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tt.; -Snty Brown -learns dancing to
' - make herself nor ettraoUve to mm.
: As - result, : ah find bereelf bnex
wRh MciaJ MnooieiiU, Xn&r Adair,
: 'Harry Ford, - too Algmr and . thr
eek hr society, bat at tha death of
f her father It Is George Harris, a alow,
i- steady boy who Htm next door, who
x . helps bar in her trouble. Her mother
allows a sharper t? swindle her out
- efher life Insurance money and then
' diss, leavtna Betty alone and without
money. She coes to Jack Parker, whj
supplies talent for local entertain.
meats, and after a tryout Is told he
-T, can. rive her employment.
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CHAPTER XX . - - -?
mHE tm chewing girl at Jack
. . I -Parker' took ; Betty's name
'" TV1 and address la t register of
-'.-.: performers, - and .told her where
the i entertainment at' which ehs
;t waa to work was to be held. She
, was to be present and la coatame
white-tiled, Isll-nlght lunch rooms.
They ordered 1 coffee, and ! sand
wiches.. . .
- :Were you satisfied with my
dancing?" she- asked, when they
were settled -with their food.
"Yes and no.' It was not sohoT.
but it could be made so. Too got
to akin off them opera lengths. If
I had'sesu them before you went
on I would hare peeled -: you.
Tbey want raw meat, them birds.
Leave 'em off, they cost too much
money to be scrubbing stages with
'em. You better come around and
1st me rehearse you eome after
noon." ; ... '
"Do you dance?" ; ; i.
"I was a hoofer before I was
fool enough ta get into this man
agement game. J could go out L "But if I, get you forty-flTO dol
I rListen. Jtld. If you want to get
along Jn the world 70a got to be
reasonable. Bee?"
" "Try. to belBetty shivered In
spite of herself, at . his touch on
her shoulder. .
1 "Well,-let liai1. ask you some
thlhg' If I hare a dancing job to
gire out, and there are two girl
who can dance equally well; and I
know that one of them, will Inrlte
me In when I take her home and
the other one won't, which do I
hire?- ;;
"I don't know. answered Betty.
"I think we better go home."
: "You going to inrlte me In ?"
he asked.r
It Is much too late. I couldn't
do that."
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"You mustn't try to kiss me-" she cried, Indignantly.
by rtr o'clock, as the entertnin
, rar.t was to follow a dinner.
Once a tresk at Sellkoff's choo:
she had fceea given lessons in
raike-UD. The elaborate make-uc
bok had Eradually been reduced
tola small paper box frith escen-
tlaJa wtch sjie packed in an over
meat hag with her dance cos
tumes.. This bag she took with
-htr to the entertainment. She
wi3 compelled to change her
clethes -with half a dozen other
girl performers at tha back of the
enlall ttage. Their absolute un
consciousness of nudity made her
think less of her own.
h3 other girls all seemed to
know each other. With the ex
ceptfon of a casual "hello," they
pad Tery little attention to Betty.
Bhe , felt that they watched .her.
and 'when her number was called
she taw them and three male per
formers gathered In the wings.
barker pat her acrobatic nam
ber on first.
'But that Is my best number!
. I want to do that one last!" pro
tested. Betty.
Kid. this Is a hard-oiled
crewd. If your first number Isn't
a Wow there won't be no last oner
Dd as I tell you!"
The man at the piano played her
o Introduction. Betty felt Parker's
hand on her back, shoring her un
: ceremoniously on the stage. Her
first Jew moments were danced
amidst an ominous sllencs. Then
she got a small hand, which as
she finished became a riot of ap
' plauee. She did her encore, but
" received less applause, but Par
ker shored her back on tha stage
for a second encore, which went
- better than the first.
t . She felt whipped when she eat
down on a box behind the atage,
but when ehs saw two other girl
dancers receire little or no ap
plause for their acts she felt bet
ter. The last number was a hula
r- dabco, which brought down the
house; but Betty, disgusted, was
unahis to watch it through.
When she was dressed, Parker
: asked if she were going directly
' home. ; ;
"Yes," answered Betty. "I am
. tired." . -
-f'Coine along with me and get
a bite to eat he suggested, kind-
.ly-"I would likb . to talk to you
about your act." -
m m ' a a "" . 1 a
-i C3 am noi tv an 1. 10 so, out
felt Jt better policy, "so she con-
, scfeted. lie took her to one of the
there now and unhandcuff some
of these hard-obi!ed crows. J car;
show you a thing or two."
"I shall be glad to learn."
"You'll hare to learn a lot of
things if you stay in this game.
At least if you know as little as
I think you do.' What do you
know about men?"
"I don't Jtnow what you mean."
'Then you don't know any
thing about 'em. Listen, kid. I'm
falling for you. Not hard, you
know, for I'm past falling hard
for a Jane. But I put on an ave
rage of teres shows a week. I get
twenty bucks for each act. I gire
you a serenty-fire twenty-five
split. That means you can make
forty-fire a week if you know
your vegetables." -
"Oh, I would like to make that
much!" replied Betty, with en
thusiasm. "How much would you like It?"
"Oh, very much! I'm all alone
In the world, and I hare to make
myliring."
"No father, no brothers?"
"No." .
"Where do you live. In an apart
ment?"
Betty did not like the slant the
conversation was taking, so she
told an untruth. "I live in a
boarding house."
"That's rotten. Lots of times
you won't get in until two or three
in the morning. Got to get your
self a small apartment where you
can come and go as you please and
hare your own company."
I can't afford that"
He dropped the conversation as
they went out to his little car at
the door. Betty gave her address.
but Instead of heading in that di
rection he started toward one of
the drives along the river.
"I must be-getting to bed," pro
tested Betty.
:You don't have to get up till
you get ready," he replied, driving
on.. He parked the car by the riv
er and put his arm around her.
lars' worth of work a week are
?ou going to move into an apart
ment where you can invite me
mr he persisted, mating no
move to Etart the car.
. "How can I tell what I will do
whnn I know you well enough,"
temporized Betty.
"Yeah, or me either!" he
Jeered. ' ' -
"We will see as soon as I can
afford the apartment." Betty
had no, intention of allowing this
man to establish any social rela
tions with her, bet she feared lie
would not-gSve her work if she
became indignant.
"We will see right now!" he
spoke half angrily. He pulled her
over to him and kissed her rough
ly. Bhe tore loose from him,
srowdlng into the other end of
the seat.
"Unhand me, villain, is the Use
you want," he auggested. .
"You mustn't kiss me - like
that!" she cried, Indignantly.
' "Got your walking shoes on?"
he asked. "It's a long way back
to where you- live. LiBten, kid.. I
ought to dump you out right here
and let you walk back. I don't
waste time on 'em see? But you
don't know this game and I'm
gonna teach It to you, see? You
play pretty with me and I play
pretty with you. Upstage me and
I upstage you."
"You coming down and let me
rehearse that act for you so you
can -make a hit?"
"Yes, I will come, but please
take me home now."
Betty was silent all the way
home. Perhaps, after all, George
Harris was right about public
dancing. But perhaps managers
were not all like this odious, rat
faced one. She was positive she
would never be alone with him
again.
He kept up a steady fire of ego
tistical talk, evidently attempting
to Impress , on her that her hope
i of a stage career, or of even mak
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- toyJted a nearby railroad
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Bhe opened j the door a hit on
her side as the car slowed down
at the curb in front off her room
ing house. Before he could touch
her, she stepped Out. fearing he
would try to kiss her good night
Betty knew If lie did she would
scream or strike him in the face.
But as she .would have to go to
lis office for the fifteen dollars
ihe could not afford to lose,' she
said good night with a good
Trace as possible.
"See you f iut church, he re
plied. "When you come down for
your jack I'll give you that, re
hearsal. Maybe we can make a hit
out of you yet
Betty eried herself to sleep
again; this was not the only night
she was to do so.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
MIME
HELD DEATH CAUSE
SEATTLE Feb. 1r AP)
After half a dozen witnesses had
testified that Dr. Royal H. Tracy
administered ammonia instead of
spirits of ammonia to Ella Fallia,
24-year old stenographer, -at a
drinking party here, a coroner's
jury today blamed the physician
for her death. The jurors, who
deliberated less than half an hour,
said the brain specialist's error
was "criminal negligence."
The death certificate said the
girl's death yesterday was caused
by ammonia poisoning. Persons
who attended the party In a down
town office building January 2 6
said Dr. Tracy gave the girl the
ammonia, thinking it was spirits
of ammonia, in an attsmpt to re
vive her after she became .violin V-
iy uu . Tne giri spreamea when
he had- poured the stuff down her
throat, witnesses testified and the
doctor rushed out and returned
with spirits of ammonia which ho
administered.
Dr. Tracy, however, testified
that the girl died from alcoholism.
Dr. J. 0. Clarke who was called
to treat Miss Fallls later, said that
he found tbe girl almost pulseless.
Giving her spirits of ammonia, aft
er administering ammonia, wasH
like "adding fuel to the flames,"
he testified. ,
Charles E. Bass, a broken In
whose offices the party was held,
said that all of his guests were In
toxicated and that Miss Fallis was
in the worst condition.
Poultrymen Kick
At Alleged Evil
O.C. Practices
Commarcat!na
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department of Oregon agricultural
... :8VM rappea in a complaint
filed With mumhara
lature here Wednesday by a group
of poultry raisers.
ine college seems to hare or.
erstenned tha h
pose of Instruction, advice, experi
ment and research work," read the
MIAMI BBAOH, Fla.. Feb. T
(AP) President-elect Boorer has
the present intention of returning
to Washington only a few days
before his inauguration on March
4 th. He plans to hold such confer,
enees as may be neeeseary at his
home. . .--.( -. ' ,--.. -
By the 'time of his return he
hopes to hare both inaugural ad
dress and his cabinet slate prac
tically in their final forms. His
first address to the people of the
nation as president rapidly is tak
ing shape. '-" J '
The determination of Mr. Hoo
ver to make no statements , con
cerning his eabinet before the
nominations are sent tot the sen
ate on March 4th was further evi
dence today with his flat declina
tion to comment upon the state
ment made at Manila by Henry L.
Stimson, governor-general of the
Philippines, that at the request of
the president-elect be was leaving
Manilla to take np another post.
Mum on Ramon ..-"''
Nor would the next chief execu
tlre hare Anything to say about
recurring reports that Dr. Ray
Lyman Wilbur, president of Stan
ford University, would be appoint
ed sAAret&rv nf the interior for the
two yeras' period of his leare of
absence from stanrora. x
Despite the silence of the presl-dnt-aloft
them is now a sreneral
belief among most members of bis
party that the post Mr. uumson
Is to take is that of secretary of
tata and that Dr. Wilbur, if not
appointed to the cabinet, will un
dertake some highly important oi
flcial mission for the Hoorer
administration.
Luncheon to be Attended
Mr. Hoorer"s trip to Fort Myers
to attend the luncheon next Mon
day at the estate of Thomas A.
Edison, in honor, of the eighty-second
anniversary of the birth of
the Inventor win be made by boat.
He will board a houseboat near
Key Largo and cruise through the
keys Saturday night: and Sunday
and np through : Florida bay to
Fort Myers or some point south of
there from which he could make
the trip by automobile Monday
morning. '- - -"". ' ..
After the . Edison luncheon,
which wd he atsnded also by Hen
ry ; Ford, fiV Firestone, Mr. and
Mrs. Boorer take a abort motor
drive through the city before re
turning to the houseboat : which
will proceed southward late in the
day so Mr. Hoorer can hare a
couple : days trying tor tarpon , a
Florida game fish he. desires to
add to his catch of three sail fish.
complaint. "The excuse has been
offered that other colleges are
doing some of the things com
plained of. Two wrongs were never
known to make a right"
The controversy between this
gTOup of breeders and the college
annarentlr dates back to years
when hatcherymen and poultry-
men controlling 70,000 hens wun
an annual output of 2,000,000
rhiVlm sliced their rrlevance be
fore President Kerr. Dr. Kerr was
said to have promised to giro the
complaint attention.
Marshfield May
Move Its Bridge
MARSHFIELD, Ore., Feb. 7
(AP) The Marshfield chamber of
commerce last night went on rec
ord farbring the transfer of des
ignation by public election of
$200,000 worth of Cooe Bay
bridge bonds to a site abore the
r Y.vimltA PnttinanT mill.
The Park arenne site, for which
. -. a Nn vntaA. was
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decided by United States engineers
to bo nntaroraoio. .
Mrs. Rudolph O. Topp of Dav
enport. Ia owns a German Bible
209 years old. It weighs 25
pounds and required 40 years in
printing.
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