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co ON WITH The STORY.

"An invitation? Whyever didn't
she write mel" "Whyever," again.
MAY | see it?"
He took the letter from his pocket
and handed it to her. Its not ex-
actly an invitation-not formal.
She did what he called clicked"
the letter out of its envelope. He
watched her reading it and in his
mind he could see as perfectly as
she with her eyes, the odd, neat
script; in his mind he read it with
her, word by word.
Dear Marko-We're back. We've
been from China to peru-almost
Come up one day and be bored about
it. How are you? MONA.
His thought was, Damn the let
teri
Mabel handed it hack without re-
turning it to its envelope. She said,
no. it's not fcrn.ai."
She shipped three roses, with
astonishing swiftness-snip, snip,
snip!
In hail an hour the shallow basket
was beautified with fragrant blooms,
and Mabel thought she had enough.
"Well, that's that" said Sabre as
they re-entered the morning room.
III.
She took up creamy rose and
shipped off a fragment of stalk over
the saucer. why does she call you
'Marko'?"
He was utterly taken aback. If
the question had come from anyone
byt Mable, he would have quite failed
to connect it with the letter. But
here had distinctly been an incident
over the letter, though so far closed
as ne had imagined, that he was
completely surprised.
He said, "Who, Nona?"
Yes, Mona, if you like. Lady
Tybar"
"Why, she always has. You know
that"
Mabel put the rose into a specimen
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vase with immense care and touched
speck off its petals with her fin
gers. II really didn't"
Mabel, you know you do. You
must have heard her."
"Well, | may have. But long ago.
certainly didn't know she used it in
letters"
He felt he was growing angry.
"What on earth's the difference?"
at seems to me there's great
deal of difference. 1 didn't know she
wrote you letters"
He was angry, Damn it, she
doesn't write me litters."
She shrugged her shoulders. "You
seem to get them anyway"
Maddening!
And then he thought, Pm not go
ing to let it be maddening. This is
just what happens" He said, well,
this is silly. I've known her-we've
! known one another-for years since
we were children, pretty well. She's
called me by my Christian name
since / can remember. You must
have heard her. We don't see much
of her-perhaps you haven't. l
thought you had. Anyway, dash the
thing. What does it matter?"
'Tt doesn't matter"--she launched
flower into vase-"a bit. / only
think it's funny, that's ALL
"Well, it's just her way"
Mabel gave little sniff. He
thought 1t over But it wasn't
over. "If you ask me, | call it a
funny letter. You say your Christian
name, but it isn't your Christian
name-Marko! And then saying,
How are you?' like that"
Like what? She just said it,
didn't she?"
eyes, know. And then Mona
Don't you call that funny?''
swell, / always used to call her
Mona She'd have thought it funny,
as you call it, to put anything else.
l tell you, it's just her way"
well, l think it's very funny
way and | think anybody else would
think so. / don't ike her. never
did like her"
He thought, "My God, this bicker-
ing! Why don't l get out of the
1oom?"
Come back for day off with me !!
It's a funny thing you came back
Just in time to get that letter! Be-
fore it was delivered! There! Now
you knowp
he was purely amazed. He
thought, and his amazement was
such that, Enthusiastically, his
anger left him; he thought, "Well,
of all the"
But she otherwise interpreted his
astonlshment. She thought she had
made an advantage and she pressed
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strange, detached effect into the con-
versation between them. His habit
of visualizing inanimate things
caused him to see as it were pool
between them at their feet, and from
the word dropped into it, ripples that
came to his feet upon his margin of
the pool and to her feet upon hers.
He took the word away from it's
personal application. 81 believe
that's rather what | was thinking
about when you came, Mona. About
how we inst go on-flotsam. Don't
you know on a river where it's tidal,
or on the seashore at the turn, the
mass of stuff you see there, driftwood
and spent foam and stuff, just float
ing there, uneasily, brought in and
left there-from somewhere; and
then presently the tide begins to
take it and it's drawn off and moves
away and goes-somewhere. Ar
rives and floats and goes. That's
mysterious, Nona?"
Continued in Our Next Issue.)
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BEGIN HERE TO-DAY.

After eight years of married life,
Mark Sabre gradually realizes that
he is neither understood by his por-
sale wife, Mabel, nor by his colleagues
in the firm of Fortune, East and Sa-
bre. A promised partnership in the
business has been denied him and
promised to Twyning, jealous asso-
.ciate. Suddenly an old sweetheart,
Mona, now the wife of dashing Lord
Tybar, returns after two years of
travel. Mabel becomes suspicious
when Mona whites Sabre an informal
invitation to visit her.
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it. Perhaps you knew it was COM
ing?"
"How on earth could / have known
it was coming?"
She seemed to pause, to be con-
sidering. "She might have told you.
You might have seen her."
He said, GAS it happens, | did see
her. Not three hours before came
back"
She seemed disappointed. She said
81 know you did. We met Lord
Tybar."
And he thought, Good lord She
was trying to catch me-"
She went on, you never told me
you'd met them. Wasn't that funny
'If you'd just think little you'd
see there was nothing funny about
it. You found the letter so amazing
" funny that, to tell you the TRUTH
I'd had about enough of the Tybars.
And I've had about enough OF them.
Il daresay you haVe-with me:
Perhaps you'll tell me this-would
YOU have told me about the letter II
| hadn't seen you get it?"
He thought before he answered
and he answered out Of his thoughts.
He said slowly, observation-disclosures
would. | wouldn't. | wouldn't
because I'd have known perfectly
we'll that you'd have thought it
funny"
No answer he could have made
| could have more exasperated her. Il
-don't-believe - would" De-
liberation! Something incompre-
hensible to her going on his mind,
and as result of it statement that
no one on earth (she felt but he
would have made. Anyone else
would have said boldly, clustering
ly, "Of course / would have told you
about the letter. She would have
liked that. She would have disobe-
/ lieyed it and she could have said, and
enjoyed saying, she disbelieved it. Or
anyone else would have said furious
ly, mo, Pm damned if I'd have
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WOMAN FINDS REMEDY
WORTH FABULOUS FORTUNE

81 wouldn't take a million dollars
for the good Mayr's Wonderful Rem
edy has done for me. | have finish
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flammation which causes practically
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dose will convince or money refund
ed. For sale by howell's Pharmacy
and druggists everywhere.-(adv.
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in words. She expressed them in
action. She arose violently and left
the room. The whole of her emotions
she put into the slam of the door
behind her. The ornaments SILVER
ed. A cup sprang off bracket and
dashed itself T. pieces on the floor.
CHAPTER "
These events were on Monady.
On the following Thursday Mona
came to see him at his office.
She stood still Immediately she
was across the threshold and the
door closed behind her. She was
smiling as though she felt herself to
be up to some lark. "Hullo, Marko.
Don't you hate me for coming in
here like this?"
cts jolly surprising"
That's another way of saying it.
Now if you'd said it was surprisingly
jolly! Well, shake hands, Mako,
and pretend you're glad"
He laughed and put out his hand.
But she delayed response; she first
slipped off the gauntlets she was
wearing and then gave him her hand.
"Therew she said.
"Therew 1t was as though she had
now done something she much
wanted to do; as one says There"
on at last sitting down after much
fatigue.
She tossed her gauntlets on to a
chair. She walked past him towards
the window. "You got my letter."
eyes"
Her face was averted. her voice
had not the bantering note with
which she had spoken at her entry.
You never answered it,"
"Well, I'd just seen you-just be-
fore | got it."
She was looking out of the win
dow. "Why haven't you been up?"
"Oh-I don't know. | was com
ing"
We'll, l had to come" she said.
He made no reply. He could think
of none to make.
She turned sharply away from the
window and cam towards him, RAJ
diant again, as at her entry.
well, like you best when you're
thinking. You puzzle, don't you
Mako? You've got funny old
head. | believe you live in your old
head, you know. Puzzling things.
Clever beast! / wish | could live in
mine" And she gave a note of
laughter.
Where you you live, Nona?"
Il don't live. Just go on"-she
passed" flotsam.
Strange word to use, strangely
spoken
lt,seemed to Sabre to drop with a
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BEAUTIFUL CURTAIN
MARQUISETTE AT zoe YD

We have sold thousands of yards
OF this very grade one year ago
at SOC yard, and they regularly
sell for double our price today in
some stores. These are perfect
goods, white and ecru, tape
edge; here Monday and Tues
day, Yard or
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FINE SEA ISLAND; BEST
MADE; 10 YDS FOR eSc

A Monday and Tuesday leader;
The best yard wide Sea Island
that you have seen in a long
while, fine, closely woven and at
a price little lower than the
mill; here Monday al d Tuesday,
10 Yards for os
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The good kind used for making SER
viceable Shirts for men, boys
waists, children's dresses, wo-
mems dresses, etc.; twenty neat
new patterns to select from;
full yard wide; colors guaran-
teed. Yard .,
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Miss Mamie Cassidy and her sister,
Mrs Ellen c. Berry, will leave to-
night for Atlanta, where Miss Cas-
sadly will attend the convention of
chiropractors Saturday.
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THESTANDARD
IMPORTED RATINE
AT CSC YARD

Bright Sport Colors, a yard wide.
And as effective as if it cost sew
eral times the price, Per Yard So
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LARGE CRINKLE BED
SPREADS AT 81 20

One hundred Crinkle Bed Spreads;
large sizes for large double beds;
no ironing required; just wash
them and put them on the bed;
value $2.00; here Monday and
Tuesday, Each al q
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BEST STANDARD BLEACHING
YARDS FOR 6oc

Regularly 25c Yard. Sold only
on Monday and Tuesday; full
yard wide; soft finish ard free
from dressing, Monday and Tues
day, Five Yards for ... SO
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shown you the letter" She would
have liked that. 1t would have
affirmed her suspicious that there
was something in it," and she
wished her suspicious to be affirmed.
1t would have been something def
mite. Something justifiably incentive
of anger, or resentment, of jealousy.
Something she could understand.
She could not express her feelings
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PEPPEREL BLEACHED
SHEETING AT acc YD

Genuine Pepperel, bleached snow
white; enough for the largest
beds; under the mill price; here
Monday and Tuesday, Yard ....4ss
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FINE SOFT FINISHED LONG
CLOTH. 10 YDS FOR 81 40

Actual value 25c yard; full yard
wide; soft, silky finish; free from
dressing; here Monday and
Tuesday, 10 Yards for ISL. 3s
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PRETTY NEW PERCALES
AND MADRAS AT CSC

'iihes Tue price, FER yard CSC |
PRETTY NEW PERCALES
AND MADRAS AT Csc
The good kind used for making SER
viceable Shirts for men, boys
waists, children's dresses, wo-
mems dresses, etc.; twenty neat
new patterns to select from;
full yard wide; colors guaran-
teed. Yard pc
BEAUTIFUL. CURTAIN
MARQUiSETTE AT zoe YD
We have sold thousands of yards
OF this very grade one year ago
at SOC yard, and they regularly
sell for double our price today in
some stores. These are perfect
goods, white and ecru, tape
edge; here Monday and Tues
day, Yard ........ 2o,
FINE SEA ISLAND; BEST
MADE; 10 YDS FOR csc.
A Monday and Tuesday leader.
Inc best yard wide Sea Island
that you have seen in a long
while, fine, closely woven and at
price little lower than the
mil; here Monday al Tuesday.
10 Yards for ......... o.
LARGE CRINKLE BED
SPREADS AT $1.39
One hundred Crinkle Bed Spreads:
large sizes for large double beds:
no ironing required; Just wash
them and put them on the bed:
value $500; here Monday and
Tuesday, Each al 40
PEPPEREL BLEACHED
SHEETING AT 49c YD.
Genuine Pepperel, bleached snow
white; enough for the largest
beds; under the mill price; here
Monday and Tuesday, Yard ....4sc
BEST STANDARD BLEACHING
S YARDS FOR CSC
Regularly 25c Yard. Sold only
on Monday and Tuesday; full
yard wide; soft finish ard free
from dressing, Monday and Tues
day, Five Yards for sc
FINE SOFT FINISHED LONG
\LOAn, 10 IDS. FOX S1.3o
Actual value 25c yard; full yard
wide; soft, silky finish; free from
dressing; here Monday and
Tuesday, 10 Yards for ........$1. 80
10 BARS ARMOUR'S BIG
HAMMER SOAP FOR Csc
Twenty cases of Armour's Big
Hammer Soap; none better made
at any price; full size cakes, and
sold only on Monday and Tues
day, 10 Bars for ...................25 c
Forsyth St. Next Bank of Commerce
Standard Dry Goods Co.
Forsyth ST. Next Bank Of Commerce
AMERICUS, CA.
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'h|S FOLL|ES GIRL
COSTLY, Wife SAYS
Mrs. leschin Charges Wealthy
MiIIiner Maintains Apart
ment for Miss Riley
THIS HER FOURTH SUIT

Nsw York. Aug. 16.-Thrice before
having sued for divorce, Mrs. Bernice
Parish Leschin brought action yester-
DAY In Supreme Court for a separation
from Samuel A. Leschin. owner Of
twenty. eight millinery shops in the
West that she ayers have made him n
millionaire.
In asking for $3.50 a week nlimony
and S25 900 for her counsel. Randolph
Newman. Mrs. Leschin said her hus-
band was maintaining "at tremendous
expense" an apartment for Anastasia
Riley. formerly Of the Ziegfeld Follies.
Leschin countercd by saying he Is
not nearly 20 we'll off as his wife seems
to think. since he has met business
reverses. leaving him virtually penni-
less" The wife went into details in
Leschin had made S114,0 900 last year.
$2s, 900 of which had disappeared in
gambling losses.
Threw vitrol She Says
From the allegations in Mrs. Les
ehin's papers, her married life since
their wedding In East st. Louis in
1917, has been n round Of domestic
tempests, divorce actions and kissing
and making ur. Twice she charges.
her husband tried 10 throw vitrol In her
face TO mar her beauty. and in other
wnys his treatment has made her "a
nervous and physical wreck she al
leges.
The couple have been separated since
they babe each other adieu in Chicago
on June %, 1921, on which occasion
Mrs. Leschjn contends she was deserted.
But Leschin says the parting came
as result of his having seen letter,
eouched in endearing terms. to DR..
Monty Bernstein, Of Detroit. Mrs.
Leschln explained this as merely an ex-
preston of kindly regard for friend
of the family"
Mrs. Leschin says she brought one
OF her three divorce actions back in
1919, when she ascertained that her
helpmate had been sued at Kansas City
for alienation of the affections of Mrs.
Georgia Hamilton. She decided TO
withdraw this divorce action, she re-
counts, when Leschin promised TO mend
his ways. Leschin denies he was sued
by Hamilton.
The wife says her husband also cs-
tranged her by Courttng one Helen
Thomas, n Chicago married woman, who
returned gifts of jewclry when she
learned LesChin had not been divorced.
Mrs. LesChin has introduced in evil
denCe letters that passed between her
husband and Mrs. Thomas, which she
thinks shows that The defendants re-
lationship was not an idle or platonic
one.
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day and boarding school for boys
Preparation for college. Special rate foi
hve-dsy boarders. Opens Sept. goth.
J. L. PATTERSON. Headmas stsr
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Miss Illman's school for KinderEartners
Junior. senior and Graduate Courses.
Primary methods. Practice kindergartsnA
AddTes. A. r. Iiiman. PTin. Box l.
1000 Pine St. Philadelphia. Pa.
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ALLENTOWN. IA.
NAZARETH. PA,

SAZARETH HALL MILITARY ACADEMY
BoI 90. Nazaret.; Pa. Founded i!4a
intermediate and Junior Depts. AthletieA
Military Lifs. Rev. A. ID. Thaslsr. u ID. .PTiA.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-16
LANCASTER. Pa
PENHsBURG Pa.
READING, PA.
sWARTHMORE. PA.
WAYNE. Pa.

C,,.-&knov. Preparatory for Boys. ssna
0WoISoAoie for cataiog. w. p. Tomlinson,
Headmaster. Boz 60. ewarthmore. Pa.
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BROWN PREP, Broad and Spring Garden
Sts,, Philn., prepares students for any col.
Iege or professional school. the state Board
exams. and for business. 4Bth year oegins
Sept. Is. Enroll now.
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THE PROGRESS sCuooL
CHEsTNQT HILL ACADEMY

2O25 y. broad St, modern school Public
Address Ars1 Peggy Snippen
CrOwther. 67iA y. eth at Oak Lvne Phila
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-10-18
MYSTERY Of
TWINS BEING
INVESTIGATED

Hammond. Ind, Oct 1I.-Police be-
gan today digging in the yard Of the
home of Frank McNally. SIS year old
husband OF Mrs. Hazel McaNlly. Is, in
an attempt to solve the mystery that
evolves around the twins which NC
Nally declared were born to his VIE
last December. and then disappeared.
He declared they had been slain.
The wife, in jail awaiting a preiiml-
nary hearing tomorrow, denied that
the children were born.
In statement to reporters, Mrs
McNally insisted that the suppose"
twins were two dolls, the hoax being
arranged. she added. because or her
husbands desire Ito be known in the
world as father.
Mr.. McNally declared to-day that nc
was prepared to testify that he hao
seen the twins and fondled them.
The police tonight said that so Tar
they had been unsuccessful in their
search.
Mrs McNally declared that she met
her husband through an advertisements
and that she had been previously mar
ried. having a boy seven years o. age
After their marriage in April, l9Zl'
she said her husband repeatedly eH-
pressed a desire to become parent
and that they had made an attempt
10 adopt a child.
FINALLY" she added. ibis desire 10
nose before the world as a father De-
came 80 acute that we contrived the
hoay agreed that I would hint 10
peighbors that I was soon to become 4
mother. Mr.. McNally went so Tar as
70 engage a woman to act as nurse.
As the time we had agreed upon 10
announce the birth approached. pur
chased two skilltully constructed dolls
After time we purchased q buggy
and I took the dolls out walking daily,
We continued the hoax until last Aprh
when We circulated story that We
had sent the children to Chicago"
Mrs. McNally said that thereafter
she and her husband became es'
tranged.
The husband asserted that his wites
story was the desperate defense OF a
woman who had done away with her
children" adding that he had watched
the twins as they were nursed BY tho
mother.
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BIG PLANTS RESUME

Sutton ". Va. OC'. lI.-Thc Sutton
Chemical company has opened UP It's
largo plant here with Ill the rctorts
going full force after shutdown. IL
IL said the company has enough orders
on its files TO keep the plant, and the
woods crew busy for more than six
months Wood alcohol. one Of tho chief
products, Is selling at the highest mark
since the war. charcoal Is likewise sell
ing at better prices than at any time
during tho last three or four years.
and other products OF the plant are sell
ing AZ hotter prices than at any time
since i FIRST started. Tho company
maintains Its own standard gauge rsil-
road for about eigh, miles up Wolf
Greek. has It's own locomotives, throo
In number. and its own coal and flat
cars.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-10-18

New Orleans. Oct 17.-(By the Asso,
ciated FressD-The American Legion
IN annual convention here today,
heard Samuel Gompers. president OF
the American Federation OF Labor.
anew the faith OF uuin labor that Its
support was always behind the gov
eminent and UNFOLDING the hands OF
those who fought for the maintenance
ct American principles
II received the feli"'ta'icns OF
wounded veterans Of European nations
who came hero last week TO attend the
convention OF the int"r-allted veterans
federation upon the work II was doinS
IN behalf OF wounded men and disabled
veterans.
1t was pointed to by representatives
OF the veterans OF earlier wars as heir
20 the custodlanship OF the principles
that the% fought to uphold. The heads
Of the Spanish War Veterans. the
Grand Army Of the Republic and the
United Confederate Veterans brought
their greetings and Godspeed to the
legion.
% Meet at FRISCO.
With an unexpectedness that led all
delegates TO the convention to hardly
realize what happened. the committee
on time and place for holding the next
national convention. brought In us
report. awarding the convention to
San Francisco. aud New Jersey. which
had sought the convention for Allan
tic City. led of in movement which
made ratification OF the committee
choice for the convention city unanl'
nous.
brilliant summer weather contin'
ued TO add gayety and zest 10 the con
yention. The "Buddies' have taken
the town in their customary friendly
manner. and the town seems 10 have
taken 70 them as kindly as they did
70 it.
Great Parade "Wednesday.
This afternoon the veterans and
tae.r women folks scattered 10 Tari
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-10-18

II. C. Wells was born OF MIDDLE
cia.. English parents in 1855.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-10-18
FERRY OFFICERS
DISCOVER STILL
IN OHIO WATERS
Find Made After Vain Search OF Haidet
Boat House Had Been Made.

Graphing around boat house owned
by John Means near the Wheeling Steel
d Iron blast furnace tho Martins Ferry
poliro found five gallon Still IN the
river IN liquor raid ih!s morning BY
Martins Ferry police.
Tho officers armed with a search
warrant invaded tho boat house shortly
after one O'Clock. M liUuor or still was
found in the place hut believing still
had been used there the river was
drcdEed.
Later along tho river shore the officers
found q half pint OF m"onshine whiskey
Means was arrested and spent the
night in Ia" Martins Ferry jail. He Will
10 given hearing this evening before
Mayor Duff.
The raid was conducted by chief OF
TcljCc Ed llyland aud Officers Ruther-
mund. Muhlman and Frazier.
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man Pastors, was continued until mis-
morning.
e W. Burke. arrested for speeding
nv Motorcycle Policeman Pastors. asked
for a continuance until Saturday eve
ming. The request was granted.
Anna Abraham and Pete Elias were
each fined S. and costs for lighting
Kenneth Rirchficld was fined 81 and
COSTS on n drunk charge.
rat Elwood was given another chance
70 make good. He was arreste on
drunk charge.