Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 143, 3 May 1916 — Page 10

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By MRS. MABEL HERBERT URNER Originator of "Their Married Atii," Auth'or of 'The Journal of a beg- - f , ' ' lected Wile." "The ;Womaa Alone." Etc.

'"Carrie's going to sleep In here; It's too close In my room," Warren,, in his bathrobe, appeared at the door.- '--. "See here Carrie, "you can't lay on I that ; thing. - ; You come in here with i Helen I'll go in the other room." 1 "Oh. no. I wouldn't think of driving ' you out of your bed." "That's all right. There's a good breeze here.. That back room's on a 'court It is pretty close." -. Carrie, made a faint protest, but 'Warren was insistent. Helena said 'nothlnf. ''.-..'. ' ; To sleep with Carrie! It seemed 'like an unwonted Intimacy. She felt curiously diffident and self-conscious. The moment of getting in was an ' awkward one. Sbe let Carrie lie by 'the window, while she lay on War'ren's side, her face to the wall. -"Yes, this Is better," sighed Carrie. '."You get a little-breeze here." : ; . .Helen did not answer.. It was like ( Carrie to secure her own comfort at the inconvenience of others.. In eome ways she was utterly selfish.." i It' was dawn; when Helen awoke from a restless, troubled dozing. With a chill shock she saw the unfamiliar figure beside her. T Carrie was lying on her back, her mouth slightly open. ; How strange she looked how different from the dressed-up, haughty, arrogant Carrie. In that gray light she looked homely and old. Her hair! Helen caught her breath. Always she bad envied Carrie's thick, lustrous braid. Now: the cap had slipped, exposing only a short, thin ' wisp. ' " ', . V " - Still dazed, Helen raised 'herself on her elbow and . stared down at that scant 'tangle of hair ; against the pillow. So all these years she had been

"Two Sisters"

. He moved aside to allow the girls to go out, but Julia heard him murmur as- Caryl passed him, "I'll see you later, little girl, no matter what happens," and the older sister shuddered at the. words. As she and Caryl hurried home she felt as if her, feet were weighted heavily. She could hardly believe that only this afternoon her heart had been light and that she bad looked toward a placid future here in New York. Once again the sense of responsibility for her sister oppressed her and ehe appreciated how careful a girl must be who would live safely in the heart of a great city. She was glad that Caryl's quick speech had relieved a painful situation, but how did the child dare assert herself as she had done? When the two girls ' had reached their room Julia asked the question that was in her mind. "Caryl," she said, sinking exhausted into the first chair she reached, "you certainly were plucky to. appeal to that strange man as you did, but how did you dare do it? I was so frightened that I could not utter another word.". ' Caryl laughed lightly. "Why were you so frightened?" she asked. "I wasn't." "You weren't? Well, you looked uncomfortable enough when that beast first spoke lo us," Julia reminded her. "Of course I did. for it mortified me to have him speak lo us when he was evidently such -a common sort of a chap, and in a place where we are known by the proprietor and waiters. But I wasn't afraid of the man himself only of. the scene we might have to make to set rid of him. I would hate to have. people see us in such a common net as that. But as to being afraid of any man why." with a fascinating smile. "I flatter myself I can nub anything masculine in New York if l want to." ' Julia looked at her sister, an anxicus expression gathering in her eyes, 'i wish you were not so sure of yourself, dear." she said gently. "Why?" questioned Caryl, puzzled. "Ycu found my r.rvo mighty convenient a half hour ago. when it got us out of an uncomfortable scrape." "1 know it," assented Julia. "But, child, you do re know men, and yet ycu feel that y ;i can cope with them and with their ways." . . . - Caryl smiled in a suparicr way. "Since 1 came to New York."' she said, "l have grown independrsn: .and sure of myself, and I have m?t ;u3;e men than you imagine. I know .several at school teachers, etc. and Mr. Delaine and his friend " She paused to note the effect of her words, and smiled again, this time with satisfaction when Julia , asked: "Mr. Delaine's friend. You did not tell -me that you met a friend of his!" " "But I did meet him, nevertheless," taid Caryl demurely, "and he was most agreeable and polite . to me. And" with a sigh of gratified vanity "1 do not think that my good-looking employer was pleased at having him meet me." "I am. glad he wasn't!" declared Julia. "I think the more of him for not wishing his stenographer te meet any man who happens into his rooms. Oh,; Caryl, dear, I wish you could live a more protected life!" She got; up suddenly and, going swiftly to her little sister, put her arms about her and held her close to her. - ... "You are. so young and so inexperienced, dear Caryl." ehe said, "a,nd I am so afraid that something may happen to you! For you are all I-have, little sister." Caryl returned the caress lightly and carelessly. "Happen to me!" she exclaimed- -."I'm safe enough! ,- I deHare. Judy., you are getting to be a

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admiring a false braid a switch How cleverly - Carrie had concealed It That was - why she slept to a boudour cap! !'" " There, was something pathetic, in the way she lay there, looking older than Helen had. ever seen her. She stirred uneasily, as if conscious of the appraising gaze. "With a guilty, feeling of having stolen her secret and a dread of her awakening, Helen slipped out of bed. ' Softly sbe - tiptoed - into . her own room where Warren was asleep on the narrow couch, under the buzzing fan. i "Eh?" Yawningly he turned as she crept in beside him. "Sh-sh. dear.". "What the devil? This .thing's too narrow you can't get in here!" "Yes, I can. Sh-sh. it's only five don't get woke up!" As Warren dozed off again, she nestled' closer,, drawing up the covers ae the fan breezed over her. She would never let Carrie know that she knew! -But vaguely she felt that; one of the . rankling thorns . of her married life had been removed. Carrie's 'superior, critical arrogance could never irritate her as it had. There is nothing more subtle and complex than the dominance of one woman over another. ' There was no logical .reason why Carrie's ascendency should suffer because she wore a switch and looked old and unlovely when she slept. But -women are not logical.- . " Helen only knew that she . would never again . stand in quite the same awe of her sister-in-law. It had been a revelation that glimpse of her in bed, in that pitjless morning light. (Another Story Tomorrow.) fussy bid maid. Come, let's go to bed ! I'm sleepy." As she spoke she crossed the room to pull down the window shade, which was flapping in the night breeze, but when she reached the window she paused and uttered a low j exclamation part laugh, part dismay. "What's the matter?" asked Julia quickly, going toward her. . "Why, Judy, " said Caryl with an excited giggle, "that masher from, the restaurant is standing right down in front of this house, and is looking up at this window. And why yes he is Oh, Judy! look! he Is lifting his hat to me! See?" But. Julia did not see, for, with an exclamation of angry disgust,, she closed the window sharply and pulled down the shade. At nineo'clock on the second morning in her new position Caryl Marvin rang the door bell of Kelley Delaine's apartment. As yesterday, the author himself opened the door for her. "Good morning!", he said, with"-a pleasant smile. "Let me congratulate you, on your' promptness. Miss Marvin. It la a rather rare virtue among stenographers, I believe." Copyright, 1916, by the McCIure. Warrenton was a little mining town built at the foot ,of a valley: High up on each side towered the great, rocky heights, and across the valley, just above the town, was a huge dam. I Across the top it was so wide: that a norse could travel from one side to the other. And out on its shining waters boats glided to and fro. The people of Warrenton often sroke of what a terrible thing it would be were the dam to break, but.as they looked at its massive sides they smiled at the idea of such a thing. J Down among the small stores along the water's edge lived Danny Dickinson. His father kept a small shop and was helped -by Danny, who -was" lame. After, supper every night Danny would get out his ,book and study late,- and even after he went to bed he would dream of bis great wish to be a civil engineer and build dams and railroads. But when he looked around at the untidy shop, he sighed at how impossible such a dream was of realization. Danny was fond of wandering about corners to find out just how it was built . - " One night he heard that a big strike was on in-the mills, which were Tun by the dam water. Crowds of angry men walked the streets, and in the store he caught a few words of two strikers conversation, . "We can blow up the dam and that'

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Per hap? the bard? of jivMJifc? aim . . . Do not perdue a muse. But surely 9ometim?s . they must feel The muse .Wath Ar motfeddon'9 wheel, And murmur in a traolc tone -Mob6dy'9 home'' I cannot write immortal verse, I only write to fill my purse: But hark ! the landlord? at my door; He want 9 hi 9 rent , 111 bet 4 he 9 sore, -So Ml keep bravely at my poem, And soft ly breath . "Nobody's- home.' "Why confine tardiness to stenographers?" queried the girl, flippantly. "I might go farther and Include all women were I ungallant enough to do so," answered. Delaine, laughing light ly as he led the way into his study. "We will begin work; at once if -you are ready." he added. "Entirely ready." Caryl assured him. "What is it -to be to-day copying or dictation?" "I am going to try to dictate to you for a little," he told her. (More tomorrow) Nsv.tpaper Syndicate, New York. ill show, people that we mean business," . remarked one. Then he went on to tell now he and a friend had hidden dynamite in a hole and would touch It off at 10 that night. Danny thought, the man jesting and would have forgotten abov: the matter had he not seen the same person sneak by his window late in the evening. Dan looked at the clock. It was a little after, 9. No one was in the store. "I will go up to the dam and see what is doing, there be said, as he struggled into his coat"-- . It was chilly as he mounted the hill and cold when he stepped out to walk to the other side of -the dam. He could see the forms of men in the bushes at

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, Are you an author? Z How often have . you ... laid aside " a story and said, "If I couldn't do better than that, I wouldn't write at all?" ..Here; is: your, chance to write", for publication. Fenimore Cooper, ..had made similar statements and when his friends v challenged him, he . began writing his famous stories .that have pleased thousands of young and old. Beginning -. tomorrow and ' running for - a limited time. Palladium readers will be given a chance to prove that they are also writers; that they can create just as thrilling stories ras the high priced authors who write for the monthly magazines. ?. The plan is simply this: Tomorrow night a cast of characters will be' announced and placed in a : situation which Can easily 'give .rise to innumerable complications. Chapters , are Limited. Each : succeeding chapter will be limited ' to 300 ' words and must be crammed full of action. . r

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the other end they seemed busy at work. " - "I suppose they would stop anyone crossing here If they, are really dynamiting, the dam," said Danny, so he got down on his hands and knees and crawled over the Eione path of the dam. In about-ten minutes he. found S himself on the other side and veil hidden In the branches of a low bush. "I will light this fuse here and you light that short one," said one man to the other. "I have the big -charge here under this heavy stone: this will burst thai dam and set the water free." "That's all , right,"; returned the other man. "My charge is small and will only clear away some of the rocks yours will burst." ; Lighting the fuses both , men then ran as fast as their feet could carry them toward the town. Danny was paralyzed with horror in a few minutes the dam would be blown up and the whole town destroyed by the mighty flood which would sweep everything to destruction, . He must act before too late. The fuse must be put out. - Climbing down as best he could the boy reached the large charge of dynamite and, stamping on the spluttering fuse, soon had it-powerless to harm. But as he turned to the smaller one. which was a little distance off. he saw he was too late the fire had reached the dynamite. There was a boom on the air, some rocks and water shot up into the air, a boj ish figuTe was hurled forty feet away and fell unconscious. Then up from the. town came running an excited procession of men, women and children. They lifted Dan and bore him back home. A doctor soon "had him sitting up and he told the. story of the attempt to blow up the dam. .That night two men were lodged In jail for their deed, and the.'next morn 1 1 : 4 5 'Hv: r-. vn 'Ch' 1

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Catch the spirit of the first situation and write your.stor? of developments to - make' a single chapter, 'ending with' a tense situation. Then submit it to the Story editpr! He will 'select the best of the contributions as they are submitted. l'- The story . will- run every other ' day Send your first chapter to the Story editor tomorrow. It will appear In Friday's Issue. T.The next installment which wllj appear on Monday should be . in the editor's hands early Saturday. -.' 'V . Pick up the story where it? leaves off each time it appears and write what you think would make the best chapter to follow.-; Contributors: who do not wish their names used in connection with the story should so designate. Names, however, must accompany the' story, which should be written on one side of the paper only. This contest is open to all. ing the Mayor of Warrenton called on Danny to extend the thanks of the town to him. And when he left he had given into Danny's hand a check for $2,000. Tomorrow's story "Mr. Possum and Mr. Coon." Part- I. C3 7 Oi-iiiTrea - One of the Fhr

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PUZZLED ; Will May .. Showers bring - June Flowers? " 1 " ' . ' SECOND LESSON To show you that you have been on a spree the nieht b fore - He in bed with part of your -clothes on. String the remainder of them over the room. Toss around a' little and then wake up. Throw bands to head. Grab pitcher of water and drink. Call a butler and have him put large - bandages around your head.' Go back to sleep. Milton .Boy crocheta ; and exhibits his work. Girls haven't anything on the boys after all. We guessed It right the other day when we said that the first thing we know there, will be no summer .-vacation for school kids.v Dr. Randall advocated year-around school at the 12-6 club. v All that read this hold up their right hands. - v Hands have been going .up all -over the office today. Ye City Ed was first when he read the copy;--The machine man. was second when he set the type. The third and last hand that went up was that of the proof-, reader. Oh. well, we have three readers, anyhow. - . ; ; ..The. Moral. Not many moons ago, a - man;. who lived in Richmond bought, some butter scotch-. He chewed-and chewed, but didn't offer the rest ;of -the people around the office any. Suddenly he let out a .yell. A piece of gold fell out on the floor. 5 He picked it ; up, and said that the butter:; scotchi had pulled the crown ' filling out " of. his tooth. V " . .. . " Advicer Chew it on the other side next time. It might be weir for some people to remember that' liars" must have good; memories. A different story on the same subject doesn't agree, with, the reasoning powers of Bome people. Kokomo has to import our own John Zwissler when it wants to pull ' something real' good. , They couldn't keep him there when he "lived there several years ago. He evidently knr - a good thing when he saw Richmond. - Quiet and order has been restored liIrelahd'Maythe weather man follow, the example in Richmond. f American "canned salmon' is favorably known throughout the entire world. The export of It amounts to $7,000,000 a year. Mothers who love your sons and daughters 4 See The Battle Cry of Peace I BIN