Bellefonte, Pa., May 6, 1932. EE ——————————————— Some women have climbed to the heights of fame, | ‘Where only a few can go, Giners have stayed in a little hom? | Where gardens and childran grow, | Ana sewed on buttons, and spread on jam, Aal cocked and ircned and swept, i And wirked in the nigit w.th weary eyes | While the rest of the family slept. They've bound np bruises uni banished | cares, And thought up golden tales, Sewed baseball gloves for little boys, Made kites and dolls and sails, And child-size pies and apple tarts That children like to eat, Rewarded by the eager tread Of little, hurrying feet. i Worn hats and coats quite out of style, | And gone with something less To give a little brown-eyved girl A hat or party dress Stayed home around the evening lamp, ‘While others laughed and played. Shut away the merry scene, And smiled and talked ind prayed. And yet she wants no sympathy For well she always knows There's something more to motherhood Than wearing worn-out clothes, The plaudits of the many That the famous woman hears, Can't rival with the secre's That are whispered in her ears, The gleam of costly jewels And luster of soft furs Can't sparkle like the faces Of the children who are hers, ——— A —————— EXTRA TRICKS “Miss Carroll, am I right in think- ing that you are—weil, rather mod- ern and sophisticated, rather uncon- ventional 7" Dane Carroll looked up startled and found Cameron Bruce studying her intently. For a moment her eyes challenged his; then they wavered and droppea back to her open not:- book. He had never looked at her like this before. “What an extraordinary question!” “Most college girls are who go in- to business,’ “I had only one year of college,” she reminded him. “But what if I am?” “Then I've got a temporary job for you at a thousand dollars a week." “Wh-a-t 2" “You'd have to come out and live with us at Glenn Cove—it would be perfectly all right,” he added. “My invalid aunt is a perfect chaperon.” Dane looked speptical. “Part of your job would be to cat- alogue a few books. There are thou- sands in the library. The other part would be to make my brother Stan forget his fiancee.” “I see. It's a joke." She smiled in- dulgently. “Joke, hell!” Cameron retorted, tossing a newspaper clipping across the desk, “Look at that.’ Dane picked up 4 cupping from a morning tabloid and cucqously cle- cipnereu an underlined sentence of Broaaway jargon. "An announce- of your orothers approaching mar- nage to Gloria de Forrest,’ she. murmured in an uncertain voice. “1 think I've heard of her.” “Too many people seem to know that Stan hus a million of his own and is highly susceptible,” complain. ed Cameron bitterly. “He's been sued for breach of promise twice in three years.” “You don't approve of the latest fiancee?” It was a polite suggestion. “Look at her picture—there atthe side.” “H-m-m. What lovely legs. Well, there are lots of nice girls in the chorus,” Cameron snorted. “I've just come from her apartment. She paints her finger nails to match her pajamas!" Dane's shoulders began to tremble. She bit her lip desperately. Then she burst into irrepressible laughter. “I-m-m sorry, Mr. Bruce,” she He glared. It's no laughing mat- ter. This isn't just breach of promise, The boy's gone crazy, she's an angel, and he's going to her.” “Can't you buy her off?” “When she knows she can marry a million dollars?” he jeered. | “Does all this mean you were seri- ous—about me?” demanded Dane. | Before Cameron replied he filled! and lit a huge briar pipe. Then he swung back on his secretary. “Have you ever heard the old proverb, ‘Fight fire with fire'?" i She nodded. “It works. In a prairie fire Qut | ited at the library door. The man had not been overenth West I once saved a ranch and | horses by fighting fire with fire. This ing, brown, with curly hair and gay. 80 back to Gloria when I disap- | | street ?” she asked when he , scious of her clothes.” frowned. “And it's a mad idea.” of defiance. ‘the window. For perhaps two min- make him walk back into his chair twenty i later. | “I've known Stan for twenty-two “And if I succeeded?” “He'd forget you in a week.” “Thanks,” she drawled. | He grinned unabashed. “That's Stan.” “What a dirty trick!” | “Not as dirty as letting bim mar- ry that y. | “What's she like?” asked Dane | curiously. She laid her elbows on the desk and was leaning forward, her | eyes half closed. “Dangerous. You'd have no easy! time of it,” he replied, with a’ shrewd glance. “Eleanor might be able to do it” ' she mused. “Who's Eleanor?” “Younger sister. The most beau- tiful thing you ever saw.” Cameron looked at Dane specula- tively. Fluffy golden-red hair, heavy | dark eye-lashes veiling very deep blue eyes, a nose turned up just a trifle, a mouth full of red curves, a small firm chin and a slim neck. He'd never been particularly con- appearance before, “Maybe,” he conceded. “No, she's too young,” Dane went on. “Can't let a kid go to a party like this. But I haven't got the right ' She shook her head and ! He stood before her, waiting, “It wouldn't work.” It was a cry “Please! You will, won't you?" Dane rose abruptly and crossed to utes she stood there motionless. When she turned her face was flush- ed and her eyes were excited. “All| right,” she said. “On one condition. | No money, not even my regular | salary while I'm away from the office——" ‘“But-—-"" { “I wouldn't do it for money!” i Cameron looked at her gravely. “I! understand,” he said, after a pause. | 3 Hows york, she warned. | “ ! have everything plan- ned, What's the best woman's plan 'in New York?" i “Oh, I don’t know. Perhaps B——— Gre? i “Write it down for me. By the time you get up there I'll have an! account opened——" “But-" “You'll need the right clothes if | you're going to stampede Stan. Get | everything—evening spo clothes, bathing suits. You'll have to | have everything ready to come out rts | {to the house tomorrow afternoon. And listen, I once heard a clever woman say she never felt sure of herself unless she were perfectly dressed from the skin out. That | means you get the most expensive stockings you can buy and-—every- thing else, Understand?" She nodded weakly. “But all this will cost——-" “What are a few thousand dol- lors?" he burst in. “If you run sec- ond that gold-digger wins a grand boy and a million dollar purse.” “All right,” cried Dane reckless!y. “I'll buy the whole damm shop.’ Cameron grinned. “Good! Now get going, By the time you have your hat on I'll have a check ready to cover everything you can't get at the clothes place.” He turned to his desk. At the door she hesitated. “Mr. Bruce, have you considered the pos- sibility of my-—well, my getting to like Stanley?” “Oh, you'll like him. Every one does,” he muttered absently. : “But what if I found I wanted to marry into the Bruce family ny- self?" Her voice was cool and chal- lenging, “You undoubtedly could and would,” he snorted. “I'm busy. Stop bothering me. Send Miss Evans in.” Cameron Bruce was loitering on’ the porch of the great rambling! house as the car swept Dane up the driveway late the next afternoon. | He frowned over her one suitcase. “Fretty light gun for this kind of hunting.” “Don’t worry. There's a cannon at | the station,’ she retorted. i “Good. Mason will show you your room. We'll be dining alone tonight. Stanley doesn't seem impressed by librarians yet and) made an agement in town,” “I'm a little frightened,” she con- fessed. presently if you want to join us.” | “In ten minutes. It was less than that when Dane standing by Cameron was nice look- | | you excuse me? | ans like to read.” | pretty good himself. got to dress.” “Me, too. Think you can find your way around place now?” “Perfectly. There's just one thing I've mised Where is the aunt who cha ” “Aunt Mary? Oh, she's been up in her room for months—in a coma, Doesn't even recognize her nurse, You don't have to worry about Aunt Mary,” he added reassuringly. “We never think of her.” “You never——" Dane gasped in horror and then burst out laughing. “What's so funny?” “Your brother said she was a per- fect chaperon.” The black frock must have done its work, for it was an even more reluctant Stanley who departed for New York shortly after dinue-, “Well?” Cameron demanded as Stan's car roared down the r'ver. Dane dropped back in her chair and lighted a cigarette. “Well?” she countered. “It's all over allready. In a week I'll be able to buy her off. Depend- able chap, Stan.” “He's a dear. I like him.” “Well, your prey has escape: for the evening, so you've nothing to do | but amuse yourself.” He rose. “Wii | I've got work to do.” “Of course.” head gravely. She gazed reflectively down at her low-cut, clinging gown, examined her carefully poushea fingernails, sur- veyed her ankles in the shesrest chiffon she'd ever worn. Then, with a shrug, she rose and began roam- ing around the big library. “All dressed up, and nothing to do but amuse myself,” she mutter. ed with a grimace. Dane Inclined her “Where's Miss Carroll?” Cameron demanded as he stamped into the front hall the next afternoon. “With Mr. Stanley on the tennis court. Did you forget your briefcase, gee. asked Mason in a puzzled voice, “No,” Cameron replied sharply. “Bring cocktails down to the court.” He could hear her clear laugh us he approached, the tong of a driving racket, and then through the trees ‘he caught a glimpse of her flying white figure. “Hallo, Bruce! You're home early,” called Stanley. “Thirty-fifteen.” Dane Carroll waved her gayly and dropped back for her | service. She could serve, too, noticed. And that lob! He used to be Perhaps he ought to take it up again. When the devil did she find time to play? Guiltily he remembered that she hadn't 2 vacation for two years “My secretaries always take their vacations when I take mine,” he had said when he engaged her. But ue had forgotten to tell her that he rarely took vacations. She covered that court like a young panther. A hard-fought set over, they dropped down exhausted on the grass | beside him. He poured Dane a cork- tail. “Cigarette ?” “Not quite yet,” she panted. “I'd say Stan had about met his match.” ~~ She grinned. “Who's got a match?” Jlemanded Stan. No one had. “Damn! That means going up for one,” he grim- bled. “Why don't you have electric bells around the garden, Bruca?" “Try rubbing two sticks together,” Dane su as Stan rose and started for the house. Cameron watched him out of ear- shot. “Still think you won't make your contract?” he asked sardonical- ly. “I might-—with a couple of fines- ses,” she murmured. “What happened today?” “Well, he seems very much inter- ested in books——" Cameron snorted. “———and helped me this morning yin the library. We had a lovely luncheon out in the garden. He wouldn't let me go back to the library; said you'd told him not to | let me work too hard in the heat. It “There'll be cocktails in the library was very thoughtful of you, Mr, Bruce,” she added demurely. “That's grand.” Dane looked up puzzled. His tone usiastic “What makes you think he won't time I'm going to save a kid brother | “Miss Carroll, this is my brother,” pear?” from ruining years of his life, rather, Or, Ts ” i are. i Cameron announced casually, i As Stanley turned toward her “Because sh: will have given hLer- self dead away, and Stan has pienty Dane Yooked at him queerly. “Mr. Dane almost laughed at, the open of pride if he hasn't got any brains.” Bruce, I couldn't do what you want | surprise on his face. me to-—even if it were possible.” ‘Allin the on a 4 wi down, filling ce ense cleuds of smoke. ‘Miss Carroll, I don't know many women in New York. The two years I've been in the Bast have been mostly spent in this office, working. When I asked myself whom I could find to get Stan out of the damnable mess he's in, some one attractive enough, in- telligent enough, and yet whom I could trust absolutely, I couldn't think of any one but you. It's rather a decent compliment, if you think it over. I've not asked a woman for help often—wouldn’t now if I weren't up against it, Ever see Stan?” “He's never been in the office, has he?” “No. Stan doesn’t like offices,” he observed dryly. “You see, I've been Swiftly c the room, he held | out his hand with a boyish grin. “I saw a librarian once, but she wore spectacles and was very dusty.” “I haven't been a librarian long,” she explained. i “Is Miss Evans taking care of you at the office?” she asked after a silence, o “Miss Evans is a fool,” he explod- ed “If I'd known——"" “Sh-h.” A gay whistle came through the “Stan, I've got to make some trees. telephone calls, Give Miss Carroll a cocktail, and you might show her around the place a bit, if you have time,” Cameron suggested and stalk- ed out of the room. The next hour Stanley devoted to a study of librarians. He discovered that they played tennis, swam and adored dancing, that they walked with a lithe, swinging grace, that they could be disturbing when looked up at you through black eye- lashes, that they used strange and subtle perfume; and he suspected, though he wasn't sure, that their “Hey, Dane! We'd better dress. It's getting late,” Stanley called. “Late for what?” Cameron de- manded. “We're going to motor into town for dinner and a show.” “Oh! Well, T guess T'll be moving on.” He rose and left them. That evening in the library, for the first time in years, Cameron they | Bruce was actually conscious of the fact that he was alone in a room. Last night Dane Carroll had been stretched out in that chair by the fireplace, white and black and gold, Lucky librari- t | Cameron | or He wandered turned a few of them over with his | foot, ‘and examined the cards she'd been He knew her handwrit- over to the pile of Well, he might as well read. What a fool he'd been not to bring home ' that briefcase! The next morning when Cameron strode into the dining room for his usual 8 o'clock breakfast he halted in surprise, for a slim figure in gay striped linen was curiously poking "into the setaming dishes on the sideboard. It had been scarcely four hours since he had heard Stanley's car being put away in the garage. “Good morning, Mr, Bruce.” “You're early-—considering hour you got in,” he growled. “Oh, we had a marvelous time! | We went dancing after the theatre. But waking up early seems to have become a habit.” He poured himself a full tumbler the of iced orange juice and sat down at the table. “How do you take your coffee?” she asked from the sideboard. “Cream, no sugar,” he admitted grudgingly, “There seems to be kidneys and scrambled eggs here. Which do you | want?” “Neither,” he snapped. “Sit down, sit down! People wait on themselves here at breakfast.” Silence. “I'm sorry I was rude,” Cameron finally blurted out. Dane answered with a grin, “Good morning, children.” came a blithe greeting from the doorway. Cameron turned and regarded his brother sourly. “May I ask what gets you up four hours earlier than usual 2” “Oh, nothing. Just happened.” Cameron shielded himself behind his morning paper and listened with growing irritation to their gay chat- ter about the preceding -veuing. Finally he slapped his paper down! with a savage smack and started for the door, “I'm glad you enjoyed yourself. I myself spent most of the night answering telephone calls for you.” “Huh?” | “Some girl called you from New York five times between 11:30 and 1 Stanley noticed Dene's mouth | twitching and he flushed. Swiftly he tog up the interrupted conversa- on, A moment later Cameron reap- peared “Stan, if you're going ‘0 be | here this evening we might get a | fourth in for bridge.” His voice was elaborately casual. : “I thought we'd go over to the club and dance.” “Oh! well. T may stay in town for dinner then.” Dane regarded the empty doorway with a frown, “Has your brother | ever been interested in anything ex- cept work—women, for instance?” she asked abruptly. “Cam?” Stanley laughed. “Oh, no, He wouldn't know wnat a woman was if he saw one coming down tae ' Street. He's buried alive in his mines, twenty-four hours a day.” “H-m-m, Nevertheless, I begin to suspect that things may work out,” Dane observed. “What do you mean?” She looked at him blandly. “Why, the first evening here it all seemed quite hopeless. He didn't seem to have the slightest interest in what | 1 really came down here to do. But ‘this morning I'm positively optimis- ‘tic, We're going to discuss the library work every morning at | breakfast.” | “Good heavens! This will be my last early e then. Say, ex- cuse me a minute!” He tore out of | the room. + He overtook Cameron at ihe front | door. “Say, Bruce, for the love of heav- | en, ‘know anything about the girl, will i you 2” | “You mean your fiancee?” Camer- on asked coldly, | “Yes. You see—well, I'd rather | tell her about it myself some time.” No ill humor could survive that and Cameron burst out laughing. | “All right, Stan. You tell her, So | long." ! Thursday morning Cameron | thanked Dane, when without a word | she poured his coffee. Friday morning he decided it was | rather pleas to chat with some- one at kfast. On Saturday morn. ing he did not even pick up his paper until he suddenly became self- | conscious with the realization that | he was no longer thinking of this | girl as an unusually efficient secre- tary in severe, tailored black, He was thinking of an agile figure in a scant white tennis dress, of a provo- cative outline of black silk and white shoulders against a blood-red chair, of the sharp gray silhouette against the dining-room window he had found waiting for him that morning. That noon when he stepped off the train at Glenn Cove he looked around for his chauffeur in vain. ‘Then he saw Dane. She was standing on ing to him. The wind was blowing her red hair about her face “What are you doing here?” demanded. “Meeting you.” “You drive. What have you done with Stan?” he asked ironically. he Then he crossed to the table ages don't let Dane, Miss Carroll, for? the seat of his own runabout wav- | ae, Seatly. “But, Jou ee, those hinge i bappened to come my ho | “Ha looked for them?” “Som I think I have.” | Dane was out across the business with the water, brooding. “At 35 you're rec- bombarding him ognized as one of the most bril- telegrams. He won't answer the | liantly successful men of r - any more, you know.” eration, but I think TOE Sa is a swell car” liest man I've ever known,” “How old are you?” , Cameron flinched. “Let's forget She glanced around quizzically and depressing things and swim,” he Ithen turned back to the road. said. | “Twenty-two.” An hour and a half later as they “Same as Stan,” he muttered. reached the house he turned to her “One month younger, And how diffidently. “You're going out again old are you—as long as we're telling tonight, I suppose?” ?" The question developed an “Would you rather we didn't?” impudent lilt. | “No, of course not. Why should “Thirty-five,” he snapped, and be- I?" Then he faced her squarely and gan to ponder over the fact that for stopped. “You like Stan a good deal, three days she had not mentioned don't you?” he demanded. | Stan except in reply to direct ques-, “And if I do?” , tions. He shrugged. “Nothing. I just re- As they turned into the drive he membered your threat of marrying roused himself. “How about swimi- into the family.” ming?" “Would you object?” she asked “Who?” You and Me?” lightly. “Of course. Who else?” “Have you really fallen in love?" “I'd love to,” she murmured with The question was so harsh that it a little smile. seemed almost a statement. “Afterward we might try out the Her deep blue eyes reurned his new speedboat—I haven't been in keen gaze steadily. “Yes.” she said. ; her yet,” he added, almost as though ' Cameron wheeled and entered the an explanation were needed. house. At the threshold of his private The words were commonplace, hut study he halted. There, stretched out Dane received so sharp an impres- in a big chair, apparenly exhausted sion of something wistful and not and very fagged, was Stan. Camnar- altogether happy in his voice that on looked at hum inquiringly, then she had a sudden impulse to reach shut the door. “Hello, kid. What's out for his hand. “All right, we'll the matter?” try out the new speedboat,” she “I've been waiting for you,” he said. blurted out. “It's all off with Gloria “I can't tell which is hotter, the de Forrest.” wood under me or the sun over me,” | “Congratulations,” Cameron drawl- observed Cameron haif an hour later ed. “Did she take it like a lady 7” as he stretched himself out full! “Well —not exactly. I guess you length on the dock. were right about her after all, Dane regarded him silently as Bruce she peeled off her beach pajamas., “Heart's broken and threatens to She was wondering how a man who Sue?” Stan nodded miserably. apparently spent all his time work- _ “She's got all the letters and evi- ing kept his body in such perfect dence she needs, I s ™ shape. “I'm nothing but a damn fool.” It “Say, this is grand,” Le grunted, Was a groan. closing his eyes. “H-m-m. Well, you don’t want “I'd advise you to look at my @another suit right now, Telephone bathing suit carefully.” her and tell her to come in and spe His eyes opened on a golden brown me at the office Monday morning -- body in a wisp of black quite una- Without a lawyer.” bashedly standing there for in- “You're the swellest guy that ever spection. He looked at her deliber- lived, Bruce.” ately, silently. Then something in “In my own way I'm a bigger fool ‘his expression broke through her than you are, my lad. Get out, now. nonchalance. It's—it's the only I've got things to do. If you're look- thing that didn't cost a small for- ing for Miss Carroll, she's probahly tune,” she explained, dropping down In the library,” he added in a gruff ‘beside him. “Have you been noticing voice. my clothes?” 1 suppose,” Dane greeted Stan “I have,” he replied, realizing Pensively when he found her a mo- ‘with a shock that it was true. ment later, “the reason your hroth- | “I'll never forget that day,” she ©r i8 50 pitifully and stupidly blind mused. “To buy, and buy, and buy, 1S that he's lived so long the ‘and never ask a price! It was the Stygian darkness of his mines.” most exciting thing I've ever dome. Bruce is the greatest person who And knowing what everyone was ever ged albemonlii ys in I charged everything to ‘Really ' an | n g 2 ® Tything eyebrow. “Did you have a i " “What do you mean?” in town, Sasling ? % i “You don't suppose they thought " need cocktails. 1 was your daughter, do you?” she Having waited half an hour, Dane asked coolly. Hop he was h Sith dese 1 hover thought of anything thought b ato a “No, you wouldn't,” she sighed. gap Yynivy Happened to vour lord “Have you ever decided what youre A pas! r? going to do with this trousseau when. f ¢ Fuse went off an ‘my job's over?” Dane # » in the uh | “What I'm going to do with it?" AAO frowned. “Say when ne'd be “Of course. t belongs to you.” NYS i She looked at him mischievously. yo Until late tonight. “Maybe your Aunt Mary" “N y Frond Ch atage ! “You're leaning over backward, , 0, Miss Carroll, except to order aren't you?” reakfast a half hour early for to- | Dane shook her head. “You could ™OrFoW—is that all? sell the dresses for quite a lot.” “I'm not in the old clothes busi- ness! Throw everything away.” “Maybe my sister Eleanor could wear some of the things. She's quite shameless about such matters.” “Oh, yes, the beautiful sister. All right, dump everything on her. Ry the way, did Stan actually tell you hour ago, At 10 o'clock that ht w she told Stan she bay & "iE ig went to bed, Cameron had not re- turned, But, having carefully set her alarm clock ahead half an hour, she was gazing out of the dining room window when she heard his step at why he was going to New York?" io) Ih Next morning. She heard “He didn't have to. But you need- | “Good morning, ” came a stiff n't worry about what's happening greeting. i to him. I did my best to—well, for- tify him this morning before he left. I think the memory of his last few . 's going tod minutes with me may linger on for Cao ea] 2d be ne rl a few hours.” Dane smiled reminis- board poured his orange juice, his ' cently. : ameron tr ; ; Sollee, andtook: tiem both to his “Why so disapproving?” Dane watched him in silence and “I don't like the picture you LR P | then , Shrried her own breakfast to “May I ask how I'm to captivate Presently she looked up. . “Stan your brother almost overnight except | ju oq™ mato marry him yesterday,” by using what sex appeal ! happen she announced. : (to have?" she demanded flippantly. ~ .; suppose I'd better begin calling “What did you bring me out here. you ‘Dane’,” he remarked at last. There's no reason why you shouldn't she replied gravely. “I'll clean up the de Forrest affair today so there won't be anything to She turned with a grin. “We both seem to be early,” | “I don’t like it,” he repeated. | Dane became serious. “You know if the right woman got hold of Stan she could make a lot out of him.” “Yeah?” worry about,” he went on in the | fushed hi cal Same even voice, t Her eyes at his cynical "Uno. frowned. “I should think skepticism. “You're not {air to nim!" 'she cried. “Whose fault is it he's never done a stroke of work? You made Stan what he is. You gave a 10-year-old kid a million dollars outright to play with!” “The stock was only worth | thousand then,” he protested. you'd be pleased, the way things have turned out. Isn't everything all right?" | Cameron's jaw tightened. “You know I think he's damn lucky, You'll ten Make something out of him if any | one can.” After 3 pause, pe went on . i b u y: “ every- “And as far as I can see, you've ©VERn more brusq Bovor paid much attention to him | thing I can to help you Jots 1 5 a ' except to get him out of trouble lot of snarling, but that kid's Jee once he was in,” Dane went on heat- S00 Sand asl I think a good ‘edly. “How many boys would work | a mt 'if they didn't have to? You, you | x live for work. It's your whole life. Stan. —_ | “What?” But here are Ot Mire 30 | “I refused him. Ob, you needn't say I was marrying Suddenly she caught herself up, and foe bag for Stan,” she eat logked at him aghast. “1 beg YOUF ,\ .'iook. “Three hours after I pardon, Mr, Bruce. I forgot myself. | I've been unpardonably rude.” | “Go on. ou were just about | make some personal remarks about | | me, weren't you?” he | broke his heart he found himself to @nother playmate.” — bl to see me I Eleanor blew in to grinned and “Oh eyes twink | yesterday afternoon. I told you about | nis answer, Ted 23 he ‘waited fpr | Ton They're dining together tonight i . | “Stop biting your lip and go on.” in town. She—" ‘ s " | “Damn Elenaor!"” Aren't you in | “Well, you're a machine, she Jove with Stan?” | blurted out aefiantly; Seve given | No i everything else for those mines. | “*% ie To ter how to play, It's put Saturday afternoon you not fair—to urself. There are pm— other things > the world that Cameron stopped suddenly, He count.” | stared at her. Then he rose violent- “Of course there are,” he agread | (Continued on page 3, Col. 5.)