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claiming my son? Roen. wait!
Roen, give me a chance"
Then Mark wired he was COM
ing. Coming for a look. at his
child.
The middle of April-oh, one Of
those perfumed, singing days like
the many that last spring had
disturbed Rooms heart with q
wounding beauty: making her
glad, vet filling her eyes with
mist.
He was coming. This afternoon
he would be, here,
she held the baby on her lap.
It now seemed to her more beau.
tiful than any cherub-face, Wis.
Toned by the greatest artists
lovely with q divine, sweet wis
dom like the face of the little
Christ. Her heart was always
bursting with a proud. wild love
Of tia gratitude.
Now 1t laughed-its dark, fine
eyes were laughing. She wanted
1t to laugh like this when 1t
looked at Mark.
And 1t did! He knelt as she
held it in her lap. He turned his
face that she might not see 1t.
And without again raising his
head, he took the boyle walked
with it to the door.
Standing with his back to her,
he. spoke. He said in a voice she
did not recognize. ''Roen--ours.
Roen--here is a greater right
than any other right. Here IL the
only right"
Roen5 watched with full, break.
ing heart the picture Mark made
with the child in his arms. He
stood so, back turned. and his
! head lowered. From the muffling
of his voice 1t might be he was
crying.
He saw himself oh, clearly In
the tiny things dark eyes and
definite features, in its mobile,
now laughing mouth. He held 1t
nutely and knew not whether
these stricken pangs were grief
or all exnltance.
Now his hand passed over the
baby's head-dark head like his
own. And now he gave choked,
abrupt laugh, for the baby sud
denly cooed and, being delighted
with the sound, repeated 1t; draw
/. ing its voice deep into its throat,
almost strangling himself with
the effort to prolong the astonish-
1 ing wheeze.
Roen knew the look of satisfied
1 pleasure that always accompanied
this performances; q look that
made ! person Of the child 4
dear, winning little person who
seemed 70 say with sly humor:
Now, that was pretty fine, ehT'
I'm coming along.'
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SILK THREAD.
OF HEALTH

CILK threads woven into the
~ paper money which the
Government issues serve two i'm
portant purposes. They make
the bill last longer and stand the
wear and tear of exchange. At
the same time, they are a pro.
lection against counterfeit money,
for only the Government knows
how to print paper bills using
this Intricate thread process.
That green vegetables serve
the same purpose in the manu-.
featuring process going on con-
stantly inside our bodies 10
pointed out by Miss Frances
Hoag, of the National Dairy
Council. Green leafy vegetables
such as lettuce and cabbage con-
tain not only mineral substances
important in themselves, but
food elements that help the body
to use other food material to
better advantage. This Is espe-
cially true OF bone and tooth
structure. The building or the
manufacturing process really be.
gins before birth, when the
mother should increase the cal.
cium content Of her diet by drink
Ing milk and eating vegetables.
particularly lettuce and other
leafy vegetables"
Fresh vegetables. particularly
lettuce. may therefore be called
the silk threads that make us
worth our weight In gold" and
keep our bodies wearing well in
the busy exchanges Of life.
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} here with Shevlin, and Shevlin
told! She threw one swift,
imploring look, q look Of agon.
lied appeal.
shevIin leaned, forward. He
whispered rapidly:
Don't be a fool, Sally! Get
into that room-I'Il send him
away. He'll never know. Why
you can marry him dozen
times over afterwards, II you
want to. But stay here with
me-let me good to you!
II you won't" he shrugged.
Her brain wavered and reeled.
She felt a choking sensation
seize her throat, she could not
speak. She knew what that
shrug meant--the Ietter-he would
show the letter.
Her eyes, gazed at shevlin but
they did not see him now.
i've got to be brave" her
mind was YEARLY saying. 1--WE
got to face this. It viii be over
soon, And-someday he would
have had to know. He'll forgive
me-if SheyIin tells. How can
he help forgiving me-when /
love him SOP" And all at once
as il in a dream she saw New
port again, and all her gay, good
times. the lovely things she had had
to wear, the bewildering things
she had done. Only now she was
paying for everything everything!
Rrhan The draa ~, 1.yas .ho4+ara5
for Jerry stood there on the
threshold, facing her, smiling at
her.
She forgot everything. She
sprang up, went towards him,
felt his hands close around hers,
and drew that little instant of
protection and happiness out of
the turmoil Of her distress.
Her lips were ashen she knew.
and her smile was not really a
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hands thrust over his face. He
said thickly: II cannot bear it!
Roen-don't disown me. Wait
give me a chance.
She dared not say how wildly
she longed that he might claim his
son; that he might fold them both
In his arms, laughing, free
rightly theirs and they rightly his.
1t seemed so natural, so incon-
testably just that they should be
together; they three, who were
truly one whose need for
each other was like the need of
the body for its heart, intrinsic,
vital.
There were times that even 1t
the cost Of wantonness, she would
have protected her child; even with
the sacrifice OF another, she would
let her son be saved.
But she stood at the door when
Mark was leaving. She let him
take her hands and draw her close
30 that she looked silently into
his suffering, pleading eyes.
"Roen, you will wait? Do this!
oh, take no drastic step! Don't
tell Jackie. Don't shut me out
yet.
''Roen, so love you. so need
you. / need the thought of you.
Trust me for while. Don't YOU
trust me, Roen?"
''Oh, yes
He held her hands against him.
He was pale, and his features
seemed drawn very sharp. She
could not bear the living plea of
his eyes. Nor when he said: II
can perhaps find way easy for
all better for ALI
She trembled. And because his
hands were so cold, were press
ing on hers. SO urgently. break.
ing her heart with pity for him,
because OF this she drew his face
down and smiled in It, She said.
shaken, but her lips still smiling:
"Ah, Mark perhaps!'
ITO Be Continued Tomorrow
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had passed. Why should this
arouse question? Young mothers
have been widowed. Have their
children looked on them with sus-
picion?
She stood at the crib, now lean
ing heavily on her hands. In cruel
moments like this her problem
confronted her.
She went over to the table and
absently fingered a stack of let
ters. Dozens of letters from Mark.
She would tell Marks son that he
was dead.
In way, this would be the
truth. He would be dead to them.
How this thought assaulted her!
And how often. unbidden, there
came to her mind the picture of
Mark retaining them. Mark and
the boy and she playing together
along the beach, dashing into the
waves, krieeling in the sand and
building houses. AS she had
played with Evelyn's children that
summer.
This was the vision of the future
that came so unbidden and so Bit
terly persistent. She did not want
to tell the boy that Mark was dead.
She could not force her lips to say:
Mark, your father is dead-Iong
dead.
She did not want to take her
child into the barren isolation of
world that would be lonelier far
than the world widowed mother
ever enters. Such a mother and
her child are not alone! They are
linked openly, clearly with the
past. There Is no hazy uncer-
tainty about the story that father
less boy shall hear.
He has obvious connection with
the laughing, living universe.
There is his gay-eyed Uncle Jackie:
there is his little cousin, Jackie's
girl, years old this month. The
widowed Roen would have this
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to me and this apartment, II
seems that you are the next?
Fast work, my dear"
Insultingly drawled. the words
snapped with insinuations. The
color swept into Jerry's face, and
a big blue vein stood out on his
forehead. Only 1t seemed to Sally
that she was not nervous any
longer, but numbed. strangely
calm.
ITS happened" she thought.
"It's happened And now she
did not dare meet Jerry's eyes.
But they were not on her.
They blazed upon Shevlin. With
something like a roar he had
stepped forward, his hands
clenched.
Shevlin did not move He was
cool. as only he could be cool.
Take that hack! Take that
back! why, you dirty liar"'
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smile. But she tried to talk. nat
ura1ly, easily:
"Jerry-imagine our meeting
like tllis-why. I'm so glad. 2 ="
"Oh. got back to Newport"
he explained awkwardly, and
dropped in on you to say / had
to 20 to New York. And your
friend-Mrs. Brooke-told me
you'd gone there yourself. and
suggested that I'd probably find
you at this address.
He was glancing towards Shev.
lin, frowning a little. waiting for
an Introduction. But Sally was
too confused, too frightened to
notice. Only one thought filled
her--to get away. to get away
quickly, with jerry. Away from
Shevlin.
II was Just going" she STAN.
mered. lin fact-well, perhaps
you and -
Jerry's look was puzzled now,
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II beg your PARDON" said shev.
lin softly, II imagined you
knew"
Knew
shevlin shrugged his shoulders.
Don't be ashamed OF having a
woman make a fool of you. That
happens to every man at least
once. NY dear felIow--L don't
know your name-yOu owe me
thanks instead OF q thrashing."
Sally wet her dry lips with her
tongue. How easily, how natur-
ally he had spoken! Why Jerry
was shaken already, was con-
fused and uncertain. -
Its a lie,' he said thickly,
now; ''it's all--why It's lie!"
Shevlin pointed his finger lazily
Mt Sally. crouching there.
Look at her there-do you
think she looks as IL it were
lie2"
do you think she'd stand there
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She saw Mark grip the baby's
hands; saw Marks face suddenly
convulsive. She longed to comfort
him because his pain, too, was
great. She longed to say: "oh,
don't be anguished! We have
compensation - sacred compensa-
ton
She. stole up and smiled in
Marks goaded eyes. She took
the child and laid It in its crib,
She said. gazing at it gently:
There will be q way"
But he had held his son In his
arms. And the small, downy head
In the hollow Of his hand. The
claim Of this little being for
whom he was responsible became
insuperably greater than all other
He said to ,Roen, but NOT look.
ing at her: see what I should
do. This / must do
She tried not to think. Her
heart forced out the question.
But II she needs you 90? Mark,
II she Is blind?"
ne WINGED with the remembered.
touch OF Claire's fingers flutter.
ing so light and tender on his
face; with her child-like, eager:
"Mark-dear Mark, how / long to
see you once AGAIN.
This now smote him. He mum.
bled, protestingly: mo matter
what / do, someone is wronged!'
He. grew more and more silent.
For Roen was calm. She told him
the future she had marked out for
herself. She could meet Ii. She
was strong. Let him not fear,
The child would be protected. All
her years she would fight to make
the path easy for the proud, happy
boy their son would surely be.
This would be her fight. He must
stick to his.
He got up suddenly ana was
walking about the room. He
stopped with his back to her. his
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as IL shevlin's stiffness were
something tangible that could be
felt, or something that hung In
the sombeF room like an accuse.
ton or q sneer.
Anything The natter" Jerry
had cleared His throat.
EMO, nothing. Nothing. Only.
I'd like tO-that Is, we might"
Shevlin's heavy laugh, sardonic
and unexpected, shattered the
silence. Then It was more silent
than before IN the somber room
with the heavy. dark curtains.
See here" jerry said after the
pause. Something is the matter.
What Is it," His tone was very
quiet and level.
1T was Dan Shevlin who an
swered. Nothing at all. just az
she told you. was merely
amused at the speed with which
a really clever girl shifts her
lovers. Having just said good-by
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truth. take 1t all back. Only.
since you're so sure of your opin-
ions. you can have this. she'll
probably explain it away after.
wards. You look pretty easy"
As he spoke, he had slipped his
hand into his pocket, pulled out
an envelope. tossed 1t into Jerry's
fingers, and, turning his back.
walked to the window.
jerry swung towards Sally and
in that moment her fear and dis
tress swept away her last reserve
Of courage. A panic came over
her, shaking her pitifully. She
stretched out her hands, implor.
ing him.
Jerry Jerry, don't read
1t! Tear It up. Please. Jerry! II
you love me, Jerry. - :"
Go BE Continued Tomorrow
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SOULS : By Elenore Meherin

CHE went to the window and
~ looked into the backyard. Spring
here-new flowers putting out
their buds-young. tender leaves
uncurling. All Of life reproducing
iself in joy and beauy.
Roen looked and felt a melting
in her heart-a gladness. yet an
ache, that she felt SO often now,
1t sent her back to. the crib to
lift the baby, to kiss the back OF
its soft, fat little neck. Hold it
In her arms, her eyes closed in
humble, ardent prayer praying
against harm to her precious
child.
This tiny boy who yesterday
was the miniature of Mark and
today was the image of Jackie
this little cuddling thing that was
the fulfilment Of all her sweetest,
hottest dreams. And was yet her
crucifixion.
She would not think it so. Here
aione--lost in this city-far from
everyone who knew her, she was
safe. This meant the child was
safe.
She could stay on Indefinitely.
No one woul dever know. Why,
even years could pass without the
slightest Disturbing incident.
All her libe she had lived In San
Francisco. She had gone to school
and worked. Often in whole
months she had not met anyone
from the past. Whole years glided
away when she did not see girls
that she went to school with; girls
who were working in business
offices in Montgomery Street, a
few blocks from her own office.
So she and her son could dwell
here. After q while she would re.
turn to work. She would tell the
boy his father was dead. They had
loved each other greatly, but he.
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This plan and variations Of it
went round and round in her
thoughts. Perhaps it would be
better to say she had adopted the
child. Then no one would con.
meet her absence with the child's
birth and this belated announce.
ment OF a marriage.
When she had fabricated sew
eral stories, all of them seeming
entirely convincing, there wIold
come whisper:
But what Of the child. You
will give him a lifelong lie? He
will never have the satisfaction
OF knowing the real facts?'
-
And what Of me?' came the
voice Of Mark. will you take
! from me permanently all hope of
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and smile after. an. insult like
that? Sally tell me; who IL this
man? What do you want me to
do2 What il this, anyway"
Jerry's voice ended in note Of
something like desperation.
"Take me away" Sally half
moaned. ''Oh, Jerry. take me
away! Don't ask me anything
now"
And at that cry Jerry seemed
TO get control OF himself, to face
things decisively.
.'In a moment, Sally. First OF
all, I'm going to make this man
take back what he said. / couldn't
leave this place, and let him-or
anyone get away with what he
said"'
Now ShevHn's glance was full
OF contempt. az haven't the
slightest intention Of brawling.
III take back anything-even the
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So this plan came to her. She
would return to her home. She
would tell the truth to Jackie
and Virginia. She would calmly
tell them the child was hers
that she had long wanted it-that
she loved the child's father, but
he was not free to marry her.
But she had taken her child.
And she was glad about it
They would understand. They
might regret, but they would
champion her. To. others she
would say that she had married
and her husband had died. She
would remain away several years
to make this plausible.
Why should anyone doubt 1t?
She had always commanded
honor. Why would she now be
treated with suspicion? :.
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came to breaking another wOman's

boiled when breaking another
heart and home.
girls extremely sophisticated dress who smoke
drink, and have mighty fine ideas
girls the beach today and pictured beauty
contests little would have stamped them only
barbershop has only look at their
their jolly chatter laughter
know that they good home girls.
Not long silk stockings and chffcny undertakings
looked al positively immoral.
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Today, good little housewife and mother and
joy sherest Of these pretty things little cost and be hap
pier and attractive
think that the world has advanced to the place
merest and have poisonous
thoughts about everything that pretty and pleasant and jolly
The world longer foed by demurs decets sophisticated
sweetness.
Thousands business girls live alone and wholesome
lot of the deceng little puppets who
dangd from their seheming ambitious mothers strings
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-08-23
Life, Love and Adventure Are the Lot
Of an Obscure Girl in
High Society.
Read This First:.

Sally to with thousand dollars
wonderful education She keeps house with other girls learns
her ideal Dan Sheyn shrewd lof
society
win give him security This security which
dictates rechesy
and will the spent
her to her cottage in Newport BrOOke's
Tubby Wells and discovers he Is information
Shevn
Evesham Sally after she
Tubby Wells
young fall in love and Sally bitterly with
SheVln him the letter.
insists that she meet Adrian Martin " Sally meet Martin and
learning
urging him to help her seet1eart Jerry calling Martin
in Martins life and telling sheyn discovers e her horror how he
Ameca Shevlin calls her from New York.
MIN IN N With TIE Gf0r,,
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By Fay King

= lest few the world has taken notice of dress
and appearances.
sl look any she pleases and be judged by
her mind and morals alonei
the inahe insignia Of sweetness
and innocence than just cuf The cigarette
the brand of sin than resu puff TO
those who for It'll
girls organde dresses with large butterfly sashe
doed up all the tricks pastel shades and demure mannm
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The Lonely Atlantic

IMAGINE yourself able gaze 1920
miles, and yet unable anything but water This should
give you idea Of the loneliness Of the Atlantic
viewed from the air.
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NOW Go On With The Story

etNTHAT could be sweeter! Your
w friend, Eveshan, is here.
Carlotta probably did that.
Well, you can hide in that
room, and I'll send him
away with any lie you choose.
Or-he can come in here and
find you and read that letter
in front of you. It's up to you.
Hide In that room, and let me
take care of you for two
weeks. for a week. Or else
He made a casual gesture. Sally
was trembling now. She met his
eyes with a look of terror. For
D little moment they faced each
other silently. Then Sally heard
the click and rumble of the
elevator in the corridor, md the
sound of the doorbell.
CHAPTER 81
Sally sat very still, trying to
think. Yet a voice in her brain
was warning her, terrifying her.
- She knew that no matter
what might happen to her ever
again in life, it could not he
worse than now. than this mo-
nnent Of dread and anxiety.
Shevlin looking down at her,
with something 1.-the and alert
in his lean body, something that
watched her like a cat in his un.
swerving, cold eyes. ="
And even as the peal Of the
bell died out, she could hear the
Japanese servants footballs in
the carpeted hallway.
jerry was out there, Jerry!
perhaps he was eager, hopeful
of seeing her, with his strong
arms anxious to fold her close.
his voice tender at the thought
of her.
But II he came in, found her
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The Coconino sun. (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1898-1978, 1927-08-26
FRANK GOODWIN, OLD
INDIAN SCOUT, DIES

Frank Goodwin, n, died at the
county hospital Tuesday morning fol-
lowing an attack of paralysis and
complications which has confined him
to the county institution for the past
two years. Goodwin was one of the
remaining few pioneers of the Verde
valley, having migrated here fifty
years ago in the service OF Uncle Sam
whom he served as an Indian scout.
He bore a battle scar sustained in a
fray many years ago when it was nee
essary to amputate his left arm at the
elbow.
Quiet and unassuming, his last years
were spent with M. @. Dumas and Joe
johnson in truck gardening in the Red
Rock country and in 10y canyon. For
many years he gardened on small
plot in the gulch. Little is known of
his relations although he was known
to have been married when youth.
Goodwin was laid to rest by the county
which he knew so well.-Jerome News.
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Lack Of Guests" At
COlsnty's Hotel Seen
For First Time Sat.

For the first time in the present
sheriff's regime, the county bastile
was nearly devoid of inmates when
the register showed only one guest"
Saturday afternoon at two o'clock.
This unnatural condition existed only
until five hours later, however, when
two youths were brought in for auto
mobile shoplifting.
The devestment of prisoners at the
county's Nhotep' resulted primarily
from the recent sessions in both su-
perior and federal courts, which re-
leased many prisoners who had been
held without BAIL
Last week was slack in Flagstaff's
and Coconino county's crime and mis-
demeanor annals. With the exception
OF one or two minor arrests no pris-
oners were turned in and the turkeys
at the Jail began to fear for their jobs
for want of someone to turn the key
on. Officers were inclined to look at
the decrease in number of arrests as
the lull that precedes the storm. This
was somewhat born out by the hold
up at Grand Canyon Thursday eve
ming and was followed by three ar
rests over the weekend.
When Sheriff Parsons took office
two and one-half years ago, the Jail
contained IL prisoners, some Of them
repeated offenders, who after being
released from one sentence would COM
nit another minor crime just to get
free board and room from the county.
This habit, according to Sheriff Par
sons, was soon stopped by committing
some of the repeat offenders to the
state penitentiary and letting them
repent over their sins for six months
or more. The greatest number of
prisoners ever held in the Jail at one
time, according to past records, oc-
Cured during the present regime and
totaled 26, two of whom were women.
It is seldom that two women are in
the jail at the same time. Any more
would be inconvenient, as the Jail pro-
vides for only two women prisoners.