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MONEY OR HER LIFE.
(Continued from page 2, Col. 6.)
Sally confessed. ‘Because one of
those terrible society papers printed
something pretty awful. Grand-
mother saw it and hit the roof. She
rushed me off to Europe to forget
him. But I didn’t. I wrote him the
day I got back—and asked him to
marry me—"’
“Not really I" gasped Eileen.
“Why not? I knew he’d never ask
me! He's too proud and sensitive,
considered himself a washout and all
that. So I asked him and—see what
the stuffed prune answered !”
From her hand-bag she drew out a
letter.
Dear Miss Sally: (Eileen read)
I am honored by your trust
and confidence. I know you feel
yourself sincere. But you are
very young and if I may say so,
romantic, too. I suspect that my
very evident plight warmed chi-
valrous sympathy in you and
that your letter may be accepted
as evidence of that. Forit I
thank you and believe me, al-
ways
Faithfully and gratefully your
friend
: Fitzgerald Decourcey Lynnes-
v cote Smythe
‘That made me so darned mad—
after I'd simply hurled myself at
him,” commented Sally, “I made up
my mind to forget him. I tried to,
too. But when I came face to face
with him in Chicago—that was two
weeks ago today—the dam busted. I
just took him in hand firmly, and it
was about time. Just think, he might
have been hi-jacked or machine gun-
med any minute.”
“Machine gunned?” echoed Eileev.
“The priceless idiot was in with 2
gang of rum runners,” explained
Sally. ‘You see he did love me ter-
ribly and was desperate and wanted
to make money quick. And in Chica-
go he’ld known in England who was
making big money and Gerry didn’t
care much what happened—but I did.
T married him that afternoon and-—
here I am. I thought TI ought to
give grandmother a chance to be a
sport if she wanted to be. But she
plainly doesn’t—which is that. See 2’
“T see,” acknowledged Eileen. And
added, “Is—is your husband here on
“No, he counting the minutes—or
he'd better be—until I get back to
Chicago. He's got to work for a liv-
ing, you see. We discussed all that.
He already had a car and I told him
to keep right on driving. Not for
rum runners but something like a
taxi. Only without a meter and
more for—”’
“Why—why, that’s what my Jim-
my does !”
This was the first time she had
ever called Jimmy her Jimmy but
she did not notice that.
“Truly? Isn't it the most exciting
thing—working that way !” paeaned
Sally. “Gerry tells me about all his
passengers and everything. And
we've got the duckiest three-room
apartment. Of course, it’s tiny—
but I love it to pieces. It’s really
living !”
“Living?” echoed Eileen, wide-
eyed. “You mean—more than this?”
She glanced around the exquisitely
furnished room as she spoke.
“This !” scorned Sally. ‘Say, you
don’t call this living, do you? Why,
I feel as if I'd escaped from Sing
Sing. I”
“T don’t mean just this room—or
the house,” protested Eileen. “I mean
the gorgeous times you must have
had. The people you know— and the
music and travel.”
“Bunk!” explode Sally. ‘Gorgeous
times— Egypt's Queen! I suppose
you mean teas and dinners and danc-
es. Same old crowds, same old faces,
same old jokes. Travel? the really
interesting places are always where
they haven't a good hotel or where
no Thaxter would be seen. And the
people you'd like to meet hecause
they look interesting are never in the
Blue Book, somehow. All right in
their way, but not our sort, you
know. I've been to Europe three
times and I don’t care if I never go
again. I'd rather go to a place mm
northern Michigan Gerry told me
about.”
She took a deep breath, her eyes
starry. ‘It’s going to be our honey-
moon,” she explained. “We'll take
the car and camp out nights. And
fish and wear old clothes. Do any-
thing we feel like with no set sched-
ule—"
“I'll bet most girls would prefer
Europe, just the same,”Eileen broke
in, at that point. “I would. All my
life I've hoped—"
“Well, now’s your chance,” Sally
reminded her. “Oh, yes, it is. As far
as grandmother is concerned you're
Sally Thaxter right now. Of course
that’s crazy, but go to it—I won't
gum up the game. I've got Gerry.
But —you’ll have to give up that
Jimmy you were talking about.”
“Your grandmother would never
really do it,” protested Eileen.
“You don’t know grandmother
yet,” retorted Sally grimly. “I don’t
know how she’ll manage it, but she
will. She almost had me believing 1
was crazy. I think she always has
hated me a little—she never liked my
mother—and now she hates me ter-
ribly. And wants to punish me. As
if she could by just cutting me off !
What good is money when it just
keeps you from doing things? I want
to live—really live. I want some ex-
citement.”
“Excitement!” repeated Eileen.
“You don’t mean to say there's more
excitement living in a three-room
flat and—being poor.”
“Take it from me there is,” retort-
ed Sally. “Oh, of course I could use
some money. But you can't have
everything. T've got Gerry and—
what are you putting your hat on
for?”
Eileen did not answer for a second.
A wave of pure nostalgia possessed
her. For Chicago! Then: I guess,
she anounced recklessly, “we're twins
both sides the skin. It begins to
sound to me as if—"
“You mean—you're going back to;
your Jimmy !” cut in Sally joyously.
“I'm going back to Chicago any-
way,” corrected Eileen. “If, that is,
your grandmother will come across
with the return fare and let me wear
the clothes I've got on.”
“She will do more than that—
that’s the Thaxter of it,” prophesied
Sally. “It will be an awful blow to
her, but she’d be boiled in oil before
she'd lift a finger to stop you. She
may even take your breath away. I
know her like a book.”
And Sally did. Eileen was still
breathless as the train, bearing them
westward, tore on through the night.
“I don’t feel as if I ought to have
let her give me the coat and all the
other things she bought me, besides
the check,” she told Sally.
“They're no use to her,” Sally re-
minded her. “I should worry if I
were you. You can have them for a
trousseau and you do look perfectly
ducky in that coat. If your Jimmy
doesn’t love you in it—"
“He'll be more apt to demand |
where I got it,” amended Eileen and
though she smiled, it was a shade un-
certainly: The thought of Jimmy
filled her with a curious shyness. “I
was last seen departing in company
with a gentleman of whom he disap-
proved,” she added. “He—he may be
quite masculine—"
Lovely !” breathed Sally. “How
you can make him grovel in the dust
when you explain !”
“He—he may not even bother to
come around for explanation,” sug-
gested Eileen, almost wistfully. ‘He
—he was awful mad at me the last
time 1 saw him—and is probably
madder than ever by now.”
To which Jimmy would certainly
have appended a curt “Correct.”
“That's the last time she gets a
chance to walk all over me,” he had
assured himself with great vehe-
mence after their last quarrel.
He had held to that determination |
through forty-eight hours. Then, in
spite of his pride, which informed |
him that he was a backboneless worm |
he had felt himself inexorably drawn |
into a public pay station from which
he had called Eileen’s home number |
and had asked for her.
“Miss Ridgeway? Oh, she has gone
away somewhere,” he was informed.
“No, she didn’t leave any address.
Just sent a man around-—a porter
from some hotel it was—with some
of her clothes. She said she’d be gone
a month perhaps.
To Jimmy it had seemed as if the
booth was pressing in around him
trying to suffocate him. He had
stood there simply stunned. Then
craving air, he had automatically
achieved it. Eventually his brain had
cleared.
“If that human wart had anything
to do with her disappearance,” he in-
formed himself, with deadly grim-
ness, “he’ll need something more
than a couple of his machine funs to
save his neck when I get my hands on
him.”
Second, sobered thought had
amended the conclusion that primi-
tive impulse was based on, however.
“He couldn’t have put anything
over on her,’ he had reminded himself
miserably. “She must have married
him-—eloped.”
And even if she hadn’t—well, he
was through with her anyway. AbLso-
lutely. He wouldn't forgive her now
if she got down on her knees to him.
This was all in his mind, working like
yeast, when a mysterious wire was
delivered to him. This read:
Please meet train from Boston
arriving La Salle Street Station
at seven-thirty tonight. Have
heard you highly recommended
as careful and conscientious
driver and may be able to throw
considerable = employment your
way.
It had heen signed simply Sarah
Ames Thaxter. It was, therefore, for |
Sarah Ames Thaxter, age uncertain
and appearance as nebulous, that
Jimmy’s eyes —grim eyes they were
—searched as the train pulled in.
“It will be a perfect scream,” Sally
was assuring Eileen. “Remember,
you axe to point out Jimmy and Tl
point out Gerry. Then Ill go to |
Jimmy and you go to Gerry—only
don’t you dare let him kiss you.”
So Sally had planned it. Nor was
that all Sally had planned.
“You don’t know how much I envy
you,” she said to Eileen wistfully, as
they neared Chicago. ‘You've had
such an interesting life. Always
your own boss, able to do what you
want to, earning your own way. I—
will you let me be bridesmaid at your
wedding 7”
“T’d love it—nothing more—if—if
there is a wedding,” murmured
Eileen, deeply touched. “You forget
that Jimmy may have changed his
mind. I deserve that.”
Sally looked her over. “Don’t he a
sil !” she commanded. “Because he'll
change it back quick enough the
minute he sees you. You are a peaci
—even if I say so as shouldn't. I
wish you'd adopt me as a twin. It
would be so wonderful, going around
with you that way. And I know your
Jimmy and my Gerry are going to be
great friends, —”
She paused, obviously struck by an
idea.
“Why couldn’t they be partners?”
she asked excitedly. “Listen-—TI've
got a little money of my own. Not
much—only about thirty thousand.
But I haven't even dared mention it
to Gerry because he’s so sensitive
about anything to do with money.
But couldn’t we get together, you
and I, and sort of work it around so
that they could start a taxi company
of their own?”
“Oh—but you see Jimmy has noth-
ing like that to put in,” protested
Eileen.
The train was pulling into the sta-
tion now.
“We'll fix that up,” Sally assured
her. “Your Jimmy has much more
experience anyway, you see, and—oh
I'm sure it’s going to be wonderful.
Don’t speak of it just yet. But you
have my phone number and—"
| that
| “Home is where the heart is.”
The train checked itself and so did
Sally.
“Remember,” she said quickly, “you
point out Jimmy and I'll point out
Gerry and—we’ll fool them both.”
And so they might have, except
that Sally, instead of pointing out
Gerry, went to him as straight asa
homing pigeon to its loft the moment
she caught sight of him.
“Oh, Gerry,” she all but sobbed, her
arms around his neck. “Do you still
love me?”
“Love you?” he exploded.
“Even if I'm disinherited—dis-
owned ?”
“You're not disowned—I own you,”
he reminded her stanchly.
Eileen was quite forgotten. But
then Eileen had temporarily forgot-
ten Rally, too, the moment she had
seen Jimmy.
She sped toward him.
my !” she breathed,
sight of his face.
that much?’
They had already slipped into each
other’s arms.
“Miss you!” he breahted. He
paused and choked. Then: “Where's
guy you skipped off with?” he
demanded fiercely.
“What on earth are you talking
about?” she demanded. And then,
realizing what was in his mind, she
added, “Why, Jimmy Sturgis ! do you
mean to say you thought that—”
“Of course not,” he lied quickly.
“I—I just didn’t know what had be-
come of you and—the last thing I
knew you were going off with him
and—"
“He got fresh and I gave him the
gate,” announced Eileen, very virtu-
ously. “And—oh, I've a million
things to tell you. You won't believe
half of them but-—you’'ve got your
car, haven't you?”
Jimmy, with never a thought of
Sarah Ames Thaxter, assured her he
ad.
Seated beside him, Eileen was si-
lent for a second as her contented |
eyes drank in Chicago. It splashed |
by, irridescent, colorful, teeming with |
the life and movement she loved. |
And—Jimmy! She drew a deep |
breath and then impulsively thrust
her left hand under her arm.
“I guess it’s true,” seh murmured.
“Oh, Jim-
as she caught
“Did you miss me
“Do—-do you mean that?” he asked !
chokily.
“I guess it's true,” she murmured |
I've been and what I've passed up
you'll say I do,” she replied, and she
told him.
“You-—you mean to say you passed
up a chance for a million?’ he gasped
incredulously.
“Well, her own granddaughter
did,” Eileen reminded him. “All for
a little three-room apartment.” She
glanced at him, misty-eyed. “Do
—do you know of any nice little
three-room apartments?” she asked.
“Do I?’ he retorted. “There’s one
I've ached to show you. It's—”
“Let’s go see it,” she suggested
impulsively.
Their eyes met and their lips, as
he stole a swift, audacious Kiss.
“Gracious I’ gasped Eileen. Didn't
you see that traffic cop signal stop ?*
“Did he?” replied Jimmy. Unper-
turbed, he drew a prodigious breath
and added, “I'd like to see anybody
try to stop me now !”
Eileen did not answer him-— but
her eyes did. They were filled with |
the exquisite realization of the vision
of life that Sally had given her. She |
had had her chance at a million and |
been shrewd enough to glimpse use|
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truth—which is that some things
are even bigger than a mililon.
For excitement
of life and Eileen,
real adventure, was lapping it up |
once more.—Hearst’s International |
Cosmopolitan
is ever the cream |
challenging the |
Multi-Motored Planes Safer.
The successful flight of the Friend- |
ship across the Atlantic is taken by
Richard E. Byrd as another argu- |
ment for using planes with three or |
more motors on long overwater trips.
The Southern Cross, which in the
Hawaii Fijil egg of its trans-Pacific |
flight made the longest ocean hop
yet recorded, was also a tri-motored
plane. Commander Byrd, himself,
used this type of motive power for |
his flight to the North Pole and to
France. |
|
Sing Sows tats |
1
pe,
12,000 Studying To Become
Pilots.
Air |
Approximately 12,000 men entered |
air schools to learn to become pilots
this year, reports the American Air
Transport’s Association. One as-
sociation’s check indicated that ap-
proximately 20,000 will enroll at
schools in 1929. To obtain license to
become air transport pilots students
must have 200 “air hours.”
ed
Autoists Lose License.
462
Revocation or suspension of 462 |
automobiles operator’s licenses dur- |
ing December is anounced by the
Pennsylvania department of high-
ways. Revocations remain in force
for an entire year, while suspensions
are of indefinite duration, rescinded
when officials believe such action
warranted.
GETTING UP NIGHTS
For Bladder Relief Is Nature’s Dan-
ger Signal. Columbus Minis-
ter’s Wife Relates Ex-
perience.
Rev. W. H. Mitchell, 824 No. Park
St., Columbus, Ohio says: “My wife
was troubled seriously with bladder
irritation until we used lithiated bu-
chu (Keller Formula.) She would |
have to get up 6 and 8 times cach
night. Will gladly answer any let-
ter.”
Lithiated Buchu acts on the blad-
der as epsom salts on the bowels.
Drives out foreign matter and de-
creases excessive acidity, thereby re-
lieving irritation. The tablets cost
2 cents each at all drug stores. Kel-
ler Laboratory, Mechanicsburg, Ohio.
Locally at C. M. Parrish’s Druggist.
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LUMBER?
Oh, Yes!
W.R. Shope Lumber Co.
Lumber, Sash,
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Doors, Millwork and Roofing
Must Obey Rules On Burial Permits.
The State Health Department,
through its bureau of inspection has
instituted a State-wide drive against
undertakers and sextons for violating
the law requiring permits from the
local registrar prior to burial.
Colonel James Duffy, chief of the
bureau of inspection, said that, while
in the vast majority of cases the un-
dertakers and sextons in this Com-
monwealth are living up to the let-
ter of the law, nevertheless the singie
instances, of violations are sufficient-
ly high as to justify state-wide ac-
tion.
Recent convictions, some of which
involved the illegal burial of con-
tagious disease victims, have been
obtaining in Wayne, Lawrence and
Wyoming counties. A number of
additional cases are pending.
i jail.
instructed to strictly enforce this sec- |
Poster Tells Need of Driver’s Card.
Owners of motor vehicles in Penn-
sylvania have been warned through
medium of a pink poster, distributed
throughout the State, that their own-
ers’ registration card was not an
operator's card and did not entitle
them to drive their cars. The poster
issued by the Bureau of Motor Vehi-
cles, Pensylvania Section 601, which
provides that ‘no person, except
those expressly excepted under this
act shall operate any motor vehicle
upon any highway in this Common-
wealth unless such person, upon ap-
plication, has been licensed as an
operator or learner under the provi-
sions of this Act,’ under the penalty
of $10 or not more than five days in
The Highway patrol has been
tion.
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