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tired of her because he was so
sure OF her 1t no longer ex-
cited him to be with her, and 30,
like all men, he was looking
around for fresh excitement. for
new worlds to conquer. That was
all there was to it.
She glanced up at him with
those eyes of hers which were SO
full OF violet fire and dew.
.sRanny," she said to him. very
softly. II honestly wish that ]
didn't like you so much az !
do. I think you'd like me better
then. wouldn't you:-and it would
not hurt me quite 50 much, per-
haps, when yon fl:rted with other
women 80
h stopped her with shake
Of his head. Honey, was only
teasing you-I wasn't flirting
with that woman over there" he
told her. 1T just happened to
meet her eyes in the glass. That
was ALL
Did He Smile?
She frowned thcughtfully. She
could have sworn that Ranny had
smiled at the red.headed woman
at the next table-uot only smiled
at her, but winked, too: but IL he
said ne hadn't
Really, weren't you trying 70
fIirt with her?r she asked.
Really wasn't. honey, Ranny
answered without hating an eye.
She believed him.
She spent the next two weeks
furnishing The Nest.
That was the name she and
Ranny gave the little flat.
They thought it was the contest
place in the world. They liked
the way the fro1Dt window swung
open instead OF sliding up and
down like ordinary windows.
They were delighted with the
riny white kitchen that wasn't
big enough to swing bat In.
And the breakfast nook with ite
old blue table and cushioned
seats, was the joy and pride OF
Peggy's housekeeping heart.
But when Aunt Agony came to
see the place, she turned up her
nose and sniffled the air scorn-
fully.
Not Her Idea Of a Home
well, you may call 1t a homep'
she snapped. They say that
home is where the heart ISL
but II looks more like q coop to
me. Why didn't Randall buy q
home OF his own, for goodness
sake?"
Peggy flushed. She hated any
one to use that sharp tone about
Ranny ''Well, he didn't want to
tie up so much money in a
house, right now" she faltered.
Aunt Agony gave her a pierc-
ing look.
well. as they say, A word
before is worth two after" she
quoted. $50 I want to say this
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THE BLUE BEETLE

at the eighth floor and DR.. Cressy
scarceiy had the heart to put
through the plan in his mino.
Still, 1t was necessary.
He turned Hazel, who had
started from the elevator toward
the hall where her own rooms
were, in the opposite direction
into the other hall. They went
mast sos, the room OF Mr.. Jona-
than Emmons, the nervous Ola
man; past $40, Lecay's room: on
TO sig, where the body OF Kent
Glendenning had been laid out on
the fateful night OF the murder.
DIR. Greasy took out a passkey
which he had procured from
hall boy on his previous trip up,
unlocked and threw open the
door. Hazel hesitated painfully.
sudden fear in her eyes, on the
threshold.
eco in"
She looked up at DIR. Greasy,
her childish face, under her
orioIe Of bright bobbed hair, very
pale and worn, then crossed the
threshold into the room.
"Ten Me Why?"
He had pulled the window cur
tains up on his previous trip. IL
was only little after 1 tonigh:
instead Of after as on that for
mer night which seemed ages
ago, although really only Two
DAVIS had passed; but the moon.
having risen earlier, was in much
the same position. moonlight
streamed in and lay in metallic
oblongs on the carpet. That half
of the room near the windows
was bright with its light; the hall
near the hall door was in SHADOW
The only thing different in the
room was that there was no still.
marble profile outlined against
the silver Of. the night.
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NOW Continue

home of his own,' she said, with
a nod Of her dark head where
the hair rippled like tiny waves.
He's always been the LATEST
thing, and you want to let him
know right from the start that
he's got to hustle for you! Don't
let him ever lie down on the job
or he'll never take care Of you
the way he should"
It was q week afterward that
they had their first real quarrel.
Peggy and Ranny.
They had spent the afternoon
house-huntip= and had finally de-
cided on little apartment only
a mile away from Aunt Agony.
Then they stopped at a tea
room for bite to eat.
It was early and there was
only one person IN the room.
The words brought back to her
the memory OF a long-ago after
noon when she had read "Hia-
wAtha" to the children in the
library. Ranny had come in just
as she was reading the line
Hush, the Naked Bear VIII get
amused by 1t. And he had told
the children a story, himself. that
rainy afternoon
wen have a lot Of jolly little
kids. ourselves, wnen we're mar
ried and have q house of our
own, won't WEI" he had said to
her on their way home that
night.
And 1t was of a house OF their
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; He led the trembling girl to-
ward the window:
Hazel / want you to tell me
nowhere in this same spot
why on the night OF the murder
you came into this room, knelt
beside the corpse of Kent Glen
denning wept, and kept saying:
Why did / do it? Why did I
do it?'"
Hazel stared up at him her
eyes round with amazement and
horror
How did you know. doctor?"
she whispered.
IT do know. Tell me, Hazel
why you said it?"
"T-I-I--'' The young girl.
looked at him with tortured eyes.
II can't, doctor"
But you must! Look" DR..
Greasy pointed to the spot where
she had knelt Tell me why
you kept saying, why did l do
it?" DR.. Greasy looked straight
at the girl and used all his will
power. "Come-tell me. Tell me
Tell me-"
ooh, doctor-I--1-I-"
Yes, yes. Tell me-tell me-"
The girl gulped as if her throat
ever contracting. She sucked in
her dry lips He saw that her
hands, whose fingers she inter-
laced, were trembling uncontrol.
ably,
Yes, you must tell me. Do
you hear? You must. Would
you let your sister be convicted
OF murder and suffer the horrible
penalty--while you
The girl gave a terrible, heart.
broken cry. She gripped the
doctors arm tightly with both
hands, like some one drowning
might grip another.
mo No No!
Kathleen must be saved! l did it,
doctor. I! l! I! III tell every.
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before. I can't understand a
woman like that for the life OF
me-"
Then all thought seemed to
stop in her brain for an instant.
she looked up from her plate
and saw the tail-end Of a smile
that Ranny had been smiling--at
the woman in the mirror.
He flushed when he found his
wife's honest eyes fixed on him,
with surprise written in them
surprise, and a sort of disgust,
too.
whats the matter, darling?"
he asked.
Peggy smiled family. She took
her little silver pencil from her
handbag and passed 1t across the
table to him.
Here's this--if you want to
ask that woman for her address"
she said clearly. 81 saw you
smiling at her in the mirror,
and thought you might want to
know her better!'
She forced back the tears that
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body. murdered Kent Glen
denning Because be-
cause murdered him
because I was in love with him.
That's why / knelt beside him in
the middle Of the night and cried,
why did I do it? That's why. ;"
DIR. Cressy undid the hysteri-
cal clasp from his arm and took
both her small hands. cold as
ice. in his own.
Now" he said, as soothingly
as he might to very small
The tears began to roll down
her pale face.
"oh. doctor" she said. "a lie
is better than the truth
mo, II want the truth.
Kent Glendenning than I did,
child. Come, tell me. You know
I'm Kathleen's friend and your
friend"
ooh doctor II .
it is disgraceful.'
But tell me, anyway"
She hung her head.
The truth" he urged,
Her Confession
She began to speak in low,
hesitant voice.
"Well well First
you must know this to under
stand: My brother-in-law, Loren
Echard, is madly in love with his
wife, my sister, Marie, and he is
also madly jealous of her. Marie
never seemed to love him in
quite the same way. sometimes
even thought that she married
him because he was wealthy,
although we We're never in need
of money. Well on the
Sumatra on our round-the-world
trip, about q month and half
after Kathleen and Kent were
engaged, about when we were at
the mouth of the Nile. /
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To YOU now. before you tie your
self I'D to this place, you're very
FOOL n not to make Ranny buy
YOU 81 house. Nothing keeps
man steady the way home does,
unless it's children"
Peggy looked at her and won.
dered il she could guess how
much she, herself, would have
liked a little house, q little house.
with q backyard TO grow flowers
and vegetables in, and later 70
fence in for the children that she
and Ranfy would have.
II think the fiat will have TO
do for little while, Aunt
Agony. she said quietly. until
we have more money.
Aunt Agony gave a sour httle
smile that cracked her face all
up into wrinkles.
'Oh. I knew you'd do as you
please about it, she declared.
s'You never have listened to any
thing I've told you. As they say,
Advise to q fool goes In one ear
and out at the other.
And with that she betook her
self out OF the front door, slam
ming It loudly behind her.
Now she won't speak to me
for a week, I suppose, Peggy
mourned as she watched the
straight, thin figure going down
the street. looking neither 20
the left nor to the right as i
marched along.
Her Aunt Goes With Her
But the next morning. bright
and early, Aunt Agony called up
the Phelps big house. where
Peggy and Ranny were stin
living.
when you 80 shopping for
your furniture. I'm going with
YOU" she announced, In her
downright way.
Peggy groaned. I'm going
today" she answered. unhappily.
She didn't want Aunt Agony to
60 shopping with her. She knew
perfectly well the kind Of things
that Aunt Agony would want her
to buy for the new home things
that would last a lifetime solid
walnut tables and chairs, heavy
dark velvet curtains, over-stuffed
sofas
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Tense Situations, Thrilling Cimaxes and the AmOurs q
Hot-Headed Youth Feature This EngrOssing
and Exciting Serial Novel

The Nest were gay. cheerful
things lowered silk curtains
bright cushions. painted furni
ture, flower boxes for the sunny
windows. q canary singing -
wicker cage. 'tGimcrack things
Aunt Agony would probably call
And "gimcracks- were exactly
what Aunt Agony did call the
things that Peggy picked out TOT
her house.
They won't last as long e.
You're buying thern! she said.
SHARPLY. as she stood and glared
az the twin beds with Their
painted wreaths OF roses on the
headboards. and at the lowered
cushions for the Nving-rocu
chairs, However. do just as YOU
please about II! I don't expect
You ever 20 pay any attention tO
the advice give you!
'sBut Aunt Agony. the nat -
too little for q lot Of big mah0G
any pieces" Peggy pleaded. "aIid
besides. it's too expensive.
have only 30 much to spend on
furniture" She threw out her
hands heIplessIy.
Aunt Agony gave her scornful
sniff.
wife viii have a home Of her
own, I'll bet youp she said not
aopacking-case Of nat tilied with
Cheap tonfoolery like this!
Her waving hand took IN the
array of furniture that Peggy had
picked out for The Nest. She
eyed It grimly.
Peggy Proud 81 Her Love
Aunt Agony. the girl began
quietly. and her little chin wan
held proudly high. Aunt Agony.
1 don't care if Peter WiIk's wife
has palace! don't care q SNAP
OF my finger what anybody has,
so long as Ranny and have .
crust OF bread and any old kind
OF q roof over our heads!
But she asked for no better roof
than the one that sheltered The
Nest. Z She loved every inch Of
the tiny fiat. and she washed it,
windows and it's ivory woodwork
until they fairly sholle. loving
every minute Of the work she put
In. too.
she had never been 80 raptur-
ousIy happy. 20 deeply cOntented.
az In these first days Of her wife
hood. working as busily as bird
making its nest.
Sometimes Mother Phelps or
LoIly came TO help her hem cur.
tains or arrange the new delft
blue dishes on the cupboard
shelves, but most Of the time she
was alone in this dream place of
hers.
At night when Ranny would
stop to get her and take back
to his fathers house for the
night, it was all he could do TO-
make her leave The Nest.
no be continued MOndayJ
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-15
DO YOU
KNOW AS MUCH.
AS YOUR CAT?.

she's a knowing cat.

She's q knowing cat.
She asks for little-just her meals
q saucer OF milk and place in the
sun. She gets plenty Of sleep and
exercise. She never worries, never
frets. What 10 the result? Such
vitality and resistance that we SAY,
Cats have nine lives.
What does your cat do when she
is not we'll? She eats catnip. II she
can and it. She eats grass and Ger.
tain green plants to which her IN.
stinct leads her.
Your cat takes herbs for tonic.
Did you ever stop to think that
Old Mother Nature, who supplies
the herbs necessary TO your cats
health, has also provided the herbs
necessary to your own well.beinga
You don't have to hunt sSr them
as the cat does. The herbs you
need are skillfully blended and COM
pounded in Lydia e. Pinkhams
Vegetable Compound. an OLD
fashioned tonic that will help TO
restore your energy.
Feels Better Moo
Mrs. Gust Green Of 4O1 Lincoln
Park Boulevard, Rockford, Illinois,
writes: 'T was weak and rundown
hut the Vegetable Compound has
helped me and ] feel better now.
I recommend IL to all women who
need more strength.
For more than flfty years this
medicine has been taken by women
with very satisfactory results.
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By Stella Wynne
Whose Stories Of Mystery and
Love Are Causing Wide
spread Comment

nR. MoEY left with half smile
~ on his face. Evidently he be.
lieved from HazeI's anxiety and
constant inquiries. that the young
doctor and she were Economically
interested in each other.
As soon as he was gone, Hazel
asked. quivering with anxiety:
20, doctor Kathleen"
"No. I didn't find her"
Better, since he had found
Kathleen only to lose her. not to
say he'd found her at all. That
would avoid explaining in what
danger she now was.
Hazel turned perfectly white,
but she accepted his answer with.
out question:
Terrible Things
20, things have been terrible
here. I haven't dared stir out OF
my room since the newspapers
began printing those terrible
things about Kathleen
the "taxicab murderess in hiding"
and everything. And I'm so
worried about Marie She just
sits and looks at the wall all day
and doesn't answer when you
speak to her. Loren, too
he goes about like ghost, and
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By Beatrice Burton
Author Of "F1apper Wife"
"Gilded Kisses" and
''FoOtlOose''


DEGGY'S father.in.law looked
across at her with the steady
blue eyes that were the color OF
Ranny.s own-but had none OF
their careless, devil.may.care
charm.
"WeIl, I should say" he began
In his deep voice. when Ranny
broke in.
1--WE aren't going to, buy q
house" he said with decision.
"I'm not going to put my nose
10 the grindstone until there's
some need of it. And paying for
. house Is no joke. IL you want
to have any money to spend for
anything else, believe mel A
four-room flat is about our speed
Just now, Peg. And I'D rather
live in a hotel myself. or stay
here with the folks"
Hard on Peggy.
Peggy gave a little gasp. "Oh,
no." she cried, we've got to
have a home, Ranny. a home of
our ownY'
And with haste that had panic
in 1t, she went out that morning
10 hunt up four-room flats.
Lolly, cool and pretty in the
1oveliest green dress, went with
her.
You Just make Ranny get
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The Story Thus Far

PEGGY STARR like irt, but isn't One has been
engaged Phelps when he asks her to
break their He tells her that ne has FALLEN IN love
with her best friend FAY SHIRLEY.
him greatly to the satisfaction Of
her AUNT AGONY who has brought her Aunt Agno insists
snat Kanny Is azy ah0 nes asp
than the girl
time the June wedding of Fay and
Ranny less for the marriage She
to she and much for
thought they did And Peggy discovers
that secretly seeing great deal of EDDE GARTER
former sweetheart of hers.
On 10th which is Peggys birthday
Peter for her. Fay and RAINY, slightly
tipsy, late.
The crowd pair off play like children in the
during the Of the evening" finds
tells her that he and have made
don't love each other and that ne
really but Peggy and she reckessy
suggests that they together that night and be married
They spend all night sitting Rannys and In the
morning they get license and marred and they begin their
q q little country inn
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HERE'S FOXY GRANDPA'S STORY

But Louisa Alcott was not
very strong, and she wore her.
self out under the hard strain Of
nursing and was never well from
that time.
But in other ways. from thai
time. her life was very comfort
able. Because she wrote Little
Women" and Little Men," Jos
Boys" the "Old Fashioned Girl.
and the Eight Cousins" all Of
which were tremendous successes
and brought her in plenty OF
money on which to live comfort
ably. Little Women" was trans
lated into Dutch. French and Ger.
man. and was also very popular
In England. so you see her naus
il loved ALI over the world.
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66T'M not girl" declared
Bobby, but l must say l
enjoyed this book" And he ialo
it on the table.
picked 1t up and read the
title-"IAttle Women" How
many children that book has
made happy" / said And what
a wonderful woman it was who
wrote it,"
Bobby took up the book again
and read the name OF the author
ess-Louisa May Alcott. Tell
mo something about her, Foxy
Grandpa"
Louisa Alcott," started. was
born in Germantown. Pa. which
is a part Of Philadelphia; but
she grew up in New England, In
Concord, near Boston.
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Louisa had a wonderful moth
err who came from fine ola
Boston family, and her father was
a brilliant man, but never seemed
able to make money.
Louisa as very little girl
was always imagining things and
it was her chief delight tc get
up plays in which she and ner
sisters acted in the old barn. and
to which they invited their par
ents and friends.
'All the while she was helping
to share her mothers burden by
cooking and scrubing and sewing
and doing everything she could
to help in the housekeeping. Then
she became a teacher, but not
being very successful at that, she
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-15
By STELLA WYNNE

moonlight fell full upon it, the
two watchers recognized the death
pale features and the burning
black eyes Of Loren Echard. The
physician instantly saw something
more.
As the two watched, crouched
against the wall. the man now
began to enact terrible drama.
He first went through the mo-
lions of selling his papers. Then
he stood stock still. sudden.
horrible eagerness sweeping over
his face. He stared at something.
He advanced toward the thing.
He mado o movement like hopping
up on q running board Again
that high, thin sound, like the
thread Of q voice. came:
CTo be- continued Monday.l
anWE uYHaRARNP
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afterwards took position as
companion to an invalid lady; but
no matter what she was doing,
Louisa always found time 10 write
stories and verses, and finally
when she was sixteen. she had a
great triumph. She sold her first
story for five dollars!
Then came long hart strug.
gle before she achieved success.
1t was her book. Hospital
Sketches" which brought hei in
to prominence. In this book she
wrote about both funny and sad
things which she saw while nurs.
ing wounded soldiers during the
Civil War in the hosAital in
Georgetown.
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What Makes q Home !?

HyHIS IL q question poor reg
~ Starr is pondering fol-
lowing her experience IN tine
cafe when she caught her hlls-
band 81 but q few hours de-
IiberateIy making eyes" at 2
pretty diner. What is Il that
makes 3 home after all-tlle
furnishings, or the people who
live IN it? And can one person
keen happiness alive without
fI1e helm 81 the other? Peggy
and Ranny do NOS start tncLr
new life on . fifty-ffty basis.
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Famous Fortress Built on a Hill

TIME mous Ahambr the great palace founded IN
Span bv the Moorish kings the Thirteenth century built
ON hill overlooking the Of Granada 24SO feet long
and feetw wide.
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An Island Settled By Mutineers

THE English ship, Bounty mutned after lea
ing Tahiti adrift small boat the captain
and The muneers settled Pitcairn Island in the
Pacific.
Richmond planet., 1926-05-22
FINE GROWTH OF
GOOD SAMAR|TANS

twenty seven years ago, the State
Grand Lodge, /. o. of Good Samar.
itans and Daughters of Samaria was
In a chaotic condition, confidence in
the Order having been shattered be-
cause of its failure to meet death
claims on account of it's virtual in
sclvency.
Knowing this, Grand Chief J. w
thompson recommended that State
Lodge, No. create an insurance de-
partment for the payment of death
G aims He was granted the priv
1iege OF organizing such depart
ment wnich became kncwn as the
Benevolent Endowment Association
OF State Grand Lodge. No. 6.
The following committees were
appointed to help draft plans for the
oneration of the department.: ] M
Clark. chairman; j. H. Blackwell.
secretary; e. ID Burton Maggie l.
Walker, G.. w Ransome and others
BOARD of Directors was w. Thomp.
son. Grand Chief, president; @. w.
Foore Grand Secretary: Alexander
TDrs. Grand Treasurer; Mrs M. G..
Stewart. Grand Assistant Secretary:
Trs. Elizabeth Harris. Mrs. Mand
=, aI,'"~ Mrs Lizzie Radford and r
3 Mosbey.
The first po icy was issued on Oc-
tober 20, 1901 to p II. Johnson. Of
Lynchburg: James Ross. Of Alexan-
dria. and j. w. Thompson, of Rich.
Continued on page A.
Richmond planet., 1926-05-22
One Man Killed and Several In
jured i'm Fatal Crash on Pike
Early Morning Tra9edys-Many Skulls Fractured.

One colored man is dead, another
may die and three Others are in
st. Phillips Hospital in "a critical
condition as result of an auto
mobile accident which occurred near
Stop 20, on the Petersburg turn
pike, at 3 A. NJ Tuesday Four col
ored men and colored woman were
In two machines, and all of their.
skulls were fractured.
The automobiles, one a large CAR
and the other small machine, were
so tangled up after the wreck that
1t was impossible for the authorities
t' tell whether they were running
side by side or came into a head-on
collision. it was stated today. 1t is
understood, however, that both cars
were coming toward Richmond.
Robert Taylor, about 40, of Ches-
ter, Va. died at the hospital at 6
O'Clock from the skull fracture which
ne sustained in the wreck. Bunion
Hunter, az, of 1918 cambridge
Street. may die, hospital authorities
SAID, from similar injury.
The others at ST. Phillips are
Leonard Gascon, "a, 71O West
Leigh Street; Grace Grimes, 26, I'll
West Marshall Street and Robert
West, 80, of Chesterfield County.
"A remarkable coincidence of the
accident was that only fractured
skulls were sustained by the mem
oers OF the party and that this in
jury was universal among them. il
was said at the hospital.
1t is believed, though it has no.
been definitely ascertained, that Tay-
lOr and Grimes were i'm the sn,olla,
car while the other three were in
the large machine, which bore a
Richmond license.
All were thrown out of the cars
or SO badly mixed up that at an
early hour it was impossible to tell
which machine they were riding in
The four living were reported to be
unconscious at the hospital.
III mas not been ascertained, but
chesterfield police believe that the
machines were travelling at high
rate of speed at the time of the
accident.