Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 190, Decatur, Adams County, 12 August 1926 — Page 6

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THE STORY CHAPTER I.—Barbara Daren’t wedding and departure on her honeymoon leaves her brother •‘Laurie,’* eucceetful playwright but somewhat inclined to wildness, without her restraining Influence. His theatrical associates, Rodney Bangs and Jacob Epstein, promise to "keep an eye on him.* * CHAPTER IL — Laurt*. wh® to wealthy, refuse, to settle down to work, announcing his Intention of resting and seeking "adventure.“ From his window In New York be sees the reflection of a beautiful girl in a mirror In the house opposite. CHAPTER lll.—Devon learn, from the elevator boy tn the girl's house that her name is Mayo. Again in the mirror's reflection he see, her with a revolver and fears she means to commit suicide. He breaks into her apartment and, winning her confidence, induces her to lunch with him, though aha warns him of "danger." CHAPTER IV.—Perceptibly agitated by the arrival of a man in the restaurant, she mutters that ho has “found her." Learning that she Is unmarried and the man has no claim on her, Laurie, incensed, accosts the stranger. CHAPTER V.—Accusing the man of annoying Mis, Mayo, Devon warns him to end hl, espionage. The stranger Is politely sarcastic, but from him Laurie learns the girl's first name Is Doris. She tells him her persecutor Is Herbert Ransoms Shaw. CHAPTER VI—To Louise Ordway, hts Invalid olster-ln-law, and firm friend, Laurie admits he Is "Interested" in Doris, not revealing her Identity. CHAPTER Vll.—Doris resolutely declines to meet Mrs. Ordway, and Sternly vetoes Laurie’, ,uggestlOß of applying to the police to protect her from Shaw. ■SLaw again aliruggeiT TTeprecalhig Skouiders. Then, with another of his ehtirp-tootb- . grins, he rose and faced fits vis':or At the desk across the big blond secretary rose, fitsS ;> tiled his pale bine eyes on LT-s eroi loyer. •'Now,” said Laurie, "tell me what the devil you are driving at. and what iSffhls mystery means." fJHv hat an Impulsive, high-strung Imp you are!” Shaw was still grtnfifng his wide grin. ''Yon won't tell me?" ,*Of course I won't! I’ve told yon ftfiouglj now to satisfy any reasonable flfcrson. Besides, you said you had Bdtnethlng to say to me.” He was deliberately goading the yotinger man, and Laurie saw It He saw, too, over Shaw's shoulder, the tense, waiting figure of the secretary. He advanced another step. "Yes,” he said, “I’ve got three things to say to you. One Is that you're a contemptible, lowtiveri, blackmailing hound. The second is j that before T pet through w’tb T2L .. * MM, gif f lh -‘’tw nulff < oCglsgg u. 'Au ' ■ Gasped and Gurgltd Under the It Rfl.mj - ng Ho d of the Powerful • fingers on Hi* Throat VBIL tat throat And the third Is that rsLsue you in h—l before I give you jfcy Inch promise as you ask. Now. <' walked over to the couch and Tftted up his hat and coat The secrefiiry unostentatiously Insinuated ■bM into the eenter of the room. Sitaw alone remained immovable and Wtneved. !'"»» as Laurie turned iMtx. »>.e r»nr-»af.i In hands. Shaw *ftdled his wtile smile and encircled with a sweeping gesture of 'tft& arm. £. “Go, then, by all means, my young Tfrtend." he cried jovially, "but how?” S. taurh-’s eyes followed the gesture, had already observed the absence Now, for the first time,

with a sudden Intake of breath, he llscovered u second lack. Seemingly, | there was no exit from the room. Os touree there was a door somewhere, out It was cleverly concealed, perhaps behind some revolving piece of furniture; or possibly it was opened by a hidden spring. Wherever It was. It could be found. In the meantime, his maneuver had ghen him what he wanted—more space in which to fight two men. With a sudden movement Shaw picked up the sliver-framed photograph and ostentatiously blew the dust off it. This done, be held It out and looked at it admiringly. “You will stay here, but you will not be alone," he promised, with hie wide, sharp-toothed grin. "This will keep you company. See how the charming lady smiles at the prospect —" He dropped the picture, which fell with a crash on the tiled flooring around the fireplace. The glass broke and splintered. Shaw gasped and gurgled under the strangling hold of powerful fingers on his throat. Lamp and table were overturned In the struggle that carried the three men half a dozen times across the room and back. Laurie, fighting two opponents with desperate fury, could still see their forms and Shaw's bulging eyes In the firelight Then he himself gasped and choked. Something wet and sweet was pressed against his face. Ho heard an excited whisper: “Hold on! Be careful there. Not too much of that I” A moment more and he had slipped over the edge of the world and was dropping through black space, CHAPTER X A Bit of Bright Ribbon. When Laurie opened hts eyes blackness was still around him, a blackness wlthout’a point of light But as hts mind slowly cleared, the picture he saw in his last conscious moment flashed across his mental vision —the dim, flrellt room, the struggling, straining figures of Shaw and the blond secretary. He heard again the hissed caution, "Not too much of that 1” He eat up dizzily. There had been “too much of that." He felt faint and mildly nauseated. Hts hands, groping in the darkness, came In contact with a brick floor; or was It the tiling sround the fireplace? He did not know. He decided to sit quite still for a moment, until he could pull himself togetner. His body felt stiff and sore, There must have been a dandy fight In that |_dlngy old room, he reflected with satiTsfaperhaps the other two man • darkness. Perhaps they,, too, were knocked cut. He hoped they were. But no, of course not. Again he remembered the hurried caution, “Not; too much of that" He decided to light a match and see where he was, and he fumbled In his pockets with the first Instinct of panic he had known. If those brutes had taken his matchbox I But they hadn’t He opened It carefully, still with a lingering suggestion of the panic. If he had been a hero of romance, he rea-, soned, with a dawning grin, that bog would have held exactly one match; and he would have had to light that one very slowly and carefully. Then, at the last Instant, the feeble flicker would have gone out, leaving it up to him to Invent some method of manufactnrlng light. . 1 (TO BE CONTINUED) 0 Mt. Vernon. July 31 — Poultry raisers laid in a store of free feed when a boxcar containing fifteen hundred bushels of wheat was wrecked on the Louisville and Nashville railroad here.

• THE CORT * A cool place to enjoy a good show bfi Tonight & Tomorrow S “SENOR DAREDEVIL” A big First National attraction with Ken Maynard fr- and Dorothy Devore 3a R! When the shootin’ was snappiest Senor was happiest. ag fig Like a whirlwind he rode into the battle that was to Hi □fi save the fighting name of his father—the gold mines of old win a sweetheart for himself. De £E -the roaring days of the old West live again for a p= he glorious hour! sp gg “SCRATCHING THROUGH” comedv 31 “FELIX THE CAT” comedy ,Oc 25c J

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“l~“ ——————— ■ ~ | American Co-ed Tells Own Story Os Her Marriage To Indian Prince (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) talk to. no books to read-nothing And the natives stared. It was awful. , I was put into the Zenanna—The Harem —where I was forced to spend three months while my husband tried to get another priest to hold services for the Boses. And Abanl, Instead of writing ft) me as he should have done, wrote to his brother who was staying there also be sure to hold me until a new priest was obtained at Calcutta. During my stay in Barodi I was taken ill from the dirty food and the vile living conditions. 1 wrote to my mother finally, begging her to send money so | I could come back home. 1 thought I would die—l even contemplated committing suicide. Finally, however, Abanl obtained a priest who would overlook my being one of “The Devil's own," and I was allowed to return to Calcutta. My illness became worse and 1 'contracted the dread dingee fever —a native disease carried by the gigantic mosquitoes of the rice swamps. After hovering between life and death for weeks in pestilent Cai-cutta, I began to recover. But my nerves were shattered and I looked "wrecked", my skin had turned yellow, my ejes were sunken, my hair straggley and I remained for some time so weak that 1 could hardly walk My husband by this time was not the same man. He was exactly like any other well-born Hindu in the city. His wife was merely a plaything, something to be fondled when he was in good humor and some thing to-be ignored whin it suitec him Bu; Abanl was inordinarely proud o! having married a white woman, he took every chance ja could to show his fellow countrymtn how he could dominate me —How he could rule his American wife. Even had my husband allowed me tc. mingle in the English colony, 1 couldnot have done it because the other white people looked at me in scorn for marrying a Hindu. (in her fourth article tomorrow, Miss Kurlow tells how an effort was made to bull her to a Hindu Prince.) Benefits To Be Derived From A Chautauqua Are Social And Educational (CONTINUED FROM PAGB ONM) planned program and its smooth running organization that raises people from the humdrum routine of life to a life filled with worthy ambitions. Teaching people the true appreciation of things is the best kind of education. It is common sense. As both children and parents are interested in Community Chautauqua the result is a common interest for the home. From the home this interest radiates until its significance is manifest in the smiling countenances of members of other homes as ■s&tia&D a ■ Melt in spoon; inhale vapors; • I apply freely up nostrils. VICKS ▼ Vapoßub Over 17 Million Jara Uatd Yearly Thin Men Rejoice Put on pounds of solid healthy flesh in 30 days GET THAT MANLY FIGURE Why continue to be behind the times —Surely you have heard of McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets—the modern vitimine flesh food that has done so much for skinny scrawny men and women. They put on weight where weight is needed —not only that but they improve your general health — bring strength—energy—more vitality. Holthouse Drug Co. and druggists sverywhere sell McCoy's —6O sugar coated tablets 60 cents and if any hin person doesn't gain 5 pounds in 30 days money back — Ask for Me Coy’s.

I they greet one another on their way i to Community Chautauqua. Thus a 'neighborly spirit 18 fostered and the, community grows and flourishes in! brotherly dove. After these considerations let us now do our part in the world of as I fairs by giving Community Chautau ; qua our whole-hearted co-operation. ' Germaine Christen. I „ Union Miners Protest Use Os Convicts In Coal Mines i Lexington, Mo., Aug. 12 —(United I , Press) —Threats of a strike were heard here today following imports-1 1,. J —Il «

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! tioo of 65 convicts from the state pen- ■ I Itentiary to work in the mines ot th> - Western Coal Mining Company. One hundred and thirty four union 1 I miners were displaced when file state leased the south mine ot the com- | pany and announced It would employ i convert labor. ( Approximately I.OuO union miners in the district have protested — ■■ "0" ~~ Public sale. Butler & Ahr sale I barn, Ist street, Decatur, com J I mencing 1 p. m. Saturday. Aug. J IL Horses, cattle, hogs and sheep. 40 head Rhode Island I Red pullets. lS9t.3j

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