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Remember hs:-You better citizen because owning
and after all there is thrill and pride in
not have We have list nice hSnes the Choicest
purchase. Give ring and will be at your service
We resident agents for Standard Companies
compensation auto life in fact kind Of that
times.
Can you 2OT your plate glas
Yours for service and a Better DENY
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FI1EURET

OF the auestioner. SO many. sud
denly despairinE. seek oblivion In
the slow moving waters OF the
Seine.
She dead. the little one?"
The waiter smiles.
Mails. non. M'sieu. On Amer
icain. I'm American tres
ScoWls
There Ii need to say no more.
The bearded one scowls. These
Americans and their money! They
take everything. Even the charms
of the little butterflies of the night
become exclusively theirs.
You know who?" The bearded
one asks delaying. In his interess.
the ordering of the cognac so dear
to his heart.
The waiter becomes expansive.
Mails. non: M'sieu. In ways 1t
is sad. One night there comes
a fat beIlied man from New
York. He has been here before.
But never has ne noticed any
one. He does not spend much
him busy. No use. The boss say
to Fleurette: You try. I give you
double commission She laugh
and 20. She is successful.
He stay here long time with
her. They leave together. That,
M'sieu. IL not unusual. But she
never come back. Not even to
collect her money. She write a
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: cents an hour Is what I charge.
Is that all right ?''
Peggy assured her that Ii was
3 fair price, and she ran upstairs
to The Nest. feeling that she had
made good start toward win
ming Fanny away from Jane
Bracket.
It ought not be 50 hard JOB.
anyway.
From words that Ranny had
dropped here and there she knew
exactly what Jane Brackets
lure was FlatteryI
Mrs. Bracket says / have too
much vision to be just an ordi-
nary business mar. he would
say to Peggy sometimes.
ReassuFing Herself
or: MRS. Bracket thinks that
4 man 81 my type ought to marry
woman much older than him.
SELF. she herself was seven
years older tkan Ranny! And
Peggy knew itl
So her pretty mouth curled
scornfully now as she thought
over these remarks while she
cleared away the dishes and be-
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picture, q snapshot IN Uniform,
and tbs memory OF his love.
There was not even letter.
She knew only that he had been
rich--but were not all Americans
rich? and that he had planned
to take her home after the war.
even have a big house and
servants" he had said to her.
ssand when we have 8 little son.
Il must be little son, Fleurette,
Ia will have everything that
money can buy. You would want
that"
She had pressed herself close
against him and had kissed him.
If they should have little son.
Hers and his!
But when that little son had
been born there was only poverty
and ugliness and want.
she had starved. She had toiled:
She had worked INCREASINGLY ana
unayaiIingly. But there were
many women az she, many with
little babies. Many with no htls-
bands at all or husbands who
were dead.
In desperation she went the way
OF many weak women De1orS uSIs
For the little ones sake she sought
employment at Maxim's.
II was not easy to become q
regular at Maxim's. One had to
pass q beauty test. And above all
one had to be able to smile allur.
ingly. But thinking of little Peter
she went through the ghastly or
deal which was to be more and
. more CHASTITY with the passing OF
the days.
Rich American
She was engaged. And then the
lean days were over. There was
a trained nurse for Peter, and good
food and clothes and a bank at
count to which Fleurette added a
little every day.
On herself she spent as little as
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little note SAYING she come no
more. That she stay vita him."
The bearded one signs.
..Too badi Too bad"
But he does not know. No one
knows. or all those who fire.
quented Maxim's not one knows
the true story OF Fleurette-who
is Fleurette no longer, but Lucille.
Fieurette who lives not In Paris
but in a little villa in the south
of France and who passes a. the
widow of soldier.
She is not alone In this villa.
But the American richie" is not
with her. There is an old maid
servant. A woman rare among
her sex. who can be trusted and
who guards, well a secret. There
Is also a little boy. A little son
with his mothers eyes. Fleurette
is called Madame Fentross. She
is liked and respected. She goes
TO. church. No one suspects her
past history. Which is her hap.
piness and joy.
Her Old Life
She shivers when She thinks OF
her old life. Sometimes she won.
ders. if 1t were really she and not
somebody else who sat In her old
place in the great cafe. But she
tries not to think. She tries to
forget. It is all that he asks Of
her, the American richie" who
found here there and took her
away from the boulevards OF
Paris and installed her in the
heavenly retreat.
She dreams of what her boy
will be when he grows up-her
boy who is never to know that
his mother was once the play.
thing of Paris. Her boy whom
she loves more than life, the lit
tie one for whom she sacrificed
everything, even descending to
the depths to pile UP riches
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Tor him that ne might have AL
the things his father would have
wished him to have had he lived.
His father. Even now when
she thinks Of him there Is q tear
In her heart. After eight years.
For she loved him, loved him
madly, recklessly In those sad
days when red war ruled the land
and It seemed as II the end Of
the world were near.
IdyIIic Love
It had been war romance. One
Of those countless hundreds which
sprang up like peoples in field.
She had been q canteen worker,
slim and slender. as lily and
as lovely as a little flower
Fleurette. He had been a. young
lieutenant Of infantry, handsome,
bronzed, keen TO avenge the
wrongs Of France. But he had
not been OF her country. He had
been an American, Peter Fentross
by name.
The love that sprang up be-
tween them had been an idyllic
love. the love OF two youngsters
flung into the naaelstrom of life
created by the war. They had
kissed rapturously and unthink-
ingIy
I'VE will be married today, :"
he smiled at her one morning
when they awoke, "by the parson
and the mayor and whoever else
you say, though we are married
now In the eyes Of God.
She smiled back happily and
lay in his arms. One had to
live every moment in those days,
They were not married
Sudden orders sent him at once
to the front. He never returned.
The little one born to them was
never seen by him. Peter Fent-
ross was killed in action. All
that she had Of him was hts
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she could. But she had to be well
dressed. She begrudged every cent
that did not go to- Peter.
Then, one night, az the waiter
explained, there came a rich Amer
lean to the cafe. One difficult TO
anluse. One who was not Of the
regular type that went thither
seeking amusement.
She sat down beside him
He did not repulse her as he had
the others, though he said bluntly:
! 'sYou need not expect to make
much money out of me. But win
order for us both. literally. and
you win collect the fat commits
sion which know you are en-
titled to-
They chatted and she found him
gazing at her intently from time
to time. Once he stopped her in
a remark.
--this7''
Love for Son
She understood. 1t was = ques.
ton often asked Of such as her.
It was on the tip Of her tongue
to tell him flippantly the story
such as all of them told. Then
something stopped her. Some
thing in this man who was diff.
ferent. She found herself blurt-
ing out the story of her little
romance, everything. even her
hatred Of her new life, and OF
how she did it al for the little
one, her son: who has my eyes,
but his fathers nose and mouth.
M'sieu."
She had produced picture
then, b picture in a little leather
frame stuffed in the bosom OF
her frock, the small snapshot Of
Peter Fentross.
It was then that the man be
side her had gone suddenly pale
and had gripped the table with
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nRETTY little FIeurette, the
toast of Martins, disap-
penre5 after the Oisit Of the
MYSTERIOUS rich American. The
usual thing, some people thought,
ut they avere aUroag. 1T 4OCs
not tie usual thing.
RIO those who know Paris the
name Maxim's l. synonymous
with good times and glided vice.
There are to be found gay music,
delicious food. wine Of the best,
ana an array OF beautiful girls
whose object it is to amuse the
wealthy seeker after pleasure and
to induce him to spend his money
ID the establishment which hires
them ais such bait.
There You will find Lisette and
Ioutou and Fanchette and Louise.
There smiling. ever smiling, is lit.
tie Marie de Tours and Froufrou.
who IL growing little old. But
Fleurette. F'leurette Is no longer
at Maxim's. FIeurette. who was
50 sweet and lovely despite her
paint and her profession. Fleurette
Il petite Is gone.
Beared Frenchmen. who have
been absent some time. entering
Maxlm's and no longer seeing her,
induire for her only to be told:
She IL not here. M'sieu."
The query trembies on the lips
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and Exciting Serial Novel.

gan to run the. hot water into
the dishpan. /.
she dropped the dishcloth and
went into the living room. she
sat down at the old piano that
had been her mothers, and began
to pick out the melody on the
yellow keys.
when everything's said, ana
everything's done,
There's one that / love, and
you're that one!'' she sang.
Crazy About Her Song
when Ranny let himself into
the fiat at midnight. all thought
Of the quarrel was swept out Of
her mind by the sweetness Of
the song she had written:
She turned to him with eyes
like morning stars.
'sListeIl!'' she said, and began
to sing the soft little tune to
him. and her clear voice gave
every word q separate and deep
meaning.
when she finished she swung
around on the plano stool ana
faced him..
DO you ike it,"
Ranny nodded. Grady about
it, he answered, but his look
showed that he was puzzled.
He had expected to find his;
wife in tears or asleep IN bed
when he came home, and Instead
of that, there she was singing
d waltz song to him In the middle
Of the night.
s.No. wonder that he asked,
whats the big idea of singing
It to me now. thought First
thing you know the neighbors
will be complaining to the land
/. lord that we keep EN- aWalie
nights by singing
Peggy was too happy to do
anything but laugh. st wrote,
it!'' she cried, with q little break
IN her voice. 81 wrote 1T Ito
vot1! on Ranry, let's not QUAR-
rel any more love you!
Suddenly she wasn't 8 grown
woman. the mother Of q boiInc.
ing baby. In Ranny's eyes--but
the little Peggy In her teens that
he had fallen In love with long
ago. She looked so young ana
pathetic, sitting there with her
cheeks flushed and her wavy
hair brushed back from her fore
head, and curling in little clouds
around her ears.
He came to her, kneIt beside
/ her. and laid his cheek against
her cheek, holding her close.
Honey" he said thiclxly, Peggy,
you make me so ashamed ok my
self, somehow" She shook her
head.
Hush, she whispered, her
hands smoothing his blond hair
and her lips colse to his. was
horrid to yon tonight but, Ranny,
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too1r soe,e,v,w S6,,e. ssvvtess AVERY.
tesns:s ~ Tsone > { MI, ,e1 when
si eas.'5 lsff affes tI.e SilfoiSF lesson
siI,n1 r6iiIk Strsiel1t "a the post.
office with if.,, Sic declared. blew
ii1r 4 last jst 81 cikarette smoke
from her Iips - she stood IN the
doorway. I'm going to send Il
10 Leon Vicente, the song pub.
Usher. He's published couple
81 songs that wrote. Neither
ef them ever was popular, but
this thing that you've done viii
be!'s
Deep down Ii her heart Peggy
felt sure that nothing would ever
come Of e Leon Vicente must
receive thousands o songs every
ye1r In y. e1s lAss as gooa ~
4 here. skllls you never could Ten.
hs1t tne Wssks Mens py WITHOUT
Mord rom Lne pApllsner;
,,ss,. = me- .aat .l,a s ss
going to rive ) Sunday AFTERNOON
tea.
For you and 1solly, she *.
planned % Eeggy Wnen she t0ia
her about N lla.Rl1st had any
kind q party TOE el1l1er q you
since you were n.arslea g ~.
soIns e sss Lst.s 0l.s 5000 ~,
Oll... tAllu { 3. : { - ~
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he Story Thus Far

PEGGY STARR has been engaged RANDALL PHELPS for
when he asks her to free him because he's fallen y love with
her chuna, FAY SHIRLEY. -. Il.
Peggy gives him to the great satisfaction
Rnny shss and lazy and he'll be to
Sa Peggy PETER W the bachelor brother of
/ friend MISS SARAH HI
opinion be the for
he suddenly their and he maes Peggy
ALL pair tiny flat that Peggy calls The
long Ranny back with his playing cTones
sanbing most Of the family funds Then he has second
affair with the Tightly But when Peggy breaks the that
shes going have baby he leaf and behaves
himself engagement EDDIE
GARTER and marres him.
Shortly after the birth the Rsnny nick
him. Ranny back his old tricks and Peggy has
give music lessons the household bills Then Ranny falls
With divorces, MRS JANE BRACKETT who
real estate company Re says that he Is only
decides
have and studying voice. under MISS SHARE
her old teacher. rs
this MOTHER PHELPS tells Peggy what daaps
Ranny has been to his father And Father Phelps takes
THOMAS BOYLE who married RannyS young sister, LOLY
The fn This RanHy but doesn't reform HIM he gives
Peggy
his clothes
minds him she having hard time keeping the going
her earnings he calls her graspng and selfish and bangs himself
Of the house.
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whom he was so anxious to con-
vert"
well" I went on. Morrison
lived right with the Chinese
people.
"He translated the Bible into
Chinese more than q hundred
wears ago. and today all the mis-.
sionaries and their converts read
that very Bible.
N.Y." said Bobby. THAT must
have been an awful job"
Yes said. land that wasn't
all. He also translated the Eng
fish PRAYER Book into Chinese.
And before his health finally
broke he did some splendid work
for his Government"
HE certainly must have been
a good man." said Bobby. and
i'll bet that p3g.taAt helped Aaatas
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20 to bed. It's almost 3 o'clock Z.
But Peggy didn't want To move.
1t was 50 wonderful To be here III
Ranny's arms. where she hadn't
been for So IonR--to Be close 70
him, with his cheek against hers,
and the delightful odor BIZ nis,
particular brand OF tobacco ard
shaving soap ii her 1ostriIs She
held him tight and kissed hi1n--
and kissed him.
Then she leaned back In his
arms and looked at him with her
Z blue eyes sparkling and her cheeks
flushed like q rose. I've been q
bad wife to your she told him.
her lovely voice ripping up and
down IN little waves.
Il thought that all had to do
was stay home and take care Of
the baby and earn some money,
she went on. II thought that was
All there was to being married.
But there's something else to it,
there keeping yourself 50 attract
i've and lovely that your husband
will never leave you for Jane
Brackets! Now You just watch
me blossom out into q regular
shebaA I've even hired 3 woman
to stay nights with Juney 50 ! cafl
10 out with yOll!'
Like Happy Child
she laughed ike i happy child.
and waved the sheet Of Music she.
had just written high ii the air.
.I'm going to sen that song and
buy myself clothes and lipsticIx
and diamonds with the price Of Il!
I'm going To be 50 youthful
that III make Jane Bracket look
like q hag!'
Ranny's face sobered Instantly.
II wish you wouldn't talk that
way about her, he said. rather
severely. she's mighty nice
woman, and she's been an inspira-
ton to me, III q way.
Peegy couldn't help wondering
Just what Jane Bracket had In
spired Ranny to do. The only
thing he had done the last few
weeks was to buy an automobile
that he couldn't afford to buy!
She lOnRed to say so. but she
knew that IL she did II would
probably only start another battle
between herself and Ranny.
SO she only sighed and lay
back IA Rannyss arms and gave
herself 70 his kisses. She ypas
too happy to argue to think
almost too happy to breathe.
She closed her eyes az she felt
Ranny's mouth close over hers
his breath pouring over her his
hands pressing down on her
shoulders as he held her closer
and closer.
He's mine after all! she
thought. deliriously. he's come
back to nle-iny man!
The next afternoon Miss sharp
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pital in England. While there
he not only studied medicine,
but he found a young Chinarnan
in London who taught him
Chinese and through whom he
learned what kind of people he
was going to work with In the
distant land to which he was
going.
$50 when he had finished his
course in medicine and mastered
the Chinese language, he took a
sailing ship, and months after
wards he arrived In China. And
what do you think was the first
thing he did when he got to
Gilman"
IT couldn't guess said Bobby.
He grew q pig.tail--so that
he woslA - MlEe the Chinsse
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DOBBY and I were walking
ID through Chinatown when we
saw a Chinaman stink through
a doorway with his long pig.
tail hanging down his back.
They don't wear pig-tails any
more in China" said Bobby, do
they?"
NO." I replied. they are cut
ting them off. But there was a
time when q Chinaman would
as soon lose his head as he
would a pig.tail. This was on
account of his religion
THAT reminds me of a story"
/ added.
"Oh. tell me-" cried Bobby.
IT'S about q wonderful man
an Eiglishman named Robert
Morrison who was beTa O. Eaas
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You Will Want to Know Beautiful Peggy Starr Heroine q
the Most Interesting Story Of Young Love Ever
Penned bv Beatrice Burton.

ness when she began TIE scas,
rose IN the Hud.
q was Ranny,s faycfite sons.
ana she kept her eyes fastened
on him as she sang Re vas
ieaninR against the he pest q
the stairs ia the BIG ban. and be
smiled &C Pegsg as & e put
courage Ia her.
1sIapll some one stepped een
MIN and hers tall slenElef nA1lan
Is s Sc green hat win white and
rreen feathers that dtfpned from
- flIFn vet eeaWeeE If8 Jane
pfAcISetk. 81 an her elc1y. She
fnnk l5er place az Ranny,s side IS
r. size belonged TO hina
con / lust won { Ieoh az them
parav aafd 10 herself arerilys -
sl4e he8an the second verse q
aannv'N favorite song Il 40
fiSsv'lf think I'm jea lous Z,
TSe1nerateIy her eyes swept over
fl,e crowd Of ueOpfe Then they
faefened them selves On face that
49, knew Al friendly fact with
1--we brown eyes that were
watching her intentlY from across
the room.
There was always something
friendly ana comforting IN Peter
vrIIyxss serious face and his faitl1-
FL brown eyes. And Peggy had
never felt 50 grateful to Peter
! ard 40 close TO him. Is she cid
: now In this room fuII Of strangers
And Il was to him that she
went when she finished the song
Il storm 81 kid gIoved applause.
No priIna donna on her first
night eyer suffered from stage
fright more than Peggy did that
afternoon when she made her
way through Mother Phelps
crowded living room with It. sea
of strange faces that turned 70
watch her pass.
.serfectly heavenly voice. she
heard one woman exclainl
wonder who she was before Ranny
married her
yer knees shook and she felt
Is 81 she were trembling inside,
too. She felt as she never
would reach the corner where
Peter stood waiting Tor her. not
knowing that she did IT she put
ont both hands as she came up
Is him. and stood holding them
braoing herself
OH Peter was ~ fEgnff
How did ny voice sound from
iaereg' abe aglzed hlEns breath
lessly.
His eyes told her that e had
sounded marvellous 70 him. a.
least Ther WERE full Of praise
80 49, NE Sz,sr1 ryr fl4seSTura oTna
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a STORY OF REAL LIFE
COMPLETE IN THIS ISSUE

hIe hands. C was then alter
some more questioning that he
had made her an offer to leAve3
the bouIevards and to so away.
peter was Kid Brother
Rapturously she had consented.
Her ready acquiscence being more
than proof Of her sincerity.
ssYou ask In return. she had
said. s.tlat I be true to you and
that I never lot Paris know where
II am
81 ask that you pretend 70 Be
the widow OF Peter Fentross and
that the boy never learn the
1 real truth. ask that YOU guard
this secret
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land somewhere around the time
Of the American revolution.
Robert Morrison was a shoe.
maker, and as a young man he
learned his trade In his fathers
shop.
"But he had a great ambition;
he wanted to be a missionary
and go among the heather and
teach thenT about the Christian
religion.
Morrison thought it would be
a. good thing II he knew some
thing about medicine. so that
when he got among the people
whom he wished to teach. he
could help them get well when
they were sick.
$50 he became q medical stu.
dent ~ St 3arthelaunAw'a Hes
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By Beatrice burton
Author 81 sFlapper wife, 4
ssGlIded Kisses and
.sFO0fIooses

MRS. PIGEON was i little
AZ plump woman Of 50 Or 50.
ana she had become very friendly
with Peggy Several times she
had offered to come up and sit
with the baby IL Peggy wanted to
90 out.
Il vas about this offer that
Pkggy had come to her now.
wanted to ask you II You
could gfya me one 81 two eve
ntIgs week she said. coming
into the glow IL Mrs. Pigeons
cory little kitchen. The baby's
ola enough now u be left
think. He never wakes up at
night any more. and
Eure, III be glad to GOMEZ"
Mrs Pigeon took the words out
cf her mouth, and / can do your
nnending, besides. while I'm sit
ting up there in your fiat. Thirty
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And yoil VII pretend q oe No
husbandg
re shook bis head. pur
brotherin-law. The boys uncle.
/ had 4 letter from Peter written
as Ne was dying IN the hospital.
ne told me ali about you. ne
asked me to try to find you and
make things right as best could.
I'm doing all this Tor his sake.
I'm glad to be able to do e. had
given up an hope e ever being
able to find you. But luck has
been with me. You my
name Is George F'entr0ae Peter
was nv lid brother
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t:.hought.

she sobbsd; always waiting for
you to come back to me from
somebody elsel You always do
come back to me, though! And
sometime you'll come hack for
good. You'll stay!,
Don't be foolish. Ranny am
swered her. You talk like q
little idiot. / haven't been untrue
to you just because I've gone cut
riding with Jane Bracket once in
q while. Calm yourself, and lets
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Il was just because I'm jealous.
L know ought to be broad
minded and tell you to 90 ahAad
and be friends with Mrs. BraclK-
ett. or any other woman, but /
Just. can't. IL hurts me all over
when think that you like some
body else better tran You do mel
She began to cry very softly
against the rough tweed shoulder
Of his coat.
II feel as II / were losing you,v
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Founded Scientific Astronomy

ETPPARCHUS celebrated astronomer who flourhed be-
II and c. regarded the founder of scien
c astronomy the first catalogue the stars, and he
made many important discoveries
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Quaker Pulled Wheat

The something different" you crave