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Show i UTAH THE HELPER TIMES, HELPER. l i RECLUSE FIFTH 1 my home, too, WYNDHAM MARTYN W.N.U. COPYRIGHT In th UNITED STATES BTORY FROM THE START From the comfortable financial ttuatlon to which he had been born, Peter Mllman, American gentleman of the old school, and laet of hla family, la practically reduced to penury through the miifortuns of a friend, Hazen Brewer, whom ha 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 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 Peter Milman. During the hours he had passed downstairs Sneed thought he understood what his employer meant. He had put things toHe believed Peter Milmnn gether. was cataloguing his treasures. Hazen Brewer's failure had been as complete as the evening papers proclaimed. Peter Mllman's manner vaguely disturbed bis 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 roysterlng Oliver Mllman who had been a notable figure In the Colonial wars. "I am not sure," refer Mllman observed, "that man made a good exchange when he put aside the sword and depended upon law and Its chicaneries." "So I've heard, Mr. Peter, sir," Sneed returned, understanding noth- SERVICt or so. if I can act lor you in any way, I shall be only too giad to do so." "You are very kind," said Pete Mllman courteously. He shook Mr. Payne's hand and left. "A thoroughbred," murmured the lawyer, who had seen many distin guished men listen to bad news in this office. "Poor devil, wiped out ah solutely 1" Before going home, Peter Mllman took his way to an agency which spe cialized In 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 uo English." "That makes It easier," she said. "I have a man with very good references who could fill the bill. He came jLl fwr. 1 vjra If ' "I was not aware the ing. generally er. "The ly carved fought In CHAPTER II ten o'clock on the following morning, Teter Mllman entered the offices of a firm of lawyers which had transacted the private business of Hazen Brewer. Henry Payne, the head of the Arm, looked troubled when card was brought In. The Interview would not be pleasant for either of them. "I came," Mllman began in his urbane 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 At Mil-man- 's now." Then things are rot as bad as they seemed V" Mllman's heart pounded us t e said It. "Worse. I've bad news for you, Mr. Toor Hazen Brewer comMilmnn. mitted suicide In the early hours of tills morning. I suppose when he saw there was Vft nothing but liabilities, Ms mind gave way." Payne wished he could discover from utilnian's expression bow much or this news meant to him. But had too much control of himself to allow any man to see how stricken llt-"- e Mil-ma- n he WHS. "Poor Hazen," he murmured. "He was one of my oldest and best Mends." i curious tribute, thought the lawyer, to one whose speculations had u'ceri him. But perhaps the other aid not yet realize to what an extent lils'prlvute fortune was Involved. "Tl't mortgage on my house," (C,in. "I suppose li will be fore-co-- Mil-um- 1?" There will b n "I :n afraid ta his creditors within a day Bier nu if sir." "Sneed," said the other kindly, "If I tell you that by remaining here yon will embarrass me and Imperil certain plans I have determined on, will you still want to stay?" "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 la left," Sneed returned dismally. "If the papers were always correct, this would be a direful world." Sneed looked Into the face of a Peter Milmnn be did not know, and he had believed he knew his employer in every mood. It seemed to the butler he had discovered a new personality, someone more ruthless, harder, Disappearing D 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 employer'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. Iteserved, 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 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 sober truth. In the upper rooms of his home there had been born the determination to save the things he loved from being It seemed disposed of at auction. almost as though the shades of his forbears, lingering about the things that had been theirs, had concentrat ed their Influence upon their ultimate n descendant. He had gone to the He museum to say farewell. had put down his ancestor's sword with the determination to fight And In this 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 direct ly Achllle Lutry entered his service. To the Frenchman it was nothing unusual that Milman went out frequently. Lutry knew nothing of the former secluded existence. A few days after Sneed's hegira had begun, Achille Lutry dropped frhree . The letters Into a nearby letters were addressed to: Fleming Bradney, Edgewater, N. J.; Floyd of Philadelphia; Neeland Malet Barnes of Fleming Bradney, returning home from a tedious day of work In the laboratory 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 him of being the great physicist, Fleming Bradney, once the fore most man in his line America had produced. He slit the envelop and looked at the address and signature. The name Peter Mllman 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 Milman 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-pas- t seven o'clock, and It may be that you must engage a substitute or be put by my request to some expense not otherwise necessary. "You may ask yourself why you should go to this trouble for a man unknown to you. I would answer that I am thoroughly acquainted with your life history and entertain a great admiration for your genius. Think of me as one anxious to see you regain your rank as one of the great scientists of the world. Perhaps at this dinner you may be offered the opportunity. , Her Vocabulary Gets So MuchUsJ FINNEY OF THE FORCE I xWi T Th.nk you oueuv II ''A p" ol DO .mbs, Snoop' & l f MEAN.OF COURSE AROUi & 'voue DMiGwrce -i- JHV SIB , 1 7 SAW HER. WlM MY OWN LYES Iht fbonT ofThe flimsy Cafu aw' ere. VvMEN I IF DUD ETC, ETc IH& OF K DEVIL Vf'H V That locks A8ouT Sucu J PLACES mall-box- God-fearin- n OUR COMIC SECTION Mil-ma- hard-drinkin- view was so accepted," said his employman who owned this literalhis way to fortune. He had Europe before he came here. Ills brother, my own ancestor, disowned hlrn 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 butler regarded himself as a built-ifeature of the mansion. He knew that to seek work in the bustling world outside would be repellent and bewildering. He 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 There are matters is Inevitable. whlcn you must not ask me to explain This Is one of them." "Let me stay," Saeed begged. "1 don't want wages. I can do the work we pay that woman to.; and tending the furnace is good exercise. This is Peekskill-on-the-Hudso- 'You May Regard Him as a Tempo rary Expedient." the, last quota. If you could over In wait a few minutes, I could arrange to have you meet him." Achllle Lutry was forty-severather 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. 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 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 in his master's manner. The old butler did not dream of the ill fortune that awaited him. "Sneed," Peter Milman 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 notica 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 huve I done to be treated like this?" "Nothing. If I had my way, I should never let you go. You cannot understand how sorry I am. But the thing THE FEATHERHEAD3 rrz !!', 7 ill Cad u.s- My ToUi'AiN HCLY PETE ifAVETT-liNG-- -- Can't ALONE ? S Paj it's - "The DE?"Cuc"Ti;i of Some folks -- NATURE PfOPLE SgmE-CNLOOK AT "THAT FEN ! 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