Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 182, Decatur, Adams County, 3 August 1926 — Page 3

_Ju© ' X'W* V > GIRL in the MIRROR Elizabeth (Jordan JS

M THE STORY Ml „ rH ■ —V.von’i w»dM cr. b.r honeymoon t.r trotter 'Laurl.,” .UCC*..M**'" but ivmewhU Inclined .uU( her ".training M ll theatrical M.OClat.., «rd Jacob Ep.t.ln, M UivTE't IL — Laurie, vhc la » " fu , es to eettle down to M’'‘ ,!h> m u\.i« Intention of re»tM*" ' I «eklng adventure." From Ml Id “ d . w 1D *,« York be eeee tho ■ oJiWH Os » beautiful girl in a mlr9»r lfc ‘ U -’* el ' l ' 0 * M fiUP«R !11-lev< n learn, from Ma levator toy m th. girl’s house ?. nan e s Mayo. /.gain In th. reflection he «■“> her with Aver .rd ,he ni * arl ’ tO M‘ Alt euldde. He break. Into her ■ Siw ■ ■ !-’ »> wlth h !, n >’ bl“ fcf ’danger. M ru.prn: ' - ■•■eptlb'-y agitated Mw the arrival of a man In the L-'rant. a»e mutter, that he hag M" u her ’ Learning that .he U in Amarrlvd and me ma" has no claim M'Xr incenstd. accosts the |B (Wmtr SB CHAl”'f R ' —A. .-using the man of M Miss Mayo. Devon warn. Lt. end his espionage- The strangHH .rli politely sarcastic, but from him IH Uv e le»rns ’he girl’s first name Is M Jorl*- Sh ‘ u;ls hlm her ’ ,en “ cutor Kj b Herbert Ransome Shaw. BH CHAPTER VI —To laiulse Ordway, M D Invalid sister-in-law, and firm M tairi Uurl. admits he Is ’’lnterested’’ |H h Urn. not revealing her Identity ■B CHAPTER \II —Doris resolutely dellln.a to meet Mrs. Ordway, and ■■ purely vetoes Laurie’s suggestion of ipplrlng to the police to protect her from Shaw. M “Hello. Laurie." It twittered. “Is M test you? This Is Billie. Listen. I H fotta plan. A bunch of us Is goln’ ■ put to ffedney to supper tonight. H We’re goln’ to leave right after the ■ ihow. Are you on ’” B Laurie got rid of the fair Billie. He. B dM lhcourteously but very firmly. A ■ ntecr unusiiis! degree of firmness wan ■ Becessary. for Miss Billie was not |» tued to having her Invitations refused. B She accepted the phenomenon with ■ icwe unwillingness and very HngerB lUfIL ■ Bangs was not at home, to divert B his chum's mind with his robust conB rersstlon. As he dressed for Ids call ■ on Loris, the sharp contrasts of life ■ ■tnuk Laurie with the peculiar force ■ ’Meh they hit the young and the B lUnperlenced. I But were they really contrasts? On B the one side were Louise, dying, and B Kuril Scei.d gly e<tg>:r to die. On ■ Jte.ether were Pillfc and her friends— I fcoißjj enjoying their tele! hour in the secret garden of life, eternally chattering about "good times.” playing they were happy, perI aps even thinking they were happy, but Infinitely more tragic figures than Uulse and Doris. Yet a week ago he had thought they amused him I Rendering on these and other large prohlems, he absently removed the bloom from three fresh white ties. CHAPTER VII Grigg# Ceta an Order. At eight o’clock Lanrte found Doris •ftting under the sihade of a readinglamp In her studio, deep In the pages of a sophisticated Drench novel and radiating an almost oppressive atmosphere of well-being. Subconsciously, he resented this. His mood was keyed to tragedy. But he returned her half-serious, halfuiocklng smile with one as enigmatic, •hook hands with grave formality, and surveyed with mild Interest a modest heap of tMnk-notes of small denominations that lay on the table, catching the room"* high lights. Follo.lng his glance, Doris nodded complacently. “I left them there for you to see,’’ •oe remarked. Wd the kind gentleman under the “fee balls give you all that?" He did. Count it" Laurie frowned. Han’t be so arrogant about your lh It’s fleeting. Any copy-book *lll tell you g 0 >. She opened a small drawer In the “ble, swept the bills into It, and euaiiy c i ose( j it Laurie stared. »„ . e J’°u going to leave it there? ,n « Uke that?’ | She looked patient ( ''hy not?" I begin to understand why you are '"’times financially cramped.” B le to °k the bills, smoothed them net, rolled back the rug to- the r “ ° f tlle ta ble, laid the money un'.'ri !* n<l careful, y replaced the rug. . IBt s the place to put it," -he dbM. with satisfaction. “No one with a studio ever lifts a “■ Bangs and I used to throw our ° u ey under the furniture, and pick •r needed it; but_ .others

sometimes ‘reached It Erst. This way is better. How lovely you look!" he added. As he spoke he comfortably seated himself dn the other side of the reading-lamp, and moved the lamp to a point where It would not obstruct his view of her. She did look lovely. She had put on an evening gown, very simply made, but rich tn the Oriental coloring she loved. She was like Louise In that. Laurie's thoughts swung to the lutter's sick-room, and his brilliant young save grew somber. The girl lounging In the big chair observed the sudden change In his expression. She pushed a box of cigarettes tofcard him. "Smoke If you like." she said. Indifferently. "All my friends do." He caught the phrase. Then she had friends! "Including Herbert Ransome Shaw?" he asked, as he lit a match, '•Don’t Include him among my friends! But —he was here this afternoon.”

"He was!” In bls rising interest Lnurfe nearly let the match go out. “What did he want?” “To warn me to have nothing to do with you." “I like his Infernal cheek !’’ Laurie lit the cigarette and puffed at it savagely. Then, rising, he drew his chair forward and sat down facing her. “See here,” he said quietly, “you’d better tell me the whole story. I can’t help you much If I'm kept in the dark. But if you'll let me into things —And before I forget ft.” he interrupted himself to interject, “I want to bring a friend of mine to call on you. She will be a tower of strength. She’s a Russian, and one of the best women I know.” She listened with a slight smile. “What’s her name?” “Miss Orleneff, Sonya Orleneff, a great pal of my sister’s and an allround good sort. I'd like to bring her In tomorrow afternoon. Will five be convenient?” “No.” She spoke now with the curtness of the morning. "In no circumstances," she added, decisively. “But—why?" He was dazed. If ever a knight errant worked under greater difficulties than these, Laurie told himself, he'd like to know the poor chap's name. “I hav? no wish to meet Miss Orleneff." “But she'.’ an Ideal person for you to know. . nerfenced. sympathetic, ■ .nd unders’jt.edlng. She did a lot for my sister last year. 1 must tell you hi! about that sometime. She could do more for you—" “Mr. Devon!" The finality of her tone brought him up short. "We must understand each other.” “I should like nothing better." Ho, too, was suddenly formal. ‘This morning you projected yourself into my life.” “Literally," he cordially agreed. “I am grateful to you for what you did and what yon wish to do. But I will not meet any more strangers. I will not meet Miss Orleneff, or any one else. Is that clear?” “Oh, perfectly!" Laurie sighed. “Os course you’re a crowned head,” he mused aloud. “I had forgotten. Would you like my head on a charger, or anything like that?" She studied him thoughtfully. “Almost from the first," she said, “and except for an occasional minute or two, you have refused to be serious. That Interests me. Why Is it? Aren’t you wllllig to realize that there are real troubles in the world, terrible troubles, that the bravest go down under?" “Os course." He was serious now. He had begun to realize that fully. “It’s my unfortunate manner, I suppose,” he defended himself. "I’ve never taken anytfiing seriously for very long. It’s hard to form the habit, all of a sudden.” “You will have to take me seriously." He made a large gesture of acceptance. “All right,” he promised. That brings us back to where we were. Tell me the truth. If there’s anything In it that really menaces you, you’ll find me serious enough." Before answering, she rose and opened the studio door, on which, he observed with approval, a strong new lock and an Inside bolt had already been placed. He saw her peer up and down the hall. Then she closed and bolted the door, and returned to her chair. The precaution brought before him a mental vision of Herbert Ransome Shaw prowling about the dins corridor. He spoke incredulously. “Are you really afraid of that chap?" “I have good reason to be." she said .quietly. She , sat down in her chair

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again, rested her FFboff* ffn The table and her chin In her hands, In the pose already so familiar to him. and added quietly, "He is the source ot I all my present trouble." She stopped and turned her head to listen. "Do you hear anything moving In the hall?" she asked, almost In a whisper. "No. Shall I look?" She shook ht'r head. "Don't unbolt the door." "You're nervous. I'm sure there's nothing there. Please go on,” he urged. "Our little friend Bertie —’’ Seeing her expression, he stopped short. “Forgive me," he said, hum bly. "But the plain truth is, it's awfully hard for me to take that fellow seriously. Oh, I know he's venomous," he conceded, “but I can't help feeling that he hasn't as much power over you as you think he has." He realized that she was listening, but not to him. "There Is some one outside that door!" she whispered. Laurie leaped to the door as noiselessly ns n cat, unbolted It. and flung It open. The hall was empty. He had an Instantaneous Impression that something as silent as a moving shadow had vanished around the staircase at the far end, but when he reached the spot he saw nothing save the descending Iron spirals of successive stairways. He returned to his companion, smiling reassuringly. “It’s our nerves," he said.. “In a few minutes more I shall be worrying about Bertie, myself.” “Bolt the door again," she directed. He obeyed. She went on as If thera had been no Interruption to their talk. “It isn't what he Is," she admitted. “He himself’ Is nothing, as you say. It's what Is back of him that —that frightens me! Why don't you smoke?" she Interrupted herself to ask. I.aurie automatically selected and lit another cigarette. “I know what's going to be back of Bertie pretty soon," he darkly predicted. “Whoever he is, and whatever he is doing, he has a big jolt coming to him, and h's coming fast.” He laid down the cigarette and turned to her with his most charming expression, a wonderfully sweet smile, half shy, wholly boyish. Before this look, any one who loved Laurence Devon was helpless. “Come.” he said gently, "tell me the whole story. You know It’s not curiosity that makes me ask. But how can I help you when I’m working in the dark?” As she hesitated, hfa brilliant eyes, so softened now, continued to hold hers. “And I want to help you,” he added. “I want -that privilege more than I want anything else In the world." For a long moment ahe sat still, as If considering his words, her eyes on her hands, folded In her lap. The strange,, .deep flush he luhL noticed once before - again stained her face. At last she straightened up with a quick movement, throwing back her shoulders as If to take on again some burden they had almost cast off. _ (TO BE COHTTINIIED) Italian Cathedral Graveyard Mummifies Bodies Interred There By Thomas B. Morgan /L’Diled Press Sutil < urreapondcnl) Frwt) The peasants of the village of Venzone can enjoy the luxury ot mummification on a par with the richest of Egyptian kings for the earth of the local cemetery contains special mummifying qualities. Permission to enter bodies in the cathedral graveyard and in the cathedral itself is being sought by the municipal authorites of Venzone. The mummies in the cathedral are well known, and the chief object of interest in the little sub-Alplne town. Napoleon visited the mummy tombs of Venzone in 1807, ami at that time nominated a commission to report on the advisability of making Venzone the Imperial sepulchre. But for the fall of the empire, it is probable that the cathedral of Venzone would have become the Westminster Abbey of the Bonapartes. Experiments have shown that a little over a year in the ground of the church suffices to mummify a corpse completely. There are over twenty

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i mummies in the cathedral tombs at present in excellent state of preserva- ' ’ion. Their dessication is due entirely i to natural properties on the soil. Several explanations of the pheno-1 menon have been advanced, but the, most credble one Is that put forwanL by Professors P V. Zcechini ami AJ il Pari of Padua in 1861. According to’ them, the earth of the tombs lends it self to the generation of a hydrogen-' caibonate gas, which, affecting the bodies, envelopes them in a parasltls i mould, called "Hipha Bombiclna" that j absorbs the humors <4 the body and , produces mummification. 0 Field Os Wheat In Ohio Makes A Record Yield Defiance. Aug. :1 Urban Trooger of Highland township today was the I'hamplon wheal grower of Ohio, with' a record of 61.56 bushels per acre on his field of slightly more than nine 1 and a halt

The field was of Fulhio variety, the only one in the county entered in the 40 bushel wheat club contest conducted each year in the state under supervision of the agricultural extension service and the farm crops department at the college of agricult lire, Ohio State University. The field is 649 feet long and 645 feet wide containing 9.56 acres. The George E. Davis threshing machine measured 576 bushels of excellent quality wheat which averaged from eight separate bushel samples 61.3 pounds per bushel. Adding the actual weight overrun of 12.55 bushels to the 576 bushels measured by the machine there Is a total of 588.55 bushels or an average of 61.66 bushels per acre. The field was measured an’d cheek- j ed by County Agent C. W. Vandervert and the wheat was weighed by a committee of the threshing ring with County Agent Vamlervort and George Memmer acting as judges. o One Acre Os Oats Yields 135 Bushels Bluffton, Aug. 3 Levt Frauhiger, living on the old Yager farm about six miles east of Bluffton, reports today that he had an acre of land planted in oats and that is yielded him 135 bushels. This is considered a remarkable record. It was also stated that no special care had been taken of the ground and that it was not a special brand of oats that made the leg yield. Swimming In Places Other Than Public Pools Banned In Indianapolis Defiance, Aug. 2. —Urban Troeger Press) —Alarmed by the mounting toll of drownings, Claude Johnson, chief of police, today issued an order against persons swimming at places other than public pools where life guards are maintained. All persons found violating the order will be arrested under a city ordinance tii.i: iia<; tulieti :!»•’. ’.hTo Continue Investigation I Peru, Ind.. Aug. 3.-(United Pressl ■—Coroner Worrell intends to continue his investigation of the death of an infant whose body was found buried in a shallow grave on a farm in the southern part of Miami county. While death was believed due to injuries from obstetrical instruments used at the time of birth. Worrell has obtained clues which may lead to important developments in the case, lie said. t 0 _ —— . English Radio Fees Show Big Increase t London, Aug. 3. —(United Press) — Radio fans in England paid nearly $5,000,000 for the privilege of listen ing-in last year. I Revenue to the British Broadcasting Company from the collections of $2.50 each from citizens possessing

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