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THE CAPITAL .JOURNAL. SALKM. OHKGON
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1929
THE LUCKIEST
LADY
-By-RUBY
M. AYRES
XLVII WAITING I
Harnlgan," said the Little Flap- j
per sddcnly, "how old are you?"
She was sitting beside Harnlgan
In the front seat o( the big car, her
email figure almost completely hid-.
den in the deptlw ol a fur rug.
above which her pale face peered
out wistfully at the foggy after-,
soon.
It was nearly a month sincei
George Paget's death. Only a ,
month 1 II anyone had told Biddy
It was a year she would have be
lieved it, and now she was watting
at Waterloo in reply to a wire from
Hugh Hubbard saying he would
arrive that afternoon.
In the last four weeks the Little,
Flapper felt that she had turned;
into a grown-up woman, if not into
quite a middle-aged one, which was
why she asked Harnlgan with ap
parent irrelevance how old he was.
Harnlgan sniffed, and folded his
arms finnly across his chest.
"I really couldn't say, miss, I'm
eure," he said stiffly.
"I only asked,"' Biddy informed
him, "because, although I know I'm
Bttll quite young, I feel about a
hundred I So I wondered how old
you felt, and how old you really
are."
"At times." Harniftan said after a
moment, "I feel as old as I look,
and at other times much older."
"I see." Biddy said gravely. "How
much longer have we got to wait?"
"The. train is late, miss fifteen
minutes late. Owing to the fog on
the line I should say, miss."
Harnlgan spoke as if Uie fog were
the exclusive property or the rail
way company.
She leaned forward and peered
tnto the fog.
"Isn't the train signalled yet,
Harnigan?"
"Not yet, miss."
Biddy glanced up at him.
"I'm doing to meet Mr. Hubbard,
Harnlgan," she said with a note of
defiance In her voice.
"Indeed, miss?"
"Yes: but Mrs. Paget is not to
, know. At least you see, she will
know later on, or course"
"Yes, miss."
Biddy frowned In exasperation
She wished John Blair was with
her. It was so easy to confide In
John, to shift the weight of one's
responsibilities on to his kind and
sturdy shoulders, but, although
John had offered to come with
her. she had refused.
"I'd much rather go alone," she
told him.
And now she was sitting here In
the chill fog. waiting, and In a few
moments more she would be face
to face with Hugh Hubbard meet
ing the steady kindliness of his
eyes, holding his hand.
The Little Flapper moved un
easily in her seat In the car and
sighed.
She wonderea what Hugh would
say, how he would look.
She had written a long letter to
him. which he must have received
at Southampton when the boat
docked, so he knew everything that
had happened.
Everything! Biddy felt as if
thousand things had happened
since that sunny morning when she
went shopping with Marna, and yet
only one thing had happened that
really counted much In all their
lives George Paget's death.
There were tears of blood In the
Little Flapper's heart whenever she
thought of him. It seemed as If
with each passing day she missed
LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE .l'VnlinB For An Oncninu
Harold Gray
hmt more, and realized more acute
ly all be had done for her all he
had done for everyone.
She had met Dolly Benson once
a pale-faoed, cringing Dolly, who
had not breathed one word of her
last interview with Oeorge Paget on
that traglo morning. So much the
Little Flapper had been spared, at
least, and nobody else who knew of
her visit to the house had men
tioned It, In the following tragedy
no doubt It had been forgotten. It
Biddy had known But mercu-
fully she was not to know. Dolly
had been reckless and defiant.
'No more monev to be got out of
you now, I suppose?" she said, with
bravado.
No," Biddy answered, with trem
bling lips. "And now Marna knows
all about the other, too. Marna
knows everything there Is to know."
Poor Marna! Whenever she
looked at her the Little Flapper's
whole body scemd to acne witn
tenderness and sympathy.
Even to Biddy's adoring eyes,
Marna had aged a great doal since
George Paget's death.
She had grown so quiet she so
seldom laughed It seemed to Biddy
that she was like someone slowly
bleeding to death from an Internal
lnlurv. And vet Dr. Ltscard said
she was wonderfully well, all things
considered so much better tnan ne
had dared hope. She had listened
very quietly while Biddy told her
about Dollv Benson, and the reason
why she wanted the 40 pounds and
when the Little Flapper nad un-
lshcd, she said gently.
I'm glad vou told me. I used to
wonder sometimes" She spoke as
If it was all years ago. "But It
doesn't matter. Nothing really
matters."
John Blair and Biddy had talked
things over between them, and had
decided not to say anything about
Hubbard's return.
Walt till he comes and leave It
to him to decide what to do," was
John's advice, and the Little Flap
per had eagerly agreed
8he was thinking of It now as
she waited with Harnigan In the
foe. wonderliw If what Dolly Ben
son had said when they last met
would really come true.
Dolly had been brutal in ner
frankness '
Poor old Oeorge! I rather liked
him. but I suppose Mama's glad he
Is safely out of the way. It wouldn't
have happened to anyone else but
Marna. She was always lucky! She
always gets everything she wants.
The luckiest woman I ever met."
Was that prophecy coming true?
Biddy wondered. Or once again
was life to go awry?
Thines onlv end nannuy m
books and plays." she told herself,
and a new terror took possession
of her.
Supposing the train had been
wrecked In the fog run off the
line or collided with another?
It was 15 minutes late already
supposing' something dreadful had
happened!
Biddy sat up. pushing the fur rug
awav from her.
"Harnlgan!"
But Harnlgan was sitting up. too,
and showing signs of activity.
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(To be continued
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an Irrigation system in the fertile
Arttbonite valley of Haiti.
Today's Cross -Word Puzzle
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HORIZONTAL.
1 cot
4 decompose
7 allowances
for weight
11 a river in
England
13 discount
15 male singer
17 nominate
(IS short let
ters 20 tried out
Jd4 vote again
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verb
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80 seasons
82 writing
implement
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beforo
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proposition
1 vou
2 organ ot
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sat down
5 Teach
' destination
7 jewei
found la
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tcnlnv's puzzle.
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junction
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information
secretly
63 become
stale
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66 a flower
leaf
67 baby
68 not wet
VERTICAL.
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tarout
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donates
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of either
6 nine and
one
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Chieti
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taly
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again
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14 abate
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known
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medium
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of baked
clay
22 entrance
23 head
coverings "
25 ex c ha n go
28 instru
ment for
measuring
fluids
30 relates
31 sow
33 by
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38 an awn
40 jumps
43 fasten
securely
41 past
partciple
of dry
45 on top
40 llesh of a
calf
48 a rich
sauce
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together
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63 stroot
(abbr.V
64 perform
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