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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1923)
Rough-Hewn Dorothy Canfield \ (Continued from Tnterdajr.) KYNOFMS. Neale Crittenden. typical American young man. hit* grown up in Vniontown. a vifiuge near New York city, lias been grndiittfetl from (Columbia university and Ims taken a position with a lumber firm. At college lie fell in love with Martha Went worth, who declined his proposal to wed. Martha In spending a year In tier many with her father. Neale accepts hin disappointment philosophically and bends Ids efforts toward success in busi ness. In France. Marine Allen, about Neale’s age, lives with her American father, who in foreign agent for an Amer ican firm. She in an accomplished lln oiiist and pianist. Marise and her father visit Paris, where Marine meets an Amer ican girl. Hugenia Millc. from Arkansas. They go together to M. Vandoycr, JKu genia’n instructor in French. A rather stormy scene takes place when F.ugenla expresses dissatisfaction with the Instruc tino she is receiving, and M. Vandoycr tells her he will find another instructor for her. Marine’s piano teacher. Mine, de la Cuevtt. urges her to spend a year studiing in Itome with an old music mas ter. Neale is In Italy on a bus loess and pleasure trill and plans to sail fdr Amer ica soon. In Homan roof garden he sees a beautiful elrl who is destined to play on important role in his later life. Tliev have not vet become acquainted. rlic girl utters a scream when she see* a eat catch a swallow._ ^ Th© two men at the window looked at the girl, shrugged their shoulders again and went back coolly to their work. The comedy was finished. What could any on© do about it? Most evidently nothing. The man lifted his broom to sweep. The boy stooped to take up his water pitcher. The girl took her hands from her face, and turned away from the win dow. Neale had expected to see her look agitated and excited; but her pale face was set in an expression of unsurprised endurance. It was evi dent that'she too perceived that there was nothing to do about it. ‘ Well, there was something to do about it!" thought Neale wildly, feel ing a fury of resentment at the two men. He’d show them! Ho sprang past the girl with a great bound to the window and saw that, as he thought, a slope of tiled roof tiles so rough that it would be quite easy to keep his footing on It, although th« drop to the court be low would l>e dizzying if he stopped to look at it. But he did not stop to look at that, or anything but th© rat, slinking slowly off across th© roof be yond, the swallow in her mouth. He took one long step out over the + low window-sill and stood on the dranM On the Screen Today. Sun—"A Tailor Made Man.” Moon—"The Four Horsemen.” World—“Success." ‘Strand—"The Woman With Four Faces.” Rialto—"Enemies of Women.” Muse—"The Lesson.” Victoria—"Woman, Wake Up.” Grand—"The Grub Stake.” Last Laat ^ Day I Day ||p “A Tailor-Made Man” #1 TOMORROW MILTON SILLS J “Legally Dead” j| Also Showing CHARLIE CHAPLIN _ VAUDEVILLE—PHOTOPLAYS STARTING TODAY First Semi-Annual Road Show Featuring “ The Slave of Fashion ” FRANCIS RENAULT * -—~ — ; - The Beautiful Betty in Four Marvelous Characterizations BETTY COMPSON —and— RICHARD DIX —IN— “The Woman With Four Faces" I KRUG PARK Just for Fun FREE ATTRACTION | Diving Horses Every Night at 10 P. M. - I lz: ^ RODOLPH VALENTINO in “The Four Horsemen” I NEIGHBORHOOD THEATERS GRAND ..... 18th and Blnnsy NEI.L SHIPMAN in "THE GRUB STAKE" VICTORIA.24th and Tort "Coolest In Omnho" FIjORFNCE VIDOR la "WOMAN, WAKE UP” tiles. He heard the girl behind him give a cry, and it sped him forward. He ran along the narrow slope of tiles, one hand on the wall to steady himself till he could, with a leap, reach the roof where the cat was making off towards the ridgepole with her prey. Here it was easier, a wide stretch of tiles over which he could really run. The cat heard him. saw him, paused an instant, dazed by the sud denne«s of his appearance, turned her head and flattened herself for a l^ap forward. But his leap was quicker than hers. He reached her, and pounced on her with a swoop that was part of the forward rhythm of his running, pounced, seized her firmly, and forced open her jaws. The Swallow dropped out on the tiles, wet and ruffled, its eyes closed, its poor, slim, gleagiing head bent limply to one side as if its neck were broken. Neale stooped and picked It up, stroking it pityingly and smoothing its pretty, rumpled plumes. He had been too late after all. But as it lay in his hand it seemed to him he felt its delicate body stir. Perhaps it was only half dead with fright. Did it move a little or had he imagined it? He opened his fingers and the bird burst out of his hand with a loud beating flutter nnd soared up into the air. Neale threw back his head to watch it, moved almost to a shout of exultation as the twittering flock swooped past his head. What he did was to tuck the pro testing cat under his arm and make his way back with considerably more caution than he had gone up. With a short, quickly-taken breath of relief, he stepped over the win dow-sill back into the corridor. The men and the girl who had been lean ing tensely out, watching him, stepped back respectfully to give him room. Before he could turn to the girl, the servant had snatched the cat from under his arm, and with a fine air of virtuous Indignation was cuff ing her savagely over the head, pour ing out on her a loud, liighly-articu late flood of vituperation. The boy lifted his hand to Join in thte game, crying out, "Bestta del diavolo.” “ani maluzzo dannato!” and the like. “Oh, good lord!” thouglyt Neale Impatiently. "Isn’t that just like them! Hey, stop that!” he cried aloud, and as the man paid no atten tion to this he seized him somewhat roughly by the shoulder in a grip that paralyzed the arm. He caught the cat as she fell and held her up over his head. He was so tall, so long-armed, that she now dangled high in the air, quite out of reach, yowling at the top of her voice, a ridiculous scene altogether! He tried sternly So explain his feel ings and issue his commands, but as was to be expected his Italian gave way under the strain: "Troppo Jn ritardo punlre il gatto . . . it's too late to jump on the cat now, you poor chump; she wouldn't have any idea what it’s for. Gotto non capisce . . . it's not her fault anyhow. She doesn't know any better. Take her down cellar, dans la cave; she's all right catching rats. That's what she's for! And look here," ho stopped his pitiful attempt at Italian and ended fiercely, trusting to a grim eyo and a set jaw to make his mean ing plain, "Don't you try any funny business on the cat when I'm not around, or I'll knock your heads to gether till you can't see.” He heard the girl speak to the men in an Italian that was so rapid it made him dizzy and at the * end caught the phrase, "do you under stand?” The men nodded, by no means pleased at the rebuff, the boy motioned Neale to give him the cat, and carried her off carefully down the corridor. “That was the very most splendid thing for you to do," the girl said to him, with a soft energy of accent. He whirled about towards he£, the Immensity of his relief flooding his face. "Oh, you do speak English! You're not Italian!" he cried, the in tonation of his phrase seeming to In dicate that she had lifted from his mind an apprehension of infinitely long standing. "Oh, yes.” she said smiling and looking directly at hint, "of course 1 speak English. I'm an American girl. My name is Marise Allen.” Neale was so affected by the sweet ness of her smile on him, by the softness of her shining dark eyes, that he felt himself blushing and stammering like a little boy. “M-mine is Neale Crittenden," he answered. CHAPTER XLI1I The dream like Arabian Night un expectedness which had descended on Neale the evening before, on the roof, continued shlmmeringly to wrap everything in improbability. In stead of receiving hjs unfamiliar name with the vague, conventional smile of a new acquaintance, the girl raised her eyebrows high in a long, delicate arch and cried out, “You are! Really! The one who has in herited Crittenden's?" Seeing Neale a look of almost appalled amazement, she broke Into a sudden laugh. Neale had never heard any one laugh like that, almost like some one singing, so clear and purely produced was its little trill. And yet It had been as sudden and spontaneous as a gush of water from a spring. "I don’t wonder you look astonish ed," Rhe told him. ''But you see when I was a little girl I used often to play In and out of old Mr. Critten den's house and mill. I've never seen anything since in all my life that seemed as wonderful and mighty to me as the way the saw used to gnash its teeth at the great logs and slowly, shrieklngly tear them apart Into boards. Didn't you URe to love the moss on the old water-wheel, too?” “I never saw the mill or the house,” he told her. "I never saw my great uncle but once or twice In my life." He was too amazed to do anything but answer her literally and baldly. “Why, how in the world . . . ?” she began to ask, and then as a hell from one of the Innumerable church belfries outside began clangorously to strike the hour, she glanced at her wrist-watch, and shook her head. "It's breakfast time.” she said. She nodded, smiled and turned away, step ping down the corridor Vith a light, supple gait. Neale had never seen any one walk like that, as though every step were In time to music. He went back to his room to wash his hands and brush ins clothe*, which showed signs of contact with dusty Itomsn walls mid roofs. When, 10 minutes Inter, he went into the dining room, five or six people were already at table, IJvingstone among them. Miss Oldham, the head of the pension, introduced the newcomer to the others, mentioning nanjes on both sides. To Neale s surprise, Miss Allen did not explain (as he had opened his mouth to do) that she had already seen and talked to Mr. Crit tenden that morning. Instead, Rlie now gave him the conventional smile lie had expected 10 minutes befoic, aocepted the introduction as though she had never seen his face and went on drinking her cafe-au-lait. More Arabian Nights, What did ths mean? Neale swallowed the ref erence he had begun to their earlier meeting. Miss Oldham said to him with (he wearily playful accent of the conscientious pension-keeper, fos tering rheerful talk around her table, "I understand, Mr. Crittenden, that you and Miss Allen are In a way re lated, as I might say." Livingstone joined in with his usual sprightliness: "Yes, Crittenden, why didn't you tell me you had a fellow townswoman in Home? I,ast evening when I went back into the salon and told the assembled company about you and your inheritance there was Mademoiselle Allaine, who had often, in her remote childhood, climbed on tho respected knee* of Monsieur your great-uncle.” Miss Allen smiled quietly over her cup, remarked that it would have taken a bolder cfrild than she had ever been to climb on the knees of old Mr. trlttenden, and, looking at her watch, rose to go. "Mueie, divine music?" inquired Livingstone. "Yes, divine music," she answered lightly. "We are getting ready to play at a soiree at Donna Antonia Plerleonl’s. I'm due there at 9:30 to try out the piano in a new position in the room." "Clear out there by 9:30!" cried Livingstone, as if exhausted by the Idea. She did not seem to consider that this required any answer, made a giareful inclination of the head to the company at table and went off. Ntaie was repeating to himself, in mortal terror of forgetting it, "Pier ieoni. Plerleoni." He drank his coffee and ate his roll as though he had a train to catch, and, rushing back to his room, seized hi* hat and made off to the nearest cafe to consult the directory. With a sigh of relief he found that there was only one Pier leoni, and that the address was in deed as Livingstone had said, far away in the rich, new, fashionable quarter. He set off on foot, but be fore he had walked five minute* he was overcome with panic lest lie be late, and hailed a rickety cab. Think ing of nothing but the precious ad dtess which he had committed to memory, he shouted It out to the cabman. Halfway there, he suddenly remembered that he had no possible business at that address. He had a herrid vision of driving up to the door, having the portiere ask him his errand, perhaps of having Miss Allen look out of the window and ace the scene. (Continued In The Mnrnlns Bee.) Omaha Be* Want Ad* satisfy wants. Adele Garrison “My Husband’s Love” The Request Offtrer Farrell Made of Madge. I was so startled by finding a fram ed photograph of Mrs. Petey Marks, my queer New York apartment neigh bor, on the wall of the cottage across the road, that I made an Hivoluntary movement toward It. What connection there possibly could be between this alien farmer’s humble, squalid home, with its primi tive old-world customs, and the bi zarre, sophisticated Mrs. Marks, with the argot of the cabarets on her lips, I had no idea. Hut that there was a connection, something else besides the photograph told me. I remembered the fleeting likeness in Mamie's face to someone I had seen which had troubled me. I saw now that though the faces were of distinctly differing types, yet there was a resemblance between the girl and my old neighbor. A sober second thought made me regret my start at the sight of the photograph. There was no need tc let the family know of my discovery —indeed, my intuition warned me against the revelation—but as I turn ed my eyes away from the photo graph, I saw both Mamie and her mother looking at me curiously. "You know hqf, yah?” the mothei asked. "I thought I did," I returned men daciously, "when I first saw the pic ture. But I see now, 1 was mistaken." “She l/oolis JJke You." I told myself that I was telling no falsehood, for who could hope to know the queer personality behind the name my odd neighbor had given me? But it gave^me a queer, humiliating feeling to find the eyes of the federal officer. Farrell, fixed on me with a keen glint of comprehension In them. In a nervous attempt to appear cas ual. I made a hasty comment to Ma mie. "She looks llks you.” The girl simpered with pleasure, Evidently I had paid her what to her was a high compliment. Then she gave a little envious sigh. "I wish I did," she said, and her mother called out sharply: "Dot no good, you say dot." Mamie shrugged her shoulders and set down the lamp. "My mother's afraid I’ll want to go to the city and dress like my aunt,” she explained, and the older woman whose strained face had been follow ing every syllable, called out again: "No all aunt, shoost half aunt.” Mamie giggled apologetically. A Warning and Fromise. "She means that she's only my father's half sister,” she explained. 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"Much better not to bother your head about her,” I said, realizing the futility of advice, even as I spoke. "And now, please pay attention to me. I want you to tell your mother exact ly what I say.” "Alt right," and then I repeated the federal officer'* warning, adding an assurance that if the woman would stay quietly at, home, I would see that aha had food for her family. The promise was no rash one. I knew that Katie and our own larder could be depended on until I could get in touch with the proper charita ble authorities, in rase her husband should be kept in the jail. She gave the required promise, and after instructing Mamie to call upon us If she needed our aid, I returned to the kitchen and prepared to go^ back home. But the officer stopped" me. "Go back in there and shut the door,” he said to Mamie, not unkind ly, but firmly, and when she obeyed, he turned to me. "We can't overlook any beta In this business," he said apologetically. 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