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CHAPTER XLVII CAPTAIN FARQUAHAR flushed when Jenkins accused him of “seeing too much of a certain married woman.’’ \ “Most certainly not,” said Jack. “I happen to be an engaged man and will be married soon.” “You know, I believe you, Farquahar. And the very fact that I do believe you have got me in a muddle. Do you recall the other day when we passed a girl in a car and I said she was the prettiest woman in New York?” “Surely. She is my fiancee.” Jenkins threw up his hands. “That fixes it then. I’m being played for a sucker by someone.” Jenkins leaned towards Jack. “Farquahar, I like you, I think you are square. Someone is trying to make a monkey out of you. I’ll not tell you who I think it is, but you will find out seen enough for yourself.” With that Jenkins left the table. Jack finished lunch and followed him to the lobby only to find that Jenkins had checked out of the hotel only a few moments before. Jack was puzzled as he went to his room. But Herbert was more puzzled when he read Jenkins’ reports shortly afterward. The gist of the official report was that Jenkins was mystified over the actions of Herbert and Farquahar and that he was washing his hands of the entire affair. He added that he thought when he started work that Herbert knew his own wife by sight. At home at that very minute, Jenkins said to his wife, “What do you think of that for a dumb stunt, Neilie? This guy showed roe a picture of the other bird’s fiancee and said it was his wife that the young one was after. I’ll bet this Ware guy is trying to steal Farquahar’s girl.” Herbert felt a little stupid of his part in the affair, and believed that he had treated Lila pretty roughly. He went to her room before retiring and with loving tenderness tried to make up for his blunders. Lila didn’t know what to think of her husband’s actions. For so many days he had been utterly indifferent to her, and now he was all love. When Herbert had gone to his own room and Siddons had closed the house so rthe night, there was a knock at Lila’s door. When she opened it, Siddons stood there with a letter in his hand, “Mr. Ware dropped this on the library floor, Madame, and I though, perhaps it would interest you. It was the report of the detective And Lila’s blood froze when she thought of the cloud under which she had been living the past few days. She was trying to think of some way to get rid of Jack before another detective appeared on the scene, when the telephone bell tinkled. It was Jack. “May I speak to Mrs. Ware?” Lila was fairly caught. She had to say something. “Mrs. Ware is not at home. Is there any message. This is Mr> Ware’s maid speaking,” said Lila hurriedly. “Will you kindly tell Mrs. Ware that Captain Farquahar is calling It is very important that I speak to her tonight. Have her call me at my hotel when she comes in.” He hung up. “Persistent beast,” thought Lila. “How could I ever have thought I loved him?” The thought that Jack had found out something about the Ware ruse terrified Lila, but she would have been more frightened if she knew *#ack was calling Dorothy’s studk at that very moment. tt tt n DOROTHY had just come in from a night club, where she had been with Gilroy Holmes when

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‘•Am I to understand then, Mr. Pruitt, that a girl, to hold a job with the Pruitt Hardware Company, must live the life of a hermit outside business hours?” Crystal surprised both herself and Lincoln Pruitt by demanding. Her employer glared at the girl over the top of his glasses. “I don’t like your tone, Miss Hathaway,” he said at last, after a sort of mental gasp, which made Crystal want to laugh hyst°’*i'’ally. “A girl who wants to advance in this firm; not merely ‘hold a job’ as you put it—must be prepared to devote her entire attention to the work. “And to give this whole-hearted attention to work, a girl must be content in the social station to which it has pleased God to call her,” he added piously, “not have her head full of schemes for socialclimbing and husband-hunting.” Crystal’s face went scarlet with humiliation and rage. “And if I reft—' to have my life outside the office censored by my employer?” she asked recklessly. Mr. Lincoln Pruitt glared, then shrugged, and began to shuffle the papers on his desk. Crystal rose, stood for a moment beside his desk, her whole body quivering with anger and fear. “Have you any dictation for me this morning, Mr. Pruitt?” . The man did not look at her as he answered: “No. Send Miss Harrington to me, please—Mr. Vincent’s secretary.” Crystal’s body stiffened. Her fingers knotted themselves very tighly together as she asked, as calmly as possible: “That means then that I’m—fired?” Mr. Pruitt gave here a queer, wintry little smile in which there was a flicker of admiration. “I rather think, my dear, that you have fired yourself. I don’t usually argue with employes. Os course—the customary two weeks notice—”

the telephone rang. Jack’s voice came over the wire abruptly. “Are you being quite fair to me when you claim to be Mrs. Ware?” “No,” was Dorothy’s quiet reply after a moment’s reflection. Jack was taken aback by her frankness. “Am I going crazy, or are you?” Who in heaven’s name is Mrs. Ware?” Dororthy already had prepared for that question. “Why, the mother of Herbert, of course.” Farquahr was speechless. It took some time for him to digest this new and perfectly logical explanation. “What do you have to say now,” Dot asked sweetly. “Well, the old lady certainly keeps late hours.” Dorothy laughed softly. “Come and breakfast with me in the morning,” Dot invited. “I’ll straighten a few things out for you.

Radio Bridge Game No. 4

Followers of this season’s radio bridge games, the fourth of which was broadcast Tuesday, from Station WFBM, are carrying away from each presentation a definite knowledge of how to recognize and handle one or more bridge situations which are muffed by the average player. In this week’s game the demonstration was given by the play of Mrs. A. R. Coffin of Indianapolis, a championship player of the American Whist League. Her partner was E. J. Tobin of Chicago, also a league champion. The hands were: Wilbur C. Whitehead, dealer, South: Spades, Q, 10, 3; hearts, 6,5, 2; diamonds, K, Q, 9; clubs, K, Q, 10, 6. Tobin, West: Spades, J, 8; hearts, J, 9; diamonds, A, J, 5,4, 2; clubs, 5,4, 3, 2. Milton C. Work North: Spades, 7,6, 5,2; hearts 8 3; diamonds, 8,7, 6,3; clubs, 9,8, 7. Mrs. Coffin, East: Spades, A. K, 9,4; hearts, A: K, Q, 10, 7,4, diamonds, 10; clubs, AJ. Whitehead, dealer, opened the bidding (first hand of rubber) with one club. Even though his club suit consisted of but four cards, his hand was too strong to pass. Tobin, West, passed. Although his diamond suit was of five cards, it contained only one quick trick, which, without any high-card support in side suits, is not sufficient for even a following or defensive bid. Work, North, with a Yarborough, of course had to pass. Mrs. Coffin, East, with a magnificent hand, bid one heart. There was nothing to be accomplished by a higher bid. Mrs. Coffin did not fear adverse bidding. In fact, she would have been glad to have the bidding forced up to a point where she could either make a profitable business double of the adverse bid, or else entice a double of her own bid by gradually raising it. However, Whitehead passed, as he had shown the full strength of his hand by his initial bid. Tobin also was forced to pass, although, holding but two cards of his partner’s suit, he would have denied her suit had be been able to do so. The weakness of his diamond suit made a take-out bid impossible. Work also passed. Therefore Mrs. Coffin became the declarer, with her contract one heart. * tt tt WHITEHEAD led out his king of clubs, the correct lead from a king-queen suit against a suit declaration; and Tobin spread his hand for Dummy. From it Mrs. Coffin played the 2 of clubs; Work played the 7, and Declarer won the trick with the ace. Pausing a moment to plan the play of her hand, Mrs. Coffin could see an easy little slam, obtainable by ruffing her two small spades in Dummy, after taking her ace and

“Thank you,” Crystal said dully, the fire of anger burning low under the ice of economic fear. “But I I don’t think I could be very—happy —waiting here—until the two weeks are up.” “Perhaps not,” Mr. Pruitt agreed kindly, now that the difficult scene was nearly over and he could end it with a generous gesture. “I’ll instruct the cashier to give you the two weeks’ salary in advance.” Every atom of Crystal’s pride clamored to her to refuse the money, but her lips simply would not form the words. She walked stiffly, blindly, toward the door, then turned to say: “Thank you, Mr. Pruitt. I’m sure you’re—very generous.” It was a scarlet-faced girl who sat defiantly idle at her desk for an hour while she waited for the cashier to bring her the check for S7O. Somehow, perhaps, by means of the grapevine wireless with which every business office is equipped, both Miss Morse and Miss Harris, who had conscientiously done their bit to make life hard for Crystal, seemed to know that she was “through.” “Here you are, Miss Hathaway. Sorry you’re leaving us,” the cashier, whispered as he handed her the check. “Mr. Pruitt said to tell you he’d mail you a nice letter of recommendation. Hope you get something good, girlie.” Crystal thanked him and thrust the check, along with Harry Blaine’s and George Pruitt’s letters into her handbag. There was another letter there—Pablo Mendoza’s love letter written in Spanish . . . Oh, Pablo! Pablo! Suddenly the girl was galvanized with new life and new purpose. She almost ran out of the office, entirely forgetting to tell Miss Morse and Miss Harris good-bye. (To Be Continued)

I can promise you particularly nice waffles.” “I’ll be sitting on your doorstep at dawning,” he to'd her as he said good-by.” Dorothy’s face was grave as she hung up her receiver, and her first act was to set her little alarm-clock for eight. She must have time to get in touch with Lila and prepare for this new emergency. “I wonder who that odious creature was who gave me away?” she thought, as she dropped wearily into bed. Early the following morning, her question was answered. Lila rang her before the little clock had shrilled its call. “The worst has happend, Dot!” she wailed. “Herbert’s had a detective watching me, and Heaven only knows what hVs found out.” (To Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1928. Metropolitan Newspaper Service)

king, unless one of the adversaries held only one spade. These four tricks, her six solid trump tricks. Dummy’s ace of diamonds and her own ace of clubs would leave her only one loser, the Jack of clubs. But Mrs. Coffin was not content with a small slam. She felt that a grand slam was possible, because the bidding had shown that the king-queen of diamonds must lay in Whitehead’s, South’s, hand. These two cards would form the only possible side quick trick which he must have held in order to bid clubs initially on a king-queen club suit. Mrs. Coffin therefore saw the opportunity for a “squeeze” play that would give her a grand slam. Proceeding on this basis, Mrs. Coffin led her ace and king of spades to tricks two and three. Whitehead played the 3 and 10; Dummy the 8 and Jack; Work the 2 and 5. Mrs. Coffin continued with the 4 of spades; Whitehead dropped the queen, Dummy trumped with the 9 of hearts; Work played the 6 of spades. The fall of the queen of spades had made Declarer’s 9 of spades good; therefore there was no need to use Dummy’s second trump for ruffing. Accordingly Declarer led Dummy’s Jack of hearts; Work played the 3; Mrs. Coffin overtook the Jack with the queen, and Whitehead played the 2. Mrs. Coffin then led five straight heart tricks, with the purpose of forcing embarrassing discards from Whitehead. tt tt tt Thus at the beginning of the eleventh trick, Declarer, East, was left with the good 9 of spades: the 10 of diamonds; and the jack of clubs. Whitehead, South, had been forced to discard down to his king Queen of diamonds and the goo l Queen of clubs. Dummy retained the ace, jack of diamonds and the 5 of clubs. Work held the 7 of spades and the 8, 7 of diamonds. Declarer then led her good 9 of spades, which put Whitehead into difficulty. He was fairly certain that the Declarer had the jack of clubs, since his partner had played the lowest of at least three clubs on the first trick, and had since discarded the 8 spot. Therefore, if he discarded his Queen of clubs, he doubtless would present the closed hand with a trick On the other hand, if he discarded a diamond, Dummy ace and jack of diamonds would take the last two tricks. His only chance was the faint hope that his partner, Work, might hold the jack of clubs. Therefore Whitehead discarded the Queen of clubs. Dummy discarded the 5 of clubs; and Work played the 7 of spades. Mrs. Coffin then led the jack of clubs, dashing Whitehead’s hopes of breaking her grand slam. He was forced to discard his queen of diamonds; Dummy discarded the jack of diamonds, and Work the 7. Declarer then led her It of diamonds, winning this last crick with Dummy's ace, and achieving a grand slam, with its bonus ot 103 points. She also scored 90 for honors —four in her hand and fifth in partner’s—and 63 for tricks. tt tt a AFTER the play of the hand as auction bridge was concluded, Work devoted the rest of the broadcasting period to a discussion of its bidding at contract. He considered it a moderately close question as to whether South, the dealer, should bid one club or pass. Quoting Work’s own words: “Unquestionably more caution should be exercised in bidding four-card suits in contract that in auction; but the South hand has what I might call a ‘likely look.’ King-queen-ten, even at the head of four, is a worthwhile combination; and with a king-queen-nine in one-side suit, and queen-ten with one small in another, I believe the hand is too strong to pass even at contract. I would favor bidding one club; but I would not criticise a pass. West and North would pass, regardless of whether South bids or passes; and East under either condition would bid four hearts, East would count upon six tricks in the heart suit, the ace and king of spades, and the ace of clubs—nine tricks; she also has a fair chance of making another spade. It takes much less in the West hand to insure the extra trick than would justify West in jumping to four if East bid only three hearts. For example, a jack and ten of spades in the West hand would insure three spade tricks and game; therefore the soundness of tl fourIheart bid cannot be questioned. “Some players with West’s hand would be tempted to overcall the four hearts with five diamonds, with the idea that it is proper to show an ace for slam purposes whenever the partner bids for game. In this case it would be most advantageous for East and West to go slamming, but with no other high cards to support the ace, West would not be justified in doing so. It is absured to contend that is is possible to foresee and to bid for a slam every time a hand turns up with which one can be made.”

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