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READ THIS FIRST-
Tim Kennedy has been writing a
suicide note to himself in his wife's
handwriting. lie iiad graduated int.}
a would-be homicide from the school of
armchair mu relate*.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORT:
CHAPTER 3
AT THE time of his wife’s acci
dent Kennedy was 49, but he looked
at least 10 years older. It was not
a case of being worn out before his
time by troubles and anxiety, for
his lot had mostly fallen among
pleasant places, and his pink, clear
skinned countenance was smooth
and unlined. Those who knew hifn
in his early days in the town hard
ly recalled him as ever being differ
jent: only his soft glossy hair had
receded- further from his forehead
land become definitely gray, his gait
land bearing had taken on a more
sedate tempo: but his expression
remained as ever, placid, serene,
'and a little timid;
! lb seemed rather as if Nature,
"working on a caprice of her own,
had; decided to accelerate the ex
ternal appearance of aging, with
out impairing his physical effec
tiveness. Strangers, supposing him
;to be- over 60, would remark how
well preserved and active he was,
and add that his alertness and
vigor would do credit to a man a
dozen years his junior.
[ At the first glance h** iid not ap
pear particularly virile. There was
a womanish look about his round
cheeks and the rounded curve of
his jaw, and his red mouth was
small and- delicate as a baby’s. His
soft voice, too, was pleasing as a
really nice woman’s voice is pleas
ing. Nevertheless, women were
generally attracted to him. His
approach to them was modest, but
not bashful. They sensed a kinship
and an understanding of their sex.
; Jjfe was more than a bit of a
dandy. He wore his clothes with
a casual elegance that seemed in
born: whatever the weather or the
.occasion they were just right. Van
ity peeped out here and there. His
ties; socks and silk handkerchiefs
were always perfectly matched.
His shoes were always polished to
a dazzling luster, and he would go
a considerable distance out of his
way to avoid a risk of marring
their beauty. Every week he drove
11 miles to his barber in Bradstock
Wells. Neither of the local men
came up to the standard he ex
acted, and in any case could not
provide a manicure.
He was very fond of his hands,
Which were small and plump but-
With strong, delicate fingers; they
hever became moist, even in the
hottest weather. His silky gray
mustache was another point of
pride with him. He wore it in two
downward sweeps, noticeably long
er than was the common fashion of
the time. It one of the things
that made him look older than his
years, but he did not realize this.
Though he had never been in Ire
land, Tim’s ancestry was Irish, and
his manner had all the diffident
charm and desire to please charac
teristic of that people. In conver
sation he rarely obtruded an opin
ion, but he was quick to apprehend
the opinions of others, and to draw
them out. There was no insincer
ity about v this: politics, religion,
and all the more familiar material
of controversy meant so little to
him that he found it more natural,
and a great deal more pleasant, to
follow a lead rather than take a
line of his own.
(' Purchasing popularity on these
terms. was as easy to him as
breathing. It cannot be too strong
ly emphasized that it cost him
nothing. The truth was that he
had no convictions about politics
or religion because he had no in
terest in anything except himself.
His desires, his comforts, his
amusements, his health, his finan
cial and social security, were
everything to him. Within him
glimmered a white flame of pure
egotism that nothing could extin
guish^
Materially his egotism showed
partly in his vanity, but more
notably in a quiet obstinate skill in
getting his way in all things, great
and small alike. It was his happy
talent never to have to make him
self unpleasant in enforcing his
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His mustache was another point of pride with him.
own will. His domestic character
was as urbane as his social one.
He was never importunate, never
angry, never upset.
On matters affecting his imme
diate desires he was indifferent to
arguments, impervious to snubs,
and impossible to withstand.
“Please do this little thing for me,”
he would say,, by voice or expres
sion, and in the end you. would
come to think that you were in the
wrong, that you had been ungentle
and unaccommodating. He would
accept your surrender with gra
ciousness and tact. You could not
help liking him. ,
At the time under consideration
Tim had been established for 23
years (with an interval for. war
service) as a dentist at the small
town of West Shilston, situated in
the high country toward, the. north
eastern part of Sussex.
West Shilston has acquired some
importance as being the Only set
tlement of any size on the main
road from London to Westboume,
between which it is almost exactly
halfway. The development of mo
tor traffic has brought it a rapid
growth along lines impossible to
justify esthetically. Bastard TU
dor villas and asbestos bungalows
have, proliferated liberally on and
off the main road, and in the course
of 20 years the population has
risen from 5,000 odd to 8,000.
Nevertheless, the town retains a
modest comeliness and decent dig
nity at its heart; and its two main
streets, which are part of the West
bourne road and form a right
angle, afford in their broad and
quietly casual style a faint remi
niscence of coaching days.
The people are mainly of the
middle class; pensioners of all
grades find it a convenient place
for retirement, and there is a
strong enough element of gentry
to compose some sort of local so
ciety. But the increasingly easy
accessibility of Bondon is weaken
ing the hold of the latter classy it
is becoming ever more* urbanized,
and, dividing its interests between
West Shilston and the metropolis,
no longer retains sufficient concen
tration to impose effectively its will
and its standards upon the com
munity.
In 1911, after two years in a
London dental clinic, Tim Kennedy
came to this place—a slight, pleas
ant-looking but inconspicuous
young man whose arrival made no
sort of a stir in the town. He put
up his plate in the High street,
where he occupied three rooms on
the top floor over a florist’s shop.
; .clinics where children may’ receive sprays of zutn
sulphate. Dr. Austin A Hayden Is administering
a spray to Mary Ellfen Trant, above. Lessons by
radio are being given to elementary pupils, *
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The front one, of fair size, he-mad*
into his surgery; the two at the
back considerably smaller, became
respectively & waiting room and
his dining, sleeping, and living
room. The wife of the florist
downstairs gave him a little serv
ice, but he performed most of his
simple domestic arrangements him
self. , He had no clerk or maid.
Patients were encouraged to climb
his separate stairway without ring
ing the outside bell, and he himself
would'open the upstairs front door
which he had built in.
He was poor in these early
years. He had settled at West
Shilston for a variety of reasons
a fancy for the place conceived on
a cycling tour during a dental col
lege vacation, a. sense that the
town was likely to grow, a. belief
that the high air would benefit a.
slight pulmonary trouble from
which he then believed himself to
be suffering.
For the first few years patient*
came, along slowly. Mostly they
were of the working or small shop
keeping class: he made little or no
progress with the Upper bour
geoisie and gentry. 'On this more
lucrative sort of patient—or rather
on those who did not get theirteeth
seen to in London—his rivals had
a firm grip. Jameson, the Scots
man, had been in the town; for
nearly 40 years, and for those with
a fancy for more up-to-date clinical
methods, there were the partners,
Taylor and Eivans, lusty, bold-faced'
young men, great cricketers, golf
ers and tennis players, very much
about with the younger set,
Nevertheless, Kennedy’s practice
showed a steady, if not spectacular
growth, and it was noted that he
kept his patients. For he was %
good dentist, slow but sure in diagw,
nosis, firm and decisive in action.
His strong, delicate fingers were of
great service to him. He was infi
nitely painstaking, his fillings never
came out, and he never extracted £
tooth he saw any chance of sav
ing. He had a sensitive perception
about pain, would go to unlimited
trouble to avoid inflicting it, and
was not afraid of using drugs.
He was his own dental mechanic;,
and showed the same technical dex
terity and thoroughness over th*
manufacture and fitting of den
tures as he did with his work on
living teeth. Also, he started the
custom —hitherto unknown in West
Shilston-#-of periodically scraping
his patients’ teeth and cleaning
their dentures on his own initial
tive, without making any charge.
(To Be Continued)
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Washington Not Alarmed
Over Stories of German
Activities Here
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Washington, Sept. 17 —Although
Uncle Sam’s G-men are investigating
stories of the existence of a formid
able Nazi organization in the United
States I cannot discover, from talks
with numerous government officials,
that these reports are taken very se
riously, at least in Washington.
Asinine speeches by Hitlerite lead
ers in Germany do give the impression
that NaU-dom in its native land is
ambitious to gather under its banner
folk of Teutonic descent throughout
the world.
It does not necessarily follow, how
ever, that any considerable number of
our so-called German-Americans are
a bit in Sympathy with this campaign.
FEW IMMIGRANTS
For one thing, few German immi
grants have been arriving in the Unit
ed States in approximately a genera
tion.
Most citizens of German extraction
are sons of grandsons of original set
tlers on this side of the Atlantic and
are as American, except for their in
herited family names, as our Smiths,
Joneses and Robinsons, our Johnsons
and Andersons, our O’Connors and
Mulligans and O’Neills.
Moreover, when Germans were
landing here in droves, they came
largely because they were driven from
the fatherland by the comparatively
mild imperialistic tyranny of olden
days. They Were among the best lib
erty-lovers we had. They “fit mit
Siegel” in the war of secession. They
were the last kind of folks to have
anything in common with the oppres
sions of the Nazi regime. That is the
background of cur Schmidts and Sch
wartzes and various “stein” families
of today.
INTOLERANCE CYCLES 1
It is true that this country is sus
ceptible periodically to epidemics of
intolerance.
I recall four spells of it.
1. There was the immediately post-
Civil war Ku Klux Klan. Perhaps
there was an excuse for that. The
south, maybe, had to have some sort of
extra-governmental authority to deal
with peculiar conditions of that era.
2: There were the Know Nothings,
a bit before my time. They were ‘anti’
nearly everything. A one time Ohio
senator, Allan~G. Thurman, was iden
tified with it. * Later he was promin
ently mentioned as a presidential pos
sibility. But meanwhile, Know Noth
ing-iSm had “busted.” All rational
voters turned, thumbs down on any
one-who ever had had anything to do
with Know Nothing-ism. So that fin
ished Allan G.
3. Then followed the American Pro
tective Association —anti-Catholic. It
contended that, every time a Catholic
child was born, a rifle Was deposited
in the basemenf of his family’s parish
church, 'in anticipation of a “Roman
uprising.”
4. At last there was a revival, with
no excuse whatever, of the earlier Ku
Klux Klan. That was recent. We all
know its history. It, also, fizzled.
Now we have this Nazi talk.
I do not believe our so-called Ger
man-Americans are appreciably inter
ested in it, either. Nor do I believe
that it merits much investigation by
our G-men.
It is just a false alarm.
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New Gin Inspector
for State
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FRED P. JOHNSON
Raleigh. Sept. L -— Appointment of
Fred P. Johnson, of Hoke county, as
the North Carolina Department of
Agriculture’s first gin inspector, was
announced by Commissioner of Agri
culture W. Kerr Scott.
“In view that cotton farmers an
nually lose thousands of dollars be
cause of improperly ginned cotton,
the appointment of a gin inspector to
aid farmers by promoting better gin
ning methods and relationships be
tween the ginners and producers is
essential at this time,” Commissioner
Scott said. Johnson will be attached
to the staff of the Department of
Agriculture’s# state warehouse system
of which A. B. Fairley is superinten
dent.
A native of Moore county where he
was born October 2, 1890, Johnson was
graduated by the Raeford high school
and received a B. S. degree from
Davidson College in 1910. Since 1914
he has been farming and has operat
ed a cotton gin for 23 years.
He operated the Hoke County Jour
nal in 1911 and was secretary of the
Fayetteville (N. C.) Chamfcer of Com
merce in 1913. He is a member of the
Rockfish Grange and is also a Grange
deputy.
As gin inspector for the department
Johnson will give technical advice to
ginners, aid them with their mechan
ical troubles, discourage the process
ing of wet or green cotton and “gen
erally seek to make the standard of
North Carolina cotton better,” Fairley
said, adding that “the inspector’s
work will also include a program to
inform the farmers of annual loss
they sustain by bringing wet and
green cotton to be ginned and of the
value of patronizing adequately equip
ped gins where their cotton may be
clean properly.”
Services of the inspector will be
available to farmers and ginners upon
request to the Department of Agricul
ture, State Warehouse Division.
MODERATE TRADING
IN STOCK EXCHANGE
Many Leaders Skid for Declines Up
To Three Points in Early
Part of Session
New York, Sept. 17. —(AP) —'Rally-
ing rail stocks of yesterday’s market
went into reverse today, and many
leaders skidded for declines running
to three points or so at the worst.
Transactions were, around 900,000
shares.
Curtiss Wright 4 7-8
American Radiator 17 1-8
American Telephone 161 1-4
American Tob B 78
Anaconda 45 3-4
Atlantic Coast Line 38 1-4
Atlantic Refining 25 1-8
Bendix Aviation ; • 16 7-8
Bethlehem Steel ■ 80 1-8
Chrysler 97 1-2
Columbia Gas & Elec 11 1-8
Commercial 12 1-4
Continental Oil Co 13
DuPont 151
Electric Pow & Light 17 1-4
General Electric : 48 1-4
General Motors 51 1-4
Liggett & Myers B 95
Montgomery Ward & Co 50 3-4
Reynolds Tob B 49 5-8
Southern Railway 21 1-4
Standard Oil Co N J 59 t-4
U S Steel; 94. 3-A
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The STATE
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TODAY TOMORROW
Bob Allen—in
“The Ranger Steps In”
Also. Last Chapter
“Fainted Stallion”
Comedy
‘‘ Admission 10 and 25c
Bitter Reaction In Chin*
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it will render invocation of the neu-
Jxality act unnecessary.!’
MORE REINFORCEMENTS TO
JAPANESE SENTT ASHORE
- Shanghai, Sept. 17. —(AP)—Addi-
tional Japanese reinforcements for
the halted drive against the Chinese
.defense line were reported today to
have been landed on the lower reaches
of the- Yangtze river.
The Japanese spokesman, declared
the troops had already started ad
vancing inland. This was taken to
mean a considerable body of Japanese
had finally achieved a foothold on the
Pootung coast, where they are oppos
ed by an estimated two divisions of
Chinese.
Foreign military Observers believed
this foreshadowed an imminent major
campaign in the Shanghai area on the
south side of the Whangpoo river,
which separates Pootung from the
Shanghai delta, where the major fight
ing so far has been.
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