Show THE NXXXXXXXXXXXk' A radio message I Ills fingers stif- fened The Judge hadn't waited to write Marconi! he tore Feverishly open the wrapper am “Juit to let you know that very happy atop couldn't aleep laat night for thinking of you homo at laat stop can't tell your father yet atop pleasa pleaio try to spend summer In uch a way aa to maka reconciliation possible atop praying for word on arrival atop God bless you and love “Mother" Damn Synthetic Gentleman For By CHANNING POLLOCK Otxprrifhc Ctuuknlng WNU 8rvk Pollock oooooooooox SYNOPSIS The Duke a pleasant likable youth jobless and broke an unoccupied summer home In shelter from a Southampton seeking terrific rain storm He makes himself at home Six years ago his father had died In China leaving the lad Barry to fight his wav back to the Gilbert States He did not recollect ever having had a mother Dosing at the he Is startled by the arrival of ha butler Willetts: a chauffeur Kvans a cook and a maid He learns that the son of the owner of the house Jack Rldder whom the servants had never seen Is expected He decides to bluff It out His supposed parents have left for Germany Next morning he Is given a letter for his “mother" He opens It and finds a message from the real Jack saying he could not come and returning r a bill The boy's father had pensioned him Into obscurity Barry pockets the money Intending to return It later He orders Kvans to take him to Montauk Intending to disappear There 0n the ay be assists and his daughter Patricia Behovwhose car had broken down ing he Is Jack Rldder she Invites him (o dinner the following Thursday decidBarry returns to Southampton ing to stay a bit longer cf ters once tbe Duke didn't grin “She didn't care what It cost" he said but there was no humor in that comment lie was picturing a hurwoman ried slipping furtively up to the wireless room and In this message so herself handing that no steward should unwittingly betray her The first word she had been able to smuggle to the boy Id years “It’s been killing your mother" the Judge had said and a button The Duke touched Willetts came “Where's Evans?" “In the garage sir With his wife" “Ask him to run me down to the vilto want to send a telegram lage mother" my “I can telephone It sir” “Thunks I’d rather hand It In” The cur'll he here “Very good sir In a minute or two sir And I’ll hold dinner" Barry never thought any harder he did during that Short ride What could he say that would make and yet mean his mother still happier nothing If the message fell Into the hands of that hard old man? In nil probability his father knew Must the house had been opened Evans know since he had forbidden than CHAPTER II — Continued — ft— He caught Mr Cfowell Inspecting the tag sewn onto the buck of hla Well waistcoat that was all right and of course could be nothing wrong when the trousers were to be sent by parcel post to “John Clarke Rldder Jr” at Southampton Before the Duke departed Mr Crowell had secured orders for a snek suit and evening clothes “Charge ’em to my father" the Duke said and Mr Croand I’ll let well answered “Certainly know we're when you ready to try on" Tills procedure and those following at the haberdasher's and the shoemaker's ruffled the Duke’s conscience far less than the hundred dollar bill ' I’ll pay It all back some had done day" he thought without asking how On the return trip to Southampton ft struck him that he’d got a pretty extensive wardrobe for one dinner “Well’’ he argued “suppose party I do stay a month might as well be hanged for a sheep ns for a lamb and nothing much can happen before my father's return — unl°ss the real John Clarke Junior changes his mind about writing to Bad Nauheim" Of course the Judge might write — to felicitate the old man on having made It up with his boy What then? That wouldn’t ' tell' them that this wasn’t the same boy Still it might be safer to hint to the llambidges that were going to wander the Bidders about a bit before arriving at their destination The Duke loaned hack In the Dong Island Hallway's best parlorTfrfC and he had bought opened a newspaper he Almost Instantly at the station saw Ids new friend's name again “JefJust Anferson Street Condemnation other Grab" the headline ran “Civic Association Brands Proceedings Beas Barefaced fore Judge Ilumbidge Loot of City Treasury” "They’re certainly making It hot for him" Barry mused He wouldn't have read the story to the Judge but for Its reference Even so he read It very casually Somebody wanted to turn a side street Into a boulevard That Involved buyAnd the proping a lot of property erty owners weren’t willing to sell for what the city was willing to pay so had been “condemnation proceedings Instituted" — whatever they might be — was to Qx the and Judge Ilambldge and houses of value the ground “Who really owns this property?” The corthe Civic association asked held title was an obvithat poration It had been formed ous and had purchased the land and btilldlngs only a few months before of municipal Interest In the beginning And It was demandJefferson street ing a million and a half for “a few relics of a better day In this neighborhood that would have been dear at half a million” Tammany's paw was acvisible In the whole transaction and cording to the Civic association called decision for the Impending and prompt action from Individuals aware that Judge organizations was a Tammany judge Swell chance! action?” ‘Trompt the taxpayers Plainly Who cared? didn't and Barry wasn't even a taxAs a couple of million other payer he citizens were to do that evening dismissed the whole matter from his mind and turned the page looking for 8 good murder Reaching home he went straight to the library The winter covers had been removed from trie furniture now and the place The Italian was bright and shining Bendbox had been filled with cigars Duke's gnzp ing over to get one the to his addressed fell upon an envelope oilier self A Radio Message! Stiffened Hie Fingers to bring his wife Well then suppose the telegram were signed "Willetts” but contained a reference that would Identify the real sender — to her and to no one else? “Radio received” he wirelessed at Wi“Will do my best Writing lletts" She would understand came after dinner The reaction “Maudlin that's what I am" thought the Duke "Just because I get ft mesThe first one saged signed ’Mother’ I ever got” "Damn fool trick — sending that Sooner or later she’s going wireless to find out It was fake and then what good will I have done?” Thursday’s dinner started off on the wrong foot The Duke wore his new flannels and his old gray coat It was not a warm hut he had nothing else to evening wear His father’s apparel was much too tight He could see Patricia taking him In She was lovely In crepe de chine and the Judge Immaculate “You In black tie and dinner Jacket said we could fight things out on the tennis court” the Duke apologized “and I’m afraid that stuck In my mind The truth Is my luggage hasn’t turned I up and I had to wear anything could find" “you should have worn a strip of and brought boxing gloves” bunting "If you and Pat the Judge laughed are going at It as you did at the club” “What would happen If we agreed asked Patricia about anything?" I'd Miss Ilambldge “I'd be wrong be wrong!" The retort was no more his own than the shirt on his back but he for It by an appreciawas rewarded tive flash In the girl’s eyes Rut they couldn't agree How was It possible the Duke asked himself afterward to be so fasclnntPd by a young woman who opposed Ills And so — every Idea and utterance? As though It amused well so cocklly her to be Irritating The girl chattered about everything A modern and proud of It Why should people be proud a state like of being “modern” that you achieved merely by beAnd so far aft modernity ing born? was point of view why preen yourself because you didn’t believe In anyyour own right to be thing except happy? This girl had had no contact with Walled about In a pleasant garlife herself of smart den she delivered brittle opinions of conditions she had never experienced people she had nevcouldn’t help liking er seen But you And It began to be evident that her “You’re different at she liked him least” she said “Different from any other man I know Really not a bit like a rich man's son” “I've been on my own a’ good while" ' he reminded her “You’ve some"Yes” she answered When my aet'a about to talk thing last through market through Barry adopted GARLAND TIMES with and golf the bridge night the stock It’f clubs !’’ a good deal about hi father that night And when Patricia left them for a few minutes the Judge repeated “He’s certainly no sentimentalist— that gentleman We're supposed to be friends and his paper tne The Civic asgoes on attacking sociation — that's ’nothing on earth but The Globe And now they’re all at It Talking about my taking orders from It wouldn't matGenerally Tammany ter but this Jefferson street business has got everybody so worked up It's all a man's career's worth Just to be caught nodding to a District Leader” “Did you ever speak Barry nodded to the old man?" “Just a few days before he left ‘I’m running my newspaper for the public’ he said” “What's the use of stopping one paper?" Patricia Inquired entering the room “The others would keep right on Did you ever rend any of th wrote about Abraham Linthlqgs they Be a brave old gentleman coln? and don’t let It bother you” She laughed but her eyes were very tender as she laid her hands on the Judge's shoulders "That’s why I like her” thought the "Because I see what she’d be Duke If somebody scraped off tbe enamel She’s got the makings of some girl !” It waft after midnight when Barry climbed Into his car calling back “Remember you're dining with me next Thursday 1” “You certainly took father out of himself" the girl had remarked to him "He's been frightfully de- GARLAND Patron Buying Ham Butcher to “Burger” It Woman Ask learned pressed” “Let’s see a lot of one another” the Duke had rejoined “I'm lonely ns an oyster in a church stew Why riot come to my place next Thursday?” “All right And we’re having house guests over the following The Winslows My mother was Mrs Winslow’s sister Peter’s a prominent lawyer and It won’t hurt you to know him And I’ve got an old school friend from Boston Will you dine coming with us again that Friday?" “I’ll board with you If you ask me 1” “But that Barry replied exuberantly lets me out" he vowed on the way home "This can’t go on forever Something’s sure to break and I don’t want It to break anywhere near that girl What she learns when I’m gone won’t hurt either of us but —Gosh— I’d hate having to face her after she’d found out the truth!" However Southampton was not only ruining his "appetite for bnked beans” It was ruining his taste for the open road and Standing before the mirror In faultless evening dress on Thursday he “If I can’t get thought the thing out a Job with these clothes and the new feeling this thing has I’d like to t given me I’m a make good now Darned If I know why but I would!” lie made up his mind to go to town the next day and have another try at it “Iil take a shot at the movie studios” he said “There ought to be something In heroes for a young fellow who looks like that” He was still contemplating himself In the glass with a view to his picture when the llambidges arpossibilities rived On the whole It was a very successful evening The Judge seemed' even more worried than he had been a week before but Barry’s good humor was Irresistible Patricia had asked about Jils experience In Florida and he found himself combining pureadventures there with ly Imaginary anecdotes of park - benches and the He told of flop house In New York at Southampton arriving penniless and of the providential hill that camft addressed to his mother Truth and fiction blended so wonderfully and seemed so reaL The llambidges went home early but in much better spirits than they had brought with them and Patricia paused at the door to remind him of their engagement for the following Friday “You'll have to come the week after that too” she said “My Boston friend can’t get here next week and she’s especially anxious to meet you” Patricia must have written about him then By Golly he would get Job— If only to show her that he could do something better than dance It was twenty minutes later before the Duke realized suddenly that the exigencies of the situation weren’t going to allow his showing Pat anything but a clean pair of heels UTAH He was Just a country butcher but he deals a 1th a lot of city slickers and he must be alert to see to It they put nothing over on him lie was discussing the suggestion that many of the customers who come to him are so dumb that he could sell them tripe for porterhouse steak As an example he explained that a woman came Into his shop and asked for a pound of ham This he cut and then to his surprise the customer said "Now please burger It" The butcher did not grasp the and then It quest Immediately dawned upon him that the buyer wanted meat for s hamburger steak Trying to explain the makings used for a hamburger the woman became Indignant saying very she knew what she wanted Not willing to accept hls explanation he did the next best thing and ran the slice of bam through the chopper wrapped It up and the went away in contentment tier subsequent visits to the store were friendly and the subject was never mentioned— New York Sun The “Laughing Jackets" to Australia may hear Strangers what sounds like the braying of a Investigation Jackass In the woods however will disclose a colorful bird on the order of the kingbut much fisher larger It Is the one native to Australia kookaburra and moat mischievof tjie brightest ous birds living It Is known as the “laughing Jackass” because of Its braying note and as the “settler’s clock’1 because It utters Its peculiar cry regIt eats ularly at dawn and at dusk snakes and small mammals Insects killing the larger prey by flying high with Its victim In Its beak and dropping It to destruction SENTENCE INSECTS nowm ituiTS KILLS Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription makes weak women strong Ne afoohoL Sold by druggiata in tablets or liquid— Adv on A SKKUIS Demand erfgtael seeled botiln tram peer daaiar VEGETABLES Cnltlveting Poise Is good deal Slop fosted of "don’t Pole by cultivating care” BUNION UVf Pain! 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