Show 4 - - :V t ‘7: - -- - A v- -' v'V ' MAGAZINE SECTION ' ’ THE - 't -- - -- L SALT LASS CITY UTAH SUNDAY JULY 15 1917 HESALD-BEFUBLIGA- N v V 'f U EVER WRITTEN OF A REAL BOY AND HIS ESCAPADES : t I Penrod stared tell me you're the worst Schofield boy in town” awkwardlythisat Fan- - His unnatural pomp and ctreum-stanlift- chon1 while Panchon rOh Aunt Sarah!” Mrs utmost with VII—Twelve had so thoroughly upset him in ' coolness made a thorough visual ex- truth that Marjorie ed a pro testing hand" Jones received a " "Penrod aren’t you the worst boy in amination of Penrod she distinct shock now to be related Dr Finally To 1 twelve Is aa attainment worth town?!' poke : the kind' old clergyman who the struggle A boyulV twelve ! "Where do you buy your ties?” she Thorpe bad Penrod came in for a mobaptized like a frenchman juat elected to the v : asked ment to the boy and had !! congratulate V 7 Academy ' ”What?” was Marmoved "Yes'm” when Just away“Once Distinction and honor wait spmMo "Where do you buy your noektiee? jorie’s turn In the line ofItchildren to said Mrs Crim "Certainly” m about yourself Younger boys show deference to pes you accept a gets his at Skoone’s You ought speak to Penrod She gave him what settled it’s all right Papa andthing to I’m sure the one she considered a forgiving look a'nd beson of twelve-- his experience ts fosa-ontee- d established get minds Boys are Just' like peo- you're yours there cause of the occasion addressed him isn’t from Skoones” his Judgment therefore met Nobody wearing t ple ' really” Mrs Schofleld'crled Invol- V " 'Skoone’s! ” Penrod in a perfectly courtaous manner "No no!” repeated low' consequently his influence if pro ' "On Fifth wish you many said avenue” Fanchon happy returns of found- Eleven quite satisfactory untarilythey are” Aunt Sarah persisted "It’s a very smart shop the men say” the"I day Penrod” ’ it is only an approach ' Eleven lias the "I "Yes as the suppose-Penrois ’Men?" echoed Penrod i Thank you sir” ho returned folcurse?” vregarded disadvantages of six of a nineteen of-' neighborhood "Where' sumDr Thorpe with a glassy stare do iu your lowing go people "He mer?” Thfir- forty-fou- r' "X)h no!” cried Mrs Schofield and of stxty-nint& in which there was absolutely no recthe "We Inquired go lady teen is embarrassed ' by the beginning ognition of Marjorie Then he greeted Dong Shore but so many middle-clas- s "f dare gay the nelghbors are right” Maurice Levy "M glad to see y” mamof a new colt hood the child becomes continued have "He’s there people begun coming old placidly the lady Dumfounded Marjorie turned aside ma thinks of The middle race a youth But twelve is the very top had to repeat leaving the history of the ' stood near observing Penrod with and are 'J classes stmply awful don’t you of boyhood and go through all the stages from the exIt was the first greatshe think?” surprise gravity You don't to barbarism Dress lngr that morning Penrod felt primordial of had her life Customarily do hoys to be civilized: - ' you?” ”Wharry vthat the World was changed from the pect someII ' to seemed his character so place You "They’re ' "Well boorjaw I - speak world of yesterday For one thins he where between that of the professional as well expect eggs to French of course?” ' rioter and that of the orang-outan- g seemed to own more of it this day was crow Noj you've as ”Mer’ to take boys got his day And itwae a day worth own- - they are and learn them as " “We rah- over 'to Paris last year nevertheless a her manner at times consciousness that this hinted sunshine just Don’t you love the Rue de la Falx?” pctn they-arelag The ' midsummer was Caliban her property Wherefore came j Mra said window' Penrod Sarah” Aunt his wandered a in It "Naturally labyrinth ing gold through she him stared at Incredulously as his was Penrod Sohofleld his first meeting with' one of those head bobbed up and “I know from a cool shy' and a breese moved down in the dan! "Penrod” said Aunt Sarah solemnly grown-u- p little girls wonderful prod- cing school bow greeting pleasantly in his hair' as : he leaned "does his guests ' understand uct of the winter apartment and sum- Then she heard an adult voice you?” your father near from the sUl to watch the tribe ot her mer hotel and' Fanchon an only child exclaim “ fol-- ' Ma’am ' take blackbirds wing chattering understand as htfd as much "About was a star of the brand He began to "What ‘an exquisite 'child!” ' lowing their leader from the trees in Sitting Bull!? she laughed "And ril feel resentful i the Marjorie glanced up a little con-— the open tell you what your mother thinks you "X suppose” she went on "Til find yard to the day's work'in — though she was used to it sciously was Is him belief he that everything here dreadfully western hre Tenrod Her real country ' Pride suffused to ascertain who was curious twelve! Some nloe people called yesterday naturally you’re a novice in a convent” ' was Sam Williams to her It A' speaking Ma’am?’ i"'' V' Do you know the Magsworth mother who spoke addressing Mra Ills father and his mother and Marthough Sarah!” Will Roddy be at your party?” Bassett both being present to help understand tho dlffer- -' '”Aunt garet seemed to toda-"T know she thinks that because Bittses? "I guess he Penrod Mrs Schofield make the festivities cnce between and yesterday whenever you don’t behave like ft this muttf” mie intelligible finding when were table the at header novice! she’s disappointed in you And vThls hit of ruffianism had a curious festlVe They "Exquisite!” scended and they gave him a greeting your father really believes that you’re effect' v Fanchon looked upon him with Here was a second heavy surprise for business a decorous milestone young the which of Itself marked '' favorMarjorie: They were npt looking at and whenever you don’t liva up sudden r an like said Penrod "I In she Habitually his entrance into a room mar her They were looking with beaming you to that standard you get on his nerves yrhere his elders sat brought a cloud and he thinks you need a walloping odd way and whatever else there may approval at a girl she had never seen have been in her manner? there certain- a dark and modish stranger of singuof apprehension But this morning' they Does whipping do you any good larly composed and yet modest aspect ly was no shyness i laughed his' mother rose - and kissed ' Her downcast eyes becoming In one was Penrod shaken : so did "Ma'am r him twelve times Margaret thus entering a crowded room were all She do!" I to closer lemonade-filTea stepped and his father shouted: “Well well! :XJo on and finish' the so that produced the effect of modesty him ever is 'Your hair said the smiling ' up uncomfortably” yourself V How’s the man1 12 years old and you pretty" : counteracting something about her "You’re old lady Then his mother gave him & Bible ought 'to be happy— if 'you aren’t anywas even more confused than which might have seemed too assured Penrod and "The Vicar of VWakefield” Mar thing' elsei It’s taken' over 1900 years he had been by her previous mysteries She was very slender very dainty and - of '' garet gave him a pair of silver-moubut his confusion was of a distinctly her apparel was disheartening to the Christianity and some' hundreds of a knowing to alluring nature —he wanted more of it other girls ft was of ed hair brushes and his father gave thousands of years of other things to them unfamiliar wholly another persit!" into there and Looking small you Intentionally a and' Atlas” him a "Pocket produee you' : ohlld-hoo- d she dilated eyes Marjorie’s lovely son’s an to is act unknown eyes “Ma'amr compass learned the meaning of hatred at first Penrod’s and and turn it that to think strag"It’ll he discovery your "And now Penrod” said his mother muss things up for the better- eould be done was sensational He had sight gle and Fanchon leaned close to Penrod and after breakfast Tm going to take you- ment ' of posterity soon ' enough” said never thought of looking Into the eyes out in the country to pay your birth- Aunt Sarah Crim "Drink your lem of Marjorie Jones' whispered In his ear ’Don’t you forFor a long time despite all anguish get!” day respects to Aunt Sarah Crim” - onade! i Penrod blushed II Aunt Sarah Crim Penrod's greatcontumely" and Maurice Levy he had saw that blush Her lovely : ' : aunt was Marjorie VAunt Sarah's a funny- odd lady” secretly thought of Marjorie with pa- eyes his oldest living relative even wider and In them opened as "beau”— thetic his to on constancy back observed t Penrod the way though there began to She was ninety and when Mrs' Schogrow a light It was not how he would have spelled the town "What's ehe want me to give that is of Indignation at least' peo'field and Penrod alighted ffom a car- - the light ' It was she Lant beautiful curls old her for? this Marjorie papa whose eyes glow with that light to give were long and the color of amber riage at her gate they found her dig- said was to besling sure not forgetthing her ple ' call It indignation always the in garden It to him He don't waut it: and Che nose was straight and her freckles ging with a spade RoderickMagsworth Bitts Jr ap‘Tm glad you brought him” she said said herself it : ain't any’ good She’s were honest- - she was much prettier when she had made Fanchon proached than you or papa Isn’t7 she?” than this accomplished visitor But desisting from labor "Jinny's baking- older to Mrs Schofield Fanchon curtsey hpr answered "About fifty years older” Is not all a cake I'm going to send for his blrthbeauty in ear also Roderick’s whispered Schofield turning upon him a "I do!" breathed Fanchon softly J "Your is day party Brings lilm in the 'house? Mrs Don’t hair Roddy cutpretty' the "Don't Into stare of perplexity She seemed to him then a fairy crea- forget what you said I've got something for him” yesterday!” new the knife dear leather with some ture world from your than 'rosier thia Roderick likewise blushed Maurice She led the way to her sitting room livery man might ask us to pay If— Penrod was enslaved He swallowed Levy ' captivated by the newcomer’s and opening the drawer of 'a shining No off the I wouldn’t scrape paint and said dlsjolntedly : pressed close to Roderick took therefrom' a hoy’s either— or ' whittle your Shoe with it coughed 'old what-n“Well— I don’t care —if you want to appearance r “Give us an introduction Roddy” we until Couldn’t sling-shtwo made cf a forked stick get I Just as soon” you put Roddy-beinreluctant or un“We’ll dance together” said Fan-ebo- n' able to perform either strips of rubber and a bit of leather- home?” the rite Fanchon took home?” "We vgoln straight "at your party” "This isn’t for you” she saidplacmatters own into his hands and was Mrs to We’re "No at stop "I guess so X just aa soon" presently very favorkhly Impressed lng It In Penrod'S eager hand "Na Gelbralth’s and going little a ask strange girl ' rIIL with Maurice reoelvlng the informaIt would break all to pieces the first to ootne to your party this afternoon” tion that his tie had been brought by r'A dancing floor had been laid upon a his time you tried to shoot it because it "Who?” i papa from Skoone’s whereupon she e Mrs She’s to name want chon Is Fan "Her Is thirty-fivSchoyears old I when Mra in the yard platform Informed him that she liked privately She lives in send it back to your father - I think Celbralth’s little niece eon arrived at their own wavy hair and arranged to dance with field her and come to here visit has New "lork'and it’s time You givelt to him from me him Fanchon also thought sandy hair must be very nice to her Penrod: abode and a striped and tell him r’say I believe I could You attractive Sam Williams discovered a overdoesn’t know the children here and canopy was in process of erection few minutes later and so catholic was trust him with it 'now !v I took it away she feelthe from from to the dancers shelter her head must to keep you help he? taste that a ring of boys quite enone from him thirty-fiv- e ago were years Workmen busy everywhere circled yGelbralth's sun ing lonely at your party” her before the musicians in the with he’d hen and Mra killed of best direction after the When my under Margaret day theyTeached struck up their thrilling march yard to a chair Penrod sat humped upon the emit ten heart of Penrod began gilt glass it accidentally and broken ait— and Mrs' Schofield brought Penrod to of was him ache All greetfor the this beat exchange lengthy during rapidly pitcher bn the back porch with escort the lady from out of town ttf the his mother and Mrs was twelve I ' cidentally He doesn’t look" like' a per- ings between dancing pavilion Penrod twisted his legs 'his After lunch he underwent an elabson who's ever done things of ' that cap snd his Headed by this pair the children c" nose orate toilette and murmured not For sought partners sort and 1 suppose he’s forgotten it "Here she is!" Mrs Gelbralth cried the Dr at time In his life he knew the out of the front door and roundsolemnly a corso well that he believes he never did unexpectedly and a de- wish to be d waxed and ner of the house There sandpapered found the me to from hlm I room they mure person entered the v but if you givelt wearing polished to the highest possible degree gay marquee with the small orchestra think he’ll remember’ You look like an ' ajr of gracious social expectancy And over he was when the operation seated on the lawn at one side of It new bloom and him Penrod lie was ‘anything but a In yeans she was 11 in manner about in mirror before the stood a punch bowl of lemonade Inviting (5 and evidently had lived much ac-at feeling encouraged to hope that his re- attention handsome' boy” under a tree Decorously the In a court She performed curtsy was not so small couples to his father semblance After this final bit of reminiscence knowledgment upon the 'platof Mra Schofield’s greetas Aunt Sarah seemed ta think form one after’stepped another and began to ehe disappeared In the direction of the ing and bestowed her hand upon Pen-ro- d strong Then came from the yard a' sound of dance ' who had entertained no hope of kitchen and returned with a pitcher of fiddle of instruments— squeak "It’s not much like a children’s dish sweet- such an honor showed hie surprise that tuning lemonade and a blue-chi’eello a falling triangle ring- In our day” Mrs Williams said toparty croon of Penwas come him and 'to plainly ing and tinkling to the floor and he rod's mother "We’d haws been it should ly freighted with fat ginger cookies of unable It to do playing about decide to what a composition that was her own secret i "Fanchon dear” said Mrs Gelbraitb turned pale ( Quaker meeting ’club In clap out or Chosen guests began to arrive while ‘going to Jerusalem I suppose Then having set this light collation "take Penrod out in the yard for a Penrod suffering from stage fright and "Things change so quickly” said Mrs before her guests she 'presented Pen-ro- d while and play” mother beside his stood Schofield Pen-rowith-’‘Imagine asking that little perspiration Intricate and very superb Let go the little girl’s hand room to receive them Fhnchon Gelbralth to play London Mrs Sohofleld laughed as the in the drawing modern machine of destructive capaciseems unfamiliar Penrod to be He a Bridge acquaintances door greeted the toward She called it a children turned ties almost limitless fellow criminals with the difficult time with her poor having Intimate he and ' small toy f the Penrod dropped hastily knife wasn’t a shining light In the dancing frigidity murmuring: ” ’M glad to clasa” and exclaiming with simple hon- same " pocket s "I suppose you’ll do something hor- hand to alike see all increasing largely followed want it” y” "Why I don’t However prewhich Penrod’s rible with It” she said composedly ' "I-' esty embarrassment always difficulty was not out Into the sunshiny yard the fes- precisely of the kind his mother suphear you do that with everything any- Fanchon children’ of surthe at vails to beginning came and a halt ’ they1 how ao you might as well do it with It where each posed Fanchon was showing! him a tivities other thin and Have more fun out of it They veyed ce ’ -- - - -- - - -- - -- - : : - - : Is-no- t - T"’: - d - -- ‘ ' r X‘ - - - - j- ! - : - - 4 -- ”Tou-might to-kno- -- ” " -- ! ‘ r : - ? - - ! - - ' - ' ? will”--returne- ‘ y well-train- ed ' - ! Fen-rod- ?” ’ - - - l ' ' nt -- plctu-reSquene- ‘ ss -- : - - : - i - ' - - - - - -- - - - - - -- : - : - ot : ' It-u- p ot : -- - a magazine sectioiI - ’ lY r t ' - - v-' - r white-and-scarl- ' et - - - -- -- - Gel-brai- th t-- - and-parade- dark-haire- - - na - d” - - ‘ - - - new step which she taught her nest instrucpartner In turn continuing tions during the dancing The children crowded the floor and in the kaleidoscopic jumble of bobbing heads and Intermingling figures her extremeof motion was unly different style observed by ’ the older people who looked on nodding time benevolently Fanchon fascinated girls as well as boya Many of the former eagerly sought her acquaintance and thronged about her between the dances when accepting- tho deference due a cosmopolite- and an oracle of the mode she gave demonstrations of the new step to succeeding groupa professing astonishment to find It unknown 11 had been "all the go" she explained at the Donr Shore casino for fully She pronounced blow" a “fancy dance” executed during an intermission by Baby Rennsdale and Georgia Bassett giving it as her opinion that Miss Rennsdale and Mr Bassett wero "dead ones” and she expressed ' surprise that the punch-bocontained lemonade and not champagne --The dancing continued tho now stop fresh gaining Instantly in popularity numcouples adventuring with every ber The word “step” la somewhat misleading nothing done with the feet being vital to the evolutions introduced Fanchon’s dunce came by 'Fanchon from tho Orient by a roundabout way — pausing in Spain taking on a Gallic frankness In gallantry at the Bal Bul-- II sr In Paris combining with a relative from tho South Seas encountered In San Francisco flavoring itself with a care-fre- e negroid abandon in New Orleans and accumulating too something inexpressible from Mexico and South America It kept throughout its travels to the underworld or to circles whero nature is extremely frank and rank until at last It reached the dlve of Now York when It Immediately broke out in what Is called civilized soin variciety Thereafter It spread watering-places ously modified forms to and thence— carried by hundreds of older male and female Fanchon— over the country being eagerly adopted everywhere and made wholly pure and respectable by tho supreme moral axiom that anything is all right If enough people do It Everybody was doing it Not quite everybody It was perthis dance that earth haps some test ofmore could furnish no horrifying' sight than that of children doing It Earth assisted by Fanchon was furthis sight at Penrod’s party nishing By ' the time lee cream and cake arrived about half the guests had either been initiated into the mysteries by Fanchon or were learning by Imitation: and the education of tho other half was resumed with the dancing when the attendant ladies unconscious of what was happening withdrew Into the house for tea “That orchestra's a dead' one” Fan chon remarked toPenrod “We ought to liven them up a little” ' She approached the musicians "Don’t you ' know” she asked the “the TUngo Sligo Slider” leader ' The leader giggled nodded rapped Pen-ro- d with his bow upon his violin-anfollowing Fanchon back upon the dancing floor blindly brushed with his elbow a solitary little figure standing aloof on the lawn at the edge of the - - - two-sea-soa- a - wl - - ‘ - platform It was Marjorlei In no mood to approve of anything Introduced by Fanohon she had scornfully refused from the first to dance the new "step” and because of Its bonfire popularity found herself neglected In a society where ehe had reigned as Penrod beauty and belle Faithless dazed by the sweeping Fanchon had forgotten the amber curls hs utterly had not once asked Marjorie to dance All afternoon the light Of Indignation had been growing brighter In her eyes to the though Maurice Levy’s defection fanned not York New had from lady this flame From the moment Fanchon had whispered familiarly In Penrod’s ear and Penrod had blushed Marjorie had been occupied exclusively with resentment against that guilty pair It seemed to her that Penrod had no right to allow a strange girl to whisper In hls ear that his blushing when the strange girl did It was atrocious and that the strange girl herself ought to be arrested Forgotten by the merrymakers Marupon the lawn jorie stood alone small fists her watching the clenching new dance at its high tide and hating It with a hatred that made every Inch of her tremble And: perhaps because the Jealousy Is a great awakenerof of somevirtues she had a perception thing vaguely hut outrageously reprehensible Finally when Penrod brushed by her touched her with hls elbow and did not even see her Marjorie’s stats of 'mind (not unxningled - with emotion) become dangerous In fact a trained nurse chancing to observe her at this Juncture would probhome and seat ably have taken-hefor a doctor to give her something quieting Marjorie was on the verge of hysterics She saw Fanchon and Penrod assume the double embrace required by the dance Sligo Slide” burst from the orchestra like the lunatic shriek of a gun -- maddened nigger and all the little couples began to bob and dip and wiggle Marjorie could bear no morci She made a scene She sprang upon the platform and stamped her foot "Penrod Scofield!” she shouted "You BEHAVE yourself r This remarkable girl took Penrod by the ear By bis ear she swung him away from Fanchon and faced him toward the lawn "Ton march straight out of here!” she shouted Pearod marched He was stunned obeyed automatically without question and had very little realization of what was happening to him Altogether and without reason he waa In' precisely the condition of an elderly spouse detected In flagrant misbehavior Marjorie similarof ly was In precisely tba condition the party who detects such ' misbehavior It may be added that ebe bad acted with a promptness a decision and a disregard of social consequences all to he commended to the attention of ladles In like predicament "You ought to be ashamed of yourself!” she raged when they reached the lawn “Aren’t you ashamed of yourself?” "What for?” he Inquired helplessly "You be quiet!” "But wfcat’d I do' Marjorie? I haven’t done anything to you” he even seen you all pleaded— "X haven't ‘ altera " "You be quiet!” she cried tears rilling' her eyes “Keep still you ugly r - the--"sllng- o - - boy! Shut up!” She slapped him He should have understood from this how much she cared for him But he rubbed hls chock and declared ruefully ”112 never speak to you again!” "You will too!” she sobbed passion- ately "I will not!” He turned to leave her but paused Hls mother his sister Margaret and their grown-u- p friends had finished their tea and were approaching from the house Other parents and guardians were with them coming for their children there were carriages and automobiles waiting In the street But the "Sllngo 'Slide” went on regardless The group of grown-u- p people hesitated and came to a halt gazing at- the pavilion “What are they doing?” gasped Mra Williams blushing deeply- "What Is It? What Id it?” "What is It?” ochoed Mra Gelbraitb in a frightened whisper "What —” "They're tangoing? cried Margaret g or grizzly-bearin- g Scofield "or or—" said "They're only turkey-trottinMr Robert Wllllama With fearful outcries the mothers aunts and sisters rushed upon the pa- - - - bunny-huggin- g” vilion IV "Of course t was dreadful” said Mrs Scofield an hour later rendering her lord an account of the day "but it was every hit the fault of that one extraordinary child And —of all the quiet demure little things that Is I mean when she first came We all spoke 'of how exquisite she seemed— so' well trained so finished! Eleven years old! I never saw anything like her in my life!" "I suppose It’s the New Child her husband grunted "And to think of her saying there ought to have been champagne in the lemonade!” "Probably she’d forgotten- - to bring ho suggested her pocket-flask- " "But r aren’t you proud of Penrod?” cried the mother "It was Just as I told you he was standing clear outside : - : - - Aunt Sarah Crim had given slung-shhim that morning: He snapped the rubbers absently Impulse They held fast and hls next was entirely Irresistible He found a shapely stone fitted it to the leather and drew back the ancient catapult for a' shot A sparrow hopped upon a branch between him and the house and he aimed at' the sparrow but the reflection from the dazzling window struck In hls eyes as he loosed the ot leather He missed the sparrow but not the window There was a loud crash and to hls borror he caught a glimpse of hls father stricken in a shower of broken glass glitduckingrazor flourishing wildly tering Penrod stood petrified a broken sling in his hand He could hear hls parent’s Inbooming descent of the back stairs hot stant and furious and then red above white lather Mr Schofield burst out of the kitchen door and ( hurtled forth upon hls son "What do you mean?” he demanded the shoulder Ten shaking Penrod by time In minutes ago for the very first our lives your mother and I wero sayproud of you and here ing we were you go and throw a rock at me through the window when Tm shaving for 41zT " ner!” waa “I didn’t Penrod quavered "I the sun got shooting at a sparrow andbroke——” in' my eyes and the cling "What sling?” -Thls’n” "Where’d you get that devilish thing? Don’t Vou know I’ve forbidden yon a thousand times——” ‘"It ain’t mine” said' Penrod "It’s mid-shavi- ng - r - yours” "What?” "Yes sir” said the boy meekly “Aunt Sarah Crim gave it to me this morning and told me to give It back to you She said she took It away from you thirty-riv- e years ago Yon killed ber ben she said She tola me some more to tell you but I’ve forgotten” "Oh!” said Mr Schofield He took the broken sling in his hand looked at It long and thoughtfully then he looked longer and quite as thoughtfully at Penrod- Then ho turned away and started back toward the house Tm sorry papa” said Penrod Mr Schofield coughed and as he reached the door called back but without turning his head: "Never mind little boy A broken window Isn’t much harm” When he had'gone in Penrod wandered down the yard to the back fence climbed upon It and sat In reverie there A slight figure appeared likewise upon a fence beyond two neighboring yards - - "Yay Penrod!” called comrade Sam Williams "Yay” returned Penrod mechanically "I caught Billy Blue 11111” shouted Sam describing retribution In a manner perfectly clear to hls friend "Tou were mighty lucky to get out of It” "I know that" Tou wouldn’t ot If It hadn’t been for MarJorleL "Well don’t I know that?” Penrod shouted with heat "Well so long!” called Sara dropping from hls fence 'and the friendly voi came then more faintly "Many hs returns of the day Penrod!” r And now a plaintive little whine sounded from below hls feet and looking down he saw that Duke his wistful little scraggly dog sat In the grass gazing seekingly up at him The last shaft of sunshine of that day fell graciously and like a blessing upon the boy sitting on the fence Years afterward a quiet sunset would recall to him sometimes' the gentle evening of hls twelfth birthday and bring him the picture of hls boy-se- lf sitting In rosy light upon the fence gazing pensively down upon hls wistful scraggly little old dog Duke But something else surpassing he would remember of that hour for In the side street close a pink skirt flickered from behindbya shade tree to the shelter of the fence There was a gleam of amber curls and Penrod started as something like a wlrtg fluttered by hls head tiny whitecame to hls ears the aounS and there of a light laugh and of light footsteps - - the pavilion” "I never thought to see tho day And Penrod was the only boy not doing It the only one to refuse? All the others "Every one!” she returned triumph- departing the laughter tremulous the antly "Even Georgia Bassett!” fleet "Well” said Mr Scofield patting her footsteps In the grass' between Duke's fore-paon the shoulder T guess we can hold there lay a white note folded In up our heads at last” the of a cocked 'hat and the sun shape v sent a flnsl amazing glow as Pen-ro- w forth Penrod was out In the yard ' staring opened It and read Tour my at the empty marquee The sun was Bow” on the horizon and a western winthe Wheeler Syndicate dow of the house blazed with gold un- (Copyright by Inc) bearable to tho eye Hls day was neartook from the ly over He sighed andnew Inside pocket of hls 'PJacket the wa t rn FIFTEENTH EPISODE BY FRANK H SPEARMAN Adopted From the Moffos' Picture Version Produced by Signal Film Corporation and Featuring Helen Copyright 1017 The Mystery of the v- - Tickets Counterfeit — V —— v : With train crews firing vainly aitVy them the Raiders reached' their autos and made off When Helen and her friends had restored Roy to on-- I’ jtj stifle scionsness they- returned to the trains k : - i - ' - t: r I t j 1 ‘ fji ' ‘ ' old rooms and began to dismantle' them Desmond noticing the printing press ‘ordered it taken and' a yew retreat 'was found in a cabin on a bluff above the outskirts of the railroad track on Mountain7 Springs - Here ' having installed the press they began counterfeiting railroad tickets Helen and the police watched Desmond's house without results They the old quarters of the then went-'t- I Raiders where they saw there thad ! been a A dragnet hasy departure' was spread about town bnt the Raid-'1 erasafely hidden continued to coun-terfe-it Kay arid W tickets Disposing of these to scalpers they reaped a revenue for themselves "and - - : - - dis-lifttM- - St j- - - 4 ’ - ' fast asleep in the shack the necessary red tape of getting a of the gang and cused the Having done everything in safety pardon for him When confronted by Helen later denounced him roundly for 'his he started to drive back to town and loss Masters for from a observation never at Masters greater security practically admitted everytreachery took there the merest accused him of His conhim and road she for assurance defied thing canyon By the fession But though he Helen chance Holmes was taken hod started was an angry scene in which Masters from town in her auto about the same realized he was seriously injured and in the end was forced to get out' The then ignoring the time to drive up river with the hope might die he abated nothing of his remaining Raiders' hew danger ' to which they would be of getting some trace of the missing hatred for his former companions and i Desmond was spokesman He - : 'ac- would all be ex-lead- er - - Raiders The liveryman had given exposed in their former leader’s went ahead with their crim- Masters a spirited horse and unluckinal work blind as it proved to con- ily for Masters the horse and the auto met at a point in the road just above sequences to his a steep embankment The horse nervBlasters 'made way sullenly not shied Masters tried to control ous taken had Monntain Springs It him long to make up his mind that if him but could not and the frightened ho could not work with his confeder- animal plunging to the right threw ates Re could at least get even with driver buggy and all over the ' emthem for good' and with this idea of bankment Masters was hurled headrevenge firmly fixed he took enough first among the rocks' Helen stopped her ear and ran to of his money to buy a whole box of dynamite an alarm clock and his assistance Wliat was her surprise all the paraphernalia for setting off a and horror to find that the injured man lying helpless before her was heavy charge stable none other than the thief who by imHe then repaired to a livery hired a home and buggy and getting personating her own father at Deer’s his stuff together drove up the road Head station had been responsible toward the cabin Secreting himself for his unjust imprisonment near the shock he waited his opporControlling ber feelings as best she eould unobserved Helen got him to his feet helphouse the reach to tunitycame when the Raiders scattered ed him up to her car and putting him This for town in the afternoon and Mas- in drove him to the receiving hospital ters unseen by anyone planted and while surgical aid was being given enough dynamite under the house to him she explained things to the aublow up an arsenal The time fuse he thorities Having done this she was set for early the following morning able to arrange at once for her sure that the Raiders at that time father’s release without waiting for - - ill-gott- en -- - for Helen whom he bad so cruelly injured In liis revengeful humor he conceived how that - his chance had come to square accounts with every- body and without hesitation he revealed to Helen and the police the new hiding place of the Raiders: “But don’t go there now’? he added cunninglv “Wait till 6 o’clock tomorrow morning That’s the time they come back from town to ' tlie shack If yon hide in the bushes close them” by till they return you t Ilis whole idea was to lure Helen and her friend near the shack and when the dynamite exploded they would be killed in the same explosion that was to revenge him on the Raid’ll-ge- ers! ' Helen least of all suspected' the trap But the interval afforded her a chanee to hasten to tlie penitentiary release and secure tho of her father With him she hastened back to Mountain Springs 'hoping to reach there before Roy and the officers should start for the cabin Bnt they had gotten away early and she long-hoped-f- or Intent on following she with started her father up the river road to overtake her party providing herself first with' a rifle and a pair of field glasses Unfortunately in her hast’ driving she took the wrong road at the upper fork and missed her friends completely ' Searching then for the right direction Helen reached a hill whence she could overlook the immediate country and with her glass she descried at length on the river bluff a cabin which she thought might be the right one bnt at that distance she could not be sure It was nearly 6 o’clock Helen became anxious Watching closely through her glasses she presently made out the figures of several men creeping toward the cabin and recognized in them her missing friends She watched the shack narrowly but there were no signs of life Under the building itself however she did pick up a slight puff of smoke Watching intently she was soon able to perceive that it burned steadily toward a box steneiled DYNAMITE Some treachery she realized waa on foot Calculating the length of the fuse she realized tlie explosion would occur about the time her friends were well within its danger And down the railroad track ' the early morning passenger train was approaching it likewise would reach missed them the shack at the danger moment There was no chance to give warning to anyone —the time was short and the distance great But one way was still open If she could explode the dynamite before Roy and hi men reached the danger zone she could save their lives With beating heart she raised her rifle and covering the box carefully fired To her disappointment there was no result Again and again she fired hoping at least by her shots to attract attention Then a ' slug ‘reached the percussion the cap dynamite exploded : The cabin was lifted high into tlie air and its fragments hurtled down the bluff covering the track- - just ahead of the passenger train but tho well-direct-ed train t was unharmed The Raiders themselves were blown into eternity even Roy and two of the policeman were seriously but not fatally hurt V Helen and her father hurried to the scene and the train crew took the jb jured men aboard r Roy’s first request when Holia greeted him was for the hand i Helen And when he had recoven her grateful father willingly gfcp Helen into his care Webb was np ) superintendent at Blountain Spring! and with his' bride Roy left for X? York- to take up the real duti j the road president of ' ITHE end) - r jkt - - ’ where Helen urged haste into Moun-- ’ tain Springs Once' there Helen with Roy and a detail of police repaired to Desmond’s home to await the Raiders The Raiders however suspect- -' ing no doubt that the police wonld try to trap them were afraid to re- turn to Desmond’sto their Instead they went ' harassed the new management K Satisfied though Roy Helen 7 and Webb were that the Raiders iwere responsible they could prove nothing and' so notorious and extensive did this activity become that the credit of the Wilson management was ’ further impaired It was really an acV cident' tliat revealed the plot Masters who had lost none of his crooked ingenuity and who fed on all sorts of duplicity decided he eould make extra money for himself without his companion’s knowledge He counterfeited a' batch of short-tri- p tickets and himself brazenly went to the station where he sold them to inquiring passengers How long he might have succeeded in this without being caught by the railroad men is hard to say What actually happened was that Desmond happening to drop into the station saw Masters selling a ticket to a countryman i' Desmond waited till the transaction was complete and without being observed by Blasters went to the buyer asked to see his purchase and at onoe saw Master’s game He returned to the ‘cabin very angry and told- - his conconfederates exactly what the not did fidence man was doing It take long' for the other conspirators to decide that Masters must go When he returned they were waiting in an r r ugly humor - r i Z a r I A' |