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BURGESS BEDTIME STORIES' V_By TIIOItNTON W. Ill KUGSS_ At laiat. AH day th* great man-bird, carry lng Danny and Nanny .Meadow iMotlfe and their family had been In .in mi-. sti.tiiM l> excited were Pan |tiy and Nanny. They couldn't have told you why, hut they were pos sewed of u feeling that nomethlng v.a* going to happen. aVhat It \val th*y didn't know, but they were sure thet something was going to happen And eomethlng <1M>. It was one ot the greatest hnpttenlngs in their lives I,ate In the afternoon the great mnn-blrd began to go down. At length the noise of the enginr ■topped. Down, down, down the great man-bird glided, and presently It r«m< to test gently. There was a shout from outside. It made the heart ol Inanity Meadow Mouse leap. It was strangely familiar, waa that voire Thera was an answering shout from the aviator, and then the latter hast ily climbed out of the aeroplane. Danny could wait no longer. He scrambled out and up whete he could ;ee. Farmer Brown's Imy and the aviator were shaking hand*! They were hark on the liieeti Meadow; where they had started from! Danny took one good long look, then h* KCtiri 'd bas'k to the little cupho.ird. whlrh had so long been THE NEBBS WELCOME STRANGER. * Directed for The Omaha Bee by Sol He*. Coming s it Looses \ ,LH4E on OLE> SETTIE&S Ltsvcn'C — * ujorsota. ^UJHOT TWES’aE COMING HERE FOR,1? nothing I CHEERFUL-I'LL bet — THEaE CO.NT GE t^UCH\J \CWEER LEFT 'N'C\-,r Xrv flock ewe tngy i /TaSanSSoSiCM^v /uji'ftETUin<anG Or^—>, /-Tor ov COMMERCE OV NORTWMtUt \ UERETHffV«s‘££5fo SJCw^hG'^G 1ME 0T¥ ojc PEL OEUGHTEOto CAU UPCX MCW I OBDtNfteV SO£WE«. TOOJN NORTWWtUX. Lr l^g^ESI ^'^Ea' VJDvCTVQN^V-.yE.S ^1/ ~T- n ^ My)TI * - m m ■ -4T jty (CepyritM. *>T The Bell Syndicate, Inc ) /my GOOD PR'CNDS -The INTERESTS I \ / uft.VE IN mV home City ARE Or SuCH PROPORTION THAT IT’WOULD ALMOST BE \ IMPOSSIBLE TO GiuLThEM uPEntiCELV dot L M GOING TO TORN THIS LITTLE L STATS INTO A 3EAUTY SPOT THAT-1 MAY SPcND \ ABORTION Of EACH YEAR iNYOOft ' ^AOTIVUL OTY OUHICH t WAUC already learned to lone- and J l TRUST I PJILL BE PRIVILEGED TO / ASSOCIATE both COMMERCIALLY -J AND SOCIALLY LoitmThiS - maGnidcent Body op GCNTLEMENl^-T-pY| pp,1 I [cU.c-^-^P if Barney Google and Spark Plug SPARKY’S GOT A NEW RIVAL._Drawn for The °g, by Billy DeBeck WE* gotta work fast ip ue'i^ GONNA REACH PORTLAND Bv Tomorrow • and its Getting fOcSGT « Tou BETTER swipe ONE OF THOSE BELLS OFFA Cow ONER THERE im The Pasture, and hang it cm sparkv »■ |F HE GETS SEPARATED FROM US IM THIS (ME CK OF The WOODS That CHINESE AIAG.'VOHO* will coh tiie. pruc ! BAlE OF HAM IM j Portland • / HURFiX • y CwpyrigKi. IW. by Kip« Feature Sypd»cat«. Inc. - 3-Z1 BRINGING UP FATHER u. s.Rp*,*eM*of(ice page of colors in the sunday bee Drown for The Omaha Be.. by McManus CHIGOE' O'NTH MONTHS L AGO YOU GIF ME ATOO^AMD j DOLLARS FOR MNJ INVENTION j a «A> MOW COMPLETED —--» COME mit ME VE \‘o€s Cr That*) i vhe e>e-)T I MEW^) I'VE » HEARD IN TEN XEAR-J - WERE lookih NOW CENT*) • i'UL START IT UNO IF DEV* FLT 'VrtEEU DON'T FALL- OFF OE*. INVENTION lSt> A SUCCESS - - - ach: oe* ruv-wheel • I SHE PELL C ^ orr: c-> /C V @1924 ent Int'c Fcatork Slavics. Ifcc WHEN we "—■——on-out — we will; r 'i ^—vt-= IM fXDRRT V I DIDN'T ~ KILL HIM JERRY ON THE JOB ADVANTAGE FOR THE BLOTS. D™*" f°r Tb' l,m»b» B" h* Hob»n zLk /U3T <X <£XT> ClEAH *U*Y ( WTUPR 0*1* CfetfX, J v-7 ViAV » "JuSV Af / '—/MJCm ^S-Sbo) rVJUEVjS*/Oli VJAVfT TO^S Ser v-mat Voti Lock L>kf1 s7 you HArr4 USE | V_r ,4 /WiEeOE. td§ i. J+Sr their home. ‘‘Nanny! Nanny!*' he i squeaked. "Oh, Nanny; It's true, lt'a truer* , "What Is true?’* squeaked Nanny rather sharply. ' For goodness sake, Danny Meadow Mouse, what is the mailer with you? Are you crazy?" Danny certainly was acting sa If he were crazy, lie was whirling around and around as if trying to catch that funny stub of a tad of his. * 'No, I'm not crazy!" he squeaked. "I'm not j crazy! It's true! Oh. Nanny, were I you ever so glad in all your life?” Nanny Meadow Mouse was losing | patience. She grabbed hold of Danny roughly and shook him. "Now tell me wiial all this nonsense is shout,” she demanded. "Why, we're home!" squeaked lien ny. "We're hack on the Green Mead owe light at the edge of t armer Brown's cornfield. We are—" But Nanny didn't wait to hear any thing more. She darted out of that little cupboard and scrambled up where she could see for herself. 1 was true. There was the familiar oW cornfield on one side and the beautlfu' Green Meadows on the other side The latter had been brown when at* raw them last, hut now they wer» already green. The old acarecrow In ths cornfield was no longer there am! the ground had been plowed. Bu she knew It was the same field. Farmer Brown's Boy and the avis■ tor, w ho was his cousin, as you m* remember, were so busy talking the they paid no attention to the atro plans. So they didn't see seven little gray forms climb up arid out on the farther side of the great m»n bird They were Danny and Nanny Mead ow Mouse and their five nearly grown children, who had been born In th» great man bird way down In the Sun ny South. (Copyright. lt!4 ) The next story: "(jetting Settled" CORDELIA THE MAGNIFICENT liy LRRO\ SCOT!. (Cop. u:t.) _' hYNOPMS. Cordelia Marlowe, mom striking figure i In society’a youngest set nod called l»y tier friends “Cordelia the Mai nlflrent,” sur , l»ri**-» a party of former schoolmates at iunrheon by announcing cancellation of all engagements, and after the others have gone disclose* to her closest friend. Mrs. Jacqueline Thorndike, the reason for her action. Her mother, she explains, lias lost her fortune in an oil speculation and | it is necessary for her to go to work. together llu* two young women writ** an j advertisement which they insert in a I newspaper, announcing that an American .girl, •expert at swimming, riding, tenuis, j dancing and who ran drive racing car," ■ desire* a position with ••««!< -iuhI* remuu I .-ration.*’ Many answers to the advert<«f i ment are received, imong them being one from Medmore Is franklin, lawyers, who, | gaffer lenrning that the girl seeking cm- ; I ployment la Cordelia Marlowe offer her , #30.0<*«> a year, though she n-ked hut IN a week for her service*. Cordelia accept* the employ ment when assured she will j j not he asked to “spy" on frends or do, janythng dshonorable. (Continued from Yesterday.) CHAPTER IV. Fortune’s Other Face. i Cordelia would have wondered even j more had it been possible for her to; have remained invisible in Mr. Frank- j j iin's office, and thus been aide to see j and overhear. The moment Mr. | Franklin was back in his chair, after j peeing Cordelia out, he remarked in a I slightly raised voice: "Come in, Kedmore.” A door at the side of th* office (Opened, and from a little private cor* I ! ridor that led to the adjoininsr office i •here stepped forth a stockily built j j man of perhaps 55 with a pinkish; i bald head. Clever Partners. Seen tn repose he looked a very unimportant figure; but those ac quainted with the higher courts ot New York knew that, given a case with a woman In it. no matter what its other ingredients, Josiah Kedmore could win that case before the most callous jury' ever Impaneled. "You got my signal.’ Mr. Frank lin queried when his partner was in the chair which had so recently held Cordelia. "Sure!" ‘Then you saw her and heard her. What do you think?" "That she's a peach! Lord. man. I almost passed out when I learned who she was Cordelia Marlowe! To think of Cordelia Marlowe writing an ad like that—Lord!" "She's just the kind that would d - it. Worldly-wise and self-con fident, and because of that as Ig norant and easy as they come." Kedmore nodded his big pink head. "She'll he a wonder—if you can manage her." "You saw this afternoon's per formauce. I was as much surprised | as you were when I learned who she * was. 1 never guessed a real society ' person was behind that ad. Con ] sidering my surprise. I think you'll admit 1 handled her pretty wen." "Yes. that was clever work. Frank lin. I'amned clever Lord, y e«. Bu! for a minute I thought your foot had slipped." 'When you suggested to her that Maggie the Blackmail Queen thing, and she flared up. ' "I had to sound her out. didn't I. to find whether she was already of a mind to go In for something of the sort? And when l learned she wasn't. I guess 1 made a quick re covery." I-noking Ahead. "Yes your mind is quick on its feet. Lightning: quick I'll sav." “If y ou listened carefully, you will retail that Miss Marlowe was the first to mention Gladys Norworth. I'd not even thought of Miss Norworth until Miss Marlowe spoke , f her invitation to visit Miss Norworth. So I decided to send Miss Marlowe where she al ready had an Invitation. "Almost every rich family has a closet with a skeleton or two in it. and I thought Miss Marlowe might as well start with these Norworth people, where she lias an opening, as with anybody ese. It s all the same to us Of course I did recall vague ly a few things tbout the Norworth situation, and that helped. If Miss Marlowe doesn't find the kev to the Oh, Man! ■ % 1 By Briggs LCT'3 <SC DovA/rJ ANP‘PLAV (MAM JoM6<«*VsMTH TH« GiLtCAPies OTHER PEoPLe IN I MY -STARS , vs BCCN The hotel 60 around Bess - l playing golf AND bANCC AND HAVE l CAME DOVUlO Today fx~Q a Good tt-me- l wish \ here Dor \ -S?? BwSSaw , HAD A HUSBAND That) A UTTie oSCrSEAND^M MAD ^.J^TTLE PBP j7"« r - 1;, ,2 *** __, - -\ I ttu WANT To all *H ^ Go Jon ; PLACE AU I ■■BB The-T)me I Whv mo. \ Hello) ( 1 UP I I Tmimis f Cam't we PITH- TOMf / cor,. \ Teller IP |T WOULD S TCAL Your* fiioHT IM • -• “ / ; You DIUW'T BE ^PLCUPtD / Ml»S»a*JD f~oP ftlCHT IM, . | To ^ ^ /v COUfLJL OF > \ l SWA / _I XSfc ...^ VAJGLL .SIR FPf T> ThAx I FUNUV-- ( W*i5 /A LuOMpERtvi. JUST UJONDCRIM& / LlTTLr U/lFfc. VWHAT | CO«JLD DO y ( You'l/E 0>OT To TASS A'AiAy' i t mat-thru) THE C S/LV M.nri __^ I'M AS FRESH AS A DAISY. va._. ✓ ____ ClfHflMMi H Y * *■ ABIE THE AGENT Drawh for The Omaha Bee by Hershfield fhr Mnrr the Mprricr SEE XOOR MUCH \ / HOW T»T> <Y FEEL AFTER A / GREAT ~lCE' AbvERYlZEfc FlQHTER A,. , \ V*AUOW<* FROM TXE WN*\; ,lCWr , WAS. KkiOtRElToUr ™ ' To TOE BRIMI.* AOOM. « VMtXE FIRST too*. ' SAY : "^^^“‘‘"‘“/VPERCCtJTAlSE v V VIM T / V 0r PEoPVE AU- ARoUNb / V CNV-kNiA^t <3 vl°jy '"-A_' I I Norworth closet, or If opening the closet she finds no skeleton, then I shift her to some other family. Aim that’s all there Is to that mystery. "J suppose so. But how aie you going to get that money back’.'’’ "You let me worry about that. It s going to be easy. The tips she’ll ham me. without ever knowing what she’. done, about the tilings that are hap Pening among her rich friends—why there'll la? a fortune in them if w follow them up and use them right. "But you can't expect to keep a girl like Miss Marlowe In Ignorance forever of what she's actually doing. Ixird, no. Whan she takes a tumble to the real game, how are you going to handle her?" “By that time I figured ahe won't . need any handling. .She'll be willing to come In with lier eyes wide open, provided we keep on covering up her work. Don't I know that sort of wornun!—the woman who's about to topple from her place in the big worl and don t want to fail! New Yorl. every big cjty. Is full of them. String those women along tor a little v iyjk keeping them just balanced at the top. and then they’ll be willing to do anything to keep from going down. You know that as well a* I do; that s ocen our experience." J know. But we've ne'er handle* n woman that’s had the real class of this Marlowe girl. Suppose whety he: waking up thne comes the girl refuses to go ahead’.’" Franklin’s mouth tightened. "That event will be provided for. If she refuses, she will find herself so It. • olved. without knowing Leforehanu that she Is involved, that she will not dare do anything except go ahead.” Kedmore taised a hand. "Say no more. Never tell me what you’re up to. I m only the vocal chords of this organization." After hi* partner had departed through which he had entered. Frank lin swung around and gazed down on the far reaches of the city, his brain | feverishly exultant, eagerly darting | .nto the'future. Robert Franklin was : a type of lawyer thst has existed eve 1 “ince law lias been practiced as a * business, but which ha- only' mounted | to the peak of its succea with the l development of modern wealth, of J modem society and modern* business, pud the rich opportunities these hate offered. At the beginning of bis practice he had chanced upon a rather scandalous secret and had been pa:d his price f t suppre«*.ng it. That incident had de termined his career. Such itione: '■ernes so easily and comes in such large sums; monev paid by clien’s for helping them hide something, monev paid by clients for doing something illegal In such a way that the lav. even If awakened, cannot touch cl. or lawyer, money paid for a .k.-e-l, mouth; add it is all go very safe. ;f only one is clever and ca eful enouu. Stick, then, was Cordel.a’s aa'iout st the age of 3*. a perfect). of his type: respected in hi* profession, and suspected by no one to whom he did not care to give his confidence: pro« perous; a finished man of the world he wore, and knew how to wear, the best of clo'hes; be was a member of good clubs, and he was today- far more ambitious than in his fiery early years. CHAPTER T. On Monday afternoon of the follow ing week Cordelia at the wheel of he" respirlted maroon roadster, a large Hack suit case strapped upon Its after deck (her trunk had been sent in ad vance bv express*, was skimming easily over a Lorg Island road at a third her engines speed, but many miles over the speed permitted by the state law. Rehind her she had left business af fairs settled upon much the basis Mr. franklin had first outlined to her. There had been many interview# with hln* in his office from which one looked down, a# from a watch-tower, upon the far-flung city and it* toil ing. scheming idling, suffering, lov ing millions. Mrs. Marlowe had been prevailed upon to come to thla office and leave with Mr. Franklin her un fortunate securities. She had been greatlm impressed by Mr. Franklin on her first visit and her respect had grown a hundredfold when three days later he announced to her that she had been the vic tim of fraudulent practices, and that he had succeeded In getting a settle ment out of her brokers and the com panies In which she held stock, under the terms of which settlement she was regularly to receive K.MX* monthly. He had handed her a cashier's check for the amount of the first p*'ment. Ahe had been most grateful, but ex treme tact had been required in hand ling her indignant demand for crim inal action against those conscience less brokers who had tried t ruin Iter and w ho so nearly had succeeded, and she had driven awav the savin* check triumphantly clutched in her handbag, with never a suspicion tha she had been an unconscious actor In a carefully prepared bit of private theatricals. Of course Cordelia had promp'Tv sent off the ordered rote to Jackie Thorndike telling that her mother h*l been prematura In her fears of fins els! reverses and telling Jackie that ihelr affairs were as sound as e • and that thevefoie she Cordelia would not have pt undertake an; of those foolish schemes thev hud . « cussed Jackie had replied w tb or thusiastlc congratulations and had promised alienee, it had hurt < < deha a bit to tell this fib to * i cd old friend like Jackie And of course there bad hern pc,\ ments made upon those awful bills As she drew nearer her destination her excitement grew mors intense She did not know Rolling Meadow* she xlld not know the etep eister or i s other persons who might comprise t‘ * uisehold. she knew only Gladvs Si e was about to enter a new world a world that site now believed con tained a mystery, possibly e mens, e a mystery that she. alwa's m suspected was to help discover s .1 clear away 1 I nv so glad you w e'-e si > to , • Tier ah!' Gladvs cried, and aft-* 1 u del had 1 ghtlv *. 1 • f'-* car, Gladvs threw her anus stored Cordelia and k.ssed her. 'That w»* only Cordelia a second kiss from he eld e, hoo! friend, and it seemed comfortably etpangw. its Be halhvit tVeaenew V (