i A Life For Sale
BY SYDNEY HORLER c|
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Twenty minutes later she
was set down at the door of
the small house in Peter
Street, Westminster, where
siic had her rooms. The girl
she hated and distrusted
only spoke once during the
motor-car journey. This was
In parting, when she said:
"Do not attempt to betray us
In any way, or I will kill you
myself."
Entering her sitting-room,
she was surprised to find a |
man lolling in a chair near
the window. Her father.
"Where have you been,
Margery?” lie a..ked brus
quely.
She did not reply im
mediately. For one thing, she
was astonished to find what
ravages the last few months
had made in her father. The
estrangement that had
sprung up between them
shortly after her dear
mother’s death had been
characterized by intense bit
terness on the part of the
man standing before her.
Her father had acted in a
most cruel and unnatural
way, and she had been forced
to leave him. Yet, even in
the moments when grief
clutched her most tightly,
she tried to excuse him in
her own mind by attaching
the blame, not to the man
himself, but to his secret, vice
of reckless gambling. It was
this which had changed her
lather's whole nature and
been the direct cause of her
mother’s death. What curi
ous kink was it that could
cause such a clever man as
her father to be so weak
minded in this respect?
“Why have you come to see
me, father?” she now asked,
ignoring his question because
she did not know what reply
to make to it. Love suddenly
welled up in her breast. “Are
you ill, father? Is that why
you have ccme to see me
after so long?"
Hathway Steers made an
impatient gesture.
“111!” he ejaculated fierce
ly; “no, I am not ill. Why
should I be ill?”
A dull pain stabbed her.
This man was still the un
reasonable being she had
found it impossible to live
with. His voice had so blunted
his finer instincts that she
was scarcely able to recog
nize in him the father she
formerly adored.
“I asked you where you
had been, Margery,” he*
father harshly repeated.
“Lord Bclshaven rang me up
this morning to know if you
were ill.”
She thought quickly.
“I had to go away sudden
ly to see someone,” she in
vented. Now* that the crucial
time had come, she was
afraid to ask her father the
vital question—afraid be
cause the truth of the terri
ble accusation made against
him by that hugely built
man who had had her kid
naped was written, she
feared, in the ravaged fea
tures of the Treasury offi
cial.
“I shall be able to explain
to Lord Belshaven,” she went
on Then, looking him
Btraight In the face, shs
asked: “Was it merely an
xiety for me that made you
come here to-night, father?”
Hathway Steers twisted in
his chair.
“Of course,” he replied;
and then; “That was the
principal reason," he added.
His manner had become con
fused.
Margery waited, and the
expected revelation came.
“The fact of the matter Is,
my dear,” said her father. “I
Soviet Snubs Trotsky
In New War Film
Moscow —(UP)— An ambitious
motion picture dealing with the
civil wars of 1918-21 is being pre
pared here, in which the out
standing leaders of those wars,
Leon Trotsky, will not appear at
all.
An initial announcement of the
film declares that Soviet leaders
prominent in the fighting will be
characters in the action. It then
lists as examples Stalin. Lenin,
Kalinin, Molotp/. Bubnov. Petrov
am a little short of money
at the moment. Some invest
ments in which I have placed
great faith have turned out
very badly. I strongly dislike
being forced to ask my own
daughter for a loan, but—
can you let me have fifty
pounds, Margery?”
The girl’s face went white.
A sense of nausea almost
choked her.
“Yes, I will let you have
fifty pounds, father,” she re
plied in a dull, dead tone.
“It is practically all the
money I have been able to
save since leaving home, but
you shall have it.” While her
fathe rsquirmed uncomfort
ably in his chair, she spoke
again: “Father, what I am
going to say I want you to
remember; ntvcr forget it,
because it is very serious.
You have an enemy in the
Treasury, a man who watches
and spies on you. So far as
I can understand, every
thing you do is known to
this man—everything, you
understand.”
Hathway Steers sprang
from his chair.
“Where did you get this
ridiculous notion from?” he
stormed. “Who is the man?
You must tell me!”
She made a little despair
ing gesture with her hand.
“I do not know. All I can
tell you, father, is that you
are being watched, and
that—”
Her father raised his
clenched fists.
“Give me that fifty
pounds!” he raved. “I am
desperate, don’t you hear?”
With her heart feeling like
a leaden weight, she wrote
out the cheque. Immediately
he had it in his hand, her
father picked up his hat and
left the house without so
much as kissing her.
Fear had Margery under
its cruel rack for the re
mainder of the night. Her
father’s manner had con
vinced her that the damning
charge made against him by
the Seeker of Secrets was
true—at least, there must be
some semblance of truth in
it: her father had flinched
and a hectic flush had come
into his sunken cheeks when
she had said the words. The
rage into which he had flung
himself had been a rage of
crazed terror rather than of
honest indignation.
What was she to do?
Where was she to turn for
help?
Alter Lingo had left him,
Martin Creighton tried to
occupy himself with the
modest lunch he had ordered.
But his eyes kept wandering
to the other side of the res
taurant. That girl! What was
she doing With a Cabinet
Minister? And if she had
such a powerful friend as
the Foreign Secretary, why
had she displayed such ter
ror in that house two nights
before? And what was she
. doing there at all? Why,
above all things, If she was
the same gir\, as he believed,
had she been reduced to such
panic that she had uttered
that strangling cry of help
through the telephone?
These were bewildering
questions, and when he saw
the Foreign Secretary rise
and, with an evident few
words of apology, leave the
restaurant, Creighton, acting
on an irresistible impulse,
crossed the floor.
The girl had been reading
what appeared' to be somft
typewritten documents placet*
beside her plate, and she dirl
not notice his approach un
til he stood by the taOie.
Creighton was so feter
faky, and others. Trotsky, who was~
i commander-in-chief of all the
Red forces at that time, is not
j mentioned.
The film will thus be in line
with the histories of that period
taught here. Trotsky’s pre-emi
nent leadership is slighted, or not
mentioned at all.
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Pueblo Youths Turn
From Eggs to Meteors
Pueblo. Colo. —(UP)— Pueblo’s
small boys have abandoned the
; search for lost golf balls and hid
| mined that his voice sounded
almost sharp as he spoke.
"Please excuse me," lie
said, "but I met you in very
peculiar circumstances two
nights ago, you will remem
ber. I made up my mind then
to offer you my help, and I
repeat that offer now. It is
impossible for us to talk
here, I know, but will you
please tell me where I can
see you alone as soon as pos
sible?"
A short, startled cry burst
from the girl’s lips. Those
seated turned round. Creigh
ton realized he was in a
most embarrassing position,
but he stuck to his guns.
“I am offering you help—
all the help that I can pos
sibly give you," he repeated
earnestly; “there is no need
for you to be frightened.”
But the girl was frightened
—almost agonizedly fright
ened.
“Go away!” she breathed
tensely. “How dare you speak
to me! Go away!”
Before Creighton could
think of any response, he
felt his arm seized. A man
with the face of an old-time
fox-hunting spuire was glar
ing at him in a bellicose
fashion.
“Confound you, sir! what
do you mean by molesting
this lady?” demanded this
chivalrous, but mistaken, in
dividual.
Martin shook off the re
straining arm. He was con
scious that the crowded and
fashionable restaurant was
in a state of commotion, and
that every eye was upon him.
Through the throng came
two figures. One was Luigo
and the other Lord Bel
shaven.
He had to extricate himself
with as good a grace as pos
sible.
“I mistook this lady for
someone I thought I knew,”
he explained to Lord Bel
shaven. “Will you please ac
cept on her behalf my most
profound apologies?”
Unable to remain in the
place, he went to the cloak
room, picked up hat and
stick, and hurriedly walked
out of the restaurant.
Was he going mad? Was
the whole world going mad?
For a moment he wondered
whether he could possibly
have made a mistake; but
then he recalled the look of
recognition which had
downed in the girl’s face di
rectly he spoke to her. This
recognition had caused her
to view him with horror, it
was true, but there could be
no possible doubt that she
had remembered him.
And this, of course, only
added to the amazing per
plexity of the whole thing.
CHAPTER IX
The morning after Bunny
Chipstead had received the
anonymous typewritten mes
sage of warning, he called
at that imposing building on
the Embankment known to
the world as Scotland Yard.
His ostensible reason for do
ing so was to pay a visit to
the famous Black Museum,
that storehouse of grizzly
mementoes of celebrated
crimes. He was received with
every courtesy by the of
ficials, was shown over the
Black Museum, and was
afterwards informed that the
Deputy Commissioner Mr.
Jarvis Stark, would very
much like to have a word
with him in his private room
before he left.
A few minutes later Bunny
found himself shaking hands
with the man whose name
was popularly supposed to
strike terror into the minds
qf even the most hardened
and desperate criminals.
Mr. Jarvis Stark had risen
to his present high position
through sheer ability. Start
ing as an ordinary constable,
he had worked his way up,
until no*v practically the
whole of that vast crime
thwarting organization
moved to Ms will. His was an
enormous responsibility, but
the efficiency with which the
den bird's eg~s, and have become
meteor hunters.
The cause was a meteor which
sailed into the sky over Pueblo
recently and as it came within a
few feet of the round, exploded
with a blinding flash.
And, incidentally, there is a me
teorite polishing laboratory at
Palmer lake, Colo., 75 miles from
here, where there’s a standing of
fer to purchase meteorites.
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FIND INDIAN HAMMER
Lamar, Colo.—(UP) - Diggers, ex
cavating for a well, unearthed a
solendld lar”110 The work.
various departments under
1 his control worked was the
best testimony to his ability
Chipstead, whose own line
of work had not brought him
previously in touch with the
Deputy Commissioner, re
garded Mr. Jarvis Stark with
considerable interest. The
man who rose from his chair
to greet him looked anything
but a successful tracker of
criminals. He was tall, loose
jointed, had an awkward
frame, and a pale, almost
flabby, face, whose natural
expression appeared to be
one of intense lugubrious
ness. The likeness to the type
of chapel deacon burlesqued
on the music-hall stage was
Increased by a pair of ex
tremely pale blue eyes and
a psalm-singing voice, very
much in keeping with Mr.
Jarvis Stark’s melancholy ex
pression.
Bunny might secretly have
smiled had he not known
from Stark’s record that the
man standing before him
was resolute, and possessed
of an iron determination in
the discharge of his duties.
“I felt I could not allow
you to leave the building,
Mr. Chipstead, without en
joying the pleasure of mak
ing your acquaintance,”
stated Stark in a sing-song
tone, extending a huge, bony
hand in greeting. “Although
our work lies along some
what different lines, yet es
sentially we are toilers in
the same field. Let me extend
to you, Mr. Chipstead, a very
hearty welcome to Scotland
Yard. Is there anything I
can do for you?”
Chipstead smiled in ac
knowledgment of the friend
ly words.
“I don’t think so, Mr.
Deputy Commissioner,” he
replied. “Having half an hour
to spare this morning, I
thought I would drop In to
see your wonderful Black
Museum. The inspector-in
charge was very kind.”
“Brownrigg is an excellent
fellow,” stated the Deputy
Commissioner, who now,
somewhat to Chipstead’s sur
prise, sighed. “It is very hot
in here this morning; do you
notice it?” The speaker
pulled out a handkercmei
andh wiped a forehead which
had become bedewed with
perspiration.
Bunny did not reply. He
wras slightly startled by the
remark. As a matter of fact,
he had though* that the
room, perhaps owing to the
poor fire, was distinctly on
the chilly side.
Then came an explanation.
“I have not been well late
ly,” stated the Deputy Com
missioner, “and I am tre
mendously overworked— tre
mendously. But"—breaking
off—“I must not burden
you, Mr. Chipstead, with my
misfortunes. May I offer you
some hospitality—a glass of
wine or a whisky-and soda?
I am a teetotaler myself, but
I shall be pleased to join you
in a cigaret.”
Bunny had his whisky
and-soda. A collector of
curios, human and otherwise,
this skilled Chief of Scotland
Yard interested him more
every minute. As he put
down his glass, he realized
that the pale blue eyes of
the Deputy Commissioner
were regarding him intently.
“And why have you come
to London, Mr. Chipstead?”
inquired the Deputy Commis
sioner pleasantly.
Bunny gave one of his rare
smiles.
“I felt I wanted a haliday,”
he said, “and of all the places
I know in which to spend a
holiday I prefer London.”
“You being such a cos
mopolitan, Mr. Chipstead,
that is a compliment which
every true Londoner will ap
preciate.”
(TO BE CONTINUED)
WORTH REMEMBERING
A six months old calf vaccinated
for blackleg is not apt to be im
mune for life, and the safe proce
dure is to vaccinate at least once
1 more at 1 year old.
I men, assisting C. G. Bennett at
! the digging, had reached a depth
! of 17 feet, when they struck an
' Indian hammer. The weapon,
carved out of rock, weighed about
two pounds, measured six inches
the long way of the head, three
inches the other. _
Harrisburg, Pa. —(UP>— Prac
tical training in homemaking was
given 6,400 Pennsylvania high
school girls during the last school
term. The state education depart
ment estimated 10,000 different
home making projects were con
| ducted in the schools.
MAY CHANGE
BIBLE STORIES
Vale Exp H. lion Makes
Valuable Finds in
Asia Minor
New Haven Conn. — (UP' — Con
ceptions ol such biblical events as
Adam and Eve in the Garden of
Eden. David’s conquest of Goliath
and the re-urrection may be altered
by recent excavations at Dura, Asia
Minor, by Yale archaeologists.
Discovery of a Cristian chapel
probably built about 200 A. D., on
the wa'ls of which were well
executed paintings of the biblical
incidents was announced to Yale
authorities by Professor Clark
Hopkins, field manager of the
Yale-French Academy of Inscrip
tions expedition.
Military Center
Another important discovery
was a military center in which
documents were found which
scholars believe may throw light
on how Rome marshalled its
forces against the Eastern power.
These excavations, made during
the expedition’s fifth year In
Syria, are regarded by Professor
Michael I. Rostovtzeff. Sterling
Professor of Ancient History and
Classical Archaeology, as "surpris
ingly rich results.”
Reporting upon the excavations,
Professor Rostovtzeff revealed how
the archaelogists became interest
ed in a thick mud wall built in
side the stone fortifications of the
ancient fortress and caravan city,
sorappir.g away the mud, the party
discovered a small Christian
church — "to the great astonish
ment” of Professor Hopkins.
Mud Coating
As the scientists eagerly scraped
away the coated mud, a series of
remarkable mural paintings was
revealed to them. "Inside the con
cha of the apse-baptismal font
stands the Good Shepherd and
His twelve sheep, and beneath this
scene Adam and Eve near the
tree,” reports Professor Rostovt
xeff.
"On the entrance door the wor
shippers saw young David raising
triumphantly his sword over the
enormous prostrate body of Goli
ath. the two names being written
near the corresponding figures.”
Other scenes depict Christ healing
the sick Christ walking on the
water and the resurrection of
Christ.
Professor Rostovtzeff believes
the pictures may revise present
conceptions of the biblical events
since they date beyond much of
the material on which present
versions of the stories are based.
Michigan Expedition
Finds Ancient City
Ann Arbor. Mich —(UP)— An
expedition of Michigan archeolo
gists has reported the discovery
of a fortress-like building among
the ruins of Dime, an ancient city
in Egypt.
The structure, believed to be a
temple of ancient Rome, contained
vaulted subterrian chambers. The
rooms are paneled in hardwoods,
according to Professor Arthur E.
Boak, director of the expedition.
In a report to his sponsors here,
Boak said members of the expedi
tion also have found Roman coins
of Cleopatra and Actavianus.
Once the site of a flourishing
city, Dime is now just a ppeat
mound on the edge of the desert.
The expedition obtained permis
sion to excavate from the Egyp«
tian government.
SMALL GRAIN.
Oh the golden grain which nature
yields
So bountifully from shimmering
fields
For toil and strife a righ reward
Life through the winter it doth af
ford
We hasten afield at the first urge
of spring
When the air is still chill, but the
robins sing
We cover choice seeds in Mother
Earth’s breast;
Sweet rain and sunshine will do the
rest.
Soon the green blades reach toward
the sky;
While a fleecy cloud’s shadow drifts
lazily by.
The lark from a fence post sings a
sweet song;
The breeze sort of tarries then hur
ries along.
Spring is now over, summer is here;
With storms of violence and drought
to fear.
The sun's ray are hot, the rust may
appear
But the grain’s heading out so we
are of good cheer.
A sparkling dewclrcp clings to each
blade.
The field gently ripples in bright
ness and shade,
When the wakening breeze sets a
dainty pace
WTlth the ripening heads in a light
embrace. i
The thresher's hum is soon joy to
our ears.
The culmination of hopes and fears.
The ba.tie's over and the toil and
din,
■Vhen the last heavy wagon rolls
home to the bin.
—A. E. Wickett.
BIRTH OF A NATION
London—When a wrtnan gives
birth to a fourtn set of twins, it
worthy of note. If they happen to
be triplets, that something in the
way of a worldwide news event.
And that what happened to a Mrs.
Kerr, of Kilrossanty, County Wa
terford. The father, it ts rumored,
is getting a new har—he’s tired of
having his old one enlarged.
SPEAKING OF HOARDING—
Gold hoardings in India are such
that no one can accurately esti
mate the amount. The common
estimate, however, sets it at more
[ than 5 billion dollars.
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Illiteracy in City Less
Than in the Country
The city lad is smarter than his
country cousin, according to figures
made public by the Department of
Commerce.
The percentage of illiteracy in the
city population shown In the census
for 1930 ranged from three-tenths of
1 per cent for persons ten to four
teen years of age to 7.4 per cent for
those sixty-five years and over. In
the rural population the comparative
percentages were 2.5 and 15.11.
The census bureau defines as illit
erate any person who is not able to
read and write either in English or
any other language. The latest fig
ures show 4,283,753 persons returned
as Illiterates or 4.3 per cent of the
9S.723.047 individuals ten years old
and over.
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The Pendulum Clock
A pendulum clock gained, owing to
the increase of gravity with latitude,
about one minute and twenty seconds
a day when taken from Ottawa to the
mouth of Mackenzie river, Northwest
territories, by an official of the Dom
inion observatory, department of the
interior, in connection with gravity
work. Taken to a height of about
5,000 feet up a mountain side in Brit
ish Columbia, it lost about 13 seconds
daily.
You Figure It Out
Colleges should teach their stu
dents to “think without thinking,”
believes Dr. Edgar Odell Lovett, pres
ident of the Rice Institute at Hous
ton, Texas. He explains, “By think
ing I mean, that powers of perceiv
ing, remembering and reasoning
should be so trained to the will that
those powers come promptly Into
play with the efficiency and pre
cision of a smooth-running machine.”
Hi* Poetry Popular
A sixteen-year-old shoemaker-poet
has recovered his job at Frosinone,
Italy, with liberty to write verse on
the inside of women’s footwear. The
boy had been discharged when his
employers learned that women’s shoes
were going to the market with bits of
sentimental poetry inscribed on the
inner leather. Customers convinced
the empiOj ;rs that the poetry was
making the footgear more popular.
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Cried Herself to Sleep
All worn out . • . splitting headaches
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Jail Before Matrimony
For swindling twenty-five fiancees
in five years, Michael Obradovich, at
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, was sentenced
to that term at hard labor and or
dered to pay back every cent. Sev
eral of his victims offered to pay his
fine if he would keep his promise to
marry, but he chose the five-year
stretch.
Requisite*
Grandma (to granddaughter en
gaged to be married)—You are
young, dear. Do you feel you are
fitted for married life?
Granddaughter—Perfectly, grand
ma, I have seventeen gowns and
three costumes.—London Tit-Bits,
Skywards
Ticket Agent—Yes, sir, we can sell
you a ticket to anywhere.
Wise Guy—How about a ticket to
heaven?
Ticket Agent—Yes, sir—right down
at the redemption window.
Prefer Big Cities
Twelve per cent of the people of
this country live in cities with a
population of 1,000,000 and over.
A man continually forgets; so
that, if he does not continually
learn, he will know less and less.
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