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70 20, before the whole house
Walxened2
She rounded the curve OF the
balustrade and descended fleetly
until she stood one step above
him. She put her hands on his
shoulders and attempted gently
TO turn him around. Come on
now, Jerry" she urged. You're
headed in the wrong direction,
honey didn't you know that2
You want to 90 down.
Come, take hold Of my hand,
I'll 90 down with you.'' She
heard herself murmuring these
coaxfng wheeling things, just
as she had murTnured them in
unforgettable midnights long ago.
She thought, Like my father.
Like my father. Like my
father MonotonOusly.
All at once she was terribly
angry. Her fingers on Jerry's
shoulders frightened spasmodically,
her nails dug the cloth OF his
dinner coat: she shook him, stroye
with all her puny strength to
dfslodge him from the railing to
which he held fast. "You--go-
away" she painted, half sobbing.
GO awayi / can't-you--oh, !
can't stand this"
That was it. The second she
had said it she recognized it's
truth. She could not endure to
see him 80. Not concern for the
other dweilers in the house, nor
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finally, though. and the taxi
driver helped me up your front
steps, and Gay rang your bell for
me. And then she went on alone
in the cab and I came in. And
you know the rest"
Yes. Dolly knew the rest.
Part OF her mind defended Jerry
and refused to blame him. 1t
wasn't his fault. 1t was Gays fault.
She had played upon his weak.
ness. deliberately. Just to see if
she could. probably. just ''for
fun" Or perhaps there she
touched the edges Of the real
solution) perhaps for her. Dolly's.
benefit. A gesture of defiance. 1t
would be, thought Dolly. recalling
her single encounter with Gay
that night in Atlantic City, exactly
like her.
But with the other, the stronger
part of her mind. Dolly blamed
Jerry wholly. After all, he had
done this thing. Did the fact that
Gay had tempted him exculpate
him? 1t did not. Rather the con.
trary. Dolly was first of all a
had been able to make Jerry
break his promise to her-the
promise upon which SO much de.
pended-rendered his dereliction.
in the final analysis. but the
more unforgivable in her eyes.
So she said drearily. again and
again, ''I can't. I can't do It,
Jerry. Don't you see can't
now?'' Until at last Jerry,
tight-ipped and white as death,
flung himself through the door.
way of the little apartment,
raced down the stairs and went
out,
The Alan Pomeroys spent the
summer in the city. Business
held Alan there, and Gay stayed
with him-not fretfully, as might
have been expected, hut with
astonishing good grace. 81 shan't
mind" she stated when they first
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like q willie-boy! So anyway.
this time, last night, she kept beg
ging me to taste these cocktails,
and pushing the goblet in my
face, and laughing at me-shO
has the most derisive little laugh,
/ can't describe it--and finally,
just to shut her up. i tasted the
little bit that was in the goblet.
/ said to myself. Dolly wouldn't
mind this. This doesn't count,
it's such q little bit. But then
it tasted good"
He had accepted q full cocktail,
and swallowed it. And 1t had had
"a kick like q mule" because
he had taken nothing alcoholic
for so long. And he had thought.
We'll, as long as I've had one.
I might as well have just one
more" And he had taken an
other. And then he had ceased
to think anything about 1t at all,
except that the cocktails were
very delicious and very plentiful
"And by and by I knew I was
boiled, boiled as an owl. And I
began to have the most terrible
attack OF conscience. 1t came to
me all OF a sudden just what I'd
done. And / kept telling Gay
we were at some night club by
that time-I kept telling her I
ought to leave right away, and go
to you, and ask you to forgive
me. was obsessed with an idea.
I remember thinking in a muddled
sort of way that If / waited till
morning it would be too late. Or
something. Anyway, thought I
had to go to you right then. and
Gay said yes, she thought that
was the thing for me to do. so
finally we left this place and piled
in a cab and both drove down
here. 1t took us quite a while.
! because got the address all
balled up"
He smiled ruefully. "That shows
you how far gone I was! Forget
ting your address. 1 got it right
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fear Of what they might think,
motivated her: but 3 frantic de.
sire to get Jerry. this blinking.
babbling, hideous Jerry, out Of
her own sight, her own hearing.
Her hands fell away from him
and hung, clenched into little
fists, at her sides. She bit her
lip to stop it's hystericaI CULVER.
ing, and for the first time she
looked squareIy at him, straight
into his dark swollen eyes.
Jerry"
Now, now" he broke in re-
proving1y, don't be mad. Mus'Tl
be mad" Still anchored by one
arm to the banister rail, he
the other. Kiss m make up
fled. Up the stairs. Along the
ball. Into the room that she
perceived only as a briIliance
hazed with her tears. She shut
the door. Clinging with both
hands to the knob, she dropped to
her knees. swayed sideways and
huddled there, racked with long
sobs, against the panel.
Then the footsteps again.
She thought franticalIy. "Oh,
he's coming after me-" and
started to her feet with a con.
fused, half crazed notion OF fur.
Their flight. In that instant it
was az though some sinister Thing
pursued her; some grim reIent-
less Thing of which she was NOR.
tally afraid Then she
remembered, and sank back.
There was nothing to be afraid
OF. He could do nothing more
than break her heart, and that
he had already done.
anyway" she thought, "he
can't get in"
He couldn't. He tried to, with
raps, with husky words, with
twists Of the doorknob, with
poundings that she fancied shook
the building. He wanted to tell
her something. He assured her re.
peatedly that he had to tell her,
that 1t was very important, that
she must open the door and let
him talk to her
Crouched on the floor. not three
inches from him, she listened;
StAS AAOA EpCeLh -
word.
His outburst was succeeded
finally by a silence so absolute,
so lasting, that it began to seem
ominous to her after a while.
What was he doing out there?
He hadn't gone; she would have
heard him go. What made him so
strangely still? She strained her
ear to the panel OF the door. No
sound. Not the faintest breath of
sound.
She got UP quickly and un.
locked the door, and threw it
wide. Jerry. reclined at her feet.
His legs were outstretched along
the door sill. his back was to the
wall; he had removed the straw
hat, and his usually sleek black
hair was touseled as little boys.
He had evidently been almost
asleep, his chin on his starched
white chest but with the opening
OF the door and the sudden il.
Elimination he raised drowsy lids
and smileL at her. Trustfully.
somehow.
Bitterness went from her then,
though her mind clutched for IL,
tried hard to retain 1t. She had
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hated Jerry a moment ago. Now
she did not hate him, and could
not. She could not. She could
only pity him. So helpless he
looked! And so young. oh" she
said, poor kid. You're tired,
aren't you?"
He nodded. 'LiI nap-fix me
right up"
She nodded zoo. in swift COM
passionate agreement Yes. But
not there. You mustn't sleep
there" She bent over him, tug.
ging at his limp arms. Get up,
Jerry honey. Stand up just q sec
ond. / want you to come inside
where you can be comfy
For half an hour after that,
until Bees return, she sat near
the couch on which Jerry lay
sprawled, and watched him; her
eyes fixed and dull with pain; her
fingers stirring and stirring and
stirring a cup OF cold black cof-
fee with a spoon.
The engagement was broken.
Not all Jerry's reiterated pleas
and frantic promisings, not all his
threats, his announcements that
he would go straight to hell' il
she released him. his shrewd per-
sistent appeal to that maternal
side of Dolly which he knew to
be basic in her love for Kim,
could alter her decisions
She was moved by what he
said; EXCEPTIONALLY wracked and
shaken. All through the long
narrowing interview, held that
next morning in the little apart.
ment after Bee had departed for
work, she cried wretchedly. But
she did not change her mind.
can't" she said again and
again. Don't you see I can't
Jerry? Not now. You failed me.
You wouldn't leave liquor alone
just for six little months, when
marrying me depended on it.
You wouldn't or you couldn't. You
either didn't care enough, or you
--werenG man enough. Either
way IL don't want YOU"
And again, IF L had some in.
fluence over you, Jerry--if 1 real
ly could help you-it might be
different. But / haven't any in.
fIuenceI over you. That's been
proved, I haven't even now, when
you love me most. And as soon
as ever I belonged to you, and
had become a sort of fixture, a
habit then wouldn't have any
at all--and my life would be just
one long succession Of nights like
last night"
And again in an overpowering
surge of grief. "Oh, Jerry, how
could you? When there were only
10 days, and / was so happy"
Then he would repeat his exs
PLANTATION. 1t was like this: He
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h looked up then; graspsd the
banister rail and rocked far
backward perilousIy far hack.
ward, 90 that she cried out in
alarm ana lifted his face to-
ward her. The slanted brina 81
his hat Swallowed bis eyes; but
she could see his mouth. His
anirking mouth.
There you are!s ne cried.
= ,Wasa -a.ay up there.
Jerry. Her stage whisper
sounded 10 her Ike q scream In
the slumbering house. Please,
cear-io something Tor me. Turn.
around now. and go back down.
stairs, and 20 home. win yol1
do that2 Please. It's so late.
It'll see you In the morning.
Jerry gave no sign Of having
heard. Been looking f'r you,"
he mumbled, ssbeen looking f'r
you" with 3 sweep .of his arm
hours IN hours. Been look
Ing. Fact" His tone became
argumentative, and louder.
S'tIae truth You ask Gay.
Gay,n tell you. / said, Mus 90
see ILL Dolly ana---anapol'gize
Mus He wagged his head
0wlishly. "S'what / said"
Words. Mumbled, thiclx.ton.
gued words. Dolly's brain made
no sense of them, so intent 1t
was on its more immediate and
pressing problem. How to get
rid OF him? How to induce him
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A GIamOrOus Narrative Of the French
Revolution By the Author Of
Many Romantic Novels

even IL q yirtuOars republic nisrn
too general to De hoped should
compel Il To stand Idle. Tor. ask
yourselves, nay friends, my
brothers what status be aenObls
king, Of wretched tyra1at. or vile
servant DC GIeBpOtistl, what image
Of sniveling saint or iloulderirg
sO.called martyr, could ever conn
pare with that glorious symbol
of Mans Emancap ton, De Mans
DeliyeTaSlce fror1 tho letters that
were placed nv kings upon his
very soul
There Il rises, my brothers. IN
its awful dignity; the emblem Of
the Triumph 81 Reason. And
what more glorious emblem could
any city desire To raise? That
scnffoid, my brethren, is d sacred
altar, upon which Il Is your holy
duty To offer up the impure
blood of aristocrats u the greater
honor and glory oe the Republic.
One and Indivisible! ~
Under his fiery eyes they hud.
died together like 3 flock 81 ter
rified sheep. He observed them
calmly.
You are silent, my friends. /
understand. You share my own
deep emotion. It leaves YOU
speechlees III your great thankful.
ness. That II very well. II a j
sign to me that you viii not
falter III the performances 1T the
exalted duties Of the office ia
which you have had the honor
to BE elected by the voice of the
people, which Ii the voice Of the
gods. He raised the list which
his left hand had held through.
out the exordfum. and his tone
sank quietly from its lofty note
Of exaltation. Iiet I'm come now
TO practical. to precise consid.
erations. Let me read you
these names and the crimes Of
which their bearers are sus.
pected. z
There were men on his list
whom he charged with being
friendly with despofs. others with
being 50 closely related to emf.
gres that their own civiane must
Be In doubt until thoroughly
tested: others whom he under.
stood to be IN league with re.
dictionaries IN. other parts OF
FRANCE; others who were thought
to b. in correspondence with the
enemies Of France beyond her
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In This PuIse-Stirring Serial Of
the French RED Terror"

patiently: @Ie is accused q IN
civiEme. =
sBut n whaA fOrmfI poucitR
Insisted.
'TormfN ChauvinaerS AroMned
upon him. The question was m
convenient. He eIlrugxed. s'In
the form 0G harbOring cDumter-
evolutionary Mentlmentg.n
Doucier. however, proved of d
diac0ncerting appetite for detail.
He gathered courage as he went
and IN q measure as he per.
ceived that his questions disccrn.
posed the great man from Paris.
What expression 70 Il alleged
that the Citizen CORDIAL has given
to these sentiments?"
''Expression!'' Chauviniere'g rich
voice was almost slrill. Name
Of God! Do you take the risk Of
defending him?'.
when / hear precisely Of what
he is accused. may congider the
necessity
But I've told you already
Name OF a name!y
Not precisely, citizen-repre-
sentative. Not precisely. And
the Committee OF Poussignck de-
mands precise accusations: not.
vague charges which Of its own
knowledge II perceives to be un-
founded
An approving growf from the
assembly informed Chauviniere
that, injected by the example Of
their president, the members Of
the committee had so Tar re-
covered from the spell Of his.
oratory as to be in . state Of
mutfny.
do you say that I Iie?' ne
asked them icily.
"Ohl But, citizen-representa-
tive! Only that you may have
been misinformed. Unable to
compile your list from personal
knowledge, we realize that you
must have received assistance and
advice. We realize also, when we
find in your list the name OF one
who IL generally esteemed, who
ID known to all for q true repub-
lican at heart :"
Chauviniere interrupted violent
~. "A true republican nc heart!
What nexti What cant do you
dare to offer me? You had bet
ter look to your own heads, my
friends, if yon have learnt your
duties no better than to see q
true republican in a pestilential
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Continued rom Local
passed from the general to
Che particular.
Re came already Informed, y
mnpeaxed, OF certain things III and
ahouk rousaignct, and he now
prOduced list of persons Sis
pecfed of the new crime Of iKls
civisnAe. In ons or another o. IT,
many forms.
This list am about 10 read
Is YOU: ana invite your serious
consid eratfon of the persons whose
names you are to hear. For YOU
are not to suppose : And
here he broke Oft "a swing halt
round toward Til ewindoW which
overlooked the square where the
scarlet guilIokine was in course Of
erection. no indicate II to them.
ne flung out an arm ID = gesture
eipremely dramatic. You are
not to suppose that engine. that
noble glaive OF Freedom. that
glorious scythe Of Equality. under
which the heads Of the despOts
ana the privileged have been
sl1Orn away, Is being erected there
merely as an idle ornament To-
your town
They krArnbled, never suspectirg
that this terrible lester INDUCED
his perverted sense Of hIinor By
MAXIM mock FOR his own
secret amusement of the very
gospel which he was sent 20
preach There were moments
when Chauviniere appeared AT.
most To be probing the ignobls
depths 70 which men may b re-
dnced " terror. More than once
had he startled his brethren In.
the convention itself BY solemn
EXAMINATIONS III which It Wa II.
most impossible not To suspect
sarcasm, vet. Of which none
would have dared to voice that
suspicion. One Of these moments
Vas upon him now.
CHAPTER *
1nwardIy, Chauviniere'a warped
eOuI was writing with sIeeful
laughter ct the psychological
humorn Of the situation he created,
Nv the images he evoked as he
pointed toward the new guillotine
that had been erected outside De
the revolutionary committees
headquarters
must nor ~ understood to
say that eEsc an engine would
b al Idle ornament il any town.
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ctdevant araSt0cfnt.
But Doucier was too weli{rs
formed t. accept this as CO..
ssThe I've ars not 1neos
You could say the same of TIE
Marquis Dc 1Eirabeau, Vithcxit
whom there might have been 10
revolution. re You win suffer Nc
To guide you in matters of Ioca.
knowledge, citizen, You viii 60.
cept our assurance that you have
been not only misled, but deliber-
ately misled, by counsellorg whose
aims are perhaps reactionary.
assure you, citizen, that the
gnaYegt consequences might fol.
low upon an I1ngubstautiated at.
tack upon Corbigny dc Corbal.
In PousBignot all the world
knows the gtalwart and practical
republicaIlism OF his principles;
ali the world knows the UMPIRE
tentious simplicity OF his exist
ence, and all the world loves him.
That II not q man to be lightly
accused. For your own sake,
citizen-representative and for
ours, You would do well 70 Be
fully armed with particulars Of
Corba1's incivisne before you de-
mand OF Up hts arrest and trial.
II the argument did not suf.
flee to turn Chauviniere from
his purpose, at least it stI1ficed
to make him tempcrize.
He announced that he would
pay visit to CORDIAL. and form
1t first hand an opinion Of the
real sentiments Of the ci-devant
viconte.
Thereupon he proceeded with
his list, which for the rest was
mainly concerned with priests
who had declined to take the
constitutional oath, with others
who. having taken 1t, vet re-
fused or neglected to adopt the
constitutional forms Of worship,
and with others still who. whilst
conforming to all prescriptions.
yet rendered themselves suspect
Of insincerity by their persistent
celibacy. And when DOucier ven
tured the opinion that this was
too slender a ground for sus-
picfon, he launched Chauviniere
upon one OF his sinister excur.
sions in comic philosophy.
To BE Continued Tomorrow
CCopyrIghe. 1sxs, By metr0psIltan
Newspaper 8eFvlce. New York. C1py-
right. 1895 ana 1877, ~ Rafael
Sabatini. All rights reoervedJ
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hadn't intended to get drunk, nor
even to take drink. Not for one
minute. She must believe that.
It had all happened--wen, 1t had
been an accident. Just a slip. He
had gone straight home after 1eav-
ing her, intending to write some
letters and go to bed, but when
I was unlocking the door OF the
apartment l heard the phone ring
ing, and 1t was Gay. And she
said Alan, that's her husband, was
out of town. and she was alone,
and wouldn't / please come up and
rescue her before she bored her.
self to death? So said sure. ]
knew you wouldn't care"
He hesitated, and looked at
Dolly, and Dolly said. mo, of
course not" lightly, as was ex-
pected of her. For a month now,
something more than a month, she
had been assuring him that she
didn't care"-that his revived and
flourishing friendship with Gay
had her entire approval-because
she had thought, II won't be
selfish about this. neglect him
/ work all day and study all eve
ning-and he's entitled to some
companionship, isn't hep isn't
he?'D There isn't any harm in it,
il there? Us thereD"
WELL" continued Jerry, go l
went up to her place. They have
a house on a roof. you know.
Marvellous place. I'd never seen it
before, and l was crazy about IT..
She showed me all around, and we
sat outside a while. looking at the
lights on the river and across on
Long Island--it's simply grand up
there, you can't imagine. And
then Gay said she was going to
mix a cocktail for herself before
we started out. We'd decided to
go to a few of the night clubs,
you sec, and dance and eat and
fool around. So we went back into
the kitchen, and Gay mixed this
shaker full of cocktailS-"
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The story became difficult for
Jerry at this point. He would
avert his eyes, light a cigarette, or
leap up to amble aimlessly about
the living room. "She kept trying
to get me to taste it. Just to
taste 1t. you know and tell her IL
she'd put in enough sugar, or
enough gin and absinthe. OF
course, she knew I was on the
wagon. I'd told her that all along.
ct was about the first thing I
said to her that day I found her
sitting in my car. remember?
And lots OF times-oh, every time
I've seen her since, I guess-she's
brought the subject up and kidded
me about it, until-until 1 felt
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talked it over, early in June.
1T won't be so bad. There's
always breeze on this roof
we'l keep fairly cool, I think.
And we can go off week-ends e
we want to-"
To Be Continued Tomorrow
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aOf what il he accused. that
one2"
The question came abruptly
from Doucier, the horse-leech,
a man prominent in the local
Jacobin Society. and president Of
the revolutionary committee,
passionate but entirely academic
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What Do You KnOU?
ANSWERS tn T0DAY'S TEST
Questions ON Editorial Page

Questions Editorial Page
l. South Carolina. merry Wives of Windsor" Rhode
Island Tennessee 1t settled the questions of slavery and
State rights.
naed Johnson President
DOR g. Dwarf Ell Wilson
b. Jonathan Swift IL r. Marion Crawford
Wilder
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frontiers: and there were others
he named as ripe Tor revolutions
airy justice on the score Of birth
alone.
II was upon naming the third
of these last one Raoul Amedee
COrbigny de Corbal--that he re.
ceived his first check.
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Tlais Doy IN Our History

on June 1881 the first chapter Harriet Beecher Stoves
novel, aUnce Cabin published This novel has
directly responsible the revolt against slavery IN the
Omitted States and the Civil War.
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republican. who was honest. fear
less and formidable in debate. q
man who might, had he so chosen.
have represented his own
section OF the Nivernais in the
national convention. He was the
first, as might have been ex-
pected, to throw off the spell OF
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lECAL. NOTICE

U. s. Land Office, Anchorage, Alas ka, March 6, 1928.
 Notice is hereby given that Milo Huiburt, entryman, together with his witnesses, Nora Lippincott, and s. stoffer, all of seldovia, Alaska, has submitted final proof on his homestead entry, serial 05s57, for lot 6, sWAsE 14 Sec. 2e, lot 1, NWANE4 Sec. s2, T. 8 s. R. IA w. s. M. and it is now in the files of the U. s. Land Office at Anchorage, Alaska, and if no protest is filed in the local land office at Anchorage, Alaska, within the period of publication or thirty days there after said final proof will be accepted and final certificate issued.
 J. LINDLEY GREEN,
 Register. First publication March 27, 192s.- Last publication May 21, 1928.
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INCOMING PASSENGER
 LIST ADMIRAL EVANS

Local arrivals yesterday on the s. s. Admiral Evans, of the P. s. s. Co., and which departed last evening for the Westward, included the following
 Capt. and Mrs. o. A. Johansen, c. Laubscher, Norman Ervine, J. L. Cav anaugh, B. Bellview, F. A. Neville, K. Ayres, Mrs. Kathryn Nyrdle, Mabel Nj. Briggs, E. Uhdl, R. H. Leverick, Evert Maxi, T. c. Carlson, Alfred W. Withrow, s. E. Young, Steve Costello, Mary Costello, George Costello, Nido Costello, Dew Costello, Sophia Costel- 10, Rosie Costello, Charles Costello, Tom Costello, Joe Costello, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lindsay, T. Hansen, T. Car ter, c. A. Anderson, c. Ulander.
 The Evans returns to port Monday saiing South at o'clock that evening.