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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH what 5 JjWthinks about: ' High Hat Folks. J Beverly hills,thecalif.; climax of' utter SYNOPSIS The Duke, a pleasant, likable youth twenty-thre- e, jobless and broke, enters an unoccupied summer home In Southampton, seeking shelter from a terrific rain storm. He makes himself at home. Six years ago his father had died in China, leaving the lad, Barry Gilbert, to fight his way back to the States. He did not recollect ever having had a mother. Dozing at the fireside, he is startled by the arrival of a butler, Willetts; a chauffeur, Evans; a cook and a maid. He learns that the son of the owner of the house, Jack Bidder, whom the servants had never seen, is expected. He decides to bluff It out. His supposed parents have left for Germany. Next morning he is given a letter for his mother." He opens It and finds a message from the real Jack, saying he could not come, and returning a hundred-dolla- r bill. The boys father had pensioned him into obscurity. Barry pockets the money, intending to return it later. He orders Evans to take him to Montauk, intending to disappear there. On the way he assists Jvtde Hambidge and his daughter, Patricia, whose car ha& broken down. Believing he is Jack Ridder, she invites of . him to dinner the following Thursday. Barry returns to Southampton, deciding to stay a bit longer. CHAPTER II Continued 4 He caught Mr. Crowell Inspecting the tag sewn onto the back of his waistcoat Well, that was all right, and, of course, nothing could be wrong, when the trousers were to be sent by parcel post to John Clarke Bidder, Jr. at Southampton. Before the Duke departed, Mr. Crowell had secured orders for a sack suit and evening clothes. Charge em to my the Duke said, and Mr. Crofather, well answered, Certainly, and Ill let you know when were ready to try on. This procedure, and those following at the haberdasher's and the shoemaker's, ruffled the Dukes conscience bill far less than the hundred-dolla- r had done. Til pay It all back some day, he thought, without asking him- self how. The winter covers had been removed from the furniture now, and the place was bright and shining. The Italian box had been filled with cigars. Bending over to get one, the Dukes gaze fell upon an envelope addressed to his other self. A radio message! His fingers stiffened. The Judge hadnt waited to write. Damn Marconi! Feverishly, he tore open the wrapper. Just to let you know that I am very happy stop couldnt sleep last night for thinking of you home at last stop cant tell your father yet stop please please try to spend summer in such a way as to make reconciliation possible stop praying for word on arrival stop God bless you and love. ' Mother." For once, the Duke didnt grin. She didnt care what it cost, he said, but there was no humor in that comment He was picturing a ' hury woman, slipping ried, furtively up to the wireless room, and handing in this message herself, so that no steward should unwittingly betray her. The first word she had been able to smuggle to the boy in years. Its been killing your mother, the Judge had said. The Duke touched a button, and Willetts came. Wheres Evans?. In the garage, sir. With his wife. Ask him to run me down to the village. I want to send a telegram to my mother.I can telephone it, sir. "Thanks; Id rather hand it In. Very good, sir. The carll be here in a minute or two, sir. And Ill hold dinner. Barry never thought any harder than he did during that short ride. What could he say that would make his mother still happier, and yet mean nothing if the message fell into the hands of that hard, old man? In all probability, his father knew the house had been opened. Must know, since he bad forbidden Evans heart-hungr- - On the return trip to Southampton, It struck him that hed got a pretty extensive wardrobe ' for one dinner he argued, suppose Well, I do stay a month. I might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb, and nothing much can happen before my fathers return unless the real John- Clarke Junior changes his mind about writing to Bad Nauheim. Of course, the Judge might write to felicitate the old man on having made It up with his boy. What then? That wouldnt tell them that this wasnt the same boy. Still It might be safer to hint to the Hambidges that the Bidders were going to wander about a bit before arriving at their destination. The Duke leaned back in the Long Island Railways best parlor car, and opened a newspaper he had bought at the station. Almost Instantly, he saw his new friends name again. Jefferson Street Condemnation Just AnCivic other Grab, the headline ran. Association Brands Proceedings Before Judge Hambidge as Loot of City Treasury.". Theyre certainly making it hot for him, Barry mused. He wouldnt have read the story, but for Its reference to the Judge. Even so, he read it very casually. Somebody wanted to turn a side street Into a boulevard. That involved buying a lot of property. And the property owners werent willing to sell for what the city was willing to pay, so condemnation proceedings had been whatever they might be Instituted and Judge Hambidge was to fix the value of the ground and houses. Who really owns this property? the Civic association asked. The corporation that held title was an obvious stalking-horsIt had been formed, and had purchased the land, and buildings, only a few months before the beginning of municipal interest in Jefferson street And it was demanding a million and a half for a few relics of a better day in this neighborhood that would have been dear at half a million. Tammanys paw was visible in the whole transaction, according to the Civic association, and the impending decision called for prompt action from individuals and organizations aware that Judge Hambidge was a Tammany judge. Swell chancel Prompt action? Who cared? Plainly, the didnt and Barry wasnt even a taxpayer. As a couple of million other citizens were to do that evening, be dismissed the whole matter from his mind, and turned the page, looking for a good murder. party. - i Bare-face- d A Radio Message! Stiffened. to bring his wife. His Fingers Well, then, suppose the telegram were signed Willetts, but contained a reference that would Identify the real sender to her, and to no one else? Radio received, he wirelessed at last Will do my best. Writing. Wil- letts." She would understand. The reaction came after dinner. Maudlin, thats what I am, thought the Duke. Just because I get a mesThe first one saged signed Mother. I ever got Damn fool trick sending that wireless. Sooner or later, .shes going to find out it was fake, and then what good will I have done? Thursdays dinner started off on the wrong foot. The Duke wore his new flannels and his old gray coat It was not a warm evening, but he had nothing else to wear. His fathers apparel was much too tight. He could see Patricia taking him in. d She was lovely in crepe de chine, and the Judge immaculate in black tie and dinner jacket You said we could fight things out on the tennis court," the Duke apologized, and Im afraid that stuck In my mind. The truth is my luggage hasnt turned up, and I had to wear anything I could find. You should have worn a strip of bunting, and brought boxing gloves, the Judge laughed. If you and Pat are going at it as you did at the club. What would happen if we agreed Beaching home, he went straight to about anything? asked Patricia. the library. e. tax-paye- -- cherry-colore- "Id be wrong, be wrong'!" Miss was on at- - When tained in Massachusetts. Old of Bostonian met a Plyyou addiin Rock stock mouth who, Hambidge; Id guests over the following week-enThe Winslows. My mother was Mrs. tion, had gone through Harvard,' d. The retort was no more his own than the shirt on his back, but he was rewarded for it by an appreciative flash in the girls eyes. But they couldnt agree. How was it possible, the Duke asked himself afterward, to be so fascinated by a young woman who opposed his every Idea and utterance? And so well, so cocklly. As though It amused her to be irritating. The girl chattered about everything. A modern, and proud of it Why should people be proud of being modern"; a state, like that you achieved merely by beborn? And, so far as modernity ing was a point of view, why preen yourself because you didnt believe in anything except your owh right to be happy? This girl had had no contact with life. Walled about in a pleasant garden, she delivered herself of smart, brittle opinions of conditions she had never experienced, people she had never seen. But you couldnt help liking her. And it began to be evident that Youre different at she liked him. least," she said. Different from any other man I know. Really not a bit like a rich mans son. Ive been on my own a good while, he reminded her. Yes, she answered. Youve something to talk about When my sets through with golf, bridge, the stock market, and the night clubs, Its through Barry learned a good deal about his adopted father that night. And, when Patricia left them for a few minutes, the Judge repeated, Hes certainly no sentimentalist that gentleman. Were supposed to be friends, and his paper goes on attacking me. The Civic association thats nothing on earth but The Globe. And now theyre all at it. Talking about my taking orders from Tammany. Generally, It wouldnt matter, but this Jefferson street business has got everybody so worked up, its all a mans careers worth just to be caught nodding to a District Leader. Barry nodded. Did you ever speak to the old man?" . Just a few days before he left. Tm running my newspaper for the public, he said." Whats the use of stopping one paper? Patricia inquired, entering the room. "The others would keep right on. Did you ever read any of the things they wrote about Abraham Lincoln? Be a brave old gentleman, and dont let it bother you She laughed, but her eyes were very tender as she laid her hands on the Judges shoulders. Thats why I like her," thought the Because I see what shed be Duke. if somebody scraped off the enamel Shes got the makings of some girl! It was after midnight when Barry climbed into his car, calling back, Remember, youre dining with me next Thursday ! You certainly took father out of himself, the girl had remarked to him. Hes been frightfully depressed." Lets see a lot of one another, Im lonely the Duke had rejoined. as an oyster in a church stew. Why not come to my place next Thursday? All right And were having house Hard-boile- king-shi- p, 1 Winslows sister. Peters a prominent lawyer, and it wont hurt you to know him. And Ive got an old school friend coming from Boston. Will you dine with us again that Friday? Ill board with you, If you ask me ! But that Barry replied exuberantly. lets me out, he vowed, on the way home. This cant go on forever. Somethings sure to break, and I dont want it to break anywhere near that girl. What she learns when Im gone wont hurt either of us, but Gosh Id hate having to face her after shed found out the truth! However, Southampton was not only ruining his appetite for baked beans ; it was ruining his taste for the open road, and Standing before the mirror, In faultless evening dress, on Thursday, he thought the thing out If I cant get a white-colljob with these clothes, and the new feeling this thing has given me. Im a wash-ou- t Id like to make good now. Darned if I know why, but I would! He made up his mind to go to town the next day, and have another try at it. Ill take a shot at the movie stuThere ought to be dios, he said. something In heroes for a young fellow who looks like that. He was still contemplating himself in the glass, with a view to his picture possibilities, when the Hambidges arrived. On the whole, it was a very successful evening. The Judge seemed even more worried than he had been a week before, but Barrys good humor was irresistible. Patricia had asked about his experience in Florida, and he found himself combining purely imaginary adventures there with anecdotes of park benches and the flop house in New York. He told of arriving, penniless at Southampton and of the providential hundred-dolla- r bill that came addressed to his mother. Truth and fiction blended so wonderfully, and seemed so real The Hambidges went home early, but in much better spirits than they had brought with them, and Patricia paused at the door to remind him of their engagement for the following Friday. Youll have to come the week after that, too, she said. My Boston friend cant get here next week, and shes especially anxious to meet rough-neck- s. ar - you. Patricia must have written about him, then. By Golly, he would get that job If only to show her that he could do something better than dance. It was twenty minutes later before the Duke realized suddenly that the exigencies of the situation werent going to allow his showing Pat anything but a clean pair of heels. had been laid twice and both times successfully. Sometimes this type made me say, to myself that maybe it might have been better if the Mayflower had been making a round trip. But now this coast takes the championship right away from the eastern seaboard. Out here is a sojourning Irvin S. Cobb Englishman who heretofore was not notably distinguished; didnt have a single hyphen to his name. But he wrote home congratulating King Edward on his accession and has just had an acknowledgment signed by none other than the kings fourth assistant deputy equerry, and now the delirious recipient can hardly wait to be snatched up to glory so he may pause at the golden gates just long enough to give In his halo and order for an extra then, with that hallowed document clutched to his bosom, stroll through paradise snooting the heavenly host. - chest-expandi- over-size- d Original Native Sons. Angeles RIGHT In theof heart of Los perhaps our first te-booster have just been dug up. If he lived 50,000 years ago, as some experts figure, that would seem to make him an original native son, but if, as others think, he only dates back 16,000 years, he was probably an early settler from the Middle West who got bogged down In the primeval ooze on his way to an Iowa state picnic. This certainly puts those uppity Florida folks in their place. The only thing theyve dug up lately was a canal, and they may have to put that back. The celery growers dont like it, and when you come between a Florida celery grower and his celery its just the same as trying to rob a tigress of her young. clima- Gov. Hoffmans Motives. the his own state, its hard to believe New Jerseys Governor Hoffman was actuated by political ambition in the course he took in this ghastly Hauptmann case, because, while he created for himself a strong personal following, so many of the boys whod probably like to vote with his side are unfortunately being detained at present in places like Sing Sing and Alcatraz and Leavenworth, where theres no voting being done. Notwithstanding t Barrys first two days In town were fruitless. There werent many studios In New York, and they didnt seem to be doing much. Acting isnt a mans job, anyway, said the Duke. Painting your face, and putting a feather in your hat! Im going to look over the Business Opportunities in the newspapers." Most of them were opportunities to part with a little money. But Barry didnt give up hope. - (TO BE CONTINUED ) GOOSE WAS ESTABLISHED IN EUROPE BEFORE MAN CAME The goose goes far back into antiquity as a provider of food as well as feathers. It was already established in Europe before man came along, and with the possible exception of the common hen, was probably the first bird domesticated. Four thousand years ago it was regarded as a sacred bird in Egypt, though in so far as that may translate into tribute it must be discounted by the fact that the Egyptians early made It a habit to multiply their stock by sacred birds In species. There are references to geese in some of the Sanskrit writings, and In the tombs of Luxor figures of geese are included among the decorations. The Romans considered goose liver a great delicacy, and enormous numbers of the birds were placed in pens and forcibly fattened by cramming. It was probably some of these geese whose loud alarm saved the Roman capital from the attack of the Gauls in the Fourth century, B. 0. In Plinys time geese were driven across Europe in flocks from France and Belgium into Italy. And Pliny adds, Messallnus Cotta, the son of Messala, the orator, discovered the method of cooking the webs of the it was as though you met an egg which gooses feet, and frlcasseeing them in small dishes along with cocks combs. The Celts are reputed to have the largest responsibility for popularizing the goose; from them the Romans learned the art of filling cushions and mattresses with the feathers to make luxurious couches; ONE Lady Lucks Favorites. of the main winners in the re , sweepstakes, a mere youth, lamented being alone in the world and having nobody to share his good fortune with. Thatll be the smallest of the young mans worries. Inside of forty-eighours hell have more kinfolks than a Potomac shad. By the end of a week hell be entirely surrounded by an impenetrable forest of previously unsuspected friends and Also stock promoters, automobile salesmen, income tax collectors and life insurance agents; affectionate females (object, matrimony and alimony in the order named) and citizens on foot or As for distant relatives, hell begin thinking he must be part Belgian hare and they wont stay distant, either. ht well-wisher- s. hitch-hikin- g. New Spring Finery. do the new fashions always on the wrong females, or vice versa, as the case may be? WHY When white shoes prevailed the lassies with the most robust feet went to them unanimously, probably because Ancient Giant Forests Nature doesnt usually do things by a white shoe makes any foot look halves. It appears that when she bigger. creates a giant she surrounds him by As skirts climbed knee-higand then giants. At least, observes a writer in on way uptown, twas the maiden with s Pathfinder Magazine, this was true the who wore hers the v 120,000,000 years ago when North She would. America swarmed with dinosaurs. A The damsel whos kind of startled collection of fossilized cones from looking anyhow just will pluck her eyegiant prehistoric trees in possession of brows, thereby enhancing the suggesthe Smithsonian institution shows that tion of a skeered squlnch owl when these massive reptiles wallowed And now that are coming In in swamps where mountains now and coming downbangs the wont be stand most of North America was cov- favored first by the style who young girl ered with forests of towering sequoias already resembles a California. in found are as such only robin and so could get away with that During the ages that followed, how- sort of thing. Itll be none other than ever, mountains arose cutting off rain the middle-agesister who is, as the from certain sections and killing the poet says, kind of horse-faceto start redwoods there. Later great glaciers with, and then all shell need is a floral swept down from the north bringing horseshoe around her neck to look like cold that killed all the rest except a derby winner. those on the California coast IRVIN S. COBB. h bow-leg- high-esL- newly-hatche- d d d e-W- NU Service. , |