Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1927, Page 68

MEN SELDOM DO Tommy Knew Nothing, but Jane Knew Men week, for two had stood bathed while Tomn of a Pitt 14 her in| that edicted, 1GHT weeks, in a ros Raird, psendo son burgh steel baron, his arms and assured with the dawn of love, was br This. he had would be fa d warm with all their troubles at an end time 1 been almost per- aded ecy would prove | times Jan e glow Towar night thing known otherwise, was 1 a cold she > had b it had 1o be p 1s, an the ducked 38 both solo and is had be The real now in an would have been be was in a straightja tly he sn't Tommy, as usual Learted ving a wondé were here Note the addr grigve for me. lite v, my dea Jane had all but surrendered to an impulse that would have left | But curiosit on. to recover my La permitted to leave here part of August,” h letter In the meantime drop me a line and tell and _your poor old ni, bones wched T i rd. | pse \ ame was was insa appar wasn't even down- eds, had reason ane the latter had won't 1e how you ¥ these Leach, ion his Jane had ing, although she ] v studying pin: re not old pins. They were, to the contrary, young and commend- lle pins, sheathed in silk, with wel turned ankles which flowed into what They days, been trim had bad once the pumps— howeve: B then, so had Jane. Back of her, a quarter of a m od the Gull Point Inn. Altho was June, the inn had but ruest. That was Jane, registered as Jane West, New York City. 1t anybody had suggested that New York was not Jane’s home address she would have shrugged. The world #t large was her home nowadays, she | felt, and she was more interested in| what her next address might be than | in present or past addresses. This was of immediate concern.| Toom and board at the inn required| S18 a week from those who enjoyed! its hospitality—or endured it pump seen better ile, ch s SU far, Jane had endures would not, she rea 10 much longer. This be a bill for $18 would be 1 l>ss than $10 to spea us of several labilities. among these were the he cold that had laid theoming. | he had no was She other consol Chief ots 1 | of hole play had run. For it was onl the stage that Tommy, essaying part of masculine lead to keep down verhead on his own prod ¢ his own play, had ever breathed omance in her ear. The only other time that Tommy had shown any symptoms in that di yection Jane had set him straight. “I want ycu as a friend,” she had told him. “I'm not interested in bein in love. or at plaving at being in love. | Why can't b2 pals—good pal “Just quiesced. They had continued to be pals— pood pals, Jane would have said then. J'or thoush she could not, this June morning, even think of Tommy with out setting ker teeth in a way that] suggested that he was fortunate in Leing anywhere but there, she had once esteemed him highly. As a friend, of course. They had met at one of those hindigs such as one may stroll into almost any afternoon in the environs of Washington Square. Eve had spoken to eve, as eves will, and they had got of to a flying start. When the studio tea was over, he had craved the boon of transporting her to her hotel At as 7" he had ac ne had still been Young- and she had had her health, $5,000, and an ambition that could have matched Caesa Jane was going to become a great mctress. h Tommy had learned | —— e Grandfather’s Laborious Hunting. PTHE man who hunts with a modern hammerless shotgun, breech-load- short of barrel and light in has little idea of the labor that | hot large and ngle or dou- had So mu ing, weiglt “ his grandfather, who small game with a long ble barreled muzzle-loading gur 10 undergo for his sport. The old firearm was the gun of today its two nd be; barrels a ted, with ram the hout longer than neath and between long ran which necessary powder ¥ When poured into the palr of the powe > and the ha w0y acquired i he poured it It was a kr en was nd press the ~oldtime hunte ¢ his hand j the art v with t 1 ad- efully intc nkle e wor t to ot nough 3 meas ing davs en the bary the palm so o the ground ps from n ramrod drop of its own Then Aowy the an; ni ksn turned i deft hunter packed ase of the barrel also sent sor h w | that warned, “people will think we're mar- Let's part friends, anyway." hey had so parted, presumably. mmy was leaving New York imme tely. In his eyes had been that iich, at any other time, might have softened her. He was terribly worried ibout her. " On the following Monday, when she | had taken her fur coat to the nearest pawn shop, she had had $40. When [ “he emerged from the pawn shop she have had ninety Cheap—dyed” the pawnbroker had | wssured her. “Why, you couldn’t get two hundred for this coat now, lady. I wouldn't give my own mother more | than fifty. Jane had taken the proferred fifty. Then, because she couldn’t think of iny ather place, she had come to Guli roint This had been built in the eighties md the only concession to modernity had ever made was to install a sin- gle bathroom That was at the end of the fioor on which Jane was lo- | cated, but, as she was the only guest, had amounted to a private bath. Three days after her arrival the wa- “ter had ceased flowing There’s no water in the bathroom,” Tane had notified the proprietor. No--and there won't be until Sat- 1w night,” he had retorted 1 heard of anybody who needed had | bath more than once a week. I oy [ ave to pump all the water to a tank "' fon the roof, and I got other things to | during the second tea they had had ! that first afterr n. They were very well acquainted be fore they finished. Tommy had been privile that Jane c ne from Bosto! when at home, she lived in tt Boston known as Beacon mmy, in his turn, had Lackground. e Chicago, where his father of a great chain of grocer Princeton chucked me ou world with an A. B. last went on, wit 1 eng “The governor, having t considerable expense, secmied have ide t 1 was pre how I couldn’t see jt." To Jane that had seemed reasonabls “What do you plan to do” “Keep it dark—I" writ “Not really The th thrilled Jane. “Why not had grinned experience with ton and I—well, I've got an idea that 1 might as well get the itch out my svstem before I start sweepin out grocery Anyway, P it up to the governor, 1 «h he didn't give thr write out a rather a sport 1 comment the $5,000 ht vied |7 to learn | dt where, | At Hin, etched | from head came was ore | v June, ng 1ted n the he £rin ed e to P isked 1 play. zht it Aoing nad rr ar 0 W, some did I o ors for ch he Jane been lett shor my grandmother I'd never be here find out what plays are bein r sal 1 know lots o he managers—-and see if I can't find | an oper v you.” had been Tom my's parting assurance. He had proved i forts to land her a part, st opportunity had come ) in October. It wasn't very the play was to oven way. Jane celebrated by Jane would have liked to choke him, | vet the moment was at hand when she must inform him that she was inable to pay her bill. I might as well get told herself, rising Tnn ! One might have wondered why Jane ! not wire her father for money. | not one who knew Jane. He was | waiting for her to do some- | : like that, she knew. ¥ T i it over with,” s and starting | her N ina 1 and thre muct on 1 purchasing ot or BY ROYAL BROWN | pa | her cars “This place—good night!” she had elaborated. “It gives me the heebe jechees. Tl be talking to myself next—there isn't another soul to talk to!" Che arvival of the roadster changed all that. Sylvia quickened, precisely like a_cat that has glimpsed a mouse. And, for all that she pretended a deep interest in a book, she saw the car's ant swing out of it. As he ed into the office, she pricked up “Is Miss West around anywere? she heard him ask the proprietor. Miss West?” he replied dublously. Isn't she a guest here—Miss Jane West of Boston?" demanded the new- comer. “Well, there was a Mi here,” conceded the proprietor. she ain’t stopping here any more.” “Can you tell me where I can find her now?" “Well,” ruminated the proprietor, “she did ask me to tell anybody who might ask for her that she'd gone to California—" California? part? “I don't,” replied the proprietor. *“T guess you'd have a hard time finding nere there Evidently Tommy thought so, too. Anyway, when he emerged, he paused on the porch, his face puzzied. Sylvia started for the front door. But, as she passed Tommy, her book slipped from her fingers, | Oh, thank you' she gushel, as he automatically retrieved it. She hesi- tated a second and then added, “I heard you ask for Jane West. I wonder if T don’t know her. I think we went to school together “Did you see her here? ommy quick! o—she must have left before we me,” replied Sylvia. “I'm so sorry 1'd love to see her again. We were | Do—you know what | asked | a fur coat . “Feel it vendor had urged, “Why that is an investment, just mon You Id pawn it you pay me, almost That play had lasted throug performances the | s a coat like ke a dia for what the ness,” feel reached | R bus from the station s un as she did suests had _arrived. man of 50, who looked od from chronic indiges- | : his wife, who was. one of those | T tunate females who digest every- | HE rest of that Wint have | thing: and their offspring, a girl of | proved a hard. cold one for Jane, | twenty. | had she not had the remnants of her| They registered as Mr. and 000 and a thousand-dollar fur coat.! Charles Thompson of Boston, Even Tommy had realized the futility | Miss Sylvia Thompson of the same £ trying to get another part This was of no particular in- scason. But own play to Jane. They were not the king shape. | sort of people Jane had ever heen The name of this was ‘s Past.” | intimate with, in Boston. But_before “The critles will how h anguish | night, Jane knew that Mr. Charles when they see it,” he had prophesied | Thompson drank his coffee strong and e Thy t The prised Mrs. | and | his place wag | terest tal e JANE!” HE GASPED IN( | flung such good friends T— The dinner bell broke in upon her. “Are you-—stopping for dinner?” ked S i “Dinner tainly. as Tommy uncer- I might as| echoed Why—I suppose then,” | love to it's so see you afterward, Sylvia promised him ‘Td have a good talk about Jane. long since I've seen her. She managed to hold on to her book until she reached her room. Then she it_on the floor and let it lie there, along with her stockings, her shoes and the other garments she was | discarding. The hetter to discuss Jane, was making a change of attire, In the meantime, Tommy, Sylvia | still no sugar. Mrs. Charles bl e 1 in it And {pponpson, on the other hand, used th il be right. T thing is golng to i vi four teaspoonfuls of sugar, two of be sure fire. It's got a little of ever; 5 current success on Broadway, and, if | which always remained in the bot- blic doesn’t love it—and you in|tom of her cup when she had finished. Sylvia had her coffee served demi- | tasse 1t after her interview with the | Inn’s proprietor, had continued to be a guest there, she would have known little about the Thompsons. But Jane | ceased to be a guost that Saturday noon. The Inn's n De 's not | black, with June had interrupted, as if| d. But she had not been quite sincere. e had expected that. | role is written around you.” ke had informed her. “Any manager who accepts the play has to sign you up, t00.” Th had considered sy him. The only trouble with Tomm 0 was that no manager wanted the play. January had scen it finished mnd Tommy finished with the hompsons were, in fact, the only guests when, on the fol lowing Tuesday, the voung man in a roadster arvived. Sylvia was scated on the porch “Out of all the dumps you might have picked to spend two weeks in ou certainly hit on the worst,” Sylvia atill almest. five | had informed her parents, in the tone announced, “if that's about it I'll produce he had ¢ they for myself. I've thousand left. it got dazed, had passed on Into the din- ing room. “Lither she got more than pected for that coat,” he mused, she's made her peace with her family and o He became aware that the waitress hovered over him. ane!”” he gasped incredulously. “Fish chowder or tomato soup?” she asked, Impersonally “But—the proprietor said weren't here!” babbled Tommy. “I advise you to tuke the tomato | soup,” suggested Jane. “The cat 8 | very fond of fish chowder—I saved him from drowning in it a minute| ago.” “But—but,” began “I don’t understand—" He paused. Jane Presently she returned and set a pls 1 ex-| “or | | you mmy feebly. | had departed ! you | your | out. “THERE.” TOMMY WAS il i A Jl“.“.‘lkfi “ ‘\ Ve YING TO JANE AS HE THRUST A ROLL OF BILLS AT HER. “THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS. COUNT IT . . ” “I don't care a Tommy assured ler, “Well then, there's roast sald Jane. oast beef, raw, rare, medium, or done to death. The chances are that you'll get the latter, no matter what vou prefer. Also there's boiled potatoes, stewed po- tatoes and very stringy beans. I ad- vise you to take them all, as you wont get much of any— “Will you stop that rigmarole and tell me just one thing?" he beseeched. “I have many duties,” retorted Jane y. “If you don't mind, I'd prefer ) take vour order. The other guests will be here in a minute and I'd like to get you off my mind T don't doubt it snapped Tomm: ook here—when can 1 see you— I am mostly visible at meal times. “I mean some other time—when you're not busy——" “I'm always busy. day.” Do you mean to say vou won't give me a_chance to talk to you? Not if 1 can help it,” she retorted definitely. With which kitchen. Before Thompsons came in. Sylvia Tommy a coquettish nod “I want you to meet my father and mother, Mr. Blair,” she Tommy bowed vaguely. “Isn’t it a small world, Sylvia_went on. “Mr. I Jane West, too. “Jane who?" “Why—oh, yes!” Sylvia had k table, wne reappeared, bearing Tommy's next course She then proceeded to take the Thompsons' order. “I told father,” Sylvia informed ymmy, while this was being attend- ed to, “that this was the worst dump vet. That's what comes of taking a chance on a place recommended by friends." Tommy's voluntarily. Mr. Biair has a_won-der-ful car! Sylvia was informing whomever it might concern. “And I bet he's one of those fast drivers, too. I adore driving fast—when I feel I can trust the driver.” She glanced laughingly at Tommy. Tommy rose. ‘“Pleased to have met all,”” he said thickly. vivia's eyes d. hoot about fish,” e beef."” Especially the the gave e departed for she returned, though,” air knows asked her mother. ked her under the eyes sought Jane's in- widene “But—-but vou haven't even finished your soup! She protested. * % * X "HE proprietor glanced up as Tommy energed from the dining room. “Well—guess you found your lady friend after all!” he commented. “Would you tell me why you said Miss West had gone to California?” demanded Tommy. She asked me please.” “What fo sked Tommy, whose thoughts were in their own channel. Dinner!” exclaimed the proprietor. to. the car. He was sitting there when Sylvia_appeared. Oh?" she commented, aloofly. you haven't gone yet. “No—just going,” he retorted, and hent to turn on the ignition. But, a second later, he snapped it off, swung himself out of the roadster and passed by his inquisitor. “Forgot something,” he explained. What he had forgotten took him through the dining room and into the kitchen. There he found Jane, elbow deep in a dishpan. She glanced up, her face flushed but lovely. “Well, you've got your nerve with she greeted him. *“Who let you in? Or, perhaps’—she drew a dish from the pan—-I should ask how they happened to let you out. I thought you wera in an insane asylum—-" “I was,” he admitted. “And they didn't let me out. They Kicked me They seemed to get the idea I “So sn't insane- 1 should think,” commented Jane, t anybody who was crazy enough to get into an insane asylum would be. enough to be kept there—-" “It's not such a crazy notion,” he cut in. “In fact, the idea was sug- mested to me by an actor who had pulled off that stunt successfully— gotten board and lodging through one lean Summer. But, as you were about to remark, he was probably a good actor—" “T was ahout to remark,” corrected Jane witheringly, “that any man who was worth anything would prefer to of tomato soup before him. I don't know how far | that sweet and twenty so often uses 5 | toward its progenitors nowadays. “Will you have fish?" she asked. earn an honest living.” “Did you every find yourself in a to- | announced. | One dollar, | Tommy paid him and went out to| strange city looking for a job? asked her. bet—-" “Don’t! he advised. “You'd lose. Even the humblest of positions ve- quire references and past experience, it appears.” “Well—you could have gone home, persisted Jane. “I should have had to promise to forswear the stage forever—"" “Aven't you about ready to?” “Not yet—by a long shot. I believe that 1t I can get a manager inter- | ested in that play of mine—-"" “They were all wrong,” Jane as- sured him. “The managers?” asked Tommy. “The authorities at the asylum,” she assured him. “They should never | have let vou out.” | I regret it myself—at ment,” commented Tommy. “I try |not to be oversensitive, but there | seems to be a lack of cordiality in fyour manner. I—what are you wash- | ing those dishes for, anyway? I come | here and ask for you. The old goat {in the office tells you've gone to { California. Why “Because 1 asked him to. 1 sus- pected the family might look me up, yand I preferred not to have them find me_here—everything considered.” “But, Jane! * Why didn't you do as {1 told’ you? Pawn your fur coat |and—-— 4 isn't | know. | “Fifty dollar: | you mean that ye | the man said—— “Put not your trust in man vised Jane. " “Would you ing—I want to these dishes Tommy moved, scleus volition. “Do you mean,” he demanded, “that you used up the §30 and—then had to 80 to work?” “It's very simple.” said Jane. money went and left me 8 in Ag that seemed to disturb the prietor greatly, I told him admitted Jane, “but I'll the mo- sald Jane. apt to stick around long, you he echoed. ou only got $50. Why but without con- I'd wash He took me at my word, suggested that I might as table and do the rooms, too— Tommy was overwhelmed. needn’t have been. Jane was enjoy- ing herself. The savor of martyrdom is always sweet | “T do—Sylvi | corroborated. tidy beast, I warn [it t want to seem catt, Ivia® “Your friend at the table, T think, by the way, she's probably {for you to show her how fast you can {drive. Where did you get a car, by the way?" ; “Borrowed it, | | | especially ather an un- said Tommy that old goat pay you, anyway?" “Six dollars a week. And there m be tips. Not that they to anything yet. You ducked out with out leaving a nickel.” “Do you mean to say that you wait on table—-" “You saw me, didn't “And wash dishq do my best. although Sylvia complains about their being greas: T'll bet she's not as fussy at home— especially when she washes the dishes | herself, it ever—- “And make beds and do rooms, all for six dollars a week!” he finished. “Don't be an idot, Jane. You can't £0 on—- “I intend to—unless the proprietor { comes in and finds you in the kitchen. He might fire me——" “I like to see him try Tommy, truculently. “Although perhaps he wouldn't | conceded Jane. “I suppose I'm a bar- gain— “A bargain!” exploded Tommy. ! should say | “On the other hand, he might have | had me put in jail. He read me the laws and statutes about hotel beats himselft—-" “It's two o'clock,” my, whose mind was obviously. else- where. “If T hurry— He slammed out. Jane went on with her ¥ | vou?” | i t remarked evertheless, her ears when she heard an engine s | her eyes went to the window that | commanded the road that Tommy must take to leave Gull Poirk. A sec- ond later, she saw him. He was not alone. Sylvia was beside him. “\Vell, T like that!” gasped Jane. quickened art, and got two thousamd myself, Jane had suggested. “Want Lo se me a piece of the show?"” “Let's sce how far 1 us first,” ny five thousand Tommy had tem- will car porized. ‘nfortunately, Tommy's five thous 1 failed to carry them even to the | vmiere. Jane's two thousand had | made that possible, It was held in « ster up in the Adirondacks described location of | their funds had run to, | was some distance north At end of (wo y had was $22 in as: 00 in lia B ed that Satur Tommy had to Forty-second s tht can BY MILT GROS NOFTOLIS—Heh heh—ot 154 we dun't usual-—heh— vou know mine hosk I minn doctor hobjects like anny- we should impuzzing by bot you know-—bing wot sty on Pock Heve- Dooplax Appottament—so 15 dere in de hizebox so- sleeped hout like any- {nvtink from m mind-—I should <inding de chuffer he should fatching e Ty een Scex for de hize-hox here 50 heh—so mine fife-pond putter steak —so bitwinn de minntime i 1 could pocking heem by you hize box itlebaum 1y Brecng ou tree!tt Of Feitlebaum 0 Botton holes 1 make inm ngs ha (SMACK) A nidd dere I should gat be in a hundertone Tomorrow (SMACK) eprosoiver you'll poiforate leedle hembroidery ha ter it nes Square. 1l Tomu 4 some § ilities ) i tin heh oss in de Oy de “You or | hing wot heh heh—so i “Do Il starve echoed you home now! be as bad You ca o I tutt in de Mrs, fur coat™ 80— nd live on the procee ined. You ought to g indred on it. That would carry £h the Summer oy had Jeered sort, prefer <1 know 1 down Maine Gull I | | | 5 | —of cuss i Of cuss heem in QS8 —— 1st v AT (SMACK) i you she Isidore you prectis o hrennew Inn is the there for eighteen goes into nve times?" Don't Point 1 L oweek idred me mavhe (SMAC Looy well well at's tough had ' - ewaed yer water wings, huh pop— shie had snapped a ask me,” aches 1 en ven know,” s ache « v thing y4u he only two inuer tubes, | wrachute, t'ree umbrellas, a life raft |an’ a pair of stilts to go swimmin® wid. Poor old Daredevil Feitlebaum —take care pop yer liable to git water on de knees— Mr. Feitlebaum—Aha—you're here ha dope!!'—From de site show from fricks on de buddwukk de fired you alrady. Maybe denks Gott you should: n't using opp anny more de stove- polish you should be a “Wild Men | from Hefrica,” ha!!t | Mrs. Noftolis —Oohoo Meesus Feitle- 1n--So bing wot I teenk is coming wdy de hize so—mine putterhouze Ak — Mr lopp agan de b de 0 Feitlehaum-—Aha-—It King beezness. On de [ puteh we got from dem gobbidie—In |de hemmocks we got from dem coz zins—in de hize-box we got from dem | steaks Mrs. Noftolis- Kipping in de ¢ | seelver soivice-—so heh heh | maybe eef you could sperring a_copple | knifes witt spoonzs—bing wot it’s com- ing for deener mine cozzin Hilar, Hepstein de berrister!—so so—of cuss we dun’t usual— Looy—Ha ha—Him comin'—Hay, better nail down de chairs mom—Oh boy!!—l wua in his oflice wunst!!ll stotts So bing wot we usual ety in de Safety Wult I tutt wot | Ifa ha——he's a popular guy—so pop- | ular every ambulance chaser in town wants to be in de same office wid him. Oboy—at Doffice dour looks like a Si- time-table!!!—Ha ha—and ya e de clients— Dey still got on dere shoits!! Mrs. Feitlebaum—Halp, Yi Yi ¥i Yi —Is wenished de steak!™ Yi Yi Yi Mowriss—Queeck, go by de bootcher in de hooteher shop! Breeng queeck a steak! Halp—she'll tukk wat we'll hev to moot hout from de ceety— de_number: SCEN Jutcher Shop. Feitlebaum—1 weesh 3 TWO. I steak Butcher—Keennizz deed you sad Meesus Slotkin—Wot _for you nidd keednizz —IHe's got enoff keedney trob- ble alrady enk. llere s | tlenk- —NANT! you weesh—Meesus now pot rust- | Heve is lemb [temb chops— cotletts you weesh—>Meesus Schwutt! —Wh— Mr. Feitlebaum—Im—Leever dey hesking_und goulash dey gatting— Rust biff de hesking und squapps he's geeving—So I'll hesk heem a cheecken plizze a vite Pot rust Blitz—Who itts lemb chops! Wrep opp de - your hoshand. Take heem a | ponds | Gross Exaggerations by de Sisshore: A Mis-steak for de Meester Feitlebaum jhe'll geeve me de steak. Jer. I weesh plizze a Butcher—ere is iponds de cheeckew. | cheecken. NAXT— SCENE THREE. Mrs. Feitlebaum—Y1 Yi—A cheecken you brutt!! Halp!! Mrs. Noftolis—Dun't me de same deefercnc Noo, bootch- cheecken'! a cheecken—fite Wrep opp bodder—I Denks— by oot itlebaum—Noo—steaks got to kipp for dem, ha e—1Ita ba—her Feitlebaum | —Hm s. Feitlebaum f fond de steak!! A dollink boy!! Noo fry heem gradually we should itting heem for deener de steak!! Mm-mmm—Ho boy— Mr. Feitlebaum—Mm-—-deed it was | sudgeous de steak!—In hall mine life deed you aver saw I should en joining 0 a_steak—Hm-—werry goot de steal RRRRRRRRRR I N G Mr. Feitlebaum—Iollo- Teester Meetzice 0 WOt Is u weesh to horrow agan de s wot mine Isidore lant——to Muttimer it should——it should cure heem a leedle more de bleck heye!! i ¥1 Yi—VYIL SMACK!1t1 MILT GROSS. (Copyright. 1927.) Isidore v mind mov- [ anyway?" de | we | s the steak— | e | | found the dress, the sweater ceded to dry hen she went up to “‘do” In Sylvia’s room, She proc a bang! the rooms. rest of the clothing Sylvia had worn that morning on the tloor. She kicked one of Sylvia's slippers into a cor- ner, kicked the other into another and hurled Sylvi clothes after the: | The door opened, and in came Sylvia's “Fifty dollars | | “Do | vou please, do as 3 | | pour hot water over | | five dishes, if necessary, to pay him up. | c In fact, he | well wait on | you pay what you owe me, that But he!any pa you—although 1|1 | yo i “Met | had a friend in New York and—what does| two, in faet. have amounted | He turned to Jane. * announced | ride with you this afternoon.” o1 | of getting out, I let Tom. [my. { mothe: “Oh!” said the Iatter, “I thought rou were Sylv, 4 “Heaven forbid!” retorted Sylvia’s mother found the ietor and assured him she had never been so insulted. The pro- prietor found Jane in the kitchen. “What do vou mean by Mirs. Thompson?” he demandad. Well—she insulted me first, swered Jane. he s: I was her daughter—" Jane. dishes with | Jane | and the pro- | insulting | an- id she thought “I told her,” roared the proprietor, hat I'd it that gized— “You shouldn’t make rash ises,” Jane assured him. Either you'll thickly, * e He paused. June i high winds at Gull Point, but it wa his first impr on that a November gale had swept into the kitchen. turned and saw Tomn parently. did not see himn. “There!” Tommy was Jane, as he thru: her. “Thr count Now goat you see to you saying thousand what owe him. own life, and ¥ The proprietor found volc apolo- prom- apologize,” he began t not a month of |y vou have a ten He Tommy, ap- o {time when it was dawning uj a roll of bills at | proprietor that it was up to him to dollars— you can pay that old | supper—tt where ou like. live your | “how it “\Who are you calling an old goat, he” demanded Tommy turned. “You,” The proprietor purpled. he said. o7 seconds,” the constable and—-" “It won't be necessary sured him coldly he sputtered, “My and on my way. ach. | pro- | trustrated, turned back to Jane. an. “You | over to the pasturing of sheep. Thes t | | And out he went. The proprietor, “As for vou, miss,” he beg n get right out of here. too.” Bu did not forget to add, “‘the minut s and 1f you think I'm going to give for insulting my guests— stopped then. Jane, too, Tommy as- | I'm all through— | u vas [ on After Tommy, whom she found just starting the car. At him she | promptly flung the bi “Take them!" she commanded, . “I don't want them." “Good Heavens!” gasped “You certainly do throw around.” Then: “Why Tommy money won't waiting | take the money “Why should T take money u?" she retorted passionately. Tommy bec: ns an’ audienc An fron; audience etor. Oh, aned Tominy “Get in—we can't my a argue here— “I have no Jane inform ention of getting in, him. THE next ins bodily, slammed her seat beside the wheel, an over her, shifted into first with final- i into the You'll he announced grimly, the head! Neither roared awa stay put.” spoke as the roadster But presently: “I suppose,” remarked Jane, rec ering her breath, “that this is way you persuaded Sylvia to take a “It required no persuasion,” Tommy ungallantly. “She wa in the car—said she was admiring it. As she scemed to have no intention her sit there. I as in a hur You worked fast! commented Jane. *“Where did you borrow three t nd up here?" “I didn’t borrow it,” corrected*Tom- “I got the governor on long dis- tance and asked him to wire me three thousand. I had to go to Portland to get that mach in cash—-" “What a kind father have!” sighed Jane. you helieve Tommy. “I had tc “To what?" prompred Ja ed. othing,” he_said. She stole a glance at him. “Oh—so you're going back to Chi you must it,* retorted ne, as he pa |cago and sweep out stores, after ail,” she murmured. “How did you guess it he wasped “I'm nagt whoily without brains.' he reminded him. “I suspected that ur father wouldn't let you have the ¥ money with no strings tied to it—- “I didn’t ask him to,” said Tommy. “1 told him that, if he'd come ac with the three thousand, 1'd sell m: seif_down the river and—-" “You needn't—you can send the three thousand back,” she suggested. Tommy gazed at her. “Jan Please he sensible——" “If the play had heen a suc would you have considered me a part | remarkable she demanded. yes. But— hecause it, wasn't, and be- woman, you think you loan and make me be- owner? “Why “So ju cause I'm a can call it a lieve that! Tommy realized that he couldn’t “But you can’t go on working at th Inui* " he protested. sible- “I fear it is,” confessed Jane. proprietor intimated as much.” “There you are,” he wailed. “Wha will you do? Look ahead, Jane- “I suggest that you look ahe advised Jane. “This road is come to an end—you'll be in wor in another minute.” stopped the car. The ha e them, lovely and lus 'he “Well, what will manded d-sperately Jane shrugged her shoulders. Yet a premonitory little thrill van through her, as she murmured, “Why should you worr How can T help it?" he protested. “Do you think I can go to Chicago and leave you this way? You know—-' you do he de- she hot- you ious that they | man should dig of and the propri- | confidently ant he picked her up climbing | if I have to wallop you over | OV- | 0en exc the | replied | 17 sitting | | ot | even l i For a second there was silence be- tween them. Then her eyes met his, and for ancther second there was |silence, but an electric, breathless Then n't come to Chicago he babbled. Jane, for a moment, said nothing. Then: “I might—at that.” she admitted, but in a voice she hardly recognized las_her own. Ho reached for her hand sively, yet still incredulous “You made me promise we'd just | go0d friends.” he reminded her. |~ Asain Jane was slow in answering. | Then “No—no wonder | tailure,” she murmured. s all you know about women, < it ild change my mi your caree probably impule vour play was a “If—if that ou're I to who had renounced the stag ever five minutes before, glanced up at_him. “I think,” hat was the tr Jane, informed him, “that uble with your pl ney fo talk too n indi- she much when—when a is cated Whereupon Tommy went tion Tt into ae- | H later—about n the was sometime and serve tue Thompsons’ t Tommy spoke. don't see vet” he 1t came out. I— stopped, as Jane's eves, mocking. half-mysterious, met She hesitated a second, and then: “Men selilom do," she informed him, serenely. prepare confessed, & half- He his. {Copyrizht. 19270 You you | aren’t out of this Kitchon in about | et Dew Pond s of Sussex Downs. dry D have slopes and in the ziven JOR centuries the ridges of Sussex south of England, | wis | been little to \tures can live with very thirst if but they suffer from cut off from water altogethe: Like the deer, the sheep feeds in lthe early morning while the dew is the grass, and again in the eve- ning. when the dew has hegun to fall. In this way it geis sme moisture | with its food, but not envush. The shepherds have from time immemorial made gaod the de | ing what they call “dew pond: The dew ponds of a mystery to st the time into the x Chat in a land where there are neit ner natural hollo highest expect er drin| coming » cou ngers : of water, s on the sum- hills, and then Natire to keep { them filled, no matter what call is ! mad= on their resources. must appe: downright folly to one who has nev had the practicability of the plan dem- onstrated to him under his very eves Yet the seemi mder of w | pond has a very simple explanation. 1t is nothing more than a cold sp on the earth which continually p | cipitates the moisture from the passing over it; and that cold spot | placed on the hilltop hecause there | encounters air that had not lost vap | through previous contact with the ti. The best dew-pond makers are {1 men of Wiltshire, as all sheepmen 1 | England admit. The pond, haviy :avated to the right depth an lined flist with puddled cla then with a thick I finally, upon th her substantial coating o aid and well beaten down, Nothing 18 needed then but to brir a few cartloads of water to start t! pond, and to set a ring fence ab it. he action of the straw, in water-proof double casing, is to inte: cept the heat radiation of the earth {at that particular point, so that the | pond cavity and its contents remain colder than the surrounding soil. How the dew pond came to he invented has often been the subject of wond ing speculation. nzs pools mits of the o the de dry raw lay at. Dwarf plume-t lof the downs, each | flashy leaves, matted { centrally depressed, forming a | fect little dew pond that retain | garnered moisture long after all other | egetation has grown dry in the heat | of the mounting sun. No doubt some early shepherd, wandering over tl hills, marked the natural reservoirs of | the thistles, reasoned out the principle they embodied, and stra rain and hand to we dew ponds. anc togather itway on the Railroad of Future. HE demand for i has heen quickensd t. le extent within recent y. | was stimulated perha anything elce by the hi | with elcetriéal trains. | tests, | maximum speed of 1: | was attained at ! of 90 to 100 miles an hour requently. In view of these ex; the engince: | h ;’ ,‘ ade ture “That's impos- | New | with has been gra then to 20, & lually nd now and 14 hou tion for the scl rip. The dist e in round nur about 1,000 mil nd at the rate of 90 miles an hour, which i casily attainable, we have as the re sult a little over 11 hours for t It is true that such a speed would never be considered over the roudt as it is at present constructed, is equally true that should any commercial demand for a trip between these two great the engineering problems would not present any great diffi- culties. The financial problems in connection with such a scheme would be the only difficulty. to 13 hour: . e under sidera but it there be 10-hour cities volved