FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1936 CHAPTER XXl—Continued —lB ■ ' "Yes, of course 1 But I was won dering what she would have said If I had said quite openly, 'Larry, take me along 1'"- "She might not have suspected anything at all." "Unless Caroline prompted her." "Well—that, of course. But do you think Caroline suspects?" "I don't know. Sometimes I think she does." Again there was a long musing silence, then Tony said: "Larry, when I'm with you I feel tremendously brave. I could do anything, because you're there to approve. But the minute we're sep arated I feel so fiat and stupid. I feel like screaming: 'Oh, what's the (I'fference? Who cares!' So I know how I'll feel tomorrow," the girl went on, earnest and fragrant and confidential In the darkness, with her arm through his, and her face against his shoulder. "And I have to make unchangeable plans now, and stick to them no matter how I feel when this is over." "We'll have dinner now." They had turned off the highway to stop at a little roadside restaurant whose windows were gushing light into the nlglit. Tony was ravenous and found everything delicious; food brought her btock color and spirit; she rest ed her elbows on the table and smiled across It at Larry. "This "Is Italy, Larry, and we are on our travels." "Will you go to Italy with me, Tony?" "Not now. No; there's no happy ending for us," Tony said. "There may be." "It's so horrible to have It de pend on someone's death, Larry. It oughtn't to be that way. Do you suppose most persons' happiness depends on someone's death?" "I suppose It does depend on Ruth's death—that's horrible," the man said, looking up with a smile. "One always says 'unless some thing happens.' But It always means 'unless someone dies.'" Tony mused on this for a moment. "No, I'll not do that So this Is our last little party, Larry. I couldn't trust giyself for much of this one. One of these moony nights I'd want to give in—more than anything else Bendy, or Mother, or what people think of me, or what I think of myself— It would all vanish like fog. I'd think. 'lt's my business and Larry's and nobody's else 1'" "And Isn't It?" "You know it's not. But the worst of it is," Tony said with a' rueful laugh, "I can make all the resolves in the world, while I'm with you, and the minute we're separated I'm sick. "I wish there were some other way out." "Yes, because this really Isn't any way out." The enchanted talk went on and on. Tony's right elbow was rest ing on the table, and her chin in her hand; her left hand lay free, and after a while Larry's big brown hand was over It, firm and strong, and he bad moved his chair about so that their shoulders were al most touching. When Tony raised her heavy dark eyelashes and brought the glowing soft light in her blue eyes to meet his look, she found his own eyes close. The clock on the wall said ten, said eleven, and still their eyes, their hands, their souls were locked together, still they sat on In the obscure corner of the dining room, with the plain white cloth stained with red wine, and the cheese and the apple peels littering the disor dered plates. "Larry, will you look at the time?" "Good God, Is It after eleven?" "And your engagement with Fitch?" Larry glanced toward the back of the restaurant "I'd- better telephone him. I can tell him. I've had a breakdown. Do you realize we've been sitting here talking for three hours?" the man demanded. "It seems like one." "It did seem like one," Tony was somewhat concerned until he re turned from the telephone booth cheerful and reassuring. "Was It all right?" she asked tearfully. "Fine. He was just leaving the oilice; said we could take It up any time tomorrow. He'd tele phoned ltuth, at the lodge, and she told him I'd started at six, so he knew I was trying to get there, anyway. I told him I was delayed down here at King City—" They walked toward the parked car; the world was whitewashed with rimmshine now, and very stili. "Fog nil gone," Tony said. In her lil::ce fin the front sent again. It's straight ahead now. We ought to be In by three?" "Sooner than that. We'll be In San Jose In about an hour, and then it's only an hour and a quar ter." The miles flew by; Tony, wear led, rested drowsily against Larry's shoulder. "Hello!" he said suddenly, rous ing her. "We're bumping," said Tony. "Bumping! Great Scott what a flat!" Larry got out of the car, walked about It "Our right rear is as flat as a pancake," he said. And fool that I am, I've no spare! —No spare, and miles to go!" "Well, there wasn't a garage, even back at the restaurant," Tony said. "No, but I could have telephoned one—Damn It!" Larry said under his breath. "We'd have to stop someone and get them to telephone. I don't know how far a garage Is or where there Is one." Tony got out and walked about the car In her turu; looked up at the wide pale gray spread of the sky and the pulsing stars. "Bright as day," she said. "Here comes a car—ladles, driv ing along pretty fast, too—no, they won't stop; they've heard too much ot roadside robbers," Larry laughed, Impressive in his tan coat, with his thick black'hair uncovered. "Here —here we are I" A small car stopped; a man's spectacled face peered out There was a woman with a baby in her lap beside him; another woman looked out from the back of the car. Tony knew this other wom an's face, tried to place It; It had a vaguely unpleasant association, somehow. » "I don't believe there's a garage open this side of San Jose now," the man said, sympathetically. "It may be an hour before help gets back to you." "Wait-a mlnste—that- honse up the road there Is lighted—funny thing too, as late as this—there must be sickness," said Larry. "We'll walk up there and use their telephone." "I really think you'd save time." "Who Is that woman?" Tony thought, shuddering a little in the first feeling of cold. "I know that face 1" "Come on, we'll go telephone," Larry told her, as the little car drove away. "And we'll come back and wait In the car. I've got an extra coat there, and I'll wrap you up." A thousand times In the days that followed Tony was to wish that she had prevented him, had suggested that they wait for a bus; there were buses going up and down these roads, even though it was only at long intervals. No kindly premonition arrested their feet as they walked along the fragrant highway, turned in at a plum-guarded ranch gate, and ap proached a pleasant four-square wooden home draped in rose vines and shaded by two great oaks. "Oak Lawn," said a sign over the entrance steps. The hallway and an upper room were lighted, at twelve o'clock on a quiet Monday night. Larry rang the bell. There was no answer; he tried the door. "It's open; there's someone here. They wouldn't go away and leave the place lighted up," he said to Tony, ringing again. Again there was no response; far upstairs they could hear a child crying. "There's a baby In there some where, Larry. They've gone away and left It" "Walt here's someone." Foot steps were coming along the hall; the lock rattled, and a pale young man looked out." "What do you want?" "May I use your telephone, please? We've got a flat, and there doesn't seem to be any ga rage near here." The young man looked at them, blinking. "It's out of order—" he began. Then his manner changed. He clutched his temple, dug the heels of his palms Into his eyes, and burst Into bitter weeping. "Come In," he sobbed, "my wife's just been murdered! I don't know what to do." » CHAPTER XXII ' THE Donny murder case took front-page headlines In all the newspapers the next day, and for many days to come. Harold Donny was in no sense an ordinary rancher; he was the scapegrace son of Everard Donny, a wealthy Pittsburgh steel man. His wife hail been the beautiful Zelda Mhoon of THE ROCKY MOUNT HERALD, ROCKY- MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA Santa Barbara, and their ranching experiment originally had been rather In the nature of a high ad venture set in a background of riding horses, handsome cars, good servants, smart clothes. But they had lost money; they had had a •baby; there was every reason to suppose that there had been a nervous strain upon both the spoiled young husband and wife of late years; the newspapers were agog with theories as to the wom an's coldness, the mau's Jealousy, the quarrels and threats that had gone on In the once luxurious home. Lawrence Bellamy, the well known associate editor of the Call, who had been motoring home alone —who had been motoring home with an unknown woman compan ion at twelve-seventeen o'clock on that evening—who had been motor ing home with Miss Antoinette Taft, social editor of the Call—had been the person to discover the tragedy and had quite properly no tified the San Jose police. Miss Taft, It appeared from an amicable statement from Mrs. Bellamy, was a close friend of the Bellamy fam ily and had spent the day with them at Pebble Beach. No hint of scandal or surprise or blame came from Ruth. Every thing had been quite as It should be; she was devoted to Miss Taft; the whole thing was only so "un fortunate." Quiet and rather pale, Tony went through the unreal the hideous days. She was at the coroner's Inquest, answering questions sim ply, with her characteristic little puzzled frown drawing the penciled brows together over her blue eyes. She and Sirs. Bellamy were friends? Great friends. She had spent the momentous Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Bellamy In Pebble Beach? Yes. She told Aunt Meg something; Brenda little more. She told Cliff the truth. "You and he—you mean you and Larry—?" Cliff stammered. "Oh, yes." "And how long's this been going on?" "There wasn't much to 'go on.' Months, I guess," Tony said In re ply. "Well, then, what's the Idea of being so decent about it?" "I don't think It's exactly—de cency," Tony said, with an effort. "It's just Ruth's idea of the best way out." "You didn't dine with them that day, then?" . "No, and neither did Larry. He started before dinner, and I walt " You Poor Kid," Cliff Said In Sud den Sympathy. Ed for him at Del Monte, and he picked me up." "What time was this?" "A little after six. We had din ner at King City; we talked for three hours." "Ha!" Cliff ejaculated. "And she didn't bawl you out?" "No. She prefers It this way. She's protecting me, and saving him from his own ridiculous folly, and they're all going to China to gether." "Will he go?" "He has to go. Otherwise she'll divorce him." "Threatens that, huh?" "She doesn't have to threaten. It's just that—oh, she's not well, and her mother wants to go, and her niece Mrs. Polhemus Is going, and If Larry won't come to his senses and go happily along with them —well, she's just done." "Gosh, what a mess? Maybe he'll throw her down?" "How can he, Cliff? For one thing, she really does love him; she's always been kind to me. And even If he did, that'd finish me. That'd give everyone a chance to say that I was the girl mixed into the Donny murder and mentioned in the Bellamy divorce." "Who got you Into It in the first place? Didn't Larry put you on a bus that night and send you home?" "Yes; you weren't here, I remem ber. Yes, I got here about three o'clock. But you see the fact of the bus picking me up there at that hour gave them something to work on, and then this Miss Wallister of Oakland gave them my name. She'd been In the car Larry and 1 stopped before we went to the Donny house." "Who's she?" ' "An Oakland schoolteacher. I did a story about her once." "The Bellamy outfit's all going away?" "China." "When do they go?" "Day after tomorrow." "Going to see her before they go?" "NO." "Will you see him?" Tony said "no," again, Immedi ately adding: "Yes, he's to come for me here at ten tomorrow, Cliff. We're going off somewhere to talk together. It's good-by, of course. After you're married, I'm going to New York, If they'll send me, an'J Larry won't be back until late au tumn. We'll never see each other again." "You, poor kid," Cliff said In sud den sympathy. "It's not your fault It had to be Larry you liked I It's rotten for you!" Tony's face wrinkled, and her lip shook; she looked away, swallow ing with a dry throat She said nothing. • ••••• They sat in the parked car and stared out at the sea that was veiled and gray under the fog. It was the quietest hour of the morn ing; Tony and Larry had the beach to themselves. "Is Ruth bitter about It, Larry?" "On the contrary, she doesn't see, or she won't admit, anything to be bitter about. She's very happy and very affectionate, and grate ful to me for going along, and sure I'll love it all!" "She's taken that position," Tony said, In a hard voice. "She's yes. She's taken that position." The girl's voice was gentler, her blue eyes shadowed, when she spoke again. "But she knows we love each other?" 1 "She never had said so. She talks of what the best thing Is for all of us. For me, and for you— for all of us." "Poor Ruth," Tony said; "what other attitude con she take, unless she wants to let you go?" "Caroline and Mrs. Patterson help her to keep It up." "Keep up—?" "The—well, the little fiction that the whole thing Is—ls Just some thing to be hushed up and forgiven and forgotten." "Forgiven and forgotten!" Tony said, with the proud color In her face. "They seem to feel that there is no question that I like you too much and you like me to much," Larry said. "But since It's Larry and Tony, they must be protected and excused. Larry's like that, and poor little Tony didn't know what, she was letting herself In for, what gossiping tongues would make of It 1" "I suppose so," Tony said dryly. "Does Ruth believe It?" "Ruth always believes what she wants to believe. Yes, she believes It. As far as she's concerned it's true. Much the best thing for all concerned Is for us to hush it up, and go away." Tony made no comment She had taken off her white hat; her dark uncovered hair lay In loose rings and sprays against the man's shoulder. He could look down and see the smooth clear tan of her cheek, where the fln6 down of a peach showed against the white light of the strange muffled day, and the lowered thick dark eye lashes, and the curve of her fine wide mouth. Tony again was In white today; but her loose soft coat was brown, and the small square pumps braced against the foot rest were brown, too. Larry tightened his arm about her shoul ders. "It won't be forever, Tony." "No. Somehow somewhere— the roads will come together again." "And meanwhile we'll think of each other —and of Mday." "Ah, that's what they always say," the girl said with a break In her voice. "And then they forget!" "I'll not forget. Ah, you're so sweet!" he said, with his lips against her forehead. And then, "Tony, we couldn't Just run away from it all?" "Not from Bendy and Bruce and Cliff and Aunt Meg, no. They've all hoped too much for me, done too much for me. It wouldn't be fair." "It's like a terrible dream that we're together now—that you're safe in my arms here, Tony—nnd that tomorrow that ache for you— that ache for you, will begin—and there won't be any cure!" "No matter where we are, no matter what happens, we'll always belong to each other, Larry, won't we?" "You'll always be what you are now, Tony—the only person in all the world for me." (TO BE CONTINUED) Skyscrapers Need Solid Base Skyscrapers In New York city are built in two clusters, one on the lower tip of Manhattan Island and the other about four miles up town near the middle of the island. The reason for tills is the presence of bed-rock near the surface on both these portions of the island to form solid foundations for these huge structures. The ground be tween these two points was once a big marsh, since filled in and cov ered with buildings of lesser height and weight. It is unsafe for the tail ones, which are inclined to settle because of unstable foundations. Keeping Up W|i&^en|:e qyScfynh e[j ervijfce © Science Service.—WNU Service. Farms to Feed Our Factories of the Future; Industrial Use of Farm Products Is Great Hope By L. F. LIVINGSTON President, American Society of Ag ricultural Engineers, In an Address. THE idea of the industrial use of farm crops as raw materials is not new. Years of scientific research are behind it, but the depression, from which we no\v seem to be emerging, has given it a prominence that makes it one of tiie major hopes of agriculture today. World changes in agriculture are tending to make nations more and more self-sustain ing, which means that somehow we must broaden our markets at home. One way to do this is by cultivat ing on American soil those agri cultural raw materials we now im port. The other way is by finding new uses for our crops in our man ufacturing industries. We are fol lowing both of these methods of development. Soy beans furnish the almost perfect example. Introduced In this country over a century ago from China, they were first grown In the South. Acreage was limited, however, and the beans were fed mainly to hogs. Practically none of the Amerlcah production went Into Industrial use, regardless' of the fact that soy bean oil was be ing Imported from China for use In the p&int Industry. Then re search tackled the soy bean and a wholly different story may be told today. Boy Bean Acreage Increased. In 1035, almost 5,500,000 acres In 27 states were planted to soy beans alone, nnd an additional acreage was planted with corn and other crops for forage. This was an In crease of one-third over 1934. Al most 21,000,000 pounds of Ameri can-produced soy bean oil was used by industry. About half of this went into the making of paint and varnish. The balance went Into soaps, linoleum and oilcloth, print ing Inks, edible compounds, and various other Industrial products, Including automobiles. Gear shift knobs, engine distributor covers, ornamental door handles and other parts of automobiles are now being made out of soy bean meal. Casein, a dairy by-product used widely in industry and particularly in the manufacture of certain grades of paper, is another exam ple of what may be done with mnny farm-produced materials now im ported. According to the United States bureau of dairy industry, two-thirds of the casein required by American factories in 1920 was obtained abroad. As late as 1929, about one-half was Imported. How ever, In 1934, all but 4 per cent of our industrial needs were supplied by home producers, who, with chemical and engineering aid, found that what could be accomplished by the dairymen of the Argentine and elsewhere was not beyond the ingenuity of Americana. The Farm Chemurglc council es timates that 50,000,000 acres may be planted to industrial-use crops within the next ten years "if man sets himself to the task." The council estimates 8,000,000 new acres to provide wood pulp for pa per and paper stock, a forecast that is based on the success of the experiments by Dr. Charles H. Iler ty with fast-growing southern pines. Possibilities in South. The South abounds in unexplored possibilities for new crops. In southern Florida they have found that coffee and cacao may be grown if sheltered by larger trees. Rub ber from American-grown plants Is still a possibility. Artificial tem perature control, to protect plants like the tung tree from winter frosts, Is gradually being developed to a practical stage, and what vis tas that will open to southern grow ers only the future can tell. No discussion of industrial • use crops can be complete without men tioning cotton. Through chemical conversion into cellulose Its uses have become literally hundreds. Cotton seeds, once a waste, now have a value of over $200,000,000 In a cotton crop of $1,500,000,000. Cotton seed oil, the hulls, the lin ters, the meal and cake, all have become valuable materials. Coat ed fabrics such as "Fabrlkoid" con sume cotton by the millions' of pounds. Cotton enters into the man ufacture of cements for leather, textiles and paper; into water proofing compositions, smokeless powder, gun cotton, blasting gela tin, coal mine explosives. Into toi let articles, electric insulators, mo tion-picture film, golf balls nnd women's fingernail polish'. The list is almost endlmH. Landing Planes in Blinding Fog With Television New Patent Claims to Flash View of Airport WASHINGTON.— How tele vision may eliminate many of the hazards of blind landings in even the densest fog and black est night by figuratively provid ing the pilot with fog and night piercing "eyes," is revealed ir. a United States patent granted to John Hays Hammond, Jr., noted for his inventions of navigational guide systems, and son of the fa mous mining engineer. Bridging the fog-filled gap be tween plane and airport, radio waves traveling with the speed of light carry a picture of the land ing field to the pilot, simultaneous ly with data of the exact position of his plane over It, the direction of his flight, his altitude, wind ve locity and wind direction—all the data he needs for a safe landing. How It Works. The sending of the picture is ac complished with the aid of tele vision which some experts say will be here on an every day basis with in two to five years. Here briefly Is how the Inventor's patented system does It: As the airplane approaches the field, It sends out radio signals. These, or the roar of the plane's propellers, are picked tip on the landing field by delicate direction finders, like those used by nrmles to detect and trace the position and direction of (light of enemy planes. The direction Anders, operating complicated mechanism, trace this Information by means of a tiny light bulb, which moves over a pho tograph or facsimile of the airport and the surrounding landscape with its hills, river, forest, high chim neys and church steeples. At any instant the position of the light bulb on the facsimile Indicates the exact position of a plane over the field while an arrow hooked up with the bulb points In the direc tion of flight. Picture Appears on Panel. A television transmitter now tel evises the whole picture from the airport via radio waves to the pi lot, together with the other data al ready mentioned. This picture ap pears before him on the television receiver attached to the instrument panel of the plane. The aviator, therefore, will always have In front of him a view of the landing field and the surroiyiding country with a bright spot of lighf indicating the position of his plane over the field. Soviet Scientists Transfuse Animal Blood Into Human Patients MOSCOW, U. S. S. R.—Ex periments in transfusion of blood from goats, bulls and hens into human patients are being carried on by a number of Soviet scientists. The object of these transfusions is not to re place blood lost In accident or dis ease, as in the case of transfusions of human blood, but to stimulate the body to greater activity In fighting off disease. Stomach ulcer, certain forms of rheumatism, various forms of blood poisoning and chronic anemia are among the conditions which, it Is claimed, may be helped by animal blood transfusion by the method of these Soviet scientists. The blood from the animals Is specially treated in order to make it safe for injection into the hu man patient's vein. In the case of the bull's blood, only the red cells are used, on the theory that the albumen of the blood plasma, rather than the red cells, is the part of the animal blood that would prove most incompatible with human blood and therefore most injurious. This is the explanation given by Professor Galpern of the Dnepro petrovsk Medical Institute, who Is said to have been the first to make experimental transfusions of large doses of animal blood to men. Further Details Follow. Doctor Bogdassarov explained the method In non-technical terms as follows: "The idea of transfusion of ani mal blood to men in order to raise the activity of the organism in its struggle against the disease and to stimulate the Increase of produc tion of blood by the organism, be longs to the French scientists Cru chet, Cassimon and Ragot, who ad vanced this idea In 1028. Howev er, this method of treatment found practically no development In the medical practice of Europe, while extensive research ar.d practical work has been conducted In this field 'during recent years in the USSR. "A year and a half ago, the Cen tml Institute of Haemathology and Blood Transfusion In Moscow used for the first time goat's blood for transfusion In cases of ulcer of the stomach, chronic and semi acute forms of rheumatism of the joints, various forms of sepsis, chronic anaemia, etc" Page Three Pawning Wives Great Idea Till Mates Want 'Em Back Husbands of Peiplng, China, who thought the Idea of pawning their wives n great one, now are appeal ing to the police to get their mates back. They say that when they were ready to repay the loan they could not redeem the wives. The trouble Is not with the lenders, but with the women themselves who re fuse to return to their erstwhile husbands on a variety of pretexts. 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