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EDVARD 71AR3HALL with photographs \J§ |?w
FROM T/\E PLAY Of GEORGE M.COMN FRO HLSBISLS^I^^S^ 7
SYNOPSIS.
Jackson Jones, nicknamed '‘Broadway"
fcecau»e,..pt h(,@ continual gioriftuuUup of
Now York’s great t):or.*;g!rfar t -.. is anx
ious to get away from hla home town of
Jonesville. Abner Jones, his uncle, is
■Very angry because Broadway refuses to
settle dosvn and take>a place in the gum<
factory in which; he succeeded to iiis
CHAPTER ll.—Continued.
Back of Whipple’s drpg store was
the unofficial clubroonj off the , gayer
[youth of Jonesville, who demanded
something less sordid than the two
grim saloons or the tavern barroom.
To the drug store Broadway retreated
He found it more than usually ani-’
mated. While he had been in the se
clusion of Judge Spotswood's study
one of .the rare, dramatic episodes
which Jonesville ever knew had come
to pass—being imported from the out
er world, of course. Aj touring car
had taken at too high a speed a
“thank ye ma'am - * provided by the
town authorities for the purpose of re
tarding motorists who endeavored to
escape from deputy sheriffs. The re
sult. had been that the car’s occupants
had left it without intention, gone up
ward, cleaving the night air to heights,
and, coming down, hqd found them
selves almost simultaneously in’a mud
hole and a deputy’s custody.
Having paid their fines for speeding
and rescued their somewhat battered
motor, they now were being bandaged.
It was characteristic of the general
state of Jonesville’s mind that the vis
itors had first been fined; repairs for
their bruised heads being looked at as
a secondary matter.
The unfortunates numbered two, and
they had told the fining and exultant
Judge of the peace that they were son
and father, giving their names as
Grover and Robert Wallace. Robert
was of not much more than
Jackson’s age.
The drug store crowd was listening
"with huge delight to their subdued ex
pressions of wrath. But with Broad
way’s entrance the younger of the vic
tims recognized a member of his own
Indefinable fraternity. Within two min
utes the young men were “old chap”
to each other, which is a congenial
pign.
“How’s your machine?” asked Broad
way.
“Havent’s looked it oven very care
fully.”
'Tf it’s out of business, I’ll get my
rim,about and tow you ten miles down
the road. There's a good hotel there,
and a repair man who knows his busi
ness could help you out the first thing
In tho inorTiipg ”
No such Service proved to be neces
snrv. in' 'fact - ' the stranger’s car' was
In such unexpectedly good condition
[that its owners insisted upon taking.
[Broadway with them to his gateway.
They reached it simultaneously with
Clara Spotswood and Josie Richards,
who were now engaged in that inef
ficient but delightful see-sawing which
frequently occurs when a girl-friend
[takes a girl-friend home. Clara had
Mrs. Spotswood.
rwalked home with Josie, Josie had
part way home with Clara,
Clara bad gone part way back with
her. They had gradually come almost
a midway standstill in front of the
’Jones place.
While the elder Wallace took ad
[vantage of tho halt to make one more
(examination of the car, before plung
ing off into the darkness of the sur
jfouitding farming country, Jackson in
troduced his new-made friend to the
[two girls, and they stood laughing in
tnsequentially. The young city man
is much impressed by the two pret
country girls, and the two pretty
nntrjr girls, especially Clara Spots
Iwood, were delighted with the youth
who had been brought so dramatically
to their attention.
They went along before the elder
(gentleman was satisfied that every
thing was certainly all fight, but at a
distance which they felt sure made
hem Invisible in the soft gloom of the
Ipunmer night they paused, with man}
a suppressed giggle, to look back at
the group, each member of which was
now and then shown sharply against
the background of Cimmerian dark
ness As he chanced to pass into the*
radius of one or the other of the car’s
headlights. ? (
"I think he’s absolutely too hand
some!” Clara whispefed cfiutlously.
“I’ve always thought so,” Josie an
swered, , r
’ Oh‘, silly! “T mean young Mr. Wal
lace: And Robert's. Such a sWeet
name! It’s almost the same as ‘Robin’
.—'Robin’ Adair, you know? How she
maust have loved him!” > -
'Robert or Robin?” Josie asked.
“Robin, of course. She sang the
song about him. But Robert's just as
pretty, and it doesn’t make you think
of birds and worms."
Josie burst into partially stifled tit
ters, and Jier friend grasped her arm
*n giggling wrath to force her into a
wild scamper down the dpsky, fragrant
village street. When they had once
fallen to a tyalk, Josje remarked,
unwittingly:,
“You’re very silly. He’s not half as
good looking as Jackson, and you know'
it. Only we see Jackgon every day,
and—” *
: • - '-l , ■ ■ *'
"O-h-h-h!” said Clara. ‘‘l’ve suspect
ed that for a long time!”
“Suspected what? Keep quiet!”
were tpe contradictory remarks of her
best friend. Then: “And I’m going to
be so lonely after he has gone! I’d like
to cry. I almost did. Think of all the
girls he’ll meet there in the city! Oh.
I hate New York!"
“You’ve never been there.”
“No. But I’ve heard about the girls
there. Lots —of —them —drink-—cock-
tails. And I hate that street he’s al
ways talking of —Broadway!” Then,
suddenly, and, to the amazement of her
friend, who instantly was filled, how
ever, with a perfect understanding,
Josie burst into tears, and, with a
quick *;Good night,’? rushed toward
her home. <
Before they parted the city youth
ggye Broadway his card,
.“You’ve been very nice, old chap.
Come to see mo when you strike New
York.”
“It’s absolutely certain —-and I’m
coming in a year.”
To his amazejnent, the evepts of this
extraordinary night had not yet ceased
for Broadway Jones. He walked down
the street toward home, filled With
longing for the'-rear's end, and found
Sammy, Clara’s small brother, asleep
upon his doorstep.
“Hi, Sammy!" he cried, shaking- a
fit phoulder. ’■ ■■ - ...
“Yes—sir; I’m goiq'wto—be-4like
— K “the boy begin before he was en
tirely awake.
r , “l know, like Rip Van Winkle. But
he didn’t take his nap upon a doorstep.
Why aren’t you at home, in bed?”
Sammy rubbed his eyes. With mad
dening deliberation he informed Broad
way that the judge had sent him, with
instructions to find Broadway and tell
him he wished to see him. “He —said
—it—didn’t —make —no — difference
how —late.”
“What! As near midqight as this?
Child,, it's almost ten o'clock! All
Jonesville is asleep.”
“He —says —for —you —to —come. I’m
—goinV
WneVeupon he went. / J
Jackson followed speedily. Such a
summons from the judge,- at such an
hour must, bode something cata
clysmic.
He found a worried judge pacing up
and down his office floor.
‘‘ln the offlfce, at this hour! You real
ly want to see me, Judge?”
“Yes," said the old man firmly. “I've
determined tbai I Will, not be a party
to deception.”
“Who’s been deceived, judge?”
“Jackson, yoqr father’s will gives
you his foftufie when you’re twenty
one, not when you’re twenty-two. Your
uncle wished to Leep it from you. Ido
not think you ought to have ft now,
but you’re entitled to it.”
Byoadwgy gazed with a dropped jaw;.
“Judgq, Ilm getting all mixed up. You
say I get it when I’m twenty-one?
Why, I'm twenty-one already!”
“I know you are. I know you are.
I never saw the document until today.
It was drawn up by Boston lawyers.
And at first I thought I’d do exactly as
your uncle asked —let you think it was
as he had said it was. But I’ve thought
it over and it seems to me you'd ought
to know.”
Broadway merely stood and stared.
“Your uncle thought that he was
acting for the best," the judge insisted.
“He's been hoping you would settle
down. When you didn’t, he thought
Jie’d steal a year from you, and give
you one more-chance. When he told
me this tonight, I told him that I didn’t
think it was just right; and—finally—
well, you know It all now.”
Broqdway found the power of
speech. “Good old Judge!"
“Then you’re not angry?”
“I’m too happy to be angry. Got a
time table about you?”
“Jackson, Jonesville was named aft
er your ancestors.”
“Well, I don’t like to live in It. I
know a chap named Bright. Very like
ly Bright’s disease was named after
his ancestor, but I presume he doesn't
want to die of it. Judge, Jonesville is
an ailment.”
The Judge, infinitely relieved, now
COFFEE COUNTY PROGRESS. DOUGLAS, GEORGIA.
that he had made a cleadfiireast of the
thing, leaned back in dife chair and
laughe<|. ■ Jj
, what are you going to do?”
“When can I get that
“The trustees will hqvft to pay it on
demand.”
Jackson: laughed witjb’A'are delight
"Uncle’s one of them. Hep' it will pain
his fingers when he it out tfe
me! I’m going defiiipd! And I
■want to; start tomorrows I want to
start tonight, but I anf treasonable. I
won't w ake the old man tip. ' But while
you go to get the, money-fin the morn
ing, I’ll, get set at the town line, wait
ing for ybri to bring it jo;,me, ready to
get, anyway, GO yards ouj|of th 4 town
ship within 60 seconds. How I wish I
really could sprint!” \ ;
“Broadway!”
“I know, judge, but let me tell you
why I hate Jonesville and how. You
knew my [mother?"
“A splendid woman, Broadway.”
“Everyone says that; but, you see, I
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..... Josie and Broadway Jones.
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didn't kfiow her. And my father died
when I was twelve.”
“A magnificent man, Broadway."
“Yes, I guess be was the best bet in
the yitfage.”
“ffoor chap! [He never was the
same after your nrother’s death.”
“Then Uncle Abner took me. He
couldn’t absolutely boss me, for certain
moneys had been left with which spe
cific things were to be done for me. He
had to have me educated at the schools
and college which my father designat
ed?”
“And he disapproved of them.”
“I know he did. A sheepskin from
Jonesville academy is his idea of the
evidence of the higher education for a
Jopes —along with side details on first
Aid to a stick of chewing gum.”
“He always wished to have you take
an interest in the gum business.”
. J did, till another kid slipped me a
sli<*k one day, when I was absent-mind
ed, and I began to chew it. Then and
there I made up my mind to devote
piy life’s endeavor to something which
would not stick in your teeth. Judge
Spotswood, lobsters don’t.”
“My boy, I wish you never had seen
New York!”
“No, you don’t, Judge, you wish' you
Were going with me when I start.”
‘‘Are you going to stay away?”
“Uncle says that in these days each
man should have a specialty if he
Wbuld be successful. I’m going to
specialize on staying out of Jonesville.
I’m hoping for success."
‘Have you no friends herb whom
yoti dislike to leave?”
“You and the judgess, judge, and
Ciaa-a. I’ll miss Josie, too. And there
are some dow r n at the factory. Bill
Higgins, I like him. He used to enter
tain me when we went in swimming
and he got the cramps. Awfully funny
when he had the cramps, Bill was;
peevish but very funny. I shall miss
Bill. But Jonesville, as a whole, judge
—l’m not going to miss Jonesville, ex
cept the way a man may miss a tooth
that has been pulled for cause.”
The judge sighed. “Well, I had to
tell you.”
The young man looked at him with a
strange earnestness. “Judge, would
you get mad if I should kiss you?"
“And you are really going, right
away ?”
“It’B going to be the quickest get
away Connecticut ever heard of.”
CHAPTER 111.
Almost as speedily as he had told
the judge he would, Broadway pre
pared to leave Jonesville. There was a
stormy session when the old lawyer
told Abner Jones that he had made the
revelation to the boy, but the old man’s
threats against him were quickly si
lenced when the judge reminded him
! he had proposed to him was
fraud and that an action for conspiracy
might be brought against him.
The car whee’l3 sang to Broadway
as he journeyed w-est and southward.
He gave cigars to the conductor, to
the trainmen, to the efigineier as soon
as the train waited long enough for
him to get to him. He bbugjit air the'
newsboy's phpors. novels, magazines
and sent him through the cats to give
them to the ladies. Then, qn his. tei
turn, alight with smiles, he bought the
last ounce of hfs candy and; told him
to appropriate it to the use lof hifi own,
sweet-tooth.
Arriving in New York a red-cappefl
station-porter saw fbtan from afar and
recognized the strong financial caatdle
power of his expanding- smile. Gal
vanized into extraordinary action he
rushed toward him, calHng to.! two/
friends to join him instantly and help
him bear the two bags Broadway car- :
rled. The traveler had to give the
third negro his hat, so that he might |
seem to earn his tip; but ifo did this
gladly, The taxi-cabman flew, scram- 1
ling from his box, at the mere intona- 1
tion of the porters’ voices.
“Where ton sir?” he inquired. .
"Is this New York?" his fare asked,
smiling gently in a way which made
the chauffeur think he was a wan
derer, returned unto his own, and wish
ful of facetiousness.
“You bet it is; just little old New
York.”
“I thought so. It seems so familiar.
Well, I want to go to Broadway.”
“What part of Broadway, sir?” (Ob
serve that thi3 Grand Central taxi-cab
man persistently said “sir.” It was a
tribute; Broadway knew it was a trib
ute and it warmed his heart.)
“Oh, all of it.”
“Takq you to all of Broadway?”
Even the taxircabman was astonished.
“I want to look it over, for I’m going
to buy it if I like it as much as I ai
ways have.”
The cabman eyed him shrewdly, de
cided that he was quite sane and
sober, resolved to tie to him with a
tenacity which never coujd be shaken
off, climbed to his narrow seat be
neath its narrow hood and yanked
down the flag upon the taximeter.
"My name is Gridley, sir,” he volun
teered.
“You may fire when ready, Gridley,”
Broadway answered, and then Gridley
pulled the lever.
Before the day was over Jackson
Jones had bought a forty-horsepower
limousine, a sixty-horsepower touring
car and a runabout. Gridley had
turned in his resignation to his com
pany and been measured for five suits
of livery, of expensive cloth, exclusive
rut, extraordinary color. Having done
this he had asked a girl to marry him,
had been accepted, had taken sixteen
drinks and gone to sed her mother, had
then been thrown out a jilted man and
had returned to Broadway Jones, de
termined to live single and attached
to him forever. The episodes had so
bered him and he was quite himself
when Broadway asked him w hat apart
ment he would recommend for living
quarters.
“Quiet place?” he asked.
“Not for your new employer,” Broad
way answered. “I want it to be on
Joy street, between Happy boulevard
and Don’t Care alley. The noisier the
better if the noise is always laughter.
I want it named The Smile and I want
It furnished in bright red. Take me
somewhere where they’ll sell me a
good butler —fancy brand, no matter
what the price I want a butler who
can go and buy a home for me —a
home that glitters and is glad. Throw
on the high-speed clutch.”
Gridley took him, in his
car (which ran ap smoothly and as
noiselessly and swiftly as a ejtmera j
swims), to an employment agency
which he had heard abqut, and there
Broadway signed tho lease for an ex
traordinary person, principally named
Rankjn. He .looked Jike a bishop,
talked like a British lord, walked like
a major-general, bowed, like a diplo
RIGHT IN LINE OF TRUTH
Mr. Timidity Not Guilty of Deception,
and Need Have No Fear of
Libel Suit.
Mr. Timidity once had the rnisfor
’ tune to figure as a defendant in a
j libel action, and since then he has
! been remarkably cautious with his
| pen. Some little time ago he was
! obliged to dismiss his servant, and
| subsequently the lady who thought
j of engaging the domestic wrote to
I Mr. T. for the girl’s character.
Now, Mr. T. might have said a good
| many things, but —he remembered
i that libel suit A week or so later
a lady called upon him in anything
; but an amiable temper.
“I've called for an explanation, Mr.
; Timidity," she began. “I engaged a
1 girl solely on your recommendation,
: only to find she’s worthless. You said
j that, like other girls, she had her
faults—“
“She has, madam!”
“I’m aware of it. But this is also
an extract from your letter: ‘ln one
or two departments she excels.' What
mat, never smiled, always'said “Yes,’
sir,” and “thank you, sir,” whenever
tberp r w’as roopi, (or. these impressive
WoroS, was ready--be-measured fair
as many suits of livery as had been
ordered for the jpbauffeur and assured
his new employer that it ‘would gjve
him pleasure both to find and furnish
an apartment -for him.
* When wil/ you have it ready for*
Ah”
r "Tomprrow iqorning, sir.”
“Then you know . what . apartment
you fire going' to take?”
“Not yet, sir. Breakfast at, say,
ten, sir - ’”
. . ’‘Rankjn, you .wylifdn. .AlaKe it elev
en. Engage a cook and second-man.”
j “I have already telephoned for them,
! sir.”
j "I have raised your Wages, “Rankin,
for long and faithful service. Let me
see —you’ve been with me forty min
-1 utes. See to it that you do as well
in future.” •
I “I shali, sir; and I hope you’ll do
I the same, sir.”
“Find Mr. Robert Wallace in the tel
ephone hook. He[a in ,Qje advertising
business."
A moment later Rankin turned back
from the ifitle table lit the sldte of the
large parlor which supplied headquar
ters for the ex-Jonesvillian for the
time being. “I have him on the wire.
. ~ •• « - <
sir.
“I’ll talk to him.”
Broadway took the telephone re
ceiver from his butler's hand .and cried
into the mouthpiece: “Hello! Is that
you, Robert Wallace? . . . Well,
this is Jackson Jones. . . , Yesj
the same you met in Jonesville when
they pinched you, that reckless night
whqn ypu were driving at four miles
an hour. . . . No; I’ve come down
to stay. I’m asking you to dine with
me tomorrow evening. . . . Can you
come? Good. I'll telephone
again, tor have niy tnlt.ler telephone,
and let you know just where. . . .
All right. Fine! .v . , Goodby.”
Robert Wallace "was his guide, his
mentor and his friend for some four
weeks. After that he was his friend
and mentor, but resigned as guide, for
Broadway took the reins. He had a
passion and a genius for investigating
metropolitan affairs of lightsome pa
ture. -The business marts of Gotham
were offensive to him, He thought it
silly for mankind to waste its time
in work and said so. The teeming fas
cination of the far sides of the town,
so dear to sociologists who love hu
man nature best after it has sweated
or suffered off’ Its va+hish, found ho
devotee in him; he could not under
! stand why entire families should live
in huddled rooms on Essex street when
human being who dared less. Why,
he never counts the money 'on his
dresser in the morning. Just throws
it there when he gets into bod, and —”
The Japanese laughed merrily. “You
gettin lich!"
“No; you little lieatlien; I only know
he roes i>t, that is aili. I Yitack it up
for Jliin. Some|imes’ 1J“ throws it all
about—that and his qlothes and fur
niture. He’s often merry that way.
He threw me about one night. A fine,
strong youth! I thought it better not
to say much till he went to sleep, and
then; as' r crawicT tmf-frnm under tha
there were large apartments vacant in
the great hotel flat house next door
to the vast mansion inhabited by Mfs.
Jack Gerard oh stfoct.
Mrs. Jack Gerarj was-an lads qf
incredible wep'JGv, whq tried to hold
Time's hand in pause. That she had
failed find befp aft faljlt of h«rs or of
the IjqaHjty pafi-loijs*l>^etosmeMc}makers.
L- “The* •' wouitj’ .Jp! jsq ffiueh?i>>t>re com
fortable if they would go where they
would have more room,” Jackson con
tinued, in further comment on the very
poor, and would not listen to the ear
nest soul which tried to offer explana
tions.
fTO 15E <*,(4NT£N»ED.) >
[ do you mean by that, may I ask?"
"Well, madam, she eats well—”
“Good gracious! I should think she
does!”
“Very welt, madam. She also sleeps
well —and those are the departments
referred to!”
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air, in an attempt to hold it down. As
the kite lifted him off his feet he
seemed powerless to release his hold
and was carried aloft, while his moth
er. who was present, shrieked and Im
plored the inventor to save her son.
The kite rose quickly to a height of
about fifty feet, with the boy dangling
at the end of the cord and screaming
for help. Then suddenly it dipped,
and when it was at a height of about
twenty feet the boy let go. He
crashed heavily to the ground and
was picked up suffering from sevtrw
internal injuries.
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Described.
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“What I have to pay for your moth
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H
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The Beggar—-Oh, lady—a halfpenny
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,—
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