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CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER III.
 Carol and Jimmy Return. For years Manchester heard noth- ing of James Gordon.
 Of Carol Landis' career there was decidedly more report, in spite of the fact that her departure was not dignif1ed by even so much as ad- verse mention. It was Justice lame sons son, Lloyd, who brought back to Manchester the first really tangi- ble news of her progress, though Wainwright himself, coming across a three-line announcement in a the- atrical weekly that a new recruit for the dramatic had been drafted from the ranks of musical comedy, faith fully passed it on to his strictly local audience, in a paragraph commenda- tory or facetiously caustic, as one cared to view it.
 And when, bearing out Lloyd's fer vid prophecy, metropolitan newspa- 1 pers and agazines-devoted to the rofession"-began to mention the work of an "eager-eyed young lady with red hair who, in the part of In toxication in Carl Hardy's sweeping morality play, Wisdom stood head and shoulders above the rest of the cast" theatrical patrons in Marches ter read every word with avidity. They
 waited, as patiently as they were able
 for the day when Wisdom should come to town.
 | The play needed no advance adver- Itising when the billboards announced
 it's engagement for the week follow
 ing the holidays AS the president
 and moving spirit of the Reform league the society which, molding
 hose of uncertain opinion, had helped
 place T. Elihu Banks in the mayors i flee four years in succession, the ] Rev. Watson Duncan gave the mat
 ter much private thought and a deal of public mention. Convinced that the production was likely to offend lthe finer sensibilities and prove an
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a>RY ARTHUR SC0TT BAILEYl,: ':

shouted And the lions! and the monkeys! And the bear!''
 See them!" Spot yelped. T say, smell them!"
 He felt better when the animals in their cages had gone creaking past. And he forgot his uneasiness as he watched dozens of horses, ridden by folk whose bespangled clothes gilt tered in the sunlight. Then came a funny man in a little, l two wheeled cart, driving a donkey. This was the clown. He bowed and smiled to everybody, right and left, l and even threw kisses at some of the girls. His painted face, his bag-like l clothes, and his odd little round, pointed hat made Johnnie Green | laugh. And to Johnnies great de- light. when the clown saw Spot he whistled.
 | Old Spot was all for dashing out
 into the street. But Farmer Green wouldn't let him do that. Spot had 1 to be content with barking at the clown.
 Then a man on a brisk little horse
 came down the street. He had a big
 voice. And he kept using it all the
 time, shouting so everybody would be sure to hear, Look out for your horses! the elephants are coming!"
 And they came. The elephants Icame. When Spot saw their huge
 forms plodding down Main street he dived beneath the carryall again and
 shivered until the last one had passed |along.
 l The bays stirred restlessly as the elephants neared them And the Iyounger of the pair snorted with fear.
 Farmer Green talked to them in a
 soothing voice and told them there lwasn't any danger But nobody Thought of talking to old dog Spot
 Everyone forgot about him. And he Twas just as badly frightened as the |bays, especially when a terrible toot- ling and screeching burst forth. l Spot jumped almost out of his skin 1 Stakes alive!" he howled. What lawful voices the elephants have!''
 The steam 'calliope!' Johnnie lGreen cried. And that's the end of lthe parade"
 Copyright 1921 by The Metropolitan q. Newspaper Service). l Torlorrow-Spot Slips His Cellar land Follows the Crowd-to the Cir lCus!
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KATHERINE MAO DONALD
 AT PALACE

My Lady's Latchkey" adapted for the screen from The Second Latch key" the novel by c. N. and A. M. Williamson, is the feature attraction at the Palace theater Monday, Tues day, Wednesday. Katherine Mac Donald, famous as The American Beauty" is starred in the production which is released through Associated First National Pictures, Inc. It is directed by Edwin Carewe.
 It is a worthwhile drama that will be enjoyed by all to whom a well produced and fascinating screen play appeals. The plot opens aboard an ocean greyhound where Ruthven Smith, the trusted international rep resentative of a big diamond mer- chant, is guarding a rare collection of gems on their way to London. In the stiffness of the night a shadow figure mysteriously enters Smiths stateroom and after applying chloro- form to the sleeper's nose depart: with the, precious jewel belt. The action that follows makes an excel lent photop1ay.
 The Keith vaudeville bill for the first half of the week features foul excellent Keith headliners, starrins Harry and Grace Ellsworth in { clever variety offering.
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HOLDING A HUSBAND
 Adele Garrison's New Phase of f Revelations Of q Wife

m reality but a few seconds, and I
 was able to reply to Dicky's question in time to prevent his being sus-
 range things for him.
 Don't worry, I feex," I quoted
 katie banteringly, and Dicky heaved an immense sigh of relief.
 You're the goods, old girl. I'll tell the world .'' he said extrava-
 gantly, and the slangy commenda-
 tion heartened me wonderfully for the unpleasant task before me. Manage it any way you like" Dicky answered promptly. "I'll be the meekest man in the universe, and follow you around like we'll trained bull terrier if you'll pull this off for me"
 AcccptanccS
 Better not make any rash promises" I countered. You may have to lie down, roll over and play dead before I'm through with you" I've been doing nothing else, old dear, since I married you," he re- torted, as I drew up in front of a drug store. Its my best speciality" I made a merry moue at him as I entered the drug store. but my spirits were anything but light. pr. Petit, however I finally got in tele- phone connection with him--was un-
 usually gracious, gave me Miss Eos ter's telephone address readily, and promised to come to the dinner if her plans could be arranged to per init it. There was an embarrassed but somewhat proprietary air about his mention of her name which caused me to wonder if there was an understanding between them. Miss Foster, over the telephone, was her usual gantly en- thusiastic self.
 "Oh, I'd love to come '" she said Its mighty sweet of you to sak me-" And I hung up the telephone with the feeling that she was sim cerely glad of the invitation. "Everything ifs all right your majeoty," I said, as ILcame out of | the drug store. But now it's your turn. You interview this hotel proprietor and order the dinner. l haven't eaten a restaurant dinner o1 your ordering for quite time, and I'd like the experience. I don't | want to know a thing about it until 1 sit down at the table"
 know that there is nothing in | the world Dicky likes to do so much as to order a dinner and I was no, surprised at his enthusiastic re- sponse:
 That's my other name .'' he said "Just curl up now and go to sleep l 1'n attend to things"
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What Madge Was Able to Arrange.
 Dicky's cocksure belief that Claire Foster would consent to pose for him irritated me, all the more be- cause I secretly was convinced of the fact that he was justified in his assertion. That many girls were wild to act as the models for his magazine cover illustrations I had known ever since my marriage, and the fact that had been brought fore ibly home to me by Bess Deans be- havior when I had last seen her.
 With the queer twist which the femine mind sometime assumes, I found myself actually sympathizing with Grace Draper, because of Dicky's decision that on account of her profile mblance to Grace he fresher face for his drawings I had seen the humiliation that had ac- companied the suspicion of the truth which she had betrayed at the inn, and I wondered what her re- action would be to the proposal con- cerning Claire Foster, which l knew Dicky meant to broach at the little dinner he had planned.
 He had asked me to manage" things for him, but one task appalled, me. Dr. Pettit, of course, must be included in the dinner invitation, for we only knew Claire Foster through him. But had Dicky for gotten that the physician knew Grace Draper and her history? And he knew things which Dicky did not, or which I hoped he did not, notably that long-ago attempt of Grace Drapers to take my life. I feared that he would absolutely refuse to come to dinner, and use his influence to keep Miss Foster away if he knew who was to be the other guest.
 I'll have to telephone Dr. Petit in order to get Miss Fosters address, I said, "so we'll just drive to the nearest. telephone. I'll see if I can't reach her by telephone, also, then, l can make the arrangements for the dinner with the proprietor without making another trip out here.'
 Dicky's Relief.
 Why tell him? My particular little devil whispered the insidious sug- gestion in my ear, and l seized it thankfully I would simply put the invitation to meet a friend staying at the little Shelter Island inn, and trust to my luck and his good breeding when he should meet Grace Draper I had a card up my. sleeve I meant to play just before the meeting at that,
 The mental processes of my irri- tated reflection and decision occupied
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BIGGER PICTURES NEXT SEASON


 As result of the motion picture public's demand for more variety in film, Paramount week, which will be celebrated by most of the theaters of the country during the week of Sep tember 10, is likely to usher in a season which will be rich in big pro- auctions, surpassing any that have beeen shown heretofore.
 The list of Paramount pictures scheduled for early release this season which will be inaugurated by Para mount week as a national demonstra- ton TOT better motion pictures, shows hat Paramount is leaving no stone unturusd to improve the standard of ts productions.
 "The Affairs of Anatol," directed by Cecil B. DeMille, with d cast includ- ing Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson. Elliott Dexter, Bcbe Daniels, Monte Blue, Wanda Hawley, Theodore Rob- erts, Agnes Ayres, Theodore Kosloff Polly Moran, Raymond Hatton and Julia Faye, is expected to be the most | taIked-about picture of the new sea- son.
 The Great Moment" written by ! Elinor Glyn especially for Gloria swanson's first Paramount starring picture, is another early fall release Elsie Ferguson in "Footlights' is another picture that is expected tc prove a sensational hit.
 Betty Compson's first Paramount starring picture, At the End of the World" is being heralded as some | thing out of the ordinary in it's con | -eption and execution.
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THIS OWN HOME TOWN"
By Larry Evans.

An absorbing story of "no-good" who made good with the aid of the woman who loved and trusted
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of pecuniary help, as well as that publicans offer to fix things up.''
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delivered on "Mother and tho Fifth Commandment" Dr. Caswell elects to choose his topics for Sunday night sermons from the stage and the screen. He selected recently as his topic "Over the Hill,'' the William Fox film pro- duction which is to open a local en- gagement at the Fox theater, next Saturday for one week.
 The picture sends young man home to write that love letter to his mother, or to carry her handful of voilets, or to send her a larger check than usual or to rush in upon her with a hug and a kiss and an appre- citation which she longs for. I say to you that a picture that will send men to their homes to do things like these is mighty sermon in the real sense of the word.
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tContinued from Yesterdays Herald. )

Jimmy Gordon, the family black sheep and village ne'r do well, comes home after several months absence and received a cool welcome. The only pleasant greetings he gets are from Melody not too respectable actress, and a dog owned by the local saloon keeper. Jimmy is stepson 6f the Rev. Watson Duncan. Rev. Dun can however. ignores Jimmy but goes to the station with T. Elihu Banks. the banker and village magnate, who le -~ brother to Duncan's wife, making him an uncle to Jimmy, where the pair meet Sidney Banks, Elihu's son, as the latter alights from the train, gorgeous in fine rainment and leading a bull terrior by leash.''
 Jimmy and Carol Iandis are in love with each other. Carol is the daughter of "Old Dave Landis, owner of the Daily Courier, run down newspaper plant. She is an amateur actress and because of her, Jimmy is ordered from home by the Rev. Watson Duncan. By the time they reached the head of the alley that led past the Palace theater stage door to Pegleg's place she had stopped crying; she was even smiling again. He opened the door for her. A tiny piano backstage was banging out the same mad little tune to which she had timed her capricious dance steps. before the mirror, an hour before. She stood with her hand on the knob of the door, look ing back at him.
 Do you want to come in and watch? ?" she asked.
 
 "THl be here when you come out And he dropped to the step, his thin face propped in his hands the next moment, without hearing her re- ply that it was not necessary for him to wait.
 For a time Jimmy managed to keep awake, with no littla assistance from the hard stone step and piano within. For time he heard the strain of that mad tune, repeated with nerve racking monotony 'If you're going to love me, love me, love me-if you're going to love me at all.' Then the rhythm became indistinct; the words | lill-matched with the music. And he | was puzzling mildly at the oddity of an anthem set to syncopation when he fell asleep.
 His body slept, and his brain, and | yet he was conscious of things which | transpired about him. He knew when the pianos din ceased entirely; he | knew when two men stopped there in the alley in front of him and con temp1ated his bowed head. One of them spoke his name, compassionate | ly, but he was unable to move or answer. And he was wondering what old David Landis was doing in the company of Pegleg Hanlon, wonder ing what had brought him to Han- Ions hotel, when he felt himself lift
 ed and borne along on strong arms The owner of those arms limped as he walked, and the uneven motion dis. turbed his slunber. And then the sun was in his eyes. He woke with lstart, and lay blinking at the strong light streaming upon his face from
 an open window. Pegleg himself wat istanding beside the bid, grinning dowr
 at him like a good-natured satyr. Stll
 blinking, Jimmy looked about him
 and the very cleanliness of the room
 told him where he was. All of Han
 Ions rooms were kept spotless.
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So 1 didn't dream it, eh?" he be- ban, stretching himself luxuriously. You brought me in ?'
 Pegleg nodded his huge, shaggy
 head.
 T did.' he answered. "Carried we like blessed infant. And it's little
 more ye weigh than many that's only half grown. Since whin have ye taken to sleepin' on the stones?'' AL that question the boys face grew a little disturbed.
 l was waiting to take lady home ne explained lugubriously. Miss Ian
 dls-but l suppose her father met herr"
 He did, Hanlon admitted. Now
 will ye have your breakfast served
 to ye In bed, or will ye rise and come downstairs and eat your dinner like
 respectable folks that sleep O nights
 Ye're broke. I suppose. No doub, we've squandered yere sustinence in | riotous living'
 Jimmy jingled a handful of small
 coins in his pocket and assumed ar Injured air
 To the divil wit ye and your two
 dollar-bill calamity fund that ye
 have hoarded up their in your yes; pocket. Ye're broke. The vital issue is-are ye too proud to wor-rk?'' The gist of Hanlon's conversation
 was that old Dave Landis was willing to give the returned prodigal a job on the Courier. Jimmy hesitated. He had plans of his own which would be interfered with by the acceptance of this offer. But he promised to | think it over. Do so,' said Pegles We've only been home two days yit'' II will,'' said Jimmy soberly. And 1 I'm not half as grateful as I ought l to be. Not two days, Pegleg. I got in late yesterday afternoon So ye didn't know" he chuckled T wondered. Today's Tuesday, me lad, not Monday. And it was Sunday night I picked ye up sleepin' in the alley-Sunday night at 12. We've been dead to the world for thirty-six hours or thereabouts. Tourin' is wearin' 1 on the flesh 'tis true. Ye should pa 1 ttronize the parlor cars more, me , ramblin' young friend.
 Tuesday! Then Carol Landis had lgone-and he had not seen her. That night the amateur perfor- nance took place at the Palace thea.
 ter and the next morning the Gazette | pubhshed an ella borate and howery ac' count of it. The Gazette also pub.
 lished an account of another happen ling of interest to Manchester people which read in part as follows:
 "At an early hour this morning Hanlon's hotel-beter known as Peg legs place-was raided by squad of Warchester's guardians of law and
 order. Nine men and women, all O. undesirable or suspicious character fell into the dragnet. Three of tn. lwomen and the five men were give1 Ian immediate hearing before Justice {Jameson and dealt with according tt the discretion of the court. A mem Der of the Palace Theater Burlesqu' icompany-a girl who it appears i known by no other name than Melod, .-is being held on bail, supplied b. IHanlon, pending further examination
 while the police are searching wide ly for one Whitey Garrity, we'll know Ito the police of other cities, whom The also had eluded before runnin, foul of Warchester's force.
 ! "Out of respect and consideration flor a prominent divine of this com munity it was thought to withhold
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on their brides made a wide turn as they swung into view. On top of the high red wagon that they drew sat the band, all in red suits and playing away like mad
 Spot couldn't help whining. AL though the bandsmen were playing the liveliest air they knew, music always made Spot sad And he was glad when the band wagon had passed on.
 Other wagons, blazoned with red and gold, followed.
 Old dog Spots hair began to rise along his back and he shifted, grow ling. He had noticed a strange mix ture of the aueerest odors. He didn't know, for a moment, whether to run away or not.
 "Oh, see the tigers!" Johnnie Green
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SUNDAY AT THE PALACE

Two excellent feataures are on the bill at the Palace fur sinday night Dustin Farnum will be offered in his newest drama, Big Happiness" and Ethel Clayton will be seen in the Paramount production, ''The Ladder of Lies.." A new episode of ''The Purple Riders,' and other short sub jects completes the bill.
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The Circus Parade.

The Circus Parade.
 The crash and blare of the circus band came nearer and nearer John nie Green craned his neck out of the carryall, as it stood at the side of Main street, and tried to get a glimpse of the parade.
 Old dog Spot did not howl again, but stole out beside the bays and looked up the street too. Soon a man with a tall, shiny hat on his head rode a proud, prancing horse around a corner. And behind him six more horses with gay plumes
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"OVER THE HILL"

That the motion picture drama ia the best medium for the moulding of sentiment toward preservation of the sacredness of the homo waa the decla- ration of the Rev. Lincoln Caswell. pastor of the Crawford Memorial church, New York, during sermon
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effront to every established idea of decency, the town set record for an advance sale of tickets which, until then. had never been edualed.
 Every seat in the house sold out three days before the company's arrival Continued in Mondays Herald.)
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stores and Dwellings

i2e4.ss HARRISON ST, opposite FranRford
IT S-AIl-stona house; must be seen 10
,,a appreciated: agent on premises Sunday
GFS1 g. LIEBERMAN, 50T-S Lincoln BldI
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WHITE truck. 2 ton, model 20, with covered
body. open cab, pneumatiC tres IN use
less than ! year: prrfe I running condition
sacrifice. Apply e. RraCkenbors & Ahram
Cox Stove Co. American and Dauphin SITS
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HOUSES stores. apartments. suburban re.,
dNnces building lots, etc, for sale mt ali
prices and can be purchased on easy term,
EMPIRE TRUST 20
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FRAZIER. 1924 Chestnut 3,

IAOs K1NGSESSlNG AVE.--'TLree Etor,
dwelling with modern improvements. mod.
eratA DTiCP
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CITY
IDEAL, HOME


ooaa ~ Judson at; newly renovated new
9StSre-, must he seen 10 be appreciated;
immediate possession; cal! onice 70 inSpeot'
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OPERATOR

-----S,,ss -, Wheeler . Wilson sewing
OPERATORS IN 0f fbathins suits; steady w9LSi oo
machines 'Hgysslenic gs F1eeeed Underwear Co.
Ms T. HoEaTS I'd !EswoMEN
ssarIonced saiIsnd in selling ready.to
rhoroughT, AeNfSdeer office.
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7T1I ST y 3O56-~Forch < rooms and
bath. modern cows. quick poss Ham
m"ke, $50 " ALeEheny ave. Pm. TioEa 1853
an1i eI,SOI-ElIA NNA---Des o-stN 49,
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Sill II/ 1920 roadster: cannot be told from
new; will sacrifice to quick buyer
Royal Motorcar Co, Inc. go y. Broad.
Open Sunday and evenings. Poplar 6036
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SITUATIONS wANTED-MALg
AGENTS

COLLEGE MEN or any hustler desiring
clean and healthy work to earn several
tory, write Immediately. Indiana Parts Co.,
Eclipse Visor Division. Richmond. Ind.
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2S47.49 y. BAMBREY ST,--5r. and shed
price $4,000; eS. inv. Fletcher 2sO9 "
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HOUSEKEEPING APARTMENTS
VEST PHILADELPHIA

STEIN COURT, 34Is-I5 Race st. : Six
rooms, q baths. with front porch thor
oushly msdorn. unusual opportunity 70 Sc
cure choorful apartment: all outside rooInsI
Hpacous lawns; exclusive environmentsi ~
minutes from. City Hall: will sublet untur-
nished, 3 months or yearly lease.
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Observation-Disclosures
APARTMENTS

2ol5 y. PARK AVE.
Five rooms and bath. back porch! thoroushly
modern: use OF yard. ba basement laundry: lib
eral concessions for summon months. e.
Harry johnson, 1920 Chestnut. Spr. 445s-6o
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ROOMS WANTED

ROOM with breakfast for Japanese gen:
teman in a pleasant private home In good
neiehborhood: give location and rate. NJ 30?
ledger OTice.
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~ y. ST. RERNARD ST -Beeuttful . room
home near /, station. all cows barEajn
small amount cash required -"
KII,pArRICk q SON kio5 MarL., =,
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FURNISHED APARTMENTS
WALNUT AT 4OIH ST
TIREPROOF THROl' 'GHOCT

COY Groom furnished apartment nerr IAN
and Arch sis. until october | rrnt $40
a month, gas and electricity tur1lshrd must
ho taken AZ once Phono Locust 6%73
elO7 WALNUT ST IRerh-AlIyn Apts File.
sanity furnished, rooms aud bath suite,
references.
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vACANT--222O :. Hohson st 07th an,
Woodland; rooms and Laundry, dutch la n
and n 4 Nvtor h"at, vacant. 7u13 and *
snyhrook ave. rooms and !aurdrv, ncWI
f. r. NDt'k. Abth and RnIfIfr m. mo-,