Evening Star Newspaper, February 19, 1928, Page 86

6 » THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY’T! THE ORANGE BIRD OW that her father had died | actors in a romantic comedy, shc and left her without money. ' thought. cvery one in Manasquot said | And evidently they thought some- that, of course, Lucia Prescott | thing ot the sort—for Curtis Thane would marry—at last. The “at | nudged the other two and suddenly all Iast” was uttered invariably with a sigh, | three made her a sweeping bow and &S though to exphess relief, or a certain | Tom Grentell cried, rather thickly, pe. satisfaction—for Lucia was a young |cause he was still bent double, “Fair woman who, by &l the usual signs and | princess come and greet your faith- partents, should have married long ago. | ful—" He was going to say knights. She was good-looking. she had an aris- | he tocratic charm. and. till recently, she his breath gave out. Tom was rather in declared afterward, but at this point | had been something of an heiress. At |Stout and his chivalrous gesture, the age of 27 her failure to marry was one of the social mysteries of Manas- quot. the Main Summer resort to which the Prescotts had come for vears and in which the Prescott home. pictur- built on a point of rocks over- Fisherman's Cove, was still idered an important landmark. here were now. to be sure. hon larger and more pretentious. but more charming. The Prescott garden. established between the two wings of the house and inclosed on the westerly a low wall in which was set a d gateway. had no peer among gardens of Manasquot. This was to Lucia, who gave more ht and energy to her garden than n her life. Yet the result. in beauty. was appar- ent and significant. Lucia never could give up her garden. said ever Manasquot Summer colony. all v in love with Lucia Dunham was per- s her most persistent admirer, and fortunate—said every one in Manasquot—for John was the wealth- ie: Lucia knew. He had millions. her two, Tom and Curtis. weren't ecled. but either would be a | 5o him. “I must practice touching my tocs in the morning—what?” Tom reflected aloud to Lucia, as he went with her to the putler’s pantry to take charge of the champagne “There's 2 man in the garden.” an nounced Miss Treefit, popping her heac into the pant “A man? What sort of a man?" ask- ed Lucia. “I don't know what sort, I'm sure,’ answered Miss Treofit. “He is on that bench under the trallis. You never can be sure of a gontloman till he stands up can you. Mr. Grenfell?™ ever, 1 “He me hcusokeeper. Or a butler.” mused Lucia. POs- sible butler. at any rate. John!" Shc ! now called, and when both Dunham and | Curtis Thane apocared from the dining room she sai here's a tramp in the garden—or he may be a gentlem: A Treefit isn't sure. i ask him which h: either case, he'd care to ser for us tonight?" “Serve dinner®” ‘es. And be sure to tell him h b> a’tramp,” added the | it and | ther, in | dinnct | ine curious way. he said, had choked | | “A steak or something.” said Tom. | brightly, and even more brightly added ‘Il go with you, stop at my place, get some bitters. Make a champagne cock- tail—what? “All right." said John. *“Come on." “Well, then—I'll go. too,” decided Curtis, a bit shecpishly. “But you ncedn't all go!" protested | Lucia. They looked at her with a com- posite grin of embarrassment. Vell, you see—— “You see, Lucia, it's a part of our agreement——" “You see, we agreed that it'd be more | sporting if we all sort of stuck to- | gether in—in everything, and—you ge! Itha idea? A fair field and no favor. ! None of us to be alone with you tiii| you'te decided- er—what?” blundered | i, | down a d | “Oh, yes! About the money! So I did! I wanted to know how you man- | aged to live on next to nothing a year.” “It's simple enough,” sajd Rodney. “I work. But that's not the point. The point is that you don't want to be | forced to auction yourself out of your present difficulty. You don't want to have to marry some rich bird—one of those two birds, for instance, who came out here a few minutes ago and spoke to me-—" “There are threz of them,” said Lucia. “Don't. I beg of you, do anything sensible!” It was . this stranger, who was also Rodney Trent, talking to her. They had been talking to each other for agss, here under the s “In the first place, it's bound to turn out badly. and in the s>cond place——" Hare he paused, r ved h's bhands from his pockets th=n put m beck c3ain. | “The fast is,” he saf; ‘ve alwnys had | a notion that I'd marry you some day.” “Rodney!” srid Lucia. 8o they all departed in John's car-- 2 ng man gone to fetch a beef- .. And Lucia valked out into| or garden and saw a man standing | in the walk before her. His back was | {toward her. He was tall and thin and | had rather a careless droop to his shoul- | ders O, she thought, “this : the man Trefit saw from the window. I knew he was here...." She walked over to him. “You may as weil go ava ‘There isn ny dinner to o she said. , after | I'm sorry.” he said. “I wented to see whether you'd recoznize me.” smilod and canre toward her. don't know me, do you, Lucia? Rodny Trant.” But she had known him from the, oginn: But that was imp ou | I'm| | “Yes, I have! I can't explain don't know why, except—oh, wel course it's jus se I've always | wanted to. You know that. Don't you remember I once told you?™” | % CLEARLY. with amazing distinctness, | she did remember. A dinner party | at her house in town (the house that was gone now, taken by her father's creditors, sold) when she was 20 and Rodney a voung licut>nant just home | from Franc>, She had liked him then: she had thought him interesting and different. . . . “Ah, but that wes years—eges ago “Certainly it was. But I meant it. Only, I thought then. I'd be hanged if I'd play the sort of game you seemed headed for. Life bac 9. 1928—PART T. By Dana Burnet “Oh, I don't know. G Say, a week from today.’ They were smiling at each other now, like two children up to some pleas ant_mischief. “It sounds enchanting, said !.Jucm. T'm really quite thrilled. And then, from the house, the three | faithful knights advancing. * oK ok ok 'HERE were movements—murmurs of acknowledgment: a brief ex-| planation, by Lucla, of Rodney's pres- | ence in her garden and other utter- ances necessary to the moment. Then: “Apparently our dinner's on egain.” sald Lucia.. “Do come in and dine with us.” And the three cavaliers cchoed bollowly, “Yes. do!™ ““Than! replied Rodney. “T dined an hour ago. and I—if you don't mind, I'll say good night." i “By the w where are you stop- ping?" asked Lueia. | ‘EI“"A teat, about a mile up the State | ive me a week. T 'Oh. you're observed imham politely. “Yes," sald Rodney. “I'm camping Good nizht, Lucia. Gentlemen!" He bowed and walked away. | The dinner was on” again. | The champagne cocktall was made | and consumcd. The substitute steak was tough. The three cavalicrs were solemn. “To Lusia!" thoy said, and toasted her gravel And Dvnham sald: “This chap Trent . . . is he an old friend, Lucia?" . “Oh, ves, quite an old friend.” “Quecer that he shonld be camping.” remarked Tom Grenfell. “I mean, no- body camps but the blooming campers camping!" Du Iy ble! vei. her little ey of sur- | I prise_sounded fals® fo hor own ears.|in a groove spinach and a glass of chempagne. ONC | Would she never come to the boltom |More exciting than ¢ sensible girl—an | et nothing out of it but a piece of Marricge mode. cirl in Lucia’s po- | Steak and a boiled potato and some L Money 1o make. that. So AN | oho Rothin: | —Wwhat NOWhINg | “He hasn't a great doal of money,” t_desperate. it Yet she could to be alarmed about somsthing _ inherently g absurd. in_her giass uniess he cheats while he's in the | pantry " “I'll s~e that h2 doesn’t cheat,” mut- tered Grenfell | John and Curtis marched out. Afte: a while they came back with the infor- of her knowledge of herself? “‘Rodney Rodney Trent!™ ncia! Hello . ey . . . Good Heavens! ou say s0? And how? Why Where I was afraid of what you'd do to me.” | “I!" exclaimed Lucia. “But T hadn't | the slightest designs oa your freadom.” “Oh, of course not. It vas just what | [ imagincd. The sort of life I t d Lucia, ** excl r2e in unison. " added Curtis | sod by a| rebellious humor, look2d at thom and DO YOU HEAR? RODNEY.” n. The idea of a Pres- ting poverty! u come from?" "From New York. | flivver.” “But I thought you were in Japan? Or was it California?" “Both, and a lot of other places. But | I've come home—for a while.” This | | qualification was uttered in matter-of- !fact tone. But it had, for Lucia, a curious significance. It gave her an immediate sense of freedom. of barriers lifted. of horizons indefinitely extended. “For a while, he repeated, putting out her hand You've come home? But why? How do you happen to be nding here. in my garden?” ‘Why not?” “I'm sure I don't know why not. But you must admit it's rather a special sort of event . . . a very nice one.” She was smiling her characteristic. (amused smile. I'm glad to sce you, Rodney! 1ght at I getting “No. of course, money doesn't matter, does it? That's what you said porch and savin hat man who was | when ‘you proposed fo me "in the, in the garden last night is in the kitch pentry-—-" | en and wants to see you now." “I still insist the pantry was no place| “Tell him to go away," replied Lucia. for it," interrupted John. BiRgE Send him out_here. and that's what I say, now that | and I'l tell him Do I look | I'm about to decide, for I am about to | all right, Treedt? decide”—here the three men sat upy ~You look very vou straight end stff, incredibly self-con-| “Do I really? ' This negligee is be- scious, in their chairs—"on a husband,” coming. isn't it?” concluded Lucia, with dramatic solem- very beautiful” added the nity. housckeeper, marching stiffiy away. “Lucta And that. incidentally. is what Rod- “Yes." she said. “I've decided it' ney Trent said when he came out on high time that Lucia Prescott got | the poréh. married. and, since practical considera- | “Lucia! You're beautiful!” tions have nothing whatever to do| "Don't talk to me,” said Lucia. with it. T've decided to marry the man! “What's wrong?" who can tell me, within the next week “I'm cross. Sit down. Ha —-say, & week from today--just what coffee?” g to put in the cenier of my garden. “No thanks. Tve just come to tel The most beautiful thing! Animal, you I've found some tools. There's a vegetable. or miner; She laughed. cabinetmaker at Berwick—I12 miles She couldn’t holp laughing at their from here. He's going to let me w astonished faces. “But I mean it!" his shop. Nice of him. she cried pass‘onately. I'll go over there for a few days and— A silenc>. Then Dunham getting up, I just thought I'd drop in and sav glass in hand. “A sporting test,” he 800d-by to you. said. “A perfectly sporting test. No collusion and no collaboration. Each man to get up his cwn jdea—and may the best man win! To Lucia's hus- band!" he proposed. lifting his glass. Tom and Curtis were on their fest instantly. “To Lucla’s husband!” they repeated; and Lucla smiled as they drank. manlon that l}l,‘.r man had said he was i gentleman. that he'd be very glad t Sihen D erve as butler for the evening, but that his terms were two boiled potatoes anc a <hare in the conversation. if he con- sidered it worth participating in. “Tell him ‘yes’" said Lucia imme- diately. “But. look here. Lucia—" sav, Lucia!" “We had something important to tell you tonight.” said John. “Oh.” seid Lucia. “Something.” added Curtis, “rather especially personal.” re “You see” seid Tom Grenfell, think Il have to all want to marry you." asked Lucia. 9 h!* said Lucia again. W of course. “Idiot!” exclaimed Dunham. glaring parried the lawyer. If you could fall at Tom. “We weren't to teil her till in love w one of those young men of after dinner!™ And Curtis cried at the —one \xhnhl*.app;ned 10 have a fow same t}im!‘ Hey! I thought I war . ns. Yy remember, the to do the ‘alking' I'd even m o N - fact tume 1 vistted your father in Manase | what T was going to sasi - T CC | “And I'm glad to see you” he said. that several who Tom looked apologetic. “Gee! I'm ddding impulsively: “Father told me = . Gevoted —ah! SOrTy It just slipped out—what? Sort youd lost all your mon: That's par- °d. thinking that of on my mind. you know.” he said, ticularly why I came— lancing uneasily at the other two. “Oh!" exclaimed Lucia. “Are vou go- Lucia cheerfully, Ing to feel sorry for me. too? PEecause, u are— Why should I? I'd have to lcad. You must sce mean. I could feel my hands t. having nothing to do. No real . . . . The thing that's me, the always driven me, is mostly He stood peering down at her—into her eves. “I did you an | injustice, Luecia. I was too yourg to know that you'd naver stoop to play their game.’ “What do you mecan?” she demanded. “What makes vou so sure I'd never play what you call their game?” I'm sure” answered Rodney. “not only bzcause you've never marrisd—a cuccessful marriage bsing one of the fundamentdl moves in the games—but also because of something here. in vour garden. You yourself workad out in this wav—in this scheme of flowers." “Oh!" gasped Lucia. “I know enough about workmanship. whatever the medium. to see vour hand i this garden. You've done it your- s~If. and you've loved doing it. haven't vou? And vou've discovered--vou must have discovercd,” he rushed on. “that doing things for love is a better game than buying them rcady-made. “Why haven't you shaped your life to fit the pattern prescribed for women of vour class? I'll tell you why. It's because vou've felt that vour life should have its own purely personal form and color. . Otherwise it would lack meaning. leck beauty. . . . The truth about you. this amazing voice out of H sound of a motor coming up th that skirted the garden. And ir she was on her feet, crying wildl no! Go away! Go away! You please. I can't stand any more of You own this place; it's yours . I've just found out about that. loaned money to my father and th: money’s never been paid - o The place is yours. But please go now! Be- cause I'm going——" The dear, sweet, chivalrous sou! How she hated them! Py SH‘! ran into the house and upst. mto her own room. and locked . Then. very calmly. she took out of Qer closet a black leather tra: bag and b2gzn to Dack it. an hour later Miss Treefit knoc on her door. Luecia opened it. “Miss Lucia?” Drovesin ! freedom—has _colored your whole life ! . . . But once your freedom’s gone, these things you think are yours, these things you love, will shut you in like the walls of a jail.” “Don’t! Youre cruel! You really 1 want to tell you are— “Listen, Lucia. something. A kind of story . . . When I was in Japan. I got to be friends with a J t. a wood carver. In I was studying with him—" ying?” ¢ ‘ not important. It was in this man's garden that I saw the orange bird. e had an only son who died. The old man gave up all his commissions. to work on a me- memorial isn’t the word: regliy—of the spirit of S0 While h2 s still considering a d-sign. he said he saw his <on in a dream. And his son said to him: ‘Let e go: don't hold i {orth. to live on. she laughed and said: “Bu t! 1 really cant. .. = replied the under a guise advice he oung. Miss Lucia.” deemed practica have Jong “To wait? v some chap who— e to take care of you™ “we o I “Yé , “Thz2t man who was in the garde: in the garden again. and he sars to you to come out_and look at t he’s got there. But. M you g0, bacause he He': got a dead tree s p in tbe midcle of the garden—one of these wid black cherries. as queer and twr thing as ever I see, hke some snaky monster it is—and in ! | it he’s stuek this bird d cueser. Miss Lu outlandish and g orange. and its wings out lik2 it was going to fi; = ~And is it.” asked Lucia e2gerly. “Iikc any bird you've ever seen before?” No. Miss Lucia. it ccttamly tsnt For it's got th2 face of an angel—or 2 devil. more Liksly— “More Lixely a devil™ agresd Luriz then: “Go pack your bag. Troefit . WeTe leaving here tonight. and w never coming back to this place——" % “Leaving. Miss Lucia? Never comins, “Yes™ said Lucis. end. brushing pas s astonished housekeeper. went o out inty har garden. but siow nd softly was there. i the four walks mat hiad vas a fa all former affections—or I'li never be able to make the journey that's before me." Then his father asked what thing he would make—what symboi—that would both commemorate and release him. And the son said: ‘Make that which has no likeness in heaven or earth. Make something strange'—th: word he used meant original. unique— ‘and something with wings Rodney paused. Lucia was looking now with a kind of childish fascina- tion into his eyes. “Well?" she asked “That's all. [Excepi that. when ths cld man's friends saw wha had carved and colored and set up in a dead checry tree in his garden they thought he was insane. Becaus: there was no logic to this bird. you And no formai likeness that would make it appropriate or'undersitandable . . . and maybz they were right,” added Rodney. ‘Maybs it 1o go beyond the formalit But. if so. then 1 offering you that gift: I'm bringing it into your e th> most bea nm s h> had gone too far. “The thought Lucia, with an aflectionate smile It was at this point that the colone! ell.” <poke up “never mind. Whatever it is. I'm surr it sounds very nice. So you mav as well | dared 1o bring up the subject that most |1t me hear it now—your plan. I mean " led him and that he had hesitated Sh2 went on, smiling at the three. “For s far 1o mention. “Now, about the 1M sure if I'm to marry you all. that | n Manasquot. Lucia. There's a | YOU must have some plan bv which § in connection with | €an be worked with—well, with impu- , irresolute. Why | Bl | Good-by. Rodney." g “Well—you needn't say it Lke that, you know. “Oh. ves. but I—I must say it Lie that! Because I've been thinking over all you said to me last night, and really it was very bad for me.” “Why? Bad for you? What do you mean?” demanded Rodney startled. “1 mean that I wish you hadnt s—all at once. fusi v g0t to be very. very sensible! How dare you™ ex- claimed Lucia. “turn up hke this, after years and vears—after I'd almost com- pletely forgotfen you?" “Then you hadn’t me?” “Yes, I had! I didn't say—" You said "almost completely forgot- ot I'm not father!” “Your father’s been sweet t> me, Rodney. Everybody's been sweet to me.” “Of course everyvbody's been sweet to vou! And you're sick of it.” “Col. Trent gave me some excecllent | advice,” murmured Lucia. evasive | “So he said! And that's why I beat it up here. I wanted to counteract the effect of his advice.” Rodney drew nearer. Hands in his pockets. he b°nt toward her, his lean figure curving to- ward he ' here, Lucia, don't pay a2ny attention to father or any one else of his type of mind. Of course, he’s a fine old chap, the colonel is. But he’'s a hopeless sentimental His | ideas are fatuous, shortsighted and im- practical——" something quite definite, final-—" “Impractical!” ecrird Lucfa., “How: "Yes, I can see what vou mean; I'd funny! That's just what he says about | alrcady noticed,” he said you.” Tl me! “Oh. he does, does he? That's all _ “Wait a ute.” He scemed to re- he knows about me! As a matter of fiect. almcst to dream. Then he turned fact. I'm one of the few praciical per- to her w a oui oyish smile sons now inhabiting this globe. But s. I'd lits to try it Something I'm not going to brag about myself just I once saw in a garGen in Jamen. I now. What I'm after, at the moment, | think I c2n do it—rcprocuce it. Oh is to get out of your head the perni- | I know 1 can! But I've got t3 have cious idea that father and all your th2 proper tsols " other friends—no doubt—have put into : “Tools> Th=n you're g1inz to ma it And that's the idea that you've got this thing—whate=or i 152° to marry your bread and butter.” “It's a kind of a bird.” replicd Rod- “Don't you think.” asked Lucia, “that I'm capable of entertaining such a per- nicious idea on my own account?” Well.” he demanded, “are you?" Yes. “Then why did you send me that message?” “What message?” “You told father to ask me——*" ut you're not to merry us all!” “That's not the idea!" “And besides, not in the pantry. blurted Dunham. “I mean—uh—of and , we're dead W 'HE next morning. howeves. the farmer from whom she bought cggs came and asked her for money. She was compelied to write & check before breakfast, and that brought her in contact with her bank balance. and that—because sh» was human—caused litt'e chills to g» up and down her , spine. ! { Drl v's hard to catch.” replied ard to pin down. . . . For in- she had a vague notion that she was sicering the talk inio saner s—"“I've been trying to think what I'd put in the center of my garden, #znd I don't know . . . I can't decide. Because it would have to for you to sell— breathed Lucia. going to sell that place. Col. Trent. . you know. And—uh-- mind when they took the hous: ought to go somewhere But the one up thsre—my --the living room. or, at least. garden. you see . " She paused dining room—where we can for 2 moment. “You sze. I've just fin- and talk it over in a busines ished rearranging my garden. it's done MP20. in 8 really serious way.” several years of planning . “NO!" said Lucia. “I won't have it | thore 40 s2e it happen.” Youre all going to be very sweet to| Happen me—I know you are! You're sorry for | “Oh. I mean to se= it bloom.” said Me. and you've got some notion of try- Lucia as though translating some con- D% to help me—and I think it's grand, Snaluied Sieur 16 & child and T won't have it spoiled by cere- Col. Trent sighed. “Yes. yes” he MOnY. The pantry's just the place for mid. I w 1 know how at- | it S:)” come on. Tell me! John?' tached you are to the placa—to your CUrtis? garden. But I thought you were going ' _“All right. the e e haen: ut 1 think— luzubrious “You're wrong.” saii Curtis to Lucia. “We're not sorry for you, and we're not trying to do something to help. That = essential—" Isn’t the point—" | said the elderly | The point is— put in Tom Gren- ! my boy. Rod. He fell. and then. catching Thane's eye, that. I mean to ubsided meekly. Curtis proceeded of practical val- ~You see, Lucia, we're all—well, )‘oul know we're all in love with you. Ha stirred by a faint, been for years” This declaration over. | ~“and how is Rod. | h* rushed on bravely: “And we're alif 15 he now? I've not seen Iriend:, John and Tom and I. so ve Six? Eight? Heavens! thought it'd be a lot more sensible, getting!” and—well, more honest in a way, if we years this Summer,” |3l proposed at once and let you take : “since Rod first | YOUT choice. And we thought—that is we talked it over on the cruise, and decided that now that vou were—I | mean. now that you're sort of— “Broke!" suggested Lucia simply. “No, no!” eried Curtis: and Dunham | plunged in with: “Por Heaven's sake. Lucia. don't think that' Money has nothing 0 do with it! Absolutely noti- ing to do with—" | “T've got only twenty thousand a ek 1. answered Tom Grenfell solemnly e sved me 100 .1 it were & question of monev, how'd te—less than 1 Dave the nerve to compete with John? e Or Curtis either. for that matter— thouzh most of his fll-gotten gains are in Mexican oil'" “Tom!" said Lucia helplessly. ou _see. Lucia.” continued Curtis. “what T was going to say was that now vou're all alone in the world. and dcar! What's a Mfe all that—except for Miss Treefit, of Py Where's the ac- course—why. we thought you might ‘What's the use of §t?" | want to—finally- 5 know,' replied “Unless. of courss. there's some one 28 ask Rodney else vou'd rather prefer to marry.” fin- Jiim Lucia Prescott ithed Dunham. with an inquiring look that caused Lucla to shake her head quickly, quickly He was so gentle about 11! Th wers all 50 gentle, 5o really tender to. ward her “You darlings!” eried Lucia there were tears in her eyes But she realized. with a feeling al- most of guilt, that there was in all this ne force or power to move her profoundly. Bhe looked st them through a mist of tears that she knew had come ‘00 easily. They were only in her eyes. Her inner self remained untouched, cold &nd mysteriously eriti- even, as slways, a triffie amused she thought, “if only 1 conld ##me that these three nice men have ot up for me! Why, it's a fairy tale! IUs the old story of the princess choosing between her (hree ultors And sucdenly rhe mad that she would play this teach her foolish heart » good lesson All right, then” she said sloud. look g from one ) another of her faithful “A right, then. Tl choose you must give me a iintie tme’ then. ax, they all nodded —heing wirh (Greined of wirds —she experienced an 4o #lmost uncontrollable dexire 1o run quite forgotten inking her coffee on the screened |porch oif the dining room. and gazing out et John Dunham's vacht, Lucia cried aloud suddenly, “I'm fool! What a fool I am!” 8h must to! Dunham. of course. Even though she d to cheat a little. Ol she'd been a fool last her life—perhaps? But wise, and Rodney Trent ®: could go riding off in his filvver to pitch his tent in Japan. or in the valleys of the moon It was a1l his fault, enyway Ex- cept for K. the never would have thought of th:t absurd condition—that “sporting e And now she'd have to wait a weck—carry the thing off somehow though. of course. it would grow in absurdity—when she might so castly have scttled the whole matter today. *I choose John. bocause he has |a boat like a white swan . , . " Then Miss Treefit appearing on the 1 don't care what I said. you must go away—at once—and never® com: a I'm going to marry one of thos® three. “Youre not. Y could. you'd have done You're the sort of woman who marric: for love. and you don't love—" “I love this place! And I love my fife . I'm lazy: 1 want drift 1 want to vals my garden, after day. and look a what's mine “But it won't be vours.” returnsd Rodney, with devastating logic It be just something you've bought at 2 prica—" 1 love it I tell you'" “You love what you've put into it . T'm thinking particularly of your garden. You've had a free hand there. and that feeling—that sense of the center. wher utiful . . . l:aned down and kissad her on the lps. “Lucia! I'll be back in & week. 1 love you. Wait for me." “Ro She had jumped up and stond facing him.."No. no. you mustat! You must never come back. Do you here? Rodney Do you hear?” 1t gan> without another word 1 looking back at her 2 n 3 night. end—all now she'd he And Rodney coming conceded Durham, he a trifle e. But there can't give up e “An oranze bird, in a dead cherry * trez. A marvelous, twisted stump. I can cut a wild cherry—that's eass But the bird itself! I must find tools | Got to carve it out of wood. you know. | Cedar. perhaps. Or—If I could find | a block of cypress . . . " | “But itll take vou—how long?" 5 o A st m r from Cal. Tre: lett>r read as fole WE th aftsrnoon. abor L Laici The old cadinetmak: know what I y 5 yoars Ive battered ar o have vour last Jetter Tve been working ting along T overcome a ension with regard to the {ar as 1t concerns the ement of your aff: that before his death. in 0 reliave some of the financial that finally crushed him. your father mo the Manasquot prop- © houss vou are now living tn— 3.000. This mortgage. of cours: It exists as col- for years Navy Gets Log of Ancient Craft BY CORINNE FRAZIER. HE water-stained, time-yellowed pages of a ship's log, with their graphic entries made in a metic- | ulous pen-and-ink script. wi turned over to the Secretary of the Navy last week, bringing to mind | the half-forgotten quasi-war with France which was waged on the high seas wherever French and American | ships chanced to meet from 1798 to nting around the he came home 1 remember 1 gave she said vaguel iz now, 1 believe,” | the Adams administration to conclude | 29 Dec. at 6 AM boarded the Brig Sir | a hasty naval bullding program for the | John Wentworth, Captain Peoples of | immediate protection of our interests, | Halifax Prize to the French Privateer ' both in domestic and foreign waters. Schooner Patriot. Sent Mr. Glover, Entries tell the story of captures Sailing Master, Prize Master & & men made. often without bloodshed, al- | for Martinico. Received on board a though sometimes o hdrspcr‘nw battle. | Prize Master & 6 men. clow are quoted the main engage-| pyunis which led up to the quasi-war ments of the Philndelphia from AUgUSt | itk “France found theic conception i through December. 1800: = !the actions of the French government, 8 Aug. 1800 at h. past 5 saw the sall | 0,01 their minister, Genet, who, im- shead close in with the land set all| yegjately upon landing on American sall and gave chace. Fired several shot |y “proceeded to fit out privateers in but to no effect At 9 being close | qur’ ports, commissioning cltizens of the | aboard of her and Gnding it Impossible | ynjiag States to serve on them and | to chace any longer by a reef clos? ygng them against the ships of Eng- under our lee commenced cannonading | Jand and other European nations with | her. At 1, past 9 hauled out of the bay whom France was at war, but Amstica between point Antigua and Englishmans ' was maintatning neutrality Head. The fort on Grand Terre fired| While this was the source of the dis- several times at us | pute, however, there were other contrib- 6 Oct. 1800 at ', past 4 light airs utory irritations which tended to strain the fort on North Point Guadaloupe | relations to the breaking point between gAVe Us two shots the two nations. We had concluded | 22 Oct. 1800 boarded the schooner | two treatiss with France at Versailles Adventure of Halifax from Halifax in 1778, one of amity and commerce bound to Martinico Benjamin_ Carlisle | and one of alliance, which, th our grati- Master taken by the French Privateer tude for French assistance during our Schooner Harmony of Guadaloupe in | struggle for independence, we signed in | Lat. 23 on the 7th instan. and on the | generous terms that later proved emba; 15th in Lat 15 Long 60 the Captain and | rassing in the obligations they imposed Mate recaptured her from 7 men. The For Instance. we agreed to assist In Prize Master was killed in the scuffie. | the protection of Fi possessions n They gave 4 of them the boat | the West Indies 1 called upon for atd 27 Nov. 1800 at ', past 7 boarded the | This clause obligated us to assist France | schooner Sally, Captain Bordock, of | when the general European war broke | New London. a prize to the Frenth | out following the French Revolution | | Privateer La Resolle. Recelved on | Bul our exhausted resources and armed | | board a Prize Master and 6 men- and | forces would huve made such a course | oy sent Mr. Decatur and 6 men on board | Suicidal and, as France did not demand | 1, | the schooner. it. we did not take sides. but rather 1773 Dec. 1800 at 1, past 1 AM. saw a | through & prociamation is- sall to the Nd and Wd. Made safl and | Sued by George Washington, to the ef- gave chace. At ', past 4 AM. cap- | fect that the United States would “pur- tured the French Privateer Leveret of Su¢ & conduct friendly and tmpartial Busterre Gundaloups armed with 6 'OWard the belligorent powers.™ = This guns and small arms and manned with | Proclamation. while carefully avolding 51 men { tha use of the term “neutrality,” was 25 Do ot 1, past 7 saw u brig and | MIDODUIAr with the people, a5 {eeling sehooner under Dominteo, Made sail | {07 Prance ran high at the time. How- & gave chice. AL D got the barge out €T It was passed by both the House manned her & sent her i chace of the | W04 the Senate schooner Gave her a gun & brought | France took no exception to it during her to. Continued our chace after the | the European strife, partly, according to brig. AU 11 AM after firing severnl | Gardner Allen's history, “Our *Naval thmes close I under the fire of three | War With France,” as a matter of pol- forts on Marlgalante, se shots flew | 1y and partly because France realized over us Rounded (o wnd gave her | 6L We Were more valuable as a neu- broadside. Iilled soveral head of horses 'WAI carvler of provisions than an aily which we saw fall whose tmpotency would make short work 20 Dec. at 1 AM saw & sall an aur | 35, 0F egaInat the strong Engliah naval weather how gave chace, A4 boarded | pogever, because the United States krr:u-’h‘l i ;mve Ruben Romley Master of | hud objected to the uss of her oltize | andon prize Lo the French priva- on privateers engaged in capturing Eng- { eer Bchooner Patriot. Sent Mr, Moore | jish “prizes” while we were supposed to | which led to the enactment by the & 2 men and 4 from the Bxperiment | he maintaining friendly velations, | French government of & sevies of for Martinico At 6 saw a sloop 0 prance later emphasized her grievances | harsh decrees dealing blows to- Amert. Whih 1k | book © wadled Mis Treent “and 1 was | Ureaties of the convention at Parls in [ windwaid gave chace. AL10 AM tacked qgaliat s on the acore hat we had |can commerce which eventuslly oul- | [rying o W GU over, and 1t slipped | 1801 were the Insurgente, Experiment | to the Sd and boarded the Bloop Lucy ot iived up to our agreements at Ver- | minated i the war of 17981801 " i Rut I oawear it 't 1 aw ot e gl And Uiere's our dine | imentioned 1 Wilkey's log), Boston, | of New London Captain Morgan Prise | yuijjes In 1800 the convention of Paris! know how i Nappened like this Ber gone up i smoke | Prestdent, United Staies and Indepen- (1o the French Privateer Schooner | Gepet's continued operations and his | drew up & new (realy of peace. com- | strikes me Al e Bne sut Aown sod wept dent, used unul recently as a receiving | Patriot Sent My Glover MIdshIpman gpen vefusal too respect our relations merce and navigation Which Was 1ati- ' Tag and Curtls and 1 do have more o “Che three faitbiul knights came.nt | ship at Mare Island Novy Yard, Calif [& 4 men from the Experiment ordered | with other nations inally brought about | fied m the United States on December | less the same fdeas about evervihing cvening I mce o e rescue Extracis from the log of the Phila- [ her for Martinico Bix recall hut the miniaters Who suc- |2 1801, terminating the auast-war b noned racy- Never mind, Mies Treefit! ‘mmmu give some idea of the type of | 27 December st 'y past 11 AM | ceeded, while more diplomatic, prhaps, | Oliver Ellaworth, Willlame Davie ang o Oh erted Lucia heautiful, in | e all ngt, Miss Treefit! Lwarfare that engaged the sitention of | hoarded the Schooner Amo and Busan | did not betier the situation by a great ' lien of Patviek Henry, whoss mfomic ' vou had thought of fying offshore | Bave been woree Never mind! lour Navy, which was & negligible quan- | of New York Henry Riplan Master from | deal tes prevented him (aking part i ne A fountatn Yas 1 hagt pe porch calied v them 1 hop over i U8e cuh” offered |01 in marine aflais until the French [ New fondon Prize o the French | Demands were made that we wiationsd and WiLAM - Van Mavy b Dead heat™ <aid Tam at lase N EPONAY posrSm a ey enouted back, “Hello | Dunbism Be berk in 20 minuter crisie aroge dn the late D05 causing | Privateer Flambeau Received on board | our debt Prance (which we were the American teprescitatives at] wilt have to try agam collars eovarmg 43 - Whsargvouig sidisits —piecisely Lee Lnree hall &n hour, Gel gomething covked.” President Washington Lo advogete and'a Prize Master & 5 men. agreed 10 pay I installments) the comvention of Patis, And At that moment Lucia heard tho {3 000000 dottles “'"”'" and Mw~ a lump. This was imposs.ble precarious hnancial state at the time. and the distussion only served to widen the breach between the two nati During the four years afit was retired 1794-98) 3 tinued. Complaints made by Fauchet the next minister and his successor Adet. were used as pretext for hosiile acts which bore heavily upon American commerce. In 1796 a treaty with Great Bré known as the Jay treaty. was cons concluded, replacing our origimal, treaty of peace. It was not consiaered SAUSTAClOFy i many respects, but .m; porarily relteved the tension which had grown between England and the \lu«l\ States partly resulting from rnu.)\ activities. 1t offensive to the French Governm which decl provisions conflicted with the 1778, ’ 2 Tn short, fwo major gHeVACe minated in the severing of commereial relations with F' m 1798 and the subsequent warfare at s taints of France based on alle executions of the treattes of the convention of 1788, there ob A finding their source in the desire of Prance to conduct her privateering cn- terprises as she did and our edicts against this practice ‘Tl‘;‘ second lfll\l.\n‘ of discontent arose (rom the provistons of the treaty with England supposed (o be prejudicial o the interests of France. In this secone fevance France was more fustiied an in the first—for in the latter she ObVIousIY was straining at gn | One example of this was tention that the might to recover des serters from thelr veasols, teorparated tn one of the Versaflles pacts, had noty Ibeen effectively executed. when, as at matter of fact. the wartants for their | apprelnsion had been held upoonly until the American judges were fw nished with the orginal register of (the b veasels concerned - this - accordang {With & strict construction of the words | Ing of article ® of the treaty | Her contention that contraband w increased by the English treaty whe 11t should have been decteased. however | was Justifiable, and our emisary, Jay. | had put forth a supreme effort to have ! this clanse changed (o contorm move by (00 b nearly to the liberal principles of the ! (S RE T R armed neutrality of Europe, but i vain | g S O Allen savs i summing upsCSuel UGG G e were the causes of the chronte tnitas a4t CEan i SN ton charactertzing the attitude of o France toward the United States the asked knows! He wrote that But I'll say this I have ver ¢ fact by going through your for on receiving vour . i which you mentioned these men part ar! 1 believe you 3 they were dining with you’—I was by ths col s, of course it nee at all. For naturally thes: men were aware of your father's dift- culty, and. baing 10US 10 assist. camy forward, of their own v tion e from now on,” 1801, Willlam D. Broadway of New York City presented the log: that of the his- | toric frigate Philadelphia, later burned in the harbor of Tripoli, to be kept in | the files of the Navy Department. It was written by Lieut. Thomas Wilkey, who was stationed on board the frigate during the quasi-war, and has been handed down through the generations o Mr. Broadway, a direct descendant of | Lieut. Wilkey. During the period of events described in the log the Philadelphia was cruis- ing in the West Indics, the flagship of | a fleet engaged In the protection of our trade against the encroachments of French privateers while commercial re- iations with France were severed. Capt. Stephen Decatur, sr, was in command. It was his son, Stephen Decatur, 2nd, who later became famous for the part he played in the burning of the ship formerly under his fathers command. Accoraing o history, follow ing the difficulties with France, the | United States was drawn into a similar dispute with Tripoll, the main issue be- ing the objections of our Government 0 the operations of privateers in & 0| But he manages w0 2nd have, I dare me." him impractical?” stopped reading her glance 211 upon raph warn you . o pav 10k piace In New Sl“} In June, Lucia ar- quot. She had with her se Prescott housekeeper r a oy who came once 8 1e gerden, there were nc ennversation And with not a sin head not one!” Al which L laughed N, rather Then she gaspad. for down K that led {rom the house sh. ¢ sound notion in his 2 on household ex- v the colonel, a3 onessentials. DIG you wd eld Juam costs §3 & 1! this SBummer. 1Us 3 1 be poor. 1 make ery morning and Treefiy which 1s very sweet of 4o have & goofl many t we're having steak coming long beaiti- not elumether satisfied ¢ in the cen- e | nt friends d_they had They were 1N sparts thar's ereditars! sad naver A word to her Bl H 10 generous. —— nate by U R between varis substances 1 She must b clover ot 1 litle 1 nacessary v what she must cheat & How should thev Was in that letter i her must chonse Dunham Wave dravn K up. Tom, old son od up to Ly 1 vou Rnow, Tm blest R A fountain’s the best put there, e tha and my Kleas a fonuta With figures, vou know. N A mermaids o a bov holding A fish Something ke that ous high-handed manner — amounting “legalized piracy.” In the harbor of Tripoll on February 16, 1804, following the capture of the | Philadelphla by the Tripolitans, Licut | Btephen Decatur risked his Iife to reach the ceptured ship in the ketch In- trepid #nd to sel fire to It in order 0 prevent its use by the enemy in their | spoltage ActviLies at sea Thus ended the brief career of the Philadelphia, many of whose ships saw service with the Navy fo more than a century. The Constella- ton, one of this frigate class which | played & prominent part in the French engagements, stll 1s used ws a training {ship and 15 now at the training base in Newport, It 1 As lute s 1893 she carried the mid- shipmen of the Naval Academy on cruises, and has seen varlous types of service for more than 129 years Among the other frigates n the fleet “I wag broil- | of our infant Republic during the naval g L over e conls like 0 sald i the | operations which wiminated with the p her mind | me! Bhe'd 1 shsl) ething ele, of the requi T 1oredounds and & car v ograd ed scale on the tnde cating the heght of the redound the dogtee of harduess of the « e antad with On & piave BATy st Ahe Ramamer reboun tenths of (v haght of s fall voday v 5 AC What fountaty el by ing satd Lucta very gravely Kve!™ eried Curtis. with augh newt. bur there’s ho e wy s mites A fountaim Not roally! | od 1t over A mey A &l coming v notion that Ao’ - three! # BD et that n Miss uttered, fiom e kitchen that meant nolhiing & 1 The four i the pantry started simul- vanenusly rushed i, and found the gusckeeper Just clamping down e e-lid on & blazing msss that cou'd not weoh, iU really could not be the slenk! Butl the steak i1 was Treefit A shriek of disaster ‘ . The Champagne Citv, JPERNAY. m France, whare the dest * champagne i made. may de sand to b A vast erranean ¢ The streets for mitles and milss are hewn Ut of the salnt chalk. flanked with R Of battles af all dends and qualis s Dere oo RN m A adveih of LS CIaaings and turaings. exeent N e sputiermg candles ats Bodark and damn. with she T dowh towand the freasmg et ehempagss mans Not a word' Tom Grenfell passin- ately assured hor “Cross my hoart' And vou, Jahnt querted Lucia Dunbim smtied grimty You'll think i & & putup o kb a mastter of fact v left serawled, bt or 1 wes time 10 her thrve cave- s qu 1iat Darp don't tell me the SFHOne Might | M w had all