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Evening star., 1937-07-19

who isn't moron can see that they
are proud Of their place. And they
have right to be. Why. dad and
grandfather through their work know
more about science than lots of you
college boys. And the old place is
lovely, too. We were all born there
all three Of us, in the right order"
II believe you, but believing you I
am wondering why you ever broke
away and why they let you?"
She was silent for a moment think
ing back to the time when she was
tiny girl
always I wanted to go places" she
said. "Of course, we did 90 lots of
places-other breeding farms to check
on methods and equipment and to
race tracks. Dad and grandfather
went because 1t was their business
and they always took me-because-
we'll that was their business, too. I
liked it, but ever since 1 can remem-
Der 1 have said to myself I was going
to have another life"
Something must have made you
say that"
This place may be responsible. OF
course, Id never heard Of scarborough
House, but did hear some one read
that old poem beginning the stately
homes of England, and right then
and there I knew what I was going
to do. 1 was coming over here"
"And to be literary some more" he
said teasingly, like that King Of
France, you're going back again.
However, did you happen to say you'd
marry me and live in the States?"
Fifth avenue and Newport are
good enough for me-" she said. I'm
fact, 1 could be satisfied with less.
But no more gypsying for me. 1
knew what I wanted and I'm get
ting it,
That explains you, but what about
your father and his father? Didn't
they want to keep their one eve lamb
at home?"
She laughed merrily.
promise me you'll call me that
Evening star., 1937-07-19

been worlds apart. 1t wasn't pri-
marily question Of money. The
Claytons had money. Rather fiercely
as If she were defending herself,
Carol was telling herself she would
never have married a man because
he was rich. She was marrying Hart
ley Madison because he stood for all
the things she admired and had
wanted all her life. In addition, she
loved him. Nothing else would have
mattered. If love had been lacking
OF that she had no slightest doubt as
they sat together in the moonlight
She was happy beyond her dreams.
Had she not found her place in life?
But thoughts Of Brookdale would
not leave her. Suddenly she jumped
to her feet.
Dearest. almost forget-it's so
glorious out here with you'll want
to phone father. I haven't heard
from him for long time and want
to hear his voice"
"Of course, darling" he answered
"1'll wait out here until you have
talked to him and you come back"
Come with me-" she said. Don't
you think it will be too utterly some
thing or other for you to be intro
duced over the telephone-from one
continent to another?"
Carols telephone call will be the
first inkling the folks at home have
OF her engagement. Are they going
to approve of the match she has
made? See tomorrow's installment for
the startling results Of her call.
(To Be Contnued)
(CopyriEht. 1887, Loev's, Inc.)
Evening star., 1937-07-19
CHAPTER I.

It had been stiff handicap. But she had wont
And not at long last either she said to
years from Bookdale scarborough Carol
Claytons the girl who's done It,"
She turned her head and her slowly around the
lovely old garden They stopped the covered
with Ivy meowed by the centuries into beauty
ming Of its builders.
DlHerent" she said suddenly but in its way
fine too"
The young man beside her who had been watching her and
wondering as he so often did what she thinking laughed
Before tell what that cryptic remark NAV mean
want you to make promise Do always all
through the will things which don't seem
to connect with anything? il is vo1r
greatest charH out IL ranks nigh And as asset wife
Evening star., 1937-07-19
Tiger Wedding Held.

More than $3.50 was spent on cele-
brations in Dibrugarh. Assam, when a
tigress was welded tremendously to
a tiger. The pair belong to an estate
that has its own ZOO. One Of the fea-
aures Of the ceremony was a dinner
served on a lavish scale.
Evening star., 1937-09-19

Benson was formerly Miss Mary Eliza
beth Farmer of Redland, Md. She is
a daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
w. Farmer.
The engagement Of Miss Agnes Grit
nth. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lycur-
gus M. Griffith, ST., to Mr.. Richard
Barnes Barton of Washington. son
of Mr.. and Mrs. George Ernest Bar
ton of Provo. Utah, has been an
nounced. The wedding will take place
in the near future
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest w. Hawkins
Of Etchison, Md, have announced
the engagement Of their daughter,
Julia Gertrude, to Mr.. Herman Web
ster Moxley, son Of Mr.. and Mrs
Ernest w. Moxley Of Gaithersburg,
Md. The wedding will take place
soon.
Mrs. Mary K. Brooke has closed
her Rockville home and plans to
spend the Winter with her son-in-
Evening star., 1937-09-19

of Boyds. Md. The ceremony was per-
formed at Westminster, Md, by the
Rev. J. Hess Belt in the home of the
minister. Mr.. and Mrs. Young, both
OF whom were connected formerly with
the National Unemployment Service
for Montgomery County, are making
their home in Rockville.
Maj. Joseph NJ White, U. S. Army.
retired, and Mrs. White are again in
their home in Rockville after living
short time at Chevy Chase.
Miss Martha Williams, daughter
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Walter A. williams,
of Rockville left during the week for
Staunton, Va, to assume her duties
as member of the faculty of Stuart
Hall.
A shower was given in honor of Mrs.
Ralph M. Benson, whose marriage
recently took place, by several of her
friends at the home of her aunt, Miss
Frances Ricketts, of Rockville. Mrs.
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at her home, on Jefferson street, after
spending five years in North Caro-
lima.
Miss Juanita Hatfield, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward j. Hatfield of
West street, has returned to her home
after spending the Summer visiting
relatives and friends in Schenectady,
New York City, Highland Falls srd
West Point. She also spent two weeks
camping at Schroon Lake. Her
brother. Mr.. Edward j. Hatfield, jr.,
has returned to Schenectady, after
spending the last week end with his
parents.
Evening star., 1937-09-19
CORPS WINS PRIZE

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, September
18.-Leading the Alexandria Light
Infantry in the bi-centennial parade
held in Richmond Thursday the Alex
andria Shrine Club Drum and Bugle
Corps won third prize in the drum
corps competition. This marked the
first time the local drum corps has
entered competition.
The drum corps and the Alexandria
Light Infantry, attired in their full
dress uniforms, received many ova-
tions along the line Of march.
Evening star., 1937-09-19
Beer and Pretzels Divorced.

HARTFORD, Conn. September 18
R).-Beer and pretzels have been di-
vorced in Connecticut
1t was mandatory parting ordered
by the State liquor commission on the
ground that it's unsanitary for hands
to be cropping in pretzel bowls.
Evening star., 1937-09-19

law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam S. Bowling. at Bethesda.
Mrs. william B. Mobley entertained
a number of her Rockville friends at
bridge in her Chevy Chase home yes
terday afternoon.
Evening star., 1937-09-19
First Alaskan Prospector Dies.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, September 18
R).-Al Hilty, 70, who sank the first
prospect hole in the 1903 Cleary Greek
gold rush and took more than s1,O0O,-
90 from it, died last night of injuries
suffered in an auto accident.
Evening star., 1937-09-19
Miss Bogley
Married to
Mr.. Young
Maj. j. NJ. White
Returns to
Rockville.

N ROCKVILLE, Md. September
- 18.-Announcement has been
made of the marriage June
Is of Miss Naomi M. Bogley,
oaughter OF Mr.. James T. Bogley of
Rockville and Mr.. William M. Young
Evening star., 1937-09-19

Rockefeller Center Is the largest
building project ever undertaken by
private capital.
Evening star., 1937-09-19

Northern France has a shortage Of
coal miners.
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got up. Gust the same, I'd better get

got up. "Just the same, I'd better get
in my ground work before the crowd
arrives" So deciding, he grinned a
thoroughly boyish grin and ground
out his cigarette under his heel be-
fore starting for the door.
"Now what the devil could have
gone wrong? Bet her canary died
or something's"
To his disappointment he found
that quite a number of other guests
had put in an appearance and that
already the boyishly slender young
beauty was attended by three or four
eager gallants who made a brave show
ing in their gray and colorful uni
forms. Ian glowered. Of course that
conceted young Italian Conte would
be among them, his lecherous eyes
travelling over the girls white clad
body like scurrilous hands. Yonder
was the evil, the aristocratic Prince
Paul Pechkinoff, calculating his
chances of conquest and satyr-like of
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front door open and shut again, he
heaved a sigh of relief.
"Thank heavens here's somebody
else. Hope it's Harris" 1t was
queer how much he liked that quiet,
dryly humorous Welshman who SER
we'd the British Minister as military
attache. His hope was dashed, how
ever, when there came ringing thru
the empty rooms the sound of a wo-
mans voice. Instantly he was struck
with the singular softness and mel
lowness of it's quality. There was in
it the ringing vitality of an old wine
goblet that is lightly struck. Mingled
with it were the deeper tones of a
man.
He started to rise, then sank back.
Why the devil begin the inevitable
round of inane small talk sooner than
was absolutely necessary?
His thoughts reverted uncomfort-
ably to Leonard A thousand dollars!
Good Lord! That was lot of money
but if Leonard needed it, well-that
was all there was to it. Then with
that sturdy loyalty which had won
him his host of friends, he dismissed
the matter from his mind.
Who would be at the dinner? I'm
doubtedly better than average per-
centage of women that conceded in
telligence to charm and beauty, for
Baron Hugo Won Satzmar was an eX-
imperial guardsman, a bachelor and,
though some sixty-odd years along,
did not yet require spectacles to ap-
preciate well-turned ankle.
The tall young diplomatist's rev.
erie was broken by the sound of a
light footstep. Someone else had been
attracted by the effulgent Spring
moonlight that beat timidly through
the conservatory's glass roof. Thank
fully, he realized the intruder had
chosen a different path than that he
had selected. Good, he could loaf an
other few minutes. Terrible bore,
these formal dinners.
Subconsciously he realized those
footsteps were doing queer things.
Light and quick, they had entered the
friendly gloom, and now they were
moving slowly to an uncertain, stumb-
ling cadence. His curiosity piqued,
he raised his head to discover that
he could glimpse the motion of a wo-
mans evening gown beyond the palm
fronds before him. Quite without
warning, there suddenly appeared in
the moonlight the small, proudly held
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CHAPTER ii

Major Evan Harris thoughtfully
watched the two Americans descend
the steps of the terrace and disap-
pear in search of cab.
"Good old Ian," he muttered.
"Lucky for that young ass Leonard
he's got room-m mate with sense e.
nough for two."
The worthy Major would have been
surer of his opinion had he been in
the little reb cab which, at break
neck speed, was whirling the two
Americans out along the busy An
Grassy Ut towards that sombre resi-
Dental district which borders on
Budapest's magnificent park system.
They had ridden in deep silence for
some distance when Leonard Holt
turned to face the big figure at his
side and said with an unconvincing
care1essness:
81 need a bit of money! Ian. Err
could you spare me thousand?"
Ian Gray's eyes widened. A thous-
and dollars! Good heavens! What
was the boy thinking of?
"That's lot of money, Lem" said
he guardedly. "Why the sudden need
for so much money!"
"Never mind need it," explained
the other with a touch of sullenness.
you'll help me out, won't you?"
"Of course, Len-you know that.
l can manage it, somehow. But a
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feur with a magnificent flourish on
his horn, drew up before an apartment
house of unpretentious appearance
give never known him to lie to me
before"
While the two bathed, shaved and
otherwise prepared for dinner, Leo
nard Holt kept up febrile, nervous
conversation, that was utterly unchar-
acteristic, pocketed Ian's cheque ano
presently betook himself off, declar-
that he would stop for cocktail with
his fiancee on his way to the Aus
trian ministry.
So preoccupied and disturbed was
the usually debonair and untroubled
Ian Gray, that for the first time in
many years he aroused himself to dis
cover that he had actually arrived
early for the dinner. AS he crossed
the sidewalk he had the unpleasant
impression that inside the great bril-
liantly-lit building, servants were
hurrying to complete preparations fol
the dinner.
Yet there was nothing to bear out
this presentment in the manner OF
the correct and unruffled footman in
plum and gold who flung open the
ponderous door of plate glass and
beautifully wrought iron and begged
the premature guest to enter.
After surrendering his opera cloak
and hat to the footman, Ian uncom-
fortably followed a cadaverous-look-
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pair.
"a moment, please, I will come in
directly. lit is so peaceful here
The girl spoke over her bare and
rounded shoulder in fluent German,
and at the same time hastily dabbed
at her eyes with a frothy lace hand
kerchief. In apparently guilty haste
her fingers next flew to her compact
and in another instant she had skill
fully repaired the damage wrought
by those inexplicable tears.
AS suddenly as the turn of ma
gician's card the blonde vision was
gone, and only black interval in the
palms was before Ian's bewildered
eyes. All! He glimpsed at her gilt
tering ball gown once or twice thru
the intersections of the palm fronds,
but then she was definitely gone.
"Well, may I be crowned" he NUT
tered to himself. eff that doesn't
beat the cards! What a perfect, ex-
quisite beauty-I'll have to meet her.
Wonder who she is? What did that
man call herr"
He sat bolt upright with a start
that flicked the ash from his cigarette
into watering pot to make minute
kissing sound.
Lolita! 1t couldn't be-" In a mild
mental turmoil he laughed to him
self. "How absurd there are many
women called Lolita" Still obsessed
with purity of that moonrevealed pro-
file, he told himself that the girl who
had just left could not possibly be
the constituencies and practiced in
triguese who was charged with wreck
ing the lives of at least three men.
"Can't be the same," he decided as he
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ing butler into a glittering drawing
room that seemed as limitless and de-
serted as the steppes of Russia.
Ellis eXcellency will be down di-
rectly," the majordomo informed him
with sympathetic air. "Will Mon
sieur have the goodness to waltz"
Cursing himself for his absent
mindedness, Ian nodded, pulled out
his cigarette case and commenced to
wander around the great empty room
like lost soul and feeling utterly
asinine. A rather fine Rubens on the
wall opposite attractd his attention,
and he stood for some moments crit
ically inspecting the ample proper
tions of decidedly Dutch Venus;
then, drawing irritably upon a Gig
arctic, he wandered towards the open
door of conservatory, the fragrance
and seclusion of which appealed
strongly.
He felt a little less foolish as he
wandered at random along aisles set
with various shrubs. Evidently the
Austrian ministry was an elaborate
affair-relic perhaps of the brighter
and more opulent days when Franz
Joseph directed the destinies of the
Dual Empire. Here and there he dis
covered a number of delightfully."- ar
rangd bowers. One of these particu-
larly attracted him and he stood
watching a pretty little fountain
which, for once, did not boast fat,
stupidly-grinning child that, for no
good reason, clutched fish or some
other marine creatures; instead, a
beautifully executed little satyr blew
watery notes up at the moody Ameri-
can with such gay, hooking ex-
preston, that Ian took to him immed-
lately. Heaving long sigh, he flip
ped aside the tails of his dress suit,
and dropped onto comfortable rat
tan chaise Tongue. There he settled
back, listening to tinkling play of
water while watching the lazy gray
spiral of smoke raise from the gem
like tip of his cigarette.
= Presently, on hearing the distant
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head and the delicate shoulders of
one of the lovliest girls Ian, we'll
schooled in charms as he was, had
ever beheld.
She halted with her face in pro-
file to gaze up fixedly at the moon,
quite unconsciously revealing every
detail of her features. Hers was a
nose that was just short enough to
be piquant and intriguing, without
being snub; below it was a short up
per lip that bespoke the senses and
small, firmly rounded chin which
struck the silent watcher as alto
gether delicate and delicious. Above
the cameo like features a sleek aur-
cole of ash hued hair caught the
moonbeams and entangled them there
in.
Feasting his eyes on that exqui-
site moonlit loneliness, Ian remained
silent as, for long moment the girl
remained motionless as any statue.
On more careful observation he noted
that the girls barely perceptible
cheek bones were higher than usual,
giving her face a family foreign cast
that was infinitely intriguing.
Fearful of startling this lunar ilum
ined apparition, Ian remained quite
still, studying with a connoisseur's
appreciation, the fragile beauty of
her who, though less than thirty feet
away, was undoubtedly unconscious
of his presence. Suddenly he noticed
the glimmer of something on her
cheek and with sharp pang of alarm
realized that something was sliding
over her cheek like a fugitive drop
of quick silver. Another appeared and
then another. Ian felt sense of out
rage-it was so incredible that such
moon-silvered goddess should weep.
There was something quite CHASTITY
about the way she stood there weep
ing silently, and he fought down an
absurd impulse to spring up and
make an offer to solve her troubles.
With a quick, delft motion like that
of fish darting just below the sur
face of the sea, the girl suddenly
dropped her small patrician head and
two slender and long fingered hands
appeared, clutching an evening bag
set with rhinestones. She had just
opened its jeweled clasp, when from
the depths of the great house sound
ed mans voice, calling in low tones:
Lolita, Lolita, wo sind sie?"
Ian, now wideeyed and thoroughly
alert, did not miss the conclusive stiff
fleming of that slender body, nor the
way the softly-curving neither lip was
tucked into her mouth, even less did
he miss che indescribable look of mis-
cry which contorted the girls lovely
features. In that expression he
thought to read both fear and des-
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thousands lot and you know you're
exactly not overburdened with income.
Besides, there's your marriage next
month. You'll need lot them"
CHANGING sidewise, Ian was not
greatly surprised to see his compan-
ions smooth cheek blush scarlet.
"You don't have to remind me of
that" he laughed nervously. But
but I'm awfully low right now,-and
and 1 need some cash in hurry.
Will you, or won't you, lend it to me ?"
The tone was an unfamiliar one,
Ian realized. In all the years since
the war, Leonard Holt had never spok-
en- thus. After moments hesitation
he said:
"Well, if you have to have it, I'm
the last man to turn you down. I'll
give you a cheque when we get to
the apartment"
Leonard's palely handsome features
lit and he shot Ian such q look of
immense gratitude that the latter felt
ashamed of his hesitancy.
"Thanks lot, Soldat, I-I'l new
er forget it, Lob, helll You're
the best friend a poor mutt like me
ever had"
The relief and gratitude in the
younger mans voice was so impul.
sive and heartfelt that Ian was
prompted to speculate further on why
the devil Leonard needed money SC
badly. 1t was queer he had said moth
ing-usually he unfolded his least
worry with touching .eagerness.
"Look here, Lem" he said quietly
you're not in a jam of some kind
are you? I can help you lot more
if I know what it's all about"
Leonard Holt deliberately fixed his
eyes on the ridge of red fat that
appeared above the chauffeur's greasy
black coat collar and manufactured Q
smile that would not have deceived
a child.
"Lord, mol" he laughed. "I'm in nc
jam. Honestly, I'm not"
SNOW what the devil is Leonard ur
to-" Ian asked himself when the chaui
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-03-05

oIL-PLATINo differs widely from other forms
of fabrication in this plain, understandable
way: It remains lastingly fastened to the pis-
tons, bearings and other engine parts, even
when they are not in motion. This is made
possible by the Germ Process patented
which gives Conoco Germ Processed oil its
strong attraction for metals, so that every
working part becomes durably Oil-Plated.
Oil-Plating is not like any fabrication that
merely goes on-and-off. Once Germ Processed
oil covers the parts it never leaves them bare
of Oil-Plating :. Never when the pistons are
racing thousands of strokes minute =. Never
on any hills, despite any load Never while
you park at dozen different stores.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-06-03
GORTNER

Alonzo Fike, of Eglon, preached on
Sunday morning, his theme being,
"Enoch walked with God" Mr.. Fike
and mother were dinner guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Herbert Martin at Sunnyside.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Fike and daugh-
ter Joyce left on Tuesday morning for
a point in the south where he will be
engaged in business.
Edward Schramm and Melvin Keim.
of Front Royal, Va, spent several days
recently at Mrs. Mary Burkholder's.
Roscoe Singleton, of Washington,
D. c., spent Sunday evening here with
his relative, Mrs. Roy Lee.
Miss Dora Louise Spoerlein, of Cum
berland, was at the home of her par
ents here over the weekend.
Saturday evening a surprise party
was given Miss Evelyn Friend in homo.
of her 18th birthday. The following
were guests: Lorena Queer, Betty anc
Louella Swartzentruber, Bernadin
Calhoun, Alice Whitmer, Hazel Lee
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Leona Dodge, Sylvia Kitzmiller, Clara
Liller, Florence Bolyard, Betsy Moon,
Blanche Grove, Mary Catherin Deun-
kle, Laura Alice and Eleanor Friend,
Mrs. Julia Shaver, Mrs. Mary Burk-
holder, Mrs. Dunkle, Mr.. and Mrs. AL
bert Sisk, Robert Liller, Ross Grove,
Ralph Beckman, Floyd Custer, Johr
Wilson, Raymond Shreve, Asa Kitz-
miller, Harvey Riley, James Jackson
Stanley Bernard, Stanley Stahl, Sam
Friend, Robert Nicholson, Merlt
Swartzentruber, George Grove, Mar,
shall Biser, Glenn Killius. Refresh.
ments of ice cream and cake were serv-
ed. Miss Friend was the recipient OF
numerous gifts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Wamsley, Altoo.
ma, Pa, were guests of Mr.. and Mrs
Paul Welch over the weekend.
Miss Ida Martin, of Baltimore, is
spending a weeks vacation here with
her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Spencer, Lola and
Erwin Spencer, of Ridgeley, visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Eliza Biser and Dennis
Biser on Monday.
Noah Slabach is visiting his son Lee
and family in Uniontown this week.
Earl Dodge accompanied Mr.. anG
Mrs. Elmer Shaffer to Morgantown or
Sunday.
John Burkholder, of Morgantown
and his mother, Mrs. Gertrude Miner
of Flintstone, are visiting Mrs. Albert
Sisk and Mrs. Noah Schrock thi!
week.
Paul Welch, with the school bus he
drives, took the children on a picnic
to a point on Cheat River Monday
evening, while Ernest Gortner tool
the children who ride his bus on a pic,
mic to Mountain Top one night last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Yoder are plan
ming to attend the wedding of Miss
Miriam Byler and Mr.. Floyd Yoder a
Lancaster, Pa, on Wednesday evening
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Beachy, accom-
panied by Mrs. Dora Yoder, Of Mey
ersdale, have gone for a visit in Nor
folk, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Slabach and Mr.