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Last week, Adjutant General Lutz Wahl of the Army reminded the 40,000 incorrect applicants, and the 500,000 non-applicants, that no bonus will be paid to any one-or his relict or dependents-who fails to apply before Jan. 1, 1928. The reminder was intended also for many a onetime sailor, many a onetime marine...
...back to run her chances among the big hotels, casinos, studios and half-soled, titled Romeos-if she had not finally fallen into the hands of a successful artist and a genuine British dowager. You know what end awaited Mrs. Katherine Mandeville Richardson, the U. S. diplomat's relict, if she had not had the fabulous good fortune to hook the childish millionaire, Samuel Gummidge Bunker, after trickery at roulette had failed her. You even know that not all artists are so comparatively happy, chivalrous and well-heeled as Leslie Waldron, not all dowagers so sensible and friendly...
...Widow Cagle, moonshiner's relict, hated Yankees and Yankee laws. The War was a Yankee war? she couldn't see why her only son, newly married, should go off and fight in it?fight in this queer place, France, that she thought of as a few miles away from Asheville. But he goes?and is killed. So far, the tragedy is moving, individual and complete. And then comes an act of creaky melodrama?the son of old Pappy Cagle's slayer (a former revenooer) turns up as a deserter from the army?the Widow is about to kill him?business...