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There's nothing so as the
politician 111 the sprlnu uniess It's the
man who plants a garden.
It Is easier to make your r1~ht In
dex tln^t-r behave If you keep It well
separated from the trigger.
IIow long will If he before cvery
N>dy who Is capable nf being h\vin
dled will he swindled?
Flume has a new dictator. T*>
shall see presently what kind of a
sprint: poem he Is capable of.
Farm irirls are said to he flapper*.
too. refilling the modest Volet, horn
to dap nnseen heslde a mossy stone.
They are now talking about regu
lating the air. and we suppose It will
not he long before tliey begin to tux
It.
"prosperity S*!r« Industry " says a
headline: but that Is a fritte com
pared to the w:iy Industry stirs pros
perity.
Th'>se many h >y radio open " mnv
presently get the air so overcrowded
that they will have to submit to traffic
regulations.
**Swnrd Swallowing Fa':il ' This will
not surprise some restaurant patrons,
who have been expecting It ou several
o»*ca^lon».
Frwnc* N of wnnMnsr to <i!c
fate all the policies of Furope—flint
Is she would I'fce to mark rhem "dic
tated but not red."
•p., person who coughs nil over the
landscape these days is about :is c<mm1
a citizen as a bootlegger peddling a
cargo of wood alcohol.
Inasmuch ss gas rates are com'ng
down, people who lust dote oh cT1
slvelv rare meat can leani to like It
somewhat better cooked
For getting clear nshes on the rug
there are husbands who can * be
beaten, but their wives will show
them that the nig can he.
The flapper must think !t rather
hard to be criticized for merely do
ing the thincs she la taught by the
daily example of her elders.
It Is reported that wives In the
Sudan have risen in cost from four
spearheads to eight. Mayb • somebody
has been cornering the market.
Another thing that makes It so diffl
cu't to attend to one's own bus'tie-;s
Is rh» swelling Impulse to devoid ..tie s
entire time to reform somebody eUe
There are signs now and then that
persons with mon^y to Invest should
beware in particular of » retrain class
of promoter who has an oily tongue.
I.ots of tlnie it is not necessary to
see a man's wife to know that she
dresses in the height of fashion. The
b»>ks of her husband's clothes prove.
that.
If ti e flnnper can't ouite understand
why she is being so roundly abused all
of a sudden she need not worry. No
body else really knows the reason
either.
Tve Ohio State Journal says tN
pecrets of Main civilization are beini.
wrung from the hieroglyphics on stone
tablets Wringing a stone must l>.
some Job.
The value of live stork, the gov
ernment rei>orts. shows 1 decrea-e com
pared with two years ago. Ye*, tile
value of an animal decreases as it
gets older.
One of the world's leading modistes
has gon»- info bankruptcy. Indicating
either rhat the lady of fashion ha
been retrenching or has not been pay
tng her bills.
After looki.ig over the criminal news
In an* recent newspaper the old
fushloned gold-brick operator will real
ize a# never before what It means
to be a pi' er.
Now that the styles In bairdressing
rev»-Ri the feminine ears again, the
dear things aren't worrying long about
what to do about lr. Earrings are
jXimi.fr Jack mu> vogue.
The stream of business Is not yet
ar the il"".l marks, but It la getting
out of lit* banks.
Another little perplexity for the
learner of Kngllsh lies between cun
| vas tiu' k and canvas-baok duck.
Another of our troubles Is that Just
■ now 'lie hi a of gravity Is more iw
' pressive than the gravity of law.
Ti e b:in.!:t industry has Its Jllttle
faults. Ir.it there has been no public
scandal connected with It as yet.
••flow should it married woman sign
her cheeks?" With her husband's
name. If she wants them to be paid.
The fate of a woman who took a
Hesh n d'lcr may have a lesson for
other women who are dying to be thin
There are times when a man will
offer to carry his wife's handles. And
there arc times when her bundles are
heavy.
-I n'N< my husband." walls an east
l<:;tiy lyi.otice in a
lug gullerj might eventually brio*
results.
I'sycholoirv .-ail e\| lain pretty near
ly everything except why they cull
in ->meut i jeiicy an "Intelligence
bureau."
After tlie investors tind out which
way the market went they try to tind
..•It which way the bucket shop propri
e'or went.
A Hrltish scientist says there Is no
"ndssit.i; link" and It must be adnilt
Ted tf.it! no one has had much luck
finding it.
"A friend in need" is a glorious fel
low ;f y..11 are doing the needing, but
If h.- is playing the dual role he's a
nuisance.
It is scarcely worth while to seek
I to live for u century and a half un
I less tie fouutuiu of youth can be
discovered.
| The present epidemic of colds would
I be easier to bear if other people
,i■. 1 11..t insist Upon telling about tlieiri
tirst arid most.
It now appears that a shot tired at a
printer silting !ti the window of his
! home was n<>t int.-nd.-d for him. Typo
graphical error.
IA German chemist rays he ran sup
ply imitation coal at half price. That'*
I nothing. American enterprise supplies
It at full price.
! We have wireless telegraphy, wlre
j le*s telephony and wireless music, hut
! the politidau still insists on having
something to pull.
Hating raw ><kJ will cure baldness,
<=avs ii psychologist. Now let's Inter
view some g -iloulst and tind out wliat's
good for chilblains.
That Patagonlau pleslosaurus pos
sibly survived from tertiary times be
•-..u*e he lived prudently In cold stor
age of Magellan straits.
A live snalie. thrown Into the midst
of the Japanese diet to break up the
session, succeeded. Has anyone tried
a mouse on lady legislators?
An Inventor has supplied the Span
ish army with a machine gun which
fires shots a minute; and gosh,
how the Spaniards need it!
Ludendorf says that Germany In
her next war will profit by the les
ions of the past. If she really profits
she wout be In any next »ar.
A popular minister says that It takes
nerve for a man to face the marriage
ceremony. Nonsense—l<Mik at the
spineless cowards that have wives.
What Is the importance that ex
plorers atta'-h to the finding of an
other prehistoric and extinct race?
This old world always has beeu a free
fur-all.
■ London reports that the foot and
i m»uth disease Is spreading In England.
| It is not so bad In the United States
v h»'e only the mouth is givln? a great
1 amount oi uoubUg.
<| INDIAN DRUM
b.|Willi'am A\acHarq aiid MwinBalmer j
Cbpyriqhh by Edwir\Bolmer>—
"I've known for a good many years,"
Spearman went on, reluctantly, "that
B«-u Corbet's bruin was seriously af
fected. He recognized that himself
even earlier, and admitted It to him
self when he took me off ray ship to
take charge of the company. I might
j have gone with other people then, or
It wouldn't have been very lung before
I could have started In as a ship own
er myself; but. In view of his condi
tion. lien made me promises that of
fered me most. Afterward his malady
progressed so that he couldn't know
himself to be untrustworthy; his Judg
ment was Impaired, and he planned
, and would have tried to carry out
many things tliut would have been
disastrous for the company. I had to
right him--for the company's sake and
for my own sake and that of the oth
ers. whose U.ierests were at stake,
four father came to see that what I
was doing was for the company's good
and has learned to trust me. Kut you
—you couldn't- see that quite so direct
ly, of course, and you thought I didn't
—like Pen ai I there was some lack to
me which made me fall to appreciate
him."
"No; nor that." Constance denied
quickly. "Not that. Henry."
"What was It theu, Connie? Tou
thought me ungrateful to him? I
realize thai I owed a great doLit to
ltioi: but the oa!y way I could pay that
debt was to do exactly what I did—
oppse him and Seem to push Into his
place anil be an Ingrate; for. because
1 did that. Urn's Veil a respected and
honored man in ibis tme»» all these
last years, which he couldn't have re
mained if I'd lot him Imve his way, or
If 1 told others >vhy 1 had to do what
I did. I didn't care what others
thought about me; but I did cure what
you thought; yet If you couldn't see
what I was up u-'alnst because of your
affection for him. why—that was all
ri£lti too."
"No. It wasn't all right." she denied -
I aim< st fiercely the (lush flooding hei
Cheeks; u throbbing was In her throat
«Silch. fur an Instant, stopped her.
"You should have told me Henry; or
—I should have been able to see."
"I couldn't tel! you—dear." he said
the lust word very distinctly, but so
i low that she could scarcely hear. "I
I couldn't tell you now—If Hen hadn't
gone away as he has and this other
• fellow pome. I couldn't tell you when
. you wanted to keep caring so much
I for your t'licle Benny, and he was try
I hip to hurt me with vou."
I She bent toward him. her lips part
' ed hut Dow she <11<1 ni>t speak. She
I never had really known Henry until
| this iiiniiielit. she felt: she had thought
I of him always as strong, almost hru
| tal lighting down fiercely, mercilessly,
| his opponents and we'coming contest
I for the Joy of overwhelming others h>
i his own decisive strength and power.
I ,*nl she had been almost ready to
I nilTy that man for his strength am'
, dominance from those qualities; and
now she knew' that he was merciful
too—indeed. more than merciful- To
' the very contest where she had
Itht light uf him as most selfish and re
gardless of another, she had most
I completely misapprehended.
#'l ought to have seeu!" she rebuked
I herself to him. "Surely, 1 should have
j se»n that was It!"
"Uow could you see?" he defended
her. "He never showed to you the side
be showed to me and—lu these last
yes-rs, anyway—never to me the side
he showed to you. But after what has
happened this week, can you under
stand uow; and you can see why 1
have to distrust the young fellow
who's come to claim Hen Covert's
place."
"Claim!" Constance repeated. "Why,
Henry. 1 did uot know he claimed any
thing ; be didn't eveu know when he
ciaif here—"
"He seems, like Ben C'orvet." Henry
[ said slowly, "to have the churacterls
| tic of showing oue side to you, another
i to me. Connie. With you, of course,
be claimed nothing; L>ut at the oltice—
four father showed him this moraine
the instruments of transfer that Ben
stems to have left conveying to him
all Ben nad—his other properties and
bis inrerest iu Curvet, Sherrlll and
Spearman. 1 very naturally dbjected
to the execution of those transfers,
without considerable examination, lu
view of Corvet's mental condition and
of the fact that they put the control
Hug stock of Corvet, Sherril! and
Spearman in the hands of a youth no
one ever had heard of—and one who,
by bis own story, never had seen a
ship until yesterday. And when I
didn't dismiss my business with a
dozen men this morning to take blui
into the company, lie claimed occasion
to see me alone to threaten me."
•Threaten you, HeuryY How? With
wbut?"
"I couldn't quite make out myself,
but that was bis tone; be deinauded
an 'explanation,' of exactly what, be
didn't make clear. He has been given
by Ben, apparently, the technical con
trol uf Corvet. Sherrlll and Spearmai.
ili» ulcu.il 1 iuiu. uviikiiUw*
i*,-'
to turn me out und take the manage
ment himself."
Constance leaned back, confused.
"He—Alau Conrad?" she questioned.
"He can't have done that, Henry I Oh,
he can't have meant that!"
"Maybe be didn't; 1 said I couldn't
make out what he did mean," Spear
man said. "Things have come upon
him with rather a rush, of course; and
jou couldn't expect a country boy to
get so many things straight. He's act
ing. 1 suppose, only In the way one
might expect a boy to act who had
been brought up In poverty on a Kan
sas prairie and was suddenly handed
the possible possession of a good many
millions of dollars. It's better to he
Ilex e that he's ouly lost his head. I
haven't had opportunity to tell your
father these things yet; hut 1 wanted
you to uuderstand why Conrad will
hardly consider me a friend."
"I'll understand you now, Henry,"
•he promised.
CHAPTER VIII.
Violence.
At half-past three. Alan left the of
fice. Sherrlll had told htm an hour
earlier that Speurnmn had telephoned
be would not be able to get hack for
a conference that afternoon; and Alan
was certain now that In Spearman'*
absence Sherrlll would do nothing
further with respect to his affair*.
Was there no ope whom Alan could
tell of his encounter wlih Spearman
in Uorvet'* house, with probability of
receiving belief? Alan had not been
thlnklMt directly of Constance Sfier
rlll, as he walked swiftly north to the
Drive: but she was. In a way. present
in nil his thoughts. As he npproached
th'' Sherrlll house, he saw standing at
the curb an open roadster with a liv
eried chauffeur; he had seen th'it road
ster. he recognized with a lltt e start.
In front of the office building that
morning when Constance had taken
him downtown. He turned Into the
walk and rang the hell.
The servant who opened the door
knew hliu and seemed to accept hi*
right of entry to the house, for he
drew hack for Alan to enter. Alan
went Into the ball mid waited for the
sen ant to follow. "Is Miss Sherrlll
In?" h«> asked.
"I'll see. sir." Tne man disap
peared. Alun. wnltlng, did not hear
Constance's voire in reply to the an
nouncement of ihe servant. hut Spear
man's v1c«rr>ns tunes. The Servant re
turned "Miss Sherrll! will see you in
a minute, sir."
Through the wide doorway to the
drawing room. Alan could see the
smaller, portlered entrance to the
room beyond—SlierrU's study. The
curtains parted, and Constance and
Spearman came into this inner door
way: tliey s'ood an Instant there In
talk. As Constance started away.
Spearman suddenly drew her hack to
him and kissed her. Alan's shoulders
spontaneously jerked hack and his
hands clenched: he did not look away
and. as she approached, she became
awnre that he had seen.
She came to him, very quiet and
very (lushed: then she was quite paie
as she asked him, "You wanted me?"
He was white as she. and could not
speak at once. "You told me lust night.
Miss Sherrlll." he said, "that the last
thing that Mr. Corvet did—the last
that you know of—was to warn you
against one of your friends. Who was
that?"
She flushed uneasily. "You mustn't
attach any Importance to that; I didn't
inear you to. There was no reason for
nhat Mr. Corvet said, except In Mr.
Corvet's own mind. He had a quite
unreasonable animosity—"
"Against Mr. Spearman, you mean."
She did not answer.
"His animosity was against Mr.
spearman. Miss Sherrlll. wasn't It?
That Is the only animosity of Mr. Cor
vet's thai anyone has told me about."
Ml'es."
"It was against Mr. Speannan that
be warned you, then?"
"Yes."
"Thank you." He turned and, not
waiting for the nmn, let himself out.
He should have known It wliea he had
seen tiiat Spearman, after announcing
himself as unable to get back to the
office, was with Constance.
He weut swiftly around the block t*
his own house and let himself in at the
front door with his key. The house
was warm; a shaded lamp on the table
in. the larger library was lighted, a Are
was burning In the open grate, and the
rooms had been swept and dusted. The
Indian came into the hall to take his
coat and hat.
"Dinner is at seven," Wassaquam
announced. "You want some change
about that?"
"No; seveu is all right."
Alan went upstairs to the room next
to Corvet's which he had appropriated
for his own use the night before, and
found it now prepared for his occu
pancy. When he came down again to
the first floor, Wassaquam was no
wise «J*juL but ktf heurd s^|ijs In
trie service rooms on tne oaneuiem
floor. He went part way down the
service stairs and saw tin- Indian in
the kitchen, preparing dinner. Wassa
quaui had not heard his approach, and
Alan stood an instant watching the
Indian's tall, thin figure and the quick
movements of his disproportionately
small, well-shaped hands, almost like
a woman's; then he scuffed his foot
upon the stair, and Wassaquara turned
swiftly about.
"Anybody been here today, Juduh?"
Alan asked.
"No, Alan. I called tradesmen: they
came. There were young men from the
newspapers."
"What did you tell them?"
"Nothing."
"Why not?"
"Henry telephoned I was to tell
them nothing."
"You mean Henry Spearman?"
"Yes."
"Do you take orders from him, Ju
dahr
"I took that order. Alan."
Alan hesitated. "You've been here
In the house all day?"
"Yes. Alan."
Aluu Mem back to the first floor and
Into the smaller library. The room
was dark with the early wimer dusk,
and he switched ou the light; then he
knult and pulled out one of the draw
ers he had seen Spearman searching
through the night belore. and carefully
examined the papers In it one by one,
but found them only ordinary papers.
He pulled the drawer completely out
aud sounded the wall behind it and the
partitions ou both sides but they ap
peared solid. He put the drawer back
In and went on to examine the next
one, and, after that, the others. The !
clocks In the house had been wound,
for presently the clock In the library
struck six, and another in the hall
chimed slowly. An nour later, when
the clocks chimed again, Alan looked
up and saw Wassa (plain's small black
eyes, deep set in their large eye sock
ets. fixed on him Intently Ihmugh the
door. How long the Indian had been
there. Alan could not guess; lie had
not heard his step.
"What are you looking for, Alan?"
the Indian a-kcil.
Alan reflected a moment. "Mr Slier
rill thought that Mr. CorviV might ,
have left a record of some sort here
for tne, Judah. Do you know of any- I
thing like thnt?"
"No. TUat is what you are looking j
for?"
"Yes, L»o you know of any place J
where Mr. Corvel would have been
likely to i^i away anything like that?"
"P.„n imt tumors in m 11 these draw
mzzx.
"You're * Chippewa, Aren't You,
Judah?" Alan Asked.
era; he put them upstairs, too—where
you huve seen."
"Nowhere else, Judah?"
"If he put things anywhere else.
Alan, 1 have not seen. Dinner is
served \In n«"
(Continued on Saturday)
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Visiting brothers cor*
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