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THE LAMPASAS LEADER
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By BEN AMES WILLIAMS
Ccwrrigkf—WNU tavict
CHAPTER IX—Continued
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perts want to know exactly where
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They drove slowly, Clint clinging
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time
Clint asked,
“Is that his room?
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CHAPTER X
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Clint saw that the Taine
house was indeed dark now; and
"She
I fell on top
> help
ch>—
when
why
while
you
it
and order his campaign stationery.
After Batchelet began piecing his
districts into a national map, the
census bureau started to work on the
series of questions that will make
this coming nose-counting the most
comprehensive tne country has had.
Not only will an effort be made to
find out how many persons live in
original Orinoco language— “Mume
aechecocco vexig egussa cagua,”
Fine for Politicians.
The figuies must be so arranged
that if a politician wants to know
how many voters are in his district,
he can simply glance at the census
how much money they make, and a
-lot of other information.
Need 140,000 Counters.
she said
softly. She went out along the hall
to the living-room, and heard the
Inspector bestir himself behind her,
but she did not wait for him. She
came to the front door and opened
it; and she uttered a low ejacula-
tion of surprise and of dismay.
A
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These are New York’#
I Joan
in, by
it met
> post
you
ras a
Rab buy
She says
1
stole
r it?
for
as.
Eight Months' Preparation
Needed for Task of
Counting Noses.
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To the emperor the kowtow
ed by kneeling three
act accompanied by
ground with the fore-
ly. "I
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what
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pirits and that, if
properly, ft gives
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Census-Taking
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THREE SHUTTERED HOUSES
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at re-
Find* Death Trees, Feared by Indians,
Tribesmen Also Claim Aid in Gambling
her was sleeping. Then she heard
again the sound which had roused
her a moment ago.
It was the doorbell, ringing in a
long peal, shrill and imperious.
In a swift haste she snapped on
the shaded light beside her bed and
found dressing-gown and slippers.
Then the doorbell rang again, and
Inspector Tope woke and asked:
“What’s the matter?”
“Someone at the door,'
“Trees of death,” gnarled shrubs
which are held in superstitious awe
by Indians, have been discovered
In a lonely canyon.
John W. Hilton, authority on des-
ert lore, has disclosed that he found
the trees after a long fight to over-
come superstitious fears of Indians.
The sap of the “tree of dead)*,” or
elephant tree, is believed by the
Cahuilla Indians to be a deadly poi-
son for doing away with enemies
quietly, Mr. Hilton said.
They also believe, he said, that
in the hands of medicine men it can
drive away evil
prepared and M
extra keen perception in playing
pion and other gambling games.
The recently discovered trees are
believed to be the farthest north on
record.
“Knowing better than to ask dl-
estions about the fabled
had to wait until some In-
dian told me about the whole af-
fair,” Mr. Hilton said. “Finally the
son-in law of a very old and power-
ful medicine man claimed to know
where the tree was and agreed to
lead bAi to the spot for $5.
' “High up in the canyon
zier, officials of the Delaware Arche- the woods that way.” She pointed
ological society, have uncovered a past the houses; and she said, and
soapstone quarry near Christiana, he heard her voice shake: " .
they believe the imple- l a thunder-shower the night Mother
“manufactured.” j died. A terrible one. And she add-
ii>a»y louiau icuvi ui j
this stone, known as steatite, have
i____:___j _ z___._______,,
their origin was a mystery. No de- «ned him.
L22ZZ “2
then June cried, a sudden tension
in her tones: “Clint, look!”
“What?” he asked, surprised; and
he stared past her.
There was a faint brightness, in the
shape of a rectangle, against the
front of the Hurder house. The
brightness assumed color; and Clint
reached across the girl to lower the
window so that he might see more
clearly. That rectangle identified it-
self as the open front door of the
house, outlined in red.
And suddenly this dull red became
bright; they saw the flicker of a
flame.
They scrambled out together; they
Miss Moss had never seen June
leaford, and as she watched Clint’s
increasing devotion to the girl, dur-
ing the fortnight after Mrs. Lea-
ford died, this fact sometimes dis-
turbed her. -• --------’
She said to Tope one evening:
“I’ve been—asking about her, here
and there. You know Lissa Thayer.
I’ve spoken to you about her.”
"I know her, yea,” Tope assented.
"Lissa and 1 have become almost
friends.” Miss Moss explsined. ’She
knows about Clint and June. He
often leaves his car there when be
goes in to the cabin. And Asa and
gas there for their car.
Rab >s—unpleasantly fa-
a
Hours later, however, something
disturbed Miss Moss. Her eyes
opened and she lay listening. In-
spector Tope here in the bed beside
’ j
a farm-
fems to
say you.
o a full
>od.”
o is 97,
lam,”
“Let’s sit here a few minutes. You
don’t have to go right in.”
“t must, soon," she urged, yet
made no move to leave.
They found no great need of
words. They were snug in the car,
the windows raised against the rain.
There was a light in the rear part
of the Taine house; and June said,
with a ripple of mirth in her tones:
about 30
The Term ’Kowtow’ Chinese
The term “kowtow” is derived
from the Chinese ceremonial act o|
prostration as a sign of homage.
Submission or worship. The word
is formed from ko, knock, and tou,
head. “
was per
times, «
touching
head.
WASHINGTON.-Without benefit
of ballyhoo, the 1940 census has been
| under way eight months.
Is Toward the end of last summer,
I Clarence A. Batchelet started it.
b Batchelet is a geographer at the
census bureau. He started it by
writing letters to various local of-
ficials.
As the replies came in, he built
up a new map of census districts
< to fit the boundary changes that had
been made by local agencies since
1930.
' , For the census must supply a
statistical measurement designed to
fit all local and federal needs during
[ the next ten years. It must take
into account congressional districts,
district boundaries, city ward lines,
city limits, judicial districts, coun-
ties, election districts and the other
small units which fit into the national
map.
June, come help me, will
She led the girl toward the
kitchen, called over her shoulder:
“Inspector Tope, let Clint rest till
we come back. 1 want to hear."
But Clint said: ”1 don’t want to
rest.” His tone suddenly was grim.
“Let's go with them, Inspector,”
he suggested: and Miss Moss saw
them come on her heels. In the
little kitchen, while she was busy
about the electric stove, Clint sat on
the sink and drew June dose be-
side him; and these two told what
there was to tell.
“I’d taken June to see a picture,"
Clint explained. "But the picture
didn't seem to mean much to us,
so we left early, drove back to
her house. And—parked outside for
a little while.
“We sat there talking awhile, and
then she saw that the house was on
fire.”
Tope nodded; and June explained:
“I must have left the front door
open when 1 came out, or else I
didn’t latch it and it blew open; be-
cause we saw the flames in the front
hall.” And Clint continued:
“So we started to run toward the
house. A car passed, and I shouted
to the driver to ring in an alarm.
By that time June was on the front
steps. I caught her just in time.
She was going in. The smoke was
pouring out of the door, and there
were flames inside; but she told
me Mr. and Mrs. Hurder were in
there.”
He held June closer, and she
watched him with wide eyes.
“It was raining,” he explained. "I
wet my handkerchief in the rain,
and wrapped it qver my mouth and
started to crawl in the hall. But
the smoke drove me back, and then
June said they slept in the wing,
on the ground floor; so we ran
around the house to the windows of
their room.”
He hesitated, then went on: "The
windows were shut, and the curtains
were drawn, but some of the cur-
tains were on fire. The windows
were all shut tight. I managed to
cliniib up and break the glass, with
my pocket-knife for a hammer. I
reached in and sprung the catch
and pushed the window open. I
guess that’s when I burned this
hand; because when I opened the
window e gush of flame came out in
my face, and I let go all holds and
fell."
He looked at June.
“I fell on her,” he said,
was right under me.
of her.”
miliar sometimes, too friendly, of-
fensive. She doesn’t say much about
Asa, but I think she knows him rath-
er welL”
Tope reminded her: “Asa went to
see her, the morning after Mrs. Lea-
ford died. Remember? We met him
in the woods, and you saw him down
there.”
“I remember,” Miss Moss agreed.
"It didn’t seem to me she was glad
to see him, that day . . . You know
—I've been trying to guess who will
inherit the Bowdon fortune, now that
Mr. Bowdon is dead. And Mr. Hur-
der’s money, when he dies. Mrs.
Leaford would have been Mr. Hur-
der's heir, you know.”
Inspector Tope stared at her.
"You could out jump a kangaroo,
Mrs. Tope,” he said, in a deep ad-
miration. “You’re three jumps
ahead of me.” He rose. “You’ve
given me enough to think about to
keep me awake,” he said. “And
I had as much as I could stand al-
ready. Let’s go to bed.”
“Hullo, that was thunder,
see a flash.”
“I did, out of the corner of my
she told him. "Off through
stopped, but the Indian, saying that
the wind was blowing toward us
from the tree, took a zig-zag course
up a mountain so as to approach
the tree from behind. But our
search was fruitless. The guide de-
cided that the tree did not wish to
be found, and we went home.
“Later, however, a young edu-
cated Indian took me directly to
the tree.
“The Indian guide stabbed the
trunk of the tree and a blood-like
substance oozed out.”
Mr. Hilton then carefully plucked
sample sprouts from the bush and
took them to the government date
gardens at India, where experts
identified them as Bursera micro-
phylla, or elephant tree.
____ A
Jewels:
gems, according to songstn
Edwards, whose favorite i
the way, is the ruby:
Emerald: The green of the grass
in Central park come summer.
Garnet: Geraniums in the win-
dows of tenement#.
Sapphire: The blue of the sky
just before dawn as seen between
skyscrapers.
Ruby: The flashing stop signal of
traffic lights.
Diamond: The sparkling crystal,
of rain on the street during a sun
shower. >
Pearl r The silvery, fleecy clouds
of a still summer day.
Topaz: *n>e yellow of the sun’s
rays as they are redirected from the'
heights of tall buildings.
• • •
Woof-Woof: The Dog Walkers
Club of America, at its annual
.” decided to
hold a national contest to select the
.’’ A “glamour
dog” was defined as one that has
canine “it” irrespective of birth,
breeding or blue ribbons. The win-
ner and its owner will' be the guest
iurmg dog
days, it was announced, ami will be
feted, petted and photographed. No
fee is required and any dog owner
may enter his pet by submitting a
200-word summary of qualifications
i and a snapshot to Dog Walkers,
I Room 1612, 22 East Fortieth street.
On the judges committee are Lowell
Thomas, Tony Sarg, Jack Dempsey,
Lew Lehr, Robert L.
Turner, Captain Bob Bartlett, James
E. Knox and F. Darius Benham. *
_ “ —— ——— — —
Walkers .club three years ago. The
only membership qualification
dog, a leash and a muzzle.
♦ • •
Manhattan: A customer on the
fourth floor of a department store
furtively drops a dress on the floor,
steps on it and then calls a clerk.
"Tell me," she asks with a winning
smile, “how much will you mark
this garment down—it’s a trifle
soiled.” . . . Two stout women stand
over a man in a crowded subway'
car. "It’s a wonder,” snaps one
quite audibly, "that a gentleman
wouldn’t get up and give us seats.
It would be a kind deed.” “Good
deed,” echoes the man who is no
giant. “If you two women could sit
down if 1 got up, it woMgd be a
miracle.”
e B«U Syndicate.-WNU 1
Steinmetz Hdine Is 1
Elephant for N.
SCHENECTADY.—Officials of the
New York conservation department
are uncertain what to do with the
home of the late Dr. Charles P.
Steinmetz, famed physicist and elec-
trical wizard.
The estate, filled with electrical
formulas, copiously penciled note-
books, crude machinery and broken
models used by the eminent scien-
tist, is a “white elephant” to the
department.
it was first purchase* for a
memorial by a civic committee
through contributions of school chil-
dren, engineers and philanthropists.
The committee, without funds to de-
velop the project further, gave the
property to the state.
Of a dozen suggestions, the most
fitting, according .to the officials,
was to. petition engineering and
scientific societies searching for a
“home.” History and scientific
achievement associated with the
massive brownstone house were
thought to make it ideal as head-
quarters tor an engineering group. .
Pa., where
menta were
Although many Indian relics of
tins stone, muwii as steatite, nave 1 ——— . — — ---------- —
been found in New Castle county, >^ht- The thunder must have wak-
_ ^_a ______ _______ . I bktwt *’ iknl ika TainA
posits of the stone, prized by the
Indians, have been found in Dela-
ware.
Weelager and Crozier found seven
pits with the assistance of Harry
Wilson, a West Chester, Pa., anti-
quarian, who knew the location
through geological surveys.
Stone picks and chisels were found
at the site., together with portions of
vessels and fragments bearing
marks of Stone age tools. Speci-
mens were collected for laboratory
study.
economists begin to wring all sorts
of facts out of them.
tional purpose that the census
serves is to provide congress with j tone was mirthful,
the knowledge of where the citizens
live, so that representation in con- I _r
gress may be shuffled among the asked, nodding” in" the other direc-
states to conform. : tion.
5,000th Language Goes in
Collection of Librarian . .
aechecocco vexia egussa cagua," backandshouted:
was the slogan of a rare-food din -
ner attended by executives and stall , . . .
members of the Cleveland public li- ?ian 8 head .noT‘
brary in celebration of Koko of the
Congo, the 5,000th language to be
added to the library’s John C. White
collection.
“Uncle Justus is still asleep in
his chair. If no one wakes him up,
i After that, the statisticians and I he may sleep there all night.”
AAAnAmiata Km<rin tn wrintf all ’ “Is th&t hlS rOOm?** (?’**** “*
The constitu- surprised.
the census | “No, he’s in the kitchen.
“He likes to
warm his feet in the oven door.”
“Who’s sitting up over there?” he
■■
LightToTNew^rk]
by L. L STEVENSON ||
Prosperity: In one of Fifth ave-
nue’s largest stores, noticed a per-
fume set, just over from Paris,
with doors which slide open and re-
veal three tiny vials of liquid almost
as costly as molten gold. Was in-
formed that French chemists ex-
perimented for two years with 800
oils and essences to perfect the per-
fume and that an American design-
er worked equally hard to create
a container resembling a dream
tower from Arabian Nights with
gold and crystal columns anti imi-
tation marble base in pastel shades
of blue, rose and mauve and which,
when closed, may be locked with a
little gold key. Not being a per-
fume addict, the writer's interest in
the gadget is purely academic but
it does seem to indicate that at least
one merchant believes that the days
of expensive luxurieq-Jiave returned
—and that women will buy costly
things if they have an eYe appeal.
“Hey, fire! Ring in an alarm!”
He saw the driver dimly, saw the
'■ Then he ran after
June toward the house, toward that
front door through which billows
of smoke began to pour. He caught
' her on the steps, caught her fast;
for she would have gone headlong
in. And whe was crying:
“Grandpa! Grandma!”
When Clint held her. she swung
to him tn terror, beseeching him.
“They’re in there. Clint. Oh, quick,
..For Clint stood there, with a girl
in the circle of his arm; and they
were both smoke-begrimed, their
faces sooted and dirty and streaked
with water. Also, Clint’s forehead
was red and inflamed in a streak
across above his eyes, and his eye-
brows were singed, and she saw in
that first glance an angry blister on
the back of his right hand.
. He said grimly: “Miss Moss,
here’s my June. I’ve brought her
home!”
“You’re hurtl” Miss Moss cried.
€he remembered to welcome the
girl too. "Come in, both of you.
Miss Leaford—”
June whispered:
burned! I wanted him to stop and
get them fixed, but he wouldn't. Oh,
take care of him.”
Tope uttered a low ejaculation;
he stood blinking in the light. There
was a moment’s silence; and then
Clint, his arm still encircling June,
added slowly:
"Mr. and Mrs. Hurder—we got
them out; but—”
Miss Moss saw June shudder and
tremble, and she spoke commahd-
ingly.
“Come in,” she directed; and as
they obeyed, she shut the door be-
hind them. “Miss Leaford, are you
hurt too?” she asked.
"No, no,” June told her. “You
must fix Clint. I’m all right."
Miss Moss nodded. "Don’t try to
talk,” she insisted. "Clint, sit
down. Miss Leaford, come help me.
Soda, I think, is as good as any-
thing. He needs to be cleaned up,
too. And you’ll want to wash
your face, I expect”
*T don’t matter,” June said. "But
Clint’s burned terribly.”
Clint protested with r. wry smile:
"Now, sweet it’s just this blister
on my hand. That’s nothing at «11.”
They found in the end that he' had
in fact suffered no more than minor
burns on his hands and wrists, and
that fiame-etroke on his brow.
“I wrapped a wet handkerchief
across my mouth,” he explained.
“To keep the smoke out. Had my
hat on, and that helped too.”
Miss Moss said cheerfully:
"You’ve no more eyebrows now
Income Tax 3 Cents,
No Change for Nickel
BUTTE, MONT.-The govern
meat demanded its three cents
due, but refused to take a two-
cent tip in a minor income tax
drama here.
A citizen, after burning the
midnight oil, appeared at the lo-
cal internal revenue office.
“How much do 1 owe you?” he
asked the deputy.
“Three cents,” was the reply.
A smile lighted the face of the
citizen. “Here,” be said, "take
this nickel. You can keep the
change.”
“Sorry, sir, but 1 can’t take a
tip.” said the deputy. “And I
have no change.”
The taxpayer went out and
came back with a three-cent
stamp which was accepted.
------
Source of Stone Used by
Delaware Indians Found
WILMINGTON, DEL.-Archeolo- |
"But you said you got them out,”
Tope reminded him. "Mr. and Mrs.
Hurder."
"I'm coming to that,” Clint ex-
plained. “We tried another win-
dow, right beside their beds. I
smashed it open, and smoke poured
out, but no flames. So I straddled
the sill and my foot hit their bed in-
side.” He spoke rapidly, his eyes
fixed straight ahead. "I felt some-
one, and 1 dragged Mrs. Hurder up
find lowered her out of the window
to June, and then him. The bed
was all afire, little flames.”
And he said, looking at the girl
beside him: “They weren’t burned
much, I don’t think. We were just
in time. The fire spread awfully
fast.”
Inspector Tope suggested: "Fire
department must have been there
by then!”
Clint shook his head, "No, they
weren’t! They didn’t get*there till
after Mrs. Taine did. Not till after
Asa did, as a matter of tact. June
and I had been pretty busy, but it
must have been quite a while.”
Miss Moss echoed: “Mrs. Taine?”
“You see,” Clint explained, “Mrs.
Taine and Asa were staying with
Mrs. Bowdon last night. Mrs. Taine
said they didn’t hear anything till
their lights went out, and she went
to look at the fuses, and saw the
fire through the pantry window.
She came running over, just about
the time we got the old people out;
and then Asa came. He and I car-
ried them into the Bowdon house,
out of the rain. And Mrs. Taine and
June started taking care of them.
But June came out again when I
did.”
"Were they dressed?" Tope asked.
“Mrs. Taine and Asa?”
"Oh, yes," Clint said casually; and ,
he went on: “By the time the fire 1
engines came, one wing was aH -------—
afire, and the other was well start- I K*am<>ur I"3®-
. ■ a ■ > I u/na dannad oa
“It didn’t hurt,” June insisted.
“So we tried to get in through the
bathroom,” Clint explained. “There
wasn’t any fire in there, so I got
that window up and climbed in; but
when I opened the door into their
room, it was all on fire inside. Fire
was spouting out of the wall right
beside the bathroom door.”
“The laundry-chute is there,”
June interrupted.
“And it was roaring in the cel-
lar,” Clint confessed. "I could feel
it hot under my feet. The smoke
was pretty bad. Then a piece of
the floor in front of me burned
through; and then the flames licked
up at me, and I had to back out and
shut the bathroom door.”
Opportunity: A few years- ago,
scientists, equipped with a decibel
machine, toured the city and found
that the town’s noisiest spot was
that fifth of an acre open space
where Broadway and Sixth avenue
come together between Thirty-fifth
and Thirty-second streets. Nothing
was done about the matter until re-
cently when the Sixth avenue ele-
vated was torn down. With no more
trains pounding overhead, the noise
has decreased noticeably. Possibly
that is why the plot, known as Her-
ald and Greeley squares, is to be
improved with plane trees and the
return of Huff and Gruff, the two
bell ringers, presided over by
Minerva, goddess of wisdom,
perched on a pylon made ofgrxn-
ite salvaged from the old post
office building. At least the labors
of Huff and Gruff, imported by the
late* James Gordon Bennett, who
tolled the hours for 28 years atop,
the Herald buil^Lipz, may now be
heard. !
ed; and they couldn’t get the plug
off the hydrant right away. There's
only one hydrant and that was
three or four hundred yards down . ... „ . ,» - .
the hill. The whole thing went, be- the club in New York dtfring dog
fore they got it checked at all.’’ “ *”"* ----------
“Burn to the ground?” '
“The floors fell in,” Clint assent-
ed. “And part of the roof. I don’t
know; maybe the walls wouldn’t
K®-
June's eyes were closed, and Miss
Moss tried to sign to Inspector Tope
to be still; but he asked insistently:
“What about the others? Mr. Taine,
and Rab? Where were they?”
It was June who answered: “Rab t . .. _
had gone to Providence right after 4- “r- B"*™ **»• Dog
supper,” she said. “He had a case --- --------
in court there tomorrow morning.
And Uncle Justus is deaf. He
wouldn’t hear anything.” She re-
membered: “We saw him turn out
his light to go to bed, just before
we saw the fire.”
“Saw him?” Tope echoed.
“Saw his light go out,” June
amended. “In the kitchen. He liked
to go to sleep in his chair after
supper, and sometimes he didn’t
wake up at all. But we saw his
light go out.”
(TO BE CONTINUED)
“Aunt Evie and Asa are staying
' with Grandma Bowdon.” she ex-
' plained. “Rab had to go to Prov-
' idence.”
_ They felt, rather than heard, a
gists have discovered what they be- low rumble of sound; and Clint paid:
lieve is the source of many of the
kitchen and fighting implements of
the Delaware Indians.
C. A. Weslager and Archibald Cro- eye,
"You’ll see lots more with me,”
Clint promised. "This is a bum one,
really.” And he urged: “Let's start
home. We can drive slowly and—
be together without so many people
round. Unless you want to see the
rest of this?”
June—a little reluctantly—pro-
fessed a complete lack of interest in
the film; yet she looked back wist-
fully as they went up the aisle.
Upon their arrival, she had not re-
moved her coat till they reached
their seats; but now in the lobby she
expected some word from him about
her new gown. When he said noth-
ing, merely offered to help her into
her coat, she protested:
“You haven't noticed my dress.
Don’t you think it’s nice?”
Clint stood back to survey her.
chuckling. “Sure, grand!” he de-
figui es and go right out to the printer -kclared. He came close to her again.
B --------- I “But what you wear doesn’t make
any difference to me, June.”
“Asa gave it to me!”
“Asa?” Clint echoed, frowning
faintly. “Why?”
She slipped her arms into the
sleeves of the coat he held. “He
told me to wear it to catch a young
man!” she confessed, laughing up
| at him over her shoulder. “He
the United States, but census ex- knows about you and me.”
perts want to know exactly where CUnt chuckled with pleasure. “It
they live, what they are doing, how wji] be turn to buy pretty things
aJe_’ f°r y°u 8oon-” h® sa*d happily; and
j her hand tightened on his arm as
they went out to the car.
Need 140,000 Counters. They drove slowly, Clint clinging
After questions are worked out, an to this hour; and when they came
estimate of the cost is made and in front of the great sprawling house
the plan ’is put before congress for I at i*st, he stopped and turned off
approval. Then comes the selection th® lights, and said urgently:
of 140,000 enumerators and a decen-
nial blast of criticism about the fact
that they are chosen through politi-
cal channels.
The figures gathered by the
enumerators are checked and re-
■checked by statisticians. The year
and a half of preparation that goes
into the census sets up a machine
' .which does the job of collecting and
'tabulating the figures in about 30
days.
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than a baby, Clint; and not*much
in the way of eyelashes.” She was
bqsy tending him.
Clint whispered, through eat
teeth: “That's a lot jnore comfor-
table.” Miss Moss ached for him.
He grinned at June, said then to
the older woman: “This sweet kid
has come to live with you for a
while, Miss Moss. It won’t be long.
Just till she comes to live with me.”
Miss Moss looked at June, and
saw in the girl's eyes something like
a plea for forgiveness; and June
said softly: “He’s talked so much
about you. I know you must be
hating me.”
Miss Moss smiled fondly. “No,
dear,” she said gently. “No, I’m
glad tor both of you.”
Inspector Tope chuckled. “Well,
now that's all settled, to the satis-
faction of the womenfolks,” he sug-
gested. “How about me? Miss Lea-
ford, do you mind if I ask what
happened? You mind telling me?”
June shook her head. “No,” she
said in a dull tone. “No. I'd rather
talk, 1 think, than not.” She made
an uncertain gesture. “I'm—I feel
as though 1 were walking in my
sleep,” she confessed. “It doesn’t
seem real to me.”
Miss Moss said briskly: “We’ll
have a cup of chocolate; all feel
better.
you?’
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