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Show i THE MURRAY EAGLE eountlng the daye to your letter st Nauhelm. I want that letter, dear. Vou can never know how much I've wanted it, and how long, and how I pray that nothing may happen now. One false step on your part one foolish exploit like that at college If ha knew, would end everything forever. And he would know. Ill aa he Is, he atlll has his newspaper sent hltn, and he still reads every word. you will If I seem understand. Vou are almost all 1 have. Synthetic Gentleman SYNOPSIS of The Puke, a pleasant, likable youth Jobless and broke, twenty-thre- enteri an unoccupied Bummer home In Southampton, seeking shelter from a terrific rain atorm. lie makes himself at home. Six years ago his father had died In China. The lad, Iiarry Gilbert, does not recollect ever having had a mother, lie Is startled by the arrival of a butler, Willetts; a chauffeur, Evans; a cook and a maid. He learns that the son of the owner of the house, Jack Rldder, whom the servants had never seen. Is expected. He decides to bluff It out. Ills supposed parents have left for Germany. Next morning he opens a letter for his "mother," and finds a message from the real Jack, say-ln- g he could not come, and returning a hundred-dolla- r bill. The boy's had pensioned him Into obscurity. Barry pockets the money, Intending to return It Inter. On the way to Montauk, where he Intended to dlnappear, he assists Judge liam-bldg- e and his daughter, I'atrlcla, whose car had broken down. Believing he Is Jack Kidder, she Invites him to dinner the following Thursday. Harry returns to Southampton, deciding to stay a bit longer. Mr. Itidder, Sr., through his newspaper, the Globe, accuses Judge llambldge of taking orders from Tammany Hall In a condemnation proceeding. fa-th- er CHAPTER The I Mike II 3 Continued touched a button, and AYllIetta came. "Where's Evans?" "In the garage, sir. With his wire." "Ask film to run me down to the village. I want to send a telegram to my mother." "Very good, sir. The car'll he here In a minute or two, sir. Aud I'll hold dinner." Harry never thought any harder than he did during that short ride. What could he nay that would make hla mother still happier, and yet mean nothing If the message fell Into the hands of that hard, old tunn? "lludlo received," he wirelessed at last. "Will do my best Writing. Willetts." She would understand. The reaction enme after dinner. what I am," that' "Maudlin, thought the Duke.- - "Just before I pet a message signed 'Mother.' The first one I ever got." Panin fool trick sending that wireless. Sooner or Inter, she's going to find out It was fake, and then what good will I have done?" Thursday's dinner started off on the wrong foot. The Duke wore tits new flannels and hla old gray coat It was Dot a warm evening, but he had nothing else to wear. He could sie I'atrlcla taking him In. She was lovely In cherry-colorecrepe de chine, and the Judge Immaculate lq black tie and dinner Jacket "Vou said we could fight things out on the tennis court" the Duke apologized, "and I'm afraid that stuck In my mind. The truth la my luggage hasn't turned up, and I had to wear anything I could And." "You should have worn a strip of and bunting, brought boxing gloves," the Judge laughed.."If you and l'at are going at It as you did WNU SERVICE Talking about my taking orders from Tammany." "What's the use of stopping one pnper?" I'atrlcla Inquired, entering the room. "The others would keep right on. Did you ever read any of the things they wrote about Abraham Lincoln? I'.e a brave old gentleman, and don't let It bother you." She laughed, but her eyes were very tender as she laid her hands on the Judge's shoulders. "That's why I like her," thought the Duke. "I.ecause I see what she'd be If somebody scraped off the enamel She's got the makings of some girl!" It was after midnight when Barry climbed Into hla car, calling back, "Jtemember, you're dining with me next Thursday 1" "All right And we're having house guests over the following week-end- . The Wlnslows. My mother was Mrs. Wlnslow's sister. Peter's a prominent lawyer, and It won't hurt you to know hlra. And I've got an eld school friend coming- from liosten. Will you dine with us again that Friday?" "I'll board with you. If yon ask me!" Harry replied exuberantly. "But that lets me out" he voed, on the way home. "This can't go on forever. Something's sure to break, and I don't want It to break anywhere near that girl." . Standing before the mirror, In faultless evening dress, on Thursday, he thought the thing out "If I can't get a white-collaJob with these clothes, and the new feeling this thing has given me, I'm a washout I'd like to make good now. Darned If I know why, but I r would !" He made up bis mind to go to town the next day, and have another try at It He was still contemplating himself In the glass. On the whole, It was a very successful evening. The Judge seemed even more worried than he had been a week before, but Barry's Pagood humor was Irresistible. tricia had asked about his experience In Florida, and he found himself combining purely Imaginary adventure there with anecdotes of park benches and the flop house In New York. Truth and fiction blended so wonderfully, and seemed so real. The Hamhldges went home early, but In much better spirits than they had brought with them, and Patricia paused at the door to relnlnd hlra of their engagement for the following Friday. "You'll have to come the week after that too," she said. "My Poston frleiifl can't get here next week, and she's especially anxious to meet you." Patricia must have written about him, then. Fy Golly, he would get that Job If only to show her that he could do something better than dance. Harry's first two days In town were fruitless. There weren't many studios In New York, and they didn't seem to be doing much. I'm going to look over the 'Puslness Opportunities' la the newspapers," said the Duke. Most of them were opportunities at the club." to part with a little money. Hut "What would happen If we Parry didn't give up hope. agreed about aiiythlngT" asked On Wednesday eighteen days his advent at Southampton after "I'd be wrong, Miss Ilambrldge; the Duke got a letter from Mrs. I'd be wrong!" The retort was. no more his own Kidder. My Own fesr Pny; I write this than the flilrt on his lurk, but he was rewarded for It by an appre- as we are leaving Cherbourg, and shall try to pout It at Southampton. ciative flash In the girl's eyes. How 1 wlh It were our SouthampThe girl chattered about every- ton, and that I were about to see Your radio mc,n;e arrived you. thing. I uniternirtod, f rnursa, and duly. A Hard belled. modern, and It made nie tnprlcr thin 1 have been jroud of it. Why should people be In years. I'.m't Urtch, but 1 have with it un.lrr rtiy pr.low. pr.ml of being "ui'Hlern"; a state, slept 1 wanted to write you at oni-- . hut Ike kliiitsWp, that you achieved It bas been hivrd to art a relniite born? And, s far away from ynur fiiher. He really Merely by ns ni.'deriify was a point of view, is Very III, and a Ptlie Itrliatl. and why preen yourself because jou the doctor says sny MiorU 1 rokl.t prove wsnt rrlour of cnurpe. didn't believe In nnytlilnij except to tell him shout y,.il, but pethp own to be right We It's as well that I ran t JuM bapp)t jour hall be until the end cf July ThU girl b,il bad no contact t and perhaps lonser. I;y wish life. Walled about In a pleas- - that eat, time 1 :iall have ha l sm h rood fit garden, she delivered herelf of news of you a will enahle me to mart, brittle opinions ef conditions w in him over. , IU don care for you. a I d., I'ethnps he bad never experienced, people dear. As tmi.-hmore, and that Is why his pride has she bad never seen, I'.ut you been hurt, and he has seemed so couldn't help liking her. And U hsrd. I do hops you have to be evident that she liked (hen up drink-Inshas hern your real enemy. ltirn. "You're different at leust" And IThat do will nnd work. he said. "Different from any oth- Nothing ! hopewillyougo so far la perer man I know, lteally tint a bit suading your father, lie must chanae his will. It isn't the money I'm like a rich man's son." ef so much as Its bitter. "I've been on my own a good thinking nes, Me has taken rare of the while." he reminded her. houeho!d epene at Southampton. Harry learned a good deal about tlld 1 tell you that we wete going ctprn the plaee, anywayr Wove lis adopted father that night to had Willetts ever ime we'to had An J, when I'atrlcla left them for a the hnu. and our agreement Is that few minutes, the Judge repeated, bte winter lay-oln't to last over six months ) Vcur father gave him hie "lie's certainly no sentimentalist when he rame to the hotel the that gentleman. We're supposed to rherk and will senj morning we be friends and tits paper goes on at- him one everysailed, month, to pay eery, etc. am enclosing another tacking me. The Ovlc association ants. Hint's nothing on earth but The hundred dollars for you. Cash, be. my bank account's rather low Ulobe. And how they're all at It taue now. That's all, except that I am )t. be-fa- n t, ff X "Anything' "That won't get you far. you TAT T T A "P1 tan "Like the lady who was asked lr she could play the piano, I don't know I never tried-"You should be able to write with your father's gift of trenchant In expression. You've got It, too, conversation. My brother owns a like to big advertising agency. I'd hlra." meet have you Mother. "I'd like to," Bald the Duke, "I P. 8. Don't fall to write. want to work." He hesitated. do For the first time since he had every day Inserted his knife blade under the "I've been in town almost a Job." for looking week, this dry putty of that window, the Duke He caught Patricia's surprised felt ashamed of himself. Deeply glance. and thoroughly ashamed. "Come in and see me," WInslow "What can I do?" he said. "I suggested. be And would what can't write. Just bis damned luck! Here was the use? One letter, and then sifor the lence. Some day, she's sure to find a Job a career, probably take couldn't It Not he and out that her boy never came near asking, But Jr. Clarke Kidder, John as I God to wish I Southampton on him, so were still Patricia's eyes could find that boy!" "I'll be In Monday," he said. When he had made his adleux to Thursday's evening paper was Wlnslows, Patricia accompanied the full of Judge llambldge. door. "llambldge Decision Due," the him toowethe an apology," she de"I you Associa"As Civic headline read, not Just a rich "You're clared. tion Links Holding Corporation man's son. You're something quite with Boss Kelly." The link didn't seem very strong. different And I'm glad!" "Some girl!" Kelly, who evidently was some poWhen he reached home, WllletU tatoes In Tammany Hall, had once was waiting In the hall. dumone the of "alleged employed "There's a lady to see you, sir." my directors" of the corporation "At midnight?" to used be the owned that property "She got here around eight in widening Jefferson street "In And she wouldn't go. She's o'clock. disclothis of the face sensational sure," the paper asked editorially, upstairs In the library." "What kind of a lady?" "will Supreme Court Judge llam"Sort of glittery, If you ask me," bldge have the courage to give these men the fabulous sums they ask for the butler replied. "Did she come In a car?" their rookies? Judge Hambldge Inof the station taxis, sir." "One met even never has he sists that "How's she going to get back? Mike Kelly. 'I have never spoken a word to hlra In my life.' Judge Never mind! I can rouse Evans, If Hambldge's decision Is long over we need him. You go to bed." Very much on guard, he climbed due. When It Is handed down, the city's voters will know whether the stairs to the upper rooms. Willetts was right; her eyes Boss Kelly has ever spoken to were "glittery." And hard. A womJudge llambldge." After that Parry wasn't sur- an who knew her way around, Barprised to find the Judge absent from ry would have said. And yet there the next night's dinner party at his was something tender about her, house. Evidently, the pack was In too. She bad a sharp face, with a full cry. Friday's evening paper a slightly protuberant chin. Her had a headline that ran clear across lips and brows and lashes were the sheet. Still unfolded, Barry heavily made up, but her hair, nonhad left the paper lying on the li- descript In color, escaped In soft brary table, with Boss Kelly's name waves from beneath her cheap litfilling most of Its visible quarter-page- . tle red beret She wore a shabby black dress, and her shoes were was disturbed. Tatrlcla badly worn. Naturally, All this, Barry observed In the "Father spoke at a banquet last moments before she spoke. long she the at Astor," explained. night "You're not Mr. Kidder," she said. "And he wouldn't let me stay In Her voice was hard, too. Like the girl, hard and yet pitiful It seemed on the point of breaking. "Yes," Barry answered. "I am." "Not James Clarke Kidder. Not the old man." The Duke breathed again. "Not the old man, of course," he said. "My father's In Europe, I'm John Clarke Kidder, Jr." The girl stared at him. "You mean you're John Clarke Kidder's son?" "Of course." She kept on staring. "Somebody's crazy," she said. It had come, then. It was bound to come. Was Willetts listening In the ball? What would Patricia say? "Somebody's crazy," the girl repeated, "and I don't think Its me. Or somebody's a liar, and I don't think It's hlra!" And, suddenly, she began to laugh. "No," she shrilled; "It's yon! It's written all over your face! And It's funny, because you've walked Into a pretty mesa." "There's a Lady to See You, Sir." "I-- ?" with him. 'I'll sleep In the hotel, "If you're John Clarke Kidder, and take a train out In the morn- Jr., I'm your wife," An hour ago, he ing, lie said. "My wife?" She stopped laughing, as sudden-l- y phoned that he'd been unavoidably detained." as she had begun. That's It," "I fancy he didn't feel quite tip she said, and her voice was harder to the trip." Peter WInslow addej than ever. "I'm your wife, and to Patricia's apology. "The speech you're under arrest for killing a must have taken It out of him, and guy !" then afterward, he saw a woman "L'nder arrest?" Barry echoed. killed by a taxlab." "What are you talking about?" "Oh Peter!" For answer, the girl reached cross to the library table, and "Yes, The Judge called me. early this morning, about his decision In handed him the newspaper she had this condemnation proceeding. He'd been reading when he came Into Just sent tt to the county clerk's of the room. fice. And his voice sounded rather Thats what John Clarke Kidshaky. "He'd gone for a walk after der dld-l- ast night" she said, the dinner was over, he said, and "Killed a guy. That damned skunk, the taxi dajihed out of a side street. Mike Kelly. Boss Kelly of y Hail" Just as the woman stepped off the curb. The driver Jammed on his CHAPTER III brakes, and skidded right tip onto the sidewalk. The usual business," all, Sim wasn't such a "What did the Judge talk about AFTi:it lady. nt the dinner?" Parry asked, chiefly For, a Parry glanced at the to change the stibjo, newspaper headlines unfolds J be"1 don't know, I haven't seen a fore him, she crumpled suddenly, and dropped Into the big chair. paper today." WInslow seemed prevc3jed. Pir-r"Steady!" the Duke a ImotiNhed thought, but a mighty fine fel- her. The Duke went bnrk to those low. A famous criminal lawyer, but hendllnes. "P,o Kelly Murdered," so sitnpV and kindly. He was a b'g they read. "p,.ly round by Serv. skull l'ruhed. chap, 1'Misely put together, and his ante, Midnight graying hair was loosely brushed Caller Hunted by Police." back from a fare that was square "Was your hinhnnd the midnight In every sense. The two men caller?" he asked. clicked at once. Parry loved Peter's The girl nodded wearily. manner to his wife a soft round, "And he's John Clarke Kidder. pink little woman, with worried Jr.?" l'eler wss always Jillyiin eyes, She nodded sgaln. her gently, whimsically, protecFor some reason be never qnita he sill of understood, the Duke bad tively. "My stopped her. "Anything I do Is right" wondering whether Willetts was lis"That's only my move to make tening outside, Instead be wa. the decision unanimous," smiled thinking of a letter that Jay In the Mrs. WInslow. She had wit, in her drawer of the library tahlej a letown quiet way. ter from a heart hungry woman, "I never met your father." the at- who bad written n M ,oy, from torney remarked to Parry, In the three thousand miles away, j Bm drawing room, after dinner. "Ymi counting the days to ),,,,,. work on his ticwje,pcr, I suppose," You can revef know bow much rve" No." wanted it. and bow .,ns RrilI hnw "Don't you want to io an thing?" I pray that nothing ttnv hanpi-tbe asked. how." "Very much." in: wMiMit)) of Colorful 88 writer n. Q Prpttv Wnli PejJ I As Told to: FRANK E. IIAGAN and ELMO SCOTT WATSON over-anxiou- s, CHANNING POLLOCK COPYRIGHT, CHAHMN6 POLLOCK T Whatr Pat Scanlan's Triple Play grandfather of James lw of Evanston, 111., was T. D. Scanlan, one of the pioneers who laid the first transatlantic cable out of Hearts Content, Newfoundland. He was also the father of Jiui's uncle, Patrick Scanlan. , Pat Scanlan was one of the most powerful swimmers and fishermen Canada or New England has seen. Often he plunged Into lakes and swam them with a surveyor's chain In his mouth. And while doing this, Pat always had time to select the likeliest fishing pools. His finest fishing Is family history, handed down to Jim McGrath. It happened lu upper New York state and Jim Is positive it's true because Pat yelled so loudly It shook the McGrath house, down In THE ... Tani-man- t jur PATTKHN How - J Pattern 1014 comes tn vm, transfer pattern of a picture u Inches; a color chart and key;! terlal requirements; lliustratloJ uu Biuciies neeueu. send 15 ce&I "ins or stamns (coins Ije Sewing Circle, Xeedlecraft M tigntn Ave., New York, N. I, mm IMMM Philly-Lo- o fact that the bird Is extinct but accounts of the death of the last survivor vary. Larry Flint, a Pennsylvania newspaper man, says be saw the tragedy out In Wyoming. was ferociously "The philly-lofond of the holes In doughnuts. Ills method of eating them was unique; he backed up to them, slipped his tall through them, then flicked It around in front and fed himself. "An out there, knowing of this peculiarity, sought out the lust surviving philly-loand laid several doughnut holes down In front of the bird. In order to eat the hole, the philly-lohad to move bis tall around Into the proper Juxtaposition. This brought about his end." But F. Fuller of the Rhame (N. D.) Kevlcw has another version of the story. He says that he and another editor had the Job of hunting dow n the last survivors of the race to serve at a banquet for some visiting newspaper men. Near a mountain In the P.ad Lands they flushed a covey and started chasing them, "The phllly-loo- s began circling the mountains," relates Mr. Fuller. "As they did so each bird grabbed the tall of the bird ahead and as they mounted upward and the circle narrowed, they swallowed to take up the slack. Tbey kept circling and swallowing until each bird had completely swallowed the bird ahead, and they entirely d appeared from before our ecs. All that Is left are a few tracks circling the mountain that look Just like those made by an automobile driven by a driver. I've never seen a philty loo bird since that time." A philly-lo- , r-"- shallow water when it gets dark. Pat cast and hooked a trout, ne played the fish a short time, then gave a determined Jerk to establish who was boss. As Pat Jerked he snared a muskrnt on the second hook. That was too much so he whooped and threw the double catch high In air, casting trout, musk-ra- t and line back toward the water with a mighty "swoosh." And when Pat heaved the line toward the water he caught a humHe ming bird on the third hook. always claimed It was the only unassisted triple play of that season. The End of the n all his lovely plumage disj ... . , This nrnn.1 i'i" m cotoriil will hold this unique poSe u as your wall panel lasts. y0ou lr done In n eimi-- t (.. ouu u win ue, ior the actual broidery goes very nnintw single, running and nntiin. ",uc 1UJ You may use either silk, wool or ton noss, Dut remember the colorful It Is, the prettier! Brooklyn. You see, Pat was fishing In this lake he had seen while nibbling a surveying chain. It was near dusk and he was casting three hooks uear the shore for fish He sometimes In TT IS a 1014 rarely- one- sees well-know- WW o o a Can Try TODAY 5 STREAT0R--SMI- T r CHEVROLET DEALER Offers o 60 o about CHEVROLETS 40 FORDS AND ABOUT 20 a '6 CAB OTHER All PopuUr Mtku models to '28 models rtoodiiioaJ sod sre bicktd bj oar Written M. G. 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