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'Nh tmicians ate twisting My they are merely " rid ask r bags ts dur. te will i, JULY " ms DRY tummy: Park, Ill. a, of torch! origin, In July Wh, 1m: . “on. j rudder, postmaster not! Mrr, Betty a g, tn the month, Com-won)- " Fair n " Me MT OFFICE ents ttle to make LL m5 "You havei't naked my opinion) about your plans and you seem to lei determined and: this course, but my advice to youzmld he to stay away‘ from Ellie Mitchell She might be; all right, Salli'p, but'lhe's not rouri Then he behme restless and dis- turbed. ! "I won't Ir) ilone. I'm going to stay with Ellie Mitchell," I announc- "A girl. and ispecially I pretty one, has a mighty lard time.in New York “one." he said: It was the tlrat com- pliment he had ~psid me in months. He moved midnily in his chair. He opened his mouth to say something, then changing {his mind waited a mo- ment and began. again. ' "Never."' I trum "you needn't think you can Meat me the way you have lately mil :thnt all I'll do is. to calmly go homo until you make up :your mind that you want me back attain. No, indeed. I'll not be tucked safely may in my father's arm: to be disciplined is if I were a naughty ehild--or-or d last year's coat to be put away in moth balls until needed once more. Ni 1 tell you. a thousand time no, I'm going to New York."' “I suppose yq‘u'll go home?" he naked. , Curtis: turned the situation over in his mind and then. sudden hope dawn- ed in his face. "Well?" was ell that he said. _ "Or," I continued, "I'm going away. I'm not wtutted"here and I've stood your indifference just as long as I possibly can. The sham and pre- tense of us remaining together under the same roof when you have ceased to care fore me is nothing more or less than living a lie. I've made up my mind end I'tn going to leave." “I'm tired of being treated as if I were a doll - a. doll tstuffed with sawdust. Vat that - without eyes, ears or brains in my head. I'm sick unto death of nil this grand stand playing " yours and tsomethintr's got to be done at onte. At once, I tell you.' It's necessary that we get back to a normal basin of a man and wo- msn living together happily Ind car- ing for each other as husband and wife or---." I paused, hoping for some word on his part that would make it easier to proceed. _ [ "Well, what's all the shooting about?" he asked making a desperate attempt to treat theoubject lightly at all costs. . ' Nt's just this, Curtiss." I becan. I ----.---C..-.--..--IIIIII‘D.ICC-p-I-I-DCIQIIII-I-I-I: -.----.---I-----.I.------------.-----.----.--.--.---- I could feel my temples throb with the fury nnd rebellion that was long pent up and? left thewoom without another word. I sat, for what seem- ad like hours, in stony silence on the little side porch and finally Curtiss followed me, hat in hand, as if he were anxious to be through and gone. fne humored me and gained when in the swing. . "No, we cmnot'!" I flashed back, 'You will talk to me now, right away or not " all.” I Inked Curtis: on/morning i, ie hurried,' as usual, “rough " cer- eral and fruit. , "Pm aorry, but I uhoufd be " the oMee " Boon as possible, today. C:ouliin't we wait until some other thug?" was his reply', t E:::::;;;:::::::2:222122122323323.7322:2::2223::'9 "Will you wait for 1: moment after tyealrfet? I want to talk to you," THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1926 --'hthr fhe Confession? a new wife «up: oraittemraiifei; 11huensuss.ruuuuttsm i’::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::3::::::::'.: {52:12:122:2:22221222313333:1:213:23 just this, Curtiss," I began 'tr-ta-ter---'--. Breaking Point Itt to: "Pm afraid 'you've naked me to do ounc- t,) what requires too much sportsmanship . rl--too much bravery-too much cour- dis-lui-AL, sort of things I'vie drawn . . ion too much already. It itn’g that 1'"lN'r don't want to, Curtirur, but I can't. to It; It's like my storehouse of nigh quali- Ul,', ( ties had been left with its d r sand. l' a; ine wide open on creaking blurs and your I its interior-desolate-and e." _ I "Mr dear, my dear--" he F , and t',ii1?.'i'ai'i'fg'l0,,, What new situation was this? My husband taking me to, stand silently by and submit to, what seemed to be, his liaison with this indiserett girl. "I can tell You nothing, now," he replied to my tthiiniished request, "but if you'll Just trust me I think later on you'll understand." , pay?" I replied as I realized that he was asking me to remain with condi- tions unchanged, "Can't you see that by staying I am losing my own and other people's respect. Can't You--" I stopped. for to have gone on I would have had to mention Letitia Evan'sand the whole hideous affair. "Listen, Sallie," he ca e over to where I was sitting and at beside my chair: "I've felt, for so time, that things" were not going sm thly end I'm sorry, more sorry than yo 'll ever know. You’ve been a pert €brick about everything, too. I want you to know that it’s to protect you from all evil and to keep you sweet and fine that I would persuade you to stay a‘vay, from Ellie Mitchell, and New York," he paused in thought, as if he were searching for some explana- tion of events, which would make me change my plans, then, with new- made decision, he shook his head: "I wish you would trust me, Sallie, trust me to work things out. You know I love you more than anything in all the world, but there come times in the history of us all when we need to be supported by the faith of those we love and right at present I want you to have eonf1denee in my love, if pos- sible to close your eyes to things as they seem, and r pledge you my word, soon everything will be right." A "But Curtias, don't you see what a terrible price you are asking me to For a momerit I felt the old Curtis, had come to life. just possible that th innate gallantry for women had put k seal upori his lips hoping that I wank understand. "That's not the point, Sallie, I'm opposed to your going off to New York on this wild goose chase. A visit home to your father might do you some good but this other is a disastrous scheme. Ellie Mtichell. as you know, runs with the gayest set in any place she goes, and the gayest set in New York ia--we1l----pretty gay'. I don't suppose, since you are so set in your mind, that anything I could say would inthrenee you to change your mind t" It was still the masked Curtiss who spoke. Oh, for one little word or gesture of tenderness - of love! Some real sign that would reveal the old Curtiss with his outspoken manner and natural charm. This, was not my Curtiss. This cold, unemotional per- son who was constantly hiding his in.. nermost thoughts and moods. Was he protecting Letitia? It was "She's a million times finer thin _...--...-." my pride interfered sad I whioh'my lips had framed - "some forced myself to silence the name people I know." " " " " " ll 4| " ll cl II II .l II " [I [I ,II II II [I ll II II II [I II 'r, ir, II1 " When the vition of' an electrified America was young, the impulse to have one's own city build its own plant swept many American minds. When it came to a Question of add- ing new bonds to old bonds,' to junk old and obsolete plants, municipal voters balked. and private power sys- tems trot contracts to hook up their lines. Thus perished T18 municipal plants between 1922 and 1926, while "There is nothing else to be laid then, Curtis: and, u hr u I en concerned. the interview itrelotred." f (To be continued next week) MUNICIPAL LIGHTING PLANTS DISAPPEARING Prohibitive Cost of Political Operation Fast Ellminat- C in: Them And up went the plants in nearly 2,200 cities. Then the inevitable hap- pened. Men who got their jobs from politics studied politica, not electric- ity. . The private companies. that had to know. electricity or perish, studied coal and kilowatts. . I arose hastily from my chit more than ever determined um my course. All the pride And independence )0! the old &tliuieturned. I faced him, dry- eyed. ' . Ittymqhttttntriutmrtedrttrtnhis voice out! pity, undu- the cinnam- cu, mtho ttmrttthtethtttttsmains- pouiblo for me to stand. It brought me that-ply to myself.) would not u:- copt his pitr--thU "tttttttt of the bor- train counter of love! phat! Ml am “out 'my shoulder- toi, in spite of, myoclf, I had “most by; to Amp. r . THE AFT GALLERIES Washer tl Chicago, Ill INTERIOR DEod PAINTINGS - a m HIGHLAND Pm PRESS. mdmam, max, Mom 860 No, la: Mums BbNZES JWrnn Ave. '6th Bridge n in one . _ and I'ee. get a vial said, "I should like to interest you." aid the man at the door, "in theft and ec- cident insurance. Now you never know when someone will run " in your cu when it in parked, and then there are accident. every day. Look at your evening paper."} "My dear friEna," " the nun in the doorway, “my cat never been stolen and is never in on accident. "You no I lucky ex tion." "By no means. Though: have the The “no” of the a driven lbmrd by itteitteseri, and labor:- tod forces, and the f ' can] dif- ferelme in spirit betw u: employs hired and kept, by his in t in cloc- tricity. and n employe and tlred “cording to his usefuln in politics, accounted for nearly all the hunch I my Just warmed by thi N... tional Electric Light association shows the detrtueof2mtmomtnxmtts but plan.- in 1925. A. 4 cam-mm can», curt was tonal to new. in dump-t no number of and“. ' Highwod. Ill. RAILROAD AVENUE 1 door No. ot Pomona NO SALE l and labor:- I ' can] dif- , u: employ: in t in cloc- e and tlred In in politics, lone 1470 clback/ ORTH SHORE GAS Open Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Eveni . till , o'eloeh TELEPHONE HIGHLAND PARK 194 President 000% will no in): _uvroisytvratumauuiikGUiiiiir, byt Probablyhamld I'm-huh hamuwithtutuhroH, Political oratory is nova-natural from T0attintrtmt,totuatmnr,and Wilhimn it perfectly reconciled. 22"2 ”:1 pa?" that an." 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