Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1935, Page 26

EAT RIGAES) Mateel #owe Farwham SYNOPSIS: _ James Stimson. 3d, as the last of the Stimson male line in New . has occupied a prominent Concord society from bluffs overlooking the souri River. and his future has been & subject of interest to all the town's best people. Now, however. he has been sent to school in the East and is, precisely, a nobody. CHAPTER VI, SCHOOL DAYS. T MUST be confessed that James at this period was neither a beau- tiful nor a prepossessing young man. The year before he sud- denly had begun to grow, and after he got a good start it seemed & if he were determined never to stop. He grew, alas! only in one direc- tion and was exceedingly thin for his height—he finally reached 6 feet 1Y,—that when he sat down he had the effect of doubling up like a jack- knife. His carroty red hair was another cross. Each morning he soaked it in water, parted it in the middle, plas- tered each half firmly into place and put his cap on to set the mold. But a certain cowlick on his crown refused absolutely to stay where it was put more than 20 minutes at a stretch. James’ eyes were not bad. When he grew older the girls used to claim they were “speaking eyes” but at pres- ent he avoided girls, considering them pests. His best feature in after life, a deeply musical and resonant speaking voice, had as yet only foreshadowed a later appearance. While it was already inclined toward the bass and had many notes extremely pleasant to the ear, it unfortunately was punc- tuated thickly with little soprano squeaks which not only spoiled the ensemble but embarrassed their owner | to the verge of tears. James was sent, of course, to the famous old academy in Massachusetts where his father and grandfather had been such shining lights. James, however, lacked altogether the grand air possessed so abundantly by the senior Stimsons. He was much given to dreaming | and was neither alert nor self-confi- | dent and appeared just what he was— | somewhat helpless and Mefficient. Possessing at this time what looked to be the longest neck in the world outside a zoo. he was violently ad- dicted to collars so high they looked | more like cuffs. | James' clothes had been made by | Mr. Davis, the best tailor in New Concord, of his finest weaves and cloths. That they were well and care- fully made cannot be denied, but nei- ther is there doubt that they, like their owner, lacked that indefinable flair and style which distinguished both the clothes and the manners of the gilded youths with whom James now found himself surrounded. Miss Sarah went East with her nephew and, the dormitories being full, found him a room recommended by a helpful member of the faculty, in s charming old Colonial house whose owner, Mrs. Bliss, was in “re- duced circumstances” and forced to rent rooms to young gentlemen. Miss Sarah, after arranging for the payment of James' room and his board with a friend of Mrs. Bliss, gave her nephew $25 in cash for in- cidental expenses during the remain- ing three months of school, kissed him good-by without breaking down and departed bravely to visit her Eastern relatives without letting James guess in the least what the parting cost her. To James, who had never needed more than a dollar or two at a time, $25 seemed an emple amount and he wondered vaguely when his aunt gave it to him what he would do with all that money. He was to learn very shortly. That very evening when he was unpacking his trunk a delegation called on him for a subscription for the school foot ball team. James was about to offer them a dollar when the supercilious upper classman who was spokesman, shrewdly taking James’ measure, made it plain at once that any one giving less than $10 ‘would be branded for the rest of his life as a piker. James, fairly trembling with relief at the narrowness of his escape, promptly handed over $10. The news spread. The next morning he gave $10 more to the base ball team. The following afternoon he promised a third $10 to the track team and wrote hurriedly to his aunt for $50. ‘The request staggered Miss Sarah and she did not sleep & wink that night debating with herself whether to send the money. While her father lived it had never occurred to her to worry over her nephew's future, but when the Gov- ernor died just as James was budding into manhood and made her his sole guardian, Miss Sarah was stunned by the pressure of her responsibility. She realized only too well that she knew nothing of a certain dark side of young men or of their temptations. Weongt /s il CALLIP wpread. I tried Sensation. Now T'm Callipygisa all the time." @®Sensations® Double-Enit ‘Back Callipygian- g back combi- nation.Made of novelty- stitched On the other hand, James might need the money very urgently. In the novels she had read the young heroes often got into desperate straits for want of a little ready cash during the process known as “sowing wild oats.” How James, in 48 hours and under the watchful eyes of his preceptors, could have already begun to plant his oat crop’ his aunt could not figure out. Miss Sarah’s thoughts were as delicate as wild cherry blossoms. When something was forced on her notice that she did not consider “nice” she preferred to shut her eyes and pretend it was not there. But in a matter where her duty lay plain before her, Miss Sarah could be counted on to keep her eyes fully open no matter what the cost to her sensibilities. Therefore, after pray- ing for help until her knees ached, Miss Sarah rose to what she felt was a “crisis” and prepared to do battle as best she was able. She wrote James a long and (for her) firm letter in which she warned him against temptation, and wondered how he possibly could have spent such a sum in two days. But having finished the letter without ylelding, she added two postscripts: “P. S—Do not think, my dear nephew, that I have not faith and confidence in your fortitude. But forewarned is forearmed, as you know. I inclose a postal order for $20. You must make it do till the end of the term. Aunt Sarah. “P. P. S—Of course, if anything should occur that would make the possession of more money imperative, you must let me know. I trust, how- ever, no such contingency will arise. “AUNTIE.” ‘The letter embarrassed James ter- ribly. When he answered it he re- ferred only vaguely to Aunt Sarah’s warning. The letter made him feel more alone than he had ever believed possible. A longing for his grandmother more overwhelming than he had vet ex- perienced swept over James and twisted and tore his heart. His grandmother would have understood. His grandmother would not have prated about temptations. It came to him as if for the first time that when he went home his grandmother would not be there, He would never see her again. It was years before James could bear to look back and relive his first weeks at school. James’ room was on the third floor front of the Bliss residence and di- rectly below him was a suite occupied by two upper classmen, who had achieved, respectively, positions no less exalted than the captaincy of the foot ball team and the editorship of the school paper. The captain of the foot ball team made it a matter of policy to be on a friendly footing with even the lowliest and most insignificant. The editor of the paper, being a student of hu- man nature, saw in James something of the pup the judge had visualized shut out in the cold and trying his best not to whine. Consequently, their mightinesses were on the whole inclined to be friendly, even though they jibed at James and his native State for the good of his soul. Unfortunately, James remembered the judge’s advice to go slow in mak- ing friends and ignored the friendli- ness. Later, when he had discov- ered the eminence of the two who dwelt just below him he was too proud to make any but the most ten- tative advances, which were in turn ignored. James immediately retreat- ed into the fastnesses of his own soul THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TARZAN AND THE LION MAN. gorilla king bore the terrified them, Soon her captor was bank. There was no sound and surrounded himself with prickers. It took but a week or two at school to make him doubt his own impor- tance. It took less than a month to make him wonder whether there was | something inherently wrong with him that made strangers shun and avold him. James was naturally the most sociable of souls and he missed com- panionship fearfully. He took refuge in books or long solitary walks, varied occasionally by the company of another pariah like himself. 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