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By ELENORE MEHERIN

through! I'd had enough. We
were just about even then.
"And you all heard Heinie
order me to play on-finish the
game. And you heard me tell him
it would be on his responsibility
entirely. He showed that last $213
to the board over my protest
Jerry, you saw it!''
''Well--what about 1t, Mary?"
Nothing about it! Nothing Of
any concern to mel!
"Oh, you started to play the
game, Mary. 1t was $3.50, win or
lose, wasn't it?"
ut was $3.50 and you CAN'T
lose"
She sat back in formidable ST.
Ience.
Don't say any more" Heinie
urged, driving down the now
family illumined road. Jerry and
Hugh sat with him in the front
seat. "She's unuerved and excl.
ted, and she drank too much of
that old Bourbon. 1t creeps up
slowly. She'll be all right tomor-
row. Let's forget it. The en-
chiladas were good, Ell, Jerry?"
But hardly worth $500 a pair,
Heinie? I'd wiring her neck before
I'd let her get away with this.
I'd sue her"
81 don't believe she means to
get out of it. Let's give her
chance"
Late Sunday morning a bluff
nd intr
the golf course.
She looked very trig in purple
sweater and close-fitting hat pulled
down to her Swallowed eyes.
'Oh, whatta night" she yawned,
giving them a superior smile and
swinging along at Heinie's side.
And 1 had the filthy winnings
all SPENT You better lose that
system. Heinie, before it loses
your last dime. It's poison"
She's not going to pay!' snap
ped Jerry. quickening her pace
and ordering Hugh with toss of
her head to keep up with her.
She's going to pass it off balm
lily like THAR
Hugh, white with unbelief:
VIC II AhSlSI IAdL Shc pay.
Howe"
Explain that 1t was clearly I'M
derstood by all of us she was to
furnish $3.50. Nothing was said
about win or lose. We were all
witnesses. feel personally liable
to Heinie. Surely Miss Pennings
won't risk our scorn for $3.50"
Jerry gave him a plying stare
and looked Off over the rolling
hills to a glimpse of the start
ling blue Monterey waters.
At 4 O'Clock the Pennings' ma
chine drove up to the hotel.
Mary with an arrogant Good
by, ole dears" departed.
And good-by to your $500.
Heinie" Jerry added.
Heinie refused 10 speak Of the
incident.
TO BE Continued Tomorrow
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honeymoon with him and her life
afterward.
And now, in the still twilight OF
this May night, she forgot him
almost. The thought OF him
seemed to be lifted, like a heavy
weight, from her all at once.
Her eyes went to the far cor.
ner of the room, where her dress
ing table. draped with lace and
covered with silver toilet bottles
and brushes, stood. Under the
sachet-filled padding of the left
hand drawer was something that
she wanted.
She sat up in bed, one hand held
to her aching, bandaged head. She
swung her feet over the side and
stepped out upon the rug. Dizzily
she went across the room, opened
the drawer and CROPPED for the
thing she wanted-a taxi drivers
Identification card.
When she got back to bed she
was as tired as IL she had taken
10-mile walk. She fell across
it, breathing hard.
Beside the bed was a little green
shaded lamp with the gayest of
butterflies painted upon it.
1t was an effort for Lily to
reach over and turn it on. Then
she held the card under the
light and Pat, Frances face looked
up at her. She let out a weak
little whimper as she saw it.
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I made up my mind years ago
that you'd never have to do it!
1 made up my mind that you'd
marry money or I'd know the
reason why!'
The automobile salesman came
up to her and she began to tell
him what she wanted in the way
of a car, and how much she
would pay down on it, and when
she would pay the rest.
Lily listened to her in awe and
admiration. She surely
was a wonderful manager!
CHAPTER XII.
The next day was the tenth of
May. 1t was one of those glorious
blue and green and-gold days OF
spring. A day of warm wind and
blazing sunshine.
Montpelier road, with it's green
lawns, its beds of gay spring
flowers, its budding trees and
green and white houses, looked
like a strip OF hand-blocked Gre
tonne to Lily when she opened
her eyes and sat up in bed, look
ing out OF the windows of her
room.
Outside in the lilac bushes a
robin was singing, and somewhere
in the middle distance, another
robin was answering it,
1t certainly was no day to lie
a-bed, and Lily found herself
eager to get up and get dressed
and get out into the brightness
Of it.
AT 9 o'clock she walked into the
dining room.
Go Be Continued Tomorrow
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NOw Go On With The Story.

brought back to her the memory
Of another rainy day, only a few
weeks before, that she found Her
self thinking again Of Pat
France.
All through the month Of April
she had been so busy with Staley
that it had been easy to stick to
her resolution to forget Pat and
his blue eyes and his piston ring.
The days had been so filled with
motor rides in Staley's big road
ster, with theater trips with him,
with telephone calls from him,
that she had had little time to
think of anyone but him.
And when she wasn't with him
he was always sending her things
that reminded her of lim-flow.
ers, candy, books. magazines, per.
fumes. Russian cigarets. booklets
on European travel. 1t
almost seemed as il he were put.
ting up a silent battle to keen
her from thinking of anyone but
him. and Of anything but her
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but poverty and a hard life
and who apparently had no desire
to give her even that. A man
who had Inundated her and
shown no desire for her or her
company.
Although he did tear my pic
ture out of the paper" she
thought, miserably curled up I'M
der the orchid-silk quilt on the
bed, she took that only because
he thought / was pretty" No,
the whole thing was hopeless.
A half hour later Miss Sykes
found her sound asleep, with
tears drying on her face, and a
soiled and crumpled piece of
cardboard doubled up in her
hand.
Miss Sykes smoothed it out and
looked at the photograph on it
curiously. Then she looked down
at Lily, with Staley's engagement
diamond sparkling upon her left
hand like star.
"Ho, humY' said Miss Skyes to
herself" This doesn't look like the
beginning OF a very happy mar
ried life for Mr.. Staley Drum
mond, does it?" Her face was
grave and thoughtful.
She knew a thing or two about
Iife-and about love, too. A
trained nurse finds out more
about both OF these things than
most people do.
Being kind-hearted soul she
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table she knew something had
happened.
Mary's face was ashen-her
mouth a white, angry cash. Sud
denly her voice rose-shrill, pene-
trant. BLACK again! Black
again! Black again.
Looks as though we're just in
time" said Heinie.
They reached the table. Mary
was sitting there rigid. She had
suddenly ceased playing.
The moment she saw Heinie her
eyes flared like an animals. THE
games crooked"
Not isn'tv'
ut isl Thirteen times in sue
cession the black came up"
That's all right + play
on!"
There, look at it! Black again."
Finish the game"
On your responsibility"
"Of course-finish it!'
Mary showed $3.50 to the red
and lost. Lost again. Four times.
Fifteen times in successin. 1t
can't be straightr Her hand
loitered over the 1918. With a sud
den inspiration, she drew a line
through her long column of fig
ures, marked them out.
"Oh, my God! Don't do that"
said Heinie. PLAY the game
through"
But Mary had already begun a
new succession-let the losing
game go-starting again.
You can't do that -" take it
up where you left off," He pushed
the 1913 to the red. And then
then only perceived it was the end
of her stack.
How is this?" said he mysti-
fih. The wheel stopped at the
black.
How Is it," said Mary. jump
Ing from the table and sweeping
her hand across the chips as the
croupier drew them in. How is
II! They're crooked! And your sys-
TENS a joke-that's how! That's
how-that's howl
me people at the table stared.
The old don rushed up.
Let's get outv' said Heinie,
greatly embarra ssed.
Mary laughed: "All right with
me. If it's all right with your'
She settled in the back of the
machine folding her arms furi-
ously.
You didnt play it right, !" said
Heinie quietly. You have to play
each game through"
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risk 1913 on the turn of the
wheel? Fifteen times in success
sion! Don't be insane. No one could
do that"
"If you'd played the game
through"
Mary interrupted with a high,
glittering laugh:
IT played the game through. On
your responsibility On your
orders. and your $500. I should
worry! Too bad for you"
CHAPTER so
In the unpleasant silence follow
ing Mary's announcement, five
pairs OF eyes turned on her in.
dignantly.
you've not had so much fun
in a long time, Mary" said Rod
Porter, trying to ease the situa.
ton. Worth $3.50 of your money
any day."
TRY and get it," shifted Mary.
at don't need a system If 1 want
to throw money in the street."
You didn't play the SYSTEM"
said Heinie good naturally and
pretending to ignore Mary's
threat. "How many times be-
fore that last, did you quit in the
middle OF a game and begin
over?"
She answered this with an
evasive: How many times with
a capital of $500 can you risk
1913 on the turn of a. wheel"
II told you to play half dollar
a point. then the $500 would he
sufficient
"And said nothing when I raised
it to a dollar point"
"Oh, you were getting by,
Mary. Only you got cold feet
and quit playing your game
through when the bets increased.
That's why we lost out"
1--WE lost out when you ordered
me to stake $3.50. 1 was for quit
ting then while we were still
ahead.
Jerry, you heard me tell him
the game was crooked. You notice
that no one was playing the
black? So they made the black
come up. They cleaned that other
IDIOT out first. He ended with his
collar torn to ribbons and $4,000
in the hole. All that time was
winning. But with him out they
started to clean me.
II was hundreds ahead when
the black started coming up.
Thirteen times was enough for
me. ! was for stopping. Jerry,
YOU saw that Id quit!
II said emphatically that I was
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And Al driver-you under.
atand?" she finished. '"The very
best one you have on your list.
! shall want him for all sorts of
househol. duties. too
Lily closed her eyes and listened
10 the swift flow Of her voice
the voice Of a woman who knows
what she wants and gets it by
some hook or crook, always.
She put the receiver back upon
its brightly-rainted hook. and
looked down at her daughters
eyelids and her bandaged fore
head.
II must phone staley, poor
fellow, too," she said, her tone
softening a little. Hes been here
three times today, and he's sent
=. whole ton OF roses. They're
downstairs. Would you like to
zee them, dear?"
Lily shook her head slowly and
painfully. The cool, damp air,
coming in through the open win
an1elIed Of new young leaves and
of the Iilacs down in the yard.
Roses. They were
going to fill the house with roses
again in a few weeks.
Yellow roses for the wedding.
For the day when she would
marry Sta1ey Drummond.
Keep them downstairs, moth.
err" she said. without lifting her
heavy eyelids. 1.-THE smell Of
flowers makes me sick-some-
times
She lay without moving or
speaking again until her mother
and Miss Sykes, the nurse, went
downstairs to their early dinner
and she was left alone in the
0arkened room.
Perhaps it was because the
smell Of the wet fragrant air
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chauffeur" asked Lily, who liked
the idea of riding around in style
herself.
Mrs. Lexington nodded. opening
the door of the showroom and
pushing Lily in ahead of her.
Yes. He came out to the
house early this morning-befor
you were awake, guess" she
answered. "a very nice-looking
young chap he was. too.
/ never said a word to him about
waiting on table and so on. /
thought I'd break it to- him
gently, after he started work"
THAT was sensible" Lily said,
in her lovely voice. You surely
do know how to manage people,
mother"
81 certainly do"' Mrs. Lexing-
ton threw her chin up proudly.
eff l didn't we couldn't live as
well as we do, Lily. I've man
aged and twisted and turned
things all my married life. to
make some kind of a showing
among our friends. And
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He0M.
Story

The girl whose menstrual periods
ever cause a broken date, simply
hasn't heard about MidOL. Men
situation is natural. But the pain
is not!
MidOI t0iH end menstrual pains
IN fiUe to seVe1s minutes.
This merciful discovery of the
specialists is not a narcotic. 1t
does nothing to hinder or hasten
the process of menstruation. But
it does end the painful part: if
you anticipate your time the ex-
pected pain will not appear at all.
Tiny tablets, in convenient little
aluminium case, fifty cents at any
drugstore. It j. folly to suffer.
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BUILD NOVEL
CHURCH

The novel feature of the Sweden
borgian Church, a Gothic cathe-
dral under construction at Bryn
Athyn, Pa, which is unique
among church buildings, is in
the absence OF machine-made ma
terials. Every part of the work
has been done by hand. No steel
or iron-not even a supporting
beam or a nails to be found
anywhere in the building.
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in all the Jungle"
Soon Sambo met another tiger.
Little Black Sambo," it said.
II am going to eat you up"
Little Sambo said, "Mr. Tiger,
take my green umbrella"
The tiger said, "How can |
carry an umbrella?
need all my paws for walking"
"You can tie a knot in your tail
and carry it," said Little Sambo.
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Love in a MiIIiOnaire's Mansion or In a
Poor Mans Flat Is Lily's
Problem of Future
Read This First:

LILY LEXINGTON spoiled OF the CYRUS
LEANGTONS,
realizes ambition
rich bachelor older than herself On the after
OR the way she sees man watching her and feels herself oddly
beside taxicab Moved by some strong impulse she jumps
he way that he Is cab driving because T. pays fairly wen and gives
ton AZ Lily leaves the cab she takes biz Identification card
her house 70 ask her for it. and Stay Oyehearing their
driver. Lily denies it Indignantly
d have his Identification card But he that he won't
company he works for to raise for the piston Lily
cab but the next time she asks him drive her
the enjoyment
DO IT. Sue takes Lily home and tells her she must have her mind
at
Eractive a
tell Staley
70 to . small
plain girl, him Lily
picture society
that II.
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! will give you my beautiful shoe
with crimson soles
and crimson Innings"
"But," said the tiger,
what use will they be to me?
I have four feet"
Wear them on your earsw
said little Sambo.
$50 I COULD" said the tiger,
and he took the shoes saying,
"Now / am the grandest tiger
(Mcclure Newspaper syndcate)
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Censorship il. China

THE kitchen household believed ascend
= to heaven the famlys dongs and
this anniversary toffee stuck the mouth OF the god to
insure the report being incoherent
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What DO You KnOW?
ANSWERS TO TODAY'S TEST
Questions on Editorial Page

Questions Editorial Page
J. Patrotsm Treaty; g. Constitution; Tariff; S. Spols
system Connecticut Nevada; Michigan; Colorado; TO-
tennessee; H. Greece H. French; 49, Roman; IA Blsh To-
American 16, German
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This Day in Our History

T WHITNEY who revoutonized the cotton industry by the
II invention of the cotton gin patent for It on
March H. 1884 The principle of the gin has renamed
unchanged since its invention
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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.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-19
HEALTH TRAIN
Big SUCCESS
Attendance of School
Children Pleases
Rail Head

HOUSTON, Tex, Feb. lS.-With an
attendance record Of more than 20,
600 visitors established 0 the Texas
better health special. which has just
closed a 30-day tour Of the Missouri
Pacific lines in Texas. II. X. Stafford,
executive vice president Of that rail-
road expressed public appreciation
for the cooperation given by the
cate and county officials, local sur
Leons. civic club officers an school
authorities in making the movement
a success. The attendance, Mr.. SAT-
ford said, was far greater than had
ever been anticipated, and indicated
q thorough interest on the part of
Texas people and their communities
in learning more about public health
and sanitation.
The Texas better health special,
n project undertaken BY the Missouri
lines in cooperation with the Texas
state department of health and the
United States public health service.
began its tour at Longview. Tex, on
Jan. l6. and closed at Beaumont Jan.
-. More than 100 Texas commune
ties were visited on the trip. with
than ~two-thirds OF the total
attendance having been made up of
school students from the fouth 10
hiFh school grades.
In many towns. Mr.. Stafford said,
records revealed that entire schools
were brought TO the train,ln a body.
some Of these being I m eight To
10 miles in the country. The rural
attendance, he declared. was very
pleasing. as on several occasions
visitors were on the health snecial
who had driven a distance OF so miles
and more 20 see the train. The at
tendance by negroes also was APP
probably larger THAI had ever been
anticipated. q very keen interest
having been taken by members Of
that race in helping to improve
local health conditions in their own
communities.
I'VE arc elated oyer the success
with which the Texas better health
special has met all along the route"
Mr.. Stafford said. "We cannot HELM
but feel that the interest displayed
by the people. and especially the
school children, indicates that there
is public awakening to the necessity
for better safeguarding our public
health. The purpose for which the
train was operated ] think has been
we'll served, as we are receiving
many interesting letters from vari-
Gus noints along the line advising
US that they have already begun
active campaigns for tie improve
ment Of their local health condi.
tons"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-19

WASHINGTON, G1 Confident
that 45-hour air mail and passenger
service between London and New
York is so close at hand tina. .
attainment is only a matter OF
months, the government is clearing
the way for participation by the
United States in a new era OF trans
oceanic transport.
Spurred by announcement that the
giant British dirigible R-l0O. near
ing completion in England. will
make demonstration voyages over the
Atlantic in September TO show the
feasibility Of the plan, executive
branches are moving quickly to as
sure full American cooperation in
contamination Of an air line over the
Atlantic.
The postoffice department,
through Warren /. Glover, assistant
postmaster general in charge Of air
mail. has indicated that If Britain
institutes regular transatlantic ser
vice. the government will be ready
10 dispatch mail in quantities 10 Eng
land at the regular two-cent postage
rate now in effect. Similar plans by
British postal Authorities call for a
three-cent letter rat. on United
States-bound bound mail with a sur
charge Of nine cents.
Rep. Clyde Kelly o. Pennsylvania
has offered in congress a measure
authorizing the postmaster general
a contract for tr~ans-oceanic mail at
SO a pound. Its passage will re-
move almost the last barrier 70
American use Of the liners for mail,
President Coolidge has expressed
his interest in the plan 10 connec-
tion with the visit to Washington OF
c. D.. Burney. member Of the British
parliament and representative Of
sponsors of the R-l90.
At the presidents direction. Sec
rotary Wilbur of the navy Is MAX.
inc available the mooring mast al
Lakehurst. n. j., for the demonstra-
ton flight, and Secretary Of Com.
merce Hoover is LOOKING into the
project with a view to aiding il az
he may through the department.
section OF commercial aviation.
The Rico will be 700 feet long
81 feet logger than the U. s. navy
dirigible Los Angeles. II will have
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-19
Sun Still Good For
Is 'Trillion Years

WASHINGTON ~ INV The world
needn't worry for $4,000, OOo, OOO, 900
years about the sun failing TO give
forth its heat. in the opinion Of DR..
G.. Abbot, noted astroThysicist and
secretary Of the Smithsonian lnsti-
tuition.
The sun is reducing in mass, but
scientists estimate that il will take
that long for it 10 be destroyed. The
present belief. he explains. Is that
the sun and stars furnish their tre-
mendous amount Of energy through
actual humiliation Of the atoms Of
which they are composed.
Recent research. he said. has dis
closed that the sun sends out an
amount Of energy which would equal,
il translated into mechanical work.
che horsepower a square ward over
the surface OF a sphere having a
radius of 93.000.0 COO miles, its dis
lance from the earth.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-19
Convict Back in Cell
To Ease Conscience

HUNTSVILLE, Tex. CPl-The la
comic notation. gone 23 years. six
months and eight days." appears
on the commitment papers of Bert
Greed, who has returned ~voluntar-
lily TO the state penitentiary from
which he escaped almost a quarter
of a century Ago..
Greed was sentenced in 1903 to
serve six years III prison FOX stealing
a horse. He escaped after six
months, and roamed over the United
States, Canada and Mexico until a
troubled conscience caused him to
appear at the sheriff's office at
LoEgview. Texas, and surrender.
Il was always on The dodge and
never had any peace of mind he
explained. II want il over with
now" Greed j. now IS years old.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-19

a carrying capacity Of 100 passen-
gers and ten tons Of freight, a cruis-
ing radius OF 1900 miles and a speed
Of rs miles an hour.
1t will be able, Burney estimates,
70 voyage from New York TO Lon
don in about 80 hours. b . the west
ward flight will take ten hours more
because Of the difference in prevail
ing winds. The ship will have the
luxurious stSterooms and appoint
ments Of an ocean liner.
Present plans call for endurance
-maneuvering and mooring tests for
the R-l00 In July and August, to be
followed in September by the trans
Atlantic tests. II these succeed.
British capital X prepared. Burney
says. to organize a S35, 900 900 cor
poration and build five more ships
To serve with the RICO as a trans
Atlantic air fleet.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-19
KILLED BIRD. THEN SELVES

SEVILLE, Spain Alfredo Conte
and Francisco Gordez shot the same
partridge, uUarreled over ID, then
shot each other to death.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-19
Valley Historical Outline

from their northern hunting grounds
and made attacks on travellers in the
isolated country between the Valley
and the interior settlements Of Tex
as, here were many massacres and
tragedies TO be recorded in the en-
during records Of modern history.
The Texas Historical association
years 10 enrich Texas history, but
years to enrich Texas History, but
much is lett 10 the present and iu-
ture generations. II is not down TO
date; history had outgrown the work
Of one man, and it is found in the
research work of many special
studies of historic charters and his
toric events. Even TO cover Texas
History rs now developed is a task.
not lightly essayed, and is best de-
veloped in the thirty volumes Of our
quarterly, not in the works of any
n man.
The history department Of the
state university Of late years has
been stimulating research work on
special subjects as these prepared
in fulfillment of its master degrees
and has thus greatly enriched his
tory. This work has not ben extend
ed to the high schols encouraging its
talented students to write the local
history OF its home town, county or
some Important event connected with
il. The high school scholars are stimu-
lated by prizes and the publication Of
those exhibiting unusual talent.
have prepared from my own library
a list of the special papers printed
in the so volumes OF the quarterly
bearing on tho Rio Grande and also
other books giving information on
the same subject. Many of them are
out Of print now, but are to be
found in the University Of Texas Ii
brary and the State Library in Aus
tin.
The modern history OF the Valley
ILLUSTRATED so attractively by its
@fui homes stately school bulld-