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CHAPTER XII—Continued
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1 never appreciated
Hortie until now. 1 was too silly, vain
—feather-headed. I have realized it
since knowing Marcia.”
“We all want to be different after
we have seen Marcia,” Stanley Heath
sald gently,
“We don't just want to be—we set
about it,” was the girl's grave reply.
“Sit down, Sylvia, and let us talk of
Marcia,” ventured Heath after a pause,
“I am deeply sorry If I have wounded
her—indeed I am.”
The girl searched his face,
“I cannot understand you, Mr,
Heath,” she sald. “What has Mar-
cla done that you should have left her
as you did? Hasn't she belleved In
you through thick and thin? Stood
up for you against everybody—going It
blind at that? Few women would
hare had such faith In a stranger.”
“I realize that. You do not need to
tell me,” he answered. “It Is pre-
cisely because she has gone so far I
believed her capable of golng farther
yet—the whole way.”
“What do you mean by the whole
way?”
“To the end.”
“Well, hasn't she?
He shook his head.
“No. She has fallen short—disap-
pointed me cruelly. When it came to
the final test, her affection collapsed.
Oh, she has been wonderful,” he added
quickly. “Do not think I fall to ap-
preciate that, She has far out-dis-
tanced every other woman [ ever have
known. 1 simply expected too much
of her, doubtless the impossible. Hu-
man nature is frail—a woman's heart
the frallest thing of all. I have al-
ways said so.”
“You wrong Marcia,” cried Sylvia
hotly. “Her heart is not frail. Nelther
is she the weak sort of person you
have pictured. In all the world yon
could not match her loyalty or the
depth of her affection. If after the
experience we three have lived through
together you have not discovered whar
she is, it is futile for me to attempt to
show you.
“You came
“I shall be.
into our lives like a
We knew nothing about
thing.
word of explanation. Marcia
none, Without rhyme or reason
believed in you. I had not
ready to help you save your skin.
you to save your soul
been able to detect it. What
pened as a result of this enforced in-
timacy ?
than 1."
the man without an instant’s hesita-
tion,
her lip curling.
poor thing you offered her! Why,
Marcia would have gone to the world's
the right. She would have faced any
humiliation for your sake.
remalped faithful until they swung
open and afterward followed you to
any corner of the earth In which you
chose to begin a new life.”
“That's where you're wrong, Sylvia”
contradicted Heath. “Marcia was not
ready to do that. I tried her out and
she refused. When I told her I should
return to her, and asked her in so
many words whether she was willing
to face shame and public scorn for my
sake she turned her back on me. She
could not go to that length.”
“Are you sure she understood?”
asked Sylvia, stepping nearer and look-
ing fearlessly Into his eyes. “There Is
a shame Marcia never In this world
would face for any man; but it is not
the shame you have just described.
“It is the shame of wronging another
woman; destroying a home, In the
villages where we have been brought
up, we believe In marriage as a
sacred, enduring sacrament—not =a
bond to be lightly broken. When you
offered Marcia less than that"
“I never offered Marcia any such
shameful position, Sylvia,” cried Stan-
ley Heath. “I would not so far insult
her.”
“But yon are married.”
“That is a lle. Who told you so?™
“The—the wire to Mrs. Stanley
Heath—the telephone message. |
heard you call her Joan”
“But, Sylvia, Mrs. Stanley Heath is
not my wife. She Is my young step
mother, my father's widow, | always
shave called her Joan."
“Oh! 1 beg your pardon”
“1 see it all now,” the nian explained,
You have entirely misunderstood the
situation. I'm a Junior. Since my
father's death, however, people have
got cut of the way of using the term.
Sometimes I myself am careless about
it. So Marcia thought"
“Of course she did. We both did
How were we to know?" Sylvia de
manded.
“How, indeed? If an Innocent eltl-
gen cannot visit a town without being
“Prrested as a criminal within a week
of his arrival, why shouldn't he be mar-
ried without his knowledge, Cir.
cumstantial evidence can, apparently,
work wonders,
Then suddenly he threw back his
bead and laughed,
“Bless you, little Sylvia—bless you
for setting me right. I told you you
were a brick and you've proved it.
Thanks to you, everything is now
straightened out. Here, give me your
hand. How am I to thank you for
what you have done? I only hope
that young Horatlo Fuller of yours
reallses what a treasure he is getting.”
“He does, Mr, Heath—he does,” ob-
served that gentleman, strolling at the
same Instant through the door and
encircling his tiny bride-to-be with his
arm. “Haven't I traveled half way
across thls big country of ours to
marry her?”
“Oh, we're not going to be married
yet, Hortie,” demurred the girl trying
to wrench herself free of the big fel-
low's hold.
“Certainly we are, my dear. Didn't
I tell you this morning I came to get
married? I was perfectly serious. Dad
gave me two months vacation with
that understanding. I must elther
produce a wife when I get home or
lose my job.”
“Looks to me as If you had Mr.
Fuller's future prosperity In your
hands, Sylvia,” Heath said.
“She has. She can make or break
me. A big responsibility, eh, little
Sylvia?"
“I know it, Hortle,” retorted the gir!
seriously.
“She is equal to it, Fuller—never
fear,” Stanley Heath asserted.
“I''m pot doing any worrying,’
smiled Horatlo, *“I—"
The sentence was cut short by the
radlo’s loudspeaker:
“The much sought Long Island gem
thief was captured this morning at his
lodgings In Jersey City. Harris Chal
mers, allas Jimmie O'Hara, a paroled
prisoner, was taken by the police at
his room on K— street. A quantity of
together with firearms and the
missing jewels were found concealed
in the apartment. The man readily
admitted the theft. He has a long
prison record.”
i +
loot,
For a second nobody spoke.
Then as if prompted by common
Impulse, the three on the plazza
rushed Indoors,
Elisha was sitting lmply before the
radio, ’
“Did you hear that?" he gasped.
“Well, rather!” Horatlo Fuller shout-
ed with a triumphant wave of his
band.
"Ain't Kk
the
the beateree?”
sheriff,
up In
exploded
“That sends
the alr. All
astonished
the whole case
God's earth is
nephew-lawyer
fool on for
Eleazer's young in
New York, who's checking up Heath's
story, to wire everything there is 0.
K. If he does, I'll go bury my head.
There goes telephone! That's
That's Eleazer—I'l1 bet a hat.
“Hello !—Yes, 1 heard it.—You ain't
surprised? Wal, I am. I'm took off
f
the
he, an’ everything's O. K.? That bein’
the case, I reckon there's no more to
be sald. [1 feel like a shrimp, How
do you feel?"
Elisha hung up the receiver,
“Wal, Mr. Heath, the story you told
as a string
he announced.
free! There ain't nothin’ 1
To tell you I'm sorry ain't
You'll Just have
every particular,”
say.
idiots that was overam-
“It Was Outrageous of You, Insult.
ing, to Leave a Thing of This
Bort for Marcia”
“1 shall not let It go at that, Mr.
Winslow,” Stanley Heath acclaimed,
stepping to the old man's side and
seizing his palm In a strong grip.
“We all make errors. Forget it. I'm
going to. Besides, you have treated
me like a prince since I've been your
guest”
“You are the prince, sir. Livin’ with
you has shown me that. Wal, any-
how, all ain't been lost. At isust I've
met a thoroughbred an’ that ain't none
too frequent an occurrence in these
days.”
“What I can't understand, Mr. Wins
low, Is why you didn’t recognize he
was a thoroughbred from the begin.
ning,” Horatlo Fuller remarked.
“You've a right to berate me, young
mana perfect right. I ain't goin’ to
put up no defense. "Twas the clreum-
stances that blinded me. Besides, I had
only a single glimpse of Mr. Heath,
Remember that. After he was took
sick I never saw him again. Had we
thing would ‘a’ been different.
them jewels—"
“Great hat, man!
ring in my pocket when I
Wilton, but that didn't
stolen It."
“I know!
sherlfr.
in's entirely.
turned round.”
I had a diamond
came to
We got completely
key!” Jeered Horatlo.
Then turning to Sylvia, he added in
an undertone:
see the only person who has kept her
head through this affair is our Aunt
Marcia”
Elisha overheard the final clause,
“That's right!” he agreed with cor-
diality. “The Widder's head-plece can
always be relled upon to stay steady.”
ley Heath, puzzled by the term.
“Marcia’'s. Here In town we call
her The Widder.”
“Well, you'll not have the opportun-
ity to call her that much longer,”
Heath laughed,
“You don't tell me!” Elisha re-
garded him, open-mouthed. *“Humph!
So that's how the wind blows, Is It?
Wal, I can see this mix-up would 'a’
ended my chances anyway. Marcia'd
never have had me after this. Disap-
pointed as I am, though, there's a
sight of comfort In knowin’ she won't
have Eleazer neither. He don’t come
out of the shindy a whit better'n me,
That's somethin’, In fact It's a heap!”
CHAPTER XIII
Intense as was the joy of the three
persons, who a little later set out
toward the Homestead in the old yel-
low dory, they were a silent trio.
Too much of seriousness had hap-
pened during the morning for them to
dispel Its aftermath lightly.
pulling at the oars, was
unusually earnest, Sylvia turned the
ring on her finger reflectively and
Stanley Heath looked far out over the
water, too deep In thought to be con-
sclous of either of them.
When, however, the boat swung into
the channel, Sylvia spoke.
“Hortle and I are not coming with
you, Mr. Heath” she sald. “We will
stay behind. Only do, please, promise
me one thing. Do not tell Marcia the
whole story before we have a chance
to hear It. There are ever so many
connecting links I am curious beyond
words to have you supply.”
“Such as—7
“The Jewels in the first place.
hardly walt have that
solved, ™
Stanley laughed,
“The jewels are no mystery at all
I can satisfy your mind about those
here and now. They were Joan's—
Mrs. Heath's. Her mald, Corinne,
took them and disappeared. Soon
afterward, purely by accident, 1 met
Paul Latinver, a friend who lives on
Long Island, and during the course
of our conversation, he asked if 1
knew a good man servant, saying that
Jullen, their butler, had just given
notice that he was to be married to
Corinne, the new parlor maid, and re
turn with her to France,
“The woman's name instantly caught
my attention.
“Why shouldn't I do a bit of sleuth
ing on my own account?
“Thus far the detectives Joan and I
had hired had made no headway at
locating the jewels.
“Why shouldn't I have a try at It
myself? I got a boat and cruised
along to the Latimers’ at whose house
I had frequently stayed, and with the
habits of whose household I was
familiar, My plan was to arrive
early in the morning before the fam.
liy was astir and catch the parlor
mald alone at her work.
“Should she prove to be our Corinne,
I would boldly confront her with the
theft and demand the jewels: If, on
the other hand, she turned out to be
another person altogether, 1t would be
perfectly easy to explain my presenca
by falling back on my acquaintance
with Paul
“It seemed, on thinking the matter
over, that this would be a far more
considerate course anyway than to drag
in the detectives, not only because I
had no real evidence to present to
them, but also because of my friend.
ship for the Latimers and for Julien,
who had been In their employ many
years. I knew they esteemed him very
highly and would be dreadfully cut up
should they find him involved in an
affair as unpleasant as this one. Be
sides, I feit practically certain he had
had nothing to do with the crime. He
was too fine—one of the old-fashioned,
devoted type of servant
“To shame such a man and throw
suspicion on him if ke were blameless
would be a pity, especially just on the
eve of his resigning from service. It
Horatlo,
I can
to mystery
with the gratitude and good-will of his
employers, he might be sent away un-
der a cloud. I did not wish that to
happen,
*1 reached the Latimers’ unobserved ;
found Corinne alone straightening up
the library; faced her and demanded
the jewels.
“The Instant she saw me she knew
the game was up, and, without more
ado, produced the gems from her
pocket, shouldering all the blame.
“Julien, she protested, knew nothing
of the theft. He was a self "
honest man. Should he be told of
what she bad done It would end every-
thing between them. She loved him.
Indeed It was because of him she had
ad
ad
Ridin
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the Tool Box on a High Shelf,
MATRIMONIAL UNION,
LOCAL 13
By NINA WILCOX PUTNAM
LOT of
impression the big con-
that
Hitler and Europe, or Father
|
Republicans: but they are wrong.
big controversy is
most of the human race,
between husbands and
to decide who's
The minute the
Alter, the le
Fy
which
is the
the the
boss,
ward begins
for hundreds o
ties
were settied
t the difficu
of this | ar type of unior
he men,
Each
and
man
when
club for the §
he
and then brought suf-
e Indy bh
to Mom.
didn’t get any
his own private ciub,
Joined up with it
ficlent th
lered a lot about g
pressure to bear,
wing home
$
me's cave but generally
ra none of the
telephoned In about It and
licked and liked ft.
were no pol lo cars,
neighbors
ice
the lady stayed
This
male club
undoubtedly the origin of
as an institution, nd In
more modern
apply to hushands.
on a strike abou
and
signy
t the hired girl's night
parade in
“Mrs.
Opener”
his local
which «a
ks With a Can
might of
a trip to Reno, |
Of course not everybody
eligible for admission Into
Only
out
that
come it—maybe
dunno,
would be
these
workers would
have
hus-
skilled
The
women would
at ir
working
would
work aliblis
Married Wom-
would ha
be skilled thei
men have to be
In order to in the
lag Ye to prove
le the roost and
made by a co
walch while
k her head is
to start a panie
would
ng if he'd go «
club was eno
his His
practically anytl
tor hy
igh
home. wife
a week, hence the b
a club over her head”
Then in years women
got resigned to the club idea because
it gave to reproach
their hushands about. And next they
got up some clubs of their own, hen
some pants of their own and some
votes of thelr own and the battle over
who was boss got less cute and more
acute,
The trouble with the women is
they want the man to be the boss, but
they want him to prove it. And when
a competent wife asks that she's
really asking too much.
And the trouble with the men Is,
, they want the woman to be boss but to
pretend she isn't
The Matrimonial Union ought to
adopt some modern methods of oper
ating If IT wants to get anvwhere
Look where organization got the A.
F. of L.! No, you look, 1 can’t quite
bring myself to. Jut what I mean
is, that clubs are out of date but
strikes are not. And If this eternal
man-woman question lg ever to be
settled satisfactorily, it should be done
through protective associations which
will see to it that the interests of
both parties are stimulated, I beg par-
don, I mean looked out for,
Of course strike methods would be
no novelty in most homes where she
has been striking with a rolling pin
| for years, and he has been taught that
| no gentleman aver raises his hand to
a woman with the one exception of the
school teacher when he Is very young
| and wants to leave the room,
But modern strikes are not con-
ducted that way. Nowadays when
| strikers walk out they also walk up
and down. They crawl in between two
| slices of a sign-board, make a human
| sandwich out of themselves, and If
quite recent
them something
| they also wore an onion and a little
mustard you could bite into them for
| & hamburger and never know the dif.
ference. This is called picketing but
does not mean you are on the picket
fence. It just means you are picking
on somebody.
The way I figure the Matrimonial
Union could work it would be some
thing like this: say Mr. Jones has re.
fused to buy his wife a new hat. Mrs,
Jones immediately reports the outrage
to her local and the women start walk.
ing up and down in front of the Jones’
house wearing sandwiches which pro
claim “Mr. Jones 1s unjust to the mil
linery trade.” Then underneath “Mar.
ried Women's Protective Union, Loe
eal No, 1”
The methods would of course
— a —
he drops
comes home im
date Is
The qualification
elected,
ushand-apg
abuse h
The
8 wife, an
president
1 his wife's head and
t her for putting the tool
like that
down without
for
old
Po
shelf where
pole gizge
joesn’t ag
be a walking
as fast as possible
nning.
should
iy oniy
husbands of
wives so famous that they have been
forced to become known to the world
by those wives’ names be eligible to
the Matrimonial Union, Local 13, or
any other Local.
no INeans
Society idea Is going strong, and I see
by the paper that they have recently
passed a law over there whereby a
woman can be thrown in the jug for
failure to pay her divorced husband
his alimony.
see Red,
While in California not very long
ago, a bunch of women got together
and secured what is known as the
Community Property Law. That meant
both parties to a marriage were joint
owners of the home and the bank ac.
count. It was Intended as a protec
tion against Non-Union Younger
Blondes, ut since it became law a
lot of the boys have found It more
profitable to get a divorce than to get
a job,
All of which goes to prove that
United We Stand for A Lot: Divided,
You Get the House If You're Lucky!
But with the husbands and the
wives both well organized we might
get to a point where we could do a
little arbitration. The wives demand
the abolition of the twenty-four hour
day, and a minimum dress allowance, |
While the husbands could demand the
removal of the time llnit on home
coming, and the right to valk upstairs |
in their shoes after 11 p. m. The old
principle of give and take is the best
after all—he gives and she takes. But |
no amount of arbitration can ever |
settle who's boss. That cay be done |
only in one way, and the Husbands’ |
Protective Association which (sakes up
this set of rules will work wonders
1. Never forget to kiss your wife
good-by~-and kiss her unexpectedly
even If you're staying home,
2. Notice her clothes and tell her
she looks pretty. Four times a year Is
sufficient for this,
8. Bring her a flower of two ocea-
slonally when your conscience is per
fectly, obviously clear,
4. Never trust her around the cor
ner and never stand for any nonsense
from her when you and she both know
it's nonsense,
And If your association will adhere
strictly to these simple rules, there is
no question about who will be boss
we women are that Kind of fools!
€ Nina Wilcox Putnam. WNU Bervica
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towel around his neck waving in
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suddenly, “What the dickens is the
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