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! he Man
From Home
A Novelizatlon of the Play
of the Same Name
By BOOTH TARKINGTON and
HARRY LEON WILSON
Copyright, 1909. by American Pre*
Association
' 1 CHAPTER XI.
▲ CI.ASH OF WILLS.
IT required some minutes for Dan
iel Voorhees Pike to get over the
amazement that possessed him
when Ethel fled from him tu such
evident confusion.
His usually alert mind seemed inca
pable of concerted effort in the proper
direction, and the dazed look on his
face remained there until Mariano
came to tell him that his rooms were
ready and that Herr von Grollerhagen
was awaiting him. Then for the first
time he awoke, and, with a sigh of res
ignation as he realized the battle he
had before him, he gave a curt order
that the automobile, which had broken
down on the road to the hotel, should
be placed in the entrance garden, for
he proposed to do some tinkering upon
it.
“If that don’t beat”— he muttered
to himself and then allow r ed the re
mark to remain unfinished, for he
could not imagine one thing that the
Incident could be supposed to have
beaten. It stood alone in a little hol
low' square by itself and positively re
fused to surrender to any comparison
whatsoever.
“And that—that—nine cent Imitation
of a man,” lie growled at last—“that
vilification upon the the genus
homo!” he finished, with a flash of
pride. Then he went off to his rooms
and tried to adjust himself to the mat
ter as he saw It and incidentally to
bring some of that astute legal train
ing gleaned from contact with farmers,
promoters and other citizens to bear
upon the case.
Horace in the meanwhile had walked
along the cliff, wrestling with the situ
ation as it appeared to him. There
was not the faintest doubt in hLs mind
that the noble earl would break off the
match because of the humiliation his
equally noble family had been sub
jected to by the incursion of this vul
gar guardian.
Hot and tired, he returned to the
hotel with some of his anguish worked
off and sought his sister. She. how
ever, was locked up In her own room
and would only Insist that he go away.
Bo It was from Lady Creech at last
that he gleaned some Inkling of what
had occurred.
It was nearly (I o'clock when he
made up his mind to search out Pike
and “have it out with the beggar.” as
he put it, and lie found the obstacle in
the entrance garden. As Horace came
upon the scene Pike was pounding
cheerfully with n hammer upon a bolt
head of the motor car.
He was in his shirt sleeves and wore
a long workman’s smock close but
toned at the neck. From between his
teeth came the unfamiliar strains of
“The Blue and the Cray.” With a
revulsion of feeling Horace approached
him.
“Mr. Pike!” he said politely.
“One lies down at Appomattox,”
went on the song, and Horace stamjied
impatiently upon the turf.
“Mr. Pike! Mr. Pike! I wish a
word with you!” Horace went on, quite
angrily. Pike looked up mildly and
regarded Horace with interest.
“Eh?” he said and moved to the
other side of the machine, rubbing his
lean chin with the handle of a monkey
wrench.
“I wished to say that the surprise of
this morning so upset me that 1 went
for a long walk. I have just returned,”
said Horace.
lie waited expectantly, but Mr. Pike
went on abstractedly, “One wore
clothes of pray,” and seemed to be ab
sorbed In his work, so that Horace
was forced to pro on.
"I have been even more upset by
what 1 have just learned.”
‘‘Why. that’s too bad," answered
Pike, fishing for a nut In the bottom
of the tonneau.
"It is too bad—absurdly—monstrous
ly bad! Lady Creech tells me that my
sister did you the honor to present
you to the famjly with which we are
forming an alliance —at least to a por
tion of it”—
"Yes, sir.” answered Pike, “and
promised to present me to the whole
possetucky of ’em”—
“I'll not listen to you!” cried Horace
In a rage. "And I warn you that we
shall act without paying the slightest
attention to you!”
Pike straightened up a trifle.
“l'our sister kind of hiuted in her
letter that you think a good deal of
this French lady—the widow. I sup
pose you have made up your mind to
take heritor richer cr eh?
what’s she going to give you?”
Horace stopped short In horrified
amazement.
“Why, I thought you’d charge her
something—just a little. Ain’t that the
way over here?”
“It seems impossible for you to un
derstand our motives in trying to lift
ourselves aliove the common herd.
You are trying to interfere between us
and tlie fine flower of Europe,” went
on Horace excitedly.
Pike straightened up and looked him
In the eye quizzically.
"I never heard none of the folks
around Kokomo speak of your pa as
a ‘fine flower,’ but we thought a heap
of him, and when he married your ma
he was glad to get her. and 1 never
heard that he asked for any settle-
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*THE CARABINIERI BEG THAT YOU WILL ORDER THE CHAUFFEUR TO
STEF FORTH FROM THE MACHINE .”
rnent. When she took him he was a !
poor man, but if he’d had $750,000 I'll
bet he’d ’a’ given it for her.”
Horace turned short about and re
tired from the scene. It was evidently
Impossible to argue with this plebeian.
As he went toward the gates he met
A1 meric and Lady Creech and inform
ed them eloquently of the ill success
of his attempt to reason with the law
yer. Then he went out again to the
cliff.
Almeric accompanied him a few
steps and then turned off to the vil
lage, for he said he simply must take
another look at that pup. And Lady
Creech announced that she intended
to have “forty winks” in her own
room. Five minutes later Daniel, look
ing up from a superb rendition of
“Dolly Gray,” saw her glaring at him
from her window.
Then came the Herr von Grollerha
gen from the hotel. He was the same
calm, imperturbable individual as ever,
and he smoked with the languid aban
don of a man born to ease. He ap
proached Daniel with a smile.
“You make progress, my frieud?” he
asked, and Daniel smiled at him.
“Y'our machine’s like a good many
people, doc. It's got sand in its gear
box.”
At that moment Mariano hastened
out and fumbled nervously with the
lock on the big gates. Von Groller
hageu turned instantly.
“You are locking us in,” he said.
“No. herr,” replied the servant; “I
lock someone out-that bandit who
have not been captured. The carabi
nieri warn all to lock the gates for an
hour. Soon they will capture that
wicked M’sieu, this convict is a
Russian.
With a keen glance, Von G roller ha
gen waved the man aside. Daniel
smiled.
“They’ve got two companies of the
tin soldiers. Out my way the town
marshal would have had him yester
day.’’
“My friend, you are teaching me to
respect your country, not by what you
brag, but by what you do.”
“How’s that?" asked Pike.
“I see how a son of that great de
mocracy can apply himself to a dirty
machine while his eyes are full of
visions of one of its beautiful daugh
ters."
“Doe. there’s sand in your gear box!”
Then he looked up. “Now. you go
down to the kitchen and make signs
for some of the help to give you a
bunch of nice clean rags.”
For an instant the German drew
himself up haughtily.
"What is it you ask me to do?” _
“Get me some more rags.”'sslJ Dan
iel quietly, and Von Grollerhagen bow
ed low.
“I’d go myself, but it wouldn’t be
safe to leave the machine.”
“You fear this famous bandit would
steal It?” laughed the German.
“No; there’s parties around here
might think it was a settlement.”
“My friend.” Von Grollerhagen said
gravely, “1 do not understand.”
“That’s where we are in the same
fix. doc.” said Pike, with a chuckle,
and bent over the machine again,
while Von Grollerhagen departed on
his mission. '*******••-• --~-
Wliile Pike worked lie thought, and
the thoughts finally arrived at the
point where he saw that all he had
*o do to save tfte girl he had come so
rar to see was to sit tight on his re
fusal. He had accurately gauged the
noble earl and his interesting son and
sister-in-law, and he knew that it was
a thousand to one that they would not
agree to a marriage if there was no
money in sight.
"They’ll make more’n one bid for old
Simpson’s money,” he assured himself
and then looked up quickly, for the
leaves on the pergola were rustling in
a way that no wind should have
caused.
As be looked the figure of a man ap
peared over the top of the vines and
a pale face looked into his with im
ploring eyes. Pike looked at him calm
ly and knew at once that this was the
man the carabinieri were pursuing.
“Est ce que vous etes un liomrae de
bon coeur? Je ne suis pas coupable!”
(“Are you a kind hearted man? I am
not guilty!”) he began, when Pike cut
Aim off with a shake of the head.
“There ain’t any use in the world
your talking to me like that,” he said
mournfully, and the refugee’s eyes
gleamed with hope.
“l T ou are an American?” he said,
making preparations to descend.
"They haven’t made anything else
out of me,” answered Daniel, and the
refugee climbed down and leaned
weakly against the car.
“If you give me up I shall not be
taken alive! I have no weapon, but I
shall find a way to cut my throat!”
“Are you the bandit they're looking
for?” asked Daniel, with interest.
“They call me that? How close are
they?” asked the other, with sudden
fright. Pike looked at the gates and
heard a clank of sabers off on the road.
“There!” he said and stripped off his
blouse. “Did they see you climb that
wall?”
“I think not,” murmured the man.
"Do you know anything about auto
mobiles?” asked Daniel, holding out
the coat.
“Not a thing in the world,” replied
the other despairingly.
“Then you're a chauffeur, all right,”
returned the lawyer, forcing the rough
garment on the man. "Here; climb in
under that machine, and don't you
dare unscrew anything. Pretend you
arc fixing.”
He pushed the refugee toward the
machine and saw him wriggle beneath
it. then heard Mariano’s agitated voice
calling in the hotel. An instant later
the maitre d'hotel rushed out to the en
trance gates and threw them wide
open, revealing two carabinieri with
out. who immediately entered. Then
ensued a conversation in Italia.? that
was pure Sanskrit to Pike, who looked
on with calm interest. The command
ant of the file addressed the lawyer in
a long speech, to which Pike smiled
and waved a cigar.
“Wishing you many happy returns,
colonel.” he said genially, and Mariano
hastened forward.
“It is the robber of Russia. Thej
think he climb the wall, the assassin
The others, they surround all yonder.
These two, they search here. They ask
you please, signore, have you seen him
climb the wa11.”.,
“No,” replied Daniel shortly, turning
away.
“They ask, then, has any one crossed
the lawn?” went on the servant
“No,” replied Daniel, and as he spoke
one of the men pointed his gun be
neath the car at the figure in the long
blouse.
“He ask who that is. signore.” said
Mariano excitedly, also pointing.
“The new chauffeur for the machine
from Paris,’’ answered Pike casually,
and. with a bow, the two went off, one
to the right and the other to the left.
As they disappeared Von Grollerhagen
came walking across the grass with
some white rags in his hands and an
amused smile upon his face.
“Is there a uew eruption of Vesu
vius?” he asked, waving the cloths.
Daniel met him and took the rags.
“No.” he said dryly. “It’s en eruption
of colonels trying to arrest a high
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“ Vnn arc an Americanf n
school professoi. I’ve got him under
your ear there, yonder."
The start the German gave would
have been ludicrous iu any other situa
tion.
“My friend.” he said, “do you realize
the penalty for protecting a criminal
from arrest?"
“I told them he was your chauffeur.
We'll he proud of the risk, doc." lie
turned to the refugee under the ma
chine. "This man owns the car." lie
went on. "You can trust him the same
as your own father.’’ And the German
shrugged his shoulders in protest.
There was a clatter of arms, and Pike
looked up.
“Look out!” he said. “The governor’s
6taff is coming back,” And as the cara
binieri returned he said casually to
Von Grollerbagen:
“You’ll have to get anew front tire,
doc. That one is pretty near gone.
Better have Jim here put on the spare
one when he gets through.”
The German looked at him.
“Do you know what you are asking
me to do?”
“To have anew front tire put on.”
answered the lawyer. The police were
looking on with Interest, and finally
Muriano approached.
“The carabinieri, with all excuses,
beg that you will order the chauffeur
to step forth from the machine.”
Pike made an exclamation.
“No. sir! I worked on that machine
myself for three hours. He’s got his
hands full of nuts and bolts and
screws half fastened. We want to get
the job finished. Tell them to go on up
Main street with their Knights of
Pythias parade and come around some
day when we’re not busy.”
Mariano held a hurried consultation
with the carabinieri and turned back.
“Because the chauffeur have been
engage today the carabinieri ask ten
thousand pardons, but inquire how
long be have been known to his em
ployer.”
"llow long! Why. he was raised on
doc’s father’s farm!”
"If that is so’’— began Mariano.
“So? Of course it's so. Tell ’em,
doc!”
The German looked at Mariano
gravely.
"You hare beard my friend say it.”
“I have your permission. Herr von
Grollerhagen, to reveal your incognito
to the carabinieri?”
"Is It necessary?”
“Otherwise they will not depart."
"Very well; tell tbem. But I rely
upon them to preserve my Incognito
from all others.”
Mariano smiled.
“Monselgneur. they depart.” and
turned to the uniformed men. An in
stant later these swung through the
gate and went their way. Pike looked
after them in astonishment.
“He must have mesmerized the mili
tia. eh. doc?” and signed to the refu
gee to come out from the car. He
was a pathetic figure as be emerged
and held out his hands.
“To you both 1 give thanks”— But
Von Grollerhagen cut in:
“My, American friend, has placed
himsfelf—and myself—in danger of the
penal code of Italy for protecting you.
Perhaps you will be good enough to
let us know for what we have incrim
inated ourselves.”
[CONTINUED NEXT WEEK 1 . '
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