Show t :4 £ : ' Synthetic Gentleman i in over the big chair and looked through the glaaa Into a cluster of buahes Illuminated from the windows that tossed their tops frantically as though “It’s a filthy moved by wild despair night" the man la the dressing gown thought as lie sauntered back to the crackling logs drawing contentedly at bis cigar and pausing to tuke a hook “A from the loaded shelves filthy night" la the thick of It he had been an hour before Penniless overcoatlesa trudging along the cement paved road five miles to the from Brldgehampton eashJ Was It live miles be thought or fifteen or fifty? On foot he had left New CHAPTER I The house stood alone on s sand the sea — dark dedone overlooking serted sod silent except for the salsh sf the rain blowing against Ita shingles the Wet to his akin and shivering Daks struggled to pry open a window From his dank coat pocket the Duke and a tiny drew s cheap Jackknife searchlight With these In his hands ha turned to look toward the highway It was Invisible two hundred yards from the porch on which he atood winding over snd around and about these dunes The Duke’s thumb momentarily pressed the the ray revealed and a single wet " pine bent fn the wind Then' carefully be began cutting away the a held that dry putty pane of glass It was slow work “Why don’t I break the damned thing?’ the Duke asked minute later felt the himself snd nnshattered glaaa drop Into his hand It was easy to open the window then and easy for a slim and agile an to climb through Once Inside the house he paused Would the electric would It be Bghts be working and safe to turn them on? Why not? Half tbe summer residences In Southampton had been opened for the season Even as observant pRer-b- — If there were ts be one— would think a brightly lighted room less remarkable than a furtive ray Tbs Duke touched a switch hla searchlight had disclosed beside a snd waving Scrub door : It was exactly tbe sort of room be had expected— a luxurious breakfast room In a luxurious summer residence Host of the furniture was covered but s gay breakfast table stood In the center and beyond It was an open door to s pantry The Duke walked through snd Into the kitchen turning on lights as he went “Guess they’re going to After all open the house pretty soon Why should they mind an extra weekend guest?” lie grinned and anyone who had seen that grin might have found It hard to mind It was an Ingratiating A grin In s pleasant likeable face lean face and a little boney but with large kind steel gray of by s thatch eyes surmounted hair The Duke’s trim ruly figure stretched a tidy six feet above the worn soles of hla untidy boots hut too and his gray suit though worn wet was well cut and well made vealing square shoulders and firm muscles If there’s any grub" laid “Wonder the Duke All the kitchen shelves bore tin boxes with bright letterThe ing but they were empty was empty of course no use openBut above the shelves waa ing that a cupboard and In that cupboard were rows of canned things — each can neatIn paper — sardines ly wrapped chovies caviar chicken ham tongue —all sorts of things “Hospitable people" aald the Duke “I wonder where they keep the coffee" Thirty minutes later ills Grace had If not dined sustaining!? well Half the contents of the pot of coffee still bubbling on the stove had warmed him dishes and he the washed comfortably Then he put everything back In place turned out the lights and whistling went upstairs merrily At the top of the steps waa a kind f library — with doors on either side and at Its end windows facing the sea Even through the the Intruder could discern the luminous most white of breaking waves Again he touched a switch and this time lights sprang Into being In shaded doubly shaded now by wiA fire had been laid In nter wrappings the grate He lit the fire and a cigar and then opened k door on hla right This was s man’s room gracious and The Duke fel the mattress Inviting drawn back over the footboard of the bed and 'sniffing a pungent odor of cedar and camphor turned his attention to a closet across tbe room A very large closet with an electric light In It and built-idrawers and a cedar cheat Atop the chest were two pairs sf slippers and above It hung the only garment visible a dressing of soft light flannel Ills own gown apparel still clinging damply the Duke took tbe dressing gown and slippers back to the blazing tire and Handing before It hla luxuriously changed Clothes Still neat he carried- the gray suit snd the wet undergarments back to the folded the trousers carefully bedroom With snd laid them on the one baud he flung tbe mattress Into place over them He returned to the fire stretching himself lazily in a huge chair Outside the storm was growing Wind Steadily worse flung against the windows the rain kept up Its Incessant A little puddle formed on one swish of the nis”The'Eruke""moppod '1 an old cloth that - been spread York that morning Just 'after day- break Jobless and flat broke For a month— all through April In fact — the Duke had tramped the streets “What for “a regular Job" looking the b— makes me want to keep straight?” he had asked himself again and again “That’s all right for guys with an Income If somehody’d started me in a pram and wheeled me Into college and out aguln Into papa's office — sure I’d run straight Why not? Who couldn’t be a knight In armor? But being a knight without armor — that’s different!- When you get dumped Into a fight naked Ith nothing hut your hare flats and the whole world coming at you with brick hats and brass knuckles what a d —d fool you are to stick to the Marquis of Rules I" Queensbury Still he had stuck— reasonably at least — In the face of what seemed almost a conspiracy of discouragement Fired out of Hollywood for a theft of which he waa Innocent as an unborn babe “AH right” toe had said “I’ve got a few hundreds saved and I’ll go Kust and start all over again" Confidently he had left the rullway station In Chicago only to have his pocket picked before he had got as far as the hotel He had nearly frozen In Chicago He had nearly starved And then he had hitch hiked to New York pul riding freights when he could hnd christened him "the Duke" cause of Ills clothes and his English and the grand manner he had acquired In Fllmdom New York— with those Hollywood shoes wearing thin and that Hollywood gray suit that had cost 1125 gePart of a tting frayed and baggy army In a city without Jobs He had eaten his overcoat —or the proceeds from It at any rate— and paid the last dime for a bunk In a A love of books a sense of humor snd tbe wanderlust — these he had Inherited from an Irish fathew hose X Gilbert tod name was Francis whose proudest boast waa that he came from the University of Dublin In had died China nearly six years lie ago leaving the boy Barry to flglit Ills way from Hong lights Inside — and dogs wandering about as he had discovered 10 the course of two desperate excursions bloat of these dwellings were dark snd vacant “Houses without people” the I Mike had muttered still “and people without houses It -doesn't seem fair" High Cellars ssf Adams Apples Ills teeth were chattering by now and his feet squished In his wet shoes And this house had seemed so utterly moot question ol deserted so entirely safe and secure whether the east coast or the “Ten o'clock” aald the Duke “What’s artistic the chance of anyone finding me In west coast is America’s there tonight? And If they do It's betcenter is one of the most mootful ter than freezing to death I'll be on Temporayou ever encountered my way aguln at daybreak” Now fed and warm he waa growing rily though it’s being eclipsed by “It must be the burning Issue touching on what drowsy before the fire man will wear around swell to live like this all the time” he the hla riMizie “1 wouldn't brooded dreamily break New York’s taatleal into anybody's house If I had one like are dressers encasing this Gosh guess I'll sleep here It’s within warmer than the bed and I've got a their t necks high linen long hike ahead of me In the morning” Ills head fell forward and bis eyes highest since Jericho Hoi I hear— whereas were closing when he heard an autodefenders mobile door slam and an Instant later lywood’s voices and the shuffling of feet on the fight on for the rakish not to say winsome porch directly beneath him effect— The Duke sprang to tie electric In other words tls a switch war between the shut Fust tie moved hla wits worked faster still 4ns snd the frsh-nl"No" he thought “that won’t do fiends Maybe you If the lights go out they'll know don’t think tills Is Important but thev do there's something wrong I" The breakfast room window— that Today typical champions of these was Itl But not In dressing gown clashing schools of though met here “Damned ami slippers fool to take face to face Sunset boulevard's entry was unbuttoned so far down In front my clothes off!" thought the Duke Who were these people anyway drlv was being served on the he practically Ing up to a closed house at this hour? and one and all had a faa like himself? Stragglers elnstlng view of hi Adam’s apply as Thleyes? Hardly — In a hlg limousine like that It raced np ant down the same as a he glimpsed hastily from the window fox squirrel on a snag Uke a hoy 'Veil what next? Jail probably chinning hlmelf on s hoard fence How long could they give a man for Fifth avenue’s challenger was hidden unlawful entry? “Damn!" said the behind the tnllest stlffest flarlngest Duke And then he heard the lower collnr ever beheld door open and a woman’s voice In the hall “Maybe I can talk my wny Kid Movie Actori Stamped out” he thought and started down estimates AfiYlRDTNCJ to honest the stairs “Who’s there?" he called child In flnoonnn gets bravely as his fee t touched the first a chance to qnnllfy as s child actor In landing the pictures — not an outstanding afar A man answered mind vofl hut lust a reasonably sucWilletts’’ he said “Willetts the cessful luvenlle performer Ia that you Mr butler Bidder?" These figures have been broadcast And the lights went on In a landnhle effort to check the flood Standing there on the landing nakof hopeful parents who pour Into Hoi ed except for the dressing gown the Ivwood seeking large salaries and Duke found himself facing a party fame for Junior or precocious little of four Willetts with his hat In his Doris snd finding Instead onlv dlaap hnnd squat and powerfully built and potntment and heartbreak and Anally ludicrously bald Another man In a despair and often destitution chauffeur’ uniform and two women— the doleful warn So I'm repenting one quite young and the other Ing It won’t do anv good grown np and stout They seemed propvanltv and greed and ambition being itiatory and the fact gave him Instant what thev sre courage “Is that you Mr Bidder?” Headaches From Economic Meealahe The question had been asked first In the dark but now It was repented ALBERTA In Canada produced an In a glare that made every face plainMesslnh a spouting The butler didn’t know John the Baptist of the dispensation ly visible Mr Bidder then That was “a lucky who came out of the wilderness with a A Beverly hills calif credit colled a “social lovelv device svstem" which among other plensnnt things guaranteed every adult In the land $2' a month for life So the voters elect overwhelmingly ed him aa premier and from over the dominion flocked In thousands to share In the distribution Now they’re busted the budget Is n sdeve citizens are faced vet taxes— and nohodv with ruinous a month has collected that Industrial depression always spawns aavlora who promIts ise to restore prosperity by giving money they haven't got to people who haven’t earned If After a while In of human folly good times respite turn The Reasea If Justice were not blind act much more promptly PATTERN Crystal Gazing in T'tDAY we have an ADVENTURE starts right on £ this page! 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Shore In a passing car and Snyvllle on “I "Sorry sir" said the butl foot and another truck to Brldgehanip-todidn’t have any Idea you’d be sere where he had lost his hearings and sir Your mother said you wasn’t comKvans had to tramped back miles before be found ing until tomorrow himself again on the edge of Sout- take ’em down to the ship — hei and hampton your father sir — and then he had to It was black night and beginning to go back to the hotel and pick up me The storm rain A cold wind had sprung up from and cook and the maid An endless the northeast and we stopped winding didn’t help neither road and wind at Patchogue for dinner I hope you awept dunes with solitary houses Grand houses ain’t going to be put out sir" (TO BE CONTINUED) they were all of them A few had Climb Charming Needlecraft Picture to Embroider mm m m ARE YOB' THIN AILING? 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