Show Valentino s Own I Story of Life I 1 S Mt jI f f Copyright 1921 1920 The Tho New Graphic All rights re reserved served Natacha hILI ha written and as assured me she aha Is ts quite rested from her tron-her journ gs and Impatient for formy my return She writes me there Is considerable malt mall tor mo and Interesting things in a 0 s sway way in them I feel teel that soon I will be able ablo to re- re return re return turn again to the work worle I love love- loveto love loveto to get back to 0 It alii all This hiatus has hag been a restless though with with- withal withal al a wonderfully pleasant time Cut But to get pack back That la Is my myone mone one aim They say that travel broadens a man Well It certainly deepens him too an and enlivens But Dut yesterday I stopped before our visit my cousins cousin's and mineto to an old friend ol of our joint family near Tho Thoman Theman man of the the family had been a college chum ot of my fathers father's He couldn't como come and see seo me bec use he was ill III in bed BO so we went by at my cousins cousin's to Hello say As I went In he said Bald My lIty God you arent aren't little Rudolph arc I said Yes And then affectionately this man of ot 60 began crying like 11 a achild achild child It was one of ot the most moving greetings I had had since I began my travels tra IIa put his arms about my neck and said Sit down by me m Just I felt as it If I had l been his So wo we eat ut for tor a while and never have I been so eagerly eo Interestedly questioned about my career and its Ita ups and downs He lIe was as vitally Interested In 1 evry detail delaU as it If ho he had lived them all himself and was as anxious tor me as It If I 1 had been Indeed bono of ot his bone It was a II of ot GLIMPSES SES CC It was on my way back to town that I passed Just III a I approached ched the tho town of my birth as s tha buildings mo me on the tho turn ot of tho road I stopped tho car and tool tooka II picture of it Before Detore going soing Into the town there Is an enormous ravine that comes right underneath a II stone stonebridge bridge And the tho pa e The bridge that goes over this raving was built by my mothers mother's father my a Frenchman and nd railroad en engineer It la 11 Very ery peculiar in its surround lUgs My Iy grandfather also built the railroad In building this railroad d my had to go through a forest Inhabited by I and 01 O one of expeditions expedition ot engineering ho was visa by the tho brigands They held him chief of the sot got It Into his head that my mundo was Wl captain ot of the Nation National al Guards auard Ho was going to shoot my grandfather Ho wasn't even to pIrl parley pIrly y about taking a 0 and lying on the tho ground my grandfather gr had the grisly pleasure of overhearing this talk The fhe only thing that caved was bin was tho fact that ona ot of this lIand of brigand had once been beena beera a soldier afterward A 0 de- de deserter de been a soldier known tho chief ot of the Ouarda he went to the ot the tho brigands and wId him that ho he had mistaken Is Isman man Thill man Is s not he lie ho he said And so finally they let nty go 10 It la a tunny thing about tele- tele telepathY tele telepathy pathy My grandmother was an tele telepathic person It so happened that my grandmother my mother were on their way to the tho very night my was about to be shot Dl My mother told mo that my grandmother said I 1 know my husband la Is In trouble I can canteel teel it Sho had no Idea of what of trouble most fortunately tor her but she sho got doDger and spoke of them When he got home and 1 tol 1 them about what happened my grandmother nearly fainted away awaya compound of o relief relict terror tor him and a 1 sense of ot the supernatural supernatural ural in her own premonition lily mother had hadi often orten tol told 1 me m the stoy when I yas 09 a D boy It was ono of If my favorites and andI andI I always pressed her for tor the minute details SHAKEN l BY She told me that my grand grand- grandfather tat father her was an exceptionally e bla and valiant man but that he ho told my grandmother that that as ho got out of forest and looked back hair 8 food 00 1 up absolutely straight It seemed to him as though tho dirk dorl forest was with blood which might so easily have o been his own Also ho he was very Iery ill for tor quite a long time Ho He had a high and It looked for tor a II time as ns thou thou-h the brigands had achieved death after all I also took a a picture ot of the ravine Right on on top of oC the there is a little old church quaInt and beautiful where en am old who nursed me mo when I 1 was a baby used to take no me-no me no not notto notto to pray to pray to play Somehow I did te that spot It is ono of the theun un forgotten places to me An old old Lord church church Lord how long It lt has been there Justa Just a little chapel Somehow or other It appealed 10 mo me Immensely It was my favorite playground I got out and walked into the mol mol mol- little refuge and got backa back II sense of the tho mystery I hId had I had played there so many ago Its ancient flavor its Its deep and brooding peace In- In Influenced In Influenced a great many of ot my childhood fancies tIl I cant can't IllY that It turned me toward re- re rc maybe maybo it did too after a fashion After this we drove Into tho town Itself and walked down tho MaIn Street Street-fol Street tor there II I a Main Street even In away ta-away far and andl unimportant little And wha wh is ts more unlike the Streets of o America it tt h a bit No Rotary Clubs no Civic Ic Improvement had hail their renovating hands upon this Main Street It brood brood- brood id 1 still and undisturbed It was Just exactly the samo omo that I found I every ot Dont Don't m mt misi t tomorrows tomorrow's Install Install-I I n |