Show i WHATEVER NAME Pv o i By Th Frank H Henry I 3 t t OF F COURSE tho recent arrival in the r Endor household was very very welcome welt wel wel- welcome r. r It I t come that much Is certain In fact the eJ energetic debate which was was disrupting the thet t r wonted quiet of the home was with a view b to the la later er well being of the little citizen who stared vacantly at the ceiling and It l m made d faces He had patiently waited about J Y c r t the e premi premises es f for r a n month now ow notwithstanding notwithstanding i standing which he ho had not yet set been dignified fied fled by a title And that was what hat all 1 i the discussion was Vas a about out r But But dear the i. i my protested professor think of the depressing commonplaceness t I o t The whole w ole world Is overrun ith Williams from the Conqueror down downto down downto to our to-our our honored honored- tJ t YIt It was a good enough name for father e iI 2 and I like Uk it t Interrupted the professors professor's f wife You cannot get far away awny from the i. i a dry names without being r ridiculous L r hats hat's the use II My Idea on the tho contrary my dear Is s this replied the professor pausing in his J. J w walk and bringing the expository forefinger ift f of ot of his da is right hand Into contact with the illus illus- tr alm of his left Depart rt radically radi radi- t lr i l cally from the ordinary mimes If you have at h h art the wel welfare are of your pr progeny geny Donot Do not condemn a helpless Infant to struggle i l t through gh this vale of tears without a n distinctive dis dis- il F tl city and distinguishable cognomen men Williams land hand and Johns cerT certainly T I I t thinly f have m made de a mark ark he here e and ami the there I in rn inthe the world but butt It has been In spite of their r vI deplorably ordinary J. J nations And furthermore he continued 1 with evident satisfaction I have today t hit upon a name for our first born which is admirable commemorative Uve euphonious dis Jt It is Pingree And with a n victorious vic vIe V gesture the tho professor seated himself f watching narrowly however to to see how f his idea would be received itt Pingree repeated the professors professor's wife Pingree 1 Well I dont don't dislike j. j it very much I believe tt After a pause she Ehe suggested Pingree William then 7 The professor started up and paced tho the i r floor again Now my dear he said while you are indisputably a party at in ini interest interest in- in i J terest terest and pos possessed of equal or superior rights to tG my own O in ia the premises can I H inot not persuade you to eliminate that commonplace com com- rile name of William I have se selected selected se- se the first name In which suggestion f f t you TOU have acquiesced now do you select the tho ff second name name almost almost anything but William 1 If U you please i So the professors professor's wife e took the matter matterI I r r under ender advisement far for it lt was of too great jf t moment for immediate decision After much I thought that night and early the next morning morn morn- 1 ing she concluded that her family name name rr r Canfield should be bestowed in the second place This was discussed at the breakfast r Z t table able and the choice approved by the prot pro pro- fessor Lessor fl TT T HAS always been a mystery to the IT J- J professor that notwithstanding anding his hia es esI established es- es r theories and fairly well established I s. s practice with regard to concentration cerI certain tarn tain in times there be when vagrant thoughts I obtrude without any apparent or discoverable discoverable discoverable discover discover- able reason He has numerous cuff-cards cuff s l bearing data in relation to these phenomena i Cuff-cards Cuff it may be stated for the tile convenience memorandum memorandum- t of of lexicographers are memorandum memorandum- l b bearing aring cuffs cut to the proper filing size c s a simple expedient whereby the labor of off f 1 transcription to library cards Is obviated X albeit they come higher by the hundred One I r of nf these derelicts upon the waves of tHought t got across the professors professor's bows that morne morn morn- e tp ing tag He stopped at the very crisis of his 1 r II lecture with a pained and surprised ex expression expression ex- ex tried to proceed became aware that he the was presenting subject in a away away way which would read strangely In his his pupils pupil's notes and summarily dismissed the tho class fifteen minutes ahead of time He a S' S taught the next car for his home My ly dear he exclaimed bursting sud- sud r densy into the sitting Bitting room Canfield will never Bever never With da-with do with Pingree By Itself it Is unobjectionable but with Pingree It is an Impossibility And I believe Pingree will have to be abandoned also somehow it displeases me since since since- a- a Whys Why what on earth is the matter interrupted the professors professor's wife dropping her sewing upon her lap What is wrong with the names names or or either etther of them The circumstances are these my Sear dear explained the professor getting his right forefinger and left palm into that relativity without which it were for him folly foUy to at attempt attempt attempt at- at tempt elucidation Pingree sounds very r well Canfield sounds v very ry well Pingree Canfield sounds very well indeed B But t conr con- con r Jt ih alder Ider that dire middle initial Pingree C 1 i Does It not follow as the night the day r i that our child will be nicknamed Greasy In his very first game of marbles Can you view with equanimity equanimity equanimity- And the professor stopped For in this thre particular social pact the wife had a monopoly monopoly mo mo- of f the sense 4 of h humor mor and her laughter was quite in inexplicable to the seri serl- ous minded professor A wholesome and 4 musical laugh it was and the professor loved it laughing laughin himself generally generally generally-as as he Ii did no now now Oa on account of its contagious character chari char char- i s acter aster though too often missing the humor rl I ith the situation which brought it fort forth v 1 It Is 15 amusing is it not remarked th tile the professor rather doubtfully after the merriment had subsided somewhat It is amusing replied the jr professors professor's i wife drying her eyes and resolutely dispelling dis dis- dis dispelling i. the little followers camp-followers of mirth t l' l who who persisted in their pursuit But you your r dear goose why did you have to run home at once Wouldn't it have kept until evening eve eve- wing ning I should hould not Dot have undertaken the Ih i formal christening In your absence And Ami she ehe took up her sewing very much amused But that was one of the professors professor's a Cr Idiosyncrasies The matter in mind be It itI I whatsoever It might must be pursued forthwith forthwith forth forth- with with His was a mentality not equipped 1 with block signals or other safety apparatus h- h r.- r. and It was imperative that he be keep the main lin line clear or suffer the consequence cz of bringing his trains of thought into colv col col- col- col v u Of course you are right said the professors pro pro- professors professor's professors professor's fessor's wife soberly enough after a moments moment's moments moment's mo mo- moments moment's ments ment's consideration That would be ani an i aF unhappy name though it does seem too bad after all aU to rob the other boys boyo of the fun she added mischievously And then suddenly suddenly this remarkable wife wiCe was wafted away upon the wings of nf another gale galo o of f laughter for absolutely no reason w whatever what what- t ever ever the the lack of reason being so obvious obvious that the professor did not join in but waited wafted patiently for enlightenment I was just thinking she finally vouchsafed vouchsafed vouch vouch- how I should have enjoyed seeing your change of expression when this gruesome grue- grue g grue gruesome ue- ue some thought came to you And she laughed again My dear said the professor gently It seems to mo me at times th that t you jou ou hark bark back back to to prof profound und distances distances' and nd trivial sources for amusement to Nevertheless he be nc felt rather that his expression might indeed have changed somewhat at that awful awful awful aw aw- ful moment very slightly perhaps Only there was nothing funny about that Back to Us his work went went the professor lunching downtown as was his wont and re returning returning re- re tu turning ning home In the late afternoon After dinner he went Into the library and busied himself with some references The Tho professors professors professor's professors sors sor's wife guided the the still nameless one safely across the border of the Land of Nod Kod and went i into to the library with her sewing The professor was absorbed In his work and she did not interrupt him hiD But when he replaced his his' book Dook on the shelf and began looking for another she spoke So o you do not like Pingree for a name Pingree repeated the professor absent- absent mindedly Pingree Oh That matter of a a name for the boy lIe He found toe the book he wanted and came back to the table Well I must admit that the disagreeable consequence of af a meddling juxtaposed initial has rather discontented me with it How would Barton Marton do Your mothers mother's fathers father's name you know 0 v. v How does Dar Bar ton Canfield sound The professor Eat liaa opened his his his' book but the wards lingered and finally filially fo fought their way into his atten atten- atten tion How Barton parton Canfield Barton Why I like that Barton that Barton that is a good name name- name name- very good Strange we ice did not think of It sooner And the professor was lost In his bis tome THE HE subject came up at the breakfast table but the professor was preoccupied preoccupied preoccupied pre pre- occupied with his bis plans for th the day and did not enter entel into the matter with spirit simply again expressing himself as quite satisfied with the names chosen With another class the professor was sailing the same sea as on the previous day congratulating himself Inwardly upon the more creditable voyage he lie would make now that the troublesome derelict of the preceding trip was charted and avoidable FROM ROM the West Vest to the sea following the running races had come sometime of l Kilmallock on on a a pilgrimage of hate and as the miles mUes grew less between him and Rodney Hughes he felt ph physical satisfaction in letting his rage uncurbed in his llis heart For many years for lor many reasons reasons rea ren- sons his anger had burned low perforce lest lest he himself be consumed Out of work and discredited because of the lie that had nearly broken his heart he was kept from being a murderer only because his enemy had bad gone where he lie h haft had no no mono motor t to pursue When the w water ter no no longer separated sep sep- him from Hughes it t w was s months before he located his old employer the trail leading to the Golden Gate back to Memphis Memphis Mem Mem- ph s down to New Orleans up to the Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago Derby and now bound Eastward beckoned by the name he had printed in n a Turf journal his revenge seemed in sight That Hughes was not racing his his string under his own name did not at first know but when he learned ed that Black Death a famous runner that had already in his brief ca career eer killed two grooms and maimed a jockey for life was really owned by Hughes and was entered for the tho Great Ev Event the Event the nt the Six furlongs Sweepstakes at his Sheepshead his mind was was' was made up Even before he had crossed from Kilmallock lock to England to work among the horses he loved young Terence had sometimes been seen seen by his Intimates to grow grov suddenly white and pinched around the nostrils while his eyes narrowed to slits silts in his excessive anger but who could stand long In mortal terror J of a boy with brown one burning eye j when the other eye was Irish blue Terence I fancied his peculiarity the 1 brand of of Cain but others who loved more I Ithan than feared would not have had his two eyes ey eyes s salik alike he alike alik he he would not have been Terence Could he be help it that his heart so softened soft soft- ened ened at the sight of a pretty face when some orbed gray lashed black-lashed colleen shot the splendid glory of her eyes full fuU upon him that a slow and reluctant smile stole over his lips and a sweet loW whistle that never came straight Issued from the corner of his mouth One did not dislike Shena Shena- golden for these things but came nearest to it when running athwart his will will for for he would have his own way way way-he he loved authority au authority au- au and dominion came came cam to be as tho the breath of his nostrils One very wonderful gift he be had by which be he had become known in every stable ia La a England and and the notoriety had followed him to America It was this magic of his in indeed indeed in- in deed when exercised in public for the first time that had brought about the breach with H Hughes who had accused him of drugging the horse upon which ho he had exercised his power The animal had lain in stupor for fora a while Hughes and his friends lost their money and Tere Terence ce was disgraced He lIe could have borne it all and begged to be kept on in the most menial service had bad not Hughes told that lie lie and declared that the horse was doped I I WITH ITH a purpose so grim he was naturally W not anxious to foregather with the grooms and idlers about the stables nor the touts about the track and so 60 it was with swift dismay that he saw almost as soon as he was within the big gates a jockey whom whom he had known and who in fact had been present on that humiliating occa occa- 3 I t f l I i t I 1 A I q f B i S. S t f M- M I r q 4 i I I d j What ai- ai are y 4 I th the e i He had reached the same place in his lecture lecture lecture lec lec- ture when he stopped suddenly with an amazed amazed- and troubled expression made madean an altogether unsatisfactory attempt to take up again the thread of his discourse and announced announced announced an an- curtly The class is dismissed He put on his hat and left the classroom without awaiting the dispersal of his wondering wondering wondering won won- dering students His troubled face as he strode up the walk brought the pr professors professor's wife to tt thedoor the fhe thedoor door to meet him with anxious inquiries lIe He led the w Into to the room way y sitting room befOre before before be be- be- be fore he ventured any WOI words As regards that name Barton he lIe b bC- bC Sh nagolden's Magic Magic-By ly Florence Seyler Thompson sion lion so long ago in England Slim Jim Lind recognized him at once but gave no h hint int of remembrance of that which Terence cherished the more the fiercer it hurt Lind he knew must be riding for Hughes and he kept his ears open for all the gossip gossin of the track and it was with strange emotions emotions emo emo- emotions that he drank in the significantly whispered words Hughes is playing for more than the big stake this time time its its it's for life Ufo itself said one What y r givin us snorted another yer yet know hes he's barred from the turf That doesn't prevent his putting his string in another name smarty Hes He's had a horse in every race racy of any account since that crooked deal of his at New Orleans Hes lies gone to pieces along with Black Death the first man resumed Its nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing but the horses horse's bad temper that ails him and its it's his black soul that ails Hughes Hes He's on his last legs and nobody but o one one c specialist over in Europe can save him His whole strings string's sold now but the black that's |