THE OMAHA HF.E. Follies of the Passing Show Not Like George Washington By Hanlon m;mr: 1TE CrtAP HO SAT HE. WW -most , STUDIO Teas- Tte. PELLOW NWDCLWS THAT HE TAKES A COLD BATH ESE- liE :: ! uw fw f m w m w Mm rutr it v mm ri 11 rih' aim iw & -ww " . u j ki UF DCTFJJ TSWHCH I WHO-SAV HAVE CXP&cH WHEW tVE KMOOS TW KXK W5 ' SUDWcr AfiOWD AA8 insists yw AW- THE FR57 AAAfJ WHO WB? Nailed to the Ground PItOF. FRANCIS CABOT CALE. I'h. D., U. Lit., slushed his way resignedly nlong the waterflooded gravel walk which led to his unpretentious bungalow. For the dozenth time ince leaving the ofllce of the registrar that eve niiiB he congratulated himself that he had asked the ltev. Dr. Sebastien Lodge out to spend the nl;;ht and th it the reverend doctor had re futed to come. "ft Is certainly no night to try to sell a man tuburban real estate," he said to himself, shift -Ins? the five pnund of tea and the 10 of lard, which he had purchased during a hurried noon hour, to his other nrm. ".'o, I would never persuade Sebastien to buy that bungalow tonight," he added conclu sively, cutthins himself in the nick of time to prevent a plunge headforemost in the ditch. His small hand.s clutched determlnably at his tea and lard. The January thaw which had fol lowed a zero spell of snow and ice had made walking a precarious pastime. Already it was threatening to inundate the whtfle of Garden Bloom, having so far unsettled three chicken houses, one carafe, and flooded three-fourths of the cellars of Garden Bloom's worried but dauntless dwellers. No, It was not a night for prospective buy ers of suburban real estate, Francis Cable, ac customed to looking facts in the face as a clas sical student and a natural horn fatalist, realized that everything was wrong from a selling stand point. Such a conjunctive combination of cir cumstances, he groaned, could happen to no one In the world but an unfortunate commuter whose star was not in the ascendant. In th first place, the train had taken 59 minutes to make the trip instead of the usual J? the time cards boasted. It had poked inter minably with that provoking disregard of pass ing time which every commuter knows never happens unless some city dwelling friend is sit ting in the same sent with that "I'm mighty Find I don't nuke this trip every night" expression Then, too, all of the light in the small sub urb wer out. The streets and walks and coun try were lmm rs d in Cimmerian gloom. Ac cording to th." aUiiiitmc this was a moonlight flight, and the general electric company of l'u It obey county w is pledged to fjrtmh no light en thee o. csi ns. That nature h id rhoaen to hide hrr neon behind Impenetrable clouds of M;iari blackness t n.liui'tedly no fviH of th ciectrla concern In riues'lon. I th.r.W i iU tli h. ne hAt:n th A rat thii.tf in tha mornsni and hv him pestpon hi Utt till IN w. k er t T'l weather Play he rbared tn bx than and ama of iha iater dried out ef the -elhr " It w n t o much tb? I'nto ia t'ahia cruel HfbiMiert f"r -. v dot tti inr riiot c-f eir't h n t tn h nihborln hunt 1 f.,r lu.fi1"'" ' f t an,. r.-hi. an t w, hs.V. 1'il-iCiin a t t ln-' men! H,M:M!'y :.!: t " K:nci. H.it ifi': tNI'! B' i'd ba fPylt gat for '" !' KfU'"! !! 'ht tinn.!.' X t r rnt f pj-.rt. n t fiaada.f tha niKar .! J. ai.-; h! l an m! iHj rat.-M1 . l'".'lt d lie.!n- f r p i' i I i.f fto ri a. 'i few h .! ! a t a lb' ' - t 4 ,f , b T ) ,ia I . . ' to S hn t " f i. J nal.x hf" t fff i ' T'a. tr 4 11 Tt" '' th, l; t It. I'll M ca-.t . t ,t da t-. -1 ..i b t uk 1 i'lt'.a a 1 t.., (!. i- 11. a .. .a'.-.ia ft f,l. t 1., .a hat.. i a'- f' It , ..a . . a t I T' f t 4i i. a a Inu la .' i I b-i 'f - a ' 4 ..iiB ..i h J li ! ' " Is ,,.! . t b,t ' a - a - t ' . 1 S t t,t ' ' t ! It , I id 1 1 '. . a f ; . ... -- t i-t a-- t i f 1- a . t t i t a , ....; IN. I t I !... V '-! ' I H I '' a4 ,mt r. k. .a sol ii . a ay t ' t "t .! 1 k a . i . a tiV ' 1 . 1 - He could assume that all these lights had been burning" as cheerily and as recklessly for everal hours. Lola's fear of the country was an emotion she never let die from lack of proper cultivation. She treasured the convic tion that like the ill-fated three hundred of Im mortal fame, robbers lay to the right of her. lay to the left of her. Nor could any number of concise homilies on the part of Francis to the effect that in most instances robbers choose their points of attack with a view to possible treasures they might obtain swerve her view point. His words fell on arid stretches of in nltention. "Francis Cable, you make me tired with jour foolishness," she would drawl. "Haven't I awakened up all alone in the night at home and seen a man cllmbln' right in the window?" It was conclusive, this fact, and brought out freshly each time served its purpose ex cellently. It stopped the flow of Francis" well ordered speech nnd established anew Lola's prerogative to be afraid. On reaching the house Francis Cable delib- rated whether he had better attempt jumping the pools of water, their actual depths unde termined, which lay in front of the house, or whether he should not try wading around to the rear. Jf it had been his mothnr's house back in Massachusetts there wtould not have been a minute's hesitation. The waters of the Atlantis would hardly have proved sufficient reason for coming in the front way on such a night as this nnd exposing the revered front parlor to such remnants of the elements cutside as Inevitably cling to shoes and overcoats and trouser legs. Hut the easily disturbed soul of no such Im maculate houst keeper surged in Lola. He might have climbed in the window and dragged in all of Garden lUoom in his wake for all that Lola would have been perturbed. Francis finally chose tha front entrance, leaping over first one pool and then another with an agility seldom brought into practice since college days. The porch M.Tht, w hich had been burning a hospitable welcome up to the moment h appeared and really needed it, chose to blink out suddenly In the midst of one rf his vault In midilr. After th!a It was with an utter disregard fur t oiiaenu. lice an I art aban donment to sheer luck that he mreened his un irrtiMn way to hl doorstep. Stamping about on the 1 on h v jih en igli to bring three I.oUa tn the d or if o in clined, lie !ic.ec,!e,l at ilrt tn removing hi wnii-r a. ikd overshoe 411. 1 ptuhtnt; open tro !'r A ni.ill irnn through wht h the liuiv o..m huh! hirrd revealed th fuet that tha d"or hd lo t elan been I itched V.t 11 ( ,.. !! t!nt I.o!i' fei ef tha l-.i g.t.ia and lh intmt'b'e rra l;h"eric th.lr gr;p on br auifl .! to permit h'r to a d or -tn- b ke-.l al-rr .1 if A reun.l!i.f er,ah n .;-.( -,jip a a ul hi(h tha ?.n. MM t f. taught up b'!l from tna be-.H t tavini '.V'. t. ) 1 t io -k tul iii'va gi.ne an I d .ee ftir di In ro-f tr ! ' 1,. U t'l' " I t"m lb (ft'Mug r-nTi: )b on la',1. rDii!v pn 1 a 1 ia it'i-a l'h h.ta tr at M fm an I ra I t --n b.. aihi h ! I hilt heat! t- ..v)l.f4t If !" .'.-, ..H tt t 1 I t.i It A !. h j il'in ti i.h' e ' f...'1! In hr fh a li -u. t , I l 1 a ! hf . ra.ig kI a T". a .,: I in br Una (lean isit ' i . . ' 4 ' I 'H 3.1 i, ,!.! u I i,, .., hjt rt ' t- h l I'.al 1 ( l. '. 1 ' t , at a 1 . h 1; a I 1 . , f ,' .,).., 11 lh.a . Nt r Mau a. .ui.t.r 11 I.e. : ia .i !.!! 1 1 it ,ut . iiiii.ti. U .a t ..r ia 4 1 .' - a . t Hl 1 ".. tt p.t 1' if t .-.h t . t t.llf (! li.t 1'... 1 !l t .. Me ! it 1 . ,1 It $ aaM'M ., I t . ha fa I a .1 lr a a ax- t a ,,. t r ..I IS 11 !. .1' 1 1 I 1 i- a . . k a t t it , i t , a - t - . I m a a . -.1 -.i 1 lit.'! tt t-. It i ,. tt .'i .iii at-- ' m oil'. I t 1 , i I I 14 1 ittat ' ' iS . and cold. Ttus samovar was his most cherished possession. The articles of a material nature which hy owned and cared for were pitifully few. Trevor had given the samovar to him that year in Constantinople, that unforgettable year. How far he had come since then! "Well, you see, the old door wouldn't close all day long," explained Lola easily. "Some thing's wrong with the lock, I reckon, and I was afraid Ellen would catch her death of cold if I didn't keep the wind out." She was stoop ing over picking up the shattered fagments. "Everything was wrong today," she went on, changing the subject. "The furance wouldn't draw at all smoked all day. Every time I came up Irom the cellar I looked as though I had been working in a mine." "I don't see the point of using my samovar as a barricade." reiterated Francis. Lola's face clouded'. "I took the first thing handy." Her soft, drawling voice sharpened a trifle. "I don't have time to sit down and think over each thing before I do it. 'With the mil lion and one things I have to do, I would be under the sod if I tried." A shrill wail from one of the twins changed her course. "Francis, don't you care nothing at all ahout your family any more? You haven't asked about the chil dren since you came in?" "Well, I have been a bit absorbed," Francis gate a gtim little laugh. He motioned to the package he had thrown on the rhalr. "Some staples I brought home for you. I got them at a sale." "I wonder If we'd manage to live at all If the sales should stop." There was a flicker of malice in her tone. Naturally she was extreme ly good natured. being both too amiable and too Indolent to indulge in tempers, but this last year there had been a difference. She had been growing edgy. She did not bear criticism easily, and she caught the unspoken reproof In the man'yvolee. "We would more than likely stop eating, don't yu'J think so?" The man flushed faintly under hi sallow skin. He looked up at her quickly. He won dered If she thought that he liked It. this ptni'hlnf which he bad to do at every corner, this frantic pursuit of sile, this constant weigh ing of a dollar, apending It in dozen way be fore be risked par'lng with It at all. Of court. he could not know that he hatefl It the mora bee !! It had alwat been don In hi f ither' family and hi fither befora hint. !ut h otilf i I quietly: "I'll own. It would b hard on 11 Salaa help to rnnke tb ltd maet and tha adgt hp." It w.t f. lid of well orn jhraaa "Not mui h .tppli- f tr 1 1 an e There 'tr three 1 d!eetr here toU'. n-l th" b.ibjr' he I tnotlur n all " ho be i IjIi hedged "U e't. they m.rrn'i all el vtiy 1 !. t r Th plomt er inni i te,iv hi Hi Vt bn t two fi 111 l.'i I en, l...r, - I that ci-al u fl? .o- a He oatht l hir bnn I l ar aril f.t . ' I gat It do- .i. r Tb'n li t 1 rat I H. ptf'ar an t ft is a14.it turn. .! O, ta-th rrpntr .imi, ml 4i-.tl It knuar if w wr. ill Ml t- i.t t . )r. i I - t I I ed .' loi. 1 .1 I to la niv Jttidr.tav H.t Ji H4t.nl a I ab'Ctt ti i t' a .l .) la 'M t'J -p th M rl tl att I 4!U!i" tht 101 t . ji t f h t.i t I t 1 -t r lie a' I l-r ih ir. I 1,. . to a . t I'. ha? I' bl ' 1 1 b.l' "f diln ' l'i 4t b t.4 I lt at h t r Vi t . ...af l III I'l l i. lilHil ie t i M I ob.l I . t " I M I ' k -' l.k-l i' H liHIC. w-.fcl !' )! -, I a ' ! i ' ' t "' I t.. a 11 tM )- Mr ' tt . 1 4 ai t t' it . f f I 1 ' ' 4 i 1 h -al . . t . :' . a t . t r ait t U ill 1 .'- I " i.l.o. d ii I t I ta . , 1 . , , " . 1 a a. i''. ' l ,t t.., 1 a .-l ' i'i -04 Mil ."i. . ... U il a 1 I at ' . ,t lt t .. . t i. 1 t,. 1 it I I' ' a' I 1 K a I'm alone here, the more I feel like giving up my job to some one else and starting straight home with the children." Francis Cable smiled. This was not the first time that Lola had made this threat. It was becoming a regular reaction which followed any kind of casual remark he might make. "I am sure I don't know of anyone who wishes your position, do you? he could not re frain from asking. The truth bacliof his ques tion struck him as amusing. Lola was the first girl who had ever wanted to marry him and the only one, as far as he had ever known. And that, too, was when he was younger and the edges of his trousers weren't frayed and his overcoat was not a spring weight which he was desperately trying to make answer January purposes. ' "O, I reckon some of your stenographers might not object to trying the Job, though I'll own they wouldn't stick long." "So, I suppose not," said Francis, the smile fading from his face. He was cold and hungry and beginning to be disagreeably conscious of his water soaked feet. "How soon will dinner be ready?" There were numerous tasks he should be turning his attention to. It was plain that the furnace needed some sort of radical treatment. Proba ably the entire chimney needed cleaning out. "Not for a long time," retorted Lola. "You're home earlier than usual tonight. This coming home at all' kinds of crazy times makes It aw fully hard for me. I never know what time to plan dinner for." She stopped. She Intended to suggest that the ceremony of eating might be accelerated if Francis would clear the tahle himself, but she found that her words were ills solving in thin air. Francis had vanished. She heard sounds of shoveling in the basement, and much poking. Little gusts of smoke hsd al ready commenced to rush out of the registers. Lola reached the door to the cellar In a re markably short time. "Francis, don't you know you're making that old furnace smoke something terrible? I thought you went downstair to top It." This last was intended a an excellent el ample of wifely sarcasm, but It fell on deaf ear. At least there wa no answer. Only the sound of redoubled poking and thovellng. She waited a minute, then slammed the dotlr and returned to her taak. The volume of tmnke which l ud from the register hid become noticeably Us. Le.! woiked faster now. flh began to w:h th:tt tha had trted upper trin etrller. of r.'iir. Franci hungry. h knew hoar he economised on lunrheon and ald"m per mitted hm.eif anything but tandntch nl rup ef I "Toor Franiia, h certainly dot hit a hard time t f I!." h l?hed l uMr 5 hurt of ifeiy . onr!'i.'ii trtn 1 r.bi o.g-r-d In kia Hvtof room bo g miugtt to e hi .ott couple of volume lf lrt m Ttrari' and life in Coitaitntlneple fr-m tba naii'v arf4iil r ef hork Put hi ?riiuM fill flung tt 11 d niy Maaotatil f t Irona real i,,or r il "4 "th"f !. " it e )U bit 4ki 1 .!! ' t If. ttt-'taa e..iM II III Itallot r-ilbr kat , t in h- mi. itt'"l Tin i n t t. alihS ta.t f -mJM th Wttttbt miu It lr?r g .l"g 1 1 ! t in II tf'lnoo) tka etmiag baia.ll It Bra wp la itiatJtd B Itxtpiaiing tan.! Iha at lo I "lt k il t a:.-.ti,..a in. 1 1 1. I ta-aj t wrilh, A . ! m niaii) tujKia't It A ...it if l e lt.M a4 tal ttaia ' I :a .t'. t Htt t bar?) ia Ka att.t, t aa:l H k'agalw I laaalia) i t tt t I I " ' kt hi a 11 t thai I a- .'! Ii' M "wttllt g - . ,a ail I I..-" " a .' - . t t .... ' elac I -v h t ' ko g f .,( I ...a 1 1 li .- "-fr-r.. ( , I ft li I Ireu.a 1 I a' ,,t jt i a I 1 . .'a if .m it tie aat S t ia . t raHaiia) nh ft k I , g t . .. 14 itia It il n 1 4-.g a - g t k - I 1 . t .1 1 n ... a I t something. The children would be better cared for and she would be happier. She had eaid to innumerable times. As far as he was con cerned, he would have a chance of making more money. Trevor was a lucky devil and he could follow in his wake. As he started up tho stairs leading to the attic he recalled that he had not even se-en baby Ellen. He hesitated. Her afternoon nap was lasting late. That memt that she would be up half the night. "Francis Cable, I'd surely like to have you come and help me with these dishes. You bet ter rome If you want any supper." Francis' mouth set in the determined lines only a small mouth can asume. "I am going up to the attic to read. I don't want anything to eat." "I reckon you'll come when it's ready?" she threw after him. He did not answer this. Only closed the door and went on up the stairs The attic was cold, but he did not notice it. He had forgotten that his feet were wet. After some" little trouble he managed to locate two smoky lamps and place them on an old rickety table near an even more dilapidated couch. He picked up tho first volume, "Days and Nights in Old Constantinople," nd commenced to read it at random, somewhere along the mid dle of the book, his feet propped high on the back of a discarded kitchen chair, a ragged pil low at his back. Francis Cable never knew at Just what pre cise point in his "Days and Nights In Old Con stantinople" that he suddenly came to the con viction that he was, to use a slang expression, "through." It was as if something In his brain had snapped anl another person, Infinitely removed from his steady, dependable self, had read the amaiing message his brain had flashed before him. "You are going to get eoif. You are going on that trip with Trevor. You will be better off: your family will be better off You can sell your little house and give the money to Lola .1 a tarter. She ran go home with the kids, and th money you earn in your research work will be more than you are making now and go a lot further." Francis Cablo ro&e from the d.lspldate.l couch on whli h he had ben It ing. It aa odd how, a h had Come up the stii a few hour hack. Turkey snd I'onnUnMnopla had seemed vary far aw-iy, a detached part of him that he could hot recall except Inadequately and with a grl effort. Now they tenied very near, an Intimate part The rloi-k tHIking IJ a ho pushed op. 11 tha door Into th living rmiii H lata a srt of mill urprta. ihetf ii Are u binning in th (int II dram out time eaid, lrnb'.g 1 1. mrr tha Br to te.il l' a htd il ItM neat -aighivl ea blinkad fblt. Tea t.ih.ny ti tha ! i fun Into I ' ti Me wi.ti.il t. h IW He r-it on hi ht tiij e-at Tha H" be airP.S'aJ t.t l.olv waa t h ti ai ttr t 0 -t i!t ttof M nieri, a-.lt bal kt htl l.n m!! ti l.n g.i.J Out b .il f la ban k t.iin-irrow K-tH .i ti II tititletl hit grrtntty to hm.etof . A ..tyi k ba k vt r't'. btl cb a'.iji i- tea ii bit h- i4 lb I 1 . 1 ' l i l..i. if I a .. I Tir UA t'l ft. ft! . d-II. i roia as I 4t4t.l and . A- ia uf nit k.i, I H t ' 1 I n -.a. a. It. l(t i..( .,f t, r..m I t'l t t whara bt cj. I t t At IAi" nn iit A J. 4ft ff I .f af-i. t kirn 11 Iht ft. a II 1. a. 1 t.. ..a f. .11 r ! ,f lk ha t Aoiii 4 e bit f n r, at An.AU't th.tl go ka !!. II til a k ftartJ IHa (. i.r aii-tH jail eg imI .-b tide !. A )4 a- ' ti1. .. t In 11 A M.f - 0 .i. l 1 :i'iii k I ..; li f . a ef A.i . tt . . . it, t lete I. a at ,f h. A-i-t k .i 1 .1 M ii.:ia Ilia a.t . r ,.. If Ik 4 M ..,a'i.g I.t 4- A at I-'!'.. ...A . a aata.at rf I rt a I .1. . It t.'4'-A-l at . lh-.l. il t Hi,i t-. f: i . t.j.i a l a A.M f ta.tit n t i .in, 1 4 t M t. ,.,,a t f I N i 't a.t .!- ' -.a . a m, n, She had not been gone long, he felt turt of that. If she had he would hava felt that rutt of wintry air at soon at he had comt down from the attic. It must be only a matter of minutes at the most that she had been out alone in the night. He saw the Jightt of a car coming toward him, a big, monstrous car, It teemed, at It plowed Its way through the mud ridden street, hurling ahead of it a volume of light He moved toward It In a sudden dealre to stop It and ask the people, whoever they might be, to help him hunt for Ellen. But he did not reach it. A tiny figure, a mite of a figure In white against the black of the night, toddling out from the curbing half a hundred feet away. It went slowly, hesitating In doubt which way to go. It gurgled and cooed and clapped Its hands with delight at Its freedom, its new unfettered liberty. Then, its little arms waving high, in friendly greeting of the oncoming car. it quickened Its steps, hurry ing on toward the bright lights as if they were the friendly lights of her own warm home. A scream escaped Francis. Inhuman, the cry of an animal. It broke from a parched throat which cracked under the strain of ar ticulation. "Ellen Ellen Ellen!" Then he was after her, running and stum blin;r for what seemed an eternity of time, his short legs covering unheard of distances. After that he knew no more except that he had e aught up with the wisp of white and was roll ing over and over with it in hit arme. Ht did not even feel the impact of the skidding car when it struck him grazlngly. When Francis Cable opened his eyes he saw Lola In front of him. She was throwing fresh wood in the fireplace. He saw her pal fact half turned away, her red brown hair piled high. He heard a familiar voice at hit tide, a voice he rould not quite place: "Well, old boy, how goes it? Mighty glad to see you back amongst us'." A colossal effort his head moved. He ta Trevor, hale, vigorous. He began to remembei iiiany thing. "tlah Ellen? Whert It the?" "Fine a a fiddle, Bern asleep these twe hou r'" I. ol 1 had come cloae. "I'oor Francis'. You sure did hate torr.t tumble'" Her cool hand reated soothingly on hit furt. He closed hit eyes littenlng to what tha was anylng. She Wiit telling turn how that wta Trevor car which htd com down tht road tnd how baby Elb n hid cpd from hr bed and gon to "flirt ppa ' Hut ht had taval her, of fouie, tnd htmlf. too. a miracl It teemed to them now. II. tie pen ..I Imiuirintf iy "What jou lining. Tr, in thi part of ihA e oint. j " ha kd f.unily- 't aln to aa you," A gllnned ' Wanted to t !! eu iht riawt Hnimbr t'atricla. the (id t want M a. hol Willi It only gtr af 1. tl't t.tf, bo it' Wall. I ran v r hr tjatt 1 . htn.t 1 A it ftr .oil tPar I lfl u. tn an. a l ficni lha rtA thrtt wotiht tail ft but aha ett.tal m l cam top l. urine tn. 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