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i Broadwau Jones From the Play of George M. Cohan B0 EDWARD MABSnAU to OffTrtg at, 1911, by & W. DUllnchMi Oompur SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER I Jack son J own, nk-knainad Broadway," becausa of hla conUnual aerification of New York's Tat thor urhlara, la anxious to rt away from hla honi fcTwn of Joneavllla. Abner Jonea, him uocla. la Tf ry angry becauaa Broad mY FafUaAfl lA t 1 1 a Anwn tab. r" i ium factory in wnicn D vii u una id ma rimer interest, CHAPTER Il-Judir BpoUword p forma Jroadway that t&O.mo Tft him by b'f father la at Ma dlapoaaL Broadwaf I.Vl!?'? h"adinf for Ms fay. me atrwt la Now York, . "Consider you my lawyer, Judge? Ol course yoq are my lawyer. Weren't you my father's lawyer?" j. "Not always; I did not draw his will, for Instance. And In other thing your uncle well, If jour father had tut listened, as 1 hope you'll listen, his brother Abner never would have t "Sure! I know. And you've already been roy lawyer. Didn't you get me out of Jail there In New Haven? Imag ne oetng locked up In New Haven 1 And I'd only dropped a melon from the window. If the chief of police hap pened to be gotng by, was that to? fault? I'd have eaten the melon If It hadn't been so spoiled. And still they locked me up! They made a criminal of met It's bad enough to be a crim inal, but to be a criminal imprisoned In New Haven heavens! Suppose a man should be locked up In Jones villa! Why, he'd die of shame." "Well, If you accept me as your law yer, when your uncle asks you to sell out your interest In the Jones Gum company you will refuse. When you do that, hell try to bind you not to ell out to the trust as long as you both live. I hope you'll never sell out to the trust, but dont sign any pa yor. Jackson, although you know what the trust purchase of the factory would mean to Jonesvllle and to all f as." ' Til not sell out to the trust, judge, but If my uncle " "He'll not offer you a fair price. Hell want to get a bargain. And remem ber that the company will get richer very year." "But the trust may bust tf Broadway Jonas. "I hope you'll take that chance, my boy, rather than ever be a party to ruining the old home town." "AH right, judge. I won't sell to Uncle Abner anyway, just now. I won't need the money. There's enough coming to me to keep me busy for a while." "Jackson, I wish you might feel dlf ferently about the starting of your life as a grown man. If you could culti vate a feeling of responsibility" "It bores me. I could never even apell It." "I'm afraid It does, Jackson, and that worries me. But " "You'll come to New York, some time, and and " "Jackson. I'm afraid I shall." "And keep it secret that we're either one of us from Jonesvllle." "Jackson." said the judge, reproving, ly, "you'd better get along toward home. And don't think too much about those lights. Broadway, like every other street, is safer in the daytime, before the lights are lit." "The lights are Broadway's eyes." said the young man. "Until they're lighted, Broadway is asleep, and you see only men and women on It." "ad what do vou see later?" "tou, can searca me Tor the name. But they're several degrees oeyond mere men and women." After he bad left the judge, Jackson found It quite Impossible to go sedate ly home, as he might pousibly have done on almost anv other niaht- lis flea went to bod In Jonaanliie, be aa- gdalned upon occasion, because be could not bear to stay awake there. He bald tt made him feel ash saved. Back of Whipple's drug store was the unofficial clubrootn of the gayer youth of Jonesvllle, who demanded something less sordid than the two grim saloons or the tavern barroom. Tt-lhe.drug store Broadway retreated. 1 Hefbund It more than usually ani mated. While he had been in the se clusion of Judge Spotewood's study one of the rare, dramatic episodes which Jonesvllle ever knew had come to pass being imported from the out er world, of course. A touring car had taken at too high a speed a "thank ye ma'am" provided by the town authorities for the purpose of re- (J s Judo Spotswood. Warding motorists who endeavored to scape from deputy sheriffs. The re sult had been that the car's occupants had left it without Intention, gone up ward, cleaving the night air to heights, and, coming down, had found them selves almost simultaneously In a mud hole and a deputy's custody. Having paid their fines for speeding and reacued their somewhat battered motor, they now were being bandaged. It waa characteristic of the general state of Jonesvllle's mind that the vis itors had first been fined; repairs for their bruised heads being looked at as a secondary matter. The unfortunates numbered two, and they had told the fining and exultant Judge of the peace that they were son and father, giving their names as O rover aad Robert Wallace. Robert Wallace waa of not much more than Jackson's age. The drug store crowd waa listening with huge delight to their subdued ex pressions of wrath. But with Broad way's entrance the younger of the vic tims recognised a member of his own indefinable fraternity. Within two min utes the young men were "old chap" to each other, which la a congenial sign. "How's your machine r asked Broad way. "Havent's looked it over very care fully." "If it's out of business. I'll get my runabout and tow you ten miles down the road. There's a good hotel there, and a repair man who knows his busi ness could help you out the first thing In the morning." No such service proved to be neces sary. In fact the stranger's car was in such unexpectedly good condition that Its owners Insisted upon taking Broadway with them to his gateway. They reached it simultaneously with Clara Spotswood and Josie Richards, who were now engaged in that inef ficient but delightful see-sawing which frequently occurs when a girl-friend takes a girl-friend home. Clara had walked home with Josie. Josie had walked part way home with Clara. Clara had gone part way back with ber. They had gradually come almost to a midway standstill in front of the Jones place. While the elder Wallace took ad vantage of the halt to make one more examination of the car, before plung ing off into the darkness of the sur rounding farming country, Jackson in troduced his new-made friend to the two girls, and they stood laughing in consequentially. The young city man was much impressed by the two pret ty country girls, and the two pretty country girls, especially Clara Spots wood, were delighted with the youth who had been brought so dramatically to their attention. They went along before the elder gentleman was satisfied that every thing was certainly all right, but at a distance which they felt sure made them invisible in the soft gloom of the summer night they paused, with many a suppressed giggle, to look back at the group, each member of which waa now and then shown sharply against the background of Cimmerian dark ness as he chanced to pass into the radius of one or the other of the car's hesdlights. "I think he's absolutely too hand some!" Clara whispered cautiously. "I've always thought so," Josie an swered. "Oh, silly! I mean young Mr. Wal lace. And Robert's such a sweet name! It's almost the same aa 'Robin' 'Robin' Adair, you know? How she must nave loved him!" "Robert or Robin?" Josie ssked. "Robin, of course. She sang the owe eooat htm. But Robert's just aa pretty, mnd it doesn't stake vou think of birds and worm." Josie burst Into partially stifled trt tara, aad her friend grasped her arm m gifxlln- wrath to fore her into a wild scamper down the duaky, fragrant vuiage street. When they had once more fallen to a walk. Joele remarked. unwittingly; Toefre very siOj. He half a good looking is Jackson."iuia you snow It Only we see Jackson every day, and" "O h h-h!" said Clara "I've suspect ed that for a long time!" "Suspected what? Keep quiet! were the contradictory remarks of her best friend. Then: "And I'm going to be so lonely after he has gone! I'd like to cry. I almost did. Think of all the girls he ll meet there In the city! Oh. I hate New York!" "You've never been there." "No. But I've heard about the girls there. Lots of them drink cock tails. And I hate that street he's al ways talking of Broadway!" Then, suddenly, and. to the amazement of her friend, who instantly waa filled, how wer, with a perfect understanding, Josie burst Into tears, and, with a quick "Good night." rushed toward her home. Before they carted the Htr vntith gave Broadway his card. rouve been very nice, old chap. Come to aee me when you atrlkn icw York." It's absolutely certain and I'm coming in a year." To his amatement, the events of this - extraordinary night had not yet ceased tor Broadway Jones. He walker! rlncn the street toward home, filled with longing for the year's end, and found 3ammy, Clara's small brother, asleep upon his doorstep. HI, Sammy!" he cried, shaking fat shoulder "Yes sir; I'm goin' to be like " the boy began before he was en tirely awake. know, like Rip Van Winkle. But ! he didn't take his nap upon a doorstep. ' Why aren't you at home, la bed?" J Sammy rubbed his eyes. With mad- ; dealng deliberation he informed Broad- way that the Judge had seat aim with instructions to find Broadway and tell him he wished to see him. "He said it didn't make no difference how late." "What! Aa near midnight as this? Child, It's almost ten o'clock I All Jonesvllle Is asleep." "He says for you to come. Tm go!n" Whereupon he went Jackson followed speedily. Such a summons from the Judge at such an hour must bode something cata clysmic. He found a worried Judge pacing np and down his office floor. "In the office, at this hour! Ton reaW ly want to aee me. Judge?" 'Tea." said the old man firmly. "I've determined that I will not be a party to deception." "Who's been deceived, Judge V "Jackson, your father'a will gives you hia fortune when you're tweaty one, not when you're twenty-two. Tour uncle wished to keep It from you. I do not think you ought to have it aow, but you're entitled to It" Broadway gased with a dropped Jaw. "Judge, I'm getting all mixed up. Yon 7 I get It when I'm twenty-one? Why, I'm twenty-one already!" "I know you are. I know you are. I never saw the document until today. It waa drawn up by Boston lawyers. And at first I thought I'd do exactly as your uncle asked let you think It was as he had said It was. But I've thought It over and It seems to roe you'd ought to know." Broadway merely stood and stared. "Your uncle thought that he was acting for the best." the Judge Insisted. "He's been hoping you would settle down. When you didn't, he thought he'd steal a year from you, and give you one more chance. When he told me this tonight. I told hfm that I didn't think It was Just right; and finally well, you know It all now." Broadway found the power of speech. "Good old Judge!" "Then you're not angry?" j "I'm too bsppy to be angry. Got a time table about you?" "Jackson, Jonesvllle waa named aft er your ancestors." "Well, I don't like to live In It. I know a chap named Bright. Very like ly Bright'a disease was named after 1 his ancestor, but I presume he doesu't want to die of it Judge, Jonesvllle is an ailment." i The Judge, infinitely relieved, now 1 that he had made a clean breast of the ' thing, leaned back In hla chair and i laughed, despite his worries for the young man s future. "Well, what are you going to do?" "When can I get that money?" "The trustees will have to nav it ad demand." Jackson laughed with rare delight "Uncle's one of tbem. How It will pain hia fingers when he bsnds it out to me! I'm going to demand! And I want to start tomorrow. I want to start tonight, but I am reasonable. I won't wake the old man ud. But while you go to get the money in the morn ing, I'll get set at the town line, wait ing for you to bring it to me. ready to get, anyway. 60 yards out of the town- snip within 60 seconds. How I wish I really could sprint!" "Broadway!" "I know, judge, but let mo tell you ' why I hate Jonesvllle and how. You knew my mother?" i "A splendid woman. Broadwav." "Everyone saya that: but vou I didat know her. And my father dlsd when 1 waa twelve." "A magnificent man, Broadway." "Yea. I guess he was the beat bet in the village." "Poor chap! He never was th lame after your mother's duih " Tbea Uncle Abner took nvs H couldn't absolutely boas me, for oertaia moneys bad been left with whioh an- clflc things were to be dona for m H had to have me educated at the schools and college which my father d as! rail ed?" "And he disapproved of them." "I know he did. A sheeDakin from Jonesvllle academy la hla idea of th evidence of the higher education for a j rfoues-aiopg with side detsllsa first ; aid to a stick of chewing turn. "He always wished to have you tske an Interest In the gum business." "I did. till another kid slipped me a stick one day. when I was absent mind ed, and I began to chew It. Thpn and there I made up my mind to devote my lire s endeavor to something which would not stick In your teeth. Judge eipotswooa, lobsters don't" "My boy. I wish vou never hail an j New York!" "No, you don't. Judge, you wish you were going with me when I start." "Are you going to stay away?" "Uncle says that In these days each man should have a specialty If he would be successful. I'm going to specialize on staying out of Jonesvllle. I'm hoping for success." "Have you no friends here whom you dislike to leave?" "You and the Judgess, Judge, and Clara, 111 miss Josie. too. And there are some down at the factory. Bill Hlgglns, I like him. He used to enter tain me when we went in swimming and he got the cramps. Awfully funny when he had the cramps, Bill was; i peevish but very funny. I ahall miss Bill. But Jonesvllle. as s whole, tudra ; wMvwasv! aq OTUUItJ, JUUgl I'm not going to miss Jonesvllle. ax rent tt mav . . ... that has been pulled for cause." The Judge sighed. "Well, I had to tell you," J " The -0..n, , . mt Mm wlfK . you get mad If I should kiss you?" "And you are really going, right away?" 'It's going to be the quickest get- away Connecticut ever heard of CHAPTER III. Almost aa speedily as he had told the Judge he would, Broadway pre pared to leave Jonesvllle. There was a stormy session when the old lawyer told Abner Jones that he bad made the revelation to the boy, but the old man's threats against him were quickly si lenced when the judge reminded him that what he had proposed to him was fraud and that an action for conspiracy might be brought against him. The car wheels sang to Broadway as he Journeyed west and aouthward. He gave cigars to the conductor, to the trainmen, to the engineer as soon as the train waited long enough for him to get to him. He bought all the newsboy's papers, novels, magaslnes and sent him through the cart to give them to the ladles. Then, on hla re turn, alight with smilea, he bought the last onnce of bis candy and told him to appropriate it to the nse of hla owa sweet-tooth. Arriving la New York a red-capped station-porter saw him from afar and recognised the strong financial candle power of hla expanding smile. Gal vanised Into extraordinary action he rushed toward him, calling to two friends to join him instantly and help him bear the two baga Broadway car ried. The traveler had to give the third negro his bat, so that he might aeem to earn his tip; but he did this gladly. The taxi-cabman flaw, scram ling from his box, at the mere Intona tion of the porters voices. "Where to, sir?" he Inquired. "Is this New York?" his fare asked, smiling gently In a way which made the chauffeur think he waa a wan derer, returned unto hla own, and wish ful of facetlouaneas. "You bet it is; just little old New York." "I thought so. It seems so familiar. Well, I want to go to Broadway." "What part of Broadway, sir?" (Ob- Mrs. Spotswood. serve that this Grand Central tait-cab-maa persistently said "sir." It was a ; tribute; Broadway knew it was a trlb ' ute and it warmed his heart.) "Oh. all of It." 1 "Take you to all of Broadway?" . Even the taxi-cabman was astonished. "I wsnt to look It over, for I'm going to buy it tf I like It as much as I al ways have." i The cabman eyed him shrewdly, de ' elded thst he was quite sane and sober, resolved to tie to him with a I tenacity which never could be shaken i StT. climbed to hla narrow im( hav aeatb its narrow hood and yanked io-wn the flag udou tb taximeter. "My name Is Oridley, sir," he volun teered. "You may fire wbou ready, Oridley," Broadway answered, and thea Ortdley pulled the lever. Before the day waa over Jackson t. v.. a k w. . . . . n. i-. . ..... w . car and a runabout. Grldley had tnrned in hts resignation to Jta com-. 'I a Jr4 ivJi'i '!M - ' S I f w 1 What The Jubilee Self Heating Iron Is The "Jirbtlo" Hri Mining Sutl Inm hU Uwlf. Ily a elni ple ami abohitoy iwvr. arrimfcoiiuint it Rennttes Its own gas frcii g.iHoUno which is coiKnliml in the. intlo t.uik attached to the burner. It 1 the no.ittwt, m-t compo. tuxl mrwt errWrfoiit elf. hating sml Iron ever produced. Because it heata Itw-lf U saves th wtmiicii nil the walking from the irondns board to ibo atave and buck. Ik not het the hoiino ftn4 ellnvlimutow the hard, dlsagrw able, nerve-racking ftitun of th rroTUn. You iiwty m-i et la.t a fair imprwwlon of what the people thnt use tho Jubilee ny nn) t!imk abmt the Jubilee SelMIenttag Snd Iron.. vangelit IloU. WhIton eaya: "My Ikr Wolverton: Vou are handling the best SetMleatiivR Iron on the market, la the Jubilee. We have carrll one in our trunk for ymrs, have uwd It hi 32 Ktates mir under all -vnr!tkm, nd have found tt practicable, wvfe and unbrealialile. The Jubilee several feat ure that no other Iron hna, particularly tho heat regulation. Our Iron gdyew four hours eteady hi for about 5 cents, making tt cheaper by far than electricity. Simerely yours, (Signed) EVANGELIST ROllEHT WHISTON." FRANK W. WOLVERTON, GENERAL Phone 120 Alliance, ASK YOUR GROCER ...FOR... Hemingford Roller Mills Flour NONE BETTER Every Sack Fully Guaranteed Patronize Home Industry M L. MILLER, Propr. Hemingford, pany aad been measured for five suite of livery, of ei pensive cloth, exclusive cat, ettraordlnary color. Having done this he had asked a girl to marry him, had been accepted, bad taken sixteen drlaaa aad gone to see her mother, bed thea been thrown out a jilted man and had returned to Broadway Jones, de termined to live single and attached to him forever. The episodes had so bered him and he was quite himself when Broadway asked him what apart ment he would recommend for living quarters. "Quiet placer he asked. "Not for our new employer," Broad way answered. "I want It to be on Joy street, between Happy boulevard and Don't Care alley. The noisier the better if the noise Is always laughter. I want It named The Smile and I want It. furnlnhed In bright red. Take me somewhere where they'll sell me a good butler fancy brand, no matter what the price. I want a butler who can go and buy a home for me a home that glitters snd Is glad. Throw on the hlxh-speed Hutch." Oridley took him. in bis brand-new car (which ran as smoothly and as noiselessly snd swiftly as a pickerel awlmsl, to an employment agency which he bad heard about, and there Broadway signed the lease for an ex traordinary person, principally named Rankin. He looked like a bishop, talked like a British lord, walked like a major-general, bowed like a diplo mat, never smiled, always said "Yes, sir," and "thank you, air," whenever there was room for these Impressive words, was ready to be measured for aa many suits of livery aa had been ordered for the chauffeur and assured hla new employer that it would give him pleasure both to find and furnish sn apartment for him. "When will you have It ready for mer "Tomorrow morning, alr.H "Then you know what apartment you are going to take?" "Not yet, sir. Breakfast at. say, ten, slrr "Rankin, you will do. Make it elev en. KtigLge a cook and second nisn." "I hsve already telephoned for tbem, sir." "I have raised your wages. lUnkiu, for long and faithful service. Let me see you've been with me forty min utes. See to it that you do as well la future." "I shall, sir; and I hope you'll do the same, sir." "Find Mr. Robert Wallace In the tel. ephone book. Ilea la the advertlainc business." A moment later Rankin turned back from the little table at the side of the large parlor which supplied headquar ters for the ex-Jonesvllllan for the time being. "I have him oa tho wire, air." Til talk to blm. Broadway took the telephone re edver from his butler's bsnd and cried Into the mouthpiece: "Hello I It that you. Robert Wallace? . , . Well, this la Jackson Jones. . . . Tea; the. same you met la Joaesvllto whan AGENT Nebr. Phone 514 Nebraska tney pincnea you, tbaFHcUess night when you were driving at four miles aa hour. . , . No; I've come down to stay. I'm aaking you to dine with me tomorrow evening. . . . Can you corns? . . . Good. Ill telephone again, or have tay butler telephone, and let you know just where. . . . All right Fine! . . . Ooodby." Robert Wallace was his guide, hi mentor and hla friend for some four weeks. After that he waa hia friend and mentor, bnt resigned aa guide, for Broadway took the reins. He had a passloa and a genius for Investigating metropolitan affairs of lightsome na ture. The business msrts of Gotham were offensive to him. He thought it silly for mankind to waste Its time In work and said so. The teeming fas cination of the far sides of the town, so dear to sociologists who love hu man uature best after It has sweated or suffered off Its varnish, found no devotee In him; he could not under stand why entire families should live In huddled rooms on E3sex street when l here were large apartmenta vacant In the great hotel flat house next door to the vast mansion Inhabited by Mrs. Jack Gerard on Seventy-seccnd street. Mrs. Jack Gersrd was an old lady of incredible wealth, who tried to hold Time's hand in pause. That she had failed had been no fault of hers or of the beauty parlors or cosmetic makers. "They would be so much more com fortable if they would go where they would have more room," Jackson con tinued, in further com meat on the very poor, snd would not listen to the ear nest soul which tried to offer explana tions. A year, passed. Broadway carried, three bank accounts, two of tbem not very large and seldom checked upon. The third was in New York's all-night bank. He kept busy. '1 feel as If 1 ought to see the sun rise often," he explained. "Sunrises are so beauti ful." ' He seldom beard from Jooeevllle la these days. Judge Spotswood some times wrote to him, his unci never. For a time he had endeavored to keep up a correspondence wtth the girls, but this had languished through hie own exceeding occupation at more pressing mat ten and Josie Richards' sorrowful conviction, that he did pot teir ner. In nts brief, fntreqiieat lit ters, about all the girls whom he was meeting la New York. His first snoca came when the All fight bank wrote htm a letter, aaking ala to call and talk of hia account, and, this did not occur until four years' had vanished In the haxe of Broad way's rights. It made him .sit straight ta hla chair and blink aa a cold dash, from a se riser bottle sometimes had . when he had needed It Rankin, eat lering, ssked aim If he had a pal a. . "Tou bet-1 have," said he. "Aad fm afraid If serious." "Shall I call a doctor, tirr ."No call a banker." I To be Continued) Cut Prices oa Wax Phonograph Records, GEO. D. DARLINQ. aov20-tf M7T