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Ara. Kilbourne, against the wishes of her family, has a habit of taking in tramps. Ambroso who had been chauffeur departe with all the silver, When Wade Rawline, shabby and stranded, because Ma rtokety old car haë fallon into the ravine, appears, sho inaleta, despite hià proteate, that he stay and fill the vacant place.
Ceperiatri 2000 by then's, Io.
Chaptor Thron
Wade looked cautiously around the room. Ho draw a long breath. ile was alone, at insi. Where ho ran what awaited him at the end duin't matter now. All he wanted was to get away from this house which soomed to be occupied by Junatics.
"Oh, no you don't!"
It was the voles of the butler. It reached him clearly, so firm and loud it was, despite that fact that Grosvenor creeping up on him, had clamped down on his hand, a bas- ket filled with nowors.
"Thought you'd get away, atd you? Trouble with you ancak thleven is you don't think quick."
Grosvenor wan backing him across the room. He held him firm-
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gardon, mattoring that he would never forgive himself. Wada naited If he meant because he was a big mistat toast "sort" of one.
"I was not referring to that. I meant for preventing your escapio.
"Don't you like tramps?"
"I try desperately to love all of God's creatures, but I never did like tramps, and since I have vod here, I loathe them, one and all."
Grosvenor, despite his feelings, was not one to shirk his duties, Rawilns saw. In a fow minutes he bad assembled everything neces sary to enable the dirtiest trampto look well groomed. ♬ shower, a nhavo, a shampoo, clean clothes- they were good things Wade thought, when he had finished dressing and looked at himself in the mirror."
Now, at last, he could telephone, I walked to the door and opened it to make sure Grosvenor was not listening. No one was there. He turned to the phone and asked for
New Yorit number. When the con- nection was mado, an anxious voice asked him where he was. Anxioty turned to irritation when Wade nn- wered that he was on the Pacific 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!" of course you can make it hop n plans and we'll meet you at Now.
ly with one hand and managed ark. The papers are full of you -- with the other to got the telephone. such reviews na authors and put
"Police Headquarters, quick," heilshers dream of. Now, don't pull stuff on mo. shouted into the phone and then the modest-violet to Jinwiina who was
tempt to wrench him an at- Hustle for the nearest plano."
"I can't get away, Al, I've turned
loose:
"Take It easy... You haven't a chauffeur. No, I'm not crazy and Police Headquarter? Send men at
once -
Jerry dashed into the room and took the phone from Grosvenor.
"What's going on hero," she do- manded.
This person was trying to make a get-away," said Grosvenor. trust "And I thought I could you." Jarry said sadly to Wado, Then into the phone! "I'm sorry, . we don't need any polico today, thank you. Just a mistake one of thues things you know."
Grosvenor tried to protest. Jerry removed the basket from Wade's hond before she answarod.
I haven't had a drink in a couple of days. - Borry to have send my regrets, but listen I'd be walking
out on the bast stuff I over ran
"I'm just waiting for your daughter. You see, I'm the new chauffeur."
MAY
10, 1938.
By Paul F
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by "An Old Stager"
gifted people whose minds are never troubled by doubls. They are able to take clear-cut hundred-per-cent, views on ail questiona, however complicated and difficult, and never find them- Relves at a moment's loss for an the error which caused us to scrap emphatic opinion.
our defence equipment.
allowing for the deceiving national hypocrisy to which we are alleged to prone, as for advanced towards the mutual-help Idea as any. Yel ore we prepared now to pledge ourselves to fight to the death for the in- Czecho- slovakia, or to champion the rights dependence or freedom of
of Poland with as much tenacity and self-acrifice as we would our own native land?
These people are not the salt, but The supreme example of this the pepper, of the earth. They are deluded fanolicism is the League of No thoughtful person, not the material of which martyrs Nations.
cardinal error the Labour The are made perhaps, but they are worthy of civilised citizenship can leaders at Westminster stem to me certainly the material that makes fall to be enamoured of that sublime to be committing in refusing to martyrs. It is the dogmatists who, conception, It may even be argued recognise that no Government in all through recorded history, have that, if civilisation is to stand up
London dare embark on a war, or nailed their colours to the most-and against the disruptive influences of even pledge liself to fight, unless It humanity to the cross,
sheer reactionary brute force, such can be quite certain that, its action an institution is a mere necessity. or policy will command overwhelming We find them exultantly busy at
But recognition of that fact, and popurely that is the very essence of
support, the present moment in the dangerous sincere hope for its ultimate realisa- Surely uren of foreign policy, Half of tion, must not be permitted to blind. democracy? Does Mr. Attlee really them are fanatically convinced that progressive minds to the dismal fact hink the majority of his countrymen Mr. Neville Chamberlain has played that at the moment the League of would be willing to incur all that Judas to enfranchised democracy in Nations #
Imposture, another European war implies for the dangerous Europe. The other half are just as Until it can be given firm reality, sake of a Balkon State? Yet until fanatically persuaded that the Prime and discharge in the international, we attain that standard of interna Minister has saved the world from sphere the duty of polleing the world tional morals, and nearly everybody a second and still more disastrous as efficiently as we police our cities, else does so too, there can be no edition of Armaggedon.
to put our trust in it is as disastrous banking on the League of Nations. In the familiar words of the as it would be to arm ourselves with advertisement, it must be "grateful dummy guns, 'planes, and tanks.
The Government Alone Knows possess and comforting" to
this This does not mean that the noble
One of the ablest Foreign Ministers kind of mentality: No doubts to idea must be jettisoned for all time.
this country has had in living torture conscience, no half shades to Only that, until we can build solid
recollections wns the Inte Lord bellic vtalon, по hesitancles to foundations round Geneva, we must
Let me remind the enfeeble action. Just a bull-necked not gamble on Geneva as a Rock of Resebery. if fearing to be late for an import-
Labour Party of a fact they may impetuous certainty. These favoured Ages.
have overlooked. mortals do not express opinions. They deliver judgment. They dwell Mutual Help in a perpetual slate of ex cathedra l Infallibility.
into, if I left now. Why, It's Just come to me that there'n onough ma- torial here for one of those trilogy affairs. Be a good pal and let me off this time. I keep in touch with you. In fact, I'll be seeing you some time, but that time is definitely not tomorrow."
Jerry had rushed to her room
a
nnt engagement, but she seemed to be having doulty in deciding what she would wear Marian who "It makes no difference what had drifted in after her naked her you saw. He's our now tramp, Wo'ro it sho was anxious to make an im- bound to have one at least around pression on Harbort Wheelor. She the place you know Mother. So said she didn't know that he would I've appointed myself the judge or be at the club. She had told him This one she would not hava luncheon with who says, who goes. atoys. And now" turning to Wade him.
did you take anything?"
"Yon," said Marian. "I was teton
"Perhaps you will take my word ing in --- board you say you for it although why you abould wouldn't marry him today, too. You I don't know that I didn't XI not | should have mid you never would. It is your privilege to have mo Tant searched, I will not resist nor will conse." I objeol"
"No one will search you. But just to satisfy my curiosity, will you tall) me why you were trying to run Away!"
"I just wanted to got out of hora.
would havD made
Bome
Jerry ordered her to leave hor room and for answer Marian saur- tored over to the window.
Jerry took up the phone and ask- ed Grunvenor to have Wade and the car waiting for her in ton minutos.
"Jerry, cómo here," Marian aried. That's gratitude for you! Here you have a chance for a now life, "Who's that out in the garden?"
ufforent from any you have over "Probably the gardner. It's a logi- know and you try to dodgo tak cal person to be a gardener."
"I guess I know the gardner when Ing it. Do you want jo bo n down- at-the-heel tramp all your a? 11 soo him. This man's why it' thought everybody had some little the now tramp. He's so spic-and- spark of ambition Eomewhore. apan you wouldn't bollove it could Don't you want a different fo? A bo the same person, now would morn abundant life, as the saying you?"
"I could believe anything," ans- Bho phook her head nadly as wered Jerry as she joined her sister Wade Anawared that his meds of at the window.
Mrs. Kibourne was below clip
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life had been of his own choosing'
and that, laor annoyances noldo, ping roses from the bushes. She did it had satisfied him,
not recognize Wado either at first. "Good morning," she said. "I don't think we've mat before, have wo? Is there anything you want?" "I'm just waiting for your daugh-
"Why you spank liko a-A- wall, not not the way most of our tramps do. If you did, I might ro- lont and let you go. But now I' determined. You're going to stay tar. You go I'm the now chauf ight hero. You'll neo a different | Lour."
fo and you will give up being a "Why no you are. You must par- hobo. Hero, Grosvenor, it's all not dan mo, but I'm worried about the Ued. Now take him over to his roues. Do you know anything about quarters, poo that he has a razor, what to do for poor flowers when soup, everything. And find out the they are not in the boat of health?" uniform which comes nearest fit-Pathaps they have the thrip." ting him. Well, what are you wait- ing for??
"What a dolghtful word. What would you proscriba?"
Wado who had a love, if not "Only to say, Miss ICHlbourne, that
much knowledge, of flavors folt it I'm leaving. This _too much,
"You'll leave when I say you may was the time to be serious and Buff- and not one minute before
grested that undoubtedly her gord Grosvenor looked as if he were her would know what to do. about to deliver a lecture on file "8h-h" and Mrs. Kibourne. "He'll constitutional rights, but is had just probably hent us. I think he is a inapy. In fact I intend to write Pros)- muttered, something voluntary labour, when Jerry inter-dent Roosevelt about it and apic rupted to ask pointedly, it it would bila navice.
inboun
bo nocmary for her to get in touch
Wade managed to hold back tho with his first wile. A look of terror laughter, which thrantoned him. was on his facq, ona of triumph on Leave this place to be lonleed at JUITY'N.
a literary dinner? His publisher #110's sort of a bigamist," she must be crazy. wald in explanation to Wndo,
Grosvenor, as one who know when He had gone down to dotent, started for the” garden, motioning bryan. · Wade to follow him. Ho mormod s deep in thought as they ordered the
(To be continueα}
Easily Gulled
Unfortunately the tendency of emotionalists, whose hopes have been centred fanatically in the League, is to accuse anyone who ventures to And yet, even though they fail to doubt the League's immediate cfficacy realise the fact, these dogmatists are of being a traitor to humanity's sole beset by tremendous perils. Their means of salvation. It may take trame of mind lays itself so even longer to build a solid Geneva peculiarly open to
aulodeception. than it did to build Rome, and Rome They swallow every fragment of was not, as the old adage informs us, alleged fact, no matter how suspect built in a day.
DA
Lord Rosebery was strongly op- posed the Entente Cordiale with France. He suspected that it might involve us in a European. war. Whether he was wise or not in this attitude, I am sure, in my own mind, that he displayed rare, judgment in another direction. He once declared that, though an Opposition might
to fight tooth and nail
prevent Government committing this country to a war, it ought never to endeav
vour to force one into a war. Only its propaganda source, with elule There is not much room for the Government, argued Lord Rose- nvidity, so long as it fits in nicely with their preconceived views. Any argument as to what must happen bery, could know how far our befure the nations can put their strength might be equal to such a testimony contrary to their settled faith implicitly in the Lengue and commitment, and no party In beliefs, even though it were
force its hands, oracular as the voice of Moses from proceed to turn their tanks into Opposition ought to
such spiritual and precipitate a It is
war, In lawn-mowers. Mount Sinal, they brush impatiently lawn
Genera
circumstances. renaissance that must ensue, aside as transparent bigotry.
The utmost duty of an Opposition, will become firm reality only when, It follows that such people exist perpetually in a miasma of perfervid and not before, the people of all in such a crisia, was exampled in August 1014, when the Conservative countries concerned are prepared to selfdelusion.
сазу They are the
make as supreme sacrifices on behalf Opposition assured the then Liberal of all the plausible charlatans gulis and confidence tricksters in Christen of all countries concerned are pre- Government of its loyal support dom and Jewry. They stand self-pared to make as supreme sacrifices against the German outrage. condemned to be the dupes of the on behalf of others as for themselves; Labour Party would greatly streng- sheereat opportunism and the fools when the defence of alien heartha then is position in the constituencies, and homes is as secred a duty for all and not least In the teeming Indus-
trial of time. The rockt on which they
keeping ones, by sedulously build their citadel is the impenetrable as is the safe-guarding of their own.
party politics out of its foreign Unhappily humanity seems sul sonie one of benighted ignorance.
distance from
that degree of policy. The latter is an arena which wider than a demands something This is shown by the fact that
altruism.
suburban outlook. their dogmatism increasca in exact
This country is probably, even rallo with the square of their The less suppressed uncertainty. they really understand about the subject under discussion, the more emphatic are they in their assertions about it.
It is this disastrous frame of mind, this attitude to life, which breeds the most fatal of all intellectual úttitudes the over-weening deter- mination, to believe implicitly what the victim of this hallucination wan's to believe. It was this shut-eye fatollem that made us bolleve Diat Germany after the War had under- gone a fundamental change of heart. It caused us to believe that, because we were war-weary, therefore the rest of Europe was pacifist.
Geneva Danger
For those two amiable hallucina- tions we are now paying on appalling Germany in rovented, to us price.
as still the same old Germany, only a much more formidable ono than before. And we are now embarking
on a ru'neus rearmament expenditure in a breakneck endeavour to repair
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