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'■•iiA CHAPTER LI ' VttHE fact that May Varney was ,-f X bound only for the watercooler at the end of the car and gave the little group in the merely the snippiest of nods, saved the situation. \ Quite evidently, May intended to bide her time for an uninterrupted interview with Herbert. Lila breathed' a trifle more easily when May liad passed, and Dorothysuggested brightly: “Let’s all go to the observation platform. T i It’s* horribly stuffy in here, don’t you think?” “Unbearable!” agreed Herbert, with dignity. 1 “Intolerable!” said Farquahar quietly. *’?••• * Even when they were seated in the comparative, but rather dusty, "coolness of the platform, he gave Lila scarcely a glance. He seemed morose and preoccupied. Herbert /Was distinctly sulky. '■'sit was evident that he didn’t care for Dorothy’s young man; or else he had a jealous inkling that this /young man’s , presence had some /thing to'do with Lila. The two girls ,made conversation; it was rather a ghastly failure. Once Lila " almost made a fatal ‘mistake. She started to say: “Herbert, darling,” got as far as “Herbert, da—” and changed it quickly to “Herbert Dacre Ware,” thanking ..her stars that “Dacre” was her husband’s middle name. Dorothy, on the other hand, fairly stuned Farquahar, by calling him "Jack,” for the* first time. The entire party was thankful Saratoga was reached. Lila, In a brief m’Oment in the dressing loom, while the two girls tidied and preened after- the trip, whispered to Dorothy: \ “Jack will be sure to find out that Herbert and I are occupying the same suite.” * .. . A Curiously, that situation had not occurred to either of the conspirators. Dorothy suggested quickly: “Can’t you persuade, Herbert to let you,stay with me? Tell him I’m timid about, being alone Tin strange hotels.” ' Lila laughed, a shrill note of hysteria in her woice. “You! Goodness, Dot, he’d as soon believe such a thing of that woman who shot leopards in South Africa! Besides, he’s already w;ired ahead for a suite.” “Then make him change it for a larger one that will accommodate us three, and we’ll try to keep Caplain Farquahar from finding out that he’s with us.” ' ,'J a a f “"ATO use.” Lila shook her head TN despairingly. “Herbert’s already told me that he got the last one available.” The train, drawing to a standstill, sent them scurrying back to the car, where Herbert, and Jack Farquahar waited in gfim'-and dignified silence. “Thank?’HeqtV'n. they aren’t chatty with each other,” thought Lila, “or no telling what might come out.” When the hotel was reached—of course, it turned out that they were not turned out that they were all t stoppin£ at the same one—Jack Farquahar bade them a stiff, goodby for the moment. Herbert and Lila ascended to their suite, .and Dorothy stoically accepted the kst available room, which w r as, in every respect, undesirable. She and Lila dressed hurriedly for the everting and met in the lobby. “I‘ve thought of a plan,” said Lila breathlessly. “So have I.” \ They laughed from sheer nervousness. r-~ . ~ i 1 “I’ll tell you mine first,” said Lila, with a glance over her shoulder toward the elevator in which Herbert might, at any moment, be descending. Or Jack Farquahar. Or the Varneys. “Since I’ve given Herbert to un-

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* “This is a pretty family I’ve got!” Bob exclaimed disgustedly, as he Returned to Crystal’s bedroom after his trip to the telephone. “My blood relations . and in-laws both are a Jiectic lot. If you ask me—” i “We’re *ot asking you, Bob,” Faith reprimanded him coldly. “We Jvant news, not opinions.” "Strike one!” Bob grinned and ducked. “Well, old lady, only Rhoda is sticking’ by the Jonson homestead. It seems that Nils is oft to some stockgrowers’ convention in Kansas City ,and Cherry is out skylarking with Alan Beardsley, “Please. Bob,” Faith remonstrated, her eyes flicking a significant glance toward Tony ;Tarver. “Did Rhoda have any idea how to reach Cherry?” “She thought they were motoring to Darrow, to dance at the opening of that new hotel there—the very one I designed,?’ Bob answered, “i’ll put in a long instance call for the Midwestern—isn’t that a painful monniker to stick onto my beautiful buliding? { “I think she’d better come straight here, don’t you?—and give us any tips on this mysterious Pablo Valencio that she can. Believe me, if there’s been any sheik artist within fifty miles of Cherry, she’s had her fun with him!” ' i “You might remember that Cherry sister; 'Bob,” Faith suggested quietly, but' her eyes were stormy dark nools of indignation ~nd worry. “Check! And Crystal is my own first cousin,” Bob grinnedt “I guess I’m pretty much on edge with worry. Have you lobked through all Crystal’s things for clews? She may have left a note: “As Tony says, it’s hard to btftSeye that my beloved cousin would have eloped without leaving a note breaking the triumphant news. If'any

derstand that you and Jack are—well, as good as engaged—” She stopped short, staring at Dorothy, who had begun to laugh so hard that the tears ’were running down her cheeks. “I d-didn’t h-have t-time to t-tell you on the train,” gasped Dorothy, “b-but, I told Jack Farquhar that I was engaged to H-Herbert.” Lila gave a little shriek, and then she, too, lapsed into helpless laughter. People passing started at the two pretty, smartly gowned girls. “It’s t-tragic!” spluttered Lila, dabbing at her eyes. “But I c-can’t stop. It’s so f-funny!” After a time she managed to say, between hysterical gasps: “My plan for tonight was for me to tell Herbert that Jack had jilted you, and that you were in such a state that I feared for your life, and you positively had to stay with me.” Dorothy went into another fit of daughter, finally emerging sufficiently t<f gasp: “And my plan was for you to tell Jack and Herbert had jilted me, and the rest was simply ditto.” The warning crash of the eleva-tor-grillo caused them both to start guiltily. The car had descended, and in it were both Herbert and Farquahar. Lila had barely time to whisper to Dorothy. “If it works, it will leave the suite to you and me and shift Herbert off to your single rcom.” st it THE two men joined the girls and stared frankly at their reddened eyes and tear-stained-cheeks. “What has happened?” they demanded simultaneously. Lila, feeling hysterical mirth rising again within her, gasped something about Dorothy’s having told her a funny story. But Dorothy, again laughing beyond the bounds of decorum, rose from her chair and fled, holding her handkerchief against her mouth. Farquahar took a step after her, hesitated, then, without an excuse to Lila, plunged rapidly in pursuit. Lila forthwith seized her opportunity and told her little story. “I thought she’d been crying,” said Herbert, glaring after the retreating figure of Farquahar. “I don’t trust that chap. I think Dorothy’s well rid of him.” “And you won’t mind too much if I have her stay with me tonight in the suite?” persisted Lila. “She’s really desperate. I think Dot’s too clear-headed for suicide, but ——” “Have her stay, by all means,” declared Herbert generously. “After all. Dorothy has been your friend.” “You bet she has!” breathed Lila to her self. Aloud she said: “Darling, will you mind going up and fetching my shawl?” He left her, with a gallant bow. Lila seized the opportunity to pursue Farquahar, who had lost Dorothy’s trail and was standing on the veranda, glaring into the night. Again she told her story, but she was totally unprepared for what happened. Farquahar went white as death; his gray eyes blazed, and his hands clenched. “Where is she?” he demanded. Brushing Lila aside, he plunged info the darkness. - In the garden, at the rear of the hotel, he came upon the blur of a light frock. Dorothy was leaning on a marble balustrade. Her face was buried in her hands and her shoulders were shaking. “My darling! . . . Dearest! . . . . Sweetheart!” Faquahar had gathered her into his arms; her head was against his shoulder; his lips touched hers. Dorothy rested there quietly. She was too astounded to move. Astounded—and something else. Her heart was beating as madly as Farquahar’s. “Forget him, darling,” Farquahar was urging, his lips only far enough

girl ever hankered to get married—” “Here are those cards that came with the yellow roses!” Faith, who had been searching Crystal’s dresser drawers, cried triumphantly. “At least we have something tangible to go on—the mysterious Pablo’s handwriting. There are four cards—ad written in Spanish—” “Let me see them, Faith!” Tony cried, reaching for the cards “Funny she never showed them to me. Any normal girl would have produced them triumphantly—“Oh!” And Tony’s eyes narrowed with dawning understanding. “I think it’s pretty clear why she didn’t show these cards to rrr, Faith.” she said slowly. “Crystal wrote them—herself.” Rob, who had been leaving the room to put in his long-distance call —a short, snarp bark of a laugh, halted in the doorway, then laughed which did not conceal his growing fear. “The age-old stuntt Sending flowers to herself and pretending that a lover sent them! Didn’t I tell you, Faith, that I thought that girl was stringing you—that there was no ardent admirer in the scenario at all?” Tony crushed the pathetic little cards in her fist and pressed her knuckles hard against her quivering mouth. “Poor Crys! Poor darling Crys!” she gasped at last, and burst into tears—a thing which gay Tony rarely had need to do. “You mean—there isn’t any such person as Pablo Valencio?” Faith asked, bewildered, incredulous. “But she did go to meet someone! Maybe he didn’t send her the roses, but that doesn’t prove he didn’t exist, does it?” ' t ”'JSfo-o-o!” Tony admitted reluctantly. “Oh, go call up, Cherry, Bob!” (To Be Contii ued)

from hers to allow him to speak. “He’s not worth your tears. Forget him and marry me. I’ll teach you—l’ll make you love me—l’ll have to —because I love you so.” Dorothy sighed gently. “Lila?’ she murmured. He groaned. “I can’t help it! Theres been no one but you, ever since I met you. It was madness to think of keeping my pledge to Lila. I knew she didn’t care for me any longer, and yet I was forcing her to marry me. “I was madly jealous of Ware, because I thought he was your husband—and, all along, I made myself believe that my jealousy was on Lila’s account. When I found out that you were free, 1 was frantic to have you, and the only way I could see to keep faith with myself was to put you out of my reach by insisting on a speedy marriage with Lila. Fool, fool, to believe that anything in the World could cure me of my love for you.” There were more confessions, among them Dorothy’s. an u “T LOVED you before I ever saw “X you; even while we all believed that you were dead in France. I kept your letters to Lila and pretended they were my love letters. “I didn’t want to meet you, because I was afraid of giving myself away. Lately when I knew I cared so desperately I felt horribly disloyal to Lila, even though ” She stopped suddenly. The confession was not hers to make. “You’re quite sure you want to marry me, even if you could have Lila?” His answer left her breathless, thrilled, silent. When they returned to the hotel there was no need to make any announcement of what had happened. Their eyes told the story. Lila and Dorothy went into each other’s arms. It was a most embarrassing moment for Farquahar, but Lila was exquisitely gracious. She congratulated him warmly and her eyes telegraphed: “You can tell me about it later.” He carried Dorothy away, whispering in her ear: “I think it’s going to be all right. I’ll bet anything my hunch about Lila and Ware is going to prove correct. You’re quite sure you didn’t care for him, darling?” Herbert, meanwhile, was reading a telegram he had just received. It was from Gilroy Holmes. It said: “Herewith tendering my resignation. Am returning to Kansas City as soon as you can relieve me.” Lila drew a fluttering breath of relief. The elevator carried them upstairs. Lila felt that she was mounting to Heaven. They stopped in the deserted corridor on their floor and kissed. ‘Til never doubt you again, sweetheart?’ promised Herbertt. “You’ll never have reason to, darling,” she murinured fervently. Downstairs, Dorothy and Farquahar, looking for a deserted corner, ran into the Varneys. “Where’s Lila; I want a word with her,” said May crisply. Dorothy made a gesture to Farquahar and drew May aside. She whispered briefly into her ear. “What!” May gave a little shriek, “You don’t mean it! How perfectly excruciating!” she went off into a gale of laughter. . “And I’ll explain the whole busl ness to Mr. Varney tomorrow,” Dorothy promised. “Only—please make him promise never to tell Herbert.” “Os course, he won’t tell,” declared May. “It’s absolutely delici ous, but ” she gave Dorothy a curious glance—“aren't you and Lila ever going to confess the whole story to Herbert and Captain Farquahar?” Dorothy drew near to Farquahar. slipped her hand through his arm. and laughed softly at May over her shoulder: “I’m not sure . . . What do yov think?” (Copyright, 1928. Metropolitan Newspaper Service.) THE END. SENATE COMMITTEE TO PONDER OIL LEASES What to Do About Salt Creek Will Be Considered. Rii Times Special WASHINGTON, Dec. JO. —The senate public lands committee will meet in about ten days to consider what it shall do about Salt Creek oil contracts and leases. Chairman Gerald Nye announced today. Last spring the committee began taking testimony about the circumstances surrounding Harry Sinclair’s acquisition from former Secretary Albert Fall of the government’s royalty oil from Salt Creek fields. When it adjourned for the summer recess it employed former Senator Thomas Sterling to make a thorough study of the matter. Meanwhile, a few weeks before election the department of interior, acting on advice of the justice department, canceled the contract, which had been renewed for another five-year period by Hubert Work as secretary of interior, last January. AIM Ar BAKERY TRUST • Move May Result In Quiz of U. S. Course Toward Big Merger. Bjt Times Hpecial WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—Another effort is to be made to reinstate proceedings against the recalled bakery trust, which may include investigation into the government’s whole course toward big mergers in the baking industry. Senator Norris, chairman of the senate judiciary committee, has named a sub-committee to consider the report on the resolution of Senator La Follette, Wisconsin, directing the federal trade commission to reinstate its complaint against the Continental Baking Corporation.

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