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Not wasn't crime. 1t only
crystallized a situation that has
existed for months. / didn't
want to see it. Now I do"
What do you see?"
That we have no chance of
happiness going on as we do.
That we've come to. the parting.
Oh, don't interrupt. We're not
married. But already you feel
that I'm infringing on your free.
dom. My interest annoys you.
You have this attitude already.
What possible chance would we
have for the kind of marriage we
want, when you start in by re-
>senting me? And how could I
endure that--if 1 have any decent
self esteem"
'1I don't resent you"
yes. You lie in wait for the
chance to taunt me about taking
care of you and mothering you"
I'm fun"
mot always"
you used to laugh at this and
fight back"
II could laugh yet. But You
mean 1t. You're cynical Of marriage
and this sarcasm alone would
convert me into the kind of hurt,
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- q
after he first saw the symptoms
of discomfort. Excessive labor
turnover was wasteful; he needed
no efficiency experts, no articles
in business magazines, to tell
him so. Moreover. 1t was form
of waste he had always, in any
business he had controlled, been
especially. adroit in avoiding or
eliminating.
But not for one moment did it
strike him that Eileen's behavior
in the last few weeks might de-
mand, from him, precisely the sort
of action he would automat ically
have taken had Margaret Drew
begun, by her conduct, to warn
him that she might soon be con-
sidering change OF employment.
One woman was valued and eff
Gent wife, the other valued and
efficient secretary. He missed the
common factor-that they were
both women Indeed, he never
thought Of them both at the. same
time at all.
In one sense that was true, in
another IL wasn't. Until quite
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Equally was he utterly unaware
Of the change in Margaret Drew's
feeling for him. And, most Of
ali, perhaps, was he blind to the
truth that New York, when
man Ii seen again and again with
q woman not his wife. Is As stir
red, as moved to gossip As any
vfllage-f only the man is inn
portant enough.
Margaret knew that-knew it
perfectly land didn't care. She
cared, indeed, every little for most
OF the accepted standards and
conventions. Her life had been
almost a clustered one, but not
because OF any prudery any
moral scrupIes that she harbored.
The girl had ripened. 1natured,
in q time of changing standards,
when old rules had pretty well
gone by the board and new ones
had not yet crystalized to take
their place. For her mother she
had D sort Of tolerant liking and
no respect Whatever. She had
adored her father, but she de-
spised her mothers mind her
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lately he had never really thought
of Margaret Drew at, all, except
as his secretary. She might have
been so; she might have been q
man. His regard for her had
been high, from the first, but it
had been strictly q regard for her
as a, capable machine; he admired
her very much az he admired the
new elevators in the building,
which stopped precisely at the
right level of each floor because
the operator had touched q but.
ton as he started, or one OF the
new, high-speed adding machines
In the accounting department..
Recently. however. he had seen
another side of Margaret. They
had worked. several times, late;
they had been alone in the great.
lonely office, with only cleaning
women moving about. It had
seemed to, him only fair, only
polite. to ask her. one night, when
they went downstairs to find it
raining, to have dinner with him,
to take her home, afterward. In =
cab.
That was the first time he had
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NolO 60 On With The Story.

CHE could never do that again.
~ Not now, that she had seen her,
talked to her. come face to face
with her. Henceforth, she knew,
! she must reckon with Eileen.
CHAPTER 20
Very slowly, very gradually, a
little at a. time, with reluctance
and almost constant struggling
against a conviction that it was
70. had John MacVeagf. too,
come to see that between him
and Eileen something was gravely
Rrniss. s-sz- -
The first stage OF his discovery
was nothing more than a grow
gsinr sense of awareness of his
inpatience with her. his disap-
pointment at what he considered
her failure to allow for his point
nf view, her complete, as he
saw it, inability 70 understand the
nature of the new problems he
faced, with their inevitable but
none the less racking demands
upon him and his time.
Like all men of his type, which
was, essentially. the Napoleonic,
John MaceVagh was capable both
, 81 an infinite attention to details
end devastating impatience and
resentment at their insistent pres
sure upon him. His plans, in gem
9eral, were wide ones; they spread
Far: they involved, the successful
Generalization of innumerable fac
: Aors And to this coordination he
was never too busy to give his
personal, enthusiastic attention
when, in his own judgment. it
was necessary for the success Of
scheme that he should do so.
But. like all great executives
= John liked to. be able to delegate
responsibility. He liked to lay out
- plan. in 4 large, broad way
sand then forget 1t, leaving to
: others the task of carrying it out,
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ever really talked to the girl. ex-,
cept about business. The sparkle
Of her mind had appealed to him;
the quick play Of it; the ruth.
less way she went to the essence
OF things she had read about.
She lacked humor; he didn't mind
that; liked 1t. indeed. on the
whole.
It became a habit with him to
ask her to dinner, after that,
whenever they worked late. There
was no reason, he told himself,
why he should not; this was
New York, after all, where q
married man could dine with an
other woman without making
talk. He did not see, or he did
not choose to see, the significance
of that; it did not strike him as
worthy OF thought that he, who
never made excuses. even to him.
self, for anything he did, should
be making them now about his
conduct with this girl.
CHAPTER 80
!. OF what was going on in Ri.
leen's mind John MacVeagh was
completely. profoundly Ignorant.
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She kept repeating with ex-
ultance: But he WON'T"
You can hold him, of course.
Women always hang on. They
hang on to be resented; to have
their love regarded as a nuisance
by the men they're fool enough
to adore. You're not married to
him, but already this is the key.
note of his attitude Beautiful,
holy love! Something awfully
high and gorgeous. He doesn't
want you in his life. Blind YOUR
self to 1t the fact re-
mains"
All Tuesday this hung over her
in a heavy, depressing cloud. Yet
all Tuesday she remained home
waiting for him to phone.
She thought drearily: I'll be
one Of those weakened con-
temptible beings-one Of those
women without fire wit on t
spirit clinging on and
on"
But she called to him blithely
enough that night mo, I'm on a
vacation and giving you one, ole
dear. Try it out. Distance dims
enchantment. So keep yours and
see how it works. You're free
as the good old air. Fly high.
/ may catch you on the fall"
Wednesday and Thursday she
kept to this programme.
Friday without phoning he
drove out in PauFs roadster
Come on--come out of it"'
said he, pulling her to the ma.
chine. ''It takes two, to make
marriage--and two to break it,"
They parked in. the remote
quiet above the buffalo paddock
in the park. Now tell me-" said
he, why are you so depressed.
1t wasn't such a crime, was it,"
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JERRY lay in bed, weak with re-
- lief. She listened to the tread
ing silence Of the empty rooms.
How they hummed and muir
INJURED and flung vague echoes
about. Now a golden laugh
now that deep, throaty chuckle.
1t came to her wildly just
as she heard 1t that first night
when she went padding to the
door and stood there shivering,
lost ! in the fascination Of his
face. The mirth and sweetness
of his light thrilling eyes.
Just like that, tonight when
he stopped and took her in his
arms. Darling thing, am
forgiven? Tomorrow the sun
will shine. I'm not perfect and
& I've been to blame. But / love
your
She put shaking hands over
her eyes and whispered into the
dark. He does! / know he
does"
Then bruptly, coldly she
thought: II was only making a
bluff. didn't mean to give him
up. / can't"'
1T seemed ridiculous that she
had even considered it.
But after a while she felt his
eyes filled with hostility: with
accusation and resentment as he
went back along the path and
dipped his fingers in the little
pool OF liquor Again when she
snatehed the cup of whiskey.
But she told herself weakly: at
gave him a chance. I told him he
was free-told him to go! But
he won't"
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means to see through to a finish.
1t was not sheer egotism that
made him feel that Eileen ought
to subordinate herself to him and
his demands. 1t represented, in
a very real sense, his philosophy
Of life. He would have been
equally ready to do, had their POI
sitions. by some freak of fate.
been reversed, what he expected
of her.
1t worried him to feel that they
were drifting apart. He knew the
old harmony and the old intimacy
were gone. and he missed them
without having the time. really, to
find out what it was that had
made the change. The truth was
that about his marriage, about his
personal relations In general, John
MacVeagh simply was not eff.
cient. Few men of any occupa-
ton are.
Had an employe- essential to his
business begun 70 NOPE, to show
signs or dissatisfaction. John Mac
Veagh- would have been on the
trail of the trouble one minute
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as soon az you possibly can. This
Is very urgent"
He rode across with her on the
boat She glanced at his strong,
vital face that now turned to her
with a sweetness and chuckle.
Going to leave me? Not mad
now, are your"
oh thought she with a flash
and oppression, what a frightful
thing is this love q woman feels.
We're slaves-slaves to. the soul"
She closed her eyes. feeling his
hand on her. She thought with a
sob; "Yes-just do that! And ask,
are you madp'
But she answered him brightly:
You're free, ole dear, while I'm
gone. Be as free and as gay as you
please. And you'll know by the
contrast what you want. I'm
one who will have all or nothing.
AS love you, would be loved in
return-utterly, madly-so or not
at ALL"
Jerry don't want to be free
Of you--I won't be free"
She gave him a pale, misty
smile--a little rapt laugh. You
must prove itv'
When he kissed her she thought
with panic: There are no other
lips in the world for me-none."
She was nervous-athrob with
excitement when the train pulled
in at Chicago. -"
Shn InalA5 about f~r -. - akkAr
Saw her. And stood ,frigid-
frozen with alarm.
CHAPTER "a
Marza's face cut white against
the black, dropping hat-white,
intense, lighted; 4 ghost.face
limned in pain.
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THE ONLY WAY TO
END IND TON
RehOys de Case md YSp
Remove De Pan

Nine-tenths OF digestive troubles
are caused BY food fermentation
and excess acid In the stomach, ana
it il only BY ending these condi-
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The quickest, safest, and surest
way to do this is to take 4 httls
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whenever pain is felt. This not only
stops fermentation and neutrallzes
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That is why millions averyYhero
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low their sound advice get a 6O-cent
package of ..Pape's Diapepsin' from
your druggist al once, and insure
stomach health, with the. fear of in
digestion hanished forever.
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|FRRY Story Of Wild Youth !: By ELENoRE NEFIERIN

She saw Jerry. a smile flew
over the pallor.
"Why, OF course, I'm AL right
silly pet!''
But so thine oh, mother. 80
terribly thin and desperate look
ing"
ooh, come-nonsensei" said
Maria turning her face swiftly
and signaling a taxi. Wen have
dinner and talk. How good you're
here! You didn't mind, did your
They got into the taxi. Maria
gave the address of the hotel.
''Oh, aren't you staying with
her-your sister,
mo. Not now. The danger Is
past. I'm SURE the danger Is
past"
did she nearly die?''
Maria sat with her eyes closed,
still as marble. ''Yes-they say
so-before arrived she went
very near to death"
Then she began to talk rapidly
of inconsequential things. What
arrangements did Jerry make?
oh, Inga and Silvia were en-
chanted to take the apartment?
They'll watch out for things7
That's good. We may be here
several months.
why. shall we stay IL she's
better?"
she needs me. have business
here"
y =
Maria ordered dinner in their
room and now she moved about
with q still intensity. helping
Jerry to unpack, talking with q
tender, almost child-lile eager
ness.
Go Be Continued Tomorrow
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Beauty Doctor Gives Fine
Recipe for the Hands

Many women will undoubtedly be
glad to know how they may have
beautiful, white, soft pretty hands
regardless Of the work they have to
do. The secret lies in rubbing lit
tie 1ce-Mint into the hands occasion
ally preferably just before retiring at
night. In the morning you will he
agreeably surprised at the pleasant
Transformation that has been wrought
by even q single application. Ice-Mint
u made from Japanese product that
n simply marvellous for it's beautfying
properties whether used on the hands
on f4ee. Regardless of what kind Of
work - woman does she should have
pretty hands as they are really the
true marks of refinement A few ap-
pIications of Ice-Mint win actually
make any woman proud of her hands
and skin. 1t costs little and il sold
and recommended by good druggists
everywhere.
This recipe il worth keeping.
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sentimental viewpoint. her res
olute refusal to face facts unless
circumstances forced her to dn 50.
Had her life not been torn UP py
the roots after her fathers death
Margaret would probably haNs
lived normally. sanely. contentsdly.
would by this time have been mar.
ried and one sof the vast company
Of suburban wives who do their
days marketing on the way home
after driving their husbands to
the station. A 1t was, she was,
or liked to think she was, ia.
revolt. y.
no Be CONTINUED Tomorrow
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To ''Make-a-Book" of "a pages, cut six
strips ~ inches by inches. Fold these
like pages of book Cut cover from stiff
paper inches by 10. Sew pages into cover
with a big stitch.
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Patron Saints of Pharmacy

Arab brothers Damien the patron saints
healing gratuitously at Aegea
Cecilia during Angels reputed TO nave
rescued them from three attempts to kill them
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What Do You KnOW?
ANSWERS TO TODAY'S TEST

-. Questions Editorial Page.
At pleasure; g. Chsres Doctor of Dental Surgery;
VA Napoleon Robert Morris; TO- 1885, Madison
IL, American; 49, Irish; H. English Is, Norwegian.
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This Story Of a Girl Who Gambled Her
ALI for the Love of a Married Man
Has a Punch in Each Line
What Has Happened So Far:

Randall bobared pretty first manifested her
MacVeagh when
talked wldtoo wild
said. Vapid But
comeness and the fact that be-
very clearly his ability driving hard
business He played the markand But he also
played Henry LOvewes wife, Marcia And
trouble LOvewen would brook trng
- W0I, IN IN Wifi Tho Cf0ru
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Jack and the Beanstalk

Jack and the Beanst0lk
The giant ate the whole lamb.
Then he took some bags Of money
and began to count the gold.
But soon he was fast asleep.
Jack saw the gold and said,
ct wish I had a bag of gold"
''It is mine," said the woman,
''take it and run home
Jack took the bags of gold
and down the stalks he went
as fast as he could climb.
IL
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on the out
side book from By
strip and paste in book. Page opposite
IL Read Sylvester
color pictures - o -
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ADNERTIsEMEMT
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SILVER CRAZE

!. FREEZING, VA, Feb. IS. -
"A sort of silver craze appears
-t6z pefvade the atmosphere of
this immediate vicinity, since
Richard Mills, a farmer of near
.Freeling, returned from across
the Virginia Kentucky border
with the story that a man bear
ing the name of Wright whose
first, or christian name was not
learned, had found S3500.00 in
silver coin hid on his premises.
1t appears, according to the un-
derstanding of Mills, that Wri-
ght had long believed there was
money buried on his premises,
and he purchased a divining rod
with which to- locate it. 1t work.
ed like a good rod should do,and
soon the treasure was unearth-
ed.
There may lbe a slight foun-
daticn of fact for the story, OF
there may be none, but it has
set the two +credulous to think
ing, and some recall having
heard of money being hid in the
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RESOURCES

/ Richmond, Va, Feb. 22-
Virginia is the thirty-fifth
state in the union in its per cap
tia banking resources, accorio-
ing to q statistical survey of
Virginia which has just been
compiled by the University of
Virginia and released through
the Virginia State ChamDer of
Commerce. Her figures are
60.66 per capita, accor-l
to the ialesU comparative fig
lures Wnlcn tne University cou-
Id obtain, or S62O,810,000.
New York and Massachus-
etts lead in the per capita BAN
king resorces Of the United ST.
ates- with figures of $I,f2I31
and 81, 1927, respectively. The
total for New York State is SIG.
646,639,000 z
Banking resources for the
United States is placed by the
University's figures at S61, 1859,
IT'S, 600, Or an average per state
Of S508,086,000.
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Mothers Find Peace
Along Sunshine Wall

a. There is hardly a. mother in the
Paris Latin aparter who does not
KNOW the Sunshine wall. In the north
WESTERN corner of the. Luxembnrg
garden you will find 1t, long wall
facing SOUTH, and the Sunshine, II
yestige Of sun there be- plays upon
it all day long: - -
It. is. "a wall .,of. dignity, as betting
the Luxembourg museum of which It
ferms part. "Emblazoned in its GEN.
ter is Fournier's great mosaic. Wig
.otous angel. beafing-a palm, In fight
over a, CITY,, And ranged along the
top of the wall over the mosaic are
busts of famous artists. Ingres, David
Delacroiy and many more beside.
Hitler come the mothers every day.
and while the children sleep soundly
in Their peran,bufators or play with,
flash, of dimped legs and peais. of
shrilf,' gay laughter. they sit in one
unbroken line, against the sunIbathed;
wall and talk and sew and sometimes
dream a lfttle.,s Aid above them the
big mosaic blazes in the sunshine, and
the great winged angel hovers over
them with its palm.-From the Con-.
t'hental Edition Of the London Daily
Mali. ,..s.;.,.. -. -. - - = ..i':
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creeling, Va, Feb. 21-A
short time after the close Of the
great struggle between the
States strange stories dI'lfted
into this section from he near
eastern parts, and in fact more
or less from over the south gen.
orally. A veritslyle race of giants
more herculanean than any OF
the tabled monsters of old Corn
wall. In fact some of these were
said to be fifty feet in height,
and their horses of proportla-
nate size, as some of them were
mounted. According to the story
these monsters were after the
survivors of the Union Army,
.na woe be unto him who fell
into their hands.
At the time OF the most inte1l-
Sc excitement these giants were
said to have reached as far west
as Abingdon, Virginia, where.
they were making. sad havoc a.
mong the Union, men. They were
hanged withlstrong. ropesmade
CT lax lint. ssAs4 ankee heard a
strange noise near his house one
morning, and rose up to. ascert-
ain whence it-caT1e,. and what it
meant. Upon looking outzhe saw
che of the hurcaaaean specimen
breaking flax on q huge break,
and he instantly realzedalis sit
uation, and attempted TO. get a.
@ay to a safer place buts was
never afterwards: HIS fate was
thought to be that OF nanny 'otiIs
crs. In one instance aldllan' who4
had fought Oh the Union side,
was publicly hanged in the town
Of Abingdon, by laying a huge
pole from the top of the court
house to the top a of a building
en- the opposite side of the street
the moose was adjusted about
his neck and then fastened to
the beam then he was placed on
a horse which was driven out
from under the beam.
These were called Kuklux,
and were thought to be the spir-
it of the dead Confederates who
were returned to make things
right.
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new ROADS DISCUSSED n.
CE5A i. =.
iIEEE.ffIll.4

Iae SUBJECT OI new road
Through CoeOuln WIS co-l5i..ol'-
ed at Tue hlWaAI5 Quo llA9a.4-lg
i euruary la,40Ao. - loJIe50n-
Catlve crowd was present ana
the rosa program ms.o Al cl1e15 :
OF j. +. Lay, Chairman OF gnG
ROAD cemmlOCee, wng l4It0@Jt5-.
the speakers. The first speaker
was ex-senator h0lau1 y. Clla5e
OF Cl1ntWooa va, WAC mace Il
IelequenJ speech, outlining q p-an
for a new ROAD to begin at
WEIGH, w. Va, and cciIe w o18.
way of drudy, Hays, OIing@ 10 III.
ICoeburii, Dungannou, 1l(%el5-
vile, Gate CITY, and ca to KIll44ss-s
port. =
He showed the great advan5--a
lagos of such, q higt1 ay, tIlac i.
would bring Coebur.. w4t1la g0
miles OF Welch w. Vs., Conn scG-
ing the caal fields Of tue two
States and Put ghe Coal 1is 81.
indirect touch W15h tha gre y.
farming district o4 59.5 G,6u -
ty, to sac great al, allta.e VI
both.
oevef Visions were present
|Inclaal5g q. Y. eSsll4or, Ill~
way C0sE Ass rei', I'LL ri
|memba4 ST Isl 8ei oau4