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ORCHID.

BY ELEANOR EARLY.

CHAPTER XXXV.

Sadie had broken with Georgie When I discovered, he was boot legging, I said, 'No, sir," I said, I ain't going to get mixed up in any of that stuff. And I give him the go-by, just like that. And, the big stiff, he's got a real sporty car now, with wire wheels and one of them French horns. And he's run- nin' round with that doll-faced manicure that used to work in the Five and Ten."

Atoreth sympathized wanly, "But why did you give up the apartment, Sadle? I thought you were awfully happy."

reach him, if possible, before Monty appeared. It would" bo; ameult, though, to telephone from the ball.. Maizie and Sadle could hear every word. She began to evolve schemes for getting out,

for a few minutes.

"Oh, mother, how soon will, din- ner be ready"

"It's ready now, dear. You can sit right down. Just cut the but tor-will-you, Sadie, and pour the water like a good girl. The steák's done to a turn."

"I wanted to mall a letter, Mums. Would I have time just to run down to the mail box?"

Maizia came to the door, with "Oh, you don't know how it is. living with a bunch of girls. Every-the pan of potatoes in her hand, one wants first parking privileges. whipping them to the frothy con- And when it got no they froze onsistency of a meringue. to my divan

"And who are you writing let- Georgio and I had to while away ters to, Lamb?" our time out in the kitchen-why, "Oh-nobody special. İf 'dinner's you can't blame.me, Ash, for get-ready, I'll wait." Ing sort of sore, can you?"

and for petting,

"For goodness sake, Ash!" ro-

"But what did you do with 'your monstrated Sadie.. "Sit down and furniture?" naked Ashtoreth,

"Oh, I sold some.". Sadie was airily casual. "You see I'm out of a

Job right now, Ashi. And a girl's

cat,"

She took her place obediently. It was a real company dinner. Iced

got to dress. You can't blame me grapefruit, with a cherry on top, for wanting some new clothes once to begin with.... And Maizie had in a while, now.ean you?".

"Sadie's sleeping with me, broke new napkins, hemstitched by hand. There were sweet peas in a little

In Malzic conciliatingly, "And I cut glass yass an the centre of got a nice now set of blankets for the table, standing on a round your bed, Ashtoreth. All wool. 1 mirror that had been among. guess it will be pretty nice to sleep Maizie's wedding presents. And in your own bed again, won't it?"

"Come on in your mother's room," pink, candlen in tall holders. Invited Sadie, "and see how pretty Mnizio had wound anflax around we got it fixed up. I brought a few the candle sticks, and wreathed it across the mirror, and snipped the of my things along."

poor pink heads off a fait sweet Maizie was beating up some pop-peas, and scattered them over the

surface of the mirror..

overs.

I'll

It was very festive and prelty. And Maizle, in her Hoover apron,

scheme.

"Dinner'll be ready just us wOON as the vegetables boil," she prom- leed, bustling about. "Everything's was pink and white as her colour all peeled, and the stenk's ready to

"You've lovely colour, Mums," cook. The water's hot now, Just stick these pop-overs in the Ashtoreth told her. And kissed oven, and we can sit down in about her golden hair, that was so dark 20 minutes."

at the roots, and so skiny on the She came and stood in the bed-top, room door, as Sadie exhibited her "Start, at the very beginning," treasures. The long-legged French commanded Maizic, "and tell us doll, and all the little boudoir pl- lown. The orchid tollet net, and soft mauve rugs to cover Maizle's seratched, bare floor.

"And here," said Sadle, "a the Maiden's Prayer."

She indicated a verse, framed and hung upon the wall,

every single thing, honey."

Ashloreth sighed,

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"Wait until after dinner," she begged. "There was a diner the train, but I saved every bit of my appetite for you, and now I'm simply ravenous."

Maizic heaped her plate with a drift of mashed potatoes, white and soft as n now bank. And squash, running over with melted

"I cut it out of a magazine," she explained. "And I took a softy poem out of that frame, all about love and friendship, and living, up butter, and sprinkled with papriká. | on the heights. And I stuck in There were braspells sprouts, this one, instead. Every night green and tender as young lettuce. when your mother says her prayers, And huge mushrooms, dark and 1 say it over, 'so'n won't forget I ain't a red-hot mommer an" more."ucculent.

Ashloreth read with amusement,

"And here," proclaimed 'Malzic,

while Sadie, at her shoulder, ren-wielding the carving knife, “is a dered it aloud, and with appropriate piece of steak to put new life into feeling:

"I used to be a flapper

With a nifty, shifty line;

A very rapid trekker-that waa

A thirsty little lapper

you."

Ashtoreth looked on her plate with horror. The thought of food me1appalled her. But it was easier to eat than to talk. Not really ent, either. She could pretend. Dally with the dreadful pile of squash, and the great mound of potato.

Of the Gordon and the wine,

And-baby, what a nocker

could be!

The sheiks would always tag me, For they liked my sizzling style, But nobody tried to drag me

Down the aisle; When it was a case of marry, Every Tom, Dick and Harry

Found some shy and simple lassie

to adore:

So my ways are getting calmer, And I ain't a Red Hot Mommer

Any more!

A Mommer overheated

Is an incandescent wow.

She "burns 'em up" completely

-in a gang.

..

But she finds that she is chested

(I am getting wiser now) When the wedding bells discreetly

Start to clang.

For the Molten Mommer's foolish:

She is dippy in the dome; Even sheiks prefer it coolish

In the home.

When for life they have possessed

U9,

They don't like to wear asbestos---

A volcano in the household is

bore.

So I'm quieter and calmer,

And I ain't a Red Hot Mommer

"You tell me," she suggested, "what's been happening while I've been away. There must be lots of news"....While they talked, she could be thinking of some way to telephone Hollis......And some- thing to say to Monty, if he ar- rived first.

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Maizic looked embarrassed, "There's no special news," she sald, glancing uncomfortably acrons at Sadie.

Saldic grinned wickedly. "Yes, there is, too," she declar- ed. "Only your mother don't like | to talk about it, Aah."

"Why, what is it?? Ashtoreth looked from one to the other in surprise.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1929.

MUSICAL JOTTINGS.

(Continued from Page 7.)

NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.

CABLED QUOTATIONS OF AMERICAN STOCKS.

propio book one or two nights a week a long while in advance and then refuse to add to their number The following quotations as ati of late nights. Other factors also the close of the market yesterday aro considered to be responsible for the defcit, but it is no use have been received from their crying over spilt milk" and the correspondents, Messrs. Hayden, Immediate task is to make good Stone and Co., of New York by the loss. It was intended to have Mcsera, Swan, Culbertpon and a concert to raise funds, but as all the local amateurs have been Fritz, Sassoon House, Shanghai,]

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LETTER GOLF SOLUTION.

Hero is the salation to the puzzle on asettur yago.

SAVE, CAVE, CARE, CORE,

"Sadie's just fooling," Injected Malzle hastily. Here, Ashtoroth, CORN, COIN. let me give you some more mush-

as much as touched that nice quash-I didn't get too much per. per in it, did I, deart"

Ashloreth took a forkfull. "It's seasoned perfectly," she pronounced...."What's the news, Sadie?"

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UNDERGRAD'S DEATH FROM UNKNOWN DRUG.

FIND IN DRAWER OF ROOMS AT OXFORD.

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Oxford, Fab. 26.

An unknown poison, taken from a laboratory, was auggested yester- day as the cause of the death of an Oxford undergraduate.

One of the University coroners held an inquest un William Frederick Guy, of High- field-roud, Bushey, Herts, who was found dead in fed in his rooms at the college, 1

Dr. George David Parkes, a tutor, said that one of Guy's taske in the chemistry school was to analyse certain unknown drugs, And it was possible for him to take a small quantity of the drugs into his rooms in the college. It was not usual for undergraduates to do so, but they occasionally did

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When Guy first came up' to the University, sand Dr. Parkes, he suffered very much from depros- sion, but had considerably improv.

ed this term.

Behaving Strangely,

Dr. William Tregonell Collier, of Woodstock-road, Oxford, said the rigidity of the body suggested that strychnine might have been

táken.

A year ago, Dr. Collier added, he saw Guy at the request of the rooms, dear. Mercy, you haven't a lot of stuff, that he'll publish, warden of the college, as he had

if he doesn't come

been behaving rather strangely. On his advice Guy saw. Dr. Good, me, Ash?"

"No, I don't know what you're who is in charge of the neurologi talking about.”

cal department of the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. He was dis- Ashtoreth was plainly bewil-charged from Dr. Good's care

some months ago. "She means," explains Maizle, It was stated by Mr. Reginald "that she's doing to sue that Mr. Jack Lye, an undergraduate Hart you used to work for. And friend, that Guy was working at I've advised her against it again the laboratory at Queen's Collegė and again-haven't I. Sadie?" on Friday night analysing a sub- "Bue Mr. Hart!" Ashtareth stance which be afterwards identi- fied as strychnine. Guy said that stared at Sadie, horrified.

ho thought the substance was an "What are you talking about?"

"Well, Mr. Corum says I got a alkaloid, because it had a bitter case," declared Sadie.

taste and gave a certain colour reaction.

Any more. Sadle bent to the mirror, and "Well," Sadie paused deliber- applied her lipstick, shaping her ately for effect. "It's like this, mouth into an exaggerated cupid's Aah—" .bow..

"Sadie!" commanded Maizie, "Ain't it the truth?" she de- "Oh now, Mrs. 'Ashe!" manded, "A red-hot mommer's Sadle left her place at the tablo,. dippy in the dome; I've changed and went and stood behind Maizie, my style, Ash. Did you notice and put her arms about her neck. don't use so much makeup as I "What is it?" demanded Ash- used to not nearly. Just a little toreth. powder and lipstick. They make them up especial now, to match Maizie. your skin, and set off your eyes "I advised!" scoffed Badic. "I right. You want to get your now-want to a swell lawyer, didn't I? der blended, Ash. It don't cost Dan Corum, Ash he defonded flashed Sadie, choking on a few any more, and It's awful smart. I Mao Mullin and Billle-Green in aprouts,

"Badle's been ill advised,” began

"And, what I anys," pronounced Malzie staunchly, "Is it's nothing but blackmail."""

Find in Drawer, "I guess Dan Corum known!"

Guy could have taken to hig hastily injected. "He rooms as much of this substance. as he liked, Lye added. He had "You mean," elucidated Maizle not seen any drugs from the half. And the paste rouge mixed them off scott free. And the Forsternly, "that he can shake down laboratory in Guy's, rooms this special, too."

rest girl that was the gunman's

al-previous occasions. Badle didn't look very subdued, sweetheart. He's got a lot of de- Mr. Hart, if you want to make year, though he had seen them on Ashtoreth thought. And

she tectives working for him. And the trouble. But I've told you reeked of Tabac Blanc.

way he does things he left some-ready, Sadle, and I'm telling you "Swell, isn't it?" she demanded, thing on the other fellow. The gain-there'll be none of that "White tobacco-it's a funny name defendant, they call him. And under my roof."

Sadie appealed to Ashtoreth. for perfume, ain't it?"

then, even if you haven't a good

"Do you blame me, Ash7 A guy Ashtoreth glanced at hor watch. case against anybody, he can She wondered if it was time to shake him down for a settlement as rich as him-geol" telephone Hollla. She wanted to out of court, because he's dug up

got this done for a dollar and a that big blackmail caso, and got says I got a real good caso."

The telephone rang shrilly.

(To Be Continued.)

Dr. Parkes, who was recalled

was found in a drawer in Guy's and shown a white powder which

room, said that he could not identify it without analysis.

The jury recorded a verdict of death from asphyxia caused by Isome unknown drug.-

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