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Show AO LEW FREE PRESS. LEH1. IT ' ' xxxxxxxxxxxv: Synthetic Gentleman By CHANNING POLLOCK OopyrtjEbt, Chaining Pollock WNU Service. xxxxxxxxxxxX CHAPTER I The house stood alone on a overlooking ttie sea dark, deserted, and silent, except for the swish of the rain blowing against Its shlncles. Wet to bis 6kln, and shivering, the Duke struggled to pry open window. From his dank coat pocket, the Duke drew a cheap Jackknlfe and a tiny searchlight. With these In his hands, ha turned to look toward the highway. It was Invisible, two hundred yards from the porch on which he stood, winding over and around and about these dunes. The Duke's thumb pressed the button, and, momentarily, the ray revealed and a single waving wet beach-grass- , scrub pine bent In the wind. Then, carefully, he began cutting away the dry putty that held n pane of glass. It was slow work. "Why don't I break the damned thing?" the Duke asked himself, and, a minute later, felt the nnshattered glass drop Into his band. It was easy to open the window, then, and easy for a slim and agile man to climb thrrfugb. Once Inside the bouse, he paused. Would the electric lights be working, and would It be safe to turn them on? Why not? Half the summer residences In Southampton tad been opened for the season. Kven If there were sn observant passer-bto be one would think a brightly light ed room less remarkable than a furtive ray. The Duke touched a switch his searchlight had disclosed beside a ruimJ-dun- y door. It was exactly the sort of room he " ' over the big chair, and looked through the glass Into a cluster of bushes, illuminated from the windows, that tossed their tops frantically, as though moved by wild despair. "It's a filrtiy night," the man In the dressing gown thought, as he sauntered back to the crackling logs, drawing contentedly at his cigar, and pausing to take a book from the loaded shelves. "A filthy night." In the thick of It he had been an hour before. Penniless, overcoatless, trudging along the cement paved road from P.rldgehampton, five miles to the east. Was It five miles, he thought, or fifteen, or fifty? On foot, be had left New York that morning just after day break. Jobless and Hat broke. For a month all through April, lu fact the Duke had tramped the streets "What (Oklug for "a regular job." the h I makes me want to keep straight?" he had asked himself, again and again. "That's all rilit for guys with an Income. If somebody'd started me in a rubber-tirepram, and wheeled me into college, and out again Into papas ollice sure, id run straight. Why not? Who couldn't be a knight In armor? Hut being a knight without armor that's different. When you get dumped Into a fight, naked, w ith nothing but your bare fists, and the whole world coming at you with brick bats and brass knuckles, what a d d fool you are to stick to the Marquis of Queensbury Rules!" Still, he bad stuck reasonably, at least In the face of what seemed almost a conspiracy of discouragement. Fired out of Hollywood for a theft of which he was Innocent as an unborn babe. "All right," he had said; "I've got a few hundreds saved, and I'll go Fast, and start all over again." Con fidently, he had left the railway station in Chicago, only to have his pocket picked before he had got as far as the hotel. He had nearly frozen In He had nearly starved. And Chicago. then he had hitch hiked to New York, riding freights when he could. A pal had christened him "the Duke," because of his clothes, and bis English, and the grand manner he had acquired In Filmdom. with those Hollywood shoes wearing thin, and that Hollywood gray suit, that had cost $125, getting frayed and baggy. Part of a Jobless army In a city without Jobs. He had eaten his overcoat or the proceeds from It, at any rate and paid the last dime for a bunk In a New York Hop-hous- e. a luxurious breakfast room in a luxurious summer residence, tad expected A love of books, a sense of humor, and the wanderlust these he had Most of the furniture was covered, but Inherited from an Irish father, whose s gay breakfast table stood In the cen- name was Francis X. Gilbert, and an door open ter, and, beyond It, was whose proudest boast was that he to a pantry. The Duke walked through, came from the University of Dublin. and Into the kitchen, turning on lights He had died In China, neiirly six years as he went. "Guess they're going to ago, leaving the seventeen-year-olopen the house pretty soon. After all, boy, Barry, to fight his way from Hong why should they mind an extra week Kong to Hollywood, and from Chicago end guest?" to New York. And so Barry had He grinned, and anyone who bad crossed the Queensboro Bridge to Long seen that grin might have found it Island, and picked up a truck, and hard to mind. It was an Ingratiating charmed the driver Into buying him a grin, In a pleasant, likeable face. A pretty good lunch at Huntington. Bay and a little Shore In a passing car, and Sayvllle on lean face, weather-beateboney, but with large, kind, steel gray foot, and another truck to Bridgehanip-ton- , eyes, surmounted by a thatch of tin where he had lost his bearings nnd hair. The Duke's trim tramped back miles before he found ruly brick-refigure stretched a tidy six feet above himself again on the edge of Souththe worn soles of hlg untidy boots, but ampton. tls gray suit, though worn, too, and It was black night, and beginning to wet, was well cut and well made, re- - rain. A cold wind had sprung up from Teallng square shoulders and firm the northeast. An endless, winding muscles. dunes, road, and "Wonder If there's any grub," said with solitary houses. Grand houses the Duke. they were, all of them. A few had All the kitchen shelves bore bright colored tin boxes, with bright letter Ine. but they were empty. The bread- box was empty, of course; no use open lug that. But above the shelves was Q a cupboard, and In that cupboard were rows of canned things each can neatly wrapped In paper sardines, anchovies, caviar, chicken, ham, tongue all sorts of things. "Hospitable per pie," said the Duke. "I wonder where they keep the coffee." Thirty minutes later, His Grace had dined sustalnlngly, if not well. Half the contents of the pot of coffee still bubbling on the stove had warmed him comfortably, and he washed the dishes. Then he put everything back In place, turned out the lights, and, whistling merrily, went upstairs. At the top of the steps was a kind with doors on f library book-lineeither side, and, at Its end, windows facing the sea. Even through the black ness, the Intruder could discern the al is most luminous white of breaking waves. THRILL Again, he touched a switch, and, this Climb right along into society time, lights sprang Into being In shaded table-lampdoubly shaded now by win with "Th Duke" for torn of ter wrappings. A fire had been laid In the most engaging the grate. He lit the tire, and a cigar, you've read In years. For thl and then opened a door on his right. worker charming second-storThis was a man's room, gracious and Into a Long Island broke right Inviting. The Duke felt the mattress home, and couldn't get out for drawn back over the footboard of the he wai mistaken for the prodibed, and, sniffing a pungent odor of cedar and camphor, turned his attengal scion of the family end tion to a closet across the room. A found himself In love. Tery large closet, with an electric light In it, and built-idrawers, and a cedar Here are some of the real chest Atop the chest were two pairs thrills and laughs for which of slippers, and above It hung the only the pen of Channlng Pollock dressing garment visible, a become famous. Don't miss hat gown of soft, light flannel. His own a chapter. single still the Duke clinging damply, 'apparel took the dressing gewn and slippers back to the blazing Are, and, standing luxuriously before It, changed his clothes. Still neat, he carried the gray suit and the wet undergarments back to the bedroom, folded the trousers carefully, and laid them on the box spring. With one hand, he flung the mattress Into By place over them. He returned to the fire, stretching Himself lazily la a huge, over stuffed chair. Outside, the storm was grow ing against the steadily worse. Wind-flunwindows, the rain kept up Its Incessant A little puddle formed on one wish. of the sills. The Duke mopped it up wtih an old cloth that had been spread d n d and dogs war Vrlng lights Inside about, as he Ifad discovered in the course of two desperate excursion. Most of these dwellings were dark and vacant. "Houses without p.-- . ;.le," the Duke had muttered, still n t ! TrseU-fully- , -It and people without hou-e- s. doesn't seem fair." His teeth were chattering by now, and his feet squished iu his wet sin.es. And this house bad seemed so utterly deserted, so entirely safe and secure. "Ten o'clock," said the Duke. "What's the chance of anyone finding u.e lu there tonight? And, If they do, it's beI'll be on tter than freezing to death. my way again at daybreak." Now, fed and warm, he was growing drowsy before the tire. "It nr:st be swell to live like this all the time," be brooded, dreamily. "I wouldn't break Into anybody's house if I had one like this. Gosh, I guess I'll sleep here. It's warmer than the bed, and I've g"t a long hike ahead of me in the morning." 1 is head fell forward, and his ees were closing, when he heard an automobile door slam, and, an Instant later, voices and the shuffling of feet on the porch directly beneath him. The Duke sprang to the electric switch. l ast lie moved, his wits worked faster still. "No," be thought; "that won't do. If the lights go out, they'll know there's something wrong!" The breakfast room window that was It! But not In dressing gown and slippers. "Damned fool, to take my clothes off!" thought the Duke. Who were these people, anyway, driving up to a closed house at this hour? Thieves? Stragglers, like himself? Hardly In a big limousine like that he glimpsed hastily from the window. Well, what next? Jail, probably. How long could they give a man for unlawful entry? "Damn!" said the Duke. And then he heard the lower door open, and a woman's voice In the hall. "Maybe I can talk my way out," be thought, and started down the stairs. "Who's there?" he called, bravely, as his feet touched the first landing. A man answered. "Wllletts," he said. "Willetts, th? butler. Is that you, Mr. Bidder?" And the lights went on. Standing there, on the landing naked except for the dressing gown, the Duke found himself facing a party of four. Wllletts, with his hat In his hand, squat and powerfully built and ludicrously bald. Another man In a chauffeur's uniform, and two women-o- ne quite young, and the other middle-ageand stout. They seemed propitiatory, and the fact gave him Instant courage. "Is that you, Mr. Bidder?" The question had been asked first In the dark, but now It was repeated In a glare that made every face plainThe butler didn't know ly visible. Mr. Kidder, then. That was "a lucky break." It would give him time to dress, and get away. "Yes," he answered, quietly. "You're a little late, aren't you?" "I "Sorry, sir," said the butlee. didn't have any Idea you'd be aere, sir. Your mother said you wasn't coming until tomorrow. Evans had to take 'em down to the ship her and your father, sir and then he had to go back to the hotel, and pick up me, and cook, and the maid. The storm didn't help, neither, and we stopped at Fatchogue for dinner. I hope you ain't going to be pnt out, sir." 1 t ,. A . v r'.d. Wae l':t) Dcr.'t r t) with on Yourself ...ap1 d.- a jet .;,'t v toother part-nient KIIOtlllD 1H"' ' Take care disposition. and your jour health find that And in the end you will archithe less or more you have been that tect of your own fortune, and that got. you kind the vou deserved t'i "sp. own pood. ''.t y'i:r "i " STREAT0R-- - fan'.t f I ): :: ir.'p the trlrl.y, can I"'Ther. ; i ' 1 hut you 60 And Some More V of the: "I thought you were goiu to kiss mouth n;o when you screwed up i.ur I..Il't think for a n in. 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