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BY IDA RINER GLEASON

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CAST OF CHARACIERS

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Prof. Bracey

KATHUEN O'SHAN—heroine, writer of | fascinating woman would be more | turned ant looked at him with a

greeting card verse. BOB M'TAVISH-Rhero, detective story | writer, { PAT«<the janitor who plaved Cupid The DUCHESS-<patron of surrealist art. PROF. BRACEY-Egyptologist,

Yesterday: While Bob endeavors to evade the attentions of the Duchess he ponders the question ‘whether Prof.

Bracey is really an Egvptologist.

CHAPTER SIX OB had occasion to ask himsell 2» this question about the pro- | fessor more than once during the afternoon The tall Egvptologist | had immediately sought out KathlJeen and the rest of the time he proceeded to monopolize her so that no one else had a chance to say anvthing to her Several times Bob saw glance his way as though she | hoped he would rescue her, but there was no way for him to escape the Duchess, who kept him per. sistently at her side, hanging on his arm and laughing up at him in the most provocative manner. She lavished caresses on the unresponsive Schmatz and chattered about art and Bob's writing and | how much she was going to enjoy having him for a neighbor, until his head swam trying to Keep up with her “1 ean see how vou can write red-blooded. he-man tales,” she said, dropping down on the couch Pat had moved so regularly. You're so virile and so romanticlooking vourself. Do sit down and tell me about vourself.” |

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OB looked down at her hair with a little laugh, smothering a desire to tweak the straying locks. | “It's because I like to eat, lady.” he | told her, adging away 8 little. "There isn't anything but the desire to live that would make me slay as many | men as I do—if you get what 1 mean.” He tried to turn it off jestingly, but found it hard to aisregard the look in the woman's long-lashed eves. A dangerous woman, he decided. One he'd hate to have on his trail. But if the Duchess was conscious of his uneasiness, the Duchess dia not show it. She only took his hand in both her slender ones and sighed, “You can't think how lonely I really am. That's why I'm always reaching out for friendship, for someone I can trust and in whom 1 can confide. That's why I liked vou the minute I saw vou. You seemed so honest and different somehow.” “Chatter!” thought Bob as he looked at her. “This is getting too much, I'd better beat it while 1 oan.” “I'm all of that, lady,” he laughed. “And now I must be taking my pup out for his afternoon run. If I don't he'll be tearing around so, the janitor’ll probably request us to move. Thanks for asking us to your party.

E put the dog down and started | for the door. Then he paused He'd hunt up Kathleen first and tell her he would see her later and make his escape. He wouldn't be snagged into such a mess again, If necessary he'd hang out a smallpox sign to warn off the Duchess. The less he saw of her the better. Pat had had her number all right when he said such a frowsy head likely topped a lot of mischief But it was one thing to wish to talk to Kathleen and another to do it. The professor had her shut off in 8 small corner that was intended for only two. She, too, had been having rather a difficult time of it. At first she was flattered by the preference of the older man, especially as she was still feeling squelched by the calm way the, Duchess had captured Bob and borne him off, and irritated at Bob for letting her do it But there was something about the smoothspoken professor with his flashing black eves and insinuating smile that sent a little ripple of fear across her mind. Who was this mysterious person who talked so glibly of famous people and places, who seemed to have crowded so much into his lifetime? & » »

" RE vou pleased to make mv | acquaintance or not, my | dear?” the professor was asking her, leaning closer. “Well—oh, yes, of course.” She | smiled up at him. “You see that's | partly why I wanted to come to the city. In Gloversville we didn't have a chance to meet many in- | teresting people. It was all very | narrow and conventional, you | know.” Her eves straved to where | the Duchess and Bob had been sitting. { The professor's eves followed her | glance and he asked, “You know the | young man the Duchess seems $0 | interested in? Perhaps he came from | your home town, too?" “Oh no,” answered Kathleen. “I | never saw Mr. McTavish until he rented a studio here. He's very nice | and his dog has such a cute, yearn- | ing look.” “Yes, yearning is the ‘word.”| The professor's tone was sarcastic, | “The pooch yearns for nothing so much as to take a slice out of me, for some unknown reason. That's what makes me question the niceness of his master. Dogs often reflect their owners, you know. But then the Duchess seems to like him well enough already.” » » ”

“WHAT do you mean?" Kath- | leen's expression frankly |

showed her concern. “Women like the Duchess, my dear, collect men just as they add | jewels to their collections. She's still | young, interesting looking and has | plenty of money. Enough said. Has | she told you about her emerald yet? | No! It ranks up with the Hope dia- | mond and some of the crown jewels | of Europe. You'll hear of it in time. | At the present she's more interested | in the young man, and when the Duchess sets her mind on acquiring anything, she gets it.” Kathleen straightened up. “I don't ig why you're telling me all this,” e said coldly. “I hardly know either our hostess or Mr. McTavish, and of course it wouldn't mean a thing to me if they did become interested in each other.” In spite of herself her lips quivered a little as she said it, and the lonely feeling came back with a rush. It had been so different since that day Bob's battered desk had been chrried up the stairs, and she had

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grown to listen for Schmatz's scam-

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the worldly wise professor didn’t |

with her bast smile,

seem to mind it. She turned to him |

| interesting than herself. At any rate | sarcastic smile. “We were just ree

marking on it in fact, you and the

Duchess—" A snarl from Schmatz interrupted

"At least, Prof. Bracey, I feel him. Before Bob could prevent it |

you're my friend, aren't you?” © “Yes.” He lifted her hand and |

| the dog snapped at Bracey.

“Damned cur!” A well=placed |

touched his lips to the soft palm. | kick from the professor threw the

Just then Bob came upon them. »

» he said in some embarrassment, “Rl seem to be making it a crowd, 1 just wanted to say goodby, Kath. | leen. I've been trying to get word with you-—-" “We noticed how hard vou were

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little | brass vase that stood on the floor. |

terrier hard against a tall | There was a crash and the dog | rushed across the room, dashing |

straight through the Duchess’ |

| painting that was leaning against

He left a gaping, jagged | the “Dream of Youth”

(To Be ‘Continved)

the wall hole in

Daily Short Story

LOST EYE~By R. Smoot

“1 had a can opener in my hand.”

‘IM SAUNDERS finished waiting | on the last customer and gloom- | ily set about closing his little gens. | eral store for the night. There was | a timid Knock at the storeroom door | and he wonderad irritably what idiot could be there at this hour. | As he jecked open the door, a slim ficure almost fell into his arms. “Marcia!” he exclaimed, ineredu- | lously, “Jim--please—" she sobbed, hysterically. “You'll have to hide me -0r get me a disguise or money to leave the country--or something.” “But why?" “I know the police are looking for me. l-J-—cut a man's eve out!” “Here, sit down, How did you get here? Tell me all about it.” “All right,” she gasped. dropping to a packing case. Her clothing was rumpled and her pretty face tearstained. “I came on the evening | train and slipped off at the watering tank so no one would see me. The job I wrote vou about was in a night club. but it was a secondrate one, and I was taken on as a I got through the first evening all right—execept for dropping a tray—but it was a terrible place. The men were drunkards and the women awfully cheap | looking, but I tried to stick it out because 1 hadn't been able to got

| any other job and my room rent

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was almost due.” So dabbed her eves with a sodden handkerchief and continued. | breathlessly ‘This evening one of | the customers. a great big red-faced brute, dragged me down on his lap and tried to kiss me. 1 struck him in the face. But I forgot I had a can opener in my hand. One of the bartenders had asked me to bring it | from the kitchen. The point of it caught him in the eve and gouged it out. When I saw what I had | done——!" She buried her face in| her hands and her shoulders shook | convulsively Jim asked, quietly. “When he dropped me and velled |

| So, everybody gathered around and | in the commotion I mana~ed to get | arets

out the back way. 1 had grabbed my coat from the hanger. 1 was

afraid to go back to my room

cause the proprietor knew the ad- |

dress. I had a couple of dollars from tips in my pocket, so 1 went to the railroad station and was just in time to catch the train here. You will help me, won't you?" she ended, desperately. “Think of the disgrace if T should be sent to prison.

again!” “Would you want to live here? Jim asked. gently. “You said when vou left that you hated the drab monotony of small-town experience.” » » » " H, T was crazy! When 1 think of the miles I've walked and

to get a job I hate the very thoughts |

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of the city. T'd give anything if we could start over again.” “Then you do love me a little?” “Of course I do. It was just my silly pride that kept me from coming back before.”

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Jim gathered the trembling little | form in his arms, “Poor darling,” he said. “We'll see | this through together.” “Do 1 have to give myself up?” Her eyes were terrorsstricken, | “It would be stupid to try to run away, dear,” he replied. “It's better | to face it now. Perhaps it can be |

[arranged somehow, We'll get a law. |

I had saved almost $300 for

ver housekeeping on.” He |

us to start

[ was putting on his mackinaw as he

spoke “Where are you going?” she | asked, | “We'll have to drive over to the county seat and see Sheriff Higgins. He's the nearest representative of | the law.” Marcia rose resignedly. “I suppose it serves me right for having been such a fool. But, Jim--=I'm so Suppose he dies and I'm | executed?” she ended in a fresh burst of tears, » » » URING the silent eight-mile drive in his small coupe he felt a twinge of compunction whenever he glanced at the pale, heart-shaped face beside him. Yet he felt he was following the only possible course. It was unthinkable that Marcia, who

to become a fugitive from the law At the county seat thev drove directly to the jnil, Sheriff Higgins | came to the door in his stocking | foet | Jim explained the situation briefly. The sheriff scratched his beard | and said that he reckoned he would |

[ have to take Marcia into custody, | | but

for the present she and Jim could just sit there by the stove | while he put on his shoes and went | down the street to send a couple of | was |

» » » FTER he finally stomped off, | Jim smoked innumerable cig- | and tried to read a month-old magazine, Warmth after the cold

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drive made Marcia drowsy. She sat | when addressing any question of |

limply in an old rocking chair, =o exhausted by the long hours of mental distress that her senses were numbed. The sheriff was gone an hour

When they heard his returning !

| footsteps on the porch she started |

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“There won't be no charges against you, Miss Marcia,” he announced. “That fellow wasn't hurt none to speak of. It was a glass eve you knocked out and it wasn't even chipped!” THE END

this story are fictitious

(Copyright, 1937, United Feature Syndicate)

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