Show m DINSMORES DINSMORE'S FOLLY SYNOPSIS left lett her hert herthe herthe That her grandfather s t monstrosity lI the architectural V known as s Folly Is for esthetic reasons by no means menn Im pleasing to Ethel Dinsmore modern modera mod mod- ern era flapper She would refuse tb the bequest but her father Cather wilt will not allow It lt Edith visits the place Perkins the caretaker Is Ie the victim of ot a matrimonial mishap mishap mishap mis mis- hap his wife having left leCt him Fred James newspaper reporter comes Mr Paul Dinsmore rJ right handed handed ht-handed man maD proposes to Edith and Is rejected lIe He takes take to the rejection cUon In a melodramatic 8 manner Edith sees Ices a connection t. t between Perkins' Perkins runaway wife and Mr Paul Riding with Fred James Edith's horse bolts The runaway Is stopped stowed by a 0 stranger Q who does docs not give his name F Edith hereafter calls cas him M H P My Preserver er With her sister II ter Josephine and Fred James Edith 1 attends a prize fight Police raid s sI I the place Dace The girl Irl Is saved from the Indignity of at arrest by the same man who had stopped her runaway horse She learns his 1 name Is Braxton and lind allows him to think she Is a poor loor rea relation of ot the DInsmores Telling her father Cather she Is In love Jove with Fred James t the old gentleman arranges for Cor ford d Josephine and Edith to take n a trip to Japan with their Aunt Candice On the pier as the ship r is about to sail the girls hear henr 11 newsboys calling All About the Dinsmore Indictment Excited they allow the vessel to sail san without them but with Aunt Candice CHAPTER IV Continued IV-Continued Continued 7 7 My first Idea of course was to go goto goto goto to Fathers Father's office But on the way 1 I changed my mind We wouldn't find Father there of course and we would finds shoals of reporters who would probably make a headline of us Darling Darting daughters dart to the defense of their dad or something of that sort that would make Father mad 1 Father hated the newspapers except r when be he wanted to use them All we could do at the office would be to find tind out where Father had been taken and ond andt t we could or so I thought find that out Just as ns well over o the telephone te So I leaned forward and told the thet t chauffeur to take tale us home Josephine looked up at this Along about Thirty fourth street she begun to sniffle softly be behind her herell veil ell and ond I 1 though she had ceased to pay atten lion to anything But nut my changing 11 n the orders roused her Arent we going to tb the jail Jall she asked The jail Of Ot course not I l ex ex- ex claimed Why Josephine Dinsmore I r You know perfectly well that Father wouldn't stand for our coming to the Jail I 1 never dreamed of going there Besides we dont don't know where the Jail o Is Is- Is Josephine glanced around Cant Cantwe Cants s we ask somebody t she faltered The i chauffeur looks as If be he ou ought ht to know know- 1 Sail Dont Don't let him hf hear r. r Do 00 you yuu youa 18 a want to get Into Town mown Tattle Cattle Besides Besides Resides Be Re- sides it doesn't mutter It would never never never nev nev- er do for us ns to go to Jail I did mean to go to the office but hut Ive I've thought t tover tover tover over and Im I'm Im I'm sure wed we'd Netter hettel co go home bomp and tel telephone from trum there e Josephine considered Ihl this for tor u a mo nio moment ment meat Then she hll heightened brightened We can send Father 3 a bundle of underclothes o and and and and- p I bit m rn m. lips to keep from train scream scream- I lug dug Underclothes I gasped asked Underclothes Underclothes Underclothes Un You talk of underclothes 1 nt Dt a time like this You Stop You Stop the rhe car quick I leaned forward and caught hl the chauffeurs chauffeur's arm We want to fo get out here Of course 1 I oughtn't to have caught aught s 1 his arm arral J 1 I know that hat perfectly well But Hut I 1 wanted to get pet out and I t thae have ha time to think up any other way wity to stop him And he needn't have hU cutten gotten notion not got ten ion so mad He Ue didn't run Into Inlo ara any body holly He Ue came near it It of course ourse but hilt buta a n ruins miss I Is as good Fond lInd as its a mile I don dont t think our chauffeur could have future f pen Oi-en n nery very ery brave for Or he turned quite white whiter r and didn't speak for nut minute minute n a not till he had brought the car ur up to 10 the curb urb m wON Get out J I he grated d. d r What r Cor Get let out 1 You wanted to pet get out nut didn't your you 11 Well ell then get I 1 And I thank your lr stars you dont don't have ha tn to tobe be carried curried You ou You you yuu you I sputtered I Iwas Iwas was so 80 mad 1 I couldn't talk lolk So I ant ot Instead Josephine followed more slowly She hc banded bonded the tuna runn a banknote Im sorry she sold said The File juin liln Itin took tank the money Thank you yuu miss he tie said No harm done 1 gl after ail nil But Rut If It yu you'll o I I ex excuse use III me say siy ac Ins ani ea BO you'd h neuter heater u. u keep keen n. n J. J an till II eve ete on n u. u n. n J. J II eve ete on n the other young lady MI Miss s. s He Ile started start sturt t o-t ed before I could find my Vole voice olce t. t And iii be didn't give she Josephine ne an any change hange d Josephine seemed to under understand stand how v I felt for she caught u my toy tI arm rm d hurriedly We came very ery tot inc f didn't t a t we we she atle asked But why did von vou it stop a n block from home a The question brought ht me hack book to earth eurth Good gracious I I I 1 exclaimed Cant Can't lInt you u PA sue ok I pointed ll A k away uy In front of our house bouse ti the clue street was black with people C Mir lilt burts ts dea dear r neighbors have hate rend read the papers ier 1 J went on and have hn corne come to stare slurp 1 knew they would MII Maybe he u we wp e van ran ls Icy get gel in without being noticed noticed mile much h hs s sS f We couldn't i hove P If wed we'd 1 l In H a p DC taxi l f Josephine J looked at me rue ir I nil or ti 1 I thought i 1 net 0 ne er er would ha hn ter igi thought of lit thai slim I i blip II g V cIt e II I ro in the th hII OP e f now and suf J could t s KC t MIM ihN p 1111 H r walT walT- walTin in lug II e ill did not no i ik tike lIl e neigh By Crittenden Marriott 0 Illustrations by Irwin Myers Copyright Service bars bora unless neighbors Include everybody every body In New York They seemed angry too I dropped my veil and motioned to Josephine to do the same 1 dont don't know one Ine of them theta I whis pored nut lint some of them may know kno us Decidedly the waiting people were very very angry They were hum ruing like bees hees I 1 could not understand it nt ot first What the tile matter I asked a n woman In a n shawl who stool stood waiting She glared at me toe the matter she echoed the mutter matter is It Its It's ruin and destruction that's the matter so It Is That Chafe of If the world Dinsmore Dinsmore Dins Dins- more his has stolen every cent I 1 had laid up for tor me old age oge Units Unit's what's the rhe matter Mr Stolen Its It's not oot true I l gasped Not true Is It Its It's me that wishes to God It wasn't true truel J Ues Ue's stolen all allI allme allme I me savings and run away uway with them therm She Site thrust a B newspaper beneath my nose It was another and apparently a It Inter later paper than n the one 1 I had buu bought boughton ht on the steamer That had been chiefly headlines and text that repeated the headlines this I saw at ot a 11 glance contained con i tamed columns of detail I 1 snatched I It from the womans woman's hands bands and ran my ray eye down It It was awful The paper se seemed med to have hoye thrown restraint to the winds According to It Father had done everything wrecked everything wrecked railroads robbed banks gambled In stocks ruined thousands thousands thou thou- sands of widows and children und children and had harJ then disappeared But he would he be found soon the railroads and fer rles were ele all nil watched and andI and and- I read rend no more At least Father wasn't In Jail I turned on the woman wom worn an 1 dont don't believe belle a word of It It I cried Father Josephine clutched my arm and I stopped It was the first Olst time In nil her life that Josephine had hod done anything abruptly and I stopped and turned to see what was the matter I 1 thought that perhaps she had seen Faher Father Fa Fa- th her ther r approaching I 1 couldn't Imagine her clutching me for an any le less s startling ca cause use the matter 1 I gasped Josephine hesitated Dont you think think- Dont Don't you think think think- she began Thai that t that I-that- that I 1 didn't know what she meant But Bur Burthe the woman was speaking and I turned back to her Father 1 I began again I But nut she did not allow ollow me hie to finish An what do does s your father futher know she broke brote in It is himself that knows more than thun the grand jury that Indicted Dinsmore It is himself that knows where Dinsmore got the monty momy y to build the house yonder nil all fur fr himself an and his two daughters The TIlE hussies 1 I Its It's t tearing their clothes then thelt hacks harks Id I'd like to he be so I would Id I'd You You ruu you I 1 spluttered And again Josephine clutched my UlmI arm Ulm I knew what she m meant ant now but nut was too furious to listen n. n No one could call Father names in my presence presence pres pres- ence without my speaking up You You you you you- 1 I raved You Whist i The Irishwoman turned n a away Yonder they come Conte An I 1 hope they've ve pot Jot him She turned toward the HIe house home My e eyes es followed hers and amid for time first time thue that mol I really looked at the house Then I 1 I gasped ce- ce ly Iy recognized It The upper r windows s were all blanked by hy blinds that thai were pulled down clown to the very vely bottoms bottom and th the lower windows and the Ule door l or were hidden behind the tint Oat wooden frames that we e always ns put up when we went away front from town In III the summer Father Fa ther timer hart had said nothing about putting them up he hod let us think that he was going to live ll at al home homp while we were pone gone And h he hN mU toast must 1 have set the rhe servants to world work on un n them a as soon as m we started for the bout But tit ut the moment I timid no time to think of that The small door lair lu In the tilt big entrance frume was open ami through h It three men amen were wen co Two were policemen und and one une was wis finish Hem heaven en It w in n t I It was r the caretaker who al ul always ways trays d In the house while we weel were el away uway tie He peered out and then lodged dodged hack und closed the door The two policemen come came down to tu the tile pavement lav und to tu the l that was walling culling at the curb AF At the Itt r second one climbed In he turned and spoke to tn u a man mun who questioned him Naw I I he said gruffly There aint wont won't he doln Dinsmore here and Its It's a safe bet he wont won't he His Ella daughters have hu sailed for fur somewhere somewhere somewhere some some- where and tl theres there's eres ere's nobody here but hut a 8 caretaker 11 ker Theres There's no use waltin He Be spoke to the one man hut but his big voice olce boomed over the street so that ever everybody heard It Then he Jumped Into the wagon and it clatterer clattered clat clat- away awny The Tile crowd seemed satisfied for Ithe It he begun began un to disperse drifting away by ones and twos till no one was left ex ex- except r ept Josephine und and me and und an on whom I had not noticed before who stood watching at the corner of ot the alley Just he beyond und the house As soon sons as ns i I saw sow him him I guessed that he hud had been heen stationed there to arrest or fallow follow fol ful low an anybody 1 HI who vho came to the We house and I made up up my mind that he should not nol see Josephine or me I If the papers and ond the police thought that Josephine and I had sailed for tor Japan I would not undeceive them We could hide and wait walt till Father turned up un Perhaps Per Per- Perhaps haps I even I-even even I could I-could could do something toward clearing away awny the cloud that rested on Fathers Father's name I turn turned d to Josephine Come I. I 1 I Isaid said suhl turning away from the house Josephine stared at me Come orne ome where she asked Arent you going home No 0 I 1 s said ld We cant can't 1 I explained explained ex ex- why we couldn't We cant can't go home Weve We've got ot to go to Folly Josephine looked so amazed that I Idid Idid did not walt wall for her to speak I dont don't wonder youre you're surprised 1 I said But weve we've got ot to go o there Weve We've nowhere nowhere no nor where else to go Perhaps youve you've forgotten for for- gotten 1 otten I bad had forgotten too and ond the fact mode made me a little sarcastic per sarcastic per perhaps haps you have forgotten that Aunt andice carried the money and that you ou and I are nearly Dearly busted unless busted unless we go to the office and give ourselves dead away awny Josephine considered this for tor a moment moment mo mo- ment Then she said we cant can't afford afford atford af at- ford to take a taxi out to Dinsmore nothing I wasn't going to admit that I had forgotten anything We dont don't need any taxi Well We'll go In ID Inthe inthe the subway Come on un n I started and Josephine followed For three blocks she followed In si sir sl lence hence Then Just at nt the subway entrance entrance en en- trance she halted Ive been think think- thinking lug ing she began I stopped stopped and and faced her 1 l had great respect for the result ot of Josephine's thoughts thoughts when when she reached them She was slow but she was sure often often painfully pain fully so SU Well 7 I 1 questioned Josephine opened d her hl hip big eyes wider I believe belie Father Is on board the steamer she said J 1 believe e that was why he sent us on her I believe believe be be- lieve he expected to meet us on her after she site got to sea sen Good Lord i Uy fly eyes popped wide wille and my mouth fell open If If But there was no time for ifs Just them Come Clime mite along I cried clutching Josephine's Josephine's Jo Jo- arm Well talk all that over at Dinsmore CHAPTER V VOh VOh VOh Oh h I h 1 said the time duche duchies S who till then had taken no part in the conversation i Iced Fred says HI S 'S that tiny any story that Is a astory astory story ought to tu start tart with some such pres e expression ion as us the above I couldn't work un anything of the kind In at ut the beginning of this story If nut But If not at ut the tile beginning of a D story why not I Iut at ut the beginning of a 0 chapter Not ot that there is any ony duchess In Inthis Inthis Inthis this chapter or even In this story limit But the tile state of mind that the rhe quotation connotes certainly does portray the feelings of pretty nearl nearly evel everybody that appears In iii this chapter and of n fl lot of nf people leollie who do not nut appear At AI least It portrays s 's their feelings a 0 little little lit lit- tle tie later luter when they head of ot the tile events that took place In lu this tills chapter And Amid If eventually wh why riot now Anyway It goes gues double for fur me rue I Josephine and I blurted for DIns Dinar mores mires Folly holly on the subway anon we wo took a trolley cur ur some Ollie more amore anon we tte walked and und finally bully we arrived after traveling for fur two hours without stopping except for fur ten minutes that Josephine Insi insisted ted on nn spending In a p drug store at lit the rIle end of If the subway while I stood beside f a trolley car and und I begged the conductor not to tn start sturt till rn my ray sister could Join |