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The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-04-26

good hand-cold. See? / made the
remark that if it were only table
stakes-and so forth; you know the
rest. Everybody was willing and l
Won the pot. After that-well, the
sky was the limit. We just drifted
into it."
II see; / understand" Katherine re-
piled ~absently. "Shall we go back?
There isn't a thing at the kennels to
show you; you know the dogs as
/, well as / do. Suppose we try a four
some. You take Belle Archer and
I'll ask Harry to play; they both
love it."
Look here, Katherine, if you ex-
pect that I'm going to quiz Belle
about her CUES"
"My, my, my! / had forgotten all
about him. He really is unusually
good looking, don't you Think"
"Who? Belknap? Uhuh. / sup
pose So"
Later, when the tennis had been
played and Katherine and Harry Ar
cher had seated themselves for a mo-
ment to rest beneath the spreading
shade of a box-elder, she remarked
casually, and apropros of nothing in
particular:
"Is Mr.. Belknap an old acquaint-
ance of yours, Harry? He is a hand
some man, and such an interesting
talker. Have you known him a very
long time?"
Never saw him in my life until
. day before yesterday-Thursday, you
know" was the indifferent response
of the always blunt and outspoker
Archer, whose inheritance had beer
a comfortably large fortune, a grea
and ne~ver-varying good nature, ant
only a criminal support of wit ant
brains. "He blew in to see me at thu
office, you know; brought a letter O.
Introduction from Beekman Storrs-
Becky m / were chums at Old Eli
] y'know-so / asked him down to
/ Ledgewood. Belle gave me the dew
for it, too; said I'd no call to do j
( when l knew we were comm here TO
the weekend, m 1 told her to fetc
e him along. She phoned to you, didn'
Rshe?"
n "Oh, yes, and it was perfectly a.
right. It always is, Harry, to brin
O your guests with you, if you hav
o any. They are calling as. Shall "
go int"
Katherine was no longer in a di
emma.
: Until she had satisfied herself this
Conrad Belknap was really nothin
more than a passing acquaintance
the Archers, she had not known wins
h course to take after her discovery {
the true character of the unhidds
guest; but, after the short convers,
Is ton with Harry, her duty seemed e,
=" traordinarily clear.
a She went about it, too, with her Gu
!" tonary directpess. having determine
te that she would indulge in no cont
denees whatsoever concerning VIII
ae she had seen; she decided that 81
is would not even confide IN her hu
band-until after their guests had d
Il, parted, Sunday evening, and Mond'
# morning.
as Harvard arrived in time TO DIRE
for dinner. After it they all we
:" again 20 the wide varanaa, fox q
ty nonth was June and the evaning
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whose attitude and manner were con-
fessions twofold, even if she had not
seen his act with her own eyes.
Katherine swung upon her heel.
She started swiftly away, took two
steps and halted. Over her shoulder
she threw back at him:
There is a train for the city at
ten-forty. One of our cars will take
you to the station. If you do not
make use of it, I VIII denounce you
in the presence of the four men you
swindled, and my husband. There will
be no question about your going
then"
She started on again, her head held
high, the light of righteous anger in
her eyes.
Belknap made no attempt to stop
her, but he laughed chuckingly, and
with so much of self-assurance and
contemptuous Indifference to her
threat, that she swung half round to
face him again.
Whatever Katherine's impulse may
have been when she made the half
turn to face the man a second time,
she controlled it-and herself.
There was something about Bel
knap's demeanor that infused a sud-
den, although indefinable, sense Of
fear into her consciousness. He ap-
peared so utterly Indifferent concern
ing the ethics of his position; so con-
temptuous of what she might or might
not do in the premises; so cocksure of
himself and of some power over her
that he was holding in reserve, to
use whenever the need to use it-or
the will to do so-should arise.
Yes, that was it, she determined
swiftly, even though she was barely
conscious of such a foregone conclu.
sion. He believed that he had som,
unsupported hold upon her. Sh,
would not have had such a though,
had she been conscious of it; sh,
would not, could not, have admitted
even to herself that there did exis
a circumstance of the past that wa.
the father of that unadmitted, blu
still existent fear.
The thing-or rather the succession
of incidents that made up the who'll
was so far in the past that it hal
long been buried.
1t vas not forgotten-such expe
riences never are quite that-but
might have been said to be unremem
bered.
Even while she was remotely cor
scious of the sudden m~isgiving With
her as she faced Belknap in that brie
interval, the skeleton in the closet {
her memory did not rattle its bone
with enough emphasis to cause her
second thought about IT. The men
DRY was merely there, in the back
It her mind, like an indistinct shape tn,
one can just discern through a foi
II but which does not assume enough
outline to be recognizable.
d She had parted her lips TO spea
d but she closed them and stood facir
the man whose coldly cynical smi
lie was an epitome of all insolence.
y Everything about him suggest
the self-assurance of conscious pow
over her; and yet-and yet
Id Never had the sound of Binghs
ne Harvard's voice been more welcor
ne than it was at that moment when s
er heard him calling her name from t
concerted pathway, close at hand;
came upon them the next instant.
n If Katherine had been for a m
t. ment obsessed by the vagues of ia
in toms of the past, the ghost was
stantly laid with the appearance
ut her husband on the scene. She ]
in
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which was meant to leave no room for
piled quite cody, and with a d~irectness
doubt in Belknap's mind that her uI-
timatum had been spoken. She said:
"We were on the point of returning
Bingham. Mr.. Belknap has just told
me hat he is compelled to go back
to the city tonight by the 1910
within a little more than an hour.
Will you tell julius TO take him TO
the train? 2"
She had slipped one of her arms
within Binghaln's, and already they
were retracing their steps toward the
house, Belknap having fallen in be-
side them so that Katherine was
placed between the two men.
81 am sorry to hear that, Nh. B1k-
nap" Mr.. Harvard commented heart
lily. "It is too bad, really. We hare
MT had an opportunity to get &C
quainted-barely. Somewhat sudden,
isn't it,"
"Quite So" Belknap drawled slow
ly, with a suggestiveDess in his man
ner of speech that only Katherine
could detect. 80 sudden, in fact,
that ! am strongly inclined to resent
it, and-ignore it."
"Good!" Harvard rejoined earnest
ly. He was the most hospitable of
hosts. "By all means ignore it, If
you can. If the call isn't really i'm
perative, you know--if you can sub
stitute the telephone Cor your per-
sonal appearance in town, why, do 50.
and stay on"
THANK you. ] think, now, that L
will do So" was the cold reply.
A flame of hot anger surged from
Katherine's heart to her brain.
The man was insufferable; his eff
frontery vas beyond belief.
Does he suppose" she thought
swiftly, that ] win hesitate TO ex-
pose him, as ] tlreateced TO do?"
She stopped in her tracks, bringing
the others to q halt beside her, and
/ her impulse was to make the d~iscIos-
ure of Belknap's infamy to her hus-
t band then and there.
Bingham" she began hotly and
stopped. She controlled the impulse,
and before there was an appreciabIe
hesitation in her speech continued
not because of any delicacy of feeling
= toward Belknap, but because she fear
t ed a flaring-out of Bing Harvard's
hot temper upon the instant that he
should learn the truth.
0D1~rL1vay ~Lr 5000 -
again, and her repetition of the name
f was much softer and this time held
f a pleading note-"I don't think yOu
ought to urge Mr.. Belknap to stay
a over. ] have been made to under
l. stand that his easoD for going il
# imperative; that it is of the graves
It Importance; that, in short, it is 1
matter in which his honor is at stake
If if / understood correctly; so, dear
don't you see you must not put al
obstacle in the way of his going? w
ought not ever to permit him to re
lie main at inquest undes such circum
stances"
ed That time Belknap did not offer {
err reply, and while Harvard murmure
something entirely conventional Katt
m crime shot a covert glance from tn
ne corner of her eyes at her unwelcom
he guest.
he He was smiling with a complacenc
he that was utterly amazing to her, an
she understood in that instant ths
O. he was as decided as ever that b
n would not go.
n More than ever she was as detel
of mined that he should.
e. Continued Next Week.)
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~Tom, just who is Conrad Bel
KNAPP"
SEARCH me-" Clancy replied. "You
ought f. know better than ] Doesn't
Bing nov him? Where is Bing, any
howl
ale was detained in town and will
be out later; about 5 or 6 o'clock, he
said, over the telephone. No; Bing
doesn't know Mr.. Belknap. Neither of
us ever saw him or heard his name
before yesterday. The Archers
brought him with them yesterday aft
ernoon.
"He is staying at their house
quite unexpectedly, Belle told me,
when she telephoned to ask if she
could bring him along. l thought
! perhaps you might have met him in
town-that you might know some
thing about him."
"He certainly is some poker player
if anybody should ask you," Clancy
remarked with a wry smile.
Poker! When you know that
disapprove! Really, Tom, / am sur
| prised at you," Katherine returned
with a half-mock show of indigna-
| ton.
"Oh, well, I'm sorry. 1t shall not
occur again; that i promise you"
"No," she said, as if that were g
foregone conclusion.
I'VE were playing bridge-Dem.
ming, Archer, Sears and I-wher
Belknap joined us. We had Just fin.
ished a game. Five can't play a
bridge, you know. Somebody suggest
ed a small game of poker-just a few
hands, and"
"Who suggested it, Tom?"
"Blest if / remember; probably
did; I'm always doing the asinin
thing, you know"
ut was not-really-what yol
would call a small game, was it,"
Hardly"
"But"--Katherine stopped an
stood facing him in the pathway, an
there was an unmistakable twink
in her eyes when she continued
, is all right now, isn't it? OF cours
| you all did as I suggested about tn
winnings and losses 7"
Tom Clancy laughed aloud; the
5 he ~chuckled; then he grinned, broadl,
IF | weren't entirely respectful I
my hostess / might reply as / did I
: Belknap when he suggested it aftt
you had"
p did he suggest it, Tom?"
e "Yes--with a nice, new, supei
S dreadnought anchor-chain welded on,
it. YOU re much too good a spor
Katherine, TO expect that we couI
accept-of course we couldn't welc
on our losses. You know that.
She nodded.
b II understand" she said. "W,
Mr. Belk;nap the only winner, Tom
Practically. Harry Archer was
II few dollars ahead, l believe, but
% Clancy stopped speaking. Then, qui
n seriously, he asked: "What are v,
trying to get at, Lady Kate? II
game was perfectly fair, if that
what you're driving at. BeIknap pla
b ed in phenomenal luch, that's a
and so far as it's having been a sti
in game is concerned that part of it W
really my own fault"
g. "How was that? Please tell ms
"0h, I happened TO catch q pref
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THE INsoLENCE OF BELKNAP

Brave talk, Mrs. Harvard, but"
Belknap shrugged his shoulders and
grinned a smile that was plainly IN
tended for insolence as we'll as amused
tolerance-"just talk. Nothing more.
You order me from your home-to
leave Myquest?" He shrugged again
and smiled the, more. VERY well,
madam, / shall-not-go."
For a brief moment Katherine
stared at the man, too astounded, and
vastly too indignant to reply. His at
titude was as amazing as it was in
tolerable; and the fact that be offered
no attempt to deny the imputation
she had made against him was mex
plicable-save only that he doubtless
comprehended the ~uselessness Of de-
NAL.
Argument with him was out of the
question. She had taken him TO the
summer house beyond the lawn ia
tell him quietly Of what she had seen,
believing that ne would stink away
~nfterw=vd, crestfallen and beaten. In
stead, he faced her; he laughed at
her threat; he sneered at and ignored
the charge she had made; he received
her ultimatum with contempt; by In
ference, he defied her. He the
cheat the card-sharpl the swindler
whom she had detected In the actl He
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-29
COLDS THAT
DEVELOP into
PNEUMONIA

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-29
SEARLES POINTS
! To VICTORY Of
UNION MINERS
Declares Coal Workers Blocked
Wage Cutting in All Fields
of Labor.
By ELLIS sEARLEs,
Editor United Mine Workers Journal

Editor United Mine Workers Journal.
COPYRIGHT. 1929, by United Netos
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-Glancing
back over the field of organized la
Dor in this country for the year 1922,
we find one notable accomplishment
of the United Mine Workers of
America that stands out above all
others, and that is the fact that the
coal miners union, by making its
wonderful and successful struggle in
its Nationwide strike. definitely put
a stop TO the movement for reduc-
ton of the wages OF the workers in
every line of industry.
In the early part of the year en-
ployers everywhere appeared to be
under the spell of a mania for wage
reductions. In numerous instances
they succeeded in forcing their en-
ployes 10 accept reductions in their
wages, but the cost of living still re
manned high.
In those crafts where the men were
without sufficient strength to resist
pthis attack the wage reduction craze
swept on. There is no telling how
far this campaign might have pro-
gressed had it not been for the snag
it struck when it tackled the United
Mine Workers of America
Coal operators were insisting on
reduction Of the wages Of miners, al
though miners were not even then
making a living for their families.
The United Mine Workers Of America
decided that it was time to put a stop
to this onslaught and the miners
went into their great strike. 1t took
five months Of hard struggle for them
to win out, but they won. They took
no reduction. nor did they lose any
thing that they possessed before the
strike.
The ending of the strike marked
also the end of the movement for the
sIashing Of wages. The tendency now
is for higher pay for workers in all
industries. We hear but little cut
ting wages in these days since the
miners won their strike. The miners
won the fight for all or organized
labor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-29
CARRIES AWAY JEWELS

Mrs. Virginia Osgood. 1857 Ruckle
ST., returned home last night and dis
covered a burglar had opened the side
window Of her house and had ran
sacked every room. The thief had
carried away a chiId's opal ring. two
turquoise rings. a gold neck chain and
$1.05.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-29
ROBBED OF $40

While riding on an E. Tenth st. car
last night, John r. Moore, Hotel Lin
coin, was robbed of his purse by a
pickpocket. The pocketbook contained
$40, a book of postage stamps, and a
trunk check.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-29
Wall Paper!!
Csc Roll Living Room Wall P;

Csc Roll Living Room Wall Paper for 171ac Roll
Wall specially
priced for the Petts Finals 17Lac roll
81 Room Lot Wall Paper, Priced for Finals at So SO
This wall sufficient
rich coorngs with gold Regular 15c roll 10 rolls
rolls ceiling 20 yards cuou borderaI complete regular
room lot for $3.50.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-29
Sample Curtain Net
Ends, 15c Each

Manufacturers sample net ends,
I yard long, just the thing for sash
curtains. Priced for Saturday at
15C each. Third floor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-29
Dotted Marquisette,
29c Yard

Short lengths, 212 to 10 yards. Of
fine mcrcerized dotted marquisette:
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patterns and others with figures
Regular 49c quality, for Saturday.
at 29c yard. Third floor.
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Cretonnes, 19c Yard

a closely woven fabric in splen-
did assortment Of patterns and col
orS. Regular 29c and 49c cretonne !:
priced for Saturday at 100 yard.
Third floor.
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Filet Net Paneling,
29c Section

Fine tilet net sectional paneling,
3 to 4 sections in strip and only 1
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Csc section, to sell Saturday at 29G
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-29
Silver Plated Napkin
Rings, Csc Each

Good quality silver plate, priced
for Saturday at Just one-half the
regular price, $50 each.
Street floor. 4
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-29
Good Readable Fiction,
Special at 39c

About $50 copies of good fiction
to close out Saturday at 39C each;
regular values selling at publishers
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Street floor.
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Box Stationery, 1Oc Box

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are Soiled, but the paper and envel-
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prices of SOC and Toe a box, special
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-29
Domestic Remnants,
- Price

All useful lengths of sheeting,
tubing, outing flannel, ticking, long
cloth, muslin, etc, marked at u
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Fifth floor.
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Bedspreads, u OFF

Bedspreads, soma white, others
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day.
Fifth floor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-29
Remnants of Fur Trim
mings, 89c Length
Silver Finish Mesh
Bags, $2.98 Value,
$1.39-Saturday

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Dress Ginghams,
15c Yard

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Silver Plated Salt and
Pepper Shakers, While
"a Sets Last, 8Sc Set

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Real Leather Hand
Bags, Special at 69c Ea

Bags of real leather in many diff
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Dun Murray Coatings.
SIS Inches Wide,
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-10
JEALOUS SWAIN
TOSSESSKUNk
IN DANCE HALL
ReveIers Make Dash for Gates
But, Alas, Doors Are Roped.
Eight Girls Faint.

CENTER, Neb., Jan. 1o.-Fred c.
Williamson became enamored OF Miss
Geraldine Mcpherson. but she
scorned his advances and went to a
dance with another. in spite Of dire
threats from Williamson, who was
not invited TO the, dance.
Things were going well at the
began coughing and dashed from the
platform in a race for the doors.
dance, when the orchestra suddenly
Some one, presumably Williamson,
had tossed a live and very much
peeved skunk through a window and
then tied down the window.
A general dash was made for the
doors, which had been roped from
the outside. A board had been placed
over the chimney. and the smoke
and gas fumes were assisting the
skunk in routing the dancers. Eight
Of the fourteen girls tainted before
the doors were finally broken down,
and the men dashed out into the
fresh aid, carrying with them the
eight limp and unconscious girls.
Williamson has disappeared, and
Miss Mcpherson took a train for
Omaha the day after the incident,
and there are rumors that she for.
gave her caveman lover and that
they may have eloped.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-10
GIRL, REFUSING
KISS To SETTLE
QUARREL, SLAIN
Cleveland Youth Held for Killing
Found Fiancee Going Out
With Rival.
By international News Service.

CLEVELAND, Jan. 1O.-Because
she refused ito kiss and make up
following a quarrel with her fiancc
last night, Mary Hadec. 10 years old,
is dead today, and Alfred Barbeiro,
also 10, is held in city hospital,
seriously wounded, on a charge Of
murder.
Last night, when Barbeiro called
at his fiancee's boarding house, he
found her ready to go to a picture
show with another man. He insisted
the engagement be Cancelled. and
they quarreled. police say. Barbeiro
Is said to have then remarked: kiss
me goodnight and I'll go home;
wen settle this some other time"
Miss Hadec refused the kiss, and
police reports say, Barbeiro pulled
a revolver from his pocket and shot
the girl three times. killing her.
He then turned the gun upon him
self. inflicting two wounds in the
chest. He will recover, hospital
authorities say.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-10
TURK NATIONALISTS AND
UKRAINE FORM ALLIANCE

CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 10.-The
provisions Of the treaty between the
Turkish Nationalist and the Ukraine,
signed last week at Angora, were
made public yesterday.
One of the sixteen articles in the
document provides for mutual as
sistance against any international
treaty imposed upon both the con-
tracing parties against the will of
their respective parliaments"
The Soviet government of the Uk.
raine acknowledges the treaties
signed by the Moscow government
and the governments Of the Caucasus
republics with the Angora govern.
ment. The independence OF the Uk.
raine is recognized by the Turkish
Nationalists.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-10
HARDING MAY ORDER ALL
RUM STOCKS BOUGHT BY US

President Harding, probably will be
asked in a few days to approve a
plan Of his advisers for the Govern
ment to buy up all whjskey and other
distilled spirits in bonded and general
distillery warehouses.
About 50,000.000 gallons Of whiskey
and other liquors, including pure
alcohol, are in bond, subject to pay
ment Of Government tax before being
withdrawn.
The Administration plan is to buy
all of the whiskey and other liquors
remaining, and to hold it for distri-
button for medicinal purposes.
The proposal is designed to safe.
guard the liquor stocks left and to
bring about closer supervision in the
distribution for legitimate needs.