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BEGIN HERE TODAY _ BERYL BORDEN, secretly in love with TOMMY WILSON. discovers that he is tiarnlns to elope with her half-sister, TKL..E EVERETT, and kidnaps him with the assistance of her "gang. She urges him to stav in college and he; break the heart of the aunt who is financing him railing to convince him. Beryl lets Tommy rafurn to Irene who. enraged at the delay, refuses to listen ar.d postpones the elopement. Later Tommy goes fishing and finds Eery! and her gang at the beach One of the bovs is carried out by the tide and Tommy helps Bervi rescue him. 6he finds It hard to bear the reproachea of his mother and the sneers of her lealous sister Irene again refuses Tommy after receiving an ocjer for an audition over radio. She condescends to let Beryl accompany her to the studio. While waiting in an ante-room. Bervi alt- down at the piano and dreamily croons melodies to the father, who died ao long t?.o. Accidentally hearing her. one of the directors is charmed with the puMitv of voice and gives her a private test NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER ELEVEN WHAT Mr. Barnhoff had to say to Beryl turned her world upside down in the space of a few seconds. “We’re looking for a woman’s voice for Gaylord, the soap man,” he said when Mr. Leonard had conducted her back to his office. “I’d like him to hear yours.” Beryl stared at him, not knowing what to say. As she said later, she wa n’t sure that she wasn’t dreaming. “Perhaps you do not know it,” Barnhoff went on, “but some of the best voices are not good on the air. They lack evenness of tone and must either be stepped up or cut by our monitor men. Your voice is peculiarly suited to broadcasting.” He paused to smile at tne amazement on her face. “We shall not attempt to make a great singer of you.” he explained, “but you should have at least a few weeks of study before we put you on our program. “We are looking for a voice with personality, feeling. Yours has it. I personally think you would be ideal for Mr. Gaylord’s advertising campaign.” He turned to Leonard, his eyes alight with the enthusiasm of discovery and invention. “The girl with the velvet voice!” he exclaimed. “How is that? Gaylord calls his new soap Velvetan. “It contains an oil, he claims, that aids the skin to tan evenly and painlessly. . . . Miss Borden,” he wheeled back to Beryl and carried on excitedly, “that is just what you voice is—even and soft as velvet. And I’m sure the radio audience will find it painless.” His enthusiasm was infectious. Beryl was beginning to know how it felt to have a promising future in view. But she was not altogether swept off hex' feet. “Mr. Gaylord hasn’t heard it yet,” she reminded her discoverer. “He might not like it.” “I’ve never made a mistake about a voice," Barnhoff boasted. “Will you sing for Mr. Gaylord?” He did not wait for an answer, but rang at once for his secretary and asked her to take Beryl’s address and telephone number.

“TTS TELL let you know the date VV as sdon as we’ve arranged it with Mr. Gaylord,” he told Beryl. “Then, of course, you will make your contract with him. By the way. have you a voice teacher?” “No," Beryl answered. “I know just the one to give you what you need,” Barnhoff assured her. Then he offered a roundabout apology- for taking so much for granted. “I’d be sorry to hear you say you can’t understand this,” he admitted, “but I suppose I should ask you about it. I'm afraid I’ve been a bit impulsive. However, I feel that I’m justified,” he added, in compliment. Beryl hesitated. A contract! A voice teacher! Good Lord, she had no money for voice lessons. m “Can’t I let you know later?” sne asked reluctantly. It seemed like shaking her head in the fact of a smiling fate, of being too stupid to appreciate good fortunte, an imbecile thing to do—but voice lessons! Oh, it must be managed somehow! She’d sing for Mr. Gaylord and then . . . Barnhoff interrupted her incomplete thought. He seemed, uncannily. to have read her mind —or perhaps his keen eye had noticed the inexpensiveness of her costume. At any rate he said in a kindly, casual way: “Naturally, if Mr. Gaylord is pleased with your voice ar.d decides to offer you a contract he will be willing to advance the cost of necessary preparation.” For an instant Beryl was tempted to bluff. Then: “Thank you,” she said simply. “I was considering the

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question of financing the venture.” They smiled together and Beryl had a friend for life. And now that the darkest cloud had been syvept away from her sun-filled sky, she was seized with a desire to tell her good news to some one—any one. She thought of Irene. “My sister!” she exclaimed. “She is waiting for you in the Florentine room,” Barnhoff told her. “But—er—perhaps if you could manage to look a little less radiant . . . I'm afraid she is slighlty disappointed with the outcome of her test.” It was just what Beryl had expected but now that it had happened she was sorry for Irene, especially as she contrasted her own good fortune with her sister’s hara luck. She said good-by hurriedly to the two men, after thanking them with a genuineness of gratitude which they found refreshing, and hastened away to Irene. a a a WHEN she was gone Leonard grinned at Barnhoff. “Well, Barny, old man, think of you turning soft at your time of life,” he remarked. “What do you mean?” Barnhoff asked stiffly. “You get me. Since when 'tias Gaylord been advancing anything to anybody?” Barnhoff brushed the levity aside. “That girl has a rare quality of voice,” he answered warmly. “I don’t know what she’d be if given a chance, but she’s just what Gaylord wants and I think I can make him see he’d be a fool to lose her." “But if he balks?" “If he does, why then, damn it all, I’ll find a patron for her and put her into the Met!” “Then you weren’t thinking of financing her yourself?” “Get out, you bum,” Barnhoff grinned. Leonard heaved a huge high of mock relief. “I thought you might be running a fever,” he said in pretended anxiety. “Think of you paying for singing lessons!” “Yeah, think of it. But seriously, Hal, I think Miss Borden is a real find. The luck’s as much ours as hers.” That statement would have surprised Beryl, who was trying to tell Irene of her good fortune without seeming to flaunt it. The minute she had seen Irene she had known her sister would not be in a congratulatory mood. “Is this the Florentine room?” she asked, pushing the door open wider and poking her head inside “You ought to know,” Irene snapped. “You’re supposed to be a decorator.” “Yes, but I specialize in Early American.” “No wonder,” Irene retorted. “All you need is a feather to be an Indian. But I’d like to know what you mean, by keeping me waiting here! I suppose you’ve been butting in where you’ve no business to be.” Beryl looked away from her sister’s angry countenance. “I’ve been making a test,” she answered quietly. “What!” Irene shrieked, then she laughed. “What for—brains?” “I don’t suppose any one will believe it,” Beryl said apologetically —because she felt somehow guilty of a part in her sister’s ill fortune. She had come here with Irene by force, you might say, with Irene’s ability to command a test as her passport and she had walked off with something that Irene would think belonged to her. She felt desperately sorry for Irene. “No, it’s almost too much to believe. It’s silly, really, when you come to think of it.” “Well, think of what? Will you please talk sense?” * a a a “TT7HY,” Beryl smiled placatingW ly, “I was sitting here — right here at this piano, just sort of singing to myself, and a man heard me ...” “I dare say,” Irene interjected sneeringly. “And do you know,” Beryl went on with awe in her voice now, “I think he must be someone terribly important for he took me to his office and then, can you imagine it, he said he was looking for some one with a funny voice like mine and—” ‘Beryl Borden! Do you dare to stand there and tell me that you had the nerve to pose as a singer here —here!—where I brought you? Oh, no wonder they said I wouldn’t

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do!" she wailed despairingly. “They thought it was a trick!” Beryl lost a little of her pity. “They didn't think anything of the kind,” she declared with some asperity. “They didn’t even call me a singer themselves. “Asa matter of fact, Mr. Bamhoff said I wasn't a singer—tpey don’t want a singer—they want someone to ... to ...” * “Well, what? But you needn’t tell me—l can guess. Some one’s been making a fool of you and you had it coming to you for clowning around this place. Just you wait till mother hears of this!” Beryl looked at hes sister for a few seconds in silence, and slowly a shadow spread over her face. “Yes,” she said dully, “I suppose mother will think as you do.” ‘‘Why shouldn’t she?” Irene challenged. “And so will every one else!” Then she laughed tauntingly. ‘‘Making a test—making a monkey of yourself! ,ITI bet they were all laughing at you—probably there wasn’t a microphone within a mile of you!” Beryl turned wearily away from her—her desire to shout her good news drowned in her sister’s anger. “And furthermore,’ Irene went on, following her out of the voom, “what do you think Tommy will say about it?” (To be continued!

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TARZAN AND THE GOLDEN LION

For an instant the pigmies stood terrified and then their leader cried: “It is Tarzan;” and turning, fled into the jungle. “Yes, it IS Tarzan—Tarzan of the Apes,’’ answered Lord Greystoke in the pigmies’ dialect, which the whites did not understand. Then he turned to them. “The Gcmangani have gone,’’ he said, “get up.” The three men scrambled to their feet. “You are the fellows who drugged me and left me helpless id your camp, a prey to the first passing lion or saVage native."

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The trio of whites turned pale, not knowing what to expect next. “I search for your black Luvini who has killed my wife,” said Tarzan, after regarding them in silence for a moment. “Where is he?” Kraski spoke up; “We know nothing of that. Luvini betrayed and deserted us. Two white women were in our camp at the time.” Then rapidly he told the story of the fight the Waziri had with Luvini’s ivory thieves. “When it was over the two women had disappeared. Where, we know not."

—By Ahern

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