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THE HAND OF PERIL, By Arthur String
A SEQUEL TO WHEN A GIRL MARRIES'

/ laughed and chung to him hap
PLY. Praise from Jim always
fills my heart so full 1t almost
aches. Then Jim added some
thing that changed the whole
evening for me.
Some day, young lady. III get
a chance to make you eat . slice
of humble pie am now so cheer.
fully consuming. mean you'u
see you've always been so silly
on the score of one Rosa Cordovm
as I've been about your harmless
old hulk of Tony"
Please, dear. don't call Tony
that"
Jim laughed and limped hack
to his own chair. When he got
there he stared over at me with
exaggerated solemnity.
Don't arouse my jealous fears
again just when they're lulled to
Sleep"
Obligingly, laughed in turn
and then / said:
Carlotta's asked me TO be ma
tron of honor"
But Jim. off on his own train
of thought. did not heed what
was saying. Instead he asked:
Does everybody know?"
"You were to be among the
first" 1 answered, recognizing D
symptom of his sensitiveness and
determining he shouldn't feel lett
out in the cold. "I hurried right
over to your office to tell
you
Jim stared quizzically and then
his look changed to one Of con-
Germ.
Ito Be Continued Tomorrow
ADVERTISEMENT.
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CHAPTER w.

The tableau which must have
succeeded that unexpected speech
was lost to Kestner. He was con-
scious only of the sudden silence,
prolonging itself until it became
epochal And that silence, to the
listener, was doubly hard to bear,
for he had no means of determin-
ing its cause and no way Of re-
lieving its tension.
Tnen, almost with relief, came
the sound of a woman's voice,
tense, reed-like, touched with both
defiance and determination. And
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Kestner could hear the sound
OF the door as it closed. Then
came a period of silence. preg-
nant, disturbing, ominous.
"Now what do you want?" LAM
bert was heard to ask. There was
quietness in his tone by this time,
but there was also menace.
IT want earliest"
"why?"
my business is with Carlesi,''
was her uncompromising retort.
"And also with me-"
ut will never again be with
you" Her voice shook. with
tremolo of restrained passion.
Don't be too sure of that"
I'm sure now of only one thing"
"'Are your" he Knocked.
That's of your lifetime OF lying
and cheating and cowardice, of
your utter baseness."
And you're through with all
that?" he tainted.
I'm through with all that" she
passionately maintained.
ITO Be Continued Tomorrow
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THE NEWEST
JACQUETTES
BY Rita Stuyvesant-
NHE jacquette will be featured

"HE jacquette will be featured
extensively this summer.
n The girl with the limited
wardrobe will appreciate the con-
venience Of several jacquettes
with one white skirt to stretch
her wardrobe over the warm
months. And with the modern
pattern. and a few yards of ma
terial, these blouses can easily be
made at home.
Brilliant cotton matelasse is
featured in one Of the newest
Jacquettes worn with a graceful
pleated skirt. Bright orange cot
ton plentifully embroidered in odd
black motifs and combined with
binding of plain black taffeta
is smart.
This jacquette is cut like
short coat coming barely to the
hips, crossing at the front and
fastening at the left side with a
huge black taffeta buckle. Shaped
reveres pointed on the shoulders
and cut in one with a roll collier
gives a becoming finish to the
neck. Wrist length flare sleeves
are set in at a narrow shoulder
line.
There are many stunning
blouses in summer sport silks
that form the better half of f.
lovely afternoon costume Can
ton crepe printed in an Egyptian
design makes a cool and good
looking jacquette blouse, in gray
and orange, tan and copen, white
with green, and red, or gold.
Wool Jersey in vivid shades
such as flame, pool table green.
butter color, rose or copep, com
bined with plain white or cream
color, makes a distinctive JAG
quette for golfing Or sports. A
skirt Of white flannel Isl usually
worn with the jersey blouse.
Black and white is popular and
there are some conservative pat.
terms Of white printed in black,
that form a pleasing change from
the bizarre Egyptian designs. One
may choose to wear either a black
pleated crepe skirt with this
blouse while in town. and an all
white skirt for the shore.
If you have one skirt Of white
and perhaps one in silver gray
crepe, you might have a half
dozen jacquette blouses, each of
widely different color and design,
and thus have an inexpensive and
practical wardrobe
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THAT would give me time to
sort out the paper and get it
baled together ready for hand
ling"
There's just one thing" OBJ
1ected the man called Burke.
What's that?' demanded Lam
bert.
His question remained unan.
swered, for at that moment
door opened and a youthful and
nasal-noted voice, apparently that
of Jigger, was heard to call out
from the head Of the stairway:
Yes, ma'am, he's here all right"
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A Thrilling Story of the Running Down
of a Band of Master COunterfeiters
By the Secret Service

II imagined that" was the
others laconic retort.
IF we get that stuff, I've got
to get it myself"
well, that wouldn't he so much
of a stunt. There's no time-lock
on it,"
Its held and guarded in a
bonded warehouse"
"S'posin' it is. I've got couple
o. river junkies who can get into
anything along the waterfront"
But 1 must handle those cans
myself. We must have the right
ones. We don't want seven hun
dred gallons of olive oil mixed up
with that shipment Of paper"
Which means you'll have to get
into that warehouse"
Then tell me how. For Gods
sake, tell me howl"
How? Why, I'll get you two
or three men who can slip in under
with a muffled kicker and cut out
one of those six-inch or-planks."
But there'll be a Waterman
there at the street end of the
pier-perhaps two of them"
Kestner could hear the easy
laugh of the man called Burke.
Whitley McKensic'll fix that for
you. He's got a trick O. cuttin'
out a pier-plank and asphalt over
lay with a brace and bit, goin'
through eight inches of oak with
out maxim more noise than eatin'
through a cheese-just gets up
between couple O. stringers and
runs a row o. holes across a plank.
Then he runs another row close
together, about three feet from the
first row. Then he chisels
that block free, let's it drop
out, and crawls up through the
hole. He drops what he wants
into his boat, slips down with
the tide, and unloads at a Bath
Beach fence"
but all that takes time" COM
planned the restless-souled Lam
bert.
eve seen Whitley take a half
inch ship ,auger, bore up through
a pier floor, tap an eighty-gallon
brandy cask, and drain it off and
get away in half an hours time"
Then the sooner l get through
the floor the better. How about
tonight at eleven?"
There was a moment or two Of
silence.
Tides against u.s."
Then twelve?"
TOO early. About four in the
mornin' would be best"
Then came still another silence.
Hold on minute! Why
couldn't you wait until about
half-past nine tonight, go to their
Waterman with an order from
the office, and get inside and
stay there until Whitley gives a
signal?"
Where would l get the or
der?" Lambert, it was plain. was
not his usual inventive and ex-
peditious self. The other man
even laughed a little.
Amt you scratcher? Couldn't
you work little Jim the Penman
stunt on that wharf bunch?"
IF you can get me a letter
head"
Sure I can"
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that he's been playing with it, that
he damaged it, and that you got a
mechanic in to have it mended in
my absence. You're surprised, /
know, aren't you, darling? But
little hitch occurred in your plans;
the typewriter people sent me the
bill. | don't mind that, but I want
to know why the boy has been
shielded when he knows perfectly
we'll he must not touch the ma
chine.
Mrs. George (innocently): Do
you mean to say that the type
writer people sent the bill to you,
dear2 Oh. I'm SO sorry you've
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II" HEN the thing for
you to do" said the

q. II" HEN the tnlng Tor
you to do" said the
heavier voice of the man
called Burke, sis to get down to
Tompkinsville and slip aboard the
Laminian. You'll be all right
there for couple O. days. Then
III push things through and get
off by Friday noon"
'"But I've got that paper to
gather up. And it amounts to
over three millions. Wen need
that, no matter which side Of
the Equator we're on.
There was a change, Kestner
realized, in the voice Of Lambert.
1t seemed the voice of a nervous
and harried man uncertain of the
future. It had lost it's old-time
placid sence of power, it's full
throated resonance. 1t seemed
now to hold something not unlike
a touch of pleading, an undertone
Of plaihtiveness.
'Well, why not do your gath
erin today?" demanded Burke.
"But 1 can't do it. That stuff
f. consigned to man named
Morello."
Then what's the matter with
IN order from Morellow
1T can't get one"
''Why?"
There was moment of silence.
"Moreifo's where he can't be
reached"
Then why not work the wharf
people?"
''I took the risk and went to
the Brooklyn pier. They tele-
phoned somewhere to verify my
statement. Then they told me
the shipment would have to be
held. And 1 can't keep lodging
around this town in daylight"
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A Futile Love.

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
Why does fate make one
love another? met a man
three years ago. can't for
get him. / love him. I cant
like. anyone else we'll enough
to even go with them. l always
compare them with him.
And my dearest dreams have
been of a home and him and
little girls and boys.
All / have is the memory of
the happy hours we spent to-
gether.
Why does fate make me love
him? A SAD HEART.
FATE does not make you love
him. You are cherishing in
your consciousness a memory that
cannot serve you and that has no
power to hurt you. save as you
deliberately keep it fresh and
green. The yesterday when you
knew this man is gone. You
cannot get it back. Indeed, if
you saw him now, with the added
wisdom Of your three years
The Washington times., 1923-05-31
By Ann Lisle,
Whose Serials of Married Life
Have Won a Big Popular
Success.

<<D UENoS DIAS," NEL1o"
when have you re-
turn? Like the bad
penny you turn up"
81 come but now" he breathed
with the ardent stress he has for
every word and look he directs
toward Rosa II came to see you
at once. And here I see you
throned. It Is good. Then Senior
Harrison have put out the Storrs
woman whom you so hate. We
shall not have to-"
"Hush!F Rosa broke in fur
iousIy. "I have dinner with you
tonight and then we talk"
81 don't want to intrude," /
cut in suavely But before go
there is question want to ask
you, Senior Ortiz. Was it you
who related to Rosa the story of
Mabel Storrs which you also told
rne?''
But you," he cried, gesticulat-
ing with outspread palm. st
promise you would not speak.
But cannot keep from Rosa
anything. 1t was me who tell
her. No one else have, see.'
And of course you wouldn't
misrepresent," / said half to my
self, but smiling/at Rosa.
She colored under my gaze
and turned spitefully to NeIlo.
Run along, child with the
tongue of water" she crisped ou;
at him, II have dinner with you
tonight. But now must finish
with White Lilac"
AS the door closed after him,
Rosa turned to me, her face dis
torted and her eyes glistening.
Her voice was cold as steel
when she spoke:
"Of this Storrs woman for
whom you have so funny attach
ment, I wash my hands. But, if
I am anyone's enemy. am bad
enemy. Why do you try to make
me feel you are in the way for
whatever it is / want to do? l
am bad enemy. Remember
have spoken-me, Rosa Cor.
dova.''
'Oh. you and I couldn't be
enemies" !. I said. managing to
sound gay and insouciant. Were
in partnership-we Harrisons and
you Cordovas. So long,
But my own words didn't con.
vince me that Rosa hadn't even
now declared herself my enemy.
Jim's way of taking the news
that Carlotta and Tony are en-
gagged astonished me- He got up
and limped around the dining
room table and lifted me bodily
from my chair. He was chuck
ling as he laid his cheek against
mine and said contritely:
I'm blest if you let a single I
told you So ruin your narrative!
And here you've felt all along
that those two were made for
each other and all but knew it,
while I've been fussing about old
Tony's mad desire to vamp you.
Bully for them. And bully for
you and the way you made your
announcement without making me
feel cheap. You's a nice girl,
Mrs. H.
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"a fun-QOWn COH0aS
ton and the trou.
|bles q woman has
ito go through ai
that time, hot
flashes, nervous
mess and head
aches. At times ]
was not able TODD
my work, butsincs
taking Lydia E
|Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound
Law ~osrsrD axs.
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How thoughtless. of you! And how
thoughtful of you particularly to
tell the typewriter people to send
the bill to you. Isn't it queer that
you think so hard one way and so
little the other! What it really
means is that you are deliberately
trying to undermine my authority
with the boy, and it's little enough
l have as it is. You're teaching
him that I'm a sort of god of
terror, while you're sort of
goddedd of mercy. It's part and
parcel of the great feminine con-
spiracy like that of the favorites
in the harem, who have every
ay when the sultan's out. Now
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MO longer need you despair as you
~ look at those distiguring little
brown spots. No longer need you be
a slave to hats and parasols, or fear
to get into bathing suit.
For the new Domino Freckle Cream
is GUARANTEED to Danish every
freckle. Unlike many other creams
and lotions, which merely cover up
the spots, the new cream TenaOOes them
in a gentle, natural way.
You simply apply it at night before
retiring, like any ordinary cold cream.
No bother and no muss, but the action
is almost magical. Even on the first
application the lighter spots disappear,
and within a few days every mark
and blemish vanishes. Not only does
it leave the skin spotless and milk
white. but softer and more beautiful than
ever before.
How It Works
Science tells US that freckles are simply
stains made by the action of sunlight and
wind on certain sensitive skin cells, called
pigment cells. Persons with very fair skins
have very few of these cells. so that the
stains come in spots instead of in a gen.
The Washington times., 1923-05-31
This Day in History.

THIS is the anniversary of the death, in 1855 of
Charlotte Bronte, author of Jane Eyre The
novel won her place among the notable writers Of the
period and remains classic.
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ROMANCES OF JEWELS
THE "EUGENIE7" DIAMOND

1T was now a splendid brilliant"
of the firstwater, weighing fifty
one carats.
AS the diamond is the Ian
guage OF love in all tongues as
well as the sign of autocratic
power, this magnificent diamond
was an appropriate wedding gift
from Napoleon III to his bride
Eugene. Just how much he paid
for it is not definitely known, but
it is said to have been a large
sum. It then became known as
the Eugene" diamond.
After the downfall of the Ma
poleonic regime, when the beau
tiful Empress Eugene lost her
throne, she sold the diamond to
the Gaikwar of Baroda, that
famous collector of precious gems.
The "Sancy" Diamond RO-
nance i'm the next article.
The Washington times., 1923-05-31
ADVICE TO LOVELORN
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX

growth. you might not care for
him at all.
You can't go on to a happy
new love if you keep turning
around and looking back to the
monument you have erected over
the memories of your past. Stop
giving power to the wrong thought.
This man isn't any part of life
and truth as you live it today.
You do not know what life has
in store for you; but you do
know that you can grow and
strive toward fulfillment.
Turn your back on the past
1t Is not real-it is only a dream.
You wouldn't hold a dream in
your thoughts all through a wax
ing day, would you? All during
the next week, whenever you find
yourself thinking of this unreal
love, turn to the thirteenth chap
ter of the First Corinthians and
study Pauls definition of true
love. 7 know. this will help YOU
to form a newer, bigger concep-
ton Of love and to free yourself
from an unreality.
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The Longest Word.

Until recently the longest word in the English die
tionaries Observation-Disclosures not so long
when compared with of modern chemistry Arts
tophanes coined word of 70 sylabes and Ill letters
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WOMEN FROM
FORTY TO FIFTY
WiIlBeInterestedinMrs. Hooker
Recoveryby Use ofLydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound

st. Paul, Mimi was going through
the Change of Life and suffered from
The Washington times., 1923-05-31

DURING the civil war, deserters
were branded with a I'D"
The letter was put on the hip
with a hot iron and on the cheek
with ink. The army regulations
now prohibit this practice.
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fY3aHI$
Dissolve Them v la! New Cream

Amazing New Discovery Goes Straight to
the Little Pigment Spots and Dissolves
Them-AlmOst Over Night. Also SOftens,
NOurishes and Beauties the Skin.
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dress or snowy cloth. 90 the new Domino
Freckle Cream quickly dissolves and re-
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eral tan.
The specialists
of d o m no
House have at
last worked out
asimples solvent
for these little
brown stains.
Just as milk
northumberland
diss es an
inkStain on
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". L. George, Famous Novelist, nndHi Wife
ACROSS THE BREAKFAST TABLE
th
Shielding the Child.

you kim a m
tina
L the him o
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-07
WRECKING OF COUNTY AUTO
PROBED TOMORROW

NEW BRUNSWICK, March q
Tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock
Harry Kahrs. a deputy in the office
of Sheriff Elmer L. Wyckoff, is to
appear before the Board of Free
holders sitting as a board of inquiry
for the purpose of investigating the
facts in connection with the wreck
ing of one of the county owned cars
a few Sundays ago.
kahrs, the driver of the car, as
we'll as Sheriff Wyckoff asserted at
the time that the a a being used
for official business and it is the pur-
pose of the county fathers to inquire
into what official business is trans
acted on Sunday.
The a has not been repaired on
the order of the Board of Freehold
ers and there seems to be some
doubt that repairs would pay in view
of the badly damaged condition of
the machine. The Board of Free
holders carry no insurance against
damage to the county cars and al
most a total loss is looked for.
Harry De Angels, who sold the
car to the county early in December,
and at whose garage the remains are
now stored, will also appear before
the freeholders tomorrow to answer
questions pertaining to the damage
done and the cost Of repairs.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-07
WATER
BILLS PASSED
viii do Much to Remedy Com
pllcated Situation in Mid
dleSex and Other Counties

TRENTON, March ALL opposi-
ton that had been outstanding
against the Pascoe water bills which
nave Tor their purpose the remedy
ing OF a complicated situation in
Mlddlesex, Union and Somerset
counties, suddenly and mysteriously
dlsappeare dand the due of measures
were passed by the House yesterdav
wlthou difficulty. The vote on No.
oOS was SO to s, while the vote on
lne companion measure was SO to /.
Inc only opposition at all came from
Passaic county.
Inc bills in question, together with
W. bills by Mr.. Dater of Bergen.
ave caused a storm from the very
outset of the session. Until yestes'-
day, the Bergen man had held the
upper-hand in the water fight. but
yesterday by some miraculous hap
penlng, the tide suddenly changed
and the Pascoe bills rode through
the House practically without oppo-
sition.
1t was said after the bills had pass
ed that Mr.. Pascoe's stand a, week
g when he fought to bring up the
blils has been INDICATED. All along,
n Union man has commended that
the two bills introduced by him
would neither interfere with the
Dater bills nor with the present state
system of conserving water.
Mr.. Pascoe's bills simply provide
that two or more municipalities may
enter into a contract with one or
more water companies for their sup
ply of water and that two or more
municipalities may acquire water
works by condemnation. Mr.. Pascoe
declared in speaking for the bills
that 100000 people, representing
tWenty-six municipalities in Middle
Union and Somerset counties are
waiting for this legislation.
One of the grounds that augment
h opposition to the Pascoe bills
was that it was argued that the
work of the North Jersey District
Water Supply Commission would Le
lnterfered with. However, the op-
ponents must have been convinced
the contrary as yesterday there
was no mention made of this fact.
The passage of the bills yesterday
was an outstanding victory for AS
semblyman Pascoe who for more
than two weeks has been laboring
under odds to get these measures be-
the members of the House for
consideration. They will probably
be considered in the senate not be-
next Monday night.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-07
PLAN CLEAN Up
At WOODBRIDGE
First Week in May Designa-
ted as Time-Board of
Health Meets

WOODBRIDGE, March 1.-THE
first week in May was designated as
cleanup week by the Board OF
Health al a meeting held in the town
hall here last night. In the absence
of r. C. Hirner, Mayor Louis Neu.
berg as temporary chairman of the
session. The members present were:
Benjamin Jensen, John FAIR and
William Finn.
The success of cleanup week last
year was told of by Health Inspec-
tor L. c. Potter, who declared that
it has proven successful especially
in the Port Reading section. 1t was
decided that a definite program for
cleanup week would be adopted at
the next meeting of the board.
Mayor Neuberg stated that there
is some complaint to continuing the
present dumping ground on the Sc
warren road as it is ar eye-sore. it
Mas reported, however, that nothing
can be done at the present time. 1t
was held by some hat the land not
used is waste ground and that some
of the houses now built in that icin-
ity are on land that has been re-
claimed by the dumping of ashes and
garbage.
Committeeman Salter stated that
the system of garbage collection
would probably be adopted next
year.
A resolution was introduced by
William ID. Hoy and adopted which
calls upon residents in sections of
the township which are severed to
do away with all out houses by
April 10.