Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 204, 14 July 1916 — Page 10

PAGE TEN THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1916

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By Wm, J.Burtis and Isabel Ostrander

A Rtxl Otov Ctory by th Wrtt Ortcttft DttM tlvt. A FMolnatlnf . Lv Story lnttrwvn with tht Ttngltd Thrwwb of Myttery. Copyright, IH. W. J. Wtt Company. Nwtppr'ttK&ti by IntornrntioDSl llviri Sonrtoo

Dl8cIiArgel,H Blnine't Yolce was eager and curt aa he reiterated ber last -word. "On what pretext T" "It waa not exactly a pretext," the girl replied. "The office boy accused tne of , taking shorthand notes of a private conversation between my env ,ployer and a vlBltor, and I could not ' convince Mr. Rockamore of my Innocence. I I must have been clumsy, I'm afraid." "You have the notes with you?" "Yea." "The visitor's name was Padding ton?" "Yes, sir." Blaine considered for a moment; then, his decision made, he spoke rapidly in a clear undertone. "You know the department store of Mead. & Rathburn? Meet me there In the ladles' writing-room In half an hour. Where are you now?" "In a booth In the drug-store Just around the corner from the building where Mr. Rockamore's offices are located." "Very good. Take as round-about a route as you can to reach Mead & Rathbun's, and see If you are followed. If you are and you find it impossible to shake off your' shadow, do not try to meet me, but go directly to the club and I will communicate with you there later." "Oh, I don't think I've been follow, ed, but I'll be very careful. If everything is all right, I will meet you at the place you named In half an hour. Ooodby." Henry Blaine paced the floor for a time In undisguised perturbation. His move in placing inexperienced girls from Anita Lawton's club In responsible positions, instead of using his own trained operatives, had been j based not upon impulse but on mature reflection. The girls were un- ! known, whereas his operatives would 'assuredly have been recognized, soon1 er or later, especially In the offices of Carlis and Rockamore. Moreover, the rue adopted to obtain positions for Miss Lawton's protegees had appeared ' on the surface to be a flawlessly lej gitimate one. He had counted upon 'their loyalty and zeal to outweigh I their possible incompetence and lack !of discretion, but the stolid German iglrl had apparently been so clumsy at iher task as to bring failure upon his plan. "So much for amateurs!" he murmured to himself, disgustedly. "The other three will be discharged as soon is excuses for their dismissal can be manufactured now. My only hope from any of them is that French governess. If she will only land Paddington I don't care what suspicions the other three arouse." . Margaret Hefferman's placid face was a little pale when she greeted him In the ladies' room of the department store a short time later. "I'm so sorry, Mr. Blaine!" she exclaimed, but in carefully lowered tones. "I could have cut my right hand off before I would hurt Miss Lawton after all she has done for me, and already the first thing she asks, I must fail to do!" "You are sure yqu were not followed?" asked the detective, disregarding her lamentations with purposeful brusqueness, for the tears stood in her toft, bovine eyes, and he feared an rrnotional outburst which would drawdown upon them the attention of the whole room. "Oh, no! I made sure of that. I rode uptown and half-way down again to be certain, and then changed to the east-side line."

"Very welL" He drew her to a secluded window-seat where, themselves almost unseen, they could obtain an unobstructed view of the entrance door and of their immediate neighbors. "Now tell me all about It Miss Hefferman." "It was that office boy, Billy," she began. "Such sharp eyes and soft walk, like a cat! Always he 1b yawning and sleepy who would think he was a spy?" , ' 4 Her tone was filled with such contempt that Involuntarily the detective's mobile lips twitched. The girl had evidently Quite lost .sight of the fact that the herself had occupied the very position In the pseudo employ of Bertrand Rockamore which she derided In his office boy. He did not attempt to guide her In her narrative of the morning's events, observing that she was too much agitated to give him a coherent account. Instead, he waited patiently for her to vent her indignation and tell him in her own way the substance of whit occurred. "I had no thought of being watched, else I should have been more careful," she went on, resentfully. "This morning, only, he was late that Billy and I did not report him. I was busy, too, for there was more correspondence than usual to attend to, and Mr. Rockamore was irritable and shorttempered. In the midst of his dictation Mf. Paddington came, and I was bundled out of the room with the letters and my shorthand book. They talked together behind the closed door for several minutes and I had no opportunity to hear a word, but presently Mr. Rockamore called Billy and sent him out on an errand. Billy left

the door of the Inner office open just a little and that was my chanoe. I seated myself at a desk olose beside It and took down In shorthand every word which reached my ears. I was so much occupied with the notes that I did not hear Billy's footsteps until he stopped Ju6t behind me and whistled right In my ear. .1 Jumped and he laughed at me and went In to Mr. Rockamore. When he came out he shut the door tight behind him and grinned as If he knew just what I had been up to. I did not dare open the door again, and so I heard no more of the conversation, but I have enough, Mr. Blaine, to interest you, I think. She fumbled with her bag, but the detective laid a detaining on her arm. "Never mind the notes now. Go on with your story. What happened after the interview was over?" "That boy Billy went to Mr. Rockamore and told him. Already I have said he was irritable this morning. He had seemed nervous and excited, as if he were angry or worried about something, but when he sent for me to discharge me he was white-hot with rage. Never have I been so insulted or abused, but that would be nothing If only I had not failed Miss Lawton. For her sake I. tried to lie, to deny, but it was of' no use. My people were good Lutherans, but that, does not help one in a business carreer; it is much more a nuisance. He could read in my face that I was guilty, and he demanded my shorthand note-book. I had to give it to him; there was nothing else to be done." "But I understood that you had the notes with you," Blaine commented, then paused as a faint smile broke over her face and a demure dimple appeared in either cheek. More Tomorrow.

Fish in Scallop Shells

By CONSTANCE CLA'kKE.

TAKE any remains of cold fish, flake the tfsh carefully, removing all : skin and bone. Boil a half pound of macaroni till tender in Baited water, then cut it in smalJ pieces.- mix with half a cut of grated cheese. r Butter five or six scallop

shells, grate on these a layer of bread crumbs, then put a layer of fish and one of macaroni, then another larer .of fish and macaroni, grate some cheese over the top, brown in the oven, and serve hot Garnish - with canned shrimp and vernon slices.

To-morrow Chocolate Cream Pie.

Helen and Warren; Their Married Life By MRS. MABEL HERBERT URNER Originator of "Their Married Life," "Author of "The Journal of a Neglected Wife," "The Woman Alone," Etc.

"Laura, why do you keep on like this? You've given the pictures a fair trial and you havn't got a start. Why don't you go back to stenography? You could at least live comfortably and you wouldn't be " "Such a worry to my friends," cynically. "Why, Laura!" in hurt reproof. 1 "Then don't keep harping on my olng back to stenography. I'd get twelve' or fifteen a week, and I'd grind away at it until I'm old. Then what? Ever fee any whit?lu;lred stenographers? And how much can they save on their princely salaries? What do they do when they're old? If they don't marry or die, what becomes of them? What work is thre for a penniless woman of sixty?" Before this firry outbreak Helen lielrlessly twisted the cord of her muK. ' " If I hold out I KNOW I'll get a start in the pictures! Steady work at fifty or sixty a week and I can save all I make over twenty-five. Oh. you haven't any faith in it," testing the Iron with a wet finger, "but I must manage my own life. I can't live on the advice of my friends, "Laura!" flushing hotly at this ptinging remark. "Oh. I know I'm horrid, but it makes me wild for you to come up here and preach! That's why I've stayed away from you and everybody. I'm not having a very happy time, and I'm not in a very amiable mood. I know I've failed so far. and I don't like to be told about it." "Then perhaps I'd better go." Helen rose, drawing her fur about her. "I'm horry I came since " "Now, Helen, don't be foolish! Havn't I enough to stand without feeling that I've offended you? Can't you make any allowances?" "Of course," relenting, "but I don't want to intrude." "Don't take that cold, stand-offish tone. While you're here help me shorten a dress for tonight. It's only Tour won't you have time?" '0h, yes, plenty. Warren won't be home before seven." Drawing a large pasteboard box from under the bed, Laura shook out

a fragile evening gown of blue charmeuse, veiled in tulle. "Only twelve dollars at that same second-hand place. It's perfectly fresh except around the bottom. I had to have it; I'd worn the other one in so many pictures. If I slip it on will you pin it up?" The dingy, sordid room made an incongruous background for Laura's very striking loveliness in the shimmering gown. Spreading a newspaper on the dusty linoleumed floor, Helen knelt down to pin up the hem. "Don't make it too short," cautioned ed Laura. "They're' wearing them longer. Oh, there's the 'phone," overturning the pin tray as she flew out to the hall. "I know that's for me." "You can't go that way," running after her. "Here, put on my coat." But Laura was clattering down the stairs in the airy, low-necked gvn, the held-up skirt showing her shabby, red felt house slippers. Helen, leaning over the banister, saw a man coming up, but he passed Laura with hardly a glance. Evidently no eccentricity of costume was sur

prising in this theatrical rooming house. "I'm to work tonight!" Flushed and panting she came running back. "They want me at the studio by 7 o'clock. It's a big ballroom scene we have to rehearse it. Can we get this shortened in time?" (Wore Tomorrow.)

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Sudden drops that were not from

the rain gathered in Julia's eyes. "It Is very good of you to think about me and go to all this trouble for me," she said softly. "That's what friends are for," observed Kelley Delaine. He greeted Caryl with his usual politeness when she appeared at his rooms the following morning. The girl knew him too well, now Jo fear that he would refer by-word or look to their encounter at the studio entrance. He had passed her and her companion then with no sign of recognition except his lifted hat. Now his manner gave her no reason to fancy that he appreciated that she had lied to him yesterday noon. Yet in the. bottom of her soul she knew that he knew, and the thought made her feel insignificant and childlishly embarrassed. "I shall be ready for you in a moment or two," he said. "In the meantime, here is a letter that someone has sent to you in my care."' He handed her the letter, and Caryl felt her face burning under his- brief glance. She slipped the epistle unopened into her handbag. Intuition told her that it was from Hadley, and she did not care to read it in the presence of this man whom she was beginning to hate with the antagonism of a weak nature for a dominant one. "I shall not keep you past your lunch hour today," Delaine remarked when he had finished sorting out some papers on his desk. "I want you to take down a little dictation this morning and transcribe it, and that will be all. I was sorry you had to come back here and finish yesterday. You must have gotten wet on the way home." "I did," answered Caryl. "I was soaked." She hesitated. "Julia came home quite dry, though," she added vindictively. "Indeed," commented Delaine with no show of concern or interest. "She was fortunate." Caryl bit her lips with anger as she bent over her notebook. She had a suspicion that Delaine had brought her sister home, but she could not make him betray this fact She had asked Julia few questions, contenting herself with an expression V astonishment at the dry condition of her clothing when she reached her room, but her sister had offered no explanation. When the dictation was finished the girl laid down her pad with an affected laugh. . "I think I know the- lady you have been describing, Mr. Delaine," she said, a ring of spiteful triumph in her voice. She was too angry to be discreet. "It's my sister, Julia." (More Tomorrow.) PLANS NEW RESORT.

Winkie was a baby giant. Of course, his name sounds mighty little, but Winkie was what his mother called him, and to her he was a teeny, tiny baby boy no bigger than a church steeple. That was small for a giant, for the mother was as high as Washington monument Her head was as large as the biggest paddle-wheel on the largest steamboat ever built; her hands could pick up the horses and wagons we use today as if they were apples; and when she talked it really sounded like thunder crashing among

the mountains but to Winkie it seemed the sweetest of loving tones. But all this was in the days, millions and millions of years ago, when there were no people our size on the earth, only the race of huge giants. One day Winkie was playing in the yard with his first baseball. It was Just the size of a two-room cottage, but Winkie threw it about easily. Suddenly it rose high in air and curved over Into the next garden. Winkie began to wail. Then he noticed a big knot-bole in the fence. Peeping through the hole he saw a horrid ugly ogre digging roots, and there on the ground lay his big yellow ball. Now, if there was anything in the world that Winkie was afraid of, it was this same old ogre,, whose name was Dumdum. But he wanted that ball, so he butted his way through the gate and stood before the ogre trembling. "I want my ball!" wept 'Winkie, "Leave that ball alone!" snorted the ogre, "it fell on my lot and is mine." Winkie, wept till the water fell like a mill race, but Dumdum went on digging and singing to himself a song that sounded like a loose plank on the side of a barn. After a while he picked up the baby giant and dropped him back on his own side of the fence, then he put the ball in his cupboard.

Newspaper Syndicate, New York. Winkie saw Dumdum when he did this. Waiting till nearly dark he slipped around ' the ogre's fence and finding a plank off, ducked into the

backyard. Through the window he could see the ogre at supper eating an immense ox roasted whole, a barrel of biscuits and , about six dozen apples. In one corner of the room Was an open cupboard, and in it the ogre had placed the ball on the lowest shelf. Winkie climbed through the open window and crept toward the cupboard. Not a sound came from the table except the grunting of the ogre as he ate. On the floor at the ogre's feet was a wide iron hoop, which had come off the wine "barrel. It was strong and thick. Winkie managed without making any noise to raise one end high in the air. Then he let it fall over the ogre's head.. It slipped down over his chest pinning him down to the chair with both arms unable to move. "Now, you sit there," screamed Winkie in his high baby voice. "You are a mean, old thing to steal my ball, and I am going to throw your cheeses all over the floor." So Winkie kicked all the nice cheeses that were in the cupboard all around the room and the giant could do nothing but swear and foam at the mouth. They were fine, big, yellow cheeses, too, each one large enough to make a neat house for a couple. "Well, I guess you are fixed till

your - housekeeper comes home- tonight," said Winkle aa he took up hi"

ball and left through the window. "Call over to see me sometime.

Winkie went slowly down the path by the fence. At one place it had lost almost every plank and opened into a wide common. By the time that Winkie went by this place the ogre had worked his right arm free from the hoop. As soon as he caught sight of Winkle he grabbed a cheese, and, aiming it right at the baby giant's head, sent it sailing through

the air. I But it did not hit Winkle at alL

The bis cheese sailed higher and high

er, for it was a magic cheese, and at last it stuck up right in the sky among the stars. Winkle wondered at the new, round yellow thing up aboe the clouds, but neither he nor anyone else ever knew till today that what people call the moon is nothing but the ogre's cheese that he threw at

wee Winkie. the babv giant.

Tomorrow's atory "Mr. Fox artd

Old Reddy Fox Meet Again."

A woman is the inventor of a sand glass that rings a bell when the time

that it ,marks expires.

END CORN PAINS

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