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EDWARD ARNOLD JOEL MCCREA- FRANCES FARMER

COMING SHORTLY TO HONGKONG:

Barney Glasgow, ones : shanty boy, married Emmy Louise Ho wifi, his boss' daughter, and bo came the most powerful, tumbor baron in Wladönsin. at sissy Barney became desperately in foluated with Lotta Bostrom, the nineteen-year-old daughter of his old friend, Bwan, Evvio, Barney's daughter, was in love with a mill hand and Richard, his son, is an altempt to pot Lotta out of dia father's way had fallen in love with hor himself,'. Unaware of this were Barney and Swan.

Chaptor Six

Barney entered the darkened house and mounted the stairs two nt a time, hoping to find my

Tommy had some true at Inst. Loules embraced Evvie with tear Biled eyes. She kissed Tony. They' looked so happy, she couldn't help crying just a fiftis. Arz, Schworko jenfolded Evvio in her ample; moth

orly arma. Swan, Karie and Zolta crowded around and wished the couple happiness.

When Evvie had changed into her travelling dress sho stopped at Richard's room expecting to find Tony there. The door was slightly ajar and sho suddenly stopped, par nitzed by what the daw. Richard and Lolla wore, standing, la the middle of the room, looked in each other's arms. They wore completely oblivious of her presonco.

Evvia walked quickly down tho stairs and detached her father front Sho aircle of smiling friends, kissed him tenderly,

"Do me one more favor," she said,

Louiso stili awake. She was. Bor left my bag with the railroad fore broaching the subject upper most in his mind he decided to foll

lokets up in Itichard's room”-”

Barney chuckled and went up- her about Evvie aud Tony. A hoataim. At the threshhold of Rich- expectod, who took it badty.

ard's door he stopped dead in hig "Aren't you going to stop it?" she tracks. Richard was kissing Lotta cried Indignantly.

with passionate adoration. At the sound of his entrance they turned, their arme silll entwined. Barney's face was terrible to behold,, ila mouth hung open and be was breathing like a man who had been running. Without a word of wam- ing he lunged at Richard, Richard ducked, evading him.

"You can't stop a thing like that -not when two people really love each other. No, Emmy Louise, you let her alone." He braced himself and continued with quiet force, "Sho's not going to make the same mistake you and I did."

Emmy Louise looked at him with alartied eyes, hardly daring to un- derstand.

"Lotta and I are gonna bo mar ried,” he bogan,

"I want a divoros, ho went on. "I'll give you anything you want-❘my girl-she's my girl!”

"You foot!" cried Barney, "She's

"Lolta, and I are gonna be married' -? Richard bogan.

all the money you can spond-you Lotta rushed at Barney, har dym can write your own ticket and I'll blazing.

| Pa.

Ho novor touched me--I wouldn't let him. He's lying-~

Richard advanced toward his father, his fist doubled,

eco-that-It's all kept quiet—Ão {_"Don't you bollave him. Richard.. scandal, po

"Bernard Glasgow, you're amzy's a Ho! Ask Aunt Karigask Emmy Louine brake in, her face dla torted with fright. "Are you in love with someone? Is it that girl of Swan's? Are you trying to trade

"Bay you're lying-say it's a fio- an old wife for a new one? You're another of those silly middle-aged 'what you just said, or I'll lick you rich man that want to marry a-father or no father young girl and be made a fool of!" I'm aiting for freedom, Emany Louise," Barney said ovonly.

As Harney and Richard struggled breathlessly, Lotta eried out in terror:

"Richard let him bo-lat him bat You'll hurt him. He's an old mat

he's your father

"You're a fool! You're an idiot! You married me and a fortune with | me. You never cared for mo, did you? Answer mo!" Thon, as Bar Clutching at Richard's coat, ako ney said nothing, che continued dragged him away from Barney, hysterically, "No, don't say It! I who stared at her, stricken by her know It's trus, I've always known words, "Ho's an old man." His how you felt. But I loved you breath cama is choking gasps. you could never understand loving Turning slowly, Ilke, a man in a ilke that was like a dog crawling daze, ho walked out of the room. after you

I'm terribly sorry." Barney said almost in a whisper.

At the bottom of the stairs Emmy Loulso awaited him,

I

He

"That precious son of yours "Don't do this to me," she begged.threw him out!" He looked ill, HIM "I know you'll leave me if you want eyes woro sunken and glazed. An but Til never give you a divorce she stared at him, incomprehend. nevert. You'll never marry that girling, he want on, that gir. if I can help it!!

sald he was going to marry her."" Barney looked at his wife in "Is that all? Is that allf" Tharo

rollef anger and contempt. What was the was

and joy in Emmy use? Ho started for the door, his Louise's ayes. “I don't care, not as font dragging, Bobind him there long as it isn't you- thought-- was a sharp ary. Her hands out- Bhe wiped away, the tears that stretched, trombting, Emmy Louise rolled down her face. "I think came toward him, "She was sinking Evvie's going to be happy-maybe to her knees. Ho caught her quickly, tighard and this Lotta can be too, roughly. She looked at him with kings room to be taken out of our hands,... Maybe it's better that torrible, tragia, oyas,

way..... *

#You're all I've got-alt Eve over

Harney put ble hand gently, on had in the world. I don't care who Evvie marries if you'll only stay his wife's shoulder and looked with me! If you say he's all right about for Evvio, Evvio-ahu bad it's all right with me anything you sent him upstairs on purpose! Well, he was glad of it, it' wis what bo may, only don't leave mol"

Binking Info a chair, Emmy Hooded to bring him to his abpack. Loules burled her head in her arme Amid general goodbye, Hissar, tears and began to woop in long, tearing and a shower of rios, the newly- noba. A torrent of pity, walled up weds made their departure. The within Barney, pity so great that butler was announcing lunch. Put- even his resolve was shaken. With ting his arm around Awan's should- awkward gentleness he put his hand oh, Hamoy, turned and faced his on her shoulder, and walked from guests. His face was twisted in a strangely bitter amlis but he wan the roota. N

calm.

The Glasgow hours was flied with "Come and get 11" he said, scho wedding guests, irrie and Tonying the old familiar cry. Every wore being married. When the body, coms and get itt-

· ceremony, Was -over-yvio looked

at Tony witlajdovei, and pelds

shining in her eyen; her dream

THE END

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TO-DAY IN HISTORY

1938

Spark That Started The Spanish-American War

N February, 1898, the

Spaniards were still Forty Years

wearily trying to re

duce their

AgoTM

refractory To-Day the American scarcely be blamed for their deale

Cubans to order. Cuba, as

the last fragment of their Cruiser Maine great American Empire,

was very precious to them Sank in Cuba

and they were most reluc

tant to allow her to go the

140 the truth? The question Is Import- ant. If the Maine was blown up by the Spaniards the Americans could action; but if the explosion was in- ternal American intervention was un Justified Ser

the sito how

There can be little doubt as to the Maine was destroyed. In: 1911, at immense expense, the wreckuge was brought to the surface and examined. The most important dis- covery was a curved bottom plate, ted; almost beyond ques which indicated,

way of the other colonies The proceedings of both Inquirication, that at this point the Maine hid

were necessarily restricted. Tho come in contact with a mine.

•plate was

from revolt to indepen- Spaniards, who professed their be- Immediately above the

Hef in an interior explosion, had the the six-inch magazine, where, bluck

dence

run:

But while the Spaniards controlled trespa en

survivors.

whero' are of cojode on contact

of the harbour, "but could hardly

ignited by the explosion, on the wreckage or insist been was stored, which must have two sorts of the towns and the coastline, the

examining

that mines,

hose which interior of the island was seething The Americans, who were sure

which are controlled by with rebellion, whole tracts being the Maine had been mined or ter- and those in the hands of Autonomists, who pedoed, were unable, in the delicate electric cable. Since the Spaniards carried on a ceaseless guerrilla war- state of International relations, to would hardly have scattered the first fare against the troops sent to sup- insist on searching the harbour and sort in, a harbour full of shipping, the Maine must have destroyed by

been press them.

the Spanish defences. Nearly us serious as the rebellion

was pre one of the second. Each inqulty, in short was was the attitude of the United States. cluded from exploring the ground When the Spaniards declared that

The Spaniards had been in Cuba where its members might expect to they could find no trace before the

Americans were in find evidence confirming their pre- electric cable in the harbour, they America; so that there could be

were lying and knew that they were no conceived theories. question of invoking the Monroe The Spaniards got their report lying. Doctrine; but the American news- out first. Since there were no mines papers openly expressed their hope in Havana harbour and no one could that the upshot of the troubles have fired a torpe

red a torpedo without eMelal

would be the final expulsion of Spence,

from the New. World and were al- ready beginning to talk of vention.

intere

neous

of an

the explosion, they must have been internat.

FROM Spanish sources it is They went on to make a number

clear that the harbour of of interesting and--to the Americans Havana was protected by mines, highly irritating suggestions as to 180 of which had been sent out from what could have caused it. Sponta- Spain the year before. The anchor-. tous combustion in the coal bunkers, age of the Maine being fixed by

or. accident in the the port authorities, it is

on accide

probable AT this unpropitious moment magazine, or the generation of gas that an electrically controler mino the Americans elected to a watertight compartment, or was placed at the spot where she warship, the Maine, to in a

some carelessness in leaving inflam- would lie.

Curiously enough, on the evening The explanation that the Maine mable materials about,

The American inquiry had the of the explosion she had swung had been sent to pay a courtesy visit advantage of being able to carry round on her moorings until she was deceived nobody and was regarded

send a Havana,

Was

by the Spaniards as a gratuitous in- out a thorough inspection of the in the very position she would take

wreck. Divera were sent sult to their intelligence, ..........

down, up if she were engaging the Spanish ond although it They protested, but, were too late

imposible to batteries on shore, the eventuality stop the Maine; all that they discover much from a tangled mass for which the mine was presumably could do by way of reprisal was to of steel imbedded in soft mud, they intended..

certain facts.

to

send one of their own, cruisers to did bring to lige bottom pleting between Spain and the United States

New York:

find

Π

how.or

In view of the strained relations It appeared that the The Maine arrived in Havana to of the ship had been violently bent the precaution was perfectly Icgill-

chilly

The and the keel similarly bent and mate.. reception.

To this day no one knows Spaniards, in their indignation, had broken, a result which, in the opinion exaggerated her size and armament, of the court, could only have been by whom that mine was fired. The Actually the was a second-class produced by the explosion of a mine, secret is perhaps locked away among battleship of 0,082 tons, carrying.

records at Madrid; or perhaps it was four ten-inch and six six-inch guns.

thought wiser that there should be The authorities, of Havana were

no documentary evidence. frigidly pollte to be commander,

But the Spaniards must have dis- FURTHER, the Court had covered the true cause and tried to Captain Sigsbee, and his officers,

little difficulty in squash- conceal it. and no more; the population was not always even polite. Passengers in a ing all the ingenious suggestions put It can scarcely be supposed that ferry-boat booed and cat-called as forward by its Spanish rival

the authorities themselves were 50

་་ ་

bo

they crossed the Maine's bows, and The two courts could not be left mad us to fire the mine. But it may when Captain Sigsbee attended a to agree to differ, and a month later be that on the night of Feb. 15 some bullight, he was received by a battery Congress-recognised-the-Indepen- one obtained access to the electrical dence of Cuba, and instructed Preal gear controlling the mines the looks. of black 100

McKinley to However, the Americans had not dent

take much harbour. He saw, by the dropping been expecting bouquets

and

took messures as might.

necessary to of a shutter, that the Maine had these outbursts in good part. On expel the Spanish forces from the swung round until she was in con- the evening of February 15 all was island.

tact with a mine, and he could not quiet aboard and in the city. It was The

Spanish Minister at night, ton at once demanded, his Washing- resist the temptation.

passports, The moment of exhilaration which and so began the war, which was to he must have enjoyed was dearly The cafes were still full of people be a continuous disaster for Spain. bought at the price of Spain's when at 20 minutes to ten some- But what, it may be asked, was colonial empire. thing happened which sent everyone hurrying to the water's edge.

a heavy, rather breathless

following a lot, sunless day,

A report, as though a sporting gun had been fred, was followed by a tremendous explosion, and from the spot where, a moment before, the Maine had been lying at anchor, a great column of Dame and smoke rose skywarda.

For some minutes the smoko hid everything, and.when it cleared all that could be seen of the battleship

of was a burning heap wreckage crowded with men.

Boats were lowered by an Ameri- can steamer and a Spanish cruiser, and the survivors were taken off, but the casualties were terrible; 254 men perished, and only rescued.

What had happened? The ac-

the counts of

survivors. differed slightly.

100

were

Captain Sigsbee, who was writing letters in his cabin at the time, de scribed the explosion as "a burning, rending and erashing sound." He also declared that immediately after- wards he had heard cheering from the shore.

One man described a trembling and buckling of the decks," followed by an explosion; another saw the whole starboard side of the deck "spring up in the air."

OME were positive there had been two explosions; others were equally sure they had heard only, onc. All were agrood on the violence, of what had happened, The ship had been spilt in ploces, and men, had been tossed about like | scraps of; paperia malina A

Next morning the

trouble began. The Spanish" nowe- papers expressed their profound BOTTOW that, probably owing to some defect in construction, the Maina should have blown up and so many brave men have lost their lives.

Tho

There Wyticari "papers" reglaboral treacherous destruction of one of their battleship Tying

harbour In the of a so-called friendly Power

2 indignation at the

The Governments of both countries announced that An Ingulty must be held, and within aowook two riväl held word tung. The obviour courts: alternative of one court of neutral Judges does not appear to have de Lourret to either party prese

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