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A Vivid Serial of Adventure, Mystery,
Romance, Jealousy, LOUe and Sacrifice

lett evenly, holding out the let.
tiers.
All, there was compensation
after all, in a decent deed-the
blood flooded the young noble.
mans face-as he took the pock-
ct with a hand that trembled.
Come along" called Estabrook,
turning.
The old mocking smile was on
the lips Of Dan Scarlet as he
Joined the others nor did it van.
ish as he grasped the revolver
that was handed to him.
''Of course, you're familiar with
firearms" Estabrook asked cas-.
ually.
Scarlet nodded---how familiar
none of them knew
Travers pointed out the target
It's a great day for shooting"
he cried almost gaily.
Scarlet nodded-they took aim
they fired but something was
wrong with Scarlett's gun.
Can I help your" called TRAY.
ers, turning
Pm afraid not" said Scarlet.
"Ah--"
A sudden dull report, smoke
clearing away. Scarlet on the
ground, q gaping wound in his
chest
Good God" Travers came run.
ming up followed by the others
I'm afraid not" repeated Scar.
lett and smilingly slipped into
darkness.
= 4 =
Mindful Of her husbands orders
Nan kept to her room, attempt
ing to read while her ears strained
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working you like a slave six days
a week? Will he pay you any
thing extra for this? On Sunday
morning, too The old slave
driver" She was all indignation.
Who's going to get Sunday
dinner, I'd like to know" she
went on mlserably. You know.
I'd be glad to do it, but it's so
hot in this kitchen with that
oven going. And my head is
splitting, as it is. / was just
going to take some aspirin"
She went slowly back to her
bedroom carrying the Sunday
paper under her arm.
Don't worry, Mother" Sally
called out to her. "I'lI put every
thing on to cook before go,
and turn the gas down low.
Then YOU and Mile can watch
things"
Mr.. Peevey had said that he
wanted Sally to work "a couple
Of hours" that hot Sunday morn.
ing.
But at half past one she was
still in the office with him,
transcribing the letters that he.
had given to her.
Twenty minutes later, when she
had tapped out the last of them,
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going to ask him for supper. So
set an extra place, will you?-M."
CHAPTER XIII
All that hot Sunday afternoon
Sally flew about the fiat putting
things in order.
While she worked she kept the
monograph going, and the sound
of its gay music made the work
seem light and easy, as it always
did.
BY s o'clock everything was
spick and span. and the table
was set for a cold supper. The
lamb was sliced and garnished
with parsley and a mound of mint
jelly. There was a salad and a
pitcher of iced tea in readiness
in the ice box. There was a plate
full of lettuce sandwiches, too, but
no dessert. One of Sally's small
economics was to leave out des-
sert when there was a salad for
q meal.
Well. now the cook and house.
maid will turn herself into a
lady of fashion," she said cheer.
fully to herself, and went to
dress.
1t was pleasant to have the bed
room to herself. To slip out Of
her clothes, into an icy shower,
and then into fresh, clean things.
To dawdle before the mirror, dust
ing violet-scented powder on her
soft skin. even borrowing some of
Miles pink nail-glaze for her
pointed fingers.
She was cool and fragrant in
an old brown linen dress when the
front doorbell rang. She opened
the door, expecting to see thu
family crowded into the hall. but
only Ted Sloan stood there, in his
shirt sleeves.
us Beau here?" he asked short.
", looking beyond her into the
empty living room.
Sally shook her head. mo, he's
been gone all day." she said.
THE whole family went for a
drive with that friend OF Miles
you met the other night-that
Mr.. Davidson. They said they'd
be back for supper"
well. I'll come in for a while
and wait. I ought to see Beau to-
night on a little matter of bust.
ness. Here's q new record
bought for you last night" Ted
handed her a new dance record
for the photograph. Every now
and then he bought one for her
instead of taking her to the
movies or for an evening of dane
ing. Ted had to count the PEN
MES. too. Just as she did.
The new record had an en-.
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dew laden freshness of a summer
morsing.
Once or twice, during the last
hours, he seemed to recover con-
seriousness. His heavy eye-lids
fIickered, his lips, pale under the
fair mustache would never again
be waxed into needle points,
moved family. His whispering
voice was like an echo Of some
sound already passed, q facial and
indistinct murmur.
Nan, filled with q subtle feel
ing of pity, moved about the room,
attending to his wants, binding
up his wound. Once when the
lips moved she bent close. She
distinguished the word going, in
Elected as a question. She said
in a shaken voice, ooh, no. it
may still be all right"
The lips moved again, twisting
as IL in a grim effort at the old
sardonic smile. Nan leaned down.
His breath, warm against her
ear, sent an icy shudder through
her. She could have sworn that
he said: "All's well that ends
we'll"
Hand in hand she and Godfrey
stood joking at the dying man.
Scarlett's eyes opened, saw them.
A strange life flooded the hand.
some face, a smile fitted across
his lips. 1t was as though he
said God bless you."
They went softly out.
1t was Estabrook who talked to
the doctor, an old friend, who was
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for the murmur of the returning
car. 1t seemed centuries before
her waiting ended. Then, in a
rush of confused noises, she
heard hurried footsteps approach
ing her room.
She flung open the door, and
found herself facing her brother,
his face white, his mouth tense
with strain. She almost screamed:
What's happened?"
And John Estabrook answered:
"Try to take it calmly, Nan.
We need your help. There's been
an accident"
"Geoffrey! Oh God, John,
what's happened to Geoffrev?''
mot Godfrey Nan I
don't know how 1t happened, But
his gun went off and
It's this other chap .
Scarlet. God knows how it
happened. We've called the
doctor from Blackwell Abbey, but
I'm afraid it's too late"
CHAPTER Al
Following Estabrook came Ira
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DEMOCRACY
NORDIC

American democracy is derived
from the social and governmental
institutions of the ancient Scan
dinavians, teh original Nordics,
declares Charles ]. McGuirk in
an article in this weeks Liberty.
American institutions are Nor
dir" the writer asserts. "Con-
gress is an echo of the Scandi-
LaVian Thing an assembly of
the people about the mounds Of
their dead at which they listened
to the advice of the Old Man of
the tribe. Our State Legislatures
follow the 'Heradthing,' a local
assembly.
Democracy was not born in
America" the writer continues.
cit had its birth in Norway when
Harald Fairhair destroyed the
power of the 'hersirs' Qxings) and
placed the leadership of the PEG.
pie among the 'jarls,' high-born
local chiefs who had won to lead
ership OF the host and certain
districts by their warlike quail
ties"
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The Story of Beautiful Girl Who Bore the Burdens of Her
Family and How She Eventually Found True
Love and Lasting Happiness

she asked Mr.. Peevey If she might
use the telephone.
1--WE left our Sunday dinner on
the stove, and I'm afraid my
sister may forget to look at it,"
she told him, while she was wait
ing for Central to get the num-
Der.
She could hear her ringing it.
time after time. But there was
no answer.
That's funny" said Sally,
puzzled. There's always some.
one there"
There's probably someone there
now!" snapped Mr.. Peevey in his
angry little way. Its just the
fool telephone girls. think
they positively enjoy annoying
people" Mr.. Peevey was always
"bawling out" the telephone girls
over his own wire. He was one
of those ill-natured. fussy people
who think that the whole world
is against them.
Sally nodded her head, stamped
the letters he had asked her to
drop into the mail chute, and
started home.
II was half past two when she
got there.
She unlocked the door and
stepped into the living room. 1t
was in its usual Sunday morning
disorder-papers scattered about,
bits of clothing hung over chairs.
Beau's tan oxfords kicked into a
corner.
''Yoo-hoo" called Sally, as she
often did when she came home.
Usually her mother would answer
her from her bedroom.
She waited for a reply now.
But there was none. Dead silence
brooded over the rooms.
She went out to the kitchen.
The leg of lamb was roast ed
to a crisp brown in the oven.
The peas and the potatoes Y ere
fast boiling dry on the top Of
the stove, but they had not
burned.
Sally turned off the gas and
hurried to her mothers room.
1t was empty. The bed had
been made, the dresser set to
rights, and the shades drawn.
Beau's room had been straight.
ened up, too, in a careless lick
and-a-promise way.
In the little room where Mile
and Mabel Wilmot had slept, the
bed Mabel had occupied was made
up. But Miles was just as Mil.
lie doubtless had left it that
morning when she stepped out
upon the rug. Mile never aired
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What Has Happened So Far:

stay of her family in the absence Of her father who has been
The family consists of MRS JEROME the twins BEAU the apple
his mothers and MIILE
Mrs jerome enjoys health Sally does the Homework
and office work MR. PEEVEY downtown
In the flat below the JOmes lives young TED SLOAN auto
Sally him working.
refuses him The only whom she is interested JOHN NYE
whose Office
nrtatOus Mile his secretary and iie is waiting take the
Mflie
Sally
a Of
party given at the flat by Beaus MABEL WIMOT
Beau paid
for anything money Sally
to her AUNT EMILY JEROME to some
The following
with guitar and
She to her mother
father and turned it
had check recently Then
Beau who works in bank, got the e
know anything about but adds that the
buy flannel dress
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searching for papers, for some
marks of identity. Meanwhile the
sun sank into view outside of the
open windows in the room where
Scarlet lay dying. Estabrook, sit
ting beside the bed, watching that
face, always so noncommittaJ, so
immobile, now seeming to take on
an almost noble expression, realized
that Scarlet was calling him by
name.
, The eyes opened wide, staring at
Estabrook. The voice. clearer than
before, although still scarcely q
whisper was heard again.
You laugh last after
all. Dying l know"
To Be Continued Tomorrow
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By Rayner Seelig

puzzled and Mortified by the ac-
cident. Scarlet" said Estabrook,
told us he knew all about
gun. 1t all happened in a second.
And the next thing +" well,
the crack, you know, and Scar
lett collapsipg before our eyes. 1t
was terrible"
''It is terrible. The poor chap
is dying" The doctor added,
there will probably have to be an
inquest, for forms sake. In the
meantime you had better try and
find out whether there are rela-
tives who should be notified"
Estabrook promised to ascertain
what he could. Godfrey himself
went through Scarlett's belongings,
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Beatrice Burton Author of Her Man" "he Fapper Wife"
and Other Popular Novels, Penned This
Story of Life and Love

trancing melody, and Ted sang
the words, sitting in Mrs. Je-
rome's old green velour chair.
"'I could be happy,
/ could be sad.
1 could be good or
/ could be bad.
-" 1t all depends on you"
LOT Of truth in that song.
Sally he said, breaking off in
the middle. "A man can do any
thing'-anything at all. You see,
it all does depend on the girl he's
crazy about. She can make him
do anything she wants him to,
and she can break him, too
He looked down at her soberly,
putting at his little old brown
pipe. He had been extremely
sober and serious ever since the
night she had called him a poor
paluka" and begged him not to
make love to her.
Tonight he was more than
sober. Something seemed to
weigh heavily upon his mind.
His gray eyes, usually so twink
ling. had a frown between them.
i could make money or spend
it," he went on singing in an
undertone as the music rippled
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her bed, any more than she kept
her hair-brush clean or darned
her stockings.
Mile should have been born
with a gold spoon in her mouth"
Mrs. Jerome often said in q
pleased kind of way. "And a
body-servant to walk behind her
and pick up the things she
drops"
Mile evidently thought that,
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Make little book of "a pages, each page
inches square. Then make cover of stiff
paper. Number the pages of your book.
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l. Now read your story and color your
pictures. Cut out along black line and
paste in the book on the proper pages.
New pages will be printed here each day.
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What Do You KnOU?
ANSWERS TO TODAY's TEST

Questions Editorial Page.
scoand Germany; New York; Montana; Minnesota;
France q musical instrument; whale;
fish; H. humost 49, labor leader: a. vonist Is
prison reformer II, inventor. -
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To illuminate Bread

FIRM of bakers in England has made arrangements to lu-
"A inmate its bread with ultraviolet light 1t has been found
that bread treated in this contains high quantity of Vita
min D, enough to justify the treatment of the oaves.
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too. Her night.gown was on the
floor, and her lowered kimono
was slung across the toilet things
on her dressing table. AS Sally
picked it up she saw that a bit
of paper had been pinned con.
spicuously to its folds.
Across it Mile had scrawled:
Davidson came to take us all for
a drive. Sorry you weren't here
lovely. Wen be back early, and I'm
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By
M. Genevieve Sylvester

The Big Black Cat ran, too.
Little Tommy Title Mouse
ran into the little hole
in the-.wall,
Before he. was all the way IN.
the cat made a jump.
He caught .Tommy's tail
and bit it off! Then he said,
1Tommy Title Mouse,
If youEwantE your tail,
you must get me some milk =
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Trinidad a "Mine of Treasures"

TRINIDAD is believed to be mime of treasures" Much
Of the wealth of the richest of the South American cities
conveyed to that island by the who pundered
mainland.
Evening star., 1927-05-09
STARVING OR EATING,
HOSPITAL GETS HIM
2O5- Founder Gormandizes After
Hunger Spell and Goes Back
to Sick Bed.

Weary in want one day and writh'
ing in plenty two days later is the
story of Harold A. Jarvis. u years
old. late of indianapolis. but now, it
seems. of Washington.
Last Thursday, Jarvis, who had
come to this city in search of work,
reeled and fell in faint to the side.
walk at Thirteenth and + streets.
Shortly after, and between mouthfuls
at Emergency Hospital. he explained
that his work quest was unsuccessful
and his funds exhausted, so that he
had not eaten morsel in four days.
The hospital on that occasion pre-
sented him with a hearty meal and
wishes for the best OF luck in his
search.
The -pounder-for that's his
weight in spite of his experience-left
Emergency Hospital, and two days
later he was picked up at Delaware
avenue and c street southwest. At
Casualty Hospital the doctors said it
was acute Indigestion. and they treat
ed him and fed him for another day.
He left the institution again yesterday
afternoon still looking for that job, he
said.
Evening star., 1927-05-09
100 ESCAPE DEATH
AS BUILDING FALLS
Warned OF impending Crash,
ChicagoanS Flee to
Safety in Street.
Rv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press,
CHICAGO, H., May 9.-Near1y 100
customers and employees were believed
to have escaped uninj jured today when
the Louis Department Store, four
story structure at 1631-35 West
Chicago avenue, collapsed in mass
of ruins.
Louis Goldblatt, proprietor. declared
that 10 minutes before the building
crumpled with a rumbling crash a
cracked wall had given warning and
he had sounded the alarm. getting
most, if not all, of the people to the
street in safety.
Mrs. Mae McGinnis, a clerk, was
hurled from the fourth story and
badly injured. She was taken to a
hospital.
WaFS fell in, and the entire build
ing was smashed in a heap of ruins.
Many persons were at first believed
to have been trapped and killed or
injured, but after an hour of digging
at the ruins, neither dead nor injured
was found, and the authorities then
accepted Mr. Goldblatt's belief that
| virtually all had escaped.
| After check-up of employees Mr.
| GCldblatt announced all had been &C
| counted for as safe.
| When the first rumble warned the
| people within, Samuel Miller, an as
| sistant manager, was standing neal
| the main entrance. He saw what ap
| peared to be smoke or dust, and ther
noticed two perambulators. He wa'
! able to rush both baby carriages ant
! their little occupants to the stree
shortly before the crash
Evening star., 1927-05-09

Continued from First Page)
the machine and taken to Casualty
Hospital.
DIR. J. Rozier Diggs. who attended
Dement,, and Joseph Rogers, deputy
coroner. testified that death resulted
from a bullet wound entering the
skull from the rear right side just
above the right ear.
Observed No Powder Marks.
There We're no powder marks near
the wound. DR.. Diggs said. The ac-
count given by Sergt. George NJ. Lit
tie, chief of the liquor squad; T. o.
Montgomery, member of the squad
and prohibition agent; Walter II.
Schultz, driver of the automobile pur-
suing the liquor car, with whom the
above and Deyoe were riding, were
all virtually the same. The witnesses
stressed the fact that the smoke
screen was continually clouding their
way during the almost 5 miles of
the chase. Policeman Schotter, on a
motor cycle, Joined in the chase on
the bridge on the Pennsylvania ave-
nue. hill.
Shots were fired by Deyoe and
Montgomery. according to the wit
nesses, at the top of Pennsylvania
avenue hill near, Randle Highlands,
and again by Deyoe on the Pennsyl-
vania Avenue Bridge.
Evening star., 1927-05-09

Continued from First Page)
river officials at headquarters there
of the Mississippi River Commission.
The valiant Notifications which man
is throwing up in readiness for the
fight against the oncoming crest of
the Mississippi flood were inspected
at close range yesterday by the gov
ernmental officials during their 100
mile motor ride along the levee from
Baton Rouge to New Orleans.
All along the route there were bale
after bale of sacks, to be used in
strengthening the embankments; long
professions Of workmen with wheel
barrows full of dirt or filled bags;
hundreds of carpenters engaged in
erecting wooden retaining walls two
feet high, against which the rein
forcementS are to be thrown. The
usual quiet of a Sabbath day was en-
tirely absent.
At several weak spots in the levee,
where extra large gangs of men were
busiIy at work, members of the party
left their cars and climbed to the
top of the hulwarlls to view the prog
ress and talk with those in charge
Of the job.
At couple Of points it was found
the water already is higher than the
original level of the levee, and Is be.
ing held in check by the hastily raised
dirt layers. The gravity of the fight
impressed the officials deeply.
Secretary Hoover personally com
mended a number of the engineers
and foremen on the preparations they
are making.
A collapse of the levee on the east
side of the river between Bator
Rouge and New Orleans. would in
undate thousands of acres of fertile
sugar cane land, wipe out scores o.
great plantations and giant sugar re
fineries and suhmerge dozens of small
towns and settlements.
The inspection group passed tht
grim Government leprosarium a
Carrville, in the high fenced grounds
of which sat many of the hidiously
disfigured victims of the ''lvin,
death. The thought was expressed
by one of the party that a serious
problem Of rescue would be involved
here if the levee should break.
Evening star., 1927-05-09
FLOWERS DONATED
|. FOR D. c. SHUT4NS
Mrs. Coolidge Heads Group
of Contributors, Starting
Collections at Y. w. c. A.

Floral donations for hospitals and
shut-ins from a group of contributors,
headed by Mrs. Coolidge, were re-
ceived today at the booth of the Ma
tional Flower Guild of Washington
at the Y. w. G. A. Seventeenth and
X streets, inaugurating the season s
Monday morning collection hours
from $40 to II o'clock.
Patients at Childrens, Freedmen's,
tuberculosis. Emergency and Mount
Alto Hospitals and various shut-ins
will be the recipients of the flowers,
gathered from local gardens and
greenhouses. Contributions were re-
ceivcd from Mrs. Barry Mohun, the
Battery Park Garden Club. the Fri.
day Evening Dancing Club, Mrs.
hauser. Mrs. James M. Green. Mrs.
William M. Jardine, o. A. C. Oehmler
and Mrs. James Parmlee. The guild
sent flowers Saturday to the Home
for Incurables.
Mrs. George G. Thorpe, jr., first
vice president, was in charge of the
booth, where the flowers were re-
ceived by Mrs. Parker West Mrs.
Sidney f Taliaferro and Mrs. Mohun.
Mrs. George Barnett is president of
the Washington branch. and the ex.
ecutive committee Is composed Of the
following: Mrs. William Howard
Taft. Miss Florence Harding. Mrs.
Mohun. Mrs. Frank B. Noyes, Paul
Bartsch. Miss Mabel r. Boardman
Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes. Granville
Guide, Mrs. Henry +. Dimock, Col
II. s. Grant. 3D. Clarence Harding
r. Y. Morrison. Thomas E. Littlepage
l.. Stoddard Taylor, Mrs. Taliaferro
Mrs. Gilbert GrosvenOr, w. r
Beattie, F. L. Mulford Mrs. J. Borden
Hartman, Mr.. Oehmler, Mrs. Clifford
Pinchot, Charles Bell Mrs. Robert
Lansing, Mrs. Charles d. Walcott
Mrs. Johasked. Graham and Mrs
Walter r. Tuckerman.
Evening star., 1927-05-09
JAPAN TAKES STEPS
TO END MORATORIUM M
Emperor Hirohito Signs Bill to
Facilitate Reopening of
Many Banks.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON. May Am Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Toxic says
preparations will be started immedi-
ately for ending the moratorium re-
Gently declared in Japan TO amelio.
rate the financial situation.
Emperor Hirohito, it adds, has
signed the finance bills authorizing
the Bank of Japan,to adjust the sit
uation for reopening the Bank Of
Formosa and other private banks
which show solvency.
A Toxic dispatch last night said
that in passing the financial bin the
Lower House adopted an amendment
providing that aid should be given
not only to banks which have already
reopened, but also to those still sus-
pended whose prospects Of recovery
are good.
Another dispatch said all branches
of the Bank of Formosa had been or.
dered to reopen today tMonday).
Evening star., 1927-05-09
FEDERAL BUILDING
CONFERENCES ON
Discussion of Triangle Prob
lens Begins With Arrival
of Edward Bennett.

A series of important conferences
day with view to working out several
problems presented in connection
with the Federal building program in
the so-called big triangle.
The conferences were opened follow.
ing the arrival of Edward II. Bennett,
architectural consultant to Secretary
of the Treasury Mellon. Not only
Treasury Department officials, but
those from the Fine Arts Commission
and the National Park and Planning
Commission will participate in the
discussions.
Imposing Vista Planned.
Several problems are understood to
be under consideration concerning the
big triangle bounded by Pennsylvania
avenue, Fifteenth street and B streets.
Among the proposals known to be
before the Government is one which
would cut off the northwest corner
of this triangle so as to develop g
more imposing vista at the West end
Of the long stretch from the Capitol
to the Treasury Building.
Inc WiUeIllIlS VI Cle piazza VI Iehli'
sylvania avenue at this place, between
the District building and the Treasury
building, would be developed into a
kind of park under the proposed plan.
Other Problems Up.
The Department of Commerce would
then probably be one large. imposing
feature at the west end of the triangle
and the location of the Department of
Justice, now planned for the north.
west corner of the triangle, would
have to be found elsewhere.
Other problems of Importance re.
garding the arrangement of the build
ings In the triangle with the idea OF
developing an architectural plan OF
harmony and beauty, as well as util
ity. were understood to be under con
sideration.