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CLUB CALENDAR r •— — Socltty Deadline, 11 a. M. Fanny Macy Fhones tflOO — 1001 Saturday 1 Pr,c,k *' Zl °n Reformed , t hutch. 2p. m. I Mission Hand. Evangelical Church i •• f> m 1 u T*! U B rhur<-h R«ke.| Goods . Sale. Brock's Htore. Plate Supper. M. E. Chares. 6 to 7 p. tn. I *l<>n Reformed W. M. 8 Rum. 1 mete Sale. Church Basement, #a. •tl. 1 IM. B. Standard Bearors Baked • -flood* Sale. Schafer Store. !• a. B> Monday ■ St. Acne* Sodality Mothe's Dey I ■PAtry. Catholic Auditorium. 7-Jo ip. m. i Tarty. Catholic School Aud'torlum ,7:10 p. m. Tuesday , I Loyal Daughters Clans. Mrs. MH|tM Brown of Preble. 7:l® P m 1 j Tri Kappa Social Meeting Elks Home. J p. m | C. L. of C. Mother Danghtrr Hani.quet. K. of C Hall. « So p ;n . Oelta Theta Tau. Helen Barthel. I " So p. m Wednesday J Business and Professional Women s Club Anniverrary Patty, copIpMM Residence. <3O p. m Thursday Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. Methodist Church. 2 p. m St. Luke's Ladies' Aid Society. Mrs. Wm. Bertsch, all day meeting. Friendship Village Club. Mrs Ada Riley of Salem. Mitchell and Mrs Ralph Bluhm, estlnt lesson color schemes Mrs The leaders then gave an interCrystal Rice turned in her birth day offering Eleven members and four visitors answered the roll call, including the Mesdames John Baltaell and daughter Jane. E W. Bushce. Marion Reber. Dwight I Scbnepp and daughter Gretchen | Ann. Everett Rice. Kenneth ParI rtah. Erwin Stuckey, John Hinden i lang and son Gene. John Fla ugh. Harve Selts. William Mitchell. Hussell Mitchel. Ralph Blum. Clarence Mitchell. Mrs. Brown. Mrs. Hirschy , and daughter Lena and the hostess. Mrs. Stanley. The Delta Theta Tau sororltv will meet Tuesday evening with Miss lit len Barthel on Jefferson street. MANY STUDENTS ATTEND DANCE Four hundred students ot the Decatur public and the CathoH-* high schools enjoyed the dance given by th* recreational department ot the WPA> last evening in the Catholic auditorium. The dance was in honor ot the baaektball teams o' both schools. A number of parents

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' warn also especial guesta. The auditorium was altmctlvely ’fraieti in the colors of both pihoolg as well us with spring flowi Th- local WPA orcin ttr* turn- | ished the mnalc. j The St, Luke's Ituiles' aid sncleiy will have an sail day meeting at the j home Os Mrs. Wm. Bertsch Thur-.-•lay. All members are urged to at- ' tend. Th* meeting of the Decatur Garden club has Iteen postponed until Tuesday. May 23 at which time it will bi- held at the homo -f Mrs. i | E<l Warreu. The children of the United Brethren Sunday school are asked to re- ! turn their Glad Chests Sunday . morning. MRS. LAWRENCE MITCHEL IS HOSTESS TO SOCIETY I The VV. M. A. of the Eighth Street U. B. church met at the home of Mrs. latwrence Mitchel Friday aflernoon with thirteen members and J nine visitors present. The meeting <>pei>«-d with singing and prayer led by Mrs. It M Wynn »nd Mrs Hasel. A business meeting followed the scripture reading. . Some upproprlat* rente -ks were tu-’tde by Mrs. R M Wynn, the oWest mother and Mrs. Dole Osborn, the youngest mother, on "What It means to be a mother.'' | Response to roll call was mad* by naming a missionary mother. The meeting closed with prayer ted by Mrs. T Dagtie Lovely rofroa> . ments were served by the hostess. Mrs. Mitchel. The St. Agnes Sodality will give a Mother's Ihsy party In th* Catbo- • lie auditorium Monday evening. The party will begin promptly at seven-thirty o'clock. Games will be , eajoyed and a luncheon served. All members and mothers of the parish are invited to attend. GUESTS ANO MEMBERS ENJOY DINNER PARTY Fifty members and friends of the Psi lota XI sorority enjoyed the anniversary party at thw Masonic hall Ft iday evening. A delicious dinner was served at all-thirty o'clock, fot-k-wed with cards and danc’ng. The guests were seated kt small tables which were candle-lighted. 1 Arrangements of purple violets decorated the wndows. During the dinner. music was furnished by Darwin I Leita at the piano. A short program of entertainment j followed the dinner Miss Dorothy I v oung. pregident of the sorority, spoke a few words of welcome. Mis* Joan Cowan played a piano solo; David l-angston. accordian solo; Lata Baughman, reading; Norman. Irra and Anna Marte Steury. Haw<citan music; Patsy Edwards, xylophone solo; Jack Graham, piano M lection. Cards and dancing were then enjoyed with Leslie Hines and his ' three piece orchestra ot Fort Wayno furnishing the snuslc. Table prises were awarded to the fotlow<ng. Mrs. Sim Burk. Leigh Bowen. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Freehy, Mr. and Mrs. Paul -llancher. Mlsa Marjorie j DrVoas. Ed Loae. Mr. and Mtn. Herman Krueckeberg. Mrs. Robert ; Zwick. John DeVosa. George Auer. Mrs. Alfred Reavers. Miss Mary Cowan. James Cowan. Ml is Dora Shosenherg. Mrs. Chalmer Deßolt. Mrs. Clifford Saylors, Mrs. Carrol Cole. Mr. and Mrs Charloa Knapp. - ■■■——■ o Trgde In a Good Town—Decatur. Item* frem UrfeHen *•!* •mm lomml amunc du»i*c«wrM aterl»a« •< (HHirtlMiMwa siotat* »Mla tahini Ina»nU»iU« as Indiana ravntp pwmeM* Th» material. In rind ing panrtnatian, •prlling. rtr., |« ratUd verbatim and farnt»b«M b» Ibe Hitter teal Rerarda Hervey •( U»t W. F- A. In Early English <r»Bm Jvdrr«>n Count. Commissioner** Meoonl UN.) Ordered that Ebeneier Hilles be allowed forth Dollars for taking care of John Camee A for his eoffin who was taken sick and died at his house. Commenced Next Saturday (From Montyom»r > County CommiMionarv* Kxurd H2IJ Ordered by the Board that the Sheriff give notice that he will Sell to the Lowest Bidder the finishing of the Chimney Commenced In the Court House on Sattcrday next. Between the hours twelve * four oclock to be finished with brick or Stone —- All For Only 1330 (From Jar Countr CnmmlssloMrs* Rsi-urds ISO.) Ordered that there is and there 'i is hereby appropriated the sum of Two Hundred Dollars of the first monies arising from the sale of lota in the Town of Portland not otherwise appropriated for the Kae of building a Jail, and proj a stove and Table and benches and other necessaries for the Court House and that the Treasurer retain the same in his hands for that purpose.

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By HARRINON CABROLL CovrlgM. less kl*S Frslsrss K,sdlrsls, Im. HOLLYWOOD- It may surprise Margaret Mitchell to know that a doctor pored carefully over her description of the death of Melanie

in "Gone With the Wind" to give Olivia De Havllland additional hints on how to make the episode more realistic It was Olivia's own idea. Rhe called in her family phyaiclan and they | discussed the j death scene for four hours . . .

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every phase at IL Including the effect upon the voice. Olivia's interpretation will be absolutely authentic version of a woman dying from shock. Uliana has Jost pounila and will open at Leon and Eddie's in New York. May 21. After four weeks there, she goes to Atlantic City N. J., and Saratoga. N. Y . for further singing engagements. Understand when she gets through paying the lawyers then will be very little left for the set tlement from Stan l<aurel. There's a dramatic sidelight to the signing of youthful Brenda J °y<* to Play the role of Fern tn "The Rains Came " The contract will mean a reunion of the actress and her mother, who has been working as house mother at a fraternity at Westminster college tn Fulton. Mo. As soon as she got the part. Brenda wired her mother to come back to Hollywood. After plane reservations were made. Tyrone Power and Annabella yesterday had to put off their honeymoon trip <tUI a little bit longer. ' Funny story they tell about Al Smith, while he was pamring through lowa, en route to California. M-G-M Starlet Judy Garland was on the same train and the two made a great hit with soo people at the town of Marceline by ‘"ngiug a song together on the observation platform. The song, you guessed It, was "The Sidewalks nt New Turk." When they had finished. Smith smiled at Judy and said: "That's the first time I have ever been topped by anybody who wasn't ■ shouting louder, promising nu.re i or asking less.'* Argument at Paramount estab Bshes that it la unfair to kill an*

♦' " “ 111 0 Adams County | * Memorial Hospital e— ■"—" o' Admitted: Mrs. Gersld Rmltley. 124 Grsnt St.; Mrs. Glenn Grog;*, Route 2; Lawrence Wi.-k, 34J1 ; Maumee Ave.. Fort Wayne. Dismissed: Paul Nuerge. Route IDecatur; Mrs. Ida Moser. IS* Wabash St., Berne; Mrs. Fsy Mutscbr, <32 N. Third Bt,

BROADWAY NIGHTS C'serMskS. ISIS. FaatOMS SrwSlawte. la*. By AXEL STORM By AXEL STORM

NEW YORK—You can get a pretty good idea of what's wrong with ths theatre when you hear that Anita Loos' “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" Is due for a

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Broadway revival. It’s the intention of the producers to put the play on as a museum piece. Costuming, slang, hip flasks, skirts above the knee and all other stigmata of the flapper era wI i I be employed. Add

to this the fact that one of the greatest hits on the rialto is the revival of "Outward Bound” and you'll see why the air is full of the flapping of turkey wings, why plays open .and close like doors on a busy office building, and why such second-rate musicals as "The Boys from Syracuse" are drawing record house*. Visitors to the World's Fair can draw small comfort from the fact that the best play on Broadway will be closed by the time •you read this. "Oscar Wilde”, in which Robert Morley has been S'ving lessons in acting to the espians of Broadway closed with its 245th performance at the Fulton Theatre. And "The Gentle People", with Franchot Tone and Sylvia Sidney has also rung down Its curtain after 247 performances. The Sidney-Tone vehicle wasn't the beat play in the world, but it gave theatregoers a Jthanee to see how these distinguished silver shadow* look and talk in real life. Your correspondent believe* that the following plays offer a run for the money:

actor off in the middle of a picture, let him go and then use a dummy to double aa hie corpse in later scenes. . Character Man George Zucco te the ease tn point. He is murdered early In "The Cat and the Canary" but hie corpse keeps disappearing and popping up all through the story. Studio had planned to get through with Zucco and substitute a dummy, but he protested and has won the right to play his own "corpse." It's proved too much of a wrench, after all. for Gregory Ratoff to quit acting entirely in favor of di- ■ rectlng. He'll do three scenes in "Hotel for Women." a comedy routine where he goes into the . hotel and tries to buy a'cigar. The famous Ratoff dialect wUI be fee--1 tured. Shirley Temple and her family won't be hotel dwellers In Honolulu as they were on previous trips. They've taken a house and plan to

stay between I four and elx . weeke . . . The Gene Lockharts, wed 15 years and both working In the Bob Burns picture, will buy each other no more surprise ann I* versary gifts. Each get the other an automobile. Even the make was

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Identical . . . House of Murphy one of Hollywood favoriate rendexous, will open a downstairs annex. One of the new entertainment features will be old song slides projected on a screen to encourage community warbling . . . Dorothy Tree and Michael Uris, who got a hurry call to come to Hollywood right after they were wed five years ago. recently sent for all their things and discovered a large batch of wedding presents that they didn't even know they had received. ... Bonita Granville, only 1«. graduates from high school this semester, and 1s Inviting Hollywood's younger set to a party at the red school house on the Warner 10t... You wonder where they get some of the movie title* Jonathan Finn, long a literary adviser of Warden Lawes and author of "Invisible Stripes." got this title from the exploit of an artist convict who once used air extraordinary hoax in an attempted prison , break He painted out the stripes I on a conrict's suit and painted on a crude replica of a guard's uniform. He tried the break at dusk ■gad almost got away.

Gold Mine Traded For Ale Sydney. Australia. — (U.» —An I' Australian counterpart of the , j Biblical character who sold his heritage for a meas of pottage haa been reported from the Interior. ■ Two men. tired of mining their I gold claim without result, traded I It for a caae of ale. The new owners immediately started tunneling In the opposite direction and uncovered heavy deposits of guld. FeoUe t» s «♦—Mt Wwww — n»ea«e*

Musicks: the Imperial; “Pin* and Needles” at the Labor Stage —and very, very good, too; "Stars in Your Eyes” at the Majestic and "One for the Money" at the Booth. Legit: "Abe Lincoln in Illinois” at the Plymouth; “I Must Love Someone"' at the Vanderbilt; "Mamba’s Daughters” at the Empire; "No Time for Comedy" at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre—Miss Cornell back on the job; "The American Way" at the Center Theatre In Rockefeller Center; "The Philadelphia Story” with Miss Katharine Hepburn at the Shubert; Mix* Tallulah Bankhead in "The Little Foxes” at the National, and of course Ezra Stone in "What a Life" at the Mansfield, and the perennial "Tobacco Road" at the Forrest. You’ll note there isn't an English play in the lot The lads from London have been giving us some mighty feeble squeals byway of plays, but they've been sporting about It They take their failures with good grace, and they try again with that sound, British “carry on” attitude. It isn't the fault of the producers and the actor* if the plays issuing from London pens are light. You'll recall that ’"The Flashing Stream" opened, wax looked at in polite amazement, and closed, all in the compass of a week. It wax a bit thick, at that Yet It was a success in Ixmdon, holding the board* for six exciting weeks. I guess our Ideas of excitement don't jibe much with those of our brethren oversea*. A* a matter of fact they'll fool us. Any day now you can expect an English play by an English playwright with an English cast to open on Broadway and knock ’em dead. And there’s one thing Byou can always say about English y*. They may be dull, but y're seldom dirty.

gERSONALS Dr. Roy Archbold will spend Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday In Indianapolis attending the dental convention to lie held a t the t'Uypool hotel in that City. Sunday. Dr. and Mra. Archhold will motor io Peru where they will vieIt with their daughter and aon-ln law. Mr. and Mrs Phil Byron. Mrs. Archbold will remain for several •lays. Mlsa Rose Fullenkamp and Mra. E F. Gass and daughter Beatrice will have as tbelr ruests over th* week eud Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Ahrens. Mr. and Mra. R. Dunlap and H-tbert Fullenkamp. all of Chicago. Mra. Fay Mutacbler who haa been confined to the Adame County Hoa-I-Ital for the paat several seeks haa been returned to her home on North 1 bird Street. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Smith of Taylorville. HI., have been vlsl'lng here th* paa< several days with the former's slater and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mra. Albert Auker. Mr. IMnith l< an official of the Peabody Coal Company. Don Smith of Inditnapolts was a business visitor here Friday. Mrs. Ben Kohn*, a former Decatut resident, haa been admitted to tlw Lutheran hospital tn Fort Wayne lor observation and treatment. Mra. M. A. Frlalnger and daughter, Mtaa Betty attended a motherdaughter luncheon ot the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority held in Mrs. MU let a tra room m Fort Waym this noon. Mr. and Mrs. J. Ward Calland will be among thoa* who will hear Rul.inoff and bis violin at th* Shrine,

'’HAPTER XLIH For works Beverly lay in her bed. * thia white figure with enormous eyes, and hands which seemed to have lost their clutch on life. Chris, sitting beside her, was frightened at times. She seemed, like old Letitia Mortimer, to be slipping away from •he sheer burden of living. He would slay there in the darkened room, knowing that his being there gave her support, but groping for words of comfort which she seemed hardly to hear. "I did It, Chris. If I had cared more—“ “You did all any woman could do." “I ean see him all the time. I can shut my eyes and see him." “Try not to see him, Beverly. That can't hurt him now." 'But he loved to live, Chris. He loved life. He didn't want to go." "Listen, dear. Either he is asleep -~«nd God knows we all want to sleep—or he is busy and happy somewhere else. It’s one thing or the other darling." He never touched her, save now and then to stroke those lifeless hands of hers. Sometimes she seemed not to know that he was there. When he moved to go, however, she would look up at him. "Can't you stay a little longer? I don't want to be alone." He would stay as long as he dared. "Are you there. Chris?" "I’m here. I’m here as long as you need me." One day, however, he told her that •be ought to rouse herself, to see people, and she obeyed like a child. She would sit up in her bed in that flower-bedecked room and see her Visitors: the decorous women who nad been her mother's friends, the younger ones who had been her own. "Bev, darling, is there anything I ean do?" , "I’ll be all right. I just need time." On the first day she left her bed she made her pitiful journey Ihrovgh the closed door into Jerry's room. It was as he had left it, hie riothen—his innumerable clothes—banging in his closets, his collars snd shirts in the drawers. They were gay and debonair, those possesMons of his. What did it matter now that he had not loved her? She had meant something to him. And toward the end he had tried. Poor ferry. Poor dead Jerry. In an upper drawer she found those wings of his which he had worn through the war. They were in a small satin-lined bos, and she stood with it in her hand, staring, down at them. Suddenly she was on her knees by his bed, the bos in her hand. “Oh. Jerry, Jerry," she said. "You wanted to fly, and I held you back., I didn't mean to hold you back, Jerry. I didn't mean it." It was some time after that that •he asked Chris about Jerry’s child. “I am alone now," she said, “and If I could have this boy—” "That's morbid,” he told her sternly. "The boy is fine and well cared for. Loved, too. l-et him •lone, my dear.” That was the last day he came. She was well now, he told her, and didn’t need a doctor. "Besides,” he said, smiling down •t her, “it is getting to be a habit. And all habits are bad." She let him go without a protest, but for a moment she held his big hand between her two thin ones. “I'll miss you. Chris. You know that" “Yea. I know that.” And that was that. When he left, he stooped and kissed her lightly on the forehead. "That’s for being a brave girl," he told her, and went rather dizzily out into the sunshine. • see The city had changed If the war snd the postwar deflation had re-

FROM ME TO YOU Did you ever atop to wonder how the service of carrying mall from plate to place first alertedf How It haa d<-v>-lo|ted from small beginnings Into the WorldWide postal acrvleea that Ila the nations together? How the U. H postal aarrlra began II work, and added one ** r . vice after another? Would yuu Ilka to know hnw each of the various kinds of aervice developed, how the mull la carried. Sorted, delivered’ The booklet HISTORY OF THE 11. R POSTAL SERVICE avail, able from our Washington Service Bureau la crammer! with Hille, known hart* of ih«« tom hinting htn lory of ih«> |nmiihl rat vic* Send the coufHtn below tent lowing a dime) for your copy - CLIP COUPON HERE F. M KERBY, Director, Dspt. B 178, Dally Dsmosrat'e Service Bureau. 1013 Thirteenth Street. Washington, D. C. '“"•’•"Hy wrapped* for my copy of the booklet HISTORY OF THE POSTAL SERVICE, whit h send to NAME STREET and No C,TY STATE ... I am a reader of the Decatur Dully Democrat, Decatur. Ind.

Pon Wayno. Tuesday night. The r<offr<irn tn nponnor««d hy th«* Tri Kappa sorority of Fort Wayne. j Mr. and Mrs. Arthur R Holthouse ' ■utd daughter Ruth will visit Dan Holthotise at Indiana t*n*versltv over the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Smith have moved into their modern new home' on Nunman avenue. Mr, and Mrs. James Kocher will -pend the week end at their summer home at Hamilton Lain. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Archbold of (old waler Michigan, will spent Sunday at the home of the latter's! parents. Mr. ami Mrs. A. D. Sullies. D. W. Beery of Fort Wayne enjoy- <■! yesterday afternoon visiting old •>catur friends R A Glblra of Fort Wayne attended to business here this morning. Dyonis Si hnillt. who hM been

duced and even wiped out some fortunes, it had made new ones. The result was a new social order which discarded the old and set up its own standards, particularly of pleasure. In this new and rather mixed realm Katie was highly popular. No hour was too late for her to dance, no extravagance too much if it suited her mood. She made and kept her place by sheer vitality, and Chris, wa'chmg her, sometimes marveled at her endurance. She spent hours in beauty parlors, and other hours in arranging partite, 1 picnics, and what not. Then in the evenings she would saunter down•tairs. short skirts over legs she was frying now to reduce, short hair carefully cut and waved, breasts flattened to conform to the new boy-1 ish figure, and glance at him in the office. "Don't expect me until you see me," she would say. and wave him a flippant good-bye. There were days when he never •aw her at alt. The new society asked only to be amused, to go places and do things, and Katie always ready to do either. But she was ambitious to go further. One day. a year after Jerry's death, she came to tell Chris that Janet Grant was putting her house on the market. and suggested that they buy it.! “It'a cheap," she said, "and you ought to put up some sort of front, Chris." . “Nothing succeeds like good hard i work. And I've got the downtown office. It'a all I can carry." She persisted, and one day he found himself and Katie in the house, with Janet showing them around and Grant’s ghost at his elbow. Katie was enchanted. Before they left she was planning the rooms, seeing herself coming down the wide staircase, giving dinners, giving parties. But in the car going home Chris flatly refused to buy it. “I can’t afford it.” he said. “And besides, it killed Grant.” He held out for three months, with Katie alternately sulking and cajoling. Then one ilay out of sheer desperation he went .to the bank, drew out hia entire balance, and signed the necessary papers. By the time they had moved in and Katie had done It over, he was obliged to ' borrow money. For weeks and ■ months decorators were busy. Katie lying in her bed, would be almost completely obscured by blueprinta, by samples of silk and chintz, by drawings of thia and that. It was only by main force that he 1 kept her out of Grant's old offices 5 and installed there the shabby but substantial furniture from the old' house. But she managed new carpets and curtains, and one day he came home to find a man busy doing | over his old desk. He stood gating grimly down at it. remembering the , grime which once had covered it, | seeing Lily flicking at it with al feather duster, recalling Annie' Lewis looking acmes It at him with her handsome, haggard face, and seeing Beverly standing beyond It. He was working feverishly now. SomeUmee he did half a dozen operations in a morning, emerging from ; the operating room exhausted. Now •nd then he would fall asleep In his chair, or beside some bed. Once he even dozed in the car while he was driving himself, and narrowly escaped an accident. But he needed - money constantly, although he was learning considerable amounts; and that next spring hr raised his prices in a desperate attempt to get even with the game Scott spoke to him one day about I It, a Scott with one arm but two dear-seeing eyes. "What's wrong with you. Chris?" “Wrong? Nothing that I know of. Os course a specialty is the devil. Fellow loses touch with hia people. I used to know them, and they knew me. Now they km.w about me. That’s different."

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T——————————— recuperating the paat several months from s series of broken ; legs, la able to be out In his wheel- ' « d chslr again The condition of W. .1, Archbold, former city and cow y tt*aaurer. I continues serious, thoush ha la reported In Ire resting sontu what easier. Mrs. Herman Weber, of Decatur. ( route one. is reported recovr ring to day from a ala week's illness. a ARRIVALS Judith Ann is the name of the I iby daughter born to Mr amt Mra. True Gephsrt. Jr., ot mate 1, MonI "--e. at the Aliases county memorial . hospital Thursday at 6:<f> p. m. Th* l.aby weishi-d six pounds, nine and tl-.ree quarters ounces.

n He was almost stunned one day, about that time, to hear that B-*v. erly had taken over hia old house, Katie told him, watching his race. “Your old love has taken the house. Chris. Did you know it?" "What house?” “Our house.” “I hadn't heard. No." So she was there, alone in that house they had hoped to share. Katie was not malicious, however, and her old jealousy of Beverly had died with her increasing indifference to , Chris. For a few weeks after ' Jerry’s death she had been watchful. even uneasy. Then, nothing happening, she had gone back to this new and enthralling life of hers | and dismissed the whole matter J from' her mind. But Chris could not . dismiss it. and after a month of inI decision he went to see the house. . stepping into the hall when Holmes opened the door and once more seeing Lily there, and Henry, and an ' odd little slattern of a girl called Katie. He drew a long breath. Strange to feel more at home here , than in Grant's house! The old offices were still there, but the double doors had become an arch I between them. The rooms themselves were gay with chintz, and | Beverly's grand piano sat in the I back room where his desk had been. The washstand had gone, there were old mirrors over the mantels, a few of the smaller pictures from , ihe big house hung on the walls, and here and there were flowers. But they were the same rooms, for all ' that, fin the marble mantei in the i back office was the scar he had left from a forgotten cigarette. He was standing eyeing it when Beverly came in, holding out her hand, determinedly smiling. “Well, Chris," she said, “and what do you think of your house?" "Why did you do it? Why did you come here, Beverly?" She hesitated. Then she looked at him with her direct gaze. “I had to leave the other house, you know. They were getting ready to build.” She sat down, but Chris did not sit. Here by the register Caesar had lain on cold sight-, or had waited for the sound of his master's key in the door. "I have a dog buried in the yard," he said abruptly. “I'd be glad to think—" "I shall not disturb him. Chris.” "Why didn't you tell me, Beverly? After all, to come here it's no es- . cape, my girl. If you want to forI get -" I "Perhaps | don't want to forget. After all, Chris, haven’t I a right at ' least to my memories? They hurt | nobody. Not even Jerry." It was dangerous. Too dangerous. He brought himself up with a jerk, I and his next words were carefully I casual. "Os course you have, my dear. So 1 have I. And now—how are you?" “Quite all right, or as right as I can be." He stayed for a while after that, but the talk was careful suifare talk. Was he busy? And didn't he need a holiday? When had he taken a real rest? And how did it feel to be growing famous? He answeted, but the constraint was there, heavy between them, like a wail. Rhe wax smiling when at last Holmes let him out, and he went away with a feeling of finality and loss. She wax living in hlx house, I but she had taken herself out of his life ax carefully and as painlessly lax she could. Driving away, he '! knew that the last page of that book , had been closed. But alone in that j back room Beverly was standing in ■ I front of the old marble mantel, ' staring blankly at the brown scar j on it. (To be continued) <’"»WUM kt Man atMMrt I niilrliivue k> Xue *Miam irWau. | M