CHAPTER 1 — Early i. the afternoon of a certain Saturday Jim Stanley stood at one of the windows of his lofty office looking out at a panorama of which he seldom tired. Away, through the haze of the late afternoon, he could see a glimpse of New York harbor. with its busy traffic, and dn the far background a huge dim figure vaguely stabbed the murk with its uplifted torch. He gazed upon it in silence for a time and then with a sigh and a gesture of im- patience he turned, sat down and be- an to dictate somewhat firritably to the audiphone upon his desk. “Of course there is always the pos sibility of error in these calculations, and. it wonld be wise to allow a con- siderable margin of safety, therefore; but on the whole we are in‘a position to say that we think well of the prop- osition. If you wish, I shall be glad to discuss the matter at length and in detail. Very sincerely yours.” He switched off the machine, took another letter from the heap awaiting his attention, and attempted to pin his mind on it. For some reason he was unable to do so. He fidgeted a mo- ment, rose and walked again to the window and lvoked upon the far-flung panorama of Manhattan, ~ Now, this indecisior or, better, per- turbation, was not ai all characteristic of this young man. Anyone who knew him well, watching him now, would have sensed that something had dis- turbed him deeply. He ran his hand through his brown hair with a gesture of discontent and turning at length again to his desk ne rang the bell and said to the gray-haired little man who entered: “Frank, when you leave the office this afternoon you will find O'Hara waiting with the car. 1 shan’t need him again today. Take the audiphone and all this heap’ of correspondenée on the desk, hand them to O'Hara, and tell him to take the whoie lot down to the country and have Jefferson put them on the desk in the library.” “But I understood, sir,” objected the secretary, “that you had planned to spend the week-end playing golf at Southampton.” “That’s so, Frank,” responded Stan- ley, “but 1 find 1 can’t do it. Please get Mr. Roberts on the phone and ex- plain to him that unexpected and im- perative business will detain me. Be as apologetic as you know how. Crovel for me, Frank, grovel.” Wilson smiled. “Yes, sir,” he said, “1 shall grovel abjectly.” “Great invention the audiphone,” continued Stanley, casting an interest- ed eye upon the machine. “You can dictate for hours without having a stupid stenographer around saying, ‘What's that, sir? or ‘How do you spell cat, sir? Talk as fast as you please, talk as slowly as you please, the machine doésn’t get restless. It doesn’t fix its hair or tap the floor with its foot, and thank God it doesn’t chew gum!” “Yes, sir,” smiled Wilson, “it cer- tainly has some advantages over the female of the species, but doesn’t it sometimes get out of order?” “Well,” replied Stanley, “the female of the species has been known to do that, too.” Employer and employee smiled to- gether at this feeble jest. You would have guessed that relations between them were not wholly formal and offi- cial, and you would . have guessed right. Wilson was more than secre- tary, he was a thoroughly confidential assistant. In fact he knew much more about the business of the firm than Rollin "“Vaterman, who was not only Stanley’s partner but his life- long friend as well. And it was not only the business of the* firm with which he was weli acquainted. He knew much more about the private lives of both the members of tha firm than either of them guessed—perhaps a good deal more than one of them would have liked, and he was thinking of that particular one when Stanley turned and mentioned his name. “Frank,” he said, “Mr, Waterman hasn’t come in yet?” “Not yet, sir,” Stanley hesitated an instant, and then tossed his head with an air of decision. “When he does, say I'd like to see hin.” “Yes, sir, I will,” w.nswered the sec retary. The door had scarcely closed behind Wilson when upon the other side of Stanley’s office another door opened and there entered briskly a young woman, clad in the business tweeds of Wall Street. She was a dark, good- looking girl of twenty-three or twenty- four, with assurance written large upon her®handsome face and radiating from her eyes of Spanish black. Stanley turned upon her entrance. “Well, Miss Morgan?” he said. “Here is a letter,” she said in her clipped voiced, “which Mr, Waterman asked me to call your attention to.” He took the letter and read it swift. ly. Then he faced the girl with a glance of dissatisfaction as he sald: “Why, this is dated three days ago. It should have been attended to before. What happened to it?” “It got mislaid some way,” she an- awered. “l seu. It just crawled stealthily away and hid itself, I suppose—just out of spite.” The girl looked sulkily at the floor. “I'll see Mr. Waterman about it. After all you're his secretary, not rina” By A. E. Co ht, By Dodd, pyrig y odd: 1 THOMAS Mead and Cofdpany, Ine. U. Service “1 was about to suggest something of the sort, sir.” . Stanley looked at her with curiosity but whatever he was thinking he passed over the impudence. “Hm,” he said reflectively, and then, “is that all?” “Yes, sir,” “Good.” She turned and> went out. He vas still looking after her in a puzzled sort of way, when the opposite door opened and Rollin Waterman came in, breezily, as usual. Perhaps that was one of the secrets or his charm—he always seemed to bring the ou.-doors with him, In the Street these two men were known variously among their inti- mates as Damon and Pythias, Park and Tilford, or liver and bacon, and The Girl Looked Sulkily at the Floor. they spent more time together out of the office than in it. Their friendship dated from the days when they wore piaafores and played together in the park whil- their nurses gossiped on a nearby bench, presumably, if we credit the professional humorist, with hand some policemen, It is true that the credit side of the ledger of this friend: ship showed a heavy balance in favor of Jim Stanley, but it is equally true, too, thai his opportunities for benev- olence far exceeded those of his friend. Jim and Waterman were about the same age. They had many points in common. They were both well born, of an old New York stock, they were at school together and at college. Jim's father, however, 3had been a canny and successful business man, and when he died had left a fortune of uncommon size entirely to his son. Waterman's sire, on the contrary, had been an able but erratic person who dissipated the fortunes of his family and left his son a heritage of debts— not that anyone could ever see, how- ever, that these debts weighed notice ably on the mind of their inheritor. “Hello, Rolly,” said Stanley, “a bit late?” “Why, does it matter? Lively day on the floor, you know.” “Yes, another million share day. Glad we held on to that B. & O. last spring.” “Yes, that will do us a bit of good. Er—Wilson said you wanted to see me.” “Oh, yes, I—oh, by the way, why do you keep that secretary of yours?” “What's the matter with Miss Mor- gan?’ inquired Waterman, with just the least indication ot surprise. “Well,” said Stanley, “che’s care- less, and she's impudent. Aside from that she’s first class.” Waterman laughed and answered: “Oh, she’s all right if you understand her, and she’s intelligent, which cov- ers a multitude of sins. That what you wanted to see me about?” The smile died from Stanley’s face. “No,” he said shortly, and then added slowly, “no, no, it isn’t.” “Well, then, shoot,” adjured his friend. “What the deuce is it? You look as glum as a parson’s face on a Monday morning.” It was clear that Stanley was em- barrassed. This was a thing that sel- dom happened to him and he didn't like the feeling. However, it had to be done, and now was the time. “Rolly,” he said, “I've bad some thing o: my chest for quite awhile and now I'm going tc get it off. We've been pals for a good many years. 1 hope we always shall be.” . * “I hope so, too,” responded his part- ner. “Why not? Anything gone wrong? Have I done anything?” “No, no, not a blessed thing,” said Stanley hastily. “Don’t misunder- stand me, | think that ours is the kind of friendship that nothing could spoil, with possibly one exception.” “1 can’t imagine what the exception could be,” laughed Waterman. “The possible exception,” responded the other, “is an exception that has ruined more than one friendship be- fore now. | mean a woman.” “Oh,” said Waterman blankly. He rcse from the desk on the corner of which he had been sitting, took one turn up and down the room and stopped in front of his friend: “I sup- pose you're talking of Doris Colby.” Stanley shrugged his shoulders. “Well,” said .the other, “what about her?” “Just this. Here we are, you and 1, pals—same school, same college, same clubs, :nd now for two years part ners; and as if that were not” enough for us to hold in common, it looks to me as if we had gone and fallen in love with the same girl. Of course we've never talked about it—" “People don't, as a rule,” muttered Waterman, “True, but we must.” “Why so?” “ll tell you, Rolly. It would be easy enough to let things drift along and take their natural course, but I've been thinking a lot about it and here’s how it stands. Many a friend: ship has been wrecked on just this kind of a reef. Now I don’t want our friendship to be wrecked, no matter what happens. I may be all wrong when 1 say that we both love the same girl. I can only speak for my- self, and If 1 am wreng, just say so and we'll drop it.” He looked inquiringly at his friend, who presently dropped his eyes and shrugged his shoulders, “All right, then,” Stanley went on. “Now it is clear to me that it’s be- gun to get on our nerves. We haven't been ourselves in crch other's com: pany for quite a while. It has both ered me a lot, this—this barrier that’s been rising between us. Let’s break it down. 1 think that Doris is fond of both of us, though perhaps in dif- ferent ways. And for the moment there's ‘apparcntly no one else in the running.” “No,” agreed Waterman, “not since Monsieur Le Comte d'Estrelles took ship for home with a refusal in his luggage.” “But,” continged Stanley, “she can’t marry us both, and it may be that she hasn’t the Slightest idea of marry- ing either of us; but 1 have certain notions of my own upon the point, as no doubt you have also. Some time she must make a choice. So far as we're concerned, the sooner the bet- ter. It is my besotted idea that 1 am the husband designed for her by an all wise Providence, and you appear to be nourishing designs of your own not precisely in line with that view. Is that right?” “It is,” said Waterman briefly. “Very well, then, 1 propose this— we shall each go to her this very eve ning, one at nine o’clock, and one at nine-thirty. Each ot us shall ask her to marry him and the loser shall take his medicine as best he can. What de you say?” V/aterman took another turn upon the rug. Then he thrust both hands deep into his trousers pockets, and thoughtfully jingled a few coins there in. Somehow he seemed to gather de- termination from the sound. At all events, he turned again to Stanley and bserved, succinctly, “It’s a bet.” Stanley breathed a sigh of relief. “Good,” he said, “and whoever wins, it’s to make no difference what ever in his relations with the other.” Thomas Paine’s Place in American History A writer In the Detroit News pays this splendid tribute to one of the great spirits of the American Revolu- tion: “Thomas Paine was the first man to use the words that now echo over the whole world, ‘The United States of America.” As one of the leading lights of the Amerjcan Revolution, he was of great Importance, although none of his many writings indicate that he had a gift for practical states- manship, His words burned every- where with a large and splendid ar- dor for American ideals, for liberty, equality, and the right to happiness. “His pamphlet, ‘Common Sense,’ printed in 1776 and followed by the various numbers of ‘The American Crisis,’ stirred and spurred Americans to the road to freedom more than any other words produced in those days by tongue or pen, unless they were those of the Declaration of In- dependence. When all men were hesitating over the audacity of final separation from Great Britain, he spoke boldly, demanding to be shown any reason for argument or delay, He preached federal union, that petty jealousies and local narrowness be forgotten : © “‘Our great title is Americans—our Inferior one varies with the place.’ ” Origin of the Polka A Hungarian dancing master on a walking tour In the 1830s stopped at a small village in Poland where he saw a peasant girl dancing a folk dance that particularly pleased him He brought back the new steps to Prague, where the dance immediately won great popularity, and name® it polka for the land of its origin. The polka was introduced to Amer ica about a decade later, when James K. Polk was a Presidential candidate, Because of the similarity of names the polka became a ®impaign dance. Articles of various kinds were named for the dance—polka scarfs, polka gloves and finally the polka dot. THE PATTON COURIER “Waterman jingled the coins again. “Right,” said he. “Fine,” cried Stanley, his face light- ing up. He put out his hand. Water man took it, “And now,” said Waterman, goes first?” “We'll toss for it,” Stanley decided. “Suits me,” grinned Waterman, pro- ducing one of the jingly coins, “You call it, or shall 1?” “You toss,” directed Stanley, “I'll call.” “Right. Here goes!” coin, “Heads!” eried Stanley, as it fell upon Waterman's palm. Stanley in spected the coin briefly, then his face fell a trifle. “Tails it is,” said he. “You win. 'All right, old boy, you go first. But I know that you'll forgive me if 1 don’t wish you luck.” Waterman grinned. “Under the cir- cumstances, yes,” said he. “All right,” said Stanley briskly, “I know she’s to be at home tonight, for she told me so.” Waterman grinned again,” “Yes,” said he, “so I heard,” and they grinned together, “Well,” said Stanley, “that’s that,” and made for the wardrobe closet, whence he took his hat and stick. “Awful joke on us,” he remarked, “if she turned us both down.” “Can happen,” answered Waterman philosophically, “Anyhow, I'll be d—n glad to get it over.” “Me too.” “All right, then—you at nine, and at nine-thirty enter, so far as you're coh- cerned, the villain. Of course if you've won I'll know it the moment 1 come in, and it won’t be neceseary for me to say anything but, bless you, my chil- dren. But, best of all, it's going to be a square deal.” “Surest thing you know 1” “Till tonight, then, old man. Win or lose it's all right, and—goed luck to—one of us,” and with that Stanley smiled again and departed. The remaining partner gazed reflec tively after him. Then he lighted a cigarette and sat down. He had # good deal to think about. CHAPTER II Yow Jvho He tossed the “Well, Rolly, do you mean it?” Waterman started. The speake: Stood behind him and he had not heard ber enter. It was one of her accom- plishments, this swift and silent ap parition. She was not stealthy—she was simply silent. “Mean what?” “Don’t stall. I happen to have heard every word you two have been say- ing.” “Well, what about it?” “Do you mean it?” she demanded once more, Waterman’s hand was not forced. “Do 1 mean what?” he said. “That you're going to ask Miss Col- by to marry you?” Waterman blew the ash cigarette, “What if 1 am?” he said. The girl’s mouth tightened, her face hardened, her black eyes flashed. “Just this,” sMe said. “You can’t do that kind of thing to me.” “No? “No, Mr. Rollin Waterman, not after all that's passed between us—no.” “Why,” he said, “what could you do about it?” Though he spoke with a jeer, he was far from comfortable, for to be from his n Fay R= ® Y “n Ny A 4/4 \ op FP ¥] gu Mo 7 3 {i Wl? \ \ RS 2 | = \ #7 A 53 iad sil y Irwin a PAYERS { “Hm,” Said Waterman. “Blackmail, Eh?” he knew well enough that she could and would do something about it. Wherefore his remark was not so much a gibe as a genuine request for infor- mation. Information was promptly forthcoming, “I'll tell you what I can do about it. Do you suppose a girl like Doris Colby would have any use for you If she knew the truth about me?” “Do you mean that you will tell her?” “That’® just what 1 mean. You will promise me here and now to give up all attempts to marry her, or I'll go to her and tell her the precise truth about you and me.” “Hm,” said Waterman. mail, eh?” (TO BE QONTINUBD.) “Black- =I | | | { ULTRA-VIOLET RAYS OF SUNLIGHT HELP Children Playing in (Prepared by the United States Department . of Agriculture.) Children seek sunshiny places to play in almost as instinctively as kit- tens look for wamm pleasant spots where the sun's rays help them to drowse contentedly. Both children | and other young growing_things need | | | pm ———————————— | the ungbstructed ultra-violet rays of | sunlight to keep them well and help them develop normally. «Children, however, must be specially dressed for sun baths, in such a way that the largest possible area of skin surface may be reached by the beneficial rays. The little sun suits shown in the pie- ture have been designed by the bu- reau of home economies of the United States Department of Agricuitare to meet this requirement. Cool, thin print is used in one case, with very short, loose legs and comfortable shoulder straps which are bréad enough to prevent slipping down. Their Sun Suits, Legs, armholes, and neck are finished with a flat ‘binding. This garment is cut from a romper pattern having a fold in the crotch. It is roomy and loose all over, with specially good length from neck to crotch. A match- ing hat or short-baeked sun bonnet could be made to protect the little | | | | | | | girl's eyes from glare during the hot | part of the day. The other little suit is more boyish | in cut, with short trunks or trousers | of opaque white material buttoned to a waist of heavy net, reinforced by | flat straps. This type of waist allows the ultra-violet rays to reach even | more of a child's skin than the print- | ed fabries. It is necessary to accus- | tom children gradually to their sun- | baths, by exposing them for a short | time each day when the temperature | is 80 degrees Fahrenheit or more, un- til they acquire a coat of tan, CLUB GIRLS LIKE ORDERLY CLOSETS Old Broomstick Used to Hold Clothes Hangers. (Prepared by the United-States Department of Agriculture.) The girl in the illustration is a mem- ber of one of the 4-H clubs in room improvement directed by the United States Department of Agriculture and the various agricultural colleges, She has made certain changes in her room at the suggestion of the club agent, in- cluding the rearrangement of ~ her clothes closet, Freshly painted wood- work and furniture, a revarnished floor, and new covers for her bed and other pieces of furniture were also a part of the improvement she effected. In the closet, which she wanted to make orderly and attractive, she put a lengthwise pole made of an old broomstick, and provided as many clothes hangers as she needed, to economize space and keep her gar- ments fresh and unwrinkled. Having the closet arranged so that it was just as easy to put things away Making the Closet Orderly. as to throw them on the bed or a chair, was a direct help in curing this girl of some untidy habits she had de- veloped. Many mothers have doubt- less fround it difficult to train their daughters to be neat at home, and per- haps the reason is a lack of suitable ways of keeping order. During the warm months when there are several dresses in the wash for each girl or woman in the family, and a great many for the little tots who wear cotton rompers or bloomer dresses entirely, it is a good plan to keep a supply of hangers downstairs near the ironing board. As each gar. ment is pressed it can be hung on a hanger and placed on a line or a clothes horse until it is dry and well aired. Strawberry Shortcake Strawberry shortcake for breakfast, made with or without plain makes a delicions variant of the ordi- nary diet. cottage cheese to make it a more com- plete meal. This is an ideal night supper. cream, With it should be served either a glass of milk or a dish of break- fast or lunch for children, as well as a very satisfactory change for Sunday Orange Sherbet Always Ices and sherbets made of fresh fruit juice are always refreshing in hot weather. If egg white is beaten into the mixture after it has been | partly frozen the mixture i8 more fluffy and creamy in texture and to many people less bitingly cold than a plain ice. These fresh fruit des- serts have the merit of contribut- ing to the day's supply of vitamines. This recipe for orange sherbet {is from the bureau of home economies: 23, cups orange 3, cup sugar juice 1; teaspoon salt % cup lemon juice I egg white Strain the fruit juices, add the sugar and salt, and stir until the sugar is dissolved. Freeze with a mixture of 1 part of salt to 4 to 6 | parts of ice. Turn the crank slowly until the mixture is partly frozen, | then quickly add the beaten white of egg, anu continue to turn the erank until the ice is firm. Remove the dasher, press the contents solidly into the can, cover with waxed paper and | replace the top on the can. Pack with more ice and salt and allow to stand an hour or more to ripen before serving. Curried Chicken With Coconut Quite Unusual Curries of all kinds have penetrated to the western world from India, and this unusual way of preparing chick- en is no exception, The recipe has been tested by the bureau of home economics and found excellent: 1 fowl weighing 8 14 tsp. curry to 4 pounds 115, tsp, salt { 1 quart water Flour | 1% cup sliced onions | Disjoint the fowl and simmer in | the water to which 1 teaspoonful of salt has been added, When the fowl is tender, drain it, and measure tha | liquid. For each cup of liquid, blend 2 tablespoonfuls of flour with 2 table- spoonfuls of fat removed from the top | of the broth. Brown the onion in a small amount of the chicken fat, add the broth and the blended flour and fat, and cook until thickened. Then add the curry and the remaining teaspoonful of salt. Remove the skin from the back and legs of the fowl | and add the meat to the sauce. Allow | the meat to heat through but take | are that it does not become broken | while stirring, Serve the chicken with flaky boiled rice. Blend of Greens Cooked | Entirely Without Water | Those who do not especially care | for the flavor of kale or dandelion | greens may find more acceptable a blend of these greens with spinach. To conserve the mineral constituents and the vitamines for which these vegetables are important in the diet, | these are cooked tke shortest pos- sible time and entirely without wa- ter, with a small amount of butter or other fat to prevent burning, The directions for preparing them are giv- en by the bureau of home economics, United States Department of Agricul- ture, Use equa! quantities of spinach and | | Kale and half as much dandelion | greens, Cut or chop these into short lengths and cook them for 8 minutes in a frying pan in which enough but- ter has been melted to season the greens and prevent their sticking to the pan. 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