MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON. TTEDXESDAT, AUGUST 21, 1933.
PXGE EIGHT
READY MADE WIE
.BY CORALIE STAMTON .
SmOP3IS: Laurie U la marry
her employer, Mark Albert, because
Albery has threatened otherwise to
ruin the career of Rex Uoore. uhom
Laurie loves Rex misunderstands,
and in a huff has asked Wanda
Fleets to marry him. Sola Laurie
learns that her jounger sister
Gladys, a dancer, is running around
ivith Jimmy Dallas, and that old
Lord Dagenbury, Jimmy's father,
is about to make a fuss about it.
Chapter 41
DECEIT
ftrHEN ahe got back to her little
sat, Laurie a anxious mind was
suddenly Illumined by memory,
which put the finishing touch to her
misery.
That odious anonymous letter had
said that Gladys was going about
with a "swell young man," and go
ing to bis rooms at night That would
lit young Dallas.
And another flash of memory
the first time Laurie bad spoken to
her about the gold clgaret case. Glad
had said the young man's name was
Jimmy Smith. And later on she had
said that the young man of the
anonymous letter was the same one.
Then It must be Jimmy Dallas! It
had been all tbe time. And now peo
ple were saying that he was carry
ing on with a chorus girl. His father
had heard It He would make en
qulrles, and Glad's nam would be
dragged In the mud.
It was Intolerable.
Gladys was still away. The troupe
had gone further afield than Guild
ford. Neit week they were going to
rest but tbe following week they
were booked up again, and there was
so chance of seeing Olad.
And then came tbe climax.
Unable to put ber mind to any
thing, wanting nothing to eat,
Laurie walked about the little flat
like a caged animal.
She tried to divert her thoughts.
That arm-chair cover was getting
very shabby. She must make a new
one. She examined the. cover, and
then began to pull It off. It was faded
;and beginning to tear at the arms.
icot worth mending.
A little handkerchief, rolled up In
la ball, was between tbe seat and tbe
rback of the chair. Gladys', no doubt
JShe was terribly untidy and forget-
ful.
i It crackled, as Laurie shook It out,
land a piece of paper fell out A crum
jplod up envelope.
I Laurie read an address with star
ing eyes.
' J. Dallas, Esq.,
2. BelraoV Place,
St James',
S.W.I.
Glad's handwriting!
LsurlA's fears were now a certain
!ty. It was true. Great teara fell down
'her cheeks. Glad waa meeting young
Dallas secretly, writing to him. This
envelope had not been posted. She
bad probably been disturbed while
writing, and had hidden It away In
her handkerchief, and then forgotten
"i all about It. or thought she bad lost
!lt.
Perhaps Glad wua unhappy under
jher careless brightness. If sbe was
ideeply In love with Jimmy Dallas,
ishe must be unhappy. Perhaps she
I wept when she was alone, and suf
fered cruelly. Laurie felt that Dallas
.was the kind of man who would In
evitably make women suffer If they
loved him.
Glad didn't know. Glad was so very
young.
T AURIC acted on one of her Im-
pulses. They had always been In
explicable at the moment, but they
had shaped her life, and no power
on earth could have prevented them.
Sbe knew thnt subconsciously.
She looked at the clock. It was
seven. A young man about town
might be In his rooms at that hour,
before he went out to spend the eve
ning. She put bar bat on and hurried out
of the house, and hailed the first taxi
she saw, giving the driver Jimmy
Dallas's address.
It was a big. old-fashioned build
ing, facing a narrow passage that led
Into the Green Park. A set of apart
ments with service, much used by
wealthy visitors to London. Mostly
foreigners.
In the marble-floored vestibule sbe
found nobody. But there was a board
w!(h the names of the tenants In
scribed on It Jimmy Dallas lived on
the fourth floor.
Laurie Ignored the lift, and walked
up. She rang the bell of a handsome
mahogany door, and a moment later
the young man himself opened It.
"Cheerio, Dirk!" he exclaimed,
and tht-n. seeing Lsurle, looked none
too pleased. He wore a many-colored
nic itraulnx sown over his evening
RAILROAD PENSION
HAS CONGRESS O.K.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 31. (API A
new pension eyatem for railroad era
ploypa haa been voted by congre..
With a rxiah of upeed. both the
innate and house yeat?rday whipped
through the new legislation and aent
l...s .Wif ,. .11, -
trousers and shirt There was no re
ognltlon on his face.
"Mr. Dallas, 1 want to speak to you
for a few minutes," Laurie said
breathlessly. "I am Mrs. Rex Moore.
I met you at Fen Gretton a little
while ago."
"Please come In!" he Invited with
his provoking, taun-Uke smile. "Toll
Is rather puzzling. 1 can't quite re
member "
"I am also Mr. Albery's secretary,"
she added, as he rather unwilling!)
showed her Into his ultra-modern
living room, which was perfect!
hideous In ber eyes. "My sister and
I were spending tbe week end."
"Oh, yes!" His light voice wai
vague. "Is there anything I can do
for you, Mrs. Moore?"
"There is." She faced him. looking
straight Into his eyes, so alluring to
most women. "Mr. Dallas, you have
been meeting my sister secretly. 1
want to ask you not to do It any
more."
"Your sister. Mrs.. Moore? There
must be some mistake." Jimmy waa
evidently prepared.
"No, Mr. Dallas. I saw you with
Gladys In a taxi In Piccadilly Circus
on Sunday night a week ago. My
sister denied It but I saw you, and
I know that she writes to you. And
that you met ber first In Manchester
and Liverpool, and have given her
expensive presents. My sister will
deny everything, I know. I suppose!
you have told her to. But I want la
ask you are you going to ask hen
to marry you? And, It not will yoni
leave her alone?"
"I am sorry." said Jimmy Dallas!
In his cool, derisive voice, "but real
iy I don't quite understand!"
LAURIE'S passionate earnestness:
would have moved a heart of;
stone, as she pleaded: I
"Don't play with me! Don't lie to
me! You must understand. Do you
mean to tell me that you bave never
met my sister since we were at Fen
Gretton weeka ago?"
Jimmy Dallas bad to make a nim
ble decision. He waa decidedly un
easy. This young woman was a
nuisance. He had known aha waa a
puritanical school marm from the be
ginning. And after all the trouble
they had taken, she bad evidently
found out something. -
But Gladya hadn't given him away.
That was clear. Mrs. Moore didn't
really know anything. But she had
seen them In that tsxlcab. What con
founded luck! He was sure she was
not a fool,
"As a matter of fact, I bava seen
your sister once or twice, Mra,
Moore," he ssld In his most winning
way. "Sbe told ma she was on the
stage, and I have been to see het
dance. And wa met with a party ol
friends on the river."
"Do you mean to marry her?" sh
asked.
"I haven't thought of marrying
anybody. Mrs. Moore," he lled.-bul
his voice was frankness Itself. "I am
making my way In my father's busi
ness. I have a whole lot to learn. 1
like your sister very much, snd I ad
mire her dancing tremendously. I
hope I may say we are friends."
No good. Laurie turned towardi
the door.
"I want you to leave my slstei
alone, or to meet her openly. Why
won't she tell me of your meetings?
Why does she deny that she was in
the taxi with you when I saw yon
myself? I feel el Is unhappy. In
some way you are doing her a wrong.
Mr. Dallas."
"Oh, no, Mrs. Moore. I assure you,
you are exaggerating a slight and
very pleasant friendship. Your sister
must have some reason for not tell
ing you that we have met once or
twire. And you have found It out and
made too much of It. 1 think that
must be the way of It Mrs Moore."
She looked st hlra wearily. He was
too much for her.
"1 hope you will not worry your
sister about It," he added. "I should
feel so hsdly. If you did."
"I shall not mention to her that I
have been here."
Jimmy Dallas opened the halt doon
for Laurie and stepped out on to the1'
landing, smiling, and saying In hls:
caressing voice "I am so awfully
glad you came. I sm quite happy be-
cause now we understand each'
other."
Just then, the door of one of the
other flats on the landing opened,
snd a manservant showed a lady out.
Laurie did not stop to look. So
she did not see that It was Wanda
Steele who had come out of the other
flat and heard Jimmy Dallas's word-
(CopyrlaM. t3i,Coralis Stanton!
Tomorrow. Leurle allows hartolt
to be trapped.
It to the White Houm for the presi
dent's approval or veto.
The pension plan ensctaM st the
last session waa Invalid a tM by the
supreme court.
Benefits under the new plan de
sinned to meet the court's objec
tions would be about the same a
under the old. They would be pro
vided by tax ol 4 per cent on
payrolla of the railroads and 3 p
cent on employes' aalarlea.
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fountain service at the What Not
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I Attacking the navy's system of
promotion. Rear Admiral William 8.
Sims, war-time commander, wrote
in the Atlantic Monthly that navy
morale waa "continuously declining"
and that high ranking officers have
been "notoriously Inefficient."
To which Admiral William H.
Standley, chief ranking officer of the
navy, replied that Sims was no
longer in a position to Judge such
matters.
Sims wrote: "It Is enough to make
one's hair stand on end to contem
plate the result of an unexpected
outbreak of war at a time when the
fleet and the navy department hap
pened to be In the hands of offi
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reates were paid as much ae $1,600
a year for their services.
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swings back and forth, except for
large amplitudes, is always the same
for the same pendulum, "either docs
it vary when the weight at the bot
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only things that change Its rate are
the power of gravity and the length
of the arm.
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cers who lacked the essential confi
dence of the service."
Standley said: "Admiral Slma has
been retired from the navy for a
number of years and I do not think
he is in a position to Judge navy
morale."
Other officers recalled Sims has
made previous attacks on the selec
tion method of navy promotions.
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WASHINGTON. Aug. 31. (AP)
Bids for the contract for construc
tion of a new federal building at
Grants Pass are being studied and
sent through the routine checking
channels, the public works adminis
tration announced today.
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it will taice no longer for It to swing
to the other side and., back again
(traveling six feet), than It would for
It to swing back and forth through
a one-Inch arc. It would make no
difference whether the weight at the
end Is one pound or 100 pounds.
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Increases, varying directly as the
square root of the length. Thus a
pendulum one foot long vibrates four
times as fast as one 10 feet long.
Tomorrow: The Whispering Prison.
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