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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA UTAII wmiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniininniiiiiii1llt i THE I STRANGE BOY El WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE Hiliii i n 1 1 1 n 1 m 4 Z z z j i u i i ii j ii i il iTiTtl n il n n j4;! si Copyright, 1922, by the Mecmilien Co. Imd Just returned fn,m work in the ti considering larger mutters concerning their com.iig inue. They were Twelve. Thirteen and Four teen, arid full of the Joy that washes Into life with the flrst full tide of youth. At the Manual they had been making tilings with their hands in wood and iron and stone. Creation seemed good to them. And they talked, making their tomorrow a kind of exulted yesterday, which is tiie way f youth. An oid party of forty-five- , sitting near them reading a musty book that laid been olT the list of best sellers for six long months, closed the book over Ids finger to mark the place wlille he listened to the charter of tbe boys. There was talk of a days wnlk In the country; of a raft to be made at the river under the direction: of fishing tackle to be imd at the towns store; where the best rods might be bought; what minnows were worth. Some consideration was given to the various grades of khaki for scouting suits. They were good scouts of the first and second classes, and much of their chatter was of camp and field. The boys were lying on a lawn beneath t lie stone veranda railing whereon his old feet rested. From time to time the youngsters looked Up as automobiles went whizzing by and In monosyllables checked off the makers and perhaps the owners of the machines; but the checking did not stay tlioir talk of the glorious tomorrows, silvered and gilded with THEY i scout-master- 's yesterdays. Canned!" sighed the old party. Canned hoys!" he repeated. Tile boys looked lip and, seeing the feet disappear from the railing. Thirteen rose quickly and said as lie Oh," humbly returned the old man, 1 drawing his breath. forgot you hoys ure highly sanitary absolutely I You pure probably never ate sheep sorrel, nor "Nor sucked a grapevine in spring nor ute rosebuds? Bud," smiled the old party, look ing into the blue eyes of the strange hoy with fond reminiscence which is the keenest Joy of maturity, do you remember we used to go trailing through tiie woxls, browsing off Hie joung fresh twigs like gods in the elder days? lerimps we were gods," replied the strange hoy. The old party gazed muiely for a moment across tiie green carpet of i lie lawn. Yes." he answered softly; perhaps we were perhaps we were! Perhaps we were whut?" Insisted Fourteen. What are you tulking about. Futher?" Can you muke a whistle from a hickory sapling?" replied tiie old Can party. Ignoring tiie question. you make a horn from tiie stem of a pumpkin leaf? Did you ever belong to a band that went trailing out. Single file and naked, through a and down througli tiie cornfield, Imrse-weed- ? of the tall timber, to a swimming hole." Did you have feet like goats, Father? suggested Twelve timidly. Yes, hard, callous, cut. bruised, sore, brown, ugly and adventuring were our feet, answered tiie old And those were tiie pipes of party. Ban those pumpkin-vin- e horns, those hickory whistles. Hud ! Dud, do you remember that ! The strange hoys face beamed with delight, and Thirteen cut In: How very interesting!" and then asked: What is a whatnot, Futher? Tiie old man looked Ills mild scorn at the question, but only the strange boy saw it, and he chuckled: They dont understated ! They were never as we were. They are of tiie hjglier order. 1 tliiuk," mused the man, when the barn went the half gods went, and these gods appeared. The barn was tiie temple of earlier gods they who were neither brutes nor gods, but half of each. The barn was our real abid- - I know, said the strange boy. I should not be so wise for ray age; but living with you has kind of wised me beyond my years. So Ill venture to guess Mint most of our heavens are behind us when we pass You're a nuisance, hoy!" laughed Some clay Im going the old party. to discharge you tire you throw you out get rid of you! I wouldnt keep you round but for one tiling, and And that Is " And that is because If it wasnt You are tiie cupfor you Id die! bearer who brings me tiie oil of gladness. Ah, but youre a rascal, Bud ! You're a rascal; a wool-dyevillain! Ilovv slow you work before Sunday school ! How long you lie behind tiie blackberry buGhes in tiie back garden in tiie shade when your hoeing takes you past this shelter I Ah, Bud, only one old man In all the wcrli' ever knew you and loved you Jus one old man ! The strange boy turned away an pretended to be interested in what tiie youths were saying on the gras? below. Bud, Ive been pretty good to you havent I since you came back, twenty-five years ago? Was It that long ago? Why, I thought It was only I didnt Twenty-fiv- e years. Bud! miss you so much for half a dozer, years; and then when you did coine back I rather " Yes, youve spoiled me probably, so far as that goes, the strange boy Made a pet of me and a broke In. fool, more or less. But. Bud, answer me this," said the old party quickly. What became of you in those years those beautiful years of youth? Where did you go and why did you go? The strange boy stood still and looked at the ground. Do you want to know, honest-hon- est? asked tiie strange boy, drumming bis fingers on the cool stone. Honest to God, Bud ! Wont you ever tell her? Who? lie followed the strange hoys eyes toward the house, and the old party went on with ills oath: Honest to God, Bud I Hope to die! d What was It, Father Yes, sir. Did you speak? The old party shook his head, and on the blue grass. As lie opened his book and fumbled for his place, over the page top lie saw, coming round the bouse from the rear, a tldn, freckled, barefooted youth, with long trousers rolled up halfway to Ills knees, shewing the flowered calico lining. Sus panders striped the shoulders of the boys course-checke- d Twisted Into ids right stick, Kuspender was a wound with rubber, whereon a diamond-shaped leather piece dangled from two strings. If the marshal sees that hell arrest you! said the man; and as the Strange boy grinned the old party asked: "Where have you been so cotton shirt. in.v chores. Old Sookys y buzz-whee- of the words wood of t lie arch, an Indian transla- and is probably tion of tiie French habitant s word descrihit g the tough, spr'ng.v wood of the Osage orange, or common hedge plant." Tiie strattg hoy grinned and tiie old party answered: ls communion wit h the gods; and when lie left it w lien tiie barn no longer I eld him its creaking doors hanged on him, einel lie walked past tiie flaming svvoril into life filled with tiie knowledge of good and evil ! Wliut will boy do when there are no more bums? "Come em ! said Fourteen. taking Now then. Hud, you grand FaIds chin fmm the stone railing. tell them about the bndurk." t.ml." is ther Tiie lens sat down, and the old The three sprawled en the party took tiie words from the on back or belly us svvarel on: went and tiov's mouth strange en-- h: and t he talk droned it pleased wood and P.odark Is a hard brown and a cynical critifrom earlmietos makes the best Imw you ever saw t lie talkii cism of g movies to tiie Few even. hoys better than M Uory of tennis rackets, then weight oper pi a bodark how, Imd know that pier local hoy problems in wirethough all of them knew that the into the less. and on into tiie mysteries of Indians prized Imdark Idghlv. the man addressed him- the new pulmotor over at tiie engine Su.v. hoys But whose faees house of the lire department. tsi the self youths n old and the veranda the tiie party rail beamed cherubically over tiie were holding forth on strut hoy ge Babe could hae suppose you nv.th atid Douglas Fairbanks, and tiie splendors and glories of tiie Golden the greatest scoutmaster in t he world, Age. returned the strange "And yet, and tiie greatest football piaver. bo.v. "wliut they have ail this large in tiie here one rolled Into ifl rigid to eonvder the universe, all yard who would wait In t lie barn leisure store these things, all tins machine-mad- e white yon" pleasure and formal Jov was What barn?" cut in precise Thirvvlmt f Imped for what I longed for teen. y. Tl e.v are as I would most eag-t'the man Well, the giruge. then in my heaven. the hail have angels on hurried and corrected himself I saw of good while you went into tiie hoove and They are the visions boys m ide per fee t. Stole fried cakes for him, and And von." uprated tie old party Stole wind? cut in Twelve. Whv. frit d cakes dvghnuts. Don't ppmlv "'on. Bud you are the dreams I dream you boys e.v doughnuts? Oh close-croppe- 1 ! Hope to be any name you call me cross my heart, and hope to drop dead !" "Well I Aw, Im goin to do Itl Come onl Ah, yes! Why did you leave me so suddenly, and only Come on. come back in my dreams? Bud ! Tell a feller something. Bud !" The boy looked at the open door of the house. He stepped close to the old party. . "Aw well. Its nothin much only she her in there that used to live across tiie alley. Well, you know-jus- t as well, as I. Aw. I aint to tell ! The old party looked gently Into tiie strange hoys red, shame-coloreTears streaked through the face. freckles, hut lie tried to smile. "Go on, Bud ; Ill remember." Well, you remember that night she was standing by tiie fence that June evening when we came homo Well, dog from Iilllken's party? gone it, and killed me killed me us dead as n nit. 1 tell you ! She did she Is in Hie house she who lias been in the house all the? years she killed me, I tell you I How? Why, how. Bud?" extlahned the old party under his breath, also furtively keeping his eye on tin door. "With that that Oh, you know with that first awful kiss! Oh I seel replied the mnn. And so she Yes. Interrupted the strange boy Site turned me into a dream and you into a man and we parted. 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Your handwriting is very bad Indeed, said a man to a young college friend who was more addicted to sport than study; you really ought td learn kittens In the south stall." The oilier boys looked up when the old party shifted his feet and Ing place. Why, Bud, when the old barn went ami tiie garage came, I groaned: These are not real boys saw enen timber go as one bids good-bOh! to an old friend. theyre canned boys! All the other Industries have left the borne for Tiie very rafters were sacred ! tke cannery why not There our trapeze swung; there the Her, hoys. The old party lifted rings dangled on which we turned bis voice sharply. ; there was our spring"Yep sir!" cried Fourteen, rising board before tiie haypile In tiie managilely and saluting. ger; there we gave our shows; Widen one of yon knows what there we played our first casino and wood makes the best arrows? Which seven-up- . and there we learned in one of yon ever seasoned a piece of whispers the great mysteries of life. hickory behind the stove oer the Tiie limn was tiie boys Helen. He wood box all winter for .o,,r how? Do entcMed it in the sweet innocence of you know what hodnrk is?" childhood and played ghost there and "It talked with voices "Yes. sir, replied Thirteen. there, and held Is a corruption once when I had such bad spells of stomach trouble. I ti. ought I couldnt Tills emphatic statement get well. was made recently by W. C. Wallace, 320 N. Normandy Place, Los Angeles, Calif. "An acid stomach and Indigestion caused me Indescribable suffering for more than four years, he said. Awful pains would strike me soon after eating, and I would be almost doubled Often I had to take to up In agony. m.v bed. and I would lose much weight with every spell, I was told I had ulcers, enlarged stomnch and other ailments, but all my efforts to get relief failed. 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