\ AN AFFAIR OF HONOR &B By THAYER WALDO © by MoeClure Newspaper Syndicate. WNU Service. ITH Margaret on his arm, Ward strode proudly into the Purple Hat, It was thickly peopled, for he had purpose- ly chosen the busiest luncheon hour, Half the men in Hollywood had been trying for a date with the little aris- tocrat from Kentucky ever since her arrival, and his success was worth a flourish, Ward paused just inside, ostensibly seeking a table. The golden-haired beauty beside him clung close with gratifying familiarity, Suddenly he saw a man emerge from a nearby booth and come toward them. It was Al Alberts of the scenario staff at Zenith, Ward started a cordial greeting but checked it at sight of the other's un- smiling face. Alberts confronted him evenly: “See here, Ward ; you're trespassing. Miss Blair promised me a luncheon appointment today.” Ward laughed shortly, “Don't be absurd, old fellow,” he re- Joined; “you're just trying to attract attention.” “No; I'm entirely serious I ask you to withdraw.” From the corner of his eye Ward could see a number of persons watch- ing Interestedly. Among them he rec- ognized the film editor of a leading afternoon paper. A wild impulse was born. He glanced swiftly at the girl; her cheeks were coloring and a haughty little scowl! crinkled her fore- head. and sald must * - * That decided him. Snatching a napkin from the near- est table, he wheeled and slapped it smartly across the Alberts face. “Take that, you insolent whelp!™ he shouted with unnecessary volume. “This affront to mademolselle can only be treated as an affair of honor.” Eyes blazing, the scenarist cried: “Yery well, sir; I am at your service,” Silently Ward applauded the speech, it fit the scene he had attempt- ed to create with nicety. He made a brief stiff bow and said: “Excellent. 1 invite you to come with me at once and make the ar- rangements. This must be kept pri- vate to avoid interference.” “Good ; 1 accept.” Ward faced Margaret Blair. She was large-eyed now, and he thought he could detect excited ap- proval in her expression, “Will you,” he asked, “have the goodness to forgive me if [ leave you with a friend here and go? My hot blood ean't tolerate such insulting con- duct.” “Oh, suahly I™ understanding. now, of co'se.” Approaching the Ward said: “Melvin, I'd be obliged if you'd see that Miss Blair has lunch and gets back to the studio The editor rose, beaming. be very happy.” Ward about-faced and with Alberts matching step, stalked from the place, happily conscious that all eyes fol- lowed, Fifty paces the two men marched in silence; then: “Have you ever handled a sword?” Ward demanded bluntly, The other shook his head. “Never even held one” “Neither bave I. We'll have to fig- ure some way around it. That was too good an act back there not to carry on.” “I'll say so! How did you happen to think of striking me with the nap kif? That was real genius” “Oh, because Maggie Blair was there, I guess. Old southern gesture, and all that, But the best thing was the way you approached me. What sug- gested that?” “Well, she really did promise to have lunch with me: and then, 1 saw Melvin and thought how he'd like a Bice spicy story.” “I got it. Same reason 1 challenged you, Now I've been considering, and here's what I think might work out best. . . * Al Alberts gave scrupulous atten tion. When the other concluded, he stated with emphasis: “Great! That's the one plan that can save our faces and still be straight, let's get ‘em right now, and then we can go to my apartment for the art work.” “Right.” Ward glanced back. made certain they weren't followed, and hailed a eab. Both men got in. Ward told the driver: “Great Western Costume company.” - » * Her tone implied full “Yo'd have to do that newspaperman, deeply “Okay— Five minutes’ ride through the secant midday trafic reached the place. En- tering, they went at once to a long desk Just Inside; over it was painted Aa sign: PROPERTIES RENTAL DEPT, “We want,” Ward sald to the man in charge, “two duelling swords. One Aay’s rental; you ean pick ‘em up to- morrow at Zenith.” With professional disinterest the clerk made out a slip, got Ward's sig. nature, and disappeared Into a rear room. Shortly he returned, bringing a pa- _ per-wrapped parcel from which pro- truded two gleaming hilts. Alberts tucked It under his arm and they left. An hour later, seated before a win dow that overlooked the wooded flanks of Laurel canyon, Ward was giving himself careful scrutiny in a hand mirror, The countenance it showed had un- dergone a gaudy transformation. Splotches of mercuroclirome were spaced by court plaster patches; the effect was something between a major surgical and a severe case of scarlet fever, “Thanks; practically perfect, seems to me,” he told the other at last, put ting the glass down. “And you-—well, that mug's enough to strike awe in the hearts of strong men, if 1 do say it myself.” Alberts chuckled, stood up, clicked his heels together. “Honored opponent,” he said, bend- ing forward at the walst; “may I ten der my respects at the close of this epic struggle which has ended in a draw? Let us hope our sons copy our virtues bold.” “Seconded. What this world needs 18 more virility and less shoddy hum- bug. . Say, what about the swords; think they ought to be un- wrapped and done up in different pa- per?” Alberts gestured carelessly, “No: that guy'll never notice details, Come on—let’s have dinner sent up. I'm starved and we don't dare go out. But tomorrow we'll reap the rewards of valor, And remember—it's to be fair competition for Margaret Blair, and may the best liar win!" » » » and " and so, after ten minutes of terrific fighting with no advantages on either side, I finally began to force him back step by step.” Ward paused ; through the knot of auditors clustered about he glimpsed, across the lot, a similar group surrounding Alberts. “I only hope,” he stated stiffly, “that that gentleman over there is rendering me my just due, as I am his to him. « + «» Let's see; where was 17” The spectators were drawing back to make way for some one, In an instant the eagerly concerned face of Margaret Blair appeared. “Oh, my deah! she ctied at sight of Ward. “Yoah so herole lookin’! What happened?” He smiled upon her with expansive delight. “Well, 1 was just explaining. We had a titanic battle, but at last I made one lightning lunge and—" Again slight commotion as another newcomer shoved through the press from behind and tapped Ward's shoul der. He turned sharply, recognized the tumers. “Those swords,” the fellow “where are they? 1 gotlta have right away." Ward waved him impatiently aside “Yes, yes; not just now. Can't you see I'm busy? to parry the thrust, but" “Hey, 1 tell you 1} important.” and COs frowning, fellow from the said; ‘em full upon the glower, “1 sald later! need them badly enough to warrant—" “Yeah—] do, though.” The property man's tone was “1 Just got a call from Paramount for two rubber swords, and those are the only ones we have” man with a fearsome Certainly yon doggedly Religious Liberty in Old Maryland Colony It 1s not surprising that the colon was a novel proceeding that, in an age when Christendom was torn by fratri- cldal strife because of differences in creed, they should promise to give the same privilege of freedom of con science to all others that came to live with them, While as yet there was no spot in Europe or America where men's re ligious convictions were too sacred to be invaded by tests of state or assailed by the forces of bigotry, Lord Balti- more’s first order to his colonists was that there should be no difference on account of réligion. The records show that at first both Catholics and Protestant sects used a community church; that a proclama- tion was issued in 1638 for the sup pression of “disputes tending to the opening of a faction in religion.” And an act of the assembly declared that “no person professing to believe In Jesus Christ shall be troubled, molest. ed, or discountenanced, for, or In re spect of, his or her religion” Thus Protestant and Catholic dwelt together in harmony, neither attempt. ing to interfere with the rights of wor ship of the other, and “religious liberty obtained a home, its only home in the wide world, at the humble village which bore the name of St. Marys” Bulletin National Geographic Society. 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