Show li atle asir galahad story with a soul k ea copyright by small maynard company SYNOPSIS 13 while trundling the clean washing up clipper hill mary alice brown la is set api upi upon by some mischievous boys boya aho who spit spill the washing into the dirt she Is a rescued and taken to her home in calvert street b by francis willett Wll lett a gal galahad ahad knight she Is punished by her drunken father for returning without the wash money mary all alice c a wanders away from home takes a trolley ride anto the country and spends the night at the farmhouse of sam thon i as jj j in j the e morning she meets little C char barn lla thomas homes a cripple sam barn takes mary alice home and finds that he be and mrs brown are old acquaintances sam takes her ber and mary y alice 1 ice to his home for a mare maa visit while ae L lem brown 3 rown the drunken father Is serving a workhouse sentence charlie la Is made a galahad knight francis visits the farm and Is saved from drowning by mary alice lem brown gets out of jail and goes to work for sam thomas as hired man francis willett Is sent away to preparatory school mary alice gets a job in a department depar ament store the have a wonderful christmas dinner lem brown snows shows signs of reform john willett refuses to enter political campaign against the it liquor quor el element doctor jackson examines charlie but makes no definite promise of a cure six years pass charlie Is studying art mary alice has finished high school lem browns home Is almost paid for W i sometimes money wealth i brings happiness sometimes i but quite as often money means Q i wreckage and sorrow to its pos t sensors ses sors A self made rich man rf gives his son too much to spend the son goes to the dogs at iti another time a woman sells her t 0 A body and soul in marriage to a 0 o millionaire whom she despises pa again 1 families cast love aside 6 U M 0 and part forever in a quarrel 01 tj over money john willett Is ii j stricken with tragedy that k M 04 money one has as brought him read ea about out it as told in t this I 1 I 1 install sta ia k mant e P 0 sam thomas Is discussing with martha his wife the virtues and iniquities of the city of sheffield minot houses house the great school and the devils truck patch CHAPTER IX continued right round the corner from melnot house is calvert street and the begin bin biln of 0 the devils truck patch aint it the strangest thing them two can caa exist in ID the same town the people of sheffield went crazy when the waldemere was built even john willett put a lot of money into the company i he s a big stock stockholder holde r I 1 hear oh says saya everybody its a grand thing tor for sheffield to have the handsomest hotel la in the country then old minot founded minot house hauae all the people got up again and cheered and patted each other on the back and s saya ays oh aint it grand tor for sheffield to lave have the most wonderful free institution of le lear arnin in the coun tiel and vother night when I 1 was cornin camin out in the trolley a feller next to me was to another man ind and be says why we wc got a tougher district right in sheffield than they have in nw borkor chicago we call atthe devils truck patch and every third door Is a saloon he spoke tn in just exactly the same proud braggin brag gln tone 0 of voice hed have used to describe the new city hall bail or minot house he lumped lem em all in the same catalogue of distinguishing distinguish in features that make sheffield some town theres one other place in sheffield ive got respect for besides those you mentioned said martha and stachys staceys Stace ys I 1 wish glye me about five dollars im going to town tomorrow shopping you and charlie both need some new shirts I 1 declare I 1 dont know whether its cheaper to make em or buy em boys will be boys they will also be fools was john willetts Wll letts thought on the day be got the letter from the dean in every relation of life willett wallett had bad been successful according to the standards of sheffield and the standards of sheffield were pretty much those of the entire coun try sometimes he had bad suffered buffered reverses but they had bad been temporary disappointments but they had not persisted one need not be surprised at the mans superabundant confidence in himself since once it had been so thoroughly justified year after year A blow at his pride affected willett mentally as a blow at his solar plexus would have affected him bodily he crumpled hodge ills secretary entering with a wire basket of pipers papers came up all standing and exclaimed why mr willetta Wil lettl the trouble you aint I 1 willett hold held out the letter to hodge but as the secretary would have taken it drew it back no no he be said never mind its nothing A little surprise all he sat alone for a long fifteen minutes after hodge had retired reading and rereading the letter and trying tryan g to think this was unbelievable there was a mistake amistade somewhere it beals be his boy bay he went swiftly over tho the past sir air years in fra francis life tho the boy had teamed seemed to do well at school and afterward at college now behasa he was a senior twenty one years old at leist least trelva months uala tho usual age at fradua tion he considered francis quite pre and had never ceased to be proud of him francis hod had always been willetta Willet Wll letta beautiful boy it if john willett aud and his son had bad drifted away from each other and john had to admit that in spite of it all this was measurably the case the man arg argued tied that one must expect it A boy cant be kept tied to his parents front porch willett had bad many a time looked back to that farewell faleni ell talk with fran francis cis on the eve of the batters lat departure for st michaels he had bad been con confident fluent that ills his son had bad profited by the talk there had bad been others too and a nd john had bad felt each time that he w was as probing the depths of his boys nature touching him vitally with the r right ight influence once or twice francis lad had got out ou ver over his head bead in money matters ills his father protesting mildly had paid the f few ew hundred dollars required to satisfy the demands of tailors and shoemakers perhaps too freely patronized he remembered how fine francis had looked on his last visit home a boy to be proud of or rather a man and in less than a year now he had expected his son to come home and enter hla his own office there was plenty of work to make an ambitious young fellow interestedly active but this letter from the dean ile he read it once more my dear mr willett wallett Wll lett it la is my painful duty to inform you that your son francis willett Wll lett became involved in a most unfortunate affair on the night of november 10 and his participation was of such a nature that it cannot be overlooked by the college authorities I 1 will spare you unnecessary details but will say that excessive indulgence in stimulants led three of our students to appropriate prop a public automobile which has resulted in arrest and arraignment upon several levei charges including that of theft disorderly conduct reckless driving and the operation of a motor vehicle while intoxicated it has been the fixed rule of the faculty that in the absence of thoroughly extenuating circumstances any students haled baled into court for misdemeanors should be ba dealt with most severely and in the present instance I 1 am left no alternative the young mans resignation has been asked tor for and received I 1 believe he secured release from custody under a suspension of sentence and may consider himself most fortunate to escape far more berio serious a consequences regretting beyond expression eu expression the disappointment and chagrin which this occurrence must cause you not only as a father but as an alumnus I 1 remain very respectfully yours WALTER J HACKETT dean of the colleg colleda Col lega the door opened and willett looked up francis had entered almost upon the heels of the postman who bad brought the damning letter very humbly and woefully the young roan man crossed the room and sank into a chair he did not look at his father nor offer a hand in greeting willett surveyed his son steadily for some minutes without speaking did you did you get a letter from the college asked francl francis 3 yes then theres no need of my telling you im afraid there Is not much that you can add francis brands what will your mother say eay francis looked up quickly oh dad he said does she need to know 1 I have never been in the habit babit of deceiving your mother I 1 should not know how bow to go about it perhaps you would do it more skillfully dont please dont he begged it such a it so awfully bad we mean any harm we ourselves whose fault was that III 1 I er nob odys it was the wine we had bad been drinking every everybody body does it wed won a big football game and we were celebrating oh ob celebrating so to celebrate it la Is customary to disgrace yourself and everybody does it t eh why almost everybody you say everybody does it that true there are doubtless scores of fellows who dont the majority in fact that so BO oh I 1 suppose so but but what you mean to say the associates you chose all do it no but listen francis Franc lB you are crying baby and it Is almost as much disappointment to me to have bare you do that as it Is to learn of your disgrace you cannot blame anybody else tor for your trouble you chose your own campan companions pan ions your own road there is no hope for you you have no future if you ran make a silly childish practice of dodging the responsibility for your own misconduct that is all I 1 have to say now I 1 will try to do what I 1 can to soften tills this thing for your mother meanwhile we will decide what you would better do you must go 90 to work of course hero here in the office with you no not yet I 1 dont want you with me for the simple reason that you must learn to be independent you have had one opportunity and have failed perhaps it waa my fault faul baultin tin in that I 1 was too indulgent I 1 gave you t too go much money things came too easy I 1 awill will try to get you aglace a place where you will earn just enough to uve uv on you may stop at home with us if you like but even then you must be entirely self supporting when you have learned how to handle your own affairs even it if they amount to but ten dollars a week I 1 will consider giving you a chance to handle some of mine no francis I 1 bare no intention 0 of preaching to you I 1 tried that I 1 dont say do tills this or dont do that you have hod bad a lesson which may or may not teach you something your curs cure lies in taking your medicine like a man that ended the interview which bad been too painful for either cither to wish to prolong it willett turned to the plied up affairs on his desk and sighed ho he had never sighed quite like that before it occurred to him that he be a young man any more lie ile felt as iff if lie he had find turned the lie abree scare score and ten milestone decades ago francis arose and ap preached the desk will you shake hands dad be h asked ill do better the father looked up and all at once the years rolled back and francis war a little boy again ile he bad the sama old yearning to hug bug him and tell him everything would be all right if only he would be good lie ile took ills his sous sons proffered hand and pressed it silently very well the pressure sald said see that you do I 1 have confidence in you yet but francis did not cry he went out leaving ills his fa ap r feeling old n again g al n john wallett W ett blew his nose and attacked his work CHAPTER X changes the faculty of minot house recognized the value of publicity thelm was a message vital to the community it seemed too as it if the people of sheffield could never have too news of minot house when the editor of a sheffield paper put on a new reporter he be would usually say go up to minot house and get a story theres always something good there lets see what you can make of it IL rodney jones got this assignment his first day on the evening view jones went to minot house watched the crowds af 0 f students ebbing and flowing tried to catch something of the atmosphere of the place and waited for an inspiration it came in the shape of a blond boy with a slight oddity of gait curiosity which la Is at the bottom of what Is called news in impelled him to follow charlie thomas the boy took the elevator and so did jones at the top the elevator door slid back and disclosed a vast room with half a hundred students in smock 1 like aprons working at casela or ad custable ju stable tables the room was quite still everybody except the instructors seemed too busy to talk those who did so conversed in whispers Is this is this the art depart ment asked jones U huh hub said charlie thomas gen lally fally want to see somebody im a reporter from the view chos the boss here the professor or whatever you call him mr mcgregor mr mc mcf 4 f gregor over there charlie indicated a serious young man who was explaining something to one of the students by the use of hist thumb charlie put on his own smock and fell to work on a smutty looking apollo belvedere which he be had bad outlined on his board mr mcgregor led the newspaper man about the big room giving him an animated account of the work of 0 the classes and explaining everything with great politeness when they reached charlie the reporter stopped mr mcgregor was an artist but tie ha had bad lad had some canny scotch ancestors there was a story in charlie and mcgregor knew that it was a booi gooi good obe oae but it would depend upon charlls charlie whether or not it could be had thomas said mcgregor just a minute please charlie deserted apollo with alses alac rity yes mr mcgregor 1 I wish show mr jones some of your little portrait sketches elies not art charlie no good ive torn up most of sent em tio honestly nestly I 1 have mr me mcgregor what are you a budding C D gabson asked the reporter he mean to be fresh but he be sounded so BO complacent so cocksure way down inside charlie charile thomas the little mischief imp tickled him walt wait a minute he be said and picked up a scrap of paper which he laid oti on a magazine then with a pencil he made some rapid strokes glancing momentarily menta rily at the interested and grinning jones here you are he said and w went ent back to his bis work 4 pa r do you think that Char charlie liets iff j j public career begins with this incident M af y TO BM BE COZ |