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Show 7 THE SMITH radio mesaagel Hla Angers stiffened. Ths Judge hadnt waited to write. Damn Marconi) Feverishly, he tore open the wrapper. "Just to let yon know that I am very happy atop couldnt alocp lest night for thinking of yon homo at Inst atop can't tall your fethor yot atop plonac plonso try to epond aummor In nuch e way an to make reconciliation possible stop preying for word on nr. rival atop God blase you end love. A Synthetic Gentleman Mother. For once; the Duke didn't grin. She didn't cere what It cost," he said, but there was no buinor In that comment. lie waa picturing a hary woman, slipping ried, furtively up to the wireless room, and handing In this message herself, no that no ateward should unwittingly betray her. The first word she had been able to smuggle to the boy In yearn. "It'a been killing your mother, the Judge had said. SYNOPSIS The Duke touched a button, and The Duka, a plearrnt, llkabla youth Willetts came, "Where's BvansF of twanty-thraJublcaa and broke, enIn the garage, sir. With his wife. ters an unoccupied summer home In Southampton, cooking shelter from a Ask him to run me down to the vilteniAe rala storm. He makes himself lage. I want to send a . telegram to at home. Mi peart age his father had died la China, leaving tha lad, Barry my mother." I can telephone It, sir. Gilbert, to light his way back to the States. He did not recollect ever hav"Tha oka; I'd rather hand It In. had mother. a at the Dosing ing "Very good, elr. The carll be here he Is startled by tha arrival of a butler, Willetts; a chauffeur, Kvans; a la a minute or two, elr. And Ill bold eeek and a maid. IIs learns that the dinner. eon of the owner of the house, Jack Barry never thought any harder Itldder, whom the servants had navar than he did during that abort ride. Been, Is expected. He decides to bluff What could ho aay that would make It out. Ills supposed parents have left for Germany. Nest morning he Is given hla mother still happier, end yet mean a letter for his "mother. He opens It nothing If the message fell Into the and finds a masaags from the real Jack, he eould not come, and returning hands of that hard, old man! saying In all probability, hla father knew a hundred-dollbill. Tha boy's father had pensioned him Into obscurity. Barthe house had been opened. Must ry pockets ths money, Intending to re- know, since he had forbidden Evans turn It later. Hs orders Evans to take him to Montauk, Intending to disappear thorn. On the way he assists Judge Hambldge and his daughter, Patricia, whose ear had broken down. Believing ho Is Jack Rlddsr, she Invites him to dinner the following Thursday. Barry returns to Southampton, deciding to stay a bit longer. heart-hungr- a, Are-Id- a, ar CHAPTER II Continued He caught Ur. Crowell Inspecting the tag eewn onto the back of bis waistcoat Welt that was all right and, of course, nothing could be wrong, when the trousers were to be sent by pared post to "John Clarke Bidder, Jr. at Southampton. Before the Duke departed, Mr. Crowell had secured orders for a sack suit and evening clothes. Charge 'em to my father, the Duke said, and Ur. Crowell answered, Certainly, and 111 let you know when we're ready to try on.' This procedure; and those following at the haberdasher and the shoemaker's, ruffled the Duke's conscience bill far leas than the hundred-dolla- r had done. "I'll pay It all hack some day, he thought without asking himself how. Ou the return trip to Southampton, k struck him that he'd got a pretty extensive wardrobe for one dinner party. "Well, he argued, "suppose I do stay a mouth. I might as well he hanged for a sheep as for a lamb, and nothing much can happen before unless the real my father's return John Clarke Junior changes hla 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 wasnt the same boy. 8tlll It might be safer to hint to the Ilambldges that the Bidders were going to wander about a bit before arriving at their destination. The Duke leaned hack In the Long Island Hallway's best parlor car, and opened a newspaper ho had bought at the station. Almost Instantly, he new hla new friend's name again. Jefferson Street Condemnation Just Another Grab, the headline ran. "Civic Association Brands Proceedings Before Judge Ilambldge as Bare-faceLoot of City Treasury." "They're certainly making U hot for him, Barry mused. He wouldn't have read the story, but for lla reference to the Judge. Kven so, he read It very casually. Somebody wanted to turn a side street Into a boulevard. That Involved buying a lot of property. And the property owners weren't willing to sell for what the city waa willing to pay, so "condemnation proceedings had been Instituted" whatever they might be and Judge Hambldge waa to IIs the value of the ground and houses. "Who really owns this property F the Civic association asked. The corporation that held title was an obviIt had been formed, ous stalking-horsand had purchased the land, and buildings, only a few months before the beginning of municipal Interest In Jefferson street.. And It was demand Ing a million and a half for "a few relics of a better day In this neigh borhaod that would have been dear at half a million. Tammany's paw was visible In the whole transaction, according to the Civic association, and the Impending decision called for prompt action from Individuals and organisations aware that Judge Ham bldge was a Tammany Judge. Swell chancel "Prompt actlonF Who cared! Plainly, the didn't, and Barry wasn't even a tax payer. As a couple of million other cUIxens were to do that evening, he dismissed the whole matter from his mind, and turned the page, looking for a good murder. d e. Beaching home, he went straight to the library. The winter covers had been removed from the rurnllure now, and the place was bright and shining. The Itnllnn box had bivu filled with elgara. Bend lug over to gel one, the Imke's gnxe fell upon an envelope addressed to his oilier self. Mr, through market, through bridge, the stock end night the Clubs, It'i Barry learned a good deal about hla adopted father that night And, when Patricia left them for a few minutes the Judge repeated, lie's certainly no sentimentalist- - that gentleman. We're supposed to be friends, and hie papei goes on attacking me. The Civic association that's nothing on earth but The Globe. And now they're all at It. Talking about my taking orders from Tammany. Generally, It wouldnt mat- 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 s District Leader. Did yon ever speak Barry nodded. to the old manF "Just few daye before he left. I'm running my newspaper for the public,' he said. "What'e the nee of stopping one paper F Patricia Inquired, entering the room. The others would keep right on. Did you ever read any of tha things they wrote about Abraham Lincoln! Be a brave old gentleman, and don't let It bother yon." She laughed, but her eyes were very tender as she laid her bands on the Judges shoulders. That's why I like her," thought the Duke. Because I see what she'd be If somebody scraped off the enameL She's got the makings of some girl I" It waa after midnight when Barry climbed Into hla car, calling back, Remember, you're dining with me next Thursday I" You certainly took father ont of the girl had remarked to himself, him. "ne'e been frightfully, , "Let's see o lot of one another, the Duke bad rejoined. 'Tm lonely as an oyster In a church stew. Why not come to my place next Thursday F "All right And were having house guests over the following week-enThe Winslows. My mother was Mrs. Winslow's slater, Peter's a prominent lawyer, and It wont hnrt you to know him. And I've got an old school friend coming from Boston. Will you dine with us again that Friday F "I'll board with you. If you ask met Barry replied exuberantly. "Bnt that lets me out he vowed, on the way home. "This cant s lifa FI ELI SENTINEL. aMITH FIELD. UTAH with golf, F w go on forever. Some- thing's sure to break, and I don't want break anywhere near that girt. What she learns when Im gone wont hurt either of us, bnt Gosh Pd hate having to face her after she'd found out the truth I" However, Southampton was not only raining hla "appetite for baked beau; It wu raining hla taste for the open road, and rough-neckStanding before tbe mirror, la faultless evening dress, on Thursday, bo thought the thing out "If I cant get n white-colla- r Job with these clothes, A Radio Msssagol Hit Fingers and the new feeling thin thing baa Stiffened. Pd like to given me, I'm a wash-ou- t. to bring bis wife. Well, then, suppose make good now. Darned If I know why, bnt I would F the telegram were signed "Willetts, He made np hla mind to go to town but contained a reference that would next day, and have another try at tho to real sender tbe and her, Identify It "III take a shot at the movie to no one else? ho said. "There ought to bo "Radio received," ha wirelessed at in heroes for a yonng fellast "Will do my best Writing. Wil- something low who looks like that letts. He wu still contemplating hlmaelf 8h would understand. The reaction came after dinner. In the glut, with a view to hla picture "Maudlin, that's what I am," thought possibilities, when the Hambldgee arthe Duke. "Just because I get s mes- rived. On the whole, it wu a very saged signed 'Mother.' The first one cessful evening. I ever got." The Judge "Damn fool trick sending' that even more worried than he bad wireless. Sooner or later, she's going a week before, bnt Barry's good huto find ont It was fake, end then what mor was Irresistible. Patricia had asked abont hla experience In Florida, good will 1 have doneF Thursday's dinner started off on the and he found himself combining purethere with ly Imaginary adventure wrong foot The Duke wore hie new flannels and anecdotes of park benches and the hla old gray coat It waa not a warm flop house In New York. He told of evening, but he had nothing else to arriving, penniless at Southampton wear. Hie father's apparel wee much and of the providential hundred-dolla- r bill that came addressed to his mother. too tight He could see Patricia taking him la. Truth and fiction blended so wonderShe was lovely In cherry-colorecrepe fully, and seemed so real. The Ilambldges went home early, de chine, and the Judge Immaculate In black tie and dinner Jacket "You but la much better spirits then they aid we could fight things out on the had brought with them, and Patricia paused at the door to remind him of tennis court," the Duke apologised, "and Im afraid that stuck In my mind, their engagement for the following The truth la my luggage hasn't turned Friday. "You'll have to come the week after that, too," she said. "My Bosup, and I had to wear anything ton friend cant get here next week, eould find." "You ahould have worn a atrip of and she especially anxious to meet you." bunting, and brought boxing gloves,' Patricia must have written abont If you and Pat the Judge laughed. him, then. By Golly, be would get are going at It as yon did at the club. "What would happen If we agreed that Job If only to show her that he could do something better than dance; about anythlngF asked Patricia. It wae twenty minutes later before "I'd be wrong. Miss Ilambldge; I'd the Duke realised suddenly that the be wrong F The retort was no more hie own exigencies of tlie situation weren't gothan the shir, on hie back, bnt he ing to allow hla showing Pat anything waa rewarded for It by an apprecla bnt a clean pair of heel. live flash In the girl's eyes. Rut they couldn't agree. Barry's first two days In town were Mow wae It possible, the Duke asked fruitless. There weren't many studios himself afterward, to be so fascinated In New York, and they didn't seem to by a yonng woman who opposed his he doing much. "Acting Isn't a man's said the Duka. "Paint Job, anyway, every Idea and utterance! And so well, so cocktly. As though It amused Ing your face, and putting a feather In your hat I I'm going to look over her to be Irritating. the Business Opportunities' In the The girl chattered about everything. Hard-boileA modern, and proud newspapers." Most of them were opportunities to of It Why should people he proud of being "modern"; a state, like king part with a little money. Bnt Barry ship, that you achieved merely by be- didn't give up hope. (TO BE CONTINUED) ing born! And, so far as modernity was a point of view, why preen your The "Laughing Jackan self because yon didn't believe In any Strangers to Australia may hear thing except yonr own right to be what sounds like the braying of a happy! This girl bad had no eontnrt with jackass In the woods Investigation, life. Walled about In a pleasant gar- however, will disclose a den. he delivered herself of nmnrt colorful bird on the order of the kingbrittle opinions of conditions she had fisher. but much larger. It Is the never experienced, people she had nev- kooknburra. native to Australia, one er seen. But yon couldn't help liking of the brightest and most mischievher. And It begnn to be evident that ous birds living. It Is known as tlie she liked him. "You're different at laughing Jackass," because of Its bray-lu- g note, and as the settlers clock," least. she said. "Different from any other man I know. Really not a bit because It utters Its peculiar cry reg like a rich man's son. ulariy at dawn and at dusk. It eati insects, snakes and small mammals I've been on my own a good while,' killing the large prey by flying high lie reminded her. "Yes." ehe answered. "You've some- with Its victim n its beak and dropthing to talk about When my set's ping it t destruction. it to a. Crochet That Is New and K: Household QuesttohL Do Quite Simple to II: THEY'RE EDGE PE-K- JAR RINGS KEEP ALL THE FLA- EASY TO VOR WHERE IT REMOVE. THEIR .BELONGS... 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