Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 72, Decatur, Adams County, 25 March 1927 — Page 8

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The Understanding Heart By PETER B. KYNE He bent over utid kiss'd her white f'lehead just where the red-brown hair was parted . . . Presently, wl'h the deed in his pocket h<‘ rode silt fitly down through the charred tint-te-r to Tantrum Meadows. Monica, gazing after him. thought, of his] wrecked life and wondered what sue v .-ss would attend him in his efforts u> gather the broken pieces and make of them once more an orderly ami pleasing pattern. Ife hud his Loy. he had his father love, he had hid bitter memories; Monica w indercd if he would ever marry again, ever realize the quiet, peaceful, sanely ambitious domesticity men cf h s kind require. Well, bitterness dies and love goes on to the end, gaining strength if worthy. Monica had a feeling that somewhere, sometime this childhood friend would come at last to a peaceful haven. , She took from the envelope several sheets of paper covered with her late fathers scrawling chirography and read them, read even the notaiial attestation attached. What a strange, secretive old pair her father and Uncle Charley had been! Why had her father not told her of what he find seen that day? Monica wondered if he had told Bob Mixon Instead and if that strange, chivalrous man had warned her father to say nothing about it. had charged him not to dishonor the woman Muson had sworn to love, cherish, and protect until death them did P

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- | In it. I didn't charge them very ( much nnd I took a note for what I charged them. They’re very poor amt none too happy, nnd I knew you wouldn’t mind, because you’re a rich lady now ” “But. darling dear. I haven't seen any money." • You will very shortly. I wired Thurlow the latest aspects of the situation and he called on Jethroe in San Quentin, proved to him he was out of th«‘ running ns fur as further operations in the Dogwood Flats region were concerned, and secured an iptlon to purchase Jethroe’s control of ttie company at a nominal f'gure i “He has secured some financial backing nnd. regardless of how he has accomplished it. he is now the presllent mid general manager of the Her--ales Hydraulic Mining Company. Bob has sold the reorganized comouny hi* Honey Valley ranch for a hundred thousand dollars, and I’ve sold your section for a flat million." “(live me the money, Tony," the girl demanded humorously. “1 haven't got it. I’ve merely trad •d with Thurlow, as your attorney, and have assured him that you would ratify the trade.’’ “And if 1 should not, Tony?" "In that event, you can keep your troublesome real estate and I'll marry you just the same." Sh/ laughed jubilantly and Tony resumed "Thurlow offered some cash and

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'some royally. You might make two millions on that basis, hut 1 thought you had experiment* d sufficiently with the uncertainties of existence amt it was high time yon played safe. Os course, under ordinary cireiimstum s. this sudden wealth of yours would have been tin embarrassment, to me. 1 wouldn’t care to have anybod> most <d all vou think that mine is pantry love, but ” "Silly! Nobody knows better than I that you loved me for myself when it seemed we'd both be so poor we couldn't afford to marry." “And, of course'," he added solemnly. "this million makes you ull the more attractive to a struggling country lawyer." He took her hand and led her over to the bench under tihe sugarpine. Copyright 192« Peter It. Kyne bv arrangement with King Features Syndicate. Inc (To tit-: cuvristEOt Eord Autobiography Popular In Russia Moscow (United Press) — Henry ford's autobiography, "My Life", hatrun through eight editions in less than a year in its Russian translation and another book from the American motor manufacturer. "Today and Tomorrow ", is in its second edition, though it was only recently translated in the Russian tongue.

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