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BY ADELAIDE HUMPHRIES

CAST OF CHARACTERS CONSTANCE CORBY—heroine; girl in the world. BRET HARDESTY -—hero: bridge build.

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er. RODNEY BRANDON—Connie’s flance. KATIE BLYN—Connie’s “double.”

Yesterday—Relieved of her cash ‘when the bus is robbed, Katie or Connie is ®orced to fall on Bret Hardesty for help. And, she reflects, fate was not so bad at that,

CHAPTER EIGHT

‘HEY were to change busses at Asheville. ‘Over a delicious

breakfast of ham and eggs and cof- |

fee, they discussed “ways means,” as Bret expressed it.

“Are you gooa at figures?” asked. “I could use a girl at the camp. Old Pop Walters is the only one in the office now and has more | work than he can handle since the | job’s in full swing. You'd be do- | ing me a real favor, Miss Blyn, if you'd like to try it.” | Connie thought how fine it was | of him to put it that way. ‘She| said she would like to, very much. | Thanks to Uncle Tippy, she was prepared for an opening like this He had seen to it that his niece | had acquired sufficient

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business | training that would enable her to | understand and handle her large | inheritance.

“Of course it's rather a rough |You mind my asking? You ain't |

place for a girl.” Bret spoke a | shade dubiously. “Though I prom- | ise I'll look after you. You can room | at Mrs. Parson's in the ‘village. Everyone calls her Aunt Bertha,” he added, his eyes twinkling. “You will, | too, after you've sampled her biscuits and corn bread.” Connie did nov think there was | any doubt but that she would be protected. Besides, the setup ‘was | ideal. Who would ever think of | looking for the richest girl in the | world in a crude construction camp | deep in the heart of the Blue | Ridges? “I ‘dont know how I can ever thank you,” she said, her blue eyes shining; she had discarded the in- | evitable dark glasses now that there | was less fear of recognition. This was going to be an adventure such | as she had never dreamed would come to her. “I don't know why | you should do this for me.”

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F she had hoped he would say it was because he had liked her, or found her different from any girl he had known, she was to be disappointed. “I'd do as much for anyone who was up against it,” he assured her. “As for thanking | me, please don’t try. Didn't 1 tell | you, you'd be helping me out, | too?” When they

arrived at ‘Charles- | ton the following dav Bret hired | an automobile for the 100 mile trip to the little town near which he was building his bridge. He explained he had driven his own | car down South to leave with his folks for the ‘winter. ‘‘They’re getting old,” he said. “I'm glad | I can make their last ‘years the | best.” “I don't remember my mother,” ‘Connie told him, thinking that his must be proud of him. Then she remembered that she was Katie Blyn! “But there are eight of us,” she added quickly “Too many in one small house. That was one reason I started out on my own.” Bret's attention was focused on the road, which was becoming steep and narrow, now that they were in the hills. But he managed a side glance at her. “I expect there was more than one—perhaps you had a quarrel with your sweetheart!” It was her turn to glance sharply at him. “What makes you ask that?” “Oh, a girl as young and as attractive as you are is bound to have a sweetheart,” he said lightly. “She would hardly start out, not knowing | where she was going, unless she had | quarreled with him. Though ‘eight | of you—well, that would be a few too many! Still, won't you miss them? This town is only a little over a thousand. I hope you won't | find it lonely.” Connie assured him that she | would not. Almost she had added, “Not if you are there.” The thought stayed with her; kept her silent.

nH ” n SHE wondered what it was about S this man that made her feel she could put her trust in him and | not be mistaken, ever. She only had | known him a few days; vet time did not seem to matter. [ “Now we're getting into real country,” Bret said, later on. “See | those big boys looming up in the | distance? They're the Shenandoahs: | 6000 feet, some of them. Fea] the | difference in the air? Take a breath | and fill your lungs. Tt will wash away | all your troubles, make vou new once more.” ‘You love your country, don't you?” ‘Connie's voice was soft with | understanding. She who had five homes, a villa on the Riviera, a 6000- | acre country estate, a town house, | a winter palace and a summer one, | had never called any one of them | “home.” She knew that, to, was | something she had missed. “Every tree, every blade of grass,” | Bret said. “I always come back to | it no matter how far I roam.” His | wonds were ones Oonhnie was to re- | call many times. He said, “I hope you'll learn to | Jove it, t00. One thing I can guar- | antee,” *he flashed her a grin, | “you’ll have plenty of elbow room! | You'll be as free as the birds that have the whole heaven for their own.” “How did you know,” she asked. “that freedom is what I want more than anything, a chance to try my | own wings for a while?” “Isn't that what everyone wants? Though after you've tried them you'll be glad to fly back to your nest--and your sweetheart—again.” “No.” Connie shook her head. took a deep breath of the air that, as he had told her, seemed to wash all the past away, making her reborn again. “I don’t believe I'll want to go back. Certainly not because of any person! When I do, perhaps I'll always wish I could return-—as you have.” She did not know then. either, how true her words would prove.

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RET said he thought they had better stop at the MeCallys’ cabin, which they would reach soon, to get warth and have dinner. It would be dark by the time they reached their destination. Already | it was growing dusk. The eabin, like most of those they | passed, was built of logs, oemented with mud, but inside it was ‘neat and clean. The old couple weliy Bret as though he were &

relation, though like the people in the hills, they did not make a show of emotion. “Tis well you're getting back,” the old man said with that easy drawl that fell so sweetly on ‘Connie's unaccustomed ears. “Things (ain't been going too likely without you, Mr. Hardesty. I hear tell some |of your men walked out on old Pop | Walters. The lazy loafers. Though I reckon it won't take long for you to whip ’em back to harness.”

[ “I reckon not!” Bret laughed, but { his

dark eyes were troubled. As soon as they had eaten he said he thought they had better “push on.” The old man told them there had been a heavy snow higher in the hills. “Wouldn't surprise me.” he added, “by the looks of them clouds but what we was due for more. Maybe you'd better let us put you up for the night, Mr. Hardesty.” Bret thanked him for his hospitality, but refused it, “That is.” he looked at ‘Connie, “unless ‘you'd rather not risk it?” “I'd much rather go on,” she hastened to assure him; she knew that was what he wanted. The old people shook hands with each of them, wished them a safe journey. Then the woman said, her small eyes in her face, as wrinkled and weather-beaten as the man's, lighting up with interest. “Would

bringing home a bride, be you, Mr Hardesty?” u n 4 o BRIDE!” Bret looked startled, as though the suggestion were sheer impossibility. Then he laughed. “Why, no, Miss Blyn is going to help

Parson's.” “Reckon she'll put on a few pounds then,” Mrs, McCally said. “And ’tis just as well, cause I know

broken.” “So! You must have a sweetheart,

of at least one heart as would be |

too—since you accused me of one, Mr. Hardesty,” Connie said after they were on their way again. “Indeed I haven't,” he returned promptly, the color spreading up into his dark face, however. “All that women think of, it seems, is ro-

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mance.” “Maybe the day will come when you'll find it's worth thinking about,” | Connie predicted. She supposed there had not been much time for romance in his busy life. Yet she liked that about him. “I hope it never does,” he said | darkly; then his scowl deepened. | “That is snow ahead. It'll be coming | down on us before long.” Even as he | spoke the big flakes started to fall; | before long the windshield ‘was thick with them, the road and hills | covered with a clean white blanket. | “It's beautiful!” Connie exclaimed. | “T didn’t suppose it could be so beau- | tiful, or change so quickly.” Bret said it was pretty enough, but | he hoped the road would remain | passable. “You mean we might not be abie ' to get through tonight?” “That's it exactly.” They were just | creeping along now, so slippery ‘and steep was the road. It was impossible to see more than a foot or two | ahead. “I shouldn't have risked it | with you,” his tone was contrite. “But I love it!” ‘Connie assured | him. There was something dan- | gerous and primitive about this | | storm here in this wild country that | {appealed to her. She had known so | little of that sort of experience in | her hothouse existence. “Please don't | turn back. I'm not the least bit | as she said it, |

| afraid.” She knew,

| with the books. She'll live at Mrs. | that she would never be afraid to

| face anything with him. As though to force the proof of

[this the car skidded then suddenly, | sickeningly.

(To Be Continued)

(All ‘events, names and characters in this story are wholly fictitious.)

Daily Short Story

HONEST MAN—By Mitzi Cummings

“If you will give me a good price you can have the cow now.”

N RUSSIA, in the old days, Where lived a man whose name was | [Chaim. ‘Chaim ‘was poor, but ex- | tremely honest, and the whole vil- |

| lage in which he lived respected the |gaiq the peasant, Petroff, “but I have

integrity of his word. Chaim, his good wife, and their |

| six children, were more or less con- | the cow now.

tent with the meagerness of their lot. They were all a pious and Godloving family, and the few rubles

| that Chaim made from selling cattle beast, and then presented Petroff

in the market seemed satisfactory. haim used to buy his cows from the peasants in the surrounding countryside. He always gave them a fair price, so that they trusted him. Selling directly to him not only saved them the time and trouble of going to market themselves, but ‘assured them of an immediate sale which, in the competition of the market place, ould not always be a certainty. Chaim, however, was almost always able to sell the cows. He had been doing so for such a number of years that people knew that his cattle were always good and that his word in business was as safe as a contract, Chaim was able to make only a small profit from his transactions, but it kept his family fed.

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NE day when he was going on his rounds in the country he met a peasant who was walking in the direction of the market with a cow at the end of a rope. Chaim had never seen this peasant before,

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50 he quickly walked up to him, told him his name and his business and asked if he could purchase the animal. “I have just moved to these parts,”

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Before he put his hand in his, pocket ‘Chaim took a look at the | cow, saw that she was a healthy

with several rubles. Carefully the peasant counted them over until he was satisfied that he had made 3 fair bargain, whereupon he handed | over the cow. But Chaim shook his head.

“I cannot take her now,” he waid. “I have first some other business I must transact. I trust you. Take the cow back to your barn and when [ am finished I will cone and take her away.” This was agreeable to Petroff and the two men parted. business took him much longer than | he anticipated. Tt was almost halfpast nine that night before he got to the tiny farm of the peasant. " Ww Ww Half-past nine was very Tate in|. oO ‘ Russia in those days and Chaim had | Cp He a ® en, no wish to awaken Petroff: besides, | 1 SHB 121 sity THECY™ there was no need of further conver- | sation. The cow was already bought | and paid for, so Chaim went directly | say no more. You are all good men, into the barn. th oR ; , As though waiting for him the cow | HUAES: Wich, Wilt meh. IT JoR Xu stood placidly munching her

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hay. | Chaim is guilty of stealing Petrofl's She looked as Chaim as he patted | cow, then he is guilty, but, gentleher shining brown hide and followed | Men, before you leave, only to rehim willingly out of the barn. After | turn with the verdict that Chaim

lieve my client guilty. I have tried to | prove that this is not so, but I can |

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By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN American Medica: Journal Editor | INCE infantile paralysis occurs | chiefly in the late summer and | | early fall, the acute effects are over | | by the time winter has come. Thus | | we must turn our attention to the | | question of regaining for the child | | ‘as much of his muscular power as | | possible, : | In the campaigh to raise funds for the National Foundation Against Infantile Paralysis, emphasis is being placed on the necessity for

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an hour's walk through the dark fields they arrived at Chaim’s vard.

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| TE next day the police came to his house and arrested him. | They told the frightened. indignant Chaim that the peasant, Petroff, had reported the theft of his cow. They knew that Chaim was the thief because a neighbor of Petroff's had seen him leading the cow from the barn late the night before. Hotly, Chaim protested his innocence and tried to explain the eircumstances, but the police had no desire to listen, and they took him to jail. A few days later there was a trial. Many good people got up and told of Chaim's honest name and stanchly defended him, but it did not help. Petroff had said his cow | was stolen. The cow had been found in Chaim’s yard. The neighbor identified Chaim . and there was neither a bill of sale nor a withess to prove Chaim's ec¢laith that the animal was rightfully his. Tt looked very bad for the prisoner. The day before the sentence was to be pronounced the I man was sitting in his miserable ¢ell thinking of the long years he would have to spend in prison. His lawyer went to see the family. “Can you weep very loud?” he asked, looking at their numb, tearstained faces. The wife nodded unhappily. “Good,” said the lawyer. “Tomorrow come with the six chile dren to the court. Make your weeping heard. Det the tears stream ¢onstantly from your eyes.” He left them then with a thoughtful look on his face. The next day, In the courtroom, they did as he said. They did not have to pretend their sorrow, how. ever, for to them it was the greatest tragedy in the world. As the trial progressed they wept

Ds oder fOr how I was 1 was hope what- | 1 inhocent Chaim '

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must spend the next several years |

in prison, please 100k over here at his wife and six children.”

The jury, peasants and farmers, | looked over at the family and shook |

their heads in sympathy. “I knew it, gentlemen,” said Chaim’s lawyer. “You are all family men, and you cannot help pitying these poor unfortunates who now must face starvation. I ask your permission before you retire to take up a collection for them.” The jury nodded agreement, and the lawyer quickly picked up his

| hat and began to pass it around. Everybody put in something. Some

had very little to offer, but nobody refused this worthy cause. The hat went from the jury through the crowd, and finally it came to the

| peasant, Petroff.

“Will you help, t60?” he was asked,

(and Petroff nodded his head. He

thought to himself that since he already had Chaim’s money and the cow, 100, he could afford to be generous. He put his hand into his pocket with a magnanimous gesture and took out a few rubles. But just as they dropped into the hat, the lawyer quickly picked up one piece of money, gave it a quick, serutinizing glance, and e¢ried out ih a horrified tone: “Why, this is counterfeit! Where did you get this fake money?” “Counterfeit!” shouted Petroff in anger. “Counterfeit? It ean't be! Why, thats the money that dog Chaim paid me for my cow!”

(To Be Continved) (AN events, names and characters in this story are wholly fetitious.)

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A-—-No postal employee has the right to open first-class mail with= out permission of the addressee.

Q—Can you tell me the birthplace and religion of Senator Wagiter and his father and mother?

A—The Senator and his patente were born in Nastatten, Province Hessen, Nassau, CGerthany, and all are Methodists,

Q—How does Alcatraz Prison get its water for drinking and cooking? A—There are no springs or wells on the island and water for drinking and cooking is brought inh barrels from San Francisco.

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increased facilities to carry out this kind of rehabilitation. The amount of paralysis varies with every child. Some children do | not have any paralysis, some are

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those who are paralyzed recover a certain amount of their muscular power, In a recent consideration of this subject, Dr. Frank R. Ober divides the course of the treatment into three stages. 2 ” ” HE first stage is that in which | the child is first infected and in which it has considerable pain and tenderness of the museles and the nerves. During this period there | must be sufficient medical and nursing care Bight weeks may be | required before the inflammation subsides and healing takes place. During this time the patient may be very tender and endeavor to relieve his pai by assuming all sorts of protective positions. Bince these positions may produce paralyzed arms and legs, incapable of useful=ness, it is the duty of the specialist who attends the child to prevent such positions. This he does by applyiig splints and braces of various kinds which hold the limbs in the proper posi= tion and which keep the child ¢omfortable,

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necessary that the tissues be in the best possible position for ultimate usefulness. Tn relieving the pain, heat applied in various forms ir frequently valuable, It is important to emphasize that massage and exércise should wever

be started when the tissues are still tender and painful. At such times, masgage will merely increase the pain and delay favorable progress. Complete rest in bed, proper eontrol of the limbs, and the use of heat will to a great extent hasten improvement, Just as 200nh as the pain and ten-

derness have disappeared, exercise and other treatment may be begun with a view to getting back as much of the functions of the tissues as possible,

SO THEY SAY It's beautiful Julian Gaindo, 13, of El Paro, Tex, after an operation oh hiz eves which permitted him to gee for the first time, Many boys are todo shy to make dates; parents should step in ahd encourage them —The Rev, Dr. Roy Burkhart, Columbus, O,

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