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The Characters
Nina, a nlcs girl with flaxen
fair.
Honey, Nina's gay, plump,
. youthful mother, hat brought
home a new husband,
Rlcbu-d. Nina's stepfather.
charming, poised, dark haired,
' well-tailored and Money's junior
by 10 years.
David, a young auto talesman
met Nina at a party he crashed.
He has copper hair and an en
gaging manner.
Cordelia, Nina's closest friend.
Chapter Seven
Chasing Button
pORDELIA said: "We'll talk
about my party at lunch, be
Muse that vulture, Bridget, will
be hovering around tor bits of eos'
dp. But afterwards, you've got to
live me me real low-aown on
Honey ana ner new sizzle.
So over their melon and their
stuffed eEes and broccoli, they had
iiscussed the "Evening on Mont-
martre. Nina had told her more
tbout the funny young man with
:he copper-colored hair, and what
tie had turned out to L : , but later,
. upstairs in the library, they had
gone straight for the business of
the day.
"Now then, Nina, tell me all
about this Richard Challoner, the
Man of the Hour.
"I don't know a thing. Cordelia
Not a thing, except that he's not
more than 35 or 6, and frightfully
food-looKing. '
She described him, and was sur
prised to notice how well she re
membered every little thing about
him: the way his sleek dark hair
Sew in points over nis temples;
a nice way he used his hands
lighting a cigarette pouring
drinks; the way he carried himself
with an almost military stiffness
. . . turning from the waist. .
Her friend made a significant
wmstnng sound tnrougn ner ups.
"I should say you knew quite a
lot about him, she remarked.
"Oh, but . not the Important
tnings. wnen tney oegan to com
pose the notice for the papers, I
tnougnt: 'Here s wnere little Nina
(eta some data,' . . . but you saw
all there was. Born in England.
Member of several good clubs in
different cities, berved with the
Seforth Highlanders during the
war. There he is in a nutshell."
"And a hard nut to crack, if
you as me. . . . Business?
"None that I know of."
"Um-m. What is known as 'pri
vate means,' I guess. , . . Married
before?"
Nina shook her head. "I don't
think so . . . but I don't really
know, for sure," .
Playing Dog Catcher
"AND now tell me about Honey.
Are you happy about this?
lor her, Nina?"
"Well. I mav be a bit nremature.
but I think I caught glimpses of an
if you can!" ai plainly a though
he had spoken.
Nina advanced on him, but he
stood perfectly still in a queer U
shape ... his hind legs facing east,
his front ones, west, where he had
half-turned round.
"Come here, Buttonl" Nina tried
to sound stern, but she was laugh
lng. Button proceeded to crouch,
with his rump high up in the air.
His tail wigwagged gaily, and his
long salmon-colored tongue stuck
out at her. . . . Insolence personi
fied. Every muscle In his body was
taut for the leap away from her,
but Button had forgotten one
thing: his rope. Nine planted both
her feet, firmly, on the end of it,
and he was snared.
Betty "alliday caught up with
them.
"Will you kindly tell me
what you think you are doing,
Nina. Playing dog catcher?"
Nina said: "Meet Button, Betty,
Button, the beagle. There's a
young man that goes with this
hound, and I want to see him."
But no coDDer head anneared.
Instead, what must surely have
been the smallest, blackest colored
boy in the world, came dashing
round the corner, with the pecu
liar, loose-limbed agility of his
race.
Lawsie, madam, he canted. "I
sure am appreciative. I sure do ex
press ma gratitude. I wouldn'a
dast to go home without that there
aawg, madam!
Betty Halliday was trying hard
not to laugh at Nina's boy friend.
"Oh. I see. You're taking him
out for Mr. Day, are you?" asked
mina. &ne tooK an envelope out ot
her bag and scribbled a few words
on it "See that Button doesn't lose
this, will you? and she fastened
it through the buckle on his collar.
bhe had written: "Call me ud.
won't you, you bum?" and signed
her name.
David Is Terribly Busy
WHEN David did call, he said
that he was oh. so terriblv.
terribly busy, and that 'simDlv
qua-drilltons of things had come
up ... in fact, were likely to keeD
cropping up for days.
-now you re Demg mean," Nina
chided him.
So he condescended to exDlain
that he had been sent out west to
the factory to attend a soecial
week's class in salesmanship: and
was leaving again, on a trip, the
next day. When he was nice, Nina
was nice too, and told him about
Honey's marriage, and whv she
hadn't been able to see him.
David said: Oh. did I call vou
before?" But he didn't fool her.
'And by the way. Nina, when vou
were out playing girl scout to But
ton, wny didn't you do another
good deed, and buy him a decent
easn;
I m sorry. David. I'll send vou
one." Humbly. "If you'll give me
your address. . . ."
SV.
Button's brown eyes said: "Catch me if you can!"
entirely different person yester
day. More . . . more down to funda
mentals, if you get what I mean."
Cordelia was very understand
ing about things.
She said: "I think I know, dar
ling." A few days later, as Nina was
eoming out of the Colony restau
rant, early in the afternoon, some
thing large and spotted dashed
round the corner of 63rd street,
collided with her and very nearly
knock 1 her over.
The ijirl with whom she had
been lunching, Betty Halliday,
steadied her, and then looked per
fectly dumbfounded as Nina cried:
"Buttonl" and dashed alter the
hound puppy. ,
At the sound of his name, he
topped, abruptly, and glanced
over his shoulder. A long rope it
looked like part of a wash line
dangled after him, rakishlv. and
nil brown eyes said: "Catch me
T know. It's a ruse. You're pur
suing me." But he gave it to her,
all the same.
" 'N' how about coming over for
that cocktail when you get back?
I want to see you."
"Honestly, Nina?" He forgot his
insouciance. "No foolin'?"
"No foolin', David."
"Oke. Nina. . . ?"
"Yes?"
"You really couldnt see me the
other day, could you? I mean, you
wouldn't have married off your
mother just to be rid of me, would
you?" i
"No, funny David. I couldn't
help it."
"Oke, again, darling. Forgive a
poor man for breaking down."
They said goodby, and Nina fell
ever so much better about him.
(CopvripM. ISST, Jtarpartt BertQt
Feeling thrss's-a-crowdish, N'lna de
cides to more away, tomorrow.
OTTAWA. Ont. (UP) The Cene
rilan government has extended Its
feeder cattle-freight scheme to em
brace sheep end cuttle outside the
drouth-stricken areas ot the prairie
provinces.
The policy, under which the gov
ernment pays half the cost of mov
ing cattle purchaaed In arid areas
to British Columbia or eastern Cao-J
ada. la designed to aid western
ranchers to dispose of their rattle
It originally applied to feed lame
purchased In the drouth areas onlv.
The scheme has now been ex
tended to Include feeder cattle.
breeding ewes, and feeder lamb in
other parts of the prairie provinces.
Buyers may go to almost any part
of the west to buy cattle and
sheep, and the government will a
fray halt the coat of their own
transportation and half the cost ot
transporting the animals to eastern
markets.
At the aame time, the government
Is entering the cattle business di
rectly, although It does not expect
to make any profit out of It.
The government la buying thou-
sands of hesd of cattle and moving
them to a 100.000 acre pasturage
In Manitoba, where they are being
re-eold to eastern buyers. It expect
to make no profit on the transaO'
tlons. and If there Is one It win
be divided up among the ranchers.
More than 80,000 cattle have been
moved out of western Canaciaa
drouth areaa within the past tew
weeks with the government's help.
Thirty thousand were snipped eaat
under the freight and feeder poilcj.
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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Marhtne"
A short, nnnrlv riiw,urf 'b,h -afh-v
homely air! of about is Rtrtnn hAfnn,
the director of Vienna's great Imper
ial opera company. She had Just
finished singing In an audition
Anxiously, hopefully, she awaited
his comment. The director spoke.
Ten Major Bowes.' gonna ringing at
tne same time couldn t have been
mora crushing.
"Oo home quick and ask your
kind friends who helped you come
to Vienna to buy you Instead a sew
ing machine, and learn to be a good
dressmaker maybe, or something like
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kill the aspirations held by the
young girl. Well Justified wss her
faith In herself. The girl was the
future greatest contralto ofher time
the late Madame Ernestine Schu-msnn-Helnk.
Years later, at the height of her
fame, Madame Schumann-Heink re
turned to the Imperial Opera House
at Vienna to alng. In her audience
was the man who suggested her turn
ing dressmaker.
3-In-One-Catch
Perhaps the beat documented fish
story ever told la that of the three-
ln-one catch of Leonard Wood. U. S.
governor-general of the Philippines
at the time It occurred. It Is de-
HdfMgU Srttlata. be
scribed on an official aiitd.vit sealed
with the Great Seal of the Philippine
Islands. Wood's amazing catch took
place one day in 1024 when the gen
eral was fishing off Apo Reef on the
west coast of Mlndoro. Feeling a
small fish on his line he started to
reel In when he felt a stronger pull.
Starting to play his prey a bit he
felt a still stronger pull. An exhaust
ing battle enaued with the catch an
eight-foot shsrk finally being hauled
In. Opened. It was found to contain
a three-foot Spanish mackerel. The
mackerel was opened In turn and was
found to have In It a 10-lnch polka
dotted lapu lapu. The two smaller
fish had been swallowed In turn
while on Wood's line!
and 30.000 have been purchased by
the government outright end re
sold to esstern buyers.
Teach Lip Reading
PHILADELPHIA (UP) Free les
sons In lip reading have been Insti
tuted In city schools here. The course
la open to the hard of hearing and
la given In afternoon .and evening
classes.
Oraduate Re-enrolls
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (UP) After
M yesrs Theodore Stebblns Is back In
school. A graduate of Massachusetts
Institute of Technology In 1888.
Stebblns returns to take a summer
course In Spectroscopy, which Is now
his hobby.
Mae West quit vaudeville In 1922
to play a farce she had co-authored.
Snake Pays Jail Visit
JEFFERSON. O. (UP) perhsps
because It was cold, or mayhap only
wanting company, a tiny garden
snake wiggled Its way Into the coun
ty Jail here to cause consternation
until released outside.
Rivalry for Influence In Korea
was the cause of the Chlno-Japan-
war In 1894-1898.
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