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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19. 1922
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THE BREAKING POINT
By Mary Roberts Rinelhiart
ufHer or "Dangerous Day." "K," "The Amattng Inter ludti," and twiny ether itrikinv an guceestfui tieUi
Copyright, IBtl, by Onorpe B. Vetan Ce.
inq WHO I TIIK BTOR
. nil70 LtrtNOSTOXH, chief piiyiMan
W Si:,'riu.i tmnll town, etnial but bluf.
ft. Mlewrt ntl'hexe with .
ItCr. W ',,s,c 1'0,'f'' lu "N"""''0' ',
? ArKe me Sen. '""I iV'" I1 W'TlVf
C"L1 ii.u tn a lac te .Vnrnrtrt. Ml child-
ffifee.V .Vt.C?. e HtloJit-er. who fcneiei
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iSLret77'c va"a!J5S5a,,ii sin
Cter. Ml 1 cJ'Jlr) M te clear .tM.,0 d.
HJM. EMwitfJV. (sJr. an exfravaeant
BliacHi. u-llh whom h ""
mill: summer passed hIewI.v. Te David
X nnJ IJIIwil.eth it was n Ions W"1'1"?'
but with thin .Hffeisncc, Hint David
was kept nllve by Iwne. and that Eliz
abeth felt sometimes that Impe was
killing licr. Te David mrli day wnsn
J v dav. and mlRht held D Irk. Te
I ...... 1. f .1 time, nnch day was
mm mere of Fopavntien
uaL -i.i i..i hwmnp
nr. iipynnnis ni -; .. m--
w !. f intriidinE into the fniml
iffnlr with the Rossiter girl, uajm u
UMinB jm-.v ,.':,; -1llnvtlens
IHIM 1 III IPIlll' v --
n fixture!
.1 . !.
StM re "intert: -had for instance
S DIp '" nearer the window,
SSnis ad of doing hi own laboratory
terk had what David rmiMd w.l a
of Hendinc 1Ih
jq. -JjTtJf 1Fw7jw W
"I only want him liarh," Eliza
beth said. "I don't care hew lie
remi's, m he comes."
until
te
. .11.. 1.... f.iblitnn
KUrre uily cln.M with cot
ten, te a hospital in town.
Invl.l found the dayw very Ions and
Inte Helv id. He wakened "'',"1or(n "'',"1er(n
w ,. irnewed hope, wutehe, ter he
peMinnn from hW "PP" window . a
1 r ... . .... ..II tin. stnilN Wltll tile
K HI. firs BlimPM- f '"7 wny
SmIiIiii the Mery At the l.eP '"''
Ind invited en talkiii!; about Diek. but
S w that It hurt her. and of late
thpv had fallen into the habit of lone
silence.
tu. .1.ii.iMiiliin(lnn te live en
iu. .n.,.i, ..-'.lii-li tip never reused
expert enl earrled him m far, lujw,
ever He felt no inreiitive te aetlvity.
There were times when he tried Lucy
wrelv. when she felt that if he would
onlv'meve about, re downstairs and at
tend te hN odie prnetlee. Ret out into
the iin 'ind air. he would t;rnw Mnmser.
Hat there were tluu. Urn. when she felt
that only the will te live was carrying
him mi. ... 1 r
Nothing further had developed, se fn,r
a' they knew. The search had been
abandoned. I.uey was nn longer se Mire
as she had been that tiie house was
under surveillance, against Dick's po pe
flble return. Often -he lt in her bed
and fared the conviction that Dirk was
dead. She had never understood the till
that at firt had gene en nbeut her. when
Bawtt and Harrison Miller, and chop
or twice the psvrhe-nnnlvfit David had
inniiil!i'il in town, hail iret together 111
David's bedroom. The mind was the
mind, and Dick wns Dick. Ti"- imw
about habit. eer which David pored
at night when lie should have been
sleeping, or brought her in te listen te,
with an air of triumphant vindication,
meant nothing te her.
A man properly trained in right
habits of thinking and of action could
net think wrong and go wrong. David
arcued. He even went further, lie said
that love was a habit, and thnt love
would bring Dick back te him. That
he reuld net forget them.
She believed that, of course, if he
(till lived. Hut hadn't Mr. Hassett.
who M-cined se eurieu-dy mixed in the
affair, been out ngain te Norn da with
out result'' Ne, it was all ever, and
she felt thet it would be n romfert te
knew when- he lay, and te bring him
lack te some well -loved and tended
grave.
i:ilzabeih rnme often te sec them, bhe
looked much the same as ever, although
she wa.s erv slender and her smile
rather strained, and she and David
would lnvi' long talks together. She
flbvajs felt rather like an empty vessel
wln-n .die went in, but David filled her
with hope and sent her away cheered
and visibly brighter te her long wait
ing. She rather avoided Lucy, for
Lucy's fears lnj in her face and wcre
like a Miudew ever her spirit. She came
across her mie day putting Dick's cloth
ing away in camphor, and the act took
en an air of finality that almost crushed
her.
Se far tliey had kept from her Dick's
real Identity, hut certain tilings they
had told her. She knew that he had
gene back, in some strange, way. te the
J ears liofere he came te Haverly, and
that he had temporarily forgotten
everything since. Hut they had told her
tee, and seemed te believe themselves,
that it was only temporary.
At first tin. thought had been mere
than she could bear. Hut she had te
live her life, and In such a way lis
te hide her fears, l'erluips it was geed
for her, the necessity of putting up a
bold fient, te join the conspiracy that
os te held Dli'k's place In the world
agaim-t the hope of his return. And
fhc still went te the Sayre house, suru
that there at least there would be no
curious gluuccs, no tee casual ques
tions. She could net be sure of that
tven nt home, fur Niim was constantly
conjecturing.
"I sometimes wonder " Nina began
ne day. and stepped.
"Wonder what';"
"Oh, well. I suppose I might as well
w en. De j mi ever think that If Dick
'"id gene bueis, as they say he has,
that there might be somebody else'"
'Anether girl, you nieim?"
'Yes. Sume one he knew before."
Mn.i was watching her. Sometimes
the nliue-t burst with the drama she
was suppressing she had been a small
lrl when Judsen Clark hud disap
I'uirtd, hut even at twelve she had
known something of the story. She
wanted, ftniitically te go about the vil
lage and say te them: "De jeu knew
who ha'j been lhli.j; here, whom you
used te pan, mice? Judsen Clark, one
w the richest, men lu the world!'' She
'"lit ,'in dreams en that foundation
lie would come back, for, of eeurse.
lie would be teuud mid acquitted, and
buy the Sajre place, perhaps, or build
"much larger one, and they would
"il go te ihirepe in Ids jncht. Hut
ne knew new that the woman Leslie
nad sent his. (lowers te had loomed
large in Dick's past, and she both hated
Mm feaicd her. Net content with
mvlng Khcn her, Nina, some bad
"I'll's. she saw the weiuilll new pos pes
Mijlj bleckln,. her ambitions for Ulhsn.
..i'Vhnt l'"1 KH"'g at is this," she
r?m .'.'""inlng It polished pnlls
"Itlenllj, -if u does turn out that
.mc wuk somebody, you'd have
winner thnt It was all years and
said. "I don't care hew he comes, se
he comes."
Leuis Hassett had become n familiar
figure in the village life by thnt time.
David depended en him with a sort of
wistful confidence that set him te grind
ing his teeth occasionally in n fury
at liis own helplessness. And, na the
extent of the disaster developed, as he
miw David falling and Lucy aging,
and when In tlmp he met Elizabeth, the
feeling of his own guilt was intensified.
He spent heura etudylng the case,
and he was chiefly instrumental In
sending Hnrrlten Miller back te Neradn
In September. He had struck up a
friendship with Miller ever their com
mon cause, and the night he was te
depart that small inner group which
was fighting David's battle for him
formed n beard of strategy In Harri Harri
ren s tidy living room; Walter Wheeler
and Has-sett, Miller and, tardllv taken
Inte their confidence, Dr. Reynolds.
The same group met him en his re
turn, sat around with expectant faces
while he cot out his tobacco and laid
a sheaf of papers en the table nnd
waltel 'wliiie their envoy, laying Bas
sett's map en the table, proceeded
carefully te draw in n continuation of
the trail beyond the pass, some sketchy
mountains and a iinall square.
"I've net something," he said at
last. "Net milch, but enough te work
en. Here's where jeu lest him. Has
sett." He pointed with (his pencil.
"He went en for 11 while en the horse.
Then somehow he must have lest the
horse, for lie turned up en feet, date
unknown, in a stnte of exhaustion at
a inbln that lies here. I get lest my
self, or I'd never have found the place.
He was sick there for weeks, nnd he
seems te lmve stayed en quite 11 while
after he recovered, as though he
'eu'dn't decide what te de next."
Walter Wheeler stirred ami .looked
up.
"What sort of condition was he In
when he leftV"
"Very geed, they said."
"You're sure it was Livingstone?"
"The man there had n tree fall en
Mm. He operated. I guess that's the
answer."
"It's the answer te mere than that,"
flcj nebis said slowly. "It shows he had
come Duel: te hlm-elf. If lie hadn t he
(euldn't have done it." I
"And after thatV some one asked.
"I lest him. He left te hike te the 1
railroad, and lie slid nothing of his '
plans. If I'd been able te make epec 1
Inquiries I luirht have turned up some. .
thing, but I couldn't. It's a hard
preposition. I had tieub'e finding Hat
tie Thorwald, tee. She'd left the hotel I
and Is living with her son. She swears!
she doesn't knew where Cliften Hines
Is, nnd hasn't seen him for jears."
Hassett had been listening intently,
his bend chopped forward.
"I suppose the son doesn't knew
about Ilines?" ,
"Ne. Him warned me. He was surly
and suspicious. The Sheriff hnd sent
for him nnd nuestlened lilm nbeut
hew jeu get liis horse, and I gathered
(lint tin (l.niifrlit T f.-nu O (Ipt'-CtlVC.
When 1 told him I was a friend of
veurs, lie Rent you a message, xen
may lie able te make something out of
it. I can't. He smtl : 'loll c-un iun mm
I didn't say anything nbeut the ether
time ' "
Hassett sat forward.
"The ether time?"
"He Is under the lmpresien thnt his
mother get the horse for you once be
fore about ten days before Chirk es
caped. At night, also."
"Net for me." Hassett said deci
sively. "Ten days before thnt I was
he get out his notebook and
consulted it. "I was en my wuy te
the cabin in the mountains, where the
Donaldsons had hidden Jurl Clark. I
hired a horse at a livery stable."
"Could the Thorwald woman have
followed you?"
"Whv the devil should she de that?"
he askid Irritably. "She didn't knew
who I was. She hadn't a chance nt my
papers, for I kept then en me. If she
did suspect I was en the case, n dozen
fellows had preceded in", and linlf of
them hnd geno te the cabin."
He considered the situation.
"Nevertheless." he finished, "I be
lieve she did. She or Hincs himself.
There wns some one en a horse outside
the cabin that night."
There wns silence in the room, Har
rison Miller thoughtfully drawing at
rajidem en the map before him. Each
man wns seeing the situation from his
own angle; te Reynolds, Us medical in
terest, and the possibility of his per
mnnency In the tewn: te Walter
Wheeler, Elizabeth's spoiled young life ;
te Harrison Miller, David ; nnd te the
reporter a conviction that the clues he
new held should lead him somewhere,
nnd did net.
Before the meeting broke up Miller
took a folded manuscript from the tame
nnd passed it te Basiett.
"Copy of the Corener's Inquiry, niter
the murder," lie said. "Thought it
might Interest you.
Then, for n time, thnt was all. Bas
hctt, poring at home ever the Inquest
records, and finding them of engrossing
Interest, saw the futility of saving a
man who could net be found. Arid even
Vlnn'a fnlfli hn the fflbuleUSly rich
could net die obscurely began te fade
as the summer waned. She restored
some of her favor te Wallin Sayre, nnd
even listened agnln te ills altcrnatlnl
hopes nnd fears.
And by the end of September he felt
that h; hnd gained real headway with
Elizabeth. He had come te a point
where she needed him mere than she
renllred. wlinrn he call In her of VOUtll
for jeutli, even In trouble, was Insist
ent. In return he felt his responsibility
and responded te it. In the vernacular
of the town he. had "settled down,"
and the general trend of opinion, which
hnd previously disapproved of him, was
new that Elizabeth might de worse.
On n crisp night early in October lie
had brought her home from Nina's, and
because the inoen was full they sat
for 11 time en the steps of the veranda.
Wnllle below her, stirring the dead
leaves nn the walk with his stick and
looking up at her with boyish adoring
eyes when she spoke. He was never
very articulate with licr, and her
trouble had given her a strange new
aloofness thnt almost frightened him.
Hut that night, when she shivered a
little, lie reached up and touched her
hand.
"You're cold," he said almost
roughly. He was sometimes rather sav
age, for fear he might be tender.
"I'm net cold. I think It's the dead
lenves."
"Dead leaves?" he repeated, puzzled.
"You're a queer girl, Elizabeth. Why
dead lenves?"
"I hate the fall
year."
"Nonsense. It's
winter s nap.
you a wrap."
He went in and came out In a
moment with her father's overcoat.
"Here," he said peremptorily, "put
this en. I'm net going te be called
the carpet for giving you a sniffle."
Te be continued tomorrow
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TOMORROW THE
Autumn Sale of Shoes
Shoes for Women, Men, Beys, Girls and Little Children, All at This
Year's Lewest Prices Seme at Half and Less Than Half
the Original Rates in Our Stocks
Women's Shoes, $2.75 and $3.75
Children's Shoes, $2.35 Beys' Shoes, $2.75, $3.75-Girls' Shoes, $2.90
Men's Shoes, $3.40
Everybody likes te knew when geed shoes are reduced in price. This is
an occasion when we have searched our entire Down Stairs Shee Stere for all
broken sizes, all discontinued styles, all shoes showing marks of handling.
Thousands of such shoes will be spread out for every one te see tomorrow
each pair with a new, decidedlv lower price marked en the sole.
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$3.75
2200 Pair Women's Lew Shoes
A Third te Mere Than Half Less
Mary Janes
$2.75
Oxfords
Black calfskin
Black kidskin
$3.75
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Silver cloth
Geld cloth
Patent leather
$3.75
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$3.75
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rIpi-v .if.k Patent leather
Gray suede combined with
Brown kldskln gray suede
$2.75 . Thera ar nnp-ftfrnn nnmrw wifh fumed heTpji And babv Leuis
heels In almost all sizes. There are one-strap pumps with turned
soles and low heels. There are oxfords with substantial welted
soles and medium heels. All these shoes come from our ewnt
$3 75 regular stocks.
741 Pair Women's Pumps
A Third te Mere Than Half Less
Black satin Black suede
Beige satin Tan calf
Brown satin Patent leather and suede
One-strap and three-buckle-strap styles.
Mostly with turned soles.
French, Spanish, baby Leuis and medium heels.
borne et the evening slippers are tarnished. Seme
ethers show slight marks of handling.
All sizes in the group but net in each style.
Included at $3.75 are also some unusually geed tan and black
calfskin oxfords.
$3.75 .
1930 Pair
Women's Pumps and Oxfords $e nr
Specially Priced jK-
One-strap Pumps
$3.75 Black satin
Brown kid
Tan leather
Cuban, French and baby Leuis heels.
Flexible stitched and welted soles.
A dealer's overlet of exceptionally geed shoes purchased te
w 73 advantage and added te this sale. All sizes in B, C, and D widths
ctiuiMig wieiu.
Children's Shoes (
A Fifth te Almest Half Less
Sizes 5 te 8 in tan or white leather button shoes.
Sizes 9 te 11 in white buck or tan and white leather lace shoes.
Sizes 5 te 11 in tan and brown or patent leather and crav
lace shoes.
Sizes 6 te 1 in tan and black leather lace shoes.
$3.75 g. i ci
uins onees (
Quarter te Half Less
Sizes 2ij te 6 in tan or black leather lace shoes in sensible
$2.75 wide-tee lasts.
(Down Stulr Stere, Chevtnnt)
500 Pair Men's Shoes
$2.75 A xnirci te iiere man wait Less
Oxfords of tan or black calfskin or tan leather.
High shoes of black kidskin or tan leather.
Several styles among them and all sizes in some one or
$2.75 another style. Solidly made geed leather shoes that men will
$2.75
$3.75
ftS
$2.35
$2.90
$2.35
$2.35
Cress-strap Pumps
Black satin
Black kid
Oxfords
Tan leather
Brown kid
Black leather
$2.75
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$3.40
$2.35
$3.75
$3.40
$2.90
$3.40
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$3.40
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need this Winter.
already attached.
Welted soles. Seme have rubber heels
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$2.75
Beys' Lace Shoes
Marked down te
Only a limited quantity of them.
It's only fair te warn parents of that fact because the
shoes are remarkably geed at the price. Actually made
of tan calfskin with the wide tees and welted soles that boys
$3.75
Beys' Shoes
Marked down te
Tan calfskin lace shoes in medium-tee shapes with
-weited soles and rubber heels. Just taken out of our
ular stocks and reduced te this new price.
reg-
need. They have rubber heels already attached.
(I).)n Mlr Mere for Mm en the Gallery, Market)
Men and women business people parents can save a geed deal bv investing as largely as their
needs warrant in this sale. It is very rarely, of course, that such Wanamaker quality shoes as these can be
had as low as $2.35 te $3.75.
and at noontime in
lespeeple also in the
kxtra salespeople will be ready te give quick service te business men in the morning
ine meii s euuu eiuru en uie uauery, just insiae tne aoer irem the Subway. Extra sa
uxucue rtiiu uiuium;ud euuu ciuiti, uuwi euuia, ci l nesulUt etreet.
Mill's Clearaway of Chenille and Scotch Art Rugs
at nan rnce and Less
Frem a mill devoted exclusively te the making of rugs for interior decorators' special orders. 'I lie maker turned
ever te us his accumulated surplus lets of small cotton chenille rugs and jute Scotch art rugs and a limited number of
wool Scotch art rugs in room sizes-all of intere,tingly original kinds. They are the Forts of rugs people like who want
something unusual in color, exceptional in durability and moderate in price. One knows they will wear and wear hv
the thick, soft "feel" of them, and they are all double-faced and reversible y
The Small Rugs Are en the Central Aisle
27x54-Inch Scotch Art Rugs, $1.50
36x72-Inch Scotch Art Rugs, $2.25
Woven with a cotton warp and tough jute filling. In unusual
stripes ami plain colors, mostly In blue and brown, with a few in rese
and green.
24x48-Inch Cotten Chenille Bath Rugs, $2.25
27x54-Inch Cotten Chenille Bath Rugs, $2.75
Seft and nappy and sure te be durable, they are se thickly piled.
In desirable combinations of blue and tan, rose and blue and Kreen
and tan; plain colors with contrasting borders, iinuBual block patterns
r (Down Stain Star, Ceateat AU1)
$7.
Weel Scotch Art Rugs in Roem
Sizes Are in the Rug Stere
4.bx.b tt. rugs, S6.50 and
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0x9 ft. rugs, SI. 1.25 and
6x9 ft. rugs, $9.50.
7.6x0 ft. rugs, $11.75 and
$14.
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8.3x10.6 ft. rugs, $15.75.
0x12 ft. rugs, $17, $22 and
' $30.
Limited number in uV'ene size, but besides the ones enumerated
there arc a number of mu ':and odd size rugs offered at propertlon-
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