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SONIA A Story of Dangerous Love :■■■• By VIDA HURST =

Through DR. DON STILLWATER. SONIA MARSH, young, poor and pretty, obtains a position in the San Francisco real estate office of JED THOMAS, his uncla. MAXINE LARUE, head of her department. invitee. Sonia. VIOLET. FERN. JINNY andFRANIOE to her liquor party. Sonia quarrels with BERT DONOHUE because of her infatuation for FRANKLIN CRANE, whose lather was a friend of JED THOMAS. Maxine notices her employer's unusual interest in Sonia. Sonia visits her sister VERA and meets TOM UNDERWOOD who is engaged to wealthy SIDNEY MAINE. Maxine, with whom Sonia lives, admits that her elderly friend. MAC MCGREGOR, is married. Crane tells Sonia his engagement to Sidney's cousin. GENEVIEVE ERICKSON. was arranged by his rich mother, that he never intends to marry the girl, although the engagement cannot be broken for fear of the bad effect on the health of his Invalid mother. In despair, Sonia makes a conditional Sromise to marry wealthy WALTER iENDERSON. whom her parents. ANN and SAM MARSH, favor. Crane asks her to give up Henderson, hoping that a turn for better or worse in his mother's health will permit him to break his engagement. She consents. Henderson leaves the offer open for her lengthy consideration. Sonia hears that Dr. Stillwater is thinking of locating in San Francisco and that his mother approves of his interest in Sonia. When Sonia refuses to spend the week-end alone with Crane at his summer cabin, he invites Maxine and her friend to accompany them CHAPTER XXXII. The trip to Franklin’s shack in Marin County was planned for the next week-enl They were to go in the same cat . “I’ll drive Mother’s large car.” Franklin promised. "Then we can have plenty of room for our suitcases.” Maxine and Sonia spent their noon hours discussing what to take Sonia insisted on sweaters and skirts, but Maxine wanted to take a silk dress. . "But why?” -fne younger girl asked impatiently. "I don’t want to look like something the cat dragged in," complained Maxine. “In the evenings Iwant to look nice.” “Don't be silly, Sonia replied. “This is no afternoon tea. I’m wearing a sweater myself.” But she bought anew one, jade green, to match her eyes. “No wonder you’re wearing a sweater,” Maxine said, seeing her try it on. “If I looked like you do in sport things I’d wear one, too.” Maxine bought anew kimona. “This old thing I have is a wreck.” she explained. Sonia, distinctive always in dress, disliked the rose-colored negligee Maxine bought to replace it. But she did not like to express herself to plainly, conscious that their tastes in clothes frequently clashed. In the package with the negligee was a peach-colored crepe nightgown heavy with lace. “What is the idea?” asked Sonia. “You act like you were going on your honeymoon.” Maxine smiled. “There slight be an earthquake or something. It pays to always be prepared.” Sonia said nothing, but decided secretly that her white gown and old gray negligee would have to do. She had not scon so much of Franklin as usual that week. There had been a dinner dance in his own set. and be explained to her that if he was to be away' over Sunday he should spend an evening or two during the week with his mother. Sonia agreed, serene in the thought of the approaching week-end. He had not explained which nights were to he spent at home, but she had naturally assumed all that he was not with her, with the exception of t lie dinner. Having had more sleep than she was accustomed to, Sonia became restless by Thursday. She felt that she could not endure another evening alone in the apartment. For the first time since she had dismissed him. she wished for Henderson. Tt would h e nice to have him always on hand to fill up a vacant evening, although she realized she could not expect that. Then she thought of Don Stillwater. It had piqued her curiosity as well as her vanity that he had not bothered to lodk her up. She would have enjoyed talking with him. Outside of Bertie, there was no one. It had been days since she had even thought of him. His attitude at the office was coldly noncommittal, but she decided instantly that it would never be safe to rouse him. Better to let “sleeping dogs lie." At last, in desperation, she telephoned Violet and suggested a “movie.” ♦ * ♦ As they waited in the line outside the Warfield, Violet whispered, “Who’s that with Franklin Crane?" He was in front of them, with only four people between. A charming, vivacious girl of his own age was beside him. Sonia stared, sick at heart, at the, rich fur coat, the blonde bobbed hair curling softly under the plain little hat. Everything about her suggested breeding and luxury. “Hike Sidney, only much more so,” thought Sonia. Her eyes were blue and gay. She turned from time to time to watch the line forming behind them, keeping close hold of Franklin’s arm.

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It was her air of possession which whitened Sonia’s face. She had known about her, but to see him with her was much more serious. And at this moment, she, Sonia Marsh, was nothing to him. Although they were separated by only a few feet, he was unconscious of her, was not even thinking of her. How could he be when his head was bent so attentively to listen to the other girl? t The line moved and they disappeared inside the theater. Sick with jealousy, Sonia would gladly have left the line and gone home, but she dared not show any emotion before Violet. Throwing back her head, she chatted about anything else until at last they were seated In the darkened theater and she jcould safely relax her stiffened features. The picture floated before her eyes in infinitesimal, meaningless pieces, although she heard herself laughing with Violet and argeeing with her whispered comments. The situation was impossible. She could not understand how she could have been so weak as to agree to it — A love affair with a man who was already engaged! He might as well be married. Weeks had passed since he had promised to speak to his mother. Os course, everything hinged on her condition. "But that’s ridiculous. too.” thought Sonia. "The idea that any woman, even his mother, could force a man to be engaged against his will.” It would have been easier to believe If she had not seen Genevieve Erickson. But the girl was lovely. She was no washed out clinging vine, as Sonia, for some reason, had imagined her. but a charming girl, with a definite personality, and evidently used to attention. “And he’s giving it to her,” continued Sonia, stabbing at her own heart. “He needn’t tell me his kisses are like a brother’s.” When Violet announced that this was where they had come in, Sonia had neither see nor heard anything that had taken place. She took her hat and stumbled from the theater, blind with rage at herself and fate, and most of all, the man who had been responsible for the situation. She parted from Violet ''as soon as possible, taking the street car and | trudging eventually up to her own apartment. When she had unlocked the door she lighted the fire and sat beside it lifelessly without removing hat or coat. The new sweater she had bought hung across a chair. She turned her eyes away from it. What possible pleasure could their week-end bring now? She would constantly be seeing his face as it had looked into Genevieve Erickson's. When the doorbell rang at 11:30 she answered it listlessly. It was Franklin and he entered as if nothing had happened, is if he had not just been sitting close beside another girl, while Sonia waited, aching for him. In the same theater. She stared at him coldly. “What did you come here for?” “What do you suppose? I wanted to see you.” “T don’t know why you should, Isn’t this your night off?” He dropped his coat good-natu-redly. “Why. bless its little heart, it’s peeved at papa.” “Why shouldn’t I be?” she blazed. "I suppose you’re going to tell me you spent the evening holding your mother’s hand.” “Tt isn’t necessary for me to give an account of my evenings. Sonia.” “Well. I saw you at the Warfield with the girl you’re going to marry.” “So that’s it. You saw me. Where were you?” ' “Waiting in the line four places back," khe said, bitterly, “where T suppose you’d like to keep me always. But I won’t. I can't stand this, Franklin. It’s killing me.” White faced they stared at each other. “What do you mean?” he said at last. ■'l”' “T mean it’s got to stop. You’ll have to choose now which one of us it’s going to be." (To Be Continued) DOPE IS AGAINST CAL —* Records Show 14 Past Presidents Fell With Congress Loss. Times Washinoton Bureau, ISi2 Xew York t.venue WASHINGTON, Nov. s.—Unless Calvin Coolidge rises superior to precedent, he will not be re-elected two years from now. Records show that fourteen Presidents have lost control of one or both houses of Congress. All fourteen have failed of re-election two years later. • In eight cases, victory of the minority party in off-year elections meant its victory in the next presidential contest. Coolidge will be unable to control the next Senate as a result of this week’s election.

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his wife. An upholstered “easy chair’’ and $25 in gold was presented to Cooney. Worley spent thirty-flve years in the shop from which he retired, twent-one at the same anvil and forge. Cooney started to work in 1901 with the Vnndalia Railroad and joined the Pennsylvania ranks when the companies merged. He was located at the E. Washington St. shop for the last three years, and lives at 309 lowa St. He has six children. Worley has retired to a farm near Greenfield and has four children, "Boys, I thank you,” was the extent of the* return speeches by the two men after the presentations. "We Just ’choked up’ and couldn’t say much.” they said afterwards. "It Is a bit hard to leave these fellows we have worked with for so many years.’’ Both men were visibly touched with the emotion aroused by the occasion.

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WEEKLY SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON ' The Fall of Jericho Is Again Told in This Study

The International Uniform Sunday School Leaeon for Nov. 7: The Fall of Jericho.—Joshua 0:12-20. By Wm. E. Gilroy, D. I). Editor of The Congregatlonallst There are two ways of dealing with, the story of the fall of Jericho, as with most incidents in Biblical history. These stories relate to a faroff time and their Interest as history is entirely dominated for us hy their religious value. There are prosaic minds who read these ancient stories merely as matters of fact. Such people would readily admit that there is a traditional and legendary element in the histories of all peoples and nations, but they attach such almost superstitious reverence to the Bible that they consider it dishonoring to that hook and inimical to the Gospel of Christ to suggest that there is anything traditional or legendary iri stories concerning the early and far remote history Os Israel. Asa matter of fart, the Gospel of Christ should not be inextricably hound up with these questions of history. It is entirely possible that a man may believe in the redemptive love of God and experience salvation through Jesus Christ who be iieves that such a story as this in ouf lesson may have been compiled hy a sacred writer who gathered up the stories current in Israel concern ing events that even then were in a distant past. However, the important point is that the religious teaching of a lesson like this Is the main Interest and not. the mere matter of what happened historically. Spirited Significance Both literalists and men who follow more liberal and modern methods of interpretation alike may find in this story of the fall of Jericho | much that is spiritually significant. I Prohnbl.v we should find that the i legendary element in the history of t all people is based upon a back- | ground of very definite fact. It seems Incredible that the walls of q. great city should fall before a ; great display of determination, vigorously expressed in noise and shouting. But, when we come to think of it, that exactly the way !in which the strongholds and cltai dels of evil do actually succumb to the determined .assaults of righteous i and determined mien. | Suppose that in relation to any strongly entranehed svil in our mod-

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ern life the determined, organized will of a powerful and representative group of righteous and Godfearing men throughout the country became expressed in pulpit, press and legislative hall with the same persistent organized power that these forces displayed as, under the command of Joshua, they encircled Jericho day after day. Suppose that It became manifest that these forces of righteousness were not only unified and courageous but that they were upheld by a sense of the divine presence. Would these forces of evil in our land wait for a blow to be struck? They would exemplify the truth of the ancient seer, “the wicked flee when no man pursueth.’’ It is true of course, as someone has said, that they go faster when a righteous man does actually pursue. But history reveals nothing more truly than that the'prayers of the righteous avail much, that the persistent determined advocacy of right, the willingness to strike heavy blows, the readiness to sacrifice all for a great cause, in themselves establish an irresistible spiritual power Whatever be the actual historicity of this story of the fall of Jericho,

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