| BURGESS BEDTIME STORIES v-By THORNTON W. BURGESS_/ nanny and Nanny Become Homesick. Of course Danny Meadow Mouse told Nanny of having aeen Hummer the Hummingbird, and how Hummer said that many of the birds were al ready on their way back north or were getting ready to go. Because they had known no real winter weather down there In the Sunny South Danny and Nanny had almost ' .— - - ■ 1 T ■ forgotten that there wen such tliing as seasons of the year, Rut Hum mer'i statement that Sweet Mistress Spring was already on her way North set them to thinking. Danny noticed what he hadn't no tired before, and Hits was that there were now many more flowers tInin he had seen at any time since they had come down to the Sunny South. He noticed, too. that such of the lit tle people of the Sunny South as he *.tw were buty with household af fans. All that he Mtv lie told Nan ny. for they talked over everythin* together. So It was that gradually they became homesick. 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They lenvmbered how always they had looked for the coming of sweet Mistress Spring and the re turn of all their frathered friends. They remembered with what joy they had discovered the first green grass each year. They remembered with what a thrill they had heard the vohe* of the first Spring I’eeper com ing from the Smiling Pool. The more they thought about these things the more homesick they grew, and the more homesick they grew the more they thought about these things. "I want to go home!” sobbed Nan ny. "I want to go hack to the dear, dear <;rf#n Meadows! I want to see my friends up there!'’ "You know we never were so safe as we have been In this great man bird.” said Danny, trying to comfort her. "We don't have to worry about Reddy Fox or Old Man Coyote or Hooty the Owl or Redtatl the Hawk or Rlack Puasy or anybody else here in this great man-bird." "I don't care," sniffed Nanny. "I would like to see Reddy Fox. 1 would so. It would seem good Just to have him try to catch me. I'd like to hear Old Man Coyol* sniffing for me thig very minute. Oh Danny, do you sup pose well ever, ever see the Green Meadows again?" “I don't know." replied Danny. "Wa’ve had a wonderful winter, and we va seen some wonderful things. But I—I—well. I wish I vvera bach home. Do you suppose all our pti vale little paths have grown up to grass again?" "What a silly queetlon!" gald Nan ny. "There hasn't been any grasa growing up there. It lias been win ter up there." Danny looked sheepish. "That's so." said he. “We haven't had any winter. That is. we haven't had any cold weather or snow or Ice for eo long that I have forgotten there could l,e such a thing. You know, N'annj", I wouldn't like to live whers it Is summer ail the time. No, sir, 1 wouldn't." "You may have to." retorted Nan ny. "If this great man-bird doesn't go back we’ll have to spend the rest of our lives down here. Boo-hoo! I want to go home. I do!" The next story: "Danny and Nanny Become Greatly Excited." (Copyright, astt.t CORDELIA THE MAGNIFICENT By LEROY SCOT7. een wealthy, though the Marlowe* had never i«-en wealthy upon the scale by which present fortunes are considered. The later males of the Marlowe family, however, had lacked the ability to retain what the earlier Marlowe* had acquired, though there had always been sufficient to main tain the family name as one of the be*t in N'ew York City, Hut Cordelia's thoroughly likeable father, that almost famous polo play er. had In an even greater degree than any of his forebears the gift of letting money slip through his hands; so that when a galloping pony stumbled with him. and he was picked up dying—this was when Cordelia was 12. the lawyer had to report to liis widow that the estate had almost passed out of existence with its last proprietor. There whs something left, however, and Bernice Marlowe, who had always ABIE THE AGENT Drawn for The Omaha Bee by Hershfield i In the Nirk of Thne. ( HEVUJy, MPffcR - [ VOU'RE "AVC l PlRST 1(i AJRRWK \To 'THE Pfcr.ty! J » - -- ' “YOU robbed ^ , YHe Stowe: and \HR>*TXe. Moweyi'Jy WEVIY *to KANSAS , c\yv wrm yhf VOtHtR CROOKS r~THEKI 'fool VORQCT* A* j \C>VECK* / / VAVLH-ttFVWo&Y ^ /V T)REAKA ASeot \ \\t. HfL'S YtLUNQ"/ had everything, Raw no reason why she should not still have everything, or at least the appearance of every thing. do the long-legged Cor delia was kept on at her very ex clusive private school (Lilly, eight years younger, was as yet no such economic problem); after which, as parents who are somebody do with their daughters and as also do par ents of recent wealth who want to be somebody. Cordelia was sent at 14 to one of the hundreds of girls' finishing schools which find the vicinage of "New York a rich soil for their growth and prosperity. Cordelia's debut a year afterwards at Sherry's (then an institution, .and not as now a memory), though mod est as to cost, was everything it should have been as to its appoint ments, and the best people were pres ent. Her mother had carefully seen to these matters. After her debut Cordelia's mother patiently and In silence waited for her to marry any one of the several nice rich young men who paid her court. Mrs. Marlowe, with affectionate, deprecatory* Insistence, demanded that Cordelia marry one of the several desirable suitors, and backed up this demand by revealing something of the Marlowe financial circumstances, which until then she had protect ingly withheld. Thirty thousand a year—they'd be reduced to that, and the strain of making ends meet on that figure—well, Mr*. Marlowe sim ply could not stand It *ny longer: Cordelia was sorry about the finances; she would do her best to keep down her expenses; but she was not ready to marry. Perhaps a little after she might; almost any time a man might corne along whom she really laved. “Magnificent" became attached to Cordelia's name in much the way that most of the nickname* of every day life and the more formal so briquets of history become attached to their owners; through some minor incident—through the color of the hair, size of body, a limp, a crooked hack, a terrible temper, a splendid manner. \ Splendid Trihuate. In Cordelia’s case it had been her manner. Her very handsome and very popular father noted she had the t -e Marlowe air; the air which had made him so popular, made him accepted as a leader among hi* fel lows; an air composed of genuine good nature, pleasantly Imperious self-confidence, an Implicit belief that of course she was going to have her own way- was the best way. “A true Marlowe-" he ejaculated proudly “God—bet she's a magnificent child: Magnificent:" CHAPTER III. When Cordelia and Jackie parted. Cordelia drove her smart roadster to the Marlowe apartment on Park ave nue. still humorously regarding her want advertisement as an absurd ad venture. However, the following morning her mood was to discount entirely the humor and the expectation of her advertisement. The thing was just a hit of folly of two extremely foolish girls. Her eyes fell upon a stack of un opened envelopes on her writing desk and in Cordelia's mood those enve lopes seemed the concrete symbol of her present situation—indeed, the chief and bitter fact of the Marlowe * existence. They were bills. The first of every month saw just such a stack. Bills—fore' er bills. Cordelia sighed. That was life's direst tragedy—meet ing bills! She forced her thoughts to her more immediate problem, making a living and tried to consider it prac tically. She considered many kinds of pos sible work, and out of the great num ber of undesirable possibilities, sbe tentatively decided thft a private sec retaryship might be the least unde sirabie. But she had to have in formation. Information was some thing Jerry Plimpton might bo sble to give her. "I've just had s letter from an umpty-seventh cousin, Jerry." she was presently saying over the tele- i phone. "The girl wants to corns to j New- Tork to be a private secretary. ! How much is » private secretary psid! "From nothing up to fifteen or twentv thousand a year. How good is she?" "I don't know. Suppose she s Ju*. flair." Thirty Dollars • Week. "A girl has got to be mighty skill ful end tellable to get as much as thirty s week." “l’vrhaps she doesn't know any thing. What s the best way to start in?" , . . "Tell her to go to a good business school, and then get experience with snv decent concern that will give her s chance. But how about this even ing. Cordie? Won't you let me—' Cordehs evaded the Invitation. Thirtv dollars a week'. But 1*0 • week considered merely as ISO. had no meaning to Cordelia. Obviously its meaning bad to be expreesed in. term* of what t would buy Board and lodging for instance, bhe had to knew about this flair an hour later Cordelia was in S house over in the West Seventies, the address of which she had found In a newspaper under the heading "Boarder* Wented." "One of my best rooms. Very pri vate. The bath only two door* down the hall-" .... "How much—how much t oroe Us managed t ' get out through he1 muffling handkerchief. "Only *15 a week and the secern modattons cannot be e-iv*;ed at lb« price in the city Thanks -1 11 tell my oouslr mu* mured Cordelia and hurried out to bar roadster and back across Cv tral Park Half of her salary for such accent modatlona' And she wasdt •'*« |warning that sal ' jet I IT* ■« C*atasted ts«»*n»*J