Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 203, Decatur, Adams County, 25 August 1934 — Page 2

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F CLASSIFIED I ADVERTISEMENTS, BUSINESS CARDS, ( AND NOTICES I FOR SALE FOR SALE —51 acres, well located good buildings, $2,000 for quick eale. A. I). Suttles, agent. 202-«3t USED FURNITURE BARGAINS— Mohalr living room suite, Garln.id took stove; kitchen cabinets, beds springs and matresses; breakfast sets; buffets; library tablee; chest of drawers; dining room chairs; rocking chains; dressers. All furniture like new. Daniels Second Hand Store. We buy, sell or trade 202-aStx ... .< - .... .. FOR SALE —Cabbage. 2c a pound, Walter Franliiger, 3-4 mile weet of Magley on road 224. 203-g3tx FOR SALE —Two year old sheep buck. Joseph Geimer, l*i mile north of Sugar Beet. 20-a2t.r WANTED For RADIO or ELECTRICAL repairs call MARCELLUS MILLER phone 625. I specialize in auto radio installation and repairs. Miller Radio Service, 226 No. 7th st. 173tf FOR RENI FOR RENT—Modern house. For Information inquire at 348. Mercer Ave. 203-3 t Wide Assortment SUN GLASSES I ■ 25c U p ENGLAND’S gv AU T O I’ AII T S mH Ist Door So. of Court House W Phcfle 282 MISCELLANEOUS — All makes sewing machines repaired. Work guaranteed by Sitvser company. Vitz Gift Shoppe, I>2 E. Monroe St. 301-g3tx o ♦ - ♦ Many Reunions Scheduled For Summer Months * —• Sunday, August 26 Hakes family reunion, Legion Memorial Park. Winchester street. Krugh family’ reunion, Van Wert, Ohio, fair grounds. Standiford and Faulkner reunion Wren. Ohio. Tindall annual reunion, fairgrounds at Van Wert, OhSo. Fifteenth annual Davison reunion, Clem Gibson home, 1 mile west of Kingsland. Seventh annual Johnson family I reunion, Legion Memorial Park, Decatur. Hakes reunion. Sunset Park, east of Decatur. Droll family reunion. Sunset Park. Sunday, September 2 Brown family reunion. C. O. Brown home, east of Decatur. Roop family reunion, Lehman Park at Berne. Hart family reunion, Emmanuel Hart residence, Union township. Schftepp and Manley reunion. Sunset Park, near Decatur. Hart reunion, Emmanuel Hart farm, southwest of Dix-n. Roop family reunion, Lehman Park, Berne. Whinger family reunion. Sunset Park, east of Decatur. Urick reunion. Sunset Park. Sunset Park, rain or shine. Kelly reunion. Laird grove, south of Convoy, Ohio. Labor Day. Seutember 3 'Twentieth reunion of Irelan family. Edgewater Park, Celina, Ohio. Slusser-Gause reunion, J.E. Gauso grove, near Willshire, Ohio, rain or shine. Sixteenth annual Stalter reunion Legion Memorial Park. Decatur. Lenhart reunion, Sunset park. Decatur. Harper family reunion, Sunset Park. Sunday, September 9 Shifferly reunion, Ivan D. Shifferly home near Monroeville. Bowman family reunion. Sunset Park, Decatur. ■■ O— ,■!■■■» 'I — ' ' '■ Ge‘ the Habit — Trade at Home M-O’N-E-Y To Loan On Furniture, Automobiles, Livestock, Etc. Any Amount up to S3OO Small Weekly or Monthly Payments to Suit Your Income. Special Plan For Farmers. AUTOS REFINANCED on Smaller Payments. Extra Money if Desired. Loans made in a quick and confhlcfitlal manner. Call, phone or write us for details. Franklin Security Company Decatur. Indiana Phone 237.

[MARKETREPORTS DAILY REPORT OF LOCAL » AND FOREIGN MARKETS LOCAL MARKET 1 Decatur Berne Craigville Hoagland j Corrected August 24 I No commission and no yardage. - Veals received Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday. I I 350 to 300 lbs |7.10 : 200 to 25t> lbs $7.00 t 160 to 200 lbs *6.80 ; 300 t 350 lbs SO.BO - 140 to 160 lbs $5.1111 I 12" to 14U $5.00 1 <i to 120 H>s. 54.70 Roughs $3-35.25 ’.'is $2-33.25 ’ Vaaiera $7.00 Ewe and wether lambs $6.00 ' Itui k lanMw $5.00 i ■■ —- - - .... FORT WAYNE LIVESTOCK Fort Wayne, Ind., Aug. 25 —(UP) —-Livestock: Hogs, steady to 15c . higher; 250-300 lbs. $7.40; 200-250 Us. $7.30, 130-200 lbs., $7.20; 160180 , lbs. $740; ’.OO-350 Tbs. $7.20, 150-160 , ib«. $6.56. 140-150 lbs. $6.25, 130-140 lbs. $6; 120-130 lbs. $5.50; 100-120 lbs. $5.25; rough". $6; stags. $4. Calves, $7; lambs $6 75. EAST BUFFALO LIVESTOCK East Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 25. — (U.R>—Livestock: Hogs, receipts, 150; holdovers, none; active, strong to 10c higher; desirable 200-lb average, $7.90: 260-270 lbs.. $8; other weights notn- I inal. Cattle, receipts, commercial. 250; government, 350; common grass steers strong, $1; cows unchanged: general trade active during week; firm; good steers, #O6-1,000 lbs.. $B- - ' Calves, receipts, commercial. 25; government, none; vealers closed 50c over last week. Sheep, receipts, none; lambs I practically steady throughout week; good to choice, $7.50-37.75. LOCAL GRAIN MARKET Corrected August 24 No. 1 New Wheat, 60 lbs. or better „ 93c No. 2 New Wheat (58 lbs.) 92c Oats. 30 lbs. test 44c White or mixed corn 95c First class yellow corn SI.OO Rye •• 50c ———_o — SCHOOL REPORT SHOWS BALANCE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) 898.12. A total of $38,501.94 was expended to operate the grade schools and $28,850.16 to operate (lie high school departments, the total outlay for the school year being $67,352.10. o 1 Death Preferable to Starvation Boise, Idaho — (UP) — Rather than let antelope starve, the state game commission is going to allow hunters tt kill seme of them this fall. Between Septd’ier 10 and 20, 150 hunters, residents of the state who have paid $lO f r the privilege will be aP'iwcd to hunt them in Butte. Cu ter, (’lark, Jefferson and and Lemhi counties. o Squirrel Daily Breakfast Guest Vineyard Haven, Mass. — IU.R’ — Mrs. Harold Piedro has a red squlr-1 rel for breakfast every morning. The squirrel passes all the larger farms and comes to her small place and steals an ear of corn from the stalk. It carries the ear away and eats it. o—“ NOTICE Drs. R. E. Daniels and 11. V. De-1 Vor will be out if their officers until Friday morning August 31. 203-3 t NOTICE I will be out of my office from August 26 to September 4. Dr. J. C. Grandotaff. A utt. 23-25-29 NOHCE~ We have three or four high school girls who desire a place to stay during the school term. They will be willing to work for board and room. Inquire of W. Guy Brown, high school principal. 20ia3t o— VPUOI VI'WEXT OF KXECITOII Notire is hereby given. That the underniftned has been appointed Executor of the Estate of John Bucher late of Adams County, deceased. The Estate Is probably solvent. Edward I'. Bucher, Executor Jiiilxoti U. Trrnle, Attorney August 17, 1934 _ Aug lb-J Sheets Bros. Cleaners N. 2nd Bt. Phone 359 N. A. BIXLER OPTOMETRIST Eyes Examined, Glasses Fitted HOURS: 8:30 to 11:30 12:30 to 5:00 Saturdays, 8.00 p. m. Telephone 135.

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SYNOPSIS Caroline Rutledge and Howard Dunsworth become engaged despite the opposition of their fathers. Philip Rutledge and Henry Dunsworth, who have been enemies for years. Then Henry ruins Philip in business end Caroline breaks her engagement when it is obvious that money means more to Howard than love. He explained he would be disinherited if they married and I now that Caroline had no money, he did not see how they could manage. The Rutledges leave "Hawthorn." their luxurious home, and go to live in a poor section of town. Alva, Caroline's mother, collapses ; from shock and fatigue. Their I neighbors. Malcolm Stuart and his mother, come to the family’s assistance. Malcolm is an inspector at the Rutledge factory. Though Philip, himself, is helpless in their adversity and leaves the burden on Caroline's shoulders, he snobbishly resents the idea of accepting aid from “these people” as he terms the Stuarts. One day, Philip warns Caroline: “You must be careful of that Stuart boy, my dear. It's quite possible that he would be presumptuous enough to fall in love with you.” Malcolm overhears the remark. Caroline tells Malcolm not to mind her father for he never thought anv boy was the right one for her. adding: “I shouldn't want you to fall in love with me because I couldn’t return it.” Their eyes meet. Caroline’s pity for Malcolm prevented her from realizing how perfect had been the fusion of their minds in that one glance. Never had there been between her and Howard one moment so electric and breathless as this. CHAPTER XIV There was no party at the Rutledge house that night. And by twelve o’clock the next day Caroline had not seen Malcolm since he walked out of her kitchen with his tools in his hand and trouble in his eyes. Concern for him wiped out all other thoughts from her mind. At noon she saw him leaving his home on his motorcycle and felt relieved that he was away. She could go now and plan the landscaping of the back yard without chancing a meeting with him. She wanted to avoid him. The back yard bad been an eye- ] sore to her. But it was well fenced i in and she knew she could make a i charming spot of it in time. “This , year,” she said to herself as she stood surveying its barrenness, 1 “we’ll brighten it up with nastur- ( tiums and get our backgrounds with castor-oil plant', and flower- i Ing vines, but next year . She induced her mother to come ] outdoors with her and tried to in- t terest her in planning the garden, < but Mrs. Rutledge was depressed. ( seeing only in her mind the lovely i gardens at Hawthorn House. Caro- < line would not be discouraged. She t spent the rest of the day drawing < sketches and poring over seed cata- 1 logues that she got from Mrs. j Stuart. ( The Stuarts had a pretty place, t “All Malcolm’s doing,” her mother declared. “I’m sure he’ll let you i have all the cuttings you want.” ( It was not until the following i morning when she thought with a I pang: “This is the day of the sale,” ( that Caroline remembered she had < not gone for her Currier and Ives I prints. | “If you’re going to town this ■ morning.” she said to her father at ; breakfast, “I’ll drop you off. I’m I going on to Hawthorn House to get i something I left there.” They did not start, however, un- i til the afternoon. The sedan devel- • oped a mysterious trouble which re- i quired several hours for a mechanic to locate and correct. Caroline arrived at Hawthorn House while the sale was in progress. She entered, unrecognized, by a side door. To reach the main stairs she was compelled to go through the library. The doors of all the rooms were thrown wide open. People roamed about through the spacious house as though it were a museum. Caroline could hear the auctioneer’s voice in the drawing room. It was like a chai-1 lenge to her. She paused, a hand on the mahogany newel. Hot resentment fired against her father, her mother, herself, that in a week they

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| called thu SargMao Sea? 7. Os which political federation ' is Perak a state? 8. Who wrote “The Silver Horde?” 9. Name the elder brother of Moses, and first high priest of Isreal. I 10. Who Is mary Roberts Rine ' hart? - — ■—o ——— 1 iHrnt nt \<l mlnlatrs3tor Notice is hereby Kiven, That the undei sinned has been appointed Adnilnietrator of the estate of Nathan Andrews lata of Adams UMunty de. teased. The eatate Im probably solvent. Alvin Andrew*, Administrator >n th ait Aulmoii. Mfornr> Auk, is. I'.CH Aug. IS-:’, Sep. 1

had done nothing, had known nothd ing to do, to snve these fine old e things that could belong to no one i, else in the world as they belonged - to the Rutledges. Her Grandfather r Rutledge had said they were like i some family bibles. In the scars r and worn places could be read a t record of the activities of the fami ily; in the patina of the furniture : and the mellowness of the furnish--1 ings, its grace and culture. , Into Caroline's line of vision as - she stood there listening came a girl ■ in a bright red sports suit The girl I had fair hair set in tight curls that . framed a spec of a hat with a pom- ( pom at its apex. Her eyes at a dis- • tance looked enormously large and ( dark, due to artificial eyelashes. • Her health-revealing cheeks were • as pale as white powder could make i them, but her lips were vivid, the ■ exact shade of her costume, as, in i fact, were her finger nails. She was 1 not tall, but she was shapely in a I sturdy, wholesome style. Caroline knew her. Everyone knew her, knew that she had been christened Minnie and had changed the name to Gwendolyn. This change was typical of her. Caroline had heard other girls say she had delusions of grandeur. Her parents were very well to do, but plain and substantial citizens, i into whom Gwendolyn was con- i stantly trying to inject greater so- : cial ambitions. Papa Hoffmann did : not belong to the Country Club, the i Squash and Racquet Club, the Rod 1 and Gun, as she would like him to. I But he was known and respected by ’ many of the men she would have him emulate. 1 Gwendolyn wanted to forget his i start in business as a grocery clerk. It was her wish to fade out the < family background of foodstuffs and i replace it with one filled with a hur- s riedly-grown genealogical tree em- i blazoned with time-misted crests t and impressive coats of arms. Regarded with amusement for c her pretensions by the elite of the t town she was, nevertheless, accept- s ed by them to a limited extent. Her t donations to their charities and her ( interest in their Junior League ac- t tivities were welcomed, but she was r left out of the intimate little par- t ties attended only by those of the innermost circle of the society to r which she aspired. “ Os this circle Caroline was 1 leader. Gwendolyn envied her, hated her because she believed that, I e Caroline had turned thumbs down “ on her. s And now she was buying Caro- f line's pec pictures—her treasured C Currier and Ives! Caroline saw one of the pictures t in Gwendolyn’s hands, saw her put * it down on a table where the others o lay. Instinctively she moved toward the drawing room. Gwendolyn was a speaking to her companion, a girl Caroline scarcely knew. Her voice d was raised. As Caroline drew near li she heard her say: “And I'm going v to have these. Aren’t they delicious ? I brought them down myself d from her bedroom. The auctioneer’s going to sell them with the stuff down here so I won’t have to wait r around.” Wait around! In a house that had never before been open to her! . Caroline’s eyes blazed. Her indig- 1 nation appeared to make itself felt by the ether two girls. They looked s at her. Gwendolyn hesitated, then exclaimed cooingly, "'Oh, good as- ( ternoon, Miss Rutledge. I didn't ex- v pect to see you here. It . . . well,” p she interrupted herself with a gig- r gly laugh, “.... it must be terribly 0 hard for you. I mean, losing just c everything.” j Caroline’s indignation turned to , an icy anger. “Really?” she said x with an insolent drawl. “Your pres- 2 ence is a surprise to me, too, Miss s Hoffmann. I had no idea you could £ possibly care for old family posses- i sions such as ours.” She smiled and f moved on, making her way through f the throng the auctioneer was ha- t ranguing, to his side. “Just a moment, please,” she said ] haughtily when he paused at sight , of her there. “I am sorry to interrupt but there are some pictures . here that I do not wish sold. Have . you a man about to carry them out ! to my car? I’m Miss Rutledge, I ’ I think you know.” “Yes, yes, sure, Miss Rutledge, I 1 know you. But can’t the matter wait? I don’t like to stop right now ..,”

STATE SURV EY REPORT GIVEN {CONTINUED, FROM ONE) more heavily traveled roads. The heavieat toll waa recorded on |U. 6. Highway No. 46, which stretches across the state from Richmond to Indianapolis and Terre Haute. (A m ajority of the fatalities were in the vicinity of Indianapolis. U. S. Highway 31 between Indianapolis and Jeffersonville over which the majority of the traffic to and from Louisville, Ky.. travels was another heavy contributor to

“The pictures belonged upstairs. I Caroline said coolly. “I came in time > to have them taken off the list. But I they have been brought down here ■ —through some glittering persuai sion, I dare say. But they are not i to be sold. They are my personal , property. If you have no one to carry them away for me I shall take - them myself.” Someone shoved at her elbow. It was Gwendolyn, her eyes bright with ire as Caroline's had been. “You can't let those pictures go!” she fired at the auctioneer. “I’ve practically bought them, you know that. You promised to put them up right after you’d sold that old square piano.” “Please, Miss Hoffmann ...” the auctioneer began placatingly • . . “just a moment” “Well, is this a sale, or isn't it?” Gwendolyn demanded. “I spent a lot of time picking out those pictures and I offered to buy them outright. I think you just wanted to make me bid on them to boost your old auction. And you’re not going to hand them over to anyone else now.” “But, Miss Hoffman, this is not a forced sale,” the harassed man reminded her. "I’ll see what can be done.” Caroline felt a second, but lighter, contact on her elbow. She turned quickly and saw that a group of her friends who she had not known were there surrounded her. “Shall we give her the bum’s rush?’’ one of them whispered to her. “Come on, Caro,” another urged, “she's sunk. We’ve got the pictures outside." Caroline slipped away with them while the auctionce- continued to argue with Gwendolyn. "Where’s your ear?’’ some one outside asked her. “The pictures are under a bush near the drive. We , sneaked them while everyone was rushing for ringside seats to see you and dear Gwendolyn mix it.” Caroline forgot they had never seen the sedan. When she led them to it they frankly spoke their minds about it. And with one voice all demanded to be driven places in it. Caroline could not refuse. Besides, their light-hearted razzing was good medicine for her. She felt cheerier than she had for over a week. As they climbed in the young man j with the pictures in his arms said: I ‘Tm tired I’ll hold these babies. The-- don’t look so hot to me.” “They weren't hot to Gwendolyn either." on o nf the girls remarked. "She wouldn't have wanted them if she hadn’t heard someone say it was funny they were there, because Caroline was crazy about them.” “She probably wanted to hang them on the family tree and say thev were ancestors,” another girl opined. “Who died before they grew up.” a third added. “Yeah?" the eynie among them drawled. “She may be dizzy, but I'll lay a hundred to one she walks off with the best, man." “Taken.” a girl agreed. “A hundred to One what?” “You know.” “Fresh. Let’s take him out to the ' club, Caroline, and practice drives off his bean. He’ll never be missed.” “Honey, if it’s you with the club I never will be.” “I was thinking of your demise, sweetheart, but you’re right too.” The country club was an idea— Caroline found herself heading toward it. It so happened that of the group all but. the girl who had suggested going to the club were out of town student' who had cut classes to attend the sale at Hawthorn House “For the express purpose of lending moral support, since we positively haven’t a red cooper amongst us, one of them had assured her. None o f them, the local girl included, was related to a member of the club. Mr. Rutledge's generosity usually had covered the hospitaiity RfTorard Carolina’s friends there. She had no thought now other than to rev-ard these five for their loyalty. A week is a short time in which to learn to he poor. It seemed to her, with their laughter and joxes to lift her spirits, something in the nature of a lark to drive to the swanky club in the noisy car. But the lark soon turned into a dreary piece of realism. (To Continued) CoprrlfM Mr ftn'h Crn*** Dhtributad by Kmc ftaUfW l«r

I the death list. ,' The Dunes highway through the Calumet district; state road 67 neat Anderson; etate road 3 Between Miincje and Newiaslle; state - ad 31 between Indianapolis and South Bend; state road 52 Itelween Indianapolis an Lafayette, and U. S. hlghwy 41 between Evansville and .Hammond were other heavy accident contributors. _— —- —o — — COURTHOUSE Real Estate Tranafers Franklin O. Baker et ux to Nancy B. Baker part of Inlot 797 in the Do catui' cemetery for s:»<>.

SYNOPSIS Caroline Rutledge and Howard Dunsworth become engaged dezpite the opposition of their fathers, Philip Rutledge and Henry Dunsworth, who have been enemies for years. Then Henry ruins Philip in ' business and Caroline breaks her engagement when it is obvious that money means more to Howard than love. He explained he would be disinherited if they married and now that Caroline had no money, he did not see how they could manage. The Rutledges leave “Hawthorn,” their luxurious home, and go to live in a ; poor section of town. Alva, Caro- ! line’s mother, collapses from shock and fatigue. Their neighbors, Malcolm Stuart and his mother, come to the family's assistance. Malcolm is an inspector at the Rutledge factory. Though Philip, himself, is helpless in their adversity and leaves the burden on Caroline’s shoulders, he snobbishly resents the idea of accepting aid from "these people” as he terms the Stuarts. One day, Philip warns Caroline: “You must be careful of that Stuart boy, my dear. It’s quite possible that he would be presumptuous enough to fall in love with you.” Malcolm overhears the remark. Caroline tells Malcolm not to mind her father for he never thought any boy was the right one for her, adding: “I shouldn't want you to fall in love with me because I couldn't return it. Their eyes meet. Caroline’s pity for Malcolm prevented her from realizing how perfect had been the fusion of their minds in that one glance. Never had there been between her and Howard one moment so electric and breathless as this. Next day, Malcolm avoids Caroline. She returns to “Hawthorn” to retrieve two pictures which she does not wish included in the auction sale of their furniture. Gwendolyn Hoffman, a social climber, who had always been envious of Caroline, wants the pictures. While Gwendolyn is arguing with the auctioneer, a group of Caroline’s friends spirit the pictures out of the house. Later, Caroline and her friends climb into Caroline's dilap- | idated car and go to the country club which Mr. Rutledge so generously helped support in his heyday. It lifted Caroline’s spirits to be with her friends, but the lark soon turned into a cruel piece of j realism. CHAPTER XV They decided first of all to have something to drink. Caroline marshaled them gaily up to the club house and a corner of the long piazza where tables and chairs were elustered. They arranged themselves in comfort and ordered what they wanted. When the bill was presented the two young men wanted to toss a coin to see which of them should settle it. Caroline heard their suggestion with mingled feelings. Nice of them —she understood—but there was a wound in it. They had come as her guest; that, she had thought, was taken for granted. She reached out for the bill, took it up. “Allow me one last grand gesture, please,” she laughed. Something in her voice silenced i them. She signed the paper and handed it to the waiter. He left with it, but a few moments later, as they were preparing to leave the piazza, he reappeared with a message for Caroline from the steward. “Would she be good enough to see him in his office?” Although the younger set had sometimes been complained of by the older members of the club Caroline had been well liked by the steward and his staff, and there wasn’t a caddy on the place who wouldn’t have missed a championship game to carry her clubs. The steward’s voice was filled with regret as he handed her back the slip of paper she had signed and told I her that her father had resigned his membership. “We shall be happy to have you i and your friends consider yourselves guests of the club on this ocsasion, he added courteously. Caroline thanked him but said ■he’d prefer to send the money. She didn’t dare offer to pay the bill then and there. She didn’t know exactly how much money she had in her bag —whether or not it would be sufficient. It would be too embarrassing to find it wasn’t. She went back to her friends and made the best of a bad half hour—she knew she was going to miss the

Who Has 1920 Daily | Democrat Newspaper File? I A strange thing has happened In the Dally Democrat „ ffi I ’ bound file of the 1920 papers has disappeared. TM Considered as the most valuable Item In a ncwMp a p,, r ,» B ! cause it cannot be replaced, an eagle eye i« always kept 01l th ' ’ of daily papers. ni ' Each (lay as the papers are printed, one copy | R p ; g(pd . ■ drawer and at the end of six months or a year the ro p| eg a book, in 1920 the entire year’s edition Wag bound m ( Because of the fact Hurt the files cannot be replaced n never permits the taking from the office tie bound files 1920 edition cannot be found around the oitEe. it ap ,, ars |t ’ ’ rd away'’ with someone, who probably wanted to use it f nr . I 1 " W ’O The return of the file will serve to steady nerves of th,,' ’ ed in this office and ff the person who lias It will pi” THOUSAND, the editor, business manager and entire f..,-.""" I glad to call and get_it. e w| ll |M

club—and at the end of It her friends I informed her they'd have to drag i themselves back to the university. Caroline remembered, with a jolt, that she had promised to pick up her father nt four o’clock. “What time is it ?” she asked in sudden fear that the hour was past. “It’s three forty-five and I swore to find out something about biology before three thirty!” one of the girls exclaimed. “Let’s go!” “You’ll have to take us back to your house. Caroline,” another said unthinkingly. “We left our bus there.” Hawthorn House was on the road from the club to the hotel in town where Caroline was to meet her father. She didn’t want to be late and put him in an ill humor. And she knew now why ho had chosen the hotel instead of one of his clubs. He'd resigned from every last one

The waiter returned with a message from the steward for Caroline asking her if she would be good enough to see him in his office.

of them, probably. Poor old darling. She drove with a speed that satisfied even her passengers. The town was accustomed to seeing cars filled with undergraduates in a hurry and let them have traffic much their own way. It was only ten minutes past four when Caroline drew up before the appointed place. The doorman looked with indifference at the car but when he came over to it and recognized Caroline—the smartest of the large social affairs and the most exclusive assemblies were held there and Caroline had attended most of them during the past two years—he touched his cap and greeted her pleasantly. He even went, inside, himself, to tell her father she was waiting. When Philip Rutledge came out , Caroline saw that he was flushed and unsteady. She did not question him during the drive to South Town about his day, but he volunteered the information that it had brought him only further discouragement. With a tightening in her throat Caroline realized that he had been drinking rather heavily. Bitterness and pity fought for ; control of her feelings toward him. ' Then it came to her that after all, while she had not been tempted to dissipation she had done little more 1 than her father to brighten the pros- ‘ pects for their future. And shouldn’t I she do something? Wasn’t it al--1 ready apparent that her mother was an exquisite parasite? Her father i a weakling without his inherited ■ power of bank balance and job dis- ■ penser? Harsh judgment, she admitted with an ache in her heart, I but wasn’t it true ? Drink—now! , When he needed to keep his faculties j clear and his nerves steady. Didn't r it mean that he had turned to this , relief because of some lack of sta- ’ bility in his character? If his way , was to drown his troubles . . . Caroline possessed an intelligent 1 clarity of vision where those she - loved were concerned, once her faith i had been jarred, which made her

father’s attitude clear tn her strangely, the n ,.„ t . <trn censured them the ni . re sionate her love beenrne. It troubled her grestly tn thi n hav.ng her moth, , . his present condemn utterly dependent >r n ... M did not worry for hen she n lu . M frightened by hei-o W „ , mother might know, as she that I’hibp I: v :.,u n cepted defeat to a,. « make the recouping . f his fortuJM highly improbable. When they reached the aB smd firmlv: “Thie H nnt Mother. I think you’d best AB to your room and t. t .. t her uH you. Her father agreed, without Pt ß test. I m mis to change toadS ner jacket,’ he explam.d “You’B fond of your mother, ” 1., added aftß

a moment of hesitation. “Be a eond girl and tuck her in bed when she'l had dinner and then g- : messed. 1 want you to go with me—to a littk party—some friends of mine—propie you don't know." His voice faded. showing he was ill at ease. They were walking up from the garage. Caroline halted in the path and stared at him. He saw that she was going to refuse. “I particularly want yon tn de this, Caroline,” he said hastily, “because it's important. It means a great deal to me. A chance to talk to a man I want to interest in a business proposition.” Caroline consented to do as her father asked, but she dreaded meeting strangers, with the need for » pretense of gaiety constantly oppressing her. It was decided that Mrs Wade should be asked to sta, with her mother, and Caroline half hoped the woman would be unable to remain after her evening’s work was done. But Mrs. Wade agreed, and Caroline told herself she was a poor sort of creature to think of fading het father after judging him so severely. It was only that. . . . She tried to close her mind to the thought that he was taking a quest :en»H course in dragging her into his affairs with strangers. But she couldn't help wondering why she was wanted. Were they climbers, these people, grabbing at their first chance to have a name of snciaHmportance on their list of guests. Al published list, perhaps. Well, if that was all the Rutledges had to sell, what did it matter? lotill she had found some o’her war to help. ... It couldn't be utterly a thing beneath them . . . her father, Philip Rutledge, would never stoos, . . . But there was that lightly shamefaced air about him. It< significance stuck in her mind, filling it with apprehension. (To Bo Continued) Copyright hv Huth, hew- O’ *• Distributed by King Feature Syr.dfraU inc