Thursday, April 8, 19.‘
we caUed the Camp. It Is one of
With that sixth sense we all pos­
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIhlillllllllllllllHII the most beautifully constructed log sess
and which, in that strange in­
i houses I have ever seen. It con­ terval of my life, seemed to hava
sists of a big living-room, bedrooms doubled on itself, I became aware
and a kitchen; an eU at one side In presently of sounds from the Spin­
which lived Adah and Berry, As
ney. Presently Sarah Darbe came
came around to the broad front into the room I said, "There's
piazza, I saw that Bruce was sit­ somebody in the Spinney, Sarah.
By Lemuel F. Ferien
ting out in front, reading his Bible. Who do you suppose it is?"
Bruce sat at a big, broad, bare
“ I t ’s M r. HopestiU and Miss
table. He wore one of the tow- Prentiss, Mrs. Avery," Sarah an­
colored smocks with the brown cor­ swered.
"They're there all the
When Floods Subside
duroy trousers in which he always time. I suppose they’re still hunt­
^ 3 EW YORK.—Two men in
dressed at camp. His folded arms ing for clues.”
were resting on the table and over
the news this week attest
"How's Bessie this morning?" I 1
In ez H a y n e s Irwin
them his absorbed eyes were read­ asked Sarah.
the
fact
that floods subside and
ing from his big, worn, brown calf-
" I don't think she slept very weU wars end. It was only a few
covered Bible. That Bible accom­ last night, Mrs. A very.”
Copyriaht Io n H ito n Irviä
weeks ago that Churchiil Downs
panied Bruce wherever he went.
" I 'l l go out and see her now,
Once I took it up and examined said decisively.
was a disrrtal swamp.. And now
W N U S erri»
it; it had I think the most beauti
Bessie was busy with breakfast the Kentucky derby, fanfare is
ful print I had ever seen. I stopped dishes. Shocking as had her ap­
for an instant watching Bruce. As pearance seemed to me the day on again, with the purse upped
though there was something hyp­ before, it was doubly shocking to­ $50,000 and the durable Colonel
notic in my gaze, suddenly he lifted day. Had that gray, ironed face Matt Winn taking bows for hav­
MONDAY—Continued
his eyes from the book, turned ever shown a sparkle, a dimple, a
ing lined up again all the truly
" I ’ll promise to do that,” I them in my direction. I shaU al­ smile? “ Bessie,” I began at once, illustrious three-year-olds in the
And
agreed. "And what have you been ways remember what a pang went "you look tired to death.”
through me when his gaze, encom­ then as though Sarah had said country, flood or no flood.
doing, HopestillT”
O l’ Man River backs away, and
"Oh—tennis, swimming,” he an­ passing me, grew soft with affec­ nothing to me, “ Do you sleep
tion.
well?”
* there is assured a braver flare of
swered, adding a little evasively,
"WeU,
M
ary,”
he
exclaimed,
ris­
Not so very well. Mrs. A very,” silks and trumpets than ever before,
“a lot of things. Caro Prentiss is
ing, "how glad I am to see you!” Bessie answered.
as the pastures grow green again
a swell kid, isn't she?”
M y heart began to flutter. I did
'It’s the shock, Bessie,” I ex­ in Wall street and Kentucky,
“ Yes. I like her better than any
This will be Colonel Winn's sixty-
other young girl who’s come to not like the job before me “ What plained it to her. “ I feel better but
have you been reading, Bruce?” I am by no means myself yet. So third Kentucky derby. He saw his
Satuit. She has a quality."
I asked.
don t be surprised that you are so first one in 1875, won by a little
"And what a face!” HopestiU
“The Psalms. They are my com­ broken."
red horse called Aristides. He was
added.
"Figure — personality—
fort always. Let me read you!”
"No, Mrs. A very,” Bessie said a grocer's boy, watching the race
charm—she’s got everything. And
Thereupon
he
read
the
Twenty-
stonily, “ it doesn't surprise m e.” from the tailboard of his employer's
such vitality and strength!"
third Psalm.
"Bessie,” I suggested, “ would cart.
" I ’m glad you’re enjoying her so
Of course I know the Twenty- you like to go away for a week or
much,” I commented.
Being a romantic Irish lad. the
third Psalm. I know it by heart. two? I think a change would do
After luncheon the telephone
excitement never stopped boiling.
I have read it numberless times. I you good.”
rang.
" It ’s Mrs. Thelford, Mrs
After that, he never could keep his
had heard it read numberless
Bessie's steely mask flared with mind on his groceries. He has had
Avery,” Sarah Darbe informed me.
times. But that day, sitting on the panic. “ Oh no, Mrs. A very!” she
I had never liked Brenda Thel­
many a run-around in the racing
remonstrated in a frightened voice. business, but. at seventy-five, he
ford—Aces cousin. But I knew that
"Oh
no!
I
don’t
want
to
go
away
of course I must call upon her. I
isn't the least bit track-sore. As pres­
from here. I can’t go away from ident of the Kentucky Jockey club
felt a little mortified that she was
here. 1 can't—I can 't!"
asking help of me before I volun­
and executive director of Churchill
“ You don't have to go. Bessie,” Downs, he rides recurrent floods
teered it. "How do you do, Mrs.
I soothed, “ if you don’t want to like Noah and always finds dry land.
Thelford,” I began. " I feel fright­
go. But somehow, I thought you'd
fully to think that you have had to
In ltX)7, the late James Butler
like a change.”
telephone me. I had every inten­
opened the Em pire City track, but
Again panic flared in Bessie.
tion of calling you as soon as I
the nabobs of racing hereabouts
"But I'm going to ask Doctor refused to recognize it. Mr. Butler
came back to normal. I ’ve just
Geary to call today,” I promised signed up Colonel Winn to run it. In
crawled to the point where I could
hastily. “ H e’U give you something eight months it was given full recog-
take a little walk this morning.”
that will m ake you sleep.”
“Quite!” came Brenda Thelford’s
i nition.
“ I ’d like that, Mrs. A very,” Bes­
frigid, correct voice. “ I perfectly
When Charles Evans Hughes
sie
declared
almost
inaudibly.
understand. I wonder you are not
I had scarcely finished telephon­ squelched racing in New York state.
a raving maniac. And of course
• • I M G LAD I'm not on the serv- Armscye and neck edges of jum p­
ing the Geary house when the po- [ '! Colonel Winn tried his fortune in
1 ing committee this week/* er require 2H yards of 1H inch
I ’ ve been very busy myself."
racing
and
management
at
Juarez,
lice car curved into the drive.
muses Mrs. Smith of Walnut bias facing.
It must be a dreadful business
Mexico,
with
unhappy
results.
He
"Take me where we can talk
for you,” I murmured.
street, as she takes stock of hep
Pattern 1228 Is for sizes 14 te
alone. M a ry ,” Patrick said. I led relumed to Kentucky, where he just
" It is. Fortunately with so many
self in the m irror preparatory to 20 (32 to 42 bust). Size 18 re­
naturally belongs, and now he just
him
to
the
piazza
which
looked
to­
deaths in my own fam ily. I ’ve had
leaving for the church supper. " I quires 3% yards of 35 inch ma­
ward the Spinney. “ By God. M ary. about runs racing in Kentucky and
look entirely too swell for me— terial.
some experience in this sort of
Illinois.
He
is
president
of
the
Amer­
I m in a ja m !” Patrick said as he
thing. But I ’ve called you up, Mrs.
why, I'm almost excited 1 I al
New Pattern Book.
ican T u rf association, which con­
seated himself in the broad Glou­
Avery, to ask a great favor of you.
ways knew surplice waists were
Send for the Barbara Bell
trols not only Churchill Downs, but
cester
hammock.
“
I
might
have
It wasn’t until yesterday afternoon
becoming, but how becoming I Spring
urid Summer
Pattern
also the tracks of Chicago and Laur­
to arrest M argaret Fairw eather. el, Md.
that it occurred to Sam Chess that
never knew till now. That little Book. Make yout%elf attractive,
And
anyway,
I
’ve
got
to
put
a
deceptiveness is just what I need, practical and becoming clothes,
we ought to notify Bruce Hexson of
The years paw at the Colonel’s
watch on her house."
Ace’s death. I told Sam to call
and these sleeves are the most selecting designs from the Bar­
robust
person
the
way
the
river
'Oh not” burst from me invol­
him up on the telephone. He tried
comfortable
things! If about half bara Bell well-planned easy-to-
paws at the track. So far. neither
untarily.
to get him at intervals all day.
our circle wore dresses like this make patterns. Interesting and
has
won
a
decision.
The
Godolphin
That's the way I feel about it!"
Then we gave it up. Sam felt that
it would be better for all con­ exclusive fashions for little chil­
Arab, ancestor of all the Bangtails,
Patrick commented grimly.
he knew what had happened. Bruce
cerned; so many of us have out­ dren and the difficult junior age;
was
never
more
alive
than
the
white
" It would kill Flora if M argaret
Hexson often takes his two servants
grown the tailored streamlined slenderizing, well-cut patterns tor
haired Colonel Winn, with his genial,
was arrested.”
—I've forgotten their names------”
styles. Now, Mrs. White for in­ the mature figure;
afternoon
round
face,
up-tilted
Irish
nose
and
stance—”
“ That’s the way I feel about it,
"Adah and B erry,” I informed
dresses for the most particular
"How Glad I Am to See Ton!”
bright, twinkling eyes.
her.
Patrick repeated, more grim ly
young women and matrons and
Enter an Adm irer.
"Yea. He often takes them up little rough porch of Ace’s log cab­ still.
other patterns for special occa­
"W
hy
Mother,
you
look
de-love­
Proof
the
War
is
Over.
“ Queer I never thought of her
the river to Ace’s island camp for in and looking off at the tranquil
ly in that shade of blue! And you sions are all to be found in the
the week-end. There's no telephone sea, I really heard it for the first when Tony told me about the tall I T IS D r. W illiam R. Valentiner,
look
real stylish, too—you ought Barbara Bell Pattern Book. Send
there. Sam thought they’d come time because it was the first time woman in dark clothes. You thought 1 curator of the Detroit Insti­
15 cents (in coins) today tor your
to
be
going to a Coronation.”
tute of Art, who provides this
of her at once, didn't you?”
back this morning. They did, but I ever saw it.
"Oh, I ’d much prefer the church copy.
Bruce’s voice always deep—what
not until fifteen minutes ago.
At first I did not reply. Then I week’s reminder that the war's over.
Send your order to The Sewing
supper, dear. I'll be a somebody
Somebody’s got to break the news with emphasis and stress— grows said, “ How did you know that?” As one of the most authoritative and
Circle Pattern Dept., 149 New
there
in
my
new
dress
but
at
a
of Ace s death to Bruce Hexson. sonorous when it touches Holy Writ.
"Because later, when I thought highly respected art critics of the
Coronation I would be little po­ Montgomery Ave., San Francisco,
I ’ll be up to my ears in work, get­ Somehow with that roll of the in­ of it myself, I could remember country, he passes as authentic the
tatoes.
By the way, what did they Calif. Patterns 15 cents (in coins)
ting ready for the funeral. I can­ coming waves below as a steady your face. I realized that you’d lost Rembrandt “ Juno” portrait,
say
about
your new jum per at edch.
accompaniment,
the thought of it. Not that either of us which arrived ifi New York recently.
not very well spare the time to underlying
e Bell Syndic. I«.— WNU Scrvlc.
school?”
Seventeen years ago, there was
drive over to the camp and I sim­ Biblical words seemed to take on a said anything.”
"M other, I meant to tell you.
Per­
ply cannot bring myself to tell him stupendous impressiveness.
He paused for a moment. "P e r­ considerable public concern as to
M ary Jane and Betty are both go­
over the telephone. I wondered if haps all words are empty vessels; haps I could fix it to let Margaret whether D r. Valentiner should be
ing to coax their mothers to make
you----- ”
we fill tnem with wfliatcver essence stay in her own home for a while. allowed to return to this country.
one just like it. I said maybe you
M y heart sank. "O f course I we have of mind, of heart, of soul. I could detail a car to saunter up This w riter dredged up a most in­
would loan them the pattern
B U C K LEAF 4 0 '
will, Mrs. Thelford,” I answered. Bruce filled the words of the Twen
and down the cliff—without rais­ temperate editorial on that subject
would you?”
Keeps D eft A n y fro a
—Yellow
with
age
and
strangely
un­
‘T i l go at once.”
ty-third Psalm until they brimmed
ing suspicion, I guess.”
(«rTzreenx.ShfMhxele.
“ Why of course. Did you tell
real in the world of today.
He closed the book.
“ I t ’s too
"Oh thank you, thank you,” she
"But you haven’t any real evi­
them
it
took
me
only
two
after­
answered, the stress of a great re­ early for tea, M ary. Can Adah dence on M argaret,” I remonstrat­
Dr. Valentiner, frock-coated and
noons to make yours including
lief in her voice.
bring you a cool drink—a temper­ ed.
dignified curator of decorative arts
two blouses?’*
ance
drink,”
he
reminded
me.
at
the
Metropolitan
museum,
had
I had said yes quickly enough,
" It is a little negative. I ’ll ad­
E nter "The Duchess.”
I
was
not
conscious
of
being
been
in
Germany
when
the
war
for there was nothing else to do.
mit. But here you are. No woman
We Underrate
"Sis, you’re pretty young to be
But the moment I put the receiv­ thirsty but I had a cowardly de­ left the masquerade until long aft' started. He remained to fight for
I have somewhere heard it is a
talking about clothes so intelli­
er back, cowardice enveloped me. sire to put off the fatal moment.
er midnight—with the exception of Germany. He was an artillerym an,
gently.
When you get a figure m axim that those to whom every­
“ Yes,” I answered. " I'd like Molly Eames— Molly Treadway, I twice decorated.
It seemed a task too terrific for
that
clothes
really count on— body allows the second place,
my over-wrought nerves. I said some of your delicious root beer.’ mean. Molly left with Walter. No
He wrote happily to his confreres
ahem, like Yours T ru ly ’s for in­ have an undoubted title to the
Bruce reached up toward the roof other woman came over to the at the museum that his elevation
nothing to HopestiU about my er­
first.—Swift.
stance; then it might be different
rand to Bruce Hexson; for I knew of the piazza, tugged at a hanging Head that night. There was no to the rank of vice-sergeant major
—oh
Mother,
how
nice!
I
’m
crazy
rope.
Inside
somewhere
a
bell
it I told him where I was going,
other woman at home that night on relieved him from currying his own
about it. Gee, such sm art lines I
Presently Adah appeared. the Head—except Flora and M a r­ horse.
he would insist on accompanying rang.
He resigned from
th e
Remember, you promised to help
me. And for Bruce Hexscn’s sake, Bruce gave his order. Adah van­ garet Fairw eather and Hannah. museum when we entered the war.
me with a new party frock next
I did not want any onlookers at ished and reappeared with a foam
a x i M
a s s a ' . s a i s
Before coming to America, he had
One of my men called with his wife
week it I did well with this shirt-
ing Wedgewood pitcher.
Moving on Hannah last night. He called, attained distinction as a curator at
the scene. What I did say was
waister. I wish all dresses were
“ HopestiU, I think I ’U take a Uttle with her noiseless speed, she filled of course, because I sent him, but the Hague and at the Royal mu­
as easy to sew aad as swell to
drive alone. I think it wiU do me a glass for me and one for Bruce. Hannah doesn't know that. N atur­ seums of Berlin. He became one of
wear as it is.”
good.”
Presently Bruce put his glass ally they talked about nothing but the world authorities on Rembrandt.
HAVE FfCOGNFZFD M PIT
"P erfectly cut patterns spell
“I think it wiU be good medi­ down. He looked at me a little the murder. He established that
He contends that, of the 175 sup­
success for any frock, K ay; your
cine, Aunt M ary,” he, to my great questioningly I thought.
Hannah spent the whole evening posed Rembrandts in the United
party dress is as good as made
"Bruce,” I said, in a trembling with Flora. M argaret slept, as she States and Canada, only forty-eight
reUef, approved.
right now. But I must be on my
I was glad that the road to camp voice, " I ’ve come with bad news. frequently does, downstairs on the are genuine — incidentally, worth
way or I ’ll be more than fashion­
I ’ve got something dreadful and porch. Hannah said that M argaret $50,000,000, as "tim e and the riv e r”
did not go through the vUlage
ably late for the affair. Bye, bye
did not feel like seeing people. At something heartbreakingly sad to went to bed early because she was roll on for 350 years.
—be good girls and see that Dad
the cross-roads. I turned to the left tell you.”
so tired.
Hannah sleeps on the
dy gets something to eat.”
"M y dear friend,” he abjured me porch outside F lo ra’s chamber.
and followed Bradford street.
Campos the Conqueror
gently, "tell m e!”
The Patterns.
Now as soon as Hannah was asleep
A few cars, carrying friends,
A N O TH ER Harvard man in the
Bruce—oh dear, dear Bruce, why couldn’t M argaret have slipped
Pattern 1288 is for sizes 38 to
passed; a few pedestrians were
news— also in ja il. The incar­
it’s Ace. Ace is dead. I t is more out quietly from the piazza to meet
52. Size 38 requires 5V« yards of
sauntering along the earth side­
cerated Pedro Albizu Campos has
awful
than
that.
He
was
murdered.
39 inch m aterial.
Ace
Blaikie
in
the
Spinney?”
walks.
Fam iliar faces—swift as
been
the
spark
plug,
or
main
irri­
He was murdered the night of Mat-
Pattern 1998 is for sizes 6 to 14
“ But what would she want
were the nods and glances we gave
tie Stow’« masquerade. He wore a to meet Ace for?” I queried me­ tant, of the incipient revolution in
years. Size 8 requires 1% yards
one another—showed me, more
Puerto Rico, flaring up again at San
of 39 inch m aterial for the jum per
definitely than anything yet, what a costume of a Roman soldier and he chanically.
Juan with seven killed and fifty
was found dead, stabbed to death
and l H yards for the blouse
pall lay over the town.
Patrick did not answer me. But injured.
by his own short sword, in my
I was glad when the road, pull­ Spinney.”
he looked at me. I made no com­
A wavy-haired mulatto with Valen­
ing away from the town, puUing
I could not look at Bruce Hexson. ment. But I looked at him. Un­ tino sideburns, pearl-button shoes
away from the houses, pulling
said
things
began
to
whirl
in
the
closed my eyes for an instant.
and a Harvard degree, he has as­
away even from the wine-glass
For that interval, there was com­ air about us. And then I heard pired to become the Henri Chris­
elms which guarded it, became plete silence. Then a strange sound an automobile crunching up the
tophe of Latin America, spilling
more and more rustic, more and pulled my eyelids up. I hope I drive.
A K d y comas to
sesquipedalian words over eleven
more solitary.
“ Miss Fairw eather is here, Mrs. countries. His father was a Basque
never hear that sound again.
I
clean our house.
A fter a few miles of this, I turned hope I never see that sight again. A very,” Sarah Darbe announced and his mother Spanish, Negroid and
from
the
doorway.
“
She
says
she
into a road, little more than a lane,
W
ho bothers m e a.
Bruce Hexson had turned to the
Indian. He is frail in physique, of
which wound in a humpy, rutty table, had dropped his head on would like to see you and M r
cafe
con
leche
coloring,
passionately
lo t,
curve off to the left and toward the his folded arms, was sobbing— O’Brien.”
intense and racked with patriotic
M y thoughts began to spin. I fervor.
ocean.
I t ended presently in a the great hoarse, racking sobs of
5o sc o rn fu lly she
made up my mind to say nothing
cleared space. I stopped the car uncontrolled male agony.
Last month, the nationalist party,
tajrds eround
about Hannah's nap.
and got out.
leading the present agitation for In­
fTO BF. CONTINUED)
Ace’s camp lay fully revealed as
W
het little
TUESDAY
dependence, again elected him pres­
I crossed the expanse of shorn
ident. Several years ago, he started
thinds Iv e
meadow which surrounded it.
Diet of Ostriches
I slept a little that night. 1 got
The ostrich's diet is almost his movement with a black shirt
Ace
had
always
known in­ up at the regular hour, ate my
dot.
arm y with wooden guns. His arrest
stinctively what beauty was. He breakfast with HopestiU and Sylvia. wholly vegetable, consisting ol
*A.TC—l
and tria l for sedition, with seven
had hired a p air of Maine guides Soon after breakfast, HopestiU left seeds, fruits and grasses. Eggs and
others last July, hut kept Puerto
to m ake the two-story log cabin— for this morning game of tennis with insects are rarely eaten. They swal­ Rico boiling ever since.
low
small
stones
and
gravel
to
aid
log-house, I should call it—which Caro Prentiss.
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