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SYNOPSIS, Henry Rand, 55, a business man, is. ound murdered. in a cheap hotel in| rafton. Police find a woman's h..ndker- | hief and the yellow stub of a theatre | icket. Jimmy Rand, his son, go.s to Juffalo where . e theatre is. The stub | is 'traced to Olga Maynard, a cabaret | my meets and falls in love vith Mary Lowell. Later he encounters Olga. | She faints when she learns she is want- ed for murder. Mary, out with Samuel urch, a wealthy lawyer, sees Jimmy lift Olga into a taxi and misunderstands. | ga tells police the stub and handker- | chief was taken from her by some un- known man. Jimmy recelves warnings | to leave Buffalo, and Is attacked by two, men. Jimmy meets Mary and she t:'ls him she has pro ed to marry Church, He hen calis up Olga and asks her to mect m. CTY -T CHAPTER XXIII Jimmy, sitting in the hotel nezzan- ine, saw Olga Maynard approaching and rose to meet her. "I'll have to apologize for my ap- pearance," she said, taking his hand. "You diln't give m* much time, and I'm still dresse¢ for the street." | She was waiving a fur-trimmed cloth coat over a blue worsted street dress, and a small tight-fittinz black kat, beneath which her ight curly hair showed. "You look fit to go anywhere," he answered, "But we're only going to some place where we can est and hear a little music." "And dance?" she asked .agerly. "You know I've never danced with you and you're a wonderful tance I'v seen you." "You've seen me? Where?" "Why, that night you first spoke to me. I saw you dancing with the girl you were with before you came over to.me. Who was she? She was awfully pretty." He ignored her question: curned his face away and bit his lip. ° "All right," he assented, '"we'] dance, too." "We'll go to the place whe met vou," she ted, drid." Ske was not looking at him, and 20 she missed the expression of pain that flitted across his features, "The Madrid it will be," he said with forced gayety, and he hought, "If I'm trying to for get, I've certain ly started about it the wrong wa They found a table for two, and while she studied her menu card he looked across the rao d pi out the table where he ell had sat on that neve ten night. He shut bis eyes, reliving that evening, conjuring up the picture of Mary and him chatting together. He shook his head, resolutely put- | ting the thought out of his min "May I suggest something fr you," he asked Olga, "or have you made up your mind?" "You go ahead and order for me. It will be more fun." She flashed hin a gay smile, the first he had seen from her in weeks, * . "You haven't asked m she said a little later. want to?" It occurred to him that he must | have appeared a very dull companion. | He had been answering in mono lables to her conversational comm places, his mind far away. "We'll start right now," he an-| swered, throwing down his napkin and ! pushing back his chair, And then they | were on the floor and he abandoned! himself completely to the music. . . .| They danced encore after encore. | They were still stunding on the floor, | clapping their hands, long after the | saxophcae's plaintive, "thats all," and | they laughed when they saw that the| orchestra leader was bowing directly | to them and that they were alone on | on the floor. | "TI must say," she laughed when they had sat down again, "that when | you get your mind on a thing it] doesn't get off quickly." ! "Meaning just what?" he asked. "Well, when you make up your mind to dance, you dance, don't you? Wasn't it funny, the two of us standing out there all alone, clapping like two kids?" "It was your dancing. That's the answer." He changed the subject. "Music is a great tonic, isn't it? Dancing to music like this makes you want to live, doesn't it?" She nodded thoughtfully. helps you to forget." She turned her face away, made a pretense of studying her glass. He Jit a cigaret and offered the package 30 her. "I almost forgot," he said. smoke, don't you?" "No. I don't any more." > He frowned. "Olga, I wonder if you realize how much you've changed? Cutting out smoking is another thing." E "I've tried to change--Jim." _The use of the nickname startled him, sent a sudden pain darting through him. She was looking at him g tly. "Shouldn't I have called you that?" she asked. "Why not? I call you Olga, don't re I first 'the Ma sugge > to dance," | "Don't you n- "And it "You / J? But," he said, switching the topic, | "you know you've never told me about feeling of misery that had been with | awfully hard to help you." { nothing, Olga, | that night?" 1 him all afternoon had gone and he became conscious, for the first time, of the fact that he was holding a pretty girl in his arms, "You certainly can dance," he told her as he piloted her gracefully through the erush of swaying couples, And it was true. She moved with a sort of feline grace and followed him unerringly in his every step. "Who couldr't with you?" breathed. "You'd make an dancing partner on the stage." "Oh, you've danced on the stage?" "Well, not very much. It's hard to get a real chance. The best I've been able to get a regular job at is cabaret singing, as you know." : "Some day," Le said, "you may get your chance. When you do I know you'll be a success." 4 "Maybe I won't want the chance now if it comes," she murmured. "Why, what do you mean?" stared at her. "'Oh, pothing." She shook her head and gladed up at him brightly, "Come on. Don't stop." She grabbed him more closely, swaying her shoulders, and he fell into her mood, forgetting everything but the fact that here was music and movement and a girl. The orchestra leader was bowing wgain.. "I hate to stop," Olga said as she sat in her chair. "I want to keep on forever." VI do, too," he agreed. He said, toying with his fork, "I hate to wake up. I hate to face tomorrow." "Why?" "Well, you surely haven't lost sight of the fact that I'm here trying to find the man that killed my father. I've never got over the first shock of Dads death. It was so cruel--so un- necessary. I'll never forget it." "l know." She reached out and laid her hand on his. "And that's what they're trying to connect me with. God! How can they believe such a thing of me. You don't do you, Jim?" "No. You know I don't." "You don't believe I'm a--a bad woman, do you?" The question startled him. "Why, ! what ever put the thought in your | head? Why should 1?" "All I've wanted to do, Jim, is to live. I've done some things that are! not exactly approved of in the best| society. You know what Lieutenant O'Day said ahout me." "I don't care what O'Day says-- or anybody else." "Jim, T want to help you. she ideal He ll try "You are trying nowSyou are help- ing me, Olga. I can't ask any more." She was silent for a' moment. Then she said, "What élse are you trying to forget, Jim?" Hhe Shrugged his shoulders. "Why, Nothing else. What else could there be?" : "It's a girl, isn't it?" she peusisted. | "Was it the girl I saw you with here | He laughed, and lifted his glass of | water to his lips. "There's no othar| irl.' She looked at him intently, "You never make a succossful liar, true, isn't it?" He said in a low voice, "No, it's not true. There's no girl." | She ignited his denial. "Whoever | it is, Jim, she has no right to do what e's doing. She isn't good enough for you." | "Don't!" he cried sharply, putting | up his hand, "I mean it, You're too good for her. » '. Ld You're too good for any woman." He rose from his chair. "You're talking nonsense now, Olga. Come on, we'll have ta be going. It's getting late. Did I tell you I have a new job? I start to work at seven-thirty to- morrow morning." She followed him. you going to do?" "I'm going to drive a laundry truck," and he laughed at her look of surprise. - "I don't understand you," she said when they had reached the street. « "Don't try to," he laughed. "Look," he said, "do you yemember this spot? It was just up the street here that you fainted that night and I put you in the taxi and took you home." His face clouded at the recollection. "I was near the end of my rope that night," she said, clutching at his arm. "Jim, did you ever get to think- ing seriously of killing yourself? That's how I felt that night. I felt as if I didn't have a friend." "You have ons now Olga." "Jim do you mean it?" "I certainly do." He pressed her arm and turned to her to find an ex- pression of horror on her face. "Look!" she sried. "In that car!" She pointed to an automobile halted momentarily beside them in the traf- fic. He looked and gave 'a sudden start. Sitting with his face pressed | It's | "No. What are close to the window of the closed car : was the man with whom he had had the fight that night he was shadowed. "It's the man I've been looking for," cried Olga, "the man I told you about!" . (To be continued.) ----r---- Among American women, short hair is remaining in fashion, according to one expert; he adds that 75 per cent. | inset panel at the front of the circular | pear smart and slen.er. { address your order to Wilson Pattern "| 'All Quiet on the Western Front," of them use lipstick and 80 per cent. What New York Is Wearing BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur- nished With Every Pattern A erepy patterned woolen that ex- presses extremely good taste for day- time wear for the matron. It is in dark green coloring. The vestee, cas- cading rgver collar and sleeve frills are in blending lighter green shade plain crepe. It belts its natural waistline, An irt combines with the vest that reaches to the waistline to carry out a vertical line that gives charming Leight to the figure. Style No. 2828 will make you ap- It may be had in sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust, Size 3€ requires 37% yards 39-inch with % yard 39-inch contrasting. Black canton crepe with vest of self-fabric with white collar and sleeve frills is very fashionable, Crepe marocain and velvet make up attractively for more dressy wear. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20¢ i: stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. eT How to Cook Bacon Place slices of bacon in a cold fry- ing pan. Cook slowly. Do not al- low to smoke. Turn often. If desir- ed fat may be poured off as it cooks. When slices have reached the right degree of crispness remove, drain and serve. Bacon also may be broil- ed or cooked in the oven. 'Noted Author Erich Maria Remarque, author of who is. now at on 8 recent visit to Paris. 0 : > work on a second book, on the Champs Eipsee, | . * Saints By Edward Everett Hale What was his name? I do not know his name. I only know he heard God's voice and - came, 3 Brought all he had across the sea To live and work for God and me; Felled the ungraclous oak; Dragged from the sofl With horrid toil » The thrice-gnarled roots and stub- born rock; With plenty plied the haggard moun- tain-side; And at the end; died. No blaring trumpets sounded. out his fame, 7 He lived--he died--I do not know his name. ¥ without memorial, No form of bronze and no memorial stones Show me the place where lie his mouldering bones, Only a cheerful city stands Builded by his hardened hands. Only ten thousand homes Where every day The cheerful play Of love and hope and courage comes. These are his monuments, and these alone, There is. no form of bronze and no memorial stone, And 1? Is there some desert or some pathless sea Where Thou, good God of angels, wilt send me? Some oak for me to rend; some sod, Some rock for me to break, Some handful of His corn to take And scatter far afield ¢ Till 4t, in turn, shall yield Its hundredfold Of grains of gold To feed the waiting children of my God? Show me the desert, Father, or the sea, Is it Thine enterprise? send me. And though this body lie where ocean rolls, Count me among all Faithful Souls. nib Great God, \, "On the road to film fame it's the producer Who pays the fair." His Only Choice Pufling and panting, Brown staggér- ed into the doctor's consulting-room and collapsed heavily into an easy- chair, "Good heavens, man,' sald the doc- tor, "what ever have you been doing?" "I've been having a heavy meal, doctor," explained Brown breathless- 1y. "Heavy meal," "haven't I often told you not to hurry after partaking of a heavy meal?" "Certainly you have," Brown agreed, "But en this occasion I had to." "Had to! Why?" asked the doctor. His patient looked nervously at the door. "Because I couldn't pay for it," he replied. et tin Past and Present The married man met his bachelor friend three years after the wedding. "Well, well, Jack," said the bach- elor heartily, "and how are you now that you're married?" "Ah," said the othe:, different now." "How's that?" inquired the other. "No trouble, I hope?" "No," replied the married man; "just life" Before I married she lis- tened while I talked, during the honey- moon she talked and I listened, and now we've been marriel three years, we both talk and the neighbors listen." ----eer me. "Things are WASHING A QUILT To wash an elderdown.quilt, Soak for a short time in a warm lather of soap flakes, then squeeze gently. Rinse in warm water, squeeze out, hang out to dry and, when dry, beat with a cane to separate the feathers. An elderdown should never be mang- led. ; 3 RN ae ee -- 5 Minard's Liniment aids Sore Feet. go * & ) ourself with contentment, for an impregnable fortress.-- Epictetus, = | ; "All men are good--good for some thing, or good for nothing, echoed the other. 'Fresh from the gardens' Man-Made Quakes May Result : . In Tremor-Proof Dwellings Palo Alto, Calit.--Man-made earth-; quakes rumble and crash in the vibra- tion laboratory of Stanford Unjver- sity. There they are nickn®med "civilized quakes," but they tear loose the nails and split boards of wooden panels nearly as big as the wall of a room. They crack, rock and topple fair- sized brick chimneys. They set great planks vibrating with the free- dom of reeds and show the "hammer" effect of water on a dam in an earth- quake. They are part of a new kind of earthquake study in a laboratory originated by Dr. Bailey Willis, fam- ous geologist of Stanford, and con- ducted by Dr. Lydik Jacobsen. The earthquakes are produced by a "shaking table," a three-ton platform half the siz of a flat car. It is mount. ed on iron wheels on a cartrack and buffered at each end with huge steel springs. An unbalanced fiywheel gives the| effects of rhythmic waves in the earth's surface. A one-ton pendulum striking a bumper spring on the end of the platform gives the crashing, rending power of a different type of earthquake wave. These laboratory quakes give engl- neers information on two phases of designing buildings at practicable costs for safer resistance. One is the action of two types of construc- tion, rigid and flexible. The other is the action of soils of different mofst- ure content, Dr. Jacobsen finds plaster does not crack as readily on a wall having di- agonal sheathing as on horizontal sheathing. But the latter is a better shock absorber for some types of building. > A big plank, stout enough to bridge a small creek for a man's weight, is set vertically on the quake table with its upper end free. Alongside is set up a short slender board, which a man could almost break in his hands.| When the table shakes at the right tempo the tops of both boards swing to and fro in unison like a tall and a short man keeping step. Both carry at the top proportionately equal weights, and show that the destruc- tive effect on a low structure may be greater than that on a tall one. The "hammer" effect of water on a dam face has been unknown, and the Stanford experiments are developing a gauge. They show, for example, that this force in a trough containing 1,100 pounds of water eighteen inches deep and eighteen inches wide is equal to the weight of 125 pounds of solid matter swaying against the dam. The "élvilized" quakes are upset- ting a general belief that buildings in alluvial soil are bound to sustain much greater damage than those in firm soil, It Is found this damage depends greatly on depth of the soft soil, and its frictional properties. BC di Matrim-ny's most dangerous period is about the twenty-fifth year, accord- ing to one German expert, who adds that many of these belated marriage tragedies occur because husband or wife is too devoted to the children and neglects the other partner. -- In painting the outside alone of the Majestic, the largest ship afloat, the men employed will cover an area of almost exactly three acres. 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Lack of knowledge of finance is probably the greatest hindrance to a satisfactory settlement of that prob- Jem by the young couple. Not every man in his twenties is able to work out the calculations involved in de- ciding such a problem, and frequently entirely wrong answers are arrived at. Comparatively recently. an outstand- ing authority on financing of this sort worked ou! the problem in detail, and according to his figures, a family mak- ing a cash payment of $2,600 on a $10,000 home would own it at the end of twelve years, paying all the neces- sary expenses, and would only have spent $2,662 more than a family liv. ing on the same scale and paying $100 a month rental. He figured on the basis that the rent paying family also paid for its own heat and water, Calculating along these lines, he further came to the conclusion that no young couple should begin buy ing a home until they could pay one fourth of the total cost in cash. Furs - ther, he estimates that a man should not pay more than three times his year's income for a house. The writer feels inclined to agree pretty closely with this expert's figures on most of his points, but in regard to the amount of cash payment, he can. see no ob- jection to a man undertaking the pur- chase of a home with fifteen per cent. cash payment, 5 If the house is a duplex or two flat property and the owner can draw a rent to help pay off the cost, then the figure of three times the family income set as the reasonable price for a home, might be raised by about 60 per cent. of the anticipated rent over a period of ten or elve years. The young couple, who® have diffi- culty in working out all these calcu~ lations, could not do better than con- sult a first class real estate broker, and check their own figures against check 'both. Then they will fe€] safe 'his and then have their bank manager in banking on the conclusions they have arrived at. ie What "Gloriana" Once Did Wear London.--An interesting collection of genuine garments that belonged to "Gloriana," ds Queen Elizabeth was sometimes known, is preserved, it is said, in the Old Palace of Hatfield; the nursery of King Henry VIII's children. The garments include a pair of yel- low silk stockings, the foot part plain the rest a diamond pattern, the back having a fancy, openwork seam. The tops are finished with a broad, yellow, scarlet ribbon. The stockings indi- cate that the feet of "Good Queen Bess" were small and that she would have taken a modern English, size 8 shoe. Hose, it should be explained, were, up to the time of King Henry VIII, made out of ordinary cloth, Henry's son, King Edward VI. received as "a ham "a pair of long Spanish sik stock- ings. which, however, continued to be great rarities, Stow's "Chronicle" of the year 1631 records that in the second year of Queen Elizabeth's reign "her silk wo~ man, Mistress Montague, presented Her Majesty with a pair of black knit silk stockings for a new-year's gift." . The Queen "after a few days wears ing" so appreciated them that she de clared, "I like silk stockings so well, becaise they are pleasant and fine and delicate, that henceforth I will wear no more cloth stockings," From that time it is recorded the Queen never wore cloth hose--only silk. The Queen's garded hat, in the same collection, has a cane foundation, care- fully tied into shape, the spaces in- geniously woven in with fine straw in a lacelike pattern. It is lined with red taffeta, es one of Queen Elizabeth's bodices, embroidered, with silken flowers and. metal threads, and a pair of her gold- with three-inch heels, The Asholean | Museum at Oxford houses a pair of her long, wide gauntlet gloves, em- . | broldered with gold thread and top- | ped with a fringe and a pair of her Bligh hebled brown leather buskins. A Fair Exchange b, ) | Customer (heatediy): "Do you know | there was a fly in the Christmas cake I bought the other to 0 5 for Sache another one." § - She "Cer 'madam; if you will return the fly I will posi dod a currant in its place." ie aid I th Bl EE a aie Shahi meet sense has a deal, married couple just beginning to gath= A well-known English peer possess 'embroidered Lilliputian white shoes, great present" from Sir Thomas Gres-: # x Ei day? 1 wantyou. |