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THE

DAILY SHORT STORY

Fame Interferes

Je

Was Hiram Adams, the man who HIRAM ADAMS, numbered among

the dozen or so most famous could have. his choice of heiresses and people in the world because of his re- titled names from any country in the cent achievement in spanning the world, in love with a country bumpkin? Globe by air in record time, was twen- Had he fallen in love at last 7 Who ty-eight years old and a bachelor when was Constance Berkley anyhow? he landed in Mountain Falls, Me. The

town was not much more than a bean.. hole on the map. Hiram had gone there for relaxation and rest. No one, for awhile, knew of his whereabouts.

Reporters swarmed into Mountain Falls. They harried Miss Constance Berkley until that poor, innocent coun- try.lass was too bewildered to speak. They wanted to know what her answer Was she going When, the second night after his was to the message. arrival, he was introduced to Miss to invite Hiram back to Mountain school Falls? Constance Berkley, the local teacher, he used the assumed name of Hiram Little-Little being his mother's maiden name.

Miss Berkley gasped for breath. "Why why of course I'd like to

Constance Berkley was sweet and have him come and see me I-

But that was enough. Hiram read kind and modest, and there's no tell- the newspaper reply to his message on ing what sort of romance might have the front page of every sheet he look- He confronted developed during the fortnight Hiram ed at that evening. planned to stay. But two days later the army of reporters who were clam- news hound discovered him, and ouring to know when and how and if he would leave for Mountain Falls, Would A week later, realising that there he cancel his engagements? wasn't much use trying to escape, be-

&

Hiram fled.

When

ing lionised when you are famous, would the announcement be made? Hiram sat in a Los Angeles hotel and Hiram began to feel as bewildered

By Barbara Ann Benedict

Mountain Falls had become a city.

wrote a series of letters, replying to as had Miss Berkley. He saw that, if various invitations he had received he was to have any peace, he'd better from prominent people. He finished get to Mountain Falls in a hurry. He the last one, sat thoughtfully a mo- left. that night by plane. ment, then dashed off a note to Con- stance Berkley, apologising for his.. hasty departure from Mountain Falls. Hiram had a hard job getting into the He inserted all the letters in envelopes house where Constance lived, but pre- and sealed them and handed them to a gentdly he found himself alone with messenger. boy who stood by.

"Deliver these in person," he in- structed the boy.

The messenger, a lad named Ray Clarendon, glanced at the addresses on the envelopes when he got outside the room, saw the one addressed to Miss Constance Berkley in Mountain Falls, pursed his lips and whistled softly.

her. They looked at each other, in em- barrassment. Hiram cleared his throat.

"The fact is, Miss-er Constance-I intended to come back, anyhow."

"You did?"

every

"I've been thinking of you minute, trying to figure out some way that I could escape and come back. had something terrifically important that I wanted to say:10-

What

"Well," he thought. “I've always

"Really." She hesitated, smiled and wanted to see this country of ours, and this is my chance. Deliver these in glanced through the window. “They person, Mr. Adams said. Humm" solved your problem, didn't they?

About coming back, I mean. Ray was a bright lad. He delivered was it you wanted to say?” all the local messages and then he ap proached one of the news hounds who "Well the fact is you didn't know was hanging around the lobby of who I was before and-and-can you Hiram's. hotel. ·

believe that I love you?"!

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"I've a letter here for Miss Con- Miss Constance Berley looked shock- stance Berkley in Mountain Falls, Me., ed. But not shocked enough. Women from Hitam Adams, to be delivered in don't shock as easily these days person," he said. "But I haven't any they used to.. money to get there."

At any rate, a lad named Ray Claren The news hound looked at the letter don was head usher at the wedding. and looked at Ray and said: 'Sonny, (Copyright, 1938, By The Associated come with me.”

Newspapers.)

That night the evening edition of one of the larger Los Angeles papers. carried a scoop. Hiram Adams, the scoop said, had dispatched a messenger to a girl in Mountain Falls, Me., bear- ing a personal letter. The messenger was even now speeding over the dark countryside in a chartered plane. What did the message contain? Had Hiram had a romance when hiding out in Maine that he had been keeping a dark secret? Was the letter a proposal of marriage?

The next day a hundred reporters besieged Hiram. He couldn't deny the letter or the messenger; and on secont thought he'd better not say what he thought of a kid who hadn't any more sense than to jump to such fantastic conclusions.

Speculation ran riot. - Radio stations worked ovartime, Telegraph wires hummed. The world was agog.

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