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Show Thursday, September 1, ig PAGE SIX THE LEHI SUN. LEH1. UTAH Fifth Avenue STORY FROM THE START From th comfortable financial situation to which he had been bcii-n, Peter Milman, American gentleman of the old school, and last of hta family, U practically reduced to penury through the misfortune of a friend, Haze i Brewer, whom he had unwisely trusted. Learning of Brewer'a suicide, sui-cide, which means the destruction of his last hope, Milman engages a French butler, Achllle Lutry, who speaks no English, and Is to replace Sneed, servant of long standing. By Lutry, Milman sends letter to Prof. Fleming Bradney, Floyd Valet and Nee-land Nee-land Barnes, men whom th world has classed as failures, one of high position. CHAPTER II Continued "Beside yourself there will be, I trust, Neeland Barnes, formerly an International In-ternational polo player and owner of race horses, and Floyd Malet, who, when he seemed about to take his place la the world as a great sculptor, Buffered an unfortunate eclipse." Bradney went to the library and opened the New York directory. Sure enough, Peter Milman was recorded as living on Lower Fifth avenue, The thing, then, was not a foolish practical prac-tical Joke, Puffing at big pipe, Fleming Bradney Brad-ney sat on his little balcony and gazed at Manhattan lights. This strange letter had awakened old hopes and ambitions that he had thought for ever dead. Of course, there could be no practical joke which expended a hundred hun-dred dollars on Its fulfillment Bradney Brad-ney read the letter again. The phrase, "Perhaps at this dinner you may be offered the opportunity," totfk his fancy strangely. Opportunity! Did any exist for a man who had been dls-graced dls-graced and was now forgotten? Until Un-til this letter came Bradney bad hollered ho-llered his career finished. He went Into his bedroom and disinterred a ult of full evening dress from Its mothball tomb. lie had not worn It tor a dozen years. i e Peter Mllman's letter reached Neeland Nee-land Barnes at a moment when that eminent sportsmnn was engaged In itavlng off his most persistent creditor, cred-itor, the landlord Llppsky. Barnes was n tall, finely made man who had run through several fortune. by his love for horses and his Inability Inabil-ity to Judge of their chances In races, After his wife had died, his relatives had shrugged their shoulders and abandoned him. The many schemes !for his rehabilitation had failed. He disappeared from fashionable resorts. Ills only daughter was being brougl't up In England by rich relations. Ho had drifted about the world until, at the end of all resources, he had taken a little house on the outskirts of Teeksklll. Here he was engaged In what he explained as on attempt "to stage a comeback." He was trying to become physically fit, and he was succeeding. But mountain hikes and sculling up the noble stream brought no grist to the mill. 'Mr. Barnes, you are a loafer,' Llppsky cried when the sportsman had announced his Inability to pay rent long overdue. This seemed cruelly un Just to a man who had Just returned from a twenty-mile walk. "Some day, If you keep on annoying me," said Neeland Barnes, "I shall kill you." "You don't have to kill me," Llppsky cried shrilly. "You just pay my rent. Bell your swell clothes end get over alls." He waved Peter Mllman's let ter. "Get some of your swell friends to lend you money." Neeland Barnes looked at the letter, puzzled. He did not recognize the writing, but the stationery was reas suring. "When what you term my swell friends know I am living in a hovel like this, they will advance me the money. I shall not ask them until I have finished my training. I am about to begin. If I hit you, It's your look-cut." look-cut." Barnes began his shadow-boxing exercises. Dimly Llppsky perceived tlint his debtor was getting nearer and nearer. He went out muttering "Loafer." It was a word which did much to appease him. Barnes boxed no more when his landlord had disappeared. He read the astonishing letter a dozen times and secreted the money-order at once. Alone of the three who had received omewhat similar communications, he knew of Milman and his family. Very distantly they were connected by marriage. mar-riage. Barnes had no idea that the Brewer failure had broug'at Peter Mil-man Mil-man to penury. One sentence he found strangely Intriguing:. "If, as I believe, you feel yourself unfairly treated by the world that was yours, I may be able to offer you the opportunity oppor-tunity to take your place again in eoclety. Neeland Karnes longed above all things for Jie comfortable life that had once bepn his. He had never permitted per-mitted fcimself to become shabby. Never aad he sunk to such a state that former friends would t.i'silote to pp 111 CP Of recognize him. He clung to the Idea that when once he ceased to shave and wear clean linen the descent to hell would have begun. He rolled a cigarette and Indulged in pleasing reveries. Good dinners were not given idly nor were hundred-dollar hundred-dollar bills expended for nothing. Peter Milman wanted him to do something. some-thing. Well, Neeland Barnes was his man. Perhaps after all these years the man who had run away with Mrs. Milman was back in America. Per haps Peter Milman desired him to be chastised publicly. He would find Neeland Barnes devoid of fear and in better physical trim than he had been for a dozen years. Barnes always saw himself in a heroic light. He hoped the thing would be staged so that his old cronies might see It They would never believe that he could keep so fit after the scandalous rumors that had been spread about him. Naturally there would be. expense money. It would be a delightful experience ex-perience to pay Llppsky his deferred rent in nickels and cents and watch him scrambling feverishly for the coins among poison ivy. And he would be able to send his daughter a decent present at last Poor Nlta, whom he had not seen for years, brought up by Jealous relatives far from his care. The adventure might lead to amazing things. Presently these brilliant prospects faded. He was conscious that his only home was in Llppsky's grotesquely furnished house. Adventures with glorious' endings offered themselves only to youth. He sighed a little. Then he smiled. After all, he had the hundred dollars and the prospect of a good dinner. Floyd Malet under the name of Mi Floyd, was earning a poor living by teaching drawing in Philadelphia private schools. The man who had hoped to see his name associated with Rodin and Meunler was forgotten by all save the few who had seen in him the signs of genius. Malet was a man of middle size, thin and haggard. Once or twice fastidious pupils had complained that he paid too little attention at-tention to his personal appearance. Mllman's letter came by late mall. At first the sculptor was Inclined to think It an advertising scheme of some sort. The I.ower Fifth avenue address was thick with loft and office buildings. Like Bradney, he went to a library and looked up Milman. The genealogical genealog-ical department gave him ample data. The stranger's letter held out the promise of temporary relief from an Intolerable life. There was money for the trip and enough over to live for many weeks as he had lately learned to live. He packed his grip, thankful he had saved a suit of evening eve-ning clothes. There Is something vivifying about the air of Manhattan. It had its effect ef-fect on the three men bound for Peter Mllman's house. Bradney held up his head again and Malet lost his droop of depression. Neeland Barnes, walking walk-ing briskly down the avenue, passed clubs which had dropped him on account ac-count of nonpayment of dues and felt himself within measurable distance of re-election. His military mustache and fine carriage made him a marked figure, and he liked the limelight As he neared the Milman house he wondered what his fellow guests would be like. In other years no phys icists had been numbered among his acquaintances. He was not quite certain cer-tain what a physicist was. As to sculptors, he had met one in Rome, but he was a marquis. Sculptors were probably all right. II was reassured by remembering that the wife of a former polo pal had her own studio. But he would probably have to domt nate the conversation with Peter Mil man and talk of old New York society, He must be careful not to mention the Daynes. The runaway wife had been a Dayne. Wedged in betwet n tall buildings. the Milman house looked squat and unimpressive. Yet Barnes gazed at It with respect To be able to retain It spelled wealth. Lesser men would have sold at a profit and moved uptown. up-town. What this millionaire might want with Neeland Barnes was a de One Eye Her Oculist The oculist had a Joke the other morning. Every now and then he smiled quietly to himself. "You know." he said finally to the Woman, "mothers "moth-ers are wonderful people. They always believe thare is nobody quite so clever as their own children. "Now, my mother, for instance, thinks I know everything about eyes. She doesn't confine her boasting to the neighbors, either. She Is Just as likely like-ly as not to walk up to a nearsighted or crosseyed passenger in the sunway and, tell him his eyes need attention and that her son Is the best oculist lu New York. She says that isn't hunting hunt-ing business for me; it's helping riponie who don't know enoush to look I after their sight. But the joke Is on i I her. h WYNDHAM MARTYN Ooprrlf bt la th United SlkUa WNUBerrtos lightful mystery. He rapped loudly with the brass knocker. A few minutes earlier Floyd Malet had stood appalled at the smug ugliness ugli-ness of the building. He did not think with any sympathy of that generation, represented by the builder, which had distrusted elegance and loved what was solid and lasting. To the sculptor sculp-tor it seemed the Milman home was modeled on the old Astor house. But he liked the door and the brass knocker, which was a copy of that decorating an Oxford college. The last to come was Fleming Bradney, whom the subway had delayed. de-layed. He rather liked the house. It had strength and the air of studied isolation. None could look through its windows to disturb the Inmates. It lay fifteen feet back from the sidewalk. side-walk. Bradney had that Imagination without which mathematicians can never be great. Whom and what was he to see behind the tall door? CHAPTER III Neeland Barnes disapproved of Achllle, who admitted him with lavish gestures. This was not the sort of butler a Milman should employ. He followed him to a library, where he found his host speaking to Floyd Malet It was as Barnes thought Sculptors were not quite up to his social so-cial standard. This stranger was physically inconspicuous, and his clothes should have been more recently recent-ly pressed. Neeland Barnes held out his hand to Peter Milman, as one could to a man of his distinguished ancestry, with a smile which said plainly, "I, at least belong here." "It Is very kind of you to come," said Peter Milman. He turned to Floyd Malet: "Mr. Malet this is Mr. Neeland Barnes." Barnes nodded a little coldly. Curious, Curi-ous, he thought that Peter Milman should have Introduced Malet to him. Then Fleming Bradney came in. Although Al-though his clothes were of another era, there was an air of power about him. His was a carelessness due less to ignorance than to lack of concern with other people's modes of life and thought. In an age when beards were unpopular he wore one, and little children chil-dren hissed "Beaver" to him at every street corner. Peter Milman, so Barnes thought, treated him with extreme respect. It was not until Achllle brought in the cocktails that Barnes' frown left him. It was easy to see that of the three Peter Milman considered him the least Important Why, he wondered, did Milman esteen It an honor to have a physicist to dinner? The word recurred re-curred many times. This must be some new way of describing a physician. phy-sician. That was It Physicians were not so bad. One had married a Van-derbllt Van-derbllt in America and another a duke of Norfolk's daughter in England. The second cocktail found Neeland Barnes more amiable. He looked keenly at his host, but discovered no trace of nervousness about hlra, no wlldness of eye which might confirm the world's opinion that he was mentally men-tally unfit. Perfectly dressed, as usual, but no better turned-out than Neeland Barnes. The dining room was beautifully furnished. "Ha, ha," said Barnes, "good old Chippendale 1" "Sheraton," the sculptor corrected gently. "Just as you like," Barnes said genially. gen-ially. There were certain bottles in plain view which banished any ill-humor ill-humor he might have felt Not for years had he sat down to a really well-chosen well-chosen and well-cooked dinner. Everything Every-thing about him spoke of lavish expenditures. ex-penditures. To Floyd Malet everything every-thing spoke of exquisite taste. The relief, after years of furnished dissonance, dis-sonance, was grateful. He felt cheerful cheer-ful after a decade of gloom. The bearded Bradney noticed only that he was sitting at a bountiful table ta-ble and Invited to sip excellent vint age wines. What was the reason? He was Impatient to know. What opportunity op-portunity was he to be offered to regain re-gain the rank In science that disgrace had bereft him? (TO BE CONTINUED.) Son Could Not Help "Yesterday she met a man who is distinctly and painfully wall-eyed.' 'You mustn't let your eyes go like that she told him immediately the introductions in-troductions were made. 'My son can do anything with eyes. Why don't you go to see him?" Tm afraid he can't uo anything with this eye, madam,' mad-am,' answered the object of her solicitude; so-licitude; you see, it's a glass one.'" New York Sun. ' Aztec Religious Belief The Aztecs believed la special gods who brought drseases and in other gods who knew healing secrets. The bark of severe! species of the eucalyptus tree yields a rosin, bene the tree Is called tlie "gum trea. What's the 7 Answer Question No. 7 . 1 How is divorce obtained In So vlt Russia? 2 Who said: "Liberty and Union now and forever, one and inseparable insepa-rable I"? 8 Who wrote "The Virginian"? 4 In what countries do the Andei mountains originate? 5 To what two brothers and theli sister Is the invention of oil painting commonly attributed; what was their nation and country? 6 Who Is the intercollegiate tennis champion? 7 What makes a stick Beem to bend In water? 8 Why are they called "dog days"1 9 What was the name of the vessel ves-sel In which Henry Hudson sailed up the Hudson river? 10Who laid the corner stone of th national capltol and when? 11 What President was elected by the house of representatives? 12 Where did the United State flag first fly In the face of an enemy, and when? 13 What causes a lump in a person's per-son's throat? 14 What is the hottest place In the United States? 15Who is the British open golf champion? 16 what composer was not only a master of dramatic music, but was himself him-self a dramatist of great genius? 17Whlch continent in proportion to area, has the longest coast line? 18 Who wrote a famous diary In shorthand, which was not deciphered for a hundred years? !oWho said: "Look I There is Jackson standing like a stone wall?" 20 In what country is most of tha diamond cutting done? Answers No. 6 1 Brazil and Argentina. 2 Capt James Lawrence. 8 Eugene Sue. 4 Babe Ruth, 59 in 1921. 6 A combustible mineral formed by the decomposition of vegetable matter. 6 A twig of hazel or willow said to have the property of Indicating the presence of mineral or water in the earth. 7 Benjamin Franklin. &-1884. 9 Schubert 10 The Amazon. 11 Commodore O. H. Perry. 12 Rev. James Owen Hannay. 13 The northeastern section, known as the Archaen area. 14 "Uncle Tom's Cabin." 15 Cambridge. 16 William the Conqueror, when he directed that at the ringing of a bell at eight o'clock at night all lights and fires be extinguished. 17 An Internal-combustion engine which dispenses with the usual Ignit ing devices by rendering the air charge Incandescent by compression. 18 Gen. A. S. Johnston. 19 Plattsburg, N. Y.. 1915. 20 North Carolina. Sport That Requires Nerve and Quickness Though you may have never heard of this sport under Its proper name, the quintain, you may have seen the apparatus described, especially in connection con-nection with stories of medieval and later sports In England. The quintain is an apparatus used in military sport or as exercise by men on - horseback. It Is simply an upright post with a crossbar at the top that turns on a pivot. One end of this crossbar is flat; to the other end is attached a bag of sand. The horseman rides at the post, endeavoring en-deavoring to strike the flat end of the crossbar with a lance and pass on before the bag of sand can swing around and strike him on the back. To engage In this sport requires more than an ordinary amount of horsemanship, as well as a quick eye and a steady hand. Railroad Grades Any railroad grade of 2 per cent or over Is uneconomical. Grade revision has progressed In this country until there are few grades of 2 per cent or over. 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