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I guess I've been a stinker not to make you marry me before this. . . . We'l get mar-ried right away. I'l find out what you have to do to get permission to get married in the A.E.F. I guess it's al right, Eveline . . . but, gee, it does change my plans." They'd reached the other bank and walked up through Conflans to the railroad station to get the train back to Paris. Paul looked worried. "Wel , don't you think it changes my plans too?" said Eveline dryly. "It's going over Niagara Fal s in a barrel, that's what it is."

" Eveline," said Paul seriously with tears in his eyes,

"what can I ever do to make it up to you? . . . honest, I'l do my best." The train whistled and rumbled into the platform in front of them. They were so absorbed in their thoughts they hardly saw it. When they'd climbed into a third class compartment they sat silent bolt upright facing each other, their knees touching, looking out of the win-dow without seeing the suburbs of Paris, not saying any-thing. At last Eveline said with a tight throat, "I want to have the little brat, Paul, we have to go through every--333-thing in life." Paul nodded. Then she couldn't see his face anymore. The train had gone into a tunnel. NEWSREEL XXXIV

WHOLE WORLD IS SHORT OF PLATINUM

Il serait Criminel de Negliger Les Intérêts Français dans les Balkans KILLS SELF IN CELL

the quotation of United Cigar Stores made this month of

$.167 per share means $501 per share for the old stock upon which present stockholders are receiving 27% per share as formerly held. Through peace and war it has maintained and increased its dividends

6 TRAPPED ON UPPER FLOOR

How are you goin' to keep 'em down on the farm

After they've seen Paree

If Wal street needed the treaty, which means if the business interests of the country properly desired to know to what extent we are being committed in affairs which do not concern us, why should it take the trouble to corrupt the tagrag and bobtail which forms Mr. Wilson's fol owing in Paris?

ALLIES URGE MAGYAR PEOPLE TO UPSET

BELA KUN REGIME

11 WOMEN MISSING IN BLUEBEARD MYSTERY

Enfin La France Achète les stocks Américains

How are you goin' to keep 'em away from Broadway Jazzin' around Paintin' the town

-334-the boulevards during the afternoon presented an un-wonted aspect. The café

terraces in most cases were deserted and had been cleared of their tables and chairs. At some of the cafés customers were admitted one by one and served by faithful waiters, who, however, had discarded their aprons YEOMANETTE SHRIEKS FOR FORMER

SUITOR AS SHE SEEKS DEATH

IN DRIVE APARTMENT

DESIRES OF HEDJAZ STIR PARIS CRITICS

in order not prematurely to show their colors a pretense is made of disbanding a few formations; in reality however, these troops are being transferred lock stock and barrel to Kolchak

I.W.W. IN PLOT TO KILL WILSON

Find 10,000 Bags of Decayed Onions

FALL ON STAIRS KILLS WEALTHY CITIZEN

the mistiness of the weather hid the gunboat from sight soon after it left the dock, but the President continued to wave his hat and smile as the boat headed towards the George Washington

OVERTHROW OF SOVIET RULE SURE

THE HOUSE OF MORGAN

I commit my soul into the hands of my savior,

wrote John Pierpont Morgan in his will, in full con- fidence that having redeemed it and washed it in His most precious blood, He will present it faultless before my heavenly father, and I intreat my children to main- tain and defend at all hazard and at any cost of personal sacrifice the blessed doctrine of complete atonement for

-335- sin through the blood of Jesus Christ once offered and through that alone, and into the hands of the House of Morgan repre-sented by his son, he committed, when he died in Rome in 1913,

the control of the Morgan interests in New York,

Paris and London, four national banks, three trust com-panies, three life insurance companies, ten railroad sys-tems, three street railway companies, an express com-pany, the International Mercantile Marine, power,

on the cantilever principle, through interlocking

directorates

over eighteen other railroads,

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