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pay off some more of the bills.
It will help quite a lot"
Tom nodded his head.
That's a good idea," he said
absently. you take care of it,
will you?-I'm going to start
work tomorrow with the Algon-
quin-Jones Company, and I'll be
busy"
Lovejoy knew that the Algon-
quin-Jones Company was a we'll
known bond house downtown.
She frightened up at Toms
news.
1T didn't take you long to
find another position, did it?"
she asked. Tom, I'm so glad
i've hated to see you so
down-in-the-mouth and discour-
aged lately"
I'm not exactly sitting on
top of the world now," he re-
piled with a wry smile. They're
starting me off on fifty week
and that's just a drop in the
bucket with all these debts Of
mine. Got anything to eat in
the house?"
Lovejoy went out into the
kitchen and he followed her.
The ice-box was almost empty.
But on the top shelf of the
kitchen cupboard-her "emer-
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come near the house since they
had heard that Tom had lost
his job Aline had not
even telephoned to find out
whether she had any South Port
letters there or not.
They just think we'd rather
not see them," said Lovejoy
Loyalty, because of Uncle
James death and everything!"
But Tom was not to be fooled.
"Al Anderson thinks I might
ask him for a job" he declared.
II heard that he said I drank
too much But most Of the
drinking I've done has been done
right in his own office and in
his houSe!"
He clapped his hat on his
head.
You'd better go to Aunt
Ems for your dinner" he said.
III pick up a bite to eat some
where. But I'm coming back
here to sleep until you sell the
furniture. The rent is paid to
the end Of the month"
He started for the back yard
and then came back into the
kitchen for a minute.
I've made almost $4,000 this
year." he said crisply, "and it's
all gone-all gone on q lot of
jim-crack furniture and q few
cases of liquor and a load Of
other stuff that we didn't need.
And we could have bought the
house in Stallings Lane with
that money!"
Lovejoy smiled. Don't for
get Norrie'S wages" she said
mockingly. Don't forget the
money we paid her. old boy!
But I suppose the thought Of
that doesn't bother you. It
was such a joy to have her in
the house!"
He went out, slamming the
screen door upon her words.
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That night Steve Oglebay
took Lovejoy to dinner at his
sisters house.
She had been divorced two
or three years before, and now
she lived alone in a beautiful
little house in Park Lane. Her
name was Sheila NettleS. She
was about 80 years old and she
gave a great many parties.
But she was all alone in the
big. Shadowy living room of
her house that night when
Steve and Lovejoy ran up the
steps at 20 minutes to 8.
She did not get up from her
long chair to welcome them.
She simply took her cigarette
from between her lips, said
Hello" and then put it back
again.
isn't It cool in this ROOM"
exclaimed Lovejoy, who had
been packing boxes of dishes
all day in the hot sunny dining
room at hcme.
II thought we'd have dinner
right here" Sheila said laziIy,
''in front of these windows"
There were three long win
dows in the west wall Of the
house. They all stood open to
q tiny square Of green lawn
edged with dwarf evergreens,
and their curtains billowed in
and out with the evening breeze.
Its never too hot for q cock
tail, is it?" she asked next, as
the door opened and a small
neat maid brought in a tray Of
thin-Stemmed glasses and q plate
Of appetiZerS.
Lovejoy took one and drank
it quickly. During the last few
months she had learned to like
cocktails. They picked her
up" They put q gilt edge on
life. somehow, she often told
herself.
They had that "gilt edge" ef-
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An Intensely Interesting Story of the
Romance of Beautiful Blonde

Dulcy cooed. With all the
things and people you have
around too. I always say that
I would lose my head If it
wasn't fastened on"
Where are Angela's pearls2"
Forbes demanded, too weak
and exhausted to say more.
"Oh, right here" Dulcy told
him brightly, as though that
were the first time the subject
had come up. You see, here
is the dress trimmed with
ostrich feathers just like the
clues, and here Is box right
under it.
Nov you will see what a
good detective I am. BY power
of reduction and process Of
illumination I know the neck
lace is in that box. See?"
Forbes pushed her aside
roughly. and burrowing through
the accumulation Of ribbons.
and lace brought UP an old
bedroom slipper.
Look inside" Dulcy coun-
Selled.
He did, thoroughly, announc-
ing In an ominous tone,
They're not there!"
"Oh but they must be" she
insisted.
CONSERVATION reigned while
Dulcy flung the contents Of the
box on the floor and fished
through every particle. The
pearls were not to be found.
Forbes was stamping around in
incoherent rage. Her idea o. a
joke most likely!
"Oh, I remember now"
Dulcy spoke slowly, earnestly,
as though q great light had
just dawned on her.
II saw the butler come up
here just as I was going out.
I told him not to dare to pick
up the clues"
"Yes-yeS-" Forbes urged
her on inpatiently.
And oh! I trusted him. But
1t is Just as clear as day. You
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see he Is an ex-convict. I got
the Judge to parole him be-
cause I always say that as long
as we trust a man he will be
worthy Of"
"You mean to tell me"
Forbes fairly shot the words
at her, that you have an ex-
convict in the house and you
play a silly game with my
daughters pearlSl That you
even saw him coming up here
and you cleared the way for
him!"
Dulcy was gloating over her
powers Of deduction.
"Yes, am sure ! am right.
It's no use looking any further
for them" she assured him.
Its just as plain as day"
The snort Of an engine start
ing outside startled them, and
Forbes rushed to the window
followed closely by Dulcy. In
the darkness they could just
make out q Ford starting out
Of the garage. There went
Perkins, and the pearls, no
doubt, were with him.
Hes gone," Forbes gasped
incoherently.
Dulcy was right at his heels
as he fled for the stairs.
"And he told me he had re-
formed"
Il don't care what he told
you," Forbes shouted, as he
fairly tumbled down the stairs.
"All I care about Is catching
him. I'm going to chase him
in my car"
Dulcy leaned weakly against
the balustrade, furrowing her
pretty brow. Suddenly, she
realized that there was another
surprise in store for Forbes.
Not only were the pearls gone,
but by this time his car was
gone too. And his daughter!
She wondered how he would
feel when he found that out.
Tomorrow: Too Much TO Bear.
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ency Shelf" Lovejoy called it
was a big can of Russian caviar.
Beside it was a jar Of pate de
foiS gras. Then there were
two glasses Of wine jelly, a glass
jar of picked walnuts and q
round wooden box filled with
Camembert cheese.
There's nothing here but
junk" he said bitterly. Junk
stuff that I bought in case any
crowd should drop in unexpect
edly for q drink or a game Of
cards"
Tom, standing in the door
way, turned and looked over his
shoulder. Beyond him Love
JOY could see the dining room
with its silk curtains and its
brocaded chairs, with its litter
ed table and its expensive blue
rug.
THE whole house is full of
jnk," he said bitterly. Junk
that we bought for the benefit
of all these people we've been
running with. These fair
weather friends of ours who
dropped us like hot-cakes when
they thought we might want to
borrow some money from them"
It was true. Neither the AL
dersonS nor the Goodsells had
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my's little dresses and bibs and
romperS.
He was quite cheerful when
he came back to the house at
six that night.
THE baby's all settled with
Aunt EN-" he told Lovejoy,
''and Norrie says she has a new
job all waiting for her"
Lovejoy flashed him sarcas-
tic smile.
We'll, I'm so glad everything
is fine with darling Norrie!"
she said with mock enthusi,
asm. Because it would just
kill me to know that you were
worrying about her!"
Tom said nothing.
I've been packing UP all the
silver and the china and the
little jade trees" Lovejoy told
him. II telephoned the shop
where I bought them and told
them that we simply couldn't
pay for them-and they could
MT do anything but take them
back. Luckily, the silver hasn't
been marked"
The dining-roon table was
loaded with pasteboard boxes,
and on the floor was the great
wooden box in which the dishes
were carefully packed.
Its too bad we can't send
back all the curtains and the
furniture, too," she went on,
'but we can't--because they've
been used-and they show it,"
Her voice broke for an in
slant. Then she set her teeth,
lifted her chin and finished
what she had to say.
II think the best thing we
can do is to sell the rugs and
the furniture and the curtains,
don't you?" she asked. They
ought to bring quite a lot of
money and you can use it to
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q prize. And that reminds

q prize. And that reminds
me"
But Forbes could> stand no
more.
"Are you going to stand there
talking all night2 Or are you
going to show me where my
daughters pearls q are?" he
blurted out angrily.
why Mr.. Forbes!" For q
moment, Dulcy was crushed, but
her high spirits soon bounced
back again.
II was sort of holding up the
game, wasn't IT' she asked
brightly. Now look here"
AS she walked along the hall
she picked up one feather and
displayed 1t to him triumphant
ly, then another, and on the
threshold Of her bedroom door
another.
"See how simple it is?" she
asked, but a surly grunt was her
only answer.
I'm afraid you are q very
poor detective" Mr.. Forbes.
Now that they were in her
room he had vainly hoped that
she was going to produce the
pearls from their hiding place
and let him go. But Dulcy
just couldn't let the moment
pass without a few observations.
II always say that you never
know how hard the other
mans job Is until you try it.
Now If we had hidden any
thing but jewelry, I wouldn't
have expected you to be terribly
anxious. But when it was your
own daughters pearls I thought
you would really take an inter
est in finding them? Don't
you ever have any stock dis
appear in your businesS?" she
asked earnestly, leaning COM
fortably back against the door
and settling down for a good
long talk.
moi" he beloved, where
are"
But he could get no further.
Il think that is marvellous"
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CHAPTER XXxVIII

CHAPTER XXXVIII
That night Lovejoy dis
charged Norrie Shane.
It gave her a certain keen
but bitter pleasure to tell Nor.
rie that she could pack up and
leave just as soon as she felt
like it-and the sooner she
went the better.
Il suppose Tom has told
you" she said, handing Norrie
her weeks wages, that we're
breaking up housekeeping"
Norrie shook her brown head,
looking down at the folded bills
In her hand.
Il didn't know about it," she
said quietly. "Of course, I
knew that Tom had been UP
against it lately-but. Lovejoy,
/ don't need this money. You
keep it and pay me later-and
let me stay on for a week to
help you with the baby. I'd
love to do 1t"
Lovejoy wouldn't hear Of
that. mo. I'm going to take
the baby over to Aunt En- in
the morning" she answered
firmly. "You can stay until
then if you want to. But after
that I'll have no use for YOU"
In the morning Norrie bathed
the baby in his little tub for
the last time. For the last time
she put him into his blue-green
high chair and fed him his ce-
real and his orange juice.
And after breakfast she tele-
phoned for a cab and took HIM
and her flat steamer trunk to
Billiard Street.
Tom followed them a little
later with the blue-green high
chair, the little bed with ducks
and chickens painted upon its
head-board, and the small leath-
er trunk that held all of Tom
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herself. I shall forget Tom.
A Silvery- Ginning clock some
where in the house struck eight
round slow notes. =" And
she found herself wondering II
Tom had come back, to the house
that had been their home. She
wondered II he was reading him
self to sleep as he usually did.
"Sheila got her divorce In
Minden," Steve was saying to
her. "She can tell you the name
Of her lawyer and the name Of
the best hotel there"
(TO be Continues
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NOW CONTINUE

feather here on the floor? And
match it to the feather / gave
you for a clue? Why when
put these clues down I said to
myself This is much too simple
for smart man like Mr..
Forbes. He'll go direct to the
hidden treasure, and the game
will be over in a minute! I
never dreamed that you would
be really baffled by our little
game"
Forbes was growing restive.
He shuffled his feet about anxi-
ously. and watched for a chance
to interrupt.
We've played BATTLE lots Of
times with much harder clues
than this. and the stupidest peo-
pie have followed them without
any trouble. I'm surprised at
YOU"
She chartered on in gay,
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feet on this particular night.
three Of them she had lost the
tired, depressed feeling Of the
day.
She began to feel that every
thing in life was all right. " -"
She was losing a husband for
whom she no longer cared. She
had put her baby into Aunt Ems
safe, kind hands. And she was
here with the man she was going
to marry
She looked at Steve.
I shall never think Of Tom
when I'm with him, she said to
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CHAPTER 16

A SHOCK FOR DULCY
DULcY came UP the stairs
- two at a time with the
speed of a happy child and the
grace of a dancer.
Forbes glared at her. If there
was one thing that he hated,
1t was a person who was al
ways jumping around and laugh
ing.
"Oh Mr.. Forbes" she cried
out in disappointment, you
haven't been looking. And you
are so close too. The clues are
all around you"
Forbes looked around malevo-
lently as if he expected to see
a pack Of angry dogs swapping
at him.
Didn't you even notice this
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ers and Just everything. 1t was
so complicated-it was just like
one Of those cobweb games
where you follow a string wher.
ever it leads and have to go all
over the house before you find
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What Do You KnOW?
ANSWERS TO TODAY's TEST
Questions on Editorial Page

1. England The of vapor air; 3, A fish
eating bird; New which milk agated
IN making butter g. Robert Burns: Dublin; 8, When he
both hands with equal Place where
kept TO- For its eper colony H.
Lord H. sratford Avon England 1S Copper and with
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pantry-or was it in the laundry
room? Oh well, I don't remem-
ber exactly. But anyway, we
had clues leading to false trails
all over the house. Corkscrews
and ice picks and lemon Squeez-
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sessed by socially ambitious mother who to marry
her daughter off brilliantly.
No championship fight world series pennant calls for
ability manager promoter and expert guide that
demanded of who manipulaes marriage project and
succeedA
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bantering tone, quite unnoticing
Forbes gathering fury.
Just the other night we had
such fun. We hid the cocktail
shaker in the soiled-linen ham
per in the closet off the buffers
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who sell fire engines real estate life insurance and
travel bureaus In fact they have tried everything
with more or less success.
But doubt any business calls for quite the
amount Of concentration and combined gifts as those DOS
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By FAY KING

VXToME have gone out into the business world with
" good deal of grit and have achieved no little sue.
cess in various lines
We have clever women in banks Wall Street. in ad.
yertising work; women lawyers, politicians and
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THE STORY THUS FAR

Bthe beautiful Dulcy Parker wanted to help everybody
She gave weekend party in order to help Gordon her
fiance put business deal with Mr. Forbes. Every
thing she did annoyed Forbes until he in an almost
apopectc rage She nterered with his business talks with
Gordon she encouraged his daughters nfatuaton for
Conceited scenario writer and promised to help them to
eope To get Forbes out of the way she suggested game
Of Bafe wherein Angela pearls hidden and he
sent to find them Unknown to Dulcy her butler, ex
convict parole found the hiding place and poceted the
pearls Forbes got only far the upstairs hall in his
search for the pearls It quiet there he rested
instead Of looking for them.
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A Gripping Narrative of An
Adorable Meddler
BY HELEN KLUMPH

From MARION DAVIES Forthcoming AI-T0lkns
Picture by Wanda Tuchok and Eduin Justus Mayer,
based the play, "Dulcy," BY Mar0s Connolly and
George Kaufman. The picture UOiH be shown at
Locus Palace Theater.
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Yet, all this energy cAn 50 easily be
wasted BY a violent, irritating cough,
leaving you utterly exhausred, without
strength OF ambition.
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TOPICS
Anything Possible
No CaboOse?
knows Her Quilts
why Wiggons Grieved

AUSTIN, Nov. Texas Is big
enough for "a little bit OK every
thing" and apparently has 1t.
Now they are digging up skelet-
onS OF prehistoric elephants out in
Donley county, according 70 Dr. j.
"A. Johnson Of the American Museum
OF Natural History, Just as Univ
erSity OF Texas authorities begin 10
collect fossils or marine life from
the time Texas was the oceans bed.
Railroaders probably will grieve,
and the world won't seem the same
TO others. If the Texas experiment
OF the Kansas City Southern rail-
road is followed. This road would
abandon the time-honored caboose,
without which no freight train could
end properly. This road proposes 20
build q cabin on the rear OF the
locomotive for those envled men
who now ride IN the cabooSe.
Mrs. BoZeman or Gainesville knew
her quilts. So q young farmer is I'm
jail. She saw him on the street
with a quilt she recognized rs her
own.
Raymond Wagons, a TexarkanA
negro Is worrying about Christmas.
Not because he is in jail for steal
ing a chicken, but because he isn't
going 10 have the chicken after all
il cost him.
"A Victoria court has ruled out che
law which would have given cities
the right 70 designate state high
ways simply by abandoning streets.
Texas has had some famous wea-
Their. but none quite as bad as that
in New York last week. A ferryboat
there got lost in.~he river. during
a dense fNg. and II took q rescue
ship 70 locate Il.
The news report from Wichita
Falls that heavy rain fell II part OF
the city and none In the rest re-
calls James W. Ferguson's famous
claim that the weather was his ally
in helping produce bumper crops
on prison lands during the years
OF his administrations.
Out where the West begins 70 get
wild they have a new charge. That
is wife swindling." and a man re-
Gently was requiSitioned from an
other state 70 face this charge.
ss~
Rep. Matt O'Neill OF Grayson
county. has not resigned. merely
because he has moved TO the Rio
Grande Valley. ne told his con-
~stituents. He viii come to the jan
uary session as their lawmaker. he
replied 10 inquiries from those who
wanted 70 know II he were "out."
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INDIAN ROADS FIGHT BUSES

Railways OF India are making
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Rail passenger travel Is dropping off
and earnings are declining. Some
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