DALLAS POST. DALLAS, PA., AUGUST 10, 1929 ~ [Beware+Bachelors, : Avlinc ge Haas £ : SYNOPSIS erstwhile partner Dr. Dayis ang hs wife, May, eyes met a sight the & ave beeh quarreling, avis 4g | through his very Boul. Jaw alous of Bos ér-dd Brie, a per-| dropped; his eyes stared. “O me manufdotdrer, and May 4s | lilies-of-the-valley,” He breath and with one startled cry he sli off his chair and went under the table. “Well—what—" the disappearing figure of her ege cort, | as in bewilderment. hey have just made up when Davis receives a supposedly profes- 8tonal call. He finds Myra in a Pestaurant, pretending illness. He believes her story and takes her ‘home. On opening the door for er he thoughtlessly pockets the ey. May, becoming suspictous, fd pws him and sees him with Myra. Nhe gets Beranger and they go to 0 cabaret, from where she tele- | Yhones Myra’s apartment and tells her husband her whereabouts and Says that she is with a man. ed, trylng to peer beneath the cloth. : Beranger’s gestures frightened her. He looked as though he had gone insane. She half rose, as though to signal for help. Then she, too, stared, and sank back in- to her seat. There in the doorway, his eyes searching the room, stood Ed. For the moment May was star- tled into quiet. She had thought— even hoped, that Ed would follow her here. That was the reason for giving him the name of the cafe. He would see that shes, too, was AGAR CHAPTER _XI—Continued The music started again at a sig- nal from the violinist. “Do you think wea’d better dance this?” Beranger questioned timor- ously. “It sounds frightfully rough | having a good time, and just as to me.” ; good a time as he could have. But “Oh, yes, lets,” May decided. “I |2s he stood there, it was borne in love od y ! upon her that perhaps she had gone a little too far—perhaps she had got her perfumed acquaintance into a hole. : But she had little time to think, for Davis had already spotted her, and with a grim, set face and de- termined stride Le was crossing the room. “Where's the man with you?” he demanded, without so much as a nod or a “how-do-you-do.” - May met his gaze, astonished. He was in a mood that bodsd no good to anyone. And now she was thoroughly frightened at what she had done. “Thare’s—thers’s no man with me, darling,” she faltered. “I came here alone ready, 1.4id.” “Where's the aan!” Davis gterle ly waited, his arms folded. “But Ed, dear, I tell you there's no one wich rae.” Beneath the table May coulda feel Beranger trembling. Oh, she had ‘made a mess of it. ER “You tell me where he is!” Davis insisted. “I'm going to break every bone in his body.” “Now, Ed, dcar, please!” May began. “Don’t tclk so loud. Everys - boay’ll hear you.” ; “I don’t care If the whole world hears ms,” Davis. retoried. “YT want to know where that man is, and if you don’t tell me TU—1"11—" He raised his head, sniffing. The odour of a familiar perfume ase sailed his nostrils. “It’s that— that perfumer,” he sputtered. “Wait until I catch him!” With a quick gesture se sont the table over sidewise. The crouching fig- ure of Beranger was exposed to view. May jumped up, shrieking. The entire cafc seemed to come to life. People got up, stood om chairs to see over others’ shoul- ders. Some made for the door, ter- rified at the row. The manager came hurrying over. But not bee fore Davis had picked up the terri- fied man and with a tremencoun shove sent him sprawling across the room and into the midst of the orchestra. With a loud cry Ber- anger leapt to his feet and ran. May looked at her husband, an. ger and embarrassment written. ail over her face. She picked up her hat and without a word, started away from the scene of action. “Oh, no you don’t, Davis caught hold of her arm and spun her about. “Look here, what's all this fuss.” The manager of the place took hold of Davis. “Nothing at all,” Davis returned sharply. “My wife and I are just having a friendly quarrel.” He smiled a lingering smile and wink- ed at the man. “Suppose you just have the table set up again, and we'll continue the party.” A five dollar bill exchanged hands. “Yes indeed, sir.” Briskly the manager motioned to a walter and gave orders. The orchestra broke into a loud, jazzy tune. The people at the other tables started to dance, seeing that the fight was finished. “Well, if you think you can hu- miliate me this way,” May began, trying to pull away from her hus- band’s restraining hand. “Now you sit down and we'll argue this out,” Davis interrupted, thrusting May into a chair and seating himself beside her. Beranger sighed, and started out with May onto the floor. Once more the crowd pushed and jostled, swayed spun around. Then a dim darkness, concealing faces and forms. A rushing, pushing, laughing throng. People snatching at other people, unseeing. Good natured raillery, silly jokes. The lights came up. May found herself in the arms | of a husky iooking youth with a red He went wnder the table. and purple necktie who handled his feet as though he had double-joint- ed ankles. May tried to keep pace with his short, jumpy steps. It was like being in a race. the way they ran around the outskirts of the dancers, May told herself breath- lessly. She looked about to see what had happened to one, Claude de Brie. Beranger was dancing with a girl who towered above him, and whose | broad back completely shut him out of sight. He looked uncomfortable, but his looks could never do justice to the way he felt. Oh, baby!” the girl murmured. “That’s certainly one grand per- fume.” “Uh—uh—thank you,” Beranger returned, not quite certain whether the remark was meant to be a com- pliment or otherwise. But the girl seemed to be cling- {ing to him as. though she enjoyed it. Beranger looked about for some means of escape. He felt extreme- ly silly, and he was sure that he looked it. But he was caught in a press of people, and as securely en- closed as though iron bars fronted and backed him. Then the musc stopped, and with one burst of strength, Beranger ducked and el- bowed his way towards his table, without one backward glance. May’s partner brought her over to the table, and left her, bowing +his thanks for the dance. May sat “There’s nothing to argue about,” down, panting from her exertions. May retorted. “Well, that’s the nearest I ever “Oh, yes there is. You can want to come to being in a race,” start.” she laughed. “I told you it would be rough,” 3 Beranger reminded her. CHAPTER XII ; “Rough! I think it’s marvelous.” “Go ahead,” Davis reiterated. “Im willing to listen to any expla- nation you may have to offer.” He settled himself, took a package of cigarettes from his pocket, and started to light one. : “I'm not interested.” May turn- ed her back, at least as much as she could under the circumstances, what with the crowded tables and the narrow spaces between them. She opened her vanitay case and began repairing the damage done by her unusual activities. “But it’s not really a very nice place,” Beranger objected. “Per- sonally, I can’t say I like it. Really, my dear, don’t you think we’d bet- ter go?” “Go—of course not.” May added a touch of lipstick to her crimson lips. “I’m having a perfect time. “All right.” Davis signaled a It’s frightfully early—only twelve. | waiter. “Bottle of White Rock and The night’s still young.” some cracked ice,” he ordered “All right,” Beranger agreed mis- | curtly. erably, He lookéd around, .as The waiter scurried off. (To be continued) though fearing he might see his i INSTALLMENT NINETEEN BOILS to anoiural head | BEAR BRAND SALE ¢packagde includes spat- also 2D S50 Drs bandage and tape Jor eas GROBLEWSKI &.CO. Plymouth.Pa. founded 1892. w= aws P=) re ——t May gazed af “What's the matter,” she demand- | at my lady.” ° Sunday. —Alderson- Old Man Weather kind of pulled one over ‘on us the first part of the week. | The change was so quick and lasted [such a little while that we hardly had time to dig our red flannels out of the moth balls before it was warm again. The cold weather sure put the lid on activities here at the lake for a day or so. Hardly any people came out and those who were out shut | themselves up in their cottages and bunghlows and “stayed put” until the weather grew warmer. Oh, but Har- vey's I.ake is a wonxerful place on a cold day! ‘Mr. and Mrs. Greenwood and daugh- ter, Melba, and son, George, and Mr. and Mrs. Bert Haskins of Sugar Notch spent Friday evening with Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Altemus. Mrs: Muriel Jones and children of New York City are visiting her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Higgins. Mr. and Mrs. Otis Allen 'motored to Harrisburg on a business trip Monday of this week. Miss Phyllis Enders is spending two weeks with her aunt, Mrs. Albert Has- kins, of Sugar Notch. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph spending the week with sister, Mrs. Harriet Rauch. The fish in Harvey's Lake are on a hunger strike. They seem to be out for the endurance record, for they haven't been biting for some time and from all repoxts they bite no better daily. We've heard all sort of reasons offered for the hunger strike. Perhaps its for bigger and better bait or for longer or shorter seasons, or then, too, they may be objecting to the up-to- date costumes of the flapper fisher- women. Anyway, they're on strike and there doesn’t seem to be many strike- breakers in the whole darn lake. If vou don’t believe this, come up and try your luck. : Jacob Condon, who underwent an operation for appendicitis last week, is doing very nicely and we hope to see him home again in the very near fu- ture. Charles Hallock and daughter, Es- telle, of Tunkhannock, spent Friday, with Mrs. L. T. Avery. Mrs. Rilla Kollmar and daughter of New Jersey are spending a week with Mr. and Mrs. Otis Allen. Mr. and Mrs. Chilson Angst, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Evans and children, Stephen and Henry, of Lehighton; Dr. and Mrs. G. F. MacKinder and chil- dren, John and Edna, Mr. and Mrs. C. MacKinder, Mrs. Ellen Thomas, Mrs. Mildred Rehill and sons, Dick and Billie, and Adolf Widman of Nanti- coke, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Millo and son James of Wilkes-Barre were entertained by Fred Odenkirchen and his daughter, Emma, on Sunday, July 28th. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Calkins, Jr, and family of Shavertown and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Calkins and daughter of Luzerne visited Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Smith on Sunday last. Doris and Gladys Cole and Almeda Calkins spent Tuesday with Ruth | Honeywell. i Mr. and Mrs. Corey Allen enter- tained over Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Will Fer- guson, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wolfe and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Wolfe. Mr. and Mrs. E. Eggleston spent Tuesday with their son, Clyde, at Ver- non. Carl Weidner of Luzerne and Miss Mildred Higgins of Dallas spent Mon- day evening with Miss Mary Kuchta. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Richards of Noxen and Mrs. Laura Stiles of Wilkes-Barre were calling on friends here on Sunday. George Smith, Jr, spent the week- end with his aunt at Wilkes-Barre. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fetterman and family of Nuangola visited the latter's Fraley. are the latter's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Altemus on Sunday. Herman Garinger has just pur- chased a new Chevrolet truck. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Crispell and family and Corey Crispell, all of Wilkes-Barre, spent Saturday with Mrs. L. T. Avery. William J. Kern and family of New- ark, N. J. visited relatives here on Thursday, August 1, seemed just a bit like old times here at the lake. The Coxton Welfare Association held its annual picnic at the Lehigh Valley Park and four excursion trains of nine cars each ‘rolled in in the course of the morning. The enormous crowd and the excursions reminded one of the summers when there used to be ex- cursions every week-day and, we might say, “twice on Sundays.” Mrs. Sarah Jane Lamereaux spent a few days this week visiting friends at Shavertown, z Fred Baker, who was operated on for appendicitis about two weeks ago, has returned home and is improving rapidly. The Ladies’ Aid Society was enter- tained by Mrs. Corey Allen and Mrs. Otis AAllen Thursday afternoon. Rev. E. B. Singer and family are occupying one of Grover Anderson's cottages at Point Breeze. Rev. Singer, as many will remember, was pastor of the Alderson M. E. Church a number of years ago. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. 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For it is the central fac- tory of Satan and his minions, the enemy of our homes, the corrupter of our young men and women—the school of crime. Unless it reforms—and soon —surely, in God’s good time, tiie ocean will rise and swallow it!” Though he was two thousand 1ialles or more away—the Reverend Doctor Steddon was 130 convinced by nis own prophetic ire that he would haidly have been surprised to read the mn i SE 0 Ls Monday morning’s paper that a beuv- evolent earthquake had taken his hint and shrugged the new Babylon off into the Pacific ocean. But Doctor Steddon, if he could havs seen the realm he objurgated, would have ‘confessed that the devil had a certain grace as a gardener and that his minions were a handsome, happy throng. As it was, Doctor Steddon had never 13een Los Angeles and had never seen a moving picture. He knew that the world was going to wrack and ruin—as usual—and he laid the blame on the nearest novelty—as usual. His daughter had heard him lay the blame in previous years on other ac- tivities. She wished he wouldn't. But then she had not escaped blame herself, and she was in a mortal dread now of a cast cloud of obloquy lJower- ing above her and ominous with light- ning. Her father and mother had named her Remember—after one of the May- flower girls—nearly three hundred years after. Her father often wished that she had heen liker to those Puri- tan maidens. But that was hecause he did not know how like she was to them; how much they, too, had terri- fied their parents with their love of finery and romantic experiment. © For it is only the styles, and not the souls that change. There are chron- icles enough to prove that the same quota. of the Remembers and the Praisegods of Plymouth and the other colonies suffered the same bitter beau- titudes and frantic bewilderments as Remember Steddon and Elwood Farna- by endured when their elbows touched in the choir loft of this mid-western village. Miss in Faranaby’'s elbow; then from hers; she saw his whiten as it gripped the hard. Someaocw in the words he chanted seemed tc stab him with a sense of guilt. He felt it a terrible thing for her to stand before that congregation and cry aloud words of ecstacy over her redemption from sin. Their secret, unknown and uncon- fessed, was concealed by the very clamor ‘of its publication. And it troubled FFarnaby mightily to be gaining all the advantage of a lie by singing the truth. it was gone thunrb nail hymn book When the choir was not singing openly and aboveboard it was usually busily whispering. Even Elwood Farnaby had to lean over tonight and whisper important news to Remember. He was not permittad to call at her house or to beau her home after the service. Singing beside her in the house of God—that was different. He told her now what he had just learned, that the factory wnere he was cni- ployed would close down the following week because of hard times. Elwood was to have been »nrcmoted to super- intendent soon. To Remember Stedden the news that Elwood would have ro job in a week and would know no place to look for one had more than a commercial in- terest. It was the alarum of fate. She had loved Elwood since: they were children—had loved him wall the more for the squalor of his home. He was the son of the town's most emi- nent drunkard, old “Falldown Farnaby.” Among the slipshod children of his family ‘Elwood alone had managed to acquire ambition. He had ysnel S1q duo si& ed oUL G8 ISWSNY supported his mother and a pack of | brothers and sisters. He had even been able to afford to go to the war 19% and win the guerdon of a wound that | made him gorious in Remember Sted | don’s eyes and a little more lovabie than ever. Her father, however, had been un- | able to tolerate the thought of his daughter's marrying the son of the town sot. Doctor Steddon felt that his loving bidding her even to meet young Far- naby outside the choir loft. He was sure that her love would wear out. He did not know his daughter. Who ever did? ee aS FF ; I 1 i 7 latterly | DONALD § RILEY #/ Elwood had expected that the bad news would shock her. But he could not understand the look of ghastly ter- ror she gave him. He forgot. it in his own bitter brooding and did not ob- serve the deathtly white that blanched her paller.: Yet he had noted that she was paler of late and had added that worry to She coughed incessantly, too, and Mem caught eagerly at grief. “Tell me! What's happened? What's happened to Elwood? He's hurt. He's killed.” “Yes! It 3 was Dr. Bretherick who after- ward found a solution. “Your cough will take a long time to cure or kill,” he said. “But it may come in very handy. You can’t stay in this town now, I suppose. Most of the animals crawl away and hide at such a time; so suppose you just van- ish. Let your cough carry you off to —say, Arizona or California.” She was startled at this undreamed- of escape. He went on: “T’ll tell the necessary lies. That's a large part of my practice. And prac- tice makes perfect. You will go to some strange town—and pose as a widow. “You will marry an imaginary man out there and let him die quietly. Then, if you ever want to come hone here, you come back as Mrs. Some- body-or-other.” He chose Woodville as the name. Mem was to write of Mr. Woodville’s devotion, then to describe a hasty marriage and request that her letters thereafter be addressed to her as Mrs. Woodville. After a brief honeymoon she could eliminate Woodville in some way to be decided at leisure. It would be risky, he said, to let Mr. Woodville live too long. A hurricane struck the little town of Caverly on the day of Elwood’'s funeral. When Mem expressed a wish to sing with the choir at the service over their late fellow=singer, her ‘nother cried, “A girl who's got to be shipped out West has got no right to go out in weather like this.” So she stayed at home and stared through the streaming! windows. She: saw her poor old father set out to preach the funeral sermon. He had that valor of the pricsts | Qieddon felt a sudden tremor | which leads them to risk death in or- | her haid, each tear a separate pearl der to defeat death; to endure all | hardship lest the poorest soul go out | of the world without a formal conge. | Doctor Steddon clutched his old over- coat about him and plunged into rain that hatched the air in long, slanting lines. Again and again Mem revolted at the outrage of robbing her own par- ents of their savings—their one shield against old age. She went again and | again to Dr. Bretherick and demanded | that he release her from her promises | not to tell the truth not to kill her-| self. But. he compelled her to do his will, | and she was too glad for a will to re- | place her own panic to resist him. For | a necessary stimulant her prophesied that somehow in that land of gold she was seeking she would find such wealth that she could repay her par- ents their loan with usury, with wealth, perhaps. Who knew ? He spoke of many women who had begun poor and finished rich. “You might go into the movies, for instance, and make more money than Coal Oil Johnny,” he said. Mem imbibed mysterious tonics at the doctor's office, and always came away buoyed up with the feeling that her tragedy was unimportant, com- monplace, and sure to have a happy finish. But the moment she reached home she entered a demesne where every- his backbreaking load of worries. kept putting her hand to her chest as if it hurt her there. On the way home under the wasted | magfic of the rising moon, Remember did not walk as usual between father and mother with a hand on arm of each. Tonight she kept at mother’s left elbow and clung 30 to the fat, warm arm that her mo whispered: “What's the matter, honey?” ‘Nothing, mamma,” she faltere “I'm just a little tired, I guess.” Hk Mem again was coughing viole and the rest of the way home Doe Steddon was not a preacher anxio about his daughter’s soul, but a fat afraid of her life. The cough to h parents was an ominous problem. her it might promise a solution. Next morning at ner rather's con mand Mem went to see Doct Bretherick. She told him that hi parents were afraid her could more than a cold and she coughed fo him. He asked her many questi and she grew so confused and apt in blushes that he asked her more. Su denly he flung her a startled loo gasped, and stared into her eyes : if he would ransack her mind. In th mere shifting of his eyelid muscles s could read amazement, incredul conviction, anger and finally pity: “All he said was, “My child!” There could no solemner conferenc than theirs. Dr. Bretherick had at- tended Mem’s mother when the girl was born. He thought of her still a ‘nis child, and now she dazed him an frightened him by her mystic know: edge and her fierce demands that should help her out of her plight help her out of the world. He refused to do either and d manded that she meet her fate with heroism. Shr anh In the talk that followed, Dr. Bretherick drew out the fact Elwood Farnaby was “the man” and suggested a plan for their marriage when the telephone rang. : The doctor's welcoming “Hello!” broke through a many-wrinkled smil It froze to a grimance. watched he kept saying: Yes . Yes!” and finally. right—bringl him here.” He sat down the telephone as were a drained cup of hemlock. “It wasn't Elwood?” Mem said. “No . . . Yes. Well— Oh, God! what a bitter world this is!” ! thing was solemn, where jokes were never heard, except pathetic old witticisms more important in intentio: than in amusement. BE 1° And at last, one day, quite une: pectedly, when she was under no ap- parent tension at all, the girl went into Mrs. Steddon’s room and said, in a quiet tone: Xelen “Mamma, I want to tell you some- thing. I'd rather break your -heart than deceive you any longer.” 3 “Why, honey! Why, Mem, dear, what on earth is it? You can’t break She whispered it so softly that her ey he this tough old heatr of mine. breath was hardly syllabled. x “Mamma, I—I'm going to have—to have a baby,” - 3 The shock of the news was its own or a if it we ‘What is ether. Mrs. Steddon whispered back cowering: : “You? You! My baby! You? A baby?” . Mem nodded and nodded until her knees were on the floor and her brow in her mother's lap. Old hands came groppingly about her cheeks. She felt the drip, drip of teans falling into from a ‘crown of pride. 3 Then her mother fumbled at the dreadful question: “But who—who—" “Elwood!” Mrs. Steddon’s decision «was easy and she made no difficulty of the gross deceits involved. Her husband must be protected in his illusions and protected from the necessity of wreak- ing his high morat principles on his own child. His child ‘must be pro- tected from the merciless world and the immediate wrath of the village. & CONTINUED NEXT WEEK ———————— All Bunk No doubt there age lingo lexico- graphers who know the exact shades of difference between hooey, hokum, blah, baloney, applesauce and banana oll. E digestive distur- sz=ml | bances, removes the (intestinal poisons, and sick head« | ache quickly disappears. Your whole | gystem enjoys a tonic effect, consti {pation vanishes, and you feel a re- ;newed vigor. Avoid bromides and: dope,they aredepressingand harmful All Druggists 25¢ and 75¢ red pkgs. 'CARTER'S IE PILLS | | | | | |