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JEFFERSON CITY POST-TRIBUNE January 13. 1933 ZTnbune Tribune Established lS6b The Post Established 1903 Published every week Hay evening except Saturday THE TB1BUNB PRINTING COMPANY Member of The Associated Press Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the for republlcatlon of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper, and alto tlio local uews published herein. All rights ol ot special dispatches herein ire also reserved. Entered in the at Jefferson City. ae Second Class Matter, Under the Act ot March 3, SUBSCRIPTION BATES By Carrier In Jefferson City: .50 a month fl.25 for 3 months payable In advance J2.50 for 6 months payable in advance 55.00 a year payable in advance My Mall in Missouri'.

S4.00 a year payable In advance $2.40 for 6 months payable in advance SI.25 for months payable In advance .50 a month payable in advance By Mail outside Missouri: J5.00 a year payable in advance $2.50 lor 6 months payable in advnct 1 11.25 for 3 months payable in advance .50 for 3 month payable in advance TELEPHONE TOUO CITY SALARY CUTS The City Attorney courageously bared his breast to the shafts of the economy archers yesterday he volunteered to take a cut of ten per cent salary IF all other city employes do likewise. It was a bold venture to make such a proposition when it is known by everyone that, em- ployes now underpaid vail not yield to such a reduction. The City Attorney had a life-sized picture of an under paid policeman or a fireman rushing to the paymaster and begging that his salary be reduced. The Attornew draws $2,100 a year for only a few moments work each day; a policeman draws $125 a month for twelve hours oC hazardous work each day. Mention is made of the desk Sergeant who draws $125 a month, also for twelve hours work each day.

The Mayor, who devotes practically all of his time to the business of the city, draws $100 a- month, and he has been worthy of his hire. As pointed out in comment elsewhere in this column, no other Mayor in years has saved to the taxpayers as much as Mayor Asel has. Along by the side of him sit two janitors, one drawing $80 a month and the other $90 a mouth, each doing a few hours of inconsequential work a day. And they are paid almost as much as the Mayor. Waste and extravagance must be eliminated from the city government.

So far as salaries are concerned that can be done only by an adjustment which the Council now has under consideration. One councilman was right when he said: "We must get at the salary problem in a different way than that which the City Attorney proposes. I favor shaving salaries that need shaving and keeping those intact which offer only a fair wage." When the facts are known it is easy to understand why the City Attorney, with a salary of a year, is quick to come forward with a blanket cut of ten percent. It probabjy had a double purpose, one to draw attention away from the unusual economy record of Mayor Asel. and the other to block a cut in his salary comparable with that of the Mayor.

A $200 cut is five times batter than a cut. AN ECONOMY HECORD Two'years ago the people of Jefferson City placed Henry C. Asel in the office of Mayor with the belief he would practice real economy. And he has kept that faith with the people. We do not know whether he will accept another term as mayor, but if economy is what the taxpayers want they should return him to his present position with the largest majority ever given a mayor.

Mayor Asel has practiced economy in every department over which he has control, and tliis has been carried to such an extent that when he completes his term he will have saved the city $50,000. Wlien he took office his predecessor had cleaned out the treasury to pay $50,000 in current revenue bonds. His economy program made it unnecessary to issue current revenue bonds this year, the first time for some years. Here over, the city has paid its way until several months ago when declining revenues left some unpaid bills. Within the next few months, however, enough revenue will bo collected to all the indebtedness and outstanding bills and leave a handsome balance in the treasury with which to start the new fiscal year.

Mayor Asel has given the city a record of economy that few believed possible. Saving the taxpayers over $50,000 in his first term is no small accomplishment, and the people should, and will, know the facts. The records cannot be questioned. DISCOURAGING BUSINESS While counting upon a recovery from the depression to yield sufficient tax revenue to balance the budget the federal government is pursuing a course the effect of which is to discourage the revival of business. The heavy investment by banks in short U-rm government obligations at only nominal rates of interest is an eloquent revelation of economic conditions.

Industry and commerce are marking time and are making no great demands upon the banks for financing. The banks are exhibiting fears of departing from a high state of liquidity in the market for loans to commerce and industry. The failure of the government to balance its budget for the third successive year has aroused the apprehension of business men generally. They .1 are sitting tight, waiting to sec what happens. The doubling of the income tax bill is driving capita: that might otherwise finance recovery into idle investment in tax exempt securities.

The failure of Congress to take any substantial steps in the direction of that radical reduction of the cost of government, which would be sufficient to balance the budget without boosting taxes, is accounted another discouraging factor in the attitude of the business world. Many business leaders declare there can be no substantial recovery so long as it is the disposition of Congress to retain the present magnitude of expense and to meet the deficit partly by piling on more taxes and partly by continued borrowing which is steadily increasing the public debt. From the viewpoint of business leaders the Democrats who are proposing another boost in income tases are merely proposing an experiment in the extraction of blood from a turnip. And if any blood is extracted it will be the last drops of blood needed to revive business. Three Clay county boys saw a lot of easy money by perpetrating a series of holdups and kidnap- ings.

Their first victim proved easy and netted them thirty-five dollars. Seven other men were kidnaped and each relieved of small amounts. As is almost always the case the law caught up with them. Today the prison doors in Jefferson City will open for them and will not open agnin for forty years. And that Is the usual result of a career of crime.

All this for a total loot of $150. Views-Comments of Others GOOD ADVICE BY NELSON The soundest bit of wisdom I have heard from Washington in a long while is the news item quoting Congressman W. L. Nelson of Missouri, a member of the House Agricultural Committee, as follows: "As a Democrat, I am afraid now that this plan (the domestic allotment relief plan) with all its theories and ramifications will do to Mr. Rooie- velt what the Farm Board did to Mr.

Hoover." No Old Testament prophet ever boomed forth a truer picture of the future than has Mr. Kelson in this. The Farm Board's assinine attempts to thwart natural economic laws caused hundreds of thousands of stanch Republican farmers in the Mid-west to desert their own party. The same crew of wreckers (agricultural leaders) who induced Mr. Hoover to put over tho Farm Board on the Ameican people are now busily working on Congress and the President-elect to put over the allotment plan.

If they fail in this, tney will spring the equalization plan or the debenture plan. The hand is Esau's, though the voice is not. Gov. Roosevelt very clearly analyzed the ilk of agriculture in his Topeka speech dm-ing the lust campaign. His suggestions for relief were the main sound and to the point.

If he lets the old wrecking crew put over a second farm board on the new administration, such as Mr. Nelson wisely warns against, the mass of the farmers will go back to voting straight G. O. P. in 1934 probably and in 1936 Interested Farmer.

GAMBLING A PARASITE It is to be hoped that tbe Missouri legislature will not attempt to follow the example of Nevada and make a wicic open state by legalizing gambling and abolishing liquor enforcement laws. The Nevada experiment has not brought prosperity, neither has it brought an influx of men and women who desire to make their homes in that stain where restrictive laws have been abolished. Experience has shown that gambling is not a business which promotes the welfare and prosperity of any A business which does not add to the happiness and welfare of a community but is a parasite weakening all other business i.s not good for that community. The pari-mutucl system of gambling is just a subterfuge and the special hypocrisy the proposal is that it is for the benefit of the farmer, the horse raiser and the -t-H Clubs. I fcnow very well that this protest will fall on deaf ears but no member of the legislature need he can hide behind these ideas and get away Examiner.

1 KILLED BTf ROOSEVELT AND STIMSON IN CONFERENCE ON WORLD AFFAIRS in mm J. J. Starling Was Convict at Penitentiary In Jefferson City From 1917 to Nov. 22, 1929. HILLSBORO, Jan.

13--(AP) --The body of J. J. Starling, 55, former convict who died in the county jail Wednesday night, was sent to his home at Tulsa, today. His brother, Oscar Starlinr; of Tulsa, arrived today to claim the body. J.

J. Starling was one of three men arrested on suspicion last Sunday night in a roadhouse at Desoto, near here, and when Starling resisted officers, he was struck over the head with a gun by Deputy Sheriff Archie McKee. The blow fractured Starling's skull. Stephen P. Hunter of Cape Girardeau is to be the new chairman of the prison board.

Mr. Hunter 'is one of the outstanding citizens of Southeast Missouri. He has been a successful business man and has an enviable reputation for genuine old time honesty. Both are needed in the position he will occupy during the next four years. Governor Park is fortunate in securing his services and we bespeak for him an honest and efficient administration of the prison affairs.

It is the most difficult and dangerous position which the Governor has to fill. One of the first things Mayor Asel did in hia present term was to cut the coefc of the city government. His predecessor drew $40 a month for office rent and $25 a month for stenographic work. The Mayor has hot. drawn one cent for office rent and his total stenographic bill will not amount $100 a year.

In two yean thlj has saved the 1,200. RECKLESS ABOUT INVESTMENTS It is one of the curiosities of human behavior that while we may spend our lifetime attempting to accumulate a margin of savings, we devote extremely little time seriously and intelligently to the selection of the investments for which we exchange our savings. We put forth laborious we make daily sacrifice, to accumulate savings, great or small. But the effort we make and the time we spend in deciding the disposition of those savings arc absurdly disproportionate to the time and effort employed in their accumulation. It would not be far out of the way to say that 99 per cent of every adult's day is more or less governed by motives looking toward increasing income and holding down expenses, while an average of the odd 1 per cent is all that is given to serious and efficient study of the securities for which lie exchanges his savings.

A man will frequently part with the sweaty savings of a lifetime in exchange for a security bought on a tip given him by a. casual and sometimes dubious Evening Post. TCILSA, Jan. 13--(AP)-Prison and police records show J. J.

Starling, fatally injured following his arrest near De Soto, Mo. has -been in state and federal penitentiaries almost continuously since 1900. Starling died Wednesday night from a blow on the head by a rifle Sheriff T. E. Lanham and other officers of Jefferson County who had taken Starling and two other men into custody at a roadhouse said Starling came to his deatt when he attempted to escape.

coroner's jury exonerated the offi cers ot any criminal liability. Starling's longest sentence wa served at Jefferson City from 191 to November 22, 1929, after bein sentenced from Wayncsville, 01 a bank robbery charge. He returned to Tulsa following hi release from the Missouri prisoi with $3,380 which he claimed he earned from pool tables he operated in the prison. With this money he purchased a small hotel here and announced his intention of "going straight." In November, 1931, he was identified as one of three men who robbed a gambling club at Morrillton, Ark. He had never been tried on that charge although he was at liberty under $3,000 bond.

certain. Last Steptember Starling was Under the Democratic caucus identified by a local filling station'rule, all members will be bound by operator as the bandit who majority vote. Rainey said he had and tied him after looting his doubt that the party would sup- of 545. In view of his former rec- port the Cochran resolution as a ord Starling's bond was set at body. Having a majority of the $10,000.

He would have been tried in March on the Tulsa charge. He was Kent to Leavenworth in 1900 from 'Chickasha, for larceny and again from Atoka, in 1907, on a burglary charge. When the Oklahoma penitentiary was opened at McAlestcr ho was one of the first inmates, serving three years from Durant for robbery. Immediately after his release from McAlester, he was sentenced to the Arkansas State Penitntiary from Littl Rock for 10 yerrs on a bank robbery charge. 4TI1I1MEIIDIE, 21 PflS Two Gas-Electric Trains Collide Near Knoxville, Head-on; Fire FoJ lows.

The whole field of America's international relations, from war debts to the situation in the Orient, was being discussed by Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson, left, and President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, when this picture was taken at the latter's home at Hyde Park N. after the two had lunched together. The widely-heralded conference was arranged by Mi 1 Roosevelt in an effort to familiarize himself with prc.ssing international problems.

IB KILL in WASHINGTON, Jan. 13--(AP)-House Democrats were summoned to a caucus to determine how paity will vote on the Cochran resolution to block President Hoover's governmental regrouping recommendations. The call for the caucus late today went out from Representative Rainey of Illinois, the Democratic leader, at about the same time that the house' rules committee started hearings on a resolution to give the Cochran measure legislative right of way in the house. Favorable action by the rules committee appeared J7LASHES of Life (By the Associated Press.) CHICAGO, Jan. Anti-Superstition Club observed one of its two Friday the thirteenth holidays with a variety of jinx-defying rites.

The organization, headed by Sidney N. Strotz, president of the Chicago Stadium Corporation, and consisting fo 13 members, planned to destroy a lot of good luck cha'rts and tokens at a luncheon: light three cigarettes on one match all day. walk under ladders, open umbrellas indoors, whistle at breakfast, smash mirrors and do anything else purported to cause ill luck. The next holiday falls on October i 13. reflection appears to satisfy the survivor.

NEW YORK--Spanish and Latin- American residents laugh at this theory that Friday the thirteenth is unlucky. a now if this were Tuesday the thirteenth! A Spa: Ish proverb warns: "On Tuesday, neither marry nor travel." Tuesday is poison to the Spanish and to them Friday is just another day. But 13, that's unlucky in any language. KNOXVILLE, IA-, Jan. --The head-on crash of two Burlington gas-electric railroad trains on a wooden bridge near here resulted in deaths to four trainmen and injuries to 28 passengers.

The collision occurred last night and was followed by a roaring fire which destroyed the bridge and left one victim buried amid the tangled and charred wreckage. Workmen today were engaged in erecting a new bridge and railroad officials caid traffic over the line would be resumed by nightfall. George Mac Intosh, of Knoxville, was one of the heroes of the wreck --battering down a baggage room door and leading hysterical women to safety after they had attempted to jump through windows into a pool of blazing gasoline. Cut off by a curtain of fire, helpless witnesses watched veteran engineers Charles D. Hayes, 65, struggle vainly to free himself from between engine and tender.

Hayes, of Albia, Iowa, piloted the steam engine, Train No. 28, enroute from Des Moines to Ottumwa. hunted today for the body of J. i. Warren, of Ottumuw engineer of Train No.

179, enroiJfc from Peoria, 111., to Des MoinSf CHICAGO--Bridge fans may take it from Grandma Nina Degan that its a nice game all right, but personally she said on her 90th birthday anniversary that she prefers a good game of poker any time. The other dead are H. G. Hallberg, of Burlington, Iowa, baggageman, and J. A.

Baker, of Ottumwa, conductor of No. 179. Eleven of the injured were taken to Des Moines hospitals and four were treated at Oskaloosa or Knoxville hospitals. The other injured sustained cuts, burns and bruises of a more or less minor nature. Burlington officials said the trains were traveling 30 miles an hour and that Number 179 ran past the Donnelley station where it was supposed to have met the Ottumwa bound train.

house, this would block the Hoover proposals. There is one automobile to every six persons in States. the United AMIRET. and GOT A BIG HAND SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13--Leoanrd Johnson's enthusiasm in driving a point home at a directors' meeting got him a big hand.

While Ethel Rowell, twins of a family of speaking he banged his fist on the thirteenth, are thirteen years old to- table and in doing so broke a bone BANKER IS CERTAIN "PRETTY BOY" DID IT day, Friday the thirteenth. BOONVILLE, Lutz, Indiana attorney-general, was authority for this: Death of one on a pair of love birds in his office caused the other to grieve. A mirror was placed in the cage the in his hand. Afc Central Emergency Hospital Dr. John H.

Golden set the bone and gave Johnson a big handful of bandage. Milton sometimes has had more than 300 words to a sentence in his writings. Jan. 13-(AP)--After viewing a photograph of Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd, Oklahoma outlaw, J. H.

Ferryman, cashier of the Bank of Ash Grove, told Sheriff Scott Curtis of Greene County today that he was confident Floyd was leader of the robber trio that took $3,000 from the bank terday. The automobile. used in the robbery was found burned four miles south of Springfield. CLEVELAND, Jan. 13--(AP) a pet dog, loved her master, and because of that love, firemen said, died with him today when flames consumed their humble The dog and her owner, Stephen Myers, -10, were in their room at the rear of a garage, when Frank S.

Skinner, who resides nearby, heard Quecnic barking desperately just alter midnight. But Quecnie's alarm was too lute. Skinner found the entire building a of flames. Inside, the fire- Myers 1 body on a bed. At his feet was the body of faith- fill Queenie.

Two doors to Myers' room were open, through which the dog could easily have escaped. But Queenie had wanted to remain with her master. One of the valuable lessons we have learned from the events of the past few years is not to mortgage anything for which we have already paid. --Carthage Press. BUIl GELESilES ires SOFIA, BULGARIA, Jan.

was celebrating the birth of a princess this morning-the first child of King Boris III and Queen Joanna. The mother and baby girl were both reported in excellent health. Although Bulgaria's constitution prescribes direct succession by the male line, the princess was welcomed with a warmth of affection reminiscent of the reception accorded Queen Joanna when her royal husband brought her home from Italy two years 330. The event naturally renewed speculation as to the religion in which any children of Boris and Joanna will be brough up. The law required that the ruler of Bulgaria must be a member of the Eastern Church and special permission of the Pope was necessary before Boris married the Italian princess.

IIKGIK IIEIIU TODAY AM.OS t'EAKODY, consln ot I.IM.-A A I I to his dcaib from the second floor balcony of hc AverTIls' Inland home. I.inda reaches hint just lic- forn he Hcs. (n (line to hear him Ccvr words which convince her lie fva.s murdered. Linda rushes ilasinirs. Someone tries to her anil she faints.

There are four quests in the Jir.usc--all tctisticct.s of the crime. They arc: J3It. STATI.A NOKR, liiisincss associate of TOM AVEIl- CAl'TAIN DI3 VOS. handsome Belgian; MAKVIJV PUATT, former i of I.Ir.da's; and SH.VUGnXESSKY, Irish Trriler. 'When tells her "What Happened she persuades him nniivl licop these four in the i they can decide ivliii-Si one i.s Bllllty.

There in nn i Mifliciuiil for arresl. Tom F.ii;da arc aided in their plan ivlien HOYI.K, oliicial medical examiner, senil.s word tliat CTCry- onc remain i he (Iirtn. IJoylc Is on a tislimj; i rip can not rcfnrn for I.irula to I'rnit Is no- MiirrriRK from strain. He roJii.icN lr, why he ijuarrclcd i I i Amo.l the night lit- Torc i man's ilca.ll. the house.

I-inda hc-ars talkini; to (he a i He teases "for refers to Miiiiciliinsr that (he nlslit hcforc. NOW CO ON WITH THE STOHT CHAPTER XXII to repeat almost word for word a conversation which had interested her. Sbe knew this one was stored in some back corner of her mind and that sho could repeat it to Tom just as it had been registered there. volved? She caught herself up sharply. She was doing what SUB meant not to--trying to get at what that talk suggested before sho subjected it, just as she had heard it, to Tom's intei'view with her maids A was brief but satisfactory.

Linda 1 was fortunate in her assistants, but were also fortunate in her. 'aking it for granted that they were first and second mates, she with easy-going did not conceal treated friendlinesa that HISTORIC ARMORY IN BALTIMORE BURNS BALTIMORE, Jan. is--CAP)-The historic fifth regiment armory of (he Maryland National Guard was destroyed by fire early today, at a possible loss of $1,500,000. Only the thick granite walls, among which the flames raged for hours, remained of the 30-year-old building where Woodrow Wilson was nominated for president in 1912 and Franklin D. Roosevelt ended southern presidential tour last a i OOSIE'S voice went on.

'Tis tlic shirt you wheedled me to launder, sir?" sho said. "Well I knew what in your mind you would be asking! Sure, I took out the stains with the liquid I told you of --all but one I must work over a bit more--and when 'tis dry there will lie no sign of them to spoiJ the white front of it The cuff too --I had to work over that harder. 'Tis drying upstnirs at my window where no ono will see it and before I iron it out the best I can I'll mend the small tenr. That can not be bidden altogether but 'twill be the best mend I can make and saints can do no more." "That's the girl, Rosie!" From the evident relief in the man's voice Linda know Rosie had indeed spoken what was in his mind. "Do that for me and my gratitude'll be eternal.

'Tis an angel in dioguise you are--and you've saved me from worse trouble than you know of." "Ah. that's as may be--" Rosie'a voico was non-commital and Linda realized she was moving away, back toward tho kitchen. That meant the talk was over--and also that Shaughucssey might come around the enti of the house. Stepping back her very clear and adequate grasp of their jobs as well as of her own. Now they were eager to show their desire to help her, though Rosie seemed a little subdued.

A quick glance from tho bow window ol the kitchen showed Sbaughnessey nowhere in sight Either he had gone back to tho garage or forward to the from Feeling extremely competent and unrattled, Linda gave her directions for the rest of the day. Tea on the lawn--time be- tweep that and dinner for the girls to rest and change--the arrival at 6:30 of a certain Mra Pritcliard, supplementary kitchen aide vrhen guests increased the family. always sensible reactions. She firmly dismissed the subject from her mind and as sho did so looked up to see coming toward her, across the lawn, the graceful figure of the guest from Belgium. had selected DoVos for her nest victim, but Linda could have wished for a more tranquil frame of mind in which to meet the opportunity.

It would have to be a smooth and subtle Delilah to pierco tho guard of this man's self- possession. He vfas good-looking he was and he had a way with Flirtatious? Not exactly. Hypnotic? That was a silly word ami si iy idea. Compelling? Yes, perhaps but that implied stagej stuff." Fascinating? Yes--in the sense that something smooth, fluent, perfect is fascinating. For some moments there was no design to their conversation 'and The three put their heads to- as DeVos lounged there on a low.

quickly and silently along the gresE, Linda soon reached the flagged terrace. Deciding to give Rosie a moment to recover herself, she ran upstairs rather noisily, hurried about in her own room, and then came down by tho service stairs which took her directly to the kitchen. She did not allow herself to think of what she had heard. She had a gift, often used io advantage, of being able gether like generals meeting an emergency call for troops. Chick-' ens, fruit, vegetables.

Annie could phone. "I should like to have clams tonight," said Linda reflectively. "Rosie, call up Mrs. Pritchard and ask her to bring what Annie'll need." Rosie tossed her Irish head and Cashed a look of scorn at tho suggestion. "I know what you mean!" Linda pondered.

Mrs. Pritchard wasn't distinguished for her clear-headedness ia executing orders, still less those given by telephone. "But Flannery won't deliver so late," "Lavo thot to Rosie 'n' me," commanded Annie. The two had exchanged glances and Linda knew the matter had heen taken out of her hands, Going bad? to her chair on the lawn, Linda was glad for several reasons that she had made that visit which had restored her to a sense of orderly housewifeliness. Then, too, it had brought her face to face with Rosie whose faithful loyalty sho would have thought she could never doubt but had found it astonishingly easy to when everything seemed already topsy- turvy.

She still was anxious about Rosie, not knowing what kindness she had shown this palavering countryman of hers. But to suspect her any knowledgabla part in the crime--one look into those honest eyes dismissed that idea at once. The uneasy feeling lingered, however. In what was poor Rosie In- chintz-covered chair, Linda felt that it would be hard, in spite of his apparent deference to her wishes, to guide this man's mind into any channel which he did not wish to explore. Suddenly he sat up with an exclamation of keen pleasure and she turned toward the water to see what had attracted his attention.

Running close inshore, past their tiny dock, whizzed a long, racing speedboat, beautiful In its clean lines and flashing speed, cutting a 3are of white water on each side of its pointed, skimming how. Evidently there was purpose in this sudden, dramatic dash Into their immediate waters, for as it passed, a white arm semaphored violently toward the lawn and both Linda and DeVos waved in answering greeting. "That's the Comet--lha Stoner boat," Linda vouchsafed as the apparition quickly dwindled. "That was Fleur, of course--born Florrie but she changed it to be the same as Galsworthy's heroine. She does her best to livo up to the model in other ways, too," she added.

felt horribly catty," she admitted to Tom afterwards, "but I meant to be provocative--and I a moment, however, then 1 was no repl-r to what she had said. Her ears told her she ha spoken in iust the right offhanc way, letting the words carry thel own malice. Then, a cigaret lighte having been deftly manipulated DeVos spoke with an air ot delib speculation. GABRiELLE E. FORBUSH 3YHEA 5HWCE INC.

"Miss Stoner is the daughter, 1 understand, of one of your great capitalists?" "If you call him that. He's mads millions in patent medicines." "Ah! It is not usual to inquira too closely into the source of a fortune after half a dozen zeros have been added to the leading figure." Though she was sufficiently sensitive to catch the rather insolent evaluation in the man's tone, Linda could not help her quick laughter. "I have just passed a very pleasant hour driving with Miss Fleur in. her most--" he gestured we say, astonishing, car?" Again Linda could not help Fleur's perfectly outrageous imported sport car was known through the island both for its appearance- and for its wner's equally bizarre fashion of riving. Fleur, delighted at the hanco to show it off to any such inusual visitor, would have been uito confident of his unqualified -dmiration on both counts.

"Unfortunately." the i a went on reflectively, "Mademoiselle ad a date--I believe that is tha roper this speedboat rial with a local expert and we re- urjed without exploring your love- island further." "So being dismissed by the ladj air, you came back to me." Quite affably, he agreed. It cer- ainly was difficult to pique this uave foreigner however easy he might be to insult Linda considered this as though her mind passed a picture of that terrible scene on ho Country Club porch--Cousia Amos' blandly innocent face and the tense fury of the man now stretched indolently on the lawn, "I should have liked an hour or so on the water," he went on, unconscious of her thought, "but there was not room for--supercargo, I think Miss Stoner called it Or rather the speed test made it necessary to have no extra weight In the boat I believe there are to races "Next week-end," said "They were postponed from this cause the commander ol the yacht fleet is away." "Ton have a. capable looking li boat there." He nodded toward the trim cabin cruiser, dancing decorously at her mooring beyond the downward dip of the terrace. "That is yours, I think Mr. Averill said?" "The Pinafore? Oh yea-- she isn't a racer, ot course." ''Excellent lines, nevertheless," ha nodded approvingly.

"A good size yet not too large for one person to handle. So many women nowadays can manage their own boats, as Miss Stoner does. I suppose you are as skillful as she?" (To He Continued).