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I i > AZKL ROSS I J SYNOPSIS. "1.1 .M: Jupiter, wlf, ,,r t| IL . inilllori- alre automobile manufacturer gives an ngaRnii- nt iliriurr ami .lun.'e for Imr Mcrediry Mury Harkn-ss. who IB (o marry lurk l:iiMhrr. .Mary rtvH\va a telephone ..ill fr-nrn her s.-aii.-nrrioe bro- ther, Kilili,-. .-.i,i:ijf h<. i.s I,, trouble anil must nee her. Sire tt-llt. , t riialil to u<lrn:i him wh.-n in- ..,11- When si,, goes up- (alrx 1,1 nif.-e him *i, f finilrs is. Juplt.T robbtil and munlered In her room. Seek- SSLP"Jj.ftj *" Wm with Cornelia * enlMhnn*) Niveethenrt. Dirk ' ti'-r tn kot-ii silt nt ;il,..i,| I"- .;,! locate him. I!,, win fur Thi- Star tercel - . a. . , until "What ,! cails?" asl-' Kane. "I duet know a thiinr. Ins|H-ctor. ju ' f : .ed!" the Star reporter rcpli.-.i, and turr.eii away to var 1 the stair.-i. "Veil, I'll ju-t run up and =ee how Bill's makitit' o-:t. I'd like to get a look at that necit'.aci- ii.y-elf No ob- jection?" ( ;. a'l. Tl.ey hail all gone and Mary fou.'d herself ae ne with Mr. Jupiter in the library. A tire crackled in the great fireplace. A dim haze ni cijraret smul'.c filled the air. It was very quiet. The tick of a grandfather clock sounded in her ears like the voio- <.f conscience, pushing her forward. She got up and went over and sat down beanie Mr. Ju| it. .1, front of the lire. "Mr. Jupiter, then 1 ..thing I jrust trli you Her hands were cold and ie r thr'.at fo dry she c.-uld hardly tfet the word- out but sh. -A as reso'.vc-d to KO on. See could ri"t V>ear the sit'ht of that bow-d figure without di'injf "methinc to help. H' 1.. "-1 i|. \at':ielj , a- if becom- ing nwan : her for the tirst time. .S'i-i-,n>' ''r.i .fferir.^' in that lined face, Mary's hiar: failed her. She remi-in- beri-d with a stab of fright Dr. Jor- dan's wariiin/ of a few hours a.f( . "II. i . ' r hi a!li wei| to brood if it. If he doe--, his mind Will I!"." Mr. Jupitei-'-. devotion to his wil'. 1 . tin d'.etor had reminded Mary, wa- uniijue even among happily married coupb . lie told her why, a' lea.-t, he told what he had thai Mi^ .li.j, ' ' L ' dow n the richest man in I nail -ip- late \ iilajre t marry .J.n; .J ij'.t.-i, a j/ei.'iiii-s me i ei ty. That w:- why bi had nl .. ' to eivi h- 'vi-i >'.(; ...j.'. N'ow .'be wa^ gone, hi; : .- wa- taken from him. UriHKln.g en :he tra^-idy n.ij'ht shake hi at.ity, and i.o wonder, .-ir.ee it was tbi vi r -, 1- ... hi- had delighted . deck her in that ha- ln..:;i'ht abort her death. "Come ami -ee me noon," Dr. Jor- dan ha said to Mary, earnestly. "I v.' V' :; ' <lo to v . ave him. Odd tnat shi: should b- the one he talked to about thin. Hut she did !.'( ii.i-. e time to wonder what lie- meant. "Mr. .lupi'i r, I've something to toil you ' she I'-j'i ated. "Kb'' Oh, je." He smiled and ro'i.-iil Kim i . !'. "I know you're ,- ing to leave us. Well, we expect'-d that. Hut we didn't think it would he so !MMin. You and Dirk ^'oing to gt-t married righi off'."' "No, ro!" Mary assured him em- phatically, much to her our: 'urpn -. ii. ich in luxly huilding vitamins . . . Pasteurised _fr yintr Protection 1^ It. package* <>r flirnl from lire f.inioun , II, Inaf. I ,H,1. foi tin- name ' Kt.ifr ' llie ,,l K |... ili> , I.I. III. In .ill. .n ..I III. ;-. iin.li. . Kit A FT III I M No. 27-32 "Not for a long time yet." He loo -tU-rly bereft; what else coi^r have said? ^t fire attain. He was .staring m^ffo that of a .s lace was wm^ ar( , not to cry lary looked away, same without her, is it, said sadly. Jordan's words flashed into b,-r :i'ind. TakinK a deep breath, she plunged abeml. "Mr. JupiU-r, last night my 1 had a telephone call from my brother. I haven't seen hir, for quite a long timp. He called me up during the party She knew he was not listening. 'That so? IIiw's he (letting on.'" I* was making an effort to be inter- i ted. "I'm afraid he's in trouble, Mr. Jupiter. I don't know what, but I'm afraid it's pretty bad." "Well," the flat old voice replied lifelessly, "he'll come out all right. Few things in the world that a few dollars won't fix." "Oh, it isn't that! But 1 asked him here and he hasn't come. I don't know where he i .. I've been pretty worried Hnw to tt-11 him! Here she was going 'round and 'round the subject, and not saying what she ii eart to say at all. "Don't do it!" he barked at her. "Don't do it! It's not a woman s place to worry about a man. Man's place to worry nhou a woman. Let l.:rn ilo that !" "I will. But he's so young. He isn't :>1 yet." She hadn't thought of it before, but now it came to her that whatever Kddie had been up to, his punishment would In 1 tempered for him he was still a minor in the eyes of the law. "I'm sorry to see you go, m>\\ IIK-M- than ever," Mr. Jupiter ie>uni"d. Kddie did not intero-' him much; he was of a different stripe fn>m his sister, and In- bad never cared much: about the ln.y. "I'll tell you, if it i'or tin- I'irk of your- we had I lat.s about y.u, Mama and I. I don't kri'.u but she'd like them carr>d out anyway, now she'.- e>.rn- and can't a'- tend to it herself." .Mary had no idea of what was com- hi continued, her anui/emer.t prcw. We alwaj wanted a daughter, and after Hi in i wi-r.t away, and you came, Mama used to say how nice it was to have a young girl in the house. There's -omcthiaj.! alx-ut a girl you can buy 'em dresses and things." The Pars drcs"! How happy she had been in it, only yesterday. Mary shut her eve to squeeze back the ti ars. "Of course, Bruce will marry son e day; but then we never see as muc.h of Bruce a- we'd like to." The shadow of a very real biUern.es* tros.sed his face. "No, thai might not liappi n anyway in our life-time, and like as not it would be one of those foreign wo- men he's always writing about. No, we thought we wouldn't wait for that.' We had you here, and liked you, and I we thought we'd just adopt you. Now,' what would you have said to that?" "It would have been wonderful! Perfectly wonderful !" "Yes well," be said, plea-ed as a child, "we'll have to e about it WHIM) all this is over. Things are pretty .'ad i ight now. But you mui-n't let it worry you, or eh inge your plan-; a jot. Kruce'll be alo'i;; any diiy now. 1 dn it- say there'll be an answer to my .-aUc Ix-fore the day's over, and when he comes he'll '>ngh <T things up a bi'." Mary died tu believe that this was so but _-.>.;; I on'" re1i< bitterly on what she had heard of the absent Bruce and hi- ways. "I'ull that hell-curd, will yi.ii?" Ml. Jupiter asked, suddenly. But Spence when he came bad nothing to report. The old man sank back. "I uppme there h:'sn't In i n lime." i * * Although 'he bad never seen him, .Mary's heart was hardened against him. It wa plain to see hnw niucli his paienls mi.-sed him, how pu/xleil they were by his continued absence. They treasured his infreipieni letter-., written in a patois almost unintelli- gible to them and sprinkled with the name' of persons and plaees th"y knew in -I lung at all about. Now she tried to soften the blow for the old man. "He may be out In low n." "Well, he's no business to be!" lie snapped. In lead of soothing him, the suggestion seemed to anger him. "The place for that young man is back in this country, and I'll mighty soon tell l.iin so when I see him! If he'd been here, where he ought to be, at bis mother's side, this never would have happened '" Whether his grievance was jiistili.Mi or not, it was exceedingly bitter. Mary hoped for Bi lice's sake he was managing to endure spring in Paris this year. "We've taken a lot of comfort in you, Miiry," Mr. Jupiter continued more gently. "You may as well have some of what we've got, along with Bruce. The Kuythers have got no- thing. Never will have anything. Steve's too close. He wouldn't plant nickel lhal wouldn't raise a dollar." wonderful,' _, , ^mt let's not ,*." think-* * * T>r. Jordan had sent came efficient, and interrupted j '.liftn. "Time for Mr. Jupiter to j wome rest," she told him firmly. Those were Dr. Jorda-i's orders. Bed, and his luncheon brought up to him. "Faugh!" The nurse recoiled be fore his rejection of her. "Where's Spence? Who told Jordan to send a woman over here? You go back and tell him I said to mind his own bu^i- ncss. I guess I've still got sense enough to know when to go to bed." When the indignant Jady had finally i/cen pers,uadc-d tha 1 , her presence \v?.s not wanteu, and Mr. Jupiter had be-r. delivered into the hands of his anck'.".t, servitor, Mary bethought herself of Bessie. It might not hurt to drop a cautious word. Spence could not say where she was. She was a light-heac'.i-d baggage and he would ji.st like the job of discharg- ing her if she didn't tend to businei:. better than this. "Oh, I wouldn't do that just yet." .Vary said hurrieu'.y. "She's probably around somewhere." "She'll be wherever the men are," was S pence's acid reply. This proved true enough. For as Mary mounted to sU-'rs to go to her own room she was surprised U> hear \..ces on the landir g, one if them the maid's. "Don't you know i ny movie lirec- tors, honest?" she WHS saying. "Gee, I thought newspapermen knew every Lxly there is!" The voice of Bowen, the Star's re- fcrter. replied wearily. "No, I don't, and if I did, what of it? Listen, sh- ier, I've got an edition to catch. Jf you've got anything to tell me, let's have it and forget the Hollywood stuff, f'ome on, what's it all about?" "Will you put. my picture in the paper?' "Sun. sun. Out with it. 1 ' The re- porter moved down a step. Time wa- short and he did no. believe the girl had anything of importance to reveal. "\\i II," she lowered her voice to a whisper just as Mary hurried up the steps. "Oh, Hessie," Mary interrupted cool- iy, "Spence i- locking everywhere foi you. Your friend will excuse y.>.-, I'm sure." The startled maid jumped and fi"d past her down the st.:irs in pr*-cipilat'.- l.aste, leaving Mary face to face wi'h the embarrassed newspaperman. "Have you finished your work?" she- asked coldly. "Hecause if you have. you'd better go." I To be cont inue.l. ) Just So! The man who had just returned I'ri'in Fiance w is relating a thrilling ex|icr.ence at the dinm r table Yes, 1 ' -aid h , "an Apache sprang at me in one of the streets ( ,f Pans, snatched my pocket-case of notes, and bolted! The gendarmes chased him and, when cornered, he leapt into thi river." "Ah!" said a listener, "tiiiilty but in Seine." Absurd! The man who had received a notice from i he tax-collector was both In. dignant and my.-tificd. He was called upon tn pay t'.'iO forthwith. He hadn't a i'. He wrote back as follows: "Deal Sir, On my Income-Tax r.- turn I clearly staled my profession which you appear to have misundei- -tood. You demand I'M) forthwith. I s id I was a contractor not a cor. jurer !" * "The foundation of real business l service"- Henry Ford. Spealu..- ui ner cat ' him everything excein t, can't giv e him that becausn ^ got it.' " February 29. 1908: "Pett (the novelist) came on We for lunch, and told us a funny at about a I )a K at a ladles' club wti made an Income by cutting polite- nesses out of telegrams which he w "as entrusted with for dispatch." December 6, 1907, (at a dinner) : "Pett Kidge told one good story about a little boy who said there were only 9 Commandments,, and when his father said that at any rate when he went away there had been 10, replied: 'Yes. but mother broke me last week.' " .Some more: May 24, 1904: "Mrs. Dovf.-renx said she was at a dinner party tbe other night at winch were also W. S. Gil- bert (of Gilbert and Sullivan fame) and Douglas Straight i editor of the "Pall Mall Gazette",) Straight was talking about the peculiarities of memory, loss of it, etc. He said he could remember incidents when he was in Naples at the age of -. Hut If he was asked where he dined last week he couldn't remember. 'No,' said Gilbert. 'And if you could, probably you wouldn't he able to tell us.'" * February 8, 1904. "He (Eden Phill- potts, the novelist) said he had, long ago, met an American w-oman who had aspired to be a. poet and bad submitted her verse to Longfellow In his old age, and railed on him and re . ,i-d Ills advice. She was then young and very pretty. 'How can I thank you. Mr. Longfellow?' she cried earnestly. 'You can give me a kiss,' said Longfellow. She said to Kden 'I was so taken aback and startled that I just kissed him and run straight out of the house." "No moo been siifUcieJ a compelling Scott Kussell gan, upon the bar Thames, the premature leviatba , 'Great Eastern'." add yins and Magoun. "She long. 83 feet beam (118 fec-t patMle boxes), 58 feet In 28 f.>et in draft. Her displac was <orne 28,000 tons. It tcoli years to build her." In tbe early career. Arnold days of Bennett liis writing "The 'Great Eastern' was a fani and picturesque craft, and a umpli of naval architecture. She a double bottom (its first appe ance), and 50 nuter-tight compa ments. Yet. lor all these tremendou' physical dimensions, sbc was tragl cally under-engined for her size. After living an unhappy and frust- rated life, she was in 1887 turned over to the ship-breakers and her twenty anchors scattered to the seven seas. * In the third volume of his his- torical Memoirs, Prince von Buelow, former German Chancellor, quotes a Leon auci i^, _ the face and haiu. share of paiit Hul better be got from sfuu like drouth Ai.' yniiowing plants, thaa fromliia 4 dread disease % Of Lslancholia that puts upon the \mouth A sofle deformed, and lashes the Memories Cnti: t\ey burn. O Farmer, you plough .ind hoe the sweat you drop on the seed- l.ngs in the ground, g yo't a harvest of verdant life to show; w.- who are occupied the sea- sons round '.noughts and cunning schemes, souls are carved 9 your back is, have not seen , re hult '**iltVation ripen, nor have we ed letter from Lady Norah Bentinck, who was visiting her kin'maj Count Bentinck, at Amerongen, Holland, at the time the ex-Kaiser arrived there following his flight from Ger- many. The first thing the tired Kmperor said, as he pulled up be- of a weekly paper for women called "Woman"-- which adds piquancy to! this entry in his Journal: January L'2. 1897: "In this week's Woman' is one of those mistakes that must Inevitably occur now find :lipn when a man edits a woman's paper. t'nder some dc'signs for a ayctto outfit I" tho legend: 'Cut to measure patterns supplied.' Nine men out of nine would never elisorvo the blunder " * And here's an amusing story about Sir Herbert Tre*. the actor- manager in bis younger days: May l!i). 1896: "During a rehearsal of 'The Pompadour.' <mi> of Tree's ! ancient failures at tin- Haymarket and almost if not quite tbe first piece in whlrj) Mrs. Tree came out as a 1 serious. professional actress. she managed clumsily to pivc Tree a blow !ti liie face while embracing! him. '.Maud, Maud.' In- exclaimed, j stopping the rehearsal, 'hero have. I been t>a -hing you to act all this time and (he best you can do is to put your thumb in my eye-! Begone.] Maud' Begone! 1 . And the rehearsal concluded- so Canlncr (manager for Tree p told me tmlav " In these days of giant Tnins-At- lantie liiu-rs. It Is interesting to le-arn that the "Great Kastcrn" full-rig- ged ship with auxiliary engines-- built over eighty years ago. still hulils one record ot thfi ship-build- ing world; no other ship lias ever bad live funnels and six masts "Noah's Ark was HOO cubits long. Ml cubits wide and 30 citblti high; since a cubit Is about IS Inchon, Noah's Ark must liavv been a tur- midable craft 450 to 500 feet long." point out tbe authors Kric Hodgins and F. Alexander Mnguon of "III 1 - heinoth: The Story of Power." was editor; for c the main entrance, "nibbing hie hands together" and with a "deep sigh *>f relief," was: "Now you must let me have r. cup of real. tea." good. hot. strong English "The Count, with a -mile, pro- mised to see to ft at once," says Lady Norah. "and soon t''e Emperor got his i' a. It was not so much an ordinary English tea as a real Scots high tea. One of the many treas- ures of Amerongen is a Scots house- keeper, an expert at the prepara- tion of Scots biscuits, scones, short- bread, and all the delicacies Yi h mom travellers ) the Highlands have enj jyed. Th> Kaiser was snon acknowledging her exceptional culinary skill." The recent discussion as to the origin of the name "America," re- calls a story about Oscar Wilde, told by Walter Slchel (in "The Sands of Time"). Wilde was at a party when the discussion turned on who really discovered America. An ag- gressive New Yorker repeated more than once: "I tell you, sir. that it was the iireat Columbus who tir"t discover- ed our great country." Germany's President Favors Coffee Wilde softly inquired whether a certain Don Amerigo had not given liis name to the Continent Just be- fore Columbus discovered it. Still the New Yorker persisted. "I see." slglied Wilde. Of course, you must be right, though I fancy I can explain tbe anomaly. Don Ameitgo discovered It tirst. but " was hushed up." * Kxplaining the siz e of the earth as compared to the size of the sun. and how the earth looks from the sun. A. L. IV I.et'uw states (in "Kambllng Through Science") rlnit "from tho sun the earth would ap- pear to an observer in the same pro- portion as an eight. Inch bowling ball hall placed at a di-tan e of a mile and a half from a human t ye. To see It at all." be adds, "would re- quire a powerful telescope In reproducing the surface features of tbe world on an eight-inch sphere. Mr. De I.eenw explains, tile ratio Mould lie I.HOO miles to an inch. Mt. Whitney, which Is nearly three miles high, would be represented by an ele- vation of only threo thousandths of an inch, the thickness of an average gr.nl,. of writing paper. The Hud- son river would be represt-nUd by a scratcii one thousandth of an inch wide am) almost one-lmndre 1-Uuuis aiullli of nn inch at the maximum depth. The Kmpire Stale Building. in N'uw York City, is '.oo /mull to 111-, dicate, siiuv its elevation in proper propovt'.Jii would lx> only on 1 tonrth of tho thh'lvii.-.is nf :i.isin- paper. Tb.it versatile niHii of !rl(er*. .lo.m l>i-inkwuter--he is poet, p'.aywrlaht and hiosraj'iir-r - wa.< ,'i:iv nsUed what ho consul, ivd M-, i-.veatet achieversMlt. He roiillrd. "Wbeii i '.-..b I'l . e:<rs old 1 "real ed a record lor ivy ciasH at :';' 0.x- ford Illish SMuKil MI Dm lot 1 ..'; nimp, 5 fee'. S l-irlies, which ' a- never b.'di beaten." Ka:! ." ou. Delves discouraged and <I.tute. Mullins In Scribner's. 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