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rEDFORD rATL TRTBTTNTE. M"EDFORT), OREOpy,. FRIDAY. 'APRTL 10, m,6.
Golden Rain
ey byKsfarqartt CTWIddemer
. . . I earn to talk to 70a about
iris.-
"Ii Iris all 70a hava to talk to mt
about, attar all thess yean. Col
lean?"
It bad been a lore-name. Irli,
standlug at fhe door with her
brother and Morgan, knew that, and
felt aa It the war eavesdropping.
But Dncle W1U bad forgotten
everything but the fact that after
twenty reara be waa aeelog a worn-
an he bad Irli knew It now nerer,
In bla gentle, romantlo way atopped
lorlng.
Josephine Roea'i face broke up
suddenly Into convulsed lines. Tbe
smooth massaged Touthfulnesa
went; In Its place came a haggard
youth aba waa Ilka a ravaged girl.
Her blunt-fingered capable hands
wrenched themselves. Then she
stiffened, steadied. Bhe too had for
gotten ber young people at the
door.
Iris turned, self-conscious for
those who were not self-conscloui
for themselres, and found that
Owen and Morgan bad gone. Then
waa a small room at the stairhead,
glassed In: half conservatory, ball
sewing room. She leaned her head
back. Jes. They wera there, wits
tbe doora closed; talking pleasantly
enough. It seemed. That was all t:
the good anyway. . . .
"And you can reproach me now!'
Josephine was saying furiously,
standing over the bed where Dncli
Will lay. propped wltb pillows, bli
thin cheeks flushed, his bands play
ing nervously with th edges of bli
gray dressing-gown. "You, thai
treated me as you did I Vou, that lei
your alster treat Jean and ma thi
way ah did!"
- srXOPSlK! Throws II organ
Black, boarder in Her Aunt Blla'
decaying old maneion. Iris Lan
itirtff ha found her brothtr Own
and her Aunt Phina, trie believed
her brother dead. But in her hap
pineee at teeing that Owen te a line
chap, and that her Aunt Phina te
the beet known oouturiere in Amer
4ca. Irie reeente a little Uorgan't
attitude. He eeeme to tear that trie
will be removed from her eimple
and appropriate eetting, and placed
in artificial eurroundinge leee suit
able. Aunt Phlna te offering Irto e
luxurious home in New York,
Chapter 14.
8TRONQ WORDS
'"yOO would apend your wlntera
I with na In our Park Avenue
apartment, and the summers either
on Long Island or traveling," Phlna
went on. "I can give yon everything
you should have, and I will With
me. you should mak the sort of
marriage that la right for yon."
' Owen's words bad almost made
ber say an eager yes: but Phlna'a
were so detached and cool that
something In her shivered away for
a moment. The orchestra waa play
ing a tripping dtnca of Dellbes'; the
chatter of groups around them, the
hurry of waiters, went on. After
all, to go away from people who
were fond of her . . . Phlna didn't
say anything about love.
"Do yon want me because you
like me?" Irli said, stumbling a
little.
Phlna smiled.
"You foolish ohlld, who wouldn't!"
"It's wonderful It's like a fairy
tale," sbe said. "But I can't say
yes this minute. May I tell you
tomorrow?"
"Of course you may," Phlna said.
But ber air said that It was set
tled. "1 have to telephone New
York now," ah added. "Walt for
me In th lobby, when you finish."
"She keeps the shop tied to a tele
phone wire," said Owen. "Never a
detail gets out from under Pblna'a
hand."
"She's wonderful and Isn't ah
generous!"
Owen did not anawer for a mo
ment. Then with a visible effort.
he begun to talk.
"Sbe Is wonderful. And she Is
generous. But she never gives with
out some prospect of return. I'm
being disloyal to her, but you're my
own sister. I want you because
you're young and kind and human
and belong to me. Phlna baa some
reason, I'm afraid, beyond all that
It may be merely to pay off Aunt
Ella, whom she baa never forgiven
and never will. Come, anyhow. Iris,
I need you like the dev 111 But don't
take Phlna for a romantlo or you'll
be dlsappolhted."
"Why," said iris, wide-eyed. "If
there's something I could do tor
her to pay ber back, I'd feel bet
tor about golngl It's such a lot to
luko!"
Owen said no more.
WHEN ah returned horn aba
ran upstairs, happy, excited, to
show herself.
"Isn't my balr nice tbls way? The
rlnga are kept In abapa with brll
llautin so tbey can't com out! I
don't look like a wblsk-brooml And
see my shoes and my nails!" She
showod the pointed pink-tipped lin
gers, the smart sudds shoes and
gloves, the dusky hair thinned and
ehaped and polished, outlining ber
living, lovely young head.
"Nothing anybody could do to It
would mak you anything but
pretty," aald Dncle William. "I sup
pose that's the way girls should
look now."
"She's been taking you up Into
an exceedingly high mountain,"
Morgan aald bitterly from the little
table by tbe window where be bad
been at work.
It waa too much, on top of tbls
radiant, wonderful dayl "It's not
your affair aa tar aa I can aee," Iris
told him with mors of anger than
sbe bad shown since their first days
together.
Before be could answer there was
a rap on the half-open bedroom door.
"May we com In?" said Aunt
Phlna'a cool loud voice.
Unci Will sat up. a light on bis
face that transformed him for th
moment Into a young man.
"Joale, my dear!" He held his
hands out.
There vas no answering light on
the face of th tall woman wbo cam
toward him. She smiled brightly,
mechanically, as something told Iris
she hat. been doing (or years,
"I'm sorry to sea you so 111," she
said conventionally.
II stared up eagerly at tbe arti
ficially smooth face, the set smile.
"Do you know, my dear, you look no
older now than you did then? 1 sup
pos" his thin sensitive fac
flushed as sh took his band "1
look an old man to you."
"You look as If you'd had a bard
life. Not greatly changed otherwlae.
"T wanted to marry you, Josle," b
said. "I lored you, I'v neve)
loved anybody else."
"And what good did that do? Wbai
did you do to pro 1 It?" eh da
manded. "You asked m to marr
you you that were twice my aga
with twice my knowledge of life
But w bad to wait because youi
brother Lawrence waa a genlna
save th mark."
"And so my fine genius comet
with you to the little house where
Jean and I were working; young
girls who asked nothing but to earn
a living and be let alone, and tbe
first 1 know he. that you bad to
help support because be waa a
genlua a genlus.when he'd done
nothing to show It at forty, walks
off with my little sister to Phila
delphia and marrlea her.
"He didn't atop tor thoughts of
duty. No, with all bla good looks
and bis selfish charm and bla clever
talk and bis grand ways, be sweeps
off little Jean who would always be
lieve anything sh waa told, and
love anybody for a kind word, the
poor little pretty thing. And still
you persuaded .me to wait, and still
I waited.
"You war too well-bred and
proper to marry ma and let me go
on working, and there wasn't the
money to support Lawrence and
Jean and tor your marrying too. You
loved, me, but your duty to every
body on Ood's earth cam before
me or your sister Ella and your
brother Lawrence had you so cowed
and hypnotised that you thought so."
Her vole had risen; It swept on
Ilk a flood. She cam closer, and
stood above th bed with clenched
hands. "I eien went to Philadelphia
to work, so that your poverty
stricken fine family wouldn't be
shamed by a well-brought-up girl
earning an honest living young af
fectionate fool I was!"
"Josl. Jos!, if you hsd only ax
plained some of this to me, long
ago I"
"Explained It to you! Didn't I say
It and scream It tor Ave years? But
what could two girls do against
three middle-aged people who were
all aet on way, and two of them
selfish? For I'll say for you, Billy,
you wer never selfish for yourself,
only for Lawrence."
H held out a thin band. Sbe
pushed It away.
"Never mind." Sh bad gone back
to her bard, smooth, Kngllih ac
cented vole. "W'r through with
all that, you and I, and I auppos I
should thank you. It was th date
of you and your sister Ella that
drove mi along. To where I've got.
To wbera I'll be. . . ."
Sh caught her breath.
He sat up In bed and caught ber
hands. "Josle. Josle, I'm sorry. Ws
wer selfish w wer cruel. But"
Bh laughed suddenly, harshly.
Jerking her banda away.
Sh seemed about to come closer
to him. when Aunt Ella, carrying th
five 0 clock tray of tea brushed past
the rapt Iris, and then stood sud
denly still,
(CH,-tl. IHI-H. MfU nut-
Morgan brtakt down, Monday.
STATE OFFICIAL'S WIFE
AFLArrtiB. AirU 10. ur)roi.c
announced Inst night, Mra. Dorothy
P. Qulnr, 27, lf of John J, Qulne.
nUorncy for the tato tux commtR
lon, hud been arrested on chirg of
three UulterrUty rtlntrlct burg I Art en,
And hud confeMcd.
The young omnn gave no explan
ation for her behavior, according to
Detective Captain WeMey N. Miller
Her hitftbanri. shocked by her arrest,
aid "fthe had everything anc antd."
Mta. qulne, notice aald, took cloth
ing and other artlclrs from three
apartment to which aha had ob
tained keya. The loot a returned
Phone 64 J We ii haul a way joui
rcfuM, Citj suiurj tfcniot.
S LIFE
PORT! .AND, April 10. ,TV-Palling
headlight a delayed an am but a net In
ft loalng rare with death.
A. H. Ktngabury. a worker at Bon
neville dam. fell from a crib about
7 o'clock laat night.
While an ambutanc waa ruahlng
him over the S9-mtle distance here
the lighu failed. The driver phoned
ahead for a police escort to lead the
vehlble through traffic, but the delny
iii coatly.
Two minutes aftr the patient ar
rived al a honpltal here he died.
WINDOW OLAfi We aell window
glaw and will rep; your broken J
Tvlndowa reuontbly. Tron bruise. Cab-
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STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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One of the strangest disappear
ances In the world vas that of Prank
McOowan who survived a series of
fantastic experiences In the wilds of
Interior ftouth America, finally re
turned to civilization then dropped
completely from sight, never to be
heard of Again.
McOowan was & research man em
ployed by Thomas A. Edison to search
for a new material to be used as fila
ment for electric lights. Edison had
employed cotton fibre, bamboo and
ather vegetable fibres with varying
success, and It seemed likely that
some such material would be perfect
for his light. This was before tungs
ten was proven to be ideal material.
Edison sent McOowan Into South
America In search of mine thing that
would prove be'tter than the fibres
at his command. For montlis McOow
an fought his way through the wild,
living In constant danger of wild ani
mals, hostile tribes and venemous
snakes. He lived more than three
months, on one occasion, without re
moving hl clothes. After many close
brushes with death he returned to
New York. Thero he greeted his friends
and told them of his experiences. One
night, nfter an evening with Hcquntn-
SUBURBAN HEIGHTS
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tances, McOowan bade them good
night, turned and walked away
never to be see nagain.
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HA9 KS HAZARDS, BECAUSE 1HE YOUffcSTERS
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man, has been using the some port-
ablo typewriter for Just a few weeks I
less than 21 years he bought It in
July, 1915. Except for ribbons, the
only replacements ever made on the
typewriter are one roller and one E
key. , Howe has used It in airplanes,
automobiles, trains, and on board
ships he has carried It through his
foreiRn correspondent career In Cuba,
Colombia. Ciinal Zone, Panama, Nica
ragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mex
ico and the Hawaiian Islands.
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