davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-26

Sure TIL get out of It. They want
to find out why that fellow wrote
my name on his blotter. They
think know and won't tell them.
So they're likely to keep at me.
Em-may keep at me for O week
or so.
How did you come to tell them
was out Monday nightT
She looked at him in stupefied
alarm. why, I only told them
after you sent word that I must
tell the whole truth. They brought
me your message that you'd de-
cided it was better to tell every
thing as long as you had nothing
to conceal"
ooh. they brought you a mes
sage from me-"
"Why, yes. Are you sorry told
It? Will it make it worse. Doug
las? Do you think now that you
shouldn't have told them?'
"No-noi Just wondered IL they
brought my message to you' EN-.
That's ALL"
But she was shaking from head
to foot. Poor little EN-! If she
guessed what she had done-tell-
ing them he was out the whole OF
Monday night: telling them he'd
been at the office working. And
all the office staff knew he'd not
been there.
He got up and carried the dishes
to the sink. He thought oppres-
sively: "I wonder If I'll be doing
this tomorrow. Wonder il they've
really got much on me"
The cup dropped from his hand.
A ringing-the front door bell
ringing.
Wait. EN-. Wait. Want to
tell you something. I may have
to go down there again" He was
blanched to the lips. I'm, If I
do and they make you come-if
they put you through all this
again, remember this: won't
send you another message This
is final. / sent one, but I'll not
send another, because they'd be
likely TO lie about it-play one
of us against the other. En-. dar-
ling-for the love Of God. don't
tell them the name Of any girl or
any fellow I know. If they take
you down there again. EN-. don't
answer Just cry, but don't open
your lips"
She looked at him pitifully
tapped her finger against her
mouth, unable TO draw forth a
word. motioning him not to
answer the summons.
The same officers who had
called Saturday morning. will
you come with US, Mr.. Keith?
Better bring a suitcase. May want
to hold you for a few days"
A suitcase?"
Yes-being few clothes
along"
Ihen he walked down the hall
ana the tall man followed. He
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-26
Who Is Your Skinny
Friend, Ethel?

Tell him to take Cod Liver Oil
for a couple of months and get
enough good healthy flesh on his
bones to look like a real man.
Tell him, it's the only way to
take those grave-like houows from
his cheeks and neck.
Tell him he won't have to swallow
the nasty oil with the nauseating
fishy taste because the Mccoy Lab.
oratOries of New York. are now
putting up Cod Liver Oil in sugar
coated tablet form.
Ask for McCoy's Cod Liver Oil
Compound Tablets. Peoples Drug
stores and every druggist sells
them-6O tablets-60 cents, ANY
man or woman can put on five
pounds of healthy flesh in 80 days
or your druggist is authorized Q
refund the purchase price.
One woman put on Is pounds in
six weeks. Children grow robust
and strong-Feeble, old people fee
Younger in a few weeks.
Be sure and get McCoys. the
original and genuine and avoid imi
tations.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-26
M ystery, Love
and Thrills
Galore

capes, everything even
all her shoes are every
one IN the closet said Hazel, Inn.
pressively.
"1s there absolutely nothing
missing?"
Except . little blue dressing
gown and . pair OF my heelless
bedroom slippers she liked to
wear"
..she must have gone In the
early morning. It was nearly
dawn when phoned and she
answered here. Did you hear her
get up? Did you hear anything?
You were sleeping right here be-
Eyes, / just vaguely remember
After she came back and the
strain was over / slept heavily,
but can recall az IL In q dream
the phone ringing and Kathleen
answering II. " !.
THAT must have been when ]
phoned."
20, no: i was wide awake
then. She cried, as / told YOU,
and / tried to soothe her.
told her no man was worth cry.
ing over
wise beyond your yearai''
1T was later. I remember her
phoning. Then / think she got
into bed again. I'm not certain.
must have fallen asleep almost
while she was phoning."
You've no idea who teIephoned
don't recall here saying
any name or anything?"
Hazel shook her head.
81 was so sleepy"
Good heavens. this Ii the
Queerest yet? She MUST have.
gone to see someone in the hotel.
She couldn't have gone anywhere
without clothes!"
Hazel again gave historical
giggle, then instantly s0bered.
but why hasn't she come
back? It's after o'clock now.
and she's been gone since dawn.
Deeply Concerned
Hazel looked at him. bewilder-
ment and dismay on her childish
face.
1--WE been expecting her every
minute all morning. Then It got
too bad and had to ten you.
I know you're our true friend.
even II you did scrap with kath.
Ieen last night"
DIR. Cressy went out of sol
deeply concerned. After q few
necessary calls on patients in the
7 hotel, he went down to the
lobby again. Too restless to sit
still. he paced nervously back
and forth. Once he went over
to Mr.. Aimes, the manager.
What do you know Of this
guest on the eighth floor, Leverne
Lecay. Aimes?" he asked.
CTO he Continued Tomorrow
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-26

me this when you saw me at
breakfast this morning, Hazel?"
he asked sharply as they walked
toward the bedroom door.
Hazel. her nerves pulled out
thin and taut, began to whimper
at his tone.
TT. She told me not to.
That liz, after you phoned last
night and found her home here,
you I" you-you must have said
something that hurt her. She
cried and cried and said, no mat
ter what happened in the future,
or how queer anything seemed.
not to tell anyone about it
especially you, because you judged
her without knowing. Her only
friend had deserted her."
DIR. Greasy heard this with
queer, painful contraction Of the
heart. What a monster he was
that he should hurt this girl
more, with all she alreaaiy had to
bear. Why couldn't he trust
this girl he loved utterly and have
done with it? If she didn't con-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-26

I couldn't look in those eyes OF
his and rob him. In the end /
wouldn't have done it. I would
have gone with Ramon. Oh,
surely, I would have.
when I'm better, Jude, I'm
going away. I ought to be bet
ter. Why is it taking me so
long?-much longer than Hal
thought"
Judith looked at the glowing
eyes; the red hair falling in a
deep wave over the rounded fore
head. How different from the
dear, blithe Sandy who used to
come breezing into the office on
many an unexpected Saturday
breezing in all perfume and little.
throaty laughs.
How wondrous Judith had
fancied it must be to walk So
to have all that flippant chatter
ripping at her lips; to be so
arrogant with men and love; so
careless with her kisses. How
wondrous to be Sandy with the
dazzling future that should sure
ly come to one so audacious-
such a thrill to look upon.
Hastily Judith took the cup.
Sandy repeated: "Why does 1t
take me so long to get better.
Jude? Some days I feel great
and today, not so great"
Because you worry, Sandy.
Hal says you're not to think OF
a thing except happy things"
ooh, Judith"
"And you're much better"
From the far end of the room
Judith repeated: Ever so much
better"
But Sandy was worse. And
every day Hal Hume became
more uneasy. He was afraid the
wound had lit up an old inflam.
nation. Three days ago he said
this to Judith.
He said: "I'll have to tell
Doug. Give him another smash
Judith WINGED. Every time she
looked at Sandy she thought:
"IIow has it all happened? Oh.
dear, dear God-how can all this
be-"
The month had been a cruel
fixion. A month since the in
conceivable thing had happened.
A month Douglas was held in
Jail.
Even in whisper judith
wouldn't say: Charged with
murder" But sometimes in the
night she awakened to find her
self sitting bolt upright, her fore
head and her hair damp; her
heart beating violently. Then her
lips were saying: "Murder-oh,
my God-murder"
And she would press her hands
roughly together. OF course they
didn't mean it. 1t was just to
force him-make him confess
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-26

"Gone? What do you mean"
''I don't know where she 10.
She wasn't in bed when I woke
up this morning. She hasn't been
here since"
well, that's nothing to be az
cited about. Perhaps she got up
early to go out somewhere" He
knew as he said it how in1prob-
able 1t was. Still, he had told
himself. he wasn't going to get
wrought up over this second dis
appearance OF Kathleen's. Once
was enough.
Perhaps she's gone out to take
a walk" he adde's.
'1ne-sne-COULDN'T go for
q walk!'
No Clothes
"why?'
"She didn't have any clothes?
DR.. Cressy stared.
do you mean she left without
being dressed?"
"An her clothes are here. Come
in and I'll show YOU"
"Why on earth didn't you tell
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-26

He listened to sounds, in the next
cell-someone cursed foully.
It became cold. He paced UP
and down.
After midnight the door opened.
A fine, big-faced fellow entered.
He sat on a stool and said kindly:
II knew you weren't asleep, lad.
want to tell you something. If
you didn't kill Worth, and I half
believe you didn't, you ought to
tell what happened. This silence
Is going against you. Think what
1t will mean to your mother---t
will just about finish fellow
mother to have a thing like this
brought against her only son"
He went on talking like this.
When he left Douglas lay on
the cot and cried.
The next night the grand jury
met. They indicted Douglas Keith
for the murder of Ramon Worth.
CHAPTER los
0WHY doesn't he come to sec
w me, Jude?"
"He's not been able to-
"a whole month, Jude? He
should surely be better by now"
'He was very i'll. And the flue
is treacherous. Hal won't let
him take a chance. He won't let
him drive this far. 1t was only
yesterday he went out--and then
just for half an hour"
Strange, Judith, that he be-
came i'll the very day after he
brought me here. l think that's
such a coincidence. Judith, would
you lie to me about it? You
seem so awfully worried"
Wouldn't 1 worry that he's
i'll and you're in?"
Sandy's eyes were unduly bril-
liant. They glowed in her thin,
white face like sunken stars.
Judith thought: "She grows more
beautiful-was ever anything SO
ghastly? I ought to hate her
I wonder how 1 can still love
her? Yes--I love her still" She
held a glass OF warm milk and
begged Sandy to drink.
But Sandy looked at her sadly:
Does it break your heart to be
here taking care of me, Jude? Yes
i can see. 1t just breaks your
heart"
ooh, Sandy E" remember
I've adored you always. From
the first time we met. Perhaps
because you were just what
would have liked to be-
THAT was a million years ago,
Jude. Before anything happened.
Isn't it strange I've always been
wrong? You don't know how aw-
full 1t Is to lie here and wonder
and wonder. My whole LIES
been a blunder-'
She stirred the milk slowly.
drawing her fine black brows to-
gether that the tears might not
creep from under her lids Judy
Il meant to leave Douglas alone.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-26

until they were out of sight. A
queer mixture, mummies and boot
leg! He turned back and went In
to breakfast.
Nervous Hazel
After he was seated, he noticed
that Hazel was in the dining room.
The youn" girl was pale and tired
lookup. .vHn her bright red,
bobbed hrir. like a fluffy creole
around ner head, failed to dissi-
pate the expression that she was
worried and weary. While DIR.
Cressy forced down ham and eggs
in order to keep up his strength
for what work he knew would be
ahead, and tried to decide on some
plar for heading off Bert Kelly,
she drank three cups Of strong
cofleet al nibbled a third Of a
very thin piece Of toast. He
neant to speak to her on the way
OUT and ask after Kathleen, whom
he supposed was still sleeping.
But she jumped up suddenly,
bowed and make a little lnvolun-
tary movement as IL to hurry
over 10 him, then jerked back,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-26

the sadness has more to do with
their success than the SMILE!
It is true that In the chorus Of
musical comedies we see many
flashing, happy smiles, but how
few Of those smiling girls rise from
the ranks Of the chorus! On the
other hand, you may name dozens
Of choristers who are now stars,
but even in the chorus they were
not the best smilers!
In fact, remember one dark.
eyed girl In chorus q few seasons
ago who was conspicuous because
she NEVER smiled! In no time
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-26

, said joking: You'll have to do
the dishes alone, Emf
They tried to break him. He
looked at them with set, desper-
ate young eyes, refusing to talk,
but all the while thinking with a
violent agitation: II won't give
in. They'll never get me. II |
don't say anything they can't
trick me-"
He was afraid to open his lips
afraid they might by some cruel
wizardy draw the name OF Sandy
from his heart.
At 8 o'clock Meager said, Lets
60 for q walk.
Three of them went out to-
gether. They walked down Kearny
street. He knew where they were
taking him-forcing him to walk
between them.
They stood at the corner OF
Third and Market Streets. The
man in the cigar store leaned over
the counter and steadfastly sur
veyed them.
Meager said, WAS it windy last
Monday night, Mr.. Keith?"
No answer.
They marched him back and
forth, as though awaiting soma
ones approach.
Suddenly they went into the
building. They took the elevator
to Ramon Worths office.
Meager shook the knob. A jant-
trcss passed, shuffling stealthtly.
she saw you here last Monday
night, Mr.. Keith"
They pushed him into the room,
pointed to the spot where Sandy
had fallen. They re-enacted the
scene. They asked him who had
fired the bullet found imbedded in
the wall; asked him If he remem-
bered that window above Ramon's
desk and II he'd noticed the shade
up or down. They kept him there
until II o'clock.
They they made him walk down
those miles Of steps. He could
have sent his fists smashing
against the two of them.
His Threat
you'll have a chance to think
it over, Keith" Meager said sner-
ingly. "A nice, soft bed to think
it over on"
They took him into the cageliko
elevator in the Hall of Justice.
Down a narrow stone corridor
iron walls of cells. A metal door
opening. A cot like slab
against the wall. The door closed
on him.
He had a notion to go up and
pound on it m.adly-kick against
it,
He wondered VIVA: bum had
slept in this cot last night and
the night before. He said to him.
self Historically: Good Cod"
He sat on the edge of the cot.
He thought OF his mother-of
Sandy and Judith. Their images
went Historically through his mind,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-26
A Story of Swift Adventure, Tingling Romance
And the Youthful Pulsating Thrill of True Love

They brought his mother there
day after day. And his mother
impiored him to tell what he
knew--oh, didn't he know some.
thing? Tell it, then-tell it to
ease her tortured soul.
All this proved to Judith's des-
perate hope that the charge was
just an effort to bring out the
facts.
The charge would be dismissed.
For a whole month Judith had
prayed this. She had knelt hours
praying with an insane fervor.
The idea! Douglas charged with
murder! No one would believe
him guilty-no one in all the
world.
But the month passed
and tomorrow they would choose
men to try him-twelve men.
And these men wouldn't see the
bonny lad Judith had spied on as
he dried the dishes for Em-aS
he brought a table near the stove
on q cold night and did his draw
ing-as he stood up, tired, run
ming a hand through the slick,
brown hair, surveying his work,
showing it denghtedly to his
mother with q jubilant: Smart
boy, this son of yours, Emu
They wouldn't see the Douglas
Judith knew But a stubborn
youth, whose finger prints were
found in the room where murder
had been done. A hardened
criminal positively identified by
three people as the man who
entered Ramon's office on the
night Ramon died; entered his
office, shot him, carried away
some wounded girl. And now
callously presumed to lie out OF
it all.
These were the things that
would be told of Douglas.
Judith went to the door, look
ing down over the trees to the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-26
NOW CONTINUE

lobby almost the first person his
eyes rested on was his adversary
of the night before. Lecay. I'M
maculately attired, a light malacca
cane in his gloved hand, was al"
recting a couple OF hotel porteIS
in the removal Of Amon.ka
through the lobby to a car that
waited outside.
Careful +" careful" he adj
monished, modulating his gestures
like an orchestra. leader. Easy
there at the left no jolts,
no jars. You're not handling
sack Of coal, but q princess of
Egypt, 5000 years old and some.
what frail.'
He got the clerk at the desk to
order a side door opened SO that
the mummy wouldn't have to &C
tipped on end to go through the
revolving doors.
"The fastenings on the case
aren't as good as when they were
new. They might break and let
the case open. don't want to
send a broken mummy back to
Doctor Steritt," he explained.
Doctor Cressy didn't see how 1t
could fall apart, for 1t was bound
around with a rope but
Lecay was as fussy about every
detail Of the transportation as q
woman having her pet piece OF
furniture moved.
The physician didn't know
whether Lecay saw him or not. II
he did he gave no sign. He con.
tinued to watch with interest until
Amon-Ka was deposited in a large
touring car, a conveyance In
which, in her widest imaginings
of 5000 years ago, she could
never have dreamed Of being. L.
cay sat in the tonneau carefully
holding her In his arms. The
driver, a rather slight figure in
dark glasses, was bundled up, his
coat collar around his face, as If
he were starting on an Arctic ex-
pedition. Doctor Cressy watched
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-26

screen ana stage! Put those with
famous smiles in one list and those
with wistful, sad expressions in the
other and you will find the smilers
much in the minority. Be sure to
notice also that even the most sue
cessful comedians owe much of
their success to the sadness OF
their comedy!
Even the blacEface funnakers
we laugh at most do little smiling!
Stop and think-isn't it 80?
The gayest smilers often have
the saddest expression when their
faces are in repose and 50 I think
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-26

distant, silver.traced bay. The
hills were blue and impalpable,
mellowing into the sky.
The middle of March-she
thought of Douglas sitting in
cell. She had never been in a
jail. She wondered what the
cell was like. She saw him with
the dark. hazel eyes that she
because they ruled her so-with
these young, fighting eyes grown
desperate.
Suddenly she recalled the way
he looked on New Years Eve as
SO Snappy in his tux with
He liked a little shine. That's
what he said. She recalled the
insistent note in his voice when
he said: Jaw. come on, Jude
be a good sport, Judy darling,
and come along" and there was
such chunmy tenderness in his
look.
She tried to imagine this Doug
las as he would look in q cell
as he would look in a courtroom
charged with the murder of a
man. But when she did this her
heart seemed to swell and burst.
1t seemed to choke her.
She lay stiff1y awake. She
wrung her hands and whispered
threateningly: God can you let
this be?-"
All that next day she was be-
side herself. She went to the
kitchen to prepare Sandy's lunch
and stood an hour leaning against
the wall, her cheeks pressed
there.
She kept hurrying to the door.
From 2 o'clock she kept going
to the door.
CTO BE Continued Tomorrow
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-26

turned on her heels and walked
hastily out.
DIR. Cressy didn't ring up sol
before going to visit his patients,
for he was afraid Of waking Kath-
leen, whom he fell nedeed rest.
Two or three times that morning
he rang up his newspaper friend
and asked If there were any fresh
news. He got a negative answer.
At / o'clock. when he returned 10
the hotel from an outside call,
he found a hastily written note in
his box.
Dear DR.. Cressy:
Come to sol as soon as you get
this. I'm terribly worried. I'll
tell you as soon as see YOU.
HAZEL.
DR.. Cressy crushed the note in
his hand. Had the sword fallen?
Had Bert reached the police? He
took the elevator to the eighth
floor. Hazel opened the door in
stantly to his knock.
"Oh, I'm SO glad to see you.
I thought you'd never come ."
What Ia 1T, Hazel?"
"Kathleen's gone again.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-26

she was lifted out Of the line and
given a special bit!
How many really successful men
do you ever meet in person or pic
ture who wear perpetual grin?
The more important they are,
the more inclined to be earnest!
Go into a bank or business
house of high standing and you
are greeted by young men who
silently and seriously attend to
your business. I have found the
more reliable people are the more
dignified they are!
When you have important trans
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-26

fide in him. eager az he was to
help. it must be for some mys-
terious reason OF her own, and
he must simply accept it. He
would trust her, he vowed. He
would show her he was still her
friend and hadn't deserted her.
They entered the bedroom.
Gray twin beds stood side by side,
with a. yard OF space between
them.
Mine 10 the farthest over, near
the windows, and this is Kath-
leen's.' Hazel pointed to the ner-
est bed, then she pointed TO the
chair beside it: Look
Upon this chair various pieces
of silk underwear were carefully
laid out for the morning. On the
back Of the chair pair of gray
silk stockings hung. Under the
chair were pair Of gray suede
slippers.
"And the dress she wore yes
terd and all her other clothes
her dresses, clOaks and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-26

actions you want alert and pleas
ant attention, but no giggiing and
wisecracking!
And girls. take note Of the WON
en- who have married well and per-
haps often! In spite of their APP
parent fickleness, do you notice
with what implicit faith and visit
full trust they can look upon the
next victim of their charms?
You must take yourself seriously
If you want others to take you
seriously-so don't let them kid
you!
Cut out useless smiling! Being
serious is the secret Of success!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-26
By ElenOre Meherin,
Author Of "Chickie," Ann,
"Ann and PhiP' and
"NOra Lee"

Emma Keith raised her head.
Tears swan, round and full In her
eyes. But they were proud, beam
ing eyes. She wanted him to kiss
her-kiss her thin. twitching lips
ease the fearful shock that had
come to her.
She followed him with a desper-
ate eagerness to the kitchen. She
held the cups while he poured cof-
fee he had made. Her eyes dwelt
on him-they embraced him.
And he spoke in an awed way as
though some unforeseen tragedy Of
the elements had overtaken them
an earthquake rocking the house
from under them-a tidal wave
sweeping in. A thing inconceiv-
able and appalling-a thing no one
could understand, descending upon
them like the wrath of primitive
god.
But you're sure you'll get out
Of it, Douglas? They do terrible
things. I've read of terrible
things"
mot in this day and age. EN-.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-26
By FAY KING

GIN L e! Smile! SMILE! |!
~ That's the advice the pre-
tending pathfinders to success are
always giving!
But after making careful re-
search into the matter have come
to the concIusion-thatt this SMILE
stuff il all bunk!
Now, don't take my word for 1t,
but do a little finding out for your
self!
For instance, take q careful
flash Of all the successful stars OF
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-26
Bricks Now Made Of Fiber

bricks made from palmetto and similar
ID material have recently sale for wCE
give much satisfaction They are conslueEaDN
larger than ordinary brick.