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BEGIN HERE TODAY
BARBARA HAWLEY -
willed and talented, bm'u'. :ii.
her fiance. BRUCE REYNOLDS.
:mli geisha Job on the Ohlelgo
P egrap . whose mama .
for. ANDREW McDERMO’f‘Tfi‘I
a former friend of her father’s.
She makes friends with BOB
enemies and with him cover-
a suicide of a prominent man in
a rmidhonse. where she picks up
a red scarf belonging to the
dead man's unknown woman
companion.
iiirhnra makes the acquisit-
ancc of JEROME BALL. I man
about town.
liruce baa Joined the real ee-
tnie firm of lllanncrs. Stone and
Reynolds. which is promoting I
huge civic development scheme.
MRS. LYDIA STACY. a rich
widow. refuses to invest in it
after Bruce falls to respmd to
her blandishments.
Barbara receives and prints
in her lovelorn column many let-
ters from a girl named Vicious.
When she sees the announco
merit of Bruce's marriage to
VIOLE’I‘TA CRANBY. a factory
girl. she realizes that through
her column she has directed Vii»
leita’s campaign to catch him.
Barbara's mother ls taken
very iii.
In the building where Bruce's
firm has Its offices. Barbara sees
Manners. the senior partner.
crawling down the fire escape.
Ilia stcnouupher has Just told
her he was out of town.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER m“!
BIANNERS crept past the wi
dow without seeing her. and
Bar-
on down the fire escape.
barn stood still on the stair londin
At last she caught her breath and
alerted back down the stairs at
run. She reached the front sidewalk
Just in time to see a taxicab turn
into the alley which led to the S
escape at the back of the building.
Barbara hailed another taxi. H
can wheeled into the alley as Man-
ners” cab left it at the other end.
She called to the driver to hurry
and then settled back in the tonneau.
They came out into the street
the end of the alley. Manoers' cab
was not far ahead. Barbara's driver
was speeding. but the car ahead in-
creased its speed also. She expected
it to turn toward the railroad sta-
tion. but it did not.
The chase went on through the
streets Of the city and out into i
country. Barbara was beginning
“curler whether Manners meant
travel across country in a hired cab.
lowing the railroad tracks. A whistle
sounded not far away.
The car ahead shot forward. cut
sldowisc suddenly and came to
stop exactly on the railroad tracks.
Barbara thrust her head out of t
rah and saw a train coming from
the direction of town. '
l\lunners' car still sat on the rails.
The driver jumped out and r
down the side of the track bed, wav-
ing his cost about his head. Man-
ncrs did not get out of the tonneau.
It seemed cer-
tain death for the man in the taxi.
The train came on. with no slacken-
ing of speed Barbara looked again.
Barbara shuddered.
The taxi driver was still running
and down. waving the coat.
The great
chine.
Manners made a. leap for the train
F. S. LYON
JOB PRINTING
South Norwalk
locomotive made the
lost curve and come to a. stop. Bar-
bara. saw Manners jump from the
car and run for the train. The engi-
neer was shouting at the cab driver.
who was running back to his mm
JANUARY 7, 1926.
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steps. the um tlilHfl use lli ins. seal
and the car moved off the tracks. in
a moment the limited was on its
way again.
As it shot put. Barbara saw Man-
ners hurl something at the cab
driver from the platform on which
he stood. The man picked up the
object. pocketed it. and drove away.
Barbara's driver put hie head
through the window. "Where to
now. miss?"
"Back to the Telegraph omce as
fast as possible."
Every telephone was in use when
she entered the editorial room. She
jerked Jimmy bodily out of the die-
n.
g.
N’ tatlon booth and called the First
National Bank.
The cashier there was a friend of
here. "Have you heard anything
about the Manners. Stone and Rey-
nolds bunch?” she asked him.
"Where is Manners?"
“Haven't heard anything about
the company." he replied. "but Man-
ners himself just closed his account
and beat it in a great hurry. Queer
proceeding all the way through.
What's up?"
But Barbara had replaced the re-
celver.
lichermott was busy with a caller
when she left the telephone booth.
She paced the ofilce restlesaly. so
that Miss Badger gave her a disap-
proving loolr, and Jimmy asked what
was the matter.
At last the caller deported and
Barbara burst into the managing
editor's ofllce. lie looked up sutrtled.
She was not in the habit of entering
a so violently.
"I‘d rather not tell you this." she
said. "for many reasons. But i
must. Manners just skipped town
with his baggage. Ills bank says
he closed his account this afternoon.
And his office is telling everyone
that he's been out of town several
days."
l\icDermoit slowly laid down his
pipe.
"lot so?" he asked. Ills eyes were
curiously sleepy.
Barbara clasped her hands. "Bob
says there's a nigger in the wood.
pile of that company anyway. And
something is surely amiss in Man-
ners' way of leaving. his sneaked
out of town in a taxi. stopped the
east-bound limited and Jumped
aboard. I'll bet he never comes back
to Chicago—at least of his own so-
cord.
Or
at
he
to
to
when she noticed that they were fol-
he
an
“F
"Tell
appeared.
Wells and the foreman to come.
here."
"What are you going to do?" al-
most whispered Barbara. cleaning
her hands more tightly and watching
his ftce.
built)“. Jiuiniy
“Look here. Miss Hawiey. don't
fret about this business. It isn't your
fault if we have to wreck Bruce
Reynolds' company. I've been watch-
ing 'em ever since Lydia Stacy paid
her last visit to me. You know that
lady novcr pays a visit without a
purpose." '
Barbara gasped. "She didn't—"
"Yes. she did. Gave me the hint
that the company was rotten. with-
out ever committing herself. Sug-
gested that she had discovered its
rottennesa and that is why she de-
cided not to go into it. l'm inclined
to think there was another reason.
She hasn't been seen with this young
molt picked up his pipe again. “l'm:
telling you, the Widow Stacy in il
mun cater. Those. slir‘ can't kiss. slu-
kills."
soon as we get the last dope on this
Vale Acres gang. lilies llawloy saw
Manners skip town in a taxi. and
says his ofllce is lying about his
whereabouts.
"Get ready and wait for orders.
You. Wells. look up all we've printed
on the project so far. and get the
names of heavy investors. Ought to
be a sucker list that will knock their
eyes out. lilies llswley. you call
Manners' home and ask about him.
then rush over to see Stone and
Reynolds and report what they say
zit once."
His office was cleared. Barbara
found herself in the elevator going
down within a moment or two. She
dared not think of what lay ahead.
She climbed the steps of the ofilce
for the third time that day. and
found the hall outside the Manners,
Stone and Reynolds nmce deserted.
The reception office was also
empty when she went into it.
The haughty stenograplicr entered
from an inner corridor. "I told you
Mr. Manners was not in town." she
snapped before Barbara had time to
speak. "He has been gone for three
McDerniott rose and pressed a
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The confession was made Over the
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had often noticed the “confessor” on
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days and will not be back for three
lC‘oiumbiu. where she studied jour-
'n:ilism and short story writing un-
.-ler the famous Professor l‘itkin.
‘ "I turn out two confoseienu a
wreck." she laughed. “Last \l'cck l
confessed a cable sin and told how i
Iinherited n taste for strong liquor
from drunken parents. Isn't that a
howl? The week before I ground
out one about going joy ride made
and stealing a car and nnolhcrnboul
how I changed the life of a cruel
millionaire."
I had started to laugh. but a wist-
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merry eyes.
“We sit here and say that the mil.
lions who swallow this stuff are
saps," she went on. “But l'm the
sap. I get $40 a. week—that ls. $20
a story. Try to. live on forty a week
in New York and have any fun. Yes,
that's the price most of us get for
grinding 'em out—a flut forty.
YOu've got to break into the writing
game somehow or other. And what
makes it more ironic than ever is
that nothing much ever really hap-
pened to me. and I have to keep on
dreaming situations to confess.
“I keep so busy confessing that l
haven‘t time to sin. Can you future.
it—thc aulhor of daring confessions.
who hasn‘t energy left at the end of
a day to even look at a, bright light.
or money enough at the end of the
\\'(‘(l( to pay a taxi fare?"
0 O C
And speaking of writing and of
Prof. Piikin reminds me that this
celebrated tutor to the rising hordes
of journalists and writers, this an-
thor of so many well-thumheri text
books. raises ducks on Long 'sland
farm after college hours.
Recently at a luncheon where the
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down in her desk.
don't want to see Mr. Manners. I
happen to know too well that he
can't be seen. But I do want to us
Mr. Stone or Mr. Reynolds."
her sharp retort. "Mr. Stone is in
his private'olllce." she said. “and
Mr. Reynolds is also out of town—
not expected back until
She turned to her work with an air
of dismissal.
Stone‘s private room.
little. bald man with childish eyes
and a pathetic mouth.
he started up and gave her a trou» I
bled look. I
introduction of herself. "I saw you
in the office today.
Mr. Manners is not here to tell you
what you want to know."
“Mr. Manners would not be‘likely
to tell me if he were here," remarked
liurbara coolly. The man swallowed
‘ with an effort.
Manners leave this building by the
fire escape not
your office girl had said he was out
of town. lie caught the eastbound
limited and I think there's some-
thing wrong. The bank tells me he‘s
Just closed his account."
Stone‘s face worked. He put his
head down on his arms and began
to cry. Barbara saw that there yes
no use in
office.
Reynolds?” she flSde iin- unmnn in
the outer mom.
"We've gut ilizs chug: tuned up, I
think. And we're nr-i i"iilll'l"ly sure
Wells and the foreman Cilit‘TFd "‘9 of the illr‘ls wt. I‘ve decided to hold
office. ('10an lo exlrn. hill-V 31"" ‘3 off until tomorrow morning and
going,
him and began to cry.
iiliPiilly.
how on f'.'ll'Il‘i you happen to be in
this grime.
kind of woman “he'd want to lillli‘l’l'
just to stop working.
yourself in a newspaper job?
ever.
that I've ruined lilin.'-' she clicked.
She slammed a dictionary
Barbara threw her head back. “I
The woman seemed surprised at
tonight."
Barbara went. through the office to
lie was a
When Barbara entered the office
"Yes." he said. in answer to her
I regret that
"What do you mean?"
"Just this." she replied. "I saw
ten minutes after
Av .,
"You're a darn good newspaper woman. but damned if I don't hole In see you give
way as you are domg." raid McDermoit. “Why don't you get married?"
wailing. She left the
”On who! train do )flli exp: rt Mr.
Reynolds since the night of the "05‘ the NAM o'cl...:. hm" tho
party" east, replied the umzmn.
‘ flax-iii. hum-xi ll. ‘. lav ll . T ‘. .
Burborn did not speak. NitDor’ ‘ ‘ ‘ ie p I
xi'iipii nmf'c. an.) 11:10 l\it‘iiv‘unmtl'n
prliiitc mom.
"Li'ink llf‘i'v‘. .‘liim l|.i'.\ll‘)," he. :ulrl.
extra early. in catch the crowds on i
their way to work. You've done your
share.
Now you can go home."
To his great siiipi'isc, instead of
Barbara out down opposite
l\chermOtt laid
down his pzpe
nervously. lie looked about for help.
Seeing none. he said to her. "Look
here, '.\i:ss llawlr‘y.
out under
going [0 do about it? You're a darn
gomi newsmprr u. man. but damned
if I don't ll.iit‘ to are you givo way
as you are clnjng lately.
You‘re wcaring
lhis life. \‘l‘liat're you
"Why iioni you git Hili‘l‘ifil. '
iriui’lniru only subbed llze ll.il'-i“i’.
“There. i didn't mean ll":.’ll. :rnpcr-
lut sometimes I “under
I know you‘re not the
But uliy kill
like your
"You see l‘m iaiking
father's friend. now, not like your
boss."
Barnum was crying harder than
"Bruce Reynolds will belime
(To Be Conilnuedl
A MMCF. wnnav
professor was u guest. discussion
lurncd lo a young man “hose writ-
ing showed great promise but “he
has not had any material success.
"He look in writing like one of
Pitkin’s ducks to water." commented
a wisccrackcr. '
“But there‘s a market for l‘izkin‘s
ducks." came the my response.
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automobile production. There have
been produced 3.196.0fi7 passenger
cars during the first 10 months or
this year. exceeding the some parlod
of last war by 319.735 care.
if ordinary production is kept Up
for the ri‘niuining port of the your,
1025 will pass the high peak of au~
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1923. '
During the past four years the
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its one thing to live on o more
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Babs Comet. who warkod in the
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yearned for the other. Big Central
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How was Bob to bridge this gulf?
The situation is one of those clever
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the fertile brain of Edna Forber.
favorite of a million magaalne read-
crs. it has been transcribed to the
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WesTo—u’s Walking 1
Exploit Recalled
.\n Evening Srntinrl Reader aub-
mlls the following clipped from a
New York newspaper :is of general
interest:
“csimi lhc \i'alkcr. :
1. Please stile “ hat was Weslon's'
record in walking~ across the conti-
l'U- .
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neiit. or trom L‘uiifornln to New
York City?
. 2. Did Mr. W. come on lincoln
Highway. and what is the distance
of Lincoln Highway?
1 have walked from Chicago to
New York City. from May 14. to
Juno .1. 1024. an average of 40.:e
miles per day. and want lo set a new
record from New York City to Los
Angeles or San Francisco.
G. A. Slx‘OL‘llTIS.
New York,
1. In 1000 Edward Payson Wes-
ton. :it the age. of serenity )cnro.
walked from New York to San Fran-
cisco in 104 days and 7 hours. cov-
ering a distance of 3.895 miles. in
1910 he u'nlkcd from San Francisco
to New York in 76 days and
hours, covering a distance of 3.600
miles. We have no record of the
average rnilca he covered.
2. As the Lincoln Highway was
not open at that time he, could not
use it. The Lincoln Highway is 3.—
324 miles long. starting from Forty-
second street and Times Square and
running to Lincoln Park. overlook.
ing the Golden Gate. '
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