Evening Star Newspaper, May 22, 1921, Page 69

< THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MAY 22, 1921-PART 4. . INEZ GETS HER WISH - By Seweitiord|[THE RAMBLER WRITES OF DUEL FOUGHT about displaying so much of /let out i gasp that must have sounded { bona 1can stand it 1/ 1ike 4 boitle of home hrew exhauct- HE Rambler feels that he has other folks can. As for vou. ing through the cork. Was this Inez, I e T T “urk; AY. the morc T trail around with | ffom fox-trotiing across West 5ith herr ik s stree en 1 turned over the shop !craz. Inez the less I get acqualnted |y the night force and started for the |y with her. That may scem odd. | hoardinz house. 1 expected to find)gu | too. But it's a fact. First off I |Inez with her nose against the dining | Inez, all you lack is an ermine {rim-| or the late Cleopatra alk about thought I was the master mind in |L00m door. waiting for the signal. She [ med robeand some pearl ropes 1o be | Jc wels! Why, she was decorated like | some slizht measure of 1ccog- | this sketch team that's.come down [C° ¥ is. you know. | mistalken for a grand duch But @ Christmas” tre They were hung nition uthority on o ! . H B We must get star around her neck, they biazed from | Sfrom, Duluthto| exploré New Tork o T Just our poor luck that all | different parts of the black dress, and , 1oads—horsebac] ox-cart roads for Uncle Nels ard other curiosities, | [JUT 1ot this time. She's up in our | ellby’s hoarders were «still| {OPDIfE her honey-colored hair was a land horse-and-buggy ro. He ha room very much deshabille, as the divorce accounts put it, and she’s ga 1 had a htnch that it was Trilby May PDodge who was furnishing the brains «nd Inez the weight. then. though. I get a rude jolt which | Sfread out on the bed. 1 suppose 1 |Stone kes me suspect that Inez, with that | did the open-face act myself for a min- | (NOUER ot more than a dozen people. includ- | half the size of a-fried egg and dia- S hefore ou Al Eres oty ot TAE Lo Janitors, ware n Sixht A< we | monds splashed all around it. If I'd {798 58 of tcenes lome these | i ing room just then and that | TCEUIAT crowh effect with a blue stone { go rihed many of them to vou and very now and | it% round-eyed at two evening gowns |swept majesiic down the old brown- been brought up in a pawnshop I ".h.“i'i'mfl.'hi and long Such as they were, | Might describe ‘em better. but being 1oRdS. an 1 3 i eV M . no gem ex S hie to 14 & i journeys in em a treat. And Eem expert VIl have (o let it ride { {000 G ! sinia he; to make nortunities lthe tokes' cha o opened he | At that. Anvway. it was some dispi Ry £ingle-track. movieized mind of hers. | ute or two before 1 recovered from li)||nuninv~‘l’|4mxh ;lr’r.rf S eiita i they Morgan Smith is a cool one. el ety ‘{‘r"r?“‘p‘l"’,~9 roide and he isn’t to be listed as just so much ex- [ the joit. [ hs R rule Ineztake thrills e i seem more than {|SRONES ( TUE oL o WL asrer. cess baggage. “For (the) love of Lueille!® I gusps.) PIT N0 miare odtward show than o D hoen ermahe Dhiuind—* { iha Torxebick road i . Take \lhis ;nallrr of her m “What's all this, Inez | Ra¥Ea Blodh Parcs s sho e 'I"_‘\'“l”_m" " breaks in Junius. “Sent '|nrl| m? Imr]~e- n;l_» i ‘ncle Nels, for instance. “See! « Y S inz a e tae In%.ad = 2 comimission from the soviet | to te found in Vircinia, thouzh they}’ course, T've crossed him - =aqehe Gbinnec resses (e S roRndion U et b e e el $alk about are hecomins rarer in Marylind. i long ago. From the very start. after YR Lo DAlent UAL apaes ik | Those | tnat after dinner. All ready. Barton?, e Imber. though he hores you e dradwittedjthat heiwag Mageing of ‘@ doubt,” says 1. pickin' onc|PAICBL snappers arent steel Fivels:|yery well, Mr. Smith. will you take in | will concede to him a small under- uinder another name and that she |UD and runnins my fingers over the 704 KBOW, and vou mustnt put too) okes?" standing of tfe beauties, irr couldn’t remembar what he looked | bead work. “But that doesn't tell me | {il5] SIrain onem. What's the mat-| "~ 1 expected it was a perfectly gor- jand difficulties of the nd-buz: | geous fred, too, but between trying [oX-cart apd horse | to guess which w the rizht fork® does not d%k vou to “N 3 5 ! | to aise and staring at Inez 1 v lautherity on automobile 1 him. if he still existed. as she would ISh2" says 1. “You don’t mean that “What man®” 1 demands [ busy to noties what 1 was {senerally avoids them. They are xo of retrieving a safety pin dropped | —see here, Ingz let's end the suspense. . “He was waiting in doorway as weiVYouw'd have thought Incz wo : hard on one’s feef. Another objection i from a North river ferryboat. to them is that the patronized Yet. when 1 suggest that this| . by automobile owncrs. and many of | orangeade hooth job of ours is { these are very new and raw persons about as uncertain as that of any { v ho have but recently had their name: hold-over postmaster in a hungry !inserted in the social rezister—by sub- republican district, and that we ought hing for a cop; Generaily, the 10 be saving up against the day when ons most agreeable to the Rvmbler Mr. Popogoulis might drift in with a of old and aristocratic zrouch and give us both the gate, amilies—are to be met or overtaken Tnez merely hunches her broad shoul- i1ie ox chrtanallicreenn e Ry ders and springs that stupid pastoral o fastioned roads | stare of hers. = e 2 i as meets delizhtful Foe omeitem, Incx/ has Fraduated rsons, who. like himself, cinnot re- Tike exactly, except that he had whis- | Whence and whither. Left her by mis- kers once; why. naturally, Il say |take. I *she had as much chance of finding | . No Man!" says she, starin’ through the back window. from the Sth avenue arcades. where | { member anyihing that has happened ! cents, including war tax, and she has | {since the civil war. while on those hard, { S or center aisl { +mooth and uncomfortable roads called | developed a taste for center aisle hizhw: or boulevards one is con-| seats in the big Broadway movic houses, where a perfectly elegant gent in full evening dress leads The big orchestra and they put on the tenor and soprano selections with special scenery. She's strong for the organ numbers, too. | stantly encountering were persons who yvever heard of the civil war and to { wvhom the revolu nary war'seems a S ~ N [ contest that took place about T13-odd | SOME ORI | ] cears ago, and which is not at all fresh Two or three Sundays ago|Ly Henry §. Foot, you will find aliu- 2 RAMBLE SMOKETOWN FRIENDS. | !in their minds. SRR thousand acres in King crews * k% K v Ake {the HRambier got off No. 12 ‘or No.|sions to the affair which inter- | county. Va. and in 1715 crected a T i {\[OW. waile the Rambler has been | at Lawton because by some lack lest you.” house in Mathias Point k and ob- L ELL. mu AN e 14N accepted, nay. almest hailed, as|of official intelligence that train ix * % % % tained from the Virginia legislature | the first license to operate a public which is one of the most important. | SUR" ferry across the Potomac river. Writ- I hien meclaimed 4s an authority on the |most enlightened and most hospita- | day that the Rev. Horace EAwin ing of old Potomuc ferries last Jume. {reilread question. He has been over- | ble :l-uw\_;fl‘o:n.-r‘:\l I"l_'m('c ‘?lul;ml; Hayden, in his Virginia genealogy. m:!- K‘;—nnhln-r said: 1;};. Tooked. Iatrfax Harrison, Duaniel Wil- |county. Settinz o rom Lawton| = ° . ety ord of a Potomac publi looked, Fatrfax He on, Daniel Wil- | 04Nty eling over ihe. irregularly |Tefers to this duel, listing Bernard J.1004 9F & Botomae DED Finley, L. Rea. Wil- ced t after train went by |Hooe as “killed in a duel with Wil-1eounq"m the act of t liam H. ‘Tru and mans” other | Without once stopbing to offer a fel-|liam Kemp.” The Rambler has al-{sembly for 1720. It ix good fellows who were prominent;loW traveler. zoing in the same dir: ready given such meager information {tling new ferries on the Pamunke: B eh the railronds amounted to somes | tion, a 1ift. You would doubtless eX- of Hooe.as he has been able to ob- | Mattapony and Patowmack rivers thing have never consulted the |pect that the engineer or the conduc- tain. He lived in Prince William the act provision is made for ov Rambler. They have thought his | lor. now makinz more money than the | county. was a justice of the peace in over the Potomme ‘from Co scholarshin w: mited to \\'calhpr-Id"“"xnrfiflnd probably performing that county in 1790. trustee of the s to Cedar Point in Marylan {not scheduled to stop at Oceoquan e.” And she me feel good her nd sh F["HE Rambler mentioned last Sun- * puts her skirt band to indicate the exact spot. “Now. 1 _know what ther mean by, drinking it in” says 1. “You swal Yow it whole. don't you. Inez? But the fact remains that for these frills they nick us just tw < much and you want to go twice as often. Tt} . may be true that heaven protect working girl, but thats as far goes. How she manages what an authority on old roads with ruts | and mudholes in them. he has never ferry which upon is that » Virginia as An act for set- in the pay envelope is up to he : beaten #nd broken-backed ancestral;moTe ser for the company—would town of Haymarket, ten miles west of authorized rate of fare was Whether any of that sank in or not 1 homes and to the tombstones of Mary- | Slow ub. d sav: “Can’t I give Manassa: n 1798, and_sheriff of [shillings for a man. 2 shillings for a land_ and Virginia pionecrs. vou a li you would cortinue Prince William in 1800. His wife was|horse and 2 shillings for a hogshead I can't say. for Inez chews placid| on her gum a while and then remarks | eheerful: “Well, L got a rich uncle. | anyhow. ! %o I've heard vou state.” sa “He's about as much use to us just at present. though, as the fame and | fortune which I'm dead sure is com- ! ing to me. We've still got both to find before we cash in on ‘em. t 1 like thinkin' ‘bout Uncle | insists Inez. elp_yourself, then." says I. “only case off on the sundry cxpense ac- count.” Not that we hadn't worked up a good business at the drink beoth. I knew we had for I'd discovered a daily sales slip_tucked back of the cash register and 1 could figure where . our average was running nearly 40| » 3 M FOUR BLOCK er cent higher than anyvthing Pim- | LA 0 B ) A Pie Face and mis side Kick had been il AND DRCPPING BACK EVERY SEC-! able to show. But does Boss Popo- | OND. WHAT DINNER PARTY? goulis loosen up _in proportion? He e «does not. When I give Lim a gentle hint that there ought to be a little| 1 Palm Limited | Margaret Pratt and he left five chil- | of tobaceo” The Hooe home in that jthe columns of the press an ex- |roared by, the S s Special | dren—Thomas. Sallie. Bernard. Lucypart of Virginia was called Barnes ipert on railroad and industrial cco- | thundered Alligator EX-and Eliza. There must be numerousiviile. and Dr. Tyler has written th | nemi i . isn’t | DT and the Gopher Fast Mail sped|descendants of this Hooe in Virginia.|apout it: “This old house was in a m to knowing |along and the train crews paid no and some time the Rambler believes: perfect state of preservation until ' mteh about (hess momentous, por- : more atiention to their fellow trav- | he will come upon more facts pertain- | juna 55 ‘1861, when it was set on fire entous and importantous questions |eler on the ties than if he had beer ing to ths duel. If Hooe died at Ri-|}y federal gunboats. Several gencra- s many gentlemen who get real!a mere stockholder. pon—and the tradition is persistent! o< of Hooes lie buried at Barn, United States Treasury money for| All the Rambler's friends that that he did—the inference is that he, yijje, where a large marble shaft tells ~xpressing their opinions. And if you | this unsocial attitude preva on lived in that part of the county.|ihe story of their births and deaths. Know the difference between a hand- |many other roads and that train crews | Bringing him by boat from the place | pic."Hooe was a member of tie house {car and a locomotive or a cnboose |Seem to be more intercsted in putting |of combat on Stump Neck. his friends | ¢ yyrgesses and he was a vestry- jand a ehair car, and have heard these | them off than in letting them get on. | no doubt put into Neabsco creek and |\, 0" "¢ "G vorwharton parish, 17 | entlemen discuss the railroad. situ- | But finally the Ramblér arrived at cn a ridge on the south side of thejjrgs.. . ation. you must agree thal the|Occoquan and sat down in the wait- |creek about a mile from its mouth is 5 & Rambler's claim is not extravagant. |#ng room to rest. Rube Hamil spotted | the old house of Ripon Lodge. It 2 'he whole trouble of e railroads|him and invited him over on his|would seem that they were hearinzt is due (o their indifference to the porch, and Mrs. R. H. handed him a|the wounded man to his home and ! Rambler has not even appeared in {to expect! The Cabb was Rice (3). son of the founder of Barnesville, was mar- ried twice, his first wife being Anne. aughter of Robert Howson and widow of Capt. Robert Massie. A other son of the first Hooe in Kin: George countv W Howson Hoor, who married Frances Bernard. Their son, Howson Hooe. married Mary, a daughter of Robert Dade and a H i 1 ! ! commission coming our way he sim-|Tell me you didn't yield tb temptation | come out.” whispered Tnez. “Now— been dazed, too. by all that mag- ply hunches his neck down into his|and throw a brick through some show nn’\,‘\' he"; ‘in xlpbnhiml Y nidcence hung on her. Bul not Miss granddaughter of Francis Dade and eallax¥andithae ibideicyeniatibis {iwindow “Oh, com 1. “Forget that Petersen. She sits there with her | Frances Townsend Dade. That Pran- take on a hard glitter. | “Me?" says Inez. trying to 100k mmall town stuff. Youwre not back | ciin well up. blinking bland an” ces Townsend Dade was a sister of “I can get plenty girls in here for | shocked. “I wouldn't do that. ever.|in Duluth. This is New York. Why. | peaceful. and only mnow and then.} Mary Towneend. who became the wife of John Washington. Howson { Hooe was sheriff and justice of the peace of Prince William couhty. 1761- 11769, and a vestryman of Dettingen parish. Howson Hooc and Marv Dade's children were Henry Dade Hooe. who married Jane Fitzhugh of King George county. and Howson Hooc. who married three times, one of his wives being Namcy Reed. The chil- dren of Henry Dade Hooe and Jane Fitzhugh were Henry Dade Hooe. Robert Howson Hooe and Danicl Fitzhugh Hooe. The children of How- son Hooe and Nancy Reed were Daniel Bernard Hooe. who went to California in _1549; Harmon Hooe. Eyrick Richard Hooe. who was killed in the Confederate gervice. and John Hooe. who married Mary Farr. Rob- ert Howson Hooe. son of Howson less” says he. | Miss Stokes, she send dresses. We [ can count half a dozen taxis behind when she catches me gazing at her, | “Quite s0.” says J. “But not a pai-| wear ‘em to ‘dinner party. us, and soon as we swing into | indulging in that simple, childish of cross-mated blondes like us. who'll “Hal-lup!” says I. “Now youre ex- Broadw ‘11 be a procession of snile of hers. I remember producing ring up so many nickels in a dav. |ceeding the speed limit. I'm four blocks | ‘em fourteen. miles long. And an- Uhe same effect once by giving her Why. say. mister. let me tell vou|bchind vou and dropping back cvery sec- | other thing. Inez! The moment we @ €iring of pink beads that I'd something. There are more than two oid. What dinner party? When?" Strike the block the Stokeses live in bought at the Five-aund-Ten. All the dozen young hicks and as mamy mor-| “Tonight.” says 1Inez, “by Miss vou've got to park that cud of gum Tvm e makes is when she leans oid sports who've got the Inez habil | Stokes' house. Swell, eh?" permanent in the roadw » acro table while her plate is already. ““Absolutely.” says I.© ““Also a bit un»! That calms her for a while. bu snifted and asks me how I 18 “Hey?" syys he. “What i% that?™lexpected. But what's it all about. if |we turned into a street in the We. looks. “Oh. the ‘habit of drifting around|ycu don't mind my asking?" 7 [seventies sne's staring anxious out %o u spruce after a slect stol here at least twice a day.” says L:° And Jittle by littie Inez sketches thelof the . “How do vou feel? “Think {hey've acquired a chronic|whole story for me. It had been while | “Look tehing m Swell” savs Inez, using one of thirst for orangeade? Well. hardiy:) she was at the milliner’s trying on hats | nervous by ame man adjectives, ) Most of 'em come to tell Inez what)inat Mrs Stokes had suzgested her| “I doubt it.” says I “But even so.| . how, though, it wasn't a lively 2 Tovely girl she s, and if she hav- | coning name 7or dlnmer i Srnen "S|1 fafl to work up any panic over It.|dinner party. ars while Incz/and I pens to let up on the pepsin 100 |icayt “sne thought it was the lady, al-(All that's worrving me just now i, didnt miss a single trick, from the enough to give 'em one of her br“g‘(hough mayhe it ‘was Junius. > Al hat were going to ftell ‘em about | €aviar doodads (o the smelly cheese, 1Ause (xmiles and | show her cheek| rThe milliner lady.” syys Inez, “sheilUncle Nels “You'd better leave thal dimples. 1"‘" T o K hen she take my hair down ‘and—and twist it|part of it to me. Inez. And here we fox ) vegular . cus 5 iup funny. Then she put on hat and}are.” neither of us contributes much to the gayety of the occasion. As for me. 1 couldn’t help wondering what misses I'm liable to edge in with a{yg il i - aler and Stokes | it was all about. Mr. Mofgan Smith . Junius. how perfect-ly stunning e - siastic | Stokeses did their best. And yet, all Atk Lodee. his fathers home In each one think he's a home wrecker. “rhat's the secret of our success. you queals. She's a pudzy. billowy Prince William county. and died in Fauquier county. His _wife was Mary. daughter of Maj. Richard and Matilda Waugh. The children of Robert Howson Hooe and Mary And Mister Junius he say ‘Yes' and—3dueals, Fhes o o & k. They look at]and then they talk about dinner. They}female herself and you coud Bardw h:‘&“;nd";mz‘" K and that's why | Want me to bring Uncle Nels. t00." iblame her for being surprised at the Inez and lisien to me, and (hat's ©AY | 400 o' save I ~Yow'd been telling | WaY her cvenie gowns showed up g - the Stukeses about your rich uncle. hag | S0me one wio didn't run xo much to the time | had a hunch that some- going to break sudden. Just_as Barton was brinz- | of little coffee cups into Smith person t did. ng the tra the drawing room th Vopogoulis: lip in a couple more HSOE NS DR G run o e, 12 denarii next Seturday. fyour ) [Euise was gazing mosty | Gools casually to the front window. | e e Anne. Wica: HOWGOR: He growls that he'll think it over.| arel” says Inez, ducking her head |41 20¢% » e e g up th pulls it down | Matthizs, Mary, John Robert and which isn't a bit promisin (i 2 e R T in and st Sallie, * ¥ ¥ % ! 'ull when .""«u were Faskedsto B Io-yu.v and see he AndSyoul sudrance sy h“. to Ahout three miles from Ripon Lodge | him how’ did you squirm out of | COme and =es are the Russian is Smoketown. It lies on what was 1 insists. At which Jun from <mo > vs Inez. “I don't say|DEXt room and examines Inez appro e nart of the Ripon lands. and the Except that I like to have you | % on { capitol of the settlement is on a tract | that was the property of John Bram- ~HEN all of a sudden Miss Wellby insists on shifting us to a better Junius, looking room on the sccond floor, at threz teo. ) ‘Didn't 117 phere a panicky squcal from a vav 2l PUSCO-E i ety ;i 8 Sci mell. From Ripon Lodge the wav bucks more per week. “You'll be so| “How ciever!” says I “And \hl‘""‘("_[’l:u)(la“l' she wouid And—er—iahout wild. ileads for two miles through woods e there,” says ) What?” Ll 5 . . | that were bought from the Atkinson much more comfortabl 1 “Dodge” says I But don’t “I've got vou right this time, Mister " : “Mister Junius say ‘Al right, " say: e : otte M - S Zht s she. “and it will look better if Miss| . Togng Miee"Siokes sho take dresses’ Petersen finds her Uncle Nels and he | from trunk and—and the limousine | comes to call.” comes quarter to 7. * “Inez.” says 1. “have you been tell- | . Could anything be simpler must come as 4 surprisc, aye, as @ |strawberries and pitcher of cream |bler has found no reference showing | whgineton and out of that tract bother about me. I'm just among : ; ith cream in it. At table he met|where Kemp lived and has no facts| those present Too bad about Uncle Tlocey Meyers, alias Little Duteh, 4 o i estitons of the those present "To about "Gncle | Nt Suokea and She: coilapues on shocke" (o ofticers and direitors of the | fooid to e nes Bilt sofa. Junius gets pop-eved and |’ 0. A.’C. L. and other linés that jand becausc of this he is going back but some time those facts will come e i says Li wpnow gavs Junius. “Uncle Nels? ! figh B 5 e | van in and out of our Union station.|to Occoquan—the village—not the |to him and will be marshaled in these | 204, cordwood, Passing throug ng Miss Wellby about your rich | 15K you, now? We have exactiy haif | op, yes At dosanitimatiar) Not | boncs e et But the Ttambler feels that their in- |place you are thinking of. The | “rambles {timber district you follow the Telel uncle? an hour to find Uncle Nels and fit our-iin ‘the least. Another time perhaps— | recovering ood stab at | giffercnce to the comfort of travelers | Rambler has a standing invitation to| The Hooe family was a numerous |EraPh ZDEA BOEth SR Tt e £ i one of the pressing problems of the | take dinner with Walter Allen and tojone at the time of the duel in 1508 | YR thy Bethel road, - selves into those ey v gl 5 Inez admits that she has : ening gowns. I'm |if necessary oVering. it el N el “That was reckless,” says L “Now to say, Incz, it can't be done : T dor't quite understand.” savs | e fo has often felt the hardship | drink milk with Corbin Thompson, |and was connected with most of the | Smoketown is scatiered along thal v : & Par-; He's a nervous, fluttery little man. . S " | we've got to live up to him and [jlicstarly the Uncle Nels par | with restiess eyes and hands. And ephere must besome mistake|of this indifference and hus spoken of | prominent citizens: of Occoquan, but{land-holding families in the Potomac | sy, : o ™ don’t quite see how it's to be done.” I don't say 1 bring him.” says Inez | cvery time h avH anstimpine ] cpe n S et e R Smith. it to numbers of his fricnds similarly lon this particulat Sunday he was in}and Rappahannock valle he‘"‘““‘ up-a picthnosgue Bection. L SIaS But Sou con't worry Inez with 1 Starting to pout. “And I want {0 go 0 glances at M tokes a8 It he was |lart . Pittsbarehand | brovshe. Joa tsituated and Jlike-minded. - They. \oni’hm,“. to get to Ripon Lodge, because | family had long been settled in Vir- ::;Fl‘l;ssm:::mr”d‘:”::;e‘y;f:‘;.:n‘.‘;' fos i Y ¥ {have spoken in no uncertain terms of [je had an engagement with Tom ginia, for Rhuys Hoo, or Ri Hooe, i 5 S o i s . ject of Smoketown'more extensively i | | “Ah! ditch that stuff” says Smith ; : i i comfort of travelers. This statement)section of strawberry shortcake with!got no further than Ripon. The Ram- | (it Weis POUETC TrO% NGimaaee “or i i nsy. the B. & O..|Miss Mami 2 c 4 i {have come great numbers of railroad y & O.[Miss Mamie Selectman of Occoquan.|about his ancestors or descendants,{2%€ COMC EVERT IIGTES Sor jumber tie - ° She" t the worry- dinner party. You oughta see. Sweil! getti <. o s v y 3 New Y i i ’r'“e:n“k' :.'r‘ft 3235\-“0 Is her big | house. Butler n'everything.” ‘ l""".l‘&:;;i:ul“r:(-”}wk puts in Mrs. Stoke ;4".."}"“7-'". ey h‘ o ‘;'1 New York. | the indifference of railroad companies | Narron and Augustus, and he prom- bWho was born in Wales. a_son of | sessi mray eyes around our quarters| “That settes it. Ine: Hat we mave another guest LONIENL: | Gther wis whes 11 say. Theio the comfort of travelers. It is ot jised o tell ‘you about a duel that;Thomas Lord Hoo. Baron of Hast- iy ST el o died L Sl Sives weve G istingui 2 {ran s adstreet's z-{time: it is not that the coaches ar: o : - | R: R . - 3 < S e dows. ver have we? And we Morgan Smith, th {lected to take a sauint at his photo- inot well Tighted. heated, cooled and | & Hoge and William 1Kemp. and be-|Rambler's authority for that is Dr.iiown, and his cottaze home is catis the chance aga Quite wealthy, t you must be eager,Lyon Gardiner Tyler, president of e capitol of Smoketown. A larg? “And the bath only two doors May never hav graph. 1 look ubout : ch [ venti Lt s e s ol: ubout as much | ventilated; it is not that the seats in {0 1w e this dovn the hall, don't omit that.” says . sides, the worst they can do will be to! “I hope he's somcbody's u R et o o o aportant and timely jn.} William and Mary College at Wil- 5 4 . 1 : et 3 someb i1 . you: Didn't even. | smoker ‘are ety come |t W “olle | percentage of the citizens are related “But don't_enlarge on this Uacle | thiet us out. Shall we rik it” v T aRE DY avEof Haying wome~| L LenimIneIT do ety Sur DB teven tlG Temok e are ot Dertecilyoor: firommaltion: 1 {Hamsburg. ‘In Hoiten's list of immi- {5 John as children. Krandchildren, s tole any morc (han you can Kelp,! Inez nods as brisk as she knows how, ; you? | fortable, and it is not that the com- | "Tho quel with pistols was fought|grants it is sct down that Rice Hooe. | sons-in-law ‘and = duuhters-in-law’ ting for some side light | THAUS how’ his secretary. ‘who hap and in her excitement slips back into her Minnesota dialect. “Ay tank Ay on the Maryland side of the river on |aged thirty-six, embarked for America ' John und the Rambler and John's tump Neck, between Mattawomen and : from the town of Gravesend June 23, ; for 1 understand the sinzer person was wa o N eat foom the first oot suste pens to be my brother-in-law, could jlars in grading the roadbed and la on why we'd been picked out as din- |15 y I ©t me use his private offic v cw 100 d ails and ! private office the day |ing new 100-pound steel rails and jEtiih BEC, B %t 2 . latest wife Mrs. Ida Loveless. and Charles county. | 1635, In 1637 he was granted a tract | their little daughter. Alice Agnes Jext weck and I don't want to bewear the pink on she. ner guests. bul so far nothing had | (o M AR B8 BAVECE 0T d g 4 _steel rai J e e : o 1. Perhaps Inez knew more ade yo position. Yes, | white oak ties broadax-hewed and !} ixen u e 2. 1637 rante ealléion tol nancaitiaty s | el it S minute, L holding it up Been offered Perhiaps Inez know move) Flooye. I'm Trom headquarters, ,....li-nn an c:ght-inch face, land any point on Stump Neck would, of 700 acres in James City county. It | Loveless. spent an hour together un- “Oh, well!" says Inez »n;r ing to|to ge \"{" effect. saints defend ¢[00 SRO O -.l'" o ome ont | that’s ‘where you're—hey, come back | The whole trouble is that in laying | be within six miles of Ripon Lodge. | rm"'oo . he obtained another grantger the vine and fig tree—a paper uncoil that double hank of wheat-| Not the pink one, Inez. Its too| A4 probably it would ¢ herer | o W o ware ® mpropery , The legend is that Hooe was brought jof 1.200 acres -and in 1649 another!mulberry—in the front garden of the to Ripon Lodge, wounded, and died !grant of 1.900 acres, all patented to|capitol. The Rambler also met Mrs. colored hair. nt above the waist. Notice where 10T on . Junius, who ha he acl parc g e cf t of travelers. i 1t was only the next afternoon, too. | thoze shoulder straps start from. Why, | The next thing I know. though, Mrs. | o34 Sie et e et rere if‘:n“‘rv;;:»'::fmvnnel:d;f;:l;urx}iI“""“- John 1. Nelson, a lawyer, with | him for bringing colonists to Vir-|Maggie Rainey. Mrs. Mary Carroll. while old Popogoulis was making his | youw'd Took like the weekly beef ration | Stokes and Junius scem § bee swap- | LEiin start, But he didm't "“"‘f 8| e laid as though every railroad trav-|ofMices in the Colorado building, be- | inia. All that seems to be recorded | john Sullivan. Mrs. Sampson Beavers, daily prowl around the booth. tt arriving at an army post. And good- | PINE some confidences in code. for just outside the door he roes (& | oler had one short leg and a long one, {lieves that he-owns the pistol used | about his wife is that’her name was!Mrs. Will Patterson, Henry Griffin ! Jacob Loveless, hall we s Junius. by Hooe in this duel, ang from R. A.|Sarah. They had a son named Rice|and his large family ] two more pla & instead of maintainin ree s £ i Stokes, tap- | (W0 MO h':mhi'.c‘.lmms men,whocomelg‘r’.d“'hgwy n:“""r“ -:;ail 2 fr:v‘;lfi; Hooe of this city he refeived a num-,Hooe and he married Jane SeymourBenjamin Jewell. little Miss Jeanette Shall I put the wristlet A Y dombelled” to move along | ber of years ago the following letter:, of St. Mary’s county. Maryland. {Jewell and other' members of the old- stlets on him, “I have no persanal knowledge of | Rice Hooe. 2d. obtained a patent to'est families of ness knows there's iitth black net nough of this affair, but at least for sleey the Junius Stokeses roll up in their Jimousine. You remember? They're the ones that Inez got mixed up with M with a platinum nd turning to gaze eritical there s | [ Slip nd let’s view the result, while | the night she caught the pur : el utensat?” asks one at sort of a hop-and-skip pace. The A snatcher on the fly and s:l on hll|m‘ r:x'r‘n:(lvi‘x_.\ :‘vllll'_»ur\nc th ‘n':f‘ nl"”m-lf i Don't_ bother,” says the lieutenant, |best friends and the most intimate the affair to which you refer. I had,} until Junius found a cop. And Sl i fery well : | “Most likely he hag his bail beas mij |acquaintances the Rambler has have |however, in my early bovhood often | time, Mrs. Stokes had promised {0 ihero gurgles Inea when she gelsi (gl GO U nes by the [srranged for and will come quietly, | made these or similar criticisms of ) heard (always at my request) my buy Tnez a new hat for the one that ™ . ow, dearie,” “My shou e e b apa | B2 Thats right, Flaocy. Tha enfef|rallroad management and construc- | father who diad in Feedfrioksiure By was wrecked during the SCHmMmasc |y 2 ppgel haven't G Hallway: Come: iy ro e | Will want to s¢e the lzdy, too.” | tion. Some time I am going to in-|few years after the war, in the 1 got the connection “h"b FEmce airing since 1 went swimming e the | goes on. “We have 3 ‘before ow about the girls? asks the|vite Mr. Harrison and Mr. Simpson, ninetieth year of his age. speak of | saw ‘em drive up. And, BOsS 07 BO|creek back at Dedge's Clears but if i Mr. Morgan Smith arrive want | detective, nodding toward Inez and |Mr, Taylor, Mr. Cary and Mr. Burge: s|the duel between Maj. Kemp and boss, 1 wasn't going to have IN€Z, ., ..n fold over about three inches| YOl to wear something for me. we. to travel with me as far as Manassas, | Bernard Hooe. miss a chance to eoltect. {0 Wk Seim s pin i odether | S0 I'm left wilh Tunius for & minute I EE R and 1 will bet a beaver hat and al “Although my father was not thel “Run along. Inez.” I say goldsheaded cane against a tortoise- | second of Hooe, he was present and can handle the busines neat 1 guess Il get fer o until the butler tows in the by the censor. Mr L JO." says_the lieutenant. *Just|shell snufftbox that before they get|conveyed him. when mortally wound-; : Junius Stokes and 1 arcn’t built on est. And say, « lot of these night shrt comes on. and I'm. surc |2l e Came Tincs, but it docsn't look | X% York plutcs arent much to 100k stool pizeons. 1 khow where to |48 far _as Ravensworth, Burke. Side-|ed, to the stump of a fallen tree a Mr. Prpogoulis won't min {50 badly, < 112" i burn, Fairfax or Clifton they will say:{few steps away #nd there seated him. are they? This Morgan Smith, for Mind them when' they're w. e el D an e I e Ty ey're wanted. But|.yr ' Rambler. you are right. These | He surv. ‘Why, you look like—like— of him before, tn one we 'l"f’d that glassware as evi- ties are not properly spaced for the “I get your says I ~Words fail |of the old Wall strect families, for all |dence. T'll have to ask you to shea |comfort and convenience of travelers. »w. But | mu They are either too close together ved until about' noon the fol- lowing day. “Thé firing was simultaneous, each receiving his wound almost identically You should have seen him stare as | .y 0y Junius hops out galiant and eases her into the limousine 15 at me. :’ l:lm:?". he whispers husky. “The} i ,‘.;‘ gl,-mu:«‘ in the mirror i W. t t say that his din-1the fake ornaments, sister. apart” : i sign uncler” 00| Self. thoughInez Uh, huh. Glack isnor coat might heve ftted snugger | w e or too far apart. in the same spot. The bullet received | What a close x r oy ur color. Shows off vour huir around the neck and I didn't know 7 awping at him, PR {by Kemp penetrated the flesh only 3 S __ jabout an inch, was easily removed. NHERE is another point of indif-}while that of Hooe. (he surgeon’s ference to travelers which the!probe failed to locate. Be] t any but movie stars tucked the orry,” suys the lieutenant, “but onda of their black tie their [you wouldn't want to wear all that urn-over « 't see i turn-over nt SCENjunk in the drink booth tomorrow, says 1. “She must h He wags his he girl. Miss Peterse 1d you? complextion better than anything 4 wise. “Lucky |Oh, for an eycbro says he Here's a barnt match "'F.ooks that way. don't it?" says L |if we could only stretch the siirt down jsuch a chatt : Probably | 3 L i Hodk . - : E rigin of this affaie was whol- “Say,” he asks dential, “maybe |about tw e ey soara I Al Bed spill something about tha|Would you? You'd tie up the tratic.|Rambler would bring out, 3t Is the ,, 1;)1109]]30:] e e n)eel;ngl he comes around azain sometimes? bled yo irements over io C1 [itock market that we eould cash in | Beyides, the heiress act is over, Miss | lack of soclability on the part of train | oceurred (I am unable fo give the n happen.” s | But ih part of you'll be unxhrr*(ll Junius. though. is there with the k‘_{;)'ls“_’-” s 2 date) at a place on the Maryland like to meet him,” says Popogou- | the table most of the time. We'll trust ratter and tells him how he'll | “THb 1L TEAL T S48 Inez, singing side, then known as Stump Neck. al- %0, anyway. And now if yowll show me the vl n o meeting | 1t Placid through her nose. S e _|most directly opposite the mouth of well, that's something else again.” |the furny’ way that milliner twisted sen of Duluth And with my help Inez is undeco- | produced was bound to get us in|Quantico creek. e e e s | your 1ar. hiress, adds Juhius, kind of | Taled Wrong sooner or later. There are| SURRHICH CXEGTLC 1y opcomntered by “Business proposition.” says Popo- * % % % on’the side. “Rich uncle. Interested | 50V Welcan gos horic. ‘can we },'.'S':f’l-m":'i"’,‘:;““" When fte li‘;“:r;;*":“;‘; Hooe and his nnrlncr‘mn'l eluding the % “Faé corner Droperty ) = = i y . in—er—the same proposition that you 5 5 1o | vigilance of the law officers-in escaj Bedie m:: 2 coents gm“d;}a.y‘l g \\F made a z‘utas at it and by the ) oAl PYTT Loung 1ady has con | The lieutenant nods. chat over a dead wire. She just sits | “,,stf et in Vivainia and POt O butiaine Y meed more morey | time word comes up that the | sented to wear them tonight, Nothing | “If You don’t mind” says T. I'm|there with that simple smirk on her | Maryland, deprived them.of all op- to swing it. Maybe—maybe Miss Pet- | limousine waits below we were ready. sed, however. you understand.” going to touch this Junius person for | face and says never a ‘“3,"’i 2 yortunity to test the quality of their ersen's uncle likes to make zood in-|That is. I'd stuffed Inez into her bor- aceinayy Mr oS il ch: e ey B e Y oo [powaersvetore maing dtTand it S Sestment. If I could have some talk | rowed frock and she'd draped min * & * % A T he. . humeraus about geiting mixed UD |said that to this circumstance Kemp eI i na s . e e SR P And while Junius secmed a bit an- | with a pair of crooks an Just dode- | Wa indebted for his escape from the | i ed—in Gimer saye 1,|around me. What the general effect| ALL of which meant very little (o noved over it ho did dig up a five ing a night in the hoosgow? O vy % «f dont know. Meanwhile, how about | would have been on an outstder I can't [ * but it got me pricking my ears | A0 passed it over. i Hey?™ says Inez, rousing from the| “The pistol used by Hooe was ai that little salary boost vou've been |say, but as we passed the pier glass in | forward. What v that 1ney car=] “Thanks says I “But say, Mis-ltrance -Didn't [ tell you it comesiyaarge one, carrying an ounce ball : hewing ov ¥ % . 2 : s t ‘time’ you stage us in a|ln Duluth. no. By New York, yes !Tne one used by Kemp was of much: ehawin » the lower hall and go! our first full| Roing to wear? (oodn knows, I|bunco zame, Kindly get a Smith who | Swell peoplc: Jewelry -—and | gmaller eal:ber. ' —-z‘(;" zea ion joipationc, ZYotlcus .”o:nup J help pausing | hoped it would be something substan- [ iSn'L on the police forc: And be ! then the polic in. Just like; “The powder used by Hooe was sub- i L e and ¢ long breath. tial; Sbe neeaed ‘Aml Just why | Sure to look pleasant when you sit | six-reeler. And we get in the | gequently examined and found utterly | - O vy And 11 u-—-you look : Bautalba * Sk | for your thumb prints. Come, Inez, [middle of it. Ah-h- o : worthless. 1 have heard my father| Fair enough.” says nd o . \e should ba o much better posied |1 have some advice to slip you aboul | “We did, Inez. we did.” T admits. 'say he could not kiil a squirrel witl ' have speech with Inez about her un- I “That's the |ahout Unele Neis ¢ I was i coulan’t | making dinner dates. “And with a mind working along the i, From the description of your pis- . L eiiei ey Eifeet any Or coursc. sea-| figure out Untess Ines had been| And on the way buck to the board- | lincs that yours docs ‘heaven only |01 t'ls most likely (he one used by ot on how thrilied {~hcil pink docsni’ go e ¥ with wing om an imagination that I I tricd to make it quite | knows how long well stay out of | Hooe. = < T = i this raise. but honest to | earroty hair and freekles. but it{ didn’t know sh~ had her that so much nnlunplurmlhl‘r' = 'H“lf“_\'ou will refer to the ecighteenth [JOHN LOVELESS, “MAYOR” OF. SMOKETOWN; MRS. LOVELESS AND | chapter of ‘Casket of Reminiscences,’ DAUGHTER. “H poodniess 1 had all 1 could do to keep | Lones in well enough with my goose- 'Ah!” says Junius. “Here they are.” about & rich uncle who'couldn’t be (Oopyright, 1921, by Sewell ¥ord.)