M Readiivj ojvd all ike RsrcsiKj llPjl "When a Girl " By ANN LISLE A New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing Problem of a Girl Wife CHAPTER CCLV Copyright 1919, King Features Syn dicate, Inc.. "Where's Jim?" Lane Cosby irrit ably demanded. "I've been trying to get him at the office tor the last j hour, but he isn't there. _ He ought | to be home by this time." "He isn't coming," I explained without a trace of the doubt or sus picion I would have felt a few weeks ago. "He's dining with a friend who leaves town to-morrow. He'll be so sorry he wasn't on deck when you needed him." . "Then you'll have to help me,' mumbled Lane Cosby. "I don t; know what to do. I don't know where to turn, Anne! Val's in bed. j Case of nerves, I guess. And she | won't see me. She thinks I ought to be man enough to handle this. And I don't know what to do." Just then Bertha came stolidly to the door to announce dinner. "Could you take some dinner?" I asked. "I couldn't eat a bite," he said, shaking his head sadly and without any consciousness that I might be hungry. "Never mind about dinner. I'll [ have a bite later. You and Angy j may eat now," I said to Bertha. j She took that stolidly, too. But | so did Lane. The big brown bear ! was in a trap—and all he could see was the trap. "You'll stand by, won't you, Anne?" he asked, looking at me with a glaze of misery over his eyes. He caught at my hand as he spoke— dumbly, more like a child stumbling around in the dark than as if he were one of the powers of the fin ancial world. "Tell me!" I said soothingly as I had so often said to Xeal.' "It's that Mason girl," said Lane dully. "I can't think why she wants to go digging things up. And she ! doesn't get 'em right. She was in to see Val to-day and terrified the poor little kid with her hints. Val's only a poor little kid who's had a Jaw deal, Anne. And now I don't 4ftee how to protect her from the rawest deal of all." He held me with his eyes, which glinted for a moment with the power that all his big fiabbiness of body had never before denied him. Then he went on stubbornly reiterating his estimate of Valerie: "Val's a poor little kid who only wants to be happy. She never did a wrong thing in her life —unless it's wrong to get up and walk from shadow into sunshine. You believe me. don't you, Anne ?•" "I believe you. I will believe you whatever you say. Lane."' I stam mered, calling him by his given name for the first time in our acquair.'.am ... He lurched to his feet and lung d up and down the room a few times. 1 turned and followed him with my eyes. But the pathos of that big, driving head of his plunged low and rolling from side to side so impctent ly seemed a thing I had no right to watch. So 1 sat still and waited for him to finish'his story in his own way. After a little while he came back and let his bulk down into the chair again. And ,ie looked old, flabby. He spoke hopelessly, as if the words were forced from him by a power he couldn't resist. "I'm forty-nine," he said. "Folks think I'm younger. But Etienne Demerrais—Val's father—and I were farmer-bov: together back in the eighties. \Vhen I married Loretta, my first wife, we went to another part of the state and I never saw Etienne again until years after. We IKarrisburg's LEADING and ACCREDITED Business College SCHOOL OF COMMERCE GIVES WHAT YOU WANT STANDARD Courses approved by the National Associa tion of Accredited Commercial Schools of the United States. Bell 485 Enter Any Time Dial 4393 j II Victor Red Seal la T^e^nest numbers || J. KTroup THURSDAY EVENING, just lost track. "The first I heard of him in years was when I got word that he'd gone broke. I went to look him up. He was down and out. But he wouldn't ] take help. Leastways no more than ! would set him up with ready cash enough to start a place for boarders on the one ranch he hoped wouldn't be foreclosed on him. I bought it up and made up my mind I'd deed it back to him. Got that straight?" "Yes," I said. "I guess I got more out of that than you told me." He went on without seeming to hear. It was as if he were living j it all over again and trying to get ; rid of what he saw quickly, in pung i ent phrases and homely words that | reverted to his humble beginnings. "Then along comes my own trou ble. Loretta, she's always been kinda strange. And she gets queer. The doctors say asylum. I says, no sirree. And as I had to travel a lot, I think now this is where I ask Etienne to do me a service so big that taking an ornery fruit-ranch from his old pal will look like noth ing. So I take her to Etienne and ' his wife, and they promise to look • after her like she was their own. ; I didn't mean to ask more than I j had a right to. I didn't mean to i put them out. You know that, don't ! you, Anne?" "Yes, I know," I said. "Well, Loretta, she got worse and worse. And this little girl Valerie, coming up to her young ladyhood, without the things she'd had as a child —she takes care of her. Loretta wasn't grateful. She was always imagining the poor kid was making sheep's eyes at me—old enough to ■ be her father. That poor kid, giv- j tng her young life to take care of my poor crazy wife. Can you see the injustice of it?" I shook my head—filling in word lessly the picture of Yal going ruth lessly after the richest and most eligible man who had ever come across her barren girlhood. "Loretta was always making up fanciful tales of how little Val taunted her and sneered at her. Crazy—Loretta was. I could see that the child just fetched and car ried out of pity for my poor wife, j The p,oor, pretty little thing seemed like a daughter to me coming and j crying out her troubles on my shoul j der time and time again. Well, | once, when I got back from looking j over the piece of land where we ! struck a gusher and made my big j haul, I noticed how pale little Val ; is and tuckered out from taking care jof Loretta. So I tell her how it i worries me to be putting this blight |on her youth. And the poor, little thing breaks down and " He stopped, his face twisting in > agony and his breath coming fast, | as he lived it over as if it had hap •j pened this very day. "Must you tell me this?" I asked ] pityingly. "If you're going to help fight this Mason woman," he replied. There was silence for a moment. Then he continued—his words stum bling out jerkily: "I'm the only man little Val ever | sees except fruit ranchers and sheep ' J herders. She breaks down and tells • j me even taking care of my sick wife | makes her happy—because it's—my i | wife. What's a man to do? Here I am with poor Loretta tied to me. And ! ! this poor little girl thinking I'm all : j she has to love in the world. What's , i a man to do?" ■ j "What did you do?" I gasped, • ! shaken by the tragedy in his voice, i' To Be Continued Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1918, International News Service By McManus Igksszf fel ' I ? | II [ / ill 1 j WlbH I COULD S A|/ ™ I "AT MANN A (~> l/Ov t J I ( FRv THE LOVE GAMBLER By Virginia Terhune Van de Water CHAPTER XXXIV Copyright, 1919, Star Company. Xorah gaspd with incredulity at Desiree's announcement. "Smith gave you that letter!" she exclaimed. "He certainly did," her mistress affirmed. "Here, take it, it is yours, not mine." Xorah, who had theretofore always been respectful, was so angry that she scarcely knew what she did. Seizing the paper held out to her, she tore it into bits. "He's no good, that he isn't!" Bhe burst forth passionately! "He that calls himself a man, showing a lady a note a decent girl wrpte to him!" "Xorah," her mistress warned. "You are forgetting yourself! More over you may be doing Smith an in justice." "Indeed, X am not, ma'am! Xo— he could make use of me to help his old ladies up and down the steps— and then" "Beu quiet!" Desiree commanded. "I care nothing about the quarrels between you and Smith, and I will not have you talking to me about | them." "Bxcuse me," the girl muttered sullenly as she left the room. When she was alone, Desiree be gan to think over what had occurred. She was sure that Smith could not have read the no?e that was intend ed for him. She had tried to ex plain this to Xorah, but the girl had given vent to such a torrent of words that Desiree considered it beneath her dignity to discuss the matter further. She would tell the facts to Smith and allow him to state them to Xorah. Much as she disliked to do this, she felt it her duty. Desiree Explains Therefore, that afternoon, as Smith was driving her to the Red Cross rooms, she introduced the subject. "Smith," she said, "I am sure you did not know that the note you hand ed me last night was your own." The chauffeur looked puzzled. "Mine, miss?" ( "Yes," she explained. "The note that dropped on the ground when X ! was talking to you must have slip [ ped from your pocket. It was for you—from Norah." ' She spoke the last two words stiffly, "in spite of her determina ! tion to be sensible, she hated to i couple her maid's name with that of I her chauffeur. 'I think there is some mistake," ; Miss Leighton," the man said defer i entially. Desiree wanted to dismiss the whole matter once for all. "I only know," she said, "that the note was j written by Norah—and, I supposed ! to you. Such being the case, you may ! talk it over with her and put your ! self right in her eyes. She is very j angry with you now. j "Thank you, miss," David re joined. HAMUSBURG &&& TELEGRAPH After that he said no more. He 1 was puzzled at the suggestion that j Norah had written to him. What j could it be about? He was not a snob, but he did not want to be on intimate terms with j Norah. Yet Miss Leighton had sug- ; gested that the maid would expect an explanation from him. Well, he would try to set matters right if the opportunity came, but he hoped 1 it would not come. But it did come that evening. He j was to drive Mr. and Miss Leighton , to a dinner at 7 o'clock. As he I started from the house with them Mr. Leighton checked him. "1 think I would better take a heavier coat then the one I Have." he explained. "Run up to the door and tell Norah to get you the gray over coat from the closet in my room." A Different N'ornh David followed directions, and, as Norah opened the front door for him her face changed. "What do you want?" she demand ed roughly. David delivered ' his employer's message. Without a word the girl I went upstairs and returned with the j coat. He received it with a brief "Thanks" and started toward the steps. But her voice made him pause. "By the way," Norah sneered, " I do' not thank you for showing my let- | ter to Miss Leighton. It's a nice man you are!" "I never received any letter from you," he replied. Had David meant to anger the girl he could hardly have uttered a speech that was more certain to do this. Had he tried to explain, she might pave listened. As it was, he poured oil upon the smoldering flame of her wrath. "That's it!" she flung at him. "Lie about It now —will you! You stuck up, tattling thing! Don't you ever dare to speak to me again If you do" "Smith!" Samuel Leighton called from his car. "Hurry! It Is late." Smith ran down the steps, the coat over his arm. He heard the front door slam violently behind him. As he took his seat he was thank ing the kind fates that had brought about the present state of affairs. Norah had rendered Impossible any I explanation he might have tried to | make. It made little difference to | him what she thought of him. He I was relieved that hereafter she DAILY HINT ON FASHIONS A SIMPLE SET FOR THE LITTLE TOT 2 880. —This comprises a pretty bonnet, a sack and a dress with ki mono sleeve and simple lines. It will not take long, or be difficult to develop these models. Lawn, dim ity, crossbar muslin, challie, poplin, voile or crepe are nice for the dress and sack. Flannel or silk may also be used. The cap may be of silk, cloth, or velvet, lawn or batiste. The pattern for this attractive set is cut in 4 sizes: 6 months, one year, 2 and 3 years. Size 2 will require of 36-inch material, 2 yards for the dress, 7-8 yard for the sack, and Vi yards for bonnet, with y, yard of lining. A pattern of this illustration mailed to any address on receipt of 10 cents in silver or stamps. Telegraph Pattern ' Department For the 10 cents inclosed please send pattern to tho following address: Size Pattern No Name Address _ City and State would make no opportunities to talk with him. Could Norah have know t n the ef fect of her outburst she would have regretted it. She was accustomed to men of her own class, therefore believed that later Smith would beg her pardon. Well, she would be a good while forgiving him! But if he was not man enough to apologize then she'd be sure he had meant to "get her in wrong" with Miss Leigh ton, so that he need not spend money on movies, etc. If so, he was no good. She would wait and see before getting even with him. But of course he would explain. He must have thought it was another paper he handed to Miss Leighton. He would come around in a day or two and say so. To Be Continued British Firm Adopts American Methods in Motor Production London, July 24. A large Brit ish engineering company has announced its entry into the Held of motor car production with a model which is openly regarded as an attempt tp meet Ameri can competition by adopting American methods of mass production. The com pany hopes to put 20,000 cars on the market in the first year. This car, says the American Chamber of Com merce in London, is to be of 16 to 20 horse power, to carry five passengers and sell at approximately $1490. Thus far only one car has been built and this was for testing purposes. Principal Callers "Propinquity is what brings about marriages." declares the father of three single daughters in didactic mood. "Yes?" murmured his wife. "It works this way: From among the men who call most frequently at a house the daughters of the housfs naturally select husbands." "In that case," said the mother sadly. "1 fear our girls are doomed to marry bill collectors." Knox ville Sentinel. Daily Dot Puzzle 21, 22 2o* • 23 10. * *4 *25 26 17 IS • ' / • 26 *27 •.. • * 16 15 j 2 *23 87 .4. 3o 9* • -5 •*' ,2 -' 6 32. M ' lO vC 6 i*. x .35 33 56. X 4, 4o • 5l • 55 • 4z* J*, * 45 50 44 5% 1 f . y-M .4 I Draw from one to two and *0 on | to the end. 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Miller, joint chairmen of the committee, plan to have legislation introduced immedi ately to effect this alteration in the act to carry 6ut the expressed wish of the American Legion delegates at their St. Louis meeting. The present form of War Risk insurance is known as term insur ance and is payable in monthly in saalments for a period of 24 0 months. This may be converted in to ordinary forms of insurance such as straight life insurance, twenty or thirty year paid-up life insurance and endowment insurance. Ex cept in the case of a matured en dowment, these forms of insurance, under the present act, are payable only in instalments, extending over a twenty-year period, the amount of instalments depending upon the I amount of insurance. I The purpose of the intended I amendment is to allow a man to j elect how the insurance shall be ! paid. Service men say that their beneficiaries in many cases are too I old ever to realize any usefulness | from the insurance if paid only in monthly instalments. It has also ] been suggested that men be allowed |to elect payment of part of their I total insurance in one lump sum j and the balance in instalments. Reminiscent Flubdub.—"How are the life pre | servers on this boat?" Guzzler.—"Fine, I've just had | three—as' good as I ever drank."— Topeka Journal. STECKLEY'S ii ! 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Advice to the Lovelorn j "SHE WILL NOT WHEN SHE MAY" I i Dear Miss Fairfax: | Although I have never written to you about my personal problems, I | j have derived much benefit from the ' I advice you have given others, and I j ! hope you will help me in a perplex- J I ing situation. I am 19, and although j | I have many men friends, I have been I | interested in only one. Being a lit | tie coquetish, I discouraged his ad- I vances, I am certain he once eared a great deal for me, but of late he has neglected me, and I have not heard from him in two weeks. He j is in a position to marry, atjd. in fact, j broached the subject to me more than once, but .1 always ridiculed the idea, j and now I find I really love him. If you advise me to pocket my pride and try to make up with him, I shall follow your advice. Evelyn, j I think it would be well to "pock- I ct your pride" ami try and make up ! j with the young man whose atten- j tions you ridiculed before you real- ! ized the depth of your feeling for I ! him. Girls often act in the way you j | describe and realize when too late i i the mistake they have made. By i all means try and make up, and the ! best of luck fo you. A SOLDIER'S SWEETHEART Dear Miss Fairfax: I was wounded in France and sent home as a casual. On arriving in camp I met an old friend who told me my sweetheart was going with a slacker whom I did not like. On calling her on the phone, I find this I is true, and that she does not love Ime any more. I think I shall go back I into the Army, but I hate to leave i her, for I love her.. Please advise I me what to do. J. j. >j. j I am sorry that your sweetheart j shows such poor taste as to prefer ia slacker to a man who has been wounded in the service of his coun try and. the world. 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