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SPARE

MERRILY WE LIVE

PRECEDING CHAPTERS! Wade Rawling, novatial, roughing it on the Paolo Coast, sa atranded when his ear falla in a ravine. At the Kilbourne homo he so mistaken for a trump.

Mra. Kilbourne has a

habit of taking in trampa, so be fore he can explain this situa tion, he Ands himself engaged at chauffour. Because the family is so humorously secontric, he Mfr. stays for its valua na copy. Kilbourne wishes to imprens dinnor Henator Harlan of

party.

4

Mrs. Kubourne decules Wade muat assist in carving. Just on the guests are arriving, word comes one come, as

accident.

man

can not an he has boon in

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As she wants you to."

Mr. Kilbourne suggested to the renator thai ho and his wife might accompany him to the bar and have a drink.

"Of cours" sald the senator, "we will all go."

Jerry war at the bar. Her father tried to whispor to her.

he was

She might be able to do something. Sha looked an angry, as he folt, when who arw Minerva's arm through Wade's. But she turned away after greeting the senator nnd his wife,

a good daughter and. belght.

"Dinner is merved" ranounced Grosvenor in the doorwns.

Wade was no panicky na Mr. Hi- bourne, An he felt himasif being propelled by Minerva Into the dia- ingroom. It only he had Gros- venor's propenalty for fainting!

He followed Minerva and was Just about to take the chair besido her when Mrs. Kilbourne spoke.

Dafis, "Why, Wade," she

"you don't belong here."

Mr. Kilbourne, Jerry, Marian and Kano ali uught their breath. At this moment for her to try to ot matters right!

"You belong here," abo nald point- Ing to the chair at her lof-the one opptalle the senator.

The Kilbourne family, one and el, bitathod again,

Grosvenor told Wade to go to Mr. Kilbourne and nak what was to be done about the table. It if had to be rearranged, he was to return immediately; if not, he wan to go in the cocktail room and no If the man at the bar needed him,

Wade tried to obey instructions) but two women were like the pro- Il was a pay dinner party from verbial circumstancas-be had no control over them. Porhaps re. Kilbourne, if the had been alone, But could have been managed. Mingen Harlan was with her and the Senator's daughter wan a young

and deter woman, uninhibited mined to do whatever she felt liko doing. Unfortunately, at the mo ment, what she felt like doing was annexing Wado.

"Don't I meat this bandsome

the stuit, one of those all-too-rare occhatons when there seemed to be sumutning tingling in the atmos phare.

It wasn't the Kilbournos Mrs. Har- only, who felt rolloved. man was as one with them when sho saw hor husband was having a good time. He had not wanted to come: ho had been muttering so they left their car that he had been fockeyed into a false position; he told her he know Kilbourne, was

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"Don't I meet this handsome stranger?"" she asked Mrs. Kilbourne.

• strangor?" she asked Mr. Hil-trying to angie nim into okaying bourne.

a bond issue of his; he had to go Mrs. Kilbourne murmured that it to the dinner, but Lo would not- was Rawlins-Wade nawilne. Min- be positively would not be angled; ervnput out her hand, Wado pre he probably would be taken with tended not to soo it, but he could a severe headache right after in- not shake her hand loose, when nor and if she expected their mar

Nor could he rlage to continue, she was to insist she took his arm. rofuso to lend her into the cock-that the must be taken home and tail room. Once, aho was at the put to bed at once. bat, cocktail in hand, among her In one of those sudden, never-to- friends, ho would slip away, But bo-explained allences which he lid not know-then-wist Min- and then fall on a chattering group, erva could do when she was on the senator naked a question. har mottio.

"Is it true, what I've heard, that somewhero At the bar be picked up a glass thoro la a womau to give it to Minerva. But she had around here, who has a penchant takon one herself and clinked bor for bringing hoboes into her home glass against his. He downed the and trying to reform them?" drink in one swallow. It would look strange if he didn't take it

and, anyway, he had never nooded

a drink so much in all his life.

now

"What's wrong with that?" naked Mrs. Kübourne. "If she succeeds--"' hor volco trailed off.

QUADRILLE

EARLY NORMAN FRENCH PEOPLE DEVISED A SQUARE DANCE FOR FOUR COUPLES. WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR. INTRODUCED IT INTO ENGLAND, WHERE IT REMAINED POPULAR UNTIL THE 18TH CENTURY. IT IS STILL DANCED ON FORMAL OCCASIONS.

Can We Dream the Future?

THAT happens to the soul in sleep?

W

Since the dawn of time this ques-

tion has fascinated the mind of man, and never more SD than when the suggestion is made that in the sleep-

By

We have, it seems to me, to chonge our conception of time; for time, as modern astro-physicists are discover- ing, is not that single one-way river of our everyday conception. It is even possible that there is more than one time. That daring theory has been advanced by a brilliant mathe- matician in the last few years, which The Fourth. Dimension Sineus; 0

ing state he attains at times an ab- Sir Herbert Barker normal vision which gives him know- ledge of future events.

To suppose that this claim is one

first made in modern times

the

;

is an His ship was the Wladimir, error. For the Egyptians, the Medes, came lato collision with the

was among those I have tried to comprehend this Peralans, the Greeks, Romans, M. Lukawski

theory, the theory of Serialism, but Chinese, and Hindus have all ponder- drowned.

Now, it my readers will accept, have to confess that beyond obtain- ed over this mystery. References to prophetic dreams and to dreams re- even if only for argument's sake, the Ing a certain glimmering of the welt- vealing knowledge of coming events truth of these records, and accept er's menning, I retire baffed by it.

The great difficulty that besets us equally frequent

Old the fact that man does, now and

then, dream into the future, we can in our efforts to understand how it Testament.

Has this faculty of dreaming into pass to the problem presented to us may be possible to foresee the future

a reality for us; that is, do by this great mystery. future people still have this strange and Automata of Fate experience? The awe-inspiring

are

the

In the

lles in the fact that we habitually think in three dimensions. When we come to the problem of the future we enter the mystle realm of the fourth

lies the

do so

weight of evidence that this is so la The first thing that will occur to dimension. It is not easy to think little short of convincing Lel me most people will be this: If we can fourth-dimensionally. For any but cite some

instances that are vouched dream the future, then the future is the mystic and the mathematician It for in a very thorough way.

preordained and we can no longer is, perhaps, impossible. it does most Take, for example, the dream of claim free-will. And

Yet there, somewhere, that there can be no the future experienced by Princess surely seem Emma Carolath. She set this dream squaring of prescience and free-will. answer to the riddle.1 have placed down, and that record was read by Well, I confess, their dimeulty is before my readers to-day. It is the people before the confirmation by my own. If we surrender beller in riddle of human destiny, no less. I Time of its contents.

free-will we are faced with a feeling I accept the truth of these phenomena

of sight of future events, but of impotence: we are the automata without surrendering my faith that, Two Years After

of fate, and what will be will be.

But human egotism revolts from within limits, we possess free-will." The evidence of knowledge pro- The Princess had fallen asleep

us in our cecds, it sometimes seems, with ma- anxious about a dear one. She pre- that solution: it insulta sently found herself in an unknown deep-routed conceit; it takes the heart thematical progression and we may castle and in an octogonal cabinet out of us, wipes out the significance one day possess the solution of the wherein was a bed, a lamp over it, of life with its struggles, defeats, and riddle, may learn the great unchart- "Your words suggest your kind

and, at its head, a picture of Christ triumphs. Personally, I feet. that ed realm of Dreamland, even so direct He looked around the room anxi- hourt, Mrs. Kilbourne," said the son-

the waking will as to influence the the explanation lies somewhere verses of the poet Schiller.

of time, and that ously. if only Jerry wars there, ator, "and it is an added charm

our conception But I'm she might be able to save him from | to a charming woman.

Two years later, while on a visit to this dominating young woman. But sure the way to look at the matter

friends in Hungary, the Princess was only when we change the common journeys of the soul while the body

in dreams. he could not seo her. Finally, in is by being realistic. A tramp is

amazed

to see the castle of her conception of it that we have can we lies, Inert, wrapped in darkness and desperation, he said he wished Mins a tramp because he wants to be

dreams. Nobody forcas anyone into

Later she was more amazed begin to come to grips with our pro-

red biem Harlan would allow him to tell him one.

to And herself in the octagonal all-all about. kimsef. She said she being one."

In attempting to survey this pro-i know everything which mattered. "I wonder," said Wade.

cabinet, every detail of which was as He was not too young, he was a "Oh come now, Rawlins," said the

she had dreamed it two years before, blem I stand precisely where most armed with Hittle too handsome, he was a. trifls senator, "you just love to argus,

The fact that this dream was set of my readers stand, old fashioned.. elso why should he probably for the sake of the argu

down in writing, and that writing scant knowledge and full of bewild- blush at what she was saying? Bo mont. But you know as well as I much, so good. But perhopa ho do that a tramp is indetent, lothar- shown to others, invalilates any erment. I consider how I have theory of fraud. We must, it seems, come to regard time, and I see that was attached? Ho

almost gic, lucking in nolf-respect and a

past case of as a river that flows from stammering as he told her ho wa monaco to decent avolety-not?" accept that us a proven unattached, but there was some-

we to present and so to future, a one- "He might be a victim of cir

dream Into the future, When thing he must say he was cut cumstances."

find, however, that this is but one of way stream along which we move in phort by her saying she know all "Father, stop monopolizing the

many such dreams incontestably a ordorly procession. And directly 1 she wanted to know. Later on-ob conversation-and Wade,” mld Min-

thenticated, then we shift from the look closely at this idea I see at-once much later on, for they were to erva.

question of the fact to the Interpreta- how false it is.

WES

"For the moment, I wil" an- great deal of each other--he peo could tell her all about himself awared her father, "but I serve no Now she wanted to introduce him tion on you-and Rawlins, too-that before the evening is too old, I want to some of her friends,

He was growing more uncomfor to have a talk with him and unin- table by the minuto. Then he saw terrupted by you or anyone else. It Mr. Kilbourne had come Into the is my business, an servant of the room, had soon what was happen-1 public, to hear all kinds of viows ing and had dashed away. If he from all kinds of people and tuls could get to Mrs. Kilbourns while young man has and somo challeng- her husband was there, he could ing things which I want to have ask that important, question about out with him." the table and then make a run for| Minerva shrugged her shoulders the dining room. Of course it would and naked Wads if he minded i be impossible for him to help servo, sho called him by lus Arst name but at lonet this masquerade which | and if he played goit. He answorod had been forced on him, would "you" and "no" in that order to come to an end. By what amounted for questions and was glad to see to an almost superhuman effort, that once more the conversation he did manago to reach the rocop-] had become general, tlun room and nakt Mrs. Kilbourne Mr. Kilbourne had hoped to havo If there wasn't something shorn chance to talk to the senator. wanted him to do. Being Mrs. Kil. Of course he would not be so crudo bourne, who hesitated and soomed to ask him to give his support uncertain: But there was nothing to the bond issue but he might talk uncertain or hesitating about the around the matter. But the On- hand which Wado fall on his arm. ator meant it when he said ho Without looking he knew it was wanted to talk to Wndo. Minerva.

Mr. Kilbourne could not hear Mr. Kilbourne who had been awal what they wore saying in the draw- lowing groans, wondered if anyone ing room Inter on. He might have over went crazy at a moment's lost that anxious look on his face notice. If no such case were on 17 ho had, board the last part of racord, he felt he would be men- their conversation. tioned in overy book on mental dis- "By the way," the sapator asked, orders over, written, world without "you" are closely associated with end.

Ilbourne, aren't you? Of course Iloilo, Mother and Dad, orlod this is all off the record-but I'd Minerva, "Hurry your polite rolike to know what you think of marks to your host and hostess and thle bond lesue of his?" meet this now man I've found. And, "Dond Jesus? Oh yes. Ali 1 can Dad, tell him you won't stand for say and this may go on the him trying to run away from your record-if Mr. Kilbourno. In. lator zetiring, hy daughter. Me name sated in it, it is nil right," ta Wada: Rawilus."

"Mr. Rawline," said the Benator:

with mock severity #1, ** a doting!

comment you

and

1

Concepts of Time

that in

in

tion of it.

If we can, under certain psychic

Can I say, for example, conditions, dream into the future what is the explanation of this mar- looking at the night sky, when the vel? But since one swallow does not atars are thickly scattered over the make a summer, the render may re- vast and awe-inspiring dome, I am quire further instances. These it is seeing things in the present? not difficult to supply, for there is un abundance.

The War to Come

NOW

Of course, I cannot. 1 sec, maybe, the light of a star that ceased to exist a thousand years before the final stone was placed upon the pyramid of Cheops. 1 see it now, in Perhaps the most astounding case my present; but it belongs to the រំ១ in my presen! recorded is the well-known one of past. What

the light from that

star, Monsieur A. Saurel, who dreamed, in is

after travelling, at Un- full and vivid detall in 1011, an which, epizode that victually occurred to him imaginable speed across the empty during the Great War. He foresaw wastes of Interstellar space, accurately the place, the men, and reaches the reting of my eye and their features (recognising them im- stimulates my optic nerve.

As I stand and pander, the obvious when the dream became mediately fact) and the action in every parti- reality of the external world about, cular.

mo dissotven into mystery. I any, Let me elte one more case before perhaps, that I stand still and watch turning to the thorny problem pre- that sky. Well, in relation to what sented by these as I claim-proven do I stand still? Certainly not in re- lation to the stars er to the moon, for Madame Lukawski was the wife of 1 am part of the planet earth and high offell in the Ministry of that planet earth is in perpetual mo- Marine under the Czarist regime. One tion.

Nothing is so dangerous when night her husband wolte up crying out, "Help! Save me!" When he striving, however inadequately, to awoke he said he had dreamed of a grapple with the majestie problems terrible disaster at sea in which of life, as the easy acceptance of the talk of commonsenso, his ship was sunk on collision, obvious. We Two months Inter he had to take and you may say that it is common- ship from a Black Sea port. He then sense that we cannot look into the recalled his dream und expressed his future from the uncharted realm of fear that he would never come back, dreams. But such commonsense dir- His foreboding proved well founded, solves tiaelf into uncommon nonsense,

facts.

ACROSS

5 The manly fellow who loses his girl will not do what this fruit suggests (0)

cleric he may leader in doubtful com-

8 Though mostly

be a

pany (0)

Part

of this plant can catch butterfles (6)

10 This game shows two vehicles back to back at the finish (8)

11 A cannibal might this one with

being Uie. last part (8)

12 Alloi what sounds edible (4) 14 The sober man does not like

swing about this (3)

15 Moslly flowery warning(0) 18 A bridge expert perhaps (8) 19 A soldier would have to do more than say the sound of the inside to deserve this memorial (8)

23 A saving grace, but with a flaw

(0)

26 Flatter sincerely (3)

27 There's nothing in beer to sug-

gest bitterness (4)

28 It may be a fine affair if your

wireless set is not this (8)

29 In the East this might be collec-

ting sultanas (0)

31 Part of your ear (0)

6 What we can do at Waterloo,

but Napoleon could not (7)

7 Ease with untrue heart(7)

12 Do many aim to do this in

wart (4)

13 One might sail on it, thanks to

the navy (4)

13 Is this sort of verb never rude?

(10)

17. One expects, this

villion (4).

from the

18 The law may do more than this

If one is excessive in It(4)

20 Where there is a leak there's

usually this (7)

21 In no danger of being digested

(1).

22 Ile hasn't actually got a wooden

tail, of course (7)

24 These men of the open air not

actually led with wrath (7) 25 Epithet pleasant-sounding to a

frothblower (7) 30 Moterlal suitable for à grass

widow? (1)

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

PICKFORD SWITCH O MOLLA 10 10 LARRIKIN BORREL I PONS ANDET P COUNTLESS SHOAL

32 Locking angry is anything but

tonic in effect (8)

YUTATOTIE may sometimes be seen 33 This

around a cairn (6)

DOWN

It ought not to be taken lightly (7)

2 He is never free from pain-

may-be he suffers from a form of youth! (7)

3 This only comes out by night

(4)

4 This sort of thing should be let

down lightly (7)

5 What birds of a feather do (10)

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