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f I, THE KING fc By WAY LAND WELLS WILLIAMS. (Copyright, 1*24.) I ~ — - - . (Continued from Yesterday.) And Kit himself, with his baseball and his News editorship, was arriv ing in a much larger way. It became perfectly clear that he was “going" Keys. He was surprised to learn it, but was scornfully Informed by the class authorities that the thing had been certain since the first term of freshman year. Best of all, Jack was not going to mind; he said as much, llrst in oblique terms, then in direct ones. The days sped along in antici pation, contentment and triviality, through the football season, the Christmas holidays, the Prom. It was good to be alive. And then in mid-March, with para lyzing suddenness, the terrific thing happened. lie had been home over a week-end, and on Sunday night left his mother with a rather nasty cold. On Tuesday came a brief note from her, saying that she had gone to bed; the next day came one from Aunt Km my, saying that pneumonia had developed, and not to be alarmed. But on ttie Thursday evening he wm wired for, and on the Sunday his mother died. It was unbelievably cruel and un necessary. She was only fifty-one, a joy to all who knew her and an adorable mother. But almost from the first he summoned Ills powers to fight his grief and loneliness. His mother, he told himself, had lost noth ing. It Was right that he should miss her but there must be no screaming to’ heaven. Jack helped enormously; his hand on Kit's shoulder gave rea ct, roughly speaking, eighty tnousa.m —Day by Day— | ____J ' By O. O. M'lNTVRE. New York, Oct. 21.—There is in New York a social clan known as tho “Bong Island set." They are the veranda boys and the athletic girls. The men have ambitions to be master of hounds and expert cross country riders. They also go in for polo. The women are tanned and mascu line appearing. The older men are the horsey Scotch whisky types, with beefy Jowls, beady eyes, and given to cologne. Most of the younger fel lows hold mediocre banking Jobs down town that do not interfere with their pleasures. It 19 a WOWU L uai - They can stand It better because of their outdoor life. The older women are the Imperious types who have at some time or other secured week end Paris divorces and prefer the com pany of young men with crinkling brown hair and white flannels. There have been several nasty scan dal shootings among them. The girls are the kind from whom the men can borrow cigarets and who substitute the highball for afternoon tea. All ,,f them are silk stockinged aristo crats living hard and dangerously. Many of the young men are social plckthanks who on account of their good looks are accepted. They play polo on borrowed mounts and flatter the older women. In this fashion they arc able to flit from Narragansett to IJel Monte. All of them provide salacious ma terial for the gossip weeklies and seem to enjoy it. »At the dazzling oceanside cafes they are flawless dancers. Youths who sh^ld be seek ing a career become the thin, whippy types with tightly waxed mustaches. The week ends are hectio. The festivities begin on Friday evening with a lot of cocktails and then away in roadsters to make the rounds of other summer porches. Some of them never think of sleeping until early Sunday morning. A strange mood now and then domi nates the Bowery. There will he a day when the Bowery remains In doors. The street seems to be sulk ing. Not even the children come out. It may ho a sunshiny day, but when the Bowery’ is in a inood nothing tempts it. Kven shopkeepers are sullen when trade comes. It wants to eb left alone with its sorrow. One of the amazing things about the Bowery is the way children defy death in the streets. They rare in front of street cars, trucks and auto mobiles after tails with no fear what ever and their parents look on as though unmindful of the fate that may be theirs. Of course the street is tho only place they have to play. I.ong experience has made them agile and while they take greater hazards there are fewer street accidents there than in other sections. A magazine editor who hnd an apartment In town moved to Green wich for the summer, taking his servants, a man and wife, who acted as butler and cook. Two weeks after ward he was forced to discharge the servants. He returned to his city apartment the other day for some wearing apparel and found the serv ants had been living there for two months, and, not only that, they had been entertaining some friends. My obeisance toward servants is greater than theirs toward employ ers. I always want to shake hands w'th a butler and if I bad found r'.hetn occupying my apartment, no Blatter how angry It had made me. f think I would have invited them hr atay awhile longer. (Copyright, !»!(.; Into Keys along with Dick Hoffington and Jen Cobb and other congenial people. He became the first string third baseman on the ’varsity nine. The spring flew by In a golden haze, with the figure of his mother growing steadily dimmer, though no less dear, in file background, lie made plans for his summer; he was going wes; with Jack, to inspect the Pacific coast from San Diego to Vancouver, lie would think heavily the while, and make up his mind. And the summer passed in golden sunshine and white mountains, while still the flame burned idle, untended. lie shrank from speaking of it to Jack: he envisaged Jack's intellectual superiority as a last resource, a thing to be approached only with a work ing hypothesis in mind. A man must evolve for himself the basic principle of his life. Dn one thing- he was adamant; he woufd not go into anything with the mere idea of keeping himself busy, or of making money. Here was a unique opportunity:—a human ma chine without encumbrances, either of circumstance or construction. Not to put it to Its best use would be sacrilege. It was possible—there were as many uses in the world as there were people. But this gave him no light. There was no absence of attractive pros pects; newspaper work, teaching am) archeology were now the chief ones. ProhRbly he could succeed, in a. rea sonable measure, in any of them. That was just the trouble; jack-of-all trades, master of none. He wished fervently that he had been given the specialized type of mind. He came back across the conti nent alone, preceding Jack by n few weeks. On the train he thought a groat deal, and one day in the amok Ing car his thoughts overflowed into speech. The recipient was a gray-j mustached elderly gentleman with whom formed an acquaintance of the enmrnon traveling type. He adopted the time-honored device of putting his own case as that of "a friend.” He briefly sketched his own situation and character, and asked what the prob able solution of that man's life would be. "Eighty thousand a year,” the el derly gentleman repeated, looking iskanee at his cigar. "That's rough ly two million.—I should say a villa at some place like Cannes for half the year, and the rest distributed between London, Paris and the Union Club." Kit eyed him sidewise. “You don't understand, quite. Tills fellow's gel —well’ he's got what you might call ideals. He's Interested In a lot of things—" “Add a collection of Whistler etch ings." broke In the E. G. "Or Shera ton furniture, or Egyptian mummies. Of course, If he's the hookworm type, you can make those the chief Items. Rut if he's at all festive In character, he villa at Cannes about hits it.” "He's festive, to a certain extent, yes. Rut I don't think he cares much for—the delights of the flesh.” "Has he tried them yet?” Inquired the E. G., and Kit shut up. V. Tie (Till not think or It all the time ami the thought of it. by no means ypnileij his pleasure in life. But it gut so that he could not think of it long without feeling bewildered, and he hated to confess that. He also feared that college, with its preoccu pation over the immediate, was not going to help hint much. On the very first Sunday of the term he wandered off for a walk after lunch, alone. Jack had been delated In returning, and would not be back till the morrow. Kit walked vaguely westward, bored, seeking the unfa miliar, into a dingy' but not squalid region of little old wooden houses and larger new brick affairs, cheaply built. The street was intermittently shaded by elm trees, whose desiccated leaves made brown erackly litters on the pavement. He heard a sound of singing, and presently came to a small wooden church. The door was open to the street, and Kit stopped to look in The backs of the congregation were turned toward him. and the interior of the church was bathed In half gloom, but he could see that they were all negroes. The hymn, which had been ringing In his ears for Mocks held him: a simple, jerky tune, strictly diatonic. The naive words of the refrain he came, after several repetitions, per fectly distinguishable: Oh, there is no power like Thine, Man's Earthly dross (o refine; oli, there is no power. There Is no love, There is no mercy like Thine. As he stood listening a black-coated larky, evidently the sexton or some thing, appeared in the vestibule, mop ping his brow'. "Come in, come right in, sah,” he said graciously. "T>e Bawd is in tils holy temple. Bet de whole uth stand In awe of Him." "Thank you," said Kit. "I Just Ain’t It a Grand and Glorious Feeling By Brings after VouVe inrer-iviEwto a P07.EN AND HIKED Two OR ThREE MAIDS (to ARRIVE AT fllFFEKCM^ ■'iMei amd moms of Then\ ever inow DP 1 AND FINAUY You INTERVIEW/ OWE VJHO FAITHFULLY PROMI JtS Tb C0W16 NEXT DRY AT NINE AND You'Re sure Sue means it as She looks Mi€MetvC VASi Thani^ Th EIRE ST 1 Teh o'clock arrives amd «TtLt- mo maid amd Your. FAITH im HUMAKl nature is l cnTirelY gomit aS % m< m ■/ ?«■».- > f<r _ "AND TnerJ-OfUST A!. YoO ARe LEAVING ThC HoiJiE To <So Tt> A LONCHEonJ - ABIE THE AGENT Drawn for The Omaha Bee by Hershfield Up fan Sep Mipad. % t - V if DIDN'T I RETuHN '' ! 'TVHE PlPTY &OUAf& f To THE SSCqmJj PROMISED ■* ■ I h stopped a minute to hear the singing. 1 must he getting on.” ”De blessing of Gawd Almighty go with you," said the other. Then, feeling that the time and place, as well as his official position, demanded further reference to Holy Writ, he added: ' Every valley shall be exalted. salt; de crooked shall be made straight, and de rough places plain." Kit shuffled on through tho dead leaves and the heavy air, on which the song still floated like oil on stag nant water. It was all true. There was no mercy like His. The crooked straight, and the rough places plain; —eternal comfort, eternal hope. But where did that take him? Oh. bet ter far tq shut one's eyes, like those black people In there, and believe one was seeing than to wander with a hawk's gaze through Impenetrable darkness! The crooked straight. But how, O Lord, how? If one could only have a long talk al>out things with Jesus Christ—or Socrates or Marcus A tire lius or Abraham Lincoln, for that matter. There was something wrong with religion. You asked for guid ance, and it. with copious protesta tions of infallibility, fed you a Trinity. Well, there was Jack. lie would j confess failure and go to Jack, lie would riposte with pleasantries mi the trials of extreme wealth, in his puppy like way; but press him far enough and he would respond. Yes. there was still Jack. (T-i He Continued Tomorrow.) Tile Dumb belle. Traveler—Oh. this heat Is nothins rrujeh. In India I've known the tem- ; perature (o be over a hundred at mid night. The Girl—Really? How dreadffrt: Now would that be in the shade?— Itoston Transcript. _ THE NEBBS JUST A SELF-MADE GUY. Directed for The Omaha Bee by Sol Hess /ill WAIT rOR THAT NESS^\ / gut to ComC out \r vt HeaaEB TAklES ALL OAT AND NiGWT __ yfflm \ TRIED TO SEE MINI NESTEROAT JP| I AND AGAvnj TODAT But ML SENT WOR.D TMAT UE WAS "IN W<& - CONFERENCE“ • „ ~J \\ajhln a GUN GETS V V^sTN? 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