Show V THE GARLAND Synthetic Gentleman By Channing Pollock Copyright churning WNU Pollock Bertrlco SYNOPSIS Th Duk likable youth pleasant f jobless and broke an unoccupied aummer home In Southampton ahelter from a seeking terrific rain storm lie makes himself at home Six years ago his father had led In China leaving the lad Barry Gilbert to fight his way back t6 the He did not recollect States ever having had a mother Dosing at the fireside he Is startled by the arrival of a Sutler Willetts a chauffeur a Evans eook and a maid He learna that the aon of the owner of the house Jack Rldder whom the servants had never een Is expected bluff He decides to It out CHAPTER I — Continued — 2— I hope not” the Duke replied grinning broadly and seeing that grin the four servants smiled too — plainly surprised at the master’s good humor “This sip maid Is Evans sir" the butler "This Is Mrs Mulligan Cook And Annie JelTers the parlor If you don’t mind sir I'll get then I’ll come upstairs them to report” Pine!" said the Duke calculating minutes would get him Into Ills clothes and out the front door lie was climbing the steps again when "Willetts called “I ' never thought sir Your bed Isn’t made I’ll get the linen out and have Annie up there right away You’ll want a good lire In your room to dry things out” “I’ve got a Are In the library " the Duke replied “Don't hurry I’m very comfortable" He had scarcely They did hurry got his trousers from under the mattress when Annie appeared Just as he had seen her In the hall and with a small load of Immaculate sheets and pillow cases "Mr Evans Is lighting the furnace” she said “The house Is that cold It’s an Mr Willetts says I wonder you didn’t think of It But of course you’re a stranger here too" “A stranger!” What did she mean Where had be been he by that? wondered? not 'home at Evidently any rale So that was why Willetts hadn’t known he wasn't Mr Rldder Was Willetts new? The girl was on her knees at the hearth and the Duke ventured half a question "Willetts Isn’t a stranger?" “Of course not” Annie replied "Nor Mr Evans Just Mrs Mulligan and We was taken on when Madam me and Mr Kidder expected to spend the summer here and we’d’ve been let out I guess when they decided to go to (5 ermariy If It hadn't been for your coming hack” “I picked Just the right minute didn’t I?” grinned the Duke “And "You sure did I” grinned the parlor maid spreading the linen over the arms of two chairs It was an amusing conversation but it had been too long Returning to the library trousers still In hand Barry Gilbert encountered the ubiqui“I'll take those tous Willetts sir" said thp butler taking them “Oh neer mind!" "They'll need pressing” Til need them" “They’ll he ready for you' In the Willetts said with a note morning” "Did you bring any pyof flnnlity jamas sir?” Any lie would do for now answered the Duke “Yes" “but like an Idiot I checked my and God knows what happened to the check !” “I’ll get you a pair of your father’s" “You’re voluntered Willetts very much of a size” lie was taking stock of the new master “Look like your father If you don’t mind my saying Same kind of Same figure so sir face only kinder If you don’t mind my saying so sir” The Duke didn’t mind It was all “a lucky break” only — how long "Mustn’t would It last? my But the luck" thought the Duke real Mr Rldder “wasn’t coming until tomorrow” Why make a break for it The storm was roaring and tonight? throwing buckets of water against the windows The butler had gone Into the bedand returned with a pair of room purple silk pyjamas “Anything else sir?" "No thanks" There’s "I’ll be leaving you then a lot to doi— getting the rooms ready for cook and the maid They've never Don’t know their been here he "ore What way about Eans don’t neither sir?” time breakfast "Oh say eight o’clock” Good night sir" said sir "Right the butler bowing himself out "Easy!" thought the Duke standing before the fire with the purple pyja"Too easyl Too mas in hl hand There's a catch In It damned easy! aomewhere 1” Willetts Implied that be had been with the family some time Why had be never seen the aon? Or even a picture of him? Why was he so willing to accept a stranger In the house at his own word — practically without Why did he take those question? trousers? “I’m trapped” mmed the Duke “or else — ” that five Or else what? “Or else he's no more a butler than How do I know Mr Rldder he Is? There’s a lot qf mighty I am what It was with that thought In hit mind and himself Imagined In a new and exciting role that Ills Grace of turned the other Hollywood finally cheek on an Irish linen pillow slip and dropped off to sleep The trousers were beside his bed when he awoke And all that cinema nonsense bad evaporated from his mind Just “ lucky break” A good night’s rest In a warm dry house whose owners had suddenly dashed off to to Europe leaving the establishment a son who happened to be unknown to the servants “If I belonged In a house like this—" He squared his shoulders and sauntered down the carpeted stairs No need of finishing the sentence Already he felt a new dignity a new The trousers stiffening were neatly pressed and “Good morning sir" said the butler as he entered the breakfast room “make There was nothing shift" about the meal Evans had been to town for cream and bacon and bread and the Duke's courage rose with every sip of the steaming coffee “What’s this?" be Inquired his eye falling up an envelope at his plate "A letter for your mother sir" Willetts replied: "It came after she’d left the hotel ‘and Evans got It when he went back for some things he was to bring out here He forgot it last Mrs Rldder expected some night sir mall from the employment agency She said you and pluces like that was to open It sir” Burry hesitated lie could feel a chilly something In the butler's gaze Sooner than return the gaze or evade It he opened the envelope A hundred dollar hill dropped out “Well sir!” exclaimed the butler any doubts he may have entertained lost In his surprise "Well” echoed the Duke with that new courage born of the stcnmlng cof- “It’e Got to Go" Fumed the Gentleman fee “Well and likewise good I can use this" “Yes sir’’ said “A the butler " little more coffee sir?" “Thank you" assented the Duke one more piece of toast” “And Alone In the cheerful breakfast room with the cheerful sunshine streaming down outside he read the letter jft “Dear Mother: I’m the money I can’t returning keep It and I can't go to Southampton I’m sending this special delivery ao you’ll have tlino to get rid of the servants If you decide not to open the house For your sake I hope father Improves at Bad Nauheim but I don’t want anything that comes from him and I sha'n't write again Thanks all the same John' The Duke picked up the envelope again It had been posted the previous morning In New York and there was no special delivery stamp “Well" he remarked "Santa Claus Is certainly worked overtime for me!” Back with the toast and cofTee Willetts Inquired “Anything Important sir?" “The letter?" asked the Duke as though that had been farthest from his present thoughts “No I’ll send It to Bad Nauheim when I write and keep the money until my mother re- turns" “What time shall you want the car sir?” “The car?” "For luncheon sir It's i fairish long walk to the village" His Grace reflected It was a long walk to the village It was an even And longer walk to Montauk Point there was no possibility apparently of overplaying bis luck Why should not he ride to Montauk In comfort— or at least to within a few miles of Montauk — and disappear there Instead of at Southampton? "I might take a drive" he said Out of sight of the boose he took the precaution of burning that letter from "John" The truth was that the Duke's uneasiness over that hundred had nothing to do with the fear of being’ caught lie had never stolen before “Ill return that anything money from MoDtauk” mnsed the “I don't want to be hooked Duke for robbing the malls” Life bad never been dull for him —or for his father “Keep moving" — And that was the old man’s slogan that was all he ever kept Barry’s memories bexin-i- a Strand L’iltshurg ed Francis Gilbert had tutored there TIMES GARLAND UTAII he "Spoiling longshoremen" good called it "because their papas are rich” From one of the longshoremen Barry had discovered that he should have a mother The old man had never mentioned It so his son raised the question “I lost her" his father said "IIow A Bride for King Edward "In Algiers You were born there" It was years before Barry was old enough to put the two things togethto tradition — or er “Did she die when I was born?” he asked then and got no answer maybe it’s law — King Edward is of a bride to This was in San Sebastian choice in the limited where the old man worked for an engineering one of five European princesses concern Soon afterward they pushed Even so his majesty would find on to England and prosnearly everybody over here giving perity Barry went to school for the loud cheers— and some of his loyal subfound that he had first time and jects at home doing the same thing learned more from his father than the other lads from their professors That too I bet you— did he just up and marry the was fortunate because the schooling healthy sweet lasted only a year before Barry — fifteen now — was taken to India "I of daughter can't stand counting houses" his father had told him ‘‘They’ve given us some English country family a berth in Calcutta” Indeed he might go It wasn’t an upper berth and It further and fare no was in another counting “I house worse by taking for met a fellow today” the elder Gilhis queen a “who's got something bert announced Canadian girl Still I to do with the diamond mines this would severely think we'll go to Johannesburg” They didn't because a week later the old shock a certain type of Britisher who alman found another friend who sugFrom there It was ways refers to a Canadian as a “cogested Manila lonial” with a lower case "c" or how and the tea only a step to Canton a maiden from a quarter which about business and a shorter step to Hong some of the produces where Francis Gilbert came like Canada Kong loveliest women in the world —the Anhome one night with a fever and By the way does that same tipodes?died the next morning call a naInsular of breed Englishman Barry had begged a clerkship In and then worked his tive of those pnrts ao "Antipathy?” Hong Kong Probably so way to San Francisco On the boat was a movie director' ' J“You’ve got Hamlet end Hams a great smile” he told the youngster “I think I can use you” Hollywood papers say a peasant audience broke up a ShakesRumania then and one studio after another Youth and looks and the Ingratiating pearean performance because It wasn’t Well could they but watch And Barry funny grin helped a lot there I’ve Hamlets some the of watched too a lot learned How to wear clothes and how gentlemen behaved— they’d die laughing or Hollywood thought they behaved — Likewise If those riotous peasants In a drawing room He was earning really have a sense of humor they’d get two hundred dollars a week some- a giggle out of a certain not altogether times when a wallet vanished from a unfamiliar pattern of classical screen coat thrown over a table “In the set” production never realizing of course The Duke knew who took It She was that they were laughing at an epic a poor little thing though and deswe can do suOne thing though perate and Ills Grace kept his month perlatively In these parts and that’s shut They couldn’t pin It on him That gigantic on a ballyhoo he said and they didn’t but there putting ’scared folks which meteor flaming were no Jobs after that along the eastern coast wouldn’t have And so he’d come East caused a ripple out here We’d Just In the sand that morning at Souththink somebody was opening a new he kept thinking of the letampton lunch stand over on Hollywood bouleAnd of his own ter he’d Just burned vard mother He had missed her all through his childhood watching the other boys Perkins Versus Roper with their mothers or at school In the Tommy Mnnvllles IDO so wish England getting ready to go home to make up their mind one “I lost her” the old man had them the other so we could all conor way never sold and mentioned the matter centrate on those plaintive tapping Had she died In Algiers In again the cnblnet from at sounds emnnatlng or merely grown weary of childbirth Washington and decided to stay somewandering Dame Rumor hath It that It’s Uncle where with someone? “I’d like to find Dan Roper signaling faintly for help her” the Duke thought because somebody lln the administraAt noon Evans brought the car tion Is trying to snatch his playthings “Do you know where we’re going?” Now Uncle Dan Is a patient from him asked the Duke soul and a true southern “Yes I’m taking you for a ride” gentleman so not for worlds would he antagonize Almost surly thought the Duke And It had a sinister sound that any good Democrat much less a lady Democrat But they do say he harbors phrase a secret gnawing grievance “You want to get lunch don’t yon?” added the chauffeur As the report filters through out here quickly “I want to see the end of the he doesn’t mind Mine Perkins taking We can eat anywhere” land but does obher own Job so seriously The Duke sank hack Into the cushject to her trying with equal serious ioned seat It gave him a curious ness to take bis — being driven sense of Importance It may be only a base Republican like this Along the highway slander Still say what you will Mme they sped Perkins has got a mighty determined The car was slowing down now Jaw and looking ahead Ills Grace saw limousine another drawn up at the Reading 5000000 Telegrams Evans threw out side of the road It mny have been sort of the clutch and then put his foot on for Senator Black’s combrake the mittee to seize all those musty mounA husky uniform young fellowMn tains of private telegraph messages In front of the other was standing why invoke the law to enjoin ’em? car Beside him was a spare sits anybody who deliberately Surely And framed In the gentleman 000 down to wade through stale to car’s doorway ready alight stood telegrams has been punished before he a pretty girl starts and will suffer from pollen In “Stop” said the Duke quite the pod before he’s through Think of since they had stopped the wires a fellow gets on birthdays She was the prettiest girl he had Some of them aren’t so and holidays ever seen the Duke decided lie had good even when fresh are they? made the same decision many times Apparently the present Investigation before but this time be felt It would any lobbying be final Tall and slim and dark alms to find out whether has actually gone on In Washington — dressed In an ensemble of and Indeed there has been a suspicion tweed with a top coat to match to that effect for quite some time and a tiny felt hat perched npon her somesleek black hair she looked how like a thing turned out by an Farewell to Shaw entirely perfect machine — trim and AFTER his recent tour he has left us — polished and built for speed Her eyes were gray the Duke was to discover once our venerated Idol and always our later and wide and a little cold Her severest critic nose was a straight line from her a chance overlooked as Somebody forehead and her Ups were bright the world’s most ex distinguished vegered against the pale Ivory of her face tarian having In advance deplored It “Can I do anything for you?” Inthe bad taste to be a for showing quired the Duke stood on the rim of Yankee Institution He was standing before her now America's noblest scenic wonder shakiand her glance took him In calmly ng a petulant whisker over that ln-answered before she credible void and munching a carrot appraisingly “No thanks” sandwich and poison-ivTbe Grand And with that Barry felt she canyon certainly would have been such a swell place for throwing your old erased him from the landscape “Yes you can” said the George Bernard Shaws With “That Is If either thickening on half gentleman about a car ‘of Europe’s frontiers — not to mention of you knows anything Asia’s — the League of Nations Is funcdoesu’t” My chauffeur “We’ll be glad to try” the Duke tioning as usual In other words it la “Have a look at It to menacing Bald cordially armies what a weather-vanla to the weather will you Evans?” IRVIN 8 COBB Sullenly Evans walked over to the ©—WNU Srevlca open hood "It’s the Ignition” the other chanf Following One’s Ambition feur told him Don't let people discourage or kill “Start her np“ your ambition by telling you that tbe “She won’t start” you propose to do Is absurd thing with The two men began fussing that “It can’t be done" Those “practhe engine aouls can’t see the vision that tical" fumed the “It’s got to go” “I haven’t had a yon seev They don't feel that Inner gentleman which la constantly bidding you bite since breakfast and I'm due !r urge You yourself may no op and on New York at five o’clock” realize that It is the call that runs In “Hungry myself" aald the D’ blood a divine call to do the your to mean eat?" “Where did you 'li!hglhal "you were“ent" Into this' (TO BE CONTINL'FD vorld to do r Beverly hills calif— THE WHILE Vorld Not to Intermountain News told —Briefly for Busy Readers and road were oiled and 148 miles were rock and gravel surfaced during 1935 in Idaho a state public works department report shows LEWISTON IDA— The Inter-stacommerce commission on May 4 will hear an application of the Inland Navigation company of Portland Ore for permission to operate a steamship freight line between 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