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And there
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out of life?" or would it be, T
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coming back that night, or would '
she have gone anyway? What was
18 Reserved.
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been moments at the Inn
he sat across the narrow
table from her and she
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a piece of paper.
thru that," she told herself in a
spirit of sacrifice.
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so Race tipsters.
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certificate.
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SA Shelter.
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61 Dug coat.
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26 Three feet.
28 At that time.
30 Weight
allowance*.
32 Pensant.
84 To eject.
36 To abolish.
87 Having a soul.
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43 Slipped.
46 Regrets.
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18 Deity.
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21 Heapa.
24 Conster.
25 Integrity.
27 Pronoun.
29 Exists.
30 To throw.
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She fell asleep, but awoke when J
she heard a notse. Was it Irene j
have ever seen him.” The subject waa dropped
as they tried to settle which native* would accom-
pany each section. To Stimbol’s chagrin not a
wax candle*, dripping contented-
ly In their pewter holders, that
I she had thought he was about to
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might have fretted herself into a
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Tommy how much would trehe
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his advances.
Mrs. Fverett looked tired
worn beneath th* makeup
had hastily applied when
coming In She listened. No, it
was her mother and stepfather. I
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lifted face toward him as they
sat In the car, and sighed: "Well,
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When he returned to camp, Stimbol found that
Blake had divided the equipment as agreed.
Blake was glad to be rid of his ill-natured com-
panion, and only hoped there would be peace
heart throb stuff that they
uldn’t have admitted to in real
"LrHs HGKNe?F ’ AND-RHMFBUNNEROMPLETE,
ance? That-was -something she
’ tude toward' her. It is different,
the way a girl accepts convention-
leading to, because
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pay her a call.
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until they separated. “Met a monkey-man out
there in the jungle,” was Stimbol’s greeting.
"Call* himself Tarxan of the Ape* and ordered -—, --------...
me out of his jungle." J single man would join him.
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kHEN A hour after that.
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the theater. I’m so near played |
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Jim Blake looked up in surprise. i"You say
you met Tarxan of the Apes?" he cried. “Great
Scott, if he ordered me out of this junde I’d go
hot footed. Very few black men or whites either.
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year, every day, every hour of a
fool’s paradise that Irene gave . plain enough.
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questions, a flood of rebellion
against the situation swept over
her. For a moment she could
had a lovely
with a raw egg In it.” Beryl
She turned
for himself as for the girl he Ir
most Interested in.
Irene had to be sure of things
with Prentiss before she would
know what to do with Tommy.
Something would have to happen
eoon between her and Prentiss if
It were going to happen at all.
She’d have to know what it was
she after with Prentiss Gaylord
just a good time — or would
she throw Tommy over for him
if Prentiss wanted her?
As Beryl asked herself these
get it, //2M
in a way she was glad that he (03 T
was like that. It would make it ? *
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been scared to
back she would bind up his
wounds. Suppose Tommy would ,
I have to bear his suffering all
alone! .. .. him do that and not spoll things?
“I wouldn’t want him to go
waTIFSOMETWINS)*•WOULDHTWNT
OLD HAPPEU 1b ) %R DAD D DRINK
%... -THEN •/THAT COFFEE AND
Had she gone with Prentiss be-
cause she knew Tommy wasn’t
"Go back to your camp,” ordered Tarzan, "to-
night I will come there to talk with you and your
companion. Meanwhile, hunt no more except for
food in Tarzan’s country.” Stimbol was too aston-
ished to reply. He stood stupidly watching the
bronzed giant growl to the gorilla and then saw
both, to his vaN surprise, move off through the
jungle, shoulder to shoulder.
medicine. She noticed as her
mother came into the room that
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BkaIN HKBK TODAY
NKRYL BonDux, necretly la love
wit TOMMY wilboN, del ay» his
elopement with her halt-sister, IENE
IVEETr, but falls to convinee him
that It is hi dot, to finish college.
Irene wsnts to be s radio slnser.
She secures an audition, add Berri
(Oto to the etudle with her. While
waiting. Beryl croons melodie- at a
piano. A director neidentally bears,
and is charmed by her vole. He
tires her a toot, and offera • contract,
which elates the girl, hot her joy !•
short-livea, for Irene folio and the
famally Mame Beryl. Irene agalu
promisee to elope with Tommy, hot
hie aunt dice and the marriage le pool
poned.
Beryl's debat Is a success. he trio
to forget Tommy by going Io gay
parties with FENTIE GAYLQD,
wealthy eon of her employer. Irene
attempts to win rrentis from her de-
ter. Beryl becomes III and the doctor
warns her to May la bed ene guard
her throat. Irene meanwhile arMds
Tommy and tries te eaptivnte Frentin.
He takes her riving
Beryl was heart and soul in
humming tunes for it (the pain
in her throat seemed forgotten I
when her mother came up with
her milk and egg and shooed the
boys out of the house.
"The dirt they traipsed in!”
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" She was carrying the damp tow-1
| el*—left from the hair drying—to
hang them In the bathroom when
Beryl called to her. Gracious was1
it time for her medicine already!
But Beryl was not thinking of
Eig".
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WHH MOTHER*. GET GRAT-1M VACATIOM -OMS
CHAPTER XXIII
MRS. EVERETT had eome up-
I stairs to put Irene’s room in
order. She sighed over the task
a* she put the satin mules away
in the closet and hung up the
crumpled negligee that had Been I
left on a ehair.
Maybe she hadn't been as strict
with Irene about-the care of her
room as she rhould have been, but
Irene was such a pretty little
thing. It had been hard to seold '
that she didn't mind. She had
wiah I'd known before."
Lying there worrying, Beryl
< was fast undoing the good h • r
to ark If Tommy is coming to
dinner?"
"No, he isn't thank xoodness."
her mother replied. "This is his
night to relieve the operator at
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told her to "do something to her-
self." shortly before Prentiss
came, adding with the brutal
frankness of undisciplined youth:
"You lookHke something the eat
dragged in."
"Sit down & minute." Beryl
said motioning1 toward the chair
at her bedside.
Mrs Everett shook her head.
the,rade any more and they’d
been wrltln’ a song for her.”
Beryl asked to hear the song.
so very late. Beryl looked at the
radium dial clock by her bed. A
quarter after 10. Irene had not
come home to dinner. A quarter
after 10 wasn't so late for a din-
| ner party. Maybe she was in—no,
Irene wasn't so quiet as that—
at a quarter after 10.
j . What Beryl was thinking of.
and unable to decide if she feared
ot hoped for it, was that Tommy
might walk past the house when
: he closed the theater and find
| Irene with Prentiss.
Then she heard Prentiss’ car
drive up before the house and
stop, No other with a motor like
that ever stopped there. Had she
not been listening she could not
have heard it.
A half hour passed, and Irene
She eould get some fun out of
going with Prentiss for a while,
but eventually she would have to
answer to Tommy, and that might
be serious.
The next time Prentiss took her
out she would see to It that they
went some place where there was
dancing. Irene knew that men en-
joyed dancing with her. Didn't
they always finish by calling her
pet names—all except the kids—
They came up the stairs and ] _____ ____________
"You can give me some milk ‘ intb her room on tiptoe, but ( couldn’t help, of course,
when they saw her fully dressed
and not “sick abed," they became
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By GEORGE SANFORD IOLMKS
THERE’‛S a new deal in the
A making down below the Rio
Grande,
And our Latin friends are shak-
ing Henry Stimson by the
hand,
For here’s one Secretary who
says plainly, minus frills.
Uncle Ram'* constabulary will
collect nobody’s bills.
Just a warning to the bankers
- who wax rich from peon*'
toll;
To the owners of the tankers
steaming up the'Gulf with
oil;
To concessions far projected
where grow fruit and coffee
beans, •
That there'll be no bills col-
lected by U. S. Marines.
There's rejoicing 'mid our
neighbors from Cape Horn
to Mexico,
That we'll rattle no more sabre*
in the name of James Mon-
roe;
A* his citizens’ protector, Uncle
Sam stands unafraid.
But he'll be no bill-collector
for the privateers of trade!
nothing all day, but she hadn't
th* -enerzy for helping-her-moh-
er and did not feel like asking
for « special dinner.. The regu-
lar fare, she knew, would he beef-
steak and potatoes, and It did not
appeal to her appetite.
"All right," her mother agreed
lfstlessly. “Is it time for your
medicine now?"
"Not yet," Beryl said “Don't
bother about it I’ll take it "
TeueaAAf’
BLANKS
FREE
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MONDAY, MAY 25, 1921
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BY WILLI
. , , did not come in. Wre they
who never thought ogandne Sit goIng to sit thero a! nigtr
herself, and Beryl was utterly j TRENE did not mind ir they did.
' helpless to do anything about it . L situation perfectly
but hazard guesses and make ° \ ‘
conjectures. in hand at her own front door.
Her happiness — yes for a girl could be less diffident in
Tommy’s happiness was her hap- the shadow of the parental roof-
pines. And he couldn"" eventree. And she wa. beginning to
know—couldn t decide which was I" . . : .
best in her—to pray that Irene | think she might have overplayed
would break his heart now or la-1 the modesty pose. Prentiss hadn't
ter. That she would break it was got very far with
to Beryl's mind inevitable. | — -
life for worlds — hut they had
helped her wonderfully. She
didn’t feel lonely and helpless
now, and It was something to
know that when Tommy needed
her sympathy, as he would some
day, she could give it to him.
To stand by and watch Irene
playing with him was like seeing
him go to war. When he came
(N THE GROWING |
U PUSH. HE SEES ANOTHta
DOM APPROACNIN6, TA'S
TIME FROM THE SHORE. TO I
HIS DELIGHT, I7,*o, PRovs;
WB A WNALRUMRONNER
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AIN'T MY-LCK?
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"Why," Beryl tried to speak
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A PrN NOB wof
BE ABLE lb WRrTE
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A susr TAP
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Mrs. Everest complained. Beryl
did not hear her—she was on her
way back to the kitchen—so wa«
left to enjoy her thoughts of the
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ality and the way a man accepts
it. He never wants it so much
THEM A MOOR AFTER THAT-HREE Mo~TS GETIHG.
K-oU KuoW~oU HAFTA ] ME •P, wE X Doti.
A\- B€ Wo oP V eO / HANE D GET OP ~ MAH,
■X \) KOWIN ‘RAT NOU 1 WHERE'S T SRoP ?• »
—\ooT HAFTA GET uP. / ’ MA AH, WHERE$ MY BAT ’
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Stimbol was driven to offering the blacks 8
bonus, for all wanted to go with the “Young ■
Bwan»” Blake. They drew aside to consider th«
matter and were gone but a moment when th*
figure of a man appeared suddenly out of th*
darkness. “Hello— here’s th* wild man," ex:
claimed Stimbol. The young American turned
and surveyed Tarzan, welcome and surgrine in ,4
his exprenslon. 2 H
E. , estd. “That's all I want.” As a
A / matter of fact, she was feeling.
VW hungry having eaten little or “Gosh, thy’d
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ER mother departed then and
I1 Beryl was left stone to won-
der If she’ were plened or not
because Tommy wasn't coming to
dinner. She wouldn't have seen
him if he had come, unless she'd
risked overtaxfng her Strength to
go downstairs, and that she did
not want to do the night before
her radio hour. But it would
have meant a ereat deal to have
him In the same house under
th* same roof—now when Irene
was away,
Still if he came tonight the
probability was he would learn
that Irene had been out with,
Prentiss Gaylord — might still be
out with him, in fact. Poor
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