Show little sir galahad A story with a soul y by PHOEBE ORAY copyright by hy betell myesha ft SYNOPSIS Is wen while I 1 ann the in ed clean madill washing 11 up 11 clipper 1 mil I mary alice B blown if abot up on my by aam leec boya who belll mhd be into the be dirt 11 she 1 IN rescued mod nd taken take to her bee he home in calvert int burert I liy ch wallett ft galahad knight bh la punished b by hr her an drunken on sen fe father be for returning mil without bo the he wash me money 0 y mary all alle ool vander o ol ji away w from he home tokea ft trolley ride eldo W wo into ta tho he country toy and andl tho the night at the farm of 1 a sim ah xh thorn I 1 tn the be she an nul little char B lit thomas cripple sam mary alice c he home a and n anda I 1 that net 0 he and mra brown aro old qwin acquaintances im takes talk he her and mary ance alice t to ht his he home for far a visit while bit iem brown the dr drunken lien father 1 enelog ft workhouse 11 0 1 charlie to Is man tnador a galahad kniehl r fran O th da to the unit so find te I saed it fr from drown hollig ig I 1 by mary A aleco c lem rr brown wn set arela out at of tell lall and a to work for sam thomas hired ard men man franceli 0 W o allett FI 1 sent may to prep atory allm alice eats 0 ob in ft deni den I store the th Thoma aca o bal ft wonderful 0 o I carlat maa dinner lem brown w 1 bagna of veto reform john pol willed dile rectums to enter me zw political a I 1 c campaign against imea in tha liquor ablon ele 1 ment ne doctor tr examines chat charlie b but ain malkes no 0 d definite promise of f a 0 cure alx years iamo kaaa a EE charlie see im la studying ild o art mary or A alice h haa me finished high led lem in brown rown am home Is 1 paid for COC soc enoth on money Y wealth 1 j 1 b bring logo happiness aw sometimes aeration ration i but aw quite a so often t n in money y mean bee f j wreckage and ad borrow a 1 to it its pox 0 e A belf if made ad rich man 2 f t 4 g gives his aon ace too much to spend pen 4 the e bon g goes to the eting dogs at W f another he t time a woman me vell sells her r i minshull tied body y and soul in bi marriage go t to a 8 millionaire 1111 ire w whom how she he it despises I 1 i ali again n f families mille cast wv love aside do f S and part pact forever in a quarrel I 1 over oer money john he willett Is 12 with tragedy that i money has brought him read t about it as a told in this install want ment f Js so sam th thomaa 1 Is it discussing all with moth M mar th tha I 1 his wife the virtues virtle and ad iniquities line of the city of sheffield minot house the great school and the tha devil collis truck patch CHAPTER IX continued right round mund the corner from bow minot bouse la is cabert street and the file begin din BIB of the devil a truck patch ain al t it the strangest thing them two con CAD exist enst ir IP the same town w the people of sheffield slie ffield went cray when the ft illde alde mern or we was built even john tt Nill allett tt put a lot ot of money into the company he hex a big stockholder I 1 hear oh ob saya eye everybody it its a a grand thing tor for sheffield sh died to have bale the handsomest hotel in the country thim then old awat founded minot house bouse all the people got up again and cheeld and patted each other on a the back and says any oh SIB aln t it grind for to faai bae e the most moat ft ond wd erful free ree int of learnan lear in the coun kiy hyll and n it t other th e night when w b on I 1 was cum corn WA in in out a ut in the trolley bliley a foll feller next to me a was a will to t another ther man mad and be may why we got a tougher district clit in Shedie ld than they have in new hew york or chicago we call it the devils devil a truck paid and every third door la 1 a baloon sal ile he spoke in ip just exactly the bame on proud mud bragga brag gh tone to of voice nice bed he it haie im used oil to de it scribe the new no city bailor hall or vinot minot bouse bout he lumped cm in all 11 in the sanie a cita Cs logue logi of distinguish in tea turea Ws that townes town make sheffield some town there theme a one other place in sheffield I 1 ve a got respect tor for bedea those you mentioned oil said much martha and thata stacey a I 1 wish you if ghe gl a me about five fire dollars I 1 in going to town tomor two bol row raw shopping you and charlie both need some new shirts I 1 declare I 1 don t know allow it win wh ther it 8 clasper to make em or buy em con boys will be boyac boyal w ajl they will also be fools was waa john willett a thug thought h t on the day he be got the an letter from the d dean 1 in e ery rotation of life had b been f ac cording carding to the standards Binn darda of sheffield a and oil the at standards chirds of sheffield were pretty much those of the entire cown coun try some sometimes blenes he ind had suffered reverses bu but t they had bad been temp temporary ry d disappointments 1 but they had not per stated slated one OC need out not be surprised at the man a superabundant confidence in himself since it lind had bee been so the elior hughly vear r after year A blow at his hia pride affected tt NN allett mentally as aa a blow at his sol solar pl would have affected him badty bedl y he crumpled budge III ila secretary illy tary euter ing with a wits wire bat of papers came up all standing old and exclaimed m a illy alvo mr me wit icat tt J hata hot a the trouble tio u uble b le lou aln in t 1111 willett held out the letter to hodge but as the would have taken enry it 11 it drew it back N io 0 no im he said nover never mind it its nothing 4 fattip ittle that s I 1 all 11 ile he sat at alone in for r a long lone fifteen ran ups otea after B hodge had retired reidling and nd re rereading the letter and teeing to thick this we was unbelievable there was a a mistake somewhere it coulbo I 1 be his him boy he went ment ow swiftly over the past afi 1 years in im rr francis lif life e the boy had seemed to ta do w well ell at school led and after wd ward at t college I nahe ow be was a senior ado C twenty ona no years yeara old at least twelve 1 doutha blaw the tha usual cilia ago at grating thin ile he considered francis quite pre pire and had bad never ceased to b be P proud on oil of him francis had always been willett wallett beautiful boy if john willett and hla him too on had bad drifted way away from each jtb other and wi john had to ad admit mit that in pits alte of it ail 11 this wit waa measurably the case the man argued that one must expect I 1 lt I 1 A buy boy con can t be kept tied to him bin parent front porch willett bad many a time W looked ked back to that farewell talk with francis on the eve am of the letters departure p tur for far st michael B ile he had brow been con confident confided fiden I 1 that his BOD all had bad profited by the talk there had bad been others too old and john had felt each time that be was we probing the depths depth of his hig boy a no na ture lure touching him blen vitally with the right influence once or twice francis had bad got out over ever him hia head in 1 money matters em ell father protesting mildly had bad paid the few hundred dollars required to sat bat iffy the demands demand of tailors tailor and ad shoe b makers perhaps too freely patronized he remembered how line fine had bad looked on oa hla big last visit home hom ft a boy to be proud of or C rather the ft a man and in leu than a year BOW he had ex a plied his 11 son so to come a home lo 10 nd it enter at bia bi own office there was plenty of 1 work ork to make RB an ambita ambitious young fel 1 low interestedly active ile interestedly but this letter from the dean deal he ha read mod it a once 1 more com M mr dear v ar mr me wallett it ie my painful new duty to into inform re you that y your on franceli wallett be became ime involved ellea in most br affair on 11 the of noc november br W 1 and nil in participation wag of uch a nature that it cannot I 1 be by the colleen authorities I 1 I 1 will min spare cm ie you wo acea detail in but va will bay in that indulgence I 1 in to list led I 1 wee three of our to up so roemo a public bile aid which b haj i resulted 1 in arrest and I 1 upon I 1 1 several I to chalcea ca t that st of theft I 1 al disorderly I 1 conduct t ole o le driving nd the operation 6 of motor vehicle III while bit intoxicated boond ast it has h been bee the need role rate it f the faculty re aty that in the absence Sise ec of thoroughly tiso hughly avow tire avy any in tu dents ant haled into let court we for misdemeanors should hould bo b dealt with moat in at beverely eve rely and in the proa nonce instance non ce I 1 am left no alternative after fter til the th vanne man has haa been aked ked for fee and received led I 1 bellegie bell he h secured d release 1 I from custody oum led under 1 I a of sentence e and conr matodi biby consider most iea I ea fortunate to um canape far more ore serious consequences conseQuence cleamous tle a regretting R eftig beyond expression n the in disappointment die into sst and d shortie which men two this or occur mice lan cause you twe not only a as k father fahr aw eluam t but as an alumnus I 1 remain very respectfully yours WALTER ER I 1 HACKETT BACKE doom dean of in the C collea 71 the door pencil opened and willett looked up francis had bad entered almost upon the beels beela of the p postman mg who had bad brought the damning letter I 1 sly ery humbly and woefully the young man crossed the room and mank into a chair he did not lot look it at his him father nor or offer free a hand in greeting willett surveyed his son steadily for some out without speaking did you did you get a letter from the college I 1 asked francis yes C th then ethem there a no do need of my telling you I 1 in afraid there them la IS not much that you can add francis III hat but will your other mother may bay francala looked up quickly arkly oh dad do he be bida aalde due does she he need to kw know 1 I have hare rever never been bee I 1 in the habit of deceiving dec ehing your mother I 1 abound not know how bow to go about it perhaps you bod would do it more skillfully don on t please don do t L he begged it fasot easm hsuch such a it easm wasn I 1 so awfully bad d ft e dado didn I 1 mean inel any barm baila ft V a we ren ourselves isu ucb whose fault wait waa that 1 I 1 er nobody dy a it ft was waa the wine we re bad been dr drinking everybody doom does it wed won a big football game and we were celebrating I 1 on oh celebrating so to celebrate elob rate it 1 Is cost customary ry to disgrace diaga to yourself f A and ad eve everybody body do does it eh an I 1 ak W hy by almost everybody Y you u say my ei everybody ery body it does it that th t an in it true there them are am doubtless doubt leaa score of fell fellows B who door dont the tha majority to in fact I 1 isn t that so or oh I 1 suppose so BO but but 0 what but you mean a to say the associates bouc you chose he all do it no ho buts but listen limit francis you are erving baby and it in ia almost a as much dip to tomie me to have hava you do that am aa it is to learn ile of your disgrace diagram you cannot ca I 1 blime anybody elm tor for your trouble lou I 1 an chose your own corn com pio your on own road mod there is no hope holic or you yoo you base no future lf if vou make mak a illy childish practice of dwi the responsibility for your on one n misconduct that iq 1 11 it II I 1 have he to say ii now how I 1 w III try to do what I 1 can to soften set ten this thing tor for your mother we will decide what you y an would better do you most go to week rork of course con a here in the omm office with YO yon r Nn ho not yet lia I 1 don t want tamn you with me for the simple reason bt you must at learn car to be inde indeed independent pd t Y you ly have had bad one a opportunity and have bus folded failed perhaps it was my fault I 1 in n teat tha I 1 was too indulgent I 1 gave game you too much ments money came too easy Y 1 11 try to get you a place where when you will ft earn jut juit a enough gh fp 0 UT oo ad tom loa may 47 atop at home with us if you like but wt even a then you must be entirely mif if supporting when you have bale learnel learned how bow to handle your own affairs eve if they amount to but bat ten collano a week I 1 will consider giving you chance ti to handle some of mine no I 1 t dancla rancla cie I 1 he have no intent intention a of pre preaching sold we to y you on I 1 tried that 1 I do I 1 may aay do this or don I 1 do that you yon he hare bad a lesson which may my or may my not teach you yoa something your cure cum lies jn in taking your medicine like a in mail that at in ended ded the interview which ach had bad been bee too painful for either to wish tl td prolong picking it if willett turned to th a plied piled up affairs on his desk delk old and sighed H 11 had bad never bighead quite like that before it occurred centered to him that he be wasu anant t a y young g man any more he be felt as it if he be had bad turned the three acore suit and ton ten milestone decades ago francis francia arose amae and app reached the desk will vill y you on shake bonds bands dad dar he be asked 11 d do a better the father looked up and all at on once e the y years rolled called back old and francis francia w wa a little boy again he bad the sam 4 old I d yeanling a ing to hug bug him and tell him 1 everything a would be all right if only he would be good he twit took bis big son oil i 9 prof forms hand band and pressed pleased it i very well the pressure said ten ee that you do I 1 have confidence in you yet but francis did not lot cry 11 he went cut out leaving his him to famyr feeling ol 01 ola gain again john willett blew his bis nose and attacked his work CHAPTER X change 71 the faculty of minot be honie bee e ming lived the value line of publicity theirs was a vital had to tb the a it seemed too as aa if the people of I 1 sheffield could never have too much news we of minot house ban when the eligur I 1 of a sheffield piper put on a new reporter he would usually any aay go up to minot house bouse and ad get a story there them a always something good g 4 there them leta at see what you me can make of it ite rodney jones got this assignment his him rest day on the evening view jones went want to minot house watched the crowds of students student ebbing and an it flowing tried to catch something win othin g of the atmosphere of the place and wait ed tor for an a inspiration lt it mine came to la the on shape of a blond boy with a oa 01 sefa ati oddity of gait curiosity which is 1 t the ba atom of what fa 1 called lied news tn 1 impelled him to follow charlie i thomas thauna the boy took the elevator and me BO did jones at the top the elevator door slid back and ad disclosed a vast room me with halt half a hundred students student in 1 it like aprons apron working at easels eadels or adjustable ju stable tables the room mom was quite still every beelY except the instructors instructions seemed oc led too busy to talk those who did on BO conversed amov breed in 1 whispers Is this la this 1 the art act depart ment asked jones J 0 D U huh eald aid charlie thoung thomas sen go wily lally want to sec bob somebody 1 I in a reporter from the view tt A ho hos a the boss boom here th the professor or whatever wh ateer you call him liftee mr 1 I mcgregor that mr me mcgregor mcgreg greg over there the charlie indicated a serious young man who was explaining wai to one on of the students by the use of hla him thumb charlie put on him bla own mk old and fell to work on a looking apollo belvedere ba dere which be had out lined on him bis board mr me mcgregor led the newspaper appe wp pe man about the big room mom giving him an account of the work of the classes lease and ad explaining everything with great politeness when they reached elected charlie the reporter stopped mr me mcgregor was an arliet hot but lie he had had bad 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