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Sally staring at her own shamed
reflection in the toilet glass.
Mrs. Jerome's train left the
next morning at 10 minutes
past 6.
Aunt En- took her to the sta
tion in the car, and Sally stayed
behind to get breakfast for Mile
and Mabel and Beau.
III telegraph as soon as l
know how your Papa is" Mrs
Jerome told Sally, who had lost
her blooming look and had faint
violet marks under her eyes as
il she had cried half the night.
And il I'm going to STAY
away long. you can pack my
trunk and send 4 en- to me-" she
went on giving directions. "And
I need some new stockings. Out
side ones. And I promised Millie
new hat next Saturday. So please
do"
But Millie said nothing that
day about q new hat. She said
nothing about anything at all.
She had stopped speaking to
Sally. as she always did when
the two of them had had words
over anything. She was sulking.
CHAPTER XIX
On Saturday Millie broke her
stubborn and sulky silence.
She got home from town at
o'clock and came straight through
the house to the sunshiny kit
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peering curiously at Sally In her
blue gown. all sewn with tiny
bells and spangles.
Without a word Sally took the
envelope, signed for it. ana tore
it open as the hoy went Ciown
the steps and started away on a
motorcycle.
II thought I'd wait to see If
1t were any Kind Of bad news"
Davy Davidson said. and Sally
gave him a grateful glance.
That was nice of him. anyway.
she said to herself, as sns un-
folded the paper. She reIpem-
bered that she had thought he
was nice sort Of man the
first time she met him. too.
Well, he probably was. in a way.
She read the ten-word message
to her mother: 'Mr. Jerome very
sick. Wants you to come at
once. ELIZA Gleason"
"Now, who's Eliza Gleason"
Sally wondered, turning towards
the stairs. Perhaps her mother
had been right all along, and
there was a woman at the bottom
of the trouble in the Jerome
family.
But there's no reason why
yet" she thought. Maybe it's
just his land lady, or someone
like that"
do you want me to stay"
asked Davidson's voice from the
doorway, and she turned quickly.
She had forgotten that he was
there.
Il don't think so," she said
slowly. and started back to say
good night to him. my fathers
i'll and he's sent for my mother"
She stood beside him in the warm
breathing darkness Of the June
night, just outside the front door
of the house.
II imagine there aren't any
good trains at this time of night,
anyway" she went on quietly.
I'll telephone the railroad sta
tion and find out when the next
train south goes. Then I'll wake
my mother up in plenty of time
to get it. There's no use in
getting her up now to worry all
night, is there?"
She did not expect an answer,
and Davidson did not give her
one.
Sally. you're wonderful little
girl" he said solemnly. You
take care of everybody, don't you?
And you're so little, and young.
and sweet" And then, as II
her littleness and youth and
sweetness, combined, were too
much for him, he abruptly swept
her into his arms and kissed her,
holding her so tight that she
cried out in fury and pain,
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She leaned back In his arms
as far as she could, and brought
her small, hard fist. down upon
his face. He turned his head to
escape the blow and it caught
him neatly upon the cheek bone.
He laughed as he let her go.
Sally, you'll be sorry for that.
some day." he told her, his
breath coming unevenly. He
started down the wide steps that
led to the moonlit driveway. III
call you up tomorrow morning"
Don't waste your money and
your nickel, because 1 won't talk
to you!" Sally flung at him as
she ran into the house, still trem-
bling with rage and excitement.
For the third time that night
she started up the stairs.
There was a light in the upper
hall, and at the top of the flight
sat Millie, with her little pink
nightgown drawn around her
knees, and her face bright with
malice.
II heard everythingr' she said
triumphantly. You're a fine
kind OF a sister, aren't you? Do
ing your best to take Davy David.
son away from me when you
know I'm wild about him."
What did you hear?" asked
Sally. you couldn't have heard
much or you'd know that I'm not
trying to take him away from
you. / Just slapped his face for
him. Did you hear that?"
Millie got UP from the top step
and followed her into her bed.
room at the back of the house.
1t was a very plain, neat bed.
room, without any Of the spilled
powder and soiled silk cushions
and knick-knacks that made Mil
lies room 80 feminine" as Mrs,
Jerome described 1t.
If you slapped his face. YOU
did it because you knew it would
rouse his interest in you," she
said freezingly. "Just as YOU
figured it out that the way to
make hoIne-run with John Nye
was to feed him sandwiches and
work overtime with him. Miss
kress has told me what a play
you made for him when 1 was
sick in the hospital
Sally felt sea-sick and dizzy as
she listened. Had it been so
plain, then her feeling for John
Nye-that even the near-sighted
Miss Kress had seen it?
Even Johnny. himself, had to
laugh about the things you did,"
Millie went on. in a voice that
was as soft as the sound of a
sharp knife cutting through a.,
yard of sill:. She turned on her
little pink heels and went out.
leaving white.faced. trembling
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I'm not
dancing:

1t is only an unenlightened
woman who still suffers painful
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Take a tiny tablet of Midol--
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Midol. is the work of special
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Try it! All drugstores, in a slim
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HER contempt was profound.
IA She marched past him down
the hall. with her head in the air.
II don't come here because of
Millie. I come here because of
you." he defended himself weakly.
Then declared Sally coldly.
you're a cad"' Her words were
like little chips of stone falling
from chiseled rock.
When he was gone it came 20
her that he had done the very
thing that John Nye had done.
He had come there to see Millie-
but really to see her.
And John Nye had come there
to the restaurant pretending hat
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into it, leaving it to her to finish.
In the meantime Agnes was
growing meeker and more gray
and the veins in her hands more
than ever like knotted ropes. And
much as she needed the small
wage Emily would be able to bring
home, she needed her help more.
So throughout the summer
Emily was a combination house.
maid and nurse. The storms al.
ways gathering around Kitten
were wearing. But Steve had
dropped his bitterness and was
strangely practicable She spent
many hours by his bedside, read.
ing aloud to him or talking hope
fully about the day when he
should be we'll again and go back
to Rossiter's.
But that day never came.
CHAPTER @
In the last week of August
Steven Day died.
A dewy green morning It was,
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Do this for me.
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NOING away-yes. He would go
" away just as tonight with it's
beauty would vanish. Gray dawn
would come and gray days. She
started to say. II heard" but the
words wouldn't pass her lips.
Planning to study law" he went
on. Think that'd be pretty nice,
En-? Grand.dad was a Judge, you
know; it's in the blood"
"Oh, in the blood! we'll"
He looked at her, laughing.
"You don't believe in heredity?
Many think it superstition. l sup
pose it isn't important one way or
the other. We belong to ourselves,
don't we?"
She sat there listening, a pale
figure in her pale flounces with
the silver light on her pale head.
Delicate as a moon-beam she
looked all misty shadow; vague
presence someway aloof, exquisite
as a prayer.
His hand went moving along
the stone beach--gathered up
her fingers in a warm, blithe
pressure. He said. dreamily,
didn't Bill Shakespeare write
something about the floor of
heaven inlaid with patines Of
bright gold? Never cared much
for his stuff before, You kind
of make a fellow think Of things
like that. Do you know
you're the prettiest girl in Lyall?"
She turned toward him, feel
Ing a sparkling quick wave of
happiness. She tried to laugh.
cover her embarrassment. But
he had come close to her: he
put his head down with his
lips pressed together; there was
no smile in his eyes.
"Prettiest and sweetest, Emily.
I wish-well-"
She wanted to hear what he
wished. This boy so fine, so
lovable sitting here beside her.
That he wasn't going away.
perhaps? If he could tell her
that. She moved her fingers in
his hand. felt herself caught in
a passion of waiting.
But he leaned back, still watch.
ing her. and began to sing their:
class day song:
"Oh moon of my delight that
knows no wane,
The door of heaven is rising
once again
Vibrant and soft his voice was:
very tender. touched with long
ing. His farewell to her, she
thought it; to their schooldays
together. Tears kept running
into her eyes. yet it. seemed her
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CONTINUED Tomorrow.)

pink-oh, it's just as IL an angel
had been painting the garden,
dear. Never so lovely. And all
waiting for YOU"
He was like a child on Christ
mas eve. 81 want to see them,
Emmy. Some ways / ain't feelin'
so good lately; maybe it'll be the
last time: You'll help me do this;
you'll help your oil father,
Emmy?"
Tears kept running down her
cheeks and splashing her hands.
But she called Agnes and together
they moved him very gently and
slipped the pillows under his head.
He gazed a long time upon the
blended colors mellowed by the
morning sun and it seemed to
the two who watched that the
glow was reflected In his face.
He said. Mice, amt they,
Aggie? Do a fella good. Get
better now-right along"
But the shadow was very blue
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about his lips and little drops
stood on his forehead. Agnes
whispere Quick, Em-the
doctor"
Even as she turned he called
in a voice oddly blurred. Emmy
good girl-life ahead. Not my
mistakes"
Then bewilderment crossed his
eyes and he lay still.
Curiously enough it was Marty
Nolan who came into the Day
home as soon as word went out
that Emily's father had died and
took upon himself the score of
things that must be done at such
a time.
Agnes gave way to WEAKNESS
and the long strain of caring for
her husband and was put to bed
in a darkened room with Mrs.
Brent to sit beside her offering
what comfort one woman may
give another. This left Emily
burdened with responsibility and
she turned to Martyrs gruff eff
cheney hardly knowing what she
did.
1t was Frances Haiden who
made the funeral arrangements,
but Marty who carried them out.
1t was Marty who answered the
doorbell and telephone, who ran
errands and moved the furni.
ture in the living room to make
place for the casket that was
brought there. Once, being un-
able to sleep, and going to the
porch for a breath of air as
dawn was coming, Emily found
him sitting on the steps. cigaret
aglow in the faint light.
CTO Be Continued Tomorrow
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aflare with the fullness of sum-
mer, yet holding vague wistful.
ness, hint of coming fall. Always
afterward that wistfulness meant
to Emily a thing that could smile
with blind eyes.
Almost overnight a rainbow had
laid itself across the back yard.
These were the dahlias Steve
planted everey year and tended
with fervor of pride. They were
the one beautiful thing in which he
felt an interest. This year Emily
had done it all for him under his
direction.
His window looked out on that
corner Of the garden and he would
move with his pillows almost on
the sill. calling down to her as she
put the bulbs in the ground and
later as she loosened the soil about
the little plants.
He watched the leaves unfold,
always looking ahead to the time
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when he should go out and work
among them. But the buds came
finally and he could no longer
move to lie with his head on the
Windowsill.
Tomorrow. maybe" he would
say. well, tell me, Emmy, are
them double pink ones doin' good?
Took a sight of pains with 'em
last year.
"And the yella ones with the
brown spots-them comin out?
Sorta hard. not seein' EN-"
She would answer, "Yes, father;
all doing fine. Why, every bud
has turned this way. Just as il
they were lonesome like. Suppos-
ing I bring you in one or two,
They'd come out in water.
But he wouldn't have the buds
broken off.
And the green morning came
when she told him they were all
in blossom. Red and gold AMI
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So much depends on your ap-
petite-your strength and VIZ
tality - your position !. our
happiness.
Remember, how it used to be
when you could hardly wait for
mealtime? And then, sit down
and eat several helpings Of
everything-enjoy every NOR
sci and get up from the table
feeling satisfied with the
World, happy with everybody
and ready for anything.
But what a difference in liv-
ing when even the sight and
smell Of food sickens you!
Never hungry-no matter how
tempting the food is-nothing
tasting right. And then, after.
nibbling at a few bites, feeling
worse than ever.
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dear, but you'd be learning. You
still wish to teach Latin? A
dry job, that. But bit OF in
terror decorating comes in handy
IL you're doing no more than
hanging diningroom curtains.
And you like 1t here.
"Of course, dear Frances.
love it. Well, ask mother"
But Agnes felt she couldn't let
Emily go. Steve was no better;
he had, in fact, moved from the
couch to his he'd in the little south
room upstairs and now. in addi-
ton to her housework Agnes had
to be nurse.
Kitten was little help She
would undertake chores willingly
enough but long before they were
finished she would be out and
away, sitting with Dottie Brent
under the hedge where once
Emily and Stella dreamed of rom
ance. Or she would begin some
thing and slyly draw her sister
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chen where Sally was baking
cherry pies.
Yum. yum What a good smell.
1t makes my mouth water" she
drawled. as cheerfully and cas-
ually as if she never had left
off speaking to her for three or
four days. Her eyes were watch.
full above her smiling mouth.
Ito Be Continued Tomorrow
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Congressional Club
Cook Book

MRS. ALvA B. ADAMS,
Wife Of former Senator Adams (Colo)
TOASTED BACON SANDWICH
Crisp bacon.
Sliced tomato.
Mayonnaise.
Crisp lettuce.
Brown bread.
Toast bread. Trim off the
crusts. Place on a plate over
tapping. On one slice place
crisp slices of bacon, on the
other the sliced tomato, lettuce
and mayonnaise. TO be at their
best these sandwiches should be
served rather soon after making.
Copyright, 1927, by The Congress
sional Club
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What Do You KnOlU?
ANSWERS TO TODAY'S TEST
Questions on Editorial Page.
Answers to Today's Test:

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Marshal Foch's Memoirs

MARSHAL F0CH reported having almost finished his
4 memoirs However he has to let be published
until after his death They will fill eighteen The
marshal abcrs daily over the manuscript.
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This Day in Our History

DRESIDENT LINCOLN issued his fourth annual
sage Congress December 1864 in this master
full address that he the fnay emancipation be placed
beyond question by constituted amendment
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An Intriguing Serial by the Author Of
Golden Roads" Thrill Hunters"
and Other ROmances
What Has Happened So Far:

Emily Day and her sister Kitten daughters worker
In Rossr factory He rails against the rch mother
hard work to make ends meet Emily loses her heart to Kent Ros
to her Her poverty her from mnng with the socially
to go to the high school picnic she wanders mountain and Marty
might have been kd she cries I'D do than that
Em," he replies
She forms friendship with rich Mrs Frances Haiden
orator. who about
with Emily makes visits
Dukes Stephen Day for making trouble
future for Emily, who feels greatly
Aedale which she Raggedy
Of blue blood with mother.
NnIn On On With The 2fnrn
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S|NOOT VISIONS
CIVIC BEAUTY

Dismissing with q few words the
gubject of a fiscal-relation adjust.
1hent. whereby residents OF the Dis
ttrict Of Columbia hoped that Con-
gress would vote to contribute more
than $4,000 600 toward maintenance
Iof the National Capital, Senator
Reed Smoot of Utah. chairman Of
the Senate Public Buildings Com
tmlttee. declared before the Board Of
Trade In the Willard Hotel last night
that such relief action Is highly
improbable.
Senator Smoot then devoted the
balance of an hours talk to a de-
tailed description of the $50. 900 900
Federal building project in the
Mart Triangle = by virtue OF which,
ne assured his audience, Washington
rs to become the greatest capital
city ia the world.
Using charts and wand, Senator
Snoot revealed that the building
nlan provides that a beautiful, wide
avenue be laid out from the west
entrance to the Capitol to the Wash.
ington Monument: thence straight to
the Lincoln Memorial, across the pro-
posed Memorial Bridge and into
Arlington.
A National Art Gallery. erected on
Government-owned property adjacent
TO the proposed avenue and made
possible by contribution of $40, 00O,-
700 from famous patron OF the
arts, is also provided for, as is also
a spacious automobile parking base
ment extending six square blocks un.
hH1iI q
small park at Fifteenth and Pennsyl-
vania Avenue. and a series OF arches
throughout the new triangle, over
which traffic will be enabled to pro:
coed without conflicting with the
Identification plans.
Preceding Senator Smoot on the
speakers platform were Gen. John
A. tombstone, director of the Ameri-
can Red Cross Roll Call, who sounded
plea for contributions; Joshua
Evans, jr., who called attention to
the fact that Washington is second
only to New York in per capita as.
sessnent, and Oliver Metzerott, who
asked and received a vote indorsing
the opening Of Maryland Avenue
Northeast from Fifteenth Street to
the District line.
Odell s. Smith, chairman of the
pEblic order committee, pleaded for
\ education of children against crime
a ID called attention that in the
DISTRICT this year three-fifths Of
al arrests were for traffic and
liquor law violations, as against
t@o-fifths for all other causes com.
llned.
Following the speaking, q buff
fet supper was served.
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y What will the Harvesting Of
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in The Washington Herald.
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Evening star., 1927-04-18
CRUISER FIRED ON TWICE.
Admiral Williams Reports Cincinnati
Attacked in YangfZe.

The United States cruiser Cincin.
natl has twice been fired upon on the
Yangtze River in China, Admiral Will
liams, commanding the American
fleet in Chinese waters, reported today
to the Navy Department.
Besides meeting machine gun fire,
Admiral Williams said, the cruiser
also had either or inch guns turned
against her below Nanking on Satur-
day. The fire was returned by the
Cincinnati with machine guns and her
6-inch battery. The vessel also met
heavy rifle fire north of Tatung, the
report said. There were no casualties
aboard the Cincinnati in either en-
counter.
Admiral Williams said all foreign
property at Luchow Flu, Anwhei prev
ince, had been looted. Eight Ameri-
cans and five British missionaries
there We're said to be en- route to
Shanghai. At Kiukiang on Friday the
house of the Anderson Meyer Co,
American exports, on the Bund, was
looted. The commanding officer of the
American destroyer Hubert lodged a
strong protest and demanded the re-
turn of the loot.
The encounters of the Cincinnati
marks a continuation of the firing
from the river banks upon American
ships in recent days during which the
guns of the ships have been brought
into action in reply. In previous in
stances. however, there has been no
indication that the Chinese We're using
heavy guns in their attacks.
American policy with relation to the
reply of Eugene Chen, Nationalist
foreign minister at Hankow, to de-
mands submitted in connection with
anti-American outrages at Marking,
is still in process of determination.
Secretary Kellogg is in communica-
ton with Minister MacMurray at Pc
king, but indicated today that he had
reached no decision either as to the
form or substance of the answer to
be made to Chen.
The Secretary took up the Chen note
personally on his return today from a
week end Easter vacation at Hot
Springs, Va. 1t was made clear that
published reports that the American