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The first person he saw was Pat
France, holding open the door OF
the Lexington's new blue limou-
sine.
If he were startled or annoyed
he certainly did not show it. His
face was a good-natured mask as
he said goodnight to Lily. He held
her hands n his for a moment and
then kissed her squarely and firmly
upon her mouth, as if they We're
alone-as If Pat France were only
a part of the car and not human
being at all.
''I certainly am getting a great
boot out-of this!'' said Lily. Pats
face showed jealousy as clearly
as the color of his eyes She
wanted Pat to be jealous! She was
glad that he was!
She climbed into the car and 1t
backed down the drive. Before 1T
reached the street Lily had swung
her slim self over the seat and
was sitting beside her chauffeur.
You're not going to take me
straight home? You're going to
take me for nice drive so that
we can talk and talk and talk,
aren't your" she asked him, sit
ting just as close to him as she
could.
He shook his head. II told you
I'd take you straight home" he
said, and turned his face toward
her for a second. Look here, /
know you're engaged to that bird
back there, if you don't. I'm
going to take you home. Don't you
suppose he's going to telephone
your house in about IL minutes to
see if you are at home? OF course
he is! And you're going to be there
to answer him and tell him you're
all right"'
Lily slid over to the farthest cor
ner of the seat and sulked. II
don't understand why you came
out here to work for us, If you
didn't want to- see anything of me-"
she said, sullenly.
"You know doggoned well why
came" Pat answered her
harsh1y. az Games because I
couldn't stay away Don't
think I enjoy being out here,
working for your mother. I've
never had this kind of a job be-
fore. I've owned my own cab
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He wants to do it, anyway"
nhe said to herself. and found a
certain cold comfort in that
thought.
Obediently, she climbed into the
back seat and sat there In the cor
ner, watching his face In the little
obiOng mirror in front of him.
Every now and then his eyes met
hers In it, without q ghost Of q
smile.
when they were within two
blocks OF the house she began to
talk to him.
You're such q peculiar person,
Pat, that I'm not sure you'lI be
driving for us tomorrow so I'm
going to tell you something to-
day, she said.
sYeah?''
1--WE been oh, wild about you
for weeks!' she went on in
matter Of fact voice. TITS just
infatuation, suppose, and I'll
get over 1t, no doubt. But right
now I don't know how I'm go-
ing to marry another man on the
10th Of June. certainly don tl'
He never said q word.
Iney turned INTO the 0ElVe.
Then. as he helped her out at the
front steps. he answered her:
You'll feel very differently by:
the 10th OF june. Miss Lexing
tom,
Miss Lesxingt on 4 4 she
mimicked him, scornfully.
Then she laughed. Miss Lex
ington il going to play cards at
4StaIey Drurmmond's house to.
night" she said. IF Miss Lex
iington happened to have q bad
Headache and had to leave early,
would Pat. the driver, take her
for little spin In the cool night
sair?''
He shook his head vigorously.
HE would bring her straight
home he answered, his finger
still at his cap in the attitude Of
ID welI-trained chauffeur.
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account. You're really very
young, Sacks, even at % plus, to
give up the dream of ecstasy. Be-
sides, you're much older now
than you'll be a few years hence.
Because now you're just fresh
from disillusions: just fresh from
experiments with life that have
a grand little way of proving not
mad moments but DRAB ones.
And antiquity has no greater old
age than disillusion.
$50 why cheat yourself with
this kind Of marriage, Saxon? Why
tie up with Mary Eunice?'
What have you against her.
Jerry?"
I'm herself, nothing. AS a wife
for you--everything.
How do you figure that? She's
tolerant, charming, well-to-do.
Willing to go her way and let me
go mine. Pleased with me as /
am and not seeking to make me
over according to her particu-
lar j."
IF that's what you seek" in
terrupted Jerrey, color sweeping
lance In her eyes, You're choos-
ing well! II you want a wife
who'll give a loud cheerio when
she sees you tobogganing so
miles an hour to put: if you want
some one who'll keep you up till
p. m. over rubber of bridge
and feed you Scotch balls
and gin rickeys to keep up your
jazz, you're marrying exactly the
right girl
why do you say vicious, un-
warranted thing like this, Jerry?'
Its neither vicious nor I'm.
warranted. She kept you up that
night at Phil Cowper's till dawn.
And your haggard look would
make anyone's heart ache.
Did she care that you were
shot to pieces the next day? Her
pleasure Is more important than
your work. And it always will
bev'
She went up to him. cheeks
stained and black hair flung
back. She asked in hushed, vic.
lently subdued voice: You want
permanence and stability to your
life? Do you think you1l get it
with Mary Eunice? She's
spoiled, selfish parasite. She
never gets up till eleven-thirty.
And the only regularity you'll
get from her will be the regu-
larlty of late hours and Ions
drinks!
What does she care for you or
your work? What does she un-
derstand of it? Intelligence! You
know yourself she hasn't one
original spark. She cribs from
you, from me, from books and
passes Shakespeare off as her
own to any one ignorant enough
to knows no better"
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and worked around Roy letter
sons livery-I've never worked IA
q houseful of women before. This
afternoon Carrie, your mothers
maid, asked me to drive her ~
market"
What's 80 terrible about that?
asked Lily. IF you hate your
job, all you have to- do n pack
up your clothes and leave Il TO-
night didn't ask you to come
out here to us, you know
The car rolled on q block or
two. It turned into Montpelier
road and swung into the Licking
tons driveway. 1t stopped az the
steps and Pat jumped out came
around and opened the door be-
side Lily.
She looked at him, her eg6s biz
pools of shadow in the darlnek
do You know why we
and row like this, Pat France2
she asked him, standing close ~
him In the driveway, with her
hands on the lapels OF the Oh
ford gray uniform.
She told him why they did
Because we're in love W1th
each other" she said. That's
why i tipped you with that quar-
ter the last day you drove me
home in your cab-because love
you and can't have YOU, and n
makes me cross and means Ik
makes me want to scratch ma
bite and fight. It makes me
want to hurt you-just 40 -
makes you want to hurt me.
hurt your" He shook his
head. mot in q lifetimel liz
never hurt you!'
Lily laughed. Yes, but you
haye!'' she cried. What about
the time you came to this house
and accused me of stealing
stealing-your Identification card
I suppose that didn't hurt met
ST saw you take 1t that day.,
he said. "And never said y
word about it at the time.
made it an excuse to come back
for it and see you again I'M
then / found out how things
stood between you and your
friend, Drummond. So 4 made
up my mind to keep you out q
my cab"
ITO Be Continued Tomorrow
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darkness of the spring night with
the man she loved-with Pat
France. in his chauffeur's uni
fornai
Everything else she ever had
cared about or wanted seemed
trifling and unimportant, all at
once. Everybody else seemed dull
as ditch water-everybody but
Pat.
She did not even glance. toward
the medicine chest in the dressing
room off the blue room when she
ran upstairs. She snatched her
cape from the bed where she had
thrown it and sprayed herself
with some perfume from a tall
blue-and gold atomizer on the DOW
der table between the windows.
As she set it down on the table
top she saw the flash of autorno-
bile headlights turning into the
drive and knew that Pat had
come for her. Her heart felt as
il it were nose diving like an air.
plane, and she ran lightly out of
the room and tiptoed down the
stairs, hoping and praying that
no one would see her-especially
Staley.
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reading lamps were always at
Just the right angle.
There was always a silent Jap
anese man servant around when
things had to be donecigarettes
lighted, ginger-ale poured, sand.
witches served.
But on this particular May
night the luxury and comfort and
beauty of the big room where
Lily Lexington sat playing bridge
with seven other people meant
nothing to her. Nothing at all.
The seven people--her own par
ents. Staley. Sue Cain and her
mother and father. and Jack
Eastman-meant very little to
her, too, that night. They were
like figures In q dream. seen
through the blue-gray haze Of
cigarette smoke that rose like a
cloud above the two card tables.
The only thing that was real to
her was the little silver clock on
the naantel-piece across the
room. - Ten minutes to nine,
- five minutes to nine,
At nine Pat was coming for her!
At three minutes before the
hour she told Staley she had a
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NOJD Go On With The Story.

'That's better still. For Mr..
Lexington and Mrs. Lexington
will be playing cards ct Mr..
Drnmmond's house, said Lily.
80 there won't be anybody at
home but--you and met
Then she wrinkled her nose at
him in q little grimace. See
you later, Pat!' She waved her
hand and ran up the steps,
StaIey's ring flashing in the sun
as she went.
The door of the house opened
and Sue Cain stood on the thresh-
old. She was in a tailored shirt
and knickers, and her small face,
with its short, sleek hair, was
like the face Of b little boy.
s'Ha ha. Dirty work at the
crossroads. eTl?" she asked, much
as slangy little boy might have
said it. bringing your boy
friend out here to drive the car?
Yours pretty slick, aren't YOU,
Lily Lexington All I hope II
that Stanley Drummond doesn't
find out how long you've been
Ixiting around with this chauf-
feurr'
It came to Lily then, in q flash,
that StHley would think the same
thing that Sue thought that she
had brought Pat out to the house
to drive her fathers car 50 that
she could see all she wanted Of
hint
81 Just mustn't let StaIey see
him, 4 she decided, thinking 1t all
over.
CHAPTER XII
Bachelors very often are very
wonderful housekeepers.
Staley Drummond was.
His beautiful house was a
dream OF. comfort service and
peace. There were always enough
: cigarettes and ash trays on the
little smoking tables near the
Cleeply.cushioned arm chairs.
There were always the freshest
OF flowers in the rooms, and the
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Love in q MiIliOnaire's Mansion or In a
Poor Mans Flat Is Lily's
Problem of Future
Read This. First:

LILY LEXINGTON is spoiled daughter the CYRUS
beyond their She
to she down.
watching and feels herself oddly
uniform
strong impulse she jumps
he tells
tie that he = cab driving because pays fairly wen ana gys
ton As Lily leaves the cab she takes 5S idencason caro-
and StaIey oveheaTing their talk
Irritation with the
denies
he that he won't need i
sell his
company he works TO raise money f0r the piston ring Lily
possible befOT0 ne rid the
Ab but the next time she asks him D drive her home from down
Cain.
d Il Sue takes LILY and tells her she must lost nsr md
StaIey who's
her mind ten Say that she doesn't want 70 marry him. ana she
g Pas and finds him his CAB talking g small
society
that n0rmauw f0aannm MT 0f
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isn't that a little bitter.
Jerry?"
She gave a short, nervous
laugh. For you--yes, fright
fully bitter. Why, even her sexy
stuff is calculated. Do you think
a gill can sit in that favorite
pose of hers, legs swung back,
skin showing through chiffons,
and not know to the dot just how
much of her is visible?
"A clumsy fat mama in an abb
breviated skirt and with seven
kids to worry about may happen
to sit like that and not be con.
scious of it, but not or Mary
Eunice!
"If you think a girl can slither
up to a man, lean against Linn,
swish perfumed hair into his very
nose, and not be perfectly. wan
tonly conscious of what she's do
ing-if you think that you ought
to be put back into the cradle.
Lord, can you sit through
whole evenings with Mary Eunice
and not want to roar when her
hands subtly-I suppose you call
it subtly-remind you that she
has a lovely form and sweet
curves?
but how long before all this
obvious stuff has you bored TO
madness? How long before you're
screaming to be free of it,"
"Why blame Mary Eunice for
the sins and shallowness of the
generation?" said he absently,
staring in Jerry's burning eyes.
'.She's far above the crowd"
#"Pity the sins and shallowness
of the generation all you want
do you need to marry
them? You want permanence
and beauty to your life? Well"
said she, flinging about and SHOW
ing her sketches into a furious
bundle, 'leave Mary Pennings
alone"'
He reached out and caught her
wrists. flinging her about. "Why
are YOU so excited, Jerry? Why
are YOU gone so wild?"
And seeing her face that had
heen so flushed, so darkly brill
liant. now utterly white-seeing
her lips trembling. What is the
matter, Jerry? You're in love
with me yet? You're mad about
me yeti"
she pulled from him sharply
She said with harsh. muffled
voice: you go to the dewitt,
Saxon Rhodes! You go plumb to
the devil.'
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By
M. Genevieve Sylvester

Little Black Sambo
put on all his fine clothes
and walked away.
The tigers were very angry.
They ran so fast
that you could not see
their legs ia all.
And they just melted away
into a big pool of melted butter
Cor CHI as it is called in India)
around the foot of the tree.
10
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Little Black Sambo called,
ooh, tigers! Why did you take OFF
all your fine clothes?
Don't you want them?"
The tigers only cried "Gr-r-rr!
Then Little Black Sambo said,
IF you don't want them
will take them away"
But the tigers would not let go
each others tails.
They could only say, "Gr-r-rr!
tcopyrisht 1928. by Mcclure
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What Do You KnOW?
ANSWERS tn TODAY'S TEST

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TO Test Your Diamonds

A colder than imitation one, and
the best way difference in temperature to
Sapphre emeralds ruoles
Is garnets may be tested in the
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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 l. Read your story and
color your pictures.
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CHAPTER 62

She pulled from him. bewil-
dered and shamed by the on
slaught of her emotions. She
had meant to be so quite: to
marshal the case against Mary
Pennings with calm, deadly con-
viction. But the room glared with
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FLOfIdn Home OF AncteNI Ou5H1SOUeO
An expedition Smithsonian Institution has SCI oI
Florida ii the Sixteenth Century, fought with Ponce az O
and is believed have practised cannbaism
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lIAll4CAo az DSILSNIllS OI JUNE Ss
This youth conference is to take
place in a period when the members
of the U. M. w. A. are carrying on
bitter fight against the operators
and the treacherous -Fishwick
machine.
In their attack against the United
Mine Workers of America of District
No. IL, the coal operators have par
ticularly concentrated upon the young
miners. The separate mining agree
ment which is sort of a Yellow
Dog contract is particularly effecting
the young workers in the mining in
dustry. After the first step to lower
the standard of living of the Illinois
miners the operators put through a
wage cut of so per cent for trappers,
couplers, greasers, breakers, flaggers
and other young miners. In addition
to the problem of equalization of
wages for all miners, young and
adult, doing the same work, the young
miners are faced with many other i'm
portant tasks.
Machine Revolution.
The introduction of machinery revo-
lutionized the mining industry and
created special problems for the
miners generally and particularly for
the young miners. The first effect
that the introduction of machinery
had is the introduction of the terrific
speed up system. The miners who
are not used to working with this
machinery are unable to stand the
strain of that speed-up system and
as result of that are discharged and
thrown out Of their jobs by the opera
tors. To work these machines the
coal operators are hiring strong
physically fit young miners to re-
place the adult coal diggers. This
brings in the youth in ever increasing
numbers to the mining industry. How
ever, at the same time the introduc-
ton of this machinery under the
present system threatens to throw out
of the industry thousands of adult
miners which may destroy the miners
union. The overproduction in the
mining industry and the introduction
of machinery absolutely demands a
shorter working day.
The young miners must take up the
fight for the six hour day and the
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SARAH. VICTOR, FORD AND DAILY"
"Bet" SLAVES Will Get Newspaper in Subscription Drive

A WOMAN stands outside the
IA gates of an automobile factory
in the streaming rain. Piled be-
hind her and at her side are stacks
of leaflets. There are several
thousand Of them. The rain soals
thru the top papers.
Then. a whistle blows, the huge
gates of the factory swing open and
the long streams of workers pour
out into the driving rain. They
surround the woman. They want
the papers she has. Tall, energetic,
she hands them out good-naturedly.
The pennies rattle in. The rain
pours. Each worker goes off thru
the rain with a paper in his pocket.
The Ford Worker.
The woman is Sarah Victor. The
factory is Ford's in Detroit. And
the paper, for which the men are
SO eager, is the "Ford Worker" the
shop paper issued by the Workers
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CITY LATE (AS
USUAL) IN ROCK
PROTECTION
Danger Known 4 Years
Without Action

In order to prevent another case
similar to the case of the five radium
victims suing the United States
Radium Corporation for $1,250,000
the board of transportation yesterday
declared that it would "take meas
ures" to safeguard the lives of 1900
subway construction workers, rs of
whom are said to be suffering from
silicosis and doomed to die within five
years.
Dust masks will be provided for
the excavation workers and operators
of the rock drills, and hose line con
nections to lay the dust which rises
from the dry drills will be installed,
it was promised.
Lungs of workers coated with rock
dust are resulting in a death rate of
one man a week from silicosis. Among
many other harmful substances in the
rock dust, chemists have found ar
senic.
The cihy officials have known the
danger for the last four years, but
did nothing about it until public ex-
posure of the danger was made two
days ago.
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unemployment crisis last winter
existed only on the City Hall propa-
ganda releases and the bank books OF
the Walker-Smith Heutenants in pub
lie office.
Testimony before Commissioner
Higgins, who is conducting public
hearings, and before the Bronx County
Court, where Charles A. MCGEE, as
sistant general superintendent in the
street cleaning department, is being
tried for grating, are to continue to-
day.
Cross examination by District At
torney ]. E. Mcclellan in the Bronx
trial showed that Tammany lieuten-
ants hired a certain number Of men
for emergency street cleaning service
at starvation wages, taking adj
vantage of the unemployment crisis
They made out payroll vouchers for
higher amounts, cashed the checks
paid off the workers at the lower
rates and pocketed the difference. II
was also shown that many dummy
names were written on the payrolls
there being convenient loop-holes il
the civil service regulations.
"On the last day of the racket / got
5000 in cash and 1884 in checks as
my SHARE" Benjamin P. Stoeber, for
mer assistant foreman of the Crom.
well garage, said in pleading guilty
William ]. Oswald, 4th Bronx dis
trict superintendent, is standing tria
with MCGEE.
Similar practices are being I'M
covered in the hearings before Hig
gins, in spite of all that the Tam
many bosses and higher salariec
executives can Go to keep the liz
clamped on the system.
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(Communist) Party, and which
Sarah Victor has helped to bring
from an idea to a paid factory paper
with, circulation of thousands.
With the same determination
with which Sarah Victor sold the
shop paper to the Ford workers in
the Detroit rain, she has undertaken
another job, this time for The
DAILY WORKER.
The business Of putting The
DAILY WORKER into the home of
every working man and woman in
Detroit is the supreme task which
Sarah Victor has undertaken in the
automobile kings city. To the
thousands of flivver slaves, Sarah
Victor is bringing The DAILY
WORKER.
Subscriptions Vital.
GT CANNOT emphasize strongly
enough" said Sarah Victor in
the business office Of The DAILY
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and districts with the facts in the
present situation, shall instruct them
to ignore the new fake Secretary and
Office, and to send all communica-
tions only to the National Office of
the L. S. U. at 453 North Ave.
"The Executive Board is of the
opinion that the basis of the present
fight is the wrong outlook of the
minority splitters of the Executive
Board, which has not understood, and
does not understand how to work to-
wards the broadening out of the l..
S. U. so to include American elements.
The minority has shown repeatedly
that it is interested merely in physical
culture activity as an aim in itself,
not in the broatSer aims of the work
ers sport movement"
The resolutions were passed I'M
animously by the National Executive
Board at which the following were
present: Clemens Forsen, Harry Mil
Ter, James Nikrin, Rudolph Sauser,
and Paul Cline.