Evening Star Newspaper, June 5, 1929, Page 25

EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. f' WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5. THE 7% PALAIS RO YAL MONEY FOR NOTHING By P. G. Wodehouse by North American Newspaper Synopsis of Preceding Installments. own. Dolly se pose as rich | would . Continued From Yesterday's Star.) SIXTEENTH INSTALLMENT. ente: would be oc- cupants wa i pened, lite ally fulfiled. A wan th h the stable yard at about the hour of 10 would have perceived a light 1 up- | per window; had he taken the Erouble to get A Indder and climb up and look in, would !‘-\(\ beheld John Carroll able, busy with a pile of acc: a if he had \,un un- as missing. ‘The wvicar. he k open the ceedings w ) ress, the choir would si h glecs, the Misses Vivien and A Pond were down d coon songs ition ly_appear in person and ble cxample of Sha the quarrel scene from Yet John Carroll sat g. England’s future S0 dublous as the pessimists 116 have s believe whils her vounges [Beneration is made of stuff like this John Bk finding in work these Hays a good deal of consolation. There | s mnlmh no better corrective of the | pangs of hopeless n e than real, steady mpplication to the prosaic details of an estate, The heart finds it dicult to ache its hardest while the mind is busy with such items a8 £61 8s 5d, due to Messrs fTruby and Gaunt for fixing gas engine or the claim of the Country Gentle- men’s Association for £8 8s 4d for seeds. | Add drains, manure and feed of pigs &nd you find yourself immediately in an atmosphere where Romeo himself would have let his mind wander. John, as he worked, was conscious of a distinct easing of the strain that had been on him since his return to the hall. if at intervals he allowed his eyes to stray to the photograph of Pat on the mantelpiece, that was the sort of thing that might happen to any young man, and could not be helped. It was seldom that visitors penetrated | to this room of his—indeed, he had| chosen to live above the stables in pref- | erence to inside the house for this very | reason, and on Rudge’s big night he had Jooked forward to an unbroken solitude. He was surprised, therefore, as he checked the account of the Messrs ‘Vanderschoot & Son for bulbs, to hear footsteps on the stairs. A moment later the door had opened, and Hugo walked n John's first impulse, as always when his cousin paid him & visit, was to tell him to get out. People who, when they saw Hugo, immediately told him to g out generally had the comfortable feel- ing that they were doing the right and sensible thing. But tonight there was in his demeanor something so crushed and forlorn that John had not the heart to pursue this admirable policy. “Hullo,” he said. “I thought you were down at the concert.” Hugo uttered a short, bitter laugh and, sinking into a chair, stared bleakly | before him. ~His eyelids. like those of | the Mona Lisa, were a little weary. Jooked like the hero of a Russian novel drbating the advisability of murdering tions before hanging * he fiaid “Oh. S, Wown at the concert all rigl “Have you done your bit already.” | “I have. They put Ronnie and me ©on just after the vicar's short address.” ‘Wanted to get the worst over quick, en>” Hugo raised a protesting hand was infinite sadness in the ge ““Don’t mock, John. Don't §ibe and scoff. T'm a broken man." “Only cracked, I should have said.” Hugo was not attuned to cousinly badinage. He frowned austerel; " he begged. "I camte And a . Hav drink? I was There her ou got anj There's sor board.” Hugo heaved himself from the watched his operations with some con- cern. “Aren’t you mixing it pretty strong>" “I need it strong.” The un man emptied i s returned to the point_vergi h t to have put any water said Hugo, What's the flicker of chey Gloom once more claimed < own. d man,” he said. “We got “Don’t say ‘Yes? like that, as if you had exprcted it,” said Hugo, hurt. “The thing came on me as a_stunning blow I was amazed. Astounded. Absolutely we were going to be a riot urse, mind you, we came on much too e 1t was criminal to bill us next to opening. An audience needs careful warming up for an intellectual our t happened?” rose and renewed the contents s glase. There Is a spirit creeping i R ge-in-the-Vale, like to see. A spirit of Jawlessness and license. Disruptive in- fluences are at work. Bolshevik propa- ganda, I shouldn't wonder. Would a Fine.car quality 115-inch wheelbase | make trouble right along |a single turnip, Newspaper Alliance and Metropolitan e.) Servic Rudge audience have given me the bird & few years ago? Not a chance!” “But you've never tried them with the quarrel scene from ‘Julius Caesar before, Everybody has a breaking point.” The argument was specious, but Hugo shook his head | “In the good old days I could have done Hamlet's soliloquy and the hall have rung with hearty cheers It's just this modern lawlessness and bolshevism. There was a very tough collection of the Budd_street ‘clement standing at the back, who should never have been let in. They started straight chi-yiking the vicar during his s address. T didn't think anything | of it at the time. I merely supposed that they wanted him to cheese it and | let the entertainment start.. I thought that directly Ronnie and I came on we should grip them. But we were barely a third of the way through when there | were loud cries of ‘Tripe!’ and ‘Get| off!" “I see what that meant gripped them I was never so surprised in my life. | ark you, I'll admit that Ronnie was rfectly rotten You hadn't P He kept foozling hi lines and saying, ‘Oh, sorry!’ and going back and repealing them. You can't| the best out of Shakespeare that The fact is, poor old Ronnie is ng a little low just now. He got a {ctiac: this morning from his man, Bessemer, in London, a fellow who has | with him for years and has few Is s a trouser presser, Springing | the news out of an absolutely clear sky | that he's been - secretly engaged for| weeks and is just going to get married | and leave Ronnfe. Naturally, it has upset the poor chap badly. With a thing like that on his mind. he should | never have attempted an exacting part | like Brutus in the quarrel scene, “Just what the audience thought, ap- { parently. What happened after that?" | “Well, we buzzed along as well as we could, and we had just got to that bit about digesting the venom of your | spleen though it do split you, when the | proletariat suddenly started bungmgJ vegetables.” etables?™ | urnips, mostly. as far as I could | gather. Now, do you sce the significance | of that, John?” “How do you mean, the significance?” “Well, obviously these blighters had ! come prepared. ~They had meant to | 1t not, why | would they have come to a concert with wneir pockets bulging with turnips?” “They probably knew by instinct that | they would need them.” “No! "It was simply this bally bol- | shevism one reads so much about.” “You think these men were in the pay of Moscow?" “I1 shouldn't wonder. Well, that took And us off. Ronnie got rather a beefy whack en the side of the head and exited rap- idly. And I wasn't going to stand out there doing the quarrel scene by my- self, so I exited too, The last 1 saw, Chas. Bywater had gone on and was telling Irish dialect stories with a Swedish accent.” Did they throw turnips at him?” ot one. That's the sinister part of it. That's what makes me so sure the thing was an organized outbreak and all part of this class war you hear about Chas. Bywater, in spite of the fact that | his material was blue round the edges, goes like a breeze, and gets off without whereas Ronnie and I | . well,” said Hugo, a hideous grim- n in his voice, “this has settled one | thing. I've performed for the last time for Rudge-in-the-Vale. Next year when they come to me, and piead with me to help out with the program, I shall re- | plv. ‘Not after what has occurred!’ Well, thanks for the drink. Il be buzzing along.” Hugo rose and wander- | v to the table. said John. removing it from 'ss grasp and putting it out of reach in a drawer, “is the diagram of a thing called an Alpha Separator. It works by centrifugal force and can sep- arate 2,724 quarts of milk in an hour. It has also a Holstein butter churner attachment and a boiler that at 70 de- grees C. destroys the obligatory and op- bacteria. | " Pos.uwl\ = “Oh! Well, Hugo. Hugo crossed the strip of gravel be- tween the stable yard and the house and, having found fn his trouser pocket | key of ‘the back door, proceeded to t himself in. His objective was the dining room. 'He was feeling so much | better after the refresnment of which he had just partaken that reason told him he had found the right treatment | for his complaint. A few more swift ones from the cellarette in the dining | room and the depression caused by the | despicable behavior of the Budd street bolshevists might possibly leave him al- toget! Tt hang it, anyway,” said | passage leading to his goal was in | darkness, but he moved stedily forward. Oc lly a chair would dart from its place to crack him over the shin, but | he was not to be kept from the cellar- | ette by trifles like that. Soon his fin- | gers were on the handle of the door and he flung it open and entered. And it | was at this moment that there came to | his ears an odd noise. i It was not the noise itself that was | ndrl Feet scraping on gravel always | at unmistakable sound. What lmp"' ed itself on Hugo as curious was the fact that, on the gravel outside the dining room window, feet at this hour should be scraping at'all. His hand had been outstreatched to switch on the light, but now he paused. He waited. | listening. And presently in the oblong of the middle of the three large win- dows he saw dimly against the lesser darkness outside a human body. It was insinuating itself through the opening and what Hugo felt about it was that he liked its dashed nerve. (To be continued.) alligators are found in the South America, than in cam in the world. 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