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She was smiling now and contritq,
-forgetful, in her own error, of his
house-breaking. "You were so kind
this morning. You must forgive me
for going off with your coat."
"ThafB all right," said Algernon,
bowing in the doorway, hat in his
hand, pup under his. arm. "Please
don't
think of it again. Good night."
*Good night," called Molly, "and
pleasant dreams."
She laughed again with liking for
the fantastic stranger and amusement
at the situation, and Algernon, catch
ing her eye as the door closed, laughed
himself. Oh, Molly, Molly, mother's
fifty-ninth!
Algernon preferred the stable to
the Lodge, and slept long and peace
fully on the sweet clean hay in the
loft of his own stable. The trampling
of the horses and the shrill whistle of
the grooms* going about their morning
work aroused him at last. He made
a careful tbilet in one of the wash
roomsia groom pointed out to him, and
having breakfasted In solitary gran
deur in the kitchen, he hung around
chatting with the stable boys, his
hands in his pockets, his hat on the
back of his head. The Todds' fam
ily coachman had been forced to re
main in the city with a sick wife-and
the man Molly had engaged to take
his place was a tall raw-boned coun
tryman, good-natured and talkative.
Mrs. Todd's wishes, as far as they
pertained to the stable and its care,
had been carried out to the letter.
Everything was In excellent order and
could not have been better if the reli
able Patrick had been there himself
to oversee it.
"Yes," admitted Thomas, in answer
to a bit of praise, "everything is all
right but the automobiles."
"What's the matter with them?"
asked Algernon in the calm terms of
ownership that greatly amused
Thomas.
When Mrs. Todd went to Europe,
said Thoihas, she had taken a car and
her chauffeur with her. The rest of
th« ears had been shipped to Maine
with instructions that they were not
to be touched until her arrival or that
of her son, Algernon.
"Well, Mrs. Todd didn't bring her
driver up with her, and there ain't
CLOCKS
As time goes on, the faithful old
clock becomes one of our warmest of
friends. His cheerful tick marking the
passing hours is reBtful and comfort
ing music his honest face, which we
scan fifty times a day, smiles back at
us Irke one of the family. You need a
good clock in your home—you can get
one at Neasham's.
Mantle, cabinet or wall clocks. Big
Ben or grandfather clocks. Guaranteed
perfect time-keepers. Prices—
$1.00 to $4.00
J. W. NEHSHAM
The Leading Jewler
120 East Main St
,i '',4 f. si'. jJypiMT.
CHAPTER IV Continued.
"To get my coat," said Algernon.
"Your coat?"
"You took it with you in the cart.
Shall we coll It an oversight?" he
asked gently, a smile in his eyes, per
fect composure in his manner.
"Oh!" said the girl, and laughed
gaily. "Oh, I am so sorry. I beg your
pardon. How long have you been
waiting?"
"I got here about live, but it seems
longer, for I was waiting for you."
His roice fell, and once more the girl
wondered that it should be so like that
voice 9f Inspired poetry and the rose
garden In the moonlight.
"I beg your pardon that there was
no oner to let you in," said she. "I
•hall speak to the servants about this.
I think I left your coat in the cart. I
•hall find out. Please sit down."
"Don't bother," said Algernon. "I
can go to the stable and see."
"It la late. Have my man drive
you back to the village or
Btay,
Done To A Turn"
THE UPPER CRUST
By the Author of
HE COMES UP SMILING,
THE MYSTERIOUS
CHARLES SHERMAN:
Copyright, The Bobbs-Merrlll Company.
tell
him to put yon up for the night, that I
say so. I shall telephone him at the
"I'll be going," said Algernon, pick
ing up his hat and tucking the quiver
ing pup under his. arm. He did not
want her to find the rifled supper-table
while he was in the house. This was
no time, for explanations.
no one in this place that knows anj&
thing about them. Mrs. Todd keeps
saying she is going to send to the city
for a man, but she never does, some
how. Ain't hardly any need of her
doing if," he added. "She gets auto
rides enough as it is."
"That so? Let's have a look at
them."
Thomas had.no objections to show
ing everything about the village's one
big place to anybody who wished to
see it, and led Algernon at once to the
garage.
"We keep the place clean, but that
is about all we can do," he explained.
Algernon nodded and Inspected the
four machines he knew so well, while
an idea, fantastic, persistent, amus
ing, came into his head and stayed
there, growing more and more defi
nite and more and more pleasing.
"Mama," he thoijsht, "has always said
that she wished I would work, even
if it were at the bottom of the ladder.
Then, too, what would be the use of
my living up at the big house all
alone? Mama won't be here for a
month yet at the earliest, and Molly
would hardly feel like staying if I ex
plained just where and when she and
I have met before. It is clear that
ahe doesn't recognize me, and Pat,
the only one besides mama who would
upset my fun, is in the city. I have
turned over anew leaf and I am going
to work for my board. Jove, I haven't
had such a pleasant summer for a
decade!"
"Guess you don't often have a ride
in one of them, eh?" chuckled Thomas,
poking Algernon in the ribs.
Algernon winked. "Huh, who would
want to ride when they can walk?" he
asked.
Thomas laughed and slapped Alger
non on the back. "Same here. You
never know when the darned things
are going to blow up. You go out In
one of them things, and it's dollars to
doughnuts you walk home. When I
go out to ride, 1 don't want to have
to walk."
"No one does," agreed Algernon.
They went out and Algernon seated
himself deliberately on a bench beside
the door and began to fill his pipe.
"You hang around as long as you
want," said Thomas generously.
"There's plenty here for a dozen more
like you."
"Thanks awfully," drawled Algernon,
and Thomas, hesitating a moment,
•loath to leave entertaining company,
felt the force of duty pulling him away
and departed.
It was a beautiful day, clear and
cool after the storm of the night be
fore. Great white clouds drifted by
overhead, and through the trees one
could see the ocean, blue and dancing
in 1:he sunlight. A white-winged sail
boat was beating up against tho breeze
now scudding along the crest of a
swell, now almost disappearing in the
trough. A motor-boat passed and the
panting of its engines could be dis
tinctly heard. The sea-gulls swooped
by in long airy flights, and the bell
buoy hr a laugh beenath its tears.
From the stable came the tramp and
whinnying of horses, the chatter of
the grooms and the splash of water as
the boy cleaned the carriages. A cat,
curled up on the bench beside Alger
non, purred loudly and contentedly.
The yaller pup, having been kindly
tolerated by the high-bred dogs of the
place, and beginning to feel timidly at
home, dozed at Algernon's feet in the
sunshine, arousing himself now and
then to snap at the fleas, a-nd falling
back with a grunt of satisfaction.
After a while, Algernon rose, stretch
ed and made his way to the garage.
Thomas, returning about noon-time,
stared in surprise at the empty bench,
expecting to find the stranger peace
fully asleep in the drowsy warmth of
midday, for no one about the place
had seen him leave, and in the country
a stranger's every step is marked by
somo one and commented on.
"Hullo!'* he called, looking around.
"Where are you? Hi. what are you
doing there?" as he caught sight of Al
gernon through the open door of the
garage. "Here, you don't want to
jrrmw»y with them machines. Hi,
stop!"
Algernon straightened up, wiping his
face on his sleeve. It was growing
warmer as the day advanced and he
had beer, working for the last two
hours about as hard as he had ever
done in his life. The perspiration
rolled down his face and mingled with
the streaks of oil and grease that ad
orned his countenance.
"Gosh, I'm hot," said he.
"Come out of that," commanded
Thomas, fear and authority in his
voice. "Mrs. Todd won't want you
monkeying with her machines."
"Oh, shuclcs!" returned Algernon
"carelessly, and nearly disappeared
from sight under one of them.
"Hold on there," quavered Thomas.
"Mrs. Todd is coming, you fooi. Come
out!"
Algernon only grmted from be
neath the machine. Thomas stooped
to grab him by the leg and drag him
out by main force, when Molly OToole
appeared in the doorway.
"Good morning," said she. "Who's
that. Thomas? One of the grooms
drunk a gran? You want to keep them
out of the garago. I told you. I can't
have them fussing with tho cars.'.'
Algernon cquirmed out and bowed
gaily, like an old friend. His sleeves
were rolled up and the long duster
was tightly buttoned down tho front,
his hair was mussed, and his face cov
ered with grease, but Molly recognized
her gallant of the day before and a
sudden amused twinkle came to the
surface of her blue eyes. What was
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her persistent caller up to now? Al-|that came
gernon smiled with pleasure at the Holmes."
sight of her. She
was
stiff, white, shirt-waist suits he had
the rose-garden.
dimly perceived in
But now a white snood of folded rib
bon was bound around the curly soft
ness of her black hair, which tumbled
loose here and there over her ears in
a disorder that Algernon's fingers
Itched to rearrange. Down the front
of her otherwise immaculately clean
Bkirt
was a disfiguring grass stain.
Her eyes were laughing, her cheeks
flushed, and Molly O'Toole, standing
in the sunshine of the doorway, looked
neither mistress nor housekeeper, but
little girl suddenly brought to ac
count for some mischief.
"Good morning," said Algernon.
"Good morning,' said she. "Were
you looking for your coat under one of
the cars?"
Algernon laughed. "I found my
coat, thank you."
"Then what were you doing under
the car?"
"Overhauling it."
"Who told you you could?"
"No one."
"Then what did you do it for?"
"Wanted to."
"Don't always do everything you
want to," advised the girl. "You might
got into trouble."
"If I wanted to do a thing, the do
ing of it would compensate for the
trouble," said Algernon.
"Not always," said the girl, as one
who knew by experience.
"Oh, yes," said Algernon with the
happy optimism of a few millions be
hind one in a safety vault. "With the
right mental training, you will simply
remember the fun you had and forget
the trouble—be above It"
"You can't," insisted the girl firmly.
"Not when you are in trouble."
"When I am in trouble," said Alger
non simply, "I get out of it."
The girl laughed. "Who arc you?"
"Your new chauffeur," said Alger
non.
The girl bit her lip, and an angry
flush deepened on her rounded cheeks.
The laugh went out of her eyes and
she regarded him coldly, scornfully.
"You were very kind to me yesterday,"
Bald she. "Why make me sorry that
I let you help me?"
Algernon flushed In his turn, and
his eyea softened with contrition.
"Excuse me," he begged. "I am
afraid I did not put it exactly as I in
tended. I have been/ a chauffeur in
the city. New York. I know all about
cars. I am in need of a job. May I
be your chauffeur? Thomas told me
that you had none and were going to
send- to the city for one."
The girl nodded. "I need a chauf
feur,' she lied, looking frankly at Al
gernon. "Have you any references?"
"No," said Algernon.
"I am afraid I should have to have
references. Mr. Todd is very particu
lar about the cars. I could not have
them Injured while he is away."
"I didn't have any references yes
terday when I made the horse go,"
said Algernon gently.
The girl laughed. "Butthat was not
a permanent place," said she.
"Lc. this be temporary until I can
ask you foir-references," suggested Al
gernon.
The girl laughed. "You might ruin
the cars."
"Did I ruin the horse?"
"Do- you know as much about cars
as you did about horses?"
More, a great deal more. I can take
a car apart. I would hesitate about
doing so to a horse."
The girl bit her lip and turned to
look out of the open doorway, across
the smooth green lawn to the distant
blue of the ocean and the little sail
boat beating up against the breeze.
This stranger, with his persistence,
his audacity, his gay good humor, was
delightfully amusing he was, besides,
entirely at his ease, even last night when
caught dozing in the hall, his dog at his
feet. Her woman's intuition, sharpened
by her constant contact with the world
told her she could trust him. and the
temptation to have a man to look after
the cars and take her out in her own
machine was Irresistible, and yet she
hesitated, reason struggling with
desire.
"For whom did you work in the
city?" she questioned.
"I had my own car," explained Al
gernon.
"Where is it now?" she asked.
Algernon was standing beside it at
that moment, but he did not mention
the fact. "It didn't pay," s^id he
simply.
The girl nodded in auick sympathy,
touched by the pity of so many busi
ness undertakings tbat 'didn't pay."
"There as so many taxicab com
panies now," she declared, "that I sup
pose a single man wouldn't stand any
show. Why didn't you go to a smaller
place, some little town, you know?"
"Didn't have the money to start,"
returned Algernon gibly. "I' would
have had to rent a place to keep It,
bought gasoline, made the repairs in
the garage myself, done everything,
besides pay for board and lodging.
It was no good." He shrugged, and
the girl's sympathy mounted. She
knew so well the sordid struggle, the
terrible discouraging process of "get
ting started."
"Did you sell your caV?" she ques
tioned kindly.
"I had raised money on it," said Al
gernon, and she understood. She had
raised money on so many things and
seen them go, one by one, to pay the
debt.
"It's too bad." srid she. "Poverty
makes one wonder why any one felt
it necessary to invent a hell, doesn't
It?"
"It does, indeed," said Algernon.
He had all her sympathy now and
still she hesitated. "Did you try to
get a place as chauffeur in a private
family?" she asked.
"It \vas so late In the summer. I
have some relatives north of here and
thought I would spend the summer
with them. They are always short of
help. In the winter things will be
different."
"I know. In the summer, we are
bound to get a job in the winter, in the
winter, we can't help but find one In
the summer." She frowned, then
laughed, while the bitterness that had
crept into voice and eyes vanished
and the irerspcnsllile gaiety of youth
returned. "Well, Mr.—er—"
"Holmes." caid Algernon, taken by
surprise and giving the first name
The mangy pup drew near and the
j4f%*ttr KaO(1
fingers. "He's got a cute little face,"
gaily, turned and strolled away to in
spect the stables, followed by the de
ferential Thomas.
CHAPTER V.
Molly acecpted the new chauffeur
with a mixture of delight and fear. As
a chauffeur, he filled a long-felt want,
but who was he and where did he
She looked at Algernon closely as he
presented himself that afternoon, ac
cording to agreement. He had washed
and shaved, and in anew suit of cloth-
es supplied by his mistress'generosity
case of emergency, he looked an aff-
able, pleasant young fellow, with mild
gray eyes, Molly thought, but he ap
parently knew something about ma
chines, for the car he brought to the
door was clean and in good order, and
its engine throbbed steadily and
rhythmically.
Algernon had presented himself with
some misgivings, fearful that Molly
might chance to recognize him at last,
though that night he had whispered
nonsense into her ear beside the sun
dial it had been far too dark among
the shadows of the rose-garden for the
girl to have seen him clearly. His
voice, he realized, still puzzled her, as
it had the night before when he rose
suddenly in the firelight. But her
vague wonder quickly passed and she
saw In him only the gallant of the day
before, who had helped her with her
horse and in the evening had come
after his coat with a persistence ^id
audacity that .matched her own. liad
helped himself to a large part of the
supper and had been found dozing in
the comfortable warmth of the hall
fire. Thus, Algernon Van Rensellear
Todd became chauffeur to his mother's
housekeeper.
They gavfe him the chauffeur's room
over the garage, and Thomas introduc
ed him below stairs with much pride
and little ceremony. It was Just at
dinner-time, which was in the evening
to the still unabated wonder of the
entire village, when Thomas lead him
into the simple dining-room used by
the servants and presented him brusk
ly and
self-consciously.
"This is Holmes, Joe Holmes, the
new chauffeur," said he shortly.
Algernon bowed gracefully in the
doorway, and seeing the cook about to
draw out her chair and pausing a mo
ment to regard the newcomer with
frank curiosity and no word of greet
ing, he stepped forward and himself
drew forth the chair.
The cook was fat and a bit mussy.
Her face was red and shining from the
heat of the fire, and she was tired.
Thinking that the strange young man
is acknowledging their acquaintance
ship by come horse-play, she laid her
hand on the back of the chair.
"That's my chair," said she sharply.
"And my pleasure," said Algernon,
With a gallant bow and a gesture for
her to be seated.
The cook seated herself gingerly,
still fearful lest Algernon jerk her
chair back suddenly and leave her sit
ting on the floor, a joke considered
below stairs as the acme of rare hu
mor. But Algernon merely pushed
her up to the table, and a smile, half
pleased, half sheepish, crossed her
tired face. The waitress sniffed her
disapproval of "airs," as she cr.lled
those manners which she herself did
not possess, and the parlor maid was
Algernon's for the asking.
"HI. there,' said Thomas Jovially,
"no one is allowed to flirt with the
cook."
I "To flirt with a pretty woman," de
clared Algernon, "is one of the inalien
able rights of man."
"That means an extra hunk of pie,"
grumbled Bates, the underguoom,
plaintively, with a wink for the parlor
maid, who was young and pretty and
clearly the favorite below stairs.
The others laughed, and Algernon,
with a polite, "May I?" sat down be
tween the cook and the parlor maid,
a place long coveted by the gardener,
who had wooed the girl with a sileat
if persistent constancy, for the last six
months. Unaware of any smoldering
passions he may have aroused, Alger
non ate his meal, paying respectful at
tention to the cook and her opinions,
joking with the coachman, and receiv
ing the groom's admiring homage with
lofty indifference. The gardner he
aroused to mild fury, the waitress he
flattered and with the parlor maid he
flirted.
His first appearance at breakfast
that morning, following the story of
his midnight repast, had been no
recommendation as to his honesty, and
as
the days passed and the
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Into hiB head, "Joseph!*
in one of* the "Well, Mr. Holmes, I do need a man
to tend to the cars. It is hard to get
one willing to Btay all summer in this
quiet out-of-the-way place. Suppose
I try you for a week? Will that be
all right?"
"My work will be my references,"
said Algernon gaily. "I shall get a
car in order and take you out this
afternoon. Shall I?"
"Yes," said Molly, adding with a
laugh: i'lf we get stranded anywhere,
we can send for Elizabeth."
»iio uimiB vup ucoi nuu spring from the day nursery, and
girl bent and patted the top of his! groped his way through a dark hall
gin uem huu imiiBU lu« ui wo groped niS way luiuugu
dirty head with the tips of her slender,
mUK iVt
a ttnn mm a 1 ft Al* iL l.
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COuid
takes." She laughed, and nodding, he wanted to ask any questions he
wiiu xiw nuu wubib um into different ciuu rouuw. mo uuuu
come from? She had engaged him
the cook tried not to like him. But'dows, but Clarice reminded him that
silver
showed n0 depreciation in amount, one through," she sugested, but wad
she began to admit that maybe her -ley protested and Clarice assured
suspicions had been formed too him that some one would come to
hastily. A tense and bitter rivalry their rescue before long, as there was
arose between the waitress and the a boys' club on that floor at 7 and they
parlor maid while, after a day or two,, would hear their call fOT help. Inthe
Algernon and the gardener were not meantime Clarice laughed and^ Wad
on speaking terms so far as the gar
dener was concerned, though Algernon
was wholly unconscious 'of the fact.
I {To be Continued.)
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Evening Story
THE MODEL FLAT.
By Mary Marshall.
(Copyright, 1913, by the McClure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The door of Scott Street settle
ment house jjtood ajar and Dick Wad
ley went In, passed a group of coarse
figured, sallow-faced east side moth
ers waiting to receive their off-
0f
said she. "Why don't you wash him the head worker, and toU
the old building in sei
with some dog soap? We have some, wanted to "look around," and with
Ask one of the grooms for it. A gen- stereotyped cordiality she told him he
tleman is known by the baths he
Ymhj#
Of 80ID6
MIbs Bailey,
the head worker, and told her that he
one
tn charge. He found
go through the building, and if
could find her later
Dick knew that if Miss Bailey knew
what errand had called him there her
reception of him would have been dif
ferent, her cordiality would have been
of a different brand. He wandered
up several flights of well-worn stairs
Into different club rooms. The build-
{ng had once
been
out of pure audacity and an Instinctive encroachment of a non-church
belief in his decency, which could g0ing population in the neighborhood
hardly be said to be confirmed by his
participating the night before in the|a
a
ba(j
church, but since
been abandoned to the uses of
Bettlement
meal she had had prepared for herself flight of stairs he found himself in
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and Hancock. So spoke reaBon. But
the desire to have a chaufTeur as com
pleting the role of Mrs. Todd, and
womanly intuition that she could trust
him, for the time silenced reason and
the perplexity as to how she could get
rid of him, if Mrs. Todd, the real,
should suddenly return before she had
a chance to prepare for her coming.
house. After the last
region that had once been the vault
ing of the church before the floors
were inserted. At one side of this
attic room Dick saw what seemed to
be a playhouse. At least there were
four small windows looking out on
the main floor, and through these win
dows he could see curtains and potted
geraniums. There was a front door
apparently leading into the small
apartment.
Wadley was interested. He stood
l00king~at"the
little apartment and
lrli8h chattering.
from the stock of various uniforms pfg-tallod, east side girl, with
Mrs. Todd alWays kept on hand in
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P0* and a„
Then a
empty market basket,
throulth the
door and went about,
came through the door and went about,
apparently pretending to be shopping.
She stopped at a wood box at one end
of the large attic and filled her basket
with kindling wood. Then she went
back to the playhouse. Wadley
thought of knocking at the door and
finding out what was going on inside,
butT"" he waited. Finally the door
opened and a dozen little girls, all very
happy and with a great deal to say,
came out. A young woman came to
the door and helped them into their
hats and coats in one end of the attic
room, and then saw them to the head
of the stairs, and with a word of ^en
couragement to each one, with a "Be
sure and come next week, Becky," to
one, and a "I hope the baby will be
better soon, Rachael," for another,
sent them down stairs.
Then the young woman, whom Wad
ley saw at a glance, even in the
gloaming of the late afternoon, was
young and graceful, came back to the
door. He came up to her as she went
into the door of the little apartment-
She greeted him with a little start.
"I
did not see you," she said. "Have
you beetv here long?"
Wadley told her that he was just
looking about, that he had' been
watching her class from the outside.
The young woman was eager to ex
plain things to him. She said that
the apartment, as he called It, was a
model flat. It consisted of three
rooms of the sort that the young girls
of the neighborhood would probably
have to go to housekeeping in. and it
was fitted up with inexpensive fur
nishings.
"The girls all do marry here." she
said, "so the best work we can do is
to show them how to make good
wives."
"So you teach these east side peo
ple how to marry and live on their
little, and the poor young bankers and
lawyers on the other side of town
with ten times their salaries can't
marry because the young women they
would marry can't manage?'
The young woman laughed. "That
is about the situation." she said, "and
yet these people are happy." By thiB
time they had gone into the apart
ment and Wadley was delighted with
its comfortably furnished rooms.
"I saw the curtains and the flowers
from the outside," he said. "They
look very pretty."
"They aren't real windows," she
explained. "They are just solid glass,
but they are where the windows
ought to be. The real light and air
comes in through the skylight." And
with each of Wadley's inquiries she
who
It was so hot yestldday that evvery
boddy coodent do enything hardly ex
sept look at eetch uthir wiping awf
perspirayshin, and aftir a wile pop
calm hoam wiping his awf, saying,
Jumping pitchforks, but this has bin a
hummir, I bleeve 111 try that folios ad
vise that I was reading In the papir
wile I was kumlng up in the car, he
Bed
the best way to keep cool awn the
hottlst day is to wawk In a leezurly
mannlr and give the breezes a chanse
to bio awn you.
Wat if thare aint eny breezes, pop,
I sed.
Thares awlways a breeze sumware,
If you wawk far enuff, sed pop, kum
awn, sippose we take a wawk befoar
suppir and see If we can hunt up a
f4W
\Vich we did, but not finding eny
thing exsept sum little bits of hot
winds wlch wood of had a nerve to
think they was reguler breezes, and
aftir a wile we passed Puds 81m
klnses farthlr kumlng alawng wiping
his fase with his hankerchiff with wun
hand and fanning himself with his
strawr hat with the othir hand.
Look at that chump, sed pop, wat
good is awl the breezes in the werld
with a fat site like that kumlng up the
street. And jest then Mr. Simpins went
"Don't get up," he
said.
«ucu ui wauioj miimi.oo him &t the door of her house in tho
explained details of the little flat. She other side of the city, "that you will
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told him that she was Miss Clarice
Hardwlck, that she was a volunteer
worker, and that she wished she had
enough money to make a generous
gift to the settlement house.
Wadley felt that It was time for
him to explain himself. "I am look
ing around here for a way to spend
Bome money—not my own, of course,
but some of my chief's." He ex
plained that he was a young member
of the firm of a prominent financier
and that he was often sent on the
thankless job of looking up Institu
tions to which the financier thought
of giving money. He had been
thoroughly discouraged when he ar
rived at the house, he said, but now
he was glad he had come.
Clarice'-vW&s interested and, laugh
ing said she wouldn't let him go till
he had promised to get a little of the
money for her to spend on model
flats.
All this explanation had taken half
an hour, and when they started to
the door they found it was locked.
Clarice remembered that the janitor
always came up and locked it from
the outside after she had gone, and
kept the key. Apparently he had
thought she had gone at her usual
time.
Wadley sugegsted the inside win
they didn't open. "We could break
ley laughed, and neither seemed to be
sorry.
"You can prove to me whether you
really do deserve the endowment," he
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past, saying, Helo Pots, 1b it warm, he kwlck went In the house and pritty
enuff for you.
Wich pop dident anser him, jest) in the bath tub, beeing pop.
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said. And Clarice started the Are in
the little stove and began to heat the
water for the supper that she was go
ing to get.
This supper—coffee with condensed
milk breakfast food and creamed chip
ped beef and jam—these were all the
supplies that Clarice had on hand in
the model kitchen—served on the bare
white table in the model flat, was the
most royal feast that Wadley had ever
had.
Once out of the Scott Street settle
ment house, jostled by the Scott
Street population, Wadley asked If he
might see Miss Hardwlck home, and
she accepted his escort with redief.
"I hope," said Clarice, as she left
have soilie Influence with your chief,
and that you will use that Influence
in favor of model flats."
Wadley stood and took her out
stretched hand. "Yes," he said, "but
won't you give me another demon
stration? You will let me come again,
won't you?"
Two months later Wadley met
Clarice one afternoon in the Scott
Street house after her class was over.
The voices of the little housekeepers
were still to be heard on the stairs.
"Clarice," he said, taking her hand
that was dripping with soap and wa
ter from the little kitchen sink, "I
brought the chief today. He is down
talking with Miss Bailey. He is go
ing to spring his check on her. It is
for $60,000, with more to follow to use
to enlarge the work. And I have
persuaded him to stipulate that $10,
000 at least Is to be spent on model
flats. I didn't want to tell you till I
was sure. I was afraid he would
change his mind." Wadley had taken
both her hands and Clarice, in her joy
at the announcement, pressed his
hands in hers. "And now, Clarice,
you won't say no, this time, will you?"
Wadley went on. "Let's make today
famous for a double gift"
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EACH EH was telling today about every child having a 'dual person
ality.' daddy," said Evelyn, with a puzzled look. "What did she
mean by that?"
"Why. didn't she explain it?" asked daddy, rather surprised.
"No, daddy she went on talking about somethingtlse."
"Well," said daddy. "I think I can explain by a little story what she meant.
"This little boy was about Jack's age. Everywhere be went he had two
little companions, though you could never see them. Every boy and every
girl Is the same way and every man and every woman. Everybody that livea
goes around, wherever they may be, with these two companions whom you
cannot see."
"What do you mean, daddy?" asked Jack, very much puzzled.
"Do you have a monitor In your grade? We used to have at school."
"We have oner cried Evelyn. "The best behaved child In murks of de
portment la monitor for a month, and the rest of us are supposed to look to
the monitor as an example."
"Well," continued daddy, "that's the way it is. This little boy went around
always with these two companions that lived-inside of him. 1 think they used
to run around between his heart and his mind. One of these little creatures
was a monitor, and the other was an imp, and the imp was always contradict
ing everything the monitor said for the little boy to do and trying to get him
to do Just the opposite.
"For Instance, when mamma would call the little boy In the morning the
monitor would say, 'Now you get right* up now!" but the imp would chuckle
and cry. 'Don't you get up don't yon get up!' and if the Imp made him late
for school the imp was tickled to death. Why. the imp would even try to get
the little boy to play truant and go fishing Instead of to school, and If the boy
refused to give In that much—and he never really played 'hookey' but onee—
the imp would try to get even for the rest of the day by whispering to him not
to study his lessons and to be late for supper, and somehow everything would
go wrong, and he would go to bed at night an unhappy boy.
"But on some mornings the monitor would tell him to get np when he was
first called, and he wouldn't pay any attention to the bad little Imp at all, but
would spring right out of his bed and come downstairs with a cheerful smile
and get to school on time, and he'd enjoy every minute of the day. with all
Its work and play, and he'd go to bed happy. And, Evelyn, it was Just the
same way with this boy's sister. It's the same way with everybody that
lives."
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keeping awn wawklng and Baying, I
noo the darn fool Wood say that, wy
duz a red faced idiot always insist awn
trying to make you feel as hot as he
looks.
And we kepp awn wawking and not
finding breezes, and pritty soon who
calm by but Mr. Wilson, being about
4 times as thin as Mr. Slmklns but
looking jest as hot, saying, Well, Potts,
is it warm enuff for you.
Yes, but not for you, sed pop. And
we kepp awn going, pop saying, Darn
it, hang it, sumtimes think Im the
only persin in the werld that got sents
enuff to keep his hed frum ratteling,
look, heer kums that fool W ilk ins
looking like an Ixplodlng fire crackir.
Which he was, and wen he calm up
to us he sed. Warm enuff for you,
Potts.
O, go hoam and mind the baby, sed
pop, kum awn, Benny, lets go. back
hoam, no wundir the breezes are,
afrayed to appeer awn the publick
streets with danjerls karacktirs like
.that roaming about. And we went
hoam agen, pop looking pritty hot by
the time Ve got thare, and who was
awn the frunt steps but ma, fanning
herself with a noozpapir and saying,
Good eevning, Wlllyum, is it warm
enuff for you.
Womun, let me pass, sed pop. And
Boon
I cood heer cold wattir splashing"
Daddy's Bedtime
The Monitor,
The Imp and
The Little Boy.
Chas.T. SlUUVAN
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
130-132 West Second Street
W. W. ROSCOE
CARROLL REECE
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