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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1924. !f (fc c f * !’*<•'8 >9 w • - ,. *! il }< g o ■ j ^ SB = - <By GEORGE KIBBE TURNER 15 by Irwin Myers Cotwrisht inHM^unniTnHMnuRRuriHiHiilS Metropolitan % Newapaper Service "You’ve got to let me go now,* she said, aroused, seeing he would never take her seriously. ‘Tm going ta leave here—stop this farce of pretending to be what I am not—go away. And if I’ve done this wrong,” she said, for that was almost her obsession now, T want to come out and take my punish ment.” "And do what, then?” he asked her smiling. "Go where?” T don’t know yet” "Then how can you goV T shall. 1 must,” she Insisted. "Oh, what’s the hurry?” he asked her, He refused entirely, It seemed, to take her seriously. "There you go again," he said, "rais ing my temperature—opposing me. You wait I can’t have you doing thl yet” It was a surprise to her. In a way all very different from what she had expected. She saw very clearly new what must be done by her. She must confess publicly, show who she was. take whatever punishment there was for her act; end this Trust and turn the great fortune over to its rightful owner. All that was necessary w»<* for him to consent—to help her sho v the situation, who she really was. An 1 this she had supposed he would do most readily. She was therefore most surprised at his attitude. He might not care. It seemed to her, to keep the Gorgam Trust alive, but he cer tainly had no haste about ending it “What do you take me for?” he asked her with an approach to seri ousness when she kept urging him. “Do you think I’ll let you do what you are talking about? Drag this thing through courts—and incidentally yourself? Get smeared with publicity like a common criminal?” “Why shouldn't I be? I am one.” “There seems to be,” he said, “a difference of opinion upon that point between you and me. And besides.” he said with a rather masterful and peremptory way he seemed to be tak ing with her at times lately, “I-don’t propose you shall! You are not strong enough—well enough, for one thing; and you know it.” But she insisted that she was, and that she would go in some way. And he must let her. Finally he mentioned the possibility of a compromise. "I’ll tell you what Twill do, though,” he conceded. “I believe that between * 0 “I believe that between vis we can work out a compromise. »YW us we can work out a compromise. Just wait. Be patient.” It was some little .time—after he was able finally to be driven out to take care of business matters to some extent—before be brought out, one night when they were together in ttie smallest and most homelike of the great downstairs rooms, the compro mise which he had been working out. Lately she had been more and more Insistent on having matters settled, more and more determined to get away from her false position—and In a way, from him, the man whom she had conspired to injure and keep from his rights. “I'll tell it all to you In order,” he ■aid. “—my scheme for a compromise. I’ve been working on it for some little time.” "Go on, please,” she said, "In the first place,” he told her, "I have done this: It was necessary, you see,” he said, explaining, “that some one be appointed to the position of Jasper Haig as active manager of the Trust” ‘Yes,” she said, waiting. "So I had myself appointed. You don’t object?" he asked her when she did not answer but sat looking at him. "Object, no!” she said. ’’Why should I? .It’s all yours, anyway—not giine. Yet I d" ' understand it,” she aduU soiaew*.-. suspiciously. It seemed to her that it might he another scheme of evaaton or delay on - his part—to keep her from doing what she attended to. “I thought," h« said, “that perhaps you might thank me for It! But you will you’ll understand it later. That’s the first point. Now the 'second point In my scheme: I’ve arranged it now, what you wasted, so that you are no longer Adelaide Rwtberfsrd—that is, you will not have the unpleasant fea tures of her I I’ve fixed It so you will be no longer under that cloud of being legally insane." "That does not Change the real sit uation about Adelaide Rutherford.” she objected, "—the one thing that would be almost Impossible to bear." “What?” “He* reputation of having been In aane.v "Her rep w t a t to a ," be said, "—with whose?” She of oanrse did net know dlraptiy. "I guess yen don't,” he said. "You Innocent 1 Do yen imagine that the Gorgam fatally ever let that he knewn? Is it customary to advertise family skeletons? Not half a dozen people In the world knew tt; and they, yeu may be sure, always have been and will be strangely sHeat." "Even tt they are,” said Mary Man chester, still obstinate, “lbat will make no difference In my plana I’m not Adelaide Rutherford. Pm Mary Man chester and I won’t he Adelaide Ruth erford much longer,” she said, C Hush ing, growing « little angry. just •That's K. The fat.” third be m I (f tog) “that's mrr cem promise H "Our compromise?” she echoed after him. "Don’t yen know?” be asked, and caught her hand—but not yet her eye*. "No,” gke said with somewhat 'ques tionable truthfulness. T want you to be—let us say—Mrs. Gorgam," ho explained with'his hajf mocktng Itrat now comparatively B eri "Wlll you agree—to my compromise?” He was greatly surprised by her next action. "No,” she said, springing to her feet. "No,” she said vehemently. "No— no I I won't have it so. Pm Mary Manchester. TVe never been Adelaide Rfitheriord, and I won’t—I won’t—I won’t ! I’m going back to be declared what I am tegally. "Another thing,” she said, still find ing objections, "is that money. It doesn’t belong to me. It belongs to you. Why keep up this force," she asked, -this awful farce of a Trust for me, when you know just who I am?” ‘I thought,” he said with a some what less certain smile, “that was one of the fine points of my scheme. If I controlled that, the Trust, I would control all the money and incidentally ►you!’’ But she was obstinate, he found— surprisingly so for so frail a creature. it I’ve done wrong,’’ she Insisted, 'I know it And I’ll take.roy punishment. I’m going to be Mary Manchester again some way. And then Pm going as far away as I can—away from here and this and you.” And she tried now des perately to wrench herself free...... “So you - don’t like my compromise?” he said, releasing her at last with a rather wry smile. He was clearly both surprised and disappointed. "No,” she answered, “it is neither right nor honest—nor anything.” “Listen!” be said, catching her hand and holding her.' 1 He lookecLAown Into her flqphed face. "Listen,” he said sternly, “you young criminal! I want to talk to you—and I shall. Let us go back,” he proposed, "and take the old method Jasper Haig always used to use. Let’s work out the theory of a possible case. * “Suppose,” he said, when she found herself unable to get away, but still did not answer, “a case where a young woman—who is incidentally, I may say, very good to look at—save’s a man’s life at the very great risk of her own.” She tried to speak then, but he would not permit her. “And suppose she had a crazy Idea that she had done wrong, and must go through and take her punishment— and straighten everything out public ly, in spite of all reason and common sense. Calling herself a criminal!” She tried again in vain to get away from him. “And then suppose the man, whose life she had saved, and who was also for other good and sufficient reasons absolutely determined to marry her, offered ‘her a most reasonable compro mise— by which, as his wife, he would have control both of her and of her money—and that she deliberately re fuses—because she feels he would have too great control over her,” he added, smiling just the mere fraction of a teasing smile. “It’s nothing of the kind,” she an swered him, speaking for the first time, “and you know it.” "And supposing," he went on, disre garding her remark, “that nnder the law he had absolute control over her legally already. What would he do, *• he asked, "especially when he saw that -She was worrying herself sick over matters? What could he do,” he asked when she did not answer, "ex cept try again—offer one more - com promise—which will be an ultima tum?” "What?” asked Mary Manchester un guardedly. “This,” he said quickly, taking ad vantage of her question: "Mary, will yon marry me?” “No,” she answered again more ve hemently than waa necessary. “Walt I” he commanded her. "That’* only half of my plan—the new com promise. If,” he said, bringing out the other half, *1 will let you after ward go to court, publish yourself a criminal, smash thlq Gorgam Trust to GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS a miinon p.eces— u o anythn* you want to?” "Shall 1 be Mary Manchester again?” demanded his opponent grimly. "Not for very long. You’ll have to marry me beforehand, while I’ve still got you. You’ve got to marry roe be forehand. And then well finish up that legal dragon of Jasper Haig's— together! •'What do you sayr asked the offer ■er of the compromise. There was no answer; both stopped speaking for the time being. But this last etunpromise, It appeared, was finally accepted. It was finally, through this comptw raise. It seems, long before the coming of this matter into court, that the wide- 1y famous termination and dissolution of the Gorgnin Trnst was brought | about—concerning which the reader na | doubt has long ago learned the row* familiar features through the puWk press - [THE END.t Gone Where Burglar* 04 Mil, the burglar, tried to crack A safe protected through the back; The Jet-loose voltage wasn't elow. And Bill’s gone where the burglars #•. The Wrong Article that’s your complaint against this saleslady?” “She doesn't understand her busi ness.” “Explain, please.” "3 asked for attention and she shewed Indifference.” Powerful Enough "Are you sure these glasses are high power?” asked the potential lady cus tomer. “Madame,” replied the ambitious salesman, “when you use these glasses to look at anything less than ten miles away « looks like It’s behind you." Reaolvingly Speaking Oo--®«nember when we first met in the revolving door at the post of fice? She—But that wasn’t the first time we met He—Well, that’s when we started going around together, wasn’t it? A Correction "She's bad five husbands already, hasn’t She?” “Oh, no! That would look as if she were temperamental and regarded the marriage vew lightly. As a matter of fact she has only had four husbands.” Potting Mother Mrs. Upstart—On this invitation to the highbrow’s affair I see *‘R. S. V. I*.” I wonder wbat that means? Daughter—Wby, you silly thing; I suppose they are going to have a radio concert from that station! K. O. r* f It. *7 WL "That hooch we had last flight was perfectly good. Why did Jones say there were knockout drops in It?” “His wife beat him up for drinking when he got home.” Full Circle The Jonesee have a saxophone; The Jenkinses a radio own; A phonograph beguiles the Flyns; Revenge is sweet. We have twins! The Mean/Thing She—You said you were going to give me a present of some kind. Last night I dreamt of a pearl necklace. He—Then I’ll give you a dreambook •o you can see what that means. Knew What Wat Coming Wife—It isn't the size of the gift, but the spirit that goes with It that counts Hub—Who is going to get a 79-cent present from us now? INTERESTING—.* TRUE The horse has no eyebrows and, consequently, doesn’t have to carry an eyebrow pencil. It takes 100 liver* to make pne gal lon of cod liver oil, but this knowledge won’t make it taste a bit better. The thickness of n razor edge Is about a millionth of an inch, but that’s enough to get a lot of people Into scrapes. Saturday is an unlucky day in the British royal family. It’s a good day for the prince of Wales to stay off his horse. The Chinese can stand changes of climate better than any other race, whlch may account for their- not loa lng their temper. In Persia tear* shed for the dead are preserved In bottles. In order to make a good showing the weeping ia done before the will is read.—Ex change. HOME TOWN PHILOSO PHY to If bo alway» caught makes looklnl a at map photograph fee) cheap a * Connected With tt Long Distance *» By ANNA ROBESON BURR t, I® by OoaWfdjy, P«av a Co.) 'T'HE A children had kept me up Billy wa8 fretfu ,_ poor , itt|e ^pj he had been every night since that day when the house was flPed with white flowers and people in black. The older ones, too. were restless and hard to satisfy. Their world had been upaet Somehow they couldn’t aeem to u nder stand the absence of that peraon who had never before willingly left them **,) who, if. she did always came run nLng up the nursery stafr. her voice calling eagerly ahead of her to ask If were well there. No wonder they were troublesome, and I was long in soothing them, and longer still after wards quieting myself, till I fell Into a grief-stricken sleep. It was the telephone, struggling to ring, that roused me. I sat up in bed with an awful dread of some fresh mis fortune catching at m.v heart The bell couldn’t seem to ring, and the thing just stood there, fighting to tell me something, but horribly unable— inarticulate, clicking and buzzing. I pushed the hair out of my sticky eyes and seized it called Into it ... The night was unusually still; no wind moved the trees. On the floor lay bars of bright moonlight I looked at them as I waggled the hook up and down and tried to win some answer out of the clicking and buzzing. For a few minutes there was a hopeless chaos of sounds and then the disturb ance seemed to clear up and die away, giving place all at once to that tense, vibrating bum singing over the wires, which always means a long-distance call. Who could be calling me in the middle of the night from such a long distance? Now feverishly awake and fright ened, I oailed again, but only that soft song of the wires answered me. My imagination, as always, seemed to fol low those wires where they hummed In the night wind or shone in the moon light—across towns and fields and prairie, over mountains and rivers, from far, so far away—beyond the world, beyond space and from the stars. ... •« Hello who’s calling who Is there?” I begged. Then, thin and faint and far—far as the stars themselves— came the Voice. A Voice I knew, and, oh, marvel of Heaven! a Voice I ex pected to hear. “Nan—oh, Nan, is It you? Oh, Nan, are you there?” So faint, so far, so living, that Voice ... the horrible, heavy beating of my heart leaped te recognize it. / “Yes—I am here—tt is L Speak to me! Ob, God, what miracle fas this?” “Sly children—how are my children? Nan, coo you hear? Tell me about my children So anguished, so faint, so far that Voice! ‘My children—tell me about them! Quick, quick; how are my children?" 1 pulled myself together. I wasted no more time. Somehow I seemed to know that only a moment would be vouchsafed to ns and that I must make haste. So I spoke into the telephone as steadily as I could: “The children are all well, deaf. I am doing the best I can. Billy has been a little fretful with his teeth, but Flora’s cold is better. Helen went back to school today; she wore her sweater and warm cap. I talk to them about you—every bed-time, I think. I hope they will get used to it soon—, they are so young! I shall not let them forget. ... 1 am doing the best I can and all Is well with them. Be comfort ed, dear! ... Do you hear me? Are you comforted? 11 No sound save that thrilling of the wires, far, far beyond—beyond what? I hungered to hear, and I called again and again: “The children are well—well, dear est! Tell me you hear—can’t you speak to me?” No answer save the soft, humming song from Infinite space . . . And then— “What number, please?” That sharp voice recalled me to the madness oi tfiy waiting and to my tears. . . . For awhile they kept me from speech. Then I looked out upon the bars of clear moonlight and I was suddenly quieted-and awed. . - . “Hello! Are you still connected with Long Distance—hello?” The operator was persistently trying to speak to me. So, before I hung up. I answered the telephone, ‘Thank you,” I Said. “I wus connected with Long Distance, I believe; but It’s ended.” Bulltnake Good , 4 Mou*er ,f If you don’t care to keep a Kansas bullsnake upon the premises to keep rats and mice away, get a bullfrog. The mousing proclivities of a bull frog are vouched for by Wade Father oee, local sportsman, who captured a giant hopper on a fishing trip, says a Chlckasba (Ok)a.) dispatch to the In dianapolls Stdj| Instantly, the frog secured a safe i and steady future at a time when he j w »* headed for the frying pan. Fatherbee tied the “critter” la the j house awaiting execution. During the n| C l ’t the frog broke loose, s , “I could hear him hoofing about the house nnd then hear hi* Jaw’S pop and a mouse squeal. He kept I but up throughout the night The next morning he had the appearance of a swelled-up frog. Now he hal a home with me.” Fatherbee declares. Fatherbee say* he wouldn’t trade (lie frog for a flock of tomcat*. i POMONA NEWS Mr. and Mrs. DeLas Miller and Virginia and DeLas, Jr., of were the guests of Mr. and B. D. Spangler Sunday. Mrs. W. L. Nott and Mrs. D. F. have been confined to their with severe colds the post The Sewing Circle meets with Mrs. R. Spangler Wednesday afternoon. Miss Annie Smith has returned from Atlanta. Mrs. W. L. Nutt had as her guests Monday Mrs. George Elder and Miss Gay of Sunny Side, Mrs. Lynch Griffin, and Mrs. S. R. Span&gler Mrs. Mollie Griffin. HOOF AND MOUTH DISEASE WARNING GIVEN LOUISIANA Baton Rouge, La., Sept. 29,—The Louisiana live stock stnitary board today announced it had been advised that the foot and mouth disease is reported to exist among the cattle in Harris county, Texas. Immediately on receipt of the in formation thej board declared that a quarantine prohibiting the move ment of shipments into Louisiana from Texas of any livestock, cattle, sheep, goats or other ruminants, and swine would be issued. The diagno sis of the disease was confirmed by the United Stater bureau of animal husbandry at Washington. WOMAN’S WAY. I" U What is a good cure to absent mindedness?” asked a man of his doctor, friend. II Why, are you absent minded? »» the physician retorted, laughing at the question. 44 No, ft said his friend, u It’s my wife. 4* The poor dear makes the strangest mistakes. I gave her a $20 bill the other day with which to buy me some shirts and she came home with shoes and new gown for herself. n HARD TO PLEASE. “I say, as your Husband, I don’t approve of that dress—It’s too low in the back. n << Oh, there’s no pleasing You you. used to complain about having to hook me up the hack.” FLATERY. My dear woman, it is well known that intellectual women are not good looking. ft 44 And how would clasify me ? ” 44 Why you are not at all mtellec tual.” “Oh, you flatterer. tt « c N. mm±m w \ m A *»-! : 1 Af t s ='iiliiii Mgsite r JP —i Let us examine your car for you. There may be something out of order and with a little timely attention you may save yourself much troubla. You buy insurance to protect the home folks, don’t you? Well, why not let us examine your car and make cer tain that as far as you are eon cerned you have done everything possible to make life safe for every body who rides in your car. You owe it to yourself and family. N. Eighth St. Griffin, Ga. PAGE MERELY A MEMORY. He: I’m sure I’ve seen you before. She: I wonder. You’re not the who proposed to roe last evening you? •ijf CLOSE FIGURING. "Pete is the most close fisted chap know." Vtf ** How so? i* *1 He held hack his proposal to Ger until the day before, her birth and then gave her the engage ment ring as a birthday present.” Lodge Directory WARREN LODGE No. 20, t O. 0. F„ Monday night at 7:80 at Warren Lodge Hall. Visiting brothers cor dially invited. B* A. PEEL, Secretary. W. T. ATKINSON,, N. G. MERIDIAN SUN LODGE No. 26, P. & A. M. Regular meeting Tuesday night, October 7th, 7 o'clock. Note change in hour. Visitors welcome. C. H. Scales, W. M. Bill Wtila, Sec. W. 0. w. Meets every Thursday, 7:80 p. m. Sovereigns, your camp needs your presence. You will find your Clerk ell times nt Slaton Powell Clo. Co. Visiting Sovereigns welcome. Come. L. J. SAULEY, C. C. C. C. STANLEY, Clerk. Pythagoras No. R. Chapte r, 10, A M. Regular meeting, Second and Fourth Thursday, 7:30 p. m. Visitors wet coma. WM. T. ATKINSON, H. P. BIuL WELLS, Secretary. Ben Barrow Lodge No. 587 F. & A. M. East Griffin, meets first and third Thursday ^nights in each month at 7 o'clock. Visiting brothers welcome. •L. B. GUEST , W. M. CLIFFORD GRUBBS, Secty. E. D. FLETCHER Embalmer and Funeral Director With Griffin Mercantile Co, ' Office Phone 474 Rea. Phone 481 P. E. ARNALL G. N. MURRAY P. E. Arnall & Co. Insurance of All Kinds We Weak! Appreciate *~~ Your Business J. C. BROOKS 0. S. TYUS -/ r s «. Railroad Schedule CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY. *! Arrival and Departure of Passenger Trains at Griffin, Ga. The schedules are published as infor mation and are not guaranteed: North South 2:29 p.m. Altanta-SavTi 11:08 p.m. 4:30 a.m. Atlanta-Sav’h 9:07 a.m. 5:47 a.m. Chigo-Cin-Jax 11:55 p.m. 6:53 a.m. Chigo-St. L.-Jax 8:42 p.m. 9:01 a.m. Atfanta-Macon 5:20 p.m. 12:25 p.m. Atlanta-Macon 2:17 p.m. 5:57 p.m. Atlanta-Albany 12:19 a.m. ' Chattanooga Division From: For: 2:30 p.m. Chattanooga 9:45 a.m. 8:15 a.m. Cedartown 5:25 p.m. SOUTHERN RAILWAY From: For: Atlanta points— - 5:53 p.m. East—West 10:02 amt 30:02 a.m. Colhus-Ft-Valley 5:63 p.m. FOR SALE 1 two story granite building on N. Hill street with three fronts on Hill street. 1 10-room house on S. Hill street. This one of the fin est homes in Griffin, with east front. 2 Bungalows on Oak st. 3 houses on Raymond st. 1 house on south Eighth st Phone 303 and 1028 T. EZRA MANN 104 »/ 4 8. Hill St.