Show II I Nemesis and the Candy Man By Q O. Henry II I Copyright 1910 by Doubleday Page Paso Co 10 published by foj special arrangement with the Wheeler Syndicate Inc We WP We sail at 8 S in li the morning on the thi Celtic C said 0 plucking a loose f thread f from her lace sleeve I 1 heard beard so so said young Ives dropping his hat hM and muffing it as he tried to catch it and 1 came around to wi wIh h you jou Ou a It pleasant voyage Of OC course you vou heard It It said Honoria j coldly sweet since we have had no op opportunity op- op of informing f 11 t you ourselves POJ Ives looked Ok at her pleadingly adl ly but 11 with ii little hope Outside in the street a pitched high voice chanted not unmusically a com com- gamut of or ce Cand Nice Nie fresh cand ec cand s1 ee-ee-ee-ec-s1 t Its our old candy man said Honoria leaning out the window and J I 1 want some of or his motto kisses Thires nothing in the Broadway shops half so to good The Tue candy man stopped his pu pushcart in front of oC the old Madison l avenue home 1 lie Ito had a a. holiday and festival air all unusual to street peddlers His ills tie was new and bright red and a horseshoe pin almost lire life size glittered speciously irom its folds Ills His brown thin face was crinkled crinkled crin cnn kled Into a smile Striped cuffs cults with head dog-head buttons covered the tan on his wrists r I 1 do believe hoa hos going to get married married mar mar- ried ned said sahl Honoria pityingly ly t I I n never ver saw him taken that thal way wy before beCore And today Is ts the first time in iii mouths that he has cried his wares ware I I 1 am sure Ivos Ives threw a coin to the sidewalk The Tho cand candy man knows hi his hie lIe He filled a paper raPer bag climbed the old fash ione l stoop and h handed it il in in I r 1 remember remember- sal said Ives Walt Wait said I She took tool a small email portfolio from the drawer I of a writing desk and amI from the tho portfolio a slip of flimsy paper one ter tar of an inch by two inches in size This said Honoria inflexibly was wrapped abo about t the thc first one we opened It was a year ago apologized Ives as he hel held out his hand for it it As long as skies above are blue To you ou my my love I will be true true This he read from the slip of ot flimsy paper We Ve were to have sailed a It fortnight It has ago said HonorIa been such a warm summer The town is quite Quito deserted Thero There Is nowhere to goYet go o. o I Yet I r am told that one or two of ot the roof toof gard gardens ns are arc amusing The Tho singing singing- and the dancing dancing on on on one oie 01 two seem to have met with approval Ives ves did not wince When you rou ou are in the tile ring you ate aie not surprised when your adversary taps you vou on the ribs I r followed the candy man that time lime said Ives irrelevantly and gave him five live dollars at the tho corner of Broadway Ho lie reached for the paper bag in Honorias Honoria's Hon Ilon oria orlas s lap took tool out one of the Square quare wrapped confections and slowly unrolled It I Sara father said I i Honoria has given her an automobile J I Read that said Ives handing over over the he slip that had been wrapped around the square of candy Life teaches us how us-how how to live Love teaches us us-to us to forgive cheeks turned pink I Honoria cried Ives l starting up from his chair Miss Clinton corrected rising rising ris ris- nis- nis ing like Venus from the bead on the I I surf I warned you not to speak that name again Honoria la repeated Ives you must I oI I h hear me I know I do not ei d deserve ve your forgiveness but I J must have it There Is a madness that posseS possesses es one sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times for which his bett better l' l nature is riot ot I responsible I throw everything everything- else but you to the winds I strike off ort the chains chais that have bound me I renounce the siren that lured me rno from you Let the tho I F bought verse of that street peddler plead for me It is you only whom I can love I I ILet Let your love forgive and I swear to you that mine will vill be true as long as skies sIdes above are blue C C C COn On the west side between Sixth and Seventh avenues an alley cuts the block in the middle It Tt perishes In a little court in t the centre of tho block The Tho district fmc Is s theatrical eat rc the e inhabitants a I ts 1 the thai I bubbling froth of ot half a dozen nations The atmosphere is Bohemian the language lan Ian guage polyglot the locality precarious I In the court at the rear of the aU alley v I lived the candy man At tt t 7 he pushed his cart into the narrow n entrance rested it upon the irregular stone slats I I and sat upon one ono of the handles to cool coot I himself There was a great goret draught of or cool wind through the alley There was a window above the spot where he alwa always s 's stopped his pushcart In the cool of the afternoon Mile Adele drawing card of the Aerial Roof Hoot garden n. n sat at the window and took tool the air air Generally Gen orally her ponderous mass of oC d irk anburn auburn au an- burn hair was WEtS down that th the tho might ir c th I he of J yd UK S Siderite Side Side- doute do- do 11 ute rite Ie the tire In m airing it I j I I About her shoulders the shoulders the point point of her I I that the photographers always made tho the I most mot of was of-was was loosely draped A hello heliotrope rope scarf Her lieI arms to the elbow were bare I there there were no sculptors there t tD to rave over them them but but even the stolid bricks In Inthe Inthe inthe the walls of the alley should not ha have hae e been so insensate as to disapprove While she he he sat thus Felice another r maid anointed and bathed the small feet that I twinkled and so charmed the nightly I Aerial audiences Gradually Mademoiselle b gan to n n nc tice lice the candy man stopping to mop his I brow and cool himself beneath her window win win- win Win- dow now In the hands of her maid maid- hc he was deprived for foi the time of ot er vocation the charming and binding to her chariot chariot charlot char char- lot of ot man To lose time Urne was aa- aa ing to Mademoiselle Here v o the tho candy man man no no fit game for her darts truly truly- but of ot the sex upon which she had ben been born to make war After Arter casting upon him looks look of Unseeing unseeing un- un seeing coldness for a dozen times one afternoon she suddenly thawed and poured down upon him a smile that put putto putto putto to shame the sweets upon his cart Candy man she said 1 while Sidonie followed her impulsive e dive brushing the hea heavy y y auburn hair dont you think I am beautiful The candy man laughed harshly and looked up with his thin jaw set while he wiped his Ills with a red and blue handkerchief make a dandy andy magazine cove he said grudgingly Beautiful or not notis notis notis is for them that cares It Its it's s not my hue If IC yer ver lookin for bouquets elsewhere elsewhere elsewhere else else- where between 9 and 12 I 1 think well we'll have rain rain Truly fascinating ng a a. cand candy man is like lile e killing rabbits n n a deep snow but the i hunters hunter's s blood bloot is diffused Mf Made Mademoiselle I de-I moiselle tugged a H great coil of flair nair from fromI I Sidonio's hands and let It fall tall out the window v. Candy man man have you a a. sweetheart f anywhere with hair as long og arid and soft as is that And with an arm so r round d She flexed an arm like Galatea's after the them m miracle cross across ss the window sill s lec d l f The cindy candy man cackled shrilly as ho he arranged a a. stock of butter scotch that had tumbled down Smoke up up said he vulgarly Noth in doin In the complimentary line Im I'm too wise to fo bo be bamboozled bv by a switch of ot hair and a It newly massaged arm Oh I guess giess you'll make good in that calcium all aU right with plenty of powder and paint painton on and the orchestra playing Under the Old Apple Tree But don dont don't t put on your hat and chase downstairs to fly to tho the Little Church Around the tho Corner with me Ive I've been beet up agaInst peroxide and makeup boxes before beCore say all joking joking- aside aside dont don't dont you vou think well we'll have rain ram I Candy man said Mademoiselle softly soft- soft I Iv ly Iy with her lips tips curving and her chin dimpling dont don t you think I Im I'm m pretty The candy man grinned I r I Allies of the Church I IBy By Dy DR JAMES I l VANCE j j Important as the church Is is It cannot I alone meet and master the problem of civilization It needs the help of allies There are arc three allies ames to which it has hasa a right to look for helpful cooperation One of these those is Is' Is the state We do not believe in America in the union of church and state but wo we should labor to promote promote promote pro pro- mote the most cordial relations between the two The state can make easy or difficult difficult difficult dif dif- dif dif- the work of the church it can build barriers s of ot legal restraint against I 1 the tides of oC pleasure and commercialism I that would overthrow the th church A I I town In which lawlessness abounds and I the Sabbath is disregarded Is a com com- in which the church is seriously handi handicapped Another ally is the school The school can do some things tho the church chuich cannot do But the school is a poor promoter 1 of ot civilization when it discredits the church Tire The education that breaks down faith in God is not to be desired The I schools we need in America aro are not sectarian Institutions but they are aro the schools whose atmosphere is kindly to toa toa a a. faith in God But t the e most important ally of t the OSia ih W t ch church Is t the family If family life is Godless the tho work fo to the church Is hopelessly hopelessly hopelessly hope hope- lessly crippled Men may differ as to their conception concep concep- tion of the tendencies of the present age but they must agree that tho the seat seM o of power for both the state and the church I is in m the family famil I Not the individual but the family Is ts I Ithe the social ocial unit and as goes the home hon I so goes the nation and so goes civilization civil iz Those These e are arc the allies the church needs to do its work wont A state that enacts enact moral I values Into its statutes a school that harnesses life to 10 o convictions and a fam- fam I I thy 11 with an altar altai as well as s a hearthstone hearthstone hearth hearth- stone i 1 Savin money mone am aint t reT jer said sai ho he by byl by I l hem bein ln yer own press agent I smoke but butI I haven't seen yer mug on any of the live cent ci cigar ar boxes It'd take a new brand of woman to get me mo goin gem anyway I know enu em em from to shoelaces a good day days day's s s sales and steak and onions at 7 and a pipe and an paper back there In the court- court and Ill I'll not trouble Lillian Russell herself to toI I wink at me If you please Ma Mademoiselle pouted I Candy man she said softly and I deeply yet yet you shall say that I 1 am beautiful All men say so o and so shall I j you ou The candy man laughed and pulled out hi Iris his pipe Well i said sad he I must be gob goin in In There ls l's is a story in the evenin paper that I am Men 1 aro arc divin in inthe inthe Inthe the seas for a treasure and pirates ace anc them from behind a reef Ami there ani anit t a woman on land or water or orin orin orm in m the tho air all Good evenin And he trundled trundled trun trun- died his pushcart down the alley and back to the musty court where he lived Incredibly to him who has not learned woman Mademoiselle sat at the window wandow each day and spread her nets neta for tho the ignominious game Once she kept a grand cavalier waiting waitung in her reception ber her for half an hour while she battered in vain the candy mans man's tough philosophy philos philos- ophy His rough laugh chafed her ber Vanity vanity Van van- Vanity ity to Its core Daily he he sat on hl his cart in the breeze of the alley while her hair was being mini ered to and daily daHy the shafts of her beauty rebounded from his his' dull bosom pointless and ineffectual Unworthy pique brightened hei hel eyes Pride-hurt Pride she glowed upon him blur in a a. away way that would d have sent her her- higher I I I adorers e Into an t egoistic tlc paradise The I candy man mans man's s hard eyes looked upon her I with a half-concealed half derision that urged I her to the use of the sharpest arrow inI in her beautys beauty's quiver One afternoon she leaned far over the I sill and she did not challenge and torment torment tor tor- ment him as usual 4 Candy man said she stand up and look into my ray eyes ejes I He lie stood up and looked into her e eyes ejes es with his harsh laugh like tho the sawing of wood lie took out his pipe fumbled with it it and put it back into his pocket with a trembling hand i That will do said Mademoiselle with a a. slow smile I I must go now tomy tomy to tomy my Good ev e g The next evening at 7 the candy man came and rested his cart under the win wh- dow But was it the candy man 7 His JIls I clothes lothes were a bright new check ills His 1 I necktie was a flaming naming r rH adorned by a glittering horseshoe pin almost life size His Ills shoes were polished the tan of his Iris cheeks had had- paled paled his his hands had I been washed The window was empty and he le waited under it w wIth wah th his no nOS' nose upward like a hound hoping for a a. bone Mademoiselle carne came with Sidonie carrying carrying car car- II her load of ot hair hall She looked at the tho candy m man n and smiled a a. slow smile I that faded away into ennui Instantly I sho she knew that tha t tho the game was bag bagged d' d dand and so quickly she wearied of ot tho ch chase se She began to talk to Sidonie Been neen a fine Cine dav da day said gald the candy man hOllowly First time In a month t Ive I've v e felt first firt class Hit it ui ill down old Madison hollering out like liLe e J I u soter Think it it'll 11 rain tomorrow Mademoiselle l laid tw two tW round arms on the cushion on the h window dow f sill pf 3 and ami a ano dimpled chin upon o them h no not Candy Ci love Y me Than man 1 said she softly do you OU The cand man candy stood up and leaned leand against the brick brick walL Lady ad said h he he- chokingly Ive I 0 got silo saved ved up Dm Did I say jou you ou wasn't I beautiful Tale Take it 5 every eveY bit ot of it U and buy a II collar for your dog with It it A A. sound as of a It hundred silvery silvery J hells ben i tinkled in th the room toom of Mademoiselle Th The laughter filled t the e alley and trickled back Into tho thu I court as strange to moiselle enter was there amused as sunlight itself Itself a Made l tIring thing echo adde Sidonie a wise contralto The a sepulchral but but faithful i I laughter of the t two seemed at last to penetrate the At man length lIe fumbled Mademoiselle with hi his his' horseshoe candy cand turned I ler her flushed Shed ll face S exhausted to ted th the Candy than man said mid she When I laugh laush Sidonie pulls pUlis go BO away my ha hair I Cn can but laugh while you ou Here W remain there there is said a note for Felice e coming to the window in in t the le r roon m There Is no justice Said candy canel man lifting the handle of his cart and an moving ng away awa- Three yards ards he ire moved and anal stopped Loud Lud shriek after shriek windo OW of l Mad came camo from th the Quickly back he ran rant lie He heard a bod body thumping t the floor l aird upon beat be-at r c a upon Sound d lt it as though What is It ho ire called V Wi Sidonie's es e's severe head came ame into th tho tiro iselle I news n she said overcome b by b bl bed l with aU all her hi-al hi One whom sho O le loved 10 soul Iran have hard f 1 you hone nty my I hes es HI He sails sail hE 1 is Ion 1 I Sh s tire O an tomo- tomo |