Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 155, 17 May 1916 — Page 10

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Bv Wm. J .Burns "Perhaps be would hare, but what opportunity was he given? A few I hours later, he was found dead In that chair over there; the chair in which he sat while he was ' talking : with bis unknown visitor. The young man sprang to his feet. You can't realize what you are saying; what you are hinting! It is unthinkable. If you let these morbid fancies prey upon your mind, you will be really 111." His tones were full of horror. "Your father died of heart disease. The doctors and the coroner established that beyond the shadow of a doubt, you know. Any other supposition is beyond the bounds of possibility." "Of heart disease, yes. But might .not the sudden attack have been brought on by his altercation with this man? His sudden rage, controlled as It was, at the insults hurled at him?" "What insults, Anita? Tell me what you heard when you crept down the stairs. You know you can trust me, dear you must trust me." "The man was saying: 'Come, Lawtoo. be sensible; half a loaf is better than no bread. There Is no blackmail about this, even if you choose to call it so. It is an ordinary business proposition, as you have been told a hundred times! " " 'It's a damnable crooked scheme, mm I have told you a hundred time, and I shall have nothing to do with It! This Is final!' Father's tones rang out clearly and distinctly, quivering with suppressed fury, 'My hands are clean, my financial operations have been open and above-board; there is no stain upon my life or character, and I can look every man in the face and tell him to go where you may go now!' " 'Oh, is that so!' sneered the other man loudly. Then his voice became insinuatingly low. 'How about poor Herbert ' His tone? were so Indiatinct that I could not catch the name. Thm he went on more' defiantly, 'His v.ife ' He didn't finish the sentence, Ramon, for father groaned suddenly, terribly, as If he were In swift pain; the man gave a little sneering laugh, and F could hear him moving about in the library, whistling half under bis breath in sheer bravado. 1 could not bear to hear any more. ( put my hands over my cars and fled back to ray room. What could it mean, Ramon? What is this about father and some other man and his wife! which the strangci" dared to insinuate reflected v.poa father's integrity? Why' should he hitve groaned ca if tb very? mention of :.heoi-. people unit him in- j expressibiy?" ! "I don't know, dear." liamoD Hamii-j ton sat with his honest eyes still turn-! ed from her. "You must have been mistaken; perhaps you even dreamed it all." Anita Lawton gave an impatient gesture. "I am not quite the child you think roe, Ramon. Could that man meant to insinuate that father in his own advancement had trod upon and ruined some one else, as financiers have always done?j Could he have meant that father had driven this man and his wife to de-! pair? 1 cannot bear to think of it. I try to thrust it from my thoughts a dozen times a day, but that groan troni father's lips sounded so much like one of remorse that hideous ideas come beating in on my brain. Was my father like other rich men. Ramon? He did not live for money, although the successful manipulation of it was almost a passion with him. He lived for me, and the good that he would be able to do in this world." "Of course he did, darling. No one who knew him could imagine otherwise for a monment." He hesitated, end then added, "No one else discovered this man's presence in the house that night? You have told no one? Not the doctor, or the coroner, or Dr. Franklin" "Oh. no; if I had it would have been necessary for me to have told what I overheard. Besides, it could have had direct bearing on daddy's death; i." caused by beart-disease, as ... But I believe, and always M iulieve. that that man killed tuliiei . ..is surely as inevitably, as if he had stabbed or shot or poisoned him! Why did he come like a thief iu the night? Father's integrity, hi honor, were known' to all the world. Why did ihat reference to this Herbert and hi3 vife cause him such pain?" "I don't know, dear; I have no more idea than you. If you really, really overheard that conversation, as you eem convinced you did, you did well lit keeping it to yourself. Let that

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hour remain buried in your thoughts, as in your father's grave. Only rest assured that -whatever it is, it casts no stain upon your father's good name or his memory." He rose and gathered her into bis arms: "I must go now, Anita; I'll come again tomorrow. You are quite sure that you will not accept my mother's invitation? I really think it would be better for you." She looked deeply Into his eyes, then drew herself gently from bis clasp. "Not yet. Thank her for me, Ramon, with all my heart, but I will not leave my father's house just yet, even for a few days. I am sure that I shall be happier here." He kissed her, and left the room. She stood where he had left her until she heard the heavy thud of the front door. Then, turning to the window, she thrust her slim little hand between the sedately drawn curtains, and waved him a tender good-by; then with a little sigh, she dropped among the pillows of the couch, lost in thought. Copyright 1916, by the McClur No one would dream to look at the disagreeable, buzzing mosquito that it was once a pretty bird. The mosquito then was a soft brown with deeper brown dots on its wings and a bright red comb on its head. Not only was It beautiful to look upon, but it had such a sweet voice that it could charm away sorrow and make the very flowers tip up their pink heads to listen. Now, in the center of a large garden in the ancient time lived a magician called Wizik. He lived in a hut built of palms, but outride was a cool spring, and all about in the trees sang every kind of bird. And foremost among the songsters was the pretty little mosquito. Just outside of the hut door grew a patch of sweet, white clover, the kind that bees love so dearly, and of which they make such fine honey. Every day. just before dawn, some bees that lived In a hole in an old oak would come to suck the sweetness from the clover blossoms. But by sunrise they were gone. The old Wizik, who was cross and rheumatic, noticed that something had been at the clover bed and determined to catch the thief. The mosquito saw his anxiety and offered to help. "I am not a large bird." he said. "I will watch the clover for you and let you know. If you will pay me what I want. It is a drop of magic oil which you carry in that crystal bottle tied to your belt." Now, if there was anything which the Wizik valued it was this drop of oil, for It was the last on earth and he had been treasuring it for centuries. It possessed curious magical properties, but no one knew what they were, for no one wished to use the drop in finding out. But the Wiz!k i made th- promise, hoping to get out of kecpi" Vr. the time came to pay. Ni.' i( r the eaves of the hut was ; -:.!low hiding in its nest. The s-wailou. and the bees had always been great friends, so it heard of this plan of the mosquito with sorrow. It loved the little bee who was so industrious, and thought the Wizik very cruel to wish to deprive any insect of the sweets from the clover. And as he thought about the matter he grew very angry and whisked his pretty black tall about wildly, for then he had a long, full tail, with every feather even straight across at the end. "I will get up early and watch mySOME COOK. Mrs. B. "Is your cook Imperii cent?" Mrs. A. "Well, rather. She couldn be any worse if she was one of m; own daughters."

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"Whatever was meant by that conversation which I overheard she murmured to herself, "Ramon knows. I read it in his eyes." The young man, as he made his way down the crowded avenue, was turning over in his mind the extraordinary story which the girl he loved had told him. "What could it mean? Who could the man have been? Surely not Herbert himself, and yet oh! why will they not let sleeping dogs lie; why must that old scandal, that one stain on Pennington Lawton's past have been brought again to light, and at such a time? I pray God that Anita never mentions it to anyone else, never learns the truth. ' By Jove, if any complications arise from this, there will be only one thing for me to do. I must call upon the Master Mind." More Tomorrow. Newspaper Syndicate, New York. self," he said. "Perhaps I can find some way to help out the bees." So he got up long before sunrise and hid close to the open window, from which point he could see everything that went on in all directions. Presently the sky grew pink. Over the meadows came the bees, and in a few moments settled on the clover. The swallow could see the mosquito watching from behind a leaf. The sun rose brightly and the little bees hummed their way home like golden specks In the light. Presently out of the hut came the Wizik. In his hand was the bottle of oil. at which he looked every morning in the first light. The mosquito flapped its wings and flew toward the man. Just as it got near to the Wizik the flutter of its wings so startled the magician that he let the bottle fall down, it crashed on to a stone and the one tiny drop of oil remained on a bit of glass. The swallow saw the accident, and at once dipped down, taking up the drop on his bill. "I may as well try my luck." he said to himself. Just then the mosquito came whirring along, stopped on a swaying branch and opened his mouth to tell about the bees stealing from the clover for their honey. But just as soon as he got his bill open the swallow jumped forward, gave a fierce pick at the tongue and in a moment the mosquito found he could not talk, for half his tongue was gone forever. He could only buzz, and buzz, and buzz, just like we hear mosquitoes do now. Then the magic oil, which was on the bill of the swallow when he made the bite, got down the mosquito's throat and slipped into his stomach. It worked a strange change, for in ten seconds he commenced to shrivel up. Tiny and tinier he got, his pretty brown coat changed into an ugly shade of yellow and his pretty body into a thin, long-legged, hideous affair. So there he stood, the once hand some bird now a horrid mosquito. And as such he stands today, making the summer nights disagreeable by trying to sing with his half-tongue. And the little bees were let alone in the future by the Wizik. Only in the tail of the kind swallow can we now see where the bad mosquito grabbed him for today there is a place in his tail like a deep cut where the feathers v. ere jerked out. Tomorrow's story "How Frances Saved the Train."

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Kneeling before bis trunk, which stood at the foot of the bed. Helen tilted up the tray and showed him the suits underneath. "Here's your light gray; your blue serge and tbat tweed you got in London. The dark grey I left out for you to wear." "No, I won't take that tweed doesn't keep its shape. Where's that other light gray put that in instead. What's this?" "Why that's your dinner coat." "Well, I'll not need THAT," empLatically, jerking it out and tossing it on the bed. . "Why, dear, at some of the hotels you'll want to dress for dinner?" "Not If I know it! I'm going to be comfortable on this trip. Take out those dre6S shirts. Where's my sweater? I'll want that for the boat." "Dinner's ready, ma'am," Anna tapped at the door. While Warren hurried to wash up, Helen went in to the table. It was meagerly set with kitchen cutlery, for all the silver had been put away. "Oh, Anna, while I think of it," as Helen sat down, "that half package of oatmeal and the other cereal give all that to the house man. Don't leave anything in the pantry to draw any roaches." "See here, we've got to hustle." Warren came in. "It's twenty after low." "Yei, dear, but everything's ready. You've just got to strap the trunks." They ate dinner with hasty abstraction, Helen giving anxious instructions to Anna while she served. "You 'phone for the taxi," Warren left the table to change his suit. "Have it here at 7:15 sharp. I've got the tickets but I'll take some time to check the trunks." With his usual dispatch, he was dressed, had the trunks strapped, and was writing a note that he had not had time to get off at the office. Helen was fluttering about, giving endless directions to Anna and making sure that she had forgotten nothing. (More Tomorrow.) TYLES FOR THE Woman's Eye .,: Coquettish and practical motor hats are shown in various waterproof fabrics in plain and check effects. The particular one illustrated was developed in fine black and white check, the full crown of which is set into a band in a series of pleats. The peak is a useful detail in that it affords a shadefor the eye. The narrow tabs on either side are placed in such a way as to make it possible to adjust a motor veil. of his father with a parting warning regarding the wild west, but Rollin refuses his father's gun, assuring him that the west is now as calm and civilized as the college city. ODDITIES. Fish are being shipped to England via. Montreal from British Columbia waters, the reason being . the fish shortage due to the war's interference with the North sea fisheries. The average American eats 80 'z pounds of beef, 7 pounds of veal, 78 pounds of pork and lard and 6l,2 pounds of mutton and lamb every year. Cuba's president has signed a decree appointing a commission to study the question of nationalizing the railroads there. The committee is expected to report in six months.

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