By Peggy Shane Copyright by Peggy Shane. WNU Bervice SYNOPSIS A pretty young woman finds herself im & taxicab in New York with a strange man who addresses her en- dearingly and speaks of “an awful shock.” He leaves her for a moment, and she drives on, for she fears him. She stops at the Biltmore, wondering who she Is. Her memory {is gone. From the evidence of her clothing and wedding ring she concludes she is married to a wealthy man. The name- less girl meets a young woman who speaks of her desire to go to Reno for a divorce, If she can get the money. The woman iishes with the name- less girl's ). An elderly woman, Mrs. Oscar Val, ally greets the nameless addressing her as “Doris,” wife Du Val's Rocky Rocky is abroad, and Doris, bewildered, is taken to the home of Mrs. Du Val and her sculptor husband, Oscar. Doris falls in love with Rocky's photograph, but cannot remember hav- ing married him. Discovering a trade- mark in her clothing, she visits a store, and Is astounded when a saleswoman insists she hide from observation. e returns to the Du Val's, mysti- fled than ever. Rocky returns, to dis- cover the deception. He demands to know who is and why his wife sent her to home. She cannot tell him. core Mrs son, more she his CHAPTER IV—Continued SR Doris breathed deeply. Was ail this finally to end In the police court? His mocking smile came again: “She registers terror!” he said unpleasantly. “Very good. Lifelike. Go to the head of the class.” He sat down beside her. “Come on, Baby, come clean! What's the story?” She did not answer, She was think- ing suddenly of Mrs, Du Val “Your mother?” she said anxiously. “What about my mother? But now his face showed slight signs of sym- pathy--a sympathy not for her. “I can't have her know. What will think?” “A lot you care,” he “Poor mother—" “I do eare—Oh please belleve me. 1 feel terribly about her—" “You have n you were tricking her” “1 didn’ He me His the pretty ea “You've got her d-—4a fond rou—" “It's awful,” said Doris miserably. He walkéd up and his lip. “Awkward, Wesigning little devil!” “Oh, I''m not.” “Shut up.” bear to she sald bitterly — thought of should ight that gray eyes on down, chewing Doris was angry. “You needa’t he so frightfully rude. “No?7-—Well, it's a pleasure. Shut up while I think what to do.” He walked up Doris sat him on the edge of thé bed, watching and down. dismally. “I didn't plan this. Truly I didn't.” “No,” “I sup pose it just happened by accident.” A hot sense of Doris. “No, really you don't said Rocky satirieally. injustice came to She rose, understand. As soon as your mother saw me she took me in her arms. She was glad to see me, I was her daughter. 1 thought" She choking her voice. Rocky sald coldly. “You seem very good at falling inh someone's arms. So is your friend Doris.” Twisting her handkerchief reproach fully, she said. “You seem perfectly heartless about Doris. It's a nice way to talk about your wife, I'm sure. And you didn’t even write to her while you were away.” He flushed uncomfortably, himself down on the couch. “Look here. It's no good going on fighting like this. At least you're de. cent about Mother, and she's all T care about really—mother and father. 1 don't get your game exactly, but—* It was Intolerable. “I have no game.” she rose and went to the closet. “1 don't have to stand being treated like a criminal.” She deposited her small suit case on the bed. “I'm packing.” He stood up with a roar. “Not by a d—n sight. If you think you can rope us in like this, you'd better think again.” “I'm going, don't belong here.” She walked swiftly to her dressing table, gathering up her cold cream, her halr brush, His lips looked thin. hey twisted sarcastically. “What am I supposed to do If you leave?” “1 don’t know.” “And you don't care! you, Miss, She said could not go on. Tears were threw sinee 1 Well, I'll tell I'm going to go on playing your game. I'm going to go on playing Doris’ game.” He smiled. “We're married. See? “Married?” “Don't worry. You'll be quite safe from my brutal attacks” She flushed. “I'm not afraid of you.” “You've got no reason to he” Suddenly Doris eollapsed In a heap of helpless laughter, Rocky looked at her blankly. “What's so funny “What Is this all about?” He sat down smiling ruefully, “I'm sorry. I guess I'm a little excited. My point Is simply that I haven't the face to go downstairs and tell my father and mother that I am not married to you, They're crazy about you." Doris’ anger dripped away, sorry. It's a rotten situation” “Then help the.” “What can I do? “Well listen.” He walked to the window and looked out, “Gosh, it's beautiful out tonight. I don't mind admitting Jha my family wouldn't { “1 am have been nearly so pleased If—" he walked restlessly to the dressing table, stared at himself In the mirror. “G—d, I'm a fool.” He turned at last to Dorls with a smile that was slightly be seeching. “Couldn't you possibly go on pretending for a day or two longer?” Doris was amazed. postor.” “Yes, but—" “But they've got to find out sooner or later.” He nodded gloomily. “I suppose so. The real Doris—" “What's the real Doris like?" He looked at her skeptically. still maintain that you don't Well maybe you don't, ut this much that when Mother wrote how much she liked my—my wife, 1 was never more surprised in my life” Doris stood with averted head. “What will your wife say when she finds out about me?” Rocky looked at her sharply. “Let's not discuss her right now. The point is, I'm due to walk downstairs with you on my arm. If—If they guessed the truth there would be a most un. holy bust-up.” Doris shivered. with it." Rocky sald, “Well then, I think it's the best plan to go on pretending.” “It Isn't very easy.” “Well, we might as well be friends.” Rocky smiled. His face—so like that pictured friend of hers—lighted up, His white even teeth were a surprise, As he spoke he put his arm around Doris and lifted her to her feet. Anger shook her. She jerked away, “Is that your idea of being friends?” He put his hand across his mouth, patted his lips mockingly. Then he pretended to cough respectfully. “My mistake.” “I don't “I know. Doris “But I'm an Im- “You know, I'll say “1 can’t go through like" I know ™ glared at him. “You know what?" “What you don't like. “What's that, then.” “My attitude.” “I wasn't going to say that at all” She caught a glimpse of hersalf in the She flushed disheveled. " mirror. her hair slightly dress—the did make her look nice It her to see herself In it but that dress steadied eoine going “1 was to say that I don't like to go down to dinner with a man who has soot all over kis nose” “You win. It's we're not going to away.” “Not tonight anyway They went into the room The candles on the tables beamed joyously, Mr. and Mrs Du Val were full of a secret elation that showed in the buraing of Oscar's dark eyes, curve of Mrs, Du Val's agreed, then, that other LV ~ ene ” dawn dining and in the happy lips. “Ah this Is Oscar Du Val slipped behind fr now, something." with satisfaction. [He Doris’ chalr with an Rocky held out his mother's chair gallantly. The women seated themselves, . alr of gay rivalry. Such soup.” haven't tasted sighed Rocky. - anything as good as this for years “You haven't been home for years” sald Oscar Du Val. “You are a bad “Now that he is married it will be different, Ah yes, Doris will see that he comes home regularly, as a good boy should.” Doris did not dare to look up from her soup. Rocky changed the subject. “How's the Memorial coming on, Dad?" Oscar made an impolite noise. “Do not switch the talk like that, my boy. What do you eare about the Memorial? You talk silly. Tonight we want to hear where you and Doris plan to live. I do not approve of New York. It Is too noisy. The dust is bad for the chil dren. I am right, am I not, Adoree?” His wife was looking at him re proachfully, It was evident that she considered Oscar was being far from delicate In alluding to the unborn chil dren. Doris was so sensitive she had never once mentioned the child to her mother-in-law, “Oh onl, you are always right,” said Mrs. Du Val disgustedly, She caught Doris’ embarrassed eye, and laughed slightly, “You should not live In New York" “No, no,” said Rocky loudly. “Don't want to live In New York.” His raised voice gave such an odd effect that both his parents stared at him in astonish. ment. His face was red with the effort he was making to keep up his end of the conversation. “In fact we've Just about settled to live In Larchmont, haven't we, Doris?" “Larehmont?* echoed Doris In as tonishment, “We saw such a dear little house there,” said Rocky, “perched on the edge of the Sound. There were roses growing round the door “1 should think the salt water would ruin them,” sald Oscar sardonically, Doris laughed hysterically, The fish was brought In and handed round. “Ah,” sald Rocky, “I don't know when I've eaten such fish.” “The last time you were home, per. haps?” suggested Oscar, “Ah Doris, protect him,” sald Mrs. Du Val, “His father will spoil the beautiful homecoming with all this sar. casm about how long It has been since we have seen Rocky.” “He deserves it” cerely. “Of course he deserves It. He runs away and marries a beautiful wife and does not even let his father know,” sald Osear morosely, “Then he telephones and says, ‘Oh, by the sald Doris sin. way, T have a wife, Take care of her while I go to Europe, She is a wild one-—that wife, so do not let her get away-—she might go down to the vil lage and get drunk if you don't watch her very carefully Bah! Such talk. I tell you there is something wrong with that boy Rocky to say such things about a beautiful young girl lke Doris.” Mrs. Du Val's voice mourned: “Doris is a beautiful young girl.” She looked a sly and secret tender ness at Doris. “So you have found a house—a nice little house In Larch mont. You did not tell me, Doris.” “No. I did not tell you.” Rocky spoke, “It's on the It has gardens at the back.” “It sounds expensive,” sald Oscar Du Val. “Your business Is looking up. n'est-ce pas? His eyes maliciously, “It Is course,” sald Rocky. our dreams, isn't it, “H'm"” said Dorls “It is such a pity," Val “What is such a pity? “That Dorls should set on this nice little hou ©, shouldn't have it." Doris’ Inrge with embar rassment, “No, that Isn't it at all” Mrs. Du Val's colorful volee sounded a diapason of sad tones: “Of course. Oscar, Now she Is afraid that yon are going to give her that nice littie house The little house they have pleked ou together, ” gleamed for us, of “It's Just one of too expensive os Doris? sald Mrs. Dn her heart and she eyes were Isn't It true? “Hand In hand,” sald Rocky. ¢ “Please don't say that™ “Doris,” sald Rocky, “was especially the bath on ahout the cupids on you D “Of course I wasn't.” “Oh-—he tries to tease. But all the he wants that little house, Os- car, you must give them that house for a wedding present.” Roc ky knocked over n ter. “Just to put us all Mother,” he explained, “What Is that?" “Nothing. It's a stu to change the subject” crazy room celling, weren't iris same pid Joke he went an, the water with his “I can't tell you how good those me felt. mopping up kin warm socks you knit the Mrs. smile nap- crossing ocean.” Du Val's face opened In a wide “You wore them. ™ “Naturally, What do } You tnke ing diverted the convers Rocky tried to keep It away from He ts ness conditions and self and his supposed wife about his trip, and busi In France. He told glories feverishly, tes anec Daria" cheeks felt were het and anxious ly end? Her the Her eyes Where Why bad she strained could all this to go on? hand promised shonk as she reached for malt the Vals must see Could be blind? Doris. You bave spilled bat Is bad luck™ walled Mrs “Throw some over your left That will ward off the bad Surely this, Du through they “Oh--oh shoulder luck.” Doris shrugged, Du Val since had has said, “Her is over, her husband turned. Isn't that so, Doris ?™ Doris was hating Rocky so violently at that moment that she found it dim. cult to answer, Why couldn't he have introduced his wife to his family him. instead of letting them meet In the Biltmore in that silly way? And now he was thinking that she was try- ing to force her way in where she didn't belong. She had a strong im- puise to tell the whole thing, blurt it out right new jut if she did, what Vals think of her? wouldn't even believe lost her memory, her now, but If they found out— her lips. She would have to have time to think about what to do. They rose from the table at last, and Mrs, Du Val slipped her band un. der Doris’ arm. “You must go upstairs right away, Doris. This 18 your first night down and you must not overdo it." Doris felt thankful of the oppor tunity to slip away. She kissed Mra Du Val, thinking, “this is the last time perhaps that I shall ever do this, To. morrew you will find out the truth, and hate me.” "Goodnight, Du Val fondly, you™ “Oh no. You must stay with Rocky.” “Ah. I know yon want Rocky. We won't keep him long” scar nek res self would the Du Perhaps they that she had They were nice to She closed my child,” said Mrs, “Shall I come up with turned in horror. say ?™ Mrs. Du Val smiled soon come to bed” “But not—but not In my room?” A shadow crossed Mrs Du face. “Ah? You have still the small quarrel—you and llocky? things blow over. I will send the dear boy up to you very soon.™ “But 1 can't" Mrs. Du Val raised a protesting fin. ger. "You are being a very naughty little girl. And tomorrow you will be sick again, Come, I will take you up. stairs to bed” Doris was pale and determined. If Mrs. Du Val came upstairs there would be more kindly nursing than she could stand. She would have to settle this with Rocky himself. If be thought he was going to sleep In her room he wits mistaken, “All right. T'll go to bed.” She fled up the stairs, The door was shut. She put her hands against her hot face. What » tattoo her heart was making. And her hands werq trembling. She ‘would not undress ard get in bed. She would sh and wait for Rocky to come upstairs (TO BR CONTINURD.) “What did you “Rocky will OLDIERS, sallors, students and the v7 radical wing of the ABC revolu- tionary organization that upset the Machado regime in Cuba decided that the methods and pro- gram of President Carlos Manuel de Ces- pedes were too mild, So they staged a sec- ond while the president was far from Havana inspect- ing hurricane and forced pedes and government to The island placed In the consisting of Sergio revolution damage De Ces. his entire step affairs of republic out, the wore Carlos de Cespedes hands of a the five Carbo, wermo commission leaders of the revolt, Ramon Grau San Martin, Gull Portela, Porfirio Franco and Jose Miguel Irizarrl: This junta an- nounced that the five would serve with equal power except that Portela would be the “nominal president before the diplomatic corps.” This revolution, the second within a month, was accomplished without but the rebels, after arrest. Ing their officers, had posted machine guns at strategic points in Havana and guns from the fortifications were trainéd on the presidential palace. De Cespedes hurried back capital, met the Junta members and turned the government over to after had rejected satisfactory his ex- planation that | as complisi twenty-five Amba notified o to say pr sed Washi bloodshed, to the them they impossible to ac iutionary aims in was formall t had nothin news The his, i , was only to protect ! lives and property and did not constitute a wever, rmed interven. some offi. intervention un- was nearer for many years. Much was made In the newspapers of the fact that Secretary of the Navy went to Hay but It was ered that he was on a previous trip to the Pacific con call on Ambassador connection with nendment Swanson time, Welles had no the Cuban erisis Carbo, one of the junta and a maga. zine editor and leader of fhe youth movement, said the overthrow of De was determined upon when It was discovered that Mario Menbeal, lately returned from exile, was organ- izing a counter-revolution. The rad ical leaders, also, were utterly dissat- isfied with De Cespedes’ appointments to his cabinet, some of his ministers having been too closely identified wit} former administrations of which the radicals did not approve, Cespogles UST before the revolution Cuba had been swept by a tropid hurri. cane that took the lives of yet un counted scores of inhabitants and did vast damage. The storm moved to- ward the northwest and struck Flor fda and Texas. In the latter state perhaps a hundred lives were lost and the beautiful lower Rio Grande valley was devastated, The cities of drownaville, Harlingen and Rio Hon do suffered severely, Relief for the stricken districts was swiftly ergan- ized by Governor Ferguson and the federal authorities. Troops were hur. ried Into the valley, where a flood followed the hurricane. On the Mex lean side of the river the destruction of life and property was as great as In Texas, UGH 8. JOHNSON, NRA admin. istrator, has organized his forces for a nation-wide campaign for “Buy Now Under the Blue Eagle,” and in labor day. ad ri 5 dress at the World's September 20 as the date for its starting. persuade the people that to buy things at this time is not only Indeed, they stress the latter point especially. The wom. en particularly are relled on to make this movement a success and many thousands of them, under the leader ship of Miss Mary BE. Hughes, are en. listed In the campalgn to secure from consumers pledges to support with their custom the manufacturers and merchants who are entitled to display the blue eagle. In his Chicago address General Johnson warned his hearers that the process of economic recovery neces warily entailed the ralsing of prices, but gave assurance that this would be controlled by the government, Two troubles the very adminis. tration has run Into ‘were described by Mr, Johnson as, first, the failure of some employers to live up to thelr agreements under the blue eagle, and second, misundersta nding of the codes between employers and workers, with some resultant strikes and leckouts, “Our chief reliance is In the force of public opinion,” he sald. “We know that to take away the blue eagie is a more penalty than any fine, It is think, enougn, but if it should prove not enough, there are plenty “In stati ficeused o severe puny we of penalties in the law, g this plan f inciting a course, what people are doing is No willing complies with this great national pur. pose live in competition with a chiseler who does not. The whole idea we havz been boycott, Of not a who boycott, employer can Is based on unanimous agreement and action. It Is for the benefit of the American people, It is thelr yall or it is nothing. “It cannot last a unwilling or t if a few employers are permitted (by the advantage of lower ruin the and honest competitors" month cheating costs) to business of their willing ETURNING from his short vaca- tion President Roosevelt was handed General Johnson a number of serious problems concern- ing the NRA Most Important of these was the lock In the soft coal negotiations by cruise, by codes, dead- caused chiefly the Ia union labor problem zl30 en- tered into various oth- er troubling that probably will Yige disp utes have to the President himself, Henry Ford . unt Green of ion of Labor was the American : ' provision in the wonld ghould no other agreement, and he a and he k its abor be would sa bile code Henry Ford but it was would take a immediate action in his The whole country watched Interestedly to see whether he would sign the code within the al- jotted time, and when he failed to do this and said nothing about his ulti mate intentions, Johnson was besieged with questions as to what he would do. Talking to the press in Chicago, it seemed that the administrator was weakening a little In this matter. He sald Ford did not have to sign the code, and if he went further than its provisions, that would be all right with the government. The NRA could intervene, he said, only If a group of Ford's employees complained to it of unfair treatment. Johnson did reit- erate his opinion that Ford would be another problem, indice the governmen not CARE, opinion. Dispatches from Detroit sald a wage revision was in progress at the Ford plant. No formal announcement of this was made, but officials sald it was a gradual process and that about one fourth of the 40000 workers had re ceived Increases from $4 to $480 a day. The code specifies a 43-cent-an- hour minimum wage for the Detroit area. It also specifies a 35-hour week, while Ford employees who are on full time work five eight-hour days a week, JR EYERTING to the union labor problem, it Is interesting to note that Henry I Harriman, president of the United States Chamber of Com- merce, has issued to all its members an appeal to stand firmly In defense of the open shop and in oppositicn te an Interpretation of the labor clauses in the national recovery act which, he says, would be writing into a law a mandate for a closed shop. President Harriman asserted that employers throughout the United States had shown a splendid spirit of co-operation in preparing and adopt ing codes of fair competition. In re turn, he declared, industry should be given adequate assurance that the re. covery program is pot to be turned into a vehicle for forcing the closed shop upon the country. ERMONT, which was one of the few states that the prohibitionists really thought might vote against. re peal of the Eighteenth amendment, disappointed them by going for repeal by a vote of more than 2 to 1. This despite the fact that election day was falr and the hopes of the drys were based largely on good weather that would bring out a large rural vote to offset that of the wet elties and towns, Even though prohibition should be repealed this year Vermont would con. tinue without hard ftiquor under its present state law. Beer and wine of 8.2 alcoholic content were authorized by the legislature this year, but a state enforcement act prevents anything stronger, Formal ratification of the repeal amendment was completed by the state conventions of Arizona and Ne vada, the vote In edch case being unanimous, WO deaths marred the otherwise successful international alr races held at Glenview, a Chicago suburb, Roy Liggett of Omaha was killed when his plane fell from an altitude of 200 feet at the start of a race, one of the wings breaking off. Miss Florence Klingensmith of Minneapolis, an entry in one of the last final races, was dashed to instant death when fabric on the right wing of her fast plane tore loose and she lost control. Jimmy Wedell of Texas, a self-made aviator, was the star of the meet, for he set a new speed record for land planes. He flashed along a three kilometer course four times at an average of 305.338 miles an hour. The previous record, established by Maj, James H. Doolittle, was 204.38 miles an hour, N ANY famous pllets assembled In : Chicago to do honor to the ploneers of the alr mall and especially to pay a tribute to the memory of Max who Just years before first iil from New air- ceremonies, program Capt. airman of guch Mattern and id the world fiy- aleone, Italy's stunt ace; Udet, German war ace; Jim- Doolittle, Jimmie Hazlip, and Roscoe Turner. Distinguished guests Included fifteen of the Earl veterans of fifteen ded on the lake front with the military the impressive Progress, CEer was beside him as Jimmie were Bennett Griffin, aro tohty eignly IFTEEN hundred delegates to the convention of the National Fed- eration of Post Office Clerks in Chi cago adopted a resolution urging con- gress to put postal employees on a mr week, and a bill to bring wut probably will be intro- the use next session by } M. Mead of Buf- oon. 1ddressed the the Jews Is a Nar studying, and rt declares Germany must be. IAT to do with gestion that a ssioner has been German new oountry, Jews world shall be in where rections #Tord best to i forming a nat » country. Then wander restlessly they throug rt who the that 1.800.000 mada yy mde reg persons achieve his G00 on d leave Germany to This number G09 On includes Jews who a¢ the faith, an spproximate descendants of mixed mar Jews, Christian G00 000 opted and inges Nazi the Prussian and pushed cluding persons German Christians dominated synod In Berlin through 20 motions, in- barring non-Aryans or marrying non-Aryvans from the pulpit and church offices. Cases in which special services In be half of church be proved exempted from the npon-Aryan church one fron the can were rule, IN? long ago the League of Na- “ tions organized a gendarmerie In the Saar for the purpose of gradually replacing the French troops that have been policing the re gion that is to deter mine its nationality by plebiscite in 1035, Dispatches from Paris say the league officials are losing confidence in the new police as a result of a cam- paign against it by the left press, the as. sertion being made that it Is fast falling under the Influence of the German Nazis Therefore the gendarmerie may be dissolved, although to do this and again charge French troops with maintenance of order would probably Increase the Nazi strength in the Saar, Speaking at the dedication of a monument to Aristide Briand. French Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Bonecour attacked the recent Nazi demonstra- tions at the Niederwald monument near the French frontier and declared in so many words that France was not intimidated. He sald the situation would be grave “if our patience was born of a knowledge of our weakness, But that is not so, for France knows she is strong enough to resist vio- lence” The foreign minister reaffirmed France's intention not to swerve from a policy of safeguarding Austria's in- dependence and of building a central European economic union. Chancellor Hitler told 100,000 of his storm troops at the Nuremberg Nast party convention that Germany was not looking for war. Paul-Boncour | BCAUSE an engineer did not see or did not heed a flagman’s red lantern, 14 persons were killed and 25 injured In a rail disaster at Bing. hamton, N. ¥. The Atlantie expfess, a Chicago-New York passenger train on the Erle road, stopped by an automatic block signal, was struck In the rear by a milk train and a wooden car was completely telescoped by a steel coach. Most of the dead were residents of Susquehanna, Pa, ©. 1933, Western Newspaper Unien.
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