Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1929, Page 100

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO N, D. C, MAY 3, 1929 - PART BUT THAT ISN'T ALL HERE used to be a theory that| love conquers ail. . The young man who drank fell in love and | straightway reformed. ‘The young man who had never ahown & trace of ambition fell in love | and became active, energetic and ag- | gressive. | ics have hummed this theory untfl it is sadly bent. And modern | science backs them up. Any psycholo- a small apartment. One-Idea Man Finds Big Problem in Love “They mean that I'm a good listener, Aunt Emmy- 's they who do the talk- Thirty-five hundred a year is a good | salary for explaining. And Harry would never have done | in g 4 anything about it, if it hadn't been | es” Aunt Emmeline said, “and for the girl from the West. He would | what a relief it must be to them! Most never have kicked for more money. He|men are always talking about them- not a kicker, He was impressed |selves and what they're going to do. with the futility of kicking. He was|And. if & woman wants to please them too good at explaining kicks away. | she has to listen. You really do seem Besides, he was too content. He had to enjoy listening, Harry, and women He spent his week | like you for it.” “Yes,” Harry said, “they do seem to that Deep Harbor was too far from the | city. Harry sold nothing | Aunt Emmeline came home late for | dinner one afternoon in March. She as unusually silent. Harry finally asked | her what was on her mind. “I can't bear to tell you,” she said. he truth s that old Miss Fanshawe | was there this afternoon, so excited she | overbid her hand every time. Wesley | Jones has just had an offer of $30,000 for her house. and she's been trying to By Lucian Cary price—but_ reasonable when you came to think of {t—fcr the purchaser of the Fanshawe place was the president of & bank and the owner of a department store. ‘The effect on Harry Farnum was di- rect and profound. 1t gave him cou age to go to Mrs. Frankford Woed with | a proposition. Mrs. Frankford Wood owned over 200 acres on the sound, with an enormous house, a dock big enough to take a 100-foot yacht, a bathing gist will tell you that people do not|ends with his Aunt Emmeline in Deep change their fundamental attitudes Harbor. He had a little four-cylinder after they are four or five years old. roadster in which he rattled over to Young women no longer believe in the | the Deep Harbor Country Club to play 1 powers of love. Indeed. this nine holes of golf or to attend a Satur- may be the real difference between the (dav night dance. He wanted nothing Harry?" S i of the period and her grandmoiher. | mor>. “Yes,” Harry admitted, “I did. T got modern girl says: “Once a dud, The girl from the West came on just on so well that—well, it was like this: always a dud.” | after Christmas that year to visit Kitty | Here was the girl I've been dreaming Nevertheless, of | van Blarcom. They had gone to the | about all my life. Bhe has everything Harry Farnum. same finishing school, or something. |—She's pretty and she's full of life and Harry belonged to a family that had | Harry met her at dinner Friday night. | she’s—she's real. She took me right off lived in Deep Harbor since the begin- She left Sunday aftcrnoon. In that brief | my feet. I never rushed a girl so hard in ni He was a tall, good-looking, well- | interval Harry became a changed man. My life. And I know she liked me. built and mannerly young man. But he| He told Aunt Emmeline Sunday night | But what'll happen when she wakes up was lazy. He was 80 lazy that he would | that he was leaving Wicksted & Wick- | and finds that I've got a piffiing job and rather listen than talk. He was so lasy | ersham. no prospects and nobody takes me seri- that they finally sent him hems frem | “But I thought that you had prac- |OUsly? T want to marry her. And I'm ale. He loafed around home until | tically a life job there,” she protested. SOINg to be where I can marry her or | : break my neck trying.” Ris father ied, leaving him an income | _ Tiarry was in ‘;rl\e.::";::n. helpingities | RECUCRY scaying L Lo e like to talk to me. But they fall for the other chaps—the ones who make them listen.” “Didn't you get on with this girl, Hy there is the case of slightly more than 8100 a month | beach. The late Frankford Wood had been & man of grandiose ideas. His widow was short of cash. She was willing to sell for $1,000 an acre. Harry listened as they sat in the great drawing room under a chandelier of glass that Frankford Wood was said to have paid $5.000 for in France. Mrs. Wood talked freely. “I can’t help thinking you could get more than $200.000,” Harry said. “¥ou | might get $250,000 if you could wait | six months. It takes time to turn over as big a thing as this. I'd hold out for sell it all these years for $25,000.” “Did she say who was buying it?" “Some_broker in the city made the offer to Wesley—Jackson & Chestwick, | T think she said. |~ “Johnson, Chestwick & Johnson.” | Harry said aloud. And then to himself | , he said: “That's the loveliest old place in Deep Harbor——4 acres of lawn, with | magnificent caks and elms and boxwood & hundred years old. And all it needs | is three or four more baths and a good | heating_plant and perhaps some new | floors. If it were in Fairport it would | bring $60,000—why, it'’s & mansion.” | §250.000 if I were you.” ; The next thing he knew he was put-| “But I can't hold out three months,” ting on his hat and coat | Mrs. Wood replied. “T've got to have “Where are you going?” Aunt Em- several thousand right now.” meline asked. “How many thousand?” Harry asked. “To see Miss Fanshawe,” he said, “At least five thousand.” he went out of the door. Harry looked at her. She was wor- s | and a letter of advice. His father wrote: | “I regret to say that I fear for your | future, I am ieaving the house te vour Aunt Emmeline. I feel sure that she will be d to have you keep your room in it. I am lea life interest in certain property. I have done my best to tie it up so that you cannot sell it or lase it or hypothecate it. This so that you will not actually starve. For the rest I advise you to find some way of using your remarkable talent for explaining things. often seemed to me explain anything. I don’t suppose that | anybody will pay you much for it. But, | aside from your amiable and agreeabl® manner, it is the only gift you possess.” * %o ARRY went to the city and began i to work, a few months later, for | the real estate firm of Wicksted & | T figure Ive got th which to make i Wickersham. He soon made a niche for himself. Wicisted & Wickersham had the management of several enor-| pread into the dining room. in | Aunt Emmeline continuer which the Farnums have always lived | you had made good and that they knew | it. I thought they appreciate you.” g you a | ham, the way ham to be sliced. I'm going to start a real estate offi It has | plate of bread she had picke that you could car fallen in love with a girl named Barker. As things are, I haven't a|rented the vacant offices over the druj | chanee in the world to get her. She's store; had » sign painted; | sailing for Paris temorrow, to be gone | Rosie O'Bricn, just out of business col- | meline said “No,” Harry replied. “Though, if you think I'm going to ask a girl whose father is & millionaire, and wio has al- | ways had everything, to live in a two- jeeper than t. er father made his Aunt Emmeline liked oner. Hes & o-geer: Al the men .| she knows are that sort. I'm going to he said briefly. || one, too. I've got to be.” " Aunt Emme- “Yes,” he said, “I thought so, too.” “But I theught they liked you, Harry” | thought | Harry was slicing wafer-thin slices of “T bslieve they do,” "But I'm leaving them just the sam: “Yeu sound different,” line nid. the | ™41 do,” Harry sald, P ‘AND,he did mean it. He went into ve | ™ the city the next day and arranged abel | to quit his job on a_week's notice. He n Deep Harbor.” Aunt Emmeline almost drop) up v into the dining room. o4 Something's happened,” she sal Harry laughed. “Yes.” he said. g hired little months or so. When she comes back, |lege, to answer the telephone, and t']l be a case of make or break. But |started out in his little car to comb the at six months in | village and the countryside for places " | he_could list for sale. late of | Fortunately, he knew nearly every- he was | body. People liked him and trusted Aunt Emmeline took the mous apartment buildings—the sort of | thoyghtfully silent until they sat down | him, but they made it clear they ex- ten | ¢ -rmenu that rent for from thousand to fifty thousand a year. It| is an axiom of apartment management | ;o0d job, in which veu" vell, t that the more the tenant pays the more | Siart a business of your Y.'.,flf’“r'hfi'mfi is full of real estate ; thetr share of kicks from tenants they | not one of them 1 masing any mare he kicks. Wicksted & Wichersham had could not 2ferd to offend. o0 supper. Then she talked. | pected nothing from him. They were “I think you're foolish to give up a | Willing to list their property with him. | ‘What difference did it make? | fied eolumn of the paj rs. He spent hours in framing brief y more t alluring de- HaITY | money thap you are. You've fallen in | scriptions of old eolonial houses with “You sound as if you meant | Harry began to advertise in the classi- | | | e was & moonlight night—the kind of night to cast a glamour over the bare March trees and the bare Mareh | earth. It cast a glamour over the old | Fanshawe place. It brought back all| Harry Farnum’s faith in Deep Harbor, | He went in and persuaded Miss Fan- | shawe to refer the New York brokers to | him. He would get her $40,000 for the | place or let Wesley Jones have the sale. | Miss Fanshawe was inclined to prefer | $30,000 sure to $40.000 in the realm of | phantasy. But Harry did it. He had one awful moment of doubt when he was walking home. If he failed he would never hear the last of it in Deep Harbor. He had to keep thinking hard about Mabel Barker to keep him- self from going back and making an- other and a_lesser proposition to Miss | Fanshawe. But he managed to walk firmly on. And & week later he sat through a terrific bombardment with the man from Johnson, Chestwick & Johnson's. It was a game of cold bluff on his part and angry bluff on theirs But he came out of it with a bindet at $50,000. The results of that episode were far- reaching. Deep Harbor heard about it. And Harry's prospective clients decided one minute that there was more to that Farnum than they had ever sup- |in her. | she sald bitterly. |24 hours. | Harry proposed that he ried sick. “What would you think of this, Mrs. Wood,” he asked. “Suppose I should offer yom $5.000 for a six months’ op- tion at 0002 You get the $5000 immediately, and, if I fail to teke up the option within six months, the 5,000 is yours.” Mrs. Wood shook her head. “Six months is too long. I can't tie it up—not that long.” “All right.” Harry Parnum said. “I'll' give you 55.0000101' a three months’ op- .000.” ?" Mrs. Wood asked. “Tomorrow or next day.” “Tomorrow—yes,” she said. She was & plump, amiable little women.| But worry ebout money had driven her | to distraction, uncovered a harsh streak | “The day after tomorrow—no,” P ARRY hadn't the least idea where | he could get $5,000 in cash within He tried the bank, and the bank wasn't interested, He talked to Aunt Emmeline. She had more than $5,000 tucked away in negotiable bonds. ssign his in- | come of approximately $1.300 & year | to her as security. Thus she would be protected ageinst loss and have money H | Bhe must be an extraordinar drifted into ‘he nesition of kick re-|love, ‘and you feel humble in conse- | three fireplaces, Dutch oven and lilac ceive. In time Y7ickated & Wicker-| quence. But there’s no reasan why you | in the dooryard. He spent other hours sham observer thrt Harry could ex-|shouldn't get any girl you've a mind to. | taking lookers about in Aunt Emmeline's plain anythin;, H~ rose to a salary of | Women alwars have liked you. Lots of | sedan. They admired the countryside; 83300 a veor. Tut there was little | them have told me what a good talker | they got enthusiastic over some of the chanee that he wculd ever rise higher. | you are. old houses, but they went away, saying AND WHILE HE WATCHED, ANOTHER YO:G MAN, A PARTICULARLY EBULLIENT YOUNG MAN, CAME DASHING ACROSS THE FLOOR | D THREW BOTH ARMS AROUND MABEL BARKER, BY WILL ROGERS. LL 1 know is just what I read in the papers. Now lets see what has taken place since I eom- muned with you last week. ‘Tom Heflin lost his encounter with the “Heirarchy.” Tom wanted th Senate to go on record that it con- demned the action of the Town of Broekton, Mass., for not paying atrict attention te one of his addresses. Well, he could have come nearer getting the Senate to go on reacord that they sym- pathized with Brockton. Fer, Lord, the Town of Broekton only had to listen to ene, while the Senate never gets over ‘em. Well anyhow this longwinded drawn- out thing afforded the one best line and laugh that has been pulled in there for this session. Senator Gillette of Mass told Tom, “The State of Mass regrets it. The Town of Brockton regrets it The Mayor regrets it, the police regret it, and the Man that threw the bottle and MISSED you, regrets it.” Well farm Relief would get a little help in between. Grundy would try to get some higher tarriff on ything | Manafactured in Pennsvlvania. But ‘Tom would bob up the next day during lull and say, “You've got to make this | Country aafs for United States Senaters | to apeak in.” 'sll we finished our Theatrical en- | gagement up in Boston and are moving | over to Philadelphia for a couple o weeks, then one week in Dstroit and | ons more in Pittsburgh and then on the old Plane and out “Where Men are beginning to be heard. ‘We had some laughs in the Th Wl 11 Boston last week. One night Babe Ruth was in and I introduced him tnd! his new Bride. and then sitting near | him was Charies Francis Adams, Our | new and very distinguished Secretary | of the Navy, & real blue blood. The only living American that has had two American Presidents that he descended from, John Adams and John Quincy | Adams. T I introduced them to each other and Babe got up and went eover and shook hands with Adams. It was a big laugh and applause, then 1 told the audience you wouldent think | after having the two men as great as these, One a Descendant of two Presi- dents and the other the greatest sports faverite that we ever produced, you| wouldent think we possibly could have a Bigger man here tonight than either | one of them, in fact, Bigger than both | of them put together. Well T just want 1o intreduce you to the Giant of the Ringling show, and sure enough there he was. The Circus was to have opencd there the next day. He was sitting in the back of & Box and no one d noticed him. It was one of the b%.l lzughs I ever heard in a Theatre Gillett Credited By Rogers With Best Line and Laugh Pulled in Senate This Session — Big Armaments to Be Used Only on Home Grounds. HEFLIN Adamses and Lodges, and Lowells, they | from the stage, that T wished we had are just about the whole thing in the | the biggest Navy in the World, the sy of Tradition up there. | biggest Army, and by all means the Well 1 see where we have offered ' biggest Aeroplane force, but have it some plan at a Disarmament Confer- | understood with the taxpayers that they ence over in Geneva and evervbhody is | are only to be used on the home all excited about it, 80 I suppose we grounds. will be kidded into entering into another Now how in the world will you tell sinking. We are just about to live down me is there a better way to prevent the humiliation of that last one in 22, war than that, Be ready for it and stay I told the Secretary of our Navy right at home, When they know they cant st ese 2, you peux:, and the next time that they had | COMINg in as well. “Do Aunt Emmy g you really think 8o, - I never saw such a! 1 don't she did ‘woman.” In the end Aunt Emmelin® got her way about the $5.000 and Harry began to learn what real anxiety is. He spent first four, and then five, and then six days a week in the city, hunting a buyer for Mrs. Frankford Wood's 200 acres. He wrote blind ads. He made propositions to hotel men, clubs and millionaires. ~And, in the first 11 weeks of his 12 weeks' option, he got just one nibble. He told himself he was a fool to hope. He told Aunt Emmy she was 8 fool to hope. “It’s the most mixed-up situation T ever heard of,” he told her. “Mrs. Wood has gone crazy. Because I can’t sell her place for $250.000 she's de- cided it's worth $300,000.” “Those people—the ones who called you up the other day—probably know know it. change in a man in my life. know how that girl did it—bi He turned and walked out of the dressing room and banged into the ebullient young man who had kissed Mabel. “Whup!” the ebullient young man said genially enough. “Why don't you look where you're going?” “I don't like your looks,” Harry Far- num said. ‘The ebullient young man grinned. He “ISN'T IT _ENOUGH THAT YOU STUNG MY FATHER $20,000 ON THE PRICE OF THIS PLACE? ISN'T IT ENOUGH THAT YOL BROKE MY BROTHER-IN.-LAW'S NOSE WITHOUT THE SLIGHT- ST PROVOCATION? HAVEYOU GOT TO FOLLOW ME AND SMASH MY CAR. ON TOP OF ALL TiIAT YOU'VE BONE?" turned to go through the narrow stone gate of the Panshawe place. The little roadster did not stop sud- denly. Harry stepped on the brake pedal with everything he had. But the | little roadster hit the glittering Athena just abaft the beam and, crashing fenders and running-boards, slammed her up against the gatepost in a shower of glass. Harry Farnum pulled his head back through the shattered windshield of the little roadster and got down and found | himself face to face with the maddest | girl he had ever seen. “What are you trying to_do?” she cried. Then she recognized Harry. In | epite of his fishing clothes and his black eye and his cuts she recognized him. “Oh,” she said, “it's you.” assumed that Harry was drunk. “There, there, old bean,” he said, “go | home and sleep it off.” “Put up your hands!” Harry yelled. The fight that followed was not the kind that you pay $40 to see. It was the sort you hope to see when you pay $40. When 11 members of the Deep Harbor Country Club had pried them apart they were covered with blood. ' i | | | | awhil atly undervalued the properties they ad listed with him. Deep Harbor real estate practically doubled in theoretical value overnight. It was rumored that the man who had paid so outrageous a | » ) lick you they certainly are not coming | away over here to try it. He applauded it, and I believe he thought it was ali- right. In fact it looks like the League of Nations could just about prevent war by deciding “Who starts a war.” Well just have the League pass the following resolution, “We consider the first Nation that sets military foot on the other is the starter of the war.” Now you put that on 'em, and they wont be in such hurry to grab up a lot of men and start prancing into Belgium, or some- | where. Then they can be sore at each other as they want but they will know that the first one that invades the other is the starter of the war, and they will | be leary of that, and as long as each one will be waiting for the other to start it, why neither one will want to carry the ultimate blame, so the first thing you know they will calmed down and meet on the line and have a drink. Personally I cant think of anything that would encourfige a war more than for a couple of Nations to know that they have Equal Navies. If you know your Navy is equal to the other fellows, you will always figure that your men are superior to theirs, so you are readv to go to any time with him. There is enough sportsmanship in every Country to want if they knew they had an equal break to take a try at the other. &o this old thing of regulating Navies so they are equal is the Houe. Did you ever notice how much more peaceful it is all-around when our Ma- rines are at home instead of prowling around? Why if we keep at home why we are liable to get out-ef the habit of wanting to send 'em awi off every time we heard that some little Nation was about to pull off a lacal | Amateur Revolution. I believe this fel- | low Hoover has been around the World | 80 much that he wont think its an novelty to have them away off in all those places, 8ay here is one that Coolidge pulled telling_him about the six White House | and sending them | y Post. You know | it had been reported How much this| move of Hoovers would save, the feed | and care of the Horses, and when the) fellow got through Coolidge said. “Guess | they will quit eating when they get to | the Army Pos 8o as a matter of fact it dident save anything, and also the Mayflower going out of Commission, the Government has to pay all those men just the same, they are all Navy men. They just as well be en the May- flower as the “Robert E. Lee.” We kinder | thought Calvin might come down and | but, 11 see our show while in Beston, gueas the prices scared him o (Cepyright, 10299 Aunt Emmeline pursed her lips in a | way she had when money was men- | tioned. Harry guessed that she was go- ing to refuse. “Your father would turn in his grave if he knew you'd borrowed money on | that income he left you,” Aunt Emme- | line said. “I wouldn't go against his wishes.” { “But T might make thirty or forty thousand on the d " Harry protested. Aunt Emmeline shook her head. “Makes no difference if you stood to get half a million dollars,” she said. “You might lose—mightn't you?" rry laughed, in spite of himself. “It's vhale of a gamble,” he ad-| mitted. “I'd stand at least an even | chance to lose.” | “That's what I thought.” Aunt Fm- | meline said. “And I won't do it. Be- | sides, I'd rather do something else. I'd | nlth:r take a share in the gamble my- | “What?" Harry cried. Aunt Em- meline always mourned if she lost 37| cents at bridge. | that,” Aunt Emmeline said. | He sat in the office all the next day The ebullient young man's nose was well on one side of his face and Harry “They know it well enough” HAarry| oy o0y eve that is still a legend in sald, “But they know she is short of Deep Harbor. cash, too. 1f they really want to buy, | they are figuring that they can get the | Harry g,‘"‘“"‘ realized the next place for less from her than they can |Morning that he couldnt go to the from me, and they may be right.” office—not with that eye. He called up “If T were you,” Aunt Emmeline said, | Rosie O'Brien and told her firmly that T'd find out who they are.” if the Meyrowitz & Fink peopie called as- | Up she was to tell them had gone T vho the are,” Harry sured “:.'L‘:‘" ‘:l'hey'r:y Meyrowitz &mfink. | ghmlréz--u l; . llnhey insisted she was to try And whoever they're acting for, they're | e a5 cold & pair of bluffers s ever played | ralAte 1n the aftemnoon the telephol " 3. | the real estate ‘l“:“. - “I'his is Rosie. I'm talking from the N June 28, two days before his op- | drug “;“I"’g-k' Tu'l’rflpl;f here. You'd better tion expirad, Harry had had no ' definite answer from Meyrowitz & Fink. | * % % % ! EYROWITZ and Fink were sitting in his office waiting for him when waitis for the telephone to ring, and at 5 o'clock Kitty Van Blarcom lfl“r,di him up and asked him if he didn’t know that Mabel Barker was back. ‘Clrrflng his fishing-rod. They offered H~ didn't. him $240,000 for the Wood place. Har: “hy." Kitty said, “you must have |Farnum shook his head. Both Meyrowitz noticed that Athena roadster—the black | and Fink got up and walked out of the one with red leather cushions.” | office, Harry let them go. They went She nodded vigorously. “I'll lend you $5,000 on two conditions. The first is | that, if you do sell the place at a profit, | I double my money.” | Peny p et “Fair enough,” he | “The other condition is—if you lose, no more is said about it.” ! “You mean you want to risk $5,000— | double or guits?” Harry asked. | “Yes,” Aunt Emmeline said. “That's | 1t exactly.” Harry looked at her in astonishment. She was a maiden lsdy of 50 who had always lived on a smallish income and never taken a chance of any kind in | her life. She was shrewd and she was | cautious. { “I eouldn't think of it,” he sald. “Then you don't get the five thou- sand,” Aunt Emmeline said. | “But you're crazy, Aunt Emmy. You | don’t know what a risky thing this is. I'm going to try to sell that place for $250,000 inside of three months. But most people wouldn't think I had one | chanee in 20 of doing it." | “Most people don't know as much | about you as I do,” Aunt Emmeline said. “Oh, come” Harry said. “Three months ago you were advising me not | to quit & good job to start up in busi- ness for myself." H “Three months ago was three months ago,” Aunt Emmeline replied. “You're a different man-—now.” BY JAMES G. WINGO. HIRTEEN MIILLION people 10.- 000 mules away from the White House are awaiting feverishly but fervently the name of the next occupant of their Malacanang T Palace, and wishing that he be a man, | not only a worthy successor to Henry L. Stimson, the present Secretary of State, but also a gentleman sympathetic with the house he is going to oceupy. The Malacanang Palace, the official residence of the governor general of the Philippine Islands. embodies the tradi- tions and spirit of the Filipino people. The common people approach its gates with the reverence of one entering a sa- cred shrine, The governor general, living in_a palace, as he does, is actually a king. He receives all the adulations due to roy= alty. The more liberal and benevolent he'is, the more kingly he becomes to the common people. The Malacanang Palace, which has d e hadn't noticed it. clear down to the street before they “Anyway, you're coming to the coun- | came back. - try club dance tonight?” i He hadn't known there was a coun- | you $250,000.” |” When the papers were all made out and the certified check for the binder was in_ his pocket, Harry .sat - cown wered. wearily. Meyrowitz and Fink leit. He went home and dressed. He | “Rosie,” Harry Farnum said, “look couldn’t eat his dinner. He was too |out of the window and see if you can nervous. He sat and smnked one ‘ciga- ' see a beautiful Athena roadster parked rette after another. The thing got |anywhere?” 3 worse and worse. The six months were | “It's parked down the block,” Rosie up—all but tomorrow-—and he had lost. | said The thing that heppen=d that night | He got up and went downstairs and at the country club cou'd never have climb>i into his little four-eylindor happened if Harry had been himself. | rondster and waited till Mabel Barker ut it ha‘zpmed, He was standing in | came out of the post office and started the hall looking at the dancers and |cfl. He started after her. He lost. trying 1o catch a glimpse of Mabel Bar- | ground on the hill going out of the vil- ker. She wasn't dancing, but she was | lage. But half & mile farther on, where standing near the stairway talking to you turn off toward the Panshawe place, some young man Harry didn't know.| he was only 10 yards behind. And while he watched another young Mabel turned sharply off the State man, a particularly ebullient young | road and up the steep little hill toward man, came dashing across the floor and | the Fanshawe place. The little four- threw both arms around Mabel Barker. | cylinder rosdster chugged after her. “Mabel!” he yelled. Msabel was a quarter of a mile ahead “Jack!” she cried, and threw both | when the little roadster reached the arms around his neck. top of thet hill. But Harry stepped on They kissed. | the gas. As they ran past the Panshawe Harry Farnum, consumed with rage, | house he wasn't 10 feet behind the turmed and walked into the dressiny | Athena's rear bumper. Which was the room. He couldn't doubt the meaning moment Mabel chose to step on the of thoss whole-souled gestures, T :{ brake. The Athena had brakes on al 11 man was Mabel's flance. four wheels. It stopped suddenly and try club dance. He hac¢n't really slept for a week. 5 e “Of . course, an- I'm coming,” 8! been the residence of governors gener- | lomatic officers and foreigners of high al of the Philippines since the last cen- | rank. tury of the Spanish regime, is an old | However, the captain general at the wooden structure, reinforced with con- |time did not move to the Malaczanang crete, and situated on the banks of the | ‘1‘&‘3‘5‘:‘31 “{“r)"h' "'l“'t"‘l““)‘; ‘;1 Judmhl’z«' 2 ’ i , which completely destroyes Pasig River. It was formerly a Bouse | (ol 1ioico residence within the Walled | of recreation, with a bath and gardens, | City, a section of the city of Maniia so surrounded by a stone wall. It | called beeause it is surrounded by strong then owned by Don Luis Rocha, who, | walls to foriify the city from attacks of on November 16, 1802, sold it to Col. | Moro pirates and foreigners. Jose Miguel Formento of the Spanisn | Immediately various improvemen‘s army for 1,100 pesos (Mexican cur- were made on the building. Quartes | rency). The new owner later sold it to | for the aides and the servants of the | the government on January 22, 1825, captain gcreral were constructed ad- for 5,100 pesos. i | jacent to the palace and within tae The building and its premises were | jalace premises. | neglected until a royal order from| The ;)llnr' was completely overhauled | the King of Spain was decreed on Au- | in 1869, on the occasion of the visit to | gust 27, 1847, providing that the prop- | Manila of the Duke of Edinbu: but | erty should be improved for the use|just before his arrival an ea ke | of the captain general (as the governor | broke all the buttresses and main col- | general was then known) for his resi- umns of the main buildings. The earth- | dence and where he could entertain quake was so strong that it not cnly commanding officers of the fleets, dip- 'wrenched from its foundations the mas- | p— B he got there, dressed in old clothes and I All right.” Meyrowitz said. “We cive 50 ‘womam's voice. “Aren't you staisfled?” she cried. { “Haven't you done enough? Must you keep on persecuting me and my family? “Persecuting you!” Harry said. “I said persecuting,” Mabel Barker | sald. her voice rising in a fine sweep. {“Isn't it emough that you stung my | father $20,000 on the price of this place? |Isn't it enough that you broke my brother-in-law's nose | slightest provocation? Have you got to follow me and smash my car on top of | all that you've done?” i * k% % { HARRY Just stood there. Tt occurred to him frrelevantly that she | wasn't just a pretty girl; she was & beauty. ‘Answer me,” she cried. “Answer me! Or are you just plumb crazy?” when he spoke. spoke a | bardly louder then he ordinarily “I can e:;p\lm it,” he said. “I can | explain it all.” | " “Oh, you can. can you?" Mabel Bar y{m“YmA can explain &l She ‘without the that ien't 2li.” she em;lunm v is what you @'4 to me. | “what Gid I do to you?” | “You practically proposed to me the | first time I met you, six months ago. and 1 practiceily sccepted you—ves, T did. I admit it, bacause you know it— 2nd then what did you do? ‘Why, you me. I never heard one word from you for six months. You never even wrote me a letter. There's only one possible excuse for you, and u;lt }is that you're trazy—crazy as s Joon. |~ Harry walted patientlv for her to get | through. He Hadnt b-en a ex- ! | piainer all his Jife without learning { the technique of explaining things. 1§ | was an old, old habit with him—not i a rule, just a habit—to let the angry o o selves out. Then did he begin i plain. And he could explain anything. | He absolutely could. If he couldn’t | have he would never have got that | girl’s head parked on his shoulder in a little more than an hour. But he &i4. It wasn't long after that, wheg for | either the ninth or tenth time hé was | explaining that he hadn't the faintest | suspicion that it was her father who | was buying the Panshawe place. and | still less that the man who had Kissed | her at the country club was her brotn- | er-in-law, and even lecs that she was | going to take that turn into the Fan- | shawe gate, that she suddenly reached | out and_took his hands in hers and said: “Come on. I can make up that l eve of yours so it won't b so terrible.” | Which implied—if it did not directly | state—that she regarded him as hers. (Cop- right, 1979.) sive stone gate of the palace, but £33 twisted its arch, R e ANOTmm overhauling was necessary. It took four years, 1875 to 1879, to complete the work. A new wing was added to the right front of the bulld< ing, facing the entrance, to balance the front facing the Pasig River. But it seemed as if the old building was never to be completely repaired, for soon another earthquake shook the pal- ace and destroyed the old portions of the main building. Further alterations and extensions were made. The visit of Prince Oscar of Sweden necessitated beautification of the palace and its gardens. During the Spanish regime preparations for the visitor of royalty always included general over- hauling of the palace, the bullding of new additions or the making of some alterations.