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the answers to all these ques-
tioins that tortured her.
I'll telephone" she decided at
last. IF he's as sick as Sadye
said he was there is sure to be
nurse on the job, and she'll
answer the phone"
Then. as she sat up and swung
her slender feet over the side of
the bed, another thought stopped
her. Suppose The Ertz were the
nurse they had called in. She
did not want to talk to The
Ertz-tEe woman who was in
love with Pat-the woman who
probably would marry Pat as
soon as he was free to marry.
That il. If he didn't die. II he
didn't die
She stretched out her hand
and switched on the lamp by the
bed and in it's sudden radiance
the sapphire-and- diamond bracelet
that Staley had given her seemed
to catch fire.
On the bedside table was a
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The. waiter who looked like Ham.
let. The cigarette girls carved
ankles. The food. Things to say.
Things said. Anything.
SO through the endless, mean
ingless meal she postponed the
facing of the fact that Jerry
Davis, never so loved as now.
was lost to her.
1t was late when they finished
dinner. Night had spread a
plum-colored canopy over the
world, and nailed it with silver
stars. The ocean slept, breathing
long Sibilant breaths. "Sh-h-h-h"
1t sighed. And then sucked it's
breath in deep and sighed again.
"Sh.h-h-h!"
They stood on the pavement
beside the hotel. waiting for the
chauffeur to bring the car to
the curb. Gay stood with her
arms folded over her breast, hug
ginE her white wrap about her.
Its immense ruff collar arched
high at the back OF her spruce
yellow head.
"YOu look" sald Alan, like
Gala lily"
The air was softly cool. She
turned her face toward the sea,
toward the little fan Of the wind.
Her lips tasted salt.
Rene"
eyes, dear?"
IL don't want to 20 to the
doggons party"
"Nor /. But We promised
Norma. She's counting on u.s."
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LITTLE SINS : By Kathrine Brush

Continued from Local Pags)
saw that to the trio she
seemed composed and normal,
as if nothing had happened.
She read that in their eyes.
It was very singular. Didn't
they know, couldn't they guess.
that behind her mask Of smile
and sparkle she died little?
There's nothing to tell" she
said.
over to the left, just q few
yards off, that girl and her revolt
ing chaperon sat. Without look.
ing their way-not for worlds
would she have looked their way
she could feel them. She was hor-
ribIy aware Of them. Sitting there
with their heads together, gap
ing at her, whispering about her.
They would tell him, Of course.
Dolly Quinn would tell him, and
laugh. They would laugh together.
At her. Because she had been
careless, because she had lost con.
troll of herself, given herself
away. That Dolly Quinn.
Big-eyed and soft.voiced. He
just thinks he Is" Serene. Sure
Cigarette, please, Alan"
"You have 'sm In your hand
honey"
"Oh, Of counsel What's wrong
with me tonight? You can give
me q light. though"
Irene was still asking questions.
whats she like, Gay?"
Gay ignited her cigarette from
the match in Alan's dngerg. and
blew out the flame. 'E4fhg she
blew, and then replied, "AS you'd
expect. Beautiful and dumb. And
inferior"
What did she say?"
Gay considered, pecking at her
lobster cocktail. "Oh-nothing
that would interest you. We
talked about these people / know
who knew her."
STILL" Irene puzzled. II don't
see why you were SO keen to go
over there"
81 don't either. Just one OF my
silly IDEAS"
Her mind was full of things she
might have said to Dolly Quinn.
Cutting, flashing things she might
have said. Why hadn't they oc.
Cured to her in time? 1t would
ease her sense of ignominious, in.
tolerable defeat. II she had said
them.
CHAPTER %
She became very merry. She
talked a great deal and feverishly
fast. She laughed at everything
and nothing. She flirted violently
with Alan. and even with Ted.
There was a kind of desperate
recklessness in her gaiety; there
was challenge. "Sec?" it cried
to Dolly Quinn. II don't care!
I'm happy! Don't for one instant
imagine you have hurt me. Watch.
See how easily I hold these men?
could take him from you as
easily, IL I wanted to-"
And all the while the whole
strength of her mind braced
itself against the door Of realika.
ton, until not only mind but
body felt bruised and strained
with the effort. Don't think
about It yet! Think about come.
thing else" Irene. Ted. Alan.
The commotion In the dining
As0m. zhs diners round about.
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"I'n get tight" Gay threatened
rebelliously.
They all smiled indulgent smiles.
"You mustn't" Irene said. mot
at Norma's. Her mother and
father are visiting her. They're
good scouts-but not that good.
OF course you wouldn't anyway"
she supplemented.
But 1 would! I feel exactly
like it!' Noting the quizzical
shafts of all their eyes, Gay
halted uncertainty. "Or some
thing rash,'a she went on. This
is the kind of a night when some.
thing rash just has to be DONE"
Its a great night. all right,
Ted affirmed, shifting.
Wonderful" Softly, with his
glance on Gay. Alan quoted her:
Starlight, and the sound Of
SURF"
She thought. "He loves me,
poor Alan. And 1 love Jerry.
And Jerry loves that little
She laughed aloud, suddenly
and sharply.
Il was thinking of a nursery
rhyme" she said, when inter-
rogated. You know, the one
that goes, 1.-The farmer takes his
wife, the wife takes the child.
the child takes the nurse or
didn't the child take the nurse2
The child took somebody. And
it wasn't the same person who
took the child. that's the point.
Go Be Continued Tomorrow
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bowl of yellow roses that he
had sent to the house that morn
ing. Magazines that he had given
her were piled beside them, and
in the little glass cigarette box
were a dozen or so of the
cigarettes that he always kept
her supplied with.
Staley She owed him
something, certainly. He had
proved himself loyal and generous
to her, and he had been good to
her people. He was going to marry
her, too. He was going to be her
husband in few months. She
was bound to him-a1though she
still was legally bound to Pat
France.
az ought not to go down to Pat
without asking him-or at least
without telling him that I'm go
ing" she said to herself. ''I ought
to be honest with him ought to
be honest"
For a second a picture flashed
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Love in 4 MiIIiOnaire's Mansion or In a
Poor Mans Flat Is Lilys
Problem Of Future
Read This. First:

LILY spoiled only daughter Of the CYRUS LEXlNG
than herself her mothers chauffeur Pat Trance Her
She e live with Pat IN tiny fat doing her own work 1na
JEFFERSON Pat has invented new Kind Ct piston ring and ne
81 Of hs money into the ring and works nights e Roys garag
nd begins % regret her hasty she M aeep
ELIZABETH ERTz nurse whom he and Lily meet sometimes ct
Lily touch with say when Sue Cain
calls him and has lunch with him. and accepts flrs and rnes
buys where Pats sister FLORENCE Is b0Oleeper and
given and Lily
business
However, Staley hires
Lexington, he the filled
Injuries Of Lily
the flat him.
finds Elizabeth helping him with his hOusewOrk and decides
files
D
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shutting her eyes as she tried to
sleep.
But there was no sleep for her.
No rest. Her mind kept going
back to the small. brown-shut-
tered house next door to the
France family's grocery store
back to the little room under the
caves that had been Pats room
and hers for the first few weeks
OF their married life.
She could imagine him lying
there on the white bed. with his
eyes closed and his breath com.
ing, quick and shallow. and =
flush on his face undeE the cheek
bones.
And / don't even know what's
the matter with him, she thought:
''Or who's with him-or IL he's
going to live or II he's going
to die"
She could not bear to lie there,
she told herself. not knowing
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out Of her memory. A picture of
Pat as he had looked that night In
the drug store while she waited
for Staley. And she heard
his voice. still, telling her that she
never would be honest with any
one. "You just don't know how to
be honest, do your" he had asked
her. II wonder IL you ever will"
It came to her that those were
tho last words he had ever said to
her. She hadn't seen him since
then. II he-if anything
happened to him. that was the way
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NOlO Go On With The Story.

But Lily shook her head. mot
me she answered. mo matter
what happens to him, it's not any
OF my business any more. "
And she went home. She stayed
there all day. and went TO bed that
night without even telephoning to
ask how he was.
Doctors will tell you. IL you ask
them, that the time of day when
peoples vitality is at its lowest
point Is o'clock in the morning.
And almost anyone will tell you
that the most weird hour OF the
twenty-four Is that same time
3 o'clock in the morning. An UNI
canny fearsome hour for Jeople
who lie awake. haunted BY any
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Kind Of thought that will not let
them sleep.
At 3 o'clock on that chilly
spring morning. after she had
heard about Pats illness. Lily
was wide awake in her warm
lavender-scented bed In the house
on Montpelier road.
1t was as comfortable q bed as
ever was, and its pillows were
soft and deep. But there had
been no rest in it for her that
night Ever since II o'clock
she had been twisting and turn.
ing restlessly In 1t. getting up
on one elbow to stare Into the
darkness. lying down again and
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Forgetting to slip her feet into
the fur-lined slippers beside the
bed. or even to put on the negligee
that hung over the foot-rail in
readiness for her, she went across
the room to her writing desk and
pulled out pen and paper from the
drawer.
"Staley, dear" she wrote. FITS .
in the morning. and so am going
to write this and mail II to your
office instead of telephoning you,
as / would do at any other tins.
TO Re Continued Tomorrow
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she would always remember him.
Standing there in the drug store,
with the electric light shining in
his blue eyes and telling her that
she never would be honest or
straight or decent in all proba-
bility.
Well, she would be honest and
decent and straight! At least. she
would try to be. But it was going
to be hard. for she never had
thought OF herself as being any
thing else until Pat, with his
straight-iaced ideas about such
things, came along.
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This Dan il. Our History

On Congress the United States passed the
Seective Draft Bill The bill signed by the President
the following This just little over month after
dhe United declared against Germany.
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ANSWERS TO TODAY'S TEST
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Questions Editorial Page
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Evening star., 1928-06-21
COLLEGE ORATORS MEET
ON WEST COAST TONIGHT
Cash Prizes Totaling $4,000 viii
Be Awarded in Constitu-
tion Contest.
Wide World Photos.
By the Associated Press.

~ Rilc associated RFSSS.
LOS ANGELES, June 81 Seven of
th2 Nations best college orators se-
lected from 53i institutions by sectional
elimination will compete here tonight
IN the fourth annual national intercol~
legiate oratoricai contest. Cash prizes
aggregating $4,000 will be awarded
ranging from 81 500 for first place, to
$3.50 for seventh.
The intercollegiate contest, the ora
tlonS of which are ON the Constitution
OF the United States. Is sponsored by
the Better America Federation,
Herbert Wenig OF Los Angeles, who in
1926 won the international oratorical
contest for high school students. viii
represent the Pacific Coast States He
is at present student at Stanford uni-
verstty, Other contestants are. William
Conley Loyola University. Chicago, rep
fesenting the Central States. Paul v,
keyser ir,. Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology. New England States aoile
Allen Prew. Davidson College. Davidson,
NJ e., Southern States xone, l.. r, Iay~
bargar, ir.. Hucknell University. Lew
iaburg, Pa, Eastern states z0ne, Carl
Albert Oakland University. Norman,
Okla. MiddleweStern States some, and
Philip ulatfelter, Princeton University,
the North States Knne
Evening star., 1928-06-21
SECONDARY FLOOD
MENACES ARKANSAS
White River Reported Rising, With
32-Foot Stage Expected--Crews
Plug Levees.
By he Asaoe.ased prsss.

81 The Associated Press.
MEMPHIS. Tenn, June GA Sec
ondary high water originating In the
Black River, due 70 heavy rains last
night, was expected 10 tax the lo@er
White River leyees in Arkansas 10 their
limit
Reports resolved by MAJ. ID If Con-
E3ollg'a Office i1ere from assistant United
States engineers IN charge of leyee
work south u Augusta. Ark. 10 Degalf&
Bluff said the dyke continued 10 hold
today
Calico Rock, Ark, reported a three
loot rlss I'm The upper White River for
1fie past "A hours. The stage there
this morning NHy 20 feet and the food
stage is Ia feet The stage al Newport
vas 33i, fail of siX-tenths OF a foot
III "a hours.
The White River. at Clarendon has
reached 5o.3 and engineers expected IL
10 ~ Io 3I5 on The crest Georgetown
i3&d a stage Of n 6 and rising. Every
'oot q the main icpee from Georgetown
iDutn - the lower end of Jackson
Bayou WAS being palfoiled and men
@eFe working N check sand bols and
faepage that vas showing at several
places.
Every store In Cotton Plant remained
eISsea 80 all energies could be directed
a1 strengthening the lepee.
Evening star., 1928-06-21
DEATH TOLL NOW SIX
IN MINE EXPLOSION
Others in West Virginia Blast May
Die-Cause Not Officially
Announced.
BY the Associated Press.

t'N tiie ASSoCl9tVu t'EfSa.
MORGANTOwN, w. Va. June 81
An explosion yesterday claimed the lives
Of six miners in the National Fuel Co.
coal mine, south Of here, and injured
six others so seriously that some OF
them may die
The bodies Of five OF the dead were
found In the workings after the blast
The other victim died in hospital late
yesterday, The condition OF several OF
the injured men at the hospital was
said 20 be critical
Twenty-Five miners were in the work
ingS when the blast occurred shorty
before the night SHIFT quit work. FEN
OF them walked from the mine unaS-
sisted, but all were painfully burned.
Rescue crews We're summoned 10 the
mine for the first time, the explosion
having been the first in the history OF
IFS operation, Scores Of rSScasrS, doctors
and nurses were ON the scene soon after
the blast occurred,
Mine inspectors began Il thorough ex~
pioration of the mine several hours
after the explosion. No official an-
nonncement regarding the cause OF the
blast was made, but il was believed that
= pocket OF gas exploded when shot
was set OF in one az the mine rooms.
A coroner'S jury viii DC empanelled
today an dthc coroner planned 60 hold
an inquest,
Evening star., 1928-06-21

necessary for his dramatic success. Per
hapS, from the standpoint Of dramatic
art and the American Theater, my de-
eision may be success, matrimoniallv
II has already proved a failure.
This illusion Of freedom.--So lone
maintained by the male sex. particu.
larly by the artistic male--is very much
an illusion Now / know that the only
way TO give man the freedom be
wants is to open u door TO captivity" ="
She did not explain the last cryptic
sentence, but said she would sue either
on the basis of desertion or incompati-
biiity, and would name no Other
woman.
oNeili is aTsad at the present time.
The tentative agreement provides that
Mrs, O'Neill shall have custody of The
two children and shall be given the
o'Neill estate, Spithead. in Bermuda.
Evening star., 1928-06-21
Gives Heflin $3.50
For His Services
To Catholic Church

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 2l.--Peter J.
Maioney, broker and president of
the Holy Name Society Of the arch
diocese Of New York. has sent
check for $3.50 to Senator Thomas
j. Heflin Of Alabama, with the fol-
loving letter:
Wear Sir: I take occasion on your
coming 10 lecture in this vicinity to
send goG a check for $3.50 To cx-
press my appreciation Of the services
YOU are rendering the Catholic
Church.
In this generation I know Of no
one VINO has done more to make
bieetry appear uE1loveiy and mem
dacity sound absurd"
Hefiia spoke at Syracuse Saturday
and at Albany Sunday under the
auspices of the Ku Klux Kian.
Evening star., 1928-06-21
SOCIETY BEAUTY BREAKS
FOURTH WEDDING PLANS
Miss Randolph Calls Off Marriage
After Fiance Quits as
Pastor.
f3y the Associated PFess.

i}y the Associated Pye6s.
NEW YORK, June 2i.~~The New
York American today says that Miss
Petty Randolph. society beauty who
today was 10 have taken the Rev Bar
th0lotnew j. Cnudacck as her fourth
husband, has broken their engagement.
Mf Chudack resigned last Sunday
a@ pastor of the SITS. Cyril and Method
Czechoslopak Church. JohneIown, NJ
Y, in compliance with Miss Randolph's
wishes. He was In New York today IN
an effort 10 effect a reconciliation
The minister said Miss Randolph tele-
plfoned him Tuesday night
i've just heard something about
You" he quoted Miss Randolph as say
Ing. II can't toll you but / guess we
NOT be married" "
HE said, In responRs 10 his request
for the name OF her informant she
you'd only say that h was some min
Atef He asserted he did not know
any one Who could say anything de-
fqgatory about him.
Evening star., 1928-06-21
Fails in Class; Tries Suicide.

Failure To graduate from school was
the reason given hl police for .the
attempted suicide lsSs Sssght og Ruth
Ashton, coloreu, ~ sts Third street
southwest SHE WA revived by the
Fire Department Suuad after
she was found nnenn .asls III the baths
room Of her hene Fourth precinct
police aAla thai she had gaa Jet
Evening star., 1928-06-21
Mrs. Eugene ONeill Will Seek Divorce
10 Give Dramatist Illusion of Freedom -
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK. June 2i.~-The New
York Daily News today published n
signed statement by Mrs Eugene
O'Neill, wife Of the novelist and play
wright, saying She In preparing 10 seek
Il divorce SO that her husband ma
have the illusion OF freedom always
demanded by the artistic male.
Questions Of financial support and
custody OF their two children have been
settled and she is about to leave either
Tor Reno. New, or Sonora, Mexico, to
seek the divorce.
we have decided 10 give legal form
10 the separation of our lives which
has existed IN fact for over two wears.
the statement proceeds II have al
tempted the experiment Of giving An
artist husband thee freedom he said
Evening star., 1928-06-21
Brothers Separated
50 Years Reunited
By Newspaper "Ad"
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROCHESTER, IND. June 2I.-A
red bandanna. the prearranged sign
of Identification, by which two
brothers. Michael. rs. of Bremen.
Nebr,, and John Kerler. IS. of
Rochester. were reunited YESTERDAY
after separation Of 50 years, was
Superf1uouS
The younger brother said he would
have recognized Michael without the
aid OF the bandanna,
An advertisement in a Chicago
paper by John led to the reunion.
The brothers both wcil-to-do farm
erS. became separated after cominS
TO America from Germany.
Evening star., 1928-06-21
SANITARY BOARD
WINS ON APPEAL
Maryland Court Reverses
Montgomery County
Decision.
,elal plspa.eh 70 The s,sr.

N2s39vt22 LeSpatcn 70 The star.
ANNAPOLIS. Md. June 2i.-,Judee
Bond in the Court of Appeals Of Mary
! '2nd this morning handed down a de-
clSion reversing the decree of Judge
Robert B, Peter in the Montgomery
County Circuit Court, who held that the
act Of the 1927 Maryland Legislature
ratifying increased benefit charges a.
the Washington Suburban sanitary
Commission put into effect in 1925 was
illegal ana enloining the commission
lrom collecting the increased charges.
Judge Bond dismissed the bill Of fhe
taxpayers and required them to pay
the costs
Judge Peters decision which vas re-
verSed was rendered in the case OF Mrs.
Rene Noel of Montgomery County.
whose attorney was her husband. =,
Regis Noel OF KenSington. IL Was al
legged by the plaintiffs that the act az
the 1927 Legislature ratifying the m
crossed charges OF the Sanitary Coui-
mission was an attempt to set aside =
decision Of the Court Of Appeals.
Attacked CommiSSion's Right.
1t also was contended that no addi-
uonal benefits were conferred BY the IN
creased charges and that the commits
sion had no right 20 make the increase:
As TO these allegations, the sanitary
commission claimed that the act Of the
Legislature was taken without regard 20
any act Of the commission, and that
consumers had received increased hene-
ntS aS the result OF the higher front
loot charges, and regardless Of whether
they had not received increased bene-
ntS nom the higher charges, Il was a
matter for the Legislature to decide.
Act Followed Court Decision.
After the increased tront-foot beneft
ehargeS were put into effect BY the
commission In 1875 In several
areas III the sanitary district, taxpaverS
objected energetically and carried their
ight 10 the Court Of Appeals. At that
time the Court OF Appeals handed down
. decision against the sanitary cognmlS-
Sion, holding that Il was without au-
thority IN law to increase the aSseSS-
ments.
In 1927 the Legislature passed am act
rautying and confirming the action az
he sanitary commission IN putting the
increase into effect, MONTGOMERY Coun-
N taxpayers then brought Snia IN the
Circuit Court for that county at Rock
sule To enioin the sanitary commission
nom collecting the increased charges.
setting forth that the ratlfylng act AZ
ne Legislature was invalid. hldge Peter
ruled that the act OF the IeEklAlure
vas not valid. and enioined the conl-
Mission nom collecting the higher as
'eSSmentS, The sanitary commission
COX an appeal 70 the Court of AppezlA
which resulted IN the decision hy Judge
sond today.
Evening star., 1928-06-21
BLAST KILLS THREE BOYS.
Fireworks Blamed by Mother Of
One Of Victims.
WTLMINGTON Del. june Al

WTIMINGTOA Del. June n fPl.
Ttree boys were Killed III All explosion
tilat wrecked brick dwelling and store
here yesterday. They were Herman
sieIdAtone, l5 Joae Forrest, IL, and
Emerson Mcmahon, iG.
Ars. Jennie Fieldatone. mother OF one
9f tfle dead boys, WAS injured She ocs
eiapied the hoHge III which she conducted
+ confectionery store. She told police
that fireworks we're being stored iii Ehe
bAsdine n. siis time Ut tho sSpl9Aspn,
Evening star., 1928-06-21
CHICAGO ADDS POLICEMEN
Budget Provides for 500 Despite
Charge City Is ssBroke,s

CHICAGO, June 2i tAaN, Desnite the
argument thai Chicago Is broke" TIE
city council yesterday passed d mid-
year budget Of $l,SSa, 200, which. among
other things calls f0r the employment
OF 500 additional policemen.
alderman Guernsey led the fght
against the budget.
Nobody seems 20 realize We have not
gat the money 10 do this" ne said,
We're broke"
Alderman Nesson answered this hv
SAYING taN-dodeafS are te blame for the
shortage et revenues.
Evening star., 1928-06-21

lii thf Interest of the people I'm the con
ncent belief That justice Wsll be meted
@lt n Ihe higher courts, tins mayor
concluded
The experts who were eoedafendants
Nefe Edward g Miller, 5r, Arnold n
bfattigam and Prank J. Koch Rrnest
Il Lyons and arthur r. Maneold were
a'Sf1#s@d after sepaging the leea they
IeeeigeQ, ~