Show S S Mar Marcellus and the I Plutocrat By H. H IRVING KING Si Copyright ht MARCELLUS SANDERS had a ft shanty down on the shore Just above aboe mark lie He- was an au anried ried aed fisherman and and a digger clam wrinkled of ot solitary life Ufe and crabbed disposition To him came caine Air Mr Whit WhIt- ney-Blake ney on one of the rich folks from tip up p on the hill Marcellus l h had d been purveyor purveyor of f clams to the Whit Blake ney-Blake family for years Marcellus said the plutocrat crat you know my daughter Do you ever see seeh h her r down here with here with a young man man man- going sailing Sure replied Marcellus comes down own to the boathouse over there there there- goes gocs off In that catboat the catboat the Glide Glide Glide- moored mo red off the end of the float Whose boat Is It Young man named Bascomb DaSComb growled Marcellus It Is as I suspected thought the th father and then Marcellus the next time you ou see my daughter and that young oung man go out sailing together go goto goto goto to the nearest telephone Cad and call me up If It I can catch those two together 1 J will give you OU five dollars All right said Marcellus Then he chuckled with what In the old would have hai-e been called a alow alow alow low fiendIsh fiendish chuckle Mr Mi- Ii Blake Whitney was strongly 3 to rl a marriage between his daughter and H Roger ger Bascomb Bascomb fins Das comb was a newcomer to the time community had made himself Immensely popular anI and had been paying decided attentions to Caroline The wary vary wary father father fa fa- a- a ther had investigated and found that Roger was fond of plea pleasure ure deeply In debt and might justly be looked upon as no a fortune hunter Having acquired this this' knowledge he proceeded to talk to Caroline Why father fattier said she I 1 haven't the faintest Idea of marrying Roger Bascomb Dascomb I J like him bim of course I II tb do wish Caroline said the father fa fa- fa ther that out of your many suitors you would pick one of whom I could approve IHO There Is Is' Is Cyril Patterson for Instance Oh C Cyril Tir is well well enough laughed Caroline I J 1 Am am im aid afraid its it's the time Patterson Pat Put terson tem money you are thinking of papa papa pa pa more t than of C Cyril ril himself Mr Air Whitney Blake a big business deal engaging lils attention relaxed hI his supervision of Carolines Caroline's love affaIrS af af- af fairs faire Then one day he received a jolt lie had been out looking after atter one of his many Investments and as ashe ashe ashe he got gut off oil the train Bain he met Mandy Alandy Budlong just getting on I S Ah Ali Mr Air Blak cried Mandy Alandy bout time you got home You'll be just lust in time titue for the wedding Carrie goes out sailing most every afternoon now and they do say say say- All aboard I l shouted the Impatient conductor and with a firm finn hand hustled hus bus tied the garrulous Mandy Alandy up the car steps Mr Air Whitney Blake Blake thought rapidly for a 0 a. a full minute Then be lie walked down to the shore which wa was wan near the station made mude his way to the shanty of and had the Interview Interview In In- described above When he lie hereu reu reached hed home Caroline greeted her father as liS a 11 dutiful and loving daughter daugh daugh- ter should An hour or so after luncheon luncheon lunch lunch- eon while Mr Air Blake Whitney being busy with papers in his library Caroline Car Cor- oline otine got into her runabout and drove out of the grounds It might have been an nn hour or so later when when- the telephone bell leil rang and the voice of Marcellus said suld gone out I sailing railing again Expect em back about five tire At five the wrathful parent I was waS' on the tIme beach I In l the tue half light he lie could see that the catboats catboat's crew consisted of a ayoung ayoung ayoung young man mau and a u young woman Ive got em he lie thought They entered the tue dinghy and rowed ashore Mr Air was on the landing stage to receive them Wh Why father cried Caroline You here C Cyril and und I have liars had bad a delightful delightful de tIe- sail snit Good Guild evening sir said the cheery voice of C Cyril Patterson Glad to see you ou muck buck May Alay I come cume up to the house I J have s something Important I want to say to you ou er er I er er Caroline Certainly replied Mr Air Whitney Whitney- Blake My Aly car Is waiting up UI Lack back of the boathouse Ill III hi hi came the voice olce or of of Mar Marcellus Marcellus ellus c-ellus as the trio moved d off Excuse me a second said Whit Whit- Blake uey nan and ancl turned bacu baca to Intercept intercept Inter Inter- Intercept I Wheres that five dollars asked the fisherman Five dollare I returned the plutocrat pluto pluto- crat you ou ought ht to get a punch In the Jaw Thought you told faith me tue my daughter daugh dough ter tel was going out sailing salling with Roger Hoger Bascomb Didn't replied Marcellus l Said I Bascomb's Bascombs boat So Us Patterson's Pattersons Pat terson's chartered It for or the summer Why didn't you tell me that demanded de do- Mr Air Bluke You didn't ask me Give me the tho five growled l M Air Mr WhItney make saw that Caro Caru line and und C Cyril were wele watching him He pulled five dollars d' out of his pocket and und handed It to the time A little bill 1 I lowed owed for tor clams he explained as he be rejoined them That's all except all except that Roger Hoger Ba Barcomb Bar Da comb married a u rich widow two months after after- C Cyril married Caroline and that MI AH looks with admiration upon Marcellus as being the only man mun who ever got the best of or him I In a It business deal |