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the long drive back to the city
she kept her peace. Fielding tried
several times to draw her into the
conversation; she made no re-
Spouse. She answered his ques
tions. When she had done that
she was content to let the talk die.
John locked at her two Or tlree
times, annoyance Ia his eyes
BUT not until they were alone
did he say anything directly 20.
her. They dined alone; John had
asked Fielding, but the architect
made some excuse.
Whats the matter now he
said Grossly You haven't said 4
word. Don't you like the place. ~
q love IT. said Eileen As Il
stands its one of the most beau
tifuI houses ever saw Whether
I shall like what Mr.. Fielding
makes Of It / can't possibly say
until i've seen what he does.
You don't think you know more
about rernodeling 3 house than he
dOes?1 John gave 3 short dis
gusted laugh. Upon nv word,
Eileen
81 don't think anything Of the
kind she interrupted him.
But 4 home John ones home.
ones house IS something very per-
sona1 and sacred. You let Tony
Isarlle have his way here now
you're turning this house over to
Fielding. And. after all. we're the
ones who live In the houses they
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portant that he should, before the
days work at the D ffice began,
be thoroughly familiar with every
item Of Importance that appeared
on the financial pages. There was
nothing new about that, nothing
new about his reading the paper
at breakfast. And yet everything
was changed.
He still put securities In her
name. Still, at fairly regular in
tervals, papers came for her to
sign: proxies, stock certificates to-
be transferred. documents Of all
he himself bring such papers to-
her. They came from his office,
with formal, typewriter notes he
hadn't signed after his secretary
had written them.
And the signing Of these papers
was the most important thing
Eileen had to do.
Despair grew upon her. She
would have welcomed even q fresh
quarrel. And it was while that
mood was growing upon her that
John made his long threatened
move In q new assault upon the
citadel Of society.
He telephOned late one morning
and announced that he was COM
ing home and wanted to see her.
And when he did his face was
flushed; he was excited and elated.
I've bought 8 country llousegs
he announced Down on Long
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to change his decision This house
was to be theirs; this house,
rather, as Fielding would trans
form it. She knew about Fielding;
she had heard the few women she
knew talking about him. He was
the architect Of the moment; his
especial gift was, they had said,
for the transformation Of old
houses into modern homes.
All over Westminster, Connect
cut, New Jersey, hong Island there
were examples be his work. Some
or them Eileen had seen. They
looked well, she thought But this
house, the moment she had seen
It, had gone to her ncart. In II
real people had lived. As she went
over II q hundred iittle things
touched her. The same family,
she could well believe, had owned
1t for q long time. IL had never,
like So many Old houses. fallen
upon evil days. And Il seemed to
her cruel and Wanton thing to-
come into 1t, rip and tear. alter
and destroy.
Duly she listened To Fielding.
You say free hand--sdo You
mean ii, Mr.. Ma. YeagIl2s he
asked. 50 many people say that,
and when Il comes down to +.
they have All sorts Of Ideas Of their
I'VE haven't, " said John. He
shot one almost fierce gIance at
Eileen; Il was as il he were DELHI.
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cial, residential and intellectual
relation as well?
The one-cylinder marriage ii
the most dishonest and fatal
thing in this generation"
And the prevailing kind"
offered John.
they sat over the cinnamon
toast and tea and gave glib
theories Tor the solution Of the
worlds troubles.
But women like Ora Pringle
are a thorn in the flesh OF
wives, |" said Sylvia, the long black
eyebrows meeting over her nose,
They've no responsibilities and
titantic audacity."
Why" asked Inga, ARE they
not accepted for what they are
q gay dash of color. in a drab
world? I should think wife
would be willing to let her hus-=
band have a harmless flare at it
now and then -
THE only time that sort Of
flare is harmless" remarked
Jerry, wrinkling her nose in Sax
on's face, is when 1t goes out
before II gets Iit!''
"Oh, Ora's q good sort. You
can't blame a woman Of her
type" went on the tolerant, easy
going Inga. She's a kind Of
huntress. Men are her game her
legitimate game. She goes after
them as inevitably as a cat goes
after a mouse.
Then this = bringing Jerry'S
heart bounding into her throat:
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By ELENORE MEIIERIN

y = (
It was III Augusta gIoriOusly
blue August evening. And they
were in these lovely hills beyond
Los Altos. The thing happened
then.
CHAPTER 70
She had & deep, singing capacity
for JOY. loving life ana thrilling
to the flash OF things. 10 the
gaiety and crimson dress IT
Maria: to the laugh and Iordliness
Of stephen Marsh, STOPPING To kiss
her mothers lips.
Even as 8 child, Jerry's heart
beat high to the pulse Of this.
And she dreamed of spIendor;
Of high. passionate. beautiful
things happening to her. A man
with the mirtn Of sun-god,
young, magnificent, tender her
lover.
she guIped and put her sport
clothes and the purple outfit bor-
rowed from Maria in her guit
case.
Why does the real never touch
the dream? And we 60 hungry,
in loneliness of the spirit, al
Ways2
She snapped the suit case ana
gave It q vicious shove. She
dreaded these house-partics.
Things happened. Messy, unpleas-
ant and rather appalling things
when you thought Of them after
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discord. Penitence makes q mad
wife madder."
TO Jerry as they buttered toast
In their remote corner: "A mean
little cat. IL he goes to her now,
she'll scratch his eyes out! told
her. the score. She'll be turning
up any moment TO make the over.
tnres. She started the war"
The words were scarcely
finished when the door was
pushed and a frail, nervous laugh
flung into the room: Can /
come in?"
Vera moved deIicately, quickly
70 Johns side. She stood with
her eyes down. q Abruptly she
turned to Hal with another HAI1t,
nervous laugh: II was stroIling
this way and thought you'd be
glad to see me.
He nodded-quite unable to
speak. A few moments later
they went out together--arni in
arm. Hal said in gulpy.
n1uffled tone: Thanks for buggy
ride. John! Until we fight again.
Whewp said Saxon. ''Inspir-
That comes" said Inga
angrily, "of these one-cylinder
marriages. Why won't people
who have nothing in common but
physical attraction face the fact
and accept it?
Because they are swept by
this physical affinity, why must
they attempt a spiritual. finan-
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Island right on the ocean. Come
along we re going down and have
q look at 1t. I'm taking the archi-
tect along It's got to be remodel
led, of course. z
Almost duly, quite unable to
share his excitement, she went
with him. They swept along In
the big closed car. the architect.
Henry Fielding. accompanied them.
Him, Eileen disliked at sight; he
was, Ii seemed to her, another
parasite like Tony Larue.
But at the sight or the old
Dutch Colonial farmhouse John
had bought she exclaimed III real
delight:
How Iovely!' she cried. "oh,
john love 1t! But surely you're
not going. to change it."
Dear lady we must, said
Fielding. He laughed little
scornfulIy. The Dutch Colonial
Is out-has been, for two years.
But ! shall give You q gem
She heard John pronounce the
words Of doom.
Well you've got q free hand,
Fielding. Give me 4. house I can
move into on the first OF June
that's al 4 ask.
CHAPTER ri.
Eileen made no protest. What,
she thought. was the use? She
knew John In this mood His mind
was made up; opposition would
only annoy him. never move him
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erateIy trying to provoke her. chaD.
longing her to disagree with him
by 80 much as look Il want
house comfortable to live ia.
want plenty Of room. 20 that can
ask people down. casually. for q
week end, without having to worry
where they'll sleep, or Is there are
bathrooms enough. want room
for ct least three cars N better
make It four. want plenty Of
comfortable quarters Tor servants,
20 that they won't always b. leav-
ing because they're cramped, or
hot, Or this Or that.
Fielding nodded
You can have that sort Of
place readily enough, he said.
prefer to take charge Otto have
supervision over, anyway-the
grounds, too. Bad landscaping viii
ruin any mans huose.
It's all up to you" said John
again with decision. The whole
works. I know what you've done.
Give me az good q house as you
fixed up FOR Harry Cooper, for Ia.
stance, ana I'll be satisfied"
THAT won't Be hard tneress
better groundwork here than I had
there" said Fielding. And BY
June the first III do my best.
I can't make promises for com
! tractors. but III do what I can 9
Still Eileen was silent. She wa
to have no voice: that was only
too plain. All the way home on
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q GIEss I'm pretty Rood, !" SIC

81 GUESS I'm pretty good" she
! whispered with childish
xuberance, because az you say
yourself. ora's no wash-outg'
A few days later some Of this
10y vanished. II was Thursday
more than = week since the
carnival. They went to Johns
Cor late tea.
Hal Stacey. who had obstinately
refused 70 return home, was
naster Of ceremonies. And In q
pitiabIy nervous state.
= He was touchingly eager to
please. He wanted to talk:
swanted to hear If they blamed
him.
Underneath he was patheticaily
Rnxious to hear of his wife. Was
Asne still fIlrious2 Did she ask
swhy he didn't return2 Had any
One. outside their own party, seen
sher fling that glass? A proud
little thing. Vera. He hated to
think OF her Inundated.
Then why don't you cut the
oaby stuff and go face the music"
4adyised John.
Don't you do II" shouted
et1nga from behind the screen.
You'll only crash into another
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much to them 18th, was definitely
broken. And Eileen had nothing
to take It's place.
About John she wondered,
greatly. Something she did not at
all understand what had happened,
or. perhaps, was happening IT was
not like John to set his heart upon
something, as he had set it upon
social conquest of New York, and
then to submit tamely without an
apparent effort to reverse the YER
dict, to defeat. And vet, SO far as
she could see. that was What he
now was doing. His buster his
threats, the night their dinner had
been ruined, had borne no fruit
III action In his way he, too, was
marking time, just as she was.
And his inactivity worried her,
filled her with forebodings Of dark
days ahead, Of troubles before her
worse than any she had known.
harCer to face and to endure.
Something, she could feel it, was
filling Johns life. Something was
dispIacing her. making her. day by
day. less and less essential, even
less iulRDILehL, 10 4lIn au0 10 his
well being. 1T had not been 50
at home. She had mattered To him
then, she hal nattered enor-
nously. she knew that. as 4
woman always does. And now
that was no longer true, and that
knowledge worried her, frightened
her, made her groWingIy unhappy.
She felt appa1Iingly helpless.
She had no clue, It seemed to her,
to what was wrong. Outwardly,
everything was all right. There
were no uuarreIs. John was. on
the surface. his old SELF when she
saw him. But It was disturbing,
as well as astonishing. that she
actually saw him 30 seldom. There
was never time. now, FOR them To
talk over things. She made Il
practice Of letting up every morn
Ing to have breaIxfa with him.
but he spent the time Of the meal
hidden behind the paper.
He had always done that at
home, to Be sure. top. He had to
keep up with the news; she reaI-
lied that Especially was II i'm.
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marry! He doesn't want to-
marry!''
And all the cynical things ne
said flew at her like knives. She
was too young and too partisan
to know that the really cruel
pressure Of his external circum-
stances made for this Wavering.
He wished at times violently to-
marry her. He couldn't. And In
sheer seIf-defense, for the peace
OF his own mind, he began to
wonder liz marriage was really
desirable.
He had always doubted 1t.
But now q subtle fear crept into
Jerry's thought.
Before this hectic summer was
done it grew onlinously. On many
a night she lay awake, telling
herself starkly:
He's not blazingly, toweringly
certain that I'm his girl But, oh,
God. how sure am that he and
he only is MY man!''
This happened after half n
dozen house parties that were all
more on less alike. And all for
OGAAy IkAAtk8 W41GAEE1A1B WAGN path
and disilIusion.
What shall ! do? Oh, what
shall / do?" she thought desper-
ately. And felt angry that Nara
had never given her 4 God-had,
never taught her to pray. She
felt so appalHngly the need OF
aid-of an almighty power. She
felt that she would not find it.
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Nolc "a on WIN ne StorV.

Or John she saw less and less.
y More ana more, as time went
on. his work absorbed him. His
pIay, too, was apart from her. He
developed an enthusiasm Tor bridge;
played. with other men. ct a club.
He seldom dined at honle; work,
as rule, was his excuse. though
not always. Seemingly he had de-
skided. Tor the time. to abandon
his effort to secure socisl place
Al consonance with his growing.
business Importance. But Eileen
knew him well enough to be sure
fhat he was only hiding his time:
shat that phase would come TO the
fore again when he thought the
time was ripe to strike.
She was completely. appallingly
bored. Certainly, it seemed to her.
this move to New York, that had
promised such richness Of living
was, so far as she was concerned,
nm almost complete failure. Some
.cofnpensations. to be sure, she did
have. She heard enough music
70 satisfy her for the first time in
11GE H1es 0uS ndQ SEATS a. tlA1
Bpera, she was subscriber to the
more important series Of Crches-
kral concerts, she was nearly al
ways present at the great recitals
Of the famous vioIinists and
Nianists.
But, nearly always, she attended
these affairs alone. John by no
means shared her passion for
music. He would 60 to the theater
with her occasionally, but the
FERROUS plays she really wanted to
Bee she attended alone. at d matt.
nee during the week, as rule.
And IN her there was growing up,
try as she would to fight 1t down,
80 suppress It, dangerous and
ugly feeling of resentment against
John.
She felt cheated and outdone.
Through no fault OF her own her
fe had been torn up BY the roots,
hnd John was giving her no real
help. Il seemed TO her, in finding
new Judgment for those roots.
Their old intimacy. the companion
ship that, at homeI had meant 30
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A Story Of Wild Youth

Il believe you. Really + be.
ieVe you! "
But he had wanted TO so. She
was piercingIy aware Of this.
Women attracted him. Even that
golden sprite Nellie Speares. He.
had flushed with exultation be-
cause Of her kiss.
ssBut that's fair enough, = she
now thought. The sun doesn't
cease to shine on others because
ii falls so goIdenIy on me. 1t
can't help but shine. Whya
handsome man would still attract
me!''
She made this admission
absently, reluctantly denying II
before it was fully formulated.
And she began to wonder Il he
had seen many, many girls In
Europe who had charmed him.
She thought with a sharp, corr
roding ache: He's glad he can't
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''But ,Vera's safe for q while. I
met Ora last Saturday in Oak
land. She was on her way to
Sacramento called there uia.
expectedly, so she said
Last saturday! So Ora wasn't
home to keep that appointment
Sunday at four.
NAN
II suppose you're thinking I
tried to slip it over on your
They had walked two blocks In
silence and were now headed for
the park on the heights OF Tele-
graph Hill. When she was eager
or distracted, Jerry liked climb
ing these precipitous cliffs
II hadn't any intention of go
Ing there Sunday. That isl
meant to go when she first asked
me. / saw no harm in it. But
after you let me know how you
felt - 80
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wards But an summer they'd
been going to them.
You were supposed 70 have
wildly exciting. joyous time; to
be LIVING IN capital letters. hut
Il was different from the fervor
and thrill one dreams about. Bit
terly. hatefuIIy different.
To Be Continued TomoEroWl
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Puss said to his master,
go battle in the river.
Do not ask me why.
Just do as / say"
The young man
did as Puss told him.
Soon the King came riding by.
Puss ran out and cried
Help! The Marquis of Carabas
is in the water! Save him!"
The Kings men ran to help Puss.
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Has q Punch in Each Line
What Has HaDDened 50 Far !:

blonde and pretty first manifested her
In
talked! John WldOO Wild
q But
early his ability for driving hard
marxetand But he also
Navel with me affections Henry Marcia
Lovewen would brook tng
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This Day in Our History

an February s. 1920 William Tecumseh Shermans soldier
Oborn Lancaster He died at New York on February l
Under Grant the foremost general Ct the Union
in the Civil War.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-07
By Fred Ellis

pendent political party of labor; that
those representatives within the labor
movement who have been conspicuous
by their servile pandering to the rep
resentatives Of the republican party,
the candidates of the bosses and of
the banks, are now seeking re-en-
trance to the labor party and return
ing to the fold of the labor movement
in which they once played prominent
part. This, we say, is significant be-
cause it points to the potential power
and untold resources of the farmer
labor movement in Minnesota; that
even those who have stood against the
farmer-labor movement and support
ed the candidates Of the democratic
and republican parties against the
labor party, are now seeking admis-
sion into the ranks of labor. In this
situation the slogan: Build the Organ
ization. Every Union Man Mem
Der of the Labor Party. Every Ex-
plotted Farmer a Member of the La
Dor Party--is the slogan under which
to fight and win. At the same time
add: tional vigilance Is the wat.hword
for those sincere, devoted, honest ele-
ments who thru the storm and stress
of years have worked for and built
the farmer-labor party. They must
beware ef these champions Ct labor"
who appear in the councils of the la
Dor party at the time when there is
an important political campaign be-
fore us; at this time when the labor
movement is likely to sweep TO vic
tory, we find those who have been
eontenptuous of the labor movement,
who have denounced it on every &C.
casion. now seeking admissiol to its
ranks and councils. This is at one
and the same time an inspiration to
go forward and also warning to be-
ware. Go forward to build the party
and to victory. Beware of those labor
men who become active in the labor
party only when labor appears to be
on the eve of victory.
The workers and farmers must
know the motives and intentions of
those who join the party at a time
like this. Inasmuch as the farmer
labor movement of Minnesota is root
ed in the convictions of 100000 to
100000 honest workers and farmers,
there is no doubt of the outcome and
a vigorous and straight campaign for
labor's candidates under the banner
Of labor's party, spells victory for
'abor's cause.
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and strengthen the law laid down in
the 14th.
So we have it: the error of Borah
is perhaps due to the fact that he
does not know the south; the falla-
cious arguments of Swanson and
Glass are due to the fact that they
know all about the south; and the
position of Bruce is due to his interest
in the anti-prohibition cause. None
of this craftsmanship tends to secure
Negro citizens their rights to vote and
share in their own government. Bruce
boldly acknowledges that he is not at
all interested in getting the Negro his
vote, but is simply threatening to use
the unconstitutional treatment Of the
Negro in a IDEAL" to get whiskey.