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,STPTT'OT?'D "MTATTJ TT?TT5TTNT5, "SrUDTOTRT), OT?rr,OV. STTTV4T. orTOTSTTt 2. TPSg. By MAX 5ALTM ARSWj The Cbaraclert Ruro Stern, handsomt author, Uvtng on the French Riviera. Archie Lumiden. mytetf, Hu go'i friend. Rene Oelu, cartoonist and mur derer de luxe. Ottille Willi, beautiful Ameri can heireu. Testerday: Ditregarding Hugo't warning, Otltlie pojei or Geus. We oo a(er her. Chapter 38 First Fetters Of Love MET up!" Hugo said harshly. "You're coming back with ui at once. Your uncle is waiting for you." "Uncle?" she said, on a different note. "Goodness! Is he getting iretiui ioo ; well, in mat case, ra better be going. Mr. Geiss," she said, "I fancy we'll have to call it a day. It's been a lovely party, and i a certainly liKe to come again. As she spoke, she flashed a "nock ing, impish look at Hugo, and I heard him swear under his breath. I could not blame him, for that girl, when she set her mind to it, could have irritated an archangel: and yet she was such a lovely sight as she stood silhouetted against tne darn nangings mat 1, lor one. felt my rage fading away. The cartoonist looked from one to the other of us, livid with fury. "Yes," he said slowly. "You will come again, and you are quite rignt mere win oe no interrup tion." He took a step nearer, star ing at her intently with his ppaque eyes. "Strange, lie said, never before have I used a model that so Inspired me. Yet I have never stud led you before." He drew a hand across his eyes. It it like a membered dream," he added, half to himself. The girl caught her breath. "I guess it must have been a dream," she said uncertainly, and as she spoke Hugo picked up the thick white woolen wrap that lay on the dais, and threw it across her shoul ders. "That's enough," he said hrshly. "Come along out of this." He led her through the door and down the passage. As we reached the hall there came a sudden interruption. Cassandra Chubb leaped from her chair by the door and rushed at us, emitting a stifled eqtienk of fury mixed with relief. "Well!" she said. "Ottilie Wills, of nil the ways to act!" "Don't, Chubby!" said the girl. "Don't you start scolding. I've got plenty of that coming from other quarters!" She gave a half-apprehensive, half-mischievous glance at Hugo. "You're mad with me, aren't you?" she added, naively questioning him. Hugo moved impatiently. "To be angry with anyone," he told her, "presupposes a certain regard or respect. This last effort of yours so completely passes the bounds of reason that all I can feel is a pro found pity for the people who are obliged to look after you." The girl caught her breath sharply, tier dark eyes flashed dag gers at him, and even Miss Chubb at my side gasped in a shocked way. "My. my!" said she. On the pavement Ottilie turned, her air subdued, her expression all meekness. "Shall I go straight home," she asked, "or shall I tell you what I found out? Once we get together with Uncle, there'll Be no more private talking." "I hope," Hugo said icily, "that your news will be worth the troub!" and anxiety your visit has caused." Sho looked up at him quickly, mutinous yet apprehensive, then drew a deep breath and folded her hands. "Well," she said, "first and foremost, he's asked me to visit a thing they call the braderte it's a sort of fair and they hold it next Sunday. He asked wouldn't I bring my uncle along, and I said he couldn't walk, because of a lame foot, but that didn't seem to worry Mr. Gelss. All he was con cerned about was that I should be there." 'The Decoy Duck' "TPHAT'S simple," 1 laid. "He get you planted somewhere u the decoy duck, and sends an urgent call to your uncle. What did you say?" She grinned impishly. "I acted the bashful maiden," she said. "Didn't know if I could go out with him alone, but let him see I'd love to. That's how it stands at the moment. Second," she checked off an item on her fingers, "a friend of his has a yacht which Is expected In the harbor tomorrow. She's a seagoing boat, and the friend may shortly lake a long cruise in her. He's invited me for a sail In her on Saturday afternoon." I whistled. "That's Interesting I presume she belongs to either Stah! or Rakovsky. but what's she mere for?" "In case their plans miscarry," said Hiiro. His manner was still stiff and formal, but I could see a glint of interest in his eye. "If the yacht Is registered under a for eign flag, it would be an admirable way nf getting away in a hurry." The girl nodded slowly. "1 guessed that," she agreed. "But why, unless the mans a lunatic, did he tell me about her?" "Because, my dear," said I, "in the first place, he doesn't know that you or we, for that matter guess a thing about the plot Ha doesn't know who your sister was, or O'Donnell either, and he thinks he's being very clever. Probably if you Anally refuse to go to the braderie with him, he'll have a shot at holding you on board the yacht until your uncle's disposed of." She gave me a quick, under standing smile. "That's how I'd figured it out myself. Well, thai was all I heard, for he spent a lot of time being gallant, and the resi in finding out how I'd met Mr. Stern in the first place and in warning me to keep away from him. It appears," sho added, turn ing solemn eyes on Hugo, "that you're a terrible philanderer. He flushed. "At least," he re torted, "you were able to deny that from your own experience. Archie, you can see Miss Wills back to her hotel and meet me later by the car." And with a stiff little bow he turned on his heel and marched off. She stood for a moment watch ing his broad, blue-shirtcd back disappearing along the pavement. "There's gratitude for you!" she commented bitterly. Then, sud denly she laughed and, linking her arm in mine, drew me away in the opposite direction. "Tell me," she said confidentially, "when he'i mad like that, how long does hi take to get over it?" "Sometimes an hour," I told her "sometimes a month, and some times never." She heaved a short sigh. "1 guess it'll be never in my case,' she hazarded, and then, with an upward jerk of the chin: "Oh, well who cares? Archie you don't mind if I call you Archie, do you? Somehow I always think of yoi that way, though I couldn't evei call Mr. Stern Hugo. Not ever!' she finished with considerable em. phasis. "It's not so hard as you'd think.' I assured her. "What is it you want to know?" "I just wondered if he'd evei been in love. Somehow he doesn'l strike one as having any human emotions." I looked at her thoughtfully, and a sudden, surprising possibility struck me. "Oh, well, said I. "Hugo's a hard nut for any woman to crack. There's a lot of stand back, kcep-your-distance, about him, but you can't wonder at it. With his reputation as a writer and his looks, most women he meets seem to fall for him." "Poor mutts!" said she viciously, and the conversation came to an abrupt close. Queer, Tingling Excitement 1 DELIVERED over a silent and thoughtful young woman to the care of Mr. Virgoe Wills. Hugo was waiting for me in the Hispano's driving-seat, and as I settled my self beside him. I looked at him curiously. I had by now a shrewd idea that Ottilie Wills's interest in him was not entirely curious, but I had yet to determine whether the irrita tion she roused in him was the protest of a confirmed bachelor against the first, unwelcome fet ters of love or merely the normal reaction of a staid man to the va garies of modern youth. But his stony face gave no hint of hi" feelings, and as we circled the port and approached the fa miliar turning, my thoughts were irresistibly drawn back towards the chateau. I was conscious of a cloud descending on my mind, darkening the recollection of what ka4 h..n nn tVin uihnla a mnct cheerful day but as wefl as the shadow, a queer tingling excite ment was slowly creeping over me. "Look here," I said, drop me near the hotel. I must have a wash and brush-up." Me obeyed in grim silence, and as 1 strolled down the lane and crossed the gravel sweep to the vestibule. I found myself chuck ling. If peace and an ordered rou tine were what he demanded irom life, ho was certainly not gettinc them at the moment. The long hall was empty, cool and shndowed. and a lilac dusk veiled the terrace beyond, but as my footsteps echoed on the mar hie flagstones, the big dog rose from beneath the counter, slowly wagging his tail, and the servant Amedee appeared from the corri dor. "Monsieur, he said anxiously, "the patron has awaited you since noon! Ho wishes to speak with you s soon as you return." "With pleasure," said 1, and on that he conducted me up in the lift to his master's apartments. It was a strange little room in which I found myself as I opened the door, in answer to a fretful "Come in!" If the creator of the room had wished to reproduce, say, a small smoking-room in a well-to-do London residence, he couldn't have done better, but it would have belonged to a London of twenty years back. The small, irate form of Mr. Ven ner was propped on a long couch drawn before the window. "Come over here!" he said 1m patiently. "Sit ye down and heir yourself to a drink. What have you been up to. I should like to know gadding about all day while I wa." waiting to have a talk with you. and a most important talk tool" tCopyrioM l?S.l. Ifnr Saltmarshi Tomorrow: A narnliia. TO RETAIN MERIT CHEERS WORKERS K Al .KM, Oil I, (API Appoint or Mr to official brr.tthM more rn lly Xixiny nftrr Chnrlrs A. Ppruo, Rrpu jilnin ftubrrnntnrlnl candidate, oprmci hu campaign with ft promts that iir wujld not (tr rffli'trnt appoint- rKJT'v l'r pol'UfM "wn If he Wrrr rlrctitl. Niuurail), ihvbe Appointors rr Hot nsM.rcd of keeping their John until their term expire bcsrnuw they have received no such n.uirwno from Henry L. Ilr, PemocintU' nomlnice. Thtwc who felt mo.t ieliovl were hrtuts ot the hUhway, Mnte police, liquor control. n.h. .mie mid indus trial nci'ident department profile mentioned c.ich of these nueiuMes in his uddrcM in pnrtlAiid Tuesday num. Sprnuie will have support In his enmpntttn to nhoiuh the spoils tern. The Oren White n.ir nsso.in tlon. meeting m 1em txiv. will consider ft proposed constitutional ttmrndtnent to pirent a ajovernor Irom firing .in appointee rvept tot 'lUl.'f prK tie's oprnlii-; ruUlrr-.s wn free ; -naititt' the Ui'pu'illean Miindnrri hearer h.tvitu; snUl befnrr that he would slm no mud and STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tor farther proof address the author, inclosing a tamped envelope for reply. Reg . V. 8. Pat. OC in THE WORLD AT ITS WORST 6MJti6l &AAnl.W rinnArJirjt- naval DrraddlJ. tWoRt M WfcS 21 CMURED MOM $HIP$ AHP PRIZES THAN ANioTHER OFFICER OR PRIVATEER PURINQ THE REVoLllTlOHARi 'MR, BRI6DEP6HS6," HETooK 13 SHIPS, mtyWOOQ HChR60i$f77.y8) jar CkMWNrt w ubh ONLi imt NORM rVAERlCM RlVER To f chSmhRD, RSf IN MINNESOTA eetosrrs-- Pttkburgh pifcheti S NONE-- 'N HPS WITH THE Inc...-- - . - ' V , J& SI UVNu(M S)kI THE GERMAN REICHtfAG PIP NoT PAH A SINGLE IAN FOR 7"rV? The Young rnmninnder Had Samuel Smedley, Connecticut youth, been an older man during the American revolution, his career as a naval commander . would have been no leas brilliant. As Is was, 'Smedley was only 21 years old when he flnlBhcd a three year cruise as commander of the 62 foot brig. Defense, in 1778, after cap turing more ships and greater prizes than any other officer or privateer during the entire period of the war. Young Smedley captured for the colonies 13 ships, 600 men. and prize cargoes amounting to the amazing total of J500.000 and was himself twice captured by the British I A lieutenant at the age of 15. Smedley was appointed captain of the Defense when Captain Seth Harding retired because of Illness, Harding recommended Smedley's promotion. The 62-foot brig had a beam of 23 feet and an ll-foot hold. She mount ed 16 six-pounders, 24 swivels, 100 mu&kqts, 50 pistols, 61 cutlasses, 11 blunderbus "in u r t h c r s," and two boarding grappling hooks. During the years 1776-1778 the De fense cruised the Atlantic from New foundland to the West Indies, taking 13 prizes. On June 20, 1776. Smedley captured the ships Lord Howe and Oeorge and the brig Annabelle. While In command of the Hlbcrnia, Smedley was captured by H, M. S. Hussar and taken to England. Earlier the same year, 1780. as commander of the Recovery, he was taken by H M. S. On la tea. held as a prisoner of war, and later exchanged. Smedley was probably the youngest commanding officer in service In the Revolutionary War. Mondaj : The plants that grew from ;iou-jrnr-o1d seeds. would only try to convince the voters that he was the candidate who would bring efficient government. So far, Hess also has conducted the same sort of campaign. There have been no signs yet of a bitter campaign between any two candidates, but the right has Just begun. Earnest mud-tossing In the primary campaign didn't start until a week before election. The battle so far has centered about the Initiative measure which would outlaw Jurisdictional labor disputes, prevent picketing except where a dispute between employer and employe exists, and prohibit In terference In the marketing of farm products. The death of Ben Osborne, state A.F.L. head who was conducting a vigorous state-wide campaign against the measure when he died, was a severe blow to the labor forces who contended the bill would make un ions powerless. This contention is denied by the Associated Farmers, its sponsors. Use Met) Tribune Want Ads. New Fish. Industry ASTORIA, Ore., Oct. 1. (AP) Lower Columbia river packers said today the basis for a new major northwest Industry apparently hud been found In albacore tuna, with the total season's pack promising to reach 100,000 cases. WINDOW GLASS We sell window (loss and will replace youi broken windows reasonably Trowbridge Cab (net Worka. BY GLUYAS WILLIAMS " 9-30 ATTfcR fAKlKS AH OFF-lHE-SCHEDULE BFtfrt, 1M HONOR. OF COMPANY C0M1H6 TOR DINNER, YOUR HO-friER CALLS "THAI" faEV HAVJE JUS"t "TtLEPHONEp Tb SAY -THAT "THEY CASf COME AFTER. ALL S MATTEL Bv 0 M PAYNE Closing time lor ro Late to Clu illy Adi la 1 :30 p m. Bf.AT MtAM4,TE vII 7 77 TAILS, Hilliqh, oTWEO oTTA TAIL. J TAILSPIN TOMMY But What Will Jerry Do? By HAL FOKRES" hem tommy called snoot's bluff, as the latteb slipped his comet plane sharply toward the mercur.y, while both ships were bank.ed around a pv-lom snoot banked his craft quickly to one side to avoid a crash and the mercury pulled into the. lead with motor roarihs at aoo M. P H. COL-EE ! THAT'S steppin' SOME! EPPllV AWQ jjj ' BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER- Tho Professor's Returnl By EDWIN ALOE" i.' LISTEN, RUSTY. DON'T ' k( GOOD) NOW THEN, BEAT WORRY ABOUT GOING S N - IT OUT OF SIGHT, BUT -SiiC OR NOT G0IN6 TO K.( OKt! K " BE ON THAT CAR WHEN J ' 4'fe JAIL. ..YET) DO WHAT 1 ,-,r--'-f ' i-r IT LEAVES HERE! X W; 'T ! gvl I TELL YOU, WILL YOU? ) J Ol y J ? RUSTY HAD HARDLY DISAPPEARED WHEN THE HONK OF A MOTOR HORN SOUNDED UP THE ROAD, AND THE AUTOMOBILE BEARIN6 PROF. A. A. ADIT HOVE IN SIGHTI SIS HERE HE IS, BRIARSIE! WE'LL LET HIM KNOCK A COUPLE OF TIMES BEFORE. WE OPEN THE DOOR- mm i i i 1 1 . I I I THE NEBBS -Happy Day Bv SOL HES8 r STE nfnTP- uE ( ,T WAS OU5T A f UT SmE CALLED him "CeA X. ?tZye"'J 'amD 'phcjg calls I S? AT ALNlosr As ) l-Zni;:.- r --Zr? LETT -'GATORjJ ' yrOOLO HAS READ TMe7 T i --y.V'i- ' -C A ' --- yV ' NJ-V 300,' TREASURE i f I
