Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1935, Page 37

[E5,57EAT BIEHES | SYNOPSIS: James Stimson 3d. last of | the male line of the New Concord. Kans.. Stimsons, returns {rom prep ry school in the East to find that his guardian, Aunt Sarah Stimson, has lost most of the fam- iy fortune. He cannot go to medical school when he thinks it over. he decides he had rather be a lawyer. anyway. he visits Judge Holcomb. his best friend. and tells him his decision. CHAPTER XL NAPPY. 'M GLAD you've come to your senses,” the judge growled. “I'm glad, too.” James grinned engagingly. He knew very well that he was the ap- ple of the old man's eye. | “Of course, T can't afford to go to| Jaw school,” he went on, “but I| thought perhaps you'd allow me to| study here with you. I'd like it better | than anything.” The judge grinned back at James | delightedly. “I'll think about it,” he | boomed. “If Nappy's willing I| shouldn't be surprised if we could | manage it.” (Nappy was the colored | office boy.) It was the happiest day in the old judge’s life when James came into | the office which had been his grand- | father’s, and begin his study of law.| For 40 years black letters on the frosted glass of the front door and | gold letters on the windows had pro- | claimed to a small but interested | world that the firm of Stimson & Holcomb, attorneys at law, practiced their profession therein. Perhaps some of Dr. Jim's old ad- | mirers, the women, were disappointed | that his son failed to follow in his medical footsteps, but to the rest of | New Concord it seemed eminently fitting that the third James should | be sitting at the first James' desk | in the first James' creaking swivel | chair and studying from the self- same calf-bound volumes, To the judge it was not alone fit- | ting: it was rapturously satisfying. “Well, Miss Julia, you see that Providence is still on the job, look- | ing after my boy,” he said a day or two later as he paused before Miss Pratt’s front porch. “I hadn't noticcd that Providence | was unduly exerting itself,” retorted Miss Julia good-naturedly. “but I had | seen that James' special jinx had seen to it that he was reduced from affluence to poverty just when he needed his money most. What Sarah Stimson was thinking of invest- ing —" i “Bah! What's a little money? Los- ing his money will be the making of the boy. Miss Sarah's coddled him like a pet tabby cat. It's time James cut loose from her apron strings and learned that chicken livers and cream don't grow on saucers. High time.” “You may be right,” Miss Julia con- ceded generously. “And if James is the born orator you say ke is it's barely possible that in the long run it will be better for him to have to give up medicine and let vou teach him law. I must say that Providence couldn't have provided a better teacher.” | That night the judge admitted to Caesar, his hound dog, that he did | believe that in Miss Julia the Lord Almighty for once had made a wom- an with faint glimmerings of com- ! mon sense. James took to the law as some peo- ple do to whisky, due partly no doubt to the skillful coaching of the Judge. but more to the aid and en- couragement furnished by the judge’s super-efficient assistant, Mr. Napoleon | Hanley, commonly known as Nappy. Nappy was a young man of color | of about the same age as James who, like so many cminent Americans, had started his business career at the very bottom rung of the ladder as a | mere office boy and runner c* errands. But Nappy had not stayed long at the bottom. In the course of some half a dozen years he had risen, fairly ' by leaps and bounds. to a position of | such importance with the firm of | Stimson & Holcomb that it stopped | Just short of a partnership. | It was Nappy who received mllersJ in the outer office and took in their | names with a dignity and air of se- crecy that would have made an ob- | serving papal secretary want to shoot himself with envy. It was Nappy who delivered the bills and sometimes collected the most uncollectable. i It was he who sorted the Judge's mail and read it whenever it looked interesting; and none other deter- mined which of the firm's callers | should be offered the 5-cent cigars and which the 10-centers—a delicate matter in which the Judge nine times | out of ten was certain to go astray. So keen a student of human nature ‘was Mr. Hanley that he knew before | & stranger had got both feet over the | sill of the outer office door whether | or not he was a person of importance | to be greeted accordingly or tactfully steered toward the street. Nappy. moreover, seemed to know by sheer instinct just when to admit that the Judge was in and when to say that he was out. It was Nappy again who soothed the ruffled feelings of his firm's fair clients and who escorted them to the | hall or into their carriages after the | Judge had banged the door behind | them. And after that new and in- triguing instrument, the telephone, was installed it was Nappy as a mat- | ter, of course, who answered it and decided whether or not the Judge should be called or only given a mes- sage. The telephone was Nappy's par- ticular pet and pride and not for any- | thing that he could think of would he have surrendered the precious privilege of answering it first. Mr. | Hanley was a musician born and played the trombone by ear in New Concord’s Fishers of Galilee Colored Benefit Society Band, but the most | magnetic tune on earth was but as | sounding brass to his ears compared‘ ‘b‘; the alluring tinkle of the telephone 11, Nappy, of course, had known James for years and admired and looked up | to him from the first. James had been installed in the office scarcely a day when Nappy surrendered body and soul to his charms. There is no | denying that Mr. Stimson, even though he failed.to make much im- | pression upon his classmates in the | effete East had a way all his own with his colored brethren. € Ruddy cheeks—sparkling eyes—most | women can have. Dr. F. M. Edwards for 20 years treated scores of women who suffered from constipation. During theée years he gave his patients a sub- stitute for calomel made of a few well- known vegetable ingredients, naming them Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets. Know them by their olive color. These tablets are wonder-workers on the bowels, causing a normal action, carrying off the waste and poisomous matter in gne’s system. If you have a pale face, sallow look, dull eyes, pimples, coated tongue, headaches, a listless, no-good feeling, all out of sorts, inactive bowels, take ome or twe of Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets at night for a week and note the pleasing results. Thousands of women and men take | Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets—now and then—to keep fit. 15¢, 30c and 60c. A ‘When Nappy had. need of a lawyer he ignored the Judge altogether and went straight to Mr. Stimson. Like the first Napoleon, Nappy was pos- | So | sessed of +a boundless energy, and was therefore not satisfied with 10 hours’ daily labor for the glory of Stimson & Holcomb and Hanley. One morning when James had been with the firm about six months Nappy came into his private office | and mysteriously closed and locked | the door. “Mr. James,” he said in a low voice. “I've brung you a little legal matter I'd like to talk over between ourselves.” “Fire away,” said James, glad of an excuse to lay down his law book. “Well, it's this a way. I've been noticing for years as how this white | man and that white man whut has come in here to our firm asking our advice, is making money all the whiles without working nothing but they haids and I've figgered me out a scheme to do likewise.” “That's a fine idea,” said James. “How are you going to work it?” “I'm promoting a company,” said THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1935. sacredly confidential” said James gravely. “But just what are you go- to promote?” “Driftwood,” whispered Nappy im- pressively. “Nothing more ner less. The old Missourl River is full of it Springs and Falls. Now my idea is to form me a companay to catch that driftwood whut's going to waste and saw it up and sell it by the cord.” “But, Nappy, that driftwood is free to any one who goes after it. You can't get men to catch it for you and then give you a share.” “I certainly kin,” said Nappy indig- nantly. “Ain’t it my-idea? Didn't I think it up and ain’t I employing 'em and carrying all the responserbility? | why shouldn't I have my reewards same as any other promoter? That part ain't a-worrying me a-tall.” James needed no further argument and o the Afro-American Reclama- tion & Development Co., incorporated under the laws of the sovereign State of New Jersey, was duly floated and incorporated. The A. A. R. & D. Co. remained, therefore, under the control of one head. Mr, Hanley as general man- ager directed all operations and ped- dled out concessions among the chosen few. As he had predicted, he had no trouble in inducing his friends to catch the wood for him and give him half. it in his list of the town’s prominent mrflmfl.—h Nappy's vainglorious pride. James {akes his first fling at life, tomorrow. —— "SLAYS WIFE AND SELF LOS ANGELES, April 11 (A — | While three of his seven children watched In terror, Charles Browner, 40, yesterday shot and killed his estranged wife, Mrs. Manuela Browner, on the porch of her father’s home. Then, after shooting at his father- in-law and a neighbor, Browner ran into the street and shot himself. Wounded, he barricaded himself in a garage, where police found him dead & short time later. CROP OFFICIALS NAMED Montgomery Wheat Control Dis- trict Supervisors Listed. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., April 11.—The directors of the Montgomery Oounty Wheat Production Control Association have appointed field supervisors as follows: Laytonsville district, Ulysses Grif- fith, 4th; Clarksburg, Robert C. Green; Poolesville, Benjamin White; Rockville, Potomac and Bethesda dis- tricts, Chester P. Clagett; Colesville and Wheaton districts, T. Yellott Canby; Darnestown, James A, Broome; Olney, William J. Thomas: Gaithersburg, Walter M. Magruder; Barnesville, Windsor W. Hodges; Damascus, Herbert D. Barnes. Finer---and M'ore Reh;slaing "SALADX' Nappy proudly, “but I don’t want no| The editor of the New Concord news of it spread about ontil you and ; daily paper was so impressed with me has my papers of incorporashun | James' account of Nappy's adventure drawn up and sealed tight as the law in high finance that he not only can do it.” | wrote up the company in his paper, “Legal business is, of course, but never failed thereafter to include . TEA WooDWARD & LLOTHROP DOWN STAIRS STORE Friday—Remnant Day Savings for Everyone Remnant Day merchandise is not returnable or exchangeable; not sent C. 0. D. or on approval; phone or mail orders not accepted. Misses’, Junior Misses’ and ‘Women’s Suits and Coats, $7-50 Were $10 to $16.95 28 Suits, with finger-tip coats, 3; swagger coats and short jackets. In navy, tan, gray, green and blue. 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