Evening Star Newspaper, October 16, 1921, Page 75

THE SUNDAY STAR, J]VASH]NGTOfi, D. C., OCTOBER 16, 1921—PART - 4. ONE UP ON THE TWINS—By Sewall FordTHE RAMBLER WRITES OF PEOPLE AND PLACES IN ACCOTINK CREEK VICINITY WICE I heard it before I pald much attention. It sounded ke a scraping om the win- dow ledge. And if 1 hadn't been busy counting the number of motions to this pull-the-string stunt I should have stopped and taken, a look. But you mustn't. Stop, I an.. That's what the professor says, and wnen I part with a whole twenty-five for expert advice you bet I'm going to follow it. You see, the professor told me to start with twenty times and add tdve a day until I'd worked up to forty, and then taper back to twenty. Thirty was my mark this day and I was nearly there whe nthere came this scraping nofse once more. And 1 wasn't costumed to give any public exhibition. Hardly. get me, I expect. Morning . May sound foolish, but I have ‘em, on account of ny restless disposition and early vringing up. Do you know how I used to start the day when I was a zirl back In Minnesota? At Dodge's Clearing, to be exact? I'm afraid it would make your back ache if I went | through the whole list, but my be- ! re - breakfast activities included such things as chopping an armful of wood, building u fire in the kitchen | tove, lugging two pails of water | from the spring, feeding Old Bill, the white horss, milking two cows, and other little tricks that Maw Dodge insisted wero good for a growing sirl Some might think that now Td make up for all that by pounding the plllow an hour or so extra Y worning. That's the way Inez fig- ures to get even for all the early toil +hat was wished on her. But we have different temperaments, Inez and L She can seem to get all the exercise ~he needs by chewing gum, while I have to thrash around. First I tried fol- lowing a diagram I found in a health magazine, but that got kind of monotonous_and 1 hunted up this physical culture speciallst who in- vented thede little games for me. % AND sar, when you've pulled tho ~Lstring thirty times or more hund- ~unning, yow've worked up a circu- ation. Try it once. Knees and arms wut ag you make the squat, and vands sharply to vour hips as vou coma up. You'll look like a human umping Jjack, but you'll feel fine afterward. That is, if you're not take on the rest of the program. too lame. And gradually you can) NI S sy v, o FEW rods wesgmof the village ot Fairfax, thd¥ike, rough and rutty in the olden time and now so hard and smooth that it is 2 speed course, crosses a stream which In dry weather is but a trickle and even in days of rain is never more thah an inconspicuous branch. Yet as it passes along through the counifs. calling to itself a network of little branches, it becomes o creck of im- portance. It turned the wheels of a good many mills and the ruins of some of these are looked upon as in- teresting relice of another age. The strerm glves its name (o rather a wide area of country, to a raflroad vil- lage and to a hamlet with George Washington and George Masoi asso- clations om a road which once was the main highway connecting the New England colonies and the Carolinas. On that part of the creck which is tidal, near Its entrance to the Potomae, it is called a bay. The water course which the turn- pike crosses at Fairfax Court House is the most westerly branch of Ac tink creek. Flowing east along the pike for half a mile. it turns north and passes under the roud, travels north for two miles, then southeast for three miles, then flows south, pass- Ing under the turnpike four and a hal® miles east of the courthouse and -hout a mile west of Annandale. struck me, and, as usual, I proceeded to carry it out at once “You can't go, Gussie,” says I. *No. Absolutely not. You're a prisoner. Understand? “You've been captured by a de perate actress,” 1 goes on, grabbin up the fake ax and flourishing it. “You're locked in this room, tied to a chair. Sec? Like this” With that I picked up a silk scarf, passed it around her w and knotted it behind the chair. ““But your uris are fre savs L “And you're not gugge you can telephone for help. Call up Anna* T shoved th she could T h it ne over = 1 whispered to her § should say. So this is the w message reached the fattest twi and made her | ask for the Veilhoft apartment. Also what she | the “Yes, this Gussie. 1'm upstalrs. Uh-huh! Inside. That actress did views With Trix and | The Village of Legato. | [ j A RAMBLE Through Region Where Im- I portant Chapters of American History Were Made—Little Streams and Hamlets of ] the Neighborhood—People Who Have Lived | in the Section for Many Years—Odd Inter- ! | f | the Old Family Surrey. miles further south it pi the Southern railway be 1d and Ravi | nearly five miles iflows under the Richmond, Fred ericksburg and Potomac railroad on mile south of Accotink station s mile more along its course it | ween sworth. and | w ther on its way ' fou; i and | ha two miles farther on it comes to the ncient mill town of Accotink. One oA urd by any neighbors, Trix Thero are prople whose home h a hundred dol -hundred-dollar - { houschold furnishings, phonegraph, wouldn't s people w, imot afford to cwn a the roa o o & ¢ |1 am not go old as you think. If rs who have a including the 11 for §15 who shining car, and people who w have a age. I see people rushing by me sing clouds of dust get your name in the papeérs, but lo was '« little stingy otherwisc. Alto- gcther she was i most charming and delightful woman! She used to | With me when ehe went calling, when | she went to market, when she went to church and when she went to the theater. She never rode in a strect car after her husband became ! profiteer! “Bye and bye the little home down on the Eastern branch became too femoved from the soclul center und the family moved up on tha Avenuc of the VPresidents, or the Avenue of the Ambassadors, or it may have been the Avenue of the Secretaries or only the Avenue of the hict Clerks. After that T was sold it auction and came out here in this wir county. Ob, no! Mr. Rambler. had a good fresh cout of palnt, somo | face enamel and a few other artificis ithlngs to make me up I could look as young a8 many of your old women lin the e By this time Trix, Prince, Christian, the surrey and the Rambler had come to the .point where the Warrento pike turns off from the Little rive pike. The road {8 cla: yellow for the most part, but turning to red in some places, There are two ehort hills just beyvond the convict camyn at the fork of t pikes, and from the top of the second rise you get your first glimpse of the Bull Nun moun- tain In fair weather the range is cut like a bright blue camen againet « light blue kky. The road is fringed with «ll the wild shrubbery of the region and some of the ssstafras | boughs had flung out red leuvep #s i welcome to aut n, and bushes of dwarf! sumac and staghorn sun were turning crimson. Scrub ou! Llack and red, und the vines, greer briar and honeysuckle, were as green as thev were in soring. Many clearings opened on each eide of the road, and in these clearings were homes—some homelike and in- viting, some with a ru own air. In the prim homes you n find unge- Inial people and in some run-down Ih you may find kind and gentls folk. You cannot tell from the out- side what kind of people live withi « is a4 dug around—and there js—you can g t <o e infor- n him as to the character folk who call that home. If a2 kindly, friendly dog, =0 are the people; if e is surly and snarly, €0 are the peopl. The Rambler and his traveling friend« soon o ma to *he nlare whers must turn off. and he hade Chri tan, Trix, Prince and the surrey good-bye with the hope of meetini That's how I keep myself down to | it. I think she's crazy. She's got them soon again. He stopped to 130 ap b |- me tied to a chalr and she wants % % 3 w X make a call on h S old friends filon_’: T Ty vaci e the Pl e me to tell what for I came. She : : he ra7d—Gearge Coot ~h i oTng- uight. What I'd like better would say if 1 don't she get the police. - X father lived in the l)'-kh rhood Le- © a five-mile romp through real, I think that's what she's wome for R % ¢ sl g fore him: Mike Mickelzon, who has 2145 and real woods, but when You're | now. 1f you don't come up quick | B8 ) : By : been there only ten or twelve vears ving on Park avenus it cauw't be| - and let me out I hafta tell. Yes. . 4 niowho Mines: on’ the old P Tacker done. So I got all the sunlight and H 8 i . 1 or go to jafl. Then youll hafta A .~ S p s lnce wHibh W etore NS ir 1 n by staging my jumping- “WELL. SHINNY IN HERE, OLD GIRL, AND TELL US WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT" come to court and tell. So you goitla & % i SO BT “ack act in front of a big south wi - hurry. By tho fire escape.’ 1ts the home of Co v L v o - only wa NBEREY: VK. pleasan sour o Daled e Ty O ow Ty {TOm f some\ Tethal weape tlicst | climbed up’ there to sun’vourself, 1 domt even Lnow me by sight, do | °UJ Y says. “What aid NBERRY CRONK 3 bleasant Irisl” soun Vell? mache | s i they?" the shade tixed so be run | ihing 1 could 1ind w S . hat bung from an im she agr % o dunno.’ suys Gussie: “Annie, slie ; 1 3 o 1 S ver the ma e v o oo s forms Gu tie sheet cut tires and_burning up |mend old surreys. He is also a ear- fattom, il [1c avesy t b Tnas. Thonped vn 4 e where | (USSIE says the Vellhof(s have scen | I e T e eays L “Yes, she | 0f water nearly a mile and a haif ., Who really ought to be hoe- |penter, ulso « tinner, and I'll bet a ha fire.escape el K Head d why, or Il— me onee or twice in the elevator: | navurally svould, Bt I'Hl bet she | Wide at its junction with the Potonic is > ds of their potato pateh |aickel ‘clyar, which son't drase, that she Lreaks in.)gp jeaet, they thought they had. And |comes. Let me take a look out of | cichteen milex below Wasth n me p T ¥ an made me finally stop and stretch ear. r y < ’ o, Alout th 0ad, len’t it. how cuspicions vou |fnePimale person Ive v are of your neighbors here in New |y ed, gkin York? Especially it you lve in one | moadi e o Skl | “Just under. of these big apartment houses that|hair, a knob on t “Oh, T ser.” say cover nearly a whole block. Qurs |of her head; jutting front teeth and a | the folks below, s that kind. It's built around 2 bIg |loose underiip. From he oppy cos She nods at's all.’ the window. Oh, gosh, what a sight! | and three miles below Moun: b "“‘;‘""*- ) s”""‘b"d"':’b"“' tho place had told 'em | (30 00T 0 fo1ks in the opposite apart- S Rl 2 Ty | thie fat female in « boudoir cap und Ao ot s e e T as 315 & ahe 8 ANt e e .k and’adds: “The Veilhoffs. | Vellhofts, anyway™ dressing robe crawling out of the | hittorie arsociations, and it % AT fuover e o now holleriag | 1ame was Harriet Lamb. ANl the old rnon men rushing over !shoes if the job were put up to him. t i miles an hour as|Corbin built the house he lives in, et somewhere In iyt in the long ago the land was neir tine is precious | repded by an old and good colored orth 310 & week. There fgoman who lived in a log cabin there. EOB# court in the middle, where there are | tume I guessed that whe must belyec I works for the Vellhoff: And by pumping Gussie fresly T got | window directly beneath. = ; b : i S % a few dusty cedars and a dry foun- somebody's OOk or mald, and the fact |~ “Nvhy not keep at it. then?" says|a fnlrly)g';od ':x.-s'f,-,-q,,non_ They were | hav some_struggle, too. for >lw,a historic assagiations. Otherwise th “‘””,‘“_‘( "‘m i ;U'r“;’m"r‘; Aunt Harriet. long ago, and in, the taxis dri in around this ! that she has on neither hat nor Wrabd |y “\Why go skittering around li old maid twins who lived with an old | wasn't built for that sort of an exit. :k may bore you. But i nts’ worth of work. 1 tell you, Mr, | her son George. aged only eight circle and unload at the carriage ! shows that she'd probably climbed ei antrance. Some of the zmarlmen(s!ther‘nv or dov;\;n‘f;nalgl orile.‘n‘{ he other [0 have windows opening only on the | apartments. Anyway, she w. at. court, but I'm r‘;:ankful that_ Unele | ting_there, trying to peek through a is? Y 4 : g i z ’ S v 1ping her, | this? You know you're giving a real- | bachelor brother. They'd been born | Somehody behind was helping her. | 0 fmitation of a lady burglar?” land brought up in Brooklyn, and un- | evidently the other twin. At list shefits was that Gussie protests long and |l last winter had always lived in un | was out. but she was afraid to stand [Ind'ff old-fashioned house down on Jerolo- | up so she poised there on hands and | poin < i is living at the Court House—beg v just the sa D e ir out of Fint” |18 WG A $ duse i RS head 'in a | pardon—at the Cote Mo 5 t g H e ths vigorous. She calls on most of the ds and | point HE next place to Corbin O'Bane Nels had sense enough to pick one!crack in the shade aud liaten al the T RWONS 3 5ol o e, “She gets down |man strcet. But when brother sold | knees. Then I heard arguing withwest of Fairfax R S o SRt with outside exposure. We have all & h and pleads with me to,the o0ld home as part of a site for an | the one inside. 8 non’s the R ler s ir . 1de of s T a sunny spot to talk and to be talked 0 fur as the Ramblef fa Ly two 0l friends—Mr. and Mrs. “ther Charles T o e (3 htween b oy Naw | #say, what's' the big 1dea? I called jon her kn | beliavé th: . and these clear fail mornings | Ut v can almost Reo Miss Liborty furn. | And when she rolled those bulgy | Wh “Come on. Rosie,” she was saving. | River turnpike i S, You must, te X, Chantilly and the Rull e Al and the an honest Le has heen venteen s yman. | office building and the house had to| th the |be torn down they moved across the | “Y n nd has | river and became regular New York- | up there alone. tains MArATY, AppPr v e t e b k be! v headed s i that old Trix s=po Jng her buck om the home of the|eves of hers up and saw me jus linotfe (op seventeen yeate pndilin; a S lar Ko O | O O oman Eets back be i e . : H Collapsed. After | never been wecused of taking so much nstewd of a homeo ra back, 2 ; e and o Tanas wnare S fee Do T S e e e ibme ) penny. It's all more or less . they had so many cublo | untic that ool Gussie? 1 Bl Run. s unch once flourished but docsn’t jiu gHSD Or 1wO she T terig. | convincing, tao, for the poor think |fue? of rpace that they rented. And { You'we got to com eret hreo any miore. T v Stary 23 almost £tiff. and if she - i it, either. through. Give me vour b T supposs there are enough folks|ling toward the iron stairs 1caum,]£:f scared almost stiff. and if sl they didn’t like it, eithe: ¥ L asn't lovely to look at before, she's| On Jeroloman street they'd had a '8 Anna, the mal tving In this one ;)_mld‘ng‘}go opulate down. o . {les! now, with her pop eyes rolled | little patch of back yard, where Anna | bulletined to (;""’”"-,m ek, regi old de %o places like Tamarack Junetion.| «No you don't!” savs I waving the . por'lips trembling. and her bony |used to set out the geraniums in tho! Rosle come along with e, Shesiiws fesll Ther s Modt OF em by thelr first Rames: fow | {ake, Batte ax menacing, —AROU fingers weavink themselves in and |spring. Hero they couldn't even keep | draSEING Bor S50, AN L Y S0 Weorfy “af Vour country it you know | Hieiric 1) 0 e s er move 2 ake a g0 a single flower pot on the fire escape [ fat! Tk 2 £ 3 0 pothing e little streams a o ?:y";’w‘rfll’ihh’li%‘ih‘e‘?Foo'i"é{‘sfl'léi banana split out of you. Under-| 1 right, all right!” says T “But |or window ledge without getting a call | ‘em. Now they'Te started. They're bo Ling of the littl reams and ¥ 2 You. op; , ho lives at ing Tri e Eastern Star Home: Charles F. x S y ? “who 15 dead, survived I BRdidont et Sed o o nd Greenberry Cron orse AL he side of the Warrern Greenberry, 'a good many The surrey rattled a little. The'veurs ago, took as his bride Sarah and?" | ot : : . srambling up on all fours, just as|hamlets here mentioned. i 2 n L . r alone, and whether they had.the Sat- | Stand? 11f you didn’t come to steal, what were | from some inspector. And they were | SCTAM, vs climbing a ladde ‘As the Rambler came to the cross-| - er mpson, dsughter of William Har- |{1rd;li\' nlg}i‘\t If)l;hl habit or saved it up h":l:‘u’y Mother!” says she, crossing | you doing there =0 high up that they couldn’t see peo- sw;ag:fi!ul isd:‘cé\‘\":e";é‘“"“;.,flfl‘l‘“ék]es ing of the pike and Accotink a horse, | the spokes rattled. but that sur- rison Thompeon of Fairfax county or Fourth of July. 5 Def 3 ; i She admits draggy that she was!ple down in the street. Not to Know | o . i, surrey, boy and dog came along. They was made when they made 'em |and Greenberry and Mrs. Cronk have But here in this eleven-story struc- | «Stick where you are until I open | trying to peek in, that's all. “I—I|’em, anvhow. Only the tops of their | SUEFI®C 10 4 14 cavs 1. “Bspectally | would not have overtaken the Ram- T€ht and when they turned spokes a daughter. Annie D. Robertson, who tural steel hive all T know by sight|tnis window from the bottom,” I|wants to—to see what youse was do- |hats. On Jeroloman strect they used AvnE ywm( a face! Like a prize|bler if he had not slowed down his|and felloes out of hickory instead of |lives in Washington. are the elevator boys and the day |warns her. “There vou are! Well, | i 3 pine. That old surrey will be travel-| The next place is Thomas Harrison's 2 " she adds. . |to sit every afternoon at the fronmt = = - hers | pace with intent to a d night door men, who nod L0 M¢ ehinny jn here, old girl, and tell'us| T shook my head 0, Gussie,” | Windows and watch folks come and |PIES; And those Liltle cxes of ot | i “they were going ing the Little river and the Warren- |farm and then there is the old Wash —«'p::rd]z!}‘moxr ecm;?_g: ¢ F!:t ‘{;;D'::;'“»n'( it's all about.” |says 1. “I'm afrald you can't ®et!.o from the apartment houses ucross-;‘;“w she's stopping for breath. It . but not ton turnpikes when many an arro-|ington ling farm and L. E. 4 e ost] She wasn't an * r 3 jous to come. Not | away with that. Idon't believe You'd fow fancy motions | tak persuaded b 00d knock-k gant car will be suffering torment |Graves' picture: place, which he ! for it solence and other sins Wakiotield farm. in th where things u 3 Ramblor hur- nd c i peopie in the vestibule and riding | X »p and down, but T can't tell whether j2 little bit. But “liev're regular neighbors of ours or|with the trick ting piano tu There are par- inside and the street, and guess who they Were ioy e cery time she s makes her sbudder every time !ur?(:’:xr‘l‘éfiqdmlngcxp{:“c’[t l'}:;c";‘(‘\;: and where they were going. Anna had ' Jy.vooe gown. T can see her fat n do 18 to call in the police | 4, Jittle strip of mirror fastened out-:yjoulders shiver.” iside her window and she could see 1 wish 1 could see, t. es living o .| trembling. anybody coming from way down the was o bt 3ui & re just i £ G sa TIl w1l* <he announces, sudden. | $P¥1 : B sle “You're ety Trix was what It is not e Come, now I it was Anna Veilhoff made me | Street. and would tell Rosie about ‘em, | iy, You're @ prisoner.! dur, n{ Are burat 4 avar. . vate. Down on the alied Largo your line; jewelry, furs, 1 particular? And who tol anything worth stealing” {and if it was worth while Rosle would { pogiqis. th istreteh her neck out and look down,lor so. Never would win a climbi | 00, as they went by. And all the time | oontest, either of 'em. But t . and we Stonally we y ave that the peopic upsta winter coat was not| It was an int - e % iss o . she. “That's | ¢ could talk the 1 v SRS 4 t u lit- | and if you coul ! rfax county i~ ed something, but we don't] 0, no. miss!" she prote % ThAte | they would talk the people over. almost up. Now you slt perfe R Pl i o ione i 5 b B Wi B e o e nnd dom't tey bt |as heaven. I ain't no thief. Ann didn’t [} “You don't mean they did this| B “Gusee, wille 1 hide behind this | Ue jhufte legx were =M and| into our linguag _eoa‘f?\ip;h;"l«‘x?f\:. o fur as th m figure out. They might be tossing | “Of course not,” says T “Just sh 100, | every afternoon?” I asked. closet | door. Dom't say u word, | iiouh SOTN el Ccomforatiy] much ke thise © Jed §n this . | :From three to eix. sty Annk.. _ [eschers enough on g clay road. this was one| I was a in a very promi- “Must have been an exciting indoor | ““what—what you gonna do to sport,” says I. “How about the rest|anna?’ demands Gussie. of the day? What did they do morn- 'm going to hand her the thriil ings?" A of her life,” says L “Watch.”, According to Gussie the twins aidn’t | Through the crack betwsem the S s ik AR A SO\ S, leave the hay until about 9 o'clock, when she took their breakfast in to them. Then they just fussed around in thelr rooms, combing their hair and polishing their finger nalls and getting dressed. That took them until nearly noon. Then they sat in the lving room and did some kind of crochet had to have their naps. “Must have needed a rest by then,” really did any sleeping?* “Uh-huh,’ says Gussfe, “Nour- nahalf. Oughtat hear ’'em snore.’ Then came the three-hour rubber- neck orgie, and at 6 they got ready for dinner. Brother Herman came in at 6:30 to the minute. They sat and listened for him to open the front door. If he was a bit late they began to worry. If he was as much as a quarter of an hour overdue,they were almost in a panic and talked of tele- phoning to police headquarters. When he did show up, on those tragic occa- sions, he had to tell over and over again just what had happened. Then In the evening they sat around, all thres of ‘em. Sometimes Anna and Herman played rummy, or double solj- taire. Rosie didn't play cards. It made her head bad. -Maybe once a { month they went to the movies. Her- {man wanted to go out oftener, but the { twins wouldn’t let him go alone and |4t was too much trouble for ‘em to get | ready. “They watch him close, them twq says Gussie. “Afrald he’ll get mar- |ried. Huh! Him!" “He's no gay charmer, e¢h?” I sug- { gests. | “Old and fat and bald,” says Gue- sfe. “Makes lotta money, though. Makes paper boxes. Big factory. until luoch time. After lunch they| “It—it's 80,* gasps Anna. says I |“But I don't suppese they | ter. i i iboy vell. “Ye-e-eouw door and the jamb I could watch the window. And when these two purple- faced faces appeared over the ledge I had all I could do to hold in the snickers. For they did look foolish, staring in bug-eyed. Particuuarly after they'd spotted Gussie ticd to the chair. You go_in and untie her, Rosl, “Oh, 1 can’t!” protests the other sis- —I'm afraid.* . “But_you must,” heart is had enough now. Go on. boost you in." e ow % oW GHE was about to do it, too. when S cut loose with my little mad scene. First I let go a regular cow Wow! Whee Then I came bounding from behind tho closet door, waving the battle ax and doing a war dance about the room. I brought up alongside of Gu sie, grabbed her firmly by the top: knot, and went through the motions of scalping her. Ha, ha" I shouted. “You will come spying on the Mad Prairie Flower, will you? Ha, ha!” 1 paid_no attention to the two at the window, and pretended not to see them, but out of the corner of my eve I could watch every move they made. At first they clutched each other by the-arm and poised bound. Then they began to W back and in & moment or =o they had | disappeared. Tiptoeing over to the window I could see them floundering | backward down the iron stairs, like a pair of overfed seals doing o vande- | ville stunt for the first time. They may have been slow coming up, but of thos and «u fashion which was & pa 1s he ambled thers was no Trix had led all bis days and vears. nothing of the thoroughbred him, even though he wa This sometimes happens in men well as in horses. Trix's neck w too thick, his shoulders and p: #an Rome. Trix flopped his ears s it nent famil other Kind: it families, bride th @ wan who runs av r hear of an: thar ou never b Leautiful or ¢ with a choru #irl who is not a prominent club man nd scion of an old family. or of run in for shoplifting who was not once u society belle. My owner Wi prominent busin man and a r of his church, who believed imore in ‘Let vour light shine before legretto. Allegro and Presto! ame famous for u di Sivson ran th was crew up road near it. The buildig standiag, but they e a dow {out Jook. Beyond Legato the Rambler turne into a rcad and vound round- wnl round through fine woods and mag ficent pines—one of the best stand 1 Three hundred girls in it. He don't |they were speedy cnough going back. | J0iNts were too nearly straight, h | pay ‘em much. “Gots ‘em in to learn | "Come on. Gusie," savs I, Slipping | 1o bones were round, b ithe trade and when they want more | the searf loose. “Come sec the twins|COArse and his eyes, ‘ears and {pay he turns 'em off. That's the way |doing the crab_act. trils told that Trix was not among ;he Zools the unions. Hates labor|® Gussie seemed to enmjoy the per-|(R€ ElIG, And had newer 1 & Ml of tiie Holy Book, but he balked a |and shadows of the tall pines told unlons, Herman does. I hear him talk | formance, too. Took!” suvs she. "See | {15 ‘hoen o respectible orse, had | little bit at this: ' Give to him "’-‘“'s'é';?p':, a3 time (o hike for homo and “Yes, Gussie.” says T, “I i [ Anne dive i e tore. Now his fodder by the sweat-of his | #sketh thee, and from him that wouid 1 Jubbers tfe had urned off on 5 s, Gu . ¥ 3 magine | see her move so quick before. Now and mow, in his declining borrow of thee turn not away' T| DR D Sriencs e N Yyou do. You may not look like muc And she don’t 1ad no regret hecause of hisi believe he also found some little dif- |and the Millans, who live between the {men that th nay see your good|of timber within miles of Washinx- | works' than in ‘Take heed ye do not|ton and a tract that is miles in ex- vour alms befor: men to ho seen of tent. ~~He wandered through this them. He was a profound studentSPlendld place until the setting sun the bric-a-brac at each other, and then again it might be & game of of a mental absorber, but I can sec hat there's wmighty little you miss, What about today’s report, though? If T let you go back what kind of u l tale are you going to feed the twins?” | {,., 1—I dunno,” says Gussle, .blinking. | *I don't find out yet what makes the | thumps.” “Now, honest to goodness, Gussle,” says I, “do you mean that those two fat old maids got so curfous over a little thing like that? Enough to send you climbing up a fire escape?” * ¥ % X% HE {insists it's so. ‘What for should I risk my neck, then?” she | demands. “I'm scared to do it, but ltql\e's safe home again. te are if T get killed. Not her.” “T fear, Gussio,” says I “that your Anna is a _more or le 1f-centere old girl. But she's had & jolt th morning t ought to last her a long fime. Now you miay go down and re- lieve their minds. Tell 'em I came out of my spell and turned you loose. | No, you needn’t climb down the fi escape, Tl let you out into the hall- Way. And say, tell ‘em if they're still curious about the thumps on the floor they can climb up and pay an- other window sill call any time they feel liko it." As I shute the hall door behind her 1 heard Inez call from her room. She wants to know who's been here flndi What has been going on. misspent youth. 1rix told me that when he w young he could put his hind trac Tront of his fore tracks. that he cut eprightly figure in har ess and was once so gay and giddy that he had ha)f a mind to run away. His father was standard bred and his mother s in was a solid, meek, hard-working country mare. He had once livid in the city, but preferred his stall in a lroomy barn to a small apartment in ficulty in observing this: man will sue thee at the take away thy coat let him have thy cloak also, “Of course, T know my cld owner was not alone in finding it hard to make action and profession agree. *h % ok M mistress was a very proud “'% and haughty woman. She had & town stable, even though the janitor | POrtraits of her ancestors hanging and valet service might be better in town. He really enjoyed the coun- try, even though Some country peo- ple were quite uninteres.ing, but then, he added. You know very well that many_bores have their residence in the parlor. I believe, though, that i they were painted not from life, but from imagination. She had many family heirlopms of silver, china and na it o Warrenton and Litile River turnpikes, ' and |2nd he turned oft at the wrong road. The Rambler missed his way. It is €omething that happens to the best jof ramblers, but not often. He will |Eet down into the famous Ox Hill- Pender-Chantilly country as soon as he feels able to make the walk. ! Arsenic in Nature. IT Lies long been known that traces of arsenic are to be found mnot only in human and animal organisms, {but in certain plants, such as tha { cabbage, turnip and potato, and in | wheat. ~Jadin and Astruc, members | that Anna say: S oHE < e | mahogany, but whether they were of the French Academy of Sclenc ¥s I gotta come. She| +Oh, not much,” says I. “I've just|in town. He told he that it is getting o s jof the French Academy of Sclence: "mok soft, Anna, but she's hard. In|been giving the veal-loaf twins the|rather lonely in the country for a | heirlooms of her family I cannot say.;have shown that ursenic is also to worst, gh. \ 3 I think she bought them f w o v | T f veln. | ] em from anu-ifound in ricc, peas, beans, letiuce, Righie | Rosie did, just as much as Anna.” here.” And Gussie taps herself on the 2;:; fifi:f“;:’fi;‘f"{-;uefiflm ,'whfi% h;{"“? and. continuing in this vein.|yque dealers. BLut I was a surrey |celery, asparugus, prasnips and in most “Nearly everybody has an auto, | o] 4 St So when I heard this noise on Uie[ “Know what?" T demands. left slde; to indicate her heart, I sup- | poon on hand. It was worth watch- | whether he can afford it or not, and in a most respectable family! I re-|vegetables used as food by mnan, as fire escape I thought at once °f) SO WHEN I HEARD THIS NOISE | «j\bout you,” says Gussie, “and what | pose. Then she adds: “I oughta go v " ber that my dear mistress was!well as in apples, pears. pineapples, ing.” - generally he cannot. mesnbar e i - sneak thisvem, even though it Was oN THE FIRE ESCAPE I THOUGHT you do every mornin’ when you go | back, They’'ll be gettin' worried.” un” says Inez. “I don't know o e so very fashionable and correct that)oranges and nuts. Since plants u only 9:30 &m. which wouldn't be|sm ONCE OF 'SNEAK THIEVES,|thump-thump on the floo )nm{fi“ We always suspect® the “Serve-’em right,” says I, “I only ke that.” she would never use a word of slang. | doubtedly get the element from th 1y to uaden hours for seecnd " - *| ““Oh, come!” says J. “T'Il'admit I've | wish there was some way we could 7 says L “Then vou've missed HEN. turning his head to speak to Sh»‘_cr.»'ulld N:rf]':d de!lclous sefmdnl Tl soil, arsenic must tgfifi“r\u!;rutm"' steking o WMen Mo I chane. ! EVEY THOUGH 1T WAS ONLY juawh some nosex female, Lyt never | —Oh. 1 sa. SEUEET A he HHIEht MpT Do OVEE I those cLarities’ wherd "wgu’ B I 405 pimono and logked' around for 9130 AM. Lany quite so bad as that. ' Why, they | Ouc of my foolish thourhts “Lad me that he might mot Lo’ ove ! 4