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APRIL 18, 1938.

CANADIAN— PACIFIC.

THE BRIDE WORE RED

SNVITED FROM THÊ

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ByNorum Annt, a singer in a waterfront cafe in Trieste, is in fashionable Torrento, posing as a woman of pasiiion, for two tunokat advanture is the result of wealthy Count Armalin's drunken whim, Bho has encoun tered dullo, the village poatman and despite herself is drown to him. Then sho maata Rudi Pal and though hole engaged to Muddetona aho resolves to win kla love nó that her two weeks wum Airotch into a tijetimo, fier money is gone but the wind Penta in just a week off. In desperation, she 'droides to atig for it. Perhaps Hull will choose That night to propose. Gullio notices her unhappiness but she refuses to discuán it with him, ajura secretly that, she loves 1.

Chapter Soven

Anni stood before the long oval mirror and smiled back at her own image. She ulted ber hond to one nide, birdko. Ten, the peasant deirndle was decidedly becoming. The dressmaker was about to leave. In a timid yoloo she asked, "Could Signorina give me the usunt one hundred lies in advance now?" But Anni waved her out airily. “Just put the whole blil on my Locount. And you will have the drous on time, won't you? Thank you so much."

BEATRICE FABER

"I would be honored."

Bho threw him a quick glanes but his eyes woro stendy and in- passive. As they started up the road abo chattored with him care- lessly as if aho had not a care in the world. His answern, came only in monosyllabion.

Then, rchebing the house, Gullio pushed open the Hving room door, Anni looked about in rapturous wondermont. She loved it all, the glass doors in back lending to the hillside, the burnished pots hanging on the walls and the fire that crackled merrily in the grato.

"Or courao," Gulllo Bald, watch ing ber, "you're used to so much more than this. It must seem very Inild to have to live in."

She sank into a low chair. "These curtains nood cleaning," she mue- mured absently. Then, with a start ahe; remembered the importance of her errand. Bho gentured to the envolupa In his hat. "Why don't you deliver your telegram? If I'm Stoop | ing_you — "

"I can wait a to while,"

They seemed to be shut off from the world and the vast truth enma to Anni overpowerlugly that sha never wanted to leave, that she would like to stay here Bike this forever.

"Tell me about where you comm from," Gulllo sanit suddenly. "About Trieste, the way you live there." Her heart pumpet. "Why do you want to know?"

"So many elegant fadios, and pens lemons come hero from everywhore. I have often wondered about what they left behind them."

She stared at him but his eyes were grave and quite pericus. Al

Her breath wan conung fast as abe leaned against the door. Money, this she took heart. Perhaps the money. A million volees scomed to telegram was not alnut her after be clamoring for it at once. They all. Siis began to speak, at first shrieked at her in her sleep, haunt-milingly. Then, hugging her knees ingly, terrifyingly, ta

and staring Into the fire she lost herself in the emotion of her tale, the alory of what had ever been.

"Anni?" It was Maria, emerging very cautiously from the bedroom

Anni looked up and her smile was sunshine through the mix. "I'm all right, I guess.”

There was fright in her face.

Yos. What's up?"

There was a big white stone house in which she and her mother had "You know thaƐ maid of the Con- lived. Now she lived there alone. icara's? The ond that's always In the garages were two autemo- pumping me about you? A ile biler, uno a shiny limousine and while ago I was talking to her and the other an open car for when the nhe lot drop that yesterday the Con- | min ahone. There was a chauffeur tossa sent a telegram to Count to drive and a footman to open the What's-bis-name="

doer, In the harbor ahe had a white yacht with two funnels and on nico days they walled along the water- front of Tricato,

"Armalia?" Anni asked hoarsely, > That's right, Saying how much she liked you but what a mystery you are and would he please tell her who you are and where you come from."

There are twenty, no fiftoon bedrooms to the house," she said huskily. "In mine is an enormous Anni awayed a little, stunned by bed with a swan at the head. And the thunderbolt. Her earn Bouracil everything in white, even the tale to roar. Thoro was so much to phone," Her chin quivered and think of, only nothing made sense.] large tears stood in her eyes as she Iler hotel bill, the dressmaker's fer, continued to spin her fairy tale. Maria's savings that she had bor-"And the parties, Gullio, the elo- rowed. They all confronted her. gant people who come to my house, But there was one thing she Dukes and duchesses, princes even. could do. Just one. Frenziedly, she They kiss my hand-" Then all at tare off the detradie and got into a once her head was on her knees walking mut. "At the Festa," she and great pitiful sobs wracked her Knaped, "Rudi's got to propose at slender frame. the Festa Maria, that means the Conteaza must not receive that tele gram, I need time. I've got to have time,"

"Now, where are you going?" Maria demanded.

A strange, chill smile termed on Anni's lips, "To a little house on a

})."

Gullio's arms were around her. "Pour Anal. Poor, lost Anni." Her whimperings were like those of n tired child "Bellove me, Anni, It doesn't matter. I love you."

She rose at that and pulled away from him, the tears flowing down her chocks. "What right have you to love me?" she wopt. "You're a And in the amali aback that was postman. I'm a lady." his telegraph affice, Gullio sai at

Ho held her shoulders, "I've loved

ils desk solemnly engaged in a you from the moment I saw you. game of checkers with its cousin What you were a moment before Pietro.

that, has nothing to do with it."

"I'm a lady, do you hear?" abo cried. "You've got no right to talk to me like that. You've got no right." Panlo was in her heart and Guillo nodded with dignity, "Yes." it swept her out of the door. She But his fingera shook a little as must run, rub. There were her

Suddenly the talograph instru ment began ellcking and Pietro Jumped up exaltedly. "For us, cou ain. The third this wook."

the YA ORSAKU began to come beautifully laid plans and post-

through. He had been awaiting man was trying to upset them all. ever since the Contessa had sento intent was she on flight that an her telegram. to Count Armalia. she reached the shallow gully a few Was it his imagination or did the yards sway, she stumbled over a the clicking key contala an ominous rock and fall in a heap. Rotar

Gullio was beside her, holding Contessa Di Meina, Casa Nobiil, ber tightly, "Anall Anni, are you „Torrano,” the mossage began. "Pos" | hurt?”

give my little joke. I was merely She looked up and her kinilo Juggling upper and lower classes, was sunshine through mist. “I'ma Bignorina Vivaldi ja --" Guillo keld all right, I guess. Very unexpected." fils breath, "--a cabarot girl I found. She moved to rise, then filnched, in a waterfront bar. It had silpped "My shoulder. It hurts." my mind completely. Besides, sherbet me see.” should be gone by now. Borry I Their faces were very bear and can't be there when you toli Rudi. ¦ in that moment Anni looked at him Armalin

for tho' first time without proton86. Gullio stared at the paper he had' Her eyes were wide and no longer typed on if it were a death warrant. shuttered and all that she had held Everything was explained now, the back since that first day flooded beautiful Indy's easy manner with to the surface, him, Maria's famillar use of har first nam8.

"Guillo,” she whispered just once and then his lips were crushed to Ho Jumped up. There was no plan hers and the kiss that she had in his mind. He simply know that wanted burned through her fiercely. Clasped so in sach ethers' arma ho must walk with ble thoughts.

Rounding a band in the road ho they were unaware of the world, started down the mountain path oblivious to the sudden gust of and it was but a minute later that wind that tore the telegram from he and Anni gaw each other almul | Gulilo'z hat and carried it away, far below to the lake. Thora it antously.

Her eyes flashed to the telegram poised deileiately on the water for stuck in his hatband. Frantically, an instant, then swirled, into the she wondered just how much he depths. knew and whether he hated her for the deception.

Rheinlled slowly, poductively. "You see, I'm accepting your in- vitation. Would you still like me to look at your little house?"

(Gullio har declared his love. Will he unselfishly aid Anni to carry through hor decaption? Bee tomorrow's enthralling in stailment.)

STEAMSHOP",

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By Paul F.

TO MANILA

EMPRESS OF CANADA

.Fri., Apeli 28.

HOW IT BEGAN Berdanier

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Your Story from the cradle to old age

By Anthony Weymouth

BERDAN

THAT is there about you and me that makes

W

us feel so different once we've awakened to

the urge of sex?

ANNOUNCING GUESTS

EARLY MAN, TO DETERMINE WHETHER FRIEND OR ENEMY APPROACHED HIS THRESHOLD, INAUGURATED THE PRAC- TICE OF HAVING HIM ANNOUNCED BEFOREHAND. EARLIEST MENTION OF THE CUSTOM WAS IN ANCIENT EGYPT WHERE NEWCOMERS, IF FRIENDS, WERE IMMEDIATELY WELCOMED WITH A CUP OF WINE.

Capr. 1928 y 'nited Feature Arndiente, ine. Im. Kr. E. h., Oll right tested

YOU

in

Looking back on your teens, do the physical which first attracts you feel astonished at the alteration attention.

in your character which took place?

A tride ashuumed, perhaps, at the

It's only natural that the charac-

way you fell in and out of love, teristics peculiar to each sex should And all because a fresh chemical have the power to stimulate interest had been added to those already in the opposite sex, because that's circulating in your blood-stream, what they Sre meant for.

a secretion which brought to life all the emotions that had been lying dormant.

Now, what part of your complex being had this fresh secretion stirred up?

You see-this particular aspect of love is biological and purposive.

It introduces the subject to the growing boy and girl, and once the physical attraction has started the ball rolling the various enio- tions thus aroused do the reat. Think of some of the emotions

The strongest of all our instincts is that of self-preservation. The second strongest is the instinct of which it aroused in your own mind reproduction.

when you were in your teens. You Why, one naturally asks oneself, became restless, jealous, absent are these instincts, able to force us to minded, and perhaps, unreasonable. do things which quite possibly our

better judgments rebel against?

Love

If you were of a romantic turn of mind you passed from one love

fair to another.

Then you found yourself attracted by one particular member of the op-

posite sex.

You made it your business to see more of her-alone. A bond was formed between you, and if it con- lained in its meshes sumething else beyond normal physical attraction, it became real and lasting love.

wonder whether now

you're older you feel the astonishment 1 do when I sit back and ponder over those days which are dead and gone. And to think that all this excitement took place because a fresh chemical had found its way into your clrcula-

tion.

The answer is, of course, that their P & O-BRITISH INDIA-APCAR AND

work is of such enormous importance to us and to the race that the ins dividual hus to be endowed by na- ture with Impulses of such strength that he cannot possibly gainsay them.

Otherwise.

so far as sex la con- cerned in these days, when life is uncertain, eiviilsed man would probably Ignore the need for be-

children.

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getting

Love

to the emotion attached to the Instinct of reproduction- and an emotion attached to an in- stinct is like the cartridge to д

gult

power.

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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

ACROSS

1 This building has a bird in it

- (D).

6 Reprobation (5),

0 A change of one letter would make this novel personality a histrionic flsh (D).

10 The scene of a light concentra-

tion (6).

11 Bulls on the range are a com-

monplace to him (7).

12 A point of importance to the

calculating person (7).

13 A sign of the Zodiac (8).

14 Is cunning about state, but set plate against state in America

(7).

17 An insect finishes biting (7). 10 When machinery is this, it is, of course, something fresh in plant (7).

22 A bit of a brush, perhaps. (7), 24 I's no flippant bird that's in

this nest (3).

25 An examiner of pupils (7). 26 This may be put on (7).

20 The rough diamond has not ne

quired it, of coursʊ (5).

30 Musical term (9).

31 Considerable effect from the

giore (5).

32 The majority of Englishmen

(two words-0, 3).

DOWN

1 Become liable to what is in an

unimal (5).

2 One, anagram might, and an-

other might not 1 down this. blot (5)..

3 Novel encouragement to A Russian cultivator, apparently (7).

4 Altogether (?).

5 Can this be the reward of peer-

less services? (7);

This leader would, not appar- catly be skating if curtailed (7). 7 Loose (9).

8 It looks down on such things as

lovers' meetings (9).

14 Dejected (9).

16 You have all heard him, of

but he carries little

course, weight (9). 16 A

erb (3);

18 An essential for the middle of

14 down (3). 20 This game imported article is

Found (7).

21 Town of U.S.A. (7).

23 Pessible cause of the scratching of the cross country runner (7). 23 Stamp (7).

27 Cuo of the U.S.A. (5).

26 There can be only one end for

this sluggard (5).

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