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THE BEE: OMAHA. SUNDAY, JUNE 12, 1921.
The Married Life of
Helen and Warren
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Warren Cooly Squelches the Stage
Heroics of Their Hysterical
Hostess.
"We!!, they ought to do their
squabbling in private," yawned War
ren, struggling with a knotted shoe
lace. "That blow-out at dinner was
pretty raw.
"I think she really ' enjoys it,
Helen was taking his pajamas from
the suitcase. "She told me once
that marriage would be deadly if one
didn't have an occasional quarrel.
She loves the excitement and the
making up."
" "Huh, so she keeps poor Trevor
in hot water to satisfy her craving
for heroics." Then, roughly tum
bling the clothes she had neatly un
packed, "Didn't you bring my bathrobe?"
"Dear, it takes up so much room
and we're staying only two
nights."
"Notice you brought enough rf
your own duds." as he slammed into
the bath adjoining the guest room.
Brushing her hair befbre the
French grey dressing table, Helen
reviewed the clash between their
hostess and her husband at dinner.
It started with a discussion of th
drive they had planned for tomor
row. Mr. Trevor suggested that
they stop for lunch at the Dew Drop
Inn. Mrs. Trevor said she loathed
that place, insisting on the Bayside
House even though it was 10 miles
out of their way.
. From this trivial difference grew a
heated argument. Mrs. Trevor, al
most hysterical, declared that her
husband never considered her that
he took a fiendish delight in humilia
ting her before her guests.
Having worked herself up to a
paroxysm of tears, she rushed from
the room. After an awkward inter
val Mr. Trevor, flushed and morti
fied, left the table to coax her back.
She returned with reddened eyes
and a tragic, injured air, but Helen
knew that she had enjdyed every
moment of her "dramatics." Her
love of the theatric had prompted the
scene.
"Plenty of hot water." Warren
emerged from the bathroom. "That's
more than you get at most of these
country houses."
"Oh. ves, everything's kept tip
beautifully." Helen was in the closet
' hanging her best gown in one of the
ribbon-covered hangers. 'She's a
good housekeeper. That was a won
derful dinner. Wasn't .that mush
room soup delicious? And that
strawberry mousee!"
"Well, I could have done with
plainer grub and less wrangling."
"And it was so embarrassing for
him. Did you notice how he flushed
up?"
"Why the Sam Hill did he drag
her back to the table? I'd have let
her stay upstairs and sulk," kicking
off his slippers. '
"Dear, open the windows before
you get in," she was turning down
the twin beds. "All of them. We
want all of this country air we can
get. Oh, these are real linen sheets!"
"Jove, she's at it again," grunted
Warren as Mrs. Trevor's raised voice
came through the window he, had
just opened.
"You did sav that! You know you
did. You said it deliberatelyjus
to hurt me."
An indistinct mumbling from Mr.
Trevor, then again his wife's shrill,
"I don't care if they dol You've
made my life so wretched I'm past
all cariiiR!"
"Oh. how can she?" murmured
Helen. "Their room opens right on
this balcony she must know we can
hear every word."
"Helluva lot she cares." Warren
climbed into bed "May be playing
up for our banefit wouldn't put her
above it."
"You'll be sorry for this when it s
too late 1 Well, what of it? I want
the whole world to hear," almost
a. shriek "I want everybody to know
just what I've endured since I mar
ried.", - "Poor old Trevor," muttered War
ren. "And he's the best ever. If
1 were tied up to that spitfire. I'd
beat some of the deviltry out of her
if I had to use a club."
. "Your sister's back of it all!"
shrilling on at high speed. "She's
always putting you against me. And
vour mother's against me, too. She
even
"Leave my family out of this!" his
voice now wrathfully distinct.'
"That! more like it," approved
Warren. "Now if he'll only go for
her hard rip her uo with a few mus
cular cuss words. These crazy, neu
rotic women ought to be "
But Helen nudged him to silence
as Mrs. Trevor rasped on.
.'.'Your family 1 That's all you ever
think about. You don't care how
much I suffer but they must be
shielded. Why did you ever marry?
Why didn't you stay with your fam
ily?5 "It's unfortunate that I didn't."
"So you say that, do you?" she
screamed. "You're sorry you mar
ried me! Well, you won't be sorry
long! You can go back to your fam
ily you'll not be burdened with me.
I'm through! This is the end!"
The sound of a slamming door.
Harrietl Harriet!" came Mr.
Trevor's voice in genuine alarm.
"Open the door! I didn't mean to
say that. You know I didn't Open
the doorl"
Then through the stillness tore a
piercing shriek.
"Quick 1" Helen was out of bed,
fumbling for her slippers.
Muttering something about
"darned play-acting." Warren fol
lowed as she dashed out across the
hall into the opposite room.
Mr. Trevor, his shoulders against
the bathroom door, was straining to
force it open.
VGet that chair!" he called to
Warren. "We'll break it down."
"ndd on. We can force that."
Warren contributing his greater
strength, the lock gave way.
The door flew open, revealing Mrs.
Trevor crouched against the wall
a bottle held to her lips!
' Even in that panicky moment,
Helen realized that Mrs. Trevor had
carefully set heritage. Her hair
showered over her shoulders in wild
but becoming disorder, and she held
the bottle so the skull and cross
bones label was in plain view.
"Harriet! Harriet!" her husband
sprang toward her.
"Don't come near me! If you
Isuch me I'll drink every drop,
ting the open bottle.
"You know I didn't mean what I
lid," huskily. "I'll take it all back.
u know I love you"
ivc? You don't know what love
means! You only love to torture
me," clutching at her throat with
her fret hand.
"Here, Trevor, you'd better let mc
manage this, rushing him aside,
Warren started into the bathroom.
"Don't you dare touch me!" melo
dramatically. "Another step and I'll
he dead at your teet.
"Go ahead!" Folding his arms,
Warren leaned against the open door,
"Drink it if you want to. I'll see
that nobody interferes. Carbolic's a
little painful but it's sure. Take it
in one gulp it'll be over quicker.1
Cowering against the wall, she
stared at him with lidating eyes.
"You can put that fifth-reel stuff
over on your husband but it won't
work on me," grimly.
L "How dare you!"
Sow just cut out the movie dope.
I'm going' to see this, through for
Trevor's sake and incidentally
yours. You've led him a dog's life
with your tantrums."
"How dare you. talk to ine like
that! You're here as my guest.
What right have you to "
"Wouldn't have butted in if you
hadn't raised the roof. I'll apolo
gize later but here's where I must
call your bluff."
"Bluff! You think it's a bluff!"
She raised the bottle threateningly.
"I'll show you!"
"Wait, Trevor!" Warren's arm
barred the doorway. "If you want
to end these scenes once for all, let
me handle this." . Then sternly:
"Now, Mrs. Trevor, either drink that
stuff or put it back on the shelf."
Thoroughly cowed, she stared at
him in amazed terror. Accustomed
to her husband's conciliatory over
tures, she was paralyzed by War
ren's salutary lashing.
"Let me talk to her," Helen laid
a tremulous hand on his arm. "Youj
take Mr. Trevor into the next room
I'll get the bottle from her."
"No, we'll see it through right
now. 1 hen to Mrs. 1 revor. tlow
much longer da you want to keep
this up? Don't you think we've had
about enough? Ready to call it off?"
The next second the bottle fell
crashing from her hand: Regardless
of the broken glass and the dark fluid
spreading over the white tiles, she
threw herself shrieking on the floor.
"Harriet!" Mr. Trevor started to
lift her.
"No, that's not the way," Warren
held him back. "Now's the time to
let her alone." Then to Helen, "You
get her to bed, I'm going to take
1 revor downstairs.
"I can't lcf.ve her nowl" He was
still pale and agitated. "She needs
me."
"She'll play up to you as long as
you're here. Now, come on down and
get a good stiff drink," drawing him
into the hall. "That's what you need."
No, I m afraid to leave her, turn
ing back. "She may do something
desperate yet. '
"Rot! She'd no more idea of drink
ing that stuff than I had. Just a lot
of damned theatrics that she knew
you'd fall for. Come on now. When
they get that way you've got to
treat em rough.
Then as he steered Mr. Trevor
from the room,
"You won't have to go through
this again, I've called her bluff and
she knows it. Be a mighty long time
before she tries to pull another stunt
like that I" ,
Copyright. 1921, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.
Citizens Probe
Effect of Booze
Evanston Men Try Out Moon-
Shine and Here Is
The' Result.
Evanston, 111., .June 11. Evans-
ton now knows "what iiquor will do
to you."
The scientific effect of illicit im
bibing of alcoholic stimulants has
been officially ' recorded through
diagnosis of six Evanston citizens
who went under the test.
Their reports follow:
No. 1 Beat his wife.
No. 2 Walked through a plate
glass window in mistake for a door.
No. 3 Insisted on sleeping in an
alley. -
No. 4 Tried to water his auto
mobile at a horse trough.
No. 5 Sang funeral hymns.
No. 6 Held the head of No. 5
while keeping time to the hymns.
The six were arraigned before
Police Magistrate Boyer. Three were
fined $10 each, while two were sent
back to their cells to recover speech
and locomotion.- The sixth was re
leased. . .
Women to Take Active
Part in Ruling Palestine
Worcester, June 11. Women will
take an active part in governing
Palestine, according to Mrs. Chain
Weissman, wife of the Jewish lead
er, in an interview here. ;
"The declaration of the return to
Palestine has not only been given to
the Jewish men, but also to the
women and they will not .allow 'the
men to dominate in Palestine,", she
declares.
"The American, woman is more
brilliant than the English woman,
but not as reserved," Mrs. Weiss
man said. .,
Coatian Girl, 25 Marries
Rich American, Who is 69
Boston, June 11. An overseas
courtship between an elderly and
wealthy Louisiana oil broker and the
granddaughter of his former chum
had its culmination' here in marriage
an hour after 25-year-old Maria
Kramer, a Crotian. disembarked
from the steamer. The groom, is
John Bersche, 69 years of age. He
came here40 years ago and amassed
a fortune. His courtship and pro
posal and his bride's acceptance were
entirely by mail.
Women Push Men for Work
In Kansas Harvest Fields
Wichita, Kan., June II. Men,
watch out that the women don't show
you up in the harvest fields this year.
The local employment offices report
that they have received numerous in
quiries from women who wish har
vest work. Most of the women
prefer employment as cooks, al
though several have announced they
have no objections to doing manual
work, ii desired.
Child Prodigy
Improves Music
At Age of 3 Years
Tot Discovers Beauty That
Lies in Weaving of Chords
And Begins -to . ,
Play.
New York, June 11. A 10-year-old
musical prodigy lives '.i Wood
Ridge, N. J., just across the Hudson.
The child is Grace
Sharp Castagnetta,
a daughter of
American parents.
Despite her extra
ordinary talent for
music, Grace is a
very human little
girl with every
normal character
istic of hundreds
of other American
children.
At the age of 15
months Grace
i
rcj&sMti&. found her way to
the piano. At first
she just liked the sound of the sep
arate notes that ner baby fingers
touched as they trailed over - the
pretty keyboard. Very soon she dis
covered the beauty that lies in the
weaving of chords. And at that ten
der age, without knowledge of music,
for her parents could not play the
piano, the child worked out tor ner-
self her own idea ot music, ner
ear delicately attuned to 1 harmony,
the baby was able to harmonize in
one octave.
At the age of 3 little Grace was
playing in concert. She had but to
hear a song once and she could e-
produce it on the piano and. often
improvise upon it, making the ren
dition doubly beautifrl and twice as
intricate. More than that, she could
transpose the piece into any key re
quested, though she knew nothing
of keys. - . .
When she was 7 years old Grace
attracted the attention of Dr. N. J.
Elsenhehncr, who gave her her first
lesson. The lessons have continued
now for three years, in which time
she has given three recitals of her
own. At each recital the little ar
tist rendered works of the masters,
such as selections from Liszt, Greig,
Paradisi, Debussy, MacDowell and
Schumann; sonatas from Beethoven,
Scarlatti and Mozart, as weil as
Bach's English Suites. .
Grace attends public school every
day and stands as 'high in her
studies as she does in the pursuit
of music. She attends Sunday
school, in fact she has . not missed
Sunday school in years. - .
Those who have heard the .youth
ful artist believe her inordinate
powers of improvisation," coupled
with her natural, inclinations for
music; will place her? yet among
the' American master virtuosos. ,
Mexico Holds Solution '
To World's Oil Worries
London, June 11. A 42gallon
barrel of oil, equivalent to a ton of
coal, for $1.96 is an easy proposition,
says Maxim-Ford of the Geological
Society of Mexico, now in London
on business.
Mexico, he declares, could -supply
the whole world" with oil for SO
years and banish coal worries from
the face of the earth. The trouble
is not to get the oil, but to get
rid of it.
Hen Lays Egg 6 by 7 Inches;
She's a Buff Orpington
"San Jose. Cal.. Tune 11. Mrs. A.
S. Hooe believes that one of her
Buff Orpington hens has a streak of
ostrich blood in its veins.' The hen
laid an egg measuring six inches in
circumtercnce and seven inches in
length.
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The Three Dead Men
(Continued from Fags Three.)
Slanning has fallen backward, away
-from the stroke that slew him, his
hat is off and, in the moonlight, he
lies revealed. All that the dead man
had so cunningly provided for and
planned, Solly sees happen just as
Slanning had designed; but the
advent of young Lawson is fatal to
himself and Diggle.
"lie has seen his master murdered
before his eyes, and the horrible sight
provokes him to instant revenge. A
moment's reflection would have sav
ed Diggle and himself, but he can
not reflect. He . sees Diggle run
towards the dead man, and, fired to
frenzy by the destruction of one he
dearly loved, he acts on impluse,
stays not a second, but seizes Dig-"
gle's gun, probably screams out some
fierce words of hate, and fires at
short range Into the watchman's
kneeling body. Then he drops the
gun and flies to sound the alarm and
proclaim what has been done, while
Diggle lies dead upon his master and
their blood flows together.
"But Solly's feet grow slower and
his passion abates.' His fiery brain
begins to work and presently he un
derstands the thing that he has done.
Is It an evil dream from which he
will emerge, or can it be true that
his master and John Diggle lie dead
In the plantation and that he is a
murderer? He begins to appreciate
his own. position. What living soul
will believe that John Diggle mur
dered Henry Slanning? Such an event
would demand proofs beyond possi
bility. How shall Solly's worthless
word convince any man?
"Another and abler man, or a
criminal, had doubtless ' kept his
mouth shut and gone his way, pre-
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serving his action a secret and defy
ing his fellow creatures ever to as
sociate him with it; but this man
was stupid, Impulsive, and no crim
inal. I conceive that his intelligence
was not equal to the strain put upon
it and that, by what train of terror
we can only guess, he reached at
last a conviction that he would be
found guilty, sooner or later, of a
double murder. His record would be
against him and there was none to
speak a word for him. He had left
Bridgetown on the previous night
and walked home through the small
hours; and all he could say was that
he had seen John Diggle shoot Henry
Slanning and taken the law into his
own hands. To utter such nonsense
would be to stand self-condemned.
"To me the result of these reflec
tions on the temperament of Solly
Lawson can be predicted with logi
cal certainty. He feels, at the morn
ing hour of lowest vitality, that it is
far better to die than live for what
must lie before him. By this time
he has drifted back to the cliffs, for
he has been walking subconsciously
homeward. The , sea lies beneath
him and a few moments of suffering
will end all. Better to perish thus
than on the gallows with the execra
tion of all humanity in his ears.
"Again impulse decides him. He
sees not a ray of hope, but hungers
to end his mental torture as swiftly
as may be. Feeble now and worn
out in body and mind, he dashes at
his doom, designing to vanish off the
earth forever and leave no link by
which he can be connected with the
dead men in the plantation. He will
leap down into the sea and so dis
appear where one can find him. But
a common instinct in suicide, to pile
one death upon another, manifests
itself in Solly Lawson at this supreme
moment. Men often destroy them
selves so; and there is undoubtedly
some subtle psychological instinct
that tends to make these ' double
deaths less fearful to the self-de
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stroyer. A man will drink poison
and then blow his brains out; or, as
in the case of this ill-starred youth,
he will cut his throat and leap over
a precipice with his remaining
strength.
"Thus did Solly act, and had he
fallen, as he designed, into the
depths below, no explanation of these
incidents would ever have won to
mortal mind; but he .fell on a pro
jection of the cliff; his body was thus
recovered and his secret, as I be
lieve, revealed, to play its intrinsic
part in the larger mystery with
which we are concerned.
"That, then, is what happened in
my opinion; and if It be argued that
not a shadow of actual and tangible
proof exists for such a theory, I ad
mit it. It is granted that I present
nothing but a theory of events and
the situation makes it impossible to
do more; but I repeat that the view
I submit is based on character, than
which no surer foundation of action
can be discovered; and since these
three men all do exactly what may
be predicted of them given the cir
cumstances, it is hard, and for me
impossible, to see how any other
rational explanation of their death
can be advanced.
"M. DUVEEN."
It remains only to add that while
many accepted Duveen's conclusions
others did not, and among the lat
ter, as he prophesied, was Amos
Slanning. The West Indian held this
explanation of his brother's death to
be merest moonshine; though, as
explicitly learned from various Bar
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ry Slanning's friends and acquain
tances in the West Indies believed
the matter must have so happened.
At first they also protested; but when
the novelty of the idea grew worn,
they came to believe- it. The prob
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diminished.
. As for Michael Duveen, he felt no
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vinced, always held the case to be
among his own purest analytical
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"It Is an example," he used to say,
"of how motive may sometimes be
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character, when every other possible
channel is blocked by death and can
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(Copyright, 1921, The Chicago Tribune. I
Next Sunday !
Just Like Any
Married Man
By LUCIAN CARY
The sprightly adventures
of a suburban siren and
a solid citizen.
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