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MOMENT PAGE
6,
1938.
AYANK AT OXFORD
HALSEY RAINES,
Copyright is by Love's Ze
WHAT HAS HAPPENED 50 FAR Lon Bheridan, whose Oxford carcar has been marked by a bitter personal joud with Paul Baumont, brother of the girl whom he loves, ia diamilased from college when ho osvapor raspon- ability for a visit paid to Paul <' his rooma by Bian Craddock, a young married woman. It the avo of the Osford-Cambridge Ture, and Lon's father, Dan, hos come to Kingland from Kansas for the thrift of avcing his boy paricipate. When Lan explaina indingraco, Dan shrawdly Ronsea that ho in attempting to ahtold someone. Ele guon to tul lp Bogument, and adya they must ork out soma way to save Loo together,
Chapter Twelve
Einn Craddock was alone an Dan Sherkias entered bor bookshop, an hour later. She displayed no inter- est on the elderly man began to browse around. Dan appraised her for a moment, then picked up n book and went over to the deak. "Send thin up to Dan berkan'n nt The Mitre, will you?*
Rhérulant Ban exclaim.
ed startled,
ban pretended not to noŭce her atoutalement. "Yent. I've put a boy her, Lee Sheridan. Kaow him?**
"I do, luderd."
Hid, in't
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MOTUAS
book-shop and are moving to Al- darehot. He thinks there'll be less tempiation thore. But I have à con- aelenco. I couldn't go without telling the truth.
Astounded, the Dean paced up and down, fingers prossed to him temples.
"Amazing! Unbelievable!" he mut-
tored."
"I've nothing to gain by telling an untruth!" Elsa Insinted.
The Doan stopped pacing. "Don't misunderstand me," be naid. "What I fall to grasp is why young Sherl dan accepted the blame,
"Oh. you know what men are. Dean. They never give each other awny."
At that moment, the door opened. It was Marmaduke Wavertree. He confronted the Denn with a multe
"You rest for the, air?"
"The oftenne." the Dani am slowly, "of entertaining n Indy in your tootma is a grave DEC."
Wavertree appeared completely dlayed. "Me, nir? Oh, no, nie he protented, "That's one thing I have never done. Sorry, air-bat it never occurred to me."
Ina nudged him. "Marmaduke, how can you?" she remonstrated.
Wavertree looked at her blankly. "We were foolish," Elan continu- ed. "But it was only a Mirtation"
The Denn controlled bis anger. "Don't do to me, sir!" he burst int Mira. Crintdoek fine freely conferredů everything."
Suddenly Wavertree understond, ha ha bald delightedly, "What reitet, air Naturally, I had to protect a woman, but now 1
Your son. Mr. Moridan. in need De no more
great gentleman."
ally.
"And you allowed nauthey man to take the blare for that Mr Waver- free, an ghast the Dean ex-
Don benned. "Well, I'm glad to hen you may no." He suddenly, beeinted. vane confidential, "You know," be
"'in aura you are, vir," was the awning up. You never bežiavn when 1 do."
abght to be sure at him reply, "hit it dkin't seem any good, Here I've come five thousand miles to see him row nyninat Cambridge) nad what do I find? That he's been kicked out for being caught with n
Not long afterwards, Paul Beau-
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Hiri."
"We're gaining, inen," the coxswain cried. "Give everything you've got!"
mont hurried to Lora Fontan, Teen, looking roodily at a letter he had written, atarted as he saw who hin
lita exprension vinter was and forbidding, Paul crossed
Elsa fidgeted. "Did...did he tell you who it was?"
Buddenly Dan soomed to sen tar the first time the name of the caves of a book or the desk. "Creddock Lic make wila puzzled Inok. "Seinn like that was the name tenne longer, Paul extended his Ho inotted up. "Could you be Elsa Craddock?"
П
"Yes, I am." she answered de murely.
Dan pretended great admiration, "Well, don't that heat everything! Now I certainly don't blame him. Didn't know Lec won such a good plcker."
Elen became serious. "But I ns. aure you, Mr. Sheridan, there was nothing wrong."
roam
Suddenly, unable to carry the pr
hand. "Yank, I'd like to shaits your hand!" he naid huskily
In face reflecting film cufarion, Lee Look it.
Thay, what is this he demanded. -Pralinghed. "Bo you'd steal my tel, would you" I've just seen Elan. she went to the Dean and con fenard."
Lee was startled, "Confessed! But that menas you'll be sent down."
"Oh, no. It doesn't. Rho put it on Dan waved this anido. "Of courne Wavertree."
IND Lee grinned the iden per not! Not with a girl like you. I'm mighty gind Lee's made such a nicamented.
"Come on, laugh!" Paul urged. friend,"
"It's good of you to understand." "Wavertreo's got what he Bisa snid warmly.
You'ra reinstated, and now we'l beat Cambridge nil halleg
Han
"Elen put it on Wavertree?" Lee repeated, alowly. & paruxyvin of
"Sure I understand," responded the vinitor wistfully. "And if you ank me, it's pretty tough, Leen ge- Ling fired just becauan ho falls for taughter shook him. Their innghtor the prettiest girl in town." Ho sigh was interrupted by a knock at the
ed deeply, "Hurd on mo, too door. It was Wavertren who e- coming all this way to see him win that race."
By now ina was quite upset. "You must feel drenarul."
"Yeah," Dan nodded. "I counted pretty heavy on the boy's making good over liere."
"Oh, dear!" Einn was on the verge of tenta "I wish there was come- thing I could do."
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tered, looking very depressed.
"One
to Oxford, Mr. Wavertree," Lea said, "but one in sent down."
Wavertree looked as it the end of the world had coine,
"Gentle
יד
ho
"One nut," he said. then, you see a broken man' Dean said that, in coneldera: on of iny feeblo Intelinet, which on. t dis
wrat". "I wish thero wao," Dan groaned. tinguish right from "Y'know, I was just thinking to would → fina min one pound!"
Dejectedly, Wavertree panic Into myself...hero's a clover woman. If there was any way out, aho'd find a chair. His last hape of maintni-
lag the family tradition of exmil It."
now rhat- "Oh, I've thought and thought, sion from Oxford
tored. but...
"Well, that's mighty kind of you. Now, maybe if we were to put our
somewhere."
race
дя
Thousands Uned the banka of the heads together...we might get Thames on the day of the great between Oxford and Cant. bridge, Tachta and barges on the river were a flutter with flag. Mol- ly and Dan; together, watched proudly, na the crews, Cambridge ilghtly ahoad, swept on toward the finish line.
Elsa eat thoro, Thinking hard. Dan watched her anxiously. Bad donly an idea coomed to strike her. "There's only one way," the mu Iered, almost to herself,
"I know there'd be something Dan axclaimed.
"But I'm afraid,"
"What? A girl of your spirit?" Eisa was distraught. "Oh, I te so want to help you."
"Woll, then, with that kind heart of yours, you will, won't you?"
"f'm...I'll try." wan the hesitant reply.
In the Oxford shell, with Leg at stroke, and Paul In the number seven position just behind him, tho coxswain urged the crow on. Thun- deroun roars rolled across the elvar, and Molly and Dan excitedly joined In cheering for Oxford.
with
Lee's face was strained agony, his teeth gritted.
"We're galning, mont" the cux- wain cried, "Give overything you've frot!"
Don took her hand. He raised it to his lips and, gallantly, he kind it. "Thank
ma'am," he said
"I'm going to raise the best!" brokenly. "Thanks Π thousand times. You've made an old man vory Loo panted.
Slowly, Incl by inch, the Oxford happy."
Blowly he turned and went out. shell moved up on in time-honored Once beyond sight of the bookallon, rivals. The Thames was a bedlam of sound ne Oxford caught, then however, he expression changed. passed Cambridge, and alld over the He hurried around a corner, to aliina a winner, Completely exliausted spot where Molly was waiting.
by their Herculean efforts, tha "Did it work?” she asked eagerly. Towars dropped their onre. Panl "know" Dan and, grinning. Beaumont had just enough strength the little lady has her godu points, loft to clasp Leo's hand before he It wouldn't surprise me if we found collapsect. With a feeling of undilut nd triumph he had never known be alie's got a heart of gold,”
Dan was more or less right. A foro, Lee Sheridan waved happily fow hours later Elea sat before the to Molly and Dan, whose arma wore Donni, her head bowed in contri- around each other, out on the river's
bank. tion.
"My husband han tergiven mo,"
hic sald, sobbing, "We've sold tho
THE END.
GAS-MASK
the digided shade of D.
Somusi
Julinson esperanted a severut it.-
NIGHTMARE
carnation, and returned to the real What Would
textetate's Jogmer
London
Imats, his fratik impressions of our
and
-
Dr.
life might be both interesting Johnson Think?
He would a mproving
directions. Jnany Kering duly 1 and many of them would, one appre- bends, disgust him tagely.
By "AN OLD STAGER"
to
Some
ave mellow of reassuring. what packy London population, The stunt journals have been so In-t Stent in printing horrifle tales of
the fearful effects of polson-gas that some people have apparently rom- pletely lost their nerve.
He might wax extremely anathe matical for certain over our up-10-
that nowadays le date sex equality ideas, which would atenge his deepest sense of logh al civilium of all ages and both sexes reality
pinetillous instine! mug well within the lethal perime Wat widely caculated story about the fer of violent warfare
Doctor spitting out the bot suup th Dr. Johnson might conclude that purely Bellous would be revolted, avitisation, during the century aud to, by the spectacle of young and a half since he viewed it of earth, elderly lathes performing their tolles had not advanced but receded Undly al making-up in public. On that He might conclude that, with such theme ons can imagine him being practices extant in twentieth-century almost rufe.
Boys What the journalistle Fat overlook is that poison-gas bombard- ment, so far as this country is con- cerned, ran only be attempted by air,
and that by nie the thing is not feast-| It is in a vulpr phrase ofj which Dr Jahr son would disapprove, "not dom in duri-shooting. IL I Probable the Doctor would reprove! panle-mongees and Heurn patky ones with equal vigour,
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After all it is true that we all "owej Europe, our great capitals invited God a death," and surely Hamlet' would feel him is the fate of the doomed cities of the is the right frame of mind for a gal- How Hying more doubtful
TE is tad conerly Plain, Sodom and Gomorean coul! kant people" "It it be now, 'tis not
effendes to come; if it be not to come, it will; able that he would regard it as a not have more belaously.
be now: if it be not now, yet it will impious piece of mechaniend pre- against divine low.
Dr. Johnson had a great awe Yet Dr Johnson would assuredly come." sumption, a mortal attempt to usurp The Rucnmotory privileges of angelie ascertain all the facts, and his solid of death, but assuredly his breastį Jungs
But though undoubtedly he telligence would at ance reject the would reject base panic. That would be august at the total of our absurd notion that Lendon stood in also, one fondly believes, the attitude rend coatsallies, the modern luxury any real danger of being gassed by of the majority of oven native Lon- Esine would certainly attract af altnek. The impossibility of thla doners.
is
One cannot answer for the
It is intriguing, on the lighter side
F: Dr Johnson declared that is abundantly clear even to far less East End allens. there we lew more pleasurable brainy people than Dr. Johnson. sensations than rapid travel inside a erally curfortable couch.
By the MTION
Pante-Mongers
--1
of this question, to speculate on to Dr. Johnson's comments when he
to
on saw, having as he had an eye for n One of the greatest cxperts chemical science hus told us that, pretty face, some of those Streatham It was thus he used on occasion to though the invading 'planes blacken factory giris trying on the gaa-musks, He would probably have regarded it twentieth- hideous satire on set out from the residence in seques- ed the sky above us, they could not tered Gough Court for Streatham, possibly drop enough poison gas to as
century ethics. risking the footpads and highway- have any serious effect on London.
is the Even more devastating Gate for It does not require that one should the avotund Kennington the sake of solid entertainment at be a chemical expert to realise that thought how the formidable Doctor the table of his friends the Thrales. no enemy would be so silly as to himself would have looked in a gus-
mask! Such
an apparition would ile spent many week-ends with these attempt that Impossible task when wealthy brewers of their Streatham it would be so much easier and safer probably have driven his faithful dis- strong potlon. mansion, Thrale Hall The shade of to pepper London with high explo- ciple, Boswell,
Thus The sheer impossibility of the great Liebeld's most illustrious son would give and incendiary bombs. even to-day and Thrale Hali still in the Ductor, like lesser living mortals, texleographer in gas-mark is the We may being. But he would indeed stare at would be greatly puzzled to under- criterion of twentieth-twenty civili- Is changed surroundings. It is now stand just why a paternal Govern- allon's boasted progress. herined in by a congestion of work- ment has spent so much time and have the miracles of mechanism and men's dwellings and unsightly sub- inoney on the manufacture of ty modern scientific research, but Dr. urbon streets. When Dr. Jolinson's million gas-masts that will never be Johnson and his contemporaries had the belter ethics and the sounder eyes knew it, the environment was wanted.
At any rate, I think semi-rustic and beautifully sylvan. Perhaps he might conclude that it nutlook on life.
What would astonist: the eminent was an elaborate and valter expen- Doctor, however, und Immensely puzzle him, is a near-by establish~ ment. This happens to be a factory where the almble Angers of hundreds of chic Bttle Cockney giris are turn- ing out almost a record number of gus-masks for the Government.
:-0.
YOUTH SPEAKS TO WHINERS
The word "discourteously" is quite we sulcient to make us think different-
It would be necessary, though a WE young people are a generation most unenviable task, to explain 10 of whiners. A lens,
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 at- to some be inclined to believe that quite a titude suggestive of dog baying the might hear him declaim cifcet in his most magisterial manner. large section of every community is moon. Military Instinct was by no means "fel up."
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or woman ever started out to accom- absent froth his make-up. There Love seems to be the trouble; und
What has gone wrong with us? plisy big things in a spirit of dis- was a rumour, to which Boswell eggoners tell us so in trenely tones alludes, that the Doctor as a young day after day. They inquire dole Are we only expressing very old dis- illusionment. The glory of youth
gallantly
appointments in the modern idlom? Jes in its belief in all thingst fully about the probability mna was "out" romantic 45 adventure of Prince happy issue out of all their offic- Perhaps. We may feel that a good dreams and aspirations, is love and Old age in the time for dis- Charlie. He has declared, moreover, tions; but one is tempted to hazard whine in our songs is infinitely pre- faith.
happy issue might ferable to a slow pining away such illusionment; and when that time that every man, if he were honest, the opinion that would confess to wishing that
spoil the quality of their singing, as the Maid of Neldpath suffered. comes we shall have a philosopby that will be proof against all that might have been a soldier.
Even lady crooners take up the strain Pining away is a luxury denied and Inform us that love in just an the young in this age of hustle and the world may ennsit for us. Illusion. Well, they may be right, blatoney. In any away is the out- Riding for a Fall
whine about it? But why
ward and visible sign of a case, the
We think of ourselven as a genera- But in Dr. Johnson's century,
Young people listen to this and cure for that is a visit to a psycho- which saw the campaigning prowess
and belters of the brilliant Marlborough, 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 pining trick to gain sympathy prac can show our elders
wrong. That has been the way of decencies associated with the tradi-are set. At one time the world read ised on us by the unconscious mind, where, poor souls, they have gone the youth since the beginning of time. tion of chivalry. The spirit of Roland the ballads and sang lie aongs of an Procale, no doubt but true.
All that apart, however, was still breathing in Europe.
unhappy love feeling the pathos and It would have humiliated Dr. beauty which is part of all sorrow. ecstrales that we associate with the But If we keep singing songs Johnson's belief in human nature to But there was a dignity about those tender pasalon are given to us in such which mutabilly and disillusion- 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 whine In the crooner that, we are becoming con- be forced to forsake ila attitude of the unclent prejudice against polson- the misery of n
vinced very early in life of the and tolerance and shake some sense into Ing the wells, modern warfare de- words:
"Alast my love, you do me wrong mutability of all things, Dangerous us instead.
We cannot on the one hand show liberately aimed at polsoning the
to cast me off discourteously!? ideas for the young. No young man very alr. It would have shocked ho
in
grey-beards where they have gone wrong, and on the other assure them of the impermanence of all in which to belleve. It youth la supposed doesn't make sense.
We have no right to whine! Of course there are those who sing with offensive Joviality about their seat on the top of the world. How very un-British and un-Scots! Our native caution. tells us that we do are riding for a fall when we that.
But surely there is some happy medium between crowing and whin-
crowing of a triumphant young man. ing "Mary Morison" is not the mere It is a humble and touching tribute to the sweetest of women. Nor is the "Mold of Neldpath" a whining ballad. It is a terrible tale invested with the dignity of real tragedy.
Crooners examine the old love- songs and sing them!
Olivia Clarko
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