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PAGE TWO ayttie^Sistet nr Art this first; Leila Madison, an orphan, has been trying to halt the elopement of her tcckless young sister, Bet, with Ad dison Huntingdon, a romantic radi cal. Jerry Redmond, a neicspapcr reporter, has been helping her be cause of his friendship for Addy’s brother who was Jerry’s roommate at Tale. They are. all at Leila’s home in Westchester where Addy and Jerry meet Aunt Minnie and Mrs. Joh n ston-Hedges, mother of Ijeila’s sxeeetheart and aristocratic neighbor, Orton Johnston-Hedges. They have just come, from Bel's A ’em York apartment where Addy narrow ly escaped the police who sought him for questioning in connection with the whereabouts of an acquaintance and alleged forger named Jarecki. Addy makes an excellent impression upon Aunt Minnie and Mrs. John ston- Hedges. Addy makes it clear he and his i ccalthy father do not gel along, but Aunt Minnie doesn't knon this. fSOMS GO OX WITH THE STORY) CHAPTER 15 "WE BOTH FEEL like that.” Bet «aid, nevertheless pinning: in a stray lock. "Though I’m not as grand as Addison," she added with genuine reverence, "I do love the way he looks.” *T see what you mean,” said her aunt thoughtfully. "Yes. darling, there’s no question about your mu tual love —it’s beautiful. 1 think You'd better take the car and go and let Mr. Huntingdon finish his shop ping in the Village,” she added, as the lack of collar struck her. “It is eo long since we had gentlemen in the house that we have ; I am sorry to say, no provision for a guest." “Leil. lend me some money,” Bet demanded in a hurried whisper. She loped over to where Leila waited by the French window, on edge till she could escape to her neglected ani-; mals. Leila sighed, but she handed Bet a $5 bill. She didn’t want to in the least; and she shouldn’t have, for its proper destination was the savings bank and the interest on the mortgage. . . . Well, it wasn’t as if she was parting with the money for ever; tomorrow Jerry- Redmond would be back and repay her. Flip pant as he was about it all, some how one felt he wan responsible. “You act as if yon didn’t want to, when tomorrow Addison will be a fugitive with a price on his head!” Bet said crossly. "Does it ever occur to you that there is no reason why i should want to?" Leila asked. I AL. B. WESTL^ INSURANCE R£NTM< I ~ BONOS ■■' ■«"*> . HtNOOON I T”.ct mrouNOM. Tucker Clothing Company Cutting Loose From ' Big Winter Stock Os Men’s W Suits, Overcoats, Hats % Shoes, Lumber Jackets and Furnishings V <^§ll Starting Friday, January 4, At 9 A. Watch This Paper Thursday For Details A STORE-WIDE CLEARANCE SALE We Are Overstocked and Are Letting It Go Right In the Heart of the Season at SACRIFICED PRICES Values That Will Surprise and Astound You STOP AND WAIT FOR DETAn s ~ Bet looked at her m surprise. Things like that didn’t occur to Bet. She had taken her wild way. consid ering herself the center of the uni verse, ever since she could remem ber. For a moment Leila could al most see in her expression the dawn ing of an idea that there were other human beings in the world. But only for a moment. "You’ve got to.” said Bet. "Help us. T mean. Why. if you didn’t Addison wouldn’t have a collar.’’ “And then the world would come to an end.’’ said Leila wearily. I don’t understand you.” said her sister. "Addison has to have a col lar.” '.Veil, go get it,” said Leila, and went out to feed the dogs. Dogs were a comfort. You knew where you were with a terrier; food, water, shelter, exercise, an occasional ecstatically received kind word or rub behind the ears; and they gave you obedience more or less, approval, worship, and a fidelity which even plucking didn’t quench. They won you awards now and then, they helped- finance you by the simple process of reproducing their kind. Leila, through with the feeding, relaxed. There war. a beautiful sun set over the Alington estate behind her. The dogs leaped and harked and waggled about her admiringly.] The air was cool and salty from the sound. Jane, superior, the other dogs plainly felt, to the point of unhoar abloness because of her late trip into ' the great world, clung ostentatious ly about Leila. "You can see plainly." she was ob viously saying, "that I am the favor- 1 ite. I nave been to something better and more exciting than even a bench show. I know- all the new- smells.” "You’re a horrid little snob. Jane,” said Leila suddenly, "and probably if I knew the soul life of a Scottish ter rier it wouldn’t be a bit bettor than Bet’s ©r mine.” Bui Jane merely gamboled on. Heathcote Duchess, the doyenne of the kennels, prize winner, and moth er of superior dogs all over West chester, nosed Jane aside. All this gadding, her manner pointed out, had little to be said for it. Domes ticity varied by dog shows was the only life for a right-minded lady dog. As she was Jane’s great-grand mother and acted accordingly, what she said—it was in a deep growl had its effect. Leila laughed and serai ched Jane’s head, which undid all that the Duchess’ remarks had done; and be gan meditating restfully about the possibility of being able to afford a daily kennel man instead of the one SAVE MONEY By Insuring With W. C. CATES Agent for STRONG MUTUALS ' EENBEiagGN, "(N. CJ T>A7T,y. J>T§PATGH. WRDNESt 1 " ?, JANUARY .2,1935 who came three times a week. Far back in her mind, behind this thought was a vague wonder as ’o what would happen to her dexs. whom she loved dearly, if or when she married. Marriage wars pretty close on the horizon, might as well face the fact. She also wondered why she had been so cross with Bet. Like most generous natures, the fact that she had always been the pretty, praised, attractive sister—and Bet] for all her desperate efforts at at tracting attention and living as she liked, not especially attractive to anyone—had mado her easy on Bet. \\ hat if she, Leila, had always been i the responsible one. the. fair one. the one who deserved people to like her —well, they did; and poor Bet’s des perate efforts at being wild, at living her life, at being more jazzy than the jazziest, had never seemed to get her much of anywhere. Other girls smoked and drank and swore dainti ly. and the elders supposed it was all right and their contemporaries thought it was simply swell, or too i amusing, or whatever was the mo ment’s high praise. Not Bet. Her deviltries were clumsy, her arro gances stepped on the feet of her j contemporaries as well as her sen iors. As if none of it actually be longed. “And just as she is, as Aunt Min nie would say, attracting a gentle man for the first time. 1 have to go and lose patience with her.” thought Leila remorsefully. “When I have Orton, and all.” “Leila dear, dinner is served!" Aunt Minnie called from the back door. , I.eila tidied a little and came in and sat down as she was, in her tweeds. Not so Aunt Minnie; the gray silk, like the flag in the song, was still there, under her peeled-off apron. As for Bet, she had obeyed a suggestion of her aunt’s for the first time .since. Leila could remem ber. It had taken the shape of bor rowing Leila’s newest, "don’t dress” black organdy with the angel shoul ders; she had subdued her makeup and softened her hair-line and gen erally gone in definitely ( for the glamour Aunt Minnie recommended. As for Addison, he had been neat before; unquestionably he had been born neat, and cocked an annoyed eye, at his first nurse for not pinning his first garments more, accurately. ITe was bandboxy now. He bore the traces of Leila's $5 bill in a new collar and a necktie which Bet must have chosen, for only love’s madness could have selected it or accepted it when selected. (TO BE COXTIKVEDJ JAMES C. COOPER He war §p eP L INSURANCE S^ ( PHONE £O4 *»/ r@g HENDERSON, N C Some Os "Remington’s Shopkeepers Are Making Most Os Hauptmann Trial One of Three Beauty Specialists in Town Finds It Exhilarating To Be So Close Backstage as Kidnap Murder Case Goes To Court TT ' ~ ■ ....U..V--j/.i.ij i.i.i. 1 .i.i.i. 1 1 1 ' j fillip j? K; Ml < i Rp « Ijrap . 2 •. | This is the fourth of a series of dis patches from Flemington, N. J., scene of the Hauptmann trial by James As well, writer of the pop ular “My New York" column. By JAMES ASWELL Central Press Staff Writer Flemington, N. J., Jan. 2.—A1l my newspaper .colleagues here, some of them old friends, have tried to be helpful. They have offered me Facts. 1 like Facts, but the ricochets and eddies and quiet human pools which abound on the scene of this smash hit drama interest me far more than Facts, even the most impressive. For instance, all my life I have heard that the place to absorb gos sip in a small town is the beauty parlor. There are three beauty par lors in Flemington. One Is called Irene’s, another Polly’s Shoppe, and the third is Mary’s. For a male to leave the street of Flemington, N. J., and enter a. beauty parlor would be highly scandalous. So I dragooned into service a young lady down from New York for the excitement whom I had the good for tune to meet. I asked her if she would be obliging enough to invade one of the local dispensaries of charm and unbutton her ears for half an hour. Mary’s Is Choice I even equipped her with a set of silly Aswell questions to propound at odd moments. Mary’s it seemed toi me sounded better, I once knew a girl named Mary who was very garrulous and informative. And this, it seems, is a portrait of the operator at Mary’s, with other figures in the Hauptmann melodrama in the background. She is plump and dark and good natured. She is endlessly eager and attentive where anything connected with the Hauptmann trial is in volved. She has been on hand at every major development since the accused was brought to Flemington. Sliet was on the spot when he was; brought here in chains. “Like a dog” said the beautician. She is sorry for Hauptmann, no matter what his crime; and she feels, as do others of the townfolk, that there are dark mysteries in connection with the case which never have been and may never ibe: plumbed. “This Hauptmann is the strangest man in the world,” she told my agent “I know a couple of the: guards and 'thd'y-»doijlt understand him either-., IHe’s deep, thafm an. Deep and strange.” This lady of the shampoos finds it exhilarating to be-so close to “back stage’’ on the eve of a murder trial that will swamp in interest even the Hall-Mills case, which Was tried by the way, 18 miles from Flemington in Somerville. She is proud that she has been able to appear annoymously in the background of a number of press photographs of central figures in the Hauptmann case, even in one of Hauptmann himself. Friends from all over have written to congratulate her on her success in getting into big news pictures. In Front Row The day they were transferring Hauptmann from New York to the jail here she was on hand early. State troopers joined hands and form ed a double cordon to the door of the jail from the l car. She was up frnt, right behind a six-foot trooper, when, the human fence formed. She tapped the policeman on the shoulder and said: “Officer, would you mind changing places with that little fellow holding your hand on the right? I can’t see.” Jersey troopers are famed for then politeness. The tall one obligingly swapped positions with his brother; officer so the 'beauty expert could see. She had a fine view from then on and later even got into one of the pictures taken in the courtroom when the charge was read and the not guilty plea was entered. 'She has clippings from many. ers and has read every line she con in get hold of on t,he| case. “Flemington ” she said seriouMv “surely ought to get a star on th, maps after this case!” YOU’RE WRONG IF YOt BEI/lEVE That there ever was such a person as William Tell who was ordered l 0 place an apple on his son's head o n(1 shoot it off. There wasn’t. That the popular phrase “Hobson’ Choice” refers to the feat of Rich mond Pearson Hobson in the Sp.mv ish-American war. It doesn’t. That the Postoffice Department wound up 1934 with a surplus for the first time in many years, as announc ed. It didn’t. Clean System for Health By relieving constipation before se rious illness develops, Thedford Black-Draught enables thousands of men and women to keep at work, or to enjoy regularity of bowel move ments. “Black-Draught has assisted nature in making me more regular and seem to cleanse my system,” writes \lr.- Victoria Cooper, of Jonesboro, Ark “I take a dose of Black-Draught foi about two nights. It acts well and l am more fitted for my work, and en joy it.” THEOFORTVS BLACK-DRAUGHT I Coal and Wood CITY FUEL CO. Ransom Duke, Prop. —Phone 180— Mule Sale Public Auction 12 to 15 head, large and small Saturday, Jan. 5, 2 p. m. Seaboard Square Buy good mules at your own price. Can be seen prior to sale. F. B. HIGHT, Auctioneer
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