Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1926, Page 78

2 THE SUNDAY STAR., WASHINGTON AN APRIL NIGHT =\ s : BY ZONA GALE Maudie Had Beauty, Wilmer Had Suspicions, and Mrs. Block Had Good Financial Manners. ILMER sat in the doorway | “Sure, sure, sure.” Wilmer to his|ladies, Wilmer was not averse to step-| “I was Mr. Cole’s nurse.” said Mrs. | of his father's shop. Katy- | great annovance heard himself say- [ping forth on Katytown street with [Block serenely. She drained her run' town called it a store. Wil- |ing. Where was his “line"? one on_either hand of an April night. | and surveyed the moon. | mer’s father called it his| Xrs. Benjamin Block was equal to|Mrs. Block—now that her hat w A silence fell. Mrs. Trivet glanced | business establishment |the moment. She lifted a glass which | straightened—had an air. And as for |uneasily at her daughter Barhara, Others might have called it A haber-| hunz in ner lace and surveved Maudle Weathers—Wilmer saw that |whose concontration was electric. dasher's thop. The sign read, “Gent’s | Maudie Weathers. every Katytown vouth whom they | “Do you happen to know the dispo- | Surnishings | “Indeed:” she sald. “And what Is met gave her his pleased preoccupa- [sition of the remainder of the estate?" Wilmer looked like the som of the |vour connection with Josephus Cole, [tion. And what a way! She was as|asked Mrs. Block. sign. From his hat to his hoots he was | may 1 ask?” . | unconscious of Katytown as if it had | “Something like eleven thousand,” carefully, even gloriously. turned out. | Maudie Weathers said, “I'm his|heen her audience. She was as con- |the lawyer told her, “in bequests fo Every penny that he had earned “for | daughter.” scious of Wilmer as if he had been |Katytown organizations—and to this months was on his back and on his His danghter!” bust from Wilmer her leading man. In spite of himself, ) nephew here two thousand, provided legs—save $1¢. now hurning with a | v . My cousin!” was his sec- | Wilmer's manner thawed, melted. | he spends it on an education.” light flame in his pocket. It was an | zht. “Mustn't give away my suspicions | “Indeed!” sald Mrs. Block. “Easily April night | he demanded with exceed- | by bein’ stiff in the neck.” he thought. |spent.” she added. smiling. No one Down the street from the seven-|ing foolishness And. “Say.” he sald aloud. bending [save Boh Trivat caught in this a pos. | forty-five came the great gray auto-| "My mother” said Maudie with|on Maudie the eve of homage. “you're | sible ambiguity. mobile hus lately acquired by the (rit-| lowered eves, “lived in the South. My | making Katy City sit up all right.” Bob had momentarily and for the tenden House. As it backed to the | father was down there to buy phos- | Maudie said. “Am 12" And Wilmer |frst time since her arrival glanced up door of this hotel across_the street | phorus lands—just as this lady said.” | thought: “New York innocence— | from absorbed converse with Miss Wilmer eved it lanzuidly. Two. three, Cndeed:” snid Mrs. Henjamin{ A village s not fish flesh, fowl | Maudie Weathers. Wilmer, who wax five drummers. as usual: a fat elderly | Black, and sald no more. nor good red herring. is it now?” ob. [growing tired of that susta : “g woman with her hat on crooked. as| Through Wilmer's mind there|served the other adve ess. verse, now leaped in |-rm|'|r||:|dn‘(01nn ‘;fl yflzifim;h%l)' Blny usual. Nothing else. Nothing else, | flushed a devastating suspicion. The| “What said Wilmer, In his |that serene alr an effect of physical ING_O! ',T £ EYE 0’. Wilmer opined sloomily, ever would | loveiy and youthful stranger had|most c manner. “Oh, 1 guess | displacement HOMAGE, “YOU'RE * MAKING stop in thia town. What he thought | heard what Mrs. Block had sald and | you mean that. for a joke, don't you?| “But none of us may come in for| KATY CITY SIT UP, ALL was “strike this burg.” was deliberately using it. Maudle [ Katy City ix on to herself all right,” |anything,” sald he, “if Miss Weathers RIGHT.” Then he stretched his neck to peer | Weathers was an adventuress! Wil- (he ‘bragged, and he added in his[can prove up. And very glad of it.”| = == over the top of the bns. Something | mor had but the dimmest notion of {breast: “And on to you.' he added in his gallantry. 3 1d answer: “Oh,” she said, * Blue had paused to speak to the driver. | what should constitute an adventur- [ Ile marched them to the garage and| Attention being thus centered on |- and thess others—why. I conidn't Blue. tripping, willowy, hobbed. She | exs, hut he felt that he had spotted |ordered a car. It had not once oc-|Miss Maudie Weathers, she was seen | do 1t T eouldn't take the money. entered the Crittenden House e curred to him to have the car call at [to sustain it with nothing Hke Mrs. | How could 17 My mother would hate As if at a signal n]'.,;\ mm\Tn \,»o:h‘ “What,” he inquired, “was vyour lhvr('rin-ndpn Block's aplomh. She was still upon | that % g Wilmer rose. changed the angle of his | jpother's name?” And not in that| The Trivets' farm on JLake Katy|the edge of her chair, in faci . Triv : . hat and sauntored into the hotel office. | Lihicaditka tone scotld he possibly |had been the family Symmer home for | turned her ayes, when e tur e | yvMr'wlr'\".".q:-ll‘:\:le:n:wh-‘":;2:;32:” The clerk was just telling her that 1he | have foreheard himself, when he|the one generation since it had ceased | them, without moving her head. | " “Have you, by any chance,” he sald dining room was still open. She disap- | cogsed the street, putting his first{to_earn the family livelihood. Under its hlue crepe frock har little | “vour papers with yon? Yes? I might peared heyond the double wirescreen | (ERECL B G Ciranger in hite. Mr. Walter Trivet, Mrs. Trivet, the | fizure was seen to be rigid. examine them right here, while we doors | “Maudie Weathers,” she answered. | Misses Trivet, young Boh Trivet and| “What's this?" sald Walter Trivet, are alone. Mre. Block, with your Wilmer sianced at the register. In 1 I took her mame when 1 entered the | & /inner Auest: camesont an ‘the ter- | tolerantly. permission—my dear—" he said to his a cramped hand she had written: | dramatic school in New York this|race at the Sycamores and atrayed LI wife, in @ manner uttering a vague | | | | “Maudie Weathers, New York City.” Winter.” about. walting fi ol 9 i . “New York City—what?” said Wil _'\"‘”'k’h, hory . Wilmerlal A uabla| i Wslter Trh’el“:v:;l“;;mln( Ny S MAUDIE WEATHERS made |direction, and disappeared to the| -I'q forget that T sald that if I|for a young man who had brought to[life. And when I come to New York mer. He had heen of late finding con- | cjons now kindled; it was amazing | large and glad-looking and decently her announcement of the parent- | Nouse. were vou,” she said only his lawyer his own cousin, charged on my way hack to schoel—'* venient places for the use of that|.ith how different an eve he heheld | turned out. One generation had been | P00 of Josephus Cole with a sim- * K K X Will you give it up?” he went on.|with heing an adventuress, he ap-| He thought that her velca made “what.” Again he changed the angle | * Jasn't her ce se- | all that he nede plicity which caused the Trivets vary- RS Trivet Interpreted his vague|“Just pull out now? I'd hate to see | peared peculiarly without chagrin. He|music of the mere street and num what.” Again h | this charmer.. Wasn't her glance se e neded. He had done it and th mat e e b et | ; ing emotions—in Rarbara., sympat cer | YOU get into trouble. Will you give it | was even smiling. Refore them all he | her which she gave him of his h: cretive? Wusn't her little face rather | he knew it. ymy directions as a mandatory over and belief: In her mother, a secret “I | it up | crossed to her and held out his hand He loaned her to Wilmer and the “Can 1 get some supper here.|hard? Wasn't her blue frock almost| “Commercialized,” “abso- ¥ e N OO S S e P bt el 1 1 B L L I bso- | told vou so!" almed at the departed | Mrs. Block, to whom she began un ‘You heard what T sald to Mr. Trl-|and not until she looked at him did little jumping « “I'N take your 30 cents if vou ean't | “I fancy,” Mrs. HBenjamin Block | brain against brute brain in the stam. | JoSephus: in Bob Trivet, a “Say!" of | interruptedly to talk. Bob and Bar-vet, she replied. “I couldn’t change | he begin to stammer. The Rev. Arthur Brace was to drive SUIL it off any other way.” replied the | was: syviug. Seolly, “that veu have | Dol fu money guer.” homage: ‘fn Walter Trivet, narrowed | bara were in some momentary alter-|that sort of will—neither would my | They were still trying not to laugh down Mrs. Henjamin Block fn his clerk Mike expertiy, and dropped an | ample proof of your claim?” “Isn't 2" said Mrs, Trivet. She)€Ye® and pursed lips. And when she [cation. Wilmer stooped to Miss|mother.” at him when Marjorie and the Rev.| roadster evelid Maudie opened her handbag. had been fed three and four and some. | Dad told her story. the truth of every | Maudie Weathers. > She turned back abruptly to the| Arthur Brace stepped from a | LM Trivet” Mrs. Block now said Wilmer stared at him haughtily.| “There Ix my mother's picture,” | times five times a day all her life and | Word of which Walter Trivet suspect-| “Come with me a minute,”” sald he|others. Mrs. Block was saying 10| window and joined them. And when I came on myself to see whether Mr “Come off—our coo. < gone,” said he, | sh, “inscribed ¢ fa - | she proved it. ed. he proceeded to a gentle and|and led the way to the house. Mrs. Trivet: B they were presenting him. the Itev |Cole’s relatives were to he at all de Come off—ou zone.” said he, | she sald, “inscribed to my father v “—did the Norway fiords and that | Aythur suddenly put out his hiand | prived—under the terms of his singn e Ao b AT e Ao Thir e B i ; Wrote | “Oh, papa—not evervbudy. How ab. | COUrteous crossquestioning. there in| “Kid,” he said, “we're on to vou " L L S S ,‘_,""(',",.‘h::.‘ ‘,}.‘;“.‘.'L’"‘x:“;,"‘,n"‘,’ g (R e RAT1bE1S T,'flli_ P om | the bosom of hix family. on the ter:| T wax on (o vou the first thing —there [#ort of thing. Charming Summn Llana exclaimed lar will-in which case I. of course the next table to that of Maudie | letters o h 3 | ame some idealists left, I should hope.” |Face. under the rising moon |In the hotel. You might as well give must have it again “But-—-Mrs. Block!™” proposed to leave the money in his Senithars and faced Sier Bt to W] it see here,” said Wilmer, rough- | She glanced at the Rev. Arthur Brace, | ‘How old are you, Miss Weather [it up and go away quiet—before any \'H_"uv he: muttered Wilmer “Arthur' she said. “Whitever family I feel that in any case we mer's intense annovance no sooner | lv, “why hasn't he heen bringing you | Jerking on the spiritual hook at whieh ineteen.” trouble comes of it. See? Nurse nothing. —Couldn’t you tell | vy doing here?” must arrange for Mr. Cole’s nephew was he ated than the fat elderly | up?™ | he was nibbling “May I ask who is chaperoning yon Miss Weathers stared up at him [that at a glance?” “Nothing.' aid the clergyvman, | to have his twe thousand—withe woman, with her hat still crooked. | “When 1 was 4, she said, “my | | | “Of course.” said Barbara Trivet, |In New York?" | “We're on to Mis' Block v:md"lhfl * oK ok K “could make me happler. This,” lLe| expecting the “W'T ; And we lnmped compact to a chalr on his | mother an rather quarreled 3he | “you have to consider supply and de. [ “No one.” | pursued. “Fixed it up together, didn't Gt iR arforie was | explained “is the wife of an old friend | Must arvange to send this sweet, un pRCiee commstney B s ok then 41 mot write | TANG." One semester of Adam Smith | “With whom have you lived tn Geor. | vou? She ain't no nurse—not with| [ the drawing room Marjorte was) §P 0N Sy Gu” nay know of. | #ffected daughter of his through' col “Do vou know this town, sir?” said | to each other any more. My mother | #t the State unlversity glowed on her |&ia?" the diamonds she flashes. T Juat| (0 b€ heard sniioe too (e et | Trivet: Rlock, Wood and W lege.’ AL o £he died when I was 6. 1 was brought | forehead like a number ‘An aunt—my mother's sister—— | wagled to warn vou you've both | (B T - song which he | The clergymhn then stared haughti Exactly!” cried Bob Trivet with Wilmer started. Hers was not the [up by an aunt in Georgla.” Rob Trivet grinned. since my mother died. 12 vears ago.” |spotted. I'm a friend of vours—see| G0 TS, Te B SO RRER BEIv at an impossible young man on the SNOTMons encrsy A fat. elderly tone, vague. worried, | “How did you know my uncle had | “Barbara spilling off economics, ‘A woman of mean<?" | Now you both best leave town quiet, | M55 & R I0IE SR Ot ke | terrace who said Lo Bur 1f CAfter which:the bulk of the entats quavering: it was a poised tone, aceus. | died?” demanded Wilmer, fiercely, | aid he ta the rising moon. “No, sir: a bookkeeper.' |on the midnight.” its unanthemesque character, From | thought vou sid you w nuEse. VLA & Brdaratand ingeelt B nave ih fomed to consider raplies. He glanced | He was seeing himself in the role of | _Walter Trivet, as was his custom,| ‘“‘Have vou never applied to Mr. C‘ole | Miss Weathers continued to study | {0 Ml NG COUREEter I | “For some vears i G TE e dal Which T have no use ~t her sharply. Erect, detached, | successful discerner of adventuresses. | Waited for a pause | for money him vancing, He handed her papers back | Biock kindly. “How g You to he | Snce My il rouged and with shrewd, narrowed | “My aunt saw it in the Georgia elf-Interest,” said he, “is the rul- 0. Sir: my mother told my aunt ou are,” she said softly, “a much | 0L G Tand he howed interested, Mr 7 Ui i to her $vis. “Hello” thonght Wiimer. limete e s painen ssion. Show me anvhody and— [ never to do that.” r sort than you look, aren't|"®.ql it Heaihers 2nd qe How ‘Well, well ell” st Walter Ver faid Walter Trivet ‘It is" said he. courteously, “my | “What do vou expect to claim?* nd—I'1l show you somebody [ [“Then why are vom doing it now?” | you? e “tHHE GEERe: ave tn perfect. fokm e, and once more, “Well. well. “Very noble, Mis. Block.” Fotten luck to live here. Mrs. Blocic Inguived: practically out for himself, no matter how | “My aunt thought when he died that | By this he was taken aback. So|gq fu; e S e e o Hisx one generation sometimes| Sh ed at them hoth in some Oh, verv sorry.” she murmured. as| As poke, something in her v he covers it up. It's the law |hix death would make a difference.” she admitted evervthing. that easv:|y, pe fn perfect form—-license, certifi it she had hurt his feelings. At the which had stirred Wilmer slipped away from him. It did so now. | annovance of human rature. [It's self-preserva-| “When were vour fathar and mother | He stammered: “Oh. I don’t know.” | ita and the writing and early photo.| | Will" said he, “he jumped up: Not at all. Merely passably good same moment Wilmer saw her hands |as vaguely familiar took on a name, | tion. [It's—it'a—0 divorced " ‘I hope,” she said. “that veu will | ce U N0 EE S UGHEE S Joe (Cole are # e financial manners.”" she said white. wrinkled and wearing one | Her speech was like his uncle’s—like Buncombe,” sald Bob, beneath his| ““They were never divorced. They|!ake that two thousand and get an|ndoubtedly authentic. If you can AS_Wilmer would have handed | When the roadster of the Rex magnificently set ring. “Say? thought | his uncle's after he had lived in | Preath e separated when I was three years|®ducation with it. You could be al-| iove that yau are the person to| < > Maudie Weathers into the motor | Arthur Brace had rolled away in the Wilmer | Georgia | old most anvthing. T should think, with|\hom these things refer 2 car with the throaty spark-plug. Boh| moonlight and the Trivet family e 1 Are vou from the South?’ he |n,[ P the drive strove a motor car in “You have their marriage licensa |an education. Ay | Traveler's checks,” said Miss [ Trivet pulled his lax length from his| ©on the terrace alone. yvoung Boh qa | auired. hiuntly. that state of spark-plug deficiency | With vou? | “You really think that e Weathers, “letters of credit— deck-chair softly IS eves wandered to the other ‘It was in a Georgia hospital that | which proclaimed the Katytown ga-| ' es. sir | “Of course 1 do. And when she Precisely. Then there would be Miss Weathers! said he Where's vour commerecialism in table. Maudie had given her|[ nursed your uncle,” said Mrs. Block. | rage. “Who are yvour lawyers?" pursued, “when vou are educated—|pno doubt that you would have an| Bob's voice was furry and compel-| that. dad? Where's the self interest order. Ham and eggs.” he hear Abruptly Wiler was shaken by a end for more coffee, Mary,” sald haven't any.” (and married to some nice girl—will|open way to your claim.” . ling, its drawl was electric. Of i the law of self-preservition G and In that order recognized the dis- |second devastating doubt. These two | Mr. Trivet. *“This i8 Joe Cole's| *“Have you ever seen Mrs. Block [YOU think sometimes of Maudie | Then Maudie Weathers shook her| will it drew Miss Weathers ap That,” said Mr ivet with dig tress signal of one who has rarely |were both adventuresses! They | nephew—and I'd like to have you have | before?" Weathers. who wouldn't take your | head. “Really.”, she §ald. "I couldn’t | until Boh stood looking down at nity, “is most remarkable exhi i N S iy B BN T S S IR gl L el by s, sir; we-came all the way from | money even if she could? | touch that mone¥, now that I've seen | in six feet of suwrrounding seclusion. bition I e ever witnessed. \Where thought Wilmer. w obtained their evidence and had For though Mrs. Trivet observed | New York together.” In her was a glow, a softness. Her | how everything is. No. please: "1l You are.” suid he earaestly, “the | you'll find one such «mple of the “Ham and eggs,” said he to the come to Katytown for the express human nature aft the manner of “We met on the train for the first | Pand touched his sleeve. He caught, leave everything as it was going to best that I ever saw.” | s1 yhu've seen here tonight, you'll waitress, and stared steadily at | purpose of getting possession of his | one polyp regarding another, her hus. | time.” interposed Mrs. Block. “We did | inexplicably, as youth alone can catch ‘I beg pardon said Mandie | find 20 40 4% of the exact opposite.” Maudie. She heard. she glanced. she uncle's estate. And he, by the wiles | band implicitly believed in her intui- | Dot know each other's business until |it, that strange fragrance of the hid Do you mean.” burst from Wil-| Weather You would, wouldn't yo said colored and looked down. Tut then of the devil. had fallen squarely into | tions. this was accldentally disclosed at the | 460 being who was herse mer Josephus Cole, “that she is my | nizmatically he told her I've | Marjorie reluctantl immediately she looked up again and |their trap. He tried to discourage the “Papa.’ said Marjorfe, “Mr. Brace [ hotel here.” | _“Kid." ‘he said. “oh. kid! If vouUncle Joe's daughte: | known it. But yvewve prov it They were merely practicing en away Oh, peach,” thought Wilmer, |idea. but it did not want to be dis-[and I will go in and try over that “A-ha'" sald Walter Trivet softly, | WAs ""1.{ "f‘ WAY vou seem, how 1| It is,” said Mr. Trivet, wmunnhl,\-\lh'vl they make them like you lightened self-interest.” said Barh “peach’ couraged—and he clung to it as nnn‘ new music.” He added: Your idea would he to r"gld love you " certain that she is a “You're | hing at me-— Oh." said Hob Trivet Hig companion was speaking doomed to live in Katvtown might| “Anthems’ said the Rev. Ar(hur“hv‘pak Mr. Cole's will and be declared | She looked full at him, smiled enig Wilmer stood. looking at her m\ “1 was neve said Bob Trivet, | combe!™ Do von happen to know." she cling to any stray romance. | Brace, in the tene of an alibi, his sole heir?” matically, moved a little away. silence, For a .defeated young man,|trembling, “so dead in earnest in my fald, “about a Josephus Cole who| His mind did its hest to work| The two disappeared into the draw-| Miss Weathers glanced -at Mrs, S == 5 e = - died here recentiy?”’ rapidly—he saw himself with his mind | ing_room. Block. “He was muv uncle.” said Wilmer. | working rapidly, as if he were in the [ Slightly in advance of his two com-| “Rut then where would she come . . . . “Indeed,” she commented. and said g 5 n re ar le r ot Do o T < u, 1c Life, “Then of course vou don't know any thing about him e B T || e Welcomed as Leader of Unusual Ability of." | \ How inconsiderate of me.” she | ; BY STERLING HEILIG. has another Tardieu. a cousin some- | stances and was drawn into side ca- | father « sl . i o uld not have earned 25 A ::.‘nr;”n”fl 1 am that strang A L YA Pl AR F 1 what older, who helongs ‘o the coun- rears in diplomacy and ourn.dism. | in Hoston. Tt o ,1.,1".‘1‘,,,,,,’.,,"‘ ‘ ' NDRE TARDIEG n veturning | (1l 0f state avhich comes nearest to |hefore the tragedy of the Girent War anv ane (o sive the 1nion when ses said Cony a single instant Wilmer forgot Bt (wi com wrest e e A R o, DUBIE AITE, Wien e :;:;'rlml"l:v:;!m:;(va]:;x\ Supreme Court In |force: him into Parlisment and ¢ V| ax minister of the distressed Unite he \ was prime minister, it was | . Gty ernme nlexs all « aie false, States during our Civil War, was now certain, unconscious of his thought that Andre Tardieu @1:'(’,;"‘4"",'_"‘,,,‘,’,‘.’ T i - andibe 8 now Wt Mraight baek to heth.| From cdllege, Takdien went up i superior presence. In fact, she was | 3 might take his place. Instead | ¥ o 1t fas been his career, so ar the fanious Normale. It forms looking at him openly. He concen ) \ of that, he lost his seat in Parliament | lereisa family, very Parisian, vers e is b vears o He bad his | university professors, and admissior trated on the lady at his elhow | W in the elections two vears ago, and he | French, for hundreds of years —and |studiexat the Lycee Condareer, ane of fto it is gained only by verified high Are vou Mrs. Benjamin Rlock?" | has been in retivement ever since. always' in an assured condition of | the ~iute colleges in enly @ grade scholarship Etatice. #doh he exclaimed | He I8 # remarkable man who has |fortune and shaving in the higher few steps fiom the handcome house higher studies so along with later suc “I am Mrs. Benjamin Block,” said | never given hix measure in active [€ducation of their times. Alwayvs, also o "H\v\‘wlllw s in whicih b i fives ws in politics. Jaures was such a ghe. composedly | | ¢ polities, although he has heen devoted ”."\ were thinking in a large way It is ”.‘, residentiai ) went and a4 professor of philosophy e ok SepentalmatWmer. | to high politics all hia life. about public life and interests—or, ax | bullt up by Karon Haussn an under Gré e Decunie ona of The Eresier, Then you've come to town to get| Now he comes out of retirement sud- | We might say, about higher politics, | Napoleon '-n Third and ke up < and practical S ‘ denly, unexpectedly, as an exceptional | More permanent than party and priv: | Third Republic ticians of modern times She lifted her eyvebrows. “T've confe candidate for Parliament. A member :‘!V interests. and superfor to them.| ji was known ux the Takdien took out his degree in let to Katytown.” she said, “to look over of the Chamber of Deputies for Belfort | Such was the way with Gladstone |up gud money not e - ters. bt he never went into universit the ground, Mr. is it Cole?" died, and there is an off-election in M;;»,' lnr l‘mxtlundh went in _m.‘ sueh | millionaires. it compe ng professorship. World polities were “Wilmer Josephus Cole,” said Wil consequence. It is the first time since | Politiex from hix first start in life wocial position for g » in hix blod and at 21 he entered the mer, and bowed imperceptitly at the landslide of May 11, 1924, swept | This was not done by Andre | education for childre oreizn-office and was sent as em Maudie \Weathers, who looked down | him out of office that Andre Tardieu | Tardieu—active politics are no easier | ftion assured and s bassy attache to Rerlin. This was in and up and awav -and bhack again 5 i has come forward to ask again for |In France than in the United States.| Lees and Adams: < 1879, when the voung Kaiser was “I was.” Mrs. Benjamin Rlock pro- | : his natural place. Also, he was independent in circum- |tike it. Henry Adame heginning to <hake his mafled fist at ceeded, “a nurse in the hospital | i 1t is no small news for Tardieu .'IY;“" Seron paings of the compass where vour uncle was ill for ma%y LA . |[will be a small man nowhere. His e _expiience “was valdablestito months. I have never seen him since | - missions to the United States made et veac o b that time. Hiz will, I understand the foreign office it<elf, in Paris. Then i him well known to Americans as a was executed that year.” \ i R Frenchman with reasons and figures e fhisiEh oftice taalf iniPdts (Tharl Wilmer was ‘thinking el secretary mder Prime Minister e I to support them running out of his rj:r‘.'flr‘( my . \ths'h"f? to please h‘n\[ / ! G ;\":a‘:(dh heyvond anything they had ever T DL Al S L S Mre. Benjamip Block now went, Such, perhape; 16 hls. teoublelas w vears at home and abroad for France briefly into those hospital davs. To | popular politician. His talk is always | oniT1204 he published his first hook <« amazement, Wilmer learned that | = P documented reasoning. which people 3 o g ; !lr s I"‘T', jons of the ni cle ) i i find hard to follow, heing like the et and the grave French Acad hie uncle, in the course of his stay | ) | | i y i ] ] Tenr—and the grave French Aca there, had given various treats to Englishman who said: “If you are v ¢ « 4 Bl yational embroflments went on prelud music 4 T high: politics; above eléctions and their. course with other hooks on the ved to o him.” said Mrs . : 1 Ieeciras e . o Liupen torrend tg im 1 il AR | caucuses, Tardieu fis important be- Algeci Conference (on Morocco) Block. " “He told me that 1 re i : o cause of knowledge and view, and the | i i, ! (. i opposition increased, on the him of his wite who had diec “KID” HE SAID, “WERE ON | fact that you cannot tire out his mind. whole question of North Africa, where | sl Gllie IR sl el TO- YOU. YOU MIGHT AS |ile has never done any(hing eise like L ’ A he French hiad been building 1p, for ‘ order opposite him-—hy no means B s letire i WELL GIVE UP AND GO AWAY | Roosevelt and Gladstone. : 100 years. vast seifsupporting colo- Block elahornted, “Vers pretty voung / QUIET BEFORE ANY TROU. One of the moxt rancorous financial } e e girl Died in the South. He was| BLE COMES OF IT. SEE? |pavers of Paris (and the storms ; chance 10 open his mind on the uni there for some time. In phesphorus = z = o R g et ko 5 ” o verse —and he has heen doing it pretty lands.” in?" she sald. “T should want her to |like Andre Tardien or you may hite Phosphorus lands was circumstan have her share.” o R veR it o save Hili retive Uncle Josephus! An uncle who ““They're going in fifty-fifty,” Wal. | foree. gret we saw il tial b % S e il L ! | from politics, and with pleasure we see e had the general appearance o Katytown opera-house and Wilmer ! panions, Wilmer came down the ter- | ter. ""v"b”'""“:"' = i fiSen core Bacle—afidivoikh feaE " & paper. the Temps—a very notable filbert. Cole were on the stage. His father?| race. Nervous hy nature and nervous| “How about that, ) Bloc he| K ho is he? Andre Tardieu Is a 1 i L paper. frem its international as well MEWE No. his father would be excited and | by the occasion, he was, by the sight | inquired. hat develop. | tIve Parisian—and there are not man ) 5 as national influence. SOR all his absorption W#mer had | nseless—he would shout till all the | of the group on the terrace, rendered | I should wish to sce what develoP-| g op jn Paris, as there are not many : ; s An_ exceptionslly setlous: and inrge * been timing his bread pudding rows of helts and suspenders would | virtually galvanic. ed, s:i“d that lady n(:.h“ <« Weath. | Native New Yorkers in New York. In b 3 . evening journ the” Temps had a3 fo terminate with the eup eustard of |rattle. Mr. Trivet. the lawyer, Was| Meet Miss Weathers and Mis'! “And then' pursued Miss nila. {1665, when the Adamses were select o unusually sirong service of fopelin Maudie \Weathers. Now, however, as | of course the man. Wilmer drew down | Block—the Trivet family,” said he, | 'S T should like this _\mm: JKentle: | men in New England and Roosevelts ¥ / views. It hegan in the lherai o the rose to leave the room—with that | his brows. i A : with an enlivening gesture. ’"’12‘"!" LR L) ‘-‘“‘”vh’"‘""“{l.,;-.., out. | Were getting settled in New York, the | o ; position under the second empire, lelltale fixity of gaze of the illat-| “I'll take you both to ‘Trivet, my| .. Riock now presented herself to .y qan't reed any mer Ut criminal lieutenant of Paris wasa Tar- and_under the republic it has heez e e saw that he need not have | uncle’'s lawyer. if you like." he sald. | qynicy in'a new light, She sat in a| 1, Jon't need any real education- dieu. It was his husiness to attend to consistently moderaie or lefl center troubled. She came directly to their | He watched closely to t‘\""“{"“r‘l & pasket chair, threw back her coat and| “But the other bequests, Suggest-|the eriminals of Louis XIV's ('}I|u"' 7 § 3 ‘»n'-v“:.:‘»:‘:‘:-r:l‘:ln‘(\"T-vf;;'::.‘\‘::'ir\':”\l".;‘y a"y:“I e, e e s Aiddan wax | &lance from one to the other of these | JASKet Chaiv: thuew tack Ber conl A0 oq Mr. Trivet mildly —“they are equal. |and he did it so well that thes ] dical. The ablest minds of France her onslaught that only after she was (we adventuresses. but he caught| yp . elegance was not lost on the|lv worthy: the Katvtown Hospital. the | got togetherand assassinated him and » J i b m rane o, on sthing. They were, he concluded | : P rippled Children’s school over in| have written for the Temps, and even ceated did Wilmer remember his late. | nothing. ) re, he | haberdasher's son. The jewel spar-|cripple ildr % | his wife. ey radical governments that ranked lv acquired hahit of springing to hix| With satisfaction. very. very smooth. | kjing on the hand which held the cef- | Morrison, a libary for the Morrison| About that time the Tardieus began dical governmn hat ranked it in feet, and did so, and rather foolishiv * ok ok % | free cup. the studded platinum of her | Hosiery Factory and an addition to| furnishing generation anerflpneran ';g ; *‘v"-: H(nv’v 'v\\") ,“”-'f,“.‘\"y,",:, |2;\Tw 5 ! 2 Dlatinum of = el o 2 v genarid official” s far as this v resumed his seat s s.| WWHILE the two lndies were settling glass and a string of remarkably fine | the home for the BilaG-—ull Yhess ary ot MuLER SREREEEE T e confide to it information which they Excuse me.” said Maudie Weathers,} 2 » pearls were evident to the Trivets. wort worthy." tions there were eight wish fo communicate to the with her diffidence upon her like a} their luggage, Wilmer sealed him “Why," she inquired, gazing down | “Oh." sald Miss Weathers earnestly, | {o fame. Then the son of the last W t outer *hadow. 1 couldn't help hearing what! seif in the telephone-booth and m.n,.»m}' the darkling slope of the lake, “"does | “and if I got mine—those couldn't be | engraver (who died in 1844) turned to o i \ .’Ii,'I'L elaiiaddes ol tbei Batnpe 16 | | nearly ever since. He became the forefgn leader writer on the very important Parls dafly vou' v Iking about. And {t's|gut Walter Trivet at his country | anybody want to bother with a city?” | pald?” law—medical jurisprudence —and tried 4 5 # : k "(.:“y‘h’i.h::wmmnmr that 1 came to|home. Walter Trivet placed his chalr be-| “Hardly,” said Mr. Trivet, “hardly.|(o talk Frenchmen into public hy- S S| | e nest articie of ts first page. In Katytown.” | “Bay; r. fivet,” he began, | side hers. However, if you are the heir at law, | giene, and particularly the sanitation : | here lenders appesred that wonder. Wilmer was speechless. Of all the| “there'’s a funny phenomena here. | I undevstand.” he sald, “that you|you have no right to consider all|of criminals. Paris medical students B - 3 : o e enion At Agszes: yut possible beginnings of a conversation | Yeah. Two ladies come into the Crit- | are the Mrs. Block who was so for-| that. 2 % did not like it. They made it particy & 4 i s cles with this fair stranger, such a l-efll\-\leudvu on business with my uncle. | tunate as to inherit the.bulk of Jo-| Miss Maudie Weathers turned toflarly hot for him in the school of e SR S, ning could never have crossed hitfYeah. One says she is Mrs. Block and | sephus Cole's estate. 5 Wilmer with an engaging alr of ap-{medicine of which he was dean. i 4 ll ! deny their news value. And he is onecionsness. What could she have|the other one says she’s his daughter,{ “Was it veally the bulk?” she said.|peal. In the pale light streamine| His brother, Fugene Amedee Tar- Caalt 9, o L alug. Aud he.in & to do with his uncle? and my iden is they're both of 'em an | “Twenty-four thousand. I should have [ from the open windows and mingling | dieu, went in for geography in di ; rd fAehier, an Americans know. . “To-I thought perhaps vou would|adventuress. Yeah. I like to bring | thought She said no more. with the moonlight, she looked beauti: [ plomacy and passed his life at the | i Ly jine ME A Rk i v se help me.” she said. and looked appeal- | 'em to vou now. Nope—never do t4| “Such n nice man,” observed Mrs.|ful. ~Rut it Wwas her manner—her|foreign office. Both these brothers the iUsken iatss e b contmain . ves were as blue as the| Trivet, there’s no tellin' what—all ja w er unconquerabie 5 uf v| oth- died in 1879, 2T ) £ o A , Ffl.‘éli( T’Y‘\"h:]n"shondipped her head, | right, then, I'll shoot 'em up there|ner of contribution, “he would wear | heart of Wilmer Cola, Andre, whom we are talking about, ANDRE TARDIEU (SEATED! WITH MISS ANNE MORGAN AT THE ;\hr.""";h?:“afl";:‘a"ln::“:l:.lni":ahfir-nu: o such high collars. You are- a rela-| “What," she sald te him. “weuld|has, in French fashion, kept Amedae INAUGURATION OF THE BOY SCOUT CAMP AT COMPIEGNE. Lot nd_he wrot t out like a' now ~ 5 D e e Whatever the intentions of theltive?” she added, trustingly. ° |you advise me to do?" and before he for one of his middle names; and so Copyright by Sterling Helils. (Continued on Fourth Page) X ] : 4 these leaders appeared that wonder dry style.