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SYNOPSIS
Fresh from a French, convent, Jo-
celyn Harlowe returns to New York
to her socially -elect mother, a relig-
ious, ambitious woman. The girl is.
hurried into an engagement with the
wealthy Felix Kent. Her father, Nick
Sandal, surreptiously enters the
girl's home one night. He tells her
he used to call her Lynda Sandal.
The girl is torn by her desire to see
life in the raw and to become part
of her mother's society. Her father
studies her surroundings.
Lynda visits her father in his dingy
quarters. She finds four men playing
cards when she arrives. One of them,
Jock Ayleward, her father tells her,
is like a son to him, but warns the
girl he is a trifler.
Lynda pays a second visit to her
father and Jock takes her . home, on
the way stopping with her at an un-
derworld •cabaret. Jock asks her to
dance.
Jock gets into a fight with a gang-
ster who intends on dancing with
Lynda. He then takes Lynda home..
Later she mention Felix's name to
Jock and Ayleward's face displays his
demoniac hatred of the. millionaire.
Tock tells Lynda that Felix caused.
him to be sent to jail unjustly by
fixing up his report on a mine.
Lynda says she doesn't believe his
story. She pays another visit to her
father and goes to a cabaret with him
and dances with Jock, who suddenly
stops and tells her he is going to
take her .right home. He had seen
Fclix dancing with another woman.
Felix tells Jocelyn that Jock is a
worthless scamp. Later Lynda tells
Jock she does not believe in his in-
nocence but will try and find, thi•u
Felix, some letters Jock claims will
clear his name.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
"And you were going to leave
without a word to me? Nick was
going to?"
"It was my plan."
"I'm sure of that. From the begin-
ning you've tried to separate us.
Can't you see how wicked that is!
And how selfish. I can help him,
save him."
Jock who was now on his feet,
stood looking down at her. "Save
him from what?"
She flushed but went on bravely,
"Froth you, Jock Ayleward. From
this life of his with—you."
jock began to move up and down
the littered room. With rough hair
and in his shirt sleeves he lopk'ed
younger than she remembered him
... so many years younger than
Felix Kent. Scarred, yes; by life;
but so much younger and more flex-
ible. . . ,
lex-ible....
The eyes in his spent face began
unwillingly to flare, to widen, as she
told him of her ride with Felix.
"Ask Kent about your father now.
re'canorrow. Tell him about me. Put
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grip.
She fled from him. She heard her-
self laughing breathlessly as she ran
down the stairs.
That night after she had finally
fallen asleep with her last memory;
of jock on her mind, she was awalc'
tined early by'Marcella.
"The jewels—the jewels are gone..
Get up and help me. Tell me where
you've hidden .them.".
Her mother's hands . tore her
dreams to pieces, hurting her. They
were trying to wring something out
of her.
"Mother, Mother, Please!' What
is the matter? What have I done?"
"My jewels," Marcella faltered
close to •Jocelyn's ear. "They're not
where they should be. You've taken
thern?"
It was spoken, Jocelyn now real-
ized, in hope.
"I don't know anything about them
Mother."
But she was remembering her fa-
ther's silent visits—the visitsshe had
called fruitless.
She loved Nick. Even now she
loved him; this knowing climber -in
at bedroom windows, this beaten
man who friends had hard faces and
quick eyes ... Here pain . took her
heart in both hands and squeezed it.
"Jock -in -the -box, Boxy." 'What crea-
tures went about under such sobri-
quets? A hideous clamor came to her
mind whose ears she tried in vain to
close! "Thief! Stop, theif!"
She • had herself admitted these
then into her mother's house with
her own hands.
He had not come himself that oth-
er night. He had sent Jock. She had
admitted Jock herself. He had stayed
a long time. He had not been,'watch-
ing her while she played. He had
busied his eyes elsewhere. He had
quick eyes ... Her wrist watch was
gone . . He had light-fingered hands
. they had held her own — Kent's
diamond upon them—against his face.
Now she knew what name her fa-
ther and Jock Ayleward carried on
the shrewd implacable tongue of the
law. . 'She knew the secret of their
quick wealth, their sudden poverty.
Of their hidden and sordid homes,
that changed and changed.
The next morning Marcella had
recovered her self-possession. She
came to Jocelyn's room early.
"I will take steps to discover the
thief, Jocelyn, very quiet and private
steps. There are reasons which you
can't know ..."ah, she did know too
many reasons . . "Why I must move
very carefully. I will engage the ser-
vices of a private detective. Mean-
while I entreat you, I command you
—to say not a word, not so much as
a breath about the jewels and my
loss of them."
"I promise you, Mother. On my
honor."
"Not a word to anyone, not even
to Felix Kent."
Felix Kent; the name flourished in
her ears with the sound of salvation.
hits to the test."
"I: will." I-Ier heart labored. "Yes,
I will. I've already asked him about
you."
The young man turned to stone,
Gray stone, He ,wet his lips and
asked slowly, not looking at her,
"T)id you ask him to prove his case?"
"Why should T? To me it's proved
by his word."
"Then ask hint to give you his.
correspondence with Algernon Tal-
ley during the summer of 1920."
"He would have none."
"And if you find the letters?"
"If I find even a scrap of paper
that has anything to do with your
case, I promise you that you shall
have it. I am going now. I won't
wait for Nick. 1 don't believe you
will be cruel enough to take him
away from hie. Let me go, Jock."
He had seized her hands in a firm
He rode life proudly with gturt and
spur, knight errant. A warm cur-
rent of reassurance flooded her chill-
ed heart.
She would marry Felix Kent. At
once. •
She controlled her nervous sobbing
and went to summon hitt.
Felix I`cnt had already left his
Park Avenue apartment. She rang
Itis office, Miss Deal's voice came
with a brisk authoritative clicici1tg.
"Mr. Kent's office, yes ....Yes,
indeed, Miss Harlowe No, he's
not here . He will be back r. . .
Yes, Miss Harlowe, he said positive -
!y that he wottld be back about noon
.Why, yes, Miss lIarlowe, of
course you may come here and, wait
for him Why, naturally, that's
entirely up to you."
After a time the tWo women heard
Kent enter the otter effice.
Kent was ` speaking in a low hard
tone and the clerk's own young voice
lifted in replypiped such a tune of
abject cringing contrition that Joce-
lyn's blood carne to her face in sym-
pathy.
"What do you suppose he has
done?" she whispered.
Miss Deal, unsmiling, balefully .re-
plied, "He forgot the scrapbasket."
Jocelyn threw back her head and
laughed.
At that raining of golden careless
laughter, Felix 'became aware of her
presence in the inner office, cut short
his tongue-lashing and hurried to
greet her.
Jocelyn; darling, you here?"
"Yes, I tried to get you on the
telephone at your apartment, and
then here< Miss Deal said you'd be
in. I want to lunch with you."
"Splendid."
"Some quiet place, Felix."
On: their way, in the back seat of.
the limousine, Jocelyn spoke quickly.
"I want to marry you sooner, Felix.
How soon can we arrange it?"
He sat 'straight, visibly' excited.
"Dearest — my darling — this goes
through rile like lightning. How
soon? Today!"
"Next week, Felix? If Mother can
manage it? That's not too soon?"
He smothered her — the people
on the sjdewalk notwithstanding —
and let her. go.
"I ammarried • to him now," Joce-
lyn thought, "now I am really mar-
ried safely to him," and she sat there
as still as a trapped mouse in her
gray fur with her chin bent but with
that look of somber June in her eyes.
When she returned home she
found a small thin man with horn
rimmed spectacles, his hair cut
very short, leaning forward from the
sofa toward Marcella, who, rigid and
white, looked an apparition in her
carved -back chair. The inan was in
the . middle of a long speech. His
voice lifted for an instant into her
hearing: 'It can hardly be a mistake.
I think, Mrs. Harlowe, she has been
seen twice by two different people."
"Going in by the alley entrance?"
"Once, ma'am, yes, And once
again just leaving a taxi at the cor-
ner of this block: a conspicuous-
lookin' young woman with a big
bush of hair under a tam and a full
pleated skirt with a tight jacket."
Miss Jocelyn Harlowe, turning to
the mirror, sleeked her hair and fitted
down upon it her. small felt hat. No
nun had 1ever looked paler. She came
into . that room quickly with her
proudest grace.
Marcella said, "This is my daugh-
ter, Mr. Catring. She has been told
of—my loss."
The horn -rimmed spectacles were
turned, and rested, shining, upon her
face.
"May I search your bedroom?" he
asked her.
"Why certainly, if mother wishes
you to."
Jocelyn went along the hall. For
a • merciful twenty minutes the in-
spection of her own room was de-
layed. Catring stayed first to exam-
ine Mary's quarters.
During that twenty minutes Joce-
lyn took down her skirt and tam-o'-
shanter and jacket from the closet
hanger and hook, folded them as
flatly as she could and hid them be-
tween her mattress and the springs.
Mr. Catring carne in at his leisure
and make a quick and sharp examin-
ation of her closet, her bathroom,
her window and her fire escape. He
looked down for some time at the.
all
coutet yr below with its opening into the
An hour later she breathed easier
when she heard the detective take
his leave.
Jocelyn thereupon studied coldly
and fiercely what must now be done
before her wedding day.
She said to Lynda Sandal, "You
must find Nick, if he into be found,.
and persuade him i:o return the jew-
els."
She said to Jocelyn Harlowe, "7',e-
fore you marry. Felix Kent you must'
prove to Ayleward and to yourself
that you do not fear the contents of
that safe."
And speaking in the character of
Mrs. Felix rent site said to both
these girls, "You must be very care-
ful and you must not be afraid."
A small number of church invita-
tions had been sent :out, an even
smaller nuinber of invitation to a
breakfast afterward, a larger number
of • announcements went 'through the
mails and the paper had their infor,.
illation and their photographs,
To these matters Marcella, with
the speech and movementsof a xrtar-
"MAY 1 USE THE 'PHONE?"
Etnpre,s of Britain as Floating Pay Station.
jfF my i „ `....
Madeira got a new thrill recently when telephone
communication was established between that
pleasant island and London, England for the first
time.
The occasion was the arrival of the Canadian
Pacifio liner Empress of Britain at Funchal on a
cruise around the world. This magnificent new liner
has the most powerful ship -to -shore telephone
system in the world and Madeirans were not slow to
recognize a chance to make island history.
During her stay there, lying at anchor just beyond
the famous Loo Rock, the Empress was host to many
visitors. Amongst these were two who casually
asked, "May I use the 'phone?"
Just as casually the telephone operator of the ship
called up London and put the callers through over
1,323 miles of water.
Reports from the Empress` of Britain, now at
Colombo, Ceylon, indicate that the wireless telephone
is a popular feature of the ship. The longest distance
yet reported is Haifa, Palestine, to Montreal. The
liner works on a daily schedule with Canada, through
the Canadian Marconi stations at Yamachiche and
Drummondville, Quebec, and the Bell long distance
board in Montreal.
Photos show: Empress of Britain at Madeira with
Loo Rock in the foreground, and a typical bedroom
fitted with telephone.
ionette, had carefully attended. Joce-
lyn had stoodfor the first and sec-
ond fittings of her wedding gown,
and the apartment began, surprising-
ly to her, to fill with gifts.
"You're giving me everthing, Fe-
lix," she murmured late one evening,
the wedding day just sixty-two
hours ahead, "except one thing and
that is what I want most."
He had been about to say good-
night, one of those lingering good-
nights that taxed her patience and
tormented all her nerves. They were
seated together on the small brocad-
ed sofa. Felix sat back in the sofa
corner and held Jocelyn close against
him.
"It's just -the pale girl faltered,
lifting her eyes to him and letting
them fall again with a convent child's
timidity or shame, "your confidence."
Felix stiffened, then drew her
closer.
"All right. You shall have it.
What do you want to know? Ask
•
me for a secret."
There fell a silence which Felix
pleasantly employed, stroking her
hair, touching her warm cheek. Jo-
celyn whispered. "I wish — you will
think I'm worse than a baby!—but
I do wish I could tell Miss Deal that
I knew the combination of your pri-
vate safe."
Felix threw back his head and
laughed heartily and tenderly, the
laughter of an indulgent elder.
"Little goose! What good would
that do you?"
"No good, of course; No practical
good. But -spiritually—"
"Helen thinks no man is good en-
ough for her."
"She may be right, at that."
"Yes, but she's a lot more apt to
be left."
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Judger "Before I pronounce sen-
tence, have you anything to say?"
Ex -Barber: "Yes, your honor, FA
like to shave the prosecuting attor-
ney just once more."
* * *
Briggs—"There's plenty of wealth
in the country. Why, the banks can't
lend their money."
Griggs—"So several bankers told. .
me when I tried to borrow."
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