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1t was her independence,
close at hand.
Nancy fingered the bills
nervously. She hadn't ex-
pected anything like this.
Papa's mother having
thousand dollars!
She said, II could pay
you back in six MONTHS
year, anyway. You're sure
you can spare it.?"
"Yes, can spare it.
"But you must have in
tended TO do something with
it, carrying it around that
way!"
Old Lady Fl o lie n b e C X
covered the bread pan with
a. clean dish towel and lean
ed, unsteadily for a moment,
against the table. For a mo-
ment-just a moment she
hesitated. She saw herself
old and unwanted in her
son 5 house, eating the bit
ter bread of charity ."
And then she saw herself, a
young woman again, in her
husbands house. Miserable.
Humiliated. Disillusioned,
and no one to buy her free
dom, no one to help her get
away -" y no divorces those
days no one to help
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can dol Her new clothes
helped, too. Ever since the
Saturday that Nancy failed
to come to the Ladies
Auxiliary meeting at Aunt
Ellie's home-that memor-
able Saturday that she
waited for Roger - Aunt
Ellie had shown her dis
pleasure at Nancy by being
extra nice to Lou.
She took her out shopping
and bought her a beautiful
hunters green velvet suit,
with everything : to match.
True, she baked at the cost
OF alterations, but Lou
didn't mind that, she was
used to sewing.
Aunt Ellie even talked
about buying her a fur coat,
but that was really to spite
poor Uncle Joseph, who was
complaining of rheumatism
again. If he insisted upon
going to the springs or
hospital she's probably buy
it, just to show she could
spend money as fast as he.
BIT not a cent did she
talk Of squandering on
Nancy, though Lou limited
as much as she dared.
1t bothered Lou a little,
but there wasn't anything
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Flat had stopped, When
Mrs. Hollenbeck thought of
that she was almost happy.
Nancy did listen to her, after
all. She did give up writing
to that ranger. Thinking of
it, mama had sn almost
physical sensation Of warmth.
"The girls mind me the
way they did when they
were babies, ''she told her
mother-in-law boastfully.
And she spoke of Mat
Tully with a certain salts
faction " "Lou's latest
suitor. r"s"s
But not in your widest
imaginings could you call
him a devoted suitor. There
would be weeks, when Louise
wouldn't see him at all. He
was so wrapped up in his
work.
Or was it Helen Heffin-
ger? Louise wished she
= could be sure. She thought
it was his work, but with
Louise always talking about
him. " = And she had so
much to offer, even if she
was plain.
PlainI Louise no longer
thought of herself as plain.
1t is wonderful what love
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she could do about it. An.
army with banners couldn t
bulge Aunt Ellie onces she
had made up her mind.
Walking to the ferry after
a particularly dull afternoon
in San Francisco with Aunt
Ellie she happened to glance
at d Market Street clock
and saw that it was just.
quarter to five. !. The Park
hurst Bank where papa
worked was only two or
three blocks away. If she
hurried she could get there
before he left at five, and
they could have the long
trip home together.
Besides, she had on the
new green velvet, and Peter
Hollenbeck loved to have his
girls call on him when they
were all dressed up.
With a little sigh for poor,
indulgent papa, asking so
little, working so hard. she
turned her footstesp toward
the bank.
Mr.. Lachman's car, the
chauffeur slumped in the
seat in front, was waiting
at the curb. Mr.. Lachman
himself was going out of
the heavy bronze door at
the moment Louise came in.
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There was another reason,
really. 1t had to do with
the late and not greatly
lamented Jason Hollenbeck,
her husband. As long as he
lived she had never seen
any money. Not even a
Scent piece. Whatever she
had needed, whatever he
conceded she needed, ne
bought for her grudgingly.
After he was gone she kept
whatever money she had in
the, house. She liked to
know it was there. Right
at hand. If she wanted to
spend it, it is right there.
She didn't have to ask any
one, not even the young man
in the bank.
And there was another
reason for keeping this
money-all she had in the
world-in her pocket. 1t was
her independence. With it
she could buy her way into
certain old peoples home.
Let. Kitty be disagreeable if
she wanted to, she could
leave any time, with the
money all ready. When any
thing went wrong she had
only to reach down slyly
and touch the wad Of bills
in her petticoat pocket ="
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SHARK AND SHRIMP

ward her to gather her in
his arms. Roger. standing
some distance away, went
white as his nails dug into
his palms.
Sylvia took a sudden step
backward as Vernon came
at her, went through the
open place in the railing and
clattered down the steps,
plunging into the water. The
girls screamed as Sylvia dis
appeared.
For a moment after there
was q paralyzed silence.
Then everybody crowded to
the rail. But Sylvia did not
come up. Her head had struck
something as she tumbled
down the steps.
Somebody save her
she II drown!'' shouted
Roger again.
Still no one moved. The
fear Of sharks was evidently
upon them all.
Without another word
Roger climbed upon the rail
and flung himself overheard.
Again there were screams
and a commotion aboard the
FREELY; with frightened
eyes gazing at the spot
where Roger was founder
ing. Then he, too, went
down.
But good fortune served.
Win, the big life guard, who
had been fishing from his
boat just beyond the anchor.
age, swept around the side
Of the yacht. By some mira.
Gle, Roger had been able to
see the wisp Of white skirt
and seized it.
He was still floundering,
with it gripped in. his hand,
when Will arrived, but the
next instant Roger, too, went
under. Will dived overheard
and came up in another
minute, gripping Roger.
Then at last another swim.
mer, ashamed of his fright,
jumped in and helped. Be.
tween them they managed
at last to get Roger and the
partly conscious Sylvia to
the little landing platform
and out of the water.
That night Gill Faber,
standing in the doorway,
waite ing the dancing
couples in the Van Pruyn
card room, remarked to Bob
Heaton; $50 Vernon sailed
away again, eh 4? Should think
he would. Let Roger jump
in after her--and the little
son-Of-a-gun cOuldn t swim,
either. Well, he !. got Sylvia
for it. That's what l call Q
happy ending. WHAT"
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house, SAID Sylvia. AS they
crossed the strip of sand and
went up the pebbled walk,
Sylvia seemed to be in q
hurry.
Tonight as he stood look
ing through a wide doorway
from the veranda he caught
sight of Sylvia. His eyes
lit; in another two minutes
he had her and was dancing
through the doorway to the
porch with her.
The following, day Vernon
laughed boisterously over
the "shark story" as he
called it, but, like the others,
he stayed out of the water.
He insisted upon giving a
little party aboard the Fire
fly with Sylvia as guest Of
honor.
The party ON Vernon's
boat, which remained at an
chor, was a very gay affair,
though informal.
As the afternoon wore on
the young people indulged
in boisterous games, almost
like a lot of children. At
length Vernon stopped the
noisy proceedings by pound
ing on a table with a bottle.
Ladies and gentlemen"
he began with mock cere-
mony. "Since the lady her
self is too modest to make
the important announcement,
I'm going to do it myself. -
Sylvia stood near the open
place in the rail where the
little stair led down to the
motorboat landing platform.
She lifted her hear sudden
ly, sensing that something
was coming that involved
her. Vernon eyes sought
hers as she paused. He al
most leered at her anr mo-
toned her to come to his
side, but Sylvia shook her
head vigorously in refusal.
Well, ladies and gentle
men, - persisted Vernon, Il
must tell you the great
secret. This little affair is for
the purpose of telling you
that | have been fortunate
enough to win the brightest,
snappiest, finest little girl in
the world"
Every eye centered on
Sylvia. whose face was swept
by a wave Of color and
whose smile had died.
Come here, Sylvia!"
commanded Vernon. once
more like a potentate.
Sylvia shook her head
and was about to say some
thing in protest when Yer
non made a sudden dash to-
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TOdGys
True Story
~ RAYPOINT. Silver
N sands bathed in moon

* RA 4POlNT. Sll Ver
T sands bathed in moon
light. Soft shadows Of
the night, deepening as they
spread out of the little har-
Dor toward the sea. Para
disc for Roger as he strolled
near the small boat landing
with Sylvia. The other
guests of the Van Pruyns
were absorbed in bridge up
at the ornate summer place.
Everything was going so
nicely that Roger wondered
if the time had come when
he should say to Sylvia. what
his heart dictated. He had
almost made up his mind
to speak when Sylvia be-
gan humming a jazz favorite
from one Of the Broadway
musical shows. Evidently
the moonlight had not made.
Sylvia sentimental.
She paused a moment and
listened to the gentle whis-
per of the waters as they
came and went along the
curving shore. She sighed.
'I do miss the moonlight
bathing" she said. "I've
half a mind to go in even
if the others are afraid. -
"You wouldn IT do that Z"
exclaimed Roger in alarm.
"Not after Will saw that
shark this afternoon. -
Sylvia shrugged her shOul-
ders, pouted, but did not re-
ply. 81 do wish you'd learn
to swim, Roger she said,
after they had gone a bit
farther. "We'd have a lot
more fun.
Roger looked guilty. II
wish I could, Sylvia" he an
swered, "bnt I've never been
able to get the hang of it.
Tried again and again.
Seems to be something
wrong with me when l get
into water over my head"
Anyone can learn to
swim, . proclaimed Sylvia.
That's easy for you to
say; you 're"@a perfect mer-
maid, but ask Will. He's
tried to teach me time and
again. Given it up as a bad
Job, / fancy
Again Sylvia became
silent and they sauntered
on. Roger felt Inundated
that he should fall short in
any respect of what his
lady desired.
Why, that's the FREELY
Vernon s yacht, - ex-
cla;lae6 Sylvia.
The F'refly anchored. Her
motorboat was put out.
"Let's so back to the
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A Tense Story of Love and
A Girls Ambition
CHAPTER XXXvl

AT ANCY took the money in her hands Ten lO0doart
~ bills thousand dolars imagine carrying all that
money in your petticoat pocket!
.'Why don you keep it in the bank she asked Curl
ously
"Well don't know. l guess I'm old fashioned That
was the best answer Grandma Hollenbeck could make
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Charles rs Ni0htoOwn

Eaboray worked In gold and silver thread state" night
formerly belonging recently sold $500
nightgown BY Queen Elizabeth young princess sold
for 1925 at the SALE
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Colors Last 100 Million Pears

An careful in the selection of the pigments fo
his pictures usually that they will last two three
hundred been discoveedhat have
Kept their colors least hundred million years
The Washington times., 1929-07-16

ing it to Mr.. Decatur when
he and Mr.. McKimmons,.
back a little early dropped.
in for a sandwich and cup.
OF coffee Friday noon. But
pshaw! she decided, like as
not he'd think it was none
of my business!
So she said nothing, and
Roger, on his tired horse,
logged home.
He fwhistled as he came
up the trail, and he called,
Nan-cy-yip, yoooo!"
There was no answer, and
on the kitchen table laid
with the fresh, checked cloth
he found her note.
She had got to worrying
about her mother, and
thought she had better go
home for a visit, she wrote.
She would try to break the
news to the family, and in
the meantime If he wrote
. he was to be sure to address
her as Nancy Hollenbeck,
and not to wire or phone
long distance because any
thing like that gave the old
fashioned family such a
: scare. She would leave the
car at the hotel near the
station. 1t was signed
"Love, Nancy.
Roger Decatur looked
around the neat, ar e
kitchen. She had left every
thing in order. Even washed
the frying pan . - and
she hated cold bacon grease
so 80
He thought Of another
note in a neat kitchen = : =
the one his mother, the ex-
dance hall girl left for his
father when the loneliness
got her, and she went away,
never to come back any
more.
He walked heavily into
the bedroom. The silver
toilet things were gone from
the pine dresser. The spilled
powder, the cigarette stubs,
all the dear untidyness of
Nancy = gone. Her
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I'm that case, there's
nothing to say, is there ~
She kept her head turned, so
that he could not see her.
face.
Nancyl Nancy girl, you
know how l hate to go!'' he
said reproachfully, and
strobe over to where she
was standing in the door
way, watching the red sun
set sky fade to pink, and
an ashy gray. He put both
arms around her, fitting her
head back, 50 that he could
see her face. She smiled
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r DO have rather an extensive ward.
! robe, though Johns salary Is >
modest one.
THAT is because I've learned the
secret of keeping my clothes new look.
ing remarkably long time. Instead Of
spending all my clothes money replac.
ing worn-outthings, / buy extra clothes.
and have much more varied wardrobe
II learned my secret from reading
about the movies how they found
that by always cleansing the screen
clothes in Lux, they stayed just like new
more than tt0ics as lOagl
"Ifs so simple a method any woman
can use it. And it certainly worksl Ny
undertakings and hosiery and dresses
stay beautifully new looking ever 90
much longer. That is how / can afford
so many pretty things"
You, too, can have more clothes u
you always use Luxl - Because with
Lux everything you wear stays like new
so nrScb longer, you'll have money fos
those sxsrS things every woman Wantss
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Read How Nancy Tempted
Fate to Win Romance

low. Mrs. HoDenbeck stared
at it, her eyes bulging.
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dayl She was lying on the
davenport in the living
room listening to Lou strum-
ming on the old square
piano, and mamma retailing
the latest gossip.
"You did perfectly right
to leave them, !" mamma was
saying for the tenth time,
and / for one never want
to see or hear Of those
Porters again. If they ever
call here, I'm not. home, do
you hear me, Louisef''
Nancy smiled family, and
closed her eyes. The thick,
dark lashes sweeping her
cheek made her look oddly
pale. 81 knew the altitude
wouldn't agree with her, =
mamma thought, thrilling to
her beauty even while she
worried about her health.
"This is the last time I let
her go visiting any strange
girls! The very ideal ~
Fondly she reached for
her shawl to cover Nancy,
who. seemed to have dozed
off, poor child. Tenderly
she spread it over the sleep
ing girl.
"There!" she said, aloud.
Nancy's hand lay on nthe pill
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''..Don't ever leave nc :

family, and submitted Imply
to his kiss.
"Come now, old lady!
No sulking!" He roughed
her hair, and shook her
playfully, but in his heart
he was afraid. She was so
poised, so delicately bCauti-
full : : so strangely,
achingly far away. His arms
dropped to his sides. lie
turned away embarrassed.
He realized with sickening
certainty that this great
lady manner SO new to him
was probably miliar
enough to, her friends, to her
own people, to this fellow
she had been engaged to
ssS
The pipe went out. lie
Lit another match and stared
at it until it burnt his fin
gers.
"To hell with it,"
Nancy was watching him
out of brown, inimical eyes.
She got up before dawn
to get his breakfast. Feel
ing like one of the younger
and more beautiful Christian
martyrs-St. Barbara for in
stance, she washed in cold
water, put on the green
linen with the box plcats
that took two hours to iron,
and went into the kitchen.
Bacon and eggs and hot
cakes. She would have made
biscuits too if she could
have found a cookbook, or
remembered how. But she
couldn't recall W h t her
Louise used two cups of
flour or two cups Of milk,
so toast had to do.
When it was already she
called him.
''Say, this is something
like! But gee, Nancy, you
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Nly clothes money goes
much further nOw...

Because have learned how to keep my clothes
new looking twice as long !. use the very
same method the big movie studios do
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NV Bleach for
Tan and FreckLes

II continue my Photographic pos
ing all through the summer" says
Miss Emily Boyle, noted New York
camera model, "and being inclined
to tan and frechle, have to have
q bleach that win keep my skin
white and fIawless, and at the same
time Is harmlesss
For my bleach / use no ready.
made preparation, but simply get
three ounces Of Orchard White at
the drug store and mix it with the
Juice Of two lemons. This makes a
quarter pint Of a perfectly marvel
Gus bleach for a few cents. Rubbed
into the face, neck and arms, 1t
bleaches away tan ana freckles and
makes any dark, sallow or discolored
skin beautifully clear and white.
This is the bleach all the studio
models learn about soon after they
begin posing. No ready-to-use prep
aration can equal 1t, because, for
one reason. you use it while q is
still fresh.'s
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She would see herself, slim and golden and beautif

dresses : : even the
scuffed brown boots she
used to keep under her
bed -
Roger Decatur covered his
face with his hands.
Maggie, the horse, whin-
MED impatiently. She paved
at the dust and whinnied
again. 4
Roger did not hear her.
He just sat there ON the
army cot that had been
Nancy's, with his head in
his hands.
Nancy had been home a
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pucker between his Dr0Ws.
And at last it came. They
had just finished dinner, he
was lighting his pipe. I'll
have to leave pretty early
in the morning" he said,
putting and scowling at the
match. "That trip / told
you about I" - Lord / hate
to CO. =
All the blood in her body
seemed to rush to her head
in a crimson wave, then it
rushed away again leaving
her white and cold. "Then
why do you go9'' she asked
very low.
fOh, Nancy! You know
/ have to. It's my job /"
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shouldn't have gene to all
this trouble
"No trouble" !" she muir
INJURED refilling his coffee
cup. The perfect hostess,
being charming to a bother
some guest.
The hot cakes stuck in his
throat, he could hardly swal-
low.
Maybe / can be back
day after tomorrow y he
said, after a long silence,
when the crunching Of toast
sounded loud as cannon and
the very ticking Of the clock
on the shelf was maddening.
"I'll try awfully hard, and
if / can't it will be only one
day more. You aren t
afraidf"
She was staring at her un-
tasted coffee. "I don't
know. I have never been
left alone before. = And then
with q bubbling of the old
fun, "This is my first honey
moon, you know-I'm only
an amateur bride. !"
She lifted her eyes and
laughed shakily.
"Oh, Nancy, Nancy Il
CAN'T leave you'll" He was
crushing her 50 tightly that
she half whirnpered with the
pain, even while she drew
long, exultant breaths Of
victory.
But he did leave her. He
put her aside gently. "Well,
I must go, dear. McKim-
mons will be waiting for me-
at the summit. You'll be all
right, sweetheart. Nothing
to harm you, and you can
go over to Helen's for the
night if you feel lonesome.
I'm riding Maggie, but you
could 60 around by the road
in the car, 'or hike up the
trail for that matter, it's
just a step-you'n be all
right"
Eyes, III be all right, !"
she forced herself to repeat
after him. She waved until
horse and rider were only a
puff Of dust in the smoky
distance. Her lips were still
parted in . frozen, unnatu-
raj smile.
When she could no longer
see or hear him she went
back into the house and
stood looking at it, as if she
were seeing it for the first
time. Rogers house .
his books " his chairs
$50 his brown army blan-
kets .
A window slammed. The
boards began to creak. Wave
after wave of inconsistencies
swept over her, and loneli-
ness, cold and bitter.
Two days $50 two days
and two nights $50
"It's no use, / cant
stand itp' she whispered.
She began to walk around
aimlessly, moving from
room to room, wringing her
hands. cts no use, / can't
stand it. / wasn't meant
for this kind Of a lifei"
The storekeeper Is wife met
her on the road two hours
later, driving Rogers bat
tered roadster with reckless
speed. There were bags and
suitcases piled on the seat
beside her,
CHE Shn,,..t.N - ..I.s
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SaIIow Skin
Easily Whitened!
(To Be Continped)

"Any woman can choose whether
she will have clear, white attractive
skin, or blotches, freckles and sallow-
ness" writes a Saint Louis woman. 81
wish ] could tell other women of my
own experience. put on Golden Pea
cock Bleach Creme in the evening and
in few days my skin became much
lighter. Now my face is clear and
white" +" What will your mirror say in
the morning2 Get jar of Golden Pea
cock Bleach Creme today and let your
mirror show you beautiful COM
plexion tomorrow. Money back if you
are not satisfied. .,@
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A Tense Story of Love and
A Girls Ambition
CHAPTER XXI.

noGER made no promise. He did not speak again of
TX the trip with McKimmons. 4
- 'sHe won't really co. Nancy thought watching
him nefvousy all that night and the next She wanted to
ask him again. to herself but that would be
much like nagging. She wouldn't do that.
Sometimes she caught him looking at her urvely faint
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dayI She was lying on the
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Roasted Whale Flesh

Whale flesh was recognised article food during the
teenth and sixteenth centuries In England whale either
roasted and served the spit boiled and served with
The tongue and tail the faSorite parts
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The Passing Of the FIamingO Bird

II feared the hurricane at Andres Island, in the
Bahamas amingos present breeding ground has actually
wiped out the several hundred birds that were left there
by the 1926 storm.
New Britain herald., 1929-04-10
AUCKLAND WILL MISS NEW HAVEN MEETING
Chairman to Rc Absent Wesfncstlay ' for First Time in Years Due to
 Slight Operation.

New Haven, April 10 R-Stock- holders of the New York, New Ha- ven and Hartford Railroad com- pany meeting in annual session next Wednesday will see their new pres ident. John P. Policy, in action as a presiding executive. as Edward c. Buckland. chairman of the board, who was to have presided, is in the hospital.
 MT. Buckland went to New Haven hospital today for an operation for a slight hernia. which was per formed by Dr. Verdi, under a local anasthetic. He will be at the hos pital for week and will then so home.
 MT. Buckland's absence from the session will be noticeable. for un- der Presidents Elliott and Pearson. and even back in Mellen's day, he was at the right hand of the ex- ecutive to assist in arguing questions which stockholders put to the latter.
 The New Haven road. in past years. was passing through . vale of storms-operating financing and legal-and in the latter aspect. at least. the duty fell upon Buckland to clarify the situation in the minds of those seeking information.