THE
FORBIDDEN YEARS
by
WADSWORTH CAMP
It
The momentary sense of
magnetism left Barbara.
“Mm Jacob Manvel. She
want* to speak to you."
•Tell her the same thing,
Mls/Norcross."
Barbara obeyed and turned
tack.
“She wants to know If she
may drop in for a moment."
“No, no, no. Caroline Man
vel is another well-meaning
•oul. Tell her I’m too miserable
to see anyone."
Barbara transmitted the
message and hung up.
“She says they’ll be at the
boat”
Ur. Twining sank back.
“I wish people wouldn’t
•some to the boat. I wish people
wouldn't be so kind.”
But Barbara was trying to
construe Mrs. Manvel’s final
wordP, “Tell her we’ll be at
the boat." Did the pronoun in
clude Gray? She knew she
ought not to want it to. If It
did, if she had to see him, she
would have the defense of a
multitude. He couldn’t play
Ills game with her to-night.
When they left the house
Mrs. Twining was the least
concerned member of the
party, and at the pier she kept
murmuring useful suggestions
while Barbara attended to the
baggage, the passports, and
the tickets. A considerable
(roup of her friends waited
On deck to wish her a pleasant
fourney. She spoke to them
all, thanking them.
“But you must let me go to
■ay cabin. I am very tired.”
Yet Barbara noticed that
She entered the lift with a
|Srm step, and that her face
had for once a natural color
■nd animation. Undoubtedly
Hie self-ordained hermit still
possessed the power to enjoy
Hie active world. But always
Barbara’s glance dissected the
fastless crowd. The Manvels
hadn’t been at the head of
the gangway, in the compan
lonway, or at the life entrance
an the deck below. Then, as
Hie family party streamed
■long the corridor, Barbara
heard Mr. Manvel’s precise
■oice.
“Adelaide, we were begin
ning to worry."
He stood peering outside
Hie entrance to a private hall,
ifrs. Twining snapped at him:
“I wish people wouldn’t
worry. There’s plenty of time.”
Mrs. Manvel appeared In
Hie doorway, stretched out her
hand, and drew Mrs. Twining
In, but Gray didn’t show him
self. and neither in the hall
nor in the drawing room did
Barbara see him; and she
tried to tell herself that she
was glad, but in her heart she
hnew that she was bitterly
disappointed.
Mrs. Twining had one of the
best suites, and already it
housed many proofs of her
taperishable popularity. Boxes
■nd baskets littered the
furniture and the floor, and
hoys kept darting In with
■tore. Barbara cleared an easy
rihalr and made the invalid
jpomfortable for an Improvised
levee.
“Caroline, where is that
£fantlc Infant of yours? I
Ink he might have said
good-bye to an old wreck that
way never wallow home.”
Barbar held her breath as
tfrs. Manvel answered on a
noticeably constrained note.
“He’s over his head In ex
aminations, and getting ready
Cor commencement. That’s the
•urse of popularity; he’s on
* dozen committees; but he
»ent his love.”
Mrs. Manvel’s glance barely
brushed Barbara, and she
sensed, as she had during her
visits with Mrs. Twining, that
Grave of Civil War Vet
U Found by Autoist
Ounbury. Pa —(UP)—Descendants
Charles Mattern, Snyder county
■itdler In the Civil war, found his
pave la Virginia after a 60-year
March.
Mattem died while serving with
|ba Union army near Riohmohd.
fcacords of his burial place were
|Mt. Members of his company had
m recollection of its location.
Barry Laub, Dewletown. motoring
Mrefeh Virginia, eaw a familiar
.Vantar count* name on a head
Gray’s mother was wary of
her, and disapproving. Mr.
Manvel, however, peered, and
took her hand.
“An Elmford neighbor! I
heard you were cheering our
old friend.’’
He had heard, but Gray
hadn’t; and obviously no one
had told him she was going
to Europe with Mrs. Twining.
She experienced a quick Joy
that she should be of that
much importance in Gray’s
life, and she glanced with an
inner defiance at Esther who
floated about the room, touch
1 ig the flowers which the maid
already had arranged in vases.
Mrs. Helder, as the moment
of parting approached, swung
to the morbid side.
“I must say, Adelaide, I
think it perfectly mad your
rushing off this way with no
one to take care of you."
“Here is a very competent
someone, Martha.”
Lyon Helder said in his
forthright way: “It mighn’t
have been a bad idea to take
Esther along too."
Barbara smiled a little,
plainly he had no share in the
campaign that was so easily
visible to her. Esther had to
be left behind to make the
most of her propinquity to
Gray. Mrs. Twining spoke
dryly:
“Taking care of me Is hard
work, Isn't It, Barbara?”
Barbara’s denial was a little
confused. It was the first
time Mrs. Twining had used
her first name, and she had
chosen an occasion when
Esther, and Esther’s mother,
and Gray’s mother could hear.
Of course there was no sig
nificance in that, but the odd
chance clung to her memory
for a long time.
"Where’s Steve? Mean to
say Steve’s forgotten me?”
Barbara went to the corridor
to look for Steve, and came
face to face with Harvey. It
was their flrst meeting since
the unhappy episode of Elm
ford, and he was as conscious
of It as Barbara.
“Thought I’d like to say
good-bye, because it may be a
long time.”
Nervously she asked him
what he had been doing, and
for a few minutes he rambled
on to brace himself for the
real purpose of his coming.
His salary had been raised
again, and he had speculated
shrewdly and successfully In
staple foodstuffs. Rankin and
he, he told her, were on the
eve of forming their partner
ship.
“I’m making money, Bobbie,
and I’m certain to make a lot
more.”
But when she said she had
to go back to Mrs. Twining he
took her hand, and willfully
fulfilled the mission that had
brought him.
“You haven’t seen Manvel
since, Bobble?”
Although she didn’t want to
answer, his strong will com
pelled her.
“NO.”
He took a deep breath.
"That’s good, but I can tell
you haven’t stopped thinking
of him. You will on this trip,
Bobble; you must. Although I
will miss you, I’m glad you’re
taking It, because It will give
you a chance to forget, and by
the time you come back he’ll
probably have hooked up with
Miss Helder, or someone else.’’
She turned away. He did
have the power of giving her
mheallng hurts; yet when you
,ame down to It he was usually
right What he had Just said
was logic.
“I’ll try, Harvey.”
Yet even then she had no
stone In ft national cemetery at
City Point. Va„ this summer. It
bore the names of “Charles Mat
tem.”
On his return home he inquired
whether a soldier of that name had
served in the Civil war from this
section. His Inquiries reached Prank
Mattern, son of the long-lost soldier.
Rich FomU Beds Found
in Western Nebraska
Sidney. Neb.—(UP)—New. rich
fossil beds have been discovered In
western Nebraska by a party of in
faith In her power to forget.
Out of the bedlam of the
corridor came the tap-tapping
of a cane, and Steve lounged
up and took Barbara’s hand.
She said good-bye to Harvey
and went back to the drawing
room with Steve. He bent over
Mrs. Twining.
‘T had to see if it’s true,
Adelaide. The age of miracles
is revived."
Lyon Heldcr faced Barbara,
and In his inadvertent way
loosed a thought that had ap
parently been forming for
some minutes.
"See here, young woman,
you’re scared. Don’t be. Know
ing my sister-in-law. I pro
phesy that everything will run
along smoothly. If it doesn’t,
if the smallest cloud appears,
illness, accident, cable or tele
phone me at my ofnce, and
I’ll see that everything’s done
for you. You may depend on
me absolutely.”
She liked him better than
ever for that.
“Thanks. That's a real help,
Mr. Helder.”
Mrs. Twining kept glancing
at her watch, urging her
family and friends away.
“Go along home, Slocum,
or you’ll burst into tears. This,
I might point out, is supposed
to be a joyous occasion.”
But the temperamental
housekeeper lingered.
“Steve, take Barbara on
deck. Remember it's her first
sailing. Let her see some of
the excitement.”
Steve said good-bye and
led Barbara to the head of the
visitor’s gangway. He smiled
down at her understandingly.
“I heard what Lyon said to
you. I’ll add my word. Ade
laide will run everything.
She’ll take care of herself and
you too; it’s her nature.”
His smile narrowed a trifle,
and the wrinkles about his
eyes deepened.
“I’ve never seen a novice so
reluctant to start for Europe.
Perhaps because I delivered
you helpless into the clutches
of Adelaide I have a most un
comfortable feeling of re
sponsibility for you. It urges
me to persuade you that this
trip is a splendid thing. You’ll
see fresh people and things.
You’ll come back with altered
thoughts and a broader out
look."
She had a sickened, shame
ful feeling that he did know
about the meeting-house steps
and what had followed. Mrs.
Slocum waddled to her rescue,
and burst into tears.
“Take good care of her, Miss
Norcross. Don’t let anything
happen to her. I’m sure I don’t
know what I should do.”
Her mood changed, and, as
she whispered, her tears dried.
“And don’t let her keep you
too long. You’re wasting your
time trotting around with a
crotchety old woman when
you ought to be having your
pretty face in all the papers
and magazines.”
Barbara submitted to a
damp kiss, and watched the
housekeeper waddle to the pier
with the departing crowd.
Steve grinned.
“What was the old devil, as
Adelaide calls her, putting in
j your ear?”
Barbara smiled tremulously
back.
i “It’s an obsession of hers
that I ought to leave Mrs.
Twining and display myself
on the stage.”
His head jerked.
“I can get her point; and
that reminds me that, acting
on my sense of responsibility,
I must advise you to be on
your guard against selfish
people. It’s been my experience
that a truly selfish person
can cause a most devastating
quantity of suffering.”
And with that sick feeling
she was sure he wasn’t warn
ing her against Mrs. Twining,
j In his indirect fashion, she
believed, he had told her, as
Harvey had done directly, to
drive Gray out of her mind
during this journey. Perhaps
Slocum was right and the
stage in the long run would
offer her only escape from a
situation that had become
1 vestlgators working near here and
at Bridgeport.
Fields located here and at Bridge
port are reported to be particularly
productive by C. B. Schulz, leader
of the excavation party.
Work done this year was prim
ary, Schul* said, but resulted in
discovery of valuable oligocene
beds. Two members of the party
digging near here, unearthed a
mastodon skull, prehistoric rhino
ceros, camel, turtle and evidences
of a rare thrse-toed horse. The
IMgty will return to this location
nearly unbearable since her
Princeton visit.
The Manvels and Kelders
came up and paused at the
head of the gangway while
the stewards patiently un
raveled a snarl that the crowd
had formed there in its too
hurried retreat. Mr. Manvel
peered.
“Coming with us, Steve?"
“Right. Good-bye, Barbara.
Don’t forget an elderly well
wisher."
“You know I won’t.”
But the human knot was
slow in breaking, and Mr.
Manvel took Steve’s arm, and,
' glancing with troubled eyes at
i his wife and the Helders, sur
reptitiously spoke the name
that was softly spelled, but
that always sounded harsh in
Barbara’s ears.
“I had a letter from Essie
to-day.”
Steve started and turned
away from Barbara.
“Good Lord, Jacob! What
about?”
Barbara wondered what odd
power the name possessed
that it should break through
even Steve’s composure.
“Money.”
Steve lifted his shoulders.
He, too, glanced steadily at
the two women and Lyon Hel
der waiting to get on the gang
way.
“Gad! How’ the years go by!
Told Lyon?”
Mr. Manvel shook his head.
“And I shan’t until it’s
necessary.”
Steve frowned.
“Think she’s capable of
making trouble?”
| Mr. Manvel laughed shortly.
“Why shouldn’t she be? If
she does it has to be faced.”
The stream of departure
had resumed its flow. Steve
pressed Barbara’s hand and
muttered a last farewell. He
and Mr. Manvel, in descending
the gangway, Barbara ob
served, let the Helders and
Mrs. Manvel get well ahead of
them. The two men receded
slowly, side by side, heads
close, whispering, victims, ob
viously, of an acute apprehen
sion.
CHAPTER IV
The European journey,
while it shaped into a number
of unexpected angles, was on
the whole, Barbara imagined,
a disappointment to Mrs.
Twining. It was prolonged
j time after time through ap
{ )arent caprice, and Mrs. Twin
ing, having announced her de
cision to linger, would study
Barbara with ironical eyes.
“What is it, Barbara? Why
are you in such a hurry to get
home? No use denying it.”
But Barbara would deny.
“There’s no reason why 1
should be in a hurry. Perhaps
I do think you would be more
comfortable at home.”
It was quite patent that Mrs.
Twining would be. Her persis
tent interest in England and
the continent, lasting more
; than a year, was quite out of
I character, for she submitted
herself in various countries to
the good intentions of well
meaning people as she had
steadfastly refused to do in
America, cheerfully accepting
invitations from old friends
whom she hadn’t seen in years
and dragging Barbara and the
maid in educational explora
tions to sections where living
conditions were painfully be
neath her standards; yet she
grew steadily better, throwing
off, as far as it was in her
nature to do so, the more pro
nounced illusions of her in
validism. So Barbara com
menced to sense a definite in
tention in the succession of
delays; she conceived the
thought that Mrs. Twining
waited in Europe for a very
special reason, and Barbara
began to wait too, watching
j the old lady suspensefully
each time a letter came from
Esther; running through every
New York newspaper she could
get her hands on, fearing to
find two names in conjunc
tion, for Harvey and Steve had
assigned her a task of forget
fulness she couldn’t possibly
accomplish.
1 (TO B* CONTINUED)
I next year to further develop this
bed.
One of tlie most Important finds
over made in Nebraska was report
er from near Bridgeport, where
the jaw of an amphibian was un
I earthed.
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HUMILIATION KILLS PEACOCK
Chaffey, Cal—(UP)—Humiliation
was blamed for the dearth of the
main attraction at the local aoo
! Keepers pulled the gorgeous tali
1 feathers of a male peacock, he lan
• guished aud died as the regult.
HAS SURVIVED
MANY PROBES
Tammany Organization Is
Older Than Present Po
litical Parties
New York—(UP>—Samuel Sea
bury, who has attracted nationwide
attention by heading the New' York
'‘city-wide’’ investigation, is char
acterized by some as a Don Quixote
tilting at a windmill.
The ‘‘windmill’’ is Tammany hall,
a political organization whose pow
er is felt throughout the nation, but
which, strangely enough, has a dis
tinctly parochial outlook; a society
much older than either the repub
lican or democratic parties.
Tammany is unique because un
like other municipal political ma
chines it transcends personalities.
In Philadelphia there is “Bill
vares organization, in Chicago
candidates used to assail “the
Thompson machine.” Here Tam
many leaders come and go. but
Tammany remains.
125 Years Old
For well over a century and a
quarter Tammany has exercised a
political power while dozens of or
ganizations similar In purpose
have grown and died.
Exposures of its office holders
have occupied newspaper head
lines every decade or so and pre
dictions have been made the or
ganization is waning. The first re
corded prediction of this kind was
made by a New York newspaper in
1809. The newspaper has been out
of existence long since. Newspa
pers have set about to "get” cer
tain of the Hall’s leaders. Some
times they did. And some of those
same newspapers are now extinct,
while Tammany remains.
The secret of this self-perpetu
ating existence lies in an invention
of Aaron Burr and the tendency
of human beings to be grateful.
Burr was the Hall's first leader,
taking charge when the organiza
tion incorporated in 1797, a few
years after it was founded by Wil
liam Mooney and named after an
obscure chief of the Delaware In
dians.
Burr's invention was the district
leader.
District Leader
The district leader, in these
populous times, aided by numer
able district captains, is a man
who has made friends with every
voter in his district, climbed tene
ment stairs to take them groceries
when they were ill, and gone to
court for them when they were in
trouble.
Because it was—and still is—
human to be grateful, it is not
surprising when the district lead
er’s friends vote as he suggests.
John F. Curry, present dictator
of Tammany, was such a leader.
He sawr that poor families in his
territory had enough coal in winter
and clothes when they needed them.
On election day the only voters in
his district who didn't cast ballots
were those too ill to be carried to
the polls.
Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt's rela
tions with Tammany may deter
mine his chances of securing the
democratic nomination for presi
dent.
Curry voiced the profourd local
interest of Tammany during the
current investigation when, as a
witness in the case of Dr. William
F. Doyle, former veterinarian, he
said:
‘ I am interested in every demo
crat in the great city of New York.”
Tammany has numbered na
tional leaders on its roster. Fore
most is a present sachem, Alfred E.
Smith, democratic pominee in 1928.
Others of note ait United States
Senator Robert F. Wagner, Col. Ja
cob Rupert, more interested in his
New York Yankees than politics;
James W. Gerard, former ambas
sador to Germany, and Samuel Un
termyer, lawyer.
Tammany’s first scandal oc
curred in 1837. Since then there
has been many a Quixote to tilt at
Tammany, some seriously and seme
merely hoping to attract public in
terest. Seabury’s attempt appear*
to be a serious one.
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Lost Longhorn Herd
Enriches Texas Man
San Antonio, Tex. —(UP)— Re
mains of a lost herd of longhorn
cattle, famous In the history of the
Texas range, have been found by
L. D. Bertillion of Mineola, Tex.,
and their horns have made him
rich.
In 1812 Jacob Don Lonerr’s en
tire herd of several thousand long
horns stampeded in a storm near
Tetringua Creek. They were
never found.
That is. not until Bertillion
trailed a nearby canyon to a cave
opening and found a great heap
of bones and horns. Bertillion has
since sold more than $50,000 worth
of horns, and is now negotiating
for a sale to the Prince of Wales.
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Contnjious.
From Tit-31 ts.
“Oh, come on, May—give me $
kiss.”
“No. I've got scruples."
“Never mind—I’ve had them
twice.”
. -- - --
Yale News Betrays
Absent Minded Profs
New Kaven, Conn. — (UP) —The
Yale Daily News claims to have
discovered concrete evidence that
professors—at least not Yale pro
fessors—are not absent-minded.
Why, asks the News, are not work
men busy in excavations on the
campus picking out professors who
ge every morning to the holes
wfiere their offices used to be? The
obvioua answer Is that lh« professors
are not absent-minded
Papal Error That Cost
Spain Much Territory
King Solomon offered -to divide a
smaU boy to whom two women laid
claim, and won a great reputation
for wisdom by so doing. Pope Alex
ander VI—born Roderick Borgia—
actually did divide the world, and
got no special credit for It even In his
own day.
He was an abler administrator, a
more versatile politician, a more far
a.ghted statesman, a greater patron
of the arts and sciences and a much
better friend to the common people
than was the Hebrew monarch, and
that's about all the good it did him.
Vasco da Gama had rounded the
Cape of Good Hope to give Portugal
a foothold iu India. Columbus had
sailed west to discover what might
prove to be a new continent, and he
represented Spain. It was Inevitable
that there should be conflicting
claims, and perfectly natural that
the rival rulers should turn to the
pope as the logical umpire.
Alexander did not find the prob
lem difficult. For generations the
Portuguese had been sailing south
ward along the west African coast
and their claims were obviously to
be preferred along the routes they
followed. The Spaniards, through
their Genoese agent, had found land
In the West. What was easier thaa
to draw a line from north to south
on the map and let the broad Atlan
tic separaie the new dominions of
the rivals? Every one was happy.
It was seven years before the Por
tuguese discovered that Brazil stuck
out so far to eastward that It
crossed the pope's line, and that the
holy father had given them far more
than they had dreamed of. They
were quick to colonize, and that le
how Brazil speaks Portuguese to
this day, although every other Latin
American land prefers Spanish.—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Conditions That Unite
Whole Animal Kingdom
A conference of eminent scientists
recently met at the estate of Copley
Amory, of Washington and Boston,
at Matamek, Quebec. For ten days
ecologists—that is, students of ani
mal life In relation to Its surround
ings—discussed problems and find
ings In tlielr particular fields of
ornithology, mammologv, marine biol
ogy, etc. The results of the con
ference were so profitable that plans
for another meeting in 1934 were
made and a committee appointed to
formulate a permanent organization,.
One of the points especially
stressed in the discussion was the
interrelation of the various animal
groups, including man. Fluctuations
In one species are often felt through
out the animal kingdom. Certain
varieties are of such importance
that they are known as “key ani
mals." Mice and mice-like rodents
are “key animals” in many parts of
the world. When mice are abundant
in the Canadian Northwest foxes,
snowy owls, wolves and bears cease
to prey on partridges. When the
mice decline, animals turn again to
game, and Eskimos and Indians suf
fer for food. Weasels and ermine
die out In numbers when mice are
scarce and snowy owls fiy south In
search of food, only to die in the
warm climate.
Church Placed in Steel Cage
To reduce tlie fire hazard and pro
tect workmen anti passershy during
the repairing of St. Paul’s church,
famous landmark of lower Broadway
In New York city, the entire struc
ture was Inclosed in a steel-cage
scaffolding, says Popular Mechanics
Magazine. The cage is 200 feet high,
and 5,000 couplings and 2,500 pipes
were required to complete the frame.
Never Can Tell
“You aren’t cussing goldenrod any
more," remarked the stranger.
“Not while these rubber experi
ments nre on," responded the farmer.
“Next year I may be planting It."
Slumber
A nulurul sleep of three mouth*
Is credited to a woman In Brazil.
Couldn’t any good housewife do that
If she had time?—Buffalo Evening
News.
The man who holds his head too
high overlook a lot of life's good
things.
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dir — spl*ndid roads — gorgaou* mountain
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