OCR Text |
Show THE wmn By georoeA. BIRMINGHAM TIMES-NEW&NEPI- UTAH II. Uncle JTed? I'm often a bit weak en facts." "Facta In this case," I said, "are much more like fancies." "That's just where I come In," said Norheys. "A fact might have knocked me out, but when It comes to fancies, Tm there all the time. Well now, these Lystrian johnnies aeein to want a king. Don't see why they do myself; but there It Is. They've got a princess, but that doesn't satisfy them." "It doesn't satisfy the League of Nations," said the king, "or the Entente powers. That's where the trouble Is. The Lystrlans would- - be quite satis-fle- d with Calypso. In fact, they'd be very glad to have me back again, all of them except the patriarch. But the Entente powers simply won't stand me." ' WNU Service. CHAPTER XIX Continued 26 "And I think," I said, "that you scarcely do Justice to the courage which our younger clergy undoubtedly posses. A man who would face 8 Mothers union two days In a week and would take charge of a Girls' Friendly society for an outing In the country, must be during enough for any adventure. "No curate," said Cable sullenly, "would venture to marry a princess." "Do you happen to know our patriarch?" said the king. "No, I thought not.You wouldn't talk that way about curates If you did. I assure you, Mr. Cable, that our patriarch would do anything. Wouldn't he, Ctis-Imi- rr "He 'dares do all that may become " 'Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, the armed rhinoceros, or ' " "Your patriarch," said Cable, "Isn't a curate." "But he was once," said the king. "He must have been, though before my time, of course. They all begin by being curates. And I assure you he wouldn't have hesitated except for moral reasons, of course to marry two or three princesses, and their mothers, who would be queens, If he'd wanted to. When I tell you that our patriarch has often gone for me without a sign of nervousness, and used language you'd scarcely believe over some trumpery little affair about a girl and that was when I was a king, an absolute monarch, remember, with an army and all that sort of thing. No, there's no use saying that the clergy daren't do things." The discussion was degenerating Into wrangle of purely academic Inter-s- t. It was Troyte who brought us all back to the business on hand. "The real question," he said, "Is not what a curate or a bishop might do, but what has actually happened since the er the fugitives reached Lystria. I sent a telegram to the patriarch saying that the man was an impostor. He surely wouldn't go on with the marriage after that." "Curate or no," said Cable, "I hope tee patriarch has shot him." "He lies," said Caslmir, "In durance vile. This very morning I received from the patriarch a telegram " He produced it from his pocket. The king translated It for us. It told us that Tommy bad been put under arrest. "That is perhaps the best thin? which could have happened," said Troyte. But It was, even on his showing, a very bad best. The situation in Lystria was extremely critical. A revolution, carefully planned and organized, bad actually taken place. The patriarch and the nobles, the only people who counted In Lystria, were perfectly determined to have a kltig their own seated on the historic throne of Wladislaws the Hunter, the founder of the Lystria n dynasty, famous a thousand years ago for his skill In killing boars. They wanted to place on somebody's head the silver-gi- lt fillet which that monarch had bequeathed to his successors. But If they did anything of the sort every Balkan state would mobilize at once nnd nothing could avert a war unless England recognized the new kins mid declarej herself ready to support Mm. That, and the benevolent neutrality of France, might save the situation. But how could Kngland recognize a revolution which hud either put no king on the throne or set up some Impossible person like Kmlly's curate? Troyte explained all that to us, fclowl and carefully. "But I thought," said Cable, "that you'll squared the League of Nations ttn-- l nil that lot." to the word Troyte objected "squared." I dare say the League of Nation would have objected to it too. What he had done, so he said, wus to route an atmosphere favorable to the lonsideration of the claims of an English king to the Lystrian throne. "Meaning Lord Norheys?" said a man.' " said Casimir. Cubic. He certainly had Troyte nodded. not meant his "atmosphere"' to envelop Kmily's curate. "In my opinion," said the king, "the rest thing for us to do Is to leave things as they ore." "Surely," I said, "not exactly as they ore. That curate belongs more or less to my sister Emily and ttbe'a bent on finding him. There'll he a frightful row If she dlsrovers him lying In a dungeon In Lystria." need ever know," said "Nobody Csbla "The English laity who a'companied them," said the king, "must be aware cf the facts, and If 1 judge tier character correctly, she will certainly tell what she knows. "What Kngllsh lady?" said Cable. Tier uaine," aald tba king, "U Church, Miss Church, and unless I'm mistaken about her " "If Janet Church Is there," I said, "she's certain to have telegraphed to every ambassador In Europe and also to the prime, minister and the leader of the Labor party and all the different Liberal parties there are, demanding the Instant release of Emily's curate." "What I want to know," said Cable, "Is what's going to happen about my oli concession?" Nobody could give him any Information about that. It had not been granted by the Megalian government. Indeed, It had not been granted by anybody. All Cable really had In writing was a promise that It would be granted by the king of Lystria when he was safe on the throne. "That," said King Wladislaws, "is why I say that things had better be left as they are." "But they can't," I said. "Emily's curate can't be left In prison. You don't know my sister Emily or you wouldn't suggest It. Besides, there's Janet Church to be reckoned with." "I think," said the king, "that by this time the young man has probably been released, perhaps married, possibly even crowned." "Good G d I" said Troyte. "You don't mean to say you actually think" The king waved his hand cheerfully. "The patriarch," he said, "Is a man of unbounded patriotism, devoted to the cause of Lystrian Independence. Mill Jfm "He Lies," Said Casimir, "in Durance Vile. This Very Morning I Received From the Patriarch a Telegram." And he dislikes. Intensely dislikes, the archimandrite of Megalia. The Lystrian nobility wish for a king, an English king, a sportsman." "Emily's curate seems to be that," I said. "My daughter" said the king. "I am now speaking very confidentially my daughter rather liked that young man. I liked him myself. Casimir liked him. Everyone liked him. My daughter's only objection to marrying him was the existence of a certain Miss Temple. Now it appears that in his case there is no Miss Temple. It is likely I do not say certain, but very likely that Calypso will insist She on the patriarch releasing him. may even suggest that the marriage should take place at once." Then Norheys elid back the door which divided the compartment from the corridor. "Thought I'd look In," he said. "Just to see how you're getting on. Viola has dropped off into a doze, and I was feeling a bit hipped with no one to talk to." lie looked around with an amiable smile, as If he were sure of a warm welcome. He got nothing of the sort. Troyte and Cable scowled at him. The king regarded him as un inconvenient I looked the other way. outsider. Casimir was the only one who spoke. He quoted Shakespeare In allusion to Lady Norheys' doze: Sleep that knits up th ravell'd sleave of care. "Hit It In one," said Norheys, settling down between Cable and the king. "Well, L'ncle Ned, settled up the affairs of eastern Europe?" "No," said Troyte. "Wen," said Norheys. "I don't want to chip In, don't you know. I hate fellows who shove their oars In when not asked. Stlil, what I always say Is this: An ordinary sort of fellow with no particular bruins and that kind of thins often gets there, though yon don't eipect Mm to. That's why I'm offering to help. It seems to me the position Is this you'll pick me up If I'm wrong about facts, won't ou. "That comes to exactly the same thing as what I said," said Norheys. "Well, along comes some fellow we don't know, dropping like from the What?" "A deus ex machina," I suggested. "That's not what I meant," said Norheys. "I meant a Jolly old bolt from the blue. But whatever we call or little tin god, him, thunderbolt there he is, quite ready to take on the job, princess and all. That's the way things stand, Isn't It, Uncle Ned?" Troyte was looking out of the window. Casimir murmured something about a Daniel coming to judgment. Norheys went on : 'Well, then, why not let him? That's what I always say: If there's a fellow who'll buck In where wanted, then let him buck In ; so long as he doesn't Interfere with us." "Unfortunately," said Troyte coldly, "you've left out of consideration the League of Nations and the treaty of Versailles, and the policy of the Allied Bowers." "What I say about all that," said Norheys, "Is this : What did we fight the war for? I don't know, of course. not so to speak out of my own Inside. I Just fought because all the other fellows I knew did too. But I do know what you said at the time. Uncle Ned, and It's no use your saying you didn't, for you did. What we fought for was of small nationthe alities. Well, there ysu are, and you can't go back on It now. Lysttria la a 6mall nationality, Isn't It?" "Two and a half millions before the war," said the king. "Probably about two millions now." "Couldn't possibly have a smaller nationality," said Norheys, "and what I always say Is this, Uncle Ned : If you've said a thing, you've jolly well got to stick to It, even if you wish you'd said something, else, which of course everybody generally does." I felt quite sorry for Troyte. He really did talk about small nationaliseveral ties and times during the later years t the war. I dare say he deserved to be twitted with It. But I felt I must speak a word for him. "You forget," I said to Norheys, "that you also fought to make the world safe for democracy. Setting up an absolute monarch in Lystria is not democracy." "When I talk about democracy," said Norheys, "or rather when other fellows like you. Uncle Bill, talk about democracy for it's a thing I never mention myself either in a club or anywhere else I always say that the first thing Is to settle: What Is democracy?" We all felt, I think, that Norheys had better be left to answer his own question. Troyte, I know, distrusts the American formula "By, with, for, to, at, In, the people." None of the rest of us had a formula at all. "Democracy," said Norheys, "simply means being able to say, 'You go to h 1' to any fellow who tries to come it over on you. That's my Idea of democracy, ard you may say what you like. Uncle EM. that's what most of us Jolly well fought for. Though what I always say Is this: We were rather let down in the end. Still there Is. don't you know, a sacred principle and all that, the sort of thing no decent fellow ever goes back on." "The Lystrlans," I said, "are evi'You democrats. dently go to h 1' seems exactly to describe their attitude toward the rest of Europe." "Well, then, there you are," said Norheys. "And If you're there, what's the use of worrying?" The attendant from the restaurant car chimp along and told us that luncheon was served. Norheys rushed off to waken Viola, The rest of us staggered along the swaying corridor. Troyte's forehead was lined with a deep frown, always a sign that ho was engaged in serious thought. I remembered exactly the same wrinkles when he was bothered over tbe writing of Creek Iambics at school, which were considered in our day a necessary part of the education of an English gentleman. thlng-a-me-bo- r it A MERICAr I Supplied b (Copy for ThU Department American Lesion New Service.) r i i r i eRess ffj nf;AuI.u p 2 6 5 4 7 t feir' T4 LITTLEFIELD GETS RESULTS FOR A. L. Friends of Kaymond B. LIttlefleld say he once had Intentions of following the profession of civil engineering as his life work. "Should he not have changed his mind," they say, "he would have been infinitely successful, for he Is always engineering something or other to a successful completion." The latest engineering feat to win him credit was the building of the department of Rhode Island of the American Legion Into one of the strongest beams in the national structure of the Legion. This was done during bis administration In 1924. Legion work l,ns been a particularly favorite objective for Mr. Little-field- 's engineering genius. He began serving the Legion as a charter mera- - SI 26 Scholar on Strike Strikes are not a modern trouble, One of the earliest and oddest strikes on record Is that which took place In Oxford, England, In 1209, when. In consequence of a peculiarly outrageous aggression of town upon gown, masters and scholars to the number of 8,(XK) "downed tools" and retired lu high dudgeon to adjacent centers of learning. The schools were closed, the city was laid under an Interdict, and the trouble only ended five year later in the complete humiliation of the erring burgesses, who were compelled to do public penance and to accord large privileges to the university. When the offendeO clerks Anally condescended to return, these "blaeklefT," who bad continued to lecture in defiance of the will of the majority were unlsbed lijr three years' suspension- - i 27 .. T"? -- . 3:rp 57 s? b ksSbi 4a 50 49 I I I I m m& lJ I I -- I I I (TO HE CONTINUED.) to rk T6 Wmkd 22 2 ? Q ' I (Copyright, 1925.) Horizontal. 1 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 82 20 2& 30 81 32 87 3ft 0 41 43 45 47 50 51 52 Fit O To co 'nut Mare pleaaant habitual drunkard That thine A alender Btlck Condenaed molatnre from the air A parent A piece of material naed In put ting' wood 25 To regret Brim or brink One who entertain another Appeara A kind of animal (plural) The office of an earl 34 School perloda Meager To take care of A amall venomoua anako Thick twine A head band worn by women of ancient tlmea A note In the diatonic acnle 40 A color Indlatlnct 48 Cove A prepoaltlon aome to To direct peraon for ln formation Native metallte compound A Corroded . 53 Ilalaed Vertical. Ratea 2 A track worn by a wagon wheel 4 Enough (poetic) 3 Upon 5 An addition to a mannacrlpt 6 A kind of graaalike herb 1 Raymond B. LIttlefleld. round acarf of feather or fur card or a die with two apota 36 A Greek poet To alter letter Something uaed an a SO .Heated Procure S3 Alma euffoeate To To propel a boa Arranged In aeata Pointed at a goal 41 Boa; Name of a saint 44 To Tentllato Unnaual Part of the erb "to be" Bl Elthea To perform 21 A A g.1 Emlli attain 24 27 29 32 30 3H 30 42--s 47 40 Solution will appear la next taaue. Solution of Last Week's Puzzle. P I AIT E fRllE N OHMOMTl HftlUoiolrEI Huh IE kit US TOTlRjEJE. 5JI "mt aim ejl sIpIeI ftrrTopfDe.M A OTt USqjRL Etta eTTtTft" SMO w S P P ft YpL 7 A woody perennial ber of James Stanton post of the ftlLT E. E. OlvTteiT O N 8 To P aoak While np Central Falls, R. L He Legion, 18 To grow old Begin rsTTv served In post offices until the bigger 10 20 One who fight a battle with anA. other peraon job came In 1923 when at the de partment convention he was elected department adjutant, which office he held for one year. Indication of his HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS - WORD PUZZLE efficiency and popularity as a department adjutant Is revealed by the InWhen the correct letter are placed In the white apacea tale paaalo will apell word both vertically and horlaontally. The flrat letter In each cident of his election to the departword la indicated, by a number, which refer to the definition Hated below ment commandershlp by acclamation the puzzle. Thua No. 1 nndrr the column headed "horlaontal" define a at the department convention In Auword which will fill the white apacea up to the flrat black aqaare to the rleht, and a number under "vertical" deltaee a word which will fill tha gust, 1924. He Is at present serving white aquarea to the next black one below. No lettera go In the black as alternate national executive comAll word uaed are dictionary worda, except proper aaaae. apacea. mitteeman. Abbrevlatlona. ilanic. Initial, technical terma and obaolete forma are The same gradual steps that took Indicated In the deflnltiona. him from Just a buck Legionnaire to the department commandancy, he followed In the great adventure of He enlisted in the Rhode Island National Guard on May 23, 1916, and served in that organization with ranks of private, corporal and sergeant. Then came the World war, and he went overseas with the Seventy-thir- d Art. C. A. as a sergeant major, where he served In the line of advance. He was recommended for a commission when the armistice was signed. Mr. Littlelield was born In 1S95 at Central Falls, It. I., where he was educated In the public schools. I I Ml 3 WdsI 1917-191- URSERY RHYME PUZZL-E- Junior World's Series for Boys' Ball Team Holding of a junior world's series for boys' baseball teams throughout the country under the auspices of the American Legion will be proposed at Lhe national convention of the Legion at Omaha from October S to 9 by the national Americanism commission. Decision to this effect was reached following a recent conference between I.egluu oflidals and Maj. John L. Griffith, commissioner of the Western conference, who offered his assistance lo working out the Idea. Recent developments portend success for the plan, if it la approved at the national convention. Koiiesaw M. Lnndis, high commissioner of basebiiii, placed bis stamp of approval on the plan to form the boy league. J A. Butler, a member of the stnff of the National AtiiHteur Athletic association, and Ai!aii Waters, of the Legion's community and civic betterIn workment bureau, are ing out the details of the plan. Mr. Waters conceived and worked out the details of the plan of the junior baseball league for possible sponsorship by the The present Intention Is to promote the organization of baseball league for boys of fourteen to seventeen In all parts of the country, according to Frank Clay Cross, director of the Americanism commission. Championships will be staged by districts, by states and regions, lending up to tbe national contest to be held each yrnr at national conventions of the Legion. In the Junior world serlen, as It will be called, the victor of all states east of tbe Mississippi river will play tha champion of the West. e The Junior world series Is one of a plan for Legion activity In sponsoring and promoting greater active participation on the part of the general public In ithlcLb-fen-tcr- 11AFFY was a Welshmaid, U2K Taffy wore odd clothes. Taffy Had a stove-pip- e hat To shade her little nose. 1 went to Taffs house, Taffy wasn't in, Taffy'd gone to church, instead Which surely is no sin. rind two other Welsh flown, along thouldcr. perton, Right aid down, along tr., Rijht l |