WOMAN
SIXTH INSTALLMENT
"You thought I’d be shocked,”
she went on a moment, "but it
takes more than— well, it takes
something pretty dreadful to shock
a girl who has lived the way I’ve
had to live. There’s one thing the
theatre teacher— that’s charity.
Your mother, whatever she is now,
was a brilliant artist in her time
and we must remember that. In
the theatre that counts for a great
deal. There are people endowed
with such blazing genius that ordi
nary conventions don’t, can’t bind
them. The fire of it burns away
their bonds. Yes, and how can you
judge right and wrong? They’re
such words. Circumstances are so
powerful. She told you what price
girls sometimes have to pay for suc
cess—”
• "You angel” breathed the boy.
"It’s only good, clean women like
you who can be truly charitable.”
"No, no! We’re all pretty much
alike. Only some of us are differ
ently placed. What we actually do
is of so little consequence as against
what we are—or what we become.
She had no right to stand in your
way, of course; that was wicked
•and cruel; it was hideous of her to
tell you this thing; but—how many
geniuses are quite normal? Any
great talent throws the scales off
balance.”
Gerald Had somewhat recovered
himself by now. Gently he kissed
Hazel full upon the lips; quietly
reverently, but with a throbbing
earnestness he said: "You’re the
truest, sweetest woman I have eper
known and you’ve brought back
all my faith, all my courage, all my
self-respect; you’ve made a man of
me. If you can think charitably
of my mother, then surely I can.
Yes, you’ve done a wonderful
thing, for you’ve made me more'
ashamed of myself than of her.” 1
* It was late when the lovers man-'
aged to tear themselves apart and to
exchange tRe last kiss. For some
time after Jerry had gone (Hazel!
stood where he had left her, gazing;
meditatively at nothing and with
the faintest pucker between her!
brows. She pulled herself together!
when she heard a sound in the ad-'
journing room and inquired:
"Is that you, Jacob?”
' "Yeah! I been waiting till Jerry
went home. I wanted to talk to
you.”
Hajel returned t-o the dining
room. "It’s pretty late—”
"I know but—there was a
couple Of fellahs at the theatre af
ter you left. A couple— detec
tives.”
* Miss Woods turned startled eyes
upon the _speaker. "Detectives?
W-what for? What about?”
"The Etheridge case, of course
They asked a lot of questions: how
often he was used to coming here;
did he ever come after the show,
when you was alone; was you ever
out to his place; what kind of
friends was you and him? All that
kind of stuff.”
I "I see. And what did you tell
them?”
. . . I 1 TV 1
1 told cm wnat uic jjuuiv
'The wicked man shall fa’I by his
own wickedness. Pie shall be
snared in the work of his hands.’
Amos Etheridge was an abomina
tion unto the Lord and the Lord
Slew him with the edge of the
sword.”
"But surely that didn’t answer
their questions, Jacob.”
"Oh, I told ’em he came and
went here, like a lot of others
him owning the theatre like he did
—and you went out to his place
once in a while when he was giving
a party or something. About him
being here that Thursday night—”
"They asked about that?”
I'They were awful particular
about the right he was killed. I
said if he’d been here I’d of seen
him, sure, and I didn’t. I didn t
see his automobile standing outside,
either. I swore positive to that.”
There was a moment of silence,
then Miss Woods murmured with
an effort. "No doubt they are
questioning everybody. I knew
Mr. Etheridge well; he was very
kind to me. He treated alt of the
company well, for that matter.
Why should I wish to—to injure
him? Or anybody?” ;
"Sure thing! That’s what I told
’em. Folks hape to have a reason
for killing folks. You’re just a
sweet, innocent kid. Iniquity ain’t
in the innocent and nobody taketh
reward against ’em. They showed
me the letter that was found on Mr.
Etheridge and wanted to know if it
was your writing.”
"Well?” The inquiry came faint
ly
"Oh, I lied about that, too! I
said it wasn’t.”
Miss Wood’s knees weakened and
she sat down. Her eyes weakened
and frightened; they were fixed
hypnotically upon Jacob’s. The
old men regarded her kindly, then
said: "Now don’t you worry.
Nothing’s going to happen. You
go to bed. Jacob won’t let no
body hurt you.”
On the morning after Jerry’s
visit, Mary Holmes ran through a
stack of newspapers and discover
ed, to her surprise and to her cha
grin, that nowhere was her name
mentioned. The Etheridge case
was featured as prominently as ev
er, but she had dropped out of it.
In one week she nau »
national character, and had been
forgotten; it seemed almost as it
she had been born, had lived feve
rishly, and had died, all in seven
days. She did not enjoy the sen
sation; she was offended. The taste
for publicity is likely the taste for
narcotics: it feeds upon itself, and
once formed, it is hard to lreak
For awhile Mary Holmes had
walked in the spotlight; now to be
elbowed aside, to be crowded en
tirely off the stage, caused her to
boil with rebellion. Her vanity
had been able to ignore their
mockery and to construe what re
mained as applause: it took some
effort to picture herself as the old
Mary Holmes beneath whose feet
once more were the rapt, upturned
faces of the world, but after a
fashion she had succeeded. It was
a sort of game and she had enjoy
ed playing it. To be robbed now
of that enjoyment left a bleak,
feeling of emptiness, a feeling
which increased when she dimly.
recalled her scene with Jerry on]
the previous evening. So he was
going to get married! That would
leave her more alone than ever.
She was sorry she had told him the
truth about himself; he was such
a sensitive flower! He would
probably stay away altogether, and
his visits had at least brfoken the
deadly humdrum of this wretched
existence. Any interruption, any
thing whatever to do or to thing
about, was preferable to monoton)
such as she endured. She realized
.1 • _fVi'it- t-Vinse visits had
meant mere than she had imagin
ed. Heigh-ho! About all the ex
citement she could look forward
to from now on was being called
as a witness in the l'.tbendge case
and gettinz back mto the news
p per columns in thi: manner.
i there was no certainty that
she would w. called. Her love of
the dramatic made he: wish that
she had a really sensational story
to -el!. It would be thrilling to
■ ale the stand and gh'i testimony
tha> would electrify the court, the
whole country. There would be
■ owe fun in rhat an:. -
iHer mind envisaged a new
thought and she considered it while
feeding her p :uhn. When she
hid finished her work she walked
up 'be road and spent a long while
studying the scene of tire tragedy
and carefully exploring the ground.
When she returned there was a deep
frown of preoccupation upon her
face, but her eyes were bright and
there was a purposeful set to her
features.
Later that day she assured her
self that some destiny must have
shaped her thoughts for Mr. Vogel
the new prosecutor, drove out from
town and interviewed her. With
him he brought Westland’s chief
of detectives, Lopez. For a while
Vogel questioned Mrs. Holmes per
functorily; then his bearing chang
ed: he became alert, attentive.
"Why didn’t you make all this
known before?” he inquired.
"The police talked with you and
so did the newspaper men.”
"Yes,” the woman laughed
harshly. "They talked with me;
and then they went out of their
way to make me ridiculous. The
idiots! The swine! Why should
I tell them anything Come here
I want to show you something/
She led her callers out of her liv
ing room and into a squalid bed
chamber adjourning. The bed
clothes had been slept in repeated
ly and had not been made up; the
11 m ✓ siii
room was indescribably dirty, it!
windows were unwashed. It wa;
precisely the sort of den in which
a woman like Mary Holmes would
sleep. Too bad she was not a
credible witness, Vogel thought.
If she were anything except what
she was he could put some confi
dence in her, make use of her, but.
"Sit down.” Mrs. Holmes clear
ed two rickety chairs of their bur
dens of old clothes, dusty newspa
pers, and what not, then from a
dark corner she dragged forth a
rusty trunk. The lid of this she
flung back: it was partially filled
with old scrap-books, programs,
lithographs, photographs, and the
like. She rose with her arms full
and dumped her burden upon the
bed, then thrust a huge volume in
to Vogel’s hands. "Run through
that and then ask me why I tried
to shoot that penny-a-liner! Those
are clippings. Most of them arc
foreign, but you’ll yo" ii find sooe
in English.” >
Vogel turned the first few leaves
>f the book, then he looked up in
tredulously. "What the devil —?
\re you—Maria di Nardi?” he in-'
paired. „ >
1 am. ur t was.
"Good Lord.” The prosecutor
stared at Mrs. Holmes. Lopez
looked over his shoulder and readj
the yellowed headlines. Together
they excamined the photographs on |
the bed and compared them with
the huge slattern before them. The
pictures were old; those in street,
dress were quaintly out of date,!
but many were in operatic cos-!
tume which the men readily rec
ognized. All showed a young wo
man of magnificent physical pro
portions and considerable beautyy.
In the shapeless figure and the:
bloated face before them none ot
that beauty remained; nevertheless:
the likeness was recognizable.
Vogel rose to his feet in genuine
agitation. "This is astonishing! I
knew of you, of course, although I
never heard you sing. I—it’s in
credible!” He stared about at his
surroundings. "Do the newspapers
know who you are?”
"Nobody knows who I am, except
my son.”
"You have a son?”
Mrs. Holmes nodded. In a few
words she told her callers about
Jerry, and from her tone as much
as from her words they drew pret
ty accurate conclusions as to the
relations existing between her and
her boy.
For perhaps an hour Vogel and
Lopez took turns questioning the
woman, then they drove her back
to town with them. In Vogel’s of
fice she repeated her story to a ste
nographer, read it in typewritten
form, then swore to it.
When, at least, she had been sent
. -r 1*1
nome, j_,upez ca^i«iiiiicu.
"Well! That’s the biggest wal
lop I ever had. It upsets every
thing.” ,
"Don’t you believe her?”
"Sure! She must be telling the
truth, but you’re going to have a
hard job to make a jury believe
her.”
"We’ll have to check up, of
course.”
"That’ll be easy. But remember
she’s 'queer.’ Everybody knows
she’s drunk half the time. She’s
a notorious character and—well—
she’ll prejudice herself.” ,
"I’ll take care of that. I’ll see
that she makes a good impression.
I’m going to get her out of the
pigsty, dress her up, and put hei
in a hotel and make her look like a
human being. I’ll take her off the
whisky, too, and make sure that
i he Family Doctor
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any rate, it gi/es him relief—over
night.
WEARS OUT SO
C a REPUTATION
Ti i'TTAKRH
CAk*. OF.
Jokes
GOOD REASON
Stranger.* "See here, my man,
I’d like to use that telephone.
Tou’ve done nothing for the past
1S minutes but stand there with
the receiver to your ear—you hav
n’t spoken a word.”
Man in Booth: "Please be pa
tient, sir. I’m talking to my wife’
COOLED OFF
An authfir attended the first
performance of his new play, it was
not a success.
At the end of the last act, a lady
seated immediately behind the un
happy playwright, tapped him on
the shoulder, placing something in
his hand, remarked:
"I recognized you when you
came in and cut off a lock of your
hair. You may have it back!”
PROVIDENT
Snipp: "Jones certainly is a
mean man. He never buys his wife
anything unless he can see some
advantage in it for himself.”
she doesn’t talk until I’m ready to
have talk. This isn’t an ordinary
case, Chief; it’s a newspaper trial.
When the time comes I’m going t0
explode something.”
Oh, it’ll be a big.thing for you
if you can get a conviction where
our local people have failed to even
start anything. But speaking of
explosions, what about the Woods
girl This kind of blows up our
theory about her doesn’t it?”
"We’ll have to wait and see.”
Shall I show that 'Thursday"
letter to the reporters? They’ve
after me every day to spe it. They
know about as much as we do.”
"Show them nothing until I tell
you to, Now th;n, locate that au
tomobile with one headlight just
as quickly as you can and bring me
the name of the man who drove it”
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK <
Thank Goodness That One’s Outl
NIEWb ITEM: New York legislature reduces gasoline .a. ic p ,
on. Beginning July 1, 1936, the state gasoline tax will be 3c p*.
*e taxpayers of approximately $15 001000
Piffle: "He bought her a new!
car, didn’t he?” I
Snipp: "Yes; but he took outj
a $10,000 life insurance policy fon|
her at the same time.”
MODERN MOONSHINE
A revenue agent was investigate
ing a mountain region once famous
for its ciorn liquor and struck up a|
conversation with a native. "Tell'
me,” he said confidentially, "is,
there any moonshine made around!
here any more?”
"Well,” replied the grizzled na
tive "there’s them as call it moon
shine but to tell the truth it acts
more like sunstroke.
STRANGE HONEYMOON !
An absorbing article revealing
the hair-raising tales and startling
sights of a newly-wed couple who
visited Devil’s Island. One of;
many features in the May 31 issue
of the American Weekly, the mag
azine which comes regularly with
the Baltimore Sunday American.
Get your copy from your local
newsdealer.
Route One Items
Mr. and Mrs. Swink of Lexing
ton were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Myers over the week-end.
Mr. and Mrs. James White and
Norma Ruth of Cooleemee called
on Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Myers the
afternoon -of the 17th.
Miss Mavis Powlas was the guest
of Miss Detlas Lowder on Thurs
day night.
Miss Dorothy Walton and Miss
Mary Helen Kerfees were enter
tained in the home of Miss Mavis
Powlas the past week-end.
Mr. J. R. Gentle was the guest
of Mrs. Harry Lowder recently.
Miss Virginia Adderholdt has re
turned from New York to the
home of her parents, Rev. and
Mrs. Adderholdt of near Lebon
church where she is convalescing.
Mrs. Maude Carlyle has spent
some time with Mrs. Noah Cline
recently.
Geo. F. Powlas was the dinner
guest of Mrs. J. H. Myers of Salis
bury on Tuesday the 19th.
Mrs. J. G. Lyerly is now at hei
borne.
Here?s a New Way to Have Candlelight
Without Gloom or Glare
1 1 By Jean Prentice I
Candlelight gives a pleasing effect, but often Is tiring to the eye. Con*
cealed light coming from behind a drapery lambrequin, as shown here,
softens^the brilliance of the candles and enhances the general scheme.
T'HE dining room in the average
"*■ home has come to be the “coat
„f many colors.” Sometimes it must
ke the efficient study or game room,
»r even the sewing room, for often
the table is the only area in the
house big enough for cutting. Again
it is the family dining room, and in
this use it must take on the more
i festive atmosphere suited to the
I afternoon tea, buffet supper, or Jor
| mal dinner party.
Lighting Can Be Flexible
One ceiling lighting fixture-even
one of those fine modern ones—is
scarcely resourceful enough to serve
ill these varying demands equally
|Ve1| •
Many a homemaker prefers eating
by candlelight, and usually does,
when entertaining. Now there is no
gainsaving the fact that timing by
candlelight is delightful and most
desirable. However, unless there are
many candles of the taper height^ in
the room, candlelight alone is tiring
to the eyes annoying to many people,
and, almost always (haven’t you ob
served?) to the men. The thoughtful 1
hostess certainly wants the charm,
but not at the expense of her guests’
comfort. Fortunately there are light
ing compromises which will insure
both delightful and comfortable ef
fects in any setting.
Variety of Effects Possible
The flickering light of the candles
—and you know it is usually right at
the level of the eyes—needs other
light in the room, soft and unobtru
sive, to be sure and of small amount
so that the sparkling brilliance of
the candles will not be wiped out but
merely softened. This additional
light may come effectively front care
fully shaded wall brackets, from in
direct urns, or still more subtly from
behind drapery lambrequins. The
latter method is the newest, and is |
becoming extremely popular. It em- 1
ploys a concealed metal trough j
equipped with several of the new j
lumiline lamps, and sheds a soft ;
radiance that is really a joy to be- j
hold. Any good electrician can in- ;
stall it for you in very lit tie time, and
the cost is quite moderate.
MOliy SAW
A _ _
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The Goldbergs”)
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ways right; they are
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