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Adele Garrison My Marriage Problems Why Despair Banished Hope M Madge Listened Unseen. "Well, little one?" These words in Harry Underwood's voice were the first which came float ing up to me through the hole In the floor heetde my couch. I thanked my particular little joss for the forethought which had made me move the couch to the opot near the radiator, and for Linda's weakness for drink which had made her use the l^nle for the concealment of her familiar, the ^lat bottle, and to hide the fact of the radiator pipe's acoustic qualities from Grace Draper. Hardly daring to breathe, and with one hand upon the corner of the ex quisite hooked rug, ready to throw it hack into position at any sign of wakefulness from Linda, "I strained my ears to catch every syllable from the room below. "Well!” Grace Draper’s voice was as unfriendly and sullen as Harry Un derwood's had been mocking. "Are you acquaint with that be loved character in fiction, ‘The Wal i us?' ” Mr. Underwood asked with silken suavity, but there was a hint of steel beneath the mockery. “Oh, can the first act persiflage!" she replied wearily. "If you have any thing to ^say, spill it." 4K was simply going to inform you" —he drawled—“that the said walrus spieled a mouthful when he emitted that well known remark, ‘The time has come.’ For we re about to have a showdown, old precious, you and I, with the cards all nicely laid faces up on the table." 1 never had beard trepidation in Grace Draper's voice, but X heard it now, although she tried to mask it with bravado. "I neither know nor care what you mean,” she said. “You will before I’m through with you," he said, his voicfe suddenly men acing beneath the drawl. "You’ve double crossed me, and it never has been considered exactly healthy to do that to me.” “Y'ouf Little Game Is Up." "I haven't," she began defiantly, but his voice with ‘the sharpness of a whiplash cut short her protest. "You brought Madge Graham here, t-ite's here now. Oh, you needn t trouble yourself to think up any lies about it! I saw her." “Now I know you’re lying,” the girl retorted, stressing the pronoun. "What a complacent, cockeure, courteous charmer you are.” Hie tone waa meditative, then changed abruptly. “But you’re only wasting time stalling. I eaw her in Tony's, and I’va been within a few soda of you ever since.” “In Tony’s?" Grace Draper replied, and again I detected nervoueness. “Then you were—’’ “The man on the motorcycle,” he returned, and I could imagine the grandiloquent mocking bow with which he accompanied the words “Kxactly. Marvelous intuition.” I caught my breath at the revela tion. So my own intuition had not been at faul* although I had not thought of Harry Underwood during those hours of suspense in the limou sine. But he was speaking again, slowly, icily, this time. “So, you see, your little game is up,” he said. “And I'm waiting to hear why you butted in on my game. You agreed to leave that dame to me when the time came for nabbing her.” “They wanted her.” Grace Draper replied sullenly. Madge Is Amaied. “You mean you wanted her," he retorted. “Much they care about her. when they're going to get <he old man. He's the only one who knows anything, and I'm the only one who can land him. The old fool still thinks I’m virgin wool.” I stifled a despairing cry with the coverlet. What awful thing did this speech mean? Of course, the "old man” meant mV father, and I knew only too well his unswerving belief in Harry Underwood's integrity. Had 1 been right and he wrong after all? Had all Harry Underwood's protesta tions of friendship and loyalty, his assertion that he was "glorified stool pigeon” in the camp of the conspira tors. been black, treacherous false hoods? ' ■ “What's the difference which one of us gets her as long as you're as sore at her as you pretend to be?” Grace Draper asked. “If to get even with her is all you want, I promise you she won’t need any disciplining after 1 get through with her. And surely to have dragged her hero your self would hav® been beneath the dig nity of the Big ,’ang.-ine”’ t almost betrayed my nearness again in my amazement and despair. Harry Underwood was the Big Tan gerine. Poached eggs are good served in a nest of spinach. ."I ' •• Burgess Bedtime Stories By THORNTON W. Bl'RGESS J The Ohucka Do Some Looking Around He wisdom shows who doth irruu For now nod then o little change. —Johnny Chuck. Now that Johnny and Polly Chuck had awakened from their long win ter sleep they were very much awake. This promised to be the most com fortable spring they ever had known. ] It was because they had slept extra long. Always before, after waking in I the spring, they had found it hard j work to get even a bite here and there, because always they had awakened before any green things had started to grow. This tin^e it was different. Food wasn’t plentiful by arty means, but by looking for it they found enough to satisfy their appetites. They didn't grow as thin as usual, for they didn't have t<| use up all that extra fat they had carried over the winter. “What," exclaimed Peter, “are you thinking about a new home for?" Having to think less about their stomachs, they began thinking earlier than usual about a new home. They talked it over as they sat on their doorstep. Peter Rabbit overheard them. “What,” exclaimed Peter, "are you ■ thinking about a new home for? What's the matter ylth this one? I never did see surt/folks. It was only last spring that you moved over here. Don't you have any love for home at all? Why Mrs. Peter and I have lived in the dear Olcl Briar Patch ever since we first set up housekeeping.” Johnny Chuck chuckled. ’ Perhaps, Peter,'* said he, "if you had slept for weeks and weeka and weeks in a house without ever poking your nose outside of it you would like a change. This, Is a perfectly good home, but ►oily and I want a change.' Polly nodded her head vigorously. “That’s It. Johnny," said she. "We want a change. A change nowf and then Is good for everybody. It’* been very nice living up here near the Old Briar Patch, but I think this year we should be a little more by ourselves.” Peter pricked up his ears. "Aren't Mrs. Peter and I good enough neigh bors for you?” he demanded. "We couldn’t ask for better neigh bors," replied Polly Chuck S3\eetiy “If we must have neighbors I know of no folks we had rather have than you and Mrs. Peter. But, you know, Johnny and I rather like being by ourselves. Goodhv, Peter " “Where are you going? ’ demanded Peter. "We are going to look around a little,” replied Polly Chuck, and started off with Johnny Chuck obe diently following. "Well, I never!" exclaimed Peter, and hurried to tell little Mrs. Peter that the Chucks were going to move. From that time on Johnny Chuck and Polly Chuck kept bobbing up at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected places. No one ever knew where to look for them. Sammy Jay saw them up In the Old Orchard. Jerry Muskrat discovered them nibbling tender young grass on the bank of the Smiling Pool. Jimmy Skunk met them In the Long Lane that leads down from Farmer Crown's barnyard. It was even re ported that they had been seen in the Old Pasture, but Peter doubted this. But wherever they were met, they always said that they were just looking around. (Copyright. 1923, by T. W. Burgess > The next story: “Johnny Chuck Proves, He Is a True Squirrel." Safe Preserving. When bottling fruit, boll the corks for a few minutes so they become soft and pliable. Then they are easily pressed Into the bottles, and when cold will fit tightly. Defective Flues. Chiinpeys and flues should he exam ined ^nd cleaned at least onc-e a year tq detect anything defective that might cause a fire. Beatrice Fairfax Problems That Perplex Self-Control. Dear Miss Fairfax: I have an un guVeritable tvmpcr. I confess it. I fly mtp the most destructive rages and make every one around me trem ble. Don't think I'm boasMng, for I am the most miserable man in the world. My sweetheart has just broken our engagement, and l miss her so I feel as if I would go mad. But I know I can’t win her back, because of my terrible disposition. Why was I given such a cross to bear? I know there is no help for me, but I have an intense curiosity to see what you will say. DAN. What 1 will say. Dan, Is so simple that you’ll reject it at first -it is Just this: "Control yourself." Now. before you shake your head and decide that you are just as badly off as you were before, let's talk the thing over. The world in which we live is con trolled by thought. The great Creator made this world of ours and all that is in it. Life is a direct growth and we do not see chaos anywhere in life _bAt we do see misdirected thoughts Which insist that there is chaos. And when thought runs sufficiently amok, we have murder and war and all sorts of hideous calamity brought on by the wrong thought. This temper of yours, which you call ungovernifble—is not something which I happens to you. It is something you make happen. Huppose you didn t believe that jou had to fly into a rage. Suppose in- j stead of thinking that >ou have a ter- I rlble temper, you really believed your- I self an amiable, easy-going person—j and suppose you believed this just as hard as you now believe that you \ have a warring disposition. Don’t you Imagine that your own belief could control you? Get up some day saying: “I’m amiable. Passion can't con trol me. for 1 control It.” Declare over and over that you are a pleasant tempered person. Don’t pay vour bad temper the oompliment of recognizing it. Just lhsist that you hie kindly and that you feel friendly toward every one and that no one can upset you and you don't propose to upset yourself. Call this a game if you like. Eut don't stop playing it all dav long. If you keep your mind full of pleas ant thoughts and keep yourself busy declaring your own amiability, do you suppose there v ill be room in your mind for anything else? TI| way to control a "bad tem per'' is to stop believing In it. Extravagant Tastes. Dear Miss Fairfax: I'm in love with one of the finest little girls in the world and have every reason to believe that she loves me. Now my problem is this. Miss Fairfax: She comes from a wealthy family and has always had everything money could buy, and I find our courtship rather expensive. I'm making seventy a week and see a hundred ahead In a year or so. But not if I keep late hours and run Into debt. The kind of an evening she en Jovs would cost me at least $*i for din ner, about $8 for theater tickets and maybe so much for taxis that I could kiss a *20 bill goodby every time I took her out. 1 like to see her three times a week, and I can't afford to have those three evenings together cost me *20 if I’m to think of her as a gir! for whom I'd like to buy an engagement ring, a wedding trip and .a decently fur nished apartment in a year or «o. Don't think I'm a tight wad. But I'm 2. and she is 25, and I don't see where we are going to get If all that counts is an expensive good time. Should I explain my plans to her or go on entertaining her in the man ner to which she is accustomed? GEORGE. By all means tell her of your plans. If she is the right kind of a girl she ought to be willing to help save for the future. Uncle Sam Says Propagation of Plants. This lKioklet which is issued by the Bunau of Plant Industry^ deals with the propagation of all kinds of plants by the use of foots, seeds and cuttings, and also by budding and grafting This booklet will prove decidedly useful to persons who are inexperi enced in plant propagation and agri Readers of The Omaha Bee may culture. obtain a copy of this booklet free as long as the free edition lasts by writing to the Division of PuMica tlons. Department of Agriculture. Washington, D. C., asking fo.r “F B. 157.'' Juicy Lemons. Put the lemons in a hot oven for a few* minutes before using them. You w ill obtain one third more juice from them than usual. Immersing in hot water will have the same effect. BARNEY GOOGLE_ spark’s getting a workont in paducah. 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