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JERRY : Story of Wild Youth :: By ELENORE NEHERN

before the fire and think with a
quickened throb: shes a little
peach. I'm glad she's pretty"
Or If she noticed a twinge OF
pain along Stephanie's lips: shes
suffering-she pretends not to-"
And with a sharp panic: She'll
be all right! Lord, how terrible
il she shouldn't walk-how per-
fectly terrible!'
At these moments she had an
almost maternal feeling, sharing
poignantly in Marza's anxiety;
understanding Marza's heart
breaking tenderness, her wish to
make things up to Stephanie.
Sometimes when she came in
from a, long, lonely walks and
dropped before the fire to listen
to Marza's reading, she would
think happily: How coy this
is! How much finer Maria seems.
Maria was a better person than
she turned into"
One day in the beginning of
December she and Stephanie were
alone. Said Stephanie abruptly:
lit would be sheer madness to
go off to some new city. - To
say nothing of your part of it.
Well, ] shan't so much mind
being passed off as the cousin.
You know, Jerry, I'm just dying
to see that place where you and
Maria have lived. I've read so
much about the Golden Gate and
the great bay. What a thrill to
sit up in bed in the morning and
just look out and see the boats
coming almost up to the door.
Jerry, wonder why all that
should be considered tragic-I
mean that about Maria and my
father. The end was think
of 1.-THE irony that he should
have been killed like that. But
for the rest, it seems too me only
thrilling and sad. / loved him.
Maybe I don't remember very
much-maybe I've made a great
deal of 1t up and idealiZed him
and think that / can clearly re-
call his image. 1t may be just
the pictures that I've looked at
so much.
but I'm proud of him. I'd
like to call myself Stephanie
Marsh. suppose that would be
a fool defiance. There's no need
to take the world into a persons
confidence, is there?
"WelI-don't you think we
ought to be going home soon-in
time for Christmas? I don't care
how you smuggle me- into the
family. AS long as I'm sure you
and Maria will like having me
about. You don't resent me, do
you, Jerry?"
Jerry. kneeling before the fire
and adding an absurd numberof
logs to the flame: "Oh. by the
way. l love that rag-tail bob of
yours. I've not seen one like 1t
before. I'm glad you've got chic,
Steve!
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There was nothing essentially
vicious or wanton about Margaret
Drew. She was starved; it came
to that. Circumstances had de
MED her a natural, normal outlet
for all the subtle and mysterious
forces that had gathered in her
in her adolescence. She had De-
come, in relation to the Mac
Veaghs, to John and Eileen. an
infinitely dangerous force. Eileen
she could not hope to under
stand; she had classified her with
the sinister facility common to 50
many girls of her generation, aid
quite falsely.
Loose thinking. loose talking,
loose reading had gone to the
unbalanced development OF Mar
garet. She had grown up in a
world rent and torn apart by The
tragic upheavaI of the war. The
effects of that conflict, with It's
CHASTITY destruction in the old
world. not only of life and prop.
erty, but of standards of every
sort, had stretched swiftly to
America; the Americans of Mar
garetS generation were aIlre TO
share the experiences of their
European contemporaries without
having suffered what brought
the turmoil over there.
AS for John, he had been think.
ing hard while he was away. He
had come back far from a con-
clusion, but with certain things
definitely clear in his mind. He
wanted no breach with Eileen, no
shoddy, upsetting intrigue with
Margaret. But his thinking had
been one-sided; he had considered
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But think what a cross you
might have been! Suppose you'd
been a lily-sister or a psalm
singer and got mawkish about it?
Or conventional and developed
an inferiority complex? l was
terribly afraid of this. You
never can tell how a persons
going to react"
you forget, Jerry, how lonely
I've been. Year after year in a
convent. Nothing hilarious except
those brief yearly visits OF
Marza's.
And did my share of won
dering. The last two years espec-
tally. Before that I was content
at school. Maria kept saying
that when I finished we'd go to
Europe. We didn't.
Then last year l was wild to
go to California. / had my heart
set on this X-ray work. But 1
could just as well have been
placed in a laboratory in San
Francisco as here. Maria hadn't
much answer to that. But when
Sister Rose got me the opening
here, Maria just wrote. Take it.
think it better
81 was fearfully crushed then.
1t seemed odd that she shouldn't
want me because / knew she
loved me.
"Jerry-I'd be earning $3.50 now
II this accident hadn't happened.
That's another thing-how are
we fixed for money? Maria says
we're rich, but / know we're not
are we? Besides. the money
came from your father, didn't it?'
Jerry burst out laughing: "Well
if you're going to get fussy,
yes-such as we have did, l be-
lieve, come as an unintentional
bequest from one late but unla-
mented George King. He had a
tight face.
We're rich as long as we have
three meals a day and sufficient
garments to cover us. We have
that"
CTO Be Continued Tomorrow
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for eight-that ought to give you
time to have a bath and change.
You'll be tired after all your
travelling"
'Maybe-I'm not tired now,
though. / never felt better in
my life. All right--Ill make it
Nas early as / can. But I've a
lot Of work to do that's piled up
while I've been away"
Eileen smiled as she hung up
the receiver. She wondered how
Margaret Drew had enjoyed hear
!. ing one side of that conversation.
Eileen had a far shrewder and
better understanding of the situa-
ton in which John found himself
at his office than Margaret sus-
pected; the girl had been foolish
to give herself away, the day
Eileen had gone there, to the ex-
tent that she had.
Margaret was, in point of fact.
furious-and it was all the worse
because it was so utterly impos-
sible for her, even with her eXA
treme views, to show her feelings.
There was something of an air OF
bravado about John MacVeagh as
he turned back from the tele-
phone and picked up again the
digest she had had against his
return of what had been done in
his absense. He looked like a
little boy caught in some bit OF
mischief and determined to brazen
it out, Margaret thought.
But, though that look was ono
of the things she loved about him,
it only irritated her now. She
understood perfectly what he had
done, the significance of that talk
of his with his wife, every word
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Where can she be moved?"
Wherever we are to live"
Where is that to be? Mother"
Maria flicked ashes from her
cigarette: Where do you want
it to be, Jerry?"
why put it up to me?" Then
hushed, reluctant: you've not
told her yet? She will have
right to say"
Maria turned the pages Of her
book. II can't undo the wrong to
Stephanie now. But / car make
her way easy. Perhaps 1 would
best do this by taking her and
you to new place. But this
would uproot your life.
yes" thought Jerry Silly,
land yours toow
but that is the only way"
Maria went on in a subdued, half
pleading way. THAT can acknow-
ledge you both. 1t will be ter.
rible to Stephanie to be denied.
know thisv'
'She has one compensation"
What compensation"
"The memories she has Of her
father and the knowledge that
you loved so greatly. There would
be this beauty-this inner con-
vtction that she is really better
born than far better born than
]. And that in your heart,
Nara, you must look back with
more joy to her coming than
you did to mine"
"Ah no! When the choice was
forced l couldn't forsake you
even for the two of them. And
] loved Stephanie as God alone
can measure it. But you, Jerry,
came to me in a loneliness-an
answer to a pitiable need. | never
counted that you belonged to
your father but to me alone. All
the while you were coming I
poured out the love of lives on
you. We were two against
bitter, loveless world You are
woven of my soul"
But she is woven OF your
great love! ="
will that compensate a girl
nineteen-just nineteen"
They took Stephanie to a little
resort on the lake.
Wen stay while wait
till she's stronger"
do it today" Jerry finally
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against him. And it's nice to
have ones intuitions backed up
by facts"
Hold ont" said Bishop, with a.
laugh. i've given you my opin-
ions-not the facts of an indict-
ment!"
Distinguishing" said Helen.
Eve know. And Eileen's not
going to quote you. But it's
so plain, on the very face of
things. No man who wasn't a
little-well, off, would ever marry
a woman like Katherine Foster.
Feel like some bridge, now,
Eileen?''
I'D love it," said Eileen-and
meant it, she whom the crowd
with which Katherine Foster ran
had ruled out as impossibily
stupid when it came to cards.
CHAPTER So
John MacVeagh came back
from the West and, characteristic.
cal1y, went first to his office. 1t
was Margaret Drew's voice, cool,
fresh, oddly and subtly insolent,
that first made Eileen@aware of
his return.
Mrs. MacVeagh? Mr.. Mac
Veagh would like to speak to
you-will you hold the wire?'
Johns voice came to her a
Z moment later, cheerful, hearty.
Hello. dearest! Here am
back-rushed right to the office
to start catching up. Any plans
for tonight?"
why, nor Her voice was cool.
Shed had to fight, for a moment,
the sheer. thrilling surge of joy
his voice had brought her. did
you want to do anything?"
Nothing but see you. I've
missed you. / thought we might
work in a quiet evening together,
just, the two of u.s.
I'd love to-" said Eileen, mat
ter of fact. You'll be dining
here, them"
YES" he said. He sounded a
little dashed, and Eileen smiled,
sadly. Yes. Well dine together
and sit around afterward and
talk. It's Digs age since we've
done that, just you and l..
Its been a long time, hasn't
it, said Eileen. do you know
what time you'll get homer"
It'll be late-better not have
dinner too early"
1T doesn't matter I'll order it
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of which she was bound to htar.
He was putting her in her place;
he had reached a decision, while
he had been away, and 1t was a
decision to push her out Of the
empty place in his life that she
had found and was determined, at
any cost, to occupy.
Her lip curled, secretly, as she
came to that conclusion. II ne
wanted to stage the age-old farce
let him. She wasn't afraid, she
told. herself. He was hers; she
had. won him, whether or not ne
knew it, in these months OF
growing intimacy. She had been
a fool, perhaps, to show her
hand SO plainly the other night,
but young Ransome's interior
ence in her life had nfaddened
her, goaded her to say things she
would. except for him, have con-
tinued for time, until the risEt
moment had come, to keep 10
herself.
1t might well be, now. that
John MacVeagh, put on his guard
by her rash outbreak, her rive
lation of her feeling for him,
lnlSnt MAKE dA GAAOlb " Pe1Nh
things up with his wife. But of
the outcome of that effort Mar
garet was not afraid.
Her opinion of Eileen had crys-
talilized. She knew a hundred
things about her calculated to
increase her confidence in herself.
Eileen was, she knew it, a droEe,
an idler, a woman utterly unit
ted to be the mate of man like
John MacVeagh. And-he kTew
that, too; he had been growing
in his knowledge all these months.
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greeted her gayly; caught her in
his arms; kissed her. 1t was
months since he had embraced her
so. kissed her so; she returned his
kiss without a thought; 1t was the
only, the natural thing for her to
do
Here, it seemed to her, was
her lover back again, the lover she
had lost in q husband dissatisfied,
disconnected, brusque. Here, just
for moment, was glimpse OF
old days, good days, before trouble
had come between them. She was
very near, then, to. surrender; very
near giving up, without a struggle
all she had been resolved to fight
for
'.You'res tired. aren't your she
said.
..Middling." he admitted. 1--WE
had a busy time. And it was hard
sleeping we were making short
jumps on bad trains, and being
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TN the middle of October she re-
i ceived a letter from him that
deepened, if possible, her wound.
There was this paragraph:
"Things are breaking wonderfully
for me. I've several big jobs
under way and several more m
sight. Jerry, 1 wonder, a great
deal. what motives you had in in
sisting on our parting. Were You
growing uncertain of your feel
ing? You denv this. But
wonder. We were both pretty
young when we first met and
neither of us had ever cared for
anyone else. I've an idea that
you figured we'd both be better
off if we took a fling at others
before entering the dubious state
Of matrimony. I'm beginning to
think you were awfully wise"
Wise! Fling her heart to DESC
lation and him to Ora Prlng!e or
Mary Eunice Penningsi
1t wouldn't do any goo5 to go
home now-no good.
Yet, the more she recognized
this, the more impatient and rest
less she became. Until now she
was burning with it. Almost sick
with despair.
If she could but see him for one
hour! She thought this sometimes
as she dressed. AS she locked at
her image in the mirror. Then
her cheeks would turn crimson
and her eyes flame. II she could
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) have just one hour. she would
win him again!
The prospect then of going to
some new place-of cutting ruth
lessly free became insane. TN
thinkable. The confession 30 her
self that she had lost.
She would sometimes vision
this new, destitute life sire and
Maria and Marza's Stephanie
would have. Quite poor. friend.
less, mental. No bright. singing
contacts, no flash and color.
Subdued. chill. loveless. She
would repeat this last word until
her heart blazed. Loveias.s, a de.
frauded woman growing thin and
righteous with the years.
mo! Not that! I'll never drift
to that"'
At % no one thinks so.
Nara was aware of her storm.
One night she sat a long while
pretending to read.
Suddenly: ''Stephanie can be
moved in four weeks. The doctor
told me today"
Can she Walk"
There will have to be another
operation. But that must wait till
the spring"
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Brides in 7en.Cities Tell
Housekeeping. Plans

NEW YORK, N. "a thousand
brides in ten large cities disclosed
their household plans in a recent
survey.
On one point all these brides
agreed. Their homes are to be run
with skill, but they will not sacri-
flee a bit of good looks or charm.
For instance, nearly all have de.
cided how they will keep nice hands
In spite of Homework.
Many had noticed in beauty
parlors that pure LUX suds are used
IN manicuring, to soften and whiten
the fingers. Others had noticed how
nice their hands looked after wash
ing fine things with Lux. So, Of
Ills brides, 1904, or 97o1o, plan to
wash dishes with Lux.
It's so easy never to let your
hands get red and coarse-looking, -
they said. MANY soaps make the
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shunted around at night a lot. /
feel good. though. And I'm hungry
didn't have time for lunch III
have bath and clean up-then
do we eat?''
THE minute you're ready" she
assured him. Hurry. and I'll see
to it that dinner isn't held up"
Nor was it. He sat opposite her.
smiling.
by George you're q grand
h0usekeeper!' he said. TITS good
to sit down to a meal like this
again-aIl the things like best!
Ny souI-I've eaten meals in some
awful dumps on this trip! New
York's spelling me, / guesz-I
never used to mind.
New York does change one,
said Eileen.
CTo Be Continued Tomorrow
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NolO Go On With The Story.

CT DON'T like Foster because
i think he's a dangerous man.
He suffers from delusions of gran
deur. He has an idea he's another
Harriman--and there's only been
one Hartman up to now. He's
completely ruthless and I'm afraid,
completely INSCRIPTIONS. He's
broken his given word five or SIX
times to my certain knowledge.
He organized his power chain be-
cause he was willing to make con-
cessions it was insane, in my
judgment, to offer. refused to
make them; still think I was
right.
Fosters riding this crest of the
wave now. He thinks his position
is unassailable. and he may be
right. I think he's wrong and
that time will prove it. But that's
q matter of opinion. ! was sorry
to see your husband dicker with
him. His were key properties; he
was an essential element in Fos-
ter's plans-in any super-power
plan. for that matter. He struck
a good bargain with Foster-that
/ admit. But it was because, in
the show down. he had Foster
licked and Foster knew II.
IT think Foster is like a rocket.
He's gone whizzing up-hell come
down: after he reaches the top
point of his flight, as fast as a
rocket stick does. I don't know
how long it will take-I1o one can
tell. But of the ultimate result I
have no sort of doubt at all. Now
that's as full an answer as know
how to give you. Is it any good
to your
"of course it is said Eileen,
''and I can't even begin to tell
you how grateful am for it.
Men are funny" said Helen,
thoughtfully. Eileen's always
felt about Arthur Foster exactly
as you say you do. Mort. She
knew all about him the first time
she ever laid eyes on him-unless
I'm greatly mistaken. Didn't you,
darling?"
II think so.' Eileen nodded.
81 know / felt you couldn't trust
him-I've always hated the idea
that John was involved with him
the way he is But it was pure
intuition didn't know a thing
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pleaded. MARIA. tell her today"
"Yes-today. I will"
She went up and kissed her
mothers pale lips and she MUIR
INJURED, feeling that her whole life
rested in Stephanie's hands:
Mother, tell it as you told me
like that. What can she do but
glorify you? At nineteen can she
help but thrill to. a tale like that?
If she's worth anything-any-
thing at all 80
CHAPTER 3S
Jerry stopped and filled her
hands with brown dry leaves.
Then she turned so that the
wind from the lake blew her
hair this way and that.
She thought of Maria and her
sister in there talking: Stephanie
learning the reason for her life
long exile.
Would she feel greatly wronged?
And would the new life they were
planning for the three of them
become bitter and difficult?
The glow from the fire fell on
Stephanie's face, making it very
delicate against the dusky warmth
of her hair.
She heard Jerry's step and
reached out a hand. ooh, yours
are cold. Sit down, won't you?
Right there" For long mo-
ment she didn't open her eyes,
though the gallant, winsome
mouth seemed smiling.
Presently she turned her head:
"You remember him. don't you,
Jerry? My father-I do. too. 1
remember gay things of him. He
was all right, wasn't he?"
She turned full eyes to Jerry
and gave a soft, catchy laugh:
Now, we know what's what.
Makes it so much clearer going
on. doesn't it?"
1t went straight TO Ierry's
heart-the brave soundness of
her. 1t made her tremble with
deep, warm admiration. Steph-
anie was worthy of Marza's great
love; was a fine, gallant person.
She felt a sudden pride in
Stephanie; a sudden boundless re-
lief. 1t would be easy to go on
with her-easy and joyous. She
was one of them.
This feeling grew. She would
regard the slim figure stretched
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the problem only from his own
point of view. Beyond casual,
insincere-b cause not fully
thought admission that he
had, perhaps, been unkind and
neglectful, he had not even at
tempted to visualize Ei1een's state
OF mind.
He was going home, in effect.
to lay down terms and conditions
for their future. He had worked
out what their relation was to be;
he had decided what each must
bring to 1T. 1t did not so much
as occur to him that 1t took two
people to make a program such
as his come true; that he might
be going home, not to simple
statement OF what he wanted by
himself, but to a searching dis
cussion upon the outcome OF
which the whole future of his
marriage would depend.
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CHAPTER 81.

Eileen MacVeagh was far better
prepared than John for the criti.
cal discussion that awaited his
return that night. For days, even
for weeks. she had been making
ready. Not that she had. always
in that THE of preparation, known
what it was that lay before her;
not that she had deliberately,
and in cold blood, planned this
particular scene. But all her
gradual realization of what was
going on, every new discovery
she had made, had led toward
some such elimination.
Her resolution almost broke
down when John came in. He
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THE HOUSE IN THE WOODS

The HUUSE in The WUUU0
Once there was a woodcutter
and his family.
They lived in a little house
near the woods.
One day the father said
to his wife:
"Send me my dinner today
by our oldest little girl.
She will hear me cutting wood
and can tell just where / am"
q. p c. News Service Inc.
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Questions Editorial Page
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49, Iowa H. Texas H. Pennsylvania; 49, Mercury; a. Nepune
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Paste Mondays first picture on the out
side Of your book cover. Cut out pages from
strip and paste in your book. Page opposite
cover is page /. Read your story and
color your pictures.
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Oil from, Bottom of Sea

IF all of the worlds oil should is likely that oil
would bottom of the Samples
mud of Southern California and
North Carolina being distilled.
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Watching the World Go By

FANTASTIC scheme for aerial travel has been ex-
pounded by an aviation student believes it will be possible
to construct will rise vertically to point Just
above the "hundredmile" belt
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This Story of a Girl Who Gambled Her
All for the Love of a Married Man
Has Punch in Each Line
: What Has Happened So Far :

Eileen Randall bobhad blonde and pretty first manifested her
senior And how the tOwHd talked John was wd-too wild
vas to Eileen BY her comensss and not the fact that be-
very early in life clearly Demonstrated his ability for driving hard
with the affections Henry LoVewes wife, Marcia
trouble. ing
NTH haa hnuaah
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WILLIAM
ALMON
WOLFF

When dinner time came
the mother sent the oldest girl
and told her just what to do.
The little girl began to play
with a little rabbit.
Soon it became very clark.
She could not see the road.
After a while she saw a light
in a little house.
She knocked at the door.
An old man came to the door.