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gineers, soil experts and foresters.
Now that the Liberians, for the
first time in the history of the
country, have a system of good
roads, they are suddenly becoming
enthusiastic about motor trans
portation, and they all want to
ride in automobiles, trucks or
tractors. AS a result, Monrovia,
the capital of Liberia, has estab-
lished a traffic squad to police the
traffic on it's principal streets.
When the Firestone company went
into Liberia, there were no roads
in the country, and only one auto
mobile. This was owned by the
President of Liberia, who had very
little occasion to use it because Of
the absence Of good roads.
When Mr.. Firestone arrived at
the Du river plantation, he was
greeted as the Great White
Chief" by many thousands of Fire
stone native employees who had
erected great arch of leaves and
ferns at the entrance Of the prop
erty and lined the road on both
sides as he drove through eleven
miles of the plantation to head
quarters.
$5,O00,000 Loan to Liberia
Mr.. Harvey S. Firestone, Sr.,
has successfully arranged O
$5,000,000 loan in America for the
Liberian government. This places
Liberia on a firm financial basis,
and permits the development of
roads, schools and public buildings.
The 11S Americans comprising the
Firestone technical staff are help
ing to organize the 100000 or
more native Liberians and give
them remunerative employment
which had not been hitherto avail
able in their own country. The ma
tives are proving very adaptable
and willing to work in an organ
lied way. This has made possible
the clearing and planting Of such
a large acreage during the past
year and has undoubtedly had a
very appreciable effect in the re-
cent reduction in the price of
crude rubber.
European newspapers have car
ried many articles deriding Fire
stone for going into Africa to
plant rubber. They claimed the
soil was poor for rubber growing
and that the natives would not
work. The British government
now realizes that Firestone's liz
berian enterprise is anything but
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a folly. 1t is conceded by every
body that Firestone has made the
greatest rubber development ever
accomplished By any single COM
pany in the same length of time.
Liberia confronts the British and
Dutch rubber growers as an in
creasingly important competitor.
And now the British Parliament is
seriously considering the question
of abandoning or at least modify
ing the rubber restriction policy.
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Frank Kosky, road work ........ 1900
Leonard Nygaard, driving truck 1000
A. M. Eaton, road work .......... 4S.00
A. M. Eaton, road work .......... 1880
Geo. OVERLY, road work ............ $3.50
Israel Bushaw, road work ........ 14.OO
Christ Dahlgaard, road work.. $3.50
Maylon Francis, road work.. 34.1O
James Rasmussen, road work. 1880
Albert Lundquist, road work.. $40
J. H. Anderson, blacksmithing.. 1880
Harry Green, road work.. $500
A. N. Wankel, road inspection 28.4O
Savage Corporation, fence posts $50
Erick Granlund, road work.. 5000
POOR FUND
Elizabeth Wilson, Dec. pen..... $500
Bertha Johnson, Dec. pen. ........ $500
Nellie Groin, Dec. pen. ............ $500
Mary Myronick, Dec. pen......... $500
Nicotine Sorensen, Dec. PEN. 5000
Albertina Moller, Oct.-Dec. pen. 5000
Thora Adams, Dec. pen............. $500
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and scanned her face through mar
rowed eyelids for a few seconds.
II know you didn't" he replied,
with a short ,rasping laugh. But
I'm such a poor fool that came
anyhow"
Coming up to my hotel?" she
aked indifferently.
mo, I'm no." he growled. 1--WE
had enough. But I'll take a taxi
with you and drop off at the studio"
He was furious with himself be-
cause he could not resist lingering
in her company.
He had come because he could not
keep away. He had meant to greet
her with no more wormth than she
herself displayed.
He'd take his cue from her. Her
silence had proved her love was
gone, but he wanted additional
proof.
That everything was at an end
between them now was incontro-
vertible.
He wanted to turn on his heel
and walk away. And he hadn't been
able to do it.
He took some pride in his refusal
to accompany her to her hotel, but
it hardly made up for his weaken
ing enough to go as far as his studio
Virginia was mired in strange
mixture of emotions. She was
elated one moment because his love
had endured despite her casting
him to the spell of her rival, and
depressed the next because she
could not reveal her citation to him.
No matter now what he said or
did she would know that he loved
her.
That one moment when he held
her in his arms with unrestrained
fervor betrayed him. He was her
man, her man!
Her heart sang the words in a
paean of enchanted ecstacy. But
SO accustomed had she become to
living one character in her heart
and another for the world to see
that Nathaniel never heard the
song, or even suspected its eXis-
| tence.
To him she was just a cold, in
different, uninterested girl whom he
had kissed against her will.
They rode to his studio in ST.
lence that was broken only by ar
occasional remark from one or the
other.
Nathaniel did not invite her to en-
ter, though Virginia both hoped anc
feared that he would do so.
She drove away with little noe
through the door he had closed be-
hind him-a door he had closed with
feeling of having stepped forever
from a paradise to which there il
no re-entering.
Heartless, cold, unreal-can hel
what he would, he loved her. Dis.
respect, hate, contempt, all hac
failed him when he sought to USE
them to tear her out Of bis heart.
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Her face was sweet, her voice and
body lovely. Nathaniel despised
himself because they enthralled him,
but he had not succeeded in loos-
ening the leash that bound him to
her.
1t was impossible really to believe
what he knew of her.
Virginia grieved deeply for him as
the taxicab carried her uptown. And
she grieved for the lost hours they
might have shared together.
In spite of all she had done to
protect him from the final hurt he
would experience when he learned
she was going to marry another man,
he must go through the ordeal just
the same.
His pain would not be softened
by the weeks Of her absence. The
cruise had been a needless, a use
less sacrifice all around.
Virginia obtained her key at the
desk, exchanged greetings with the
hotel attaches whom she met, and
went to her room with the knowl-
edge that she had made a mistake.
She might as well have lived her
year of life to the fullest-the cost
would be the same.
She had not started to get her.
self settled, her things unpacked
and put away, before there was a
rap on her door and she opened it
to see Chiri Mond standing in the
hall
IT know I'm rushing you" the
girl said before Virginia could re-
cover from her surprise sufficiently
to speak. But I wanted to talk to
you before you saw Mel"
Virginia stepped back and held
the door open for her to enter.
Chiri came in, pulled off her hat,
tossed it onto the bed, rubbed up
her shaggy bob and settled herself
in the only comfortable chair in the
room before she said another word
Then she asked for a cigaret.
I'm sorry" Virginia said. q
haven't any"
"You wouldn't the other re-
turned. "Well, I won't be able to
get it across quite so we'll without
a smoke, but I think it's for the
good of all hands to have it out"
She crossed her knees and threw
herself back in the chair while she
regarded Virginia with a set grin
Virginia poised herself on the
edge of the bed, near the end, and
leaned on the footboard.
She knew intuitively that Chiri
had not come here at this hour foi
any light purpose. 1t must concern
Mel. They had nothing else In
common.
Virginia decided not to tell hel
that she already had seen him.
az dare say Mel hasn't writer
you anything about it," Chiri be-
gan. 'Well, things have changed
since you went on your delightful,
southern cruise, Miss Brewster"
ITO Be Continuedl LIZ.
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CHAPTER XLVI

VIRGINIA was sadly disappoint-
' ed. Nathaniels letter had told
her nothing of his feeling for her
it lacked tenderness.
1t was entirely in the nature of
the repressed conversations that
had usurped their old, free ex-
change of condolences after NiePs
discovery Of her association with
Oliver.
He hoped, and Virginia failed to
see, that it was ironical, that she
was having fine time.
He spoke of his work, nothing
definite. The bad weather she was
lucky enough to escape. The
artists ball and, near the end:
e. Chris peach. Been a little
off my appetite but she keeps me
going with stuff she says I ought
to have.
I think I used to misjudge her.
Remember the time we talked about
the sawdust and the quicksand?
I'm beginning to believe we were
both wrong and that the kids full
of gold-duSt.
Virginia finished the letter, fold
ed it and put it away. There was
a dull, heavy oppression i'll the
region of her heart and a band
seemed tightening around her head.
Breathing was difficult and painful.
Wisely she had chosen to read the
letter in the privacy of her state
room, but remembering the doctors
warning against letting herself go,
she closed her eyes, clenched her
hands and waited calmly for the
little horses that were stamping
their hoofs up and down her nerves
to leave her.
She had told the medical man
that it felt like that and he had
replied that she might visualize her
nerve torture so if she wished, if
she would promise to think Of the
horses as intruders that she must
Danish quietly, and never once feel
that they were beyond her control.
Virginia smiled them away, willed
herself not to suffer because the
thing she had set out to accomplish
seemed done.
Neil was not unhappy. When he
heard of her marriage to Frederick
Dean he would thank his stars she
had found out in time that she
wanted a rich husband.
Virginia had accepted the price of
her fathers honor. There was no
way to escape now. Before the end
of March she must become the wife
of the man she despised.
The Agena would return to New
York early in January. Just few
short weeks after that day in which
to make 100000. 1t was hopeless.
Despair became her constant COM
panion during the remainder Of the
cruise. But no one on the ship, ex-
cepting the doctor, knew that she
was suffering.
For her protection be circulate
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carelessly- dropped remarks concern
ing her health-the tropics did not
agree with her touch of sun
too much work.
His campaign had a beneficial re-
suit. Thoughtful passengers re-
Taxed their demands upon Virginia.
attentions and no one quizzed her
about her pallor and nervousness.
Virginia no longer felt herself
urging the ship to speed by mental
ly conceiving herself down in the
furnace room furiously feeding coal
to the fire as she had done on the
way from Havana to Port au Prince.
She'd have preferred not to return
to New York until the end Of her
year of freedom.
It would be easier to be parted
from Nathaniel by distance than by
a love grown cold.
But the day came when the ship
was berthed in the home port.
There was the red tape that de-
layed immediate landing, and then
Virginia was back again, filled with
mingled yearning to rush to Ma
thaniel and reluctance to see him
at all.
She had not written to him. She
could not write in the vein he had
employed.
Silence would help to maintain
the impression that she was grow
ing Indifferent toward him.
For these reasons she had stif1ed
her longing to reach him by mail.
He could ascertain easily enough
when the Agena was due to arrive
if he wished to know, she consoled
herself when she thought of the
welcomeless homecoming she was
inviting. But she did not expect to
see him at the pier.
She was long in leaving the ship,
having remained to speed her
guests and to receive their ex'-
pressions of gratitude for a pleas
ant voyage.
She walked listlesSly down the
gangplank without glance at the
pier which was nearly deserted now
Suddenly pair of arms opened
out before her and she walked
blindly into them.
They closed about her, held her
with her face pressed tight against
rough overcoat while Nathanie
confessed his joy at having hel
back.
Happiness surged over Virginia
like an ether that wiped out every
thing but this great, this indeScrib-
able relief of being with Mel again
But trouble does not vanish unit
it is conquered. Nathaniel knew
nothing of Virginia's momentarily
overwhelming joy.
He only knew that she broke from
his embrace before he was ready tt
release her, and looked at him will
eyes already wiped of truth.
How good Of you',' she murmured
"I didn't expect you"
d Nathaniel clamped his lips clos.
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because these half-naked young
animals of the present day con-
fused him.
Across town another father felt
the same way. Mr.. Dryer wanted
to have a frank, heart to-heart talk
with Rod, but he couldn't speak his
sons language and he dreaded to
be laughed at. Besides, he had a
suspicion that his offspring knew
more than he did anyhow.
Rods mother would have given
anything to tell BERTHE Lou how to
make Rod happy, but she didn't
dare.
BERTHE Lou was little and sweet,
but she was no clinging vine, and
Mrs. Dryer knew she would make
man happy in her own way or not
at all.
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ed secretly In Mr.. Wards old car,
which they would drive to the sta
ton, leaving the banner-and-can-
trimmed motor car belonging to
Rods father at the curb.
AS BERTHE Lou surveyed the COM
pleted work of the florists she felt
her throat Tightening over a lump
that choked her.
Maybe you could break your mar
rage If you didn't like it, but you'd
never have the same chance for
happiness again, she felt.
She sensed that overmuch expe-
rience with life didn't bring the
happiness that one got from one big
success. She wanted to be happy
with Rod and she knew that divorce
was on the increase.
1t was getting harder to stay mar
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mother wanted her to be married
under the same roof.
BERTHE Lou hoped people wouldn't
suffocate. She wanted to have the
altar built under the great elm tree
at the corner of the lot, but Mrs.
Ward said it was too public.
Well, BERTHE Lou reflected, 1t
would be a short ceremony. Then
they could all go out to the long
veranda where the buffet breakfast
was to be served, while she and
Rod drove away to the station.
Il hope no one will think of dads
old tin can in the barn." she said
to Rod when they congratulated
themselves upon completing their
plans for outwitting the car deco
rating committee.
Their suitcases were to be deposit
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But when she entered the double
doors of the living room low muir
MIR of admiration rose, to be quick
Iv stifled by people who reminded
themselves of where they we're.
THAT murmur was like benedic-
ton to BERTHE Lou. 1t gave her
courage. She must be very lovely
indeed. as the girls had said, to
bring it forth.
Even the prettiest girl In town, as
some people called Lila Marsh, must
grant this day to another.
And then she saw Rod, waiting
for her. Waiting for HER. BERTHE
Louis heart swelled with JOY and
pride.
The pain vanished. The music
grew agonizingly slow. She wanted
to fiv to him, to his arms, to hear
him say, IT love you, BERTHE Lou
Oh, he said that, many, many
times. But never had lie said; Il
love you more than anything Else
in the world"
BERTHE wanted him to say 1t. But
Rod wouldn't say much about his
love. That would be sappy.
BERTHE Lou had a fleeting instant
of hating herself for the defeat of
her pride. She wanted to be Rods
wife, second choice or third, or the
last girl in the world.
She knew that nothing could in-
duce her to turn and run back from
him. Let Lila watch! She would
see only JOY.
BERTHE Lou did not look round
for her. Her eyes were upon the
toes of her small slippers.
Remembering, she had torn them
away from her bridegroom to as
sumo the denure expression tradi-
tionally belonging to brides.
Everyone might be silently specu~
lating, as her bridesmaids had spec
ulated, and she might never again
see her pride in full flower, but life
wouldn't be endurable without Rod.
If pride was the price she must pay
for all the love she could wiring
from life, then so be it.
She might learn some day that
Rod had never loved anyone as he
loved her-but BERTHE Lou would al
ways have to admit that she had
married him in doubt-had been
willing to be second love, second
choice, rather than give him up.
The spin and toss of emotions
through which she had passed since
her mother called her out Of her
room was almost too much for an
overtired, sensitive girl.
BERTHE Lou scarcely heard the
minister's words. She responded
automatically to the congratulations
and good wishes of the relatives
and friends who closed in upon
them at the end of the ceremony.
She hardly realized that she was
Rods wife.
Until Lila came up and kissed her,
wishing her JOY. Then BERTHE Lou
seemed to come to life again. The
daze left her.
Lila was ravishing in pink frock
and lilac pictured hat. What If her
hair was not naturally blond? 1t
was beautiful. She looked like a
golden girl out of a dream.
BERTHE Lou was surprised that Rod
did not esem to notice it.
Lila was saying to him: "Ill fix
up your place while you're away.
I know so well what you like, Rod"
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CHAPTER II

CURE, go ahead" Rod replied
~ good-naturedly to Lila's offer
to help prepare the housekeeping
rooms that he and BERTHE Lou would
occupy upon their return.
Lila threw a glance at BERTHE Lou.
who appeared not to have caught
the significance Lila had sought to
put into her remark about knowing
Rods tastes
The young bride was engaged in
receiving the good wishes of old
friends and thanking them in a
slightly tremulous voice.
Others were pushing forward for a
word with Rod But Lila had not
finished with him.
Stung trifle by BERTHE LOUIS fall
ure to show any signs of annoy
ance, she said suddenly, with a high,
tinkling laugh: well, I suppose I
might as well take my last kiss now
while can get it,"
Rod did not realize what she was
about before she had flung both
arms around his neck and given
him a lingering kiss full upon the
lips. For the sake of aud lang
syne, she added.
People stared as she moved
laughingly away. Lila's behavior
frequently shocked the townspeople
but she had always stopped short
of getting herself ostracized.
But this, they thought, was going
a bit too far. Right under BERTHE
Louis nose! And the words that had
made her and Rod one still echoing
in the air!
BERTHE Lou took it like a thor
oughbred. She acted just like a
bride.
Perhaps if nothing had happened
to mar the occasion she would not
have forgotten the mask of the
flapper who wasn't really a fapper
at all but just a sweet girl who
was trying TO live up to what she
thought was expected of modern
youth.
1t had been a blessed relief to
Mrs. Ward when BERTHE Lou had
submitted quietly to being drawn to
her new mother-i laws ample por-
lions and wept over without pro-
test.
She could not know, of course,
that BERTHE Lou had buried her face
gratefully in that broad bosom while
she winked away a couple of I'M
wanted tears.
But BERTHE Lou wasn't going to
ignore Lila or passively let matters
take their course. Kissing might be
in order at a wedding, it was true,
but BERTHE Lou knew perfectly we'll
that Lila's act meant more than a
mere kiss.
Whether or not it was to be fol-
lowed by other overt assaults upon
her happiness, BERTHE Lou could not
foretell, but Lila must be put right
about it at once.
BERTHE Lou lived through two
honeymoon weeks of never o-be-
forgotten bliss with nothing to mar
them but the shadow of a preda-
tory ex-sweetheart that tapped
ominously in the background of her
consciousness.
Rod, as a husband, was flawless.
He'd always been the finest look
ing boy in Wayville. But the best
thing about him was his utter in1
difference to his good looks.
ITO Be Continued
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The wedding was to be at 10
o'clock in the morning. That would
permit Rod and his bride to take
the best train to the resort in the
hills, where they we're to spend two
weeks of their honeymoon during
Rods vacation.
At eight the florist had come and
decorated the house. It did not
take them half an hour to do it.
But it was pretty, even If 1t wasn't
a garden of costly blossoms.
+ Rod and BERTHE Lou had been busy
the evening before with white rib
bon and lace paper bells, potted
plants and vines.
1t was an old house with large
rooms and high ceilings. BERTHE
Lou had been born in it and her
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RTIE LOU stood the brink Of the great adventure She
- thrilled to the of her youh-fm little body. And
Pno guessed it,
Her mother had not been permitted to behind the
mask of sophcaion she conceal her shy dreaming
soul And not Rod had known how happy she
BERTHE Lou would talk it. She afraid of
being sappy
So she posed behind of boots and jbes for the
of sentiment the code of her her
friends.
But tonight she could fear her happiness 1t made
her feel like traitor to the other grhs being oldfash
onedly palpating and concerned 'Woudn they me -
she thought.
She knew she ought to be asleep. Marriage million
years odnohng get excited about And she excited
No trying be blas for her benefit Not this
her night BERTHE Lou Ward Tomorrow she would be
Mrs Rod Dryer.
She herself dwell upon the event with much the same
thoughts might have filed the mind of maiden of
yore the Of her wedding day.
The influence of her friends melted before the wonder
in thousand questions the fears and eagerness
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Reeves May Sub Week at Third
For Bluege, Hurt as Criffs Win

after MCGOWAN got Joe Judges hoist.
In the second inning single by Harris.
a two-base wild throw by ORourke
after picking up Muddy Ruefs
grounder, and Jones roller to Blue ac-
counted for a second tally. Bluege's
triple and Cronin's two-bagger IN the
fourth put over the final run.
West and Rice headed the Nationals
attack with three hits each but Crontn
starred with two blows, one OF them
driving run over. Joe also played a
stellar game at short. handling seven
chances in brilliant manner. ~
Double plays three times got the
Browns out OF trouble. 1t was one OF
these fielding feats that kept score
from the Nationals In the seventh,
when a double and two singles were
clustered. Another In the eighth ended
the Nationals batting for the day by
erasing Cronin and Reeves. The lat
ter. who broke into the fray In the
sixth when Bluege was hurt, had
singled In his only time at bat.
That error made by Harris In the
first frame was his first In 100 chances
acce 1ted since he made misplay In
the fifth inning of the first game of the
double header at st. Louis on July 70,
And many of the 90 consecutive
chances he accepted were extremely
difficult, too