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Show Thursday. November 17. 1927 TOE LEHI SUN, LEIII, UTAI1 Th e Recluse of Fifth Avenue CHAPTER VII Continued 11-' Miss Brown was young, pretty, and delightfully, dressed. This was, no ioubt, one of Mrs. Buxton's personal friends. ' "Mrs Buxton," Miss Brown began, : r "thought that as you had bought this lovely place and were going to enter-1 enter-1 tain a lot, you might need a social I secretary. I was going to her, but ehe has taken Lord Kltemanor'n hunting box in Leicestershire (or the coming Iieaeon. I have Just come back to the United States, where I belong, after speuding some years abroad." "You speak French, , then t" said lira. Raxon In the Gallic tongue. It , was her one accomplishment. "Yes," said Miss Brown with still f greater fluency. I have been mainly In England. My last position was with the countess of Horsham at Horsham ; sbbey. She was one of the Boston ? Fessendons, as, of course, you know." i "What did you do , there?" Mrs. Baxon asked. ' ' t "Literally everything," Miss Brown t confided. "It is an Immense place, fully twice the size of this, and for j three years I managed It from ceflar to attic. I wrote the menus, engaged I the servants, saw they did their work I and dismissed them if they did not" f Mrs. Baxon smiled happily. ' j "You understand," Miss Brown continued, con-tinued, "that I was not a servant or J even a housekeeper. I'm a great be-i' be-i' llever in social distinctions. They make entertaining so much easier, don't theyT Most people think I am a guest like themselves. I have often been taken In groups with even roy- Blty." . ; :. 1' :. V ' j With an unaffected absence of mod- I esty, Miss Brown, in the course of I half an hour, managed to impress Mrs. 1 Baxon most favorably. "You would J find very little to do here at first," said the elder woman. "We have no ' house guests at present, but we are going to entertain a great deal." I "I should find a very great deal to do at once," said Miss Brown em- phatically. "To begin with, I should dismiss your butler, who is lm- ' pertinent and offensive." Impulsively Mrs. Raxon leaned for- i ward and kissed Miss Brown. "Dearie," she said, "I need you at I once." .. - - -.. "Good," said Miss Brown, without excessive gratitude. "Another thing. If I stay I mustn't be hampered In engaging en-gaging or dismissing servants. It must be understood that I have complete com-plete charge of the household arrangements. arrange-ments. I cannot possibly run this establishment smoothly if I am to have. the help running to you with complaints. Lady Horsham wanted me to relieve her of every domestic I responsibility." I "That's exactly what I want," Mrs. I Raxon said enthusiastically. "Where are you going?" Miss Brown had risen, f "To get my trunks. I shall move (n at once." I Mrs. Raxon sought out her husband I and told him the news. I "Fine,": he said. "Anyone recom- I mended by Mrs. Buxton will be all J right I Buppose you looked over her f testimonials?". J "Of course," said his wife, conscious I that she had forgotten all about it and j not anxious for him to find it out i You'll like her. She's so distinguished. I don't think she approved of the drawing room furniture." "We shall agree on that Belllng- ton furnished it like an hotel reception- room. One thing more. It's about McKimber. I forgot to tell you before. If anyone asks you if I have political a-pirations, say so. This goes particularly with the McKlmbers. You and I know, and that's enough for the present." At a square house on Lower Fifth avenue the young lady who had just passed as Agatha Brown burst In upon four anxious men. "My dears," she cried, "I've got It. I move in tomorrow and take complete charge of the household arrangements. I carried her off her feet She kissed me and called me 'Dearie.' I left before be-fore she could ask to see my testimonials: testi-monials: I'm afraid I lied fearsomely. It's quite true. Uncle Peter, they are going to entertain largely. She showed me the list She evidently doesn't know how to do things on a large scale: I didn't see him." Neeland Barnes looked at her with pride. At a bound she had landed In the guarded fortress, unsuspected. The keys of the arsenal had been handed her. It was . a complete trl umph. "Now you are there," said Peter Milman, "what good shall we be to you?" "I've thought It all out You, personally, per-sonally, will have to stop here, because be-cause the lawyer man knows you. I hall need daddy and my other uncles at once." "What possible use can you have for me?" Bradney demanded eagerly "Or for me?" said her father. "All in good time." She laughed. "Uncle Peter, yon made a great mistake mis-take In letting Sneed go. I am dismissing dis-missing the Raxon butler tomorrow and shall want another." "You mean you will put Sneed In? Wondrrtul. I have his address." "Won't Loddon remember him?" Bradney asked. "Probably, sneed will say 'hat he left because tie couldn't stand the I'lace any longer. We shall have to et him Id a part of our plan. Df toa think he can be trusted?" "Without a doubt" said Peter Mil-Kan. Mil-Kan. "Tm, I made mistake Id let- By WYNDHAM MARTYN OoprrlcM ta Um CniMd WISkniM ting Sneed go. I should have remembered remem-bered his many loyalties." "But what am I to do?" her father persisted. ,"You and Professor Bradney will be my tall, Imported footmen." Instinctively Neeland Barues itroked his chestnut mustache. ' "I've had it since I was a freshman at Yale," he said regretfully. "And I've had this" Bradney stroked his beard "ever since I went to Gottlngen for my Ph.D." Alarm spread over his face. "But I cannot possibly do what you suggest Footmen Foot-men have to wear some sort of gorgeous gor-geous livery, don't theyT "Undress livery at Great Rock," she said, "not powdered hair and knee-breeches, knee-breeches, as we had at the abbey. How long will It take you to get into the way of waiting at table, opening doors, and being loftily efficient?" "I could never do it," said Bradney In a panic. ' "I should drop things. I should pass dishes on the wrong side. I should forget." "The , poor old thing has lost his nerve." Neeland Barnes laughed. "He can toy with atomic disintegration, disintegra-tion, but he shies at pouring out wine and passing plates." . , "Can you do It?" Bradney retorted. "It will be a great Jest. I shall en joy every minute of It. Raxon will think us flunkeys, while we are there to drag him down. Man, If you have "I Could Never Do It" Said Bradney in a P&.nc. anv snortlne blood in von. you can't hold back. If you had yeur nerve with you, we should make a great team." "It isn't lack of nerve." Bradney ex plained. "I simply don't know the technique of it". Neeland Barnes was In his element He' had kept a large establishment and had been reared among people who had not denied themselves luxuries. lux-uries. He explained lucidly the whole duty of footmen In fashionable houses. ' "Sneed will be there," NIta remind ed him. "I'm banking on him. He will be nominally your superior and help you In any way he can. It won t be a bit difficult, Uncle Fleming. Sneed. daddy, and I shall be there. "Where do I come In?" Malet asked. He did not wish to be left out "I htive a very definite use for you. Uncle Floyd. I talked a great deal with Mrs. Raxon about her husband. He suspects the furniture, and he is right Uncle Floyd, how well do jou speak French?" "As well as I do English. Ten years In Paris and no chance to forget it because I've been teaching It as a side line in Philadelphia for the last six or seven years. Why?' "I'm going to Invite you to stay .tt the Raxons' directly you can raise a little mustache and imperial. Yoa shall be a French viscount, a friend of T.ndv Horsham's. You are a great au thoritv on French furniture. That means you must study all the books you can get hold of. I ll arrange a nam for vou later. "How about my testimonials?," Bradney Brad-ney said, suddenly coming from a trail Modern Type of Girl The modern girl is more alluring than any feminine type of history and serious-minded, reasoning young men are avoiding matrimony more than ever before. That's the conclusion of a young business man. eligible, earning $0.(KK) a year. who. writing In Smart Set Magazine, points to three types of girls as his reasons for dodging the marriage bond. First of them, he says, is the one "who believes that a girl has the same right to freedom In her sex life as a man. Not only believes It but says so and does no. for all I know. Maybe she will mak some man a mignty gaod wife but not me." No, 2 Is the gin. usually a petted only daughter, restless and with the Upm that "money is Ju uinde to oe swot As a wife sh d be a wonder SB of fancies In which he saw himself th perfect footman. "I engage all . help, -Tour testlnKV nlals will be perfectly satisfactory. The Raxon woman is afraid of men servants. She won't Interfere., B husband has given her full charge and she has deputed me to do It for btr, I think she needs a friend, She babbled bab-bled most indiscreetly to me about the people she hoped to have as guests. Apparently she knows none of them." "Do you remember If the name Mo Klmber was on the list?" Milmaa asked. ' . "Yes. It was the first name on It" Milman smiled. It was plain the news gratified him. "Another of Lodd'on's port-begotten confidences. John McKimber Is aiming aim-ing at the senate and hopes New York state will send him to Washington. At present there seems no serious opposition., op-position., I could hardly believe Lod don at the time, but he Insisted there was a dnrk hoi-se from New York city who would beat McKimber. I see now he was hinting plainly at Raxon." "But Raxon Isn't known politically," Barnes remarked. "That does not make his candidacy impossible. Men have often ridden into high office on waves of hysteria." Milman's eyes were bright. He believed be-lieved that Loddon had1 been right after all when he hinted that a dark horse would go to the senate from New York. Bur how could a decent man like McKimber, extremely wealthy, a large employer of labor, and a great power up-state, be de feated? Hardly by fair means. Had Paul Raxon woven about him a mesh that would keep him inactive? - "I think I am right In assuming that Paul Raxon has definite political ambitions. am-bitions. He must remove McKimber from the running to get his chance. I think McKimber Is in danger. His relations with Raxon if he stays there must be observed very closely." . "That can be managed," said filta calmly. "I should like frequent reports," Milman said. - "Footmen," butlers, social ; secretaries, secre-taries, and furniture experts .on their nights out shall keep you Informed," she returned. It was a joyous company of gentlemen gentle-men adventurers that night In the butler's pantry Neeland Barnes was lecturing with suitable demonstrationson demonstra-tionson the care of glass and sliver. Fleming Bradney, one of the world's great authorities on etherlc physics, was listening Intently and making copious notes. Barnes had rarely been so gratified at a listener's attention. " Floyd Malet, In the library, had before be-fore him llistolre de ParLl'antlqulte, Lady Dilke's work on French furniture, furni-ture, and photographs of the Bureau de Roi, In the Louvre., In the Japanese garden NIta sat on a cushion at the feet of Peter Milman and looked . up Into his clear-cut thoughtful face. "Uncle- Peter," she said, "you and I are the only grown-up people In this big house. The rest of them are all enthusiastic children." "It Is very satisfying to be a child," he reminded her. , "But children never look ahead," she said wisely. I am sitting at your feet pretending everything is going to come out right You are looking down at me like a courteous sphinx in evening dress, certain that your plans are not to miscarry. Uncle Peter, are you a grown-up like me, or one of the children?" "Xlta, my niece, I am grown up." "It is hard to believe," she said slowly. . "Why should It be?" "Because, If you look ahead, yon must realize that there's wore than an even chance of failure. Failure won't be pleasant for any of us. It won't be merely failing as one does when one goes after a prize, or a golf cup." She lowered her volos. "It may be prison, Uncle Peter." "It will be if we fall," he returned "And you can keep so cheerful?" "We shall not fall. I feel confident that I shall not lose this home. If dumb, inanimate things can radiate cheerfulness, this house with the treasures I love radiates it I feel influences outside my own perception, perhaps on some other plane, are fight-In? fight-In? for me. Not for years have I awakened with such cheerfulness In my heart. When I wake up I find myself smiling as thongs I had just left friends who had bid me cheer up because victory was In sight" "I wish I felt that," she said. (TO BE' CONTINUED.) as One Man Sees Her ful sweetheart, but we'd both he In the pmirlxiuse inside of a year of two." And third Is the Intellectual girl ho Insists upon showing it "She has Idens and beliefs about ever tiling front P.nNhevlsni to birth control. A a wife she'd have her clubs to g: to, her political meetings, her papers on various subjects to prepare. I'm afraid we wouldn't be happy together." Unnecessary Promoter I unt stock cer tificates printed. printrr Something distinctive nJ elaborate? promoter nh, .: litis U a legiU mate propositlon. Llf rv ltjnoranoe tny rb !. he knowltOr leads to ww r.Htti What's the Answer Questions No. 17 I Who was the Venerable Bedet fc-What city Is regarded as ths featest commercial center of Asia? 8 What Is the moat notable characteristic char-acteristic of the movie comedian, Butter But-ter Keaton? Who was the leading pitcher In the American league in 1926? 6 What famous British spy was hanged by the Continental forces during dur-ing the Revolution? , 6 Who was the American commander com-mander of the U. S. S. Constitution In the battle with the British ship Guerrlere? ' ' T Who Invented the alrbraket 8 How many chambers are there la the human heart? 9 Is It correct to call the 01ympl gtmes an Olympiad? 10 What is God? II Why did Oliver Wendell Holmes write the poem "Old Ironsides"? IS What South American country was the ancient kingdom of Quito? 13 What Island la noted for its many colossal images and architectural architec-tural ruins? 14 What great pianist of the day Is also a statesman and has served as premier of his country? 15 What great caricaturist, work ing in colors, is remembered largely for his illustrations for the novels and sketches of Charles Dickens? lft What horse won the Kentucky Derby in 1914 and what was his time? 17 -What famous American warship was called "Old Ironsides"? 18 What President had been known as "Old Bough and Ready" In what war? ' 19 Who invented antiseptic surgery! sur-gery! -. .. ; , , . SO What does the sense of smell do to help many animals? Answers No. 16 1 Mount Logan, In the Yukon. 2 Willie Munden with 1T1 firsts. 8 Gen. George Meade. , 4 Daniel Boone. 6 In Arkansas. 6 Joseph Mallord William Turner. T Algernon Blackwood. 8 This land crab Is often over a foot long and frequents coral Islands in the Indian and Pacific oceans. 9 That it is not significantly relat ed to the matter in hand - 10 For Thine Is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory,- forever. 11 "Pilgrim's Progress" by John Bunynn. . 12Mount Whitney, in California. 13 Scapa Flow. 14 Gen. John 0. Fremont 15 Battle of Trenton. 10 In the feet 17 Leopold Auer. IS On the islands In the Caribbean sea. '!:- 19 Instead of "whom" it should be "who," nominative case as subject ol tie verb "was." , 20 In the year 1863. Famous Painter Put Heart Into His Work In many respects the career of ritian, the Venetian artist is without parallel In the history of art The span of his productive life Is unprec edented. He lived to be ninety-nine years old and painted steadily for nearly seventy-five years. This noted painter apparently believed that no amount of inspiration or intuitive genius is a substitute for painstaking labor. A contemporary wrote of him: "He laid in his pictures with a mass of colors which served him as a ground-work for what he wanted to express. I myself have seen such powerful strokes swept In by him with solid pigment sometimes with pure 'terra rossa (red ocher) and this served him for the half-tones sometimes with a brush full of white lead; and with the same brush dipped dip-ped In red, black or yellow he picked out the lights. In four strokes he Sad sketched In a remarkably beautl ful figure. . Then he laid the picture against the wall, and left It there, often for several months, without lodklng at it again, and when he wunted to work at It he examined It very critically as if it were his portal enemy. In order to discover any possible faults. Then he took away a prominence heie, set an arm etraight there, and got a foot Into the right position. So by degrees he broucht his figures to the most perfect symmetry, and then he proceeded to do the ame with the next picture." Knnsas City Star. Novel Use for Hose Sir James Crichton-Browne relates ibis anecdote of a colleague's absent mlndedness: He was standing by the bedside of a lady patient giving her copious and emphatic instructions as to what the ought to do. when to hei dismay sli saw hUn take her black silk stocklnss which were lying on a chair beside the bed. and draw them on his h;. ml? ana arms as gloves II did not discover bis n;Ntake bu walked of with t!ie SToklnj;?. Er change. " Cups and saucers are the first to break! So we've put a dainty blue and white china cup and saucer in every ' SffllV'' Carnation Oats are precooked to improve the flavor. - Democracy Born of Old Nordic Customs? American democracy is derived from the social and governmental Institutions In-stitutions of the ancient Scandinavi ans, the original Nordics, declares Charles J. McGulrk In an article In Liberty. "American Institutions . are Nordic," the writer asserts. "Congress "Con-gress Is an echo of the Scandinavian Thing,' an assembly of the people about the mounds of their dead at which they listened to the advice of the Old Man of the tribe. Our state legislatures follow the 'Hernldthlng,' a local assembly. "Democracy was not born In Amer ica," the writer continues. "It hnd Its birth 'n Norway when Haiald Falr- halr destroyed the power of the 'her sirs' (kings) and placed the leadership leader-ship of the people among the 'Juris,' high-born local chiefs who had won to leadership of the host and certain districts by their warlike qualities." A Benefactor A physician who reaches out to benefit humanity leaves a record behind him that is worth while. Such a man was Dr. R. V. Pierce. 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