TIIUIIBDAY, NOV. 21. 1929
T in e RPRINGFIKI.D NEWS
' wheel bruised* her side, and neither
did she.
I - Hut she forgot to debate her duty
or to think of her soul Hhe thought
. only of the rapture of this com
munion and her arm s stole around
' his neck and she clenched him with 1
all the power of her arms
Mem, sw ooning she knew not
whither, was awakened from her
mad rapture by a low voice across
her shoulder
“Horry io Interrupt you folks, but
I need your money-"
Hhe turned and found h erself
blinded by the glare from a motor
halted at a little distance. Dazzled
as she was, she could see the gaunt
hand that held before her a black
pistol with a glint outllnglng Its ugly
muzzle.
Claymore was san e enough to at
tem pt no resistance, though he al
most perished of chagrin. He en
dured the Insolence of the masked
stranger who stole the chain and a
w allet and the loose sliver.
SOTO
ILLU S TR A TE D
by
D O N A LD R I L E Y "
R im tm b tr Steddon, a prstty, un self protection, a disgust for a hollar to wish he would get It said, so that
sophisticated girl, la the daughter of than thou ealf-astaam, these are the
she rould know what her answ er
a kindly but narrow in In dad m inister
In a sm all, mid western town
iter am iable attitudes of mind that make would be.
for popularity. To be a miser o f one's
father,
Mho felt a baffling uncertainty of
Nav. Doctor Staddon, violently op- , graces, a coddler of one's virtue, Is herself.
Khe could not Imagine
Doaed to what he considers "worldly to be unloved and unlovable
what she might do or say. Hhe bad
things," uccopts motion pictures as
the cause for much of (he evil of tho | Ho many a man will gamble, break not had much exp erience of men,
present
day.
Troubled
with
a a law. risk his career, his health, his hut enough to know that before long
cough, Rem em ber goes to sea
life, gi't drunk, steal, slay, and play he would Initiate the Immemorial
Dr. Brsthertck an elrtv'rty physl j the f<«>! rather than face the reproach i procedure that start., with an arm
clan who la astoulshed to find b a r '.u . .
,
_ ,,
In a bud plight. Pressed by the that he Is a m ollycoddle, a I’urltan, adventuring about a w aist and a
u
prig,
and
a
Pharisee
voyage after a kiss
doctor. Item, tuber adm its her uufor-
And many a woman who would j Sh e told herself that the only
lutiutu uffalr with
Elwood Faranby, a poor boy, sou not yield for love or luxury must j right and proper thing to do would
of the town sot. As Hvmember unit have consented for fear of seem ing
he to resist, protest, forbid, and pre
Dr. lirethtrlck d iscu ss the problem,
a telephone m essage brings the news Io be overt rood, stingy, coW, sub vent at any cost the profanation id
The blackguard held his clubbed
thut El wood bus been kldden In un normal, unsportsm anlike.
her sacred Integrity.
If necessary,
accident.
Dr. Uretherlrk persuudes
Mem bad n i n e been swept beyond she must fight scratch, scream es pistol over Claymore's head a mo
lt> member to go W est, her cough tin- moorings by a sum mer storm of
cape. run away, appeal for help to ment, then forebore to strike, and
serving us u plausible excuse.
Un
able to bear the secret ally longer, devotion to young Farnaby, her ‘first uuy passer-by, or. as a last resort, dropped from the step with a last
Remember goes to her m other and love. Now she was to feel her an leap oyer tlo- cliff and db- for honor’s ' warning
i oufeaaes.
"Hit pretty now and keep ’em up
chars cut adrift by tile gracious ges sake.
H e r m o th e r a g re e s w it h th e p lu n lure of goodfellow shlp with a co l
till I get goln ’ or I'll—"
Hut
who
was
Hint
Hhe
and
who
of th e d o c to r M e m le a v e s to w n O n
His car shot around the curve.
league.
was tliiil H erself that told each othpr
the t r a i n
M- l i t accidentally m e d s
Claymore brought down his ach-
T o m lio lb y ,
m o v ie
s ta r ,
tr a v e lin g
so many things?
w i t h I t o b ln u T e e le , le n d in g lady of
T h e O c é a n D r iv e s tr e tc h e d along
were too much
H erself told Hhe that Mr. Cluy- Ing arms. Tliey
tlie m o v .e s , « h o a r e Ib v e y u o s u r o ol a fo r e n t o f p a in i» Ilk i- lin g e .•ocre
more couldnot be treated us an asham ed of th em selves to return to
a l l eyes.
The
tr a in
c o m e s to
an
u u ls d a r k a g iiln s t th e g a u d y
w est. ordinary ruffian, an
Insolent, out their post about Mem’s shoulders.
a b r u p t b a ll, u d ln a i t e r b a ,v u g be en
T h e a u to m o b ile s o f e v . r y m a k e w ere rageous
b e t o u t a n d w a lk u b o u t.
knave, a fiend. He hud
A perverse rem orse filled their
narrowly avoided, and (lie passen gers so many that tlo-y were like one big treated her with most d elicate and souls with confusion; a rem orse be
At
1 ucaou
Mem m eets D r. G u l u u t o m o b lle , o r a t le a s t a chain on kindly courtesy from the first, he cause of a wrong rem orse, a disgust
b r u llb , a p a s to r , w h o
know s
bur
, , ,
,, ,
,
had given her Ills admiration, his for an unaccepted tem ptation and for
father. S he m is c a lls T o m liolb y Mr. whlch
"IM "" b1“' k
bends
W oodville’ in order to m ike her T h e i r lig h t s w e re c o m in g out now praise, his devotion, his mute but being so tem ptahle.
fancied »ultor h v i i u in u r e re a l. W h llu lik e e a r ly M tarft p r ic k in g a t w i l i g h t evident affection
the G u l b ia i l l. s a re a w a y , «Io. wrllM . Uv y . - r .„ ¡ h - s a n d m i l - - the high
A woman never quite forgives a
If he loved her and revealed his
them us well as her pureuta tl.ut she
. ,
,
., , ,
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...
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. w a v m o u n te d a n d w r it o i l a lo n g th e love, she could hardly reward his man for not dying for her at the
bus married Mr. Woodville und that
"
they u r e to liv e In Yuma -for w h ic h s le e p « o f p r e c ip ic e s , h u g g in g th e patient chivulry with prompt in first opportunity. She probably n ev er,
place t»he b u y » a ticket.
r o c k ti to le t pamr c a r a f t e r c u r w ith gratitude und
and
fear. quite forgives him for dying, either.
violence
Arriving there »he fallw in with th o j. m ijw fla R h ln g in f r o n t o f b lu r r e d That would make her the Insulter,
So the clever man evad es the sitn- i
m o v ie c o m p a n y o f T o m H o lh y . T o n i
atlon where a choice Is required, as '
not him.
liiMlMt» that »ho become au extra and
,g ’‘I H
la most cordlul to her. Shu finds
*•> alm ost every hay where there I Hhe must be gentle with him, and the virtuous man evad es tem ptation '
h erself In the m ovie game.
was n hit of space a motor hHil drawn ask him kindly to forbear and not while It Is yet far ott.
A f t e r h e r a c c id e n t, M e m re c e iv e s a ,.|(W„ t 0 t l l p r , | f f M| „ j„ | n , he l) a r k i
TO BE CONTINUED
spoil the pleasant friendship that
l . l l . r fr o m L e v a
M e m a -tc .
i i . v l t i n g ,.n ,.h (. „ r # w h (.p |p (|
„ ,
!
she had prized.
h o r to H o lly w o o d , and u L iln ig In n«i
l e t t e r t h u t She c a n g e t h . a p o s it . >ti h " “ '
•"«'hor In a s tr e a m of cars j If Mr. Claymore should propose
Shoots O ut T oo th , B ut—
In a film laboratory.
( There was a strange Influence In ' marriage, that would make his car-,
M e in g e ts a Job In a film laboratory this recurrent m ystery.
Everywhere | esses a ccep tab le—according to som e ..S a n ta n d er, Spain. Nov. 21— Thomas :
Morales didn’t want to pay a dentist. I
but lo s e s It. She m eets a Mrs. Hturga lo v e r s w e re hiding th em selves In
canon», though not to all. But he
from her home town, who talks of the
So
he placed a pistol behind a painful
Mem fell could not marry her and sh e did not
ev ils of the m ovies und says that the c o iis p lc u o u s concealm ent.
front tooth and pulled the trigger.
stars are forced to sell their souls disgust at the first dozen, amuse- want to marry him. She did not want
The bullet was deflected by the tooth
Mem has a letter saying thut her ment or contem /it for the next fifty, I , o marry anybody Just now. She
so that It tore through his left cheek.
m other Is com ing to Palm Springs, i t.>|eren ce for the next, and—
was a free woman in a free country
and Mem goes there to m eet her Hhe j
He Is now In the hospital, m inus the
Hhe wag not free, haw ever, from
d ecides thut »he will sell her soul to I Claymore did not speak of them or
tooth,
but convinced after all thkt he
anything else. He w as too busy the w itchery of this night, this
get a Job In the m ovies.
Mem get» a tryout with the Iter-j tw irling the w heel and gauging the dream, the vast yearning of this should have gone to a dentist.
jBioud m ovie com p an y, Hhe finds her- n ttle d istan ces la-tween the edge of m ountainous beauty.
She w as not ,
se lf posing with Claymore as her de- , ht. p ||ff #n(, (hp carR
wh1„ „ (,
free
of
the
d
isa
ster
of
d esire, the GAS MADE HER CROSS,
rector, obeying his command» In a
past.
hunger to be embraced and kissed
CAN'T EAT OR SLEEP
kind of stupor
H alfway up the canyon his head and w hispered to, the need to be
Mem Is trained to be a »tar and In
"When I nte 1 would bloat up with
due course her first picture 1» flnlsh- light ransacked a black cove and kept warm in the cold lon elin ess of
gas. I couldn't sleep, was cro ss and
ed. and she 1» being "lent’’ to the found no motor In possession of the j the world
nervous. Adlerika has given m e real
company starring Tom Holby. She
Her thoughts spun giddily In her I relief."— Mrs. M. Meyer.
will play the leading woman In Hoi- estuary of night. And here, to Mem's
dumb
astonishm ent,
he
nhruptly mind, nil entangled with a skien ol
Adlerika relieves stom ach g a s and
bv's new picture.
_ antic >u.
-a.
cting
M eanwhile, Claymore has got Mem stopped the car, swung In off the rom
threads.
Hhe was young sourness in TEN m
, inutes.
«_ A _»
»7 on
BOTH upper and low er bowef, It re-
away to him self
road against the w all of nibble, and j and pretty and tim e w as w asting mPVPg
old w aste m atter you never
N ow Go On W ith the S tory
relaxed with a sigh of exaggerated her flow ery
graces.
Som e one ¡thought was In your system . Let
fatigue.
Adlerika give your stom ach and
bloomed.
He never said anything,, how ever,
bow els a REAL clea n sin g and see
’’Well," he groaned, “th is Is
W
hile
she
debated
with
herself,
ag
that he might not have said before
drive!
I'll rest a hit If you d"n t ; doubtless Innumerable women have how much b etter you feef. It w ill
surprise you! F lan ery’s Drug Store.
a crowd
He never tried to hold her
mlinl. Pretty here, eh?"
p ligh ts. Claymore's own mind was
hand or snatch a k iss or filch un em
From their cavern of gloom they a chaos o f equally ancient platitudes
brace.
Mem was con stan tly set
looked across a fathom less ravine of a m an's philosophy.
quivering with expeetnney that he
to n mountain on which the risen
At length he found the courage
would make an advance, som e ges-
moon poured a silent Niagara.
In or the cru elty to slip h is arm about
f>ture of endearm ent, yet alw ays un
the dozing radiance a crenniv shaft Mem's w aist and to draw her close
able Io deride Just what she would
of yacen stood, a candle blown out to him .
H e w as alm ost more
do If he did. lint he didn’t.
In a deserted cathedral.
alarmed than delighted to find that
The picture ami Ils final retakes
The night air was of a strange she hardly resisted at all.
were finished on a Saturday after gen tlen ess, and the cars that shot
He took her hands in his and
noon. There was an evening's Idle
past threw no light In their retreat.
w hispered, "Your poor little hands
n ess abend. Claymore asked Mem
There was a long, long silen ce are co ld !"
Io take a drive In his car, a long
Then he kissed them with cold Up»
that filled Mem » lib a terror she
farew ell drive nhoiil Hie fam iliar
could not fall to i njoy. She could that he lifted at once to hers and
and unvlslteil roads.
She accepted )
w hether she heard her own found them warm and strangely like
m eekly, thimi-thlng told her that • ,lot
h e a r t h e a ls o r h is but excitem ent a rose again st his mouth.
th is drive was Important Io her fate.
was athrob together In the little
lie was as much am azed as If hers
Som ething w as alw ays tellin g her
roach that had brought them so were tile first lips he had ever kissed
som ething.
Nine lim es out of ten
sw iftly to this rem ote seclusion.
—as If he had Just Invented kissing.
It was false, but sh e forgot Hie fail
Claymore wns dumb so long that Then In a frenzy of wonder he
ures and recalled the coincidences.
Nobody had yet asked Mem Tor Mem had lim e to cease to be afraid closed her In his arm s with all his
b er self-respect «« IU1 Initiation fen i of what he would say. and to begin power. H e did not know that the
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