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'ehief ind ticket, SYNOPSIS. Henry Rand, 55, a business man, is murdered in a cheap hetel in Grafton. Police ind a woman's handker- the "tub of a yellow theatre . James Rand, his son, goes to 'Buffalo and the handkerchief and stub 'are traced to Olga Maynard, a cabaret si r, who says tiey must have been stolen from her purse by a man whom e danced with, but whom she does not Ww, Jimmy Rand meets and Yalls in © with Mary Lowell. Mary Seer un Mary with Olga and breaks with him. becomes engaged to Samuel Chu wealthy lawyer, Jimmy is warned eral times to reave Buffalo, and is at- tacked by two men. While out with Olga she points to a man in a car and tells Jimmy that he is the ian who stale the stub. The man escapes, but they both recognize his pictues in the police files as lke Jewnen--on of the two attacked Jimmy. Jimmy gets a job a4 ing & laundry truck, Chur roadster, sees him, but n'tr nize him CHAPTER XXVIL The hot color rushed to Jimmy's face. Half smgry, half ashamed, he shifted gears viciously and drove on. Had Mary Lowell seen him and de- liberately refu ed to recognize him? There was no doubt in his mind that Samuel Church had seen him. Jimmy could still see that contemptuous smile on Church's lips and the possessive air with which he }.ad turned to Mary. It was as f he were trying to flout Rand with 'his ownership. "H2 in an expensive foreign car and I in a launary truck," Jimmy mut- tered. "I can't blame her for wanting to recognize me, and yet J wonder is she really saw me?" His thoughts--as thoughts have an odd habit of doing--jumped back un- accountably to the little curly-headed boy he had seen that morning--Ilittle "Hary Smif." . . . It would be won- derful, he thoug®t, a home and a little boy like that. He groaned, such thoughts. « «+ And Mary was going to marry Samuel Church. . . they would never have children as beautiful as the little boy he had seen that morning. Bitter reflection hemmed in. . . .. Mechanically he drove on. . . . * * » * not I was no use thinking Mary had not een Jimmy--until it was too late to let him know that she had. Church had called for her at the office and had offered to drive her home. She had assented without en- thusiasm and to Chuzch's efforts to be amusing and conversational on the way home she had been unresponsive and abstracted. "Why so uncommunicative, dear?" he asked her. "Anything on your mind?" "No," she said dully. "I've picked out your wedding pres- ent Mary." "You have?" straight ahead. him. "Don't you want to know what it wig?" "Of" course. - What is it?" "An automobile--just for you to drive, .A coupe. It's a beauty." "You shouldn't have done it," murmured. "Why not? Dem't yeu like to drive?" *Of course. I've never driven, but I'm crazy to learn. But it isn't nec- essary, is it? You have two cars now. It seems so wasteful--so extrava- gant." "My aear," he laughed, "I can afford it. I can afford to buy lots of wonder- ful things--and will. What's the use of having money if you can't spend iz and be happy." "You talk," she said flushiag, "as if money could buy happiness--as if it were the only thing necessary ta happiness." The words of Jimmy-- these hot words he had flung at her yesterday in the park--were searing her mind. "I should hate to be happy without it," €hurch answered slowly, looking at her intently. Traffic had stopped them at an in- tersection. He gazed about him idly, eonscious of the impressive picture he made in his expensive car, and beside him this beautiful girl. His eyes suddenly lighted with ¥ecognition; his lips framed a grin that was half sneer, and he turned to her, } "There's an old friend," he remark- ed contemptuously. "See him?" Something in his tone lifted her out of her lethargy--caught at her and antagonized her. "Where?" she asked, meeting his Joa He jerked a thumb toward the truck In which Jimmy eat and started the ear. Mary had a swift, fleeting glance of Jimmy, sitting red-cheeked, eyes staring straight ahead, driving away. knew instantly that Jimmy had seen them, and intuitively she knew t Jimmy had been hurt because she 'Badn't spoken--she had been looking She was siaring She could not look at she . Frat in his direction when Church ad called her attention. © "Quite a car he was driving," d the man at her side. y truck. . Do you and your mother happen to use that laundry, fary? Perhaps ha will be calling for lary 38 w clothing. 'her cheeks. "If ugh at 'him because of his yp. should anyone laugh at work he's doing, isn't be ashamed of." ) mistn "a could be doing something better. I can't forgive lack of ambition," | "He doesn't lack ambition. He had to get a job and this is the only thing that offered. - You know he had a job at my office, and he was doing very well when he was discharged. I never. could understand why." He shot her a swift, searching look. "Probably for a very good reason," he said, "They are insistent at the Q. and R. Railroad on good character." "How do you know he hasn't goad character?" she asked quickly. "I know nothing about it, nothing at all. However, it wasn't anything to his credit to be seen with a drunken woman in his arms on the street." "How do you know," she asked, watching him through narrowed eyes, "that she was drunk?" He shrugged. "I think I know the symptoms. They're rather unmistak- able." "1 know differently," she pursued. "She wasn't drunk, as you say." He started, "Why, how--how do you know?" he stammered. "Have you seen her." "No, I haven't, but I intend to." "Oh, no, Mary, you musn't do that. Promise me you won't do that, She's not the sort of a girl you should know." "You said she was drunk," Mary continued, "when, as a matter of fact, she had fainted. It was unfair to both of them." "How do you know she fainted? Have you been talking to him? Did he try to make you believe that? He tried unsuccessfully to suppress his anger. His face turned a beefy col and his hands trembled on the whee). He stepped on the accelerator and the car shot ahead violently. "It makes no difference where I got my information," she said coldly. "I know; that's all." "Oh well, Mary" he said with an effort a. pleasantry. "Let's not quar- rel about it. It's not worth it." The car sped along as swift and noiseless as the December wind. Mary fell silent and responded to his lame attempts at gaiety with monosyllables. His face clouded and he pressed grim- ly down on the accelerator. . . . The car fairly flew along. Up the street a little fox' terrier was frisking and leaping cbout with his young master, a boy of ten. The boy would throw a tennis ball and the dog would retrieve it and then, return- ing t6 his master, tantalize him before giving it up again. Ad the car with Mary and Church in it approached, the terrier dashed out into the street and barked. Church saw him, and he had plenty of time to apply his brakes and swerve. But. he merely laughad. . ... It all happened in a fleeting instant. The boy's agonized ery: "Spot! Here, Spot!" Mary's frantic appeal to Church, her hand on his arm, the other hand to her throat. The bark that ended in a despairing yelp as the wheels passed over. the little animal and left in their wake a broken, bloody form. The little boy was standing at the curb, his hands covering his eyes, not daring to look at the lifeless thing that had been Spot. ... Mary turn- ed and saw him and pity struck deep in her heart. "Stop the car," she commanded. "You've killed that little boy's dog." He shrugged. "It was just a dog. He got in my way; I couldn't help it." "You didn't try. You could have slowed down. I saw it. I could almost say you did it deliberately. Let me out. I'm going back." He stopped the car, helped her out. "Oh, well, I'll go back with you. IM buy him another dog." ° Mary took the little boy in her ars. One swift look at the dog sickened her. "Here, kid," said Church, produc- ing some crisp new bills, "Now you can buy yourself another dog." "I--I1 don't want another dog," the boy sobbed. "I want Spot." "Tell me your name," said Mary soothingly. "I'll see that Santa Claus brings you another little dog just like Spot--maybe Spot's hrother." "No, I want Spot." His chest heav- ed with his sobs. "You see what you've done," she blazed at Church. "You've not only killed his dog--you've killed something insid~ that boy.". "Now, now, Mary," he placated, "you're getting worked up over no- thing." 'Gake ne home," she cried. "If there were a policeman here I'd have you arrested. It was your fault. You just didn't care." "I offered to buy him another dog, didn't 17" He turned again to the boy. 'Here you are, sonny." But the boy again Jefused his money. * » * "I'm glad to learn just what kind of a man you are," Mary said to him. They were standing at her doorst She had been stonily silent the rest of the way home. "I'm through, De you understand?" "Now, Mary," he began, taking her arm, But the tore herself away from m. . "I mean it," she cried. "I never want to see you again." "Mary, you're talking crazily." He grabbed her roughly and crushed her to him and, in spite of her desperat: and your money. Here--try to uy! 'somizbedy else." Fle tare "he diamond ring he had given her off her finger 'and. threw. it at him and closed the door in his face. . .. . Once inside her room, she tore Church's picture off her table and threw it to the floor. Then she cried, and, oddly enough, it was the first time in weeks that she had be n happy. » * * oh It was just about $his time that Jimmy Rand was eating hiy supper in a "beanery," contemplating, the evil aspect of the world which allowed the Churches to win the Marys. It wag in this frame of mind that he went hohe, to find news from his sister, Ja + by (To be continued.) 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Write your name and address plainly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20¢ in stamps or coin (coin prefer- ved; wrap it carefully) for ea'h number, and address your order 10 ' Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. -- fan In the club they were "swopping" fishing stories, "The fish was so big," said the first angler, "that the others would not let me haul it into the boat for fear it would swamp us." "The same thing happened to me once," broke in a quiet little man in the cor- per--'on the Mauretania." Mechanical Ma Also Searching for A Cheap' Substitute For | Gasoline In the centre of a tiny workshop in Columbia, South Carolina, stands | a wooden robot, almost as tall ag its.| master, 13-year-old Bobby Lambert, | Its arm is slowly ralsed to.the ac companiment of whirling noises from its hollow chest. "Stop," shouts Bobby, and the arm halts instantly. : that on.; served to add to his worries: _pobby explains that it's just a shop toy that he built. An ordinary dial telephone starts it. Bobby has been experimenting since he was seven years old. He is hunting a cheap substitute for gas- oline. "People think I'm crazy to do that," he says, "but they all laughed when I told them I was building a robot." One of his achievements is a home- made radio broadcasting station from which he transmits programs for the children of the neighborhood. He also has built an electric fire alarm sys- tem, a burglar alarm, a protective system of charged barbed wire, a lighting system for the shop and back yard, and private telephone lines. He is making a motion picture camera to produce his own reels. Outside the shop is his railroad, a miniature line that starts ten' feet from the ground, takes a sharp de- cline and then goes up Ww steep arti- ficial grade. Children of the neigh- borhood pay for rides. Boylike, he has named his handwork for his dog, "Bugs River Power and Light Com- pany." His railroad is "The Bugs- ville and Northern." ---- Lunch Hour is Now Put to Various Uses New York--No doubt there was a time when the average office work- er devoted his or her lunch hour to eating lunch. If so, those days are certainly past; the hour for dining has given way to the ten-minutes-for- a-sandwich-and-a-cup-of-coffee, and the leisurely luncheon has been ab- breviated to a quick lunch. Why? Not only because the cafeteria and the soda fountain, in their anxiety to oltain quick turnovers during the mid-day rush for meals, have provid- ed the means for "service". Clerk and stenographer, bookkeeper and of- fice-boy, and the "big boss," too, all have other, and better, things to do during lunch hour. Shopping eats up more time than eating. "A little fresh air and exercise," 'while not taken as a substitute for food, seems to be what some are looking forward to when they think of "lunch hour." Recently some moving picture houses began running one hour shows at reduced price and many now "take-in" a picture, If not instead of food, then in the time when they are supposed to be eating. The night student "grabs a bite" so that he can have time to do his homework. And the office boy takes the telephone girl to a place where they can dance. Who remembers the leisurely days before the war? -------- ee Marriage of the Week-Minded Greater restraint should be placed on the marriage of persons of weak intellect. A girl of this description was about to be sent to an institu- tion when a man of exceedingly low mental capacity came forward and proposed marriage as the solution, This was considered a fine idea and a clergyman was quite willing to per- form the ceremony, notwithstanding the fact that his fee had to be taken out in promises. No gne stopped to think what the ultimate cost to the community would be! Ten years later a letter was received describing a wretched home. It proved to be that of the above woman, now the mother of three neglected children.-- J. J. Kelso, mente sr pall Civility costs nothing, but it often enables us to acquire things that gold cannot buy. » Kissing is responsible for a great deal of heart trouble. struggles, kis: er full on the mouth. at him with her hands and beating "You brute!" she gasped, striking, him away from her. "I hate you--you dena, Calif, publisher, sport column on newspaper. "World's Fastest Human" Weds . Mrs. 'Neva Frisk Malaby and Charles W, Paddock, on world's fastest human, were married in home of bride's father, Pasa Paddock is now known as studying law and -conducting 'Fresh from jmtm---- aT A the gardens' Points (Novel Structure, Built on a Tower, Contains Lamps For Treating Patients in Cloudy Weather France offers a unique departure for health seekers. At Aix-les-Bains there has been built a solarium un- like anything else in the world-- a revolving building that follows the sun in its course and is the last word in the application of the sun's rays for curative purposes. It was erected by Dr. Saidman of Paris, who has devoted much time to the use of ultra-violet and infra-red rays in the treatment of various diseases. The 'building has an extraordinary appearance. High up on a hill dom- inating the city of Aix-les-Bains and fthe Lake of Geneva, it receives the sun's ray§ from the first moment of sunrise until sundown. Its base .s in the form of an octagonal tower, which supports a structure that, seen from a distance, reminds one of the wings of a great airplane. This is about ninety feet in length and is divided into ten small rooms where the patients receive treatment. Because the superstructure turns, these treatment rooms have always the full light of the sun. Each, more- over, has three ultra-violet lamps and several infra-red lamps. The roof and 'the windows are so arranged that the patient may be placed in the open air without any possibility of his being seen by persons outside the building. Dr. Saidman has arrangell the so- larium so that each patient can re- ceive exactly the dosage of sun's rays necessary to his particular con- dition. There are all sorts of scien. tific apparatus for the purpose of Revolving French Solarium Always to the Sun measuring the rays of the sun and for determining whether the ultra- violet rays of the sun itself are in- sufficient for certain cases. If so, the ultra-violet lamps are used In conjunction with the sun and supply exactly the amount of rays required. Some treatment rooms are - so equipped that the light of the sun can be* arrested while its beneficent rays are caught and used for the treatment of the patient. The sun's rays are speclally filtered in other rooms by means of a thin coating of silver on a prepared glass, silver be- ing transparent to certain ultra-vio- let rays, Dr. Saldman has used also a glass recently invented in Amer- ica through which the rays show the fluorescence of the tissues, The scientific apparatus with which the solarium is: equipped comprises many new features, among which is the most accurate and powerful instrument yet devised for measur- ing the sun's ultra-violet energy. The solarium offers treatment for persons suffering from rheumatism, gout, neuralgia, arthritis and for per- sons in a weakened, run-down. con- dition. The structure was finished last Summer and admitted patients for treatment in August. The in- auguration took place at the end of July, in the presence of a. distin- guished assemblage of scientists who were curious to see this new depar- ture in the world of science. The result of the treatments given at the solarium surpasse( even the expecta- tions of Dr. Saidman kim:ze!f. Men to Bake, Set Table and Serve in Iowa Course Ames, Iiwa.--Men students of Iowa State College believe the husband of the future should know as much about kitchen and dining room procedure as his wife, A group of them started studying foods a year ago. But they are not satisflefl, according to Miss Louise L'Engle, associate professor of foods and nutrition, and are demanding practical work. They want to learn how to bake good bread, carve meat and serve foods correctly and the pro- per places for all plates and silver- ware in setting the table. A new course, including twelve ja- boratory periods, is to be offered them next quarter, Miss L'Engle said. The "perfect wife," at least in theory, will be the subject of a course in "home relationships" next Septem- ber. The course, a combination of psychology and sociology, will delve into such subjects as the mother-in- klaw, the favorite child, spiritual de- Vvelopment of individuals within the family and the attitude of parents to- Gabtv © "a Na J "A retired business man ustally confines his activities to snoring." nl All that many a man realizes on his investments 1s what a fool he's been, wards children. HEAD headache to wear off. Don't look for sympathy at such times, but some Aspirin, It never fails, Don't be a chronic sufferer from headaches, or an other pain. See a doctor ot the cause. Meantime, don't HURT ? play . There's always | quick ort in Aspirin. It | never does any harm. Isn't it a Am zin T» trimental Con- 'structive Praise Works: A landowner in the Highlands of Scotland formerly was distressed by ti# wzdolence and" untidiness of his tenaend, who took no pains whatever to kes, their little homes and gar dens in order. He was always talk- Ing to the people about his, but his scoltings and "preachments" had not the least effect. One day he went to see a lady who also was the owner of some land. But how different in appearance was her property from his own! Here every cottage parden was gay with flowers; neat. : Wher the visitor, in surprise, quired h.w this happy state of things had been brought about, the lady told iim that it all began with her appreciation of one single flower. "One day,' she said, "when I hap- pened to be visiting one of my cote tagers, I observed in the rough neg- lected piece of ground behind the house, a marigold blooming amid a crowd of weeds, I said to the cot~ tagers, 'What a beautiful marigold you have here' The man seemed greatly pleased with my remark and from that time, entirely of his own accord, with no recommendation on my part, he began to cultivate his garden, "One after another his neighbors shamed by the contrast between his ground and their own, followed his good example and that man has late- ly gainea the first prize for flowers grown in the district." ih Such was the result of a kindly word. A little bit of praise is more likely to 'do good than all the scold- ings in the world. EERE The Brave Goloshes Millicent Milligan and Margery John Sturdily put their goloshes on, And with caps of red and coats of brown Were as fluffy and warm down; "Let's climb the hill again, What if we spill again!' Sajd Millicent Milligan And Margery John, as eider- They tramped to school through paths of white, Errands for Mother were a dear de- light; ad And the brave goloshes seemed to say, "O winter time's the time to play! Come over the hill again, Baskets to fill again, Millicent Milligan And Margery John." Two little girls grew tall and strong, On their cheeks a rose, on their lips a song; And they laughed as they tramped through falling snow, "We can go wherever goloshes go; And go they will again, Over the hill again, For Millicent Milligan And Margery John!" Emir F. Ammerman, --r--tt- Art Temporarily Ousted In Bulgaria Sofia, Budg.--Bulgaria's new holi- day of land, dedicated to peasants, was celebrated throughout the whole country on Dec, 14, at 1200 simultane- ous meetings addressed' by priests, teachers and agricultural experts. The Sofia conference was held in the Na- tional Theatre and for two hours to- matges, beans, grapes, pumpkins na- tive cows, Berkshire hogs and Leg- horn hens occupied the stage which heretofore has been devoted exclusive- ly to Carmen, Faust and Shakespeare. Gregore Vasileff, Minister of Agri- culture, extolled the riches of Bulga- rian soil, the exemplary qualities of the peasants and the substantial pro- gress made in the realm of agricul- ture. Mr. Vasileff has proposed that this annual holiday of land be celebrated simultaneously in all' agricultural countries and has already received a favorable response from several states. enthusiastic movement in favor of farming, which will -asstire the vil lagers of the attention and support they need and bring about the neces- ke sary improvement in their situation. i = One More for Scotland Sandy did not like to leave London without securing a bargain of some sort. . While making a tour of the'shops he spied a cheap line in boot protectors. "Hoo mony o 'these things dae I get for tuppence?" he asked the shop- kee] "They work out to about thirteen or | fourteen for: that price," replied the other, ba "Richt® ye are, laddle," sald the Scot. "I'll be after taking fourteen, seeing I'm so superstitious." a : An Irishman and Englishman were sitting together discussing matter as to who could see farthest. "See that _ steeple," said ing to & .'® mosquito 0 ~ was nab to be outdone. "Begorra," he Cg saw 'im wink I ; " the Other Way all the httle houses were clean and. . in- The purpose is to form an Unkind Words Often Are Der =