Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 310, 10 November 1921 — Page 5

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., THURSDAY, NOV. 10, 1921.

The Middle Ground By MARION RUBINCAM

CHAPTER 4 Preparations If self-confidence could convince. Amy should have persuaded her

"They'll be here Thursday. Your father will be done the lower field then, so he can drive in to Hornbrook to meet them. We'll have some jam and cold meat and hot biscuit thev

mother at once that success was hers , may be hungry when they come. Amy, for the asking. But years of disillus-' you'd better take the good rug from the ionment had taken away all Mrs Tal- front room and put it in Luther's bott's faith. 0,d room, they'll have that. And-that " 'Twouldn't be a bad idea if you and pitcher's cracked maybe we can buy

Dick was to marry " she began. "Mother! I'm only 17, and I hope I have sense enough to know that's too young to settle down." "I was only 17 when I married." It was an unthinking answer. It was a stock answer. It had as little sense and originality as a man when he says

a new one.

"I think I could make you a newwaist out of Jane's old white linen skirt. There's plenty of good material and you like the way I make waists. You're so hard to suit, generally." Amy said nothing. She wanted a

waist like the one Luther's wife wore

he will vote as his ancestors did, be- in 'he picture Luther had sent home-

cause "what was good enough for father was good enough for me." It was a form of words a set answer to a set problem the problem came tip and the answer tumbled out of the brain into place and was spoken without any mental effort. Amy Talbott had lived In a daily circle of ever-recurring problems until she had a stock solution for every stock problem. She had ceased to think because, first of all, she was too tired to think, and second, because all need of original thinking had been done away with. It was the young Amy who brought her up now and then against facts, he did it now. "So you were 17! And look at you! Do you think I want to make a mess of my life as you've made of yours? Do you think I want to spend all of my time doing housework and bringing up babies?" "Amy!" The querlous voice was decided now. 'That's not respectful lo me, or to your father!" "Well, are you happy?" "I've been a good wife and a good mother. No woman ought to ask more than to be that." Amy was silenced. Not convinced though, but silenced because she found

no ready answer to

it had a lace mil and looked very ?mart. But Amy could not make nut

places. She can tell me whether I've ! got a good voice or not. Miss Smith may play the organ in church, but she doesn't know a good voice when she hears one." "Seventeen shouldn't judge older people." "Why not if 17 i3 old enough to get married?" There was no stock answer to this, so the mother sat silent. What would Luther's wife be like? Her coming seemed ominous Luther said she had not been in the country for years. Would she like it? Most likely not. If she had been on the stage

Her thoughts never went beyond that. To her all people who had been

on the stage were in one class, ana that class was never spoken of among "ladies." Vaguely she believed all theatrical people wicked, there were no distinctions. Of course Claire an odd name, too had not been on the

... ' . iiiuugu . 1 1 ' luunru more at th blouse than at the

she

woman's face.

"I wonder what she'll be like?

asked. "I don't know. She used to be on the stage. Your father won't like her, I'm sure." "I shall. Anyway, she's older than

I am and she's been around lots ofi

escaped the evil lurking back of the footlights. Young Amy regretted the brightness of the new sister's career. She wanted to think of her as a star, and her experience had been too brief for her to have attained that.

So. each sat, wraped in contempla-!

tion of the new and unknown member of the family. Tomorrow 'Reminiscence.

The Crooked Man

By SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Copyright, 1921.. by Harper & Bros. Published by special arrangement with The McClure Newspaper Syndicate.

brought forth statement

She tried a new line. "Maybe! Rut you haven't been happy you aren't in love with father." "Amy, that's wicked! I'm his wife." Amy sighed restlessly. She wanted to put into words the vague ideas and vague rebellions within her, but the words would not form. "I don't see what that's got to do with it," was all she could say. They sat silently after that. Presently Mrs. Talbott began:

Your discoveries seem to have left the business more obscure than it was before," said I. "Quite so. They undoubtedly showed that the affair was much deeper than was at first conjectured. I thought the matter over, and I came to the conclusion that I must approach the ca?e from another aspect. But really, Watson, I am keeping you ur, rmd I misht iust as well tell vou all

this old, often j this on our way to Aldershot tomor-

i row. i "Thank you, you have gone rather ! too far to stop." , "It is quite certain that when Mrs. I Barclay left the house at half-past

seven sne was on good terms with her husband. She was never, as I think I have said, ostentatiously affectionate, but she was heard by the coachman chatting 'with the Colonel in a friendly fashion. Now, it was equally certain that, immediately on her return, she had gone to the room in which she was least likely to see her husband, had flown to tea as an agitated woman will, and finally, on his coming to her, had broken into violent recriminations.

Dear Mrs. Thompson: During the Therefore something had occurred bepast years I have gone with a vcungltwpen seven-thirty and nine o'clock ollege tellow whom I thought I "cared ! wluch ha(1 completely altered her feelnothing for and so, as my folks werelnPs 'oard him. But Miss Morrison

; r.au oeen v. un ner during ine wnoie ; of that hour and a half. It was abj polutely certain, therefore, in spite of j her denial, that she must know some j thing of the matter, j "My first conjecture was, that possi- ' bly there had been some par-sages be-

Heart Problems

onel and Miss Morrison, but more than ever convinced that the young lady held the clue as to what it was which had turned Mrs. Barclay to hatred of her husband I took the obvious course, therefore, of calling upon Miss M., of explaining to her that I was perfectly certain that she held tho facts in her possession, and of assuring her that her friend, Mrs. Barclay, might find herself in the dock upon a capital charge unless the matter was cleared up. "Miss Morrison is a little ethereal slip of a girl with timid eyes and blond hair, but I found her by no means wanting in shrewdness and common

sense, bhe sat thinkins for some timo i

very bent, and something like a bos' slung over one of his shoulders. Ho appeared to be deformed, for he carried his head low and walked with his knees bent. Wre were passing him when he raised his face to look at us in the circle of light thrown by the lamp, and as he did so he stopped and screamed out in a dreadful voice. "My God, it's Nancy!" Mrs. Barclay turned as white as death, and would have fallen down had the dreadfu'looking creature not caught hold of her. I was going to call for the police, but she, to my surprise spoke quite civilly to the fellow. " ' "I thought you had been dead this

thirty years, Henry, said she, in a . shaking voice. j " ' "So I have," said he. and it was j awful to hear the tones that he said j it in. He had a very dark, fearsome face, and a gleam in his eyes that comes back to me in my dreams. His hair and whiskers were shot with gray, and his face was all crinkled and puckered like a withered apple. Just walk on a little way. dear," said Mrs. Barclay; "I want to have a word with this man. There is nothing to be afraid of." She tried to speak boldly, but she was still deadly pale

1 and could hardly get her words out for i the trembling of her lips, j " 'I did as she asked me and they talked together for a few minutes. ! Then she came down the street with her eyes blazing, and I saw the crippled wretch standing by the lamppost and shaking his clenched fist in i the air as if he were mad with rage.

She never said a word until we were at the door here, when she took me by the hand and begged me to tell no one what had happened. " ' "It's an old acquaintance of mine who has come down in the world." said she. When I promised her I

would sav nothing, she kissed me, an 1 1

I have never seen her since. I have told you now the whole truth, and it" I withheld it from the police it is because I did not realize the danger in which my dear friend stood. I know that it can only be to her advantag2 that everything should be known." "There was her statement, Watson, and to me. as you can imagine, it was like a light on a dark night. Everything which had been disconnected before began at once to assume its true place, and I had a shadowy presentment of the whole sequence of events. My next step obviously was to find the

man who had produced such a remark

civilians,, and a deformed man wa3 sure to have attracted attention. 1 spent a day in the search, and by evening this very evening, Watson 1 had run him down. The man's name is Henry Wood, and he lives in lodgings in this same street in which the ladies met him. He has only been fivs days in the place. In the character of a registration agent I had a most interesting gossip with his landlady. The man is by trade a conjurer and performer, going round the canteens after nightfall, and giving little enteitainments at each. He carries some creature aabout with him in that box, about which the landlady seems to be in considerable trepidation, for she

had never seen an animal like it. He uses it in some of his tricks according to her account. So much the woman was able to tell me, and also that it

was a wonder the man lived, seeing how twisted he was, and that he spokr in a strange tongue sometimes, and that for the last two nights she had i

heard him groaning and weeping in his bedroom. He was all right, as far as money went, but in his deposit, he had given her what looked like a bad florin. She showed it to nie, Watson, and it was an Indian rupee. Tomorrow The Crooked Man (Continued.)

Rudolph Herzog, Sentenced From Wayne Asks Clemency Rudolph Herzog, sentenced from Wayne county, Sept. 22, to 35 days at the state penal farm and fined 5100 for violations of the liquor law.

PAGE FIVE has filed a petition for clemency with the state board of pardons for consideration at its next meeting, Nov. 1417. Petitions for clemency have beer, filed in 51 new cases and in seven reopened cases.

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after I had spoken, and then, turning ! able impression upon Mrs. Barclay. If to me with a brisk air of resolution I he were still in Aldershot it should not she broke into a remarkahio Btatoll be such a very difficult matter. There

not so "enthused' 'about him, they made me drop him, but still he persisted in making love to me. Finally I told him the exact reason for my quitting him and also told hiru I did not love him, but would like to correspond with him. But he told someone that he knew I cared nothing for him and he wouldn't bother me any longer. Now he writes to a cousin of mine. I really care for him, and how can I gain him back? Should I write? There is another iellow whom I like, but 1 cun't find out if he cares for me.

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