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Mrs. Kilbourne, against the withos of her family, has a habit of taking in tramps. Ambrozo toho had been ahauffeur departa with all the silver. When Wado Rawlins, shabby and stranded, because his rickety old car has fallon into the raving, appears, sho inalata, despite his proteste, that he stay and fill the vacant place.
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Wada looked cautiously around the room. Ho drown long breath. Ilo was alone, at last. Whers ho ran-what awaited him at the and didn't matter now. All he wanted was to get away from this house which seemed to be secupled by funatics,
"Oli, no you don't!” It was the volen of the butler. It reached him clearly, so firm and loud it was, despite that fact that Gronvenor creeping up on him, bad elamped down on his head, n bar ket filled with flowers.
"Thought you'd get away, did you? Troublo with you sneak thloves in you don't think quick."
Grosvenor was backing him across the room. He held him firm ly with one hand and managed with the other to get the telophone. "Police Headquarters, quick, he aimuted into the phone and then to Itawlins who was maiting an at- tempt to wrench himself 10250: "Take it easy...You haven't n~ Police Headquarters? Send men at
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Jorry dashed into the room and took the phone from Grosvenor.
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garden, muttering that he would Gevor forgive himself, Wade nakod It ho mennt because he was a bign- mist at least "sort" of one.
"I was not referring to that. meant for preventing your escape."
"Don't you like trampa?"
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"I try desperately to love all of God's creatures, but I never did ko tramps, and since I have lived here. I loathe thom, one and all."
Granvoner, despite his foolings, was not ono to shfrk his dution, Kawling saw. In a few minutes ho had neneinbled everything neces- sary to enable the dirtiest tramp to look well groomed. A shower, a shave, a shampoo, clean clothes- they tearo good things Wade thought, when ho lind finished dressing and looked at himself in the mirror.
Now, at last, ho could telephone. He walked to the door and opened it to make sure Grosvenor was not listening. No one was thore. turned to the phone and naked for
Ho
Now Tork numbar. When the con- neelion wan made, an anxiour volco asked him where he was. Anxiety turned to Irritation when Wado an- awared that he was on the Pacifio Coast And Intended to be there for some time.
"Now, listen, Wade. You can't leave us in the lurch like this? You know what'll be to pay if you don't show up tomorrow night!" or couro you can make it hop a plans and we'll meet you at New- ark. The papers are full of you - such reviewa na authors and pub- ishora dream of. Now, don't pull stuff on me. the modest-violet Hustle for the nearest plane."
"I can't get away, Al. I've turned chauffeur. No, I'm not crazy and I haven't had a drink in a couple of days.. Sorry to have send y regrets, but laten - I'd bo walking out on the best stuff. I over zan
"What's going on here," she do- into, mandad.
"I'm just waiting for your daughter. You ser, I'm the new chauffeur.
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I left now. Why, it's just come to ma that there's enough ma- This parson was trying to terial here for one of those trilogy make a got-away," pald Grosvenor. affairs. Be a good pal and lat mie "And I thought I could trust off this time. I'll keep in touch with you," Jerry said sadly to Wade. you. In fact, I'll be seeing you some Thea into the phone: "I'm sorry, time, but that time is definitely not we don't need "any police today, tomorrow." thank you. Just a mistake one of Jerry had rushed to her room ca those things you know."
I fearing to be late for an import- Grosvenor tried to protost. Jerryant engagement, But she scomod to removed the basket from Wade's be having difficulty in deciding head before she answered. ›
what she would wear. Marian who
"It makes no difference what had drifted in after her asked hor you saw. He's our now tramp. We're | if she was anxious to make an im- bound to have one at least around pression on Herbert Whootor. She the place you know Mother. Be said she didn't know that he would I've appointed myself the judge of be at the club. She had told him who stays, who gooN. This one she would not have luncheon with stays. And now" turning to Wade him.
did you take anything?"
""Yes," said Marian. "I was liston-
"Perhaps you will take my word Ing in heard you say you for it although why you should wouldn't marry him today, too. You I don't know that I didn't. If not | should bave zald you never would. itle your privilege to have mo That would bavo made aan-chod. I will not resist nor will | senso.".
I object."
"No one will search you. But just to satisfy my nuriosity, will you toll me why you were trying to run Away?"
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Jerry 'orderod her to leave her room and for answer Marian saun- tored over to. the window.
Jerry took up the phone and ask- ed Grosvoner to have Wade and
"I just wanted to get cut of the car waiting for her in ten here.
That's' gratitude for youl Hero
minutos.
"Jerry, come bore," Marian cried. you have a chanes for a new life, | "Who's that out in the garden?" different from any you have over "Probably the gardner. It's a logi- known and you try to dodgo tak cat person to be a gardener." ing it. Do you want to be a down- "I guess I know the gardner when at-the-heel tramp all your Ufat I see him. This man's why it's thought everybody had some little the new tramp. He's so aplo-and- spark of ambition somewhere. span you wouldn't believe it could Don't you want a different life? A be the same pornon, now would more abundant ilte, as the raying you?"
I could believe anything," ans- Боект
She shook or hond andiy sa wored Jorry as she joined her sister Wade ankwored that his mode of at the window. life had been of his own choosing Mrs. Kilbourne wad below clip- and that, minor annoyances aside, ping rose from the bushes. She did It had satisfied him,
not recognizo Wade either at first. Bald. "I "Good morning," she
rosas. Do you know anything about what to do for poor flowers when they are not in the best of health?"
"Why you' spoák like a — Well, not not the way most of our don't think we've mat before, havo trampa do. If you did, I might ro- wo? Is there anything you want?" Tent and ist you go. But now I'm "I'm just waiting for your daugh- determined. You're going to stay tor. You see I'm the new chaux- right here. You'll nes a different four."
"Why so you are. You must par- io and you will give up being a hobo. Here, Grosvenor, it's all note don me, but I'm worried about the tled. Now take him over to bia quartors, so that ho has a razor soap, everything. And fish out the uniform which comes nearest fit- ting him. Well, what are you walt- ing for?"
"Only to say, Mies Kilbourne, that I'm loving. This is too much."
"You'll leave when I say you may and pot ona minuto before."
Grosvenor looked as if he were Josture on his about to deliver a consultutional rights, but he had just
something about muttered voluntary labour, when Jarry inter rupted to ask, polatedly, if it would bo necessary for her to get in touch
"Forhaps they have the thrip."" “What a delightful word. What would you presuribot"
Wado who had a love, if not much knowledge, at flowers felt it was the time to be serious and sug- gested that undoubtedly bor yard. oner would know what to do.
"Bh-h" anld Mrs. Kilbourne. "Ho'il probably hear us. I think be in a In-apy-In fact I intend to write Prest- dont Roosevelt about it and ask his advice."
Wade managed to hold basic tha with his first wife. A look of torrar laughter which threatened him. was on his face, one of triumph on Leave this place to be lionised at Jerry's.
alterary dinner?
"How port of a bigamiat," she must be crazy. wald in explanation to Wado.,
Grosvenor, as one who know when he had gone down to' dofont, started for the gardan, motioning Wndo to follow alm. Jie surmed deep in thought as they crossed the
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THERE are some gifted people
whose minds are never troubled
by doubts. They are able to take by "An Old Stager" mutual-help ides as any. Yet ure
clear-cut hundred-per-cent, views on all questions, however compliented and difficult, and never find them- selves at a moment's loss for an emphatic opinion.
the error which caused us to scrap our defence equipment.
No
These people are not the salt, but The supreme example of this the pepper, of the earth. They are deluded fanaticism is the League of not the material of which martyrs Nations.
thoughtful person, are made perhaps, but they are worthy of elvilised citizenship, can certainly the material that makes fall to be enamoured of that sublime martyrs. It is the dogmatists who, conception. Ti may even be argued all through recorded history, have that, if civilisation is to stand up ailed their colours to the mast and against the disruptive influences of humanity to the cross.
sheer reactionary brute force, such un Institution is a mere necessity.
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We find them exultantly busy at But recognition of that fact, and the present moment in the dangerous sincere hope for its ultimate realisä- arena of foreign policy. Half of tion, must not be permitted to blind them are fanatically convinced that progressive minds to the dismal fact Mr. Neville Chamberlain has played that of the moment the League of Judos to enfranchised democracy in Nations is a dangerous imposture. Europe. The other half are just as Until it can be given firm reality, fanatically persunded that the Prime and discharge in the International Minister hus saved the world from sphere the duty of policing the world a second and sill more disastrous as eficiently as we police our cities, edition of Armaggedon.
put our triat in it is as disastrous the familiar words of the It would be to arm ourselves with advertisement, it must be grateful dummy guns, planes, and tanks. and comforting" 10 possess this
This does not mean that the noble kind of mentality. No doubts to Idea must be jettisoned for all time. torture conscience, no half shades to Only that, until we can build solid bame
vision, по hesitancies to foundations round Geneva, we must enfeeble action. Just a bull-necked not gamble on Geneva ne a Rock of impetuous certainty. These favoured Ages. morials do not express opinions. They deliver judgment. They dwell Mutual Help in a perpetual state of er cathedra infallibility..
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allowing for the deceiving national hypocrisy to which we are alleged to prone, as far advanced towards the we prepared now to pledge ourselves in- to fight to the death for the dependence or freedom of Czecho- slovakia, or to champion the rights of Poland with as much tenacily and self-sacrifice as we would our own native land?
The cardinal error the Labour leaders at Westminster seem to me to be committing is in refusing to recognise that no Government in London dare embark on a war, or even pledge itself to tight, unless it can be quite certain that its action or policy will command overwhelming popular support.
Surely that is the very essence of democracy? Does Mr. Attlee really think the majority of his countrymen would be willing to incur all that another European war implies for the sake of a Balkon State? Yet until we attain that standard of interna- tional merals, and nearly everybody cise does ED too, there can be no banking on the League of Nations.
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Lord Rosebery was strongly, op- posed to the Entente Cordiale. with Unfortunately the tendency France. He suspected that it might emotionalists, whose hopes have been involve us in a European war: centred fanatically in the League, is Whether he was wise or not in this to accuse anyone who ventures to altitude, I am sure, in my own mind, And yet, even though they fall to doubt the League's Immedinte efficacy that he displayed rare judgment in realise the fact, these dogmatists are of being a traitor to humanity's solo another direction. He once declared beset by tremendous perils. Their means of salvation. It may take that, though an Opposition might
of mind lays itself so even longer to build a solid Geneva fight tooth and nail to prevent peculiarly open to autodeception. than it did to build Rome, and Rome Government committing this country They swallow every fragment of was not, as the old adage informs us, to a war, ought never to endeav alicged fact, no matter how suspect bullt in a day.
vour to force one, into a war. Only its propaganda source, with elate
There is not much room for the Government, argued Lord Rose-
how for avidity, so long as it fits in nicely with their preconceived views. Any argument as to what must happen bery, could know
before the nations can put their
might be equal to such a atrength testimony contrary to their settled faith implicitly in the League
and
commitment, and o party in bellets, even though it were
turn their tanks into Opposition ought to force Its hands, oracular as the voice of Moses from proceed to
It is Inwn-mowers
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such precipitate a war, in Mount Sinai, they brush Impatiently renaissance that must ensue.
circumstances. Genevs aside as transparent bigotry,
The utmost duty of on Opposition, It follows that such people exist will becomes firm reality only when, perpetually, in a miasma of perfervid and not before, the people of ji in such a crisis, was exampled in countries concerned are prepared to August 1014, when the Conservative. selfdelusion, They file the any majte as supreme sacrifices on behalf Opposition assured the then Liberal gulls of all the plausible charlatans
Government of its loyal support The I confidence tricksters in Christen- of all countries concerned are pre- dom and Jewry. They stand self-pared to makce as supreme sacrifices against the German outrage. condemned to be the dupes of the on behalf of athers as for themselves: Labour Party would greatly streng- sheerest opportunism and the fools when the defence of alien hearthe then its position in the constituencies,
and not least in the teeming indus 12 The end of a familiar cycle (8), of time. The rock on which they and homes is as sacred a duty for all
as is the safe-guarding of their own. irial ones, by sedulously keeping 13 Put this with mine to make sure; build their citadel is the impenetrable unhappily humanity seems still some party politics out of its foreign one of benighted ignorance.
distance from that degree of policy. The latter is an urena which the This is shown by fact that
demands something wider than A altruism, their dogmatism increases in exact
This country is probably, even suburban outlook. ratio with the square of their suppressed uncertainty". The leas they really understand about the subject under discussion, the more emphatic are they in their assertions about it.
ind
It is this disastrous frame of mind, thin attitude to life, which breeds the most fatal of all intellectual attitudes the over-weening deler mination to belleve implicitly what the victim of this hallucination wanis to believe. It was thia_shut-eye Intalism that made us believe that Germany after the War had under-; gone a fundamental change of heart. It enused us to believe that, becauKO wo were war-weary, therefore the rest of Europe was pacifist, Geneva Danger
For those two amiable hallucina-. tions we are now paying an appellos price. Germany is revealed to us
as still the same old Germany, only a much more formidable one than before. And we are now embarking on a ru'nous reurmament expenditure in a breakneck endeavour to repair
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