Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 180, Decatur, Adams County, 31 July 1926 — Page 3

Tfe GIRL in the MIRROR f/ Elizabeth Jordan

THE STORY -B»rt»r« Devon's wedCB ~aT, M rture on bar honeymoon !»»’•* Lrubt tut somewhat Inalined without her restraining W wii4n«i , w thtatrtcal associate* lls8 ." , B»nr» end J ecot> Epetoin, I ' i:.p an .7* - “*»•• \.«ipTER IL — Lenrle, who la c ’£? T ’,(usss to eettla flown to Mnounclng hl. Intention afreet- ’ .n« ...king adventure. - From P’-mdow ln N.. York bo e.ea th. LwUon o< » beautiful girl in a mir- ”, in th. house oppoalt* rWiPTER in.—Devon learns from .. .i.vator boy In the girl - , house hit h’r nans I. Mayo. Again In the ‘‘ rf ore reflection h. sees her with “ ..volver .nd sere eh. mean, to * Jilt suicide- He break. Into her Xtmei t .nd, winning her eowflfl.no., “JX her to lunch with him, though ,t, warns him of flanger. PROPTER 1V — Perceptibly agitated J th. arrival of a man in th. Lt.ur.nt, eh. mutter, that h. ha. "Zund her." Learning that .he I. tnm.rrled .nd the man ha. no claim tn her, Laurls, Incensed, acco.ts th. Itr.nger. CHAPTER V— Accusing the man of ssnoylns MU. -Mayo. Devon warn, him to end hl. espionage. The etrang.r I. politely sarcastic, but from him Laurie learn, the girl*, first name la Doris. She tell, him her persecutor 1. Herbert Ransome Shaw. CHAPTER VI.—To Louise Ordway, hl. inv.lld sister-in-law, and firm friend. Laurie admits he la "interested" tn Doria not revealing her identity. CHAPTER Vll.—Doris resolutely deeltn.a to meet Mrs Ordway, and .temly vetoes Laurie’s suggestion of applying to th. police to protect her from Shew. 'FfiuTly, lie couldn't make head or tall of this mess Doris seemed to be in. His memory reminded him that inch "messes" existed. He had heard and read of aU sorts of plots and counter-plots, In which all types of humus fijured. His imagination underscored the memory. But, someway Boris— he loved to repeat the name even to himself—someway Doris was not the type that figured In such plots. Also, there were other things hard to understand. She had let herself starve for four days, though she wore around her neck a chain that she admitted represented a month’s support And this fellow, Herbert Ransome Shaw—where the devil did he come in’ A fellow with a name like that and with snaky eyes like his was capable of anything. And yet — Young Devon had the Intolerance of American youth for the things outside his personal experience. The sort of thing Doris was hinting at didn’t happen here; that was all there *M to It What was happening festned pretty clear. The girl was, or •crapulous scamp who was using that fewer for some purpose <.f bls own. C that wa. it—snd this thing, Leurle a&hdsomeiy admitted, really did hapten sometimes—lt ought to be fairly •uy for an athletic chap of twenty- . four to put an end to It He recalled .£'« look in Shaw’s projecting eyes, snakelike forward thrust of his ®Hk head; and an Intense desire fgtetd him to get his hands on the flow's throat and choke him till hls jfos stuck out twice as far as they facw If that were duty, then duty Will'd be a delight. kfisvlng reached this edifying point <, re fl ec tionS’ he rose. Why deSs, Perhaps he could find the chap gtewhere. Perhaps the waiter at restaurant where they had lunched IS* where he lived. But, no, of not. It was not the kind of ■ttsurent hls sort patronized. Shaw jtei simply followed him and Doris SEP’’’®: that was all there was to It. Oil Laurie, would have to wait for potl.K'r encounter. Meantime he KS'-t run around to the club and box ffi? an hour. He had been getting a Iftout of condition this month. A gfet with McDonald, the club trainer, Efold do him good. Or, by Jove, he’d Eland see Louise Ordway 1 rHe had promised hls new brotherPibw, Bob Warren, to keep an eye on g»fo’s sister while Warren and Barges were in Japan, and Laurie had ■Wt the promise with religious fidelW and very real pleasure. He ImKfesely liked and admired Mrs. Ord||jwi who seemed, strangely, to be alB*? 8 ®t home of late. He had formed fR habit of running In several times Louise not only talked, but, Est Laurie expressed It. "she said ?*"’**" Re had spent with her many the afternoons and evenings Bangs Recked up to the cabarets. |L^* e glanced at hls watch. For an jffi 3 * 1 he had been Impersonating a Mpitleman engaged In profound wed!with the sole result that he decided to go to see Louise. It If* 8 Quite possible he could enlist her purest in Doris. Now, that was an BBllra lon! Perhaps Mrs. Ordway

woufiTunderstand'Doris”* Every wuiiran, he vaguely believed, understood all other women. He smoothed hls hair, straightened hls tie, and hurried off. He found Mrs. Ordway reclining on a chaise longue before an open fire, In IF .«■ w 3 He Found Mr* Ordway Reclining on a Chaise Longue Before an Open Fire. the boudoir In which his Bister Barbara had spent so many hours of the past year, playing the Invalid to sleep. She ' wore a superb Mandarin coat, of soft and ravishing tints, and her love for rich colors was reflected In the autumnal tones of her room and even In the varl colored flames of her driftwood fire. To Louise these colors were as definite as mellow truejpettones. She had responded to them all her life. She was responding to them still, now that she lay dying among them. Something In their superb arrogance called for an answering note frem her own arrogant soul. She greeted her brother’s young brother-in-law with tha almost disdainful smile she now turned o« everything, but which was softened a little for him. Ignorant of the malady that was eating her life away, as indeed al! her friends were ignorant of it, save Barbara and her doctors. Laurie delighted in the picture she made. He showed hls delight as he dropped Into a chair by her side. They fell at once into tne casual banter that characterized their intercourse. * *><■■■ -■ he mused aibuci, leg’tile* clock struck six. He had been studying with a slight shock the cLengee that had taken place in the few days since he had seen her. For the first time the suspicion crossed hls mind that she might be seriously 111. Throughout their talk he had observed things, trifles, perhaps, but significant, which, If they had occurred before, had escaped him. Susanne, Mrs. Ordway’s maid, though modestly In the background, was rarely out of sight; and a whitecapped nurse, till now an occasional and Illusive vision In the halls, blew In and out of the sickroom like a breeze, bringing liquids in glasses, which the patient obediently swallowed. Laurie, hls attention once caught, took it all in. But hls face gave no hint of hls new knowledge, and the eyes of Louise still met hls with the challenge they turned on every one these days—a challenge that definitely forbade either understanding or sympathy. "The real problem is why yon ever come." She spoke lightly, but looked at him with genuine affection. Laurie was one of her favorites, her prime favorite. Indeed, next to Bob and Barbara. He smiled at her with tender significance. "Yon know why I come." “I do," she agreed, "perfectly. I know you’re quite capable of flirting with me, too, if I'd let yon, you absurd boy. Dearie" —for a moment or two she was almost serious—“why don’t you fall in love?” "And this from you?" "Don’t be foolish. You know I like your ties,” she interpolated kindly. “But, really, isn’t there some oner' Laurie turned hls profile to her. pulled a lock of hair over hls brow, clasped hls hands between bls knees and posed esthetlcally. “Do yon know," he sighed, "I begin to think that, just possibly, perhaps, there's a slight ehanee-—that there is!" "Be serious. -Tell me about her." “Well, she’s a girt." He produced this confidence with ponderous _ipi-

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•malty, ''She lives accuse TLe eguare fivtu me." he added. “Things brighten," commented LeraIse. drily. "Go on." "She's mysterloss I. don’t kutw who she is, or anything about her. But I know that she's in trouble" "Os course she la i I have never known a mysterious maiden that wasn't," commented the woman Os the world. “What's her particular variety of trouble?* Laurie reflected. “That’s hard to say," he brought out at last. "But It appears to be mixed up with an offensive person In a crumpled blue suit who answers to the ne.iue of Herbert Ransome Shaw. Have you ever heard of him*’ Louise wrinkled her fastldtocs nose. "Never, I’m happy to say. But he doesn't sound atttractlve. However, tell me all about them. There seems a good chance that they ffiky get yon Into trouble." _ .. (TO BE CONTINUED) NOTICE OF MEETING Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the stockholders of th eOld Adams County Bank will be held at this banking house In Decatur, Indiana at 10 o'clock a. m. on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 1926, for the purpose of electing nine directors for the ensuing year and to transact suck other business as may come before them. 0. J. HARKLESS, 157 to Aug. 3 Cashier.

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Henry Ford Reaches His 63rd Birthday Detroit, Mich., July 31.—-(United Proav) — Henry Ford todsy reached hls sixty third birthday the picture of carefully-preserved health, and ud mittedly more keenly in’erested iu the future of an already amazing career than ar any previous time In hls life. “Each year should be and is to me —progressively more Interesflng and challenging," he recently told the United Press. And at 6:1. thb man who has revolu lionized modem industry without a parallel, finds himself the cynosure of the business world, and the center of probably one of the greatest industrial battles in history Henry Ford 's pe imps more clomly watched —for hls next Industrial move - than at any time since be first brought hls new wor d-wide organisation into being back In 1903ywith a paid-in capital of $28,000. After producing low priced automobiles at a prodigious rate for more than a decade until today there are more than 111,000,000 Ford cars in operation or more than 50 percent of all automobiles in existence Ford

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Tax Board Must Give Notice Os Tax Increase Indianapolis. Ind. July 31. (United Press.) Notice must lie given to tax pavers before horizontal increases on Individual assessments ordered by tht* state tux board become valid, It was held today in a decision of the Indiana supreme court. The decision settled a long stand ing dispute over provisions of the ( Goodrich tax law and the Tuthlll Klper tax act passed by the legls lalure of 1920 it was held by the supremo court that an attempted increase without notice to the taxpayer was not valid. The decision was e(ven In a suit originating In the Marlon county court over the protest of the Western Electric company against payment of $1,075 on an Increase ordered by the board without notifying the company. —Q - - - ■ —— Man Fatally Wounded In Fight On A Houseboat Vincennes, Ind., July 31.-—(United Press)— Edward Frederick, 25. of Vincennes died early today from gunshot wounds inflected by Hury Frank m a fight la.-t night on a houseboat

on the Wabash river. It was said that Frederick went tn the boat to demand liquor and a quarrel with (Tank ensued. Frederick fell into the river when "hot and was resum'd by Frank Farmer, owner of the houseboat, and lx>o Wilson, one of the men tried recently at T<rre Haute In the Vincennes liquor case. -n» i. 10 * Revolt In Wheat Growers’ Association Threatened Franklin, Ind., July 31, — (United Press) —A revolt of Johnson county members of the Indiana Wheat Growers' association was threatened today. Members complained that officers ujf the association had failed to file a report with the county auditors required by law and asserted the overhead expense of marketing the grain was too high. _ ... o . Seymour. — The first of the local cantaloupe crop has been placed on the market and the verdict is that the melons are of the best ever produced in this county. Mt. Vernon.—Ten men are resting in the Posey county jail after a raid on a "gallopin' domino” game. Seven of the men were negroes and the other three were white.

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