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Show Thursday, August 25, 1927 THE LEHI SUN. LEHI. UTAH PAGE SEVEN 8TORY FROM THE START From the comfortable financial situation to which he had been born, Peter Mllman, American gentleman of the old school, and last of his family, Is practically reduced to penury through the mlsfortuno of a friend, Hazen Brewer, whom he had unwisely trusted. CHAPTER I Continued 2 "It was my intention to bequeath them to the Metropolitan." Mllman frowned a little. "It will seem like breaking faith with the dead." Sneed did not yet know that the man he served was Insolvent and that all these relics which told so much of the Mllman history must come under un-der the hammer. "You can leave me," Mllman said, after a pause. "I want to remain here some time." At six o'clock Sneed ventured to disturb dis-turb Peter Mllman. During the hours lie had passed downstairs Sneed thought he understood what' his employer em-ployer meant. He had put things together. to-gether. He believed Peter Mllman was cataloguing his treasures. Hazen Brewer's failure had been as complete as the evening papers proclaimed. Peter Mllman's manner vaguely disturbed dis-turbed his butler. There was a smile where usually mild cynicism reigned. Almost It seemed as If the sword which Mllman held had Imbued him with swashbuckling courage of that hard-drinking, roysterlng Oliver Mil-man Mil-man who had been a notable figure In the Colonial wars. "I am not sure," Peter Mllman observed, ob-served, "that man made a good exchange ex-change when he put aside the swor'l and depended upon law and its chicaneries." chican-eries." "So I've heard, Mr. Peter, sir," Bneed returned, understanding nothing. noth-ing. "I was not aware the view was so generally accepted," said his employer. employ-er. "The man who owned this literally literal-ly carved his way to fortune. He had fought In Europe before he came here. His God-fearing brother, my own ancestor, an-cestor, disowned him publicly In church on Christmas Sunday and lost all his cattle and barns by lightning the next summer. I have always had a sneaking fondness for Captain Oliver." Sneed followed his master down the broad stairs. The butter regarded himself as a built-in feature of the mansion. He knew that to seek work In the bustling world outside would be repellent and bewildering. He realized real-ized that Peter Mllman and he were two lonely, friendless men. And they had lost their home because one of them had trusted Implicitly In Hazen Brewer. What a price to pay for friendship, Sneed mused unhappily. He did not understand how it was the other seemed in no way depressed. Sneed was not to know that Captain Oliver's shade had whispered courage Into the ear of the last of the Mil-mans.- CHAPTER II At ten o'clock on the following morning, Feter Mllman entered the offices of a firm of lawyers which had transacted the private business of Hazen Brewer. Henry Payne, the head of the firm, looked troubled when Mil-man's Mil-man's card was brought In. The Interview In-terview would not be pleasant for either of them. "I came," Mil man began In his urbane ur-bane manner, "to find out. If possible, the extent of Mr. Brewer's losses. I might have called up Hazen, but In a moment like this he has worries enough." "I hope Mr. Brewer Is not worrying new." "Then things arc not as bad as they seemed?" Mllman's heart pounded as he said It "Worse. I've bad news for you, Mr. Mllman. Poor Hazen Brewer committed com-mitted suicide la the early hours of this morning. I suppose when he saw there was Vft nothing but liabilities, his mind gave way." Payne wished he could discover from oilman's expression how much or little lit-tle this news meant to him. But Mil-man Mil-man had too much control of himself to allow any man to see how strlcketi he was. "Poor Hazen." he murmured. "He w&f one of my oldest and best friends." i curious tribute, thought the lawyer, law-yer, to one whose speculations had ruined him. But perhaps the other did not yet realize to what an extent his private fortune was Involved. "Tl mortgage on my house," Mil-hoan Mil-hoan togan. "I suppose U will be foreclose fore-close ST" Tm dfrald ta There will b a s of alt creditors within a day aecun fie AVENUE WYNDHAM J MARTYN or so. If I can act for you In any way, I shall be only too glad to do so." "You are very kind," said Peter Mllman courteously. He shook Mr. Payne's hand and left. "A thoroughbred," murmured the lawyer, who had seen many distinguished distin-guished men listen to bad news in this office. "Poor devil, wiped out ab solutely !" Before going home, Peter Mllman took his way to an agency which spe cialized Jn French domestic help of the better sort "I want," he said to the woman at the desk, "a French butler who will do the entire work of a house In which only a few of the rooms are occupied. A woman comes in by the day to clean the place and the windows, and the furnace is attended to." "I think I can suit you," she said, and turned to a card index. "Wait," said the other. "There are other necessary qualifications. He must be a good plain cook and know no English." "That makes it easier," she said. "I have a man with very good references refer-ences who could fill the bill. He came "You May Regard Him as a Temporary Tempo-rary Expedient." over In the last quota. If you could wait a few minutes, I could arrange to have you meet him." Achille Lutry was forty-seven, rather rath-er terrified with the size and noise of New York, and anxious to begin to save money so that he might return to Amiens and establish a restaurant. The wages he was offered seemed marvelous. mar-velous. The restrictions seemed no burden to him. He had no friends to ask into the house, and the little leisure he was allowed made the saving sav-ing of his wages certain. He was to report at the house on Lower Fifth avenue tomorrow at noon. That night at dinner the estimable Sneed noted a certain unusual nervousness nerv-ousness In his master's manner. The old butler did not dream of the ill fortune that awaited him. "Sneed," Peter Mllman began, when the coffee had been poured out, "my future household arrangements will be on a different scale from what they have been of late. You have been a faithful servant to me for many years. I am not likely to find your equal. In lieu of notice I shall give you six months' wages. I shall be glad If you will leave before luncheon tomorrow." "Oh, Mr. Peter, sir," Sneed walled, "what have I done to be treated like this?" "Nothing. If I had my way, I should never let you go. You cannot understand under-stand how sorry I am. But the thing fj XXXXXXXXX'X'XXXX'XXXXM4XXX'XXXI Big Job for Woman to Handle Grown Man "Man has always wanted a listener since the beginning of things, and when he comes home he wants it still. . . . Listen for all you are worth; it Is your Job. I can tell you, to handle a full-grown man properly Is a full-grown woman's Job, and don't you forget it" "Anyone can be charming when the evening falls and the stars twinkle in the sky. but give me the man who can be charming at breakfast without being be-ing offensive." Tt is the things of the spirit more than those of the flesh by which love is preserved. A woman may not, troub'e to powder her nose, nor manicure mani-cure her nails, and yet sbe may have that subtle flair for loving well which turns life into a constant adventure. That Is the woman of whom a man Is Inevitable. There are matter which you must Dot ask me to explain This Is one of them." "Let ma stay," 8aeed begged. 1 don't want wages. I can do the work we pay that woman for, and tending the furnace Is good exercise. Tbla Is my home, too, sir." "Sneed." said the other kindly, "If I tell you that by remaining here yon will embarrass me and imperil certain cer-tain plans I have determined on, will you still want to BtayT" "I'd do anything for you, Mr. Peter," he said brokenly. "I knew you would. I will say this: If, by any turn of the wheel, things become better, I will have you back." "The papers say nothing Is left" Sneed returned dismally. "If the papers were always correct this would be a direful world." Sneed looked Into the face of a Teter Milman he did not know, and he had believed he knew his employer In every mood. It seemed to the butler but-ler he had discovered a new personality, person-ality, someone more ruthless, harder, bitterer. "The man who comes tomorrow will never take your place. You may regard him as a temporary expedient. When you go, Sneed, I shall see one of my few friends depart." The butler knew that there was no argument he could use to change his epiployer's determination. But he was cheered by the faint hope that some day he might return. Mr. Peter, he reflected, had never been like other men. Reserved, non-communicative, aloof and austere, but inflexibly a man of his word. Six months was not so long. Sneed thought he would spend the period In foreign travel. He had understood that during the past quarter quar-ter century certain Improvements had been made In the world. When Peter Mllman told Sneed that his presence would Imperil certain plans, he was speaking Bober truth. In the upper rooms of his home there had been born the determination to save the things he loved from being disposed of at auction. It seemed almost as though the shades of bis forbears, lingering about the things that had been theirs, had concentrated concentrat-ed their Influence upon their ultimate descendant He had gone to the Mllman Mll-man museum to say farewell. He had put down his ancestor's sword with the determination to fight And in jthls fight Sneed, for all his faithful ways and honest heart, could have no part Any deviation from the way of life he had followed for so many years would alarm the faithful butler. He would inevitably have imagined his employer was 111 and buzzed about him like an anxious fly. Mllman's way of life changed directly direct-ly Achille Lutry entered his service. To the Frenchman It was nothing unusual un-usual that Mllman went out frequently. frequent-ly. Lutry knew nothing of the former secluded existence. A few days after Sneed's heglra had begun, Achille Lutry dropped three letters Into a nearby mall-box. The letters were addressed to: Fleming Bradney, Edgewater, N. J.; Floyd Malet of Philadelphia; Neelaud Barnes of Peeksklll-on-the-Hudson. Fleming Bradney, returning home from a tedious day of work in the laboratory lab-oratory of an oil refinery, found his letter on the table where his meal was set. ' He was a big, untidy man of middle age, taciturn, and unpopular with his fellows because he invited no confidences nor answered personal questions. At the Edgewater refinery, as In that at Bayonne from which he had come two years previously, he was known as F. Bradney. None suspected sus-pected him of being the great physicist, physi-cist, Fleming Bradney, once the foremost fore-most man in his line America had produced. He slit the envelope and looked at the address and signature. The name Peter Milman meant as little to him as his own name to Edgewater. Brad ney had never read a Social Register In his life. Between the pages was a money order for one hundred dollars. "I beg you," Peter Mllman wrote, "not to imagine that by inclosing this money I suppose you to be an object for charity. I urgently desire you to dine with me today week at half-past seven o'clock, and It may be that you must engage a substitute or be put by my requestto some expense not otherwise necessary. "You may ask yourself why you should go to this trouble for a man unknown to you. 1 would answer that I am thoroughly acquainted with your life history and entertain a great admiration ad-miration for your genius. Think of me as one anxious to see you regain your rank as one of the great scientists scien-tists of the world. Perhaps at this dinner you may be offered the opportunity. oppor-tunity. 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