Show ve vo U CLU SE 0 FIFTH J ta Y AVENUE WYNDHAM MARTYN MAW COPYRIGHT 4 W NU ma UNITED STATE STORY FROM THE START aam i from the comfortable financial ItU Atlon to which he had been born peter wilman american i gentleman of the old school and last of ble hi family la is practically reduced to td penury through the misfortune of a friend hazen brewer whom he had unwisely trusted learning of brewers brewer a sul BU cide which means meang tho the destruction of his hie luat last hope engages a french butler achille achilla lutry w who 0 speaks no english and Is to ta replace kneed servant of long iv tandl anding Dg by lutry milman bends letters to prof fleming bradney floyd mulct malet and nee ia land hd barnis Bar neB men whom t the he world has classified as failures once tt high position in response the ho three call on him at his home if CHAPTER ill continued r 4 by degreed bradney found himself to anecdotes with a less leis crit critical icil attitude names barnes had liu hu mor A handsome mail bradney de tided courageous popular with men and d women women alike and not burdened with sufficient fent mental power to enable him to feel he a mission in life 11 he lived no doubt as his we wealthy allily 1 class l oss does simply for the moment iri in truth neeland barnes had for rotten gotten entirely the dinner was excellent A fellow countryman of achilles Achl lles had bad seen to that the wines were superb barnes adopted an air of 0 exquisite but lofty courtesy toward hla bin fellow guests they said very little but their table manners were vere v ere reassuring when the dinner bould be finished barnes determined to lean back in his chair survey billman with i smile that had world knowledge and kindly cynt cynicism elsm in it and nd demand to know for what aliat reason brought from Peek peekskill skill retire ment mene As one old new yorker to on an othir other peter allman would give his treasons trea sons fine ape 0 oil I painting over your head mr mir dillmon said floyd malet disturbing the train of barnes tinclee tin cles A relative of mine milman nn an sw breh capt oliver allman that was painted in holland when he was a young soldier in glands En wars with france it Is by Jord jordaens the brilliant fellow student of rubens ile he joiner his br brother in ln plymouth coun ty massachusetts just after that picture was painted later he fought in king philips war he was killed fighting for england against france in Pennsyl pennsylvania vanla historians know it as king williams Wll llama war ar 1 his brother disowned him for ble bib godless ways of life in revenge captain oliver be thed him his entire fortune which rescued the stern and righteous brother from beggary but tor for oliver milman we might have bave become ob farmers on cape cod what the milhans had they owe to him neeland barnes launched into a bit ter invective against righteous rela tives take it from one who knows s he concluded it Is the black sheep do a man a good turn when he be needs it ive found that my righteous ons relatives always gave me good advice and nd tile I 1 lie shadier sort slipped roe me the coin some day a great lawlessness will swee sweep over the world malet declared 1 I dont mean as a concerted action I 1 on the part of any socialist or syn sen but an expression of human unrest we ve have haie been tied down too long we jve have endured too much tile the oppressions oppress ions of those in authority well stampede you mean said barries barnes ill be there do you think peter aillean asked that there Is any justification for the human herd stampeding because itla it la dissatisfied with its mas terol certainty floyd malet said sometimes it Is just to take tabe the law I 1 in ones hands I 1 the law scoffed bradney recall ing certain earlier passages of his life tha the law now im a typical law abiding abadin i citizen but bafit I 1 cannot regard uny any maff man made statutes utes as sacrosanct what la is kiy law arule arole of civic con duct prescribed Prescribe il by the supreme power and prohibiting what la Is wrong thava definition neeland barnes looked instinctively over the table to 19 his host jt it was his exper experience lence that all rich men support edthye liose lawa bawa which abich kept the masses 40 in his own days ot of wealth hi be had done jbv the came but there woo wa no frown oneeter on peter 1111 mans face athla la a discussion which interests mo IBO more than you olcan cun lne said peter atlman his hij guests noticed ahls head bead and glanced pta nt 1 I usually rilly havea coffee ee and liqueurs lique urs served in tin 4 garden arden 1 he robe think you mai nay meter it th there prep garden I 1 clovd matet orl A irdee ai avenue S tok vau see bee bald ad milmon vt raw lff ay iy te bistes M 6 4 r g V S they followed their h host ost through library and corridor to what seemed a blank wall A door cleverly con cealey by moldings mol dings swung open not for twenty years had stran strangers str angera ger been offered the chance to gaze u upon pon peter allman japanese garden this la Is japan malet exclaimed 1 I have seen tills this in nagasaki 1 I modeled it on a part of the gardens in the Ten teahouse bouse of the indescribable butterflies in nagasaki with a suggestion here and there from the Fuka waga garden neeland barnes knew nothing about japanese gardens but the thing took his fancy amazingly quaint bridges little streams with brilliant goldfish garden I lanterns an terns strangely set stones made this back yard of seventy feet long by halt half as much wide the most entrancing garden he had seen on this avenue where lie too had been born at the other end of it was a sort 0 of f platform on which comfortable seats were arranged immediately below it was a lily illy pool twenty feet above was a framework of steel mesh to which mosquito netting was attached this Is exquisite malet mur anred no wonder you do not move by degrees bradney found himself listening to barnes barnee anecdotes your taste seems to me to be perfect I 1 have hae never been ina in a more harmonious and beautifully furnished house willie while achille was bringing coffee and liqueurs lique urs ullman allman explained how by the use of glass whore where now was netting he be could regulate the temperature pera ture and keep hla garden beautiful when snowstorms snow storms raged and frost bit viciously it was when achille had gone that Neel neeland tind barnes found himself sighing he had abandoned the idea of lift hils man of the world questioning of hla his host ile he was content that this pleasant atmosphere remain unchanged ile he did not want to think of going back to and the rent question the wine and the green chartreuse induced a pleasant lassitude neeland barnes stretched his long legs and felt at peace you have been very patient gentlemen milman began in not asking me ere tills this for what reason I 1 invited incited sou and you have been very courteous to come when my letter might have been construed coni trued lie in ampt an of light ni nealand allind baries pc t witted himself to smile at being in fri gulf edby by it ati gift of a hundred dollars 1 I hive have never met any of you yon personally before although J 1 have heart heard mr bradney lecture and have a been aei some of mr maleas work I 1 also haq wn thrilled many years ago by mr barnes horsemanship 4 very handsome ot of you yon to say so BO said neeland barnes 1 I flatter myself I 1 could ride in those days w what hot I 1 am going to say may seem nothing whatever to do with me at first it it may even be that you will consider me guilty of some breach of good form when I 1 mention certain matterson matt matters ersIn in the past life of f all three of you it so I 1 beg you to believe I 1 ahn shall I 1 say nothing idly r have a definite plan in asking you to meet and I 1 must tell my story in ray my own way peter milman looked from one t to 0 the other of them a little anxiously ile heiens awai meticulous in matters of personal conduct and he be feared be might be excie exceeding eding his rights so far as I 1 am concerned said fleming bradney you have nothing to fear faar I 1 have done noth nothing irig to be ashamed cf although I 1 cannot expect the world to believe that sly my reputation said malet is IB ft a trifle besmirched hut fiut I 1 have long since ceased applying whitewash juvenal says that to be poor Is to be ridiculous well mr milman I 1 can plead guilty to that count peter milman turned courteously to the third guest dont mind me said barnes genially 1 I am used to it it if you had had all the d n silly gally relations had bad have no sensitive spots left I 1 have been worthless since birth he chuckled but ive had a d n good run for my money even it if this juvenal person has my number up and the th race lost rub it in if it helps you my wool Is black and I 1 know it im afraid you dont exactly understand der stand peter milman smiled 1 I I 1 ain am neither schoolmaster nor reproving relative I 1 merely wish to ask your pardon if I 1 talk of things in your lives that may stir up unhappy memories floyd thought of his lonely room his uncongenial work and looked about him and sighed he liked this unknown peter allman with his charming manner and a dignity that had something forgotten and VIct victorian orlan bout about it lite life had not given malet what it had promised and the disappointment point meat had bad embittered him but there was nothing disgraceful in what had brought him low go ahead mr milman he said bald you yon can talk for days it if you like let me begin with mr fleming bradney said milman 1 I have said I 1 once beard him lecture it was because I 1 rend read an article of his in the north american review on radio ac what I 1 read and afterward heard him say stirred up my imagination powerfully and 3 understood that a man may have a passion for knowledge which Is a burning hunger fleming bradney nodded his head yes he be commented the t a a good description of it it Is a passion that recognizes no limits of time or labor expended it Is a passion that has knowledge as its goal and not fame or money yes I 1 had it once the circumstances which led mr bradney to give up his lifework life work and drop out of his world have never never been told in their entirety 12 peter told said after a pause 1 I amr am going to tell you now I 1 may say that up to the moment of his retirement we have never had a physicist who gaye gave such promise as he be it Is to the honor of a great university in this state that lie he was elected professor of elberic physics and asked to erect the most superb laboratory for his work that could be built it was to exceed in equipment that of cambridge university he was allowed to design it it I 1 think such a chance has rarely been given to one so young bradney nodded his head it was the greatest opportunity ever offered it a man and he lost it if Mil milhans mans quiet precise voice oce went on ue he lost it and with it the chance of making a career of supreme service to mankind I 1 wonder it if mr air braney would mind telling us how TO BE BC CONTINUED |