THE TURNER TRIBUNE
VOL.
V I.
T U U N EH, OHKOON, T H U R S D A Y ,
COMMONS BACKS
Genoa Conference.
l-oudon.— The
bouse of commons
COAL MINES SHU!
Monday night, after an unexciting d «
lists, adopted by the substantial tna
Jorlty of 27* Premier l.loyd George'»
100,000 Non-Union Workers In
Daily News Items.
resolution calling for confidence In tha
eluded in Figures.
policy
on
the coming
eeonomlo coference at Genoa.
COMPILED
FOR
YOU
The
vote waa 372 to 94
Prior to thla the house by a vote
REPORTS YET VAGUE
of 397 to (4 rejected an amendment
proposed b> John Robert Clynes. la
t n c l i o f No4od
borit*
M lO t b ir
T it illo " «r ib Kuu* lug.
t.-
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which, « bile approving an In- ottciala Do Nut Expect K X art Show
notnlc
and
financial
Ared that the govern
ment was not competent to represent
the country at such a conference and
Figures given out In Seattle, W ith . did uot have the confidence of the
Monday by Mayor Caldwsll showed a
country,
d tc r a u . In lha Seattle municipal
In the earlier part of tbs session
street railway deficit during January,
the bouse passed an hour and 20 min
l » I I . of 117,041 04.
utes of such tenseness as It had not
T w o larga Icebergs warn reported In rxperlenred for many months, when
tbs wratbound trsnsAtlantlc »team the prim « minister, fresh from bis
ablp lanes Tueaday by tha coaal guard retirement In the country, threw down
cuttar Sense«
Tha Haneca la main the gauntlet to his opponents and de
lalnlng tba International lea patrol.
clared that a vote on the hitherto In
Non union coal minora In both an nocuous Genoa resolution waa tanta
mount to a vote of confidence or lack
tbraclla and bllumlnoua field» will Join
of confidence In the government.
In larga numbara with union minora In
If Mr IJoyd George has tired of
tha coal atrika April I, John L l.awl«. office, as hla son announced Saturday,
Intarnatlonal praaldant o f tha United certainly he appeared In flgbtlng
Mina Worker», predicted Tueaday.
mood as he entered the house amidst
Ills rest had
Tha houae Monday, by a Sto-1 rota, a storm o f cheering.
added 616.000.000 to tba amount car plainly benefited him, as evidenced
ried In the army bill for river and by bis bronsed face and quick step
harbor Improvement«, dlaregardlng and as he strode to the ministerial
rerotnmendallona of tba budget bu benrh with a somewhat defiant attl
reau and of tha apprnprlatloua com tude, bis whole bearing was that of
a man entering upon a great fight
mlttea.
with every determination to win and
An uneipocted anowallde at Alamo, with confidence In his own powers.
II C.. haa rut o ff the (Jueen lleaa mine,
The house was crowded. Interest
where »even persona are reported lao- being accentuated by conflicting re
lated. Telephone communication haa ports on whether tbs premier would
been eatabllahed and It la learned tba demand a vote of confidence In con
camp la provlatoned for a month or nection with the Genoa resolution, or
alx waeka.
whether In view of the delicate po
Home aallara In Chicago are paying litical situation he would sidestep the
more attention to homo cellars this Issue.
Great crowds of people vainly bom
year than avar before, according to
eahlbltors at Chlrago'a second annual bsrded the commons officials for
“ own your boms" exposition at tbs passes admitting them to the proceed
Coliseum. N o 1912 cellar la consid ings and the galleries were filled with
ered complete without Its “ work the more fortunate. Among the die
tlngulshed persons present was the
room.“
American ambassador, Mr. Harvey,
The Ruaatan bolahavlkl continue to
who frequently smiled broadly at the
export larga amounta of gold, la one
premier's quaint or biting humor.
week ( l ( rases of gold coins arrived
Mr. l.loyd George's speech obviously
In Htookholm from Heval. while In
was not an attempt at oratory such as
another week an Kathnnlan Icebreaker
he Is eapuble of, but waa rather an
brought 629 cases valued at 122.000,-
exhibition of wbat the critics In the
000. It la understood that these par
gallery railed masterly handling of
rels of gold only pa»a to America.
his audience.
He coaxed, cajoled.
The “ Blameae twins" will bo oper Joked and defied them In turn, but
ated on and the connection of flesh each phase of the speech fitted In with
that Joins them severed should either tho preceding like a carpenter's Joint
of them die of their present Illness
I ’lans for the operation were com
Ku Klux Eject Negro.
pleted Tuesday In Chicago. The two,
Roaeburg, Or. — Great excitement
Joaepfa and Rosa Itlaiek. were de was caused hero about midnight Sun
clared to be In a serious condition day night, when tho Ku Klux Klan
from an attack of Jaundice.
started a search for Bam Jackson,
Troop» of the far eastern republic
are advancing ateadily toward Vlad
Ivostok, "pursuing the demoralised
and completely defeated band» of the
M erkuloff troops,” according to a
cablegram received In Washington
Tueaday from Chltn by tho Washing
ton office of the “ dalta," the official
news agency of the republic.
Radium valued at 620,000 stolen
front the aide of a patient In the Ham
ilton. Out., city hospital while he was
unconaclous. haa been located In Syra
cuae, N. Y., It waa learned Tueaday.
It waa at first thought that the radium
had been lost In the hospital and an
expert from Pittsburg made a vain
search of tho c ity '» »ewers.
NO.
Newspapers Cut Prices.
Springfield, Mass.— The Springfield
Republican announced Sunday night
that beginning on Monday the price
would lie reduced from 3 rents to 1
cent a copy. Tho Springfield Union
announced that the price of Its even
ing edition would be reduced from 2
cents to 1 cent, with Its morning edi
tion remaining at 2 cents.
STATE N E W S
IN BRIEF.
Shadow
S h e lf e r ir v d
P ír v e s J
oF the
Bulem.—Abe Evans, for tbe sixth
state penitentiary her - a year ago to
pay the death penalty fur murder In
Wasco county, Friday morning at
tempted to take bis life by hanging.
Salem— Tbe Bllverton 1‘ arent Teach
er association, at a meeting of the
Marlon County Parent Teacher asso
ciation held here Saturday, waa award
ed the attendance flag. Tbla Is the
second time that Bllverton bas won
this flag.
,
by G R A C E
M IL L E R
W H IT E
A N o w R o m a n c e o P fK o ö t o r m C o u n t rij~
lag for Whole Country to lie
P rln evllle.— Friday. April 7. bas
Known for Home Time.
been designated as Clean up day for
Prlnevllle and on that day all business
houses will be closed ¿or any business
Indianapolis.—Complete suspension except that of a clean-up nature. The
campaign will be conducted by tbe
of coal mining by union workers mark
Fireman's association of the city.
ed the beginning Saturday o f the na
Eugene.—-Grocery stores In Eugene
tion-wide walkout ordered by the
hereafter w ill lie compelled to place
United Mine Workers o f America.
all food for sale under cover to pre
Union leaders estimated 600,000 min vent flies and dust from reaching It
era, Including 100,000 nonunion men, The city council at Its meeting Friday I
bad enlisted In the movement and pre night pasted an ordinance to this ef |
dicted no change could be expected feet and It provides a fine o f from 65 I
to 626 for Its violation.
eoon.
Elgin.— Mayor Gettings has Issued j
Tbe exact effectiveness of the sus
a proclamation declaring a cleanup
pension, especially In tbe non union
week from April 1 to April 6. Each
and part! ' organised fields, was d if cltlxen la urged to clean up and paint
ficult to gauge, however, because Sat hla property. The Ad club haa ap
urday also marked tbs anniversary of pointed committees, and the chair
the eight hour work day In the coal man. II. H. Weathers; oon, urged the
Industry with an annual holiday In improvement club to co-operate.
the coal fields.
T b e reports from field leaders show
ed the great bulk of the suspension
centered In Pennsylvania. W est Vir
ginia, Ohio, Indiana. Illinois, Missouri,
lows, Kansas and nearby southwestern
states.
Reporta from other fields were some
what vague and union officials did
not expect an exact showing for the
entire country would be available be
fore the middle o f next week.
President I-ewls estimated that 6000
of the 7600 mines In the country that
have been operating recently had
closed and In addition It was pointed
out that 2600 mines have been Idle
for some time.
In various fields — particularly In
Pennsylvania and W est V irginia—the
field leaders o f the union were plan
nlng meetings during the next few
days, their purpose being to gain as
much support as possible from the
nonunion workers. In strongly union
ised fields, w hich were hit the hardest
by the suspension, the union leaders
regarded any break In ll.elr battle-
trout as Impossible.
Mines In western Canada were re
ported as closed, but those In Nova
Scotia were In operation. F ire thou
sand union miners In Kentucky also
were scheduled under tbe union's pro
gramme to remain at work. Mr. Lew i»
declaring that this was In harmony
with a contract with the operators,
which has another year to run. In
addition, 13,000 union men were to
remain In the mines to protect the
properties from damage, but reports
to union headquarters here Indicated
that disputes had developed In Iowa,
Montana and Washington as to the
wages to be paid these maintenance
men.
The union leaders In these states
were Insisting that the wages pro
vided In the contracts expiring Friday
midnight be continued, while opera
tors were said to be seeking reduc
tions.
negro bootblnck, who was alleged to
have Insulted several women, while In
an Intoxicated condition. The klans-
men had attended a lecture and mo
tion picture given by the order and
following the programme It warn re
ported to them that the negro had
stopped women on tho street and
made Insulting remarks to them.
Squuda were quickly formed and a
careful search of the city waa made,
hut the negro managed to get Into
hiding amt remained there.
When
located after daybreak he waa given
Twins' Spines Joined.
24 hours to leave the city nnd he Im
mediately began to comply with the
Chicago.— The "Siamese twins," Jo
order.
sefs and Rosa Illaxek, who died last
week, were Joined at the spine and
Editor and Solon Clash.
severing them would have been fatal,
Jackson. Miss.— A fisticuff occurred according to X-ray photographs taken
on the floor of tho lower house Mon after their death.
The pictures, it was declared, show
day between Jeff Collins, represents
live, and Frederick Hullena, editor of ed a continuous U-shaped spine and
the Dnlly News. The difficulty waa also several vital organs In common.
aald to have been provoked by an Tho death waa due to Intestinal ob
rdltorlnl In the Ihilly Nown which re struction, according to Georgo W.
ferred to an alleged attempt of Mr. Brady, radiographer.
The part of President Harding In
the coming congressional campaign
will be a »Kent one. It was learned at
the W hite Houae, where It was said
that the president Is averse to taking
the stump on behalf of any congres
sional candidates.
Mr. Harding, It
was »aid. leans toward tho view that
It Is not tho part of tho president to Collins to present adoption of a com
mittee report that Investigated the
go out on the stump nnd orate.
chargca brought by Governor Huaaell
August Probst, ex butler at tho Roll against the first Insurance companies.
ing Rock cluh, near IMttshurg, who
charged ho was being "railroaded"
Bulgaria Fulfills Obligation.
out o f tho country because of a love
Sofia. — Bulgarin haa fulfilled her
affair with Mlsa Virginia f'ralglo Mc
obligation under the pence treaty to
Kay, prominent society girl, was Il
deliver a large number of cattle and
legally
ordered
deported, Federal
materials to Jugoslavia, Roumanla
Judge Knox ruled Tuesday, In a de
and Greece. The mixed commissions,
cision on Probat'a habons corpus ac
composed o f representatives of the
tion. Probst was held, however, for
countries Interested, have parted on
further deportation proceedings.
moat cordial and friendly terms In
Panic reigned In tho Union Congre consequence o f the satisfactory ful
gational church In Green Ray, W ls„ fillment of this condition.
Tuesday night when a bomb wns
thrown Into an audience of 600 per
sons gnthered to hear W illiam B.
(Pussyfoot) Johnson, world-famed pro
hibitionist, deliver his address on
“ The New India."
It was evident
from the action of the bomb that the
handling had shaken Its contents,
causing It to explode In much the
same manner as a defective fire crack
er flxxles.
1022.
time since be waa committed to tbe
Brief Resume Most Important
government's
<»,
PREMIER
I.toyd George Given Vote o f Conlldenre
OF CURRENT WEEK
A P R IL
Sunday Movies Favored.
Tacoma, Wash.— Sunday movies and
baseball are planks In the platform of
the so-called church ticket of Sumner,
In the l ’uysllup valley, adopted unani
mously at a political caucus following
the nomination o f Dr. C. R. Judd for
mayor; L. D. Ryan and Clyde Tuel
for councllmen, and O. T. Fryar for
treasurer. Street dancing under prop
er supervision was also favored, as
was personal freedom within the lim
its of the law.
Setter Rescue« Child.
Goshen, N. Y.— Marlow, a setter
owned by Mr. and Mrs. Albert Sims,
rescued their 4-year-old aon Charles,
who waa missing two hours. The fam
ily and neighbors hunted the fields In
vain. The dog conducted a search
alone and trailed the child to a marsh,
where he was stuck In the mud. The
boy told his mother that Marlow took
hold o f his wa'st with his teeth and
pulled him from the slough.
Salem.— Tax revenue derived by the
■tate o f Oregon through the opera
tions of so-called stock fire Insur
ance companies during the year 1921
aggregated 672.603, as against 6106.544
for the year 1920, according to a re
port prepared here Saturday by A. C.
Barber, state Insurance commissioner.
Haines. — The ftrat building opera
tions here this year are now going on
at the Haines Stampede corporation
grounds and Include tbe large new
grandstand and bl«h<!.-rs. In addi
tion to tbeae structures are tbe booths
for concessions, box offices, side walls
and stockades for livestock used In
tbe exhibitions.
“ YOU, YOU H U 2 2 Y I"
Hvnopul« — lionet y an* frlendlcM,
Tonnlbel Devon, living on a canal
boat with a brutal father and a
worn-out. dfa^ouraged mother, wan-
dera into a Solvation army hall at
Ithaca. N Y There ahe meeta a
young Halvatlon army captain.
Philip MacCauley. Uriah Devon.
T on y'i father, announces he has
arranged for Tony to marry R egi
nald Brown, a worthless compan
ion. Mrs Devon objects, and Uriah
beats her. Their quarrel reveals
that there la a secret between them
In which Tony Is the central figure.
Tony refuses to rnarry Reginald
and escapes a beating by jumping
into the lake. She finds a baby’s
picture with offer of reward for tta
delivery to a Doctor I'endlehaven.
With the Pendlehavene. a family
of wealth, live Mrs. Curtis, a cousin,
her daughter and son. Katherino
Curtis and Reginald Brown Kath
erine la In love with Philip Mac
Cauley. Tonnlbel returns the pic
ture to Doctor John, and learns It
belongs to his brother. Dr. Paul
Pendlehaven
It Is a portrait of
Doctor Paul’s daughter, stolen In
Infancy. Doctor John goes with
Tony to the canal boat. Mrs. Devon
la deeply agitated and makes Tony
swear she will never tell of Dev
on's brutality
Tlie older Devons
disappear snd Tony Is taken Into
the Pendlehaven houae as a com
panion to Doctor Paul.
Philip
fights with Reginald on the boat
and saves Tony. Uriah appears,
orders Philip off and locks up Tony.
Philip again rescues her. They ex
change love vow « Doctor Paul Im
proves and the Curtises are furi
ous over her preaenca. Philip and
Tony unexpectedly meet In the Pen
dlehaven home.
C H APTE R
X —Continued.
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9
—
She went extremely pale and put out
her band to grasp something for sup
Salem.— The state bond commission port as If she were going to fall. She
will meet here April 10 to purchase •aw him rise up slowly, an expression
bonds for the segregated accident of amazement and relief going across
his face. She smiled, but what a weary
fund In the amount of approximately
little smile It was and how full of
676.000.
The bond commission is
pleading, as If she were silently beg
composed o f Oovernor Olcott. O. P. ging him to forgive her for some deed
H off, state treasurer, and W. A. Mar she'd done.
shall, chairman of the state Industrial
John Pendlehaven gazed at the two
accident commission.
young people, and then he too got to
his feet.
Haines.— The O'Bryant Grain com
“ Philip," he said abruptly, “ this Is
pany. which has operated here for the Tonnlbel Devon.
She’s Paul's com
past four years, was Saturday sold to panion. W e have— "
Philip Interrupted the speaker by
George A. Marshall. D. E. Hoge and
J. F. O'Bryant.
Mr. O'Bryant has his sudden bound around the table.
“ Tony Devon, little Tony,” he cried.
managed the company for the past
” 1 thought, oh, I thought you were
several years and maintained branches
dead. I thought I'd lost you forever."
at Haines, North Powder and Telo-
A noise fell from Katherine's lips,
caset. with headquarters at Baker.
and Mrs. Curtis stumbled to her feet.
“ So you know- her too. Philip,” she
Albany.— On a trip of several hun
snnrled with a hasty glance at her
dred miles which will be concluded by pallid daughter. “ I thought we’d kept
her marriage. Miss Myrtle E. LaRowe her well out o f your way. So you've
left her home In this city Friday. She played the sneak while eating bread and
will travel to Mazatlan, Mexico, where butter In my house, miss,” she blurted
she w ill bo wedded to Eugene Horn- at Tony. “ Well. It's what one might
back, former Albany young man, who have expected o f you— you huxzy.”
“ Mother 1“ gasped Katherine, as Ton-
Is now living on the Island o f Palmeto
nlbel snatched her hands from Philip.
del Verde, o ff the west coast of Mex
“ Kathle, you needn’t ‘mother’ me I”
ico.
cried Mrs. Curtis, blind with rage.
Eugene.— More than 6600 In claims “ Either she goes away or 1 do. I won’t
stay In the house with a common
on account of sheep being killed or
sneak— a common— “
maimed by dogs were presented to j
“ Sarah, sit down,” thundered John
the Lane county court during M arch.! Pendlehaven.
"Don't speak another
according to the records of County such word or—”
Clerk Bryson. Dogs In the vicinity of
Tony was at the doctor's side be
Junction City have been especially fore he could finish nts threat
“ 1 didn't sneak," she said, looking up
vicious, more claims having come
from that part of the county than any | at him. “ Oh, please— please believe
me."
other section.
"That she d id n 't" cried Philip, com
Prlnevllle.— The Crook County Co ing to her side. “Cousin John. I've
operative Land association has receiv known Tony Devon ages, and I didn't
ed a state charter which gives It the even know she was In this house." He
right to engage In the real estate busi turned his dashing eyes upon Mrs. Cur
tis. who wits weeping hysterically.
ness without profit. The association
"You ought to he ashamed o f yourself,
was formed recently to do everything Cousin Sarah," he went on, “to use
possible toward getting the lands of such language to a perfectly nice little
Crook county settled nnd to bring the girl. Why, you've Just about broken
settlers and the owners o f surplus her heart”
Ills voice had sunk to a passionate
land together.
whisper. His eyes misted In a youthful
Granta l ’ass.— Wind and rain have struggle to control his Joy, and— and
melted the snow on Oregon mountains, at the sight of him, Katherine lost her
between Grants I’ass and Crescent wits entirely.
"W ho and what have we been har
City, until It is but five feet deep at
the summit. A t present the blockad boring In this house. Cousin John?*
ed section Is but 3 ^ miles long. About she shrieked In a high thin voice, strug
gling to her feet. “ A gutter rat, a lit
half of thla Is on the Oregon side.
tle snake, a loose girl— ”
For the last two months, passengers
Each word, brought out with greater
to the coast have been obliged to vehemence ami passion than the one
walk through the snow.
before, struck the listeners dumb. In
shntue-faced misery. Tonnlbel sank to
Astoria.— Cargo lumber shipments
the floor, dropping her head Into her
from the Columbia during the month
hands.
of March were quite heavy and total
“ Oh, no, I'm not that,” she wailed.
ed nearly 70,000,000 feet. Statistics "M y mummy never lived In the gutter;
made by Deputy Collector of Customs she never did.
I was poor, awful
Kartnen show that 41 vessels loaded poor— ”
“ Poor I” exclaimed Katherine. "You're
at the mills In the lower river district
during the month and their combined worse than poor. I suppose you’ve
cargoes amounted to 31,794.68? feet. wheedled Philip the same way you
have Cousin Paul.”
Twenty-six vessels with 20.643,216 feet
"Katherine. I command you to he
on board sailed for California. Eleven silent.” shouted Pendlehaven. “ I f yon
vessels, laden with 7,702,224 feet, are say another wont, I shall ask you to
en route to foreign ports, while four leave my house.”
"W ell, I never I” screamed Mrs. C u r
vessels carrying 3,649,223 feet went to
tta.
the Atlantic seaboard.
“ And you too, Sarah,” thrust In the
doctor. "W e don't know the truth of
this thing, but I know very well that
Tony Devon Is not a bad girl.”
“ That she 1» not,” Interjected Philip.
“ Now 1*11 tell you all about It."
As John Pendlehaven raised her to
her feet. Tonnlbel lifted her head and
dxed her tearful eyes on Captain Mac
Cauley.
"You promised you'd never tell any
body,” the murmured. Her mind was
with the dead Edith Devon, and the
words o f her own serious reverent
oath given In the presence o f her wild-
eyed mother would not allow her to
consent that Philip should lift tbe
stigma heaped upon her by the Curtis
women.
“ So I did." admitted Philip, soberly,
“ but you see now this bas happened.
You must release me from that prom
ise.”
“ I can’t ” sighed Tony. Then turn
ed her face to Pendlehaven.
“ You’ll trust us." she pleaded, wav
ing her band toward Philip. “ Please
trust him and me.”
" H a !" shrieked Mrs. Curtis. “Trust
you— ”
“ Shut up. Cousin Sarah.“ snapped
Philip at the angry woman. Then he
addressed himself to the doctor. “ I
did promise her I wouldn't tell bow
we m et And I won’t I In fact It Isn’t
any one's business.
Is I t
Cousin
John?”
“ Not that I can see," came In rather
drawling answer.
"I'll repeat what I said before,”
Philip took up hastily. “ I didn't know
she lived here."
"W e're ready to believe that— n tt"
cried Katherine.
Captain MacCauley stared at her.
Was this frowning angry girl the smil
ing, yielding Katherine he had known
or thought he had known?
“ You can believe It or not. Kathle,"
he told her savagely. “ It makes no
In Shame-Faced Misery Tonnibel Sank
to the Floor.
difference to me. But It's true. Just
the same."
“ Walt here for me. Philip," aald the
doctor. In a low tone. “ I ’U be hack
In a moment.
Then he took Tony by the hand and
they went out together.
For several tense mements a alienee
too dreadful to describe settled down
upon the dining room.
Katherine
twisted her fork sulkily and Mrs. Cur
tis still sniffed in her handkerchief.
Philip looked from one to the other,
wishing with all his heart he could
say something that would clear the
atmosphere.
“ I'm sorry. Cousin Sarah." he said
abruptly, trying to am! e. “ It certainly
was awkward, wasn't It 7”
“ Awkward 7” repeated Mrs. Curtis,
wrinkling her face. “ Awkward isn't
the word, Philip. It was disgusting.”
The gorge rose again In his throat.
"Tonulbel Devon Is the best girl I
know,” he asserted. “ Poor little thing,
I pity her with all my heart."
“ Pity Is akin to love, my dear Phil
ip," sneered Mrs. Curtis.
"Mother." cried Katherine. “ Philip
wouldn't so far forget himself and his
friends and position as to love— well—
If you can't keep your tongue still, go
upstairs.”
This was n shock for Philip. That
any girl could speak to her own mother
In such a way was beyond his com
prehension. The door opened Just then
and Dr. John walked In.
“ She came down to tell me that
Paul wanted me and forgot It," he said
In a low tone. "The poor child Is quite
overcome."
Mrs. Curtis tossed her head and
rose from the table, and Katherine,
rising also, followed her mother out
of the room.
There was very little said between
the young man and hts older friend
after the ladles had taken their de
parture, but when Captain MacCauley
was ready to leave, he looked anxiously
at bis companion.
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“ Cousin John," he murmured. "You
won't let any one— ”
"Indeed not,” Interrupted the do««
tor, anticipating the lad'a plea. "Tony
Devon Is here to stay. Phil.”
"Could I—could 1 see her. Cousin
John. Just a rnn ite ? " the boy faltered.
“ Not tonight, old fellow,” replied the
doctor, kindly. “Tomorrow, perhaps."
And Philip had to be content.
That eveulng Katherine spent with
her mother In hopeless misery.
"H e acted Just as If he loved her."
she walled at one time In their conver
se.Ion. "Pd give anything to find out
bow long he's known her.”
“ So would I.” said Mrs. Curtis.
“ Katherine, we've got to get her away
by some means. She's bewitched John
—she's brought Paul up from his grave
— and there's no telling, she may usurp
your place In their wills."
“ And now »he's hoodwinked Philip,”
gulped Katherine. “ Can't you think
of some plan? Can't we claim ahe
steals or something like that?”
"John wouldn't believe It. especially
now that Reggie Is coming home,” was
the answer. “ Ills letter today said
he'd be here very soon. Everything
that happens In this bouse out o f the
ordinary Is blamed on my poor boy.”
And she began again to cry.
“ Great Heavens, mother, don’t do
that,” screamed Katherine. “Can't you
see weeping doesn't do any good?
You make me so nervous I could fly.
W e’ve got to make some plan to get
her out o f here. W hile you’re snivel
ing all the time, yon can't think.”
Mrs. Curtis rose and walked to her
bedroom door.
“ My children have no sympathy for
me at all," she shot back. “ But you
say I can’t think while I cry? Well,
watch m e! I'll bet you five dollars
Tony Devon Is out o f this house before
another week is over.”
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The next morning when Reggie
Brown came home, he went directly
to bis mother. O f course, as usual,
she wept at the sight of him snd be
gan to upbraid him for his thought
lessness. Why hadn't he let her know
where he waa? Why had he been gone
so long?
Reggie laughed Insolently.
“ Do I ever let you know where I
go. materT" he demanded, dropping
Into an easy chair. “ No. ! don't, and
I won’t I I’ ve come for five hundred
dollars I have to have. Now cough
It up.”
“ I haven’t that much money In the
world.” sobbed Mrs. Curtis.
“Then wheedle It out o f Consln
John,” he commanded. “ I ’ ve simply
got to have It!”
Paying no heed to his gruff com
mand. Mrs. Curtis rocked to and fro
In excess of agony.
“ I f Paul had died.” she wept, “ we’d
have had a lot o f money— “
“ How do you know?” was Beggle’a
quick query.
“ Because I know how his will's
made." explained his mother, “ and
unless his Caroline is found, your
Cousin John and I get all his money.”
Reginald's eyes blazed Into a flame
o f Interest. Money was the only thing
that attracted him.
“ Why doesn’t he die. then?” he ask
ed. dropping back sullenly. “ He’s old
enough and sick enough. Isn’t he?"
“ Because he’s getting well," replied
his mother. “That girl— ”
“ What girl?” Reggie's voice asked
the questloD In monotone.
“ Some huzzy John picked up not
long ago.” was the reply.
“ She's
brought Paul to life, and John la wild
about her. and now— ”
“ Where Is she?" Interjected Reginald.
“ With your Cousin Paul. And. Reg
gie. Pd give five hundred to get her
out o f the house."
The boy rose and stood gazing down
at the tips o f bis highly polished
boots.
“ I’d give more than that.” he replied
solemnly, “ to know Cousin Paul was
In his grave.”
“ Then rid ns o f the girl, and he'll
soon keel over,” said the mother.
But Reginald wasn’t Interested In
Consln Paul’s new companion.
He
wanted money and that was all, now
that Tony Devon was dead.
“ How about the five hundred for
me?” he questioned, looking at her
keenly.
“ I’ve said I hadn't It, my son," said
she. “ Now run away and don't bother
me any more."
Reggie did leave the room, but not
the house. His mind was filled with
many plans to get hold o f the cash
he needed. There were two things hail
to be done. Whoever the giri with
Cousin Paul was. she had to go. It
was enough that his mother didn't
want her In the house. Reggie could
abuse his own women folk s; be could
make them cry all he wanted to, hut
that any one. and a stranger too, could
force his mother Into a spell o f hys
terics, he wouldn't tolerate.
Then the other thing to which he
had made up his mind almost brought
bis hair on end when he contemplated
I t The world had to be relieved of
Cousin Paul.
A little drop o f something— Reggie
rose to his feet and walked nervously
up and down the room. Tw ould be
easy enough to get hold of, for Dr.
John always had plenty o f drugs on
hand.
<TO BE C O N T IN U E D .)
Ths Problem at Present.
“D o people In society talk about one
another 7“
“ Not as much ss they used to," said
Miss Cayenne. “They seem to be let
ting one m other alone and talking
about their servants."