OF INTEREST TO THE WOMEN A GIRL AND A MAN A New and Vital Romance of City Life by Virginia Terhune Van "k Water CHAPTER XXXV Copyright, 1916, Star Company The heat was still Intense when, at 6 o'clock, Agnes Morley climbed the stairs to her home. The sun hung low in the west like a ball of tire, shining redly through the mist th&t had lain like a pall over the city all day. There was no relief in sight, the evening papers said. Looking back over the past day, Agnes felt as if she could not have endured It had it not been for the pleasant hour of rest and refreshment that she had had with Mr. Bainbridge that noon. She wondered whether she would tell her aunt of it—then decided not to do so. Aunt Lucy might not understand. She had some old fashioned notions about what girls in offices should and should not do. As Agnes opened the front door with her latch key the stlllnesfj of the little flat struck her as unusunl. "Auntie!" she called. But there was no reply. There was nobody in the living room, and as Agnes went into the adjoining bed room she found that this, too, was empty. "Auntie!" she called again, hurrying down the narrow hall to the kitchen. Here, she uttered an exclamation of horror. For. lying full length on the floor, was Miss Morley. For an instant the awful idea seized the girl that the elderly woman was dead. Then, as she ran forward, she saw that her aunt had fainted. Cola water dashed in her face made Miss Lucy open her eyes and struggle to a sitting posture. "I'm all right!" she hastened to as sure her niece, whose pale face at tested TO her fright. "Don't worry, dear. It is nothing." Miss Lucy is Stricken "But it is something," Agnes con tradicted. "Please don't move yet. Wait, and I will bring a pillow to put under your head." But when she returned with a pil low Aunt Lucy was standing up, hold ing fast to a chair and swaying weakly. "I tell you it is nothing, nothing," she repeated. "Come with me and lie down." Agnes ordered, putting her arm about the slight creature and leading her into her bedroom. "When she had undressed Miss Lucv and made her get into bed she slipped away long enough to run upstairs to the apartment of a neighbor who had a telephone. Here she called up Miss Lucy's physician and asked him to come at once. Returning to her aunt's room, she tried to speak naturally. "The heat was too much for vou. perhaps," she ventured. "What were you doing when you fainted?" "f was beginning to get dinner, but J couldn't go on with it. I am sorrv dearie. But you must not worry. These attacks don't mean anything." These attacks!" Agnes exclaimed. "Have you had one before to-day?" Miss Lucy looked embarrassed as |_AVJER ACE FIGURES FIGURES j J W.B.Nufoim Corsets W.B. Reduso Corsets give Style, Comfort and perfectly make large hips disappear; bulky fitting Gown. 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"Several times I have come to myself .md found that I had just sort of sunk down somewhere and forgotten things for a minute, but I always come around to myself. I would to-day, too. I guess, if you had not happened in when you did." When Dr. Jtartin arrived Miss Lucy protested feebly at Agnes' extrava gance in sending for him. But she promised to obey his orders and lie still until to-morrow morning. Trouble With ller Heart "The trouble is with her heart," Dr. Martin told Agnes bluntly when she followed him into the hall. "She has had heart trouble for years, but it is getting worse. She ought not to bo left alone. Not that she needs expert care—for there is no cure for tlio trouble—but she ought to have some one at hand in case she has a faint turn. You're in business now, aren't you ?" "Yes." Agnes said. "Should I stay at homo?" "Lord, no! Who'd make the money if you didn't make it?" was the gruff rejoinder. "If you stopped work, that would trouble Miss Morley to death. Phe hos more peace of mind now than she's had in many a long day. No, whatever comes, you stick to your job. for her sake even more than your owh! Isn't there some young person who can come here for each day while you'ro away?" After a moment's cogitation Agnes remembered the daughter of the woman who did the laundry work for her aunt and herself. "Yes," she said. "I know a young Irish girl that finished grammar school this year and who wants to go into service next winter. Just now she's doinr nothing. She will probably charge less than an older person would." That evening, after asking the neigh bor from upstairs to sit for an hour with Miss Morley. Agnes walked over to her laundress's home and engaged the services of Jennie O'Neill for each working day for the rest of the sum mer. beginning with the following morning. "And now," the weary girl mused when, having seen her aunt settled comforiably for the night, she lay down herself, "as the doctor said, whatever comes I have got to keen my job—for auntie's sake even more "than my own!" HARRISBURO TELEGRAPH STRIPED LINENS FOR HOUSE GOWN Washable Materials Are Liked by Housewife For Ail- Around Wear Bg MAy^ANWN SB7S (JVith Besting Line and Added Scam Allowance) House Gown, 36 Co 46 bust. Women on the outlook for a realh comfortable, satisfactory house gown wit be sure to like this model. It is very simple, blouse and skirt being cut to- 1 gether while the fullness is held by a belt. The V-shaped neck is comfortable and most women will like it, but the pattern includes a round collar that can be used instead. In the picture, a striped linen is trimmed with bands of plain and the 1 sim; .\ishable materials are the best for such use. 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It develops that the railroad, as the ! largest taxpayer, has been the largest | contributor toward the finely paved j highway, which has been finished and j opened to Jitney travel gratis, ana without the jitney service would never I have sprung up here. | Several other western steam lines have reduced train service, and the ef fect of jitney competition has been I severe wherever the highway parallels I the tracks. On the occasion of a re cent convention in Western Washing | ton for which steam line excursion rates were offered, 2,700 people came j into town from points distant eighteen | miles or more, and of this number only I SSO traveled by train. To attend this same convention, ninety delegates haa to travel 275 miles, and fifty others 250 miles across the mountains. The en tire 140 made these long journevs by automobile, neglecting the railway lines entirely.—Electric Railway Joui nal. TROLLEY STRIKERS OBDURATE Wllkes-Bnrre Carmen Refuse Latest Offer of State's Mediators Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Oct. 4. The hope held by Mediators James A. Steese and Walter McNlcholas that the trolley strike would be speedily settled vanished yesterday when the mediators returned to this city to take up their peace work. Striking carmen, who at the end of last week were on the verge of adopt ing the peace proposal of the media tors, rejected it. This offer provided for the reinstatement of all strikers on a swinging or alternative shift plan which would give them about sll per week until such time as the com pany was able to restore them to their full seniority rights. 51.250,000 BAR MILL FOR SHARON Sharon, Pa., Oct. 4. A new bar and billet mill is to be constructed at the Farrell works of the Carnegie Steel Company, according to an announce ment made here. The United States Steel Corporation has appropriated $1,250,000 for the purpose. Work will begin at once. TRAIN" KILLS POIR LABORERS Norristown, Pa., Oct. 4. Four laborers were killed by a Reading Railway train at Conshohoeken yes terday afternoon. The men were load ing bundles of sheet iron into a car. Coroner Grant McOlathery made an investigation and found that instead of placing planks across a ditch from the roadway side of the car the men were directed by a boss of the Allan Wood Company to load from the main track and were struck by the train. CHARITIES DO GOOD WORK Employment was found for nine per sons. homes for fifteen children whose parents were dead or could not care for them, an'd clothing furnished for fifty-six families, according to the monthly report of John Yates, secre tary of the Associated Aid Societies The Children's Bureau also reported the inspection of three new homes twenty-nine visits to children who were placed in private homes, and 183 I calls made in reference to children being cared for by the bureau. 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"Now see here," I said, the way I talk to Sis, "you're in trouble and what it is is none of my business. I don't want to know well, that's not quite the truth. I do want to know, awfully. But I'll go away and forget about it is you'll say the word. Only, of course, I'd a good bit rather hang around and help." "Something has gone wrong," she confessed. "But nobody can help, Mr. Oliver. It's too late." "Let me try." I urged. "I only play when there's nothing else to do. You give me half a chance and I'll show you a hundred and sixty pounds of uselessness getting useful." Gee, she was pretty. If she had only smiled! The whole thing was queer. A fel low couldn't look at her and connect her, even remotely, with crime, and yet—suddenly it occurred to me that she might have had a lover mixed up in last night's business. It toolc the snap out of me for a minute. But it was unlikely. She'd hardly have been looking for him in a tree! Old Boisseau ambled back, and he was groaning. He held out the morn ing papers. The whole thing was there, and he was seeing ruin in let ters a foot high. I gave one paper to Hiss Hazeltine and took another. The heading was "Million Dollar Rob bery," and the mater's pearls were there, in good company. Poor mater! Boisseau stood muttering over my shoulder. I could hear him gulp now and then. He was on the verge of hysterics. Suddenly he stopped and took a quick step around the table. Little Miss Hazeltine was in a dead faint in her chair. What do you think of it now? Some mixup, eh, what? She was a long time coming around. What with fatigue and worry, the poor kid was about all in. It gave me a turn. I'd never seen a girl faint. It was when I was dabbing ice water on her temples, which I'd read some where was the thing to do. that I hap pened, to look up and the N. C. was standing by. watching. "How doth the little busy bee im prove each shining hour!" he said with a grin. "You start your days early, Mr. Ollie. Or don't you go to bed?" "You go to the dickens," I said. He glanced at Miss Hazeltine. "Better get the girl away," he said, in a nasty voice. "She's only drunk. Boisseau has his hands full now, with out " I couldn't help it. The swine! I'd had my eyes on that jaw of his from the time he began to wag it. I caught him on the very tip of it. It was like hitting the edge of a marble table. I spoiled a perfectly good ten nis hand on him. But it was worth all it cost. • • • Say, for a minute that place looked like a morgue, with the N. C. on his back and Miss Hazeltine flat on three chairs. And at that they brought the policeman through the lobby on a hospital stretcher. Honest, it was almost funny. He got up, and I'll say this for him, he was mad, but he was game. "I didn't think you had it in you, Mr. Gray," he said. "And if I made a mistake about the young lady, I'm sorry. But that's not an apology to you. It's to her." He went out after the policeman, and I scarcely saw him again until the night father sent for him, and he nearly dropped that low jaw of his when he saw the suitcase on the table and e ,r ery missing thing In it but Olive Thomas' sapphire bracelet. But that belongs further on. I took Miss Hazeltine home. It was after S by that time. The taxi went along the street where the thing had happened to Martin and me. and al though it was late to expect to pick up any clews I stopped the car and got out. The taxi was still jammed against a building with a policeman on guard and about a dozen young sters with schoolbooks standing around. The only thing I got out of my ex amination I'd known befdre. The engine had died, but the gear lever was still in the high speed. That and the taximeter registering 60 cents was all I made out of it. There was an other clew there, as clear as daylight. Afterward, when I knew the whole story, I went over that taxicab and there it was. But I never even saw it. and nke Erie Railroad in the compensation claim of Louis J. Bock, one of its car shop employes, whose eye was injured by dirt drop ping from the floor of a car under re pair. Tho man was able to resume work in twenty days, but it was ad mitted that his vision had been im paired one-third. "We do not find in the act any power to graduate an awarcl between provisions of tho act," says the opinion. "If In this particular case the lowered vision has not re duced the earning power of the claim ant, then there can be no compen sation based upon any other consid eration than actual loss." Concerning the suggested award the chairman says: "The board has no power to mako such an order nor even suggest such a disposition of the case. If, however, the defendant desires to make such a contribution to the claim ant. there is nothing in the law to pre vent it from doing so." Compensation has been allowed to the widow of an employe of the Car negie Steel Company killed by light ning while at work in one of the plants of the company in the Pittsburgh dis trict In another opinion. It is stated "Wl\eii the law of a par ticular state awards compensation only to the employe when the injury arises out of the employment, then it has be come important in case of death or in- Jury by lightning to determine as a fact whether or not the workman at that particular time only assumed the ordinary hazard of the general com munity or whether the nature of his employment placed him in a position where he was unusually imperiled." There is an admission that the man was at work when struck, and as death by lightning constitutes an accident, the widow is awarded compensation, including an allowance for a minor child and burial expenses. 1W ITCHING RASH DISFIGURED CHEEK Miss Henderson Tells About It and Its Healment by Cuticura. 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