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I ••• t. THE HARDIN TRIBUNE -HERALD Page Five 31- l• 1 AL_ t 0 - it SHAN Ty- caCnostt I \- A IN TWO PARTS Part One Things Were In a Bad Way With the Beelsbys; One Scre Followed Another . . . With Threats and Recriminations T HE \Five -forty-five,\ favorite homeward transport for inhab- itapts of the northern suburbs, was so erowded on this wet and dark January afternoon that Henry Beels- by could not find a seat, and had to stand in the aisle. The aisle, more- (11111161111111Eailiii5111111191E511$1101iffl3131 not turning to look at her. Her informa- tion arrested him, but appeared to fail short, of interesting him; and after a mouteut of Whence he took another up- ward step. \Well. I dont care.' he said in a low voice, \I won't go.\ \henry!\ The strenuousness of her appeal made him stop again, but, as before, with his stopping and dogged back to her. \1 dont tart','' he repeated. \I won't go.\ She rime to the foot of the staherhay. \Henry Beelsby, you fly straight up there and into your clothes. They're all laid out on your bed for you. Jutup!\ \I won't, he said thickly, and still maintained him frozen attitude. \1 won't go.\ \You will!\ •'I won't,\ he said again. \I won't go I won't go. 1 won't for nnyteing.\ Mrs. Beelsby burst into tears. For a long hoer she had been anximmly waiting, more tool more fearful that his delay might make them late for their \dinner engage- ment.\ and waiting an hour under these eircumstances is for women a greater nerv- ous 'strain than husbands realize, or are over, was a jam of commuters rather able to comprehend. Moreover, Mrs. Reels - bra htishand made a verbal tilihtetke of a thoroughfare, and to permit the necessarily frequent passage of the train conductor, Beelsby had not only to stand, but to continue holding the bundles that already made his arm ache—he had carried them a hurrying half mile before he reached '(he station; one of them contained an electric iron and another five pounds of \dog biscuit.\ Beelsby, tall, dark haired, long featured, and stooping. was not yet middle aged but of fragile appear- ance and constitution. He was hab- itually sallow from indigestion and every December be caught a cold that \hung on,\ badgering him and gnawing at his disposition, until late in the spring. His discomfort was most acute in January; and to- day he had worked harder than us- ual, down in the dense winter smoke of the city where he had the small- est possible partnership interest in the smallest of commission houses. All day long he had coughed, sneez- ed, and wheezed over his work, un- able to comply with the' exasperated requests of his partners to \Cut it out for Gosh sakes!\ He coughed, sneezed and wheezed on the train, too, where his bundles prevented him from taking any decorous or hygien- ic precautions, though the annoyed glances and mutterings of passen- kers near him plainly expressed their anxieties concerning the contagion, and made him well aware of their opinion of him. His unpopularity among them became vivid; he heard (and perceived that he was intended to hear) repeated suggestions that the conductor should he requested \to do something about It;\ but as Beelsby couldn't do anything about it, himself. he failed to see how the conductor might be more effective. Be.eldes, he was too tired to care what they said, or what they caught tram him -especially those who were Rented at ease and unencumbered -- and when the train reached his etatiem be meghell his way out with a dogged bitter- ness. \Wish some of 'em would catch RI\ was his thought. \Doggone selfish pigs!\ The station taxicab men of the affluent suburb let him pasts without a hail. Ills two year old derby hat and his older over- coat, with the collar turned up to his long, tenuous ears, were familiar to them, and they knew he would not ride, although the rain, just turning into to snow, was fly- ing heavily on the January wine. lie paused for a moment before taking the el- ements upon his chest, and from under the eaves of the station shed watched befurred men and women stepping into the lighted interiors of their closed care, where little radiators made the air tropical. Ghitered chauffeurs solicitously closed the doors teat the occupants should be put to so dangerous an exertion; and one after an- other the limousines powerfully glided away, preceded by long twin cones ' of white light alive with flocks of snowflakes In irresponsible commotion. The taxicabs and two omnibuses filled themselves with passengers, roared, trembled, heaved and departed; Beelsby was the only pedestrian to face the winter storm. \Doggone old pigs!\ Ile said it again at the next corner. where he bad the misfortune to drop one of his bundle'', and in retrieving it, let two others slip from his exhausted arms. The snow came SO thick and so fast, and was so clinging, that by the time he contrived to be again on his way much of him was indistinguishable from his background. \Gettin' inside my collar now!\ he mut- tered. \Doggone selfish old pigs!\ And there was still before him a windy and wet half mile as long as five times that dis- tance would have been in good weather. W HEN at last he came stamping upon the small veranda of the white eol- onial cottage that was his home he announced hoarsely to the brass knocker upon the closed door that he was \ready to drop,\ and added that he couldn't have gone another step if he died for it. Never- thiftes. he continued to stamp and shake himself, coughing an accomponiment; and he was still thus engaged when his wife opened the door for him. She was a glittering slender figure in the sudden light, though his eyes were too wet to see her better than as a watery dazzle, and he was too tired to draw inferenees from the fact that she wore her white taf- feta evening dress. her crystal necklace. and the blue glass sapphire earrings lie had given her for his Christmas present a month before. Crystal and blue glass were becoming to her hloned coloring; she was a pretty woman, as perfeetly dainty in feature and outline as if she had been fa - ',fleeted at Sevres. The fault in her prettiness wire that It was a little overcast by the plaintiff an- xiety, alreitily querulous, sometimes to be seen in the etpremsions of wives of men who are remaluing unaueectotful rather hazardously deep into their thirties. Be- tween her eyebrows the infarnons vertical line that prematurely mutilates the beauty • of the discontented had begun to appear with the ready celerity almost always the harbinger of permanence; and her white forehead was misshapen by it now, as she stared forth upon her husband while he stamped and flapped the snow front him. \Well for heaven's sake!' she cried. \do you realize Weal ttme it is? I. told you to take the four 'tiny, not the five -forty -fiver 'I know you did,' he returned. as he cisme indoors and inimically deposited his burdens upon a chair in the little hallway. \You Melo told me to get you an elteetric Iron, your mended gleam fruit dish. )our new plated teapot. n box of tenons beaded tacks, and five doggone pollute) of dog: - gone dog blecurts! Down the name of conwlenee do you expect a man to--\ \Henry she interrupted. \will you he kind enough to atop \wearing merely is\ cause I happened to ask you to do your share of the household errands? It wouldn't have hurt you to hurry a little \. \'flurry'?\ he repeated, dropping his moray overcoat upon the bundles. Then with a (petite remnant of strength he slapped him hard wet hat angrily down upon the overcoat. \Dont yon repose I had to hurry to get all that done and careen\ to get home before day after tomorrow? 'Hurry!! I guess so! I'm tired to death and sick as a dog but I'm going to keep on hurrying; Inn going to hurry to bed! 1 don't ‘ want any dinner; you needn't have waited for me. \I needn't ?\ mho cried, her eyes opening wide. \Are you crazy?\ \I guess so,\ be answered, beginning to •seend the narrow white railed little stair- way that led to the second floor, eight 'feet above. \Anyhow L I'd just Mt soon be.\ \You know this isAtite night were to dine with the 'Corbitte!\ Ile stopped ascending and stood still, a kind lately growing habitual with him; if he had said what indteel appeared to him as the inn -re truth, \I can't, his wife might not have wept: or, at least. she might not halve wept so soon— but the irritated anti irritating \I won't\ came of its own volition into his mouth; and he had no impulse to be more accurate. Even when mite thins suddenly wept aloud he said once more, \I won't\; and contieutel to stand motionless, like an Alpinist over- come by a day dream half, way to the summit. might have know? ) you'd • l ea this way!\ his wife sobbed. \You knew I'd looked forward to this evening for days and days. so I ought to've understood this is what you'd do! Of course you could not ha me have this- one little pleasure with- out spoiling it!\ \I'm not gating,\ he said doggedly. \I'm not.\ \Of course, you're not!\ she cried. \Why should you'? I've been working all day like a Swede farm band. I shoveled the ashes out tut the furnace; I bathed the dog; I scrubbed the kitchen floor on my hands and knees; and you've got a nice, clean, warm house to come bark to and go to bed in! Why should you go out, just to please your wife aud keep her front being sociall3L d le:graced ?\ \•Soeially disgrac,ed'? Now what do you think you're talking about?\ \I'm talking about accepting a dinner invitation and not being there! You can't do anything worse than that.\ At this he turned his bend and looked down to behold her uplifted face contorted inn paiu aud anger, with the white globed ceding light above her gleaming upon the sliding bright lines of her tears. \Oh cut it out!\ he said. \You can call *en' up and give 'ern a plenty good excuse.\ \At this hour?\ \Tell 'em I'm sick.\ \What of?\ she cried. \You've been well enough all day to go into town and it tilted back and smoking .in your com- fortable office and dictate to a bob haired stenographer!\ \Look here!\ he said with n sudden fiereenteas. \Is that all you think I do?\ \It's what you were doing the last time I was in and saw you. You sit and tilt back and smoke and make jokes for an hour or two, and then you go out to a comfortable lunch at a restaurant, while your wife has to stay at home and break her back shoveling ashes, and get her own luneh-or go without -and then begin to cook your dinner for yop.\ \You didn't need to shovel any ashes: I told you to let 'em alone till the furnace man is well again or I could find a chance to get around to it. Anyhow, I'd rather shovel a few hantieful of ashes than get two hundred orates of vegetable's out of a half frozen wet cellar, and that's what I been doing!\ \0 yee!\ she cried. \Telling other men to do it!\ \No madam! Doing it myself, because we're short handed; I had to get down there with only two men to help me, be- cause water got into the cellar -and I had to slosh around in it, too, half the after- noon). Then I had to slosh half over town in slush and rain after your electric iron and your glass fruit dish and your grand- mother's plated teapot and your brass headed tacks and your doggone dog - his -- - L mEtepmgmwaswiffinmonlignsBasti B Y Booth Tarkin4ton ItEE11 it 1, Tills is the first of a series of short stories which will ap- pear in these columns. This newspaper has made ar- rangements with the Chicago Tribune for the publication rights to that concern's fatuous Blue Ribbon Short Stories. These are written by authors of international reputation, and part one of the first story, \Shanty by Booth Tarkington, ap- pears herewith. These short stories are conceded to be the best In current literature, and they will seldom, if ever, run beyond two issues, for the most part, published in two parts. Every one is a gem, written by a master, and those who do not read them will be missing something really worth while. The next story to start in an early issue of this paper will he \Su Sam Su,\ by Ida M. Evans. I've made this poor old taffeta over four times? Look at the fur coats' and liuteu- mines other men give their wryest! You talk about the Corbitts and their new country dub; 1 green ell be many a day before I ever get to any anything about one we belong to! ,J oat look what other husband* give their wives! And what do you give me 't\ \My gosh!\ he saint heavily. \I haven't got any new dresses and limousines\ You talk as if I owned the moon. I haven't 144.4 it, I tell yuu! I haven't got it!'' She sat down upon the steps below him awl behan to soh heartbrokenly. \No! Not for your wife!' she wattled. \When it comes , to any thing your wife wants. you haven't got it!\ Here her unhappy vehemence was so great that it drew the sympathetic at- Itention of a third party. An Airedale dog, still dutup food the bath she had given • She knew the kind of burlesquing into which Corbitt and she had fallen was the kind offensive to her husband. ' \0 hush!\ she cried. \And then when I do IN•obble home at last,\ he persisted; \and all I want is to get to bed and die there, you tell me I got to change my clothes and get out the doggone old Ford and drive you two miles to eat a bum caviar sandwich and two bites of squab and listen to the Corbitts telling about the new golf club they've Joined! I won't do it, Ella.\ \No you won't! That's the kind of a man you are! If your wife wants to do a thing, that enough for you; you won't! You just keep on that way, Henry Bealeby! him that afternoon, and shivering slightly Everybody knows!\ as he walker], came into the hall. looked \Everybody knows what?\ plaintively at his master and mistress, \Everybody knows how you treat me!\ then gently nuzzled Mrs. Beelsity'm bowed head. \Even Shanty's sorry for me!\ she wept. \lie knows! lie knows you won't even make enough exertion to go out to dinner for your wife!\ \No. I won't.\ he said. \I won't do it. dOggone won't!\ And with that, still around to the cheapest groceries and muttering \I won't,\ he turned from her butcher shops? And when have I had .a anti plodded wretchedly up the stairs te new dress? Don't you suppose they know change his clothes. elle cried, aud her voice was louder as her bitterness became deeper. \You don't sup- pose I can cover that up. do you? Is there a woman I know who has to undergo the drugeries I do? Do you suppose they don't see ine driving that meserabie old Ford Treasure State Dominates International Grain Show T HE TREASURE STATE of America, dumping her agricultural treasures into the 1825 competition of the Chicago Interna- tional Hay and Grain show, has set a new international record in prize winning with small grains. Before this year Montana had held a record for percentage of money won with small grains, so it was her own record that was broken when judges placed four of the six possible world's championships of 1925 into Montana hands, and when Montana was awarded eight out of twelve possible first places in small grains, first in regional white dent corn, and first in timothy seed. For years Montana has stood supreme among American pro- ducers of small grains, winning more prize money than any other state and generally, for the classes in which she has entered, more prize money than all other states put together. Montana's 1925 winnings are the greatest in the history of this outstanding pro T ducer of quality small grains, this state taking 41 per cent of all the prize money offered in the classes she entered—more than all other American states together, and completely outclassing her rival, Canada. Out of 12 possible first places in the small grain classes, Montana was first in eight; four of the six small grain world cham- pionships came to Mortana. Another fact that will bring surprise . to many states is Montana's winning of the first five places in jun- •bior white dent corn for Region One, a region that extends across the northern United States. The big exhibit of Montana at the International came from 26 counties of the state( which include practically all of the import- ant agricultural areas, This state had 235 entries in 28 different classes, a crop diversity that is remarkable for one state. Eighty- eight Montana entries, or 53 per cent of all her small grain entries, were awarded places. Montana won $547 in prizes out of a pos- sible $1,321 in the small grain classes she entered, or 41 per cent of the total money. It was a Montana quality landslide, that has convinced the last skeptic that Montana leads the world in quality small grain production. The eight first places won by Montana in small grains were in hard red spring Wheat, hard red Winter *trrat, diirtith wheat,-arrhite. oats, early oats, six -row barley. Additional first places in junior white dent corn for District 1, and in timothy seed open competi- tion make a total of 10 classes in which Montana heads the list. In the classes of grain crops which are of major importance in Montana, the percentage of winnings of the Treasure State was most convincing. In hard red winter wheat Montana won 57 per cent of the premiuma; in durum wheat, 79 per cent; in hard red spring wheat, 42 per cent (the stiff competition from Canada was felt in this class): white spring wheat, 42 per cent; white oats, 56 per cent; early oats, 67 per cent; six -row barley, 24 per cent; two -row barley, 88 per cent; and trobi barley, 80 per cent. Ravalli county again was the leading winner, with C. Edson Smith of Corvallis the leading IndivIdula winner. Ravalli holds her place as the first county in the United States from the standpoint of prizes won at the International, and Mr. §mitla is the worid's leading mall grain exhibitor for 1925. However, the most coveted of all honors offered by the Hay and Grain show is the worigra wheat champion- ship and this was won by L. P. Yates, a farmer of Fishtail. Still- water county. This wheat was grown from registered Marquis seed Introduced by W. H. Jones, county agent, and WM; produced on al- falfa sod. , Other Montana farmers who w4e important figures in making the Montana exhibit a success this year we 'e: L. E. Peterson of Victor, LeRoy Kirby of Simms, F. M. Eyrie of Columbus, T. II. , . Busteed of Busted, It. V. Peterson of Victor, George M. Lewis of Manhattan, Ole Eggen of Absorakee and Chalfon Bros., of Frahtail. The counties sending exhibits were Phillips, Pondera, Valley, Blaine, Roosevelt, Madison, Treasure, Lake, Teton, Fergus, Dawson, Chouteau, Sheridan, Fallon, Garfield, Rosebud, Gallatin, Petroleum, Richland, Sanders, Custer, Powder River, YeTlowatene, Cascade, Stillwater, and Ravalli. Montana's junior exhibitors in the corn club classes did ex- ceptionally well. In the white dent corn class for District One, Montana won all five places in which awards were offered. Chalmer Wiseman of Hillcrest, Custer county, won first place. In the junior yellow dent class for District One, Herbert Zwisler of Park City placed second. The Montana Exhibit committee, which includes A. J. Ogard of Montana State college, W. H. Jones of Columbus and C. Edson Smith of Corvallis, reports that the Montana booth was the center of attraction at the great exposition. Following the announcement that a Montana farmer had won the world's grain championship, the visitors in the big -pavilion sought the small sacked samples of Montana quality grain which had been prepared by the State De- partment of Agriculture. Great interest also whs shown in the de- monstrations prepared by the Montana Grain laboratory and which showed the superior baking qualities of flour made from Montana grain. The committee announces that Montana's great showing at the International was made possible by generous contributions from the Montana Seed Growers' association, the Montana Development association, Montana State Bankers' association„ Montana Life In- surance company, Montana Flour Mills, Anaconda Copper Mining company, Billings Commercial club and Butte Chamber of Com- merce, and from the Northern Pacific, the Great Northern and the Milwaukee railroads. Mr. Ogaard who has for years been the leading figure in Mon- tana's great show record and the improvement of Montana's crops. .sitisi-41.thasnatuilatatbaiitrefing reek, Alt !Mins t is - offered in the field of agronomy on this continent when he was selected to the presidency of the Intarnationl Crop Improvement association. Following is a table showing a record of Montana's winnings in her most important farm crops: Montana's Remarkable Chicago Record Hard, rent winter wheat. Durum wheat third red spring 'White mitring whet WhitO oats. . Early oats Rye ....• • • ....... .... •••••• • • ••••• ........ thitow barley • • '2 -Row barley l'relnl b ar l e y Junior white dent core prat. • Total. C i c ..., I.. 1.-; 4 C 0 . it , E. -tn, o .\ .-:. 4 a , - E 7, *; 5 \ 2 ... ...., Z :.. - C ;ft a 0 Z Z 4 ..... ' 1 1 .'.% to % % • F- , ss • IS- in il ila 163 . 57 •.10 14 75', en 79 23 A an. 161 42 16 S :10 • 71 42 20 11 67 119 56 10 5 40 08 117 12 ft .1 144) ,. 15 9 ...3 - '''IS 1 24 15 7 411. 5 1:4 2 1- , AS 11 4 0 52 till ti 5 21 21 100 176 Ell 520 1004 • 48 1 1 1 1 c.• coo .c 2 2 4 2 2 12 •ti 2 2 2 4 ; 3 in S erri NU beet and obscurely plaintive le inns bt t j t h o e v r i a I S h b e r r i agthotu table, ch ir Bec a t t w b b e y h 'o a r d - no inclination to talk to either of the ladies lwmide him -o r to anybody -though he thought of a few more things he wished he had said to him wife before their arrival upon Mitt hospitable scene. And even if he had been in the mood to talk, some alipearance of deferring to the principles of h) grew) must have withheld hint from di - reedy and frankly addremsing an) body, for, as he but too pliantly demonstrated, Inc was perilously explosive. If he a as not coughing, he was being inevitably re- charged and disteuded in preparatien for unother atteeze; and when it came, his wife, at the other end of time table, would break into her gayeties with the red fared boat long enough to tonnol the disturber an annoyed glance; to which his dark and brooding eyes would smoulderingly reply: - You bud your way and this is it.•' lie molt other lurking glances at her from time to time, as she was aware, though be did not went to be. She chattered vociferously, accompanying the chatter with an ever pealiug laughter, as dill the host and Montero) and the eight other guetaa athutiltatteoltrul)e so that their ivacity produced one tit those (VOID UOUS vonati uproars of which ma oversized cock- tail shaker is usually a more ardent pro- vuentive thaw is wit. Henry Reeled)), had toet partaken of any of the three eapacionna amber glasses urged upon each of the company before dinner; his head already felt \enough like a boil,\ Inc had ungra- ciously informed the bospitable Curbite; and he decided it felt more like one thah ever as he sat fiddling with the sayer be- side his successive plates of untouched food. The ceektall hilarity rung brassily in ears persecuted by his cold, and he had takeu atm overdose of quinine, so that some- where near the central interior point of his head a busy tittle engine room seemed to be inn full operation, merry compauy bout him. \Doggone \Piga!\ he mutrred, referring to the selfish pigs!\ Across the table a vociferous man leaned backward to shout behind the intervening guests an uproara us narrative for the benefit of the - einpular Mrs. Iteelsby ; where upon the lady upon his right inane- diately bent her head to that of the lady at his left; and they quickly began one of those low voiced dialogues in which women sometimes seem to confess that they participate in festivity not whole- heartedly and actually, but inn pretense, as actresses play' roles upon the stage. Conferences in the wings take place be- tween cues. \Have your noted Mr. Henry Beelby [ Killjoy opposite? t \ the first of the vol ‘ ladies inquired. \My dear! Hztve I 'noted' anything eise!' tine other totelaitued. \Ella tries to cover it up. but have you ever seen anything so awful? He just sits and swears at her with his eyes! How long can she keep on standing that man? If my husband treated me the Way he does, Ella \ \I'd leave my husband,\ the first de- clared vehemently, \ie a minute! b ehe tajd me in tbe other room she positively haul to go on her knees to get him here tonight. At the last minute, he absolutely swore be wouldn't budge.\ \She told me, too. And look at him, now he ham come! Sulking to show he didn't want to, and glaring at per like a panther, and sneezing at everybody so that the people on both sides of him don't dare turu their heads that way and are half scared to death! I must say I wouldn't blame her if she left him just for the way he's treating her tonight.\ \My dear, this kind of thing isn't the half of it! He never gives her a thing! She told me herself, except. those imitatiou sapphire earrings, he hasA't given her one single thing iu almost two years! 4he asked him last summer if he wouldn't let her have a maid this winter, and he wouldn't even do that! And a month ago I told her I'd put them up for the new c lu o g n uotrfy it!\b ; she was crazy to loin it. Not he! He gave her fits for even think - \Yes she told me. And look at the car he makes her drive -if you want to call It a 'car'! And she has to take all the care of it, except on Sunday; she told me that much, herself. Ella says what hurts her most is he makes her suffer because he's afraid to face his partners like a nine. V1 a ' ) h s bo at a 'ain ut or i e t„,, I believe every word see ,, \So do I. You can tell it's so by the way he's behaving tonight. My dear, if my husband ever dared to treat we like that for Just one half hour—\ \So would I! In a minute!\ But here the iutervening gentleman tilted himself forward again, demanding to be told the meaning of this colloquy; he was belug slandered about something, he insisted, and the coufidentral tete-a-tete had to be abandoned. There was one guest present, however, who had divined its pur- port and could even have repeated certain phrases of the conversation, though he had overheard none of it. This was the unfortunate Henry Reels - by: he needed to glimpse but once a sur- reptitious turn of eye toward Ella aud then toward himself, and thenceforward he well understood that the gossiperse talk was of his wife's mufferiugs under his tyranny. lie had been given clues enough to the trivtificance of such talks, for OVt Farrequently did kite begin her informa- tion to him, when she was emotional: \Mrs. Compton says if her husband ever treated her \ or \Mrs. Selfbridge told me herself if she ever had to endure from any man what 1 \ and during the cock- tail prelituinaries in the other room he had seen his wife engage in hasty asidea with the two ladies now opposite him. He guessed with an accuracy not difficult what she had told them. \All right :'• he thought, not quite mur- muring the words, though his lips moved slightly. \Go on about me, if you think it does you any good!\ This was addressed to the two opposite, though he looked not at them but at a porcelain basin of tulles upon the table between them and himself. \Go on! See what I care! show you For blur just then, the universe con- sisted of but two compouent parts: one wee a single point of suffering conscious- ness, himself:, the more incarnation of a cold in the head and throat and bronchial tubes; while all else was a vongleemeratiou of various manifeatatioits of seltisit happi- ness. And the most willed] of all the selfigh happi n esses in the world .was that of his wife; hei laughter rang Nee loudest and so incessantly that his faellug sibout it was partly an in \Doggone if I believe women are really human beings at all!\ For, as with many other husbands, his site ivas \women\ to ' him; and her ways mometinies appeared to he superunturally allele opposed to all that could or should be expected to arise out of the nature of mankind. lie longed t o _inenish her, and at the ' earrie - Tiltie \flre en of 'difiszling her. Ile ' built beautiful and bitter air castles, see- ing himeelf punch his chair back from the table, -rise abruptly, ami address her in tones that would awe the merry company • and frighten Ella into a staring parstlysia: \I have jumt one thing to say to you be- fore I lent, t' you for good. One year ago 11 invested a thoneand dollars in an Okla- , hotna oil 'nrjnnmr;ntlomr. Today I sold my ' holdings for exactly one million, eight hundred thoupand, five hundred and seven- ty-six dollars. I've never told you what the stock was doing, because I wanted to test your character. I have found it want- ing. Villl have not only dragged me around at tilglit till my breath is ruined. butt I don't topttrVe there's a woman at this table ynnim haven't complained of me to. Yon can keep our cottage and the Ford; but as for me, I have haul a Ihnotimitte ment out from too n amid ICA waiting in trout for time. I'm toeing Brat to au apuriment I've takett'at the 1Viethitigton Armee where your lawyers' ' can find tne any time title week. After that shall be living in Paris. 1 t hank you! I h ,‘ & 4 ‘ . . nin e v e pleasure to hint you good t \\' (TO be ('nnelueled Next Week), (Copyright: 1924: By Booth Tarkingtnti ) Queen Boadicea, who liveh in Bri- tain abouti the middle of the first century, is said to have been the first prominent peroxide blonde. ,„
