It's Leap Year, but this young woman of Ronquires. Belgium, is taking no chances of not getting a husband, Following an ancient custom, she has donned teacups in the superstitious belief that the unuum) necklace will induce A proposal.
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Stripping off their clothes, men, women and children of the Doukhobor riligious cult in British Columbia recantly staged' a serios of protest parades which wound up in the jail compound at Nelson, B.C. Pictures above show, left, the compound where cultists are liv. ing in tents pending trial; right, women of the colony in typical dreas waiting at the barrier to talk to friends. The cult owns vast tracta of land, is wealthy in communal rights and objects to sending its children to dominion schools. They also are fighting tax assessments. Provincial police rounded up several hundred naked marchors during a series of parades.
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Refused transportation on their journey to Washington, "bonus marchara" descended on the Pennsylvania railroad yards at Cleveland, tied up switch engines and freight traffic and detained a Passenger train careying U. S. mail for almost an hour. When the veterani scrambled aboard locomo tivos, railway officials halted all movements. Here you see a crowd of the volerans with one of the seized locomotives,
MAN HUNTERS
BY MABEL McELLIOTT
VEGIN HERE TO-DAY. Susan Carry is in love with Bob Dasbar, millionaire'e non. Denise Ackroyd. Buchy girl, tren to break up the attachment and succeeds at a house party which she gives,
takes her home. His wife threatens to que
her mind when Jack Waring,
istant produces an inertlasting letter,
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nurse
She
point she was stubborn. would take anything for Aunt Jes- sie but nothing for herself until she was rightfully Heath's wife."
"I thought we'd go out to that little Spanish place for tea," he Bald.
Sooking the source of mysterious 9.0.9. exlls picked up by radio stations officials at first believed the messages to bava boon sont from the ship-to-shore mall plane of the German liner Europe. But the pilots of the plane, strikingly shown above as it took off from the deck of the Europa several hundred miles at son, have denied sending calls for assistance.
She shivered involuntarily. In-gan to run,
"What's the matter?" she pant- stantly he was all solicitude. The marriage would take place the
"You're cold. 1 knew you ed, flying along beside him. "That would be nice. I'd like
"Nothing, nothing! Only, come following month.
"It don't
Aunt that," she assured him. The lux would be. We'd better go back
I along." right," seen!
ury and care with which he sur- to the car."
The footfalls behind them were Jessie went on when the
"No, no. It's not that," she rounded her was almost suffocat-
They were Ernest Heath, Susan's employer. happens to had disappeared, "to accepting. Was the warm enough? Why protested. "It's only that I feel a no longer imaginary. be paning when Susan and lob quarrel and much from a perfect stranger."
It' real. That strange, whining sound had she worn those thin shoes? little frightened sometimes. for alienation of his affectiona but changes "He's not a perfect stranger,'
Susan anid, laughing, and then Susan appreciated the solicitude, has all worked out too smoothly.came again and Susan recognized a bullet! She felt her companion Ray Flannery, stenographer to the next wondered if she had really spoken at the same time finding it a little It seems as though something it for what it was-the zoom of
trying. Young men were not like must be bound to happen." condes to Busan her distress on the truth. It had been strange
His "Nonsense." this she reminded herself. Young
reassurance away against her. hearing that "Sky" Webb has marriest another
"What is it?" she cried. "Some girl. Ben and Soak quarrel a Christmas and difficult for her to call her men were careless and selfish and was robust. "You're just fanciful,
trickied inside her thing warm eve Dres soms flowers Heath sent her employer Ernest. She had finally
that's all." Waring, meeting Denise, fears of Iser
arrogant. had learned
"You're hurt?" "What are you thinking of? You "Maybe I am." But had it been glove. Interference in Busan's affales. feat a munged it as she Busse to be his wife when his divores be also to like and admire the slim, look as if you were miles away." fancy, Susan wondered, that had "It's nothing. Some maniac has
tall turned sniper," Heath gasped. goes a serious operation and Suany decldes quiet, aristocrati man whom sho
She turned to smile at him. caused her to imagine the had promised
the to marry. There
house They could see the car only a was no time for regret. The die "Only of how good you are to figure strolling past
several nights when she had been tow feet ahead. Heath stumbled had been east. Heath had thought There! She had pleased him saying goodbye to Heath looked and fell and Susan, through
She Sho wheeled. The street light, ashamed.. It was so easy to make iden had made her uneasy- working in the office so she was at and with so little. She was almost strangely like Len? Somehow the roaring in her ears, heard a cry. She divined some- had refused to see Ben since glimmering, lighted the nightmare him happy. "Time for your nap," she re-thing of his former loneliness. Christmas eve when he had out before her. There was Heath, un- but it was a definite engagement minded the invalid..
conscious at her feet. There was just the same.
The drive was longer than Su- rageously kissed her. Aunt Jessie, home Aunt Jessie grumbled. "I de- from the hospital, had been told i clare. I never expected to see then had expected and it was dark! "What's that?" she asked fear- Pen, hatless beneath the trees,
(Continued on Page 11.)
comes final. She hesitates. lier aunt under-
intry him for the sake of security,
CHAPTER XXXIV
Susan's engagement had not been announced since neither the
nor Hoath desired the publicity
mourned.
it unsuitable for her to continue
home.
less."
me."
Bunshiny day, and a faint light in the branches."
on the lake. On stillingered
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of it. She had met Ernest Heath day when I'd sleep in the middle when at last they returned to the fully, glancing over her shoulder. cold. "Nothing at all. Just the wind and had grudgingly liked him of the afternoon. I call it shift city. It had been a clear, although she had grumbled at the
"It sounded like someone idea of their marriage.
"You're a humbug. You really sudden impulse Susan said, "Let's ning.", She looked back along "I never thought to see you like it," Susan told her, leaving walk along the lake wall."
the wind swept esplanade. Inarry R divorced man,' photo got her wraps. Heath was call-
"Especially someone so ing to take her for a drive.
She wanted quite unreasonably haps we had better go." much older. Not that he isn't a
to escape from the warm, luxuri- He looked at the girl with some
They began to walk briskly in fine man. Anyone with half an dissatisfaction as she got into the her checks. Heath told Simon to the direction from which they
ous car and feel the east wind on eye cau soo that. It just don't
car.
Susan flung another Reem right."
The starched nurse Heath had Susan asked.
"What on, carth's the matter?" wait for them at the turn of the had come.
road.
anxious glance over har shoulder.! insisted upon providing for
"It's
Isn't it? Her nerves, were certainly in a bad KING'S BLOG the
lovely hore, convalescent bustied Into the
breathed the. girl: She leaned state. She could have sworn she
had soon the shadow of a fleuro (Ogahe Ferry) behind that oak tree,
"Nothing, except that I wish you'd let me give you that fur
room then and Aunt Jessie fell coat now instead of waiting until silent. The plan was that on the labor," the man remarked. following day Aunt Jessio was to
go to Florida in the nurse's charge.
against the parapet, looking down
at the water.
"Not as much so as some of the
moon. the man reminded her,
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