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CAST OF CHARACTERS ; | S he of the stairs, she ran JILL WENTWORTH. heroine, attractive But I assure you every penny of the At the top i

debutante, balance will be paid to you as | into her mother. ALAN JEFFRY, hero, rising young quickly as the money comes in. ¥ » artist, “Did anyone tell you I bought

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HO was the voung man?” Mrs. Wentworth asked. “And what did he want?”

JACK WENTWORTH, Jill's brother. “Not in so many words. But you | SYLVIA SUTTON, oil heiress. [ did.” Jill answering the first question cr. | Jill nodded miserably. Her spoke in a dull voice: “Alan Yesterday: Ardath hints to Alan that | throat was aching, and words would | Jeffrey.’ Jill maneuvered the $3000 purchase of his not come. “I never heard of him,” Mrs.

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“Because there's nothing left to talk about.”

picture. And Alan’s bright world topples! “Thank you very much,” Alan Wentworth snapped. People she had {said, unsteadily. “I—It happens | never heard of simply didn't exist. CHAPTER NINE that I'm not yet an applicant for| Jill had reached her room. She RDATH HOLM did not analyze charity. And I detest men who let | turned the key thinking of her hi#r feelings. She had wanted to rich women take care of them.” [ mother’s curious eyes. Then she | hurt Jill for some reason. From the | Jill's face blanched. “I think you threw herself on the bed, staring | moment she met Jill she had real- | are terrible,” she whispered. ae Spake. ‘Her Jace Jolt Grawn and : 2% . “ 1» 3 “ . . ized they were potential enemies. bg ey ene, an, ane See | The telephone was ringing athe - Jill, with her beauty enhanced by | me.” He stepped closer i 5 ? after a moment, Jill lifted the little | ian expensive clothes, represented the : a [Ivory French phone by her bed. = v W . . z Ww Ww e could hear Perkins’ polite, | —r TE Vas ac LL Jill's anger was suddenly | honcommittal tone over-one of the | ned to serving. In her heart gone. She was conscious of | downstairs phones, and Patty's inshe hated all of them, though she! deep shame. She didn't see how | sistent voice: catered to their whims, as she must. [she could have done this to him| “I'm taking the call,” Jill said, At Alan's studio, she had read | either. He had wanted only to, and heard Perkins’ murmured, “Yes | Jill's love for him in her eyes. Ar-| achieve, and she had made his| Miss Jill,” and then a click as he | dath, too, had been stirred by his | | achievement a sham. | hung up. charm. | Alan's swift impulse of tender ness | Ne ww ow He had not really seen her during | Was succeeded by another surge of HESE high and mighty butthat half hour they were there, Ar- | unreasonable anger. lers,” Patty said. “He was all dath decided. Which was an affront Wn Wine hw) for putting me off. Had me sized 0 to her va y 1 ! / = / n : nl HW ihe oh Were vars at him. encouraging him to talk 3% po vor ” re one bt TY \ TF re. =a WR NA I~ ~My ZN “Well, Fanny, why don’t you talk to Papa about your tered a room. But Alan had been (the old graybeard, who had been |. na revolution when you an- V7 lr Vr IN _ a WAS : allowance?” following Jill with his eyes, had |POWled over by “Sun Over Seville. | swered. Jill are you there?” A lsh Ns 3 , > Even when he had been kissing Jill, 4 : : : ire waited for her approval. There | might have been only the two of | She must have been thinking of how | them in the room. Although he had easily he had been duped. talked a great deal with Patty, Ar- | dath knew that she and Patty might as well have stayed at home. There |

Wentworth. Well, from now on. she could find somebody else—some | | sissy chap who wouldn't mind hav-

He had been a toy for rich Jin | Nam you. I told Ardath about the

“Part of me,” Jill answered. se es “Ae hn

“You sound tired. Jill I had to

| picture, and she guessed straight off that you had bought it. She was late for dinner tonight, and I

was a magnetic current between Jill and Alan which no one could in- | terrupt.

ing favors heaped upon him.

{have a hunch she has been to Alan. “Goodby,” Alan said, with cruel | '1 wanted to warn you.”

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| finality. “Thank you, Patty. But it doesn’t “Goodby.” Jill barely whispered | | matter now.” UT currents could be broken. |it, She watched him walk away. “Well, I'm glad to hear it. But At first Ardath had wanted Tall, handsome and unhappy. 1 thought you and Alan—" only to heal her wounded vanity. She wanted to rush after him. “No,” Jill said. But after leaving Alan today, some-| | But after all, when a girl knew a| She heard herself talking calmly thing fierce and terrible in his eyes, man was through with her, she | to Patty. she knew she wanted to see more couldn't run and throw herself in | After she hung up, an icy barof him. Must see more of him. his arms. Not if her heart died | | rier broke. Tears came : “I'm afraid I must be going| within her. Jill felt hers had. She | : now, Miss Holm,” he had said] felt cold and lifeless and weary. | Telling her in polite words to get out and stay out. She knew enough about men to]

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know that even hate is a better] breeding ground for romance than | indifference. And she wouldn't] forget that anger would also be | turned against Jill soon for hum- | bling him. If she were not mis-| taken, Alan Jeffry had more than |

the usual amount of pride. | IGHT-WATCHMAN Jim Crow- | Jim grabbed him by the coat lapels | »" ww = der has just come down from |and turned the flashlight full in his

HERE have you been S0|g.. costume jewelry department. He | face.

long?” Patty asked. ne A | stood behind the coat rack in the EO, : dath came in. ‘‘Are you gol . : Lu 4 e exclaimed. His hands to dinner with me?” Second” igor, Joys Sepa. ei loosened, on ‘the “bors es Ardath tossed her small felt hat ear presse bp Rr Hie as | and he let the flashlight drop away. on the sofa. “I was busy,” she an- rr Oo Ey TE | His shoulders rounded more than ; y br : swered, coolly. : : 4 ever. Jim walked to the wall i e ’ p art- | a nd “Well. hurry. I'm so starved I| Presently Jim shrugged and st snapped Wg Vall 2nd could eat two dinners.” ed to move on, but it came again. | lig! vate 1 AP vi oise on the stairs. Someone satty surveyed Ardath, trying to|A nO : Ho . a of trouble-making. She |groping along. Jim had carefully | e some talking to do, son,’

i i war | he said, wearily. in’ ’ - | held his flashlight floorward, but 5 = my Wh ir he cvities [now he doused it entirely. ‘You won't turn me in, dad, will t schief-making procil § : 4 | vous in or She was nobody's an-| In his four years of service Jim | Say you won't send me to

! » 1 mir] {hat was certain. Last had never faced a burglar. The | 31 Say 1 Ted pleaded. His youth ni ht he had got the feeling that | store's thief- prevention system was | seeped pirough in the tears that I Eh AR liv in-\ licized. Even now he | rd: as e than casually in-|too widely publici : ard a bio oily Alan. Though |felt that he must be hearing things, mi ain’t the question, right ot he ‘should be interested In |because every entrance was care- { think you Juestion, Is, » What did you Wy ‘ere doing?” Ss ev ; fully wired. | g? Alan. who was evidently penniless, | “I just ha was difficult to understand. Patty | J d to, Dad. I had to get

» =” 5 | money and clothes some way, I had an idea that Ardath wanted OLDING his breath, Jim could can't stand the other fellows being |

: } { money and position. One or the hear the person come to the |; gong up an other, anyway. But of course she top of the stairs and turn uncer-| mye gin DE ne Iwell eats micht want to set her hat on Alan | tainly toward the cashier's desk. All | money. I want to os os Ni: the | and his $3000 for awhile. It was | too plainly now he saw the beam of | vy. see, Dad?" popular | > y 1 be easy to see how any woman could |a tiny pencil flashlight. A sudden | Jim turned his head away. 9 | |

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: : | keys and had extra ones m He practically broke in, over Per- HE shot was deafening and the dime store. You kept oiling

kins’ protest. When he saw me, he both men stood dead still for about all the books you read so demanded to see you. He looked |. faw seconds. Jim expected to see | I thought you'd be downstairs and like an anarchist, or something.’ | the burglar drop. When he didn’t | wouldn't catch me. I didn't think Mrs. Wentworth ended vaguely. |). fat somehow hurt. but relieved. about you losing your job. I guess adn have & hat. combing, and he | “ypen the spell broke the Bo 12 didn’t think about ut anyining exidn’t ha rg i i -ag Sis, hens wimost stopped beat LUC Up bis middle aged | opt string some clothes ana some ing. Alan, “of course. Very rude! the intruder sprawling. In another | «yi foolish. Ted, it's so darned Yes, he could be very ride VHen | minute he was atop his opponent foolish. Don't you (hing they'd he was not pleased. If either Pe | hitting with all his might. | have caught you even if 1 didnt?

sins or mother had put on airs— es _ ' I be something like that. yee i i eo Deadad. | Tol nt Sek Away With pieulins. He couldn't possibly have learned Np amin fort nrri Yen Yo They're sure to catch you. Just as about the picture, Jill told herself, |; "g. g1iont” Tt had dropped from | C25) 2S I caught you, I can’t say frantically powdering her nose. Her his hip pocket when pee 1 I'm exactly angry with you, Ted, . wi a irror oS » nad | Y Ih — y eves looked scared in the mirror, lunged. ‘As he groped on the floor | (but I'm hurt—terribly hurt. I hope | and she made a little grimace at for it the burglar got cautiously ‘to I can make you realize that money | her reflection. his feet. When his hand came in | "nd clothes and girls aren't every- | Nothing could have leaked. There contact with the flashlight Jim < | thing. You should be thinking of | were only three people in the world | pr Ele Bot ibe Pe Th Saw basketball and next year's football | Ee na heron | BE(Ore he could take another step |{*0™: THINGS ike that." hope The picture was now carefully When he stopped talking and stored, awaiting her orders. : | stood still, Jim could hear a distant « 'w M d Y pounding. H, of course! He had found IN our ” a Cl | out who she was. He probably | a Velnd B Case od stay | ed § ad been masquerad- M ere!” he ordered Te gl , could be TL orred an ne I'S Jim hurried down the steps to the up when she talked with him. He | Rr Site, Sor Sane go My would Jaugh BL Ret I ny ooh r= your knowledge of ||Jim Ty it open. Two prlicemer. Ish. and ite her sensible reason- | correct social usage by | their cruiser parked across the al- : But DS. she Was bolster- | | answering the following ques- ||ley, pushed their way in. ing, with e, Jill felt far from || tions, then checking against || “We were going by and heard a I che ran lightly || the authoritative answers be- ||shot,” one explained. a rent staitway. ‘There | BY : Jim looked at them hesitantly a thing of the frightened ol Is it good taste to say, minute. Then he laughed nervously. Was Some ont her gs she || ‘Dearie? | “It was my dumbness,” he imlittle gi vo 1 Step ahd sw | 2. May one use “My dear” | provised. “I thought I heard a reached the ottom step, : || when speaking to a friend? | sound and then bumped into one of Alan waiting. wed “about “the “in- 3. Should one use the phrase, || the dress dummies. It was misHe had loo e : a ‘with ‘their | “Step this way?” | placed and I wasn't expecting it, I mense drawing Riggio Bh a — 4. Does a person of middle || took a shot at it.” discriminating u aT Re wn age speak of her ‘rviends as The policemen looked at him inplay of wealth, an iy sieht of || “ladies” or “women?” | credibly a moment, but when he liked them at all. a x iY | 5. Of the terms, girls and | laughed again they joined in. In a Jill's lavish home adge uel 1011 voung women, which one is || minute they went out. Jim hurried his burning bitterness. it for gin || used in social gatherings and | back upstairs. He ag i he dep | which one in business? | “I'll take you out now. I think o come. At § 2 - | you've had your lesson. I think I on the stair, he had rushed into | What would you do if— | know what made you do it. I'll ask the hall. | You want to offer a stranger | for a raise in the morning. EveryHL assistance— thing’ll be fine. Just fine.” ILL'S dark and {roubled eyes A. “Permit me to assist || When Ted was gone Jim hurried « met his. She was very pale. you?” | back to the jewelry department, He Alan had a wild desire to shake her, B. “Allow me?” | took a tiny key from his breast and then take her in his arms. But C. “Let me help you?” | pocket and unlocked one of the if he took her in his arms, he would | cases. Then he took two expensive be lost. Jill and ali the things she "om. | necklaces out of a pouch he'd had stood for would win over the things Answers | hanging around his neck and put he had set as standards. : 1. No. | them back in their boxes, With an “Please let's go into the music| 2. Yes. But it's tiresome if ||air of resignation and a sigh he room.” Jill spoke in a low tone. She used too much. | took one last look at them and had recognized the signs of avid 3. No, it is better to say, I'll ||locked the case again. He straightcuriosity in her Sepia: i take vou to such a place.” pe bik ers as he g alied The door closed behin em, an 4. Women. own to his little cubby hole. He Alan broke out hoarsely: “I came 5. Girls in a living room. Fn glad his son had shown him it |

to return $2600. Unfortunately $400 Young women in an office. couldn't be done. of your money is reposing in the HE

pocket of the man who rented me his place, who, I understand, left The ‘Shiarncters nie Sot wre We Hitiots. (Copyright, 1937. Patrons Syndicate)

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By Dr. Morris Fishbein American Medical Journal Editor OE of the commonest skin diseases that attacks children is {called impetigo. Although it is | sometimes called a contagious dis-

It is, however, easily spread from | one part of the body to another and sometimes from one individual | to another either by immediate | {contact or by indirect methods. Dirty barber shops, contaminated | | wrestling mats and other athletic | apparatus are frequently the means |

| from one person to another. | In impetigo blisters and little in- | fected pimples appear, usually on |

the body and attacking chiefly the | points at the corners of the lip, the angles of the nose and around the lear. The condition will also appear | around the fingernails where there have been hang-nails and in scratch marks elsewhere on the body.

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