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PAGE TWO ZfrSum Gfaw /Wkf/frnXM Q&J A TALE OF SCOTIANP YARD & Y HF,AD THIS FIRST: John Tail, stepson of wealthy l,nay Tait. is engaged to marry Lury Burnham, a widow. This is resented by ilysta Naylor. John’s cousin, who has been making her home with her sister and her brother Claud, ut Taifs abode in England. Alysia tries to spoil the romance by using her own fiance, Reggie Olaridge, to win Mrs. Burnham’s affections, Tait secs her stepson talking to a beautiful young girl, whom she dis likes at once, in a hotel lobby at "Vichy where she and her new friend, Mrs. Burnham, are stopping. The girl, revealed as GUtian Dundas who has been blackmailing Tait through a past indiscretion, talks of Tait to a strange-looking young man in an other hotel. Meanwhile Claridge ar rives from England, introduces him self to Lady Tait, and is immedi ately taken by Miss Dundas' beauty. The hotel manager arranges a sitting with o Moroccan sorcerer tor Lady Tait, John Tait. Mrs. Burnham, Claridge. Claud Naylor, Miss Dundas, ana a Mrs. de Souza who employs Gillian as a companion. Suddenly the Arab vanishes. {NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY) CHAPTER 9 LADY TAIT found the Idea of an Arab Moslem necromancer using a telegram with which to summon his magic worKing dharms distinctly funny. The manager escorted them to the lounge and finally left them with many apologies. Then be returned to his office. The Arab rose from a chair at a table. In his hand was an envelope. *'l have written and sealed this. If you open It this time next year you will know why I refused to tell the fortunes of those ladies and i gentlemen." Ibrahim ben Mahmoud ben Jusßuf. head sorcerer of Abd-el- Krlm, would have glided softly from the room, but the manager stopped him. "You can’t give any show tonight. It would be an Insult to those other ladies and gentlemen. As It Is, I had to invent some absurd story to ex cuse you. . . “They are leaving shortly." the Arab said in his thick guttural French. “Tomorrow." “Then I will give my show tomor row night. I do not care to be In the presence of those about to die.” The manager was impressed and uneasy against his will. “Voyons, If a calamity Is coming, say a railway accident or another motor smash, the elder lady has al ready been in one—a word of cau tion. perhaps * ‘‘No word can stop what ts com ing,” the Arab said indifferently. “It is not evil of the kind that can be avoided. Mektub—lt is written,” and this time Ibrahim did not pause again, but passed on out, like some figure of fate. Lady Tait went early to bed that night, her last night. She had an idea when she woke next morning rhat she had been dreaming badly. Something about John Tait and that Dundas girl. . . . She shared Cln ridge’s certainty about her char acter. or lack of it, and, like him. could find nothing on which to hang her conviction. Not that It would neem to matter. She watched her maid collect a few last trifles of books and cushions trom tfle sitting room. ’There’s a very lovely young girl staying at the hotel, Rainer, Miss Dundas bv name. I suppose my nephew has been quite aware of the fart ?” Rainer looked at her mistress over her spectacles. She coughed a little coyly. “Well, my lady, I didn’t like to worry you about it. and, after all. why shouldn’t the young gentleman see a good deal of her? Lovely she Is. and they seern to have plenty of money. Not that I think he lost his head If you take my meaning." “Mr. Claud wouldn’t do that easily." Tait spoke dryly. In '■** iA&yman 'kas flu# a trait she prized. “And that’s a brass*,ig/ n*y.4adyJJ, Itainer said fervently. “As for Mr. John, he hasn’t eyes for any one except for Mrs. Burnham.” “Who is Miae Dundas, do you know?” Rainer did not. "The ladies seem I List Your Property I I For 1934 Taxes I I All city tax-payers are hereby notified that they must list their property for 19114 I City Taxes at the City Clerk’s office. I I The law provides that all listings must be I made during the month of April. Those who tail to comply with this law will be I subject to a penalty. I S. B. BURWELL, I Advertise In The Dispatch “Mr. John hasn’t ey« for anyone except Mrs. Burnham.” quite all right, respectable I mean, and that But not in the swim. Not at all In the swim. Mrs. de Souza’s English herself, her husband was the foreigner, but I got it out of the maid that she had applied for tickets for the Royal Enclosure but didn’t get them. Which shows " “Very little," was Lady Tait’s pri vate comment. Aloud she said: “You’ll be late for your dinner. Rainer." She was not interested in Mrs. de Souza nor in anything, be yond hearing that John bad not been seen about with Miss Dundas. Rainer tossed her bead. “And « funny time to have it," she plumped up a cushion afresh, “and the meals themselves! 1 didn’t want to worry you, my lady, but they really are the limit!” “The management wrote that they were very careful of the food served at the housekeeper’s table. It’s a bit late In the day for complaints. In any case." Lady Tait disliked grumbles. “It’s not the food. It’s the way it’s served. Oh, tbey*re quite mad. They serve the meat by itself and the vegetables separately. Would you believe it, my lady!” And with this specimen of foreign insanity Rainer vanished. Lady Tait should have felt entire ly at east. But a memory would not be dismissed. A memory of words without any sound. As for Claud, her nephew, she was profoundly in different as to whether he was in terested in Gillian Dundas or not. He would never do anything foolish. Catch Naylor marrying a nobody! But those soundless, moving lips. . . . Lady Tait could not shake that burr out of her mind, try or she would. Claridge left Vichy on the same day. and by the same train that car ried Mrs. de Souza and Gillian Dun das to Paris. They stopped there for a while. So did Claridge. but he dropped a line to Alysia. She read his note twice, the first time with a pleased smile, the second with a hard frown. “He couldn’t do it" She an nounced briefly. “So I'm £ls out. But it seemed worth trying. And had he really put his heart into it, he ought to’ve turned the trick.” “Pvt what into it?" Etta asked in a tone of stupor. Alysia flushed. “Tried harder!” she snapped. “Well,” she drummed her fingers on the table. “I’m not beaten yet. Not till the marriage actually takes place. But I see you have a letter from John. What does he say? More gush about the Silly Widow?” This was Alysia’s latest name for Mrs. Burnham. “What an unkind way to talk of her. He writes me just what he wrote you." “A second notice to quit. eh?*’. Alysia Wt her thin, flexible he wrote you. that we might like to stay at Tor Cottage until we have time to make oTur plans.” "What plans? The only plans T want to make would be how to sep ’ {Copyright, 19Si) HENDERSON, IN. CJ DAILY DISPATCH, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1934 arate him from that designing woman.” “You haven’t been gambling on the Stock Exchange, have you?” Etta asked suddenly. “T have, and with the very damnedest kind of damned bad luck." “I do wish you wouldn't swear,” Etta said plaintively. "Nothing to the language you used to use.” her sister retorted, around a cigaret holder. “I’ve done awfully well, you know —as a bear, of course. And that made me reckless. It seemed so safe. I ought to’ve got from under a fortnight ago. . . . But I had a direct inside tip. It was Mayer. Card and Tuily, and instead of the negotiations falling through, they’ve been ratified and on splen did terms. The shares have soared. Soared!” She steadied her voice with an effort to level calm. “Os course I told them to buy at the lowest possible and they did so. And —well, it’s the end for me. But per haps by selling everything 1 have in the world 1 can just about clear my self.” “When is settlement day?” “It’s a three weeks’ account. In a fortnight’s time. Why?’’ “What about John helping you out? As a loan, of course.” "John won’t help now. Nor have I anything on which to borrow. The bank is selling the shares it holds of mine, and of course they’re down. They would be. 1 knew from old experience that it’s no use coming to you.” “I haven’t a farthing." Etta said promptly. “I never can make ends meet. I could spend double my in come and still leave any amount of deserving cases unhelped.” “You and your charities that no one knows anything about!" Alysia bit her lip. This was becoming a vulgar squabble, and Alysia was not vulgar as a rule. “At any rate,’’ she . went cn more quietly, “you’re inter ested too in stopping this wretched marriage of John’s. Something must be done.” “If it is to- be stopped it will be, and if not, it’s no use trying to do anything,” Etta said to that. “You used to be good at thinking out ways and means in the old days and little you cared as to the* means you used!” “Just so. In the old days.” Etta repeated with a sigh that sounded regretful. “I notice you always get what yon want,” her sister ->aid tartly. For a second Etta’s eyes seemed to double in size and glow with fire. Then they fell. “That must be be cause nowadays I only want what’s right.” she said sweetly, “and as 1 only want what’s best for John here, it’s rather difficult. Let’s hope it’s best. for. him not to marry.” She rose with an air of closing the con versation. /‘Where’*- Claud 1 ?" ; “Not up yet. I fancy.” s > Their brother had arrived back from Vichy the previous night. John was not with him. He had stopped on the way up from Dover to meet some of Mrs. Burnham’s relatives. (TO BE CONTINUED) TOWNSVILLE By MISS LUCILLE GTIPTON Miss Mamie Foole and her mother have returned to their home in Nor folk, Va., after visiting Miss Mary Lily Norwood. Little Billy Hicks spent Sunday, night with her aunt, Mrs. Hendricks Williams. Miss Margaret Holloway of Drewry spent the weekk-end with Miss Thel ma Tucker. Miss Mary Rollins Tarry ha sreturn ed to her homo after spending a week with her sister Frances in Er win, N. C. Miss Mary Tucker has returned to her home after visiting Miss Jessie Currin of Middleburg. Mr. and Mrs. L. IP. Spencer and daughter Isobel have returned to their home in Tarboro after spend ing some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Norwood. Mr. W. H. Burwell of Henderson spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Burwell. Miss Mary Grace! Woody Is visiting Miss Meta Kennison. Townsville boys played baseball in Norlina Tuesday afternoon. Norlina won the game with a score 21-8. A. L. Holloway, Jr., and Miss Eli zabeth Holloway of Drewry spent Sunday afternoon in Townsville. The Young Girls Auxiliary will meet Saturday afternoon, April 14 at 2:80 o’clock. Miss Frances Boyd has returned to her home after visiting Miss Ethel Newell. Lawrence Davis spent Saturday CONTRACT BRIDGE WRITTEN FOR CENTRAL PRESS By E. V. SHEPARD FAMOUS BRIDGE TEACHER BLIND LEADS AGAINST TRUMP MAKES POSSIBLY against popular belief, trump makes are much more difficult to play than no trumps, both for the declarer and for the defenders. There are more chances for the declarer to choose the wrong method of play than at no trumps. Also there are more chances for the defenders to make bad opening leads than there are at no trumps. Recent very elaborate Investiga tions concerning trump leads proved to me how bad leads in common use really are. A business man would be considered a fool if he mismanaged his business so that lie constantly incurred needless losses, running from IB to 27 tier cent, but that is just what bridge players have been doing since the game commenced. These losses will he reduced greatly by adhering to the following table of leads, whenever possible. . Relative Efficiencies of Blind - Leads Except from sequences headed by Ace, lead the highest card. Lead the K from A-K with more than 2 cards In suit, lead £he Ace from A-K with out lower cards. 1. Solid suits (A-K. A-K-Q. A-K- Q-J, without small cards added). 2. Suits of any length exceeding 4 cards, when headed by A-K-Q. 3. Truncated suits (solid se quences, K-Q-.T, Q-. T-10, Q-J-10-i). J-30-9-S). 4. Sequences of 3 or more cards <K-Q-J- X. ,Q-J-10-9-X,. 1 0 -9-g-X). 5. Segmented honors in long suit night in Townsville. Miss Willie Ann Sneed went to Warrenton Sunday. Miss Mildred Wade of Middleburg spent the week-end with Miss Fay Howell. Miss Helen Norwood is vistling her i sister, L. P. Spencer of Tarboro. The B. *Y. P. U-. of Rock Spring Baptist church held its regular meet ing last Sunday night, April 8, at 7:30 This set—by actual count— picked up * 39 foreign and 171 domestic stations I finest7 ills: 7 aircraft B hortwavesta- > | .aBbIMI model, handsome design— complete thrills everyone. Now, you—by the miracle World-Wide Radio ... on which you enjoy domestic^broadcasts I ** ’ * 1 of World-Wide radio can travel around the can get the same fascinating programs. The RCA Victor World-Wide Radio is a globe at will. Lee s see what a day offers .. . _ set made with all the masterful skill of ”Radio You can drop in on gay Paris . . . with its Headquarters”. It comes as a result pf long night clubs, sidewalk cases, opera and muse- back to New York. The Great White Way, experimentation, careful study. It is right! See ums. Then, on to Berlin. Hear the martial blazing in lights, cheerful with laughter, one .. . get one at your RCA Victor dealer’s music of a military band. Now comes a polit- aglow with rhythm, calls. You’ve traveled today. With it an entire world of entertain ical [speaker, or delightful operatic music. around the world in just a few hours! mcnt opens up before you. There are other Non . . it’s time to roam to Rome. Italy’s Does this sound unbelievable? It’s true. *? A * Ktor World-Wide Radios fa m- A nch heritage of music manifests itself in a The new RCA Victor World-Wide Radio A*® SSX Sll dozen delightful programs. Perhaps the Pope you see above is the instrument that brings y WW addresses the faithful throughout the world. y OU this amazing new entertainment. Here’s the "World Dial” that S rt Vb NOW ’ 1? Tb* s « has ’ by checked count, brings you everything ro the other end of the world. To Sydney, picked up clearly and with sufficient volume, Onthwfin •• • < Australia. Here s that swtion using the star- ore 39 f ' reign stations mA 171 do ! jggSk. extm ding cry of the “Kookaburra bird as a sqma- mesdc stations (wh ? ch include po- ma^JdSe&Sa&banS tur . erhaps you 11 want to linger a wik lice and amateur signals). Here is a set which l|rs\jmfll t h**brijigyouailtheradio ranges . way down under m Australia. perfonns the way it should! Remember, when JT ve an - d standard - O" *» But, faster than it takes to teU it, you travel reception from abroad may not always be world,symboHc^rSs^S’l Voice” around the globe. m> Rfil VICTOR World- fVid 'e Radio H RCA VICTOR COMPANY. INCdCamdenJN.J.> “Radio Headquarters" ■ A Radio Corporation of America Subsidiary Henderson Furniture Co. IK-Q-X-X-X, Q-J-X-X-X, J-10-X-X. X-X). 6. Intermediate sequences (10 87- 6-2). 7. Fourth best leads. In case partner has made an open ing bid of no trump, showing gener ally distributed strength, distegaid ordinary rules against opening suits headed by single honors or tenants (gaps between honors, as A-Q, K-.1. A-Q-J. A-. J-10, etc), and lead your longest and strongest suit, to weaken the declarer as much as possible, bv forcing him to use his trumps to mil your strong soils. When partner h.-is hid no trumps, and he has been over called hy a suit make, above nil things lie wants to know where ymi are strongest. Never lead short, liv ing for a ruff. The original bidder of no trumps cannot afford to wreck his hand to allow you to ruff lie wants to force trumps from the de clarer, to put the hand upon a no trump basis, if possible. Bad Suits to Open The two worst suits to open are those headed by tenures, ( A ■(). K .!, A-J or others having gaps between hopors), and suits headed by either Are or K, without the next lower honor. Unless the suit contains more than 4 cards, the following suits are poor choices from which to make blind leads: K-Q 10, K-<,», Q-. 1-9. Q-.7 and J-10. You must lead some suit, of course. Bad suits to open are defensive In character, rather than offensive, that is why they make poor suits to open. o’clock. The topic discussed was “What God Expects of Us In His House.” r Chapel Hill, April 13. —(AP) —Eight hundred and six loans, involving $41,- 900 have been made to needy Univer sity students since the first of Sep tember. The individual is not considered as having very high value in Russia. WASHINGTON I at a Glance By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, April 13.—Four or five years ago, at a juncture whn there was a crisis of considerable actue ness in the soft coal mining industry (a particularly bad spell in an even then chronically “sick industry”) I had occasion to interview President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America relative to the causes of so much trouble in his especial field of labor. Without attempting, after such an interval to quote him textually, what he said, in effect, was this: The industry is about twice over mained. War requirements attracted too many workers into it. Their num her must be reauced to present day necessities. It will be a slow, plainful squeezing out process, but there is no escape from it. Lewis was accused openly of look ing with a kindly eye, to say the least, on strikes, to hasten the squeezing out of the surplusage referred to. Os course I couldn’t prove that he did so, but certainly it. was a viewpoint, on his part, which would have been* consistent with what he told me. Xt was a policy evidently sensed by the redundants, anyway, for they pre sently began to organize independent ly of the United Mine Workers of A. F. of L. affiliation; to organize un der pretty radical aspices (being high ly resentful of the A. F. of L.’s con servative, restriction ary policy), to fight for their jobs —not to fight the employers for them, but to fight the A. F. of L. contingent for them. Now comes a time, under the NRA program, when it behooves the A. F. of L. to align all labor beneath its banner. Ts is likely that ihe miners, who were to have been ‘squeezed out.” in accordance with John L. Lewis’ rea soning, as to his union’s necessities, will respond with much enthusiasm to appeals to join the A. F. of L. in; today’s emergency? I wouldn’t sup pose so. Men are the reason why women dislike each other. Political Notices CANDIDATES ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT ALL POl ITI CAL NOTICES APPEARING IN THIS COLUMN OR ELSEWHERE IN THIS NEWSPAPER are CASH AND MUST BE PAID FOR WHEN ORDER IS PLACED. FOR COMMISSIONER. I am a candidate for the office of County Commissionvir for the F ou , Year Term, subject to the Democratic Primary June 2. I pledge you my very best services if elected. Will appro ciate your support in the primary. H. B. PARROTT. FOR COMMISSIONER! ' I hereby announce myself a can didate for County Commissioner for the four year term, subject to the Democratic Primary on June 2, 193.) Your vote will be appreciated. JOHN B. KNIGHT. FOR COMMISSIONER? I am a candidate for the office of Commissioner of Vance County f o | the two year term, subject to the Democratic Primary June 2. if elect ed, I pledge my support to the best interests of the county. Your support will be appreciated. W. W. CURRIN. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER * I announce myself as a candidate for the office of County Commission er for the Four Year Term, subjec: to the action of the Democratic p,. mary June 2. If elected, I pledge my. self to serve Vance County to the bey of my ability. J will appreciate your support. SAMUEL M. WATKINS Louis P. Dunn Co. Insurance, Real Estate Loans. Phones: Office .. 289; Residence .. 716 W
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