Show I 1 A NOTABLE SHORT STORY I L BY A FAMOUS WRITER I SPECIALISTS By Calvin Johnston N. N Copyright 2 b by J J. J G. G Lloyd IJo Th h 5 Wampum I father ana son on marched marchEd down the lan lane In the ref rear ol nr Sir U grocery store on tho the north northside side o ol oZ Er I ow The former known I as 38 the general on ori account of his civil var ar act activities fen Ite on e every few fow OW yards yard Arg to put nut his hiI son sou through h a i sort sorl of drill dri which w wes was to prepare him for ft n momentous momentous momentous mo mo- mo- mo encounter low anticipated und nd now almost at hand At tt such uch mom moments he Ie Ii e remembered r Mrs M Ir rs Wampum in waiting at homo honin with wih the rl rc-H rc t of the children about shout h her ben r. r and would survey lr e lila his Eon son with Ith it a i gloomy foreboding look In fact fAc their ther eldest born bor was wa about to apply for or his first b. job and the general gen gen- jen eral was going alon along t to back him hin up Th Tuft Thi two ho had started aWn away s Rally gaily lh to th the flutter of a handkerchief from the thc parlor parlor par par- lor br futer window R and had hud progressed se eral several squares before tho the general for or the fr first t q time In hl his life was moved to examine his son sn critically as as a ft prospective employer em em- would do tin Immediately woul he be was is seized with con Hen Henry BJ Warn Warn- War pum with his hie hands In his pockets and amI andR anda R a small cap on tho tim back of his hl big A. A shock 2 nl head bead was along alone In his fathers father's hoCk footsteps and when the latter ran into him slopped Look rn where youre you're going said ald tho the general Lok bitterly Take your hands hand out of your our pockets hold holt up your our chin Anti Ana Ant lift un tip lip your feet fet like Ik a man Instead of dragging one OJA across the other IKo a cinnamon on hearThey hear bear They Th passed on Henry being marched lied mtr ahead I knew the boy had his hiI little the general but bul I 1 muttered ways r ner never dreamed there was as so tO much the matter with him hin hats What's his bitt mother wih thinking of all nh these thee years not to toc ht been n 31 call c my attention to It l 1 at I t Fall Fail b behind he told his ton son lon at al last hut the Fal spectacle being too much mich for him Ip the family Here was the youth whom wal had been banking on to be he their pride Ind and mainstay HI His lihi father blushed to think that h he hf must must introduce him among mph men and at the tue corner comer of or the alley marched him out out of public view Ive ahen iven him hima o a high school chool e education education uca tion Ive reflected ien General Genera Wampum and now ton will start him off orf In life He lie felt feit that wl he could do o no more except to conceal from his mother how bitterly their son on hod disappointed every teflon tation Henry with an Injured dogged air went through his drill dri Why Wh dont don't you ou let me roe go in Just jUt my ny herd nate-herd way a paw he lie asked d at last lastre I desperately y re Have you ou no respect for your our father ather to want Avant to go o in naturally inquired NOW put up a th the latter laUer sternly terl resolute front and dont don't address mo me as sir sirl paw They rho entered the the store by b the side loor llor and were werf affably welcomed b by Mr Blevens to whom th the general formally Ue ens presented his son eon Lord Ive I've Ic known hint him since Ince he could at walk declared Blevens I 1 never nC noticed before though that you ou were left lert handed he heRd Rd added to Henry who lIas hastily ts withdrew ei the member In question and ant u the other The general watching this maneuver could not Jeneral restrain his Indignation Dont Don t you pu even know 0 W how liow to shake shaie hands hand lie IJ out Paw you 0 didn't tell tel me burst t the e pet precut seemed ll H Henly The he general n to tobe tobe tobe at Has as looked hopelessly Ulc be told he lie explained chained Wel Well sir lr do doyon d told to step off that yon YOI Oil have to be tol that yowling cat Ct and Henry I II 1 never peep her protested ne er feen her In defiance of hl high h school re regulations a antI and having thus titus uttered utere his on OVI sent sen- sen 0 t tence of doom was waved an away aVay while smoking i n cheroot Pr Presently 1 ob- ob father with Ith Ble Beven ens tho the unfortunate en Be recommend that bo boy bor I 1 could not not con ly to her herd Inter Inter- tell about bor boys Never can an tel p cr wagging hl his chin Elevens ell related ker kei wisp wisely and nd a as an IU Instance r The the a astonishing history of Colonel Mountjoy's bo boy boy ln Edwin Drood Mount Mount- Jo to bf or of course that b boy bov was wa nam named after t the h story of Cla Ilef Dickens which hap ha lisp lisp- 1 when hen he lie was norm horn tinning running to b be ws But nul Dickens dl died l d b b forc the hc mystery ii or of this and sir th book wa was WaR solved bol Drood Mountjoy up Ul Inthe Inthe in leave lea seemed to air too the Theold h The old colonel pave gave ve him a polished J Drood education In the county count school and up to so o m many n things himself that picked up pike gawk awk thundering when hen he lie grew re into a could do o on thing bo boy h lie never on of pt K a H hf nC Ir without getting two or three other affairs af- af mixed with It n If he ho was fairs s up UT wih I h he would expect e her liei to w walt wait alt s a cow cot co hp lie un a dog fight around while hp got OI fht which didn't Interest her a particle when playing the piano hed he'd always alwa's tr try make It sound like a R pipe organ He to tf V.-BS V. S great on figures foure but never se seemed Jed abt able bl Ireat to put em cm to any ony definite UI use and me lne da lay day being heln sent over nere to bu buy soap with an eclipse coming on 01 he be calculated that wh when n the sun went out tutt wc We could keep the world worle I around it one ln l 1 Jl going by y fashion vR WA Naturally old WitS was terribly broken up tip tp over oval o el all l this In and dropped In about it It every d day to talk to me abou c Dickens nail finished I 1 I I wish h Charley that story tor he lie complained d. d The Tue muddle mud mud- the dle he hc iC left heft Edwin I Drood Droo In has sure Burt ie put P m mv my let ho boy under a spell spell- HP lie tp starts out till all right to do something but the plot ni thickens before lies he's worked t ten n minutes and ond inside of or an hour old oM sleuth himself couldn't pick up a clue Ls to what hat hes he's doln doing Once old lady Mountjoy consulted a medium who came caine barnstorming bun through here with a lot of f trick ghosts Slue he wanted L to lo learn leant lear r whether Edwin Drood hail had ever gotten straightened straight straight- hf er e but Dickens Dicken only end ened n out and how but olly banked o n the lie table like h hr was wa utile utile- wouldn't iwer a In ln something and word I thought afterward that this wort too blamed far va was wag carrying a mystery top Now a as Drood's 1 WR way o of doln doing bu business busi busi- I job he hung hun ness lies wouldn't get et him a a. a around homo home and kept the whole neighborhood neigh up tip In this the air while po- po 11 1 leal economy the and chemistry chemistry- At ast Hast people eople told Mountjoy Look a Look Looka a colonel c that boys boy's wasting his opportunities opportunities around here bore he hes he's s a nihilist and If you around want ant to send him to Russia I well we'll PU pay nay his hil way over over- over Then th the colonel took aw away the economy economy eco ceo said sald Now we nomy an and chemistry and xo wont won't ask that bo boy to do doen even en one thin thing and as theres there's nothing on the premises remies except an old hen and a pig pi I 1 reckon he ho cant can't get Into much of of a a fuddle o over or r them Let I et ge him live and die In the thE back 1 yard ard Im I'm not golm to wreck m my old age by explaining Im the one thing thing- thing at a a. time system stem any more I f dy looked on Drood as too dangerous dan- dan cerous to associate with wih but he lie didn't lerou oven even notice It I. I What did he he- do now but take up with wih that ol old chicken and the Dig J not ig-not not one but both mind you von though h. h not pl their heir affairs are arc entirely for foreign Iol 11 to each other othar He lie to be keeping a sort of diary for em eni 0 beating it from coop to sty sh na ns bUB busy as af could be bp or fol following cm about the back hack lot taking notes in a a book You Yoube bet be nobody asked him what it I was a all al about bout b because au e th they didn't want to 10 get In Inh Involved h d. d though old Miss Mies Crane Crne predicted it would lead up to a H bomb outrage e and I. I kept pt all al her china china and ears stuffed with Hh lOt cot cotton tori ton Drood kept track track of er e every bl bite the th pig arid and chicken ate which of course didn't embarrass the former ormer any though the hen would woul get h I clerical and go to for worms Drood Droo e gave her he credit for or this In his account account- and when t the e note notebook ok was as full ful open opened a I ledl ledger r. r stir b he is filled that up with particulars lars hare about about em every day he lie studied d th the mok market t reports anti when corn got ot high ligh dug dUJ up Ip the lot ch chasing chafing ln worms for or the h hen l. l and plant planted a Q colony colon of blacksnakes under the bern barn for or the he he pig pl Later he lie calculated that tha the tue pig lost more fat f chasing cm em than he be pined pained b by eating em em The neighbor thought the pig had lort hll hn mind associating with wih Drood In Inv v some Home tm business m mystery lter until the snakes began hotfooting It across lot lots The deeper Drood Dood went wont Into hl hi his calculations calculations cal cal- the more complicated t d they the got He lie In Invented a cackler to make make the he hen jf Jealous O I she thought ht sonic Kome omi other chicken was r raising about bout h her hr r CJ eggs 1 und and 5 set l ii I Io In to o Uy lay ay one on onen every da day About this lila time an an old friend of the I colonels colonel a i r regular magnate te tt stopped I I for fOI A a visit on his hlf WO way t through to New NewYork York The rue others were wem about thlU through h I with wih Drood b by that time but the thic 10 magnate mag nate took an Interest In him and In 10 no notime 1 time at nt all was hii In that l h hog and I ni t chicken mystery The l Idea ta I Is ia ex explained ex cx I that by h this system you youcan youcan ou can toll tell exactly what ham hani and chicken giblets arc worth on the hoof as though you ou hind had hac em on a n stock ticker The magnate spent three days daYE r 1011 going over O fr ledgers hedgers nn and cash ca Ch books and jour Jour- journals I ride nals until the colonel clonel got ot uneasy and wired his hIl friends friend's chief chile executive to send senda a guard after him But on the third thir 11 day Is the tue magnate i called clel Mountjoy out the tho barn and I said Now dont don't me colonel arid and break It I e ea easy y to Mrs Irs Mountjoy Im I'm Im I'm lm bound to have ha e that bo boy boy boyThe The Tue colone colonel that the guard uarl would olid he hA In on tin hand pretty quick and aud could take charge chane of the lie two of cm em but he lie had feeling enough to ask If It will wi not strain your powers of or mind too loo much under the present distressing stances could you ou sa say what alls ails you OU and Drood 7 The ho boy hoy f is a great specialist whispered whis the magnate Specialist l. l exclaimed old olt Moul Mountjoy joy Why 11 he lie cant can't tell tel one ono thing from a 1 half dozen rue Tho other was as delighted I see ee you Ol understand he hc ald 1011 Ive e gone sone over oVel tho those thoe e accounts with a I magnifying glass glassand glassand and every tr financial particular in III II tho tim ca car career ca- ca r reer er of that pl pig and chicken Is set down Not thin the smallest Item Iem of or expense e or waste wn te has hag escaped him him- Well what are thc they worth now no asked tho the colonel colonl but the tho other looked has hurt hurt Of or course couise you YOI know that thal nothing to do with It I. I he hie said ald A specialist cant can't give I himself away If 1 everybody c ha had his information hed he'd be out of a job job The colonel allowed that hed he'd her hate to tobe tobo bo be bf called to his last account If Drood was keeping It I. I but the ma magnate na te went elt onI on on- I 1 tell tel eli you ou Mountjoy I 1 ran can turn tur that chap cusp loo loose e on a set sel of accounts and the tho stockholders era and government Jo t agents en con can conInI ii In I Investigate em for ten years without Ending a n single detail omitted or 01 a n single tact made mace 1 plain ln It I W wa j nil all 01 rl right ht before m my eyes eye and believe e ble me rile I j couldn't tell tel whether I was figuring on rig or chicken He le I Is a n great specialist Now ow lets let's take tale a I drink for I 1 dont don't feel quite nule rl right ht In m my head had after Droo Drood's s 's Well el sir that magnate took Drood awa away and today hes he's secretary of three trusts You never ne er can tell tel nb about ut a bo boy General Generl Wampum was WAR encouraged b by this his but un unselfishly offered to hii his own bo boy to Mr Ir and let leI the latter later hn have e au all al the lie glory of ot developing c his lila talent was complimented com corn but hut declined an anil his visitor went sadly ad I away a aa a Its getting so so ruminated ens BI rc- rc that I cant can't tell tehi tel a thing without without without with with- out lun having I nl the thc point point turned dead a against me ne Well VeIl cU this Is on one time when illen I dl didn't nt come rome across acs That rowdy bo boy boyI r I have hac f Is bad enough h. h but this bo boy of Wampum's V would woul put the whole business s son on the th blink He lit lt a fresh cheroot and was pluming himself on the fact that old ol Wampum hadn't been ben able to put one over O on him n Henry himself c came camo mo In nl Ills His Ils collar colar was torn tor lila his hs ear eaY swollen and and watched watch with wih growing suspicion sus- sus R as the youth seating himself on a box bov rolled a clarete cigarette and lit lt It i. i I was rattled when paw was wa here he ex ex- ex Youre cool enough now retorted BI to which Henry replied replied- all al light i I 1 wont won't smoke after orel I 1 Igo Io gO o on dut duty You cant can't go 0 on dt duty here I I f already alread hare f a bo boy ties lies nt gone gon away assured Henry witha with a p pained You You dun don dOl t suppose e I was wa going oln home and arid face maw with a 1 throw down lown tb do 10 ou you Of course she ht wouldn't understand about boUl that list other oilier bo boy being ahead or of me me maws never do Old Biven squared his hla his military milar whiskers bristled but hut the boy bo countering with wih a I bold boll look said I Iguess 1 guess uess Mr 11 en BI you 01 old know that a man has to lIght fight for fot what ho gets Gradually stare became fixed and dl distant and the little old cavalryman looked hack back on un tho lie I of II twenty bat bat- tIes He lie le had been somewhat of ft it 1 specialist tips pe himself and felt the touch of ofa a Henrys Henry's nys shoulder cr rile Plc tho those e cases o canned d goods In Ir inthe the back room room ho lie said Mid rising inn jinO 11 when you 01 go 10 home give Jhc your maw m my compliments |