Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1935, Page 28

DAILY SHORT STORY: THE ROPE TRICK Uncle Lew Remembered His Own Sad Romance and Resolved to Help Jenny With Hers. - BY AL HARRIS. SLY ET me tell you about it be- fore you go,” Uncle Lew said. and tried to smooth back his shaggy gray eyebrows with the tips of his fin- gers. Jenny stood at the door with her back to him, and when Uncle Lew saw her shoulders quiver there came to him a strange, poignant pain that he had not experi- enced for 30 years. A girl had turned her eyes from his then, and his eye- brows weren't gray then . . . and then the girl had gone away. “Uncle Lew” Jenny said, “you ought to let me go." She smiled at him, and the hat that came down over one eye gave her a rakish look. You could only tell from one of her eves that she'd not be able to keep the tears back much longer. “It’s an old, old legend,” said Uncle Lew . .. he had been 20 then, when the girl turned her eyes from his, and he had told her he loved her. She didn't want to hurt him; but she turned her eyes away, and soon she left and he never saw her again. Uncle Lew had been awfully poor in those days. “Then the rope grew taut.” “But that couldn't be,” Jen- ny said, trying to sound very, very Jenny would never know of the telegram Uncle Lew had sent to theactress in B which telegram he mentioned an amount of five fig- ures. And he had sent another to Bob congratulating him on his good taste and saying that now he could be free to let Jenny marry Carl as he guessed she wanted to. It was only be- cause he and Bob's father were such old pals, Uncle Lew | intimated, that he had been trying | to save Jenny for him. | “If that's only the beginning,” ‘smlled Jenny. . . . She had to be by | herself for a while. She'd think things | out. Carl said he'd follow her. Well, | if Bob didn't love her and Carl did— | wasn't that something in Carl's fa- | vor? Even though at times he did make her want to scream. | And what difference did it make | anyway? Bob had said he was going | to marry an actress, hadn't he? And | for her there was Carl! If Bob came | to her on his hands and 'knees now— THE SEWER DIVERSION DIGGING IS STARTED Excavation Is in Connection With New Building for In- terior Unit. Excavation in connection with the new Interior Department Building has been begun at Nineteenth and C| streets on a sewer diversion project, which will require a huge ditch in streets for two blocks in that section. A huge sewer more than 10 feet in diameter crosses the site of the EVENING new building between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets on D street, and must be eliminated before the build- ing can be erected. This sector of the sewer is being cut out, and a new diversion line is being dug from Eighteenth and D south to C and westward to join the old sewer again at Nineteenth and C. Work is being done by the Arundel Corp. of Baltimore, under supervision of the District government, but the cost will be paid with Federal funds, it was explained by Charles E. Dar- nall, construction” engineer in charge of the Interior Department job. Plans for the new Interior Build- ing, it is understood, are well under way in the public works branch of the Procurement Division, Treasury De- partment, and the possibilities are that the job will be put on the mar- ket about June 1. The Shell Composition, that are so easv 10 keep cle cloth. Smart pouches with dis- tinctive white frames. Sunday is “Mother’s Day” What will you Give Her ? STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1935. MRS. ALICE C. DRISCOLL HONORED AT LUNCHEON Retired Community Center Work- er Is Presented With Silver Flower Bowl. Mrs. Alice C. Driscoll who was re- tired from active service in the Com- munity Center Dapartment May 1, was feted yesterday by the staff of the department at a luncheon in the Pranklin administration buliding. She | had been employed by the depart- | he and a brother-in-law took ment since 1917. Among those present were Mrs. E. rest after Stark had married Holtz- K. Peeples, Community Center De- | man's stepdaughter, reputedly over- partment director; Dr. Stephen E.|looking the matter of divorce from Kramer, assistant superintendent of his first wife. Also, Holtzman schools; Dr. Garnet C. Wilkinson, as- | charged, Stark had cashed worthless sistant superintendent of schools, and ' checks to finance the honeymoon. "Big 3" in Mrs. Driscoll's husband, A. J. Dris- coll, civic leader. Mrs. Lucretia Walker Hardy of the Mrs. Driscoll with a silver flower bowl. ‘KIDNAPED’ MAN IN JAIL CHICAGO, May 10 (#).—Investi- gation by Chicago police last night disclosed that s man reported “kid- ‘nlped" on the South Side was in | Jail at Crown Point, Ind. CRIPPLE HANGS SELF | Community Center staff presented Inmate of County Farm Found Dangling From Rope. | LOS ANGELES, May 10 () —The | body of Artle Wallace,, elderly eripple, | who made his way about th: | of the county farm in a ...'..'x"l':‘.i'fl’.{ was found yesterday dangling from a | Tope. Sherif’s Capt. William Bright re-‘ ported Wallace rolled his wheel chair | |to & door, contrived to get a rope Samuel Holtzman, tire dealer, said | over the top and the other end around Ed- | his neck. Then he kicked the chair mund Stark to Crown Point for ar- from under him. Cradle Is Shoe Box. 1 Weighing only 16 ounces, the baby | girl of Mrs. M. Coles of Exeter, Eng- cradled in Rug Cleaning S8 . 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It had been such | “.oply the beginning,” said Uncle & struggle for him in the beginning. | ey “The magician, as I said, throws She understood that now. Think of | the rope up into the air. It seems having & woman you once loved Writ- | tnat it becomes attacher to some- ing to you, and when you investigated | ¢hing in the sky. Then the magician you found only her baby in & Worn- | climbs the rope, Remember a very out-looking rooming house room. “One traveler tells that he saw it done by night. sitting around & fire with others when @ magician came among them. He did nothing startling at first, this' wmagician.” Uncle Lew said. Jenny was sitting on the arm of a | chair and looking at the toe of her shoe. But the woman who had gone | eway from him had left this child ' to him. There was much to be done, end though at first it was hard, at last he won. Uncle Lew made more money than was necessary. Jenny had got everything she wanted and there was a good deal left over. “And then what did the magician do?” Jenny asked. Uncle Lew had done everything he could to brighten | things: but what could even he do? | Bob was supposed to be waiting for her; of course, she was only 11 then, | and though the others used to laugh, even then it | And now | and he was 18 . . . meant very much to her. she was 18 and Bob was still only eeven years older and it didn't seem like so much. But Bob had met an actress when his dad sent him to New York on what was supposed to be business. An actress! And now Bob ‘wanted to marry her. “The magician,” Uncle Lew said. “threw a rope up into the air. up and up, the sky, and then the rope grew taut as though it was fastened to some- thing up above.” POLICE INCREASE 0. K.’D The bill to increase the size of the ‘White House police force, passed by | the House recently, was given a favor- nble report yesterday by the Senate Public Buildings and Grounds Com- | mittee. The existing law limits the | force to 43 men. The pending bill removes this limi- | He was in Egypt and | The | strange thing is the rope kept going | its end disappeafed in | iunslble man definitely says he has witnessed all this. The magician climbs the rope and disappears. And | then suddenly the parts of a human | body come down. Legs and arms, torso and head. Right after them, down | comes the magician. He puts the head and the legs and the rest in a box. He waves a stick and—" The door flew open. With his hat in his hand, his coat flung open and his face flushed, Bob stood there. “Jenny!” he cried. The girl whirled around. She drew in a deep breath that was almost sob and ran to Bob's arms. Uncle Lew lit his pipe. . . . “What happened?” Jenny asked as she touched Bob's face as though she couldn’t believe he was real. Bob looked at her with worshiping eyes. “What happened when?" Uncle Lew asked, looking up from his paper. “When the magician waved his wand over the box, of course,” Jenny said. |- “Oh!" Uncle Lew remembered. “A man stepped out of the box, entirely sound. hale and hearty.” “My, my!” laughed Jenny. “Peo. ple believe such things can happen “What are you two talking about? Bob asked; and thinking that Uncle Lew wasn't looking, he kissed Jenny on the nose. (Copyright. 1935.) | Tomorrow: She had her own rea- sons for seeming to be a gold dij | ger. Read her story, “Gallant Girl, | by Cliff Walters, tation without specifying the exact number. The plan, however, is to appoint 12 additional men. When this is done seven District of Columbia | policemen whe are temporarilv ce- | tailed at the White House will return | to their regular police duties, Farmers Study Art. 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