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Hollenbeck : = the same
name that the Beamer
woman said 80 So that
was why old Roger shut her
upi To protect this Nancy
this girl who left him
for rich Jack Beamer ,
Jack, you needn't glare
at me like that! / haven't
done anythingl Ireally did
not mean-''
He reused himself with an
effort, drew her to him, and
began to stroke her smooth
pale hair, ciumsfly 81
lxnoW, honey. + u" + was
not, .qnite fair with You. 4
was Just worried about De-,
catur. Helen, if she comes
back to theAshack you'd be
nice to her, wouldn T youi
Why, Jack, Of course
Helen's guil6lesss. gray eyes
were fixed on him wonder
ingly.
Because Decatur would
feel it, and he's had darn
much bad luck already
And it's just one Of
those things, honey, that
never get explained. May
be If we knew = T" aw,
NUTSl'' He broke off, en-
barrassed.
She smiled and put her
rough little hands lovingly
on his shoulders. "Of course
III be nice to her. And oh,
Jack-don't you feel sorry
for everybody who ism t as
happy as wet"
Behind the closed door of
Rogers hospital room,
Nancy was making her sec
ond farewell. There was no
bitterness now, just sadness.
The almost unbearable sor-
row of it might have
BEEN"
" | might have known you
would come, I" he said visit
fully. "You thought / was
all shot to pieces, didn t
youf I'll bet you were even
prepared to nurse an in
valid for the rest of his
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Roger sank back on the pill
lows. The helpless, ire
pressible tears Of weakness
sprang to his eyes. He
turned to the wall again, to
hide them.
MacKimmons made for
thesdoor, and after him went
bis wife, Helen.
II was notShard to find
Nancy They stumbled
over her, weeping at the
dark turn Of the shairs.
Helen gave her a hai1alSer-
chief, and offered a small,
pinkish powder puff Nancy
took them gratefully One
on each side, they escorted
her back to the door, She
did not ask where they
were taking her, did not
look, or seem to care
Jack opened the door with
his free hand. They steered
her in, as if she were
wound up, walking doll.
Then they closed the door.
Well, i must say, " Helen
said, that she's changedl
To think Il was almost
/ afraid Of her when she came
!. to, see me, she was so styf-
ish And now 80 Jack
McKimmens, L-nexer saw
such a mess in my life. And
there i certainly something
very funny about il, because
the nurse didn't call her
Mrs. Decatur, and / noticed
! particularly that she wasn't
wearing a wedding ring
s Jack $3.50 Won don't
THINK
For the first time in his
life good-natured Jack Mac
Kimmons spoke sharply to
his wife. "I'm not think
ing, and don't you do any
thinking either. Don't you
forget Decatur's my best
friend =" NUTSl The
nurse did call her Mrs. De
catur-I heard her myself!''s
For he had suddenly re-
membered the name that the
nurse did call her
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! shapeless old black coat.
Cant say thatlI have. "
The girl continued to stare.
IT know I've seen her some
where e, n"
A nurse stood in the door
way. "Yojl may come now,
Miss Hollenbeck." " Nancy
stood up, deadly pale,
Then, turning TO the couple !
on the davenport: e f'm !.
afraid youn have to wait a
little longer, This young
lady was first. What did
you say the name vast"
They looked atNancy with
the yelled animosity one al
ways shows towards the one
who is first. "MacKim-
mons,'s the man said curtly.
"Tell him Mae he IL
know. :"
"MacKimmoAs, = the nurse
echoed. She beckoned Nancy,
who followed, quietly, her
great, tragic eyes, fixed
straight ahead.
There Was a stairway and
two long corridors. Plenty
of time to think, TO- plan
what to say. Instead, she
found herself counting the
squares of the black4and-
white linoleum floor.
The nurse stopped rat a
door marked "Dr. Cron-
wall. F." She held it open for
Nancy. "Just a few
moments, remember" she
said pleasantly.
"I'll remember, !" Nancy
promised. The door swung
behind her. She was in
Rogers room. That was he,
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Read How Nancy Tempted
Fate to Win Romance

school girl prank and her
papa and I are very angryl"
Mama told her friends. She
was going out again, now
that there was a car, and
new clothes, and the house
was fixed over. "But it rs.
romanticl"
"Yes, my youngest girl
married a ranger. Lives
right up in the mountains, ;,
papa told the men from the
bank when they called.
Great big, six footer. Won
derful shot. My idea Of q
real he-man. Not that my
oldest girl didn't do well for
herself, too. Married that
young millionaire, Matthew
Tully, you know. Well ?
it's nice to think you
brought them up well and
lived to see them happily
marriedl'
And over the back fence,
newly painted green, Grand
ma Hollenbeck told the
Whaley's cook. mo, /
won't be visiting the girls
for a while. Seems like
somebody ought to be home
with Peter, now that Kitty's
so popular in society
We're going to visit the oil
fields together if he's we'll
enough next spring, and
after that maybe I'll go
visit the girls. Seems like
I might be Of more use then.
I always say, that's one
thing an old lady can al
ways do, even if she isn't
much account other ways.
She can always take care Of
the babies, cant shei"
THE END
tcobyright 1929. by. King Featpres
syndicate. Incl
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days poor kid! But
it isn't necessary think
heaven, / don't Iced you. Z
No, you don't need me.
And I'm happy for you. It's
just another ''" joke 4 Z Z
on me : : s.that's all.
4 Jokel"
" Yes. Don't you see that
1t was always ]. who needed
you, more than you did me9
But i didn't have sense
enough to know it. Ism t it
funny how you find out
things after it's too late9
i And get things after you've
stopped wanting them
"Yon mean
"0h, everything. /" She
laughed a little wildly. aThe
family has even got rich.
Can you tie that? Isn't that
the browning touchf And
you y sitting up, chip
per as ever, not needing any
thing = = = not even a
HAIRCUT!"
ssNancyl" He sat bolt slp-
right in bed.
After me, coming Ikea
melodramatic fool In the
middle of the night, pic
turing myself making mus
tard plasters in the cabin
7 sand all the time ! ="
and all the. time
ROGER! You DO want met
You do" For he had held
out his arms, his poor ban
daged face alight, and she
had sunk on her knees be-
side the bed and laid her
wet face on his flannelette
shoulder " I" "Oh, my
darling, / need you'll need
you so!'
And that was the way
Nancy Decatur, nee Hollen-
beck came back.
"Of course it was a-sil1y, a
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First there had been the
station waiting room in Oak4
land, and then the chair car
on the train, and then the
station waiting room at
Merced. For the night oper-
ator at the hospital had said
that Roger was sleeping and
that no one could see him
until morning.
He was still sleeping. Per-
haps they would let her go
to him when he awoke. She
hardly counted on it. Now
that she was here, she could
not plan. She couldn't even
see him, as she used to, back
of her eyes - she won
dered if she would know
him if he would know
her So. It had been SO
long.
Her heavy head dropped,
she stared, unseeing. at her
ungloved hands.
The couple sitting Oh the
prim davenport at the other
end of the room watched her
absorbedly.
"Poor girbshe looks ready
to keel over, !" the man said
sympathetically. Maybe if
you ID say something to her,
honey
But the girl drew back
shyly $50 "Oh, no $50
Ed hate to- =" i" Jack, I've
seen her somewhere Haven't
you7o
He looked again at the nn-
conscious little figure with
the tangled bronze, hair and
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how bad off he'd have been
asn
She. saw the bitter, twist
ing smile come around the
corners Of his mouth, and
something else, something
fleeting and tortured and
she knew as surely as If he
had told her that he knew
about Jack Beamer that he
still loved her and that lie.
would never, never take her
back.
]. She got mp unsteadily..
There, was no use in., stay
ing. Talk would only make
it harder.
|. "Goodby, Roger /. I'm.
glad you re y all tight, 2
She held out her hand, but
he did not see it, he had.
turned his face to the wall.
"Good-by, Nancy. Thanks
4 ~ q
for coming
She turned and stumbled
toward the door. And sud-
denly she changed. her mind.
She had come to tell him
something, and she hadn' t.
told him. Never mind if it
was useless : : get it out
= - have it over with, once
and forever :
Roger. "
tsYes, Nancy"
z Roger, / know what you
think Of me. And you re
right. But I'd just like you
to know that ] never really
loved anybody but you, that
! even forgot poor Jack was
dead after / read about you
being hurt, and |
never thought of him again
until you spoke !" +" Z" now
- = And 1 know you
wouldn't have me, and it
doesn't matter anyway, but
I'd have come back to you
So | wanted to come back
Her voice broke. With a
little gulp, half sob, half
cry; she CROPPED for the door
and plunged through it, into
the hall.
When Roger opened his
eyes the nurse was standing
there, where she had stood.
"Mr. and Mrs. MacKim-
mons are here. If you're
not too tired9" she said.
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CHAPTER LvI.

"Hg,1ss ,ss' r ven !GP' D:ss, :,
There was. Jack MacKim-
mons, and at his heels, Helen
: sob, ME Decatur, /
was SO sorry to hear you
were injured - : I told
Jack, ] couldn I. have felt
worse if it was a brother
but you re looking
fine, except, of course,
those bandages do give you
a kind of = !" /" well, a funny
look ~ : Jack don It fidget
sol Sit down, honey Mr..
Decattr won t care if you
sit on the bed. These hos
pital roomsl 1t was the
same thing when I was here,
when Junior came you know,
and I only had one chair
unless I asked specially, and
it was so s*"
"Just a minute, dear, De-
catur's trying to get in a
world -
"Jack So. get Nancy.
Bring her = -" back"
Nancy! But I-you
mean"
Roger waved frantically to-
ward the door. ''Get her
she II be goneshe-she-"
Jack MacKimmons That
girl was Mrs. Decatur = =
| KNEW I'd seen her some
where. Did you ever in all
your life =" I" Hurry, dear"
MacKimmons got up stu
pidly. "Sure. Only I won't
know where"
Find her y - for Gods
sake find her. Make her
",t come back +s >"
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Tcr - ~ anies 9rs "t ssrstv
$50 st-N ~ - sr'r~6 re
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'0af4e. 'rTs' sa - ~
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"A Tense Story Of Love and
"A Girls Ambition
CHAPTER Lv

the darkest of the hospital waiting room Nancy
sat with her hands casped Imply on her knees
She waited patiently her eyes staring straight before
her. with the peculiar unseeing look Of the blind She had
waited long that she had lost all sense of time.
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ASO6 81 -. AH"St 70 s-N@ -
began to tremble, she thought
of doubling back to the door
before he saw her. All her
energies had been bent on
getting here : 80 she.hadnot
thought further than that.
And now she was here, and
the uselessness Of it all came
over her with sudden, terri
BILE clarity. It was as it she
/ had, walked blindly into tile
sea and been suddenly
bruised and battered by a
great, incoming wave that
dfenehed and choked and
chilled her, and cast her,
cold and gasping,' back on
the sand.
Roger was holding out his
hand. He was. smiling with
his lips. I It was good Of
you to come, Nancy.
was surprised when they
told me. 1t WASH t necess
sary, you know. I'm not
badly hurt.
ut was notlringS she
murmured politely "I'm
glad you're not very III. 2
Her tongue cleayed to the
roof Of her mouth.
Won't you sit down91
THANK you, Roger"
She took the chair by the
bedside, and there was Moth
ing left. to say. Roger had
closed his eyes. He lay
motionless, a long, spare
figure under the fresh, white
dimity coverlet.
A window curtain ratified
family in the breeze from
the open window. A bee
buzzed on the other side of
the screen. Outside, some
one was sprinkling a flower.
bed. You could hear the
spatter of the water on the.
leaves, smell the warm dust,
and the fresh, woody SMELL
of wet shrubs.
The smell of the soil in
summer !" !" of growing
things -" 1t brought back
the day she let the stage go
off without her while she
lay in the grass, lost in
Rogers arms (" - = The
funny little garden back Of
the cabin p " The string
beans he had planted, that
she had never waited to see
S&@
Tears welled slowly,
dripped miserably down her
cheeks. She brushed them
away with the back of her
hand, but they kept on. COM
ing. Tears of bereavement
and defeat.
Why Nancy = 80 you re
crying!"
She nodded hopelessly. II
know. / cant help it. I'll
go. 1t 50 it was useless
I shouldn't have
come. !"
His heart began to hammer
There was a roaring in his
ears. She . - she must
care - to have come : ss
like that : - : That old
black cloak, no hat
fastidious Nancy, SO dis
heveled, so broken. He
opened his mouth to speak
Nancy - my dear
40 And then he remern-
bered.
It wasn't for him. It was !.
for her lover, the fellow who
rode his horse over the cliff.
When he could trust his
voice he said, "Don t take it
TOO hard,. youngster. We We
all got to die some time.
Maybe it's better /" =" he d,
have been pretty bad !, off
had he lived"
And he thought, t'That
ism u the half Of it =
Nobody but me, and his
wife, will ever know just
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What Do You KnOw?
ANSWERS TO ToDAY's TEST
For Questions See Comic Page

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OF hard pottery much used in statuary Funeral song g.
Twinkins Z Charity g. Salt Runs. 10. Wings IL cOnec-
On of poems Of literature 12 Deep orange yellow
ls TsxdermE IL Nineteenth Is HudsOa
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The publication of this an
nouncement in these columns
is evidence that this news
paper co-operates with and
supports the Better Business
Bureau for your protection. /
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Intuition VS.. Facts

II thought could look in mans face and tell he
was honest" said the man to the Better Business
Bureau, who had just turned over his life savings to
notorious swindler. On another occasion lady
said that she thought her woman's intuition would
have warned her
Rule of thumb, superstitious methods of investing
money are, extremely dangerous as hundreds OF
Washingtonians can testify. Honest men do not
ness parasites advertise that they are looking for
victims.
Get the record of the man who is trying to sell you
investments. Is he morally sound and financially
reputable The only accurate check is his past
record, whether it be a record of accomplishments
or of failures. Get the facts and always remember
that it does not cost anything to
The Washington times., 1929-08-24
7,OOO.lNiIe Conversation

S. Amery secretary British dominions his under
secretary recently carried telephone conversation between
London and distance of miles They heard each other
distinctly So. q es4x
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A Miniature Town

remarkable model of Devon England surrounding
country is being made BY resident of the place using only
simple hand tools and when completed the model will be 30
II length.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-22
CHARGE DIPLOMAT
FAILED TO STOP
Montgomery County Police
Exercised Over Alleged Ac-
ton of Dr.. Fernandez.

: The Montgomery County police at
Bethesda. who are supposed to enforce
the stop signs. are somewhat exer-
cised over the experience Of Oficer Os-
car Gather in stopping Senior DR.. Don
Ramiro Fernandez. charge d'affaires of
the Guatemalan legation.
Officer Gather says Senior Fernandez
neglected to stop for stop" sign at
Stanford street and Wisconsin avenue,
then refused to stop on two occasions
when the officer followed to put the
request.
II finally stopped him. though" the
officer said, and told him to stop at
the police station at Bethesda, but when
he got there, he drove by without stop
ping"
Senior Fernandez today denied that he
failed to stop for the stop" sign, or
that he understood the orders to stop
at the police station. He said he did
not notice If the policeman pulled along
side during the drive.
The senior was on his way to Great
Falls with his children Sunday morn
ing when the incident occurred. The
motorist says his children bear him out
in the assertion that he stopped at the
sign.
IT drove by the station" the senior
said, land about a block on the other
side, heard the officer calling to come
back. I stopped and told him to come
on, and when he failed to comply, I
drove on. He came after me and then
I stopped and showed him my diplo-
matte card.
Then he said everything was "all
right"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-22
ROAMING. MONKEY !.
ALARMS. CHILDREN
Simian, at Large in Woods
Near East RiverdaIe,
Spreads Terror.

By a Stan Correspondent of The Star.
RIVERDALE, Md, August GA fe-
rocious-looking 30-pound monkey has
been roaming at large in the woods near
East Riverdale and Edmonston and has
frightened several children, although
parents of the children say the beast is
harmless, it was learned today.
The monkey, which has been kept by
Freddy Fretwell of Edmonston, escaped
some weeks ago and many are the tales
Fretwell's neighbors tell of its esca-
pades since.
One man says the beast got In his.
chicken yard and pulled all the feathers
off his chickens. The man says he
caught the monkey, but released it
when it bit him.
Ralph Kagle of East Riverdale, re-
ported this morning that about 2:30
am. Tuesday the door knob on the
front door of his residence, on Jefferson
avenue, was ratified loudly. After q
while the noise stopped, but was heard
again within few minutes. Believing
a burglar would have worked quietly
and some one In distress would nave
called, Kagle concluded today that
Dick had paid him nocturnal visit.
Seems to Have Landed Haymaker.
The monkey, known as Dick, is said
to show it's teeth when approached
closely, which gives it ferocious ap-
pearance and scares children. One boy
reported it jumped on his back while
he was in the woods and ripped his
shirt off. There Is another report that
Dick landed "haymaker" on the jaw
OF man who attempted to capture
him.
The animal seems to haunt creek
near the Ffetwell home. Two men said
they got net over him there, but Dick
crawled out and jumped into the water.
He disappeared from sight so long the
man thought he was drowned, but he
was seen to emerge later on the oppo-
site side.
According to Fretwell. the monkey is
years old and came from Australia.
It is said to be very strong and right
Wild Fretwell declares it used to ride
a pony in a show. but fell off one day
and the pony stepped on the monkeys
foot. AS result of the accident, the
monkey could not ride very we'll and
was sold to a truck driver, for whom
Fretwell was keeping it.
Throws Batteries Like Pebbles.
Fretwell works in a Washington au-
tomobile shop and says he used to car
rN the monkey back and forth between
his home and work on a motor cycle
and that "Dick" seemed to enjoy it..
Fretwell's associates say the monkey
once got loose in the auto shop and
threw storage batteries around like
pebbles.
Children who have seen the animal in
the woods have rushed nome with tales
Of gorilla" which is believed to have
given rise to the rumor that gorilla"
had escaped from a Representatives
home and a $500 reward had been Of
fered for his recapture. Fretwen has
been told the monkey recently was cap
tured, but has not been able to learn
the name of the party who is reputed
to have 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-22
TOWNSEND RITES
ARE HELD TODAY
Officials of National Electrical
Supply Co. Are PAIL
bearers.

Oficials of the National Electrical
Supply Co. and other prominent Wash
ingtonians served as pallbearers at
funeral services for T. Lincoln Town
send. vice president of the electrical
supply company and leader in Repub-
lican politics, in the Church Of the
TRANSPORTATION this afternoon at 2
o'clock. Rev. John Queally ofhciated.
Interment was in Rock Creek Cemetery.
Headed by E. G. Graham, president
of the National Electrical supply Co.
other honorary pallbearers were:
j. E. Mayfield, secretary OF the COM
many: Frank w. White, treasurer, ano
c. B. Mirick, vice president; A. F. Jorss,
J. s. j. Clark, Edward T. Clark. Judge
Gus A. Schultz, Judge Isaac R. Hit,
Marshal Edgar G. Snyder, G. G. Glover,
jr.; Edgar Morris, Claude wv. Owen,
Edward F. Colladay, Joshua w. Evans,
jr.; Joseph P. Morgan, Ralph w. Lee,
ST.: John Lewis Smith, William Tyler
Page, clerk Of the House OF Representa-
tives: Samuel J. Prescott, John II.
Hawkins and Edward D. Anderson.
The following, all heads OF oepart-
ments of the National Electric Supply
Co, were active pallbearers: r. p. Har-
rington, c. w. Burger, H. L. Allwine, r.
N. Chase, F. H. Eastman, Roy G: King
Byron S. Beall and william e. Good
rick.
Mr.. Townsend, who was SO years old,
died at his home. 4601 Seventeenth
street, Tuesday. At the time OF MS
death he was secretary Of the executive
committee of the Republican State
committee for the District OF Columbia
He also was treasurer of the League OF
Republican State Clubs of the District
of Columbia, which he previously had
served as president.
Mr.. Townsend was widely known In
the electrical world for helping prove the
practicability of sending and receiving
wireless messages from ships at sea.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-22

Unemployment in Northern Ireland
is decreasing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-22
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY.

Association for a Home for Widows
and Orphans of all Wars, will meet OH
the fifth floor of the Grand Army Hall
tonight, o'clock. All interested invit-
ed to attend.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-22
Art in Travelling Theater.

Great artists and actors Of the Italian
stage are volunteering their services for
the first few months CT the new travel
ing theater end it promises to gain
rapid popularity. Musso,iri, who is
backing the movement, believes that the
hope of Italy is a happy country life.
The rush of the young people to the
city is due in large measure to the at
fractions of the stage and screen. Now
the stage is going to the people.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-22
About Coffee.

Coffee is the fruit Of the coffee tree,
a native of Abyssinia. 1t was introduced
into the Western Hemisphere about two
centuries ago. 1t is grown extensively
in Central and South America, but
Brazil is the worlds great coffee pot.
Two-thirds of the coffee consumed in
the United States comes from Brazil.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-22
FUTURE.

FUTURE.
Alpha Delta Phi luncheon will be held
as usual tomorrow at the Hotel Gordon,
1880 pm.
An excursion to Marshall Hall, will
be sponsored tomorrow by the Virginia
Dare Council, Daughters Of America,
under the direction Of Mrs. Marilla
Smith, chairman Of the beneolence fund.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-22
PROBATION is REFUSED.
Woman Admits Operating "Speak-
easyn Near Police Court.

Laura Efie Hanson, 50 years old, adj
mitted operator Of "speakeasy" at 406
Sixth street, directly across from Police
Court, was refused probation yesterday
by Judge Robert z. Mattingly. who re-
ferred the case to the probation officer
for a report and continued the case UNI
til Saturday for sentence. Assistant
United States Attorney r. F. Camalier
Is in charge Of the case for the Gov
eminent.
Mrs. Hanson was arrested July 20,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-22
HODCARRlER is HURT.
Timber Falls on Laborer While at
Work on Structure.

Samuel Chamber 81 years old. a
colored hodcarrier. was injured pain
morning when struck by quantity of
falling timber while at work on a con-
struction job at 2406 Kalorama road.
He was taken to Freedmens Hospital
and later removed to his home, at 928
r street.
According to hospital physicians who
treated him, Chambers was carrying a
load of bricks up ladder when the
falling timber from a section being torn
down struck him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-22

when Sergt. o. J. I.etterman and his
vice squad entered the premises on a
search warrant sworn out after po-
liceman had bought a half pint Of al
legged whisky. At this time the police
found 81 half gallons and II half pints
Of liquors, they reported.