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AYANK AT OXFORD
HALSEY RAINES
Dopright 1896 by Loew's Inu.
WHAT HAS HAPPENED SO FAR Len Sheridan, whose Osford career has bash marked by a bilfer personal foud with Paul Beaumont, brother of the pirl whom he loves, is dismissed from college when he oscapes roipon- ability for a visit paid to Pari at Als rooms by Elen Graddock, a young married woman. It la the eve of the Oaford-Cambridge rece, and Loo's father, Dan, haa come to England from Kansas for the thrill of socing his boy participate. When Los arplaina his disgrace, Dan ahroudly aenace that he to attempting to shield someone. He goes to fol- ly Beaumont, and says they must work out some way to save Loo together.
Chaptor Twolve
Elna Craddock was alone as Dan Sheridan entered her bookshop, an bour Inter. Bho displayed no friter est as the elderly man began to browse around. Dan appraised her for a moment, then picked up a book and went over to the desk. "Send this up to Dan Sheridan's at The Mitre, will you?"
Dan Bheridan!" Elsa exclaim- ed, startled.
Dan protended not to notica hor astonishment. "Yeah. I've got a boy here, Lee Bhoridan. Know him?"
"I do, Indeed."
"Nico kid, isn't he?" "Your son, Mr. Sheridan, is a she nail very great gentleman, earnestly,
Dan beamed. "Well, I'm glad to hear you say so." He suddenly be came confidential. "You know," ho Bald, "I ought to be oro at him. Here I've come five thousand miles to see him row against Cambridge and what do I find? That he's been kicked out for being caught with a
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Astounded, the Dean paced up and down, fingers pressed to his temples.
"Amazing! Unbelievable!" he mut tored."
"I've nothing to gain by telling an_untruth?" Elen insisted.
"Don't
The Dean stopped pacing: "What misunderstand me," he
I fail to grasp is why young Bhorl- dan accepted the blame."
"Oh, you know what men are. Denn. They never give each other away."
At that moment, the door opened. It was Martanduko Wavertree, He confronted the Dean with a milo.
"You sent for me, sir?”
"The offense," the Dean said slowly, "of entertaining a Indy in your rooms is a grave one."
Wavertree appeared completely dismayed. "Mo, sir? Oh, no, oirt ho protested. "That's one thing I have never done. Borry, sir-but it nover occurred to me."
Dan pudged him. "Marmaduko, how can you?" she remonstrated.
Wavertree looked at her blankly, "We were foolish," Bisa eontinu nd. "But it was only a flirtation."
The Dean controlled his anger. "Don't lie to me, air!" he burnt out. Mrn, Craddock has freely confosred everything."
Buddenly Wavertree understood. "She han?" he said delightedly. "What a relief, air! Naturally, had to protect a woman, but now I need ile no mora
"And you allowed another many to take the blame for this! Mr. Waver- tree, I am aghast!" the Dann or claimed.
"I'm sure you are, sir" was the reply, "but it didn't seem any good, owning up. You never bellové when I do."
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Not long afterwards, Paul Beau-
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girl."
"We're gaining, men," the coxswain cried. "Give everything you've got!"
mont hurried to Lee's rooms. Lec, Elsa fidgeted. "Did...did he tell looking moodily at a letter he had you who it was?"
written, started as he saw who his Hin expression_grim Buddenly Dan seemed to aco for visitor was the first time the name of the cover and forbidding. Paul crossed the of a book on the desk. "Craddock?" room, he, neked with puzzled foolt. "Boome ke that was the name." Its looked up. "Could you be Elsa Craddock?"
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"You, I am," she answered de- murely.
Dan pretended great admiration. "Well, don't that beat everything! Now I certainly don't blame him, Didn't know Leo was auch a good picker."
Elen became serious. "But I as- sure you, Mr. Sheridan, there was nothing wrong."
Dan waved this aside, "Of course not! Not with a girl like you. I'm mighty glad Leo's made such a nice friend.""
"We good of you to understand," Elsa said warmly.
"Buro I understand," responded the vialtor wistfully. "And if you: ask me, It's pretty tough, Lea's got ting fired just because he fails for the prettiest girl in town." He algh
Buddenly, unable to carry the pre- tonse longer, Paul extended his hand. "Yank, I'd like to shake your hand!" he said huskily.
In face reflecting his confusion, Leo took it,
"Bay, what is this?" he demanded. Paul laughed. "So you'd ntent my girl, would you? I've just reen Lisa she went to the Dean and cou- fopaca,"
Lee was startled, "Confeiledi But that means you'll be sent down."
"Oh, no, it doesn't. She put it on Wavertree,"
Les graned as the idea per- monted.
"Come on, laugh!" Paul" urged. "Wavertree's not what he wants. You'ra reinstated, and now we'll beat Cambridge all holityy!"
"Cisa put it on Wavertree?" Loo repeated, slowly. A paroxymn of laughter shook him. Their laughter was Interrupted by a knock at the
ed deeply, furd en mo, too door. It was Wavertree who en-
coming all this way to see him win that race."
By now Elsa was quite upset. "You must fool drondful.”
"Yeah," Dan nodded. "I counted pretty heavy on the boy's making good over here."
"Oh, dearl" Iisa was on the verge of tears. "I wish there was BORD- thing I could do."
tored, looking very dopressod.
"One goes up to Oxford, Mr. Wavertree," Leo said, "but one is sent down)"
Wavertree looked as if the end of the world had come.
"One is not, ho aald. "Gentle- men, you see a broken man! The Dear Bald that, In consideration of my feeble intellect, which can't dia- "I wish there was," Dan groaned, tingulah right from wrong, be "T'know, I was just thinking to would fine me one pounds""
Dejectedly, Wavertree sank into myself...here's a clover woman. If there was any way out, she'd find a chair. His last hepo of maintain-
Ing the family tradition of expul tt."
"Oh, I've thought and thought,sion from Oxford was now shat-
torod. but..."
"Well, that's mighty kind of you.
Thousands lined the banks of the Now, maybe if we were to put our Thames on the day of the great heads together...we might got
rage. between Oxford and Cam somewheres."
Elsa sat there, thinking hard, bridge. Yachts and barges on the Dan watched her anxiously. Budriver were flultor with flags. Mol- ly and Dan; together, watched denly an idea seamed to atriko her.
"Thero's only one way," she mu- proudly, as the crews, Cambridge lightly ahead, swept on toward the tered, almost to horgolt
finish line.
"I know there'd be something" Dan oxotalmed.
"But I'm afraid.”
"What? A girl of your spirit?" Isa was distraught "Oh, I do so want to help you!"
"Well, then, with that kind heart of yours, you selli, won't you?"
"...Tit try," was the hesitant raply.
In the Oxford shell, with Loo‘at stroke, and Paul in the number soven position just behind him, the coxswain urged the crow on. Thun- doraun roars rolled across the river, and Molly and Dan excitedly joined in, choaring for Oxford.
Leo's face was alrained with aguny, his teeth gritted.
We're gaining. men!" the cox- wain eriod. "Giva everything you've got!",
Dan took her hand. He vafood' it! to his lips and, gallantly, he kissed it. Thank you, ma'am," he said
"I'm going to rains the boat!" brokenly. Thanks a thousand times. You've made an old man very Lee panted.
Blowly, Inch by inch, the Oxford happy."
Slowly he turned and went out thell moved up on its time-honored rivals. The Thames was a bedlam Ones beyond sight of the bookshop, of sound as Oxford caught, then however, his expression changed. | paased Cambridge, and sild over the He hurried around a corner, to a line a winner. Completely exhausted apot where Molly was waiting, by their Herculean efforts, the Paul "Did it work?" she asked eagerly rowors dropped their DAIN, "know" Dan said, grinning. Beaumont had just enough strength "the Utfio Indy has hor good points loft to clasp Loo's hand baforo ho It wouldn't surprise man if we found collapsed. With a feeling of undilut ed triumph he had never known be she's got a hoärt of gold."
Dan was moro or lose right Afore, Leo Sheridan waved happily fow hours inter an ant before the to Molly and Dan, whoss arms were Dean, har hand bowed in contrl-around one other, out on the river's
bank. Lion.
"My husband has forgiven mo." she said, sobbing, "We've paid the
THE END.
IF
GAS-MASK NIGHTMARE
the dignified shade of Dr. Samuel Johnson experienced a second in-
sive method of reassuring a some- what panicky London population.
carnation, and returned to the print What Would Dr. The sum Journals have been tos ar lexicographer's
London
haunts, his frank impressions of our lite might be both interesting and Improving. He would find a sing- directions. gering change in many and many of them would, one appro- hends, disgust him hugely,
He might wax extremely anathe- matical for certain over our up-to-
Johnson Think?.
By "AN OLD STAGER"
sistent in printing horrific tales of the fearful effects of polson-gas that some people have apparently' com- pletely lost their nerve.
What the journalistic Fat Boys overlook is that poison-gas bombard- ment, so fog as this country 19 con- cerned, can only be attempted by air, and that by air the thing is not fenal-
It
probable the Doctor would reprove |
dato sex equality ideas, which would conscience, 100 thut nowadays ble. It is, in a vulgar phrase of outrage his deepest sense of logical civilians of all ages and both sexes which Dr. Johnson would reality. His punctilious instinct- corne weil within the lethal perime- "ut done duck shouthuis. Pris that widely circulated story about the ter of violent warince. Doctor spitting out the hot soup Is Dr. Johnson might conclude that the panic-mongers and scorn the purely fictitious-would be revolted, civilisation, during the century and panicky ones with equal vigour,
earth, too, by the spectacle of young and a hair since he viewed it on elderly ladies performing their tollets and not advanced but receded badly. A Hideous Salire and making-up in public. On that He might conclude that, with such theme one can imagine him being practices extant in twentieth-century almost rude.
Europe, our grent capitals invited God a death," and surely Hamlet's How flying would affect him is the fate of the deemed cities of the is the right frame of mind for a gal- more doubtful. It is just conceiv- Plain. Sodom and Gomorrah could lunt people? "If It be now, 'tis not offended to come; if it be not to come, it will able that he would regard it as an not have more heinously impious piece of mechanical pre- against divine luw,
After all it is true that we all "owe
be now; if it be not now, yet it will
Dr. Johnson had a great awe
mption; a a mortal attempt to usurp Yet Dr. Johnson would assuredly come." the locomotory privileges of angelie ascertain all the facts, and his solid of death, but assuredly his breast beings. But thoughs undoubtedly he intelligence would at once reject the would reject base panic. That would be nghast at the total of our absurd notion that London stood in also, one fondly believes, the attitude rond casualties, the modern luxury any real danger of being gassed by of the majority of even native Lon limousine would certainly attract air attack. The impossibility of this doners. One cannot answer for the him. For Dr. Johnson declared that is abundantly clear even to far less Eest End aliens. there were few more pleasurable brainy people than Dr. Johnson. sensations than rapid travel inside u really comfortable coach.
By the Million
Panic-Mongers
It is Intriguing, on the fighter side
of this question, to speculate as to Dr. Johnson's comments when he
on saw, having as he had an eye for a experts One of the greatest chemical science has told us that, prelly, face, some of those Streatham It was thus he used on occasion to though the invading 'planes blacken- factory girls trying on the gas-masks. He would probably have regarded it set out from the residence in seques-ed the sky above us, they could not as a hideous satire on twentieth- tered Gough Court for Streatham, possibly drop enough poison gas to as a risking the footpads and highway- have any serious cflect on London, century ethics. men around Kennington Gasc
It does not require that one should
for
Even more devastating is the the sake of solid entertainment at be a chemical expert to realise that thought how the formidabic Doctor the table of his friends the Thrales. no enemy would be so silly as to himself would have looked in a gos- He spent many week-ends with these attempt that impossible task when mask! Such an apportion would wealthy brewers at their Streatham it would be so much easier and safer probably have driven his faithful dis- strong potion. mansion, Thrale Hall. The shade of to pepper London with high explo- ciple, Boswell, to
Thus The Lichfield's most illustrious son would slve and incendiary bombs.
sheer impossibility of the great even to-day find Thrale Hall still in the Doctor, like lesser living mortals, lexicographer in a gas-mask is the being. But he would indeed stare at would be greatly puzzled to under- criterion of twentieth-twenty civili- We may its changed surroundings. It is now stond just why a paternal Govern ration's boasted progress. hemmed in by a congestion of work- ment hus spent so much time and have the miracles of mechanism and men's dwellings and unsightly sub- money on the manufacture of tty modern scientific research, but Dr. urban streets. When Dr. Johnson's million gas-masks that will never be Johnson and his contemporaries had the better ethics and the sounder eyes knew it, the environment was wanted. semi-rustic and beautifully sylvan.
Perhaps he might conclude that it outlook on like. At any rate, I think What would astonish the eminent was an elaborate and rather expen- so. Doctor, however, and immensely puzzle him, a near-by establish ment. Thile happens to be a factory where the nimbic fingers of hundreds of chle little Cockney girls are turn- Ing out almost a record number of gas-masks for the Government.
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The word "discourteously" is quite most unenviable task, to explain to of whiners. At least, we sufficient to make-us think different- Dr. Johnson just what these masks listen to some of the songs sung ly. We can not imagine such a lover are Intended for. Then, indeed, we every day over the wireless, we will standing before microphone in an nt- might hear him declnim lo some be inclined to believe that quite a titude suggestive of dog baying the effect in his most magisteriul manner. large section of every community. Is moon. Military
Instinct was by no means fed up." absent from his make-up. There
Love seems to be the trouble; and The Modern Idiom. was a rumour, to which
What has gone wrong with us? plish big things in a spirit of dis- Velcrooners.tell us so in treacly tones alludes, that the Doctor as a young day after day. They inquire dole Are we only expressing very old disillusionment. The glory of youth of the impermanence of all in which mun- was "out" in the gallantly fully about the probability of appointments in the modern Idlem? lles in its beller ta, all things its youth is supposed to belleve. It
We have right to whine! happy irsue out of all their alle- Perhaps. We may feel that a good dreams and aspirations, its love and doesn't make sense. romantic 46 adventure
Of course there are those who Charlic. He has declared, moreover tions; but one ta tempted to hazard whine in our songs is infinitely pre- falth. Old age is the time for dis- that every man, if he were honest the opinion that a happy issue right ferable to a slow pining away such illusionment and when that time would contess to wishing that spoil the quality of their singing as the Maid of Neidpath suffered. comes we shall have h philosophy sing with offensive joviality, about their seat on the top of the world. might have been a soldier,
Even lady crooners take up the strain Pining away is a luxury denied to that will be proof against all that
How very un-British and un-Scots!? and inform us that love is just on the young in this ago of hustle and the world may smash for us.
Our native caution tells us that wo ure riding for a fall when we do Illusion. Well, they may be right, blatancy. In any away is the out- Riding for a Fall
ward and visible sign of a case, the
We think of ourselves as a genera- Flut In Dr. Johnson's century, But, why whine about ?
"But surely there is some happy which saw the campaigning prowess Young people listen to this and cure for that is a visit to a psycho-
and bettera medium between crowing and whin- of the brilliant Mariborough, military dance to the engaging rhythms to analyst, who would reveal to us that tion of tear-eyed young people who operations still retained some of the which those melancholy statements plaing trick to gain sympathy prac- can show our elders decencles associated with the tradi- ate set. At one time the world read, ilsed on us by the unconscious mind, where, poor souls, they have gone Ing "Mary Morison" is not the mere wrong. That has been the way of crowing of a triumphant young man. the youth since the beginning of me. It is a humble and touching iribute tion of chivalry. The spirit of Roland the ballads and sang the songs of an Prosaic, no doubt but true,V
All that apart, however,
In we keep singing songs to the sweetest of women. was still breathing in Europe,
unhappy love feeling the pathos and It would have humtilated Dr. beauty which is part of all sorrow, ecstasies that we associate with the But Johnson's bellef in human nature to But there was a dignity about those tender passion are given to us in such which mutability and disillusion the "Maid of Neldpatit" a whining
forspite its attitude of with the dignity of real tragedy. learn that, so far from sticking to ballads. Who can feel that there is lugubrious and muffled tones by the ment is the dominant note, age will ballad. It is a terrible tale Invested
the crooner that we are becoming con- be forced
Crooners examine the old love- vinced very early in life of the and tolerance and shake some sense into tite, ancient prejudice against polson- the misery of a whino In
songs and sing them! ing the wells, modern warfare de-words:
Olivia ClarkO liberately aimed at poisoning the "Alost my love, you do me, wrong mutability of all things. Dangerous us instead.
We cannot on the one hand show to cast me olf discourteously"? Ideas for the young. No young man very air. It would have shocked his
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that,
Nor is
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