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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCII 21. 1920. How a P hi e g mat i c Slav j Chauffeur Became a Red Cross Hero on a Picardy Battlefield, Im sorry, Mr. Raletrh," txid foreman of th service garage But I cant get you no choffer, and 'that flat. li pushed back hi bat a ha poke, aa If to glva her a more open view of a countenance on which truth bad et its UR E, Of course she Is, when you look aa you do today. Isldor disapieared. IVheh he returned be waa Immaculate. H remained eo for several hours. But even this hint be had forgotten by the next day. The process of " licking Iaidor Into shape continued. Under It both Arthur and his mother began to look haggard. Arthur's nerves, lo use his own expression, became "Jumpy as the devil." i Iaidor' eyes took on a new look (he look of a hunted man. Then Arthur made a discovery which brought matters to a crisis. "Mother! he exclaimed one night, when the new driver had bloomed for a month In the garden of their lives, I've learned th truth about Isldor! He Isn't married! He hasn't any mother! He has no on to 'sup-pobut himself. And he's spending hla money guddlng about at night, Joy riding in jour oar! observing her stricken silence, he nodded, U eal. I done me beat," he went on. got order from headquarter for t get you a man, an I'd be glad t do It without anny order if I could. But tt aint a posbibl thing. There aint a man left I can put a hand on not tf you waa to pay fifty dollar a week. Theyre all In' the war or In the munition faefriea and how Im goin to get me work done, with the govermint cuttln exter Jobs on me an takin me men at th lami time" Mr. Raleigh wa lurprised and e'K -- pained, it and showed it. bhe waa not accustomed to being told that ahe could not have anything che desired. "But I must hae a man, Mr. Murphy," the explained, patiently. " I can't get along without one. I'm doing war work, too. you know, aitd I'm using my car constantly. My son la driving for me thi morning, as you see but he doing it qt th greatest pergonal Inconvenience. He is sailing for France very aoon, and he' extremely busy." Murphy looked admiringly at th young officer sitting behind the steering wheel of the, big car. He seemed about 22. and on each of hi shoulders waa the single silver bar of a first lieutenant. Every line of hia handsome head and face and superb youthful figure revealed the influence of his military training. Murphy knew that Lieut. Raleigh was not alone the only child of his distinguished widowed mother but the core of her heart as well. And nexl month he waa That would be hard on going over there. the lad's mother! Murphy's keen eyes were softer when he turned to the lady, but his sympathy could not affect the facta they must face. He launched Into a poignant recital of his tioubles and responsibilities, to which Mrs. Raleigh lent a preoccupied ear. He himself, It appeared, was doing the work of six men, which, owing to his marked ability, be was able to get away with. But after that h also had to do over most of the work of hts green and temporary "crew," who hadn't an idea in their empty heads and didn't know an automobile from an alryplane. "Who'a that boy?" asked Mrs. Raleigh suddenly. She waa looking over the foremans shoulder at a figure behind him a ahabby, unkempt figure that obviously loitered and listened to the conversation, while it lxed on the lady the round, un- winking gaze of a'llttle child. Murphy turned and, recognizing the figure, Uttered a heartfelt ejaculation for which he The figure sidled promptly apologized. nearer. Say, lady," It said, "if yer lookin fur a man to drive yer ear Im th man yer lookin more the foreman permitted his to outrun hla Judgment, and again tongue he apologized. Ke curtly ordered the applicant back Into the garage, but the applicant held hla ground. He also held the lady's attention. , " Can he drive? " ahe asked Murphy. The foreman regarded the applicant with emotion which obvious but pent-ustartled both th observers, for now th young officer had turned and was giving hla attention to the interview. It had no perceptible effect, however, on lta object. "Yes, lady, declared the object. I dont Murphy Ignored the Interruption. know, ma'am, he answered. " But If he can tls th' only thing on drive," he added. earth that lad can do for God knows I've tried himmeself on all the others. He put a casual foot on the running board of Mrs. Raleigh's car, shoved hia hat a trifle further off his .heated brow, and utterly , Ignoring the presence of the object, launched Into that young person's biography. "Hes twenty, he said, "an Roussian, bln on me pay roll two weeks, and he got mo heart broke. A thought struck him and waa reflected So if oud like on hla brightening face. to try him, ma'am, perhaps It'd be a good idee, he ended urgently. Mra. Raleighs Ups twitched. Her son Once p grinned. Whats mother, he urged. time? the use Mr. Raleigh was still studying the applicant, and the applicant held hla head high and met her gaze with hla unwinking blue atare. She prided heraelf on knowing something about human nature. The boy was ragged, dirty, obviously untrained, but those wonderful eyes Interested her. They were like a blue flame. She thought an Instant, and while she did so fate lifted the scale of two human lives and held them evenly balO, come, anced. " Why have you kept him two weeks," ahe asked Murphy, if he cant work? Murphy turned upon hia employ another look of smoldering resentment " Because he says he's supportin a wife an mother, he confessed gloomily, an I s'pos they'd starve 'if I turned him off. Just, the same," be added with deep meaning. " somethin's goin to happen to that lad Saturday fr it wasn't an hour ago that I seen night him, with me own eye, tryiu to yank a wheel off a car with a lever! Tho youth concerned in this revelation favored him with a forgiving smile. "Say, boss, ye didnt tell me they waa any jepeclal trick in gettln' a wheel off," he defended himself. muttered young Raleigh wearMother, ily, what's the use?". .The foreman turned to her. Perhaps he'd " , ' Mra. Raleigh aighed. "Of course, you'll get rid of bhn," sugx They tell me at the garage grated her son. that h has had the car out night after night till 2 or S In th morning. Shall I fire him? Hla mother sighed again. No, she said, I will tell him myself. Send him wearily. to me In the morning. I will gtv him a months wages and let him go. It doesnt matter much, now that you're sailing next week and I'm going to France myself in a month or two. Ill use taxicabs until I sail." Her Interview with Isldor who brief but painfuL It was very difficult. Indeed, to convince the boy that she was really discharging him and that the discharge was flnaL H bad been discharged so many times. Im goin' I' turn over a new leaf, he as- . sured her, earnestly. It. was not until she -- .counted oat his months wages and handed , them to him that h realized the truth. Then, after a terrified stare at her, a stare that haunted her for a long time, he stumbled from th room. ' In the hall he met Arthur. . Say, she don't mean it. does ahe? She firin me, is afie? he asked with t ain't really a last flicker of hope. As it happened, isldor looked particularly messy that day. Arthur survey td him, and the scorn be felt showed in his eyea She meant It, all righty he said, tersely. " Did you think shed keep you .when sh found out you had lied to her and gon Joyriding in her ear? Isidors head went down, then rose with a He looked straight at Arthur. T Jerk. ley etiil and patient until Itidor had scrambled Jettut ta ite eide. I . the horror of that' practical young man, there tear lnthe blue eyea dust! Go back to the garage, clean the car would say for tbs tenth timy Dont forget were " Youre youre aalUn' tomorrow, aint to wash your neck and the backs of you? properly, and report again in an hour." r . . ' you?"'. Isldor and the car disappeared. When ears. Dont drive without your gloves. " so. of torpedoing th I Thinking auppos they returned the polished woodwork of the Dont loll back' In ybur seat or sit aldewlaa ' ' ' ahlpr automobile reflected the approving faces of Keep your eyes straight ahead. Don't chew He was Arthur, spoke Its owners, but the new glory of Isldor wa gum while youre driving us. And for 'God's for exhilarated the and now, by sorry chap utterly eclipsed. His hands were black. His sake, dont let 'me have to tell you all that the nearness of his own great adventure. collar was a wet rag. His new coat and again." . No, sir,"" iBidor solemnly assured him. trousers bore half a dozen grease spots. ArThe tuition went on without perceptible He hesitated. , " Shell miss you. I wish, he thur's contemptuous young eye, took in all effect. Isldor continued hopelessly stupid, added, I could of stayed to look after her! these defects, moving swiftly from one to hopelessly optldy 'about himself and hia Arthur was slightly embarrassed. O, the other. clothes, and temperamental In his care of well," he said, " my mother will be all right. Look at yourself, he Invited. . the car,'. Look, at She'll be In Baris most of the time. m , your face, your hair, your collar. Look at to his Arthur appealed Iaidor held out a grimy paw. " So long, vanity tn valn.i Ho your hands. Then, for 'God's sake,, go and addressed him aa pan to man also in vain. he muttered. " Good luck." , wash up!" ' - Only on thing iqoved Isldor the threat of , , Arthur took the paw. But listen! I got dirty cleanin the car, dlsmlssaL - U Oder th fore of that ha polThank you," he said. " Good-by- . walled Isldor. I can't dean the car and ished the carand even threw In a few dab He looked a bit thoughtful as he heard th ' be clean tneself, kin I? at the back of hi ewn neck. He was there- outer door close softly on Isldor, He had " Cant Tou?" asked Arthur coldly. All fore discharged quite regularly every night meant to give the'cub some final advice, but right. Then you loae your Job. The man and accepted again, w Itbout words but after .control of the Interview had slipped from him. that drives this car is going (b drive it clean, ' a sever Inspection, the following morning. f r npt at all. Isldor- - was getting badly on Arthurs Fifteen months later Driver Isidor SynoMrs. Raleigh waited two hours for her car . ..nerves The lieutenant was a high strung-chap- . vitz of th American- ambulance corpa, that day. It was excessively inconvenient temperamentally edgy and with little "somewhere In France," stopped his car on to do so, as she bad several appointments she patience for stupidljy .His own tnental the brow of a slight elevation in a shockingly waa thus unable to meet. She was rather processes were singularly quick. lie could shell holed road and looked vaguely about short with the boy when he disappeared, and not or would not understand that the chauf- him. the corners of his mbuth went down like feur was not willfully "putting him Into He was "lost and his surprise over th those of a hurt child. Arthurs report did a straltjacket" aa he expressed It H de--. fact was as great as If the same phenomenon not help matter had not occurred a dozen times before. In- veloped rapidly, from a strict disciplinarian I suppose hes hopeless," she agreed. .. to a tyrant, from a tyrant to a nagger, and deed, the tendency of Synovitz to mislay himNo doubt I waa a fool to try him." from a nagger to a rapier tongued younged self and his ambulance had furnished for Arthur shook his head. "Leave him to Nero who gave hla pupil neither rest nor more than a month almost the only comedy me." he said. I let you take him, so Im tn the crowded lives of his associates. mercy. going to make a real chauffeur of him, If How he had got Into the service was a T Don't worry so much about him, dear, I have to break his bones In the process. Mrs. Raleigh w&uld beg. I am sorry w ((problem. How, having gotten In, he reIt was Isidors heart, however, and not his took him on at all. But at least he la always mained, was a still greater one. He was the bones, that threatened to break. There butt of his comrades, and th subject of half and he does drive the car beautiprompt began a month's ordeal that none of lie the amusing stories told at the' mess table. fully." three ever forgot. There was something of had onco been seriously suggested that a It In a sentence, were revealed Isidors Here, the tyrant In Arthur. There was also the bell should be hung around Synovitz large two held the links that redeeming qualities Intolerance of .the young officer with all his nock as a means of tracing him when he him to his job. He was punctual and he was graining camp Ideals of personal neatness,' born driver. He could do anything with his disappeared. Others had a better idea than a efficiency, and discipline.' There was the fact this. A Urge stone, they thought a very that the cub must be .whipped Into shape, . - car. Even Arthur conceded this., one heavy ", Youre safe with him anywhere." he adfor each day showed the hopelessness of , some one usually rememAt this point to his mother. mitted treOf course, thats finding a succesor. Above all, Arthur bered that, after all, Synovitz could drive his mendously important. And he is really deto,hi mother, there was his car most awfully well, and that he was witlvoted to you, you know. He'd let you walk tion that the boys whole future depended on ing to W'oru twenty tour hours a day during on him." . ,. - . . the training he received now. the great final drive now in progress, whies devotion to the lady was Isidors third Thai was the lieutenant's excuse for the perhaps helped to explain hla occasional diffi- redeeming quality. It waa a devotion silent. cutties In incessant grilling he put l3idor through keeping to the right direction, nj He bad never come the that and the latter's aftnost Incredible stufact that now he found himself and hia in ambulance on a strange road, pidity. In ane day he talked more ,to Isldor-.-tha- n staring at a some' way he had begun to realize who bhe he had ever talked to all the chauffeurs new aniT uncanny landscape through the was and all that slue stood for. To be her blue-grahla mother had employed In the past. For, haze of a Picardy dawn. There enploye, to drive her car, were the supreme to tell Isldor onca-or alas, twice, something was as yet only the faintest light around Joys of his 11 for Discovering this, Arthur him. but In It he could discover or even ten times, was not to make an imthe bleak promptly worked upopdt. pression on the vague possession that was outlines of shell tortured tree trunks ani cf Isldor'a mind. 'When mother and son went Do you want my mother to be ashamed desolate fields, over which siout to drive the instructions went on with Cf her. chauffeur?" he demanded. lence lay like a substance an iteration that got sadly on the nenes of Isldor stared. " Is she ashamed?" (He alIt was an unusual o.Unc, set t o V iitntg ail concerned. ways spoke of "th lady" now as she or Don't call my mother Lady, " Arthur "h urn Continued ea JcliX ..) . 0 fur!" convincingly. It's true. ' I got It from Murphy. He's been watching the lad,' as he calls him. I met Murphy today, and he was full of It. He had seen some things himself, and a man who knows Tsidor told him th rest. "But why did he lie? " To get a Job, of course. He loves to drive. He'd rather drive than eat. 4 Th ('UT uxwW. do you, ma'am," be said urgently, If youd get m a new suit of close an make m wash himself up and get a a have, mebbe he could learn to drive the car," Hia passionate desire to get rid of hla protdg was now so obvious that Mra. Ra-- . lelghy lips twitched again. "What's your name? she asked the boy. " Taldor Synovitz." How long have you driven? "Three years. Th hell he has! " exploded Murphy. " Excuse ipe. ma'am. But If that lad's drove three years 'tis a wheelbarrel hea drove, I'm thinkln'. That lad!" he added with utter acorn. The lady pursued her researches. For whom have you driven? she aakecl the boy. Fur Dr. Henncke. Did he give you a reference? Yes, lady, but I lost It." " How long did you drive for him? Six months." The dialogue had been proceeding with gratifying briskness. Now It had a check. I have never heard of a Dr. Henneke. Where does ho live? A little of Isldor'a calm assurance deserted Aim. Why lemma aee, lady. I think its street or mebbe perhaps It's Sixty-sixth street Sixty-sevent- Mrs. Raleigh addressed Murphy. Its Just noon," she said. " Doctors are their offices now. Will you look up Dr. Hennekes telephone number and ask about this boy?" Murphy was gone nine minutes. In the Interval young Isldor Synovitz, urgently hanging over the door of th car, with his towsled hair on end and his unwinking blue eyes on the ladys steady gray ones, sprra 1 his life before her as an open book. It was a fine volume, full of chapters of the slmpls heroism so often found among the poor. Even Raleigh showed an Interest aa it progressed. . The boy had married at 19. He wa now supporting, not only his wife and his mothor, but two small children of his dead sister. But wat of that? Work was hla pastime, and duty was his delight. Say, lady, Just gimme a chanct, wunt I'm the man yer lookin ye? he reiterated. fur." Murphy returned with the look of a man saddened but not surprised. I got the doctor, maam, he reported ' formally, "but whin he understood who I was talkin' about his language was that shockin I couldn't repeat It to ye. I shut 'm off, be added piously. " But ho mlntionei among other things that he had the lad three weeks!- Mrs. Raleigh looked at Isldor Sjnovitz. His leatures were obscured by a temporary apt to be In ft haJ expected fa wait through eternity. ft cloud through which the stars of hla hopeful eyes still shone. You said six months, didn't you?" she asked him. Yes. lady. He must of fergot!" Have you a license ? Yes, lady." Isidore produced It, and Mra Raleigh examined It and passed it on to her eon. It wa a grimy affair, like its possessor, but It seemed to be in order. Arthur handed It back after a mere glanca Surely you're not thinking seriously of hiring this man, he protested, "after what Murphy and Dr. Henneke have said. "But, Arthur." she reminded him, "you heard Mr. Murphy tell me that I cant get anybody else, and you know we exhausted every other means before we came here. Wliat else can I do? " The reminder sobered young Arthur. He himself was extremely anxious to be freed from duty In that car. As his mother had told Murphy, It was extremely inconvenient for him to act as her chauffeur. This was his last month in America, and every hour was infinitely precious for there waa a girl Well," he mid slowly, "perhaps I could lick him into shape. I'll give this afternoon to It if you like. But he must have a bath, a shave, and a haircut first! Mrs. Raleigh turned to Isldor. You have heard what my son said," she remarked Go and make yourself briefly. presentable and report at my house in an hour. My son will take you In hand then and discover whether you can drive. If he finds that you can he will get you a uniform and you may begin work tomorrow morning. The gaze of Isldor Synovitz was like th flashing of a sword In the sun. He drew a sharp breath. Yes, lady. was all he said. That night Arthur briefly reported that the boy could drive. Ive discovered, however, that he doesnt knew one street from ' another," be added, and it's dollars to doughnuts he can't tell the Flatiron building from the cathedral. Youre going to have your hands full, mother." When the new chauffeur reported for his duties the next morning, Mra Raleigh and her son looked him over with extremely critical eyes. His appearance waa vastly improved. But even In hla new uniform and sketchy cleanliness the effect he produced ass dim. It was at once clear that he did not meet the exacting standards of the young officer. He still looks like something that has' crawled ou! from under a log, remarked that youth unkindly. "And look at thi windshield. Filthy! Look at the fight mudguard, Spotted: Look at the tonneau. Covered with i - . - ' . ' ' |