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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1923)
i Rough-Hewn Dorothy Canfield | (Continued I'rom finturdny.) >\ Mir*19. Neal* ( rittendrn. t.tpical American youth, liven with hit parent* In I nlon Hill, a village near New \ork city. He «s active In all kinds of outdoor sports and at 22 Is graduated front ( olumbta univer sity. In France. Marine \llen. shout arr, lives with her American par sntTHi tne home of \nna Etchergary. a French woman. Marine’s father Is foreign business agent for an American firm. Jeanne Amigorenn Is an old French ser vant In the Allen family. Marine studies mnsic and French and wins a prise In a musical contest. Her mother dies, leav ing her alone with her father. Neales parents go to South America. After sev eral months his mother returns, while his father remain* there on business. N’enle Is In love with Martha Wentworth, whom he met at college. He takes a position with a large lumber firm nnd gains rapid promotion, meanwhile laying plans to marry Martha as soon ns possible. Martha, with an outburst of emotion, tell* Neale thut she does not want to marry him. N’eale. after the first bitter nang of dis appointment, calmly accents Marthas views that they are unsulted to each other. Martha leaves with her father for a year's sojourn In Berlin, where he has been made exchange professor at the university. Marlse’s father is back in America 01 ?acatlon. j Cousir. Hetty felt a long, rigorous tremor run through her, partly the ► cold t the mountain evening, partly an It ter chill. "Poor Flora!" she said now in a r trembling voice. It was the only word ' she spoke, me only comment she made on what he had told her, on i what he was to tell her. I "Well, when my train pulled into ■ Bayonne the next morning, there was | Marise to meet me. and great Scott! she almost scared the life out of me, f crying and hanging on to me. I i didn't know what had happened, be sides what was in the paper, what she ha# heard! but in i» minute, she got ' over that enough to tell me what she thought the matter was . . . her mother all shaken up from the nervous shock of seeing somebody killed, all upset, gone to a convent for a rest-cure. Hots of folks do that in France, instead of going to a hos pital or sanitarium, as they do here. I didn't think from the way she spoke she even knew who it was who had been killed. You'd better believe I didn't say anything about who it was, either! I wanted to go easy and find out how things were. I kept my ears and eyes open: but I didn't get anything that would give nte a lead from Marise, except that LJj»<Tul that her music teacher had spiled right In and stayed by her till I got there. And I was pretty sure she wouldn't have told Marise any thing. and would have kept any body's else mouth shut. It came out casually, for one thing, that she had sequestered that newspaper I saw, before Marise had a chance to look at it. Well, It looked as though the first thing was to get Flora home where I could stand guard over her, till the thing blew over.” He burst out savagely, “Good God! How was t to dream that she was so sick!” He made some violent gesture which his old kinswoman felt, but could not see in the darkness. "But she was. When we went to see her that afternoon, the doctor was there with her. and told me there wasn’t a chance in a thousand for her. Bauble pneumonia. We saw her for a moment that afternoon, .and the minute Marise went to bed that evening. I went back. But I was too late. Hetty, you never saw any thing like how young she looked . . . like a little girl, as if she'll died without having lived. The nice old Sister who had taken care of her had put flowere around her. white roses. And she w«s crying. She was about the only friend Flora had, the only one of them who didn't want some thing out of her.” Cousin Hetty's face was wet with tears, but she let them fall silently, not stirring a hand to wipe them away. Her cousin stirred a great de il, ; moving restlessly on the bench, fold ing and refolding his arms impa tiently. "The next three days—I never went such a crazy performance— enough to drive a man out of his mind. The music-teacher I told you about took Marise off with her. up to the mountains somewhere where litr old home was. until the day of the funeral. I don’t know how I could have managed without that I couldn't have had Marise arour. 1, while I was trying to hush up the coroner's men, or whoever they were. "As soon as I got in touch with the dead boy's family. I found out where a lot of the trouble came from. The police had come down from Saint Sauveur. just ae a matter of routine, to go through tin- motions uf an in yistigation anil had gone to where we lived, because they thought Flora was them. But she'd gone to the convent, so they saw our old cook and i asked her a lot of questions. Audi Joanne, instead of telling the truth, which was that she didn’t know a thing about It. saw a chance for some tall and fancy lying such as she made a specialty of. She got oft a long story about how she'd met the boy on his way to the train, anil he'd told her he was going on business, and Marise had asked him to take a message to her mother, and he'd said her mother didn't know Him by sight —oh. God knows what! T take It she thought she was safe guarding the family honor, by making out that Flora didn't know the young man. but she certainly got everything tied up into knots. She'd lv>at it off to tell the dead boy’s family what she'd told the police, so their lies would be of the same color ae hers. Oh, it was the damnedest mix up! Of course they were all set to do their share of ly ing. They wanted as much as I did *o keep the police out of It. Jeanne them to it. and so they re peated her version rather than start aomething new. But naturally, rat tled as they were with the sudden ADVERTISEMENT. | Say “Bayer" ar.d Insist! on package or on tablrta you are not getting the genuine Bayer product prescribed by physicians over twenty two rears slid proved safe by million* for Colds ileadachs Toothache Lumbago __ Kiirarh* Itheuinatlsm Neuralgia I'aln, I’ain \• • <■ |>t "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin mily. Knoh unbroken package con tains proper directions. Handy boxes nf twelve laldels cost few cent* long gist* nlso sell bottles of :'t and lot) Aspirin Is the trnde ninth nf Hsyer Matiufiii lint of Mofluaoatlcacldcslei of RsllcyIksclvi. ness of it, they didn I get It exactly straight, and that started the police off on an idea they hadn't had be fore, that maybe there was something more In it than ntet tltp eye. They asked some other questions around in Bayonne, and then it. was all up. "Of course .Teanne s story couldn't bold water for a minute. They found out first that he hadn't any business that could possibly have taken him up to the mountains. And the old hag that kept a flower stand on our street said he had sat all the eve ning before Flora went away, on the bench across the street from our house, that she'd sold him some flow ers at 8 when she shut her stall, and when she came back at fi the next morning he was there again. And our concierge body was lying and everybody sure that everybody else was. and those fool police inspectors were sure they'd unearth something If they only kept on. Inside 24 hours. I saw there was no sort of chance of getting anything straightened out by getting down to the taets, which didn't amount to a whoop anyhow. So we did what you always do in France when you want to get anything done. We used a pull. Gamier, this boy’s lather, was a business acquaintance of mine, and quite a level headed man. We got together, away from his wife. She was just crazy over her son's death. From one day to tlie next she looked 20 years older. And the way she cursed us all for ever coming to Bayonne—not that I cared, fche was out of her mind, anyhow. All the same, the things she said ... and poor Flora in her coffin. He drew a long breath, and cast his read cigar from him with a vivid gesture of disgust. / "The upshot was. that Oarnier got busy tlie light way. He furnished the political pull, ami I furnished the money. We stopped fooling with the police ami went straight to the Prefect. and they passed the order down quick fotn one office to another, to have that inquest seitled at once, with no more noise. When that hit the police who'd been bothering us. they curled up and dropped off. I bribed a reporter and the editor of the local newspaper, and when the music-teacher brought Marise hack to the funeral, the whole! mess was t uried.” In the momentary silence which followed, as he drew breath again, Cousin Hetty’s self-control gave way. He could feel that she was shaking uncontrollably and hear that her teeth were chattering. * (t'ontloueil In The Morning Her.) Adele Garrison “My Husband's Love” The Message Jim Gave to Madge. I pulled myself together when I saw Jim looking at me curiously. ] [is mimicry, crude and unskillful though It was, of the man who had lifted him from the prostrate form of the escaped bootlegger and held him help less to retaliate, to free himself, or ev4n to see his assailant, had set my thoughts wandering far afield. I was sure T knew the identity of the man whose voice a ml words he liail attempted to mimic, lint' I shrank from admitting the knowl edge even to myself. u was too bizarre and farfetched a theory, ! told myself, even as something lie side my own volition forced a ques tion to my lips. "Did you know hie voice .lint? lie must have known you by the way he spoke." Jim hesitated. 1 know the canni ness of the true I,our [slander who never admits anything, and I was not surprised when Jim, shifting his feet uneasily, made an evasive an swer. "I suppose lie did. ma'am, but there's plenty people know me and Katie work for you without our knowing them. Tint I think he's somebody you know, ail right." "Why?” I framed the word me chanically. "I was just cornin' to that," he ex plained laboriously. “After he'd said that,—he waited a minute, as if he was thinking and then he said sort of slow-like: “But what am 1 going to do with you, that's the question"" he says. “The other fellow spoke up quick and mean like—1 guess lie was mad at the way I'd downed him: “ ‘Bash his head in and heat it,' he says. “Then. Mis' Graham, you'd ought to have heard that big fellow go for him. It wasn't so much what he said as the way he said it, kind of like a king or a general or some thing like that talking to dirt. He meant It, too. you could see that, ami when he was through, the other man was as meek as a dog that's- been t lime herb “Then the big man made tlie otliei man help tie trie up. lie always kept inn k of me himself so that 1 couldn't see him, but lie saw to it that noth Ing was too light, and lie put the gag in himself, real careful like. "'Awful sorry. .Inn.' he sk.'s. ‘You're too good a scout to treat this way, but 1 can't run the risk of your giving any alarm ' he says. "Then he lets go of me. and the next tiling I see a liig overcoat toss past me to the man I’d been chasing. “'Lay down under that tree in the bushes yonder.’ he said. ‘There's no tailor's mark on it or anything else even if our friend Jim should turn it over to the cops, which I don't think he will, seeing that I'm only giving it to him to save him from rheumatism. "'I ain't making no promises,’ I tftys to him. " 'And quite right, too, old man,’ he says to me real friendly like, and then he calls to the other man. “ 'Help me lift Jim over to that tree,’ lie says, and when they carried me over lie says: “ Beat it now over to the road and get into the car. I’ll be right along.' "The other man beat it as he told him to, and then the big man reach ed his arm arourkl me—I saw his hand was white and had a ring with % big green stone in it—and he quick pinned something 1 didn't see inside my coat. •• 'Jim,' lie says, and In* voice na* ieal soft-like, ‘you think h good deal of the little lady you work for, don't you?’ , a “ 'That's the surest thing you know.’ I says, ma'am, for I guess you know what Katie and me—“ Jim's voice trailed In an agony of embarrassment, and I hastened to reassure him. “I know what dear and faithful friends I count you both." I answer ed, “hut tell me quickly what the big man said. “ 'Give the little lady this ' he says, ‘with my most humble compliments, ami if I was in your place, I wouldn't y earn to he found by no state troop ers,' he say w pinning: somethin* In side my vest coat. 'I've fixed i£ so you can make some sort of sound, hut don’t make it unless you see somebody front your house. And you won't have to stay here very long 1 promise you that, anyway.' Then he treat it, ma'am, walking straight and grand, like a theater man. And — someway — there was something about him that made me keep uuiet afterwards when a troop er came within 20 feet of me. Here’s what he gave me.” He put hia hand Inaide hi* coat and took out something upon which my fingers mechanically closed. It was the scarab acarfpln which I had last seen in Harry I'nderwood'a tie. The French government, through the und*r secretary of aeronautic*, hasofferedtwoprlr.es of 50,000 franca each to tire airplane firm bringing back to Fra new before the end of the present year the records for speed and duration, which the French re gard as the most important of tho.-e recently captured by American avi ators. * CLEAN.-- EFFICIENT t FOR EVERY PURPOSE Updike Lumber & Coal Co. 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Mgr y "■ ' “Say It With Flowers” LEE L. LARMON FLORIST 19th and Douglas AT 8144 J PACKING MOVING SHIPPING STORING] Absolut* responsibility In big things — • cordial co-operation in handling the so-called little things. Gordon Fireproof Warehouse & Van Co. 219-23 North Eleventh St. Phone JA ckaoa >«M *EUMNG C°%>. ALL KINDS OF WELDING ^^Vy 1609 Leavenworth AT lantic *133 Night Telephone JA ckaon 0369 / A Where Quiet Service Reigns JOHN A. GENTLEMAN MORTUARY 3411 Firnim Strwt HA ruff 1444 >■ ■* I Omaha Has Third Best Parks in Country, Claim Twenty-Three Parks Compris ing J.4-00 Acres Belong to City — Recreation and Amusements Featured. Omaha is the third city !n the United States in per capita park area, having 23 parks, containing 1,400 acres, and valued at more than |2, 000,00". In every park may be found out of ilonr recreation. There are 13 super vised playgrounds, equipped for al most every out-of-door sport, as well as greenhouses, various species of trees, shrubs and flowers peculiar to this climate, and birds and animals. Omaha began its park system back in 1854, with the establishment of Jefferson Square, at that time the heart of the business district. While business has moved away, the park still remains. flanscnni Park Donated. llanscom park, containing 57 *9 acres, was donated to the city in 1872 and is declared to be the third pretti est park in America. It still retains most of Its natural beauty, which Is enhanced by modern improvements. Another big park is Riverview, the most natural park in the system. The 111.67 acres are covered with native timber. Elmwood park, the "picnic" park. Is equipped with ail facilities for pic nics and out-of door gatherings. A free kitchen makes It an attractive place. Golf courses at Elmwood. Miller an/1 Eontenelle parks increase their popularity. An interesting fact about the Omaha park system is that many acres of it have been donated, and the original investment does not represent anything like its present valuation. Nearly $1,000,000 has been spent in improvements in all parks. Ised the Year Hound. Omaha parks are used the year around because of the play facilities, such as baseball, football, tennis, golf, horseshoes and skating and sliding in winter. Following is a list of the parks and their acreage: Levi Carter, 303.51 acres (the largest park In the system); Elmwood, 208.3 acres; Riverview, 111.67 acres: Fontenelle, 107.53 acres; Miller, 78 acres; Hanscom, 57.69 acres; Bends. 10‘i acres; Deer park, 19.30 acres; Kountze, $0.7 acres; Curtiss Turner, 7.58 acre**, Gifford, 5 acres; Mercer, 4 acres; Himebaugh, 1.1 acres; Burt playground, Bluffvlew, .51 acre; Spring Lake, 36.8 acres; Mandan, 10.9 acres; Highland, 5.87 acres; McKinley, 4 6 acres: Clearview. 1.9 acres; Morton, 4.22 acres; Jeffer son Square, 2 acres. Planes May Be Operated by < .(impressed Air Socn London, Aug 5.—Propellerless air planes are the latest probable inven tion of scientist*. Laboratory research has shown that air, compressed and mixed with fuel in a combustion chamber, could be projected through a nozzle at the rear of the aeroplane, and the reaction to Its discharge would necessarily drive the machine through the air. The only drawback to this mean* of propulsion, it is thought, would be the heaviness of the mechanism and the high fuel consumption. Postal Serxice Scores Another Speed Record St, Clalrsville, O., Aug. 5.—A post card, mailed to her from Atlantic City on July 29, 1908, has just been received by Miss Bertha Saltsgaver. Beilaire. Miss Saltsgaver, now deputy auditor of Belmont county, is a for mer deputy inspector of workshops and factories. She pointed out that lad the card waited another month. It would have been just 15 years in -caching its destination The Australian parliament recently passed a bill providing for the re rtemption of the national debt in 50 rear*. Surgical Supply Trade Improves Business Now Conducted Along Most Modern Lines, Local Store Owner Says. Wonderful progress has been made the past few years in the surgical supply business, we are informed by X. H. Seller, president of the Seiler Surgical company, located at 208 South Eighteenth street. Mr. Seiler states that years ago the typical organization handling this line of goods kept an ancient skeleton prominently displayed In their place of business, and fierce looking instru ments arranged conspicuously to gether. with a picture of a fierce looking lion and a hungry wolf hung on the wall, to terrorize all who en tered. Fortunately, time has changed, and now the modern store caters especial ly to the tender feelings of the public. Mr. Seiler states that they solicit the retail trade and invite any one interested in surgical supplies to visit their store and inspect their immense stock of surgical dressings, glass and enamelware. rubber goods and first aid supplies. Company Expands. The Automatic Printing company, started in April, 1921, by H. W. Wer ger. has enjoyed a volume of busi ness that has made it necessary to expand considerably. During recent months they have taken in the adjoining building, which gives double the space. Two months ago another automatic press waa, added. During the first 82 days of the world war, $1,059,836,000 worth of property, art works, crops, cattle, railways, bridges, roads, supplies, e'o. were destroyed l»v tbe Germans while passing through Belgium. YOUR LAUNDRY Will He sun-dried, hand-finished and Ruarranteed satisfactory if you send it to ua. Wat Waah Our Speciality FONTENELLE LAUNDRY E. F. Mtinif, Prop. 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