? INNERS in HEAVEN <By CLIVE ARDEN Copyright by The Bobbs-Merrill Co. l0\ t F|NDS a way .! ! , f many "Two s: .j-ifs that huve , v . i since Charles ?poll I 1'Iay," was v So, of course, ,i\ i nture, love ? ,- y a young man u , art* wrecked . .:,1 ?>n an out i ir.ii. tliited by can ll'i! !'"Vr. The sit iurtlu-r compll that the girl a ri in Kngland 1 . r< iiuht up among: ,r. strait-laced and ?.? !?? yt?nd belief, s a way ? as it usu v.*n on cannibal <i> I JPU'"' ...... i' the story, of , *i i;dy of the girl's ,! v. art in her struggle : . , am! duty, with jv thrown in for good it is?a story that a ?u-il write better than a i: t ??? -r is a Knglish L" \ . \n!. n. Her story h< r first novel, but a I,-; h <aused a sensa in England, has d : hat success here and . :: ? shown in moving ? various parts of the ? !>. picture rights hav : i l.ased for a very ? in tiresting problem, pie in love, res ? ? ? ,?r? ? i i - ? 1 and no minister dv": , .:e the knot and trans ?. sorrow to happiness! part one Little Notes I I Parbury was a small parish pos an old church, a combined [office anil sweet shop, but no ac ?! village street. . .ten happens with isolated peo >snd places, the little parish was r?elf-iinportant. The war and ino Cr'traflc fended to modernize the isuniry: and the new freedom _J>er went to its head. It was as yet C^uitc sure of its line, though pain anx.i??us to appear assured ? one ?''-?l,'vke?! at the other half's doings, ;.-f!;er rather mixed. ?ml !<een apparent, a year ago, Ivor .>? had raised its ominous Jft.| he first time within the mein ? living inhabitants. Divorces tVe elsewhere, of course, and h: :ry::-s read and discussed the S3*j'.-.j'er accounts with avidity ; but -!i tliifiirs should .happen within l-.'.ro.vn fold, between people known si rvra liked by everybody else, was t ;n:.'*:.p!-of idea. The topic, thrilling i pre^s. appeared indecent in tr* -ir'nrastances. Although it was III; -r K.in lall who had obtained the |{r?-::ind although his wife, instead l?f t.z a defense, bad brazenly gone m; with another man, yet most peo f!? shrank from his society. As Mrs. ?: the widow of the late vicar, s:-!y r-tnarked : "There are often two t<? these things; you never E ?: :!i. s.piire and Mrs. Rochdale, ?:* -v t!u* "fit! order," began to i '' ;> v' j'T coldness. They placed t* doors of Darbury house instead of wide open, S:':.' t" their only son that a little uitli the major might he wise. H laughed at the hint, in his way. "That's all his fu mine": thus he waived re- < p' V f-T the morals, of the house A \ !i. . ,in#. young Briton, Hugh ai-'Miinate shady actions, if ' actually into contact with ' t !.?? lacked the imagination -ilize uii.it failed to interest him. H:< "V. u |, was single, his own fix'-'l. Barbara Stockley, only "f the late vicar, had filled it en y. ^'n-f jjie days of frocks and l"-'-:.?'u!att?r>. Crowing up together, t iif-ir engagement was a ? n.* conclusion. Nobody therefore '2<! f,c.-n surprised at its public an upon Hugh's return from ^ war. w*..j.]ixi- had been fixed for the ' '"'A;n- I 'eci'inliiT. The happy pair I've in' one of the pretty mod-. ^ 'i"isc< at Hillheak during the old ii;criiii<>, continuing all their i?!iriiiiry sis usual. Every ^ "?":!! (:i;i upon them; and every v. j | ,, . respectable and !' ! . i " ? crvhody purred content - * it is factory romance, a ? >-},i'?ded in their midst, J ' >? heroine herself. In m.: the next four months needlework, her mind I save the prospective ? i'i'I the ' dressmaker, she 'radii ions tyy announcing j, " ' : acc<?mpany an aunt, half-sister, to Austra P I,; " .'as pen. Hut it gasped "ti discovering that the ^ ' ".i- to I ip made, in ulVa-mod airplane. An ordinary ., 1 >.ave seemed at least re ? j"-' ? . ,, T: . 'its.f ilf reason given wa? v.. - ' to the aunt's colonial j~ 'v of course, everybody : 'han to believe that; a i,, J ? was needed to inspire nibl-goose chase. Could " !'';.at'e trouble betxwen the Hut the girl herself V - wsuai, (inly a suppressed ? ! ? ning the already deep "? ? ?"!?>?. bubbling out occa ' ^' ra-is of confidential i?., ?? J * t were no confidences : ?<:* "Mure !" she exclaimed, % ' '?r"Hn sought to probe to ? ''tu-li" s problem. "The only Ik? ji.J'1''' I'ad. There will never ?' i,!'"ther cliance." ^ " fr"in one who should have Vf V!1.' in t,ie adventure of roar lirimn was rather nhorked Hugh, she learned, had been averse to the idea at first. Quite right and proper! He had also steadfastly re fused to go too ; and Darbury had agreed with the decision. That a man should give up the routine of autumn pursuits was unheard of . . . Besides, he managed his fa ther's extensive property, and the har vest would soon he in full swing. Dar bury, like Hugh, was essentially prac tical. Cireat difficulty, it transpired over the tea cups, had been experienced in overcoming airs. Stockley's objec tions. But as she, like many weak women, usually took refuge in tears when thwarted, little direct Informa tion was obtained. However, Darbury persevered in its ferreting tactics, at last gaining a little more light. Mrs. Field paid one of her brief visits to her pretty house ; and it became known that she had arranged " everything. Everybody said "Oh-h !" in a drawn-out syllable which ex pressed volumes ; for Mrs. Field was accustomed to doing extraordinary things, without bowing to convention. The aviator proved to be her cousin, Alan Croft, a man well known in avia tion and in the engineering circles of many lands. After having swooped down upon England from Australia in a super-machine of his own design ? brilliantly achieving the long test trip with two passengers In addition to his crew ? an influential firm had cabled agreement of purchase, pending an im mediate, equally successful, return Journey. So much they gleaned. But why or how Mrs. Field had maneu vered for Barbara Stockley and her aunt. Miss Dolly Da vies, to be his pas sengers on the return journey, Dar bury was left to conjecture, Mrs. Field being a woman who kept her own counsel A rumor soon arose that the aviator might be expected at the "House on the Moor," Mrs. Field's home, for the week-efcd. This,- clashing with a coun "That Won't Matter. He Is Only the Pilot." try fete at which most of the Darbury ites were assisting, raised them to a state of unusual excitement. He might be there. . . . II The Darbury fete, being in aid of a hospital fund, was held in the grounds of a neighboring mansion, the winter garden of which was utilized for danc ing. Barbara and Miss Brown were in charge of the sweets and tobacco stall. After a morning spent in preparations for the fete, and an afternoon behind the stall, Barbara was feeling unutter ably bored. Then, suddenly, she was aware of a man's figure standing near; and knew, without looking up, that she was being intently scrutinized. "I think you are so brave to fly to Australia !" MisS Brown exclaimed. "And with a strange man, too! Doesn't Mr. Hugh mtnd?" Barbara laughed at this typical Dar bury remark. "No ! Of course not." "But suppose you don't like him?" "That won't matter. He is only the pilot." Glancing up as she spoke, she gave an involuntary start at finding a di rect, piercing look fastened upon Tier. It was not the rude stare of a man who appraises women as if they were horses; rather did it seem to scatter nonessentials and to probe to the spirit within. For a moment her own eyes seemed held by a curious compulsion. At the same instant Mrs. Field came briskly round the corner of the tent. "Ah !" she cried. "You are here first, Alan." Then, turning to Barbara, "I want to introduce you both," she said, taking an arm of each. And Barbara, feeling uncomfortably self-conscious, too bewildered to do more than stammer a conventional greeting, was forced to lift her eyes to his. They were deep-set and gray like those of his cousin, but lacking t lie ten derness which lurked in hers; the little lines at their corners, surely betoken ing humor, appeared out of place. In her rapid glance she was dimly aware s(>f great height, broad shoulders and a lean, deeply tanned, clean-shaven face. "Alan borrowed a car and turned up last night." Mrs. Field smoothed over the impending awkwardness; but at that moment some one called her away. There fell a silence, which the girl racked her brains in vain to break. She was somehow conscious of feeling acutely disappointed. This was the man who, to her inexperienced mind, had seemed a dim, unreal figure crowned by a halo of glorious achieve ment ! This the heaven-sent deliverer, who, unknowingly, had offered that hidden self the one chance of stretch ing Its cramped wings! Even If, as she had told Miss Brown, It did not mat ter, It was, nevertheless, very disap pointing. Before the pause became too uncom fortable, Mrs. Field returned and in sisted upon having tea. On these oc casions tea, suggests a gathering of the ^Jans. A1J" the little cliques of the neighborhood meet in the large mar quee and discuss the news they have gleaned. Barbara was detained at the en trance; and Mrs. Field looked at her cousin with kindly enthusiasm, when they found a vacant table. "Well, Alan? Isn't she a dear girl? And pretty?" He responded indifferently; stooped down to tuck his panama hat under the seat ; then sat up and ran his fin gers through his thick dark hair. "P? d hot in here, Madge!" She glanced round apprehensively ; then leaned toward him. "Alan, for heaven's sake don't upset any of these good people, or she may not be allowed to go, after all !" A smile of extraordinary infectious ness lit up his face, transfiguring it: the lines of humor proved that they were not, after all, misplaced. "Try a muzzle, Madge! How the dickens do I know what may upset the old darlings?" "Hush ! Here is Mrs. Stockley. The grim mask of reserve quickly covered his face again. The Darburyites, bearing that the stranger had at last arrived, soon clus tered round for introductions, anxious to impress him with their own Intelli gence. But, with Barbara, they were doomed to bitter disappointment; for this hero refused to be lionized, and declined to talk "shop." Their intelli gent overtures left him unimpressed; no pumping drew other than the brief est trickle in reply. Slowly, to Barbara, the time wore on. More and more weary rof the mo notony, sick of the smell of chocolate, she became consumed with restless ness. , All the social world had left long ago. From the glass walls of the win ter garden came the exhilarating, garish, strains of dance music, tantaliz ing in their infectious rhythm. Bar bara hummed the tune, tapping he. foot in unison, occasionally surprising her companions by performing a e revolutions round the tent. middle of one of these she batted abruptly, for a shadow had fallen across the rays of the sun streaming athwart the stall. "Come and dance with me, said ^Her face expressed blank astonlsh m "Oh !" she exclaimed, confusedly. "I __we? only the villagers usually dance here." "Oh, good lord !' The amused contempt in his voice made her flush. Then, conscious of having given a wrong Impression of de testable snobbery, she felt furious with ^You never swerve from convention, I suppose?" he asked, watching her sensitive face in his disconcerting man ner. "Twilight" of Minds Might Work Wonders To most grown-ups the child mind Is an enigma, and it is reasonable to suppose that the grown-up mind is an enigma to the child. So that, if there be a sudden "twilight" for a few liours, great changrs would be apparent in the behavior of. the one to the other, a writer in the Westminster Gazette comments. Take, for Instance, meal time ? a period when youth and maturity wage eternal warfare-^-Mary and Bobbie would appreciate mothers' dislike to messy, noisy meals, and mother would realize In a flash how tiresome and dull It is to sit quiet and be care ful and clean and good right through all the courses. Naturally, a compromise would be effected. Mary would only drop her spoon onct, and not see how far she could lean over to pick It up. capsiz ing the chair and herself and knock ing her glass of water over at one fell awoo p.- Bobble would tip his plate (probably), but not at such an acute angle iliat the tablecloth would be drenched with rhubarb juice. . . . As for mother, instead of los ing herself in gloomy contemplation of the years to pass before she could have her meals in peace, she would chat companionably and limit consid erably her number of "don'ts." * Climbing a Tall Smokestack Then a huge steel smokestack of a power house needed painting and it was found rather difficult to arrange a tackle to haul up a man, the fireman made a parachute that fitted snugly inside of the stack. He attached a string to the parachute and allowed | the draft in the stack to carry it up. A small rope was next tied to the J string and pulled up, and finally a I rope strong enough to hold the tackle, I which was arranged to hoist up the I painter. ? Popular Mechanics AJaga I tine. , She looked away, uncomfortably self conscious. "I ? Oh?" She gave an embarrassed laugh. An opening door brought a louder riot of music flooding in with the evening sunshine. "I ? really don't know." Then some queer, psychological wave seemed to pass across the sweet stall. It brought a strange current of air from the great Unknown without, from towering mountains and deep seas scarcely dreamed of in this pretty corner of orthodoxy. And it emanated from the figure standing motionless be fore her, whose very appearance seemeo symbolical of frdedom ? the freedom of mind and freedom from pet ty tyrannies, which is only gained by depth of vision, breadth of outlook, contact with the forces whose existence was beginning to stir faint echoes within her soul. "Come!" he exclaimed suddenly, an undertone of impatience sounding in his word. "Very well," she said in a low voice, "I will come." He threw back his head a little, and smiled again. No modern affectation showed in Croft's dancing. He abandoned him self to the rhythm of the music, with an ease which swept the girl along in sympathetic exhilaration. She forgot the imperfect floor, the clumsy couples, the staring eyes, mere instinctive dis like of this strange man, and surren dered herself to the rare joy of per fect harmony in movement. When, for an instant, she glanced up at her part ner, she saw in his face a correspond ing light which filled her with a mo mentary sense of fellowship. Afterward, they strolled out on the terrace, flooded in the red gold of the setting sun. Barbara sat upon the low parapet. Croft flung his long legs over and drew out his cigarettes. Present ly she found his glance fixed upon her. "Well?" he asked, without prelimi naries. "What about our little trip? Have you counted ail the risks?" "Risks? No! Or I might never get there !" His quick look of approval was lost on the girl, as she glanced away with a laugh. "When there Is a chance of getting your heart's desire, would you count j risks?" "No!" he ejaculated warmly. "That's my creed." From the determined lines of his well-cut lips, she judged this to be the truth. "But your 'heart's desire'?" he went] on ; "what do you mean by thiit?" She flushed faintly; the shy reserve in her nature ever made personal talk difficult. "Surely you have that?" he sug gested boldly, waving his cigarette toward the diamond scintillating on , her finger. "Oh, yes. Yes. I have, of course In that way," she replied hurriedly. The band struck up a stirring jazz tune, a medley bringing bints of tom toms, drums, rattling castanets, the uncouth music of the East. . . . "Oh!" she cried involuntarily, start ing up: then sitting down again. "But you could never understand," she mut tered. "What?" Ho watched her closely, his cigarette burning, forgotten, be tween his fingers. "The craving to live ? really live! ? for a time! To get out into the world; to ? to experience everything instead of just reading about it all; to ? feel life Itself! In huge cities, among vast crowds. I want to find out ? " She hesitated, looking away over the meadows, with a puzzled frown. "Something seems lost, missing in some way. I ? I can't explain." She turned bark to him. the color in her face heightened. But lie did not laugh as Hugh would have done. "'Huge cities'?" he queried slowly. "You think you will find it in them? Why not in remote villages?" "Oh, no !" she cried. "Nothing ever happens in them ! Villages are only full of little obscurities. I want to sample bigger things ? " "They will be but 'little obscurities' in fresh places," he interrupted. "The whole world is only composed of little notes, you know, and their reverbera tions." She listened in surprise. In her ex perience. talk like this, especially from a man, was unusual ; but from one famed for a life of action it seemed little short of miraculous. "Well," she said, enjoying the nov elty of metaphor, "I wpnt to feel the big 'reverberations' ? to get among deep chords, in fact !" "They might he rather overpower ing. It's having some sort of right keynote that counts." Naturally you begin such a story with ideas of your own about such a situation. See if you stick to them. (TO BE CONTINUED.) English Law a Paradox One may be fined for stopping a dog fight or not stopping a dog fight. But the post office can record something even better, the Manchester Guardian relates. At a seaside town a man walked into a post office followed by a huge dog. A woman was already at the public counter. ?\nd she also had a dog. The two tfor* *egan to fight. The man did nof aitempt to inter fere. He appealed to the girl assist ant, who was on the safe side of the counter, to come over and part the combatants She declined, very nat urally. Eventually the turmoil ceased, and then the dog owner lodged a com plaint with the postmaster that ills subordinate had permitted confusion in the office and npset the public. THE BIG V/ASH "We are so cordial," said one of the two washrubs. "So cordial," said the second wash tub. "We welcome a big wash," said the first waslitub. ."We have fun when there Is a big wash," said the second washtub. "There is always a chance some of the water may spill over an J that Is an excitement. "Then we like th'i soapy, foamy water. "And we like all fhe activity and foil of having the clotJles moved about as they come in to accept our invi tation to join the Rig Washing Party." "Yes," agreed the first washtub, "that is true. But y<m know the one who washes the clothes says, every single week : " 'Dear me, what a htg wash.' "She doesn't seem to like It so much. But still we ??n't help being cordial, you know. "Now and again ??>e seems to be very busy over other things, and a week goes by when no washing Is done at all. "Then there is hlgP excitement, and she says: " 'My, my, what ai? enormous wash, what a simply huge wash.' "Well, you know ve feel that as long as we did no entertaining the week before, we should surely make up for it the following week. "Then when she Is .ironing, she says : " 'Gracious, but I didn't realize the ws.sh was as big as all this. Tt just i n r?^?ri 1 ? ' : i "Dear Me, What a ftig Wash1" seems ns though I couldn't get ? through.' "And, the joke of l? Is, that as she is Ironing and as sh* is saying this, the playful soiled clothes are being Joined by other playful soiled clothes for the next week's wash. "It is a great joke."' "A great joke," said the second washtub. > And the two was) tubs then sang their washtub song: I Washtub one. Washtub two, Oh, what splend.d Work we do. We keep the clo'.ftes So nice ancl cl>an, We are always cordial. We re never mer.n. ?. -it Washtub one, Washtub tvo, Soapy washtubs, ? Clothes love y ?tL They come alonf And splashily %Inff With you this s'jftf? Where Soap is l.lnff. They also know That to see you Dressing up They needn't d7. They come along: -vFust as thfcy are. With dirts and spots From near and far. But you don't m?nd How dirty they seem, You welcome them With your soap-sud cream. Oh. washtub one And washtub two. You will always. Always do. The two washtubs did not sing now. They took a little rest, for soon an other big wash would be coining along ar.d the washtubs were going to be fresh and ready for their party. And no matter what anyone said about the big wash, the two washtubs liked it. for what would they do with themselves ir there weren't big washes? Washtubs would have little fun in life if clothes were always clean 1 Riddles What has one leg, wears a hat, and has no face? A mushroom. ? ? ? What runs and cannot walk, can whistle but cannot talk? A locomotive. ? ? m Why is a butcher's cart like his socks? Because he carries his calves there. * ? * When is a fish like an airplane? When it rises for a fly. * * ? What is always behind time? The works of a clock. ' ? ? * * What is the least valuable thing a man can have in his pocket? A hole. ? * ? When does rain resemble an athlete? When it runs. * ? ? Why is a crocodile a most deceitful creature? Because it shows an open counte nance in the act of taking you In. ? ? ? What popular toy reminds us of a dance? A ball. A Write Turn Dear Old Lady? And which Is the most difficult character to write? ? Sky-Writer? Weil, we have to fly u|> gide down to make the inverted com mas.? The Bystander (London). . After 15 Hard Months ? His USKIDE Soles Still Qoodl THINK of that! Marcellua R. Abel, a Cincinnati traffic officer, wore thfa pair of USKIDE Soles fif? teen months, in rain, slush, onhot, rasping pavements. "I h*ve had such comfort, M he say*, "cool in summer, warm and dry in winter? and they are still good for several months' wear." USKIDE? the wonder sole for wear. It wears and wears ? twice as long as best leather0? often longer. USKIDE cuts your shoe bills. Have your repair man put USKIDE Soles on your shoes today. And be sure your next new shoes have genuine USKIDE Soles. 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