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CHAPTER XLVIII (Continued)

CHAPTER XLVIII Continued
MIR. Hayward came back for his
theater tickets, and because the
telephone was ringing, 1 left him
alone. I waited in an Office across
the hall and as soon as Mr.. Hay
ward was gone I re-entered his Of
flee and put in my call. knew
Harry was in, for / had stepped to
the window and had seen him sit
ting at his desk.
HE answered. I pleaded with him
to create trust fund for the boy,
told him that I was i'll and might
not live long to support Paul my
self. He called me all sorts of
names-liar, parasite, and worse.
When he finally refused pointblank,
/ told him a lie-I said 1 had al
ready put the case in the hands OF
a lawyer, who would file suit Mon
day if he refused to settle out Of
court.
"He was frightened, finally agreed
to see me in his Office that after
noon. When he hung up stepped
to the window and looked at him.
His face was black with hatred and
anger.
"vXTHILE I stood there, a girl
w came in-Rita Dubois. He
was apologize and extremeiy-af-
fectiGnate. He gave her. at her re-
quest, as I looked on, the torn half
of bill and by her expression of
joy and the kisses she gave him l
knew it was a banknote of very
large denomination. NEARLY went
mad then-possibly quite mad"
Hmm! Insanity defenSe" Nc
Mann commented grimly. But
go on"
81 don't think I shall need an
insanity defense" Martha Manning
retorted, with strange smile.
when the girl had left, Harry
came to the window and stood
there, drinking in great breaths of
the cold air I forgot then that
had on the gray wig and this dress
and spectacles
II called out to him. l don't know
what I was going to say. but-he
recognized my voice, cried out, NY
Cod Martial Then he turned and
ran back TO his desk and picked up
an automatic. I think it was stark
fear of me in my Lefty disguise
but, of course, I can't say what was
in his mind. I can only tell what
he did.
II saw him coming back to the
window with the automatic and sud-
denly l remembered Mr.. Haywards
gun / stopped and jerked open the
drawer. When Harry aimed his
pistol at me my own arm was going
up and in my hand was Mr.. Hay
wards automatic"
You mean to say" McMann be-
gan sarcastically. that Borden was
such a poor shot he couldn't hit
target only eight feet away?"
His aim was accurate" Martha
Manning answered quietly. but 1t
was DETECTED by white pigeon
alighting on his hand just as he
pulled the trigger. The fird thought
he was offering food-not death.
The shot meant for me went wild.
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THIs rs HAPPENEn

MILDRED LAWRENCE. stenographer
IN the Judson hotel. has her fox fur
snatched from her neck through the
train window as the car leaves the sta
ton. Rushing back on the next train.
She finds a crowd gathered on the sta
ton platform and learns that the thief
has been caught BY STEPHEN ARMI-
:. An officer takes them ell 20 the sta
ton house where Mildred Identifies her
scarf. After the routine details are
disposed OF, Stephen insists on takin,
Mildred home. She demurs but does
not wish TO seem ungrateful. so finally
asks him home to dinner, where he
gains favor with the mother by praising
her home cooking.
Mildred's young sister. CONNIE.
promptly decides for Stephen and hopes
that her old-fashioned sister will mix
enough pep and modern methods with
her usual quiet manner TO hold the
newcomer.
What promised to be quiet evening
at home was spoiled when PAMELA
JUDSON. daughter Of Mildred's en-
ployer. phones and insists on her COM
ing back TO the hotel TO assist at the
junior League ball. Stephen escorts her
SID tells her that he had sold an auto
TO Pamela a short time before. and Just
as he is leaving Mildred in the lobby.
Pamela comes up and recognizes him.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
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but mine, fired before Harry could
aim again, did not.
THE fiat breast rose on a great
breath-poSsibly of relief. Then, 81
think that's all. I killed hinl-be-
fore he could kill me-"
"All!" McMann exploded. "Where
are the guns? What about the closed
window? The $500 in smaller bills
that Borden had on his dead body?"
Martha Manning answered ODE
diently.
Il wrapped Mr.. HayWard'S gun in
a busting rag and put it in the bot
tom of my scrub pail. Autonati-
cally, I think. But after a long
While-or what seemed a long while
Il remembered two things: the
letter I had written Harry Friday
and which must still be in his
possession.
II wanted it, of course. I did not
want my sons mother to. But
I'll go on. I remembered also that
had shot Harry from Mr.. Hay
wards office, and that he had been
kind to me. I did not want the
crime traced to him or to his Office.
1t seemed vitality necessary that
close Harry's window, so that no one
would suspect that he had been
killed across the airShaft.
L took my broom and pail and
went to Harry's Office, letting myself
in with my pasSkey. I forgot to
pull on the rubber gloves I always
wore while cleaning, so that Martha
Manning's hands should not be con-
spicuously marked with manual
labor.
That accounts for the finger
prints. think. But just after I
had pushed open the door between
the two offices remembered them,
put them on. Then-I went in
THE slight body was shaken with
Il shudder of horror, but after
moment she continued: THE
first, thing 1 forced myself to do
was to close the window. / did not
notice the pigeons foot prints in
blood inside and outside the win
dow,l
"Then-I looked for my letter. It
was not in his pockets or in his
desk. don't know where you found
it. But in my search for the letter
| found the money. l took it for
Paul, but also with some vague hope
that the police would think he had
been shot by holdup men.
Il also took the pistol from his
his hand I was afraid that if the
police found the fired gun they
might look eYeryWhere-even outside
the window, although I had closed
1t. AT any rate. my instinct to pro-
tect Mr.. Hayward made me take the
gun, wrap it with the other one and
hide it in my pail.
Il at. first intended to hide both
weapons in my coat pockets, and
take them out with me that after
noon. But I remembered that Mrs.
Fellow has keen eye for suspicious
bulges in coat pockets when she
checks us out of the building. l
didn't know what to do. I was
afraid TO keep the gurs and afraid
to throw them away.
y happened to be alone IN the
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when Mildred told her someone
wanted to speak to her on the tele-
phone. Tell them to go fry ice"
She danced on until the music
stopped. Then she skipped away.
Pamela never walked except on the
street.
Lets have DANCE" Stephen
said to Mildred. Go ahead, boys,
give us a good number"
Mildred protested that she didn't
feel like dancing, but when the
music began to whine and coax and
Stephen cans over to take her in
his arms she suddenly wanted very
much to dance With him.
Hung up" petulant voice cried,
and, suddenly, "Oh!"
Stephen and Mildred danced
few steps. Then the music stopped
! abruptly. Mildred looked over at
the musicians and saw that Pamela
was there saying something to the
leader. She moved out of Stephens
arms.
Pamela Whirled toward them.
would you mind going to the door
now, Miss Lawrence?" she. said
coldly. Someone might slip in"
I'll trllndle along" Stephen said
quickly to cover the awkWardness
that hung about them. Got a busy
day tomorrow" His glance was for
Mildred.
She did not see it. She had turned
away with her chin in the air.
DAMELA came over and hung on
l. Stephens arm. Don't co." she
coaxed. There won't be anyone
here for another hour"
II have to write a letter to Santa
Claus" Stephen laughed
Sore because 1 stopped your
dance with Miss Lawrence?" Pa
mela challenged outright.
Il dare say we'll have another"
Stephen retorted, but who shall say
that he was angry? To have a girl
like Pamela interfering in his af-
fairs was nothing to slrivel his
pride. He did not say this to him
self but he felt it.
Well, I really do want to talk
to you about new car" Pamela
urged. Il think I've burned out the
bearings"
"Already?"
'And I've smashed headlight
and there's hole in the body and
the brakes are going and a couple
of springs are broken and ="
What did you do? Try to shove
a locomotive off the track? You
women drivers. :"
Have lunch with me tomorrow,
Pamela broke in. "And bring all
the pictures of your latest models.
Cars, I mean"
Stephen agreed. He could ask
Mildred to lunch with him another
time. He hadn't sold a car in a.
long while. Maybe Miss Judson was
/ serious about wanting a new model.
Old D. A. M. vas getting nippity
of late. Criticising, too. Claimed
Stephen wasted too much time out
side.
Stephen said he had to build up
his prospects. OF course it cost him
a lot of money, but Stephen be-
lieved his social efforts would pay
eventually.
ITO Be Continued
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-19
" CLUBWOMEN OF THE NATION
Resolution on Great Falls to Be introduced at Biennial
Council of General Federation-Henry Minor
to Speak-Woman Voters.

williams Mrs. Kate T. Abrams, Mrs.
w. B. Roberts, Miss Sinclair Lyon,
Mrs j. B. Sylvester, Mrs. Harry Coving-
ton, Mrs. Tomlinson, Mrs. Daniel c.
Roper, Mrs. c. c. Dill Mrs. Henry
Hickey, Mrs. Charles Warren, Mrs.
Claude Porter, Miss Ethel Ketcharn,
Mrs. Hugh Wilson, Miss Mary e. Coul-
EVE Morris, Mrs. Hartley A. Moon,
Mrs. Charles Hamlin, Mrs. j. H. Small,
Mrs. Edward Heating, Mrs. r. H. De-
lano, David Lawrence, Miss Smith and
Mrs. Eugene Barrett.
OFFICIALS of the National League
~ Of Woman Voters have been on
the wing recently visiting State con-
ventions, addressing league meetings
and assisting in the organization of
newly affiliated groups. Miss Belle
Sherwin, national president Of the
league, has just returned to Washington
from Concord, N. H, where she at
tended the New Hampshire State
Mrs. Harris T. Baldwin, national
chairman Of the leagues committee on
living costs. is on a tour in the interest
of her committee, promoting the Or
ganization of round tables on the sub
ject-matter of her committee program
in various State and civic groups Of
the league, these round tables to be
carried on during the Summer months.
Mrs. Baldwin has attended a num-
Der of State conventions in the course
of her trip. including those of Ohio.
Oregon and California, and will visit
the leagues of Salt Lake City, Reno,
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Douglas,
Ariz, and Kansas City. She also will
attend the Colorado State League
meeting at Denver May %, which will
be OF special interest, as this is new
State organization, just AFFILIATED at the
last annual council meeting, held in
Washington in April. Mrs. Baldwin
will assist this group in the set-up Of
its permanent committee work.
Miss Katherine Ludington, first vice
president of the league, attended the
Missouri State League convention May
Is to IT at Columbia, Mo, and Mrs.
Frank Hixon. national treasurer, is on
her way to attend the Rhode Island
State League conclave at Providence
May 81. From there she will 60 to the
Massachusetts League convention at
Holyoke May % and %.
Miss Florence Harrison, regional sec
rotary from the fourth region, will be
the opening speaker at a round table
on citizenship and Education" OF the
American Association Of Adult Educa-
ton at Chapel Hill, N. c., May 20.
A program of unusual interest Is
scheduled for the Voters Service"
half hour, from to $50 o'clock Tues
day evening. when Henry Goddard
Leach of New York CITY. editor Of The
Forum, will discuss 1.-THE Jones Law"
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of an overgentle and supermild Pencil
ope awaiting him with friendly de-
meanor, but we cannot pass the utter
incapacity-with the one partial excep-
ton noted below--of women to contract
with one another the friendships that
gave rise to glorious unselfishness.
Consider the stores Of Achilles and
Patroclus, Damon and Pythias, David
and Jonathan. Epaminondas and Pei
opidas. Hadrian and Antinous, Har-
modius and Aristogiton. Pylades and
Orestes. Socrates and Alcibiades. No
where do we find women adjoining the
realms of mutual friendship, with that
partial exception noted in the case OF
those inseparable characters, Dan and
Beersheba.
1t cannot be denied that there were
bad women in Greece and that they
seem to have had more influence than
they deserved nor ought one to try to
excuse the custom of exposing either
to death or to servitude many girl
babies, and practically all deformed
children even though it should be
granted that it served It's purpose and
gave to the world the finest specimens
of womanhood and manhood that have
ever lived.
Followed Social Lines.
And, too, one must say that the
physical perfection of the Greeks was
kept by the simple undistinctive dress
of the times. The expensive and ex-
CIRCULATING parts Of women's wearing APP
parel had not yet been evolved. But
it is to the uneducated, simply dressed
neglected, long-suffering women of
Greece that the modern girl and won--
an owe the beginning of fairer and
better age.
The movement for the emancipation
of Greek women proceeded toward
social and intellectual equality with
men, It was left, however, for the
women of Rome to obtain legal and
personal equality and it has been re-
served for the women of today to gain
political equality, and to assume equal
culpability for moral delinquencies with
men, and to have the same response
bilities which have worried men these
many centuries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-19
W0MAN'S EQUALITY
TRACED TO GREECE
movement for Emancipation
Proceeded Along Social
and intellectual Lines.
BY RALPH v. ID. MAGOFFIN,
Phi. D., LII. D., Professor and Head,
Department of Classics n Y u

One should refrain from quoting any
of the mean things said about women
by the crusty misogynists of ancient
times-how Hesiod said they we're a
pernicious race: how man, wrong con-
illusions were drawn from the fact that
a Greek f1irt in Egypt had the nails in
her shoe soles so driven that every
footprint left the impression akolouthel,
that is, follow me-; how the man who
escaped from an expedition against
Aegina was surrounded by the wives of
men who did not escape and was stuck
to death with their dress and brooch
pins: how even immortals like Gree
poisoned men and turned them into
pigs; how women like Scylla, Calypso,
the Sirens, the Furies, That's, Kan
thippe. killed, caught. enticed, pursued
and exasperated the lords of mankind.
FraiIties Worth Mentioning. %,
Still there were frailties Of women
which we may be safe in mentioning.
Let us pass the possibility that the
misfortunes of Ulysses in hitting every
Circean promontory and Calypsonian
island in the Mediterranean as he
fastened home on his eager deoennial
course was induced by the recollection
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and Charles G. Ross, chief Washington
correspondent of the st. Louis Post
Dispatch, the second speaker, will pre-
sent his fortnightly review of What
Congress Is Doing"
AS editor of The Forum since 1928
Mr.. Leach holds an important place in
the magazine world. He has been in
terested in Scandinavia for more than
20 years, and as member of commits
sions and organizations has been in
strumental in promoting a closer rela-
tionship between the United States and
Scandinavia.
The National Broadcasting Co. is a
joint sponsor with the National League
of Woman Voters for these weekly edu-
cational features.
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c. N. HOWARD TO SPEAK.
Enforcement Chairman at Shiloh
Church Tomorrow Night.

Clinton N Howard, chairman Of the
National United Committee for Law
Enforcement, will speak in the Govans
M. E. Church of Baltimore today on
Shots Heard Around the World" He
will return to Washington for the eve
ming meeting at the Shiloh Baptist
Church, where he will speak on the
same topic.
The ministers of Baltimore have IN
vited the National United Committee
to conduct a Acknowledgement cam
paign In Baltimore following the con-
clusion of the meetings being held in
Washington.
France plans to supply electricity to
its $4,000 communes within four years.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-01-24

Finding that conditions in Fair banks are suitable for the establish ment of a branch office, the Cray line Association. whose local sight seeing tours are found all over the wolrd, has decided to offer services in that city. This conclusion was reached after an investigation ex- tending over several months. The number of tourists passing through Fairbanks each year, and the prob able future increase were closely de- termined and found sufficient to warrant the founding of the Cray line branch there. Romeo Hoyt has been appointed manager. Eighteen passenger, standard Grayline busses will be used in the service. Opera tions will start next summer.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-01-24
TRIAL OF DEAF MUTES
 PRODUCES MUCH CONFUSION

HOUSTON, Texas The deefnd- ant, complainant and all witnesses were deaf mutes in one of the strang- est trials in Harris County history here in which Robert Reagan was fined $25 and costs for aggravated assault.
 Neither the judge nor any of the attorneys could speak the sign lam guage and an interpreter was hired.
 The most spectacular happening of the trial occurred while the de- fendant was on the witness stand. Reagan's testimony contradicted that of a previous witness who jumped to his feet and flashed his finger. The defendant started angrily from his chair, while the judge, attorneys and spectators wondered what all the hand commotion was about.
 The interpreter explained that the man had called the defendant a liar and the former witness was told that such action was in contempt of court.
 Attorneys caused confusion when they asked witnesses if they had heard this or that, but the inter- preter always inserted: Did you see?" for "did you hear?" The de- fense attorney caused confusion when he asked one of the witnesses if there was any loud talking when the de- fendant and complainant met just before the assault was alleged to have been made.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-01-24
BUFFALO THRIVING

That the buffalo brought last sum- mer from the states and liberated near Mccarthy are thriving in their new home is the word received at Fairbanks by Game Warden Sam o. White from radio operator Mitchell at Grundler. The herd was seen near Jarvis Creek about two weeks ago and the animals were in fine condi- tion then. A further investigation is to be made to ascertain if all the buffalo are together and if all are able to forage for themselves. AL though they came from a country very similar to their new range, there was some doubt whether the buffalo would be able to make their own living during the first winter and to be on the safe side, hay was taken out from Fairbanks for distribution, if necessary. However, the latest re- ports indicate that little, if any, of it will have to be used. The Delta country was selected for range pur- poses because stage horses were suc- cessfully wintered there in the days before the railroad was built. The experiment is being watched closely by all those interested in wild life in the hope that, where there is al- most no limit to the range available, there may be built up a buffalo herd exceeding in size any in the United States.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-01-24
SCARCITY OF FUR REPORTED
 IN INTERIOR COUNTRY

There is a marked scarcity of fur in the interior country, according to Walter F. Scott, we'll known oldtimer of Fairbanks and Nenana, who passed through Anchorage on Satur- day en route to the states. He came north several weeks ago from Seat tie, intending to spend the winter buying furs along the Panama and Yuko rivers but reports received by him while at Fairbanks indicated that such trip as he planned would not prove very profitable and he ac- cordingly decided to return to Seat tie where he now makes his head quarters.
 The reports indicated that the sea- son has been very backward in all sections, with mink especially scarce and very few foxes in evil dence. The scarcity of fur extends even to the Fort Yukon country where, normally, there are all kinds of furs in abundance. TrapperS have done very little up to the present time and the outlook for the remain der of the winter is not regarded as encouraging. The fur is of inferior quality at the present time, owing to the mildness of the season.-Anchor- age Times.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-01-24
A BETTER WATER SUPPLY
By H. P. CoRsER


 It has generally been conceded that Wrangell needs better water sup ply. How is it to get it? The answer most commonly given is build anoth- CT dam above the present one. This would increase the present storage capacity three or four times and would furnish water for every emer- gency for a town three or four times as large.
 This is true except for one emer- gency. Suppose that there should be a break in the main line somewhere near the intake. A larger storage place, then, would be of no avail. There is a need of a reservoir that would be independent of the main line. Nature has provided for Wran- gel just such a reservoir. Use the Mt. Dewey pond. The geological forma- tion has made it absolutely safe to use. Deepen and enlarge the pond at the back, and if necessary make the pond deeper with concrete walls. This probably would not be necessary. Have the pond large enough to store water necessary for at least a four weeks supply. This would more than tide us over any dry season that the town has ever experienced. It would further tide us over a time when for the sake of repairs, the main supply of water is cut off. The pond could easily be kept filled from the over flow during the rainy seasons. The cost would be well within the re- sources of the town. The need of such a reservoir has been we'll illustrated during the last few days.
 The water because of heavy rains during the last few days has been as muddy as the St. Louis water ire quently is. This has even filled pipes with mud so that pressure has been dangerously lessened. Now with an extra reservoir, all hydrants could be opened, and the water could be all lowed to run until the pipes were cleaned, and this could safely be done.