Show little sir galahad Cral ahad A story with a soul 13 oy P H C 13 ea 13 C GRAY ar A V copyright by small maynard company SYNOPSIS Is 13 while trundling the clean washing up clipper mary alice brown Is not et upon by orne some mischievous boys boy vrho ho spill the washing into the dirt tahe he I 1 Is s rescued and taken to her home in calvert street b by francis willett a galahad knight bhe K Is in punished by her drunken father for returning without the wash money mary alice we wander wanders asay an ay froni from home takes a i trolley roller ride into nto the country and upends t the he night at the farmhouse arm house of barn sam thorn thom ai in the morn morning nir she he meets little charlie thomas a cripple sam takes taken mary alice alioe home and find finds that he and mrs brown are old acquaintances sam takes her and mary alice to his home for a visit while lem brown trie the drunken father Is serving a workhouse sentence charlie is Is made a galahad knight I 1 rands visits the farm and Is saved from drowning by mary alice iem lern brown brets out of 0 jail and and foes goes to work tor for barn thomas as hired man francis willett Is to sent away to preparatory school mary alice gets a job in a department tore store the have EL wonderful christmas mas dinner lem drown brown signs of reform john willett refuses to enter political campaign against the liquor elmen ment t doctor jackson examinee examines charlie Cliar llo but inkes m a kes no definite promise of a cure six years pass charlie ie Is studying art mary alice has finished high school lern drown brown a home Is almost paid for I 1 N sometimes money wealth 1 ai brings happiness sometime I 1 1 4 but quite as a often money mo means e jj wreckage and sorrow to I 1 its poi 4 t sensors ses sors A self made rich man min ca gives his hia son too much to pend spend xa V the son goes to the dog dogs at i 04 i cj another time a woman cells sells her 04 body and soul in marriage to a millionaire whom she despises C 1 again families cad cast love aside jmj M end and part forever in a quarrel 4 j over money john willett Is 0 stricken with tragedy tra fledy that Q 04 4 money has brought him read oj go about it as told in thia this I 1 install 4 emerit ment v N X 4 sam thomas Is discussing with martha his wife the virtues and iniquities of the city of sheffield minot house the great ireat school and the devils truck patch CHAPTER IX continued right round the comer corner from minot bouse house la is calvert street anil and the begin biln of the devil a e truck patch aint it the strangest thing them two can exist ID ili the same town the people of sheffield eld went crazy when the waldemere was built even john willett put a lot of money into the company bee a big stockholder I 1 hear bear oh aye says everybody its ilva a grand thing for sheffield to have the handsomest hotel la in the country then old minot founded minot house all the people got up again and cleared and patted each other on the back and says oh aint it grand for to bare have the most wonderful free of le aroln arnin in the coun and night when 1 1 I 1 was cornin comin out in the trolley a feller next to me was to another man and he why we wb gt a tougher district in sheffield than they have in new york or chicago we call it the devil a truck patch ratch and every third door Is a saloon I 1 he ile spoke in just exactly the same proud briggin tone of voice hed have used to describe the new city hall or minot bouse house lie ile lumped lem em all in the same catalogue of features that make sheffield some town there theres s one other place in sheffield ive got respect for beside those you mentioned said martha and that Stace stachys ys I 1 wish give me about five dollars going to town tomorrow shopping lou and charlie both need some new nerr shirts I 1 declare I 1 dont know whether it a cheaper to make lem em or buy em I 1 boya boys will be bayal they will alao 1 be fools was john willetts Wll letts thought on ahe day be got the letter from the dean in every relation of life willett had been successful according cordene to the standards of sheffield and the standards of sheffield were pretty much those of the entire country sometimes he had bad suffered reverses but they bad had been temporary disappointments but they had bad not persisted one need cot not be surprised at the mans superabundant confidence in himself once it had bad been so thoroughly ju stilled year after year A blow at his pride affected IN wallett allett mentally ns As a blow at sit hie his olar molar plexus would have affected him bodily ho crumpled hodge his secretary entering with a wire basket of papers cime up all standing and exclaimed why mr willetta Wll Wil letti lettl what the trouble lct yon YOU ain in t ilir willett held out the letter to hodge but as tho ui secre secretary liry would have lave it drew it back no no be said never ever mind its iva all nothing nothing A little surprise thava he sit pit alone for a long fifteen minutes after blidge bad had retired reading and the letter and trying to think two was unbelievable there was a mistake somewhere it bo his bay lie went swiftly over the past six years ia in rr francis antis life the boy had emed to do well at school and after award rard at college rol lege gowhe noir be was a senior twenty one on yeara years old at t least twelve oarb bolow tb adaa asual ato at gladu tion he ile considered francis quite pre and had bad never ceased to be proud of him francis had always been V willetta Wll allett letta a beautiful boy if it john NIl billett lett and bis his non pon h bid hid id drifted away from each other and john had to admit that in spite of it all this was measurably the caso the ruan argued that one must expect it A boy cant be kept tied to his parent parents front porch willett had bad many a time looked back to that farewell talk with francis on the eve of the departure for st bl michael ichael 0 he ile had been confident that bis his eon son bad had profited by the talk there had been others too and john bad had felt each time that bo he was probing the depths of his boyr boys nature touching him vitally with the right influence once or twice francis had got out over his bead head in trolley matters aili aither protesting mildly had paid the few hundred dollars required to mt sit iffy the deminds of tailors nud shoe makers perhaps too freely patronize patronized ue he remembered how ono francis bad had looked led on bis his last vlist home a boy to be proud of or rather a man and in less than a year now he had bad ci ex pecked bli 1 eon son to come home and enter his own office there was plenty of work to make an ambitious young fellow interestedly active hut lint this letter from the beant ile read it once more my aly dear mr hir T allett it la is my painful duty to inform you that your pon fon 1 dancla rancla willed willett became invoiced involved in a most unfortunate affair on the night of november 10 20 and tits hi participation wa was of euch such a nature that it cannot be overlook cj el by the college authorities I 1 will pare spare you unnecessary details but will III eay that excess he 1 indulgence in stimulants oar led e d three of our students to ap prop a public automobile which alch has resulted requited in arrest and arraignment upon beveral be eral chaw charges including that of theft disorderly coti conduct duct reckless rec klea driving and the operation of it motor vehicle while intoxicated it has been the fixed rule of the faculty that in the absence of thoroughly extent acing circumstances any students haled into court for or misdemeanor misdemeanors hould should be dealt with moat most berely seier severely ee rely ely and tn in the preterit present instance I 1 am left no alternative the young man a resignation haj has been asked for or and received I 1 believe he h secured release from cut tody under a suspension of t ri tence and may nay consider nilder co himself meet most fort mate to escape far more serious con consequences ner retting beyond expression the and chagrin chastin which this occurrence must cause you dot not only BJ a ta a ther but an a an alum I 1 remain very respectfully yours WALTER J HACKETT dean of the collego ft the door opened and willett looked up francis bad had entered almost upon the heels of the postman who bad brought the damning letter very humbly and woefully the youir man crossed the room toom and sank into a chair he ile did not look at his father nor offer a hand in greeting willett surveyed his eoa son steadily for some minutia without speaking did you md ld you get a etter letter from tho the college I 1 asked francis yes then there theres no to need of my telling yon you I 1 m afraid there Is not much that you can add francis what hat will your mother say francis looked up buic y I 1 oh dad be he said I 1 doci does she the need to know 1 I have never ben been in the habit of dec deceiving decel eiring ring your mother I 1 should not know low to go about it perhaps you boull do it more skillfully dont pase please dont he begged it such a it so awfully bad we mean any barm harm ine W ourselves whose fault wae was 1 I er nob odys it was the alie wa we had been d drinking every everybody body does it wed won a big foot football boll game lind tid we were celebrating oh celebrating bo so to celebrate it ie Is customary to disgrace yourself and everybody doea does it ehr eh i why almost everybody 11 you say levery everybody body does it that true thre are doubtless scores of fellow fellows wbk wb font the majority in fact that so I 1 oh I 1 suppose so but nut but what you mean to say gay the associates you chose all do it no but listen francis you are crying baby and it Is 1 almost Ps s much dilip poin truent to me to have you do that as it il is to acain of your disgrace yu yau carnot blame anybody else for your li lo lou oa chose your own corn com ran Yan lons your own road there la Is no hop for you you tou hae no future if you make a silly childish practice 0 dodging the responsibility for your ou misconduct that iq all I 1 have to say now I 1 will try to do what I 1 can to soften his this thing for your mother meanwhile we will decide what you would better do lou oi matt must ga go to work of course here in the office with your no not net yet 1 I ilont difant ant you with me for the simple r ahoi that you must learn to be independent you have bare had one opportunity and have perhaps it we was my fault in that I 1 waa was too indulgent I 1 gave you too nueh much braney things came too easy I 1 will try to let get you a place where yon you wul aul earo earn just enough to ilife M a TOM dw 7 top stop at home with us if it you like but even then jou ou must bo be entirely eilf 81 if supporting mien ilea you have learned tiow how to hindle your own affairs even if it they amount to but ten dollar dollars a week I 1 will consider giving you a chance chane to handle some of mine no francis I 1 have no intention ot of preaching to you I 1 tried that I 1 don t say ay do till this or don dont t do that lou ou dave have had bad a lesson which may or may not teach you something lour our cure lies lu in taking your medicine like a man that ended the interview which had been too painful for either elther to nash tc te prolong it IN billett turned to the piled up affairs on his desk and sighed he ile had never sighed quite like that before it oc burred to him that be a young man morlie morile felt as if t he lie had turned the three score and ten nill milestone estone decades ago a abruse rust and ap approached preached the desk nill you shake hands dad he asked ill do better the father looked up tip and all nt tit once the years rolled back and francis wal wa i a little boy again he ile had the sams old yearning to hug him and tell him everything would be all nil right if it only he would lie rood good he ile took his sone sons proffered hand and pressed it silently very well the pressure eald said I 1 see vee that you do I 1 have la in you ye yet t hut lint francis did lid not cry ue ile wend wen out leaving his fa br pel P feeling el ing ola ag agian lin juhn john vi 11 allett blew his noso nose and attacked his work nork CHAPTER X changes the faculty of minot honie recognized the value of publicity I 1 helm vas a message vital to the community it seemed too ai its if the people of sheffield eld could never have too much news of 31 minot inot house N dpn the edit editor r of a sheffield eld paper put on a new leporter he be would uAti usually ally say any go u up to ignot house and get a story there theren always something good there lets jee what you can make of it 11 rodney jones got trot this assignment bla his first day on the evening view jonea jones went to minot house watched the crowds of students ebbing and flot ng tried to catch something of the atmosphere of the place ano and wait el ed for an it came in the shape of a blona boy with a blight slight oddity of gait which Is 18 at the batom of what Is called news dews lu ili ounce impelled him to follow charlie thomas the boy took the ele elevator and so did jones at the top the elevator door slid back ind disclosed a rait vast room with half a hundred students in smock like aprons working at easels or adjustable ju Jus tabia stable dableo the room was quite still till everybody except the instructor Instruct orm deemed seemed too busy to talk those who did so conversed conver aed in whispers Is in this Is this the art department mental asked jones U huh hub said charlie thomae thomas genially I 1 want to see somebody I 1 I 1 fm im a reporter from froin the N mew few inhof the bow bons here the prof professor esso r or whatever you call him mr air mcgregor that sir mir mo IN gregor a over there charlie indicated a serious young man who was explaining something to ne of tho the students by the use of his 1111 thumb charlie put on h bis Is own smock and fell to work on a smutty looking apollo belvedere be he had outlined on bis his board mr mcgregor led the th man about the big roon gning git ing him an animated sul mated account of the tho work of the classes and everything with great politeness when they reached charlie the reporter stopped mr mcgrigor was an no artist but bo lie bad bad had some canny scotch ancestor ancestors there was a etory story in charlie am and mcgregor kne knew that it was a good one but it would depend upon charlie whether or not it could be hid bid thomas said mcgregor just a minute please charlie dc 1 apollo with alacrity yes yem mr str mcgregor 1 I with wish you d show mr jones some of your little portrait sketches they re not airl art said tl cuarlie 1 le ny no I 1 ive ve toro tom up most of en em hones honestly tty I 1 have bare mr me gregor what are yoo you a budding 0 D gibion asked the reporter he lie didn dian t mean to be breth jut ut be he pounded w ws complacent BO so cock cocksure sore way down inside charlie thomas the little mil chief imp tickled him valt walt a minute be he said and picked up a krap rap of paper which he lall ou on a magazine then blui a pencil be made rapid strokes glancing mb at the interested and crin grin ning here you are he said aud and went back to his work I 1 0 do you think that charlie arlies 4 44 0 public career begins with 1 this 11 14 I 1 I 1 I 1 tr aei g 4 0 TO cau |