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Is to take steps to repay the
loan.
Alan was startled.
"Take steps?' he echoed what
steps?p
my clientele Is growing rap
idly answered Kelton. Thanks
IN no small measure TO yourself.
The action against Random was.
really subtle form Of advertise
nlent. The credit Of the, firm
has never been higher. And I
think. If It would suit you, could
manage q part payment Of fifty
thousand in b few days. =
To do that you would have to
borrow"
II have no alternative to bor-
rowing - no moral alternative
now
You have no assets"
KeIton smiled tolerantly.
Please believe, Brennaway,
that | can make arrangements.
with the details OF which will
not trouble you, that will at least
enable me to put my great in.
debtedness to you on some sort
OF systematic footing.
Another rehearsed spec G h,
thought Alan. 1t was all mon
strous nonsense, of course. IL
kelton could get money anywhere
he could only get it from
TnoneyIender. There was that
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So that was why Kelton was
! so clipper lie had hit on the
plan of using Shirley directly In
stead OF indirectly as before.
That showed he had no spirit.
1t did not matter. Alan said
nothing, only looked at Shirley.
You don't really want him to
60, do you, Alan?' she was ask
ing.
All sense Of irritation had left
Alan. Macedonia as far as Kelton
was concerned was already forgot
ten.
Il gather from your husbands
last remark that it isn't any use
wanting him to go to Macedonia
or anywhere else where you don't
want him to CO." he said smiling.
Now, / suppose, you want me to
apologize for suggesting it?'
We'll, it was rather curmudge4
ony. wsan't it?''
II was afraid you'd put me in
the curmudgeon department. Shir-
ley" said Alan. We must think
out something that will suit Roger
better"
Yes, that was one reason, at
least, why Kelton was so pleased
with himself Alan could almost
read his thoughts. Roger
was thinking what a fool he hAsl
been not to use Shirley before.
Shirley was an Invaluable asset.
There was q lot to be said for this
biz brother atmosphere. 1t enabled
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Iiquidating your debit
So 1t seemed to neat the
time when we first discussed IL,
said Kelton eagerly. .'But the
mistake / made, Of course, was
to fail to visualize how very
close partnership marriage is.
The second you have scheme
that touches the home life. such
as this one, 1t is impossible to
make any decision without con-
sulting the other party. I blame
myself whole lot, BrennaWay.'
Alan waited. KeIton had some
plan up his sleeves; no need to
help him out.
Il am bound to remind myself
that this Macedonian business
formed an important part Of our
conversation in the first instance z
continued Kelton, and Alan had
the impression that he was re-
hearsing a prepared speech. II
will not say that it was q con-
dition OF the loan because that
would be to do you an injustice.
You are not the kind OF man
who makes conditions when he Is.
helping another man. But to me
at any rate it was an implied
condition. prefer to regard it
so. il YOU will allow me. We
come therefore to the plain, bru-
tai fact that / have failed to full
fill your conditions. Only one
course remains to n1e--and that
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closed her mouth several
times en- route, but not one
word had issued.
Look here" said Tom. standing
In the portico. II can take you
both home in my coach-neat but
not gaudy! IT'S only got one flat
tonight. and it's parked right down
there near Hollyhock drive"
The professor smiled and shook
his head. Thanks. no; Mary Eliz.
abeth's down here. waiting for
me. He looked steadily at Linda
q moment. bowed and strobe off
down the steps.
Linda stared after him curiously
He treaded the shrubbery that
clustered a the edge of the cir
cular drive brought out from be-
hind bush an diversified bicycle,
shot one heavy leg over 1t and was
off, pedalling furiously against the
slight uphill grade.
WELL" said Thomas Moonlight,
$50 that is Mary Elizabeth
''What?" said Linda in a startled
voice.
'The bicycle. of course" an
swered Thomas. Trust the pro-
fessor to call that over-grown,
noisy contraption by a silly female
name! / wondered why he had
bicycle clips on his trouser legs"
Thomas. said Linda. putting
her hand on his arm and staring
nD at him with round. brown eyes,
sis ne crazy?"
The boy laughed loudly. lis
Or. Prime crazy? Say listen,
lady. IL the rest Of us had a
tenth Of his brains. we'd be sit
ting on the world. It's old Prime
that's sane. and we are crazy.
He knows what he wants. and by
Godfrey he goes straight after
gle has a speaking acquaint-
ance with more languages than
you or ! ever knew existed. He
knows chemistry better than the
chem prof. He had a course In
law at Heidelberg. and year Of
organ study in Vienna. He knows
English poetry from Beowolf to
Robert Frost. and he is a world
authority on Egyptology. And
what is more. he can make better
flapJacks than the darby cook at
the Beta house, and stir up a
batch of biscuits that Dean
Steuer's wife can't equal. He is
the one and only DIR. Prime and l
love him. God rest his soul!''
Linda was still puzzled. "He
wears a hair-net," she said, pro.
testingly.
"Of couU - a hair.net,
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Now Go On With The Story.

She had stopped on narrow
staircase and was looking down
on him. For the first time he
saw that there was nard line
ut her lips.
The hard line vanished as she
made an affectionate little face at
him.
Get it over, Alan! It's our
ways and means you're inter-
ested in, isn't it?''
Well, / know you can't afford
TO live in palace without living
IN your capital, he retorted.
Your money won't last long at
this rate. Z
Il love hearing you talk like
this. because it's so easy to prove
you're wrong MY CAPT
tai hasn't been touched except
for investment"
"Of course, IL you like to call
this an Investment"
No. / don't mean this mean
real proper investment. Stock
exchange. It's called Corto Bella.
Corto BelIasl' reflected Alan
aloud. II know that stock. That
fellow Cynaz il at the back Of it.
Don't you remember he men.
toned it the night you took me
to a reception, when told
YOU
Yes. the other day he lined
with us and he advised me to
buy. We've made a lot OF money
out of it already. or we would
have il we had sold; but we're
waiting to make more. Stop
looking like that. Alan
.sCynaz is a faker.' said Alan,
following her up. Its all a mat.
ter Of profit with him. He
doesn't know or care about the
realities behind the companies.
] don't know anything about
finance on that scale. Anyway.
corto Bella is very speculative.
IL you've made a profit already
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other way, Of course, the way
his father had taken.
And that was the way he would
go sooner or later unless he were
stopped For Shirley's sake he
must be stopped before II was too
late Alan jerked round
to another aspect of the subject.
Have you told Shirley that she
can't have ~ per cent?"
Really Brennawayr Kelton
flushed. I have not told her, /
have had no time. 7
Shirley thinks your joint in
come is oyer $4,000 q year. It Is
really $4,000 less. Look ct this
place. Look at your house in
New York
Kelton made q deprecatorys
noise. The depreciation was not
quite an insult, but very nearly.
I'm afraid, BfeHnaWay, there
are certain aspects OF my private
life that could not hope to ex-
plain TO YOU satisfactorily. Believe
me, regret my own miserable In
ability to make my position clear.
/ can only ask whether $4,000
would be acceptable as an earn.
est OF my intention to make every
possible effort to repay YOU"
Alan pushed aside his I'm
touched liquor.
'KeIton-', he began.
Kelton's lips frightened, his eye
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drive, paused for a moment under
the low.hanging branches Of a
locust tee, where night had quite
descended, and, without a word
to Linda released his brakes to
let the car swoop down the de.
cline on the other side.
She noticed that they did not
turn into Mulberry place as they
passed up College road. 1t was
late now. long past the hour set
for dinner at her boarding house.
But she made no objection as he
headed for the country. The hum
of the motor and the warmth of
the rug Tom had tucked around
her were making her very sleepy
almost brought her head down
on Toms sweatered shoulder be.
fore she knew 1t.
He slipped an arm around her
casually, and said not q word
when she lifted 1t away from her.
He was turning and backing the
little car for a return to town
when she broke the silence. You
and Dulcy," she said.
he interrupted. "Dulcy says you
are an mpostor-questions your
possession of that damn Whitlock
picture and Lucy Whitlock's lug.
gage"
"And your" Linda turned 4
wide gaze on him.
IT want to take you to the
barnwarming dance on Friday
night" he answered lightly.
--2h
"But you don't believe I am
He patted her arm with his
free hand. you might be an es-
capped murderess, for all l care"
he said. IT am going to take you
to the biggest dance of fall sem.
ester"
Linda set up with a spasmodic
movement, so that the rug slipped
down and rolled about her knees.
You're NOT going to take me-"
she said. Because I won't go
with you. You might at least
have lied and said you believed in
me. Take me home now"
IT never lie," said Thomas, as
he stamped on the accelerator.
CHAPTER IA
The young lady with the Greek
profile had been talking for twenty
minutes about the semicolon. The
drone of her fastidious trilled RS
and throaty as echoed family in
Linda's consciousness across an
abyss OF boredom.
The old room, with it's dull vel.
low decks and it's wainscoting OF
secured blackboard. was flooded
with the warm yellow sunlight Of
late September afternoon. Tn
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I'd advise you to sell out. Are
you in it very heavily"
Only twenty-five thousand.
And I don't think shall take
your advice. It's no use conpro-
missing between your methods
and mine. z
You didn't pay for Southamp-
ton with Corto Bellas, surely?"
"Oh no. That was something
else. That had nothing to do
with that. Mr.. Gorstonbut per-
llaps you don't know him-gave
Roger tip and in three days
he made over a thousand.
II thought you said your CAPT
tai hadn't been touched except"
1T hasn't. ] had nothing to
do with that. Roger did It him
self"
Alan made no answer. tt Kelton
had been making money by
taking stock exchange tips that
had happened 10 come off. where
had he obtained the capital?
CHAPTER 1s
The staircase had broushta Alan
and Shirley back to the main
man, anu there was Roger Will
ing for them. Alan was forced
to dismiss his doubts and greeted
his host.
Roger, In flawless evening kit,
poked lazy fun at Alan's Knockers
and sShirley's knitted silks. At
once. Alan received the impress
sion that Roger was secretly In
the highest feather. No use in
wondering why-no use in doing
anything but be glad that Shirley.
was so happily married. A har-
gain, that happiness. at half .
million.
They were at table in cosy.
cedar-paneled room.
by the way, Brennaway,
Shirley has put her foot down
upon Macedonia. You had better
talk to her like a father"
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skilled In the art Of registration,
Linda had drawn. out Of its grab.
bag Of scrambled learning, that
traditional campus bogey-a four
o'clock class-spo OF d thou.
sand glorious tea-parties and af-
ternoon hikes and movie matinees.
She was regretting 1t now,
watching the teachers Greek pro-
file with resentful eyes. Some
times the woman unbent that
stern neck of hers and read poetry
to the class. and Linda watched
her eyes grow bright and liquid
and wondered at the change.
Poetry, as yet, was to Linda only
q column of rhymed and mea-
sured sentences.
Today, the teacher herself plow-
ing through the intricacies of
Dudley's HANDBOOK OF ENG
LISH SYNTAX, seemed bored.
Linda turned away and watched
the street outside. A long process
sion of farm wagons laden with
great boughS of autumn foliage
was coming up the street. The
sight did not astonish her. For
days now, such parades had been
crawling through the town, bound
for Gym Valley, where the Barn
warming Ball was to be held
Such Ag students as could steal
time from the Gargantuan task OF
decorating the gym for the event
came to classes in their oVeralls,
hammers and screw drivers stick.
ing out of pockets, bits of red and
yellow leaves clinging to their
hair.
AS Linda watched the swaying
top-heavy carts, the corners OF her
month dropped and her eyes
clouded.
She was. it seemed to her, the
only girl in Marbury who was
not going to the party that night.
She twisted restlessly in her seat,
and lifted her eyes to stare at
the Greek profile.
Another pair of eyes intercepted
her gaze, however, and she real
lied, with a start, the the young
man across the aisle had been
watching her steadily for some
time. She gave him q curious,
half-superciliouS stare. He was
tall, slim, neatly dressed in navy
blue. His black hair waved back
from a high white forehead, and
his features were clearly chiselled,
almost like a girls He was watch
ing her with his gray eyes.
through huge tortoise.shell glas ses
and his eyes expressed strong. II
discreet, approval.
CTo Be Continued MOnday)
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JlNJ)A VtO0 romance u CO''ege Lure Virginia Swain

and he rides bike named Mary
Elizabeth, and he dabbles In
everything that interests him,
without thought for the ignoble
uses he could put his knowledge
to, such as making a fortune, or
becoming world famous, or hang.
ing a lot OF degrees after his
name, like scalps of little dead
school courses he's murdered.
Do you know, that mantle
one truly learned person on the
Marbury faculty, is still loafing
along with one measly little
bachelor of arts degree, which
some hick school in the West
thrust on him before he was old
enough to resist. Since then
he's studied enough to have had
a dozen Phi. DIS. But he's sane
enough tn know they're bunk,
and so he just refuses to take
the necessary exams for any
more degrees-loafs along at in.
structef's pay, while full pro-
fessorships go to morons like
Steuer.
Everybody laughs at him, of
course. Once the engineers
plotted to caricature him for
their st. Patrick's Day parade,
and they had picked a man about
his size to wear the famous hair.
net and ride the bike. At the
last minute they couldn't find a
bike half so big, and they were
about to give 1t up, when a call
came from Prime, offering his
bike. his hair net and his famous
opera cape for his impersonator.
Naturally, the caricature never
came off.
Then one dav somebody
found him lost in the revolving
doors of Old Brick Hall. and led
him, loudly protesting, out to
liberty. The campus roared over
that all day, but the morning
paper next day carried the news
that his serum for snake poison
had been endorsed by the A. NJ.
A. You see, he always has the
last laugh-only he never takes
the trouble even TO smile at his
prosecutors.
THE real people on the cam.
pus simply worship him."
Linda was listening somewhat
absently. THAT was a queer con.
versation overheard before you
came-back in a sort of alcove
study. All about something illegal
and taking care of his reputation
or something. He was talking
to someone, but when looked
there was nobody there
Thomas Moonlight laughed
Probably talking to himself
about some ancient law of the
Pharaohs. And az for the other
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OUTLAWS 81 the NiIds

III the animal world there outlaws among
beings. Some smal like the rat and the jack
rabbit others large and fierce like the timber wolf and
cougar mountain lion.
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ScallOps Finish the Summer FrOck
Made of Substantial Craft Paper (Not Tissue)
The Washington Times 15c Practical Pattern

Scallops lend their note of soft
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Not the least of its charm is
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person, my dear Linda, DR.. Prime
adds to his other accomplishment
the art of mimicry and vent-ilo-
quism. No wonder you came tear
ing down through the Venuses
and Apollos, looking like a. flying
victory, yourself.
Linda shook her head. Per
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haps so. But it didn't sound like
ventriloquism."
cit never does" said Tom.
when DIR. Prime does it"
They were in the little flivver
now, sitting close together in its
low seats, with legs thrust out
straight before them. Tom drove
slowly mp the lift of Hollyhock
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"A Thrilling Romance Of High Courage
and Of Two Who GaIRDled for
Life's Highest Stake
Read This First::

Brennaway 49, New York after IN
millions Shirley Dane,
beautiful society girl whom he has always loved and finds that Though
she did
She tells him her father left her sOoo0o which in the hands Of
Wch $4,000 Alan
surprise this high rate Of interest and rather resents the superficial
leading him but
there another and begs him always TO be her friend
other clients has been swept owing to frauds m
father keOn Shirley
He lends him half million e square himself taking a. collateral
Macedonia and what he do with the
Shirley Alan
advice Of specialist and hearing from Shirley that she
KeIOn where staying
New York Keton begins g be Jealous Of Alan and
Shirley ktOn Macedonia
asks her she wants him She offers to e Alan that Keton
mention the subject Later the day she finds Alan waiting for
beyond their Shirley and Keon Alan brings
fiOn Of
New Britain herald., 1928-02-16
THREE MEN KILLED
 AS BUILDING FALLS
Tumbles Into Excavation for 8th Avenue Library
 in New York

New York. Feb. 16 R - Three workmen were killed today in a col lapse of a building on sth avenue, near 52nd street.
 The building. an unoccupied four story brownstone house, collapsed into the excavation for the new Eighth avenue subway which was being dug beneath it. Twenty men were at work in the excavation when the house fell but first checkups in- dicated that only three had been killed.
 The house collapsed with a ter rife crash, sending clouds of dust billowing above the tops of sur rounding houses. All traffic was halted and hurry calls were sent in for ambulances and police reserves.
 The first building to collapse was four story house used as a tool house by the subway workers. Be- fore the dust from the first crash had settled the houses on each side of the first one slid forward into the excavation. Both of the latter buildings were being razed in con- nection with the subway work.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-16
ANDERSON IS ELECTED
 TO SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Mayor Weld Discovers Error in Council
 Resolution

Through clerical error. the com mon council last night by unani- nous vote elected Aaron Ander. son" member of the school com. mittee, members of the council evf. dcntly being under the impression they were electing Aaron Danielson, the nominee of republican caucus.
 The printed resolution signed by Alderman William H. Judd and read to the council by Town Clerk Alfred l.. Thompson had the incorrect name, but the error was not detected until this morning when the docu- ment came before Mayor Weld for his signature. Since it is necessary for the mayor to sign his name to make the election binding, "Ander- son" is not member of the commit tee by virtue of last nights action. At tonight's adjourned meeting. Mayor Weld will report the condi- ton and the minutes will be cor rected. after which Danielson may qualify for office.
 There is but one Aaron Anderson in the city directory. He is jani- tor, employed at 31 Howard street.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-16
PRESIDENT DECLINES
 INVITATION BY CITY
Regrets He Cannot Alt tend War Memorial
 Dedication

Words of praise for the city Of New Britain are contained in let ter to Mayor Weld from President Coolidge, through his secretary, in which the president comments the city on its war memorial and ex- presses regret that he will be unable to take part in the dedicatory ex- ercises.
 Mayor Weld wrote the President several days ago informing him that the memorial is nearing completion and is to be dedicated June 9. The reply received today reads: My Dear Mayor Weld.
 ''The President was very glad to learn that the city of New Britain on June 9th would dedicate a me- morial to those of it's citizens who served in the World war. Visible evidences of such patriotism are most effective in showing to those who come after the devotion to country of those who have gone before.
 "He appreciates very much the invitation to take part in the dedi- cation services. but regrets very much that it will be impossible for him to do so.
 Sincerely yours.
 EVERETT SANDERS,
 Secretary to the President" '"
New Britain herald., 1928-02-16
PUBLIC WORKS INQUIRY APPROVED BY COUNCIL
Two Investigations, Spon. sored by Both Parties,
 Launched

Two investigations of practices of the department of public works. one sponsored by the democratic mem- bers of the common council and the second by republicans. were given the unanimous approval of the council last night.
 Councilman Samuel Sablotsky of the sixth ward, sponsored an inquiry to determine the truth or falsity of charges made against Chairman R. D. Towers of the board while Coun- cilman William G. Gibney of the first ward championed a survey of |. street conditions and the city's methods of repair studied.
 The Sablotsky resolution called at- tention to the fact that no one in public office has taken it upon him. self to challenge the statement that abuses exist in the department of public works and he set up the claim that the city's name will suffer unless the charges are proved false or those responsible punished.
 Opening his explanation of the resolution. the councilman remark ed: II see the spectators gallery is filled tonight-I don't know whether they came up to hear about the gar bage contracts. or if they were in- terested in knowing what is going to be done about the board of public works.
 Some time ago an article appear ed in one of the local papers criti- cizing the action of the board of public works. Some one put a gas mask on the man who gave out the story, and that ended it. He held his job. refer to James Sposato foreman of the city storeyards Every member here remembers the charges he had made. Two weeks ago the street superintendent was dismissed. He made public state
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