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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1922)
SOULS for SALE By RUPERT HUGHES. ---aui.-- '■ - —3*g,i, — --- ■■■ ^ (Coo(lnui*<] Kroru Yntfrday i be did not know them at all. It amused then to pass him by arid note his casual glance at the smart hat and the polite traveling suit of hi ; wife. He had expected a change1 iti his daughter, but he was probably brat-eo fi-r something loud and gaudy. * Mem looked really younger than when j she left bint. She had then be* n a premature old tnaid, dowdy and re-1 pressed. Now, for ull her girlishness, ' she was a lithe siren, her eyes know- ! ing. her too expressive body carried learnedly In clothes that boasted of "list they hid. boasted subtly but all the more effectively. In spite of the I emphatic modesty of her elotbes. Merit j had lived so long among butterflies anil orchids, and had striven so des- j perately for expression, that sire did not -realize how emphatic she was. So her father passed her by. When Mrs. Steddon turned and hailed him ! in a voice that was gladder and more | lender than she knew, he whirled with his heart bottndiilg. Then h*- paused and stared, be fuddled. at the tailor-made model run ning toward hint. He knew all about the other world and how to get there, but he was lost in the cities of the earth. When his wife rushed Into the arms he had Hung open to her voice, he was al most afraid to close them about her. lie felt a bit like Joseph with the cap tain's wife clinging to him. When he stared across her trim shoulders and took In "the sumptuous Oelllah Hoating," toward him with Ills daughter's countersign, "Poppa!'' lie 0'n.H aghast at her beauty. She was ungodly beautiful. Long ago. when she had sung in the choir, he had noted with alarm an almost Indecent fervor in her hymning. Now she had learned to release nil the fragrances and allure ments of her being like a Pandora s box broken open. And trow he felt that ho ought to avert his gaze from her too lovely, too luscious charm. He shut his eyes, instead, and drew her Into hts bosom with one long arm, and his wife wilh the other. And they heard his hun gry. feasting heart grroaning: "t thank Thee, O God! Now let test Thou Thy servant depart in peace," But neither the Lord nor Ills fam ily granted that prayer. His two children chattered at once. Both seemed children to him. His wife had turned time far hack: sha looked fair er than he had ever known her; and her traveling hat hid her gray-white hair. Poor thing! She had never known till Hiis year the rapture of being fashionable: had never dared, never understood how, to look her best. Hiding under Ills liign chin. Mem begged his forgiveness for all the heartaches she had raused him. She wept on his white bow tie, twisting a button mi his coat and pouring out her regret for dragging his wife away from him and causing them to quatcel over her. 1 These tears, these gestures, of pathos, were endearing her to the j multitudes, who saw her half the time | through the radiant dimness of their ] own tears. Poor Doctor Steddon had never a chance with her. His own tears pattered down on ljer hat. The blessed dnmozel "heard” his tears. They would probably spot the crown. Mem said that it was a crime for her to have taken her mother oil East and left him alone, but he pro j “•sted: “D'you suppose T wanted my little girl traveling in those wicked cities all by herself?" This gladdened Mem exquisitely. It showed that, for all her wanton career she was still in her father's eyes an Innocent child who must be protected jauiffoiFTS THAT LAST'^giZ Saturday 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. Sale Extraordinary of High Grade Mesh Bags Silver or green gold., fine mesh and all sol dered. Whiting Davis Guar anteed Mesh Bags Regular $12.00 values. Saturday, at. Regular $18.00 values. Saturday, .$7.75 Mail Orders Filled. Add Postage. Brodegaard Bros. Co. 16th at Douglas Omaha from the world. Of course, it was, rather, the world that needed to be protected front her. But she would not disturb his sweet delusion. He said he wished he might have gone along and seen great cities he had never seen. All cities were Car cassones to him. He spoke of the anonymous benefactor, the conscience stricken stranger who had sent him money through Doctor Hretherick. But ho could not use that money for travel; It was for the church, and he sighed, "The good man has forgotten to send the last installment as he promised.” Mem gave a start and had almost said: "I forgot all alxntt it in the rush of leaving. I'll give it to you now”. Bhe checked herself so abruptly that she was not quite sure that she had not spoken. She seemed to hear the echo of her words. Her father was called away for a moment to speak to an old parish ioner, and Mem said to her mother: "This is exactly what we call a ‘situation’ in the business. The aud ience knows something the principal actor doesn't know. If poppa had found out that 1 was the remorseful gentleman he'd have dropped dead.” He came back with the parishioner, who had begged for the honor of an Introduction to his famous daughter. The old man had once wished that she had died before she went so wrong, but now be was plainly very glad indeed that she had been spared, lie lluttored like a hen whose duck ling has swam the pond and come back to the wing. The parishioner moved on at last, leaving embarrassment. Doctor Steddon was afraid to ask bis daughter the details of her new life, lest she should tell him. She could not think of much to say that would he certain not to shock him. The reunion was too blissful to be risked. At length, a very long length, the southbound train drew in and took them aboard. They watched the land scape and indulged in flurries of small talk that rushed and died like flaws of wind on tho river. Now it was the Mississippi that streamed south in a burly leisure, while the train flow noisily. CHAPTER LX. And finally Calverly came up along the track aand stopped at the sta tion. The place shocked Mem hy its shabbiness and its pettiness. When she left it she had never seen a city and she was afraid of her home town. Now her eyes were acquainted with the cyclopean architecture of New York, the gardened mansions of Pasa dena. and the maelstrom streets of Chicago. Yet she was as shy before the crowds that waited for hpr ns they of her. The mayor had come down to give her welcome. He was as shabby as the sheriff in a Western movie, but he was the village's best, nnd he used his largest words in a little speech, as soon as he could push through the mob of Steddon chil dren that devoured Mem nnd their mother. The manager of the Calverly Cap itol, with its capacity of two hundred, brushed the mayor aside and claimed Mrs. Steddon as his prize. He had a carriage waiting for her, and a room at the hotel in case tho parsonage was over-crowded. Doctor Steddon grow Isaian as he stormed back: "My daughter ptays in her own home!" This brought Mem snuggling to his elbowq and from that sanctuary she greeted her old Sunday-school teach er, several of the public school teach ere, an old negro janitor, a number of young men and women who called her hy her first name. Two or three of the girls had been belles of the town and she had looked on them with awe for their beauty, their fine elothes, and their fast repu tations. Now they seemed startling ly dubby, gawky, silly: and now the awe was theirs. Mem noted that her own sisters were dubbier, gawkier. sillier still— 1 except Gladys, who had matured ! amazingly, and In whose eyes end ; mouth and Ill-furbished roundnesses | Mem's experience saw a terrifying latent voluptuousness and a capacity i for fierce emotions. The first resolve Mem made was to buy her sister* clothe* worthy of them and of her own high rank. Just as she was stepping Into a waiting automobile Doctor Bretherick came along, happened by with a very t>adly acted pretense of surprise. Mem told him that she wanted to come over and have him look at her throat. She roughed for conviction'* sake and he warned her that there was a lot of flu goin’ about. The car moved off and she felt as if she were passing through a wooden toy town. He father's church looked about to fall over. It was not half so big as she remembered it, and dismally in need of paint. And tlte home! AA'as it possible that the old fence was so near the porch, and the porch so small? Once It h id been a grot of romance gloom, deep and fatal enough to bring her about her damnation. With a sudden stab she remembered El wood Farnaby and the far-off girl that he had loved too madly well In that moonlit embrasure. How little and pitiful that Mem had been! There was a toyish unimportance in her very fall, the debacle of a marionette world. But Elwood Farnaby was great by virtue fo his absence and his death. He was a hero now with Romeo and Leander and Abelard and the other geniuses of passion whose shadows had grown gigantically long, in the sunset of a tragic punishment for their ardors. She stumbled 11s she mounted the steps, and there was a misery in her breast. Then the house opened its door and took her in. into its Lillipu tian hail and stairway. Site laid off hat and gloves in the parlor, with tlie dining room alongside. It was like a caricature of homeliness. Jus* such a set had been rejected at the studio because It was a burlesque on such a home. AVonderrnent at the hallucintions of her youth and gratitude even for the disaster that had hurled her out of the Jail filled her heart. She never acted more desperately than in her mimicry of the emotions of rapture at her com mg home. Sim Insisted on helping to get the midday dinner. Gladys protested, but Mem was frantic for something to keep here hands busy, and for little things to talk about, lest her dismay at the humbleness of her beginnings' insult the poor wretches who had known no better. Her mother was having a similar battle, through the return was easier since she had never gone so far afield. At the dinner table the old preacher's humble grace for the bounty of the L/ord saddened Mem again The poor old dear had suffered every hardship and known nothing of luxury, yet he was grateful for “bounty!'' After the table was cleared ami the dishes washed and put away. Mem escaped on the pretext of a visit to the doctor She was waylaid by old friends on the walks and hailed from all the porches. There was a little condescension in the manner of a few matrons and a few embittered bells, but Mem knew enough to take this as the unwitting tribute of envy. She found Dr. and Mrs. Bretherick waiting for her. The doctor got rid of his wife and closed the door on Mem. Then lie llung up his hands and cried: “Wet!! He shook his shaggy poll arid mum bled a wide grin, and repeated half a dozen Wells of varied meaning, before he exclaimed: "Well, if I'm not a success as an author, manager, and perdooeer of A-l talent, shw me one. Our little continuity has certainly worked out beyond the fondest dreams of author and star.” His star took less pride in it than he. Somehow, Mem drew humili ation from the lowliness of her origin, instead of pride. This room had seen her lirst confession of guilt. In this room Klwood Farnaby had made his last battle for life. A horrifying thought came to Mem: if he had not died, she would have become his wife and the mother of his premature child. She would have been a laughing-stock, material for 2-FOR-l-SALEH Two Articles for the Price of One Buy One and Gel Two. at Beaton’s Friday and Saturday, December 8 and 9 Do Your Xmas Shopping Now For the benefit of those who could not be waited upon, we will continue the 2-for-l-SaIe Friday and Saturday. T wo-f or-One Stock Up for Xmas—Buy Now •10c lb. Hard Xmas Candy, very choice.2 lbs. for 40* $1.00 pound box Lowney’s Asst. Chocolates, Fruits and Nut Centers at, 2 lbs. for $1.00 70e lb. Woodward’s Chocolate Creams in neat box at.2 lbs. for 70C FOR MEN Complete Line of Xmas Sets for Men Specially Priced for This Sale. In regular line we offeri $1.00 Gillette Razors.67C $1.00 Gillette Blades.67£ $1.00 Durham Duplex Razors at . 69«* 50c Durham Duplex Blades, 35<? $1.00 Auto Strop Razors. .65£ $1.00 Auto Strop Blades. -67<* $1.00 Gem or Ever Feady Razors at . 6&C 40c DeMar’s Shaving Cream at.2 f°r 40^ 10c Williams’ Shaving Soap at.2 for 10^ 25c Velvet Cream, after shaving, at.2 for 25C CIGARS Standard brand* at less than the wholesale price. Buy now. 15c Mozart, Rosa size, at.2 for 15C Box of 50.$3.75 15c Mozart, Excellentes size. box of 50.$3.25 15c Mozart, Athletic Club size, ten in a tin box, per box, 75 10c La Confession, Bouquet size.2 for 10£ Box of 60.$2.50 10c Lord Curzon. . . - 2 for 10«? Box of 50.$2.25 CIGARETTES All You Want at These Price* Camels, Lucky Strikes or Ches terfields.2 for 25C Cartons . $1.25 All Other* at Special Prices Add So on the dollar on mail orders for post and packing on all items. PHOTO DEPT. Rexo Folding Camera Rexo Folding Cam vKJ " J ' era, postal card size, 3V4x5'/s, with double lens and brilliant view finder. Reg ular price $19.00, during this sale, special at.89.98 PICTURE FRAMES $1.50 Swing Frames, 6x9 to 7x11 .3 for 81.50 $1.50 Leather Loose Leaf Photo Albums, 7x10..3 for 81.50 50c Photo Albums, 4x6 and 5x7, at.3 for 50* 10c Rexo Art Corners at.3 for 10* Two Enlargements for the Price of One From Any of Your Good Kodak Films. 50c 5x7 enlargement, 3 for 50* 8x10 enlargement. .3 f°r 70* FACE POWDERS AND CREAMS 60c Djerkiss Face Powder, 35<? $1.25 Piver's La Trefle or Azurea Face Powder. . . (>9C 50c Meritol Face Powder at .2 for 50tf $1.00 Goutorbe’s Compact Face Powder in large goITT box. at. .2 for gl.OO 50c Nadine Face Powder at.2 for 50£ $1.25 Coty’s L'Origan Face Powder. .790 $1.50 Graham's Beauty Secret, the original clay preparation, at.2 for $1.50 TOILET ARTICLES 50c Orazin Tooth Paste at.2 for 50* 50c Brilliantine for the hair at.2 for 50* 50c Cocoanut Oil Shampoo at.2 for 50* 25c Bandoline.2 for 25* i 50c Pebeco Tooth Paste, each . . 32* 20c Vt lb. Peroxide Hydrogen, at.2 hot; for 20* 25c Stictite, keeps the hair in place...2 for 25* GOUTORBE COMPACT POWDER The latest and most popular $2.00 Goutorbe Com bination Rouge and Powder, new shades, Begonia and Orange, in gold hinged boxes — Special at...2 for $2.00 I 60c Goutorbe's Rouge, new shades, Begonia and Orange, in gold box.2 for 60£ $1.50 Goutorbe’s Face Powder.2 boxes for $1.50 75c Pinaud’s Tivola Face Powder.2 boxes for 75<J 35c Meritol Vanishing Cream.2 for 35*£ $1.60 jars Perle Kiss Face Powder, on sale at.2 for $1.50 TOILET WATERS Your favorite flower in deli cate toilet water: Lilac, Red Rose, White Rose, Wistaria, Lily of the Valley and Violet and others. 50c bottles.2 for 50£ 75c bottles.2 for 75tf $1.00 bottles.2 for $1.00 $1.50 bottles.2 for $1.50 Perle Kiss Bouquet Toilet Water, regular price $1.50, in this sale.....2 for $1.50 LOTIONS 35c Witch Hazel Cream ($often hands) . .2 for 35«£ 35c Cucumber Cream (for chaps) .2 for 35<! 25c Beaton’s Velvet Cream at.2 for 25<^ -- I VACUUM BOTTLE Regular $4.00 nickel plated brass Vacuum Bottle, full quart size, each . .$1.70 Regular $3.00 nickel plated brass Vacuum Bottle, pint size, each at .... $1.20 SUNDRIES 50c 8-inch Ivory and Amber Combs .2 for 50<? 25c Men’s Pocket Combs at.2 for 25d $1.00 Hair Brushes at.2 for 81.00 50c Tooth Brushes. .2 for 50<? 35c Tooth Brushes. .2 for 35C 50c Clothes Brushes, long white bristles.2 for 50C 20c Powder Puffs.. .2 for 20c 40c Nail Brushes. .. - 2 for 40£ PERFUMES (Bulk) HOUBIGANT’S Ideal Extract. Regular price $1.00 per oz. This sale..2 ozs. for $4.00 COTY’S L’ORIGAN. Regular price $4.00. At this sale.2 ozs. for $4.00 DJERKISF. Regular price $2.00 per ounce. At this wile.2 ozs. for $2.00 MARY GARDEN. Regular price $3.50 per ounce. This sale at.2 ozs. for $3.50 JICKEY. Regular price $1.50 per ounce. At this sale.2 ozs. for $1.50 PERLE KISS. Regular price $2.00, for this sale at.2 ozs. for $2.00 Flower odors such as Locust Blossom, White Rose, Trailing Arbutus, Wistaria, Lilac, etc. Regular price $1.00 per ounce. This sale . .2 ozs. for $1.00 PERFUMES IN FANCY CHRISTMAS BOXES 75c boxes (assorted odors), in this sale.2 for 75<* $1.25 boxes (assorted odors), in this sale.2 for $1.25 Save half on your Christmas perfumes by buying now. Specially Priced $8.30 Coty’s L’Origan Extract, 2-oz. fancy packages, in this sale for, each . . . .$5.98 $8.00 Houbigant’s Ideal Extract, 2-oz. fancy silk boxes in this sale for, each. . . ... $5.25 $8.50 Houbigant’s Q u e lq u e s Fleurs Extract, in fancy boxes, in this sale for, each, $5.98 HAIR NETS Genuine, extra large Eiona Hu man Hair Nets. Regular Price 10c. Sale 1 9. price.2 for Beaton Drug Co. ISth and Fa mam Sts. Omaha DRUG WANTS Two-for-One 40c Castnria.2 for 40C 30c Mentholatum... .2 for 30C $1.20 Herpicide. .2 for $1.20 30c Hinkle's Carcara Pills, bottles of 100. .. .2 for 30C 25c Beaton’s Cold Remedy at.2 for 25<* 80c gal. Denatured Alcohol for your car at. -2 pal. for 8©C 15c Toilet Paper. .. .2 for 15C $1.25 1 pint Imported Olive Oil at.2 for $1.25 30c % pint Witch Hazel and bottle at.2 for 30c S0c Furniture Polish, 2 for 30C 15c Diamond Dye. .2 for 15C 50c Tooth Brushes, 2 for 50<* MERITOL MEDICINES for the Cabinet 25c Carbolic Salve. .2 for 25C 25c Arnica Salve. .. .2 for 25c 25c Witch Hazel Salve at.2 for 25C 35c Boric Acid Powder Tprinkle can) ... .2 for 35C 50c Family Liniment (it pene trates) .2 for 50C 30c Catarrh Jelly (for head colds) .2 for 30c 15c Sewing Machine Oil at.2 for 15C 65c Eczema Ointment at.2 for 65C 15c Camphoricc.2 for 15C 35c Peroxide Cream, 2 f°r 35C 35c Cold Cream....2 for 35C 25c Aromatic Castor Oil at.2 for 25C Dolls! ^ Dolls! R Dolls! JJqJ $2.00 Dressed Flexible Jointed Dolls with movable eyes, at.3 for $2.00 $4.00 22-inch Dolls with Long Hair .2 for $4.00 Others specially priced for this sale. RUBBER GOODS We Guarantee All Our Rubber Goods and Carry a Complete Line. $1.50 2-qt. Red Rubber Combina tion Water Bottle and Foun tain Syringe at 2 for $1.50 $1.25 Hot Water Bottles at.2 for $1.25 $1.25 2-qt. Fountain Syringe at.2 for $1.25 $3.50 Legrand’s Female Spray Douche, each . . .$1.58 $1.00 Household Rubber Gloves, excellent d» < AA quality, 2 pairs. . V •* ELECTRIC All Guaranteed Perfect $5.00 Electric Curling Irons com plete with cords ...-$2.49 Electric Hot Plates complete with cords.$1.69 $6.00 C-lb. Electric Irons com plete with cords.$3.49 $10.00 Electric Heating Pads complete with cords, three heats**. $5.59 ugly whispers about the village. And she would have been the shabbiest of wives even here. She would never liavo known fame or ease or wealth "What a scenario tt would make!" she thought, in spite of her wrath against herself for harboring such an Infamous thought. Hut she could not deny her mind to It. Suppose a story were written around her life: a girl in her plight has a choice of, two careers; in one her love lives, | makes her the partner of his humble obscurity and poverty, and she be comes a shabby, life broken dowd; in the other her lover dies and she goes on alone to wealth, beauty, and the heights of splendor. Whieh would she choose? The very hesitation was murderous. Yet how would she choose? Would she kill her lover or let him live, a vampire to destroy her soul? She felt a compulsion to penance and a humbling of herself at the grave of her thwarted husband. She was afraid to walk through the streets to the cemetery, and she asked the doctor to drive her thither in the little oar he now effected. Ho consented and rose to lead the way. She cheeked him and took out her purse. "I want to give you the Install ment I forgot, of the conscience money. Please get it to papa as soon aa you can. And here's a little ex tra.” (To Ho Toni limed Tomorrow.) Bee Want Ads produce results. Winner of Ford Car D-5685 A-2IU | A-5674 A 4815 Fifpt number bated will prrxail for three <L*ya. starting Thuraday n^n, Pec. 7. If thia number ia not pre aented at Moope Temple within this time the aeoond number will atand for three day*. etc., tailing numbers In order listed. W. A. BARRON. Sec. Moose Lodge BEE WANT APS BRING RESUUTS Uprights $100.00 $125.00 $150.00 $200.00 $250.00 $285.00 • Join, the Brandeis1 > Christmas < iW3»a* ' J/dur 'Phonograph tflisXmag* • ^ a. • . A -a.• • 4k kl*• ku • ■A*rtc. 4^ Consoles $150.00 $225.00 $250.00 $300.00 Tudor Model $250.00 __ Select Your - Ovnmawick From Nebraska’s Largest Showing ! JiocUl 200 u $100 Select Your Xmas Brunswick—Now PAY NOTHING DOWN Just Purchase a Few Records. Start Paying for Instrument in 30 Days. Terms as Low as $5.00 a Month Brunswick Records Make Ideal Christmas Presents Main Floor—West. MOZART C I GAR Mild as a May Morning—and as fragrant Mozart— Mild Mellow— Memorable Fragrant— Free drawing— Firm ash— Famous— An uncommonly mild cigar of Havana fragrance— beautifully made. Mozart Cigar ia made by Conaolidated Cigar Corporation New York DintHbutcd by McCORD-BRADY CO. Omaha. Neb. These eigart sre shown actual sigc An "Adventure in Contentment” £) jm. tax Prrtf-rtoa Finos IOC Univmals «5« 7 Five beautiful sizes—select the one that suits you best: Partectos Finos 10c Magic* 10c Favorites 2 for 25c Universal* 15c l Vanderbilt* 3 for 50c