cency to try to make some for your conduct”. May Di her highball and begin s slowly, forgetful of the fact. ABA iy no: alous of Bepramgerde Brie, a per- ay ume Rolo ity and May is|she had once definitely refused ealous of Myra Pfeffer, an artist.| “What about your own conduct? I know the truth goncerhing =o Tne avis recetves a supposedly profes-|and I feel that I have nothing 1g #lonal call. He finds Myra in o|eXplain. But about yours—I don’t vestaurant pretending illness. He |EDOV- : delieves her story and takes her ome. On opening the door he thoughtlessly pockets her key. May,, becoming suspicious, follows him and sees him with Myra. She gets Beranger and they go to a cabaret, from where she telephones her hus- band. Davis rushes to the cabaret and fights with de Brie, throwing him out. Davis! If you're accusing me—" : “Pm not accusing you of any- thing. I'm only asking you, that’s all. : “Well, you needn’t act like a little , tin god on wooden wheels. I dare- : say you have quite as much to ex- plain as you seem to think I have. I know the truth of my story, and I don’t think I have anything to ex- plain. I have enough Justification for what I’ve done.” : “Where'd you pick up that fellow, anyhow?” Davis was leading up to his interrogations with all. the acumen of a Philadelphia lawyer. “I didn’t ‘pick him up,’ as you 80 nicely put it,” May snapped. “I—" she hesitated. She had almost ad- mitted that she had gone to Beran- ger’s shop and asked him to go with her to some place—any place, SO that she could take her revenge. And that admission would have ruined the whole thing. “—I—" she began again, “well, CHAPTER Xll—Continued Davis leaned back in his chair and surveyed the people about him. At least outwardly he seemed to be surveying them, but inside he was thinking without seeing. He had calmed down after his outburst over the telephone, and the satis- faction of having ejected his would-be rival with such celerity raised his spirits. But ho Tea|ized that he would have to “do some . pretty diplomatic talking if he | wanted to bring May around to his point of view. He wasn’t really telephoned me and asked me to go out with him, and T accepted.” “Oh, so as soon as I was out of the house you went off with another man,” Davis said sarcastically. He didn’t believe May’s story, but he was going to allow her to convict herself on her own evidence. “If I remember correctly, the last thing you told me when I left the house tonight was that yow'd be waiting for me when I got back.” May gasped. She had entangled herself properly aud no mistake. She must get out of it somehow. “Well, you see it was this way.” She started again. “Mr. de Brie called right after you had gone, and I told him I didn’t care to see him. But after I found out that yon were out with that woman—" “Oh, yes, and how did you find out that I was ‘out with that woman’ and you so nicely put it?” “Ed Davis, if you don’t stop questioning me that way I—I11—” She burst into tears, regardiess of the people about her. “Don’t cry, May.” Davis drew his chair closer and put his arm about his wife. “I didn’t want to be nasty, honestly I didn’t. But I've had a terrible evening, tak- ing it by and large, and it made me feel pretty rotten when you wouldn’t believe what I told you over the phone. Now don’t cry. Come on, there’s a good girl.”. He tried to dry her eyes with his handkerchief. “I—I don’t want to talk to you,” May sobbed. “There, now, it’s all right,” Da vis comforted. “I can imagine what happened. You followed me to that address—” “I didn’t follow you any place,” May interrupted with some asperi- ty, more chagrined to find herself caught in a lie than angry at her husband. “When I heard that jazz music coming over the phone I knew that you weren’t at any pa- tient’s house, and I was furious. So I ‘started down there, and then I saw you come out with that Pfef- He put his arms around her. jealous of the perfume manufac- turer he knew, or, at least, was fairly certain that May had ar- ranged this stunt.to even up ac- counts. May, however, took no such view of her husband's side of the mat- ter. On the face of things she could only feel that all his story that she had listened to with be- lieving ears was cane long fabrica- tion from beginning to end. Ie had made her credit his story, as much because she wanted to as anything else. But he wouldn't catch her in such a lenient mood for a long time to come, she vowed, The waiter with his tray of water and ice interrupted her thoughts. “Want a scotch and soda?” Davis asked May's back, pulling out a 4 i: long, silver flask from his hip for girl” poctot, | “It was all a silly joke of Joe Ch, pani you" cane the frigid | poppity's, darling,” Davis started Tetanal. to explain. “He had a party go- Carefully Davis measured out two equal portions of whisky in the two glasses before him; added . some cracked ice and the soda. He pushed one glass towards his wife. “Well, here’s how,” he announced cheerfully, picking up his glass and taking a deep gulp. “Hd Davis! How you can sit there and act as unconcerned as though nothing had happened is more than I can understand.” May half turned about and regarded her husband with hostile eyes. She couldn’t stand that calm assurance, when inwardly she was seething with what she considered righteous indignation. “Well, I offered you a chance to explain,” Davis returned with per- fect equanimity. ing, and they were all a little stew- ed, and they thought it would be a lot of fun to drag me down there with them, and it was Joe who called me at the house. I didn’t know what had havpened until I got to that restaurant and found Joe there. And then I knew that he had been playing a stupid joke.” 4 “Well, that wasn’t any reason for you to go home with that woman,” May reminded him. “Look here, May, didn’t we proms ise each other just tonight that we'd listen to each other’s expla- nations before we did anything rash?” Davis hurried into his sto- ry. “Now I'm going to tell you the truth, and you’ll have to take my word for it. Joe Babbitt will tell “A chance to explain! Well I—|y¢oy the same thing if you ask well!” May drew herself up and hE 8 y turned around to face her husband, “I * wouldn't believe him—not scorn and anger battling for first place on her face. “Explain. That's just what I said,” Davis persisted, still main- | taining his calm exterior. i “I? Explain? 1 suppose you think you have nothing to explain.” | May slowly revolved her glass of scotch and soda with nervous fingers. “Over the phone you said you | didn’t care to listen to my explana- i tions,” Davis reminded her. ! “Well, I don’t” May retorted, i waiting, nevertheless for Ed to be- gin. She was curious for all her i pretended indifference—more than anxious to know what Ed would i have to say regarding his meeting with that woman. “Then what's the use of trying to begin?” “At least you might have the de- INSTALLMENT TWENTY on em rnd after what he’s done,” May inter- rupted scathingly. : “Well, that’s neither here nor there. I said I'd tell you exactly what happened, and Pm going to.” Whereupon Davis launched into a detailed account of his move- ments from the time he had left the house until the time he had met May at The Dead Rat. “And that’s the whole story,” he completed his tale. “I can’t say anything more than that. Tell me you believe me, darling.” His head was bent close to hers and his arm was about her waist. Somehow it ali sounded true to May. She wanted it to be true, And Ed’s frankness was quite evi- dently sincere. She felt ashamed of her part in the affair now. (To be continued.) Sh | draws BOILS to a natural BEAR BRAND = ¢nackade includes spat: B50 2iskogdage and tape 3ls0 ad Jorge Bes GROBLEWSKI 8 CO. Plymouth.Pa./unded [892 NZ | gt mst ar a wR TR ht if you want to know, Mr. de Brie 1 ILLUSTRATED BY DONALD : RILEY #7 fen (What's Gone Before) Remember Steddon, a pretty un- sophisticated girl, is the daughter of a kindly but narrow-minded minister in a small mid-western town. Her father, Dev. Doctor Steddon, violently op- posed to what he considers “wordly” things, accepts motion: pictures as the cause for much of the evil of the present day. Troubled with a cough, Remember goes to see Dr. Bretherick, an elderly physician, who is astonished at the plight in which he finds her. Pressed by the doctor, Remember admits her unfortu- nate affair with Elwood Farnaby, a poor son of the town sot. As Remember and Dr. Bretherick discuss the problem a tele- phone message brings the news that Elwood has been killed in an accident. Dy. Bretherick accordingly persuades Remember to go West, her cough serv- ing as a plausible excuse; to write home of meeting and marrying a pre- tended suitor—“Mr. Woodville”—and later write her parents announcing her “husband’s” death before the birth of her expected child. Unable alone to bear her secret, Remember goes to her ‘mother with it. (Continued From Last Week) 3 She said little, she carressed much. She confirmed Doctor Bretherick's prescription and joined the conspiracy, | administering’ secret comfort to the girl and to the father. And at last Mem was standing on the back platfornw of a train bound for the vast Southwest, throwing kisses to her father and mother as they watched the train dwindling like a telescope mown into itself. ‘They turned back to their lives as if selves. But Mem, as she returned to her ‘place in the car, felt as if a portculis had lifted. Before her was All-Out- doors. The wheels ran with a rollicking lilt | beneath the girl's body, throbbing likewise © with a zest of. velocity. Through her heart an old tune ran: “I saw the boat go round the ben’, Good-bye, my lover, good-by! The deck was filled with traveling ‘men, Good-by, my lover, good-by!” She was on a train going round, bend after bend, and the train was filled with traveling men. Some of them, as they zig-zagged along the aisles, swept her face and her form with glances life swift, lingering hands that hated to let her go. This was a startling sensation, a new kind of they had closed a door upon, them- | nakedness for her inexperienced soul. The eyes of the women flung along the aisle also widened and tarried as they recognized in her a something she had not yet found out—that she was very, very pretty, attractive, compul- sive. s She was. plainly dressed and had never been adorned. Only her neatness kept her from shabbiness. But she had beauty and appeal. On the train Mem had expected to find on the journey leisure for contrition and the remould- ing of her soul. But the world would not let her alone. Everything was new to her. Everything was a crowded film of novelty. She knew the minimum of the out- side sphere possible to a girl who had any education at all. She had never been on a sleeping car before. She had read no novels except such sweetened matter as the Sunday school library afforded. She had seen no magazine at home except church publications. She had never been to a theatre or a moving picture. She had neven danced even a square dance. She had never ridden a bicycle or a horse, and had never been in any auto- mobile except some old bone-sacker that drowned conversation in its own rattle. She had never gambled or been pro- fane or even slangy or disrespectful to her parents. She had never seen a cocktail. She had never worn a low-necked, high-skirted dress. She had never seen a bathing suit or had one on. Girls did not swim in the river at Cal- verly. In fact, she had escaped all the things that 'moralists point to as the reasons why girls go wrong. | eves brushed Mem and he lifted his ing past her. He knocked at another steel door and called through, “Oh, Robina, better come out for a bit of exercise.” " While he waited, some of the pas- sengers were twisting their necks to watch him, ,and nudging and whisper- ing to one another... When' the door opened, and Robina stepped out there was such a sensation, and such a boorish staring that Mem turned to look. « y A young woman of an, almost daz- zling beauty came out, smiling and bareheaded. She noted the yokelry in the corridor, and her smile died. She stepped back into her stateroom, and when she reappeared she wore a large drooping hat and a thick veil. “I envy you the privilege of the veil,” the young woman said. Mem walked up and down the platform as if her feet were winged. She felt a longing to buy something for the sheer sport of buying and went so far as to buy two magazines devoted to the moving pictures. One of the magazines slipped from under her elbow and fell to the ground and as she stooped to recover it her hand touched a hand that had just an- ticipated hers. She looked up quickly and her head ‘knocked off the hat of the man who had tried to save her the trouble of picking up her magazine. She saw: the gallant was the tall youth who had crushed past her in the cor- ridor. His face came up again like a sun dawning across her horizon; his eves beat upon her like long beams. There was a kind of pathos in them, Yet she .had, as the saying is, gone wrong—utterly, indubitably. Yet no fast young men had led her astray, or so much as tried to lead her astray. She had never made the acquaintance of a fast young’ man. Her betrothed lover was slow and honor- able and religious, everything a young man ought to be. 3 But, unfortunately, there seemed to be volition in neither of them; they had just floated together with a mys- terious bewilderment. The clanking of the entrance into Kansas City filled her ears. Mem had never seen a, great city, and this metropolis had a tremendous majesty in her eyes. i Remember, thinking to stretch her legs on the station platform, joined the passengers who choked the straight corridor along the row of compart- ments. One of the doors opened and framed a tall and powerful young man out also a great brightness, which like the sun he pourned upon millions alike. | But Mem did not know this. She felt warmed and healed, and she bloomed a trifle as a rose does when the sun sia it. With great calm and as much of a bow as he could make without a sense of intrusion, the young man solemnly offefed Mem his own hat anl laid her magazines on his head. 3 Then both of them laughed as he corrected the automatic mistake of his muscles. He blushed hotly, for he was, not used to such blunders. Mem found an amazing 'mnagnetism in his smile and in his ey She did not know that that sad ile of- his was making a millionaire of him. He was selling it by the foot—thousands of feet of it. His smile was broad enough to circumscribe the world and his eyes had enough sorrow for all the audiences. ) hat as he asked her pardon for squeez- | g & ly R >. KUNKEL | The fifteentiNannual reunion of the Kunkel family wag held August 14 at Victory Park, Slatiqgton, Pa. The morning or business\ session was opened at 10 o'clock. dadight saving time. The afterncon prozranw began at 1:30 and consisted of vocal had in- strument music and a number o ~ad-~ dresses. Rev. H. A! Kunkel, of Louis, a former president of the asso- ciation, was one of the speakers. CRISPELL The Crispell reunion will be held August 29, in Kitchen’s Grove, Idetown near trolley station. All relatives and friends are invited. Jy : — MONTROSS-KITCHEN REUNION The twenty-third annual reunion of the Montross-Kitchen family will be held at Montross Grove, near Center- 'moreland on Saturday, August 17. All friends and relatives are cordally in- vited to attend. 3 . I ye»oppinioipop:ZZL| wih A GOOD MAN FOR THE JOB Frank G. Mathers, after completing the legal filling of his petition for the tax collectorship of Kingston Town- ship, said: “I have been a resident o this township for nineteen ytars. Dur ing’ that time I have never been a can didate for any public offce nor would I now be a candidate except for the urgent request of many of the leading citizens of the township.” Ay Mr. Mathers further stated: “If af elected I shall diligently attend to the prompt colection of these publi funds in the same business-like man ner with which I have conducted my own business. ; First National Bank | DALLAS, PA * mE. Members American Bankers’ Association * x = DIRECTORS os R. L.Brickel, C. A. Frantz, D. P. Honevwell, W. B. Jeter, Sterling Machell, W. R. Neely, Clifford Ww. Space, Wm. Bulford, George R. Wright. re OFFICERS ot George R. Wright, President D. P. Honeywell, 1st Vice-Pres. C. A. Frantz, 2nd Vice-Pres. W. B. Jeter, Cashier * - 2 Maree Per Cent. on Savings Deposits No account too small to assure careful attention Deposits Payable on Demand / Vault Bexes for Rent Vim with a peculiarly wistful face. His (Continued Next Week) Self-Registering Saving Bank Free \ ~Carverton- Mrs. “Mary Knorr and son, Herbert, Mrs. Bertha Anderson wand daughter, Ida, spent a day recently at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Schooley of Trucksville. : The Queen Esther Society met at the home of Miss Gertrude Engle on Friday, The girls spent their time by sewing or embroidery for a bazaar which ‘is to be given in the near fu- ture. The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Allan Scholl on August 22. Lunch was served to the following: = Mrs. Allan Schmoll, Mrs. Nelson Lewis and the Misses Iva Conklin, Gertrude Engle, Nettie Par- rish, Ida Anderson, Kathryn Gay, Etta Knorr, Evelyn Culver, Goldie Upde- grove, Emma Parrish, Gladys ‘Frantz and Mabel Rozelle. Several new mem- bers joined. Two contest sides were formed to get new members. Miss Iva Conklin is leader of the Blue side and Miss Gertrude Engle of the Gold side. Miss Gladys Frantz, who is a nurse at General Hospital, has returned to her home after spending a two weeks’ vacation at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Frantz. Billy Gensel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gensel has returned home from Homeoppathic Hospital, where he un- derwent an ¢peration for tonsils. Miss Ed fHefft of Camden is spending her vacation at the home of her brother, Ziba Hefft and of her father, J. L. Hefft. Miss Edna Hefft, John Oana, Miss Genevieve Hefft and Ziba Hefft mo- tored to the home of J. I. Hefft on Sunday. Miss Gertrude Engle visited Mrs. J. L. Kintz recently. Miss Marian Young, a Bloomsburg graduate, has accepted a position at the West Wyoming school. Miss Genevieve Hefft called on Miss Edith Pollock recently. Miss Marie Walsh of Old Forge is spending some time at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Knorr. Mrs. Luther Coolbaugh and chil- | dren, Elsie, Olin, Sarah and George, | visited the former’s mother on Sunday. Ice cream, cake and Saturday night. A nice sum was | candy were sold. realized. Rev. Mr. Greenfield and family have returned to their home after having a weeks’ vacation. Services will be as 1 follows, August 18: Sunday school wil be at 9:30, church services at 7:30. August 25: Sunday school at 9:30 fol- lowed by church at 10:30. | Bertha Anderson and daughter, spent a Sunday recently at the home of the former’s brother, Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Schooley of Trucksville. Mrs. Harry Brown and Miss Marie Walsh of Old Forge visited the for- mer’s sister recently. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Eveland and daughter Ruth and sons, and Miss Anna Frantz of Shavertown were Car- verfon callers recently. The Anderson reunion will be held at Fernbrook Park, August 14. A cor- dial invitation is extended to friends and relatives. A The Ladies’ Aid Society held an ice | cream social at the Grange hall on | Mrs. Mary Knorr, son Dewey, Mrs. | Ida, | 9. ho? 7 + OO, 0. 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