Nothing Venture
by Pairicia Went worth
Brnopvta; Nin. trying to live JarrU
from an unseen dinner which she
en.sen. Jumps ahead of her buiband
to prevent hi crossing the bridge over
tlie deep tidal gully. Just as she does,
the bridge timber give way with a
terrifying crash. Nan miraculously Is
aved from death on the rocks below
by Jervls and the dog Bran. 8be in
sists this Is another attempt by Rob
ert Leonard on Jervls' life but her
husband ridicules the charges. Nan Is
certain the treacherous Rosamund
Carew, Jervls' former fiancee, Is allied
with Leuuard in the plot.
Chapter 21
DANGEROUS TEA PARTY
At lunch Jervls made the sort of
pjlite conversation he would have
to a guest, and immediately after
lunch he went out. Hie day had
turned to heat; the last of the haze
was gone, and fierce sun beat down
Upon the damp ground; far away on
the horizon heavy piled up clouds
suggested thunder.
Nan took a book to a seat on the
ehady side of the lawn, but she did
not read. The book lay on her lap,
while her thoughts moved restlessly
about the broken bridge. She had a
shock and It had left her shaken.
Jervls had been as near death as he
could ever be until death took him.
She thought of Jervls taking that
Ion? step forward on to the bridge,
of the bridge cracking, of the vto- ;
lence of Its fall, and of the roar of !
the falling river. j
She opened her book at random
and began to read. The words passed
over her mind like water passing
over stone; they left no mark. She
shut the book, and saw Jervls cross
ing the lawn toward her with Bran
at his heels.
"Welt" he said, "I've had the
men down at the bridge."
Nan turned to ' face him. Bran
came over to her and put his head
in her lap.
"The wood was rotten. The spray
from the fall had rotted It. As a
matter of fact Benham that's the
carpenter reminded me that I had
spoken to him about having it over
hauled, but of course I didn't think
CUNDOWN
SLEEPING
By Mary Graham Bonner
Willy Ntlly read more stories, he
looked up several words in the dic
tionary, and he discovered any num
ber of splendid games for Puddle
Muddle parties, and Rip, his dog
friend, slept on.
"I think I'll wait and have Old
Toad fix my ears," Willy Nllly said
to himself.
"I'm feeling very tried, and I real
ly need a good night's rest. I need to
feci fresh and rested in ttie morning
as I must paint my sign and mend
my roof where It leaks and fix my
car Two-Ways, and I've had so
many Interruptions lately.
"There have been so many broken
toys and Mrs. Quacko's car has
Seeded so much attention."
Rip stirred In his sleep and open
J his eyes.
"Are you still reading?" he asked.
"Those books were supposed to be
used to help make your ears stay
back and here you are reading them
all night."
A prominent rooster of Puddle
Muddle started crowing.
"It will be daylight if I don't stop
reading now," Willy Nllly said.
"Shall we put off doing the ears
until tomorrow night?"
Rip whs asleep once more and
gave no answer to this. So Willy
Willy turned out the light and set
tled himself for sleep. In a very
fhort time he was fast asleep and
the books were lying on the floor
beside the bed.
When Willy Nllly got up to get
dressed he looked at his ears in the
mirror.
"It was certainly foolish of me not
to have started the treatment last
night," he said. "They do stick out
drenrifiilly!"
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there was any particular urgency."
Nan looked down at Bran and
stroked his head. She did not speak.
She had a pictur in her mind of a
lightning flash, and of Robert Leon
ard against a black background of
trees.
Benham made a thorough examl-
nation of the broken timbers. I be
lieve you suggested that they had
been tampered with by Leonard."
"Yes I. did."
"Then I think you ought to with
draw that suggestion. If the timbers
had been partly sawn through the
marks of the saw would show. There
aren't any marks."
Nan did not speak. She gave him
a steady look, and then went back
to stroking Bran. A little dark color
showed In Jervls' face.
"You made what amounted to an
accusation."
"Yes." said Nan.
He struck the back of the seat
with his hand. "Are you going to
withdraw It? '
"No."
"After Benham's report?"
Nan flung up her head.
"He tried to kill youl"
"That's nonsense. The bridge fell
because It was rotten and I'd put oft
having it seen to. As a matter of
fact It was Leonard who directed my
attention to it not a week ago Ben
ham reminded me. 1 don't like Leo
nardhe's not a man I've ever cared
about, but he's a family connection,
and I think you ought to take back
what you said."
Nan got up. She took a step to
wards him and stood still.
-This Is the third time he's tried
to kill you," she said.
She saw his face darken and then
change. He was looking past her,
and she turned involuntarily. Janet
Tctterlpy and Rosamund Carew were
coming across the lawn. Nan braced
herself. She felt taken unawares and
defenseless, but she called on her
ournge, and it rose. j
Alfred brought chairs, and pres
ently Monk entered upon the impos-1
ing ritual of tea.
Janet Tetterley, a ginger-haired j
woman with pale eyes and magenta
lips painted on crooked, shook hands 1
without looking at Nan, and began 1
at once to talk to Jervls about peo- I
pie Nan did not even know by name. I
Pogo was broken and was going to
have a try for the Winkledon giri,
but it wasn't likely she'd look at him
because Snorter was in the running
too, and naturally he'd have a pull
over Pogo.
Jervls preferring Pogo's chances,
they became involved in argument,
until Janet produced a red herring
in the shape of an extraordinary ru
mor about somebody named Bonzo
and his latest conquest.
Nan poured out tea. If It had not
been for Jervis, she woultUnot have
minded.
It would have amused her to
watch Janet Tetterley, who was so
thin that eacli of her restless move
ments threatened to break some
thing. Having achieved a miraculous
slenderncss by the complete sacri
fice of health, color and bloom, she
was inordinately pleased with the
result. At intervals of ten minutes
or so she opened a vanity case, and
applied powder to her bony features,
and another touch of magenta to
her thin lips. She talked without
ceasing, and had something faintly
unpleasant to say about everyone
she mentioned. ' She appeared to
amuse Jen-is.
Rosamund sat, for the most pact,
lighting one cigarette from another
and talking little. Once when Nan
looked up she found herself meeting
Rosamund's eyes. Behind their won
derful dark blue a definitely hostile
something met and then instantly
evaded her. Nan felt a little shaken;
she did not expect Rosamund to like
her. An armed neutrality was the
best that could be ho.oed for between
them.
The two did not make a long visit.
As they got up to go, Tetterley made
a restless movement toward Nan.
"Oh. by the way. Basher told me
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Nun gazed at her. She did not re
peat the ivord Basher, but she con
trived to produce the Impression of
having done so. Tetterley Jerked her
emaciated shoulders,
"Basher's my husband. He's got it
into his head that you may be relat
ed to some Forsy tries he used to
know. I told him It was most im
probable, but he said to ask. I be
lieve lie was in love with one of
them. They used to live at a place in
Connecticut, and one of the sons
went off digging up Old Testament
places In Chaldea. Basher says he
was quite well known in his own
line."
'Nlgel Forsyth," raid Jervls.
Tetterley noded.
"That's it. He wrote books about
it. I dont read them myself, but
Basher gloats over them, and he
particularly said I was to find out
If you were related to the Con
necticut Forsythes."
Nan's color rose. "Yes, I am."
'Not really!" Her tone made this
an impertinence.
"Nigel Forsyth was my father."
Tetterley knocked the ash off her
cigarette and said, "Basher will be
thrilled."
After which she turned with one
of her abrupt movement and de
clared that they ought to have gone
ten minutes ago.
Neither she nor Rosamund took
any leave of Nan, who was left un
certain of whether to cross the lawn
with them or to remain where she
was. She made a tentative movement
to follow them, but they were al
ready some distance away; she
would have had to run to catch up.
No one of the three looked around.
She hesitated, stood looking after
them for a moment, and then re
turned to the tea-table with growing
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certainty that she had done the
wrong thing. A few minutes later,
she got up and walked to the house,
her cheeks burning and her courage
very low.
She met Jervls in the hall, and he
loked at her with a cold anger.
"Why didn't you come to see them
off?"
"You went without me."
"You should have come too,"
She said, with a simplicity that
checked him, "I am sorry. You went
off so quickly at the end, and I thot
it would look foolish if I ran after
you."
He pasesd on without another word
and she did not see him 'til dinner.
(To be continued)
me
eric J. Ha skin
oriclc J. Haskin, director, Washing
ton, D. C.
Q. What was the first show In
which Mariam Hopkins played in
New York? S. W.
A. Her first Broadway appear
ance was as a water lily in the Mu
sic Box Revue.
Q. Who invented the cash regist
er? M. R.
A. It is probably the most an
tique, and yet in its Improved form
the most modern device known to
commerce. More than 6000 years
ago the ancients used a registering
device known as the Abacus for the
purpose of showing visible to the
buyer and seller the amount pur
chased. The modern cash regist
er was invented by Jacob Rltty of
Dayton, Ohio, patented 1879, it be
ing suggested to him by the dial
on a steamship which recorded the
number of revolutions of the pro
peller. Q. Please give a list of the Speak
ers of the House of Representatives
and their terms from 1889 to the
present. S. R. S.
A. The Speakers of the House
from 1889 have been: Thomas B.
Reed, 1889-1891 (Maine); Charles
F, Crisp, 1891-1895 (Georgia ;
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' WM "H Wsm TAK DOLLAR $f7 M I II
Thomas B. Reed, 1895-1899 (Maine);
D. B. Henderson, 1899-1903 (Iiwa);
Joseph O. Cannon, 1903-1911 (Illin
ois); Champ Clark, 1911-1919 (Mis
souri); Frederick H. Gillett, 1919
1936 (Massachusetts); Nicholas
Longwortb, 1925-1931 (Ohio); John
N. Garner. 1932 (Texas),
Q. Has Abbe Dlmnet visited Amer
ica? D. C. A.
A. He lectured at the Williams
town Institute of Politics in 1923
and has since made several trips to
America as the author of the non
fiction best-seller, The Art of
Thinking.
Q. Is membership in the Dude
Ranchers Association confined to
ranch owners? H. K.
A. The Dude Ranchers Associa
tion Includes in its membership both
owners and patrons. It numbers
among its members well known men
and women writers, artists, busi
ness men, railroad officials, poli
ticians in fact men and women
from all walks of life. Nearly every
state in the union is represented,
and several foreign countries.
Q. Which university has a fund
for research on venereal disease?
W. L.
A. The University of Chicago has
the A. B. Kuppenheimer Fund of one
million dollars for that purpose.
Q. Please explain the Brown Sy
stem of Discipline that Is used my
many railroads. P. F. G.
A. The Brown System of Discip
line was originated by G. R. Brown.
It is known as the system of "Dis
cipline Without Suspension," under
which employees are given demerit
entries in the record book for of
fenses which in themselves do not
merit dismissal. Merit entries are
given for loyal and faithful serv
ice and for meritorious acts. The
employees are afforded full oppor
tunity to know Just how their rec
ords stand. This plan takes the
place of the old system of punish
ment by suspension of service with
out an attendant loss of earnings
and enforced idleness. When an
employee gets too many demerits he
is considered incompetent and dis
missal is considered justifiable and
advisable.
Q. What is cassation? W. A.
A. In music, it signifies the type of
orchestral work consisting of sev
eral short movements of a light
character, popular In the 18th cen
tury, serenade and divertimento be
ing othec names for much the same
kind of composition. Mozart wrote
three works so named.
Q. Is there a government booklet
on eclipse? C. N,
A. A booklet entitled "Total
Eclipse of the Sun, August 31, 1932''
is obtainable from the Superin
tendent of Documents, Washington,
D. C, for 23 cents (stamps not ac
ceptable). It contains detailed me
teorological and astronomical data
on the eclipse, with a large map.
Q. How Is the American motor
ist's dollar spent? W. M.
A. According to a study made by
the National Automobile Chamber
of Commerce in 1931, twenty-one
cents went for food; twenty cenU
for lodging; twenty cents for trans
portation costs; eight cents for
amusement; six cents for confec
tionery; and twenty-five cents for
miscellaneous costs.
cSvTn b5 r'gln ' "ie wrd MittCiMiCiiciM
"a. It is' Jrom' the Old English, mrfSSIlMX
cluwe, a bait of thread, the thread
of life, which according to the fable,
the Fates spin for every man. Tlie
figurative meaning, a piece of evi
dence leading to discovery, is de
rived from the story of Theseus,
who was guided through the laby
rinth by the ball of thread held by
Ariadne.
Q. How may paint be removed
from glass? W.J.P.
A. To remove paint from glass
use three parts of American potash
to one part of unslaked lime. Lay
this on with a stick and let it re-
.. n. mntnm tfm Paint JtnOtB
may also be removed by rubbing
them witn very not, snurp vuicgui.
a Where was Bela Lugosl born?
How old is he? H.L.
A. He was born in Lugos, Hun
gary, in 1884.
Q; Who invented the machine to
knead bread? W.H.
A. The kneading machine has
long been the most familiar me
chanical unit in the bakery and
dates at least to 1760 when a
Frenchman, Salignac, devised a
model in which harrow-shaped
arms, mechanically operated, mixed
th dough lne a trough. The Boland
machine, which dates from about
the middle of the 18th century,
was also of French origin.
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