nea tel (d=) the yea Kay ho tha ple n cha Fo tak ints Te: 4 wry and fret about me.” Doting Burglar A COMPLETE NOVELETTE BY BEN HECHT “John,” You don't know how vou. I si and think tremble, Oh, John!” The burglar looked wife “do be I worry about and think and she said, at his sensitive smiled. He was a young burglar. He drew himself up proudly to his full, handsome height and gazed down upon the pretty pleading woman who sat Lnitting by the window of their snug and burglar, a handsome cottage. “Sarah,” he said, “don’t be foolish. You don’t imagine for a moment that I— Good Lord! You don’t think that any kidney-footed, red-necked copper is going to nail me! Why!” With a derisive laugh John Helio- trope sti%de to his wife's side and pat- fed her shoulders good naturedly. “I should think,” he said, “you’d know better by this time than to A look of admiration and love came inte his wife's eyes. “lI can't help it,” she whispered, drawing his hand to her lips and kiss- ing it. “You know how I love you. And you never tell me anything, any- thing. Oh, John, don’t go out tonight, please!” John shook his head, still smiling. “How about a little necklace,” he whispered, “and a pair of pearl ear angs, eh? I haven't forgotten tomor- row’s your birthday, darling.” A soft, throaty laugh was his re- ward. “You dear foolish,” his wife mur- mured. She arose and embraced hin. “You won't ever forget my birthday, Jobn. If you should I'd think—I'd think that you had forgotten some- thing else.” She looked wistfully into his eves. “I won't,” he promised; “and, be- sides, I've been rather lazy lately. It’s been almost a week, and I don't ” want to get stale. Mrs. Heliotrope laughed again. *You make any more ex- cuses John. I never have stood in yeur way, have I? And if you bring nice necklace or earring: or something, why I'll forgive your going away from me like this and leav: irg me all alone, you naughty boy.” Don’t worry about that,” exclaimed the burglar, a humorous ring in his voice onight I work for you. I'll pick you out something extra fine; something you can be proud of and wear to the theatre.” “Do John. That sealskin coat you brought home last week is sizes too small for me. Why, it's a little girl's coat.” “I know, Sarah,” he answered. “I couldn’t help it. I never was a hand for picking out women's clothes. Be- fore we were married I never gave a thought to them.” “Well, it’s time you learned some- needn't me back a “mp thing about it. If you should run across anything size thirty-two, or even thirty-four, don’t forget. But for Heaven's don’t bring back of those old fashioned jackets like you did last They're for grand- mcthers.” . John Heliotrope smiled, and with another kiss upon her lips, darted up the stairs into his room, crying out, “I'll be back in a minute.” bureau in his room the From it he selected sake one month. Before a burglar paused. two finely edged instruments, one like a delicate chisel, the other a curious auger. Then donning a pair of light kid gloves, he seized his slouch cold hat and issued into the upper hall. His wife’s room stood open before him. After a moment's hesitation he exclamation of The door of the He approached entered it, and an anger escaped him rall safe stood ajar. Rs it quickly, and kneeling before it, drew forth red cases. He opened them and stared curi at jewelry, a pearl earrings, watches. two leather an assortment of necklace, pendants, icrgnettes, collars, chains, They were still dangerous loot, and it another month before it entirely to convert rings, would be would be them into an income. Closing the smoothly swinging steel door, he twirled the knob and locked the safe. “Sarah,” he exclaimed as he ap peared in the sitting room down-stors, “you shouldn't leave your safe open like that. It’s foolish.” “Why, John, I didn’t know.” She stammered and looked at him appealingly. “Forgive me, please.” “I hate carelessness,” he muttered, and then, with a smile, came to her side and took her in his arms. “It’s ali right now, darling. I've locked it and everything is safe inside. Don’t wait up for me. Go to bed and have a good sleep. I'll be back at dawn.” Smiling and tearful, Mrs. Heliotrope watched her knight fare forth, and a great love and admiration welled in her heart at the sight of his stalwart figure moving into the darkness. John Heliotrope swung down the street calmly and blithely, with the air of a man sure of himself and proud of his He was in a high mood for adventure. The spring night quickened Ms blood and he stepped briskly on, drawing in long breaths of the tree-smelling dark. Before a garage he stopped, and after a few moment's jesting with the owner safe achievements.» careful. his rakish car, John Helitrope medi- tated sweetly on life. He thought for a moment upon his wife, and tenderly imagined his return at dawg, laden with gifts her joy, her kisses, her gratitude. She had invited a number of friends There would visualized for her birthday party. be meat and drink and laughter. As he pondered upon these things Helic- trope drew {rom an inside pocket u note book. Bringing his car to a stop under an arc light, he turned his at- tention to the interior of his book. There were certain addresses and notations inscribed therein. Having refreshed his memory thus, he started off again, and was soon rolling down a stretch of dimly lighted avenue on side of which loomed elegant formal homes. He lessened the speed of his car, and with a keen eye on upon these progressed more slowly In front of one, almost own darkness, he At this point his en- The dream:- each domiciles down the road. concealed in its came to a stop. tire demeanor changed. ress and nonchalance were gone from him. He stepped out nimbly, walked directly in the darkness engulfing the house, and with a sharp glance about Lim proceeded at once about his busi- ness Twenty minutes later he returned, leaped into his car and drove off. A > puzzled light was in his eyes, and of indignation. He twisted the turning a corner leok wheel viciously in and seemed altogether out of sorts. “Of all the damned nuisances,” kept muttering to Failure I'ad befallen him. ho himself. Double-barred win- fastened doors, un- dows, peculiarly usually protected porch screens had resisted his sinister advances. At every turn he had been met by some burglar-proof contrivance upon fruit- minutes a rage newfangled end as he pondered his less labors of the 20 s'owly possessed him and he swore. the curb of a Again leav- His next call was at Lrightly lighted ing his car, its engine penetrated a polite wilderness of trees corner. running, he and shrubs, achieved a point directly under a porch, and with an agility purely Darwinian, mounted one Arrived on the porch, he brushed his trousers and fell to work upon the French doors confronting An exclamation of joy escaped him as the doors yielded John Helio- large, masonry of the stone pillars. him. under his skilful fingers. trope found himself inside a heavily carpeted room. With a smaii flash he lighted up little circles of this room and progressed into other fields It was barely ten minutes later that a shot startled the neighborhood and that John Heliotrope dropped courage- ously from the cement porch to the soft earth fled with haste toward Behind came a man dressed in a white night- cown and flourishing a long revolver. The however, stopped at the edge of and unloaded his Leaping into and car. below great his him man, the porch weapon in the darkness. his car, the burglar started off .at full bent low the wheel and cursing outrageously as he through the night. To follow John further nocturnal he to record merely a fruitless, the ¢kill ,courage, penetration of this art to naught. speed, over flew Heliotrope in his adventures would series of hear- breaking episodes, infutile performances in which vaunted ful creature came all ['ate seemed utterly opposed. TFor- iune’s lips seemed entirely disinclined With the first dim light of dawn breaking the streets, John Heliotrope sprang into his car, emitted a final round oath, and dashed time he had been to smile. over cff. For the sixth fciled. week of His plans, matured during a study and observation, had sixth time th= vnforseen, a kennel of dogs, fierce, ex- Jehind him as for the encountered ultant, vastly lunged. he sped empty handed down the road, another car flew, a a load of outraged citizenry. Through the faintly lighted the chase led. Bulletts whistled by John's ears, thudded against the back of his machine. With a gasp of joy he Leard the noise of the pursuer growing less, turned for an instant and percei ved it a mere dot in the distant road. He was safe. He turned off at right angle and drove on at diminished speed. There came to him a sudden realization of his complete failures. It was too late to try again, and in any case to try an unchartered house was madness. He drove on, thinking now of his wife, of her party, of her disap- pointment. Home and bed called him. The night had been tedious, danger- cus. He felt weary. In the block where he lived his chagrin came back to him with in- car containing quiet, streets As he whirled down the street in| brain, sand a certain ‘determination brought a ‘glint into his eyes. He approached the cottage cau- ti wusly. There were obstacles, fear- ful obstacles. was the complete system of jhurglar alarms which he himself had had installed against just such inroads. He had his wife that the valuables with which the cottage was laden made it a rich field for his rrofession. First, there and elaborate pointed out to Consequently bringing his information to the without! inside bear upon business, not a window was its silver strips, not a door without its Lells and devices . He had taken steps even to insure the basement ap- marauders. The windows on the second floor, the sky- préaches against licht on the roof, all were equipped with these satanic devices. He paused for the swore. before his home, and that night he He racked his mind trying to remember a single vulnerable point he n.ight have in his outfit- ting Were he to pry open any window in the house ir would ring and jangle; any door it would bark and shriek; any brick, it would ery seventh time overlooked There was none. out his presence to the reighborhood and to his wife. Twice he circled the upon all points of cottage, gazing ingress, weighing his chances, and twice he returned to his starting point, desperate and angered. The chimney ! The thought came to him with a clear, joyouh bounce in his heart. The chimney had been looked. It chimney, leading into a great fireplace was a broad, Santa Claus which had not been used for several In ten minutes he roof. In this weeks. had gained the another he had started down inspiration of a chimney. An inconceivable blackness assailed him. His ears became clogged, his eyes laden, his mouth full, his hands heavy with soot. At last, however, his foot touched bettom . He wedged his head out and stood in the sitting room of his home, dripping with ashes and chimney re fuse. Brushing himself quickly over the empty grate he tiptoed out of the the corridox and into on which his wife’s chamber opened. room, up stairs tic tried the door. It was locked. Azain his previous caution mocked kim. Not a door in the house but had experienced his cunning lockmans- ship . No two tumbler bolt this, but an intricate Yale, doubly secured. For another ten minutes he worked on it with no success. The dawn had and the air shine with the sun. frenziedly about, he glistening object on i up quickly beginning ic cone, was Casting his eyes encountered a the floor, a key. [e picked it and recog- nized it at once. “The professionally. He lee Asleep in gazed upon her composed features and murmered the fool,” he fiitted it , and the door opened noisel the bed lay his careless into sly. wife . He a fearful hesilation c into his heart; such a cowardice as he had never hefore experienced in his labors. iis tread was panther-like, his eye {furtive and filled with terror. Slowiy he made his way to the wall safe; front door with his the He opened key, and a jingling and tumult filled the heard his moment later he house, A wife calling, “John, John, is it you?’ ‘Yes darling,” he cried An apparation in lace descended the stairway and stood fae- ing him. “Why. John, look at yourself. Where | have you been. Heavens alive!” | His wife stared at him, her mouth | open, a look of fright and amusement | on her face. | “John,” she repeated, ‘what has hap- | pened?” Through the caked soot he grinned | at her, and pulling from his pocket a pearl necklace, a pendant of rubies, a bandful of rings and trinkets, held them aloft. A gurgle of delight came from her. “Your birthday,” said John. “My respects and gifts.” Opening wide her sleepy eyes Mrs. Heliotrope rushed toward John. “Don’t he warned, you'll get all scoty. I've had a hell of a time. | Quick, put them in the safe. Or, no, I'll put them there, you're too care- ” less The birthday party was a success. | creased violence. He frowned omin- only upon the innocent domiciles of! hie neighbors, but a sense of fatality | kept’ him in his seat. His own house wag darkened. She, Sarah, was asleep, dreaming of necklaces and earrings, n> doubt, he reflected bitterly. Passing it, he proceeded to the garage, stored his machine in a dispirited manner, and returned on foot to the cottage piloted his car dexteriously out of the terior. which he called home. As he walked, certain ideas’ coursed through his | Heliotrope thought it Resplendant in silks and jewels, Mrs. | Heliotrdpe sat facing her husband at | the table, her guests smiling sympa- thetically at the and grati- tude which illumined the glances she cast upon her handsome husband. Ii devotion was not until a week later that John | i however safe, to summon the Anti-Burglar Protection Association and have an asbestos burg lar alarm installed in the chimney of his home. slowly and with infinite patience he turned the knob; listened to the click of the tumblers. It opened. Before him lay two red leather cases on a slhielf. Opening one of them he ex- trocted a great pearl necklace, a peu- dant of rubies two laden with | Yaraonds; and replaced the « vv H ilccked the safe, he tiptoed out, he tiptoed down the stairs after replacing | the key on the floor ce in the sittin room he drew his fiz h breath. | boats | handle | cattle Why a Thermometer Did you ever wonder what happened when the mercury climbs in the glass tube of the thermometer on the back porch? With one or two exceptions, metals expand when they become heated. Mercury, or quicksilver, is a metal as well as a fluid. In the the mercury is sealed in a bulb at the bottom. Tha tubg above the bulb is very small— spfaller sometimes than a hair, Thus slightest movement of the mer- in the bulb will force the cury in the tube a great distance. When the air around the ther: mometer grows warm the mercury in the bulb expands and shoves part of iteelf up the tube. thick so that part of it will act as a magnifying glass so that you can see the tiny column of mercury within. The thermometers with the largest bulbs and the small- The larger the surface of the bulb the quicker the action of the instrument, and the smaller the bore of the tube the less the expan- «ion or contraction necessary to caug= a movement in the bulb to show in the tube. Clinical physicians, are very delicately made, thermometer the cury mer- The tube is made best, are those est tubes. thermometers, used by and the. calibration, or correction o? the scale has to be carefully done. The slightest difference in the size of the tube along its length will make a difference in the reading. The ex- pansion of the glass also has to ba talien into account. Chinese Names If'ukien, China, derives its name from its principal towns, Foochow Fu and Kienning Fu, and means “happy estab- lishment,” according to Miss Sz Tsung. writing for the China Bureau of Pub ue Information, It is a mountainous country with the special characteristic that its chains are almost parallel, hin: der the development of the rivers. The from rivers of Fukien the mountain to run the and good for commerce, the Min rapidly sea, are not liver being the exeeption. The water is very shallow in and Many boats are some places very deep in others. wrecked the shallow every year in waters. To sail up the river the boats pulled with the current ceedingly rapid and the boatmen can not ascend and must The province of Fukien has 24,870,- 000 must be bamboo ropes. Scmetimes becomes ex- wait for weeks. inhabitants, of peculiar customs and dress. Their language comprises dialects difficult to learn. The principal dialects are Foschow and Amony, among which are many variations of sounds. Means of communication are thus very trying because of the variety of the dialects. Lacquer is the most famous product of the province, being exported to several and is very many parts of the world. Doolittle doesn’t get along better. He Wigg—*“I wonder why seems eager to grasp an opportunity.” Wagg—"“But never till some other fellow lets go of it.” |W Traveling In China is Like a Film Comedy i over- An interesting letter has just been Marie Walcamp by Miss Walcamp is received from Universal officials tcuring the Orient, at the head of a ompany directed by Henry McRae, filming a Universal serial, “The Dragon’s Net,” and is visiting all the ; : countries. Miss Walcamp received as a present while the unaware Pekinese dog she befarded baling the traveling by a thoroughbred When Shanghai, in Pekin. train for rights rail received same while ihe failed to provide a ticket for the pet. At Nanking the conductor cam? her with a telegram advising him that a traveling without having paid his legal fare. The price of the ticket was less than $1 whil> the the telegram was $2.1%. Miss Walcamp paid the fare and up- held the Chinese rail- that dogs as humans to dog was cost of the dignity of road officials, A few days later, while leaving f'sinenfoo, the capital of Shantung, two armed robbers burst into Miss Walcamp’s compartment, and by signs and grunts commanded the actress to Shea ban- turn over her valuables to them. tried to joke and smile, but the meant their threats. and continued She happened to think aits business of a she used in a drama, ruse once photo- the horrified. and hurriedly looking pointed to coor, extremely The the indicated and Miss Walcamp slammed bandits turned in direction the door shut, ringing for help. There and a Chin- ese policeman fired several shots but was general commotion the robbers escaped. Miss Walcamp and her company are at present in the Philippines, wiii stop off for two weeks at Hawaii l efore returning to America . and Southern Ports For Exports Excellent facilities for handling ex rort shipments of live stock were found at ton, S. C the ports of Charleston, ., and Newport News, V the Markets, United States Department of a., by a representative of Bureau of iculture, who recently inspected these ports. “At North Charleston ,which is abcut seven miles from the central rart of the city proper, docks and warehouses were erected by the War the transferred to Department during war. Thes2 were the Shipping Board,” his report said. “The warehouses and dock facilities at Char leston are of the most and all up-to- date type are fireproof. The | sicekyards and barns are also new | nd in good condition, but are not fiieproof. 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