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Show HELPER. UTAH RECLUSE la " "FIFTH 1 J WYNDHAM MARTYN COPYRIGHT A STORY FROM THE START comfortable financial Iruatlon to which he bad been I'eter Mllrnan, American i.in, -ntlaman of the old gchool, and inM of hi family, Is practically reduced to penury through the ir if fortune of a friend, Hazen lirewer, whom he had unwisely i r ii 'ted. Learning of Brewer's which means the destruction ! his lust hope, Mllmnn engages a French butler, Achilla Lutry, liu speaks no EnKlish, and la "i replace Sneed, servant of lonK Milman I3y Lutry, itjit ding. teii.i.s letter to Prof. Fleming ft rirmliiy, Floyd Malet and Barnes, men whom the vuiji has classified as failures, lice of high position. In response, lie three call on htm at his home. From th eul-rii'- .f. Nee-l.in- CHAPTER III Continued f!y degrees Bradney found himself I' cuing to Barnes' anecdotes with a i critical attitude. Barnes had hu A handsome man, Bradney de- i or. c courageous, popular with men ti.'l women alike and not burdened !ih sufficient mental power to enable tint to feel he had a mission In life. Hilived, no doubt, as his wealthy tiu.N does, simply for the moment In truth, Neeland Barnes had for- fniiiTi Llppsky entirely. The dinner excellent. A of A rhino's had seen to that. The ini's were superb. Barnes adopted r of exquisite but lofty courtesy Hi t- his fellow-guests- . They said little, but their table manners i reassuring. When the dinner H." l l be finished, Barnes determined ;in back In his chair, survey Mil hu m with a smile that had world- kii.m ledge and kindly cynicism In It. ... demand to know for what reason It brought from reeksklll retlre- iri. t. As one old New Yorker to an-c- ii i r, Feter Milman would give his lit STATEi W.N.U. SERVIce They followed their host through library and corridor to what seemed a blank wall. A door, cleverly con cealed by moldings, swung open. Not for twenty years had strangers been offered the chance to gaze upon Peter Mllman's Japanese garden. "This Is Japan," Malet exclaimed. "I have seen this In Nagasaki." "I modeled It on a part of the gar dena In 'The Teahouse of the Inde scribable Butterflies' In Nagasaki, with a suggestion, here and there, from the Fukawaga garden." Neeland Barnes knew nothing about Japanese gardens, but the thing took his fancy amazingly. Quaint bridges, little streams with brilliant goldfish, garden-lanternsstrangely set stones, made this back yard of seventy feet long by half as much wide the most entrancing garden he had seen on this Avenue where he, too, had been born At the other end of It was a sort of platform on which comfortable seats were arranged. Immediately below It was a Twenty feet above was a framework of steel mesh to which mosquito netting was attached. "This Is exquisite,' Malet murmured. "No wonder you do not move. ,' lily-poo- l. - fellow-countryma- n I i "ens. That's a very fine over r head, Mr, Milman," said Floyd !'..!et, disturbing the train of Barnes' leg. relative of mine," Milman an "Capt. Oliver Milman. That painted In Holland when he was a young soldier In England's wars wlh France. It Is by Jordaens, the feliow-s'tudeof Itubeus. He J.Iaed his brother In Plymouth county, Massachusetts, Just after that pfe-wBy Degrees Bradney Found Himself painted. Later he fought In Listening to Barnes' Anecdotes. l lie was killed lag i'hlllp's war.' f nl, ting for England against France In Your taste seems to me to be perfect i .msylvnnia. Historians know It as I have never been In a more harmoni T ug William's war.' Ills brother ous and beautifully furnished house." d: owned him for his godless ways of While Achllle was bringing coffee :.. In revenge Captain Oliver and liqueurs, Milman explained how, him his entire fortune, by the use of glass where now was which rescued the stern and righteous netting, he could regulate the tem !n.;her from beggary. But for Oliver perature and keep his garden beautiMilman we might have become ob- ful when snowstorms raged and frost scure farmers on Cape Cod. What the bit viciously. Mllmans had, they owe to him." It was when Achiile had gone that Neeland Barnes launched Into a hit- Neeland Barnes found himself sighter Invective against righteous rela- ing. He had abandoned the Idea of tives. "Take It from one who knows," hfi questioning of his he concluded, !t Is the black sheep host. He whs content that this pleaswho'll do a man a good turn when ant atmosphere remain unchanged. He he needs It. I've found that my did not want to think of going back righteous relatives always gave me to Llppsky and the rent question. good advice and the shadier sort The wine and the green Chartreuse Induced a pleasant lassitude. Neeland slipped me the coin." "Some day a great lawlessness will Barnes stretched his. long legs and felt sweep over the world," Malet declared. at peace. "You have been very patient, gen "I don't mean as a concerted action on the part of any Socialist or Syntlemen," Milman began, "In not askdicalist, but an expression of human ing me ere this for what reason I In unrest Ve have been tied down too vited you. And you have been very long. We have endured too much the courteous to come when my letter (TO BE CONTINUED.) oppressions of those in authority." "We'll stampede, you mean?" said :'X:x -m:- x:. :xX': - -:- X':xX':x:x -:- x:- -:'X -:- x:x:'I:- i:'X: Barnes. "I'll he there." "Do you think," Peter Milman asked, "that there Is any justification for the human herd stampeding beCaruso, in his prime, possessed the the orchestra stopped playing and the cause It 13 dissatisfied with Its masmost powerful voice most people ever stage became a scene of confusion ters?" A few moments later, the realization "Certainly," Floyd Malet said. heard, but there lived before him the had come to them that not only had voice whose postenor Tamagno, "Sometimes It Is Just to take the law great sessed even greater volume. On his Tamagno a glorious voice, but that he In one's hands." first appearance In Moscow be was knew how to use it as an artist, and "The law," scoffed Bradney, recallWhen then their applause shook the theater ing certain earlier passages of his life. announced to sing "Othello.'' Montreal Family Herald. he appeared on the stage his tremen"The law. Now I'm a typical citizen, but I cannot regard dous height and breadth astonished statutes as sacrosanct the audience, but It did pot prepare Left Name in History any What Is law? A rule of civic con- them for the thunder of bis first note. r was the name given tn duct prescribed by the supreme power Its strength so astounded them that. Richard Neville, earl of Warwick, one and prohibiting what Is wrong. That's It is said, they surged backward as of the most powerful nobles of the though they were warding off an as- Middle ages. He took a prominent Lluekstone's definition." Neeland Barnes looked Instinctively sault. The second note was more part In the Wars of the toses. He over the table to his host. It was his powerful still, and by the time he raised an army of 30.000 and had sung his fourth note his voice the duke of York on the throne. placed experience that all rich men supportThen ed tuose laws which kept the masses had such colossal volume that the he turned to the house of Lancaster, Leap deposed Edward of York and restore 1 In order. In his own days of wealth people lost their he hud done the same. But there was ing from their seats, they rushed Henry VI. The restoiation lasted about commenting to each other on no frown on I'eter Mllman's face. a few months, for the Yorkists voice thej only the most extraordinary '"J his Is a discussion which Interests won the bloody battle of Rarnet in mo more than you cun Imagine," said had ever heard in their lives, while April, 14T4, in which Warwick was I'eter Milman. His guests noticed slain. The duke of York was restored Petals Turn Back thin hi turnci his head and glanced as King Edward IV. Lvtton's historrtt Oliver. A remarkable trait of the ical romance, "The Last of "I rather Captain swiftly he usually nave coffee and liqueurs served In the hibiscus, says the Nature Magazine, Is Barons," Is based on the career of jurden." lie mse. "Think you may t!int often, after It has been plucked, Warwick, the King .Maker. Montreal I'er it there " the petals will turn hack, gradually Family Herald. "4 garden?" Fiord Mulct crier!. "A returning utuin to normal several o hours later. A silent protest, It wouid garden :n Lewr Fifth avenue?" The most cettaln sign of wisdom i "1 iv siiull see said Ml'mun J era, ngulnst dsiolluliuu a continual cheerfuIueiA A red, 1 , xx ii:'I xi Veteran Opera Goers Startled by Tamagno i mi A man-mad- f " 17" f I I I- 1 1 l- -i wl :J - , ! Movi h m ' u int . .:n . 1 I i.i rX 'u luniAvrnMrn! Clayworth, Dr. Koy Davis' trotter, which won enough heats to cinch first place in the Secor hotel stake at Toledo, sold for 5100 two years ago. He made a reputation for "outlawry" in his younger days. Then he came under the eyes of Bob Plaxico, a driver, who conquered him and made a success on the shorter course with him. Plaxico drove him in the Secor Hotel stake, beating one tiorse that was bought for $17,000 and one for which $''3,'KX) was refused a few days ago. t! JeM Morl? m-- ' A is Third Baseman Charley Pick making good for Joe McCarthy. Wilbert Robinson, Brooklyn ager, once had ambitions to be a WABBLING HURLERs ARE SOON YANKED Few Pitchers Permitted Work Out of Trouble. 4 " Trotter Sold for a 1 APICK-UPSSong Is Big Winner Hon MclS tha rini? In Soldier field, at Chicago, and ,ji,K world's heavyweight championship he lost in the to regain in ten rounds try marine. I he scene of the battle September last to Gene Tunney. the fighting hero of the . E. F. was decided the and boxing former champion between the lease the stadium when members of the south park board voted, four to one, r0 one night's use of for rental $100,000 will receive board The for the fight the war memorial. The photograph shows Dempsey and Tunney. . Drnrv. Morrison. Lowry, Moses and Clark Galloway V "JSawaiJiHiBJiii-- on nibbs. Charles n li.i.iIJ..p-tiiif- ' i 'X y I . Trojan athletes ing in for footha' t swimming, track anrt 1 sport scenes. Among those!, I I X $ t; I :4 As I to Managers In the majors are so on winning games these darsttr they take few chances on a pitcbtt once he has shown a disposition wabble. A moundsman who gets Into trouble is seldom allowed tc work out his own salvation or tai the consequences. There is too ma at stake. He is derrieked by most pilots t! moment his predicament is realim It is nothing out of the ordinary tn see a team use two tiurlers in tif same game. In fact, it has beer so common that it is almost the rait And In many instances three four moundsmen are called upon ii tent tx manmusi- - s - ' cian. It has remained for the feminine athlete to make tennis a rival in popular interest to baseball. fit if? Mike Kircher, former Syracuse star, has been signed by George Mogridge for his Rochester Internationals. The Boston Red Sox announce the outright release of Ruddy Summers, Louisville (Ky.) southpaw pitcher. f ' . .' , Joe Marty, pitcher of the Lincoln Western league club, has been sold to the New York American league club. Credit Jack Scott right-hande- d Babe Herman, Brooklyn first-sacke- r, looks like a second Hal Chase afield one day and like a tot the next day. Rogers Hornsby. Experts are crying that John was the loser in the deal that sent Greenfield, Farrell and McQuillan to the Boston Braves. Mc-Gra- - 1 ' j Now and then you still see an fat catcher in baseball who, by old-styl- e diligent running, can stretch average triple into a double. if pnwww. In II n TTfnii f ii fl ' ; ; ii : ii. ''-- the Babe Ruth says he ought to be good for at least five more years in the majors. He started his career In 1914 and Is thirty-thre- e years old. ' '.n 1 Much credit for the brilliant spurt of the Philadelphia National league team this season is due to the splendid pitching of Jack Scott, whom Manager Stuffy Mclnnis secured from the New York Giants this spring. JportinQuibs Golf has been played in South Da kota since 1S05, when the first club was formed at Yankton. Manager Dan Howley has announced that at least eight players now drawing salaries from the St. Louis Americans will not be with the club next season. We wonder just pay roll will look Gehrig and Lazzeri ering with Colonel .war's contracts. what the Yankee like when Ruth, get through bickRuppert for next The New York Yankees have moce veierans than any other major league team, six players on the roster being r men" Ruether, Shawkey, Shocker, Pennock. Ruth and Dugtm. "ten-yea- r Dempsey proved his hitting power when he hit Rickard for an extra $2",000 for the Sharkey fight. The Canadian tour of the team of British lawn bowlers this summer will extend from const to coast ago. i tr. Work as ture productions constitu- tmajor part of summer J tions of Southern football men. other w2?M ueeu uara to procure V only labor running pearances a respectable f1 lifeguard duties and fruit J rl England has not developed a world's heavyweight pugilistic champion since the late Rob Fitzsimmims left Cornwall, nearly thirty-fivyears King-Make- m 7 o e Hrirl P1o M Out of the total of eighty-twvprsity sweaters awarded this year by Indiana university, Walter Fisher was the only athlete to win three letters. law-abidi- . UP in the life-wor- k 1 .... t Hr ' Chicago Gets Championship Bout radio-activit- r ' UNITED ofmight have been construed In an fensive light" Neeland Barnes permitted himself to smile at being Insulted by a gift of a hundred dollars. "I have never met any of you personally before, although I have heard Mr. Bradney lecture and have seen some of Mr. Malet's work. I also was thrilled many years ago by Mr Barnes' horsemanship." "Very handsome of you to say so," said Neeland Barnes. "I flatter myself I could ride In those days." "What I am going to say may seem nothing whatever to do with me at first It may' even be that you will consider me guilty of some breach of good form when I mention certain matters In the past life of all three of you. If so, I beg you to believe I shall say nothing Idly. I have a definite plan In asking you to meet, and I must tell my story In my own way.'' I'eter Milman looked from one to the other of them a little anxiously. He was meticulous In matters of personal conduct, and he feared he might be exceeding his rights. "So far as I am concerned," said Fleming Bradney, "you have nothing to fear. I have done nothing to be ashamed of, although I cannot expect the world to believe that" "My reputation," said Malet, "Is a trifle besmirched, but I have long since ceased applying whitewash. Juvenal says that to be poor Is to be ridiculous. Well, Mr. Milman, I can plead guilty to that count" I'eter Milman turned courteously to the third guest "Don't mind me," said Barnes genially. "I am used to It. If you had had all the d n silly relations Pve had, you'd have no sensitive spots left. I have been worthless since birth." He chuckled. "But I've had , a d n good run for my money, even If this Juvenal person has my number up and the race lost. Rub It In, if It helps you. My wool Is black, and I know It" "I'm afraid you don't exactly understand." Peter Milman smiled. "I am neither schoolmaster nor reproving relative. I merely wish to ask your pardon If I talk of things In your lives that may stir up unhappy memories." Floyd thought of his lonely room, his uncongenial work, and looked about him and sighed. He liked this unknown Peter Milman, with his charming manner and a dignity that had something forgotten and Victorian about it. Life had not given Malet what It had promised, and the disappointment had embittered htm; but there was nothing disgraceful In what had brought him low. "Go ahead, Mr. Milman," he said. You can talk for days If you like." "Let me begin with Mr. Fleming Bradney," said Milman. "I have said I once heard him lecture. It was because I read an article of his In the North American Review on What I read and afterward heard him say stirred up my Imagination powerfully, and I understood that a man may have a passion for knowledge which Is a burning hunger." Fleming Bradney nodded his head. "Yes," he commented, "that's a good description of It. It is a passion that recognizes no limits of time or labor expended. It Is a passion that has knowledge as Its goal and not fame or money. Yes, I had it once." "The circumstances which led Mr. and Bradney to give up his drop out of his world have never been told in their entirety," Peter Milman said, after a pause. "I am going to tell you now. I may say that up to the moment of his retirement we have never had a physicist who gave such promise as he. It is to the honor of a great university In this state that he was elected professor of etherlc physics and asked to erect the most superb laboratory for his work that could be built. It was to exceed In equipment that of Cambridge university. He was allowed to design It. I think such a chance has rarely been given to one so young." Bradney nodded his head. "It was the greatest opportunity ever offered a man." "And he lost It," Mllman's quiet, precise voice went on. "He lost it, and with It the chance of making a career of supreme service to mankind. I wonder if Mr. Bradney would mind telling us how." Women taking pnrt in the Olympic games next year will enter a section of five events, which have been added to the program for female competition. Jean Rorotra. the French tennis star, was awarded a gold medal bv the French Academy of Sports as one of the most remarkable of French athletes in UCd With four different golf courses nd a clubhouse that eot over kkmkh.mm) Olympla fields, scene of the ricxt' national open tournament, Is a veritable golfers' paradise. Peanuts, victor over some or the season's lcnding'horses. Is one f t,e mnallesi thoroughbreds In training He stands bout fif n hands high and is five years old. Rather suprising that L.on Ames, who started for the New York Giants years ago, didn't send his son to McGraw instead of Pittsburgh. The hoy was Ohio State's star pitcher this year. "Revo" Lebourwau, Toledo American association outfielder and leading hitter of the league In 1920, has been traded to the Philadelphia Athletics for two players and a cash consideration. who carry a buckeye for will be glad to know that the Cleveland pitcher of that name gave 13 hits, walked four men. hit a batter, made three wild pitches and won his game. s luck What has become of the youth who had a fancy to become a major league ball player? The Pirates have dragged In Heinle Groh for third base and J"e Bush pitched a In bis debut with the Giants. victory After scouting around for two ''"'""is the Reds have discovered m shortstop a Outfielder Rill Zitsmann. 1:IC,,(1 0,1 the Infield In an emergencv Zitsmunn promises to become jnve. regular custodian of the position S . Uliern California's basel.,,11 team make a tour of Japan during the S -- S"'i'S"n' lf V arrangements now under way are completed. The Trojans t0 2 In Japan un- ''"; no t! e aiHpiees of the of H1 '! University the course of an exciting game, to which one side Is doing a lot of bicotting. There have been several ntests this year in which, the batters of both teams were very much "on," with the result that there has been a regular procession ol pitchers and from the mound. Recently Rogers Hornsby bemoaned the fact tltat so few pitchers "go the route." It is not their fault. They in the matter, m have no say-sI'MV fl (I Wl ta xrnA . ,.,r,nnnn'a v' 'J nielli (iftiri sj the pitcher showers," "To the says o B 51 must . obey. Rnmo rritica helieve the pinch P' of them Ing is being overplayed. One U points out that Miller Huggins linnd tn nllow the Yankee nun." success to go the limit, regardless of or failure, and he believes ia ptl measure for Icy accounts in great Yanks' success. He adds: "A pitcher who starts! It has done a t Kni-ioften he too Yet his day's work. credited with the victory Dera niffl for too n iifd un' "l"" some chucker n.V.t,.U11 Klo UliJ inn Willi. Is maintained I w j by relieved him." Instruction rnnrhes of malor sports Fall This at Stanford will be required to give regular " mic courses In their specialties changes tf year as the result of A. Story, sored by Ir. Thomas education. director of physical Glenn 'Top" Warner, footbal J fall Is to give two courses next ter. One will be In elementary tW gm and the other for men with in. are who knowledge of football, fl ested In learning the game aca Heguhir conch's standpoint credit will be given. For the first time, physical ej work tlon requirements may he by practicing golf. Six vu have been erected and studentsIn g allowed to sign for courses Race Sting Expected to Arrain in Fall Camp . Nursed hack to neaiui ,f tnai the tnck of glanders who .,.,. ma Annth enlivena i.io .e..'". Sting t.itrOP"' the Excelsior Handicap, the Itan and the Suburban i fltf may race this fall at the track, the property of .. James Butler. strong liond or nnP0 for .... horse nnd mnn OfTero'i rei"' ii.oler I II irld tiioroUKltttred. tlio fn,. I in-- i llt'lt' uic who have I t..' . in I'll v" nion a mil"' or maybe Sting." Iloth Hutler nnd the tri.m.r stable believe the hore silks again. ho of hi' |