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CAST OF CHARACTERS | CONSTANCE CORBY-—heroine: richest girl in the world. BRET RARDESTY-—hero: bridge builder, RODNEY BRANDON-~Connie’s fiance. KATIE BLYNN—Connie's “double.” Yesterdav—Bret, finding himself miserable without Connie, comes back. And they are married. She is mow Mrs, Breton Hardesty for keeps.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

OMORROW came, as tomor-| rows will, turning into today, | and the whole world knew that| Constance Corby had married a struggling young man with practically nothing to his name. The whole world hummed and buzzed with the news, exclaimed, either approvingly or with condemnation, prophesied as to whether or | not such a strange marriage possibly could last, |

None of which bothered Connie longer,” Con Bret in the least. They had fire leaped into her eyes. “This is

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against his. “Darling . . . aren't you going to tell me. . . . Don't you like me this way? Don't you like my lovely new belongings?” “You look very grand,” he said again. “But vou look so different, not at all like the girl T married. Beautiful. of course, no one could deny that. But no,” he shook his

| head, “I think I liked the way that | other girl looked better.”

The dancing light went out of Connie's eyes. “Darling,” she said. “aren't you being a bit-—well, stuffy? Those clothes really were impossible, vou know. I looked a fright in them.” “You looked all right to me,” he insisted. He looked now, as Connie had first thought upon seeing him, like a young man who was very certain as to what he liked and thought. “That thing vou've got on . . . it's scarcely decent, showing so much of your neck and arms. I liked your hair the other way.” “But I'm not that other girl any Connie said. The hidden

each other, which was more than|the way I always looked, the way

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I wore my hair. You'll have to get

were in that first idyllic stage of used to me.”

honeymooning when a rosy glow]

transfigured and enveloped every- turned from her. He had not even thing; an interlude of ecstacy in Fissed her! She ran to him, burst!

which reality does not exist. They stayed at a small, unpretentious hotel in the nearest goodsized town so that Bret could drive back and forth for the two weeks remaining until his bridge was completed. They had the bridal suite, which was far from elegant, but it is doubtful if they noticed that. The only thing Connie noticed was that the days were suddenly longer and exceedingly empty. That was because Bret was gone.! The hours when he could be with her were all too short. “As soon as the bridge is done,” she said, “we'll go away somewhere so that we can be together! every single moment. We'll have a real honeymoon.” “I like that!” Bret's dark eyes were teasing. “Isn't this a real honeymoon, Mrs. Hardesty.” “Only when vou are here,” she told him. “Only half of one, be-| cause of that. We shall go away, darling, for a long, long while— around the whole world. perhaps.” | x RET'S dark eyes grew sober. “You forget, my sweet,” he said, “that I'm not in a position to take my wife traveling around the world. If we went, we would have

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to go on your money. 1 don't believe I'd like that.” “You forget,” Connie reminded, |

“that my money is now our money

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“I suppose I shall.” Bret said. He

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, into tears, flung her arms around {his neck. | “I'll send them all back, if you

{want me to!” she sobbed. “How can |

honeymoon isn't even over? I want-

self. I wanted to make myself lovely, for you.” “There, there!” Bret said. He had she glanced up she would have seen that his expression had not changed; his dark eyes were som-

ber. to keep them. And by the way, this | And

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“Of course, I don’t want you | to send them back. Not if you want |

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honeymoon is over. The bridge is | sweetheart, | you'll have to give me a little more | time to get used to you-—please re- |

| member that.” i Her arms tightened around his |

neck; she ceased crying. moved | | closer. | first quarrel they had had But something told her tears and tantrums, maybe even kisses and young slim arms, might (not always win if Bret felt him|self entirely in the right.

| ———— (To Be Continued)

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

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“In full dress he was in no position to romp with the dogs.”

EORGE was brought up on a®cut?” Agathamay asked.

farm and had a natural love He often longed for

We agreed that we were going to | his dogs, his horses, his cows, his work everything out together, and | goats and wondered whether, after

{hat means sharing everything to- | all, he had been wise in giving |

gether, too. We said we were not | them up for Agathamay. It had all

going to be afraid of money, or of anything else under the sun, as long as we had each other.’ Bret’ said that that was what they had agreed. Still he did not like the idea of another honevmoon under those conditions. He

happened so quickly, and in the beginning she had promised him he would not only have her but his animals as well.

“That's why you attract me so,

George, dear,” she had said. “A man who loves animals that way must

had not realized vet that he had married Constance Corby.

Connie, on the other hand, seemed to have slipped back, quickly and easily, into her true self again. After all, that was |

what she had always been. With the exception of that brief lapse when she had been Katie Blynn. It was perfectly natural for her, having experienced that metamorphosis, to decide to circle the globe, or do anything else if she wished. One of the first things she did

after she received a wire from | Uncle Tippy wishing her happiness and scolding her for having |

achieved it in the way she had, and sending her several dollars with a letter of credit for the bank, was to shed that other girl's clothing She was a bit tired, she discovered suddenlv—one day that dragged unusually long with Bret away—of the shoddy navy suit and the black aress and all of those somber, sensible things. That evening when Bret, tired and dusty, came back to the bridal

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be a kind man, a good man, the man I've always wanted to marry.” What could Geor.. do? There he was on the farm and things weren't | going any too well. He was 31 with no prospects for the future. He was | 6 feet 2, broad of shoulder, and good looking in a thin-faced. weather-! beaten way. But his youth was go- | ing. So when Agathamay tock such | an interest in him after he had come upon her with a punctured | tire on the road near his farm, he | was at first surprised, then worried. Finally he gave in to the inevitable. Agathamay’s husband had died four | | years before and left her a sizable | fortune. But the years were passing. | | Here she was celebrating her 43d | birthday, and what was a fortune | to a lonely woman? “But my animals,” George said. “1 can't bear to part with them.”

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‘JUST as soon as we get back <« from our honeymoon we'll rent | a big house, somewhere just outside | of town, and we'll have a big yard. You can keep all the dogs you want, |

jeven horses. | big police dogs, an Airedale, two | parrots, a monkey as well.

“It really would be much more fun in tow. We could settle down in my 12-room apartment on the 18th floor. There's a beautiful view from one of the front windows and ——" “But how about George asked. “How will we ever get them up to the 18th floor—the cows and horses and goats——" “Oh, yes, the animals. gotten about that. You still really do want them, do you?” “Well, you promised me,” began George. So they compromised. They did take a house with a yard. Of course | there weren't any cows or goats, or But there were two

It wasn't | what George had expected, but it was | something, a good deal better than | nothing. But he didn’t have near | the time he would have liked to have to spend with his animals. | There was the opera, theater and | gatherings of one kind and another | not only in the evening but in the afternoon as well. George had to get into full dress so often he began to feel uncomfortable in everyday clothes. And in full dress, naturally, he was in no position to romp with | the dogs.

» » » OMETIMES George would get homesick for his good old days | on the farm, and wonder why he ever married Agathamay. Sitting at the opera or across the breakfast | table from her, a strange feeling of | utter desolation would take posses- |

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suite he found a girl he had never {coat.™

seen before, a girl whose golden curls had been carefully lo and waved, whose nails were like | coral jewels, whose slender figure wore a lovely frock of softest blue. matching the shining excitement in her eyes, whose ankles were encased |

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mit the honeymoon was certainly as | fine a one as anybody could wish. But trouble started just as soon | jas the honeymoon was over.

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in cobwebby hose and feet in high- | heeled, dainty slippers. In brief, a | girl who might have stepped from ! & page of a fashion magazine.

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. OOD Lord!” +he exclaimed. “What have you done to your- | self, honey?” “Don’t you like me?” Connie executed a little dance step around ' him, showing off her finery. “Youre very grand,” he There was a puzzled look dark eyes. One could not tell! whether he was pleased or not. | "But I'm afraid to touch vou.” He raised his hands, dropped them, | comically, at his sides. “Oh, you needn't be,” she said lightly. “See,” catching him by the hand and pulling him on into the other room, “there are plenty more pretties, should you muss this one up!” The bed, the chairs, the tables were literally covered with boxes and packages. There were frocks of every color and description, tailored | ones, frilly ones, sleek and sophisti-$ cated, with hats, it appeared, to | match each one; negligees of gleaming satins, or billowing chif- | ions; stacks and stacks of delicate, | lacy wunderthings; rows of shoes; | dozens of pairs of gossamer hose. | “I'll try them all on for you, if vou like,” Connie said, her eyes | “ancing. “You shall see how beau- | tiful your wife can be, Mr. Hardesty.” | As she spoke, her fingers started | to unhook the blue dress, she] stepped out of it, swished another | over her shiningly coiffured head. ! This was an evening gown, ex-| tremely decollette, its cloth of | gleaming gold, shimmering like a knight's polished armor. She ¢ mio i

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off the blue slippers, wiggled into matching gold ones, caught up & wrap of deep green velvet, with an | enormous collar of white fur. |

HE had not noticed that Bret! had not answered her question. | He still stood, looking at her, that curious expression in his dark eyes. She said again: “See how beautiful I am, my husband! Don’t you like me, darling?” Again she pirouctted around and! around for him, | Stiil he did not answer her. | She came to him, put her arms!

Mind Your Manners

EST 'vour knowledge of correct social usage by answering the following questions, then checking against the authoritative answers below: 1. May a valentine be signed by the sender? 2. Is it a good idea for a husband to send his wife a valentine? 3. Is it good taste to use “violent” shades of ink for letter writing? 4 Should you apologize for writing a letter to a friend on a typewriter? 5. Should one write a letter in pencil?

What would you do if— You are a young man who has met a girl in another city, and you would like to further the acquaintance— A. Write her a letter?

B. Wait to see if she decides to write to you? C. Tell her when you are with her that you are going to write, and see if she seems pleased? » = = Answers 1. Yes. Though some peo-

ple like the romantic notion of leaving the identity of the sender to the imagination of the one who receives it. 2. Yes. It may be an actual paper valentine, or some other remembrance, like candy or flowers. : 3. Neo. 4 No. Many persons now write all but the most formal social notes on the typewriter. 5. Only if he is ill and writ ing in bed. Then it is excusable,

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But sometimes he would get up early. He would put on an old work shirt and an old pair of trousers. The police dogs and the Airedale would yelp and bark with joy |tc see him, and he would chase about the yard with them at his heels. | “George,” Agathamay exclaimed | irritably one morning, “why do you | hive to raise such a rumpus? Why, I just don't get any sleep. No soonjer do I close my eyes than I hear | those dogs of yours barking and you yelling back at them. The | neighbors must think were awful. | Something will have to be done.” “What?” George asked. | “Sell the dogs—or if you can’t sell | them, give them away. Maybe somebody will take them.” | At first George was obstinate, but | at last he gave in—that is, he compromised. He would give up the police dogs, but part with the Aire- | dale? Never! | Agathamay had a party, and all | the best people were there. George sat in his full dress, and he could be

| charming, sitting and smiling and |

| saying nothing. That's when Aga- | thamay liked him best. But Just | when the party was at its height (and there were only two cases of | champagne left. somehow or another the Airedale got into the house. He danced and pranced around, George calling him, slapping his hands, and making him jump over the table. He spotted Agathamay’s dress, and almost knocked old Mr. Vontopper into the punch bowl. That finished the Airedale. ” » »

- ELL, now that we haven't any more dogs,” Agathamay said, “there’s no reason why we should continue to live in this old house. So we'll move into my 12-room apart-

ment on the 18th floor.” Twelve rooms are many in some ways and not in others. The first thing, the monkey jumped out of his cage, and battled it out with the butler and the maid. “We'll just have to get rid of that monkey,” said Agathamay, and so they did. And, as George feared, the parrots were next to go. He came home with Agathamay one night and they were gone, “Where are them there parrots?” George demanded. “Oh, never you mind,” said Agathamay soothingly. “They were such

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American Medicat Journal Editor EFORE the coming of the motor car and sudden collisions on the highways, concussions were not nearly as frequent as they are now.

The important factor, whenever there is a blow or an injury to the head, is the amount of damage done to the brain. Even a slight crack of the skull is not as important as the pressure that may result from the bleeding inside the skull that occurs when the crack takes place. The visible evidence that the skull is cracked is an evidence of the degree of the damage because it takes a considerable amount of force to crack a skull. If the brain itself is pressed upon by the fragments of the bone or if the tissue of the brain is torn in an accident, the condition is obviously most serious. There is also great danger of pressure on the tissue of the brain by the blood that may get loose under the skull.

HIS blood may form itself outside the envelope or casing of the brain or it may be just under the envelope, or it may appear from vessels inside the brain. In each case the effects vary according to the place at which the pressure occurs. Pressure stops the flow of oxygen to the tissues and the lack of a supply of oxygen means degeneration and if long continued, death. A concussion has been defined as a paralysis of the functions of the brain following a blow on the head.

prise for you, George dear. You'll just love it!” Agathamay took George's arm and tipped softly through one room after the other. She came to the library where they kept the telephone books. She pointed to a corner. “There!” exclaimed Agathamay, beaming as she looked up at George. “What?” asked George disconsolately. “Why—don’t you see it? And I thought you'd be so happy!” George step closer, and there, neatly set on a“little stand in a dark corner, was a goldfish bowl and in it swam one bright, lively little black and red fish. George looked at the fish, at Agathamay, thought of the 12-room apartment, the butler and the cars and was resigned with the thought that a man just couldn't have everything.

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The person who has had a concussion is unconscious, breathes with a shallow respiration, has a rapid pulse and low blood pressure, and the skin feels cold and clammy. A concussion may be brief so that recovery occurs within 24 hours, but the damage. after the concussion may be so serious that recovery may not occur so promptly. On regaining his senses after a concussion the patient is unable to remember anything that happened during the time when consciousness was lost.

S recovery occurs, the blood pressure rises, the temperature rises, the pulse improves and when the patient finally regains consciousness, he will ask where he is and be able to answer questions. In certain cases the surface of

the brain is severely bruised. In such cases, known as contusions, the patient does not recover consciousness but remains stuporous, restless and irritable. Most serious of all is the compression of the brain brought about by hemorrhage. When there is compression, the patient lies unconscious or becomes unconscious after having recovered from the concussion. The breathing is slow, the pulse is slow. the blood pressure is higher, and the pupils are fixed and dilated. The most serious decision to be made by the doctor in these cases is whether to open the skull by an operation. When there are definite signs of compression, an immediate operation may be necessary to preVeh permanent damage to the rain.

SO THEY SAY

If I could relive 50 of my 75 years I would continue in baseball.—Connie Mack, manager of the PhilaGeiphin Athletics, on his 75th birthay.

Six months has seen a perceptible lessening of tension in Europe. Italy’s withdrawal from the League of Nations made no real difference. —Neville Chamberlain, Britain's Prime Minister.

I doubt that trailers will ever seriously affect home ownership.— Mayer Frank Couzens of Detroit.

As far as it depends upon Germany, there will not be another war. —Gen. Hermann Goering, German Air Minister,

The road is full of wise guys, holdup men, Communists, and other bums and we're organizing to shame them out of it—Tom J. (Weary) " Rambling

Wallace, president,

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Q—Why does the planet Mars apparently reverse its direction of movement in the sky at various times? |

A—Since Mars is really revolving | around the sun, it follows that its apparent motion to observers on the earth is a combination of two motions—that of a body moving once a year around the circumference of a circle equal to the earth's orbit, while at the same time the center of that circle is carried around the sun in the real orbit of Mars, and in its period. Thus, viewed from the earth, Mars moves most of the time “direct,” but, due td the earth's revolution. Mars apparently traveerses a small loop in its orbit, during which its apparent motion 1s reversed and ‘retrograde,’ and at certain points on each side of the | loop the planet is “stationary” in! the sky, its motion at the time being directly toward or from the earth.

Q—Describe the construction and function of a focal plane camera shutter?

A-—It usually consists of a long curtain with a number of fixed apertures varying from full size of the negative to one-eighth of an inch in width, operating as close as possible to the surface of the film or plate. It is moved across the focal plane of the film by a spring, the tension of which regulates the speed of the shutter. The duration o; the exposure is regulated by the size of the aperture and the rapidity with which it moves across the film. By varying the spring tension and altering the size of shutter aperture any speed can be realized.

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A—Yes. He took the part of the Catholics whenever they were victims of injustice or persecution, as when the Catholic convent near Boston was destroyed.

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