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pee Page 6 THE HAILEYBURIAN THURSDAY, APRIL 3rd, 1930 Eleventh lastalment, What Happened Before At a party in Palm Beach given by Mr. Cooper Clary, Leeson, an attorney, meets Lucy Harkness, known as Devil-May-Care because of her adven- turous, eventful life. In a game in which partners for the evening are chosen, Lucy is won by Tim Stevens, who has a great reputation as a successful heartbreaker. Leeson is a bit jealous. Tim Stevens tells Lucy they are going aboard his boat, the Minerva, and she accedés in order not to be "IT feel like a great big dub," he said bitterly, "letting you wear your- self out taking care of a hulk like me! I can't say thank you; it's so little to say." "J married you," she retorted. Should a person an out of a bar- gain because it seems not quite so advantageous as it looked when one entered into it? "I looked better at the ceremony This was a Tim whose very illnes lent a contrad'ctory vigor to his con temptuous denunciations, Meekly sh pushed toward him the table he in dicated. He opened a drawer, drew forth a check-book, and began writing in i, with a fountain-pen. He rippéd a lea out of the book, and pushed it across to her. She saw that it was a check made out to her order for two hun- "a quitter." Asked if she is sorry that he won oF ° , her company, Lucy ease is not and thac| than later, then?" he grinned. dred and fifty thousand dollars. evidently Fate has arranged it, Tim thereupon She blushed. "You... made this... out of your tells her to stop looking regretfully after Leeson Aboard Stevens' boat, the Minerva, Ste- vens tells Lucy of Ris love. When she re lies with contempt for him, he grows vio lently angry and she becomes afraid of him. He says he will never let her go from the Minerva until she accepts him. To escape him, she leaps into the water from her cabin window, swimming a short distance under water. Lucy reaches land and meets Dr. Fergus Faunce on an island. He takes care of her and takes her home. Everyone is worried about her, and when she meets Stevens he is frantic, regretful and still ardent in pro. testations of love. Leeson informs Lucy that Stevens must raise a quarter of a million dollars or go "at five o'clock." Lucy goes to her bank and raises the sum. @lLucy goes to Stevens to help him, but he refuses to take money from a woman to whom he is not married. So Lucy marries this man that she hates, and rompty runs away from him, going to fa: staunch friend Dr. Fergus Faunce to tell what she has done, Stevens sets out in search of Lucy. Meanwhile, Dr. Faunce and Lucy launch a new boat. A hurricane wrecks them on their first trip. Lucy is saved, and finds herself aboard the Minerva, wondering what happened to Dr. Faunce. Dr. Faunce is aboard the Minerva also. Stevens threatens to kill Faunce unless Lucy sticks to him. To save Faunce she accedes, but expresses hate for Stevens. A few min- utes later he startles her by saying he doesn't want her, and never will! Leeson sees Lucy and in a burst of con. fidence tells her hed plot against her hus band. Certain interests are to break down the pridwes' on his property, and make it worthless he goes to Panncely place, where her id and Faunce are to f the plot. Preparations fight and and the man she loves ou didn't appeal to me at any time," she said brutally. "But... I did enter into a bargain. I'm making real estate?" she asked. He nodded. "Didn't steal it, either," he sneered. in it with a fountain pen... He opened a drawer, drew forth a phere SE hook and began writing she saw that it was a check made out to her for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, 4A UT 24 TT ATT STAT ¥ MMS ITT 24 ST Advertised Goods Are Lower---- ADVERTISING turns over stocks rapidly, and therefore multiplies profits. This means nmon cause agairs: the invaders | 00d." "Earned it. You needn't be afraid to that rices in a sho 1 i ld i e bridges pagainat the. crooked He sighed, Bud his sigh was pitiful, | take it; you'll not be arrested for shar- P P which advertises a be riff and his gens, necks 2 ae nen ae coming from Tim Steyens, who might|ing in the proceeds of a theft. And eet i aaa fear x M aoe a Se curse or even sob, but who had never] your lawyers can confer with mine short rather than long her car and finds Judge Leaming. _ | been plaintive in his life before. about settlements and alimony and the i ite Shea oe iheowal out of court. Lucy "Well, much obliged, anyway. I}rest of it." begins, to_wonder | whether she has mais sort of thought... t hoped . . . ai: you tblniey she blared ae OF thi ih : udged her husband 1 great Breakers} Well, I was born a damn fool, Lucy, ake a cent of your money 10 1s yOu ma 2 1 1 Hi tel takes fire and im proves, fimself.2]and I suppose I'll die one. Too bad you, think Vd do that?" yi y be sure: Prices in a shop pe wasn't completely knocked off while é lett him. 1 - 3 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY |T was at it, End a rotten situation if +e ee which advertises are not MORE than in a It was the sort of banal remark|I had been," She made no reply, and} '"Ma'am, Mrs. Stevens, could 1 iiewre . 3 thet a character in a motion picture] silence ensued for a minute, to be|a word with you?" shop which does not advertise. The chances might have uttered. broken by his bitter speech: She didn't like the man Ae: But Lucy was in no mood to be, "I suppose you'd have been glad if) "I certainly owe you a word, captious, to pick flaws in praise or the persons who uttered it. "Tim has done well, hasn't he?" she said. Elsie Darragh laughed. "Well? If he's saved a third of men and women he's supposed to have dragged out of the Breakers, he's done more than well." She heard men crying hoarsely, or- dering others to make way for their passage. Several of them were bear- ing, On an improvised stretcher, the body of a man. She heard some one ask if he were dead. One of the bearers shrugged. "Looks like 'it,' he answered. ho is it?" another queried, "Tim Stevens," said the bearer. She was not surprised, either then or later, that she was able to take in- stant charge of Tim. Not merely had Stevens been badly burned, but he had been struck by a falling timber, and, while the skull was not fractured, serious injury had been done. Not until the twenty-fourth day was he pronounced completely out of danger. And on that day Lucy went to bed, to stay there a week. When she got up again, the cloud had disappeared from her faculties and she was herself again. She had not been ill during this week, simply completely worn out, nervously exhausted. Her vigil by Tim's bedside had been almost con- tinuous for over three weeks. 9On the bridge at Seminole Creek he had shown himself possessed of phy- sical courage equal to any she had ever witnessed. On the roof of the cottage he had shown ability to with- stand punishment when the event called for it. And the manner of his I had been killed." . "That is babyish,' she told him. "I'm glad you're alive, Tim. Mighty glad of it. And I'm proud of your behavior at the fire. You're a brave man--a hero, I guess. But you're something else, too, Tim." "Your husband, eh?" he sneered. "A thief," she said.. "And... <I can't ever forget that." His eyes narrowed. "A thief, eh? If it weren't for that you might... even... you might even be... my wife, eh?" She put h+r hands before her face. "How do I know? You're differ- ent; you're finer in a hundred ways than ta dreamed. But you can't blot out the past, Tim." "Who the hell wants to?" he asked harshly. "Do you remember what I told you that night on Barracuda Island?" She removed her hands from her eyes and bravely smiled at him. "I remember that you weren't very polite." "I told you that you could go to hell and be damned, that's what I said. I said it then, and t say it again now.' She shrank away from the blazing fury of his eyes. "What do you mean?" she asked. "Mean? I mean I'm sick of you with your blasted holier-than-thou ways. You nursed me through illness. All right, that makes us square." "How .. . how does it make us square?" she asked. "Because you owe me a lot--a damn sight more than you'll ever know, m: chaste and dainty Devil-May-Care!" he jeered. "But you've paid it by nursing me. Anyway, we'll call the account canceled." He rose on his el- Modane," she said. "You saved my life, you know." Modane had removed his yachting- cap now, and was twisting it in his fingers. "I dunno how you made that mis- take, Mrs. Stevens," he said. "And the boss let it ride that other time you mentioned it, but it was him who went overboard after you and Dr. Faunce, ma'am. He knew it was you, too, for he yelled your name as he dived." "He saved me?" she gasped, "Nobody else, ma'am. AndOli sees. he's kind o' bugs, ma'am, with all what he's been through, and he's tak- ing a dame aboard to-night, and. . « well, it's none of my business, Mrs.# Stevens, only .. . if the boss was my brother and sister too, I couldn't like him more, And I want to say... do you think it's sporting to run out on him like this? Because there wouldn't be no other dame aboard the Miners if you was there." m I his keeper, Modane?" she aa "Sure you are! A man like that needs some one to look after him. And if his wife don't do it, who will?" "But suppose that his wife doesn't want to? What then, Modane?" "Well, if she don't want to, she ought to, just the same. Do you think he'd take a run-out powder if you was in trouble, ma'am? Why, he'd walk through the blazin' fringes of hell, ma'am. And that's where he's headed at that, Mrs. Stevens." "He'll go where he belongs, where he chooses to belong, Modane," said > This, also, is generally true: are that they are oftentimes lower. You will find better goods, better values and better service in those shops which turn over their stocks rapidly. This means, as a general thing, shops which advertise. A Note to Merchants Advertising costs you nothing--it is paid for by the profits on increased sales Advertising is easy--it is simply saying in fr . " i * 7 injury had been fine. A negro pinned| bow. "I wouldn't let you divorce me; Dap - beneath debris». Tim Stevens pull-|I wouldn't get a divorce myself. Well, | LUCY i. writing what you say to the customers in your ing the man out . . . Tim Stevens|I thought I was married to a woman,| "I get you; ma'am. A man finds his | warned that the roof above was fall- ing . Tim Stevens refusing to flee to safety, but staying until he had released the colored man... This was sacrifice, of the finest sort. Forget all the passion-inspired brutalities that he had used, or tried to use, against her- self, and one found a pretty decent sort. But there was something else. He had stolen. No argument could over- whelm this fact: he had been saved from jail only by the acceptance of a gs of a million of her money. On the morning that she arose from bed she found Stevens lying on a couch in the patio. His great fraine looked pitifully thin beneath the ligh' coverlets. But he had been real shaved, and the gauntness of his fi ace lent a certain attraction to his almost too obvious good looks. He would, she reflected, be as handsome in age, when withered, as in the flush of early tm nhood. He held out a trembling 1 J to her. "You're all right?" he asked eagerly. bine!" she smiled. not a cold-blooded saint just descended from Heaven. Damn saints! I want no part of them. "Now you can have your divorce. And for fear ie may have trouble in getting it I'll give you grounds, plenty of grounds. There's a girl down here now--a good egg, too, a darn sight better egg than you'll ever be, for all she's been kept by half New York. Or, if she's gone back_north, Tl get her down here again, Under- stand?" "I'm not sure that I do," she said faintly. "Well, you'll be able to name her as co-respondent. She'll be my mis- t| tress, Avo here openly with ime. She y| won't mind being named; she's been named before. Now, you want a divorce. Go on, get it. Here--wait a 'moment. Shove that table over here, will you, please?" This was a Tim she had never known before; she had known a mad and violent Tim, who, she thought, would stop at nothing in the grati- fication of his passions, own level and that sort of thing. But that stuff goes for Sweeney when there's a dame rung in on the play, Say, if he wasn't a regular person, I'd say you was right to play your own hand. But ma'am, I was a crooked ginny when he picked me up. I'd brought him out of the water when he was goin' down, but most gents would 'a slipped me some coin and iet it go at that. Not Mr. Stevens. He made an honest man out of me. Kn w I was phony and all that. Made an American out 0' me too. Say, ma'am, ii I was worth a play, don't you think he's worth one?" She stared at him. "Maybe, Modane, you're right," she said. Continued Nexi Week 7 Watch for remaining Instalments of this story which will run in this paper for three months shop. would make more money. Turn over stocks quickly, if you Read the Ads., ee | ae! FAMMttiit IOS TTS TTT