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fectly well that. the three dresses
she had packed were the kind that
to. be sent to the dry cleaners
handmade, silky things Of many
pleats and ruffles and bits Of
delicate embroidery.
The pIainest one of the three
was a sleeveless yellow crepe-de-
chine that buttoned down the
front with pearl buttons. She
slipped into it and started down
the stairs.
AS she passed the open door Of
the room next to her she saw a
picture of herself tucked into
the mirror of The chiffonier-a
newspaper clipping. The one that
told of her engagement to Staley
Drummond.
She remembered how she had
torn up the clipping that he had
had In the cab that iong-ago
day when the story had been
printed. He must have
bought another newspaper after
ward and kept this piece from it!
"He cared for me, even then,
just as 1 did for him-and I
didn't know it," she said to her
self. How close we came to
spelling both of our perfectly good
Hves!'
On the top Of the chiffonier were
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Now Go On With The Story.

And along with those melodious
sounds an appetizing odor of fresh
bread came floating out through
the open windows.
'Mmm! Do you smell that? 1t
reminds me that I'm hungry!
Lily said, an they went up the
two steps that led to the back
porch-the neatest back porch
imaginable, with scrubbed table
in the middle of it, and three
pies standing on it to cool. They
were still steaming as IL they had
just been set there.
Pat pushed open the screen
door and held it for Lily to pass
into the house ahead OF him.
In the middle Of the kitchen
stood Mrs. France, wiping her
dripping hands on a snowy linen
towel. Her steel-rimmed glasses
were pushed back upon her fore
head. and her blue eyes were
round with amazement as she
looked up and saw Lily and Pat
on the threshold.
Lord bless my soulr' she cried.
II 1t isn't Pat and that girlr' She
had q way Of thinking aloud
sometimes that was very startling.
What's happened, for PHYS
sake?" she asked, looking from
them to the bags at their feet.
Pat told her in his simple,
straightforward way. 1--WE quit
my job, and Lily's made up her
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By ElenOre Meherin

$50 much so that everyone is
talking about it!'
''And I'm responsible for that?
In what way did accept an en-
gagement? I've not concealed my
intentions. They've been rather
brutally apparent. In the past
two years I've not once centem'
plated marriage nor given any
one reason to think that I would. !"
"You never intended to marry
me?'
els it a surprise to you, Mary?"
"Then it's all off between us?"
cit was never on"
mo? You didn't intend to
marry me last March?"
why last March?"
ooh, for the small matter of
$4,OOOr'
He grew livid with the shock.
lie rose to his feet al stood there
smothered with fury. But she
went on hostile with resentment.
you understood perfectly well
why I undertook to back you.
You accepted the money knowing
this. When a man accepts $4,000
from q girl knowing that he may
never be able to pay it back and
protests Of love. :"
Protests Of lover"
Ibid you never tell me that
you loved me? That was unique
-charming-the one tolerant wo-
man in the world"
IT didn't understand you were
paying $4,000 for my continued
regard. The money"-he choked
on the word-"the money will be
repaid!'
His angry murderous steps
echoed through the empty house.
The front door banged.
Mary Eunice blinked. She
opened her hand and stared at
the key lying on her palm.
She looked at this until her
eyes grew hard. You bet - the
money would be repaid!
CHAPTER 72
He was smothered with rage and
shame. He drove like mailman,
almost sobbing with his fury-sob-
bling and striking q closed fist on
the wheel. What a fool-what
blind, contemplate fool!
He was beside himself and
thought of rushing back to Mary
Pennings, jamming the accusa-
ton down her throat, shaking
her into white, terrified recanting.
He took money from her with
the tacit understanding they were
engaged and would be married!
Took money knowing he might
never be able to repay 1t?
The charge made him scarlet.
There was never even the remote
suggestion Of such partnership or
such. q justification.
He had taken the money.
Why! s-.....sssss4
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mind to marry me-tomorrow,"
he said, as quietly as IL he was
reading a weather report in a
newspaper.
Mrs. France hung her towel
over a hook and turned to the
table that was covered with pans
and spice tins and flour. well"
she cried, breathlessly. She was
frowning in a puzzled way, as II
It were hard for her to take all
this in. Now, then, let me
get this straight. Is Miss Lexing-
ton going to marry you? Pat,
you told me she was engaged to
another man, and that news
paper clipping up in your room
says she's going to marry an
other man. It even tells his
name"
Eyes, it does" Pat agreed with
her. "But she's made up her
mind to marry me instead. I
think she's crazy to do it"-he
grinned at Lily with affection as
he said that-''but she says she's
going to, anyway. Only she's
going to wait until tomorrow to
be sure she really wants to do it."
His mother shot a curious look
at Lily, who smiled back at her
from under her pink-and-orchid
hat that had been bought for
Staley Drummond's bride.
Aren't you sure you want to
marry Pat now?" she asked
sharply and Lily nodded.
I'm sure as sure can be-" she
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JERRY

; Battleships were in the harbor. A
searchlight from these opened
the night with glowing, transitory
pictures tree on the Sausalito
hills-a lumber schooner crawling
seward.
"I used to hate this view"
"Whyw
''It made me 80 lonely. I was
so unsettled and unhappy before
you came Saxon. / didn't dream
what it could mean to be really
loved" She let her head lie back
against his shoulder and she now
moved her cheek upward till her
lips found and closed on his.
He remembered the first time
she had done this; his warm,
thrilled establishment. His quick.
boyish response. But he was used
to the caress. It left him cold
stirred a sudden Impotence.
kiss me! That's better. We've
had delightful times. Saxon?"
Very"
You'd miss me, wouldn't your"
Naturally"
meant so much to both of us.
Saxon, have L meant very much
to your
why the dying gladiator
speech, Mary?''
Answer me. first! Have
meant much to your"
AS you say, it's been delight
full"
when you told me you loved
me the way that you did, you
meant it?"
In the shadows he couldn't see
her face-but her tone and her
dreaming manner chafed him. 1t
was late and he didn't want the
opportunity she seemed offering.
always mean what ] say
while I'm saying it, Mary. 1 like
you and your pictures and this
lovely view-but it's a bit late to
dllate on all these various charms"
He gave her teasing kiss and
moved to the table where his hat
lay.
You're not going, are your"
Il thought" said he, grinning,
that that would be in order since
It's o'clock in the morning.
Zone o'clock in the morning
isn't exactly a celebration, is it,
atter seven months-nearly that
OF solitary confinement. Saxon
DO you realize I've been looking
forward to the finish of your plans
all this timer"
Mary. dear"
No" she brushed his hand
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Pats military brushes and a tin
Of pomade for his dark, unruly
hair, that never lay smooth and
shiny, no matter how much he
brushed it. Beside these things
was a package Of cigarets and a
box OF matches.
When Lily opened the door Of
the kitchen a second later she had
a lighted cigarette between her
beautiful. painted lips, and carried
the package in ier hand.
She sat down on a chair just in
side the door, crossing her slender
legs in their pale yellow stockings
and blowing clouds OF blue-gray
smoke toward the ceiling.
Lets see," she said, musingly.
IT suppose / ought to, call up Sue
Cain and ask her to come to my
wedding. She's my best friend"
Mrs. France opened the oven
door and took out a pan of the
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said, and felt Pats arm go around
her as she said it. But Pats
never been sure Of me, and my
mother thinks / don't know what
I'm doing, too. So I've promised
both of them that I would wait
until tomorrow before go with
Pat for a license"
Mrs. France began to cut a
fluffy white mound Of biscuit
dough into strips and squares.
"Well, / was going to say that II
you weren't sure Of yourself you'd
better go back home" she re-
marked, with a nod of her head.
Getting married is nothing to
shiIly-shally about. It's some
thing you either ought to want
to do with all your heart, or
something you ough not to do at
all. There are no ifs and ands
about getting married. This
surely is a surprise to me-"
And as If she suddenly realized
just how surprising it was, she
sat down suddenly on a wooden
chair behind her, holding a piece
of the fluffy dough in her hands.
She shood her head, staring at
the pair Of them.
IT hope you both know your
own minds" she said after few
seconds. Pat, you've been going
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aside and stood resting on the arm
of a chair, her head downcast.
'Mary-what did you want
what did you plan on for to-
night?"
For one thing" she answered
quietly. II wanted to get things
definitely settled"
Like what?"
"You and II" She came up and
with a smile took his hand sit
down a moment. Saxon-the
folks are going away next week.
They're going to the islands and
to China. They'll be gone six
with them. Father just becomes
more and more tyrannical."
mot exactly punishment, IL
it? Nice long sea voyage like
that"
She leveled her eyes to his.
They were no longer blue but a
Swallowed green. She looked at
him intently.
You understand that I'm not
going with them!"
"Can you get out of it?'
"O course! When l marry you.
That's why l want to get it settled
now. We might as WE'LL
"If that's your only escape,
Mary. my dear. you'll find your
self in China"
You almost sound as though
you meant it."
Her pallor and her suppressed
nervous excitement were lost on
him. They had so often talked ia
this wise. He now said lightly:
What language shall / use so
that you'll know I mean it?"
She was sitting very close to
him. She now stumped out her
cigarette on her slipper. Aid for
a moment remained leaning down,
her hands clasped on her knees.
She sat up abruptly: "Give me
a cigarettes! Never mind. I'll
reach" She slipped her hand to
his vest pocket, left about.
He laughed. "Take your hands
out OF my pockets and ask for
what you want"
Slowly she withdrew her hand
smiled. After a weighty mo-
ment raised her lips for the
cigarette he lighted. "Then you
with them, Saxon?
"I fear it greatly, dear Mary"
Said she, with her pallor in
tensifying. cit is one thing to
deny with words and another
to accept with deeds. For the
past eight months you've tacitly
accepted our engagement"
''How, Mary?"
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"Why speak of marriage at
midnight, since nothing can be
done about it till morning any
how?"
IT ask because I abhOr uncer-
tainty."
"Why, my dear, uncertainty is
the very pulse Of love. That's
why marriage is such a disaster.
In removing the suspense 1t Kills
the romance. Another case where
the operation is a. success, but
the patient dies"
She was used to this light ridi-
Guile. and for her own reasons
now chose to meet 1T.
When they reached the house
and just as Saxon opened the
door, Mary said: Come in and
have a look at the picture Jerry
selected for my sitting room.
I'm not sure that I like 1t, but
she tells me to try 1t out as it's
quite gem"
She led the way up the long.
old-fashioned stairway. At the
landing she turned. In the sub
dued lamplight she appeared pale.
Her emerald green dress-a color
that she wore often, gave an I'M
earthly glow to her satin skin and
Swallowed eyes. She reached her
hands to his shoulders and with a
soft, thrilled laugh moved into
his arms. you've not been up
here. I had you in mind and
the things you would like, all the
time / was fixing up my rooms.
You needn't speak in whispers,
dear. We're quite alone"
Mary switched a light. The
sitting room gave back a mellow
radiance like garden in moon.
light. Soft apricot and green in
the drapes; soft apricot in the
walls.
They stood before the picture
an oil done by one Of the younger
artists in the school. Sunlight
flowing over the graceful figures
Of girls bathing in a pool.
do you like it?''
every much"
Cali that's necessary" Mary
smiled and with a faint gesture
of her fingers across his palm,
she moved to the window. She
stood here with her back to him.
She had a willowy form and her
bobbed hair went in a large, wind
blown wave.
X y X
He was conscious of her charm;
conscious of Q subtle Indictment
in this still, deserted house. Con-
scious OF It., but detached like q
spectator.
He remained before the picture.
Delicate girls stepping into the
sunlit pool. Their early morning
look. Jerry liked this picture.
She would. Joy and freedom in
it.
Without turning, Mary reached
out her hand: "Saxon-come here.
Did you ever see the bay so en-.
chantingly .busy?" She leaned
her head against his shoulder ana
pointed down across the preside
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DR.. CaldwelPs 3 Rules
Keep You Healthy

DIR. Caldwell watched the results
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believed that no matter how care.
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He smiled at them both, his blue
eyes twinkling under their heavy,
straight brows. There was little
shadow of anxiety under that twin
kle. He wanted them to like each
other, and to understand each
other. These two women whom
he loved more than any other
human being in his life.
But when he was gone, Lily be.
gan to feel chilled and strange in
the frienly little house. Silence
fell upon her as she followed Mrs.
France upstairs to a little bed
room at the back Of the house
a little white bedroom, all dotted
Swiss curtains and pale-blue rib
bons. The furniture was painted
white, and it was simple and old
fashioned 49, a big bed, a wide
dresser. a little table, and two
chairs.
This is Florence's room. You
can sleep here with her tonight"
said Pats mother. Now, you
just change into something that'll
wash and you can come down.
stairs and help me get lunch"
She trotted down the stairs, and
Lily began to look through the
suitcase that Pat had brought up
for her, for something that would
wash" although she knew per-
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biscuits, golden brown and shining
with butter. She set them on the
top of the "hot closet" Of the bis
white-enamel stove. and put a pan
of unbaked ones into the oven.
"Is that the sue Cain who rides
so much?" she asked. giving Lily
and the cigaret smoke-clouds a
look that Lily did not see. II
often notice her name in the pa
per-"
Eyes, that's the Sue CAIN" an
swered the girl, absently. She was
wondering how Sue Cain would
take this marriage of hers.
Would she still be her best friend,
or would she think that she ought
to be loyal to Staley and drop herr
Sues Jack and Staley
were great friends.
Quick footsteps came around the
house and Pat opened the screen
door.
Go Be Continued Tomorrow
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Love in a MilliOnaire's Mansion or In a
Poor Mans Flat Is Lilys
Problem of Future
Read This First:

LEXINGTON Is spoiled Of CYRUS
rich bachelor named STAIEY DRUhIfOND
Lily her friend SUE CAIN and
that taxi driver But moved by
driven
PAT FRANCE that his
by is
realizes that with
mind cannot Staey,
mother the and she resigns herself the
evidently
from the streets
wedding, Lily
automobile.
with
with Pat finally tells him that
III her
WIFE, isn't takes
Miss StaIey finds about their meetings and
the Mrs Lexington tells viii have to wait
on
hear fs anaWer
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This Day in Our History

g. 1890 Charles City county,
Virginia He was elected President Of the United States in
1SO presidency April 1884, the death
of William Henry Harrison
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ANSWERS TO TODAY's TEST

Questions ON Editorial Page
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The Latest in Musical Instruments

ear made of German said great volume
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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-07-12
FROM OUR EXCHANGES
EDITORIAL COMMENT NEWSPAPERS WHICH MAY
CONFORM WITH THE OPINIONS
ASKOV AMERICANA

threats to Chinese democracy compar-
able with the two that are singled
out here. Militarism has kept the
Republic in disruption. Communism,
that reached its high tide of favor a
year ago, initiated tendencies no less
disruptive. With these twin evils
torn out, root and branch, republican
China can face the future with assur-
ance.
That future, however, involves in
ternational readjustments in order
that China's, foreign relations may
find new and more equitable basis.
Specifically, the Chinese insist that
they be granted control over their
own customs, both the fixing and the
collection of duty; that extraterritor-
iality be abandoned; that negotiations
be undertaken for the return to China
of various foreign concessions and the
withdrawal from Chinese territory of
foreign troops. To the negotiation of
these treaties, as the Chinese note
points, out, the powers are already
committed.
Neither Impotence nor a disre-
gard for the various interests at
stake is disclosed in the National
list statement of these proposals. There
is none of the flamboyance that char
acterized the Soviet-dictated notes of
Eugene Chen. 1t is merely set forth
that, with China's housekeeping we'll
on the way to completion, "negotia-
ions, in accordance with diplomatic
procedure" should be undertaken to
evolve new treaties on the basis of
complete equality and mutual res
pect for each others sovereignty"
To this suggestion the powers are
likely to give ear. Whatever stakes
the West may have in China, the de-
velOpment of strong, Independent
government can only serve as a more
adequate safeguard for their future.
Marines and gunboats and extrater-
ritoriality, at best, have provided but
poor guarantees and inadequate in
centives to the commercial develop
ment of that land.-Christian Science
Monitor.
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SELLING THEIR OWN

1t is said that a third of the agri-
cultural products of the United States
are sold on a cooperative basis.
Last year over $64O,0OO.OO0 worth
of dairy products were sold by CO.
operative agencies. Minnesota led all
of the states in the union in the CO.
operative selling of butter and was
second among the states in the value
of it's dairy products sold through
producer-owned and managed organi-
cations.
Now if the farmer bought his gas
oline on as favorable basis as he
sells his milk and cream. prosperity
would blossom on many a farm.
Cooperation isn't as important in
some respects as it once was. 1t does
not net as much because the pro-
ducers of farm praducts are constant
ly increasing their purchases of what
others produce. Or perhaps we had
better say that cooperation is more
important because without maxi
mum for what he raises the farmer
could buy little for himself
Soon agriculture will be the most
favored of all industries in the pro-
portion that it receives from the con-
sumer's dollar.-Grand Rapids Herald
Review.