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Evening star., 1928-06-21
MAID HELD I'M GEM LOSS.

Charged with the theft of jewelry
valued at several hundred dollars from
the residence Of E. P. S. Newman. 4205
Eighth street, where she was employed
rs domestic, Maurlne Swami, colored,
is years old, was arrested at her home
morning by Detective Dennis j. Murphy
Of the tenth precinct.
Evening star., 1928-06-21

Havre. France, will build hotel with
capacity of $500 people. for accom-
mediation of transatlantic passengers.
Evening star., 1928-06-21
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

1ODAI.
e. s. War Veterans Association for
the Home for Widows and Orphans. of
All Wars viii meet, o'clock, in Grand
Army Hall
The ladies Of the j. III. Hoge Bible
class VIII serve dinner. from to Z
o'clock at st. Paul M. z. Church
South
The ladies' Bible class of Francis As
bury N. z. Church. South EiIl serve
q chicken dinner, from $50 to O'Clock,
for the benefit OF the building fund, at
Sixteenth and Lamont streets.
The Washington Highlands Citizens
Association win meet, O'Clock in the
Congress Heights School.
st. Stephens Club win have a card
party this evening at st. Stephens
Auditorium, Twenty-fourth and X
streets.
The second annual piano recital by
stildentg Of Madeleine Aughinbaugh
viii take place, 8 O'Clock, in Pierce
Hau, Fifteenth and Harvard streets.
program Of classic numbers win be in
terspersed with soprano solos by Miss
Mabel Latinler, accompanied by Miss
Louise Dale Leads. and a solo dance
By Miss Vaiette Schmidt
A card party will be held, $50 O'Clock.
r. Nativity auditorium, 5000 Georgia
avenue.
Evening star., 1928-06-21
"SPARKLER" CAUSES FIRE,
Premature Fourth Display Starts
Blaze in Home.

-Four companies of firemen and much
excitement figured In the premature
and somewhat overenthusiastic celebra-
ton of the glorious Fourth last night at
the residence and notion store of r. l..
MusSelman at 1921 Four -and-a-half
street southwest. when Mrs Musselman
accidentally dropped "sparkler'-into a
full box of assorted fireworks in the
dining room, setting fire to them all at
once and to the room. Then some one
turned in an alarm, but before the en-
gines arrived Mr.. Musselman had ex-
tinguished the blaze. which caused dam
age estimated at only few dollars.
Evening star., 1928-06-21
FUTURE.

Mrs Clifford Lanham win sponsor a
card party TO be given tomorrow, 8
pm, at her home, Fort Dupont, .. c.,
Pennsylvania avenue southeast ex-
Evening star., 1928-06-21

After a lapse since 1913, Jersey, Eng
land, will revive its battle of flowers on
August 2
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-04
J. C. Penney Store Number
1000 Opened Last Month

Gates a growth materially beyond this
number of retail stores bearing the
Penney name, before the end of the
year.
In the original Kemerer store, Mr..
Penney served as clerk behind a rough
board counter. The present ]. G. Pen
ney Co. stores are models of efflclen-
cy with specially designed show cases,
counters, and general equipment, all
designed by merchandising engineers
to facilitate the ease and comfort with
which the millions of patrons of the
company may be served.
The original store was rough, un'
painted building The present stores
form uniform series of model front
buildings characterized by the attrac
tive facilities afforded by window dis
plays.
With the development of the com
pany, Mr.. Penney has surrounded him
self with thousand partners, all o
whom have grown and profited wit
the growth and increasing earnini
power of the organization.
Earl G.. Sans, president of the j. I
Penney Co., was identified with Nj
Penney as clerk in his first store.
Other members of the board of d
rectors and of the executive PERSONA
/, have come up through the ranks frol
clerkships to store managers to exec
tive authority.
Other activities, as distinctive
: their field, as the J. G. Penney Co. h;
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-04

been in the field of retail merchan-
dising have since been founded by Mr..
Penney. Among these are Penney
Farms in Florida, where, in an incor-
porated city Mr.. Penney is conducting
an enterprise in practical farming
which is attracting agricultural au-
thorities from all parts of the world,
and Emmadine Farms in New York
state where the ]. c. Penney herd of
Foremost Guernseys is recognized as
one of the outstanding herds of pure
bred Guernsey cattle in the entire
dairy industry.
Recent developments in the activi-
ties of the ]. c. Penney Co. include
the completion of plans for a $780,
900 warehouse in st. Louis on which
work has already been started anC
through which merchandise will be
handled for the southwest and the op
ening of five district representative
offices in prominent trade center
throughout the United States for tn
supervision of J. G.. Penney Co. activi
ties in the widespread list of stores.
The new warehouse in st. Loui
will augment the activities of the hug
warehouse in New York City.
At the present time there are J. {
Penney Co. stores in every state i
! the union with the exception of Florid
: and Delaware. Plans which are we
underway at the present time will re
I suit in widespread representation i
S Florida before the end of the year.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-04

April of this year marks the OPEN
ing of j. c. Penney Co. store number
LOCO at Beloit, Kansas and the same
month marks the completion of rs
years in which ]. C. Penney has been
associates with retail department
store merchandising, starting in KEN
erer, Wyo. when Mr. Penney opened
the Golden Rule department store in
1902.
thsi period the volume of business
done by the nationwide organization
of which Mr.. ePnney was the founder
has grown from $28,898 in the first
year to $151, 957 1865 in 1927 with a
goal set for this year which will con-
tinue the remarkable growth which
has been achieved in the past.
In 1927 there were 145 new j. C..
Penney Co., stores added to the group
and among these were the Sc stores
of the Jones Co. in the northwest an
organization founded by men who
were closet identified with Mr.. Pen
ney in his early career as a retail mer.
chant and the &c stores of the Colder
Rule Mercantile Co., with headquart
ers in Ogden, Utah. Johnson & Ste
vens, the founders of the Golden Rule
Mercantile Co., were fellow worlxmel
with Mr.. Penney in retail selling il
Wyoming before the Kemerer stOr
was opened.
The opening of store number LOO
in the so-called spring group of ney
, ]. c. Penney Co., organizations, ind
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-04
Real Estate Transfers

April 10, 1923 to April &c, 1928
Sheriff to George Berghuis S3609.80
E1aNEA 10, NWA, NEASWA IL
$3.50
Frederick Hugo Hammer etux to
Paul Hammer ct al mt, $4,000, SWA
N12SE4 24-35-55.
Matthias Fresz etux to Math Often
brett, S25OO, SWA 30-34-5S.
Lydia Gerogena Tobin to Adlepba
D. Coleman, 500, Lot 16, Blk A Famous
Sheriff to Sec. st. Blk. Outlook
1S9838, N1aNEA, NWA, W1aSWA
2O-35-57.
Eng Torstenson to N. P. E. Moe
S36.57, Lots 8 and IL Davis LIST add
Plentywood.
Sec. st. Bank, Outlook to Mike Elan
merry, $1,000, Lot Ia, Blk 2 Outlook.
Carl E. Back etux to saac Selvig
$50, Lots 13-14-15 Blk z, Outlook:
Anna Mortenson to Richard B. Kru
ger, 1890, Lot 6, blk. 9, Westby.
Sheriff to Matthias Schmich, Sr., ST.
l812.O8, NWA %, E1a NW4, NWA M
"a, NEA SEA 29-36-55.
Farmers Trust & Saw. Blk to Georg
/. Hogen, $1.00, SWASTA, SEA SW7
81, NEA, EhNWA S4-37-55.
/ Rodney Salisbury to H. P. Frida,
$4,000, M 24-35-55. :
: Peter JUL to Carolina JUL, 81, s
: a, E1aNEA "a, NWANWA "a, s.
"A SW4 26-36-53.
First Natl. Blk. Raymond to Firm
Trus & Saw Blk, 81, M 32-37-55.
Firms. Trs & Saw Blk. to George ii
gen, S1.OO, N1a S2-S7-55.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-04
7bjit1hjtrO1I
|OfqLO6N|
1mAEss0SN@

Now that motion pictures can come
in over telephone wires, we can ex-
pect to get the wrong film" more
often than not!
The tennis matches to be held in
Mexico will no doubt revolutionize the
game.
! /
The Yale Glee Club are to give a
series of concerts in central Europe.
No doubt they're setting out to travel
on the high C's.
The four-foot woman who recently
married a circus giant over eight feet
tall certainly has a husband to look
up to!
If anyone suggests it, we're sure
Mayor William Hale Thompson will
change his name to Hail William
Thompson!
If unemployment abates, what will
unemployment statisticians and inves-
tigatOrs do for living?
! !!
The line "Man wants but little here
fthe designer who made up these
/ new Spring garments we are seeing.
Only 20 of $50 college girls inter
: viewed said they would marry Colonel
f Lindbergh if they had the chance. But
who ever denied a woman the right
r to change her mind when the chance
< came?
: Chicago contemplates new election
rule: "No bombing within fifty feet
L Of the polls"
O Now is the time to shed light on the
dark horses" of the coming cam
[. paign.
&c Andrew Tardieu had his nose punch
t ed by his foe in a debate at Belfort
ID France, the other day. If this sort OF
thing keeps up we may begin to ex-
ut pect livelier public interest in aft
fairs of state!
Il A girl typist has swum the Srai
T. of Gibraltar. Now watch the type
70 writer companies seeking endorse
re ments. "My work on the Tiptappe
machine" we will read, prepared m
,w for any hardship in making my jour
ney."
NV
- Emusic hath charms to soothe tn
70 savage beast" wrote Shakespeare. Blu
~ he never heard it at midnight-com
iii ing in from the neighbors' radio set.
+o+ Funerals of grandparents are bc
coming lamentably frequent now thu
oil the baseball season has begun.
Heeney, and not Risko, will figl
,vo Tunney. Evidently Johnny is too muc
w of Risk-O!
III
i A soap company recently advertise
io0 that washing dishes makes hand
On beautiful, and you should have see
vi the number of husbands who cut Il
inc ad out of the paper to take home al
=! show ''the little woman
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-04
Daylight Schedule in Effect
April 20, Ends September 80

New York April 21.-The daylight
saving season is on again or soon to
lpegln IN three entire states and in
hundreds of cities in IA other states.
In New York, Chicago, Philadelphia
and Pittsburgh, as generally elsewhere
IN cities using the altered schedule,
CLOCKS will be pushed back an hour at
am on April 20, last Sunday in the
month, and will remain thus until Sep
TENDER 80.
IN some places, however, daylight
saving began as early as March 2 anc
Ill CEners 1t will be inaugurated as late
l. Some form of daylight saving will
o e observed in all or part of the citiei
VI massachusetts, Rhode Island, Yer
F EOnV' New York, New Jersey, Connec
NTc9t, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania
peleware, West Virginia, Ohio, Ind
@Da' Michigan and Wisconsin.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-04
HOW TO KILL YOUR
ORGANIZATION
Don't come to the meetings.
R1t if YOU do come, come late.

But II you 90 come, come laLe.
If it is too wet or too cold, too hot
or too dry, don't think of coming.
If YOU do attend meeting, find
fault with the work of the officers
and other members.
Never accept an office, as it is
easier to criticize than to do things.
Nevertheless, get sore if you are
not appointed on committee; but If
YOU are, do not attend committee
meetings.
of coming late.
IF asked by the chairman to give
vour opinion regarding some import
ant matter, tell him you have nothing
fo saw After the meeting, tell every
bodv how things ought to be done,
Do nothing more than is absolutel!
necessary. but, when other member
roIl nm their sleeves and unselflshl.
nee their ability to help matters along
howl that the association is run by
clique. 1o,r &c nos
s;hla or don't pay at all.
siOie' y Colorado Bulletin.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-04
-, c7IJDENTS ENROLLED
2 SSp = SCHOLARSHIP TEST
,-.hooefprn Montana SCHOOLS
Many NpG-o'nresented in Annual SchOl-
u. p,.Rip Competition

Auril 24.-WlJh 1Ouf us
Bolellit'ltt f. he heard from there are
tTlcti5 ; IT' school men and women OF
25O msn enrolled in the annual scnol-
Montana oor o which will be held at
aTSnlp SNIP CO State college here on April
MonIad5" % These 266 high school
q t anu It's represent So high schools.
c con- tofal enrolment is expected to
I lda.b 200 early next week. =
rea Tbo following is a list of schools
~ lnV tbo number of scholarship con-
T galtar iis' now accredited to the state
l SS,a'~~rnionship contest here next week;
G Gan5rn 10, Grass Range 3, Klein 1,
HIion +, Whitefish 8, Kalispell g.
P P 2. Baker 10, Ekalaka 2, Mil
5rp5 2, Ismay 3, BOzeman II, Man
I Sattan 6. Stockett 2, Fort Shaw l
TT.nJine Academy /, Cascade l, Te'
ton County 3, Chouteau County 6
ISli ,, Culbertson A, Froid 9, Balm
Vile Vile g. Saco /, Glasgow 6, Nashua 4
Hinsdale 8, Dodson l, Malta 2, Edga
2 Joliet S, Bearcreek l, Bridger 2
White Sulphur Springs 4, Townsen,
II, Miles City IA, Rosebud l, Terry a
Hysham /, Corvallis, Victor 9, Stew
erWiIle 8, Hamilton 8, Glendive Il
Lambert 1, Sidney 2, Richey 4, BIZ
Timber 10, Columbus A, Reed Point
Haue IA, Harlem 2, bingham 2, Bi
Sandy, Philipsburg Z.
This scholarship contest brings in
to the state competition many of tn
smaller high schools that do not Ell
ter other state championships in atl
letic events. The high school &
Whtefish last year won the teal
prize in this scholarship contest a
though individual honors went to
student from Granite county.
State college students this week a.
planning few entertainment fei
lures for the scholarship contest pr
gram here. Gallatin county his
school also will help in the entertai
ment of visitors.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-04
MONTANA WEEKLY
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW

J Polson-Enough land owners sign |
, contracts to secure S595,OOO federal
Flathead reclamation appropriation.
! Deer Lodge-Loss of lambs is ex-
ceptionally small this spring.
Great Falls-Plans are approved for
$1,000,000 high school.
Glasgow has a $150,000 school con-
struction program this year.
Bozeman-Work begins on $250,O0O
new hotel here.
Great Falls 100000 Deaconess
hospital building will be built this
year.
American Light & Power Co. will
pay $S2,000,0O0 for Montana Power
Co. holdings.
Havre is to have $4,000 this year
for its 100000 federal building.
Lewistown will have $4,000 this
year toward its $165,O00 federal build
ing.
Missoula- Blackfoot Gold Mining
Co. will build Bottom mill near Helm
vile.
Cardwell-Harry Shaw pays around
$4,000 for famous Cardwell ranch.
Havre-Nearly 800 local farmers
will participate in tour of Montana
irrigation projects.
Saco-Big Dome Oil & Gas well OF
Bowdoin structure will go to 5000 feet
Observation-Disclosures will build $40,
600 church and parsonage.
Observation-Disclosures has beer
ordered for the new state grain test
ing laboratory.
Montana farmers generally ar
planting an increased acreage o
crops.
Miles OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Powe
Co. will run 100000 Goblin Cree
gas line to Black Hills cities.
Somers-Work begins on new Son
ers Lumber dry kiln.
Terry-Chamber of Commerce wi
make extensive irrigation experiment
Sidney-Contracts signed for $50
acres sugar beets.
Great Falls will buy old Charles \
Russell home for Russell memorial.
Soca-Turner railroad branch opel
100000 acres of land for settlemer
Flathead-Nollar Hill federal 70;
project, miles, is to be built.
Libby-Snowstorm mine ships o
first ore of the year.
Kalispell-Snowshoe mine on Che
ry Creek to have $4,000 developmel
Of AZ large band saw mills in we:
ern Montana, 80 are running full tin
- Montana people have an avera
\ bank deposit of 1913 per capita.
- Glasgow-Bids asked on big M
high school addition.
Great Falls-Wardrobe Compa
an will build $4,000 cleaning plant.
Mr.. Monarch-The II mile rail line
ney Hughesville will be built at once,
cor serve 100000 st. Joseph lead n
ing and mine.
ing Shelby-A hospital will be bull
au once.
rid, ownsend-Capital Oil & Gas "
ork near Winston spudded in.
| of Deer Lodge-Dike is built to S;
as Jens bridge over Deer Lodge river.
pure Miles City-Work will be resun
tire at Montana Belle oil well, Is m
west.
tivi- Great Falls-Construction begins
lude several important city contracts.
'OO,- Genon Pipe Line Co. will build |
hich line from Bannatyne field to Collil
and Lewistown-United States Gyp!
be Co. buys plant at Gypsum station.
OPP Lewistown-County farm dairy
alive averaged 37.9 pound of butterfat
tiers March.
: the Deer Locge-Right of ways
,tivi- being secured for proposed Drumn
es. highway.
4ouls PLENTY wcad-E'e est oil well To
huge drilled I &c er or Redstone.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-04
FRANK CONE FILES FOR
SECRETARY OF STATE
Resident of Montana As years Pledges
Fidelity and Honest Service-Iden-
titled With State Progress in Com
mercial and Legislative Field.

J. Frank Cone of Hamilton, secre-
tary of Montana's state senate at four
assemblies and who was unanimously
endorsed for the position at the last
session by Republicans, Democrats
and members of the Farmer-Labor
party, today filed his nominating pc
tition for the Republican nomination
for secretary of state. He is the first
republican to file for that office.
In his nominating petition Mr.. Cone
asserts that he has been a resident o.
Montana As years and pledges fidel
ity, service and honest work.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-04
Blind Chicken Doctor
Relies on Sense of Touch

Fresno, Calif.-Alexander Kisch is
known as the best chicken doctor in
San Joachim Valley. He makes his di-
agnOses by listening to the feeble
Cluck of a sick fowl or passing his
fingers over the feathers. He can
not look the chicken over for he is
blind, but he has developed the sense
Of touch to an astonishing degree.
A sudden explosion left him sight
less twelve years ago.. when he hello
the best job in a California sugar mill
he now moves about his small farm
without a guide. The plant he dseign
ed is capable of producing a THOUSAND
lat broilers at a clip, and dozens O.
eggs daily. He is competing witt
poultrymen who can see, and man,
who come to him for advice think hin
leader in his field.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-04
COOLIDGE NOW
HOLDS 20 SHARES
OF STEEL STOCK

rn1tioOken, N. J.. April 22.-Dec-
der SsiTn OF 40 per cent stock divi-
rorn n Oy the United States Steel
in p pOn last year has resulted
holJ;uerlcal increase in the share
MANI 'gs OF President Coolidge, and
boIdSSo Oh the other prominent stock
ruoI s' 1t was revealed at the an
here meeting of the corporation
50 s ssSsldent Coolidge, who has held
yea rnares of the stock for several
diti,sS'.In now o owns 20 shares, the adj
diyidasalu ~ representing the stock
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-04
A. c. NJ. Attorney
Leaves to Consult Mayos

Butte, April 23.-Attorney Dan NJ.
Kelly of the legal staff of the A. c..
NJ. company, left Monday night for
Rochester, MINI. Mr.. Kelly had no
acute ailment but has been feeling run
down for some months and decided to
submit himself to observation of the
famous hospital staff of Mayo broth
! erS
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-04
of77FV OF THE GRAIN MARKET

% E';; si5: S;s55's s,rs S6sS
l ling Factors
Graf. ne es5s p 5ss 5 %5sR sa H5f5S
e and 3d' price reached led new n1nd hlg1
points on anc, ord to the weekly Rg gra an
: AZ . !: :: d. = H. !. :;s::
:: . :' j: E: : s: . rs: ::;@:
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-04

Roundup -Minnesota-Fl atwillow Pc
troleum will spud in new well.
Winnett grain elevators install new
hydraulic wagon dumps.
Deer Lodse--JIarvey Creek Co. re-
ceives fine ire camples from Hidden
Hand Mine.
Poplar oil sh' wing reported in Pr
oneer pros pect Well.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-04

First convict: Glow often have you
been in jail?" :,
Second convict: "Just this once"
First convict: you're lucky"
Second convict: 81 don't know-Tm
in for life"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-04
Every Dog Has His Day
and the Right to Bite Once

Orange, N. Am ordinance pre-
pared here provides that a dog may
be termed a vicious animal if it
bites a person more than once or if
it bites more than one person.
The owner of the dog must pay $40
for the first bite beyond the dogs le-
gal allowance; SIS for the second and
after that $50 per bite per person. The
ordinance will also give policeman
the right to kill dog classified as q
vicious animal.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-04

Modest Miss: 81 suppose I'm the
- dressed girl here tonight.
"I P5oossetful Ben: (Silence) II said. |
.,,r DoaS Pm the worst dressed girl
''ea 81 heard you. I was trying to
think"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-04

"Your tailor hired me to collect this
bill from you"
"You are to be congratulated on
OBJ aiming a permanent position"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-04
Michigan Drys' Revolt
Fizzles-Smith Gets 80

g detroit, April 16.-Indications that
C ~Svernor Smith of New York will re-
cave gaH;s t ne unqualified support of Michi-
S SaES 81 delegates to the democratic
44SS c convention was seen today in
s sfe CoIlaose of party instruction
a 1t oy a group of dry advocates.
bo AZ the various county conventions
tSo ,u Yesterday to select delegates to
NJ NJ state convention at Port Huron on
ts fey Smith opposition failed to ma
r,o r.allze and instead the New York
1UoTirorS presidential candidacy was
MSinlnaOusly Endorsed.
do. TiOSt OF the convention fire yester.
WY Sy was leveled at Herbert Hoover
tbo eO WAS was condemned as "a member o.
fbro harding oil cabinet who sat silen
ush the nauseous scandal"
wsr AND by the way, Arthur, after yol
aHa robbed did you call the police :?
Dafn right, Hebzibah. Fyerythin
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1928-09-06

silence, and you submitted because
you realized something in the power
that the Haywards held over your
father. What your father told the
detective-that you were to be Villas
wife-was from compulsion, not from
choice"
She nodded.
"And for the same reason you
couldn't come to my defense that
night in the den-when | had struck
Villas. And the reason that you told
the detective of my quarrel with Hay
ward that day as | was leaving was
not that you were afraid Villas would
be implicated, but why was it, jose
phine?"
II don't think you should ask me
that. You've thought i'll of me-so
many times. The reason was"
Eyes"
THAT | wanted you to stay, DR..
Long!"
We were silent a long time. And
all the while / was searching about
in a mind suddenly gone empty for
the words wanted to say. They
simply wouldn't come.
And then | became aware of some
thing rapturous past words to tell.
Something was stealing along my
arm so light that | could hardly feel
it through my coat sleeve, and final
ly it nestled at the hollow of my ell
bow. And then | found myself whirl-
ing, and speaking breathless words.
You'll forgive me, Jo%sephine-all
those things | said-and did," /
pleaded. "Oh, sweetheart"
And no mortal eyes could believe
the change in her that came when ]
spoke those words. 1t was one of the
miracles of these latter days. At
first she simply waited-as if for me
to continue. And then, after a while,
she made me an answer. Part of it
was just words. Part was the look
that the moonlight showed on her
face. But what was by a thousand
times the biggest part no human be-
ing could have been hopeful enough
10 believe, was a thing that her arms
did. And then
What happened then is a secret
between us and the marshes; and
The marshes are famous for not tell
ing their secrets. One Of their Sc
crets is a ring that Villas had given
Josephine; and it lies in the mud of
heir bottom today. After a while
a great owl hooted and called from
the island, hoping to repeat his tri-
umph of a few nights before. But
Josephine turned her face just long
enough to laugh at him.-THE END.