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Sandy Unexpectedly Gets Telephone Call from Ramon
and Tells Him Where He Can Address a Letter
That Will Reach Her.

None of the wild words OF love
she had dreaded. Murillo had
been cheated. She leaned back
exhausted and unnerved.
Cry With Loneliness
She leaned back watching the
sunset sky. She felt her mother
er's hands-her mothers eyes in
that moment of fright and plead
ing.
And then she felt other eve
They were Ramon's, filled with
yearning and anguish as .le.
lifted her from the water =
as she lay in his arms. floating
down a sea of flowers.
And they were his eyes the
night she clasped her hands about
his neck, drew his face to hers,
kissed him.
Her mind recreated the scene
made her warm and restless.
And suddenly ready to cry with
loneliness.
Her mind recreated the moment
took her out on the ship under
the starleSs sky. The warmth Of
his clasp, the sweetness Of their
breaths ningling.
She took a leaf from the vine.
Beautiful leaves, changing color
now, dappled with scarlet and
silver. Winter coming the touch
of winter In the breeze. Sandy
let the leaf drop from her fingers.
Rented POstOffice Box
She said to herself roughly, an
noyed at the warmth and rest.
lessness: II promised It's all
settled now. =
But She went to a stationery
store on the way home. She
bought q tablet and pencil, scrib-
bling a note:
'Ramon-Don't write to me
again. Please. Ny mother is i'll.
Don't send another letter to my
home. 1 wish we were back on
the islands. Al hundred years
from now I may see you again
down there. Summer is over
now. The grapevines are all in
autumn dress. Thanks for the
picture. z
She folded this page with reluc-
tant sloWness. She remembered
his quiet when he said: II love
you. I'm not going to forget
you. This Is love, Sandy.
know
She folded ii slowly. thinking:
Hell write anyway She want
ed him to write anyway!
She thought OF the envelope at
Murilio's plate -the lock on the
mail box. Even Judith's letters
would be opened!
Standing in the little store, the
tablet resting on the counter,
Sandy turned this thought over
and over. Even Judith might no
longer write TO, her.
The image Of the torn envelope
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asfonishment when he sees them
in these fiImy wisps. The girl
thinks all she has to do Is to
lower her beautiful eyes, pass be.
fore him with floating drapes and
he's going to drop on his knees
perfectly mute with alteration.
And slle'Il run the show and Il 81
All going to be very exotic ana
poetic. She's due for quite an
awakening Men aren't 80 seIlsis-
tive 10 these needIe-p refine
rnents. Look at all the ex-
ouisites who marry corn beef and
cabbage wives
This grated on Judith, who
fancied herself and her mate
standing on the edge Of flame
lit world under moon and stars.
swept together IN the ma jesty q
elemental passion
Maybe 1t couldn't happen ~
YOU. Jude. But it's happened to
lots Of girls And lots of love
marriages turn out wrong SUP
nose that came to YOU and then
later you met q real love 2''
sd take it, z said Judith breath
lessly. When you greatly love
Won have no choice. It's not love
IL it can be denied. Hts not the
mighty thing the one, great ire
mendous thing, because when It's
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man I'd like 70 be loved BY
Judith
What would YOU do then Il
yon Weren't free to marry him?
IL you were tied to another2
That couldn't happen to mel
You mean you couldn't be
pushed or driven or crucified into
a. Ioveless marriage? You don't
know, Jude, how you'd feel IL
your mother came crying and cry
ing to you and telling You that
you'd lowered her heart to the
dust and trampled On IL ss
sandy BIT her lips: OF course,
YOU wouldn't have been driven to
n i'll. Jude. And neither would IL
/ weren't utterly worthless. Some
times / think it was what Ally
calls my almighty conceit' that
got me into 1T. thought / was
so gorgeous could do whatever
I wanted with a man. Lots OF
girls think that.
No Choice
They load up with a Knockout
rousseau and they have visions
of the man falling in a faint with
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What Has Happened So Far

Sandy Mcneil, young. beautiful daughter of family
once had possessions in California and is
settled in the of Port Jery agrees at her famys
behest to marry rich Ben Murio, whom she does not
love- After her marriage Sandy grows to hate Murio
and steals away her fathers home. MuriIo follows
her She discovers she is to become mother and gives
marriage and Incidentally Jimmy former sweet
heart and goes riding with him. Muro is furious when
he them together They quarrel Sandy faints Her
baby born and dies and Sandy persuades her husband
to let her 60 to Bermuda with her mother There she
meets Ramon Worth who pays marked attention to her
BE her from drowning and sails New York the
steamer. Sandy finds herself and in love
with him and throws her arms about him and kisses him
She her husband with indifference and when they
reach home tells him she wants her freedom He dares
her to try to get divorce Her mother worries she
becomes i'll and the family bames Sandy who has promise
she say for the about leaving Murilc
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sharpened. He was going to open
All her letters. He wanted her to
know he was doing this-
Would he, though! She decided
swiftly. She went out holly
flushed to the eyes. She went to
the pogtoffice and rented q box.
She said to herself: TN drop
Jude a line and tell her. 7"
Her thought answered: You're
not doing it for Judith. Don't
kid yourself
She pretended not to hear
Long Distance Message
The siy after Ramon,s telegram
and her ansWer sandy was In the
kitchen preparing her mothers
lunch The phone rang.
Luckily Alice was sleeping.
IT was long distance call
from San Francisco. A girl ask
ed: rs Mrs. Sandy MurilIo
there? | wish to speak with her
DIRECTLY
t'This is She"
Then wait a moment"
Tt was he. She felt crowded
oppressed shiveFing and glad.
His deep, resonant voice: You,
Sandy? I'm writing TO you.
Where can send it?''
"No-don T.
I'm coming down.
tNo-don't"
Where can / send a letter.
BOX 1725.''
'Goodby" Ringing like song.
Faint-almost overcome, Sandy
heard her own voice giving that
number. She stood at the phone,
nerveless, paIic-held You want
ed him to have it, voice
accused. You got it for him."
In this way 1t began.
CHAPTER Al
CANDY asked Judith a question.
- She asked it--and waited as
though her life hung on Judith's
answer.
They talked of men and love
and marriage. What kind of II
girl does man most love? How
does one keep beauty in the
great emotion. once it is theirs?
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A GIRL TO
FORGET
BY Beatrice Fairfax

nEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
~ have been going about
with girl for about one year
we are informally engaged and
expect to marry in the spring.
Last May she moved to the
country. There she has been
going out with a young man
who. after saying good night
to his sweetheart, takes my
fiancee out in his car. They
stay out until or 3 in the
morning.
paid her a visit and was told
about this. But forgaye her,
and she promised she would
never go out or see him again.
In her letters she told me she
never bothered with him or saw
him.
Last weekend, / paid her an
other visit and found she has
been out with him as much as
ever.
1t hurts me, as am very
much in love with her. Shall I
give her up? A. A.
CINCE your flancee so lightly
~ disregards your happiness
now, do you think she is likely to
make you. happy later on?
You would be entirely justified
in breaking your engagement UNI
der the circumstances. suggest
that you consider very carefully
whether you can reasonably hope
for happiness If you marry girl
whose promise you cannot trust.
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SLEEVES ARE
ELABORATE
Alice LangeIier
International News service staff
Correspondent

AMNCfhAgAO1sd1. 4NUWH 0EEN1CE St1ll
Correspondent
PARIS.
CLEEvES on the new spring
- models require whole vol
uIne to themselves. so important
are the proportions they have
assumed this season. In fact.
dress without an elaborate sleeve
these days is very much like
griddIe cakes without sausage on
a frosty morning. except in the
case Of the very dressy evening
frock when there is usually none
at ALL
Every Partisan dressnlaker is
making his own individual arm
covering but all point toward the
same ideas Of volume and deco
rativeness. leaving far in the past
the tight simple sleeve which
did no more than furnish the
arms with cover of some sort.
Sleeves chez Poireet are no mere
straight tubes, but items OF
beauty with flares inserted below
the elbow or flaring from the
shoulders and so exQuisitely
created as part OF the model it.
self that they seem the only type
possible.
At Paul Careet's there is the
little cap-kimona sleeve that ap-
pears in certain lace and chiffon
Afternoon or dinner gowns. 1t is
a boon for the woman advancing
in years and who would know
that there is nothing uglier than
the upper part Of a fat arm
Philippe ct CASTOR are showing
an infinite variety of sleeves in
shapes as well as trimmings.
Very unusual are some that al
rather narrow near the shoulder,
then suddenly grow full but are
gathered once more at the wrist.
Another charming type falls down
in two streamers, one in front,
the other in back; from a point
rather near the shoulder. The
cuffs are ALWAYS exquisitely dec
GRATED
Patou too, has some exquisite
cuffs with lace cut-work, embroid- .
cry or beading. He is favoring the
old bishop sleeve i'm nearly. every
case, but bishop that is not
very full, gathered into a small
band. Sleeves cut out under the
arm are seen on some dinner
frOcks and few have wing
draperies.
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How cherish it through all the
pettiness OF everyday life 50 that
1t may remain lovely and SUI
preme? AS long as there Is
girl left in the world, whether
she be saint or spinster or flap
per, these questions will be tren-
blingIy asked.
Judith said: when love III
never stop to haggle about it.
no wonder or doubt. I'll throw
everything to the winds Err ~
THING--and follow him. z
Sandy put her hand against the
deep pocket OF her sweater Three
letters were pinned there. They
were from Ramon. They filled
her with excitement and unrest.
As though she were wading int
high, warm waters going out
further and further till they piled
up--breast nigh-neck high; till
she laughed and let herself sink,
till she was drowning in a flood
of outlines and JOY.
Visit From Judith
Yes. Jude! But suppose you
weren't free to follow him? Sup
pose you were as I. married to
another and couldn't throw every
thing TO the winds-what them"
IT was o'clock--the middle Of
November They sat in the big,
old Mcneil kitchen, roaring fire
in the stove They had been
talking for hours, examining in
whole centuries of gossip over
this farewell meal.
Judith came down over the
weekend. She was leaving on
the night train. And this was
the first afternoon they'd had the
least chance for any kind OF
chummy privacy.
So Sandy and Judith talked and
talked. They laid out all their
thoughts for each other.
Now Judith became silent. She
sat with her eyes down--large
eyes with very thick. stubby
lashes. She had large mouth,
too. Sandy loved Judith's mouth
strong and fiery and generous;
very shy withal. Looking at
her, Sandy thought: If I were
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4 Romance Of 4 Girl Forced Into = Love
less Marriage By 4 Family That
Thought Only Of Money.
IT, bigger than you orI Of

that it, bigger than you OIL 81
:You,d take It even II you we're
married to another WiIigpe
sandy Her cheeks were hot
duty Remains
one az those letters Id her
III had come Saturday morn
inn But IL was evening when
80 fsI iaa Tor II. And II said
leaving for the South a.
nionk saturday. I'm stop over
af Carmel. sunday 4 Al be on nv
vvasy f, you. GIRL. j want f0 see
Won. II it's only for 81 moment
Don't refuse this. Sandy
be On the beach near that long
nfer ST 5 o'clock. II walt You're
always free at this time aren't
you
II she had called Tor the letter
irl the morning she would have
wired that he mustnt come she
told herself she would have done
this
Buf now he vould suppose sls
had agreed ae would soon be
there waiting
You wouldn't walk out d
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Fellows who live on their wits
and make a stack of dough now
and then are apt to lay off the
job until all their wives jewelry
is pawned and they can't borrow
from their friends any more. Many
girl who has talent for the
lingo Of this sort finds that sooner
or later she has to go back to her
job and support him, while he gets
up at noon and poses around!
Girls will trust a man IL he Is
well groomed and, if she only
knew it, she Is not half so safe
with that kind than the shabbiest
working fellow in the world. These
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WHEN DID TT
HAPPEN?

Answers to These Queries Will Be
Printed Tomorrow
i. When did railroads receive
government sanction in China?
2. When was a second attenlpe
to assassinate Emperor William
1 OF Germany made?
3. When did Daniel Webster
enter Congress?
Allswers to Yesterdays Questions
1. Two governors were inaugu-
rated in Louisiana January 8,
1877.
2. France invaded the Spanish
Netherlands In 1888.
3. Octavius'> three days tri-
umph occurred IN Rome in 20
r. c.
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TRY MUTTON
BOULANGERE
BY Alice Langelier-

International News Service Staff
Correspondent
PARIS.
EOR a good meat dish try NUT
H. ton-shoulder Boulangere.
Remove the bone from the NUT
ton, season with salt and pepper,
roll and tie securely. Brown in
the oven with little fat. When
well-colored, surround with po-
tatoes and two large onions
thinly sliced, bit OF garlic and
a bouquet of seasoning.
Let bake slowly, basting often.
Remove the bouquet. Put the
meat on the serving dish and sur
round with the potatoes.
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polished cads are all primed to
deceive women. While real men
who do a real mans work in the
world are clean-minded and whole
some in their ambitions and
amusements, these slick schem-
ers are thinking and talking
women, and every girl they
meet they figure is sure to fall
for them and they see that she
does.
The guy who does his honest
days work. and gangs around
with his pals, interested in sports
and athletics, and not much for
caring how he looks to women, Is
the fellow worth winning if you
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By FAY KING

GIRLS. don't be too much in
~ fluenced by jazz suit, hair
oil and manicured nails when you
are looking over the matrimonial
market.
These trim tailored fast work
ers can spout the ear oil and blow
bubbles of bliss and future hap
piness that you will find often
burst all too soon!
The girl who shuns a real man
who does a real mans jop just
because his hands are bit grip)y
and his wo, king clothes a bit
ysoiled seems 70 lose sight Of the
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fact that soap is cheap and white
collars don't cost much and when
he's dressed up he can make the
hollow-chasted, pasty -comptexlon-
ed, night club sheilt look like the
false alarm he is!
These big takers that win
women with a lot of soft soap
have often borrowed the dough
they spend so carelessly and
many a girl who has saved a heat
little sum ends in handing it over
to these birds and never seeing
them again:
The guy to listen to is the guy
that is willing to work and can
hold down a job.
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can! Many a guy in soiled work
ing clothes is better read and has
higher ideals than these dolled up
tops whose soft white hands are
invisibly soiied by more dirty
deals, than the clean stains of
hands of q machinist-or a coal
HEAVIER!
It's the mind that counts, my
dear, and look out of these guys
who have a clever vocabulary to
make vice sound like virtue.
A sheik's wardrobe never made
a saint OF man.
Even a crook despises mol
buzzer"-a guy who robs women
only!
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By EIenOre Meherin,
Author of '.Chickie. 2 Ann. |"
"Ann and PhiI'' and
Mora Lee
CHAPTER XII
6sUHAT time is it. Sandy?''
"Six O'Clock.

CHAPTER XII
6SWHAT time is it, Sandy?"
"Six O'Clock. "
Days getting short. =
October. mother. They always
do. you know. You look so love
~ today, Isabel. -
Mrs. Mcneil, propped by the
pillows. the soft gray hair in
damp ringletS about her temples,
kept her eyes closed. Tears
squeezed from under the lids.
Sandy-you think-Ism getting
better?'
ooh, you are! You'll be cooking
the turkey again Thanksgiving-:.'
Lean down. Tf - The kind
soft lips twitched. Now the tears
ran quickly. IF I get better
you'll keep-your promise?'
Her eyes wide open now. Turk
ing with terror. pleading. Sandy
tried hard to meet them She
thought: She's Giyingis She
knows II. She's afraid OF it. =
You'n keep it2'
Unfair Promise
Her mothers eyes were pulling
her. These. wfde-open, frightened
eyes had hold OF her like hands.
Yes-I1l keep it"
And if-I 20? Sandy
TN keep it. 2
Isabel smiled. Sandy turned
her head quickly. swallowed. she
felt choked
She felt that hands rose in the
gathering darkness. They rose
with fiat, open palms and pressed
-. n u =r 5 = -
She touched her fingers against
her blouse. A telegram was hid
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NolD Go On With the Story

den there. IT had come ten
minutes ago. Not opened yet.
She hadn't dared to open it.
From Ramon. She waited for
Alice's coming waited
choking and cold Sitting with
suspense.
Outside at last. Stealing
through the grapevines sitting
on the bench tearing softly at
the yellow envelope
In the morning she had wired:
Did you write me? When and
what? S. NJ
Here was the answer: Yes.
Sent you q sketch OF. the Pail at
midnight done by friend No
message except title Where
heaven meets earth /"
That was all. No signature.
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THE TIMES
DAILY SIX
by A. L. WiIbert, M. Al

by A. L. WiIbert. M. Al
i. SCIENCE. Which State leads
in the utilization of its water
power for electricity?
2. Law. What is meant by the
term, sovereign state?'
3. CIVICS. What is the average
annual cost of public education
for American children?
4. ART. What are female fig
ures used as pillars called?
). MUSIC. What popular opera
has its story based on student
life in Paris?
6. HEALTH. What medicine
is generally given for malaria?
Answers to Yesterdays Questions
L. LITERATURE. Rudyard
Kipling, British author.
2. HISTORY. Misrepresentation
in land and wildcat banking.
3. GEOGRAPHY. Detroit, Mich
fgan.
4. BUSINESS. 20 maintain it's
present volume of production. full
employment and high standard of
living.
5. MANKIND. The collection
Of funds by the charity organiZa-
tions Of a, community as a unit.
6. HUMAN NATURE. Our
convictions are the result. large
Is. of tradition and convention.
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Sandy ii Movies

SANDY soon will be seen 81
LOew's Palace. The Fox Film
Corporation already has STARTED
production.
MIadge BelIafly, slnOrn 81 her
luxurious tresses, has been.
selected for the part Of the
red-headed, bob-Eaired. flaming
'.Sandy 2
SANDY" viii make her screen
debut while the story Is run.
ming ii The washington Times.
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Mahogany It's Chief Product

British Central America
mahogany years it has been exported from
country whose life depends solely the trade
this most valuable wood
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This Day ii History

THIS anniversary the gninE l91s q ns Treaty
Of Best-Livotsk between Germany and BCshevast hussa
treaty Germany was not allowed e
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-19
MAGICIAN WILL
PRESENT SHOW
AT HIGH SCHOOL

Wednesday evening the people of
FL Centre will be gwen Il treat in
the way of unique show. Reno,
a clever slight of hand performer,
will give an entertainment at the
high school.
Edward Reno has been a magician
for more than So wears. He has
travelled in every quarter of the
globe and is constantly iNenting
new things in magic and ilnsion
with which to mystify and entertain
the pubic. During the hour and "A
half that Reno has the platform he
executes 90 or more tricks.
Reno 5 running fire of comment
as he puts over has tricks is said to
be as amusing as the tricks them.
selves. He goes into the aisles and
uses number of pets IN his enter
talnmcnts. There is ways n rush
of boys and girls to the stage when
he makes an appeal for assistants.
The proceeds of this program will
go toward the fund for publishing
the college and high school annua.s.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-19
DINNER DANCE BY
MISS FEUSTEL is
ELABORATE AFFAIR

One of the most elaborate sOclal
events of the past week took place
on saturday night. when Miss Clara
FeuStcl entertained with dinner
dance at the Ten Thousand club.
Violcts were used in the attrac-
tive scheme. and cOrsage bouquets
Of the same blossom marked the
covers for the women present.
Dainty place cards added to the
pretty effect. An elaborate turkey
dinner was served.
: Dancing, with music furnished by
five piece orchestra, was ENJOY
ed until "a hate hour, when AN oyster
supper was served.
quests present included Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest Il. Utley. Mr.. and Mrs.
Calvin 4. Mousscau Mr.. and Mrs.
Elton Christian, Mr. and Mrs. j.
Sterling OsNaIt, Mr.. and Mrs. Rod
ncv Pease, Mr. and Mrs. George
7 ". Reasonoyer. AR. and Mrs. Fred
j Kenyon. Mr.. and Ms. Pentecost
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar q. fervey' Miss
Ellis Simpson. Miss Peggy Howison
Miss Ruth Marabel, Mrs. William
Lawson, Messrs. Harold Gillett
Jimmy Greene, Lee Nuffer, Farretl
Conlev and John Kepley.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-19

The party will leave san Bcrnar-
dino at o:oJ, travelling wa Barstow,
haggctt, Silver Lake and XIon Park
Tram to Las Vegas, arriving there
sunday night about o:50, where
they will be hosts of the las Vegas
eht.th.cr OF commerce.
monday, February /, the Las We
GaS thambcr Of Commerce VIII
su.de the party to Boulder Canyon
and ON Tuesday to Black Canyon,
r,turuug at n.ght 10 Las Vegas for
a banquet.
The round trip viii be made in
four days, including Sunday, per
uniting the Imperial Valley deega-
tien to arrive back here Wednesday
night or early Thursday morning.
All who have made the trip from
here 10 Buuidcr Canyon have been
greatly impressed with educational
features of the trip, as il affords Il
sPiehdld opportunity 70 see just
the Development of the Colorado
river WlI mean for The entire south
west. In addition TO being cduca-
tionaL the trip Is made enjoyable
by the wild scenery enroute and the
extended in NcvadS