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THE LAMPASAS LEADER
THE MAY DAY MYSTERY
By OCTAVUS ROY COHEN
Copyright by Octavus Roy Cohen.
WNU Service.
SYNOPSIS
'Antoinette Peyton, senior at the southern
mniversity of Marland, resents Paterson Thay-
er’s attentions to Ivy Welch, seventeen-year-
old coed, and there is a stormy scene, ending
with bitter recriminations, the tension being
increased by Max Veriion, another student,
long Thayer’s friend, reproaching Ivy for
‘‘breaking a date” with him. Thayer and
Vernon threaten each other. Larry Welch,
Ivy’s brother, professor at the university, is
appealed to by Tony Peyton to end his sister’s
'friendship with Thayer. Welch and Tony are
£n lave with each other.
CHAPTER II—Continued
“You’ve known for a long time that
3 loved you, Larry. I know I’ve never
said it in so many words, but you’ve
known it just the same. Have you
sever wondered, dear, why—loving you
I would never consent to marry you?”
He shook his head slowly.
“I’ve never dared wonder that far,
Tony. I’ve been too busy wondering—
®nd wondering—about whether you
■cared.”
“I do care. You know it now. And
yet, saying that—I tell you in the
same breath that I can’t marry you.
low do you wonder why?”
“Yes,” he answered quietly, “I do.”
For a long time she did not speak,
he felt like a woman about to plunge
from a great height. Then she told
liim—with a rush of words which hurt
.and which required sheer physical
urage.
“Larry,” she said steadily, “the rea-
on I cannot marry you is because
Pat Thayer is my husband!”
An expression of utter bewilderment
rossed Larry’s face. He understood
ohe girl’s words without being able Im-
mediately to grasp their significance.
And then he understood more poign-
antly than ever before just how much
The loved this slender, level-eyed girl.
His blue eyes sought her black ones to
exchange a message of frank and un-
.shamed love. Then It seemed that
ca sinister shadow came between them
■—a shadow very real to any man and
-woman in a like situation, but starkly
tragic to persons as young and filled
•with the passion of life as these two.
Pat Thayer’s wife! She belonged
to Thayer. She was married to the
man about whose commanding and
exotic and highly unpleasant per-
sonality there existed unsavory ru-
mors.
Tony looked at him compassionately.
She suffered because she had hurt
him, yet she felt a sense of infinite
relief that she had elected to share
her burden. She saw Larry’s blond
head move slowly from side to side
as though he were struggling to un-
erstand what it meant; striving to
»er into the future and reconstruct
is dreams. The girl took his hand in
oth of hers and gazed straight into
is eyes.
“I’m married to Pat,” she said quiet-
and her cheeks were crimson; “but
’ve never been his wife.”
He drew in his breath sharply. “You
you mean, Tony—”
“Just that, Larry. There has never
een anything between Pat and my-
elf except a ceremony.”
A great load lifted from the heart
the young man. He dared a ques-
tion.
“Do you. love him?”
Her eyes widened.
"I despise him.”
And young Mr. Welch threw back
3iie head and smiled.
“Gosh!” he said. “That makes me
happy. When you told me he was
our husband I felt sick all over. Now,
t doesn’t seem important. Not a bit.
<Oh! I know I’m silly, but it seems as
hough everything can be adjusted If
’s true that you hate him.”
“It’s true all right enough.” Then
he lowered her voice. “Can’t you un-
derstand now why I worried for Ivy
when I saw her in his arms? Don’t
.you sae how different It is? I hap-
pened to know that Pat Thayer is
legally married. That being the case,
it isn’t exactly fair to Ivy to permit
the thing to continue, is it?”
“Scarcely.” A new and square set
ame to his jaw. “I’ll have to fix
hings. ... I sure will.” He was
lent for a moment, then seated him-
self again. “Sit down, Tony.”
She was glad enough to obey. She
as glad he took her hand and spoke in
gentle, understanding voice.
“Can you tell me all about it,
Tony?”
She nodded.
“When did it happen?”
She answered without turning.
“Last year—November, 1927.” •
“Where?”
‘Nashville. When the team went
to play Vanderbilt"
“I see. ... You hadn’t known
ayer very long then.”
"No. He had only been In college
o months. The whole campus was
lid about him. I was a year and a
alf younger then than I am now.
rom the day he arrived at Marland
e girls were all crazy about him.
e seemed to have singled me out for
is particular attention—”
“I remember,” said Larry grimly. “I
re do I”
■ ”I was flattered. I ran around with
him a good deal. He took me to lots
«t dances. ... I wasn’t with you
much then, Larry. You were on the
im and Coach had you training
retty hard and you were always mak-
ng up classes yen had missed on foot-
ball trips. Anyway, I was Just a silly
kid. That’s why I know how Ivy feels
right now . . . she regards Pat
Thayer pretty much as I did for
while; not In love with him nearly
so much as she’s dazzled by his man-
ner and experience.
“Anyway, I know I was flattered be-
cause the most picturesque man on
the campus had chosen me. I liked
to be with him . . . and for a while
I was fond of him. He can be pretty
charming if he wants to. Looking
back on it, I know it was a kid infatu-
ation with no more depth than the
water In a goldfish bowl.”
Her voice trailed off, and when he
did not speak, she continued.
“I’m trying very hard to make you
see through my eyes as they were
then, Larry; trying to make you un-
derstand me as I was, rather than as
I am. What the Antoinette Peyton
of November, 1927, did would be im-
possible for the Tony of May, 1929. Do
you understand?”
“Sure. Go ahead.”
She drew a long breath.
“The girls all envied me. I was
silly enough to let my head get
turned by that, too. See, I’m not
sparing myself at all. And then came
the game with Vandy. I went. And
so did Pat.
“You don’t know much about that
day, Larry, because you were with the
team all the time. But we descended
on Nashville and took it by storm. I
went to the game with Pat. and you
remember what happened there. Our
v/
“Larry,” She Said Steadily, “the
Reason I Cannot Marry You Is
Because Pat Thayer Is My Hus-
band!"
last minute rally that tied the score.
Marland had tied one of the greatest
teams in the southern conference . . .
and done it for the first time in his-
tory. It was an intoxication. Every-
thing was wonderful . . . and now
you can get ready to laugh at me.
Now you’re going to learn what an
idiot I am.”
“Well,” he prompted: “What?”
“Pat Thayer proposed to me during
the last five minutes of that football
game, Larry. He kept insisting that
Marland was going to tie the score
and I kept saying that we weren’t—
trying to bring us good luck by talking
like a jinx. ‘I’ll bet we tie or win,’
said Pat. ‘We won’t!’ I answered. ‘I
know we haven’t a chance.’ ‘You’re
not game to bet,’ he taunted. Of
course I said I was. Then he leaned
so close that nobody else could hear
and whispered to me: ‘Let’s see how
game you are, Tony. If Marland gets
as good as a tie out of this, you’re to
marry me right after the game.’ ‘Don’t
be silly,’ I said, and he insisted that
he was serious. ‘And you’d better say
yes quick, Tony—or I’ll jinx the whole
team.’ ”
She looked away, and there was a
tremor in her voice.
“You can’t understand it now, Larry.
There’s no use trying to make you
understand.”
“I do, though.”
“You don’t! You can’t! It isn’t
possible—sitting here in your class-
room, looking over a period of eighteen
months and trying to make a person
understand how a kid girl could get
drunk with football excitement and
plunge into a serious thing like mar-
riage. It isn’t sane. And it Isn’t
reasonable to expect you to under-
stand something which I myself can’t
fathom now.”
“Just the same,” he said gently, “I
do understand.”
“I hope so. . . . Anyway, I made
the bet. You know what happened
after that. We tied the score. Every-
body went crazy. Then the game end-
ed and Pat and I drifted out with the
crowd. And once we got outside and
into a taxi, Pat announced that we
were going straight to the court house
and get a license. At first I thought
he was Joking, then I saw he was seri-
ous. I laughed at him, and he ac-
cused me of being a bad sport.
“I can pretty well summarize what
happened then. I tried overy way in
the world to argue him out of it. He
was gentle and considerate—and firm.
He kept talking about paying my
debt . . . and you can imagine how
that struck me. Besides, I liked him.
The excitement of the game had
thrown me off balance. I retained
enough sanity to strike a bargain with
him. I said I’d go through with it if
he’d be willing to keep the mairiage
a secret—and merely a ceremony—un-
til vacation time. I promised him
we’d take a honeymoon in the summer
if he’d do what I wanted. He pro-
tested, but finally agreed. . . .”
She stopped talking. Larry gazed
intently at her averted face.
“And then, Tony?”
“And then,” she responded, without
turning, “we were married.”
CHAPTER ill
Everything seemed to be summed
up in her simple statement. She
spread her arms helplessly, and the
young man stared at her.
“I had hoped not to tell you”—she
was speaking in a soft, tired voice—
“until after we should have been di-
vorced or had the marriage annulled.
I detested the idea of a campus scan-
dal—or gossip—or whatever It would
have been. I was waiting until gradu-
ation. Then I was going west or t«
France or somewhere and quietly have
the whole miserable affair ended. But
seeing Ivy—with him—that rather
changed things about, Larry.’’
“I understand. 1 wish you had told
me before, though. And, going back
to the beginning . . . what caused
you to—to become uninfatuated?*’
She gave a little smile of distaste.
“Several things, Larry. I’ll talk frank-
ly—because It is your right to know.
Before we were married, Pat and I
agreed that the marriage was to be a
mere form until summer. We were ta
be good friends, just as we had been
since he came to Marland—but that
was all. It wasn’t long after the cere-
mony that he made it clear that ha
didn’t Intend to keep the bargain.”
Her cheeks were flushed and Larry’s
were dead white.
“No need to go Into detail. It
wasn’t very pleasant. I didn’t regard
myself as his wife and told him so.
He was rather nasty about It. One
thing led to another . . . and then
we had our first quarrel.” She gava
a short, bitter laugh. “One can find
out a good many things about a man
when he is thoroughly angry. I found
out about Pat Thayer then. Before
we had finished I told him that he
might have saved himself the trouble
of going through with a marriage cere-
mony. I told him I intended to get a
divorce Immediately, and then, Larry,
was when the cloven hoof became un-
mistakably visible.
“He refused to consider a divorce.
I had married him with my eyes open.
He didn’t intend that I should have
any grounds for divorce. And if I
cared to bring action, he’d fight it in
such a way that the Marland campus
would become a thoroughly uncom-
fortable place.
“I hated that Idea, Larry. I love
Marland. I wanted my degree from
here. I stalled him off, and was sur-
prised that he seemed content to watt.
Then—one day—he came to me and
asked the loan of a large sum of
money!” ,
“Good Lord! You don’t mean. . .
“Precisely. Blackmail. I refused
and he threatened to spread around
the campus the story I had been try-
ing to keep secret. No divorce, mind
you; no annulment. He Intended to
insinuate ... to let the student
body form its own opinions. I called
him a blackmailer, and he cheerfully
admitted that he was. He said I’d
never miss the amount he wished to
borrow—which was true—and, any-
way, I loaned it to him. In the months
that followed I loaned him more
money, Larry—just to keep his filthy
mouth shut. And it Isn’t the amount
But It was terrible to feel that I was
being bled by a man whose name I
legally bore. Time after time I deter-
mined to end it by suing for an annul-
ment. Then I’d think about the em-
barrassment of staying on at Marland
after the gossip became general—and
I wasn’t brave enough. It was my
plan to wait until after I had my de-
gree . . . then to end the affair
legally.” She paused for a moment,
then turned impulsively toward the
young man. "I wonder if you under-
stand?”
“Of course I do, dear.”
“And you think I was cowardly?”
“Not a bit. I think you’ve beea
rather fine about it.”
She noticed his manner of talking;
there was nothing soft or gentle Ini his
voice. It was obvious that he was
making a distinct effort to keep him-
self under control.
She was surprised. It was the first
time In the four years she had known
him that she had ever seen him
gripped by anger. There was' some-
thing primitive in the ugly set of his
lips and the blue of his eyes had
changed to an icy gray.
“I’ve kept pretty quiet, Tony,” bs
said, choosing his words with metic-
ulous care. “At first I was all with
Pat Goodness knows I’d be the last
one to blame him for wanting to mar-
ry you. I even”—he hesitated for th«
briefest fraction of an instant, and
his cheeks flushed—“I even didn’t
blame him when you told me that h«
wasn’t awfully keen about keeping hlf
part of the bargain . . . about—
about waiting until summer for a
honeymoon.
“But the rest of it . . . It’s pretty
rotten. That any man should havs
married you because you have a iittls
money; that he should have black,
mailed you for two years; that h«
should have been—well nasty In hl|
attitude toward you. That hits ml
pretty hard, Tony; perhaps because
I care for yon so much.
“Then there’s Ivy. I was fair to hl«
about that. Ivy’s a nice kid, and
pretty—even If she Is my sister. If h«
wanted to flirt with her—that wai
their business. But if he’s a married
man—and that kind of a man . . .*
He rose abruptly. “I’m going to hav*
a pretty straight talk with Mr. Pater-
son Thayer. A pretty d—n straight
talk.”
“No I” She was on her feet and hei
hand was on his arm. This new Larry
frightened her.
“Can’t you see that you mustn’t
clash with Pat? He’d be liable to g«(
nasty and spread the story. Yoi
mustn’t go to him now.”
(TO BE CONTINUUMS.*
First Post Due Stamps
Not Printed by U. S.
The first series of postage due
stamps used in the United States
was printed by an American concern.
In 1894 the bureau of printing and en-
graving in Washington took over the
printing of these stamps. From 1894
to 1929 the same design was used; U.
S. at top with “postage due” in a
semi-circle at the top, and a lozenge-
shaped center containing the numeral
of value. In the early months of 1930
there was quite a change. “United
States” was printed in full across the
top, the semicircle containing “post-
age due” was moved down and flat-
tened somewhat and the numeral of
value placed in the center with a
lattice for a background.
In the United States enyelope
stamps there are so many varieties
that most stamp collectors remain sat-
isfied with simply the major varie-
ties. Collectors will find that search-
ing out the minor varieties Is both
Interesting and fascinating and notice
carefully the lettering, whether it is
thick or thin, even or “wobbly.” Also
it is well to note whether the paper,
is white, amber, blue manilla or Ori-
ental buff. A millimeter scale Is very
useful in discovering minor variations*
Who Made First Carpet
Not Told by Historians
History is silent as to who made
the first carpet. Its origin harks back,
possibly, to the person who first dis-
covered a means of stitching leaves
■tnd rushes into a covering for the
earthen floor or stone wall of his
habitation, hi some period and clime
where ftnlmal skins were unprocur-
able. There is authority for the be-
lief that carpet weaving was prac-
ticed by the nomadic tribes of the
northern India borderlands some cen-
tnries before the attributed date of
the oldest extant samples of the craft.
These latter date presumably, to the
beginning of the Christian era, al-
though woven tapestries of 1500 B. C.,
and pile fabrics of the Third century
have been known. The art spread with
comparative rapidity, especially in
westerly directions, and eventually
schools producing types of craftsman-
ship grew up throughout the East,
from Turkey as far as China.
New Surgical Instruments
In the accident ward of the hos-
pital it is often found necessary to re-
move a ring quickly from a finger and
the hand is often swollen as the result
of an accident so that the ring re-
moval is a matter of some difficulty.
A little piece of mechanism has been
devised to accomplish this quickly. A
prong is inserted under the ring and
a few turns of a crank operates a
tiny circular saw which cuts the ring.
Delicate surgical instruments are pro-
vided with removable blades, which
enables a complete kit to be carried in
a small case. Scissors are provided
with blades which are interchangeable.
Fresh, sharp edges can be obtained
instantly by sliding them into groove#
in the blades^
Lake Erie’s Depth
Lake Erie has a maximum depth of
210 feet and an average depth of 10C
feet. The fact that it is so shallow
and has a heavy ground swell makes
it dangerous. Mills’ book, ‘.‘Our In-
land Seas,” states that “with its long
record of shipwreck and death, sur-
passed by none of the larger upper
lakes, Lake Erie is appropriately
termed the marine graveyard of the in-
land seas.” He says that southwest-
ers are prevalent in this region, while
northeasters often lash its troubled
waters into rough, choppy seas of a
severity provoked by all the Titanic
furies.
Cleveland Fathered Park
One of the last activities of Presi-
dent Cleveland, just before he left the
White House to turn the government
over to President-Elect McKinley was
to sign two district bills, one the ap-
propriation bill and the other a bill
which ordered development of Potomac
flats into what is now known as Po-
tomac park. The launching of this
development program was one of the
really far-sighted activities in the ac-
centuating of the beauty spots of the
Capital.
A Dictionary Feast
Never let go of a dictionary without
getting more than you went to it for.
This is one place where playing the
hog pays handsomely, and is not just
mere selfishness. It Is always possi-
ble, no matter how great a hurry one
is In, to drop the eye down and take
In the meaning of another word. Oft-
en the chain thus begun will roll one
back into past centuries, for our great
modern dictionaries are filled with in-
teresting facts, not just words and
meanings alone.
Welded Bridge Saves Weight
A bridge at Pilsen, Czechoslovakia,
the longest all-welded steel bridge In
the world, has a span of 161.4 feet and
no rivets or bolts whatever were used
In its construction. On account of
limited space at one end a spiral ramp
is used as the approach. The total
weight is claimed to be nearly 21 per
cent less than a riveted structure de-
signed for the same stresses.
Lands Back to Forests
There are about 33,000,000 more
acres of forest land in the United
States now than there were in 1920,
largely due to farm lands having re-
verted to forest.
Flower-Trimmed or With Feathers
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
r'LOWEItS are flourishing in fash-
F ionland. Even so early as in mid-
season we began to have hints of a flow-
er vogue to be. The first flower gar-
nitured hats made their appearance
timidly. These for the most part ad-
hered to the tailored niood, such as
for instance a sailor with perhaps a
band of little velvet flowers very prim-
ly encircling the crown or perhaps with
a wee bhndeau of posies next to the
hair.
They were adorable, as they brought
a breath of spring, and the reaction
to them was so favorable Paris mil-
liners were encouraged to follow them
up with a more pretentious gesture.
There began to arrive from abroad
most ravishing little toque-and-bouton-
niere sets made all of violets, or rose
petals, or gardenias or, perhaps, vel
vet posies in variegated coloring.
The latest arrivals from certain
French ateliers introduced a most
charming idea, that of flower necklaces
which are worn like leis. We are il-
lustrating one such centered in the
group pictured. The flowers in this
instance are white camelias for both
the wreath about the hat and the lei-
necklace. Among the models of her
spring collection Jane Blanchot also
is offering an interesting lei formed of
white linen hyacinths with a black rib-
bon across the back of the neck. This
is shown with a toque of novelty black
straw with matching hyacinths border-
ing the left side.
Most of the flower toques are de-
signed in colors to form a perfect har-
mony with the costume, with the excep-
tion of the all-white sets which are ef-
fective with black or whatever the color
may be. We are showing two flower
toques here. The ensemble at the top,
to the right, is made of violets with
a matching corsage. The matron of
honor who wore it had on a lovely
light blue lace gown. For the
bride a set was created which con-
sisted of a toque of white rose petals
and a muff which was a perfect heart
shape formed of identical petals. These
heart-shaped flower muffs are the new-
est florals for brides.
The dainty toque below to the left In
the picture is half and half of navy
straw and purple velvet pansies. It
tops a dress of Eleanor blue, the hya-
cinth tone of this blue being a perfect
complement to the rich purple tones of
the flowers.
The call of the mode for military ef-
fects is answered in dashing cossack
^hats an-1 fez turbans whose height and
severity of line is something for which
we are expected to acquire a taste.
Note the two models below in the
picture. They are indicative of this new
style trend. There is no end to other
feather fantasies which are distin-
guishing the season’s hats. They in-
clude every type from simple quills
and brush effects to all sorts of in-
triguing novelties.
©. 1933, Western Newspaper Union.
THREE NEW KINDS
OF SPRING COATS
There is a lot of talk about Schi-
aparelli’s square-shouldered coat model
which, in its most histrionic form, pre-
sents us with a detachable collar over
its padded shoulders.
A sleeve applied with cartridge
pleats at the shoulder is a simpler
means the designer uses to get the
same square effect. One lipstick:red
unlined woolen coat that is here from
Bruyere shows a square armhole as
well as a square shoulder.
For a dress coat—a division more
Important this spring than last, with
the increased interest in the after-
noon toilette—one may choose from
imany perishable shades and soft
weaves and decide on either furred
or unfurred designs. The flat little
Peter Pan collars of fairly longish
pelts are a magnet for the jeune
fille, and the more sophisticated wom-
an goes for rever lapels of the same
kind of skins.
Between these two versions is an-
other, which has a self-fabric cape
bordered once, twice, or thrice with
fluffy fox. Being a detachable gadet,
one may ditch the cape entire and,
opening the revers, fare forth with a
late spring model which needs only a
corsage to give it elegance and je ne
suis quoi.
Cashmere Sweaters Are
Among Latest Arrivals
The latest sweaters are in plain
colors, in cashmere or wool. A few
exceptions are in wool and angora.
This mixture is also found in en-
sembles or capes, gloves and scarves
and the wool is knitted in dark
shades with the angora worked in
stripes of pastel tone and white.
A variation of the scarf is seen in
a round knitted collar, which rests on
the shoulders and is fitted to the
throat It has a small turned-over
fluted edge and is made in one piece
and fastens with two clips.
Shoulder Strap Pins
Shoulder strap pins are in again—
but this time they are not concealed in
pre-war style, but are out-in-the-open
decorations for evening dresses. They
are elaborate and fanciful, set with
gems and made in four-inch lengths so
that they will be very much in evi-
dence.
IT TIES AROUND
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
Here’s efficiency for you. No but-
tons, no troublesome snaps for the
woman who owns one of these nifty,
sylo-frocks as they are called. The
model shown is in a brown and white
cotton print with white pique finish-
ings, for most everything from house
dresses to evening frocks is trimmed
in pique or organdie nowadays. You
slip your arms through the little
puffed sleeves, wrap the left side
across the back, then wrap the right
side over and tie the ends in a bow
in front. The silhbuette and tailoring
are as smart as in your favorite aft-i
ernoon gown. It’s the sort of dressi
that makes working at home a Joy.
Color Combination
Burgundy or wine color proves to be
lovely combined with pavement gray,
hyacinth'blue and with any of the lav-;
ender pinks.
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