four blocks north and
vest Of Virginia Dalton's apartment
i don't want to name the place
get me?"
II get you; go on" said Tom.
AT five" j continued, "a man
variously known as Slim barrow
and as Darrow Addicks, and wear.
ing a cap pulled low over bat-ears,
will be there. He Is wanted for a
bank robbery across the river two
years ago last October. The police
don't recognize him because ne
wears quer makeup and a cap
pulled down TO shadow his face.
But one good look and they'll
know him. Dick West may be
there. too. I'm afraid they can't
take him--but this confederate of
mis- must be captured. Oh, Tom.
Tom--you won't fail me, will you?
You'll have the police there by
flve?"
"Ill see this through for you,
Donna Anna" replied Tom gravely.
"You can count on me-"
CTo BE Contipucd Thursday
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away after little. The air nau
turned very brisk and exhilaratlrg.
About s, o'clock light shone In
the window of Tam's room. Now
and then a shadow, as Of some
thing vast and spectral, came be-
tween the light and the window.
Manners shook and trembled jerk
lily like a man with a chill. He
strained every faculty to try and
catch a sound of her voice. But
could not.
How often" he thought, when
she was a baby / have taken her
In my arms and walked about the
garden path at dusk. She could
see things in the bushes and be-
hind them that I could not see.
Pygmies, gnomes, rewards, and
fairies, most like. How she would
gurgle at them! How her great
eyes would shine!"
The light in her window went out.
What does God think OF all
this?" he wondered. Here sit
alone in the cold. Yonder in the
warm house my wife sits with an
other man. Her body has no Sc
crets from him. For whole days /
have passed up and down before
the vigilant tribunal of my own
conscience, turning as i passed. that
nothing of me might be hid. I have
But have done right, and 1 have
been wise. / have done nothing
which in any way justifies the tor
ture to which I~have been subject
ed"
His meditation melted into argu-
ment and interrogation half ear
nest, half whimsical.
Almighty God" he thought. IF
you are almighty, why are you also
called all-merciful? Is 1t all-merciful
to treat a poor little shrimp like me
quite so rough? l don't say that 1t
isn't. 1 ask for information. This
world is full of sick. The sickest of
all these are those who are sick at
heart. Was 1t all-merciful when you
decreed that disease should be con-
tagious instead of health, and that
wretchedness and unhappiness should
be the common lot, and dirt and pow
erty and envy and lust? You are
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A Story Replete With Dramatic Epi.
sOdes and Conflicting Passions
Made Into a Motion Picture

Indeed 1t was to be born to her
as the crowning horror OF thst
night-a child without life.
The man kept trying to say
something. He got 1t out finally:
Don't look like that! ] had a
right to shoot. Every mans home
is his castle. . o."
This mans home was his
castle.' said Diana. But we
stormed 1t. and on its ruins we
founded the ruins OF our own.
you and / don't matter. We're
got to think of Tam and no one else.
She must not know"
But Tam knew very well. She
knew very well too what that
wonderful smiling upon her fathers
face had meant.
"Silence-Courage."
She never cried. She never let
them see that she didn't believe the
carefully graduated lies which they
felt in all honor bound to tell her.
But the shock spoiled her sweet
and good little life for her. 1t made
her a little queer-morbid, her ,
teachers said. II
In Frank Manners's, pocket. stayh-
ed with blood that had leaked ! In
from the cataclym that had BEEN his
face, they found the last letter THAT
Tam had written to him--the pne
that she had signed Your lowing
friend and daughter" On the face
of the letter he had scrubbed some
verses. 1t was a habit he had.
The letter disappeared.
One day, the following winter, IL
was recitation day for the little girls
in Tam's class, and when 1t was
Tam's turn tn recite she stood up
before them an, and with queer
little break in her voice she recited
the queerest little set Of verses that
ever came out Of queer little
child's mouth:
Don't sing any hymns, don't pray any
Don't lick the boots Of any God for me.
I'm too tired to climb even golden stairs'
When / die, just let me be.
ION the deep sea floor I'D as lief be laid.
As lief in the sour ground:
1 don't give a damn where the bed 10
b. made,
II the sleep sleep be long enough and
sound" A
THE ENID
Copyright, 1919. international Magazine Cd
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house Ogden Fem kept in one corner
of his room a double barreied twelve
gauge shotgun loaded with number
eight shot.
In raising the ladder to the win
dow it had made one sharp rasping
sound against the shingled side of
the house. This sound had walked
Fem and brought him. gun and all.
on barefoot tiptoe into Tam's room.
He had looked out of the window
and down He had discovered the lad
der and the bulk of a man in the act
of ascending it. Then he had backed
away and crouched low, and there
he was all this time. his gun leveled.
He had no intention of shooting. 1t
was in his mind to get the drop on
the housebreaker. arrest him and
turn him over to justice.
He was not in the least fright
ened. but he was nervous and
trembling. which was only natural
The flash of light which hal
revealed the father to the daugh-
ter, revealed to Ogden Fem the
man he had so wronged and out
ragged. And he did that thing
which of all things In this world
he would have wished the least to
have done. He pulled both triggers
Of his gun.
Manners Is Shot.
The effect of no weanon is more
frlghtful than that of shotgun
at three or four feet. or Frank
Manners face when they came to
him lying on his back at the foot
OF the ladder there was nothing
left that was recognizable. Bot
Diana recognized him instantly.
There they stood, those two, in
their nightgowns and bare feet.
looking at the dead nan where re
lay-between them.
Had you stood behind Fem so
that he was between you end the
lantern which he had stood on the
ground, you might have noticed
how badly knocked the mans knees
were, and how they kept OIL knock
ing. 1t needed no effort of any
transparency TO show that the
woman with the beautiful dishev-
elled hair was far gone with child.
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DIFFERENT TYPES

than the other type, inclines more
to resist the school, can afford to
quit earlier. but will jump headlong
into wrong and dissipation, If not
well managed.
Your impressive child will stick
closer to his books, needs 10 stay
in school to the very limit, will not
be attracted by loose living, and
will win his honors more on what
he is and what he knows than on
what he does.
The explosive will find a way
OF make it," He will disdain polish
ed manners and formality, but will
ride into favor on bluff and nerve
wherever he is short on the other
qualifications.
The repressive will need letter
of introduction, a copied list OF his
school grades, or nice diploma to
present as his credentials, whenever
he aplies for employment.
Your explosive will keep you on
the jump, while you run along at
his side and watch him educate
himself through the rough-and-
ready experiences he chances TO
meet on the way.
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speech, to have sent. II to perch
upon my shoulder and TO whisper
the answer In my ear
There stole suddenly and quietly
and sweetly out OF the house, as
familiar to him as uny of his most
happy and impassioned and heart
breaking memories. the prelude to
a little song. Diana's voice followed.
And a wild thrill went through his
blood.
Manners Listens.
He had no need to hear the
articulate words. They were burned
in his heart:
what shall I cay of her?
All that I may of her
All that Is sad in her
Sweet in her. glad In her
Comes TO my heart as her name to the
lips of me
wakens and pulses and thrills every
thought of me
Choose what could OF her.
Think what l would of her
All Nat Is worst Of her
All that is good OF her
Sways me and draws me
To love every mood of her
Chsngefully cnangeful.
My Lady OF Moods"
Then there came out TO him the
chorus, wonderfully strengthened
and impassioned by the addition of
a mans voice. an astounding voice,
a glorious voice.
Why it should have surprised
Manners to learn that Ogden Fem
had beautiful voice is unknown.
Yet 1t is doubtful IL anything In
this world could have surprised him
much more.
Heart of my Heart!
She has broken the heart OF me,
Soul of my soul!
Who will never be part OF me.
She whom / love. but will never be love
of me
Song OF my sorrows-My Lady of
Moods"
The singing ended, and there was
a time Of silence But the night
creatures of the wood had been
awed into a silence that lasted until
the beginning of the next song.
That's not the way a happy man
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THE RHYMING|
OPTIMIST
BY Aline Michaelis
NV Home Totvn.

r HAVE been in many cities
famed in story and in song.
noted towns of famous ditties,
and I've asked myself what II is
that has boosted them along. /
have seen the streets of Cairo and
have found them quite a bore, and
I'd think the merest tyro would
grow weary of Pesiro or the sights
of Singapore. Down wide boule-
wards I've trotted, lined with cost
ly bungalows, lawns where land
scape artists plotted with vast
heaps of coin allotted TO present
some nifty show. But in vain
have they cajoled me; / have
walked these thoroughfares, have
regarded them all coldly and have
asked this question boldly: who
are you to put on airs?" They
may please some heather fellow,
they may suit him TO a tee; but no
one has heard me below for
house of pink and yellow, such
styles don't appeal to me. And,
according to my notion, every old
town is cheat, not one place
across the ocean can compare with
my home Goshen, and the build
ings on State street! There are
cities that were founded in
Methuselah's infancy; though I've
heard their praises sounded and
their many charms expounded.
State street still looks best to me.
While I've seen life's change and
chances. there's no thrill I've ever
known in adventures or romances
like to that which charms my
chances down on State streets
magic zone. So ! say: while
others wander in strange places
of renown, State street finds me
ever fonder of its charms. and so
squander shekels in my own home
town."
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sings" thought Manners. He, too,
has sensed the sweet liquor in the
cup turned bitter at the touch Of his
lips. His heart is hurt, but he wor-
ships her. Oh. what do care what
she gives him II she doesn't want to
givel Let him paddle In her neck
as the wicked king padded in the
neck of Hamlet's mother" And his
thoughts floated back to college and
to a Jingle, old even then, but some
times sung:
"Oh q hero's song i sing
His story shall my pen mark
And he was not king
But Hamlet, prince OF Denmark
with a woken noken nure
And a woken noken noko,
With woken noken nuro
Higho! Hishoddy.'
1t is said that in the moment of
a mans death before the last glim-
mering of his consciousness there
rushes in review the whole OF his
past life. There was nothing MORT
bund about Frank Manners. He
had never been more tensely
alive than during the whole Of that
day. Yet 1t is true that during the
long drive and during the long vigil
below his little daughters window,
he had had a bewildering number Of
glimpses at the whole Of the life that
he had lived.
There was no prelude this time.
Very simple and direct, and very
wistful too and unhappy and ques-
tioning and appealing came Diana's
voice. sustained by a questioning
and accompaniment.
"I know not when the day shall be.
I know not when our eyes may meet,
What welcome you may give to me
Or will your words be sad or sweet.
II may not be till years have passed
Till eyes are dim and tresses gray
Our hands, our hearts, must meet some
day.
~ know not are you far or near,
or are you dead, or that you live,
Or who should plead or who forgive;
But when we meet some day. some day.
Eyes clearer grown the truth may see,
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called also the All.Wise. Are you
then still in an experimental mood,
oh. God?"
Asks for a Sign.
His thoughts were without irrev-
erence. Puzzlement over all such
things had been habitual with him
since boyhood. In the telling
American phrase. he came from
Missouri" and wanted to be
Shown"
Now upon my soul and honor"
he thought. II do not know II
what ! intend to do this night is
right or wrong. Give me a sign
The author Is not so presumptu-
sous as to say that a sign was not
Immediately given. He Is not so
presumptuous as to say that one
was. He records only that in the
very next crumb of time, star,
dizzy perhaps with it's own prob
lens, lost its balance, and fell
from the heavens. For a moment
a long train of fiery sparks marked
the splendor of the path along
which it had whirled to extinction.
do not know II Manners reso-
luton was actually shaken or-not.
l think that the coincidence must
have disturbed him a little, for he
said to himself. as II to justify
himself!
THAT sort of sign was all right
in the first century, but 1t is too
old .fashioned for the twentieth.
Give me a sign that / can under
stand-something simple and d.
rect like-like striking me dead
Somehow he wished he hadn't
said that, even to himself. 1t had a
flippant IL not blasphemous effect
upon his sense of fitness.
1T would have been in better
taste" he thought, ito have asked
Him to endow some little woodland
creature with the power of human
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BY w. A. McKeever.

~ OES your child explode quickly
at the point Of emotional re-
Spouse? For example, when
angered, does he at once redden in
the face and follow that with cries,
yells or explosives?
Or, does your child repress his
emotions and appear to absorb their
force within his own organism?
Whether your child be an explo-
sive or a repressive will have a very
important relation to his course of
education, his morals and his sue
cess in life. The explosive type
rapidly acquires initiative, tends TO
go into excuses and requires con-
slant guidance, but little incentive.
The repressive type is slow to find
his course, is easy to manage NOR
ally and requires constant incen-
tives to keep him trying our new
and necessary types Of behavior.
Your explosive child will tend to
work out his own salvation. He
needs less formal book instruction
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PUTTING ON
WEIGHT
BY Brice Belden, M. D.

IN HE trouble with most persist
emily thin people is that they
don't digest fats well, or do not
eat enough fat, or do not consume
the right kind Of fat. This is not a
question that concerns the stomach
much, for fats are digested in the
intestines, unless imperfect stomach
digestion is interfering with the
work of the intestines, in which
case the digestive process will need
attention at all points.
To begin with, these thin persons
should have themselves looked over
to exclude lung trouble, infected
tonsils, diseased gums and teeth,
etc. Assuming that the individual
is fundamentally healthy aside from
his fat difficulty, it is well to start
him on that fat which is most easily
digested. in other words cream.
But right here we must look out
for stomach acidity, too much Of
which will spoil the cream program.
By simply cutting out meats and
sweets we prevent this excessive
acidity and make the cream readily
assimilable, because the milk in
which it is always given will behave
well in a relatively neutral stomach.
Those who are a bit squeamish
about this milk and cream combina.
ton will be aided greatly II they will
add to the milk and cream a goodly
amount of Vichy water, even up to
an equal quantity.
A good rule Is to take a quart
of milk to each fifty pounds OF
body weight daily. Beginning with
one ounce of cream to each quart,
increase until four ounces are
added to each quart. This is to be
done gradually, so as to establish
tolerance for the fat.
In the course of this fattening
system one must not discomfort
the digestive apparatus by ill
advised eating. II one is resting
or not very active physically one
can get along very nicely with
very little other food, and yet fat
ten successfully. In fact, his ap-
petite will probably not be vora-
cious.
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HINTS FOR THE
HOUSEHOLD

Cold, dry toast can be kept for
days in a cool place and may be
heated a second time.
Unslacked lime, spread over the
walls of a damp cellar, will prevent
the moldy smell which is usually
there.
Before boiling piece of bacon
soak it for twelve hours in cold
water. II this Is done it will waste
very little in cooking.
1t is economy to buy unbleached
linen in preference to bleached. 1t
wears much better and does not turn
yellow with keeping.
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FRANK MANNERS, artist, deeply IN love with
his charming wife,
DIANA MANNERS a beautiful young woman, who
falls in love with
OGDEN FEM, young chap, who makes no secret
of his affection and to whom
PETER MANNERS, cousin of Frank, who also
once loved Diana, appeals to prevent a break
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ADVICE TO THE
LOVELORN
BY Beatrice Fairfax
Afford to Wait.

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
! am young girl nineteen years
of age and for the past seven months
have been going with a fellow six
years my senior. He seems to think
an awful lot of me- He says he
to get married.
love this fellow very much. but
do not think he knows my feel.
ings toward him, as / have never
expressed myself very plainly. care
so much for him. that / am willing
TO wait few years. DIMPLES.
You can afford to wait a few years
and see what happens. Keep him
as a friend, and do not deny yourself
friendships with other men.
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IE WILD GOOSE BY GOUVERNEUR MORRI
Who's Who in '"The Wild Goose"

MRS HERRIOTT, woman about town, who helps
Frank TO get divorce to free Diana.
ROBERT HASTINGS, husband of Mary devoted
more to money making than to home making
MARY HASTINGS, his wife, and friend of Frank
and Diana.
TAM, the little daughter of Diana and Frank, who
adores her father.
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wretchedness of heart must soon
pass away. / have blamed other
people for their failures far more
than have ever blamed myself FOR
mine. With Tam I shall find peace
and contentment."
AS he drew near Combers ne
became exhilarated and excited.
He had not before entering realized
how his soul painted for the sight
and the sounds of his little laugh
ter. Oh, to have her on, the seat
beside him, pressed hard against
him, the car tearing forward, and
all about them the night!
Having looked over the lay OF
the land and discovered n little
wood road, near Fcnn's house, m
which he might leave the car,
Manners drove farther into the
mountains and returned to Comb
ers after dark. He backed the car
into the mouth of the wood road
and doused the lights.
Frank Meditates.
Then, occasionally flashing
torch, he followed a path which he
had explored earlier in the day
and which led to the edge of the
little clearing in which t'enn's
house stood. At that point he sat
down to wait until one hour and
a half after all the lights In
Fenn's house had been extinslish'
ed. But. since he had eaten noth-
ing from early morning, hunger
the did not know that 1T was
hunger) disturbed him and made
him restless.
Gradually the forest became aive
with the noises of the little things
that walk stealthily at night. A
little scrcech owl obtruded, but flew
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The Summer Consultations

THE summer stars are now in their full glory. In
the south at 9 p. M. gows the brightest part OF
the Milky Way. The Red Antares in Scorpo is west
of the meridian. Nearly overhead is Vega in the Lyre
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-02
This Day in History

THIS is the anniversary of the entrance into the
Hudson of Hendrix Hudson, in 1910. The Dutch
navigator thought he had found the Pacific Ocean
passage to the East, but discovered his