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Copyright by Richard Hoffmann
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CHAPTER X—Continued
—17—
She knew something about Barry.
Hal fought that hope for his fear
■of disappointment.
And suppose Barry were trying to
find her in Santa Barbara now?
Anastasia must go back there quick
ly, hire a fast car—and stay, stay
close until Barry came to the one
place in which she could count on
asylum.
The door opened softly, and there
was an Instant's whispering behind
the screen before It closed again.
Then, tense for the first look of
Anastasia's white-framed face, Hal
felt his blood’s business stop, time
stop, the day stop over the world
•outside. Even as he whispered her
name in the hush of the room, he
knew it couldn’t be Barry. Yet the
clear, blue-clad vision moved toward
him, the clear eyes authentic In
their solemn questioning of his look
of awe. She came nearer, looked
down at his mouth and into his eyes
again, a hopeful tenderness waking
In her solemnity. Then he caught
her wrist. She bent swiftly down
to him. His other wretched, use
less arm wouldn’t stir, but the good
one was strong enough to bring her
against him, his hand moving on
rough real cloth over the firmness
of her back. If It were a dream, the
pain he felt going through his tight
strapped arm must wake him. And
It didn’t She stayed there, her skin
smooth and cool, her breathing
against him slow and grateful, as
If in fearless sleep after long wear
iness.
Her cheek moved, touching his,
until their lips came together In the
gentle beginning of belief.
“Kind heaven!” he whispered.
“My own dearest, don't you care
what I’ve done? Are you taking
me back out of the rotten, empty
death I made for myself? Barry,
you—"
“You’ve done nothing to me,” she
said against his speaking, her head
nodding In a gentle negative: “ex
cept be all the things I want you to
be—except make me love you." And
her soft lips came back more
closely.
He said carefully, unanxiously,
“Barry, who knows where you are?”
Her head moved a little, and
she said, “No one, my darling.”
“You can stay hidden then—a lit
tle while—till I can get my dis
charge or sneak out of this d—n
place, and we can get a boat for
Japan, Australia, anywhere far
away."
"You would,” she said In marvel
ing softness. “You’d do that for
me.” There was reverence, an awed
humility in her slow kiss. Then she
raised her head again to watch his
eyes, and she said, “I didn’t kill
him. I didn't have to.”
“Kerrigan!" said Hal with swift
conviction, swift remorse at having
forgotten him till now. “They
haven’t caught him,” he stated
slowly.
“No," she said. “And they won’t.
He’s gone somewhere: he wouldn’t
tell me. I said good-by to him last
night. I’ve got a letter for you
from him.”
He moved his fingers over her
smooth brows, down the sure mod
eling of her cheek to the full, hon
orable lips. And all the time her
tender eyes watched him as if he
were the thing so difficult to be
lieve in all this.
Inside Kerrigan's long fat enve
lope were his letter, four or five
telegrams, and a folded document.
Hal went first to the letter:
“Sport,
“Besides my ambition to kill a
man in the cool of the blood (which
Is satisfied and cured, let me tell
you), I’ve wanted to play god to
people I loved. It Isn’t going to be
so very godlike unless I get away
with it. It was tough standing you
In the corner so long. But the
thing was no soap unless it em
bodied the latest aerodynamic prin
ciples. There wasn’t much time to
read up on those during our slight
buggy ride of the other night; and
I had a h—1 of a time getting your
girl’s unconditioned promise to go
straight to you—before the fire
works.
“The police get my confession to
day, as near a perfect example of
the confessor's art as an old legal
friend can make it. You’re left out
of everything entirely. They’ll have
to see Barry, I guess, but she knows
her story (you'd be surprised how
tough it is sometimes to whip the
truth Into plausibility). The thing
may not be watertight, so I’ll be
watching in the bushes till it's over;
and If anything blows up. I’ll take
care of It. You stay out of it. For
Barry’s sake, your father's, mine,
anybody’s. Do me that one holy
favor. Hall. Don’t go chivalrous
on us. It would wreck the works.
“Enclosed please find documents,
which hide under some lonely cob
blestone till everything’s in the hag.
then burn. Here are telegrams
about who you are and aren’t, and
that Incrimination the late Martin
Crack got from Barry’s father.
“Do this for me, too, sport, will
you? The first three days of the
next month after It’s all over, run
a Personal in the Chicago Tribune,
addressed ‘Colonel,’ saying you’re
married, what town you’re living in,
and whether your father’s N. Y.
bank is a good place to write you
congratulations.
"Some day wen noist a couple
more, and I’ll tell the kids about
Wyoming. Hasta la vista; and good
luck, you lucky guy: but always be
sure there’s one old railroad man
who believes you rate It K.”
Hal looked up at Barry when he
had finished. And quietly she ex
plained: “He killed him, Hal, and
then he went down to the street
and stood there for an hour—to
keep me from going in. It had
taken me so long to—to find my
courage.”
Her head was up, the grace of Its
carriage unoppressed by anything
that had happened or nearly hap
pened, Invulnerable to shame and
fear and remorse because the brav
ery behind her eyes could not In
vite those things. Whether It was
more painfully beautiful to believe
In the possession of her or to be
lieve her a dream, Hal couldn’t tell.
He knew he would risk nothing of
that beauty again—ever, In the
smallest way. It might still be the
boat for Australia. And In the
meantime, in case the police—
“Barry,” Hal said In the crlsi»
ness of Immediate necessity, “the
first thing you’ve got to do—"
Her cool hand came against his
mouth. “The first thing—” she said,
her quiet eyes untouched by bis con
cern: "More Important than any
old unshaven thought of years—”
She bent over In quick, supple
grace and whispered at his ear,
“Hal, do you love me?”
[THE END!
Circus Is Different Now; Even the Band
Supplies Excerpts From Popular Operas
All the world loves a circus. From
the day of the one-ringed wagon
shows down the Inpsing years to
the glories of the all-embracing
spectacle of the age, the fascination
Is unchanged and always present
The glories of the circus have
been extolled and reiterated by gift
ed writers. And yet. strange as it
may seem, all. except for a brief
mention here and there, fail to men
tion an art which is essential to the
very life and existence of the show
business—its music.
The work of the bnridmaster and
his assistants is surpassed only by
the efficiency of the show director
with whom there must be perfect
understanding and arrangement,
writes Tod B. Galloway in the Etude
Magazine.
So complete is the accord be
tween the director and the hand
that when employees engaged in re
loading the animals and parapher
nalia which have been taken from
the grounds before the big top per
formance has concluded, hear the
band far off in the summer night,
they can tell exactly how far the
entertainment has progressed nnd
Just what act Is being performed
at the moment.
There have been great changes in
the character of music In the years
since the circus was first tran9
ferred from England to the United
States.
What was for years known as
“circus music” with its blare and
flambtioyancy has been modified and j
refined into performances of high
class music. In the old days the
favorite airs of the strident bands
as the bespangled equestrienne was
Jumping through tissue paper cov
ered hoops, were “Turkey in the
Straw,” “The Arkansas Traveler”
and "Pop Goes the Weasel."
Now we listen to triumphant
marches from well-known operas or
watch the fine acrobatic feats to
the accompaniment of seductive
waltzes which seem to add grace
and charm to the perilous acts.
It was not until the great and
only Barnura and his competitors
developed the railroad show that we
note an Improvement in the bands
and their music.
In 1770 SergL MaJ. Philip Astley,
father of the modern circus, open
ing in London, began his rough rid
ing performance with the musical
support of two fifers assisted by his
wife beating a bnss drum.
Contrast that with the brilliant
bandsmen of the present day who,
resplendent in gold ,laced uniforms,
first give the assembling audience,
linger the full glare of the spotlight,
a carefully selected program of ex
cerpts from the operas, tone poems,
descriptive fantasies and popular
favorites, after which they open the
grand performance with a fanfare
of trumpets and then render the
triumphal march from Verdi’s
“Aida,” Auber's "Crown Diamonds”
or Elgar’s “Pomp and Circum
stances.”
Matanuska Colony as Seen From the Air
Aerial view of Matanuska colony, the new settlement In Alaska consisting of people sent there under
the auspices of the United States government. Note the road In the foreground and the farm buildings above
the camp. The dark patches are plowed ground.
Auto Tourists to
Set New High Mark
" " N
Traffic to Parks and Re
sorts Biggest in Years.
Washington.—Automobile tourist
travel, reported to be expanding by
leaps and bounds in virtually all
sections of the country. Is expected
to be the grentest In volume thfs
summer since the vacation season
of 1930.
Motor car traffic, as well ns rail
travel, to the western parks and
forests Is the heaviest In several
years. New England resort districts
report a 36 per cent Increase In
number of tourists over 1934 and
midwestern resort areas have regls
tered the largest vacation merchan
dlse sales since 1929. Recent ad
vance registrations at national
parks exceeded by 40 per cent the
attendance last year.
One travel service official pre
dicts the 1935 domestic “travel In
dustry” will eclipse by more than
$300,000,000 the $5,000,000,000 ac
credited In 1934. The big Increase
In automobile sales, widespread ad
vances In retail business and
spread of travel “fever" are Indica
tors of a booming tourist business.
More Going Abroad.
Motor vacationing by Americans
abroad also gives promise of ex
ceeding the banner year of 1929,
according to officials of the Ameri
can Automobile association. They
report that theforeign travel division
of the association already has
cleared 5 per cent more American
cars than In the entire year of 1930.
Travel service experts say one
of the outstanding features of Eu
ropean traffic this year Is the Amer
ican Invasion of the British Isles.
Transportation officials report the
largest number of Americans In
London In seven years and the
greatest American travel In history
In the provincial districts of Brit
ain.
The new “floating garages” on
transatlantic liners are credited
V
with playing an Important part In
making 1035 the biggest year on
record for European motor travel
by Americans who take their own
automobiles with them.
Mostly Small Cars.
Between 75 and 00 per cent of
the American automobiles taken
abroad for vacation touring are re
ported to be In the small car field.
The Importance of economical op
erating costs abroad, where gaso
line prices In several countries are
as high as 50 and GO cents a gal
lon, have made the small cars par
ticularly popular for Europeon mo
toring.
A. A. A. officials say the experi
ence of thousands of motorists has
demonstrated that a party of three
can actually effect economies by
traveling in their own car in Eu
rope. This advantage Is In addi
tion to freedom of movement and
flexibility of schedules afforded by
motor transportation.
Police Ammunition Blast
Caused l>y Fire in Rio
Rio de Janeiro.—Fire in police
ammunition stores at General po
lice headquarters caused explosions
of artillery shells, hand grenades,
rifle cartridges and tear gas bombs.
The detonations threw the thick
ly populated district Into a panic
for an hour. The blasts cracked
walls and broke window panes sev
eral blocks away, menacing another
police warehouse containing a large
quantity of explosives nnd tear gas
bombs.
While masked firemen fought the
blaze, sheltered from flying missiles,
confining It to a small area, police
men emptied an adjoining building
of ammunition. The police said sev
eral thousand shells exploded.
There was no casualties. A shell
explosion Is believed to have start
ed the fire.
Theology Students
Outline Ideal Wife
Boston.—Six requisites for the
Ideal wife of a minister have
been decided on by undergrad
uates of Boston University’s
School of Theology.
1. Must be Intelligent.
2. Must have beauty, not of
face and figure, but of mind
and character.
3. Must have that personality
which will make her live wln
somely, femininely, capably and
understandlngly.
4. Must have a common Inter
est In her husband's work.
5. Must dedicate her life to
the cause of Christian endeavor.
ft. Must have a permanent In
spiring character.
New Business Building
Is Only Three Feet Wide
Philadelphia.—A building three
feet seven Inches wide, believed to
he the narrowest one In the world,
has Just been opened at Fifteenth
street and South Penn Square, In
the central city section.
A soft-drinks concern, a Jewelry
repair shop and a glove and tie
repair business will occupy the one
story structure.
The mechanical equipment will
occupy a basement 25 inches wide
and 7 feet deep. It Is reached
through a flush aluminum sidewalk
door.
Bald-Headed Man Wins
a Free Permanent Wave
Calcutta.—Fortune has pliyed
queer tricks on some of the prize
winners in Calcutta’s jubilee “dip,”
of which the final results have Just
been announced.
A completely bald business man
has drawn a ticket entitling him to
a free permanent wave, and a pov
erty-stlcken couple has won a cock
tail shaker.
An Indian cook has, however, done
better. He has received a permit
to dine with a friend free of charge
at one of Calcutta's most palatial
hotels.
| LIGHTS OF NE,W YORK By L. L. STEV£,NSOn"|
A young grocer, accompanied by
a nlneteen-year-old girl, parked his
car In one of those open spaces In
Queens much frequented by pet
ters. A masked man appeared, shot
the grocer dead, rifled his pockets
and escorted the girl, at the point
of a revolver, to a bus line a mile
away. Three days later, the city
editor of a newspaper received a
letter saying that the body of a
young radio engineer would be found
on a dump near Floral park. The
body was found. The radio engi
neer had been in company with a
policeman's daughter. A note, en
closed in an envelope, was taken
from the pocket of the slain grocer.
It was signed *'3X.” Immediately
the "3X murders” became a front
page sensation. Other Insulting and
taunting notes were received signed
In the same way. Then they stopped,
and there were no more killings.
That was five years ago. Detec
tives have worked constantly on the
case, but the mystery is as deep as
it was then.
• • *
For the first time In many years,
the front doors of Trinity church
are locked. Visitors and worship
ers, however, are admitted through
the side doors The reason is that
the tower is undergoing repairs.
Lowering of the water level, due
to tlie [iresence of so many tall
buildings in the vicinity, together
with the constant vibration of the
subways have made alterations in
the base necessary. The work will
take three months.
» m •
Local broadcasting stations con
tinue to “pipe in” dance music from
outside the city because of the mu
slcians’ union's demand that a
charge of $3 a man be made for
each orchestra that goes on the
air, the money to go to the relief
of unemployed musicians. As a re
sult of the deadlock, New York
ers listen to dance music from as
far away as the Pacific coast. It’s
a great break for the bands of the
hinterlands since they are becom
ing well known In the metropolis.
But it Isn't so good for local lead
ers. In fact, they’re pulling hard
for a break. Their plaint Is that
they are getting no radio build up,
so when they take to the road, they
can’t demand the prices they did
when advertised over the air.
• • •
Kent Thurher, stage manager of
“Something Gay,” doesn’t enjoy the
rain drops on the roof. Thurberwas
INDIANS’ MANAGER
Steve O’Neill, veteran Cleveland
baseball player, wus appointed to
succeed Walter Johnson ns niana
Ker of the Indians for the remain
der of the 1935 season.
stag# manager of "Rain" when th#
late Jeanne Eagles played Sadie
Thompson, and part of his duties
were to supervise the torrential
rain effect which persisted through
out the play. The run of this show
continued on and on until Anally
Thurber would be awakeued In the
middle of the night merely by the
dripping of a faucet. Time went
by and the memory dimmed. Then
“Itain" was revived—and again he
supervised the rain eflTect. To com
plicate matters, during the revival,
there was a song plugged constant
ly by radio and dance orchestras
and the tItlewas‘*ThePitter I'atter of
the Rain Drops.” Thurber Is thank
ful there Is no rain in the present
production.
• • •
In the summer edition of the Man
hattan telephone directory — the
New York telephone book comes In
volumes—Robin Hood Is listed as
a physician while Alexander Dumas
is In the insurance business. There
is no Abraham Lincoln but there
Is an Abbe Lincoln, and while
there are a number of Adams, there
is only one Eve. The book has 1,080
pages and 415,000 listings, 170,000
of which are new. It took six months
to get It ready for the public.
* • •
The doors of the cars ot the city’s
subway, the Independent system,
are the toughest in town. On the I,
It. T., a custoraei* has merely tc
pinch the rubber bumper on the
door edge, and If It hasn’t gone too
far, the door Ales back. But on
the city system. the door Just keeps
on opening. A number of patrons,
not swift enough to escape being
grabbed, have had narrow escapes,
hut so far there have been no fa
talltles.
• Ball Syndicate.—WNU 9*rvlM.
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Off in the Mountains
Communists Would Weep
Congress Goes Home
Disobedient Twice
McCLOUD, CALIF.
This is far off In the mountains;
telegraph office closed, you feel
Arthur llrlabanr
like an incurable
‘‘shut In.” But
Jack Adams Is
here, an old-time
telegrapher who
cun made a mes
sage go from
anywhere to any
where, and find
wires to carry It.
He will ‘‘dig up”
Percy l Thomas,
another old-time
telegrapher In
the Universal
Service ofllce In
San Francisco,
350 miles down
the coast, and this unimportant
message will go to tunny newspa
pers In many cities, Just as thoTtgh
It were news from Ethiopia, or some
dear little Hollywood lady's ex
planation of what caused her to
separate from “.Tack, hut we are,
and always shall be, the best of
friends.’’
This Is a city that would make
a good Communist gnash his teeth,
shatter them, hurry to Lenin's tomb,
mumble Marxian prayers and butt
his head agnlnst the walls of the
Kremlin.
First, the whole city belongs to
the lumber company. Nobody else
owns or can own a house or any
other property.
But no worker Is Idle, rents are
low, prices In the company store are
lower than In nny big city, and
for mountain climbing your narra
tor bought wonderful heavy socks,
striped alternately red, white and
blue, patriotic enough to make a
true Communist mount his soap box
and ask the crowd, If any, what
the world Is coming to.
It Is good news that congress has
gone home at last, really and truly
gone home to stay, henven permit
ting, until early next spring.
Until the fire Is out, and you count
the furniture carried out on the
luwn, you cannot know Just what
the fire has done to you. This ses
sion of congress seems to have been
a pretty good fire. The San Fran
cisco Examiner tells you that con
gress spent, In its short life. Just
$10,250,258,928.00, or spelled out,
ten billion two hundred and fifty
six millions two hundred and fifty
eight thousand nine hundred and
twenty-eight dollars and six cents.
Who do you suppose got the six
cents?
Congress disobeyed the President
only twice In the session. The sen
ate refused to put this country in
the World court. Can you imagine
what the World court would do to
us now, in connection with this
Ethiopian marauding expedition?
Second, congress in both houses,
overrode the supposed wish of the
President by pusslug a neutrality
resolution, making it mandatory for
the President to forbid shipments
of ammunition to any nation at
war.
Ethiopian rains are ending for
this year and Mussolini is ready to
go shopping for African land.
France and England, now virtuous
ly indignant, have taken almost
everything, but the cool, high table
lands of Ethiopia offer good terri
tory for Italiuns.
To other nations Mussolini says:
“Keep your hands off unless you
want a war In Europe. Let me do
my lighting in Africa. Know when
you ure well off.” He knows that
France wants no war; that Eng
land, still digesting the anaconda
supper of the last war, could not
send her young men to war, even if
she were foolish enough to want
war. The young men would not
tight.
You know, now, why Mussolini
assembled half a million lighting
men, that could not possibly be
needed for un Ethiopian foray that
airships can attend to. He wanted
Europe to know that he was ready
for a real war If anybody wanted it.
California’s vigilante attack on
extreme radicals is thoroughly or
ganized under a central command,
with details of hand picked rifle
marksmen, Intelligence squads, and
strong armed squads.
The American Civil Liberties
union will bring suit on behalf of
alleged Communists, tarred and
feathered, and offers $1,000 reward
for the conviction of any vigilant
of felony.
I'he vigilantes declare their inten
tion to wear no masks or disguise,
suying, “We shall pick up our men
in broad daylight. The whole
country is behind us."
More interesting than anything in
the northern [tart of California, only
00 miles from the Oregon border, is
tall, snow-covered Mount Shasta,
rising toward the sky more than
14.000 feet.
When you travel be sure to visit
that mountain.
C King Features Syndicate. Ino.
WNU Service.
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•'Jumes!" rebuked his mother. 'Tve
told you not to say ‘ain't.’ Don’t
you know the king's English?”
"Sure, ma. He wouldn’t be king
of England If he wasn’t."
Egg
Two small boys were walking In
the woods seeking adventure when
they picked up a chestnut burr.
‘‘Tommy,’’ called one to the other.
"Come here, quick. I’ve found a por
cupine egg."
How Nico
Lady (after tramp finished eating)
It’s merely a suggestion. The wood
pile Is in the back yard.
Tramp—You don't say. What a
splendid place for a wood-pile.
With i Speedy Recovery
Hewitt—You don’t seem to think
much of him.
Jewett—If he had his conscience
taken out It would be a minor opera
tion.—Arcanum Bulletin.
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