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CAST OF CHARACTERS

POLLY CHELSEY, heroine; stranded ifn London when war breaks out, JERRY WHITFIELD, hero; the Yankee who sees her through. CABELL BANKS, privateer captain.

Yesterday — War is declared between England and America, trapping Polly in London. She flees and Jerry follows her.

CHAPTER THREE OLLY CHELSEY ran until she was out of breath, mistakenly dashing straight ahead where she should have turned a corner. She stopped to get her bearings and saw that she was lost. The street she was following was unbelievably narrow and was lined with mean little shops over which were shabby living quarters. saw, down toward the river and lost itself in the fog. “Good! hell not find me here!” _ She meant the young American into whose eyes she had just looked so deeply. She was surprised that this probability caused her more regret than joy. Her brief contact with him had been as electric as light“ning. Had he felt the same way? “Polly sighed and shrugged and gave herself up to her surroundings, for ‘she had a keen zest for any adventure at hand.

| You will be our colonies again, as | ’ It led, she the King wills. . .

burning towns and scalping women | and children. That's a pretty tale, too, Mr. Dart!” " n td

OLLY paused, startled at her own boldness, yet not recanting. “The only thing I'm ashamed of, Mr. Dart, is that I came out on a ship that ran the blockade.” Oliver Dart said proddingly, “So it’s true, as we've heard, that you American's don’t stick together, eh? Your country’s divided?” «Don’t feel so encouraged Over that,” said Polly maliciously. “We have our private quarrels, but let England try to pry us apart—!” “England will not have to pry you apart,” Oliver Dart said with a cold precision. “She will take you in a lump and annex. you.

. Do you know the size of the English Navy, my girl?” . “No, sir,” answered Polly, shivering. “ight hundred men of war.— How many ships has the American Navy?” “1 don’t know, sir.” Nor had the angry man who had questioned her. Had they realized, those two, that America had but seven frigates and 15 sloops to meet those 800 men-of-war, the old man might have had a stroke brought on by mirth and the girl might have

Something of the wonder of old | Tondon gripped the American Vvil- | lage girl then. Enclosed in this |

_ cloud of mist were the realities of |

the greatest city on earth—its spires, | its majestic Houses of Parliament, | its Palace, its Tower, its bridges, its Thames. Polly stood still and let “the feel of its history throb through her, accepting all that was bright and glowing, not rejecting the dark and the bloodstained. She imagined she felt the heart-beats of its people—some in velvet and jewels, some in the smart uniforms of His Majesty’s Army and Navy, some in the rags of hopeless poverty where slum and debtor's prison cradled them, «I can feel London!” she thought, | marveling, for she was an imagina‘tive person. | “Buy a dog, lady! Buy a dog!” | The words came from a pinchfaced urchin who was tugging sharply at Polly's sleeve. «I don’t want to buy a dog,” she gaid. “Let me be!” «Then I'll drown ‘im, stated the boy indifferently, “like the old man told me to.” He moved toward the river, " » ” _a2OLLY looked after him in dismay and met the sad brown eyes of a little terrier, thrust under the boy's arm like a sack of meal. | She thought quickly, “It’s only a starved mongrel. It'll be better oft dead anyway.” Then, defensively, “We've two good dogs at home—" Yet something made her follow. She overtook them, The dirty gray hair of the little cur was almost invisible, but his helpless eyes shone out like two beacon lights and she imagined that he strainea toward

been broken by despair. “You don't know,” said Oliver Dart thoughtfully, and he closed his eves and put his finger tips toether. “I wonder! , . . It occurs to me that you're very knowing about some things and very blank about others. It occurs to me that

OUT OUR WAY

FRIDAY, FEB: 4,

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government. Yes! And using your relationship to me as a ruse.” «I don't understand, Mr. Dart.” Polly's voice showed fright. “Well, my girl, there are government prisons for such as you! More than one French woman has seen the inside of a cell in England. There should be some small stone boudoirs available for prying Amerjcan women, t00.” » ” ”

OLLY’S hand went to her throat and her eyes widened. So the old man was mad! Not in entirety; only on one subject. She had been foolish and reckless to argue with him. She must leave— While Oliver Dart’s eyes were shut and his finger tips were touching each other delicately she backed quietly toward the door and slipped out of the room, more frightened than she had ever been in all her 18 years. She was still in her coat and bonnet. She ran down the stairs and was about to open the street door when she saw the little terrier she had bought and completely forgotten. He was in a corner of the hall where Mrs. Broggs had abandoned him, and when he saw Polly he came eagerly toward her on his ugly little legs, a look of delight and welcome on his face. Polly stooped and picked him up. “You're a nuisance,” she said softly. “I gave you the right name. t

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“Yes, I am sick an’ tired of playin’ store. But it

with a surge of happiness, “I must find Jerry Whitfield!”

THIS HOSS SHO’ a. MOST (To Be Continued)

you might have come to England on some mission for your tricky

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

Daily Short Story

BACKFIRE—By Fred E. Ebel

her, as toward a friend. “Wait!” she called to the boy, and when he had stopped and looked | pack she said quietly, ‘How much do you ask for the dog?” “Four shillin’.” “But youre going to drown him anyway. Why not give him to me?” “Buy 'im, or ‘e splashes. It's rich |

sumpin’ for nuthin.” “Oh, dear,” Polly argued. “I'm not rich. I need every shilling I've got.”

« ‘You Scared; You Scared.”

| continued: “Listen, Booby, I don't

F the telephone rings after mid- | night I expect one of two things.

uns like you is always tryin’ to git | Either my uncle has taken ill and | ’ once again wants me to take care of | easily deny this request. One could,

his rabbits, should he pass on, which | he never does. Or Andy Selff, my |

But she saw the boy had started | DEO ri friend, has discov- |

on again, moving with the apathy of the underfed and hopeless. The street was dropping sharply down-

ward and she could see the gray- po

white sails of ships like limp clothes on a line. The docks. |

“I'll buy the dog,” she called. “I'll |

ered a new trick to make life miserable for someone. As my uncle was in Europe and a firm believer of | stage stamps as against transAtlantic telephony, I knew who the | offender was. |

“Hello, Andy,” T beat him to the |

give you four shillings!” | greetings.

The boy turned and faced her, so that now the dog was turned aft instead of fore and Polly saw that it had a ridiculous tail that hung like a dirty little banner at half mast. The urchin held out a clawlike hand. “Gimme!” he said. Polly counted out the money, being careful to hold her purse well ‘out of reach of that grasping claw. “Give me the dog first!” she ordered cannily. . , . “Now go and buy yourself some food.” The boy slid away like a dirty shadow. Polly Chelsey would have thought it an unpleasant dream ex‘cept that the little dog was in her 'arms, pressing close to her for warmth and comfort and trying to lick her neck. She said, “I'll name you Nuisance, because that’s all you are.” ”» ” o HE fog was lifting and she re- . traced her steps. Eventually she found her way to Oliver Dart’s “house, “Lud!” exclaimed Mrs. “Broggs, opening the door to her knock, “you gave me a turn. 1 thought you'd fell into the river, gone sO long. —What be that?” “A dog. I bought him from a boy.” “you never did! Now the master’ll be wild for sure. He'll turn you out if you try to keep him. He's got a great fine cat that won't abide a dog on the place. Give the ereature here while you g0 talk to Mr. Dart. He's been calling for you in a great rage.”

Polly abandoned Nuisance to

Mrs. Broggs and went at once up “to Oliver Dart’s study. The terrifying old man rasped out, “Sit in that chair, my girl.” Then, “Do you “know your miserable country’s detlared itself at war with England?” . «Yes, sir,” replied Polly. “I heard it on the street. I'm caught here, and it serves me right. American rts were ordered closed in April, ut my cousin’s ship ran the block“ade. In New England many ships have been doing that. They're Federalists in those states and haven't * favored a war, Because it would hurt “8hipping—" «Then you admit your President is a dunderhead and that unbal-

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" vises him is a fool?” “Oh, no sir!” answered Polly, rejecting the only cue that might have saved the situation. «1 ‘can’t feel that way. Nor does my brother _ Dick, 1 reckon. The English navy's the cruelest thing on earth, and the “most overbearing. You treat your * seamen so vilely that you can't get enough to serve you. So your ships stop ours at sea—even our private merchantmen, mind you! — and gearch for English deserters. When : don’t find them, they steal our

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“Say, how'd you know?” “I'm clairvoyant.” “Who’s she?” 1 explained the word and settled down for a lengthy discussion. He spoke jerkily. «Listen, Booby”’—I winced at the \ nickname he'd given me—"I got it” “you got it, all right!” I agreed. «Listen. You know those mystery plays where a guy opens a closet and a body falls out?” " n " «NURE,” I replied wearily. “But I don't worry. I always knock before I open one.” “please!” he begged. Then, after

Mind Your Manners

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Test your knowledge of correct social usage by answering the following questions, then checking against the authoritative answers below: 1. Should a new member of a club wait for old members to make advances for friendship in that club? 9. Is it good manners to list a person as participating on a club program without first getting his consent? 3. Should a person be publicly listed as serving on a committee without first getting his consent? 4. Is it customary to send a corsage to a woman guest of honor at a luncheon as well as a banquet? 5. Would it be quite all right to inquire of her what color she is going to wear so that the flowers might go well with the dress?

What would you do if— You have been given a corsage to wear to a particular party whose colors clash with the dress you are eXxpecting to wear? You have only the one dress suitable for the occasion— A. Leave the home? B. Wear them anyway? C. Carry them? " Bu %

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a pause: “You know what I did? I made one of those bodies. It—it looks just like that gangster that

was shot in the talkie, ‘Rats in Tuxedos.’ ” He took a deep breath,

care what you're doing. You gotta come over and see it.” It would appear that one could

for instance, say it was unreasonable. That one had to g0 to work in the morning: Yes, one could say them. But I didn't. I still remembered the last time I refused Andy and spent a night of horrible torture. My friend, irked at my attitude, attached one of his fiendish devices on my bedroom window. An army of woodpeckers would have been swing music compared to that monotonous tick-tack, tick-tack. In less than half an hour I was at Andy's pushing the button with a pencil. You do that %0 prevent getting an electric shock. Andy was at the door, his apple cheeks flushed | in-law could take it. Outside I dewith excitement. tached the auto bomb which I “Oh, boy, are you gonna see some- knew I would find on my engine, thing,” he promised. Then: “Quiet! | and drove off. I don't want to wake up the frau.” Two days later the telephone “Andy,” I pleaded for the hun- | aroused me from a late Sunday dredth time, “why don't you take morning snooze. At that respectup rabbit-raising. Some day one of | able hour I knew it would be someyour practical jokes will backfire | one censible. It was. Andy’s wife. on you.” “Will you come over?” she asked. “Andy's in bed. Sick.” E chuckled and we went into “Serious?” “Oh, 10.”

what he naively calls his work- I hung up ‘and Jost mo tite ‘getshop, but what I call the Chamber | gino UNE iss ‘manor. His re of Horrors. Here Andy has the|greeted me at the door. Smiling. equipment to make anything from a “Look,” she said happily, as we

rubber snake to a stench . wept, through the house. stench bomb. He “Why,” 1 started, “his workshop

nudged me, told me to open a door.| js a sewing room now! What on I did. And, knowing very well what | earth happened?” would happen, I still gasped. Not te brother gp because of the realistic appearance gan to see the light. " of the body that fell out, but the Ho Uriel Wife Wes, Oh? sound it made. Andy stamped his yu." i HE nodded. “I helped him. hos; Tike JS. Anythi to break that awful “you scared; you scared. Look. hy IB v a ys When it falls it pushes this rod, hobby of Anays. Well, the other which works a bellows—" night Andy went for a late walk. “Which,” 1 added angrily, “fur-| Joe took the clothes off the dummy nishes the air for some wind de-| ang put them on himself. Then he

vice which sounds li - Yi Nn Boy 1 hey Lo got a rope and rigged it so it looked

“I'll get some. Wait a minute.” | like he was hanging.” He was gone more than a minute. “yery good,” I approved. Here, have one of mine, he “well, we took the fuse out for said, appearing with a package Of| ip. pasement lights and Joe threw cigarets. In my confusion I almost | the rope over the rafters. Tn canWook ONE... ¥ votusel, i Gon: lelight he sure looked awful swing. ’ ) . . awfu choose to have my head blown off SN J WHR Luh Sh with trick smokes.” I sat down after| «gy can imagine.” removing several electric wires from | « x w » ‘So when Andy came home and my chair. Andy,” 1- admonished, | ent down into the basement with you can't go through with this. just a weak candle for light—" After all, people do have hearts.” “He passed out.” » % % “No. He bumped into Joe, all HERE was a far-awa leam n right. But he laughed, thought Joe his eyes “You a > hung up the dummy. Then Joe let b , i loose an awful groan and grabbed rother-in-law, Joe: Andy. That did it. He first came I groaned. “Sure Another “rac-|to 15 minutes later. The doctor tical joking fien hg said we should keep him in bed a The gleam became harder.

couple of days. He's cured!” “He's coming tomorrow. Gosh, I went up to see Andy. He Was I'll never forget the time he coiled Rg Bg Ag a cloth rattlesnake in my bed. When y,” he asked, “how do you I lifted the covers it set something

start raisin’ rabbits?” off that made the thing rattle and THE END strike. Ugh!”

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YOUR HEALTH

By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN American Medicnt Journal Editor OOD and eating are among the most important of all human considerations. In any collection of proverbs the subjects of food and eating occupy numerous pages. There are more proverbs telling us not to eat too much than there are telling us to eat sufficiently. The belief that starvation sanctifies a human being in some man-

ner has persisted since the early

times. It is true that overeating is harmful, particularly after middle age, and that hardening of tHe arteries and degeneration of the heart and the kidneys and scme of the other organs of the body are likely to be associated with obesity after middle age, but there are also great dangers from eating too little and particularly from eating ‘too littie of certain essential substances. It used to be thought that the person with any disease of the kidneys ought to avoid protein foods. More recent studies indicate the danger of failure to provide the body with the essential protein substances that sre necessary for cellular repair and for tissue growth. n » " ORTUNATELY at the same time that the former belief prevailed there was an idea that milk was not a protein substance so that people with kidney disease drank lots of milk and in that manner got the necessary proteins for life. While it is true that moderation in all things is an excellent medical proverb, we are learning today that a slight excess is much more safe than a deficiency in proteins, mineral salts and vitamins. The significance of these vital factors is only beginning to be appreciated. In fact, our knowledge of the vitamins is & matter of little more than a quarter of a century, and of the mineral salts not much longer. ” * . pgp man has within hifh a considerable number of

factors of safety. The human body

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«Listen, Andy, youre not going i ML to pull this falling body stunt on him? Maybe he was just paying back what you pulled on him. Gad, man, this is far worse. I'm still shivering from the blood-curdling sound it made.” “No, there is a debt to pay.” It was plain he had made vp his

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