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There is no accounting, for the ways
of fortune. For instance, why was
Harold Norman Atridge the meekest
littls human rabbit who ever entered
figures in a ledger—the promptest pay¬
ing, most orderly and unobtrusive
guest in Mrs. Pound’s boarding estab¬
lishment for gentlemen—why was he
selected to be the star performer in
a plot involving kings and favorites,
honest maidens and vampires, magnates
and oil concessionists, gunmen, revolu¬
tionaries and schemers?
No one -knows why, unless it be C.
S Forester, the celebrated romanticist,
who has so pleasantly interpreted the
moods of the fickle goddess in a num¬
ber of previous stories. Timid little
Harold had never been any sort of a
star, excepting the star boarder in Mrj.
Pound’s modest place; but, as the au¬
thor reveals in the opening lines, he
had been a star gazer, figuratively,
with his head in the clouds, in an abode
of romance and dreams. That is the
secret. Fate had been so impressed
with the fine quality of Harold’s dream
stuff that it had taken the notion to
weave it into a fabric of existence.
If the shuttle slipped occasionally,
the colors ran together and the pat¬
tern became more variegated than the
original; if Harold got more than he
dreamed of, attribute it to the madcap
proclivities of the weaver. The warp
and woof hold together and the dyes
are brilliant. Glinting threads of hu¬
mor combine with the soft strands of
fancy, the velvet of romance and the
harder materials of adventure to make
h charming tapes.try.
CHAPTER I
Before Thursday
~s Atridge turned the corner Into
the street out of the lane lending to
the tennis club, the Red Lancers of
the Guard were sent hurtling forward
on their mission to snatch victory from
the juws of defeat. Nothing could
withstand the triumphant fury of their
charge.
Their young colonel, with set Jaw
and merciless expression, had main¬
tained his, position two lengths ahead
of them alike through the blaze of the
musketry .and the spouting and slaugh¬
ter of the pursuit. His sword, his
boots, the flanks jf his horse, his very
breeches were splashed and dripping
with blood,' hut his sword arm con¬
tinued to rise and fall with implacable
ferocity and dazzling mechanical skill.
A burly officer (in appearance sin¬
gularly like Norton,, the singles cham¬
pion of the Morley Park club) on a
big black horse threw tdmself across
the colonel’s path in a desperate at¬
tempt .to check his career. Next In¬
stant the coiorei's blade was through
his throat, and he fell from ids saddle
spluttering out his life in a scarlet
torrent,, -E’en that, thought Atridge,
was hardly sufficient repayment for a
6-0, 6-2 victory.
Tlien the emperor himself rode up
to him, his hard gray eyes blazing
with victory an 1 yet somehow soften¬
ing into something almost like affec¬
tion for the brilliant young colonel as
he hung about his neck the Grand
Eagle of the Legion of Honor. It was
inevitable that the next campaign
should see him a Genera !.of Itivislon.
In fact, only Atridge’s arrival at his
lodgings prevented him from becoming
a duke and marshal of France. That
might have been some sort of com¬
pensation for being put out in the
first round of the singles and handi
''eap doubles of ehampibnships. the Morley Park Lawn
Tennis club’s
In Scae Fell avennis was Scae Fell
View, only distinguished from its
neighbors by a neat black and gold
sign at the gate—“Boarding Estab¬
lishment. Mrs. Pound.” Mrs. Pound
specialized in gcntletten—one might
almost put “gentlemen” in italics
hoarders. The height; of her ambi¬
tion was seven hoarders simultane¬
ously, but she had never reached it.
Six was the most sht; had ever had
—the number she had it present. And
Harold Norman Atridge was far and
away her star boarder!.
First and foremost^ continuously, he had holidays lived
there five years
excluded. Every wegk of that five
years, save, as already indicated, dur¬
ing his holidays, had he paid his week¬
ly bill. He did not smoke, and there¬
fore he did not flick ashes over the
floor, nor ieav cigarette ends about,
nor burn holes in his Joliet table coV
ers. Not once a week was he out
after eleven, an I he always came home
sober. He did not hold card parties
in his bedroom, using' electric light
till all hours, and caujjng upijpext a frightful
mess to be cleared day. He
•washed miraculously out the bathtut^after contrived to using have it. a
and
bath and to dry hinjsielf afterward
•without slopping the whole bathroom
ankle-deep in water. He was never
late for his meals, yeihat the same
time he never arrived! jin the dining
room ten minutes early t o- fre t mnd;
fame and fidget.
He got up when be was called, and
although he was always willing to take
his turn in the bathroom this never
made him late for breakfast so that he
had to put on his hat and coat while
drinking his breakfast tea and then
run all the way to the station.
No strange female (not all she ought
to be) ever came knocking at the door
of Scae Fell View to ast for Mr.
Atridge. No hills came to him through
the post. He never lay in bed on
Sunday mornings until past noon, hold¬
ing up all the work of the house. In¬
stead he went decently for a Sunday
morning walk and so got himself out
of the way. And ever since, four years
ago, he accidentally learned the date
of her birthday he always brought her
home a little hunch of flowers on that
day.
His clothes were always neat and
respectable, so that he was a good
advertisement to the house as tie left
it in the morning, in fact, so remark¬
able a paragon was Mr. Atridge at the
mature age of twenty-four that It al¬
most appears worth while to examine
his antecedents—it Is a full three
yards from the gate to Scae Fell View
to the door of Scae Fell View, and
during the time that Mr. Atridge tnkes
to pass from the one to the other we
may make a little excursion into the
past.
Despite all Indications to the con¬
trary there had been a time wtien
Harold Atridge was young; when a
rather pretty and weak-willed mother
had thought, him exceedingly wonder¬
ful, and had taken elaborate precau¬
tions when washing him that the soap
, did not get into his eyes. But the
pretty aud weak-willed mother had
died when Harold was only four, for
no apparent reason as far as Harold
could discover later. And Harold was
handed over to the charge of his
mother’s aunt, .who was as different
from her niece as cast-iron Is from
putty; for a year or two Ills father,
who was a shiftless, nerveless, chin¬
less little clerk in a London city
office, had drifted along, paying for
his support, and had then followed his
wife—through sheer Inability (so Har¬
old's great-aunt averred) to make up
his mind to marry another.
Miss lipping was the great-aunt's
name, Matilda Epping, and she was a
survivor of another und apparently
greater age. When Harold came into
her care she was verging on sixty, and
had been a school teacher for forty
four years. For twenty-eight years
she had had control over the happi¬
ness and moral and Intellectual wel¬
fare of uncounted staffs and of
myriads of children, and she had ruled
thorn, if not with a rod of iron, with
a rod of another kind which she and
tiie children had found exceedingly
effective. And the result of all her
experience was to confirm her In her
belief (for which she would gladly
have gone to the stake) that children
were creatures of about the same spir-
Harold Was Rather Like an Old
-"Maid. v -
Ifual plan£ ,a* insects, and to whom
the only sort, of argument that ap¬
pealed was the argument a posterior
—ah argument which she applied with
’tact and vigor, especially upon the
long-suffering person of Harold Nor
map Atridge^ - :
At home Miss Epping was exactly
like what, she would have been at
school, had it not been for the slight
restraint'of Inspectorates and Regula¬
tions. Harold's natural Instincts were
looked upon as diabolical inspirations.
Miss Epping considered It actually
wicked to yearn to be a coal heaver
or the possessor of roller skates, and
it was not long before she succeeded
In impressing the same idea upon
Harold's plastic personality. Having
earned her living from the age of
fourteen, and received a good many
, hard knocks in the process, she was
convinced that hard knocks were es¬
sential to one’s well-being, and that It
was sinful even to try to avoid them.
Perhaps now it Is obvious whence
came the assortment of habits which
endeared the grownup Harold to hi*
landlady. Harold was rather like an
old maid of exemplary but limited
ideas— rather like Miss Epping, Ln fad
<TO BE CONTINUED.)
CLEVELAND COURIER.
NO RECREATION IN
GOLF, SAYS WRITER
Golf as played by the average busi¬
ness man is certainly not a recrea¬
tion, Struthers Burt asserts, writing
in the Forum. Anyone who has seen
weary, and sometimes obese, business
men arrive on a train and immedi¬
ately try to kill themselves by two
36-hole games a day will not long
cherish the idea that this is pleasure.
For the average business man, re¬
tired or not, golf is a substitution, not
a recreation. It is a substitution for
business and—as now played for the
most part—is more like business than
any other game. It was first made
popular by a conscience-ridden race,
the Scotch—the more placid Dutch
having invented it, promptly aban¬
doned it: and as soon as they were
given the chance, the conscience-rid¬
den English and Americans took it
up enthusiastically.
You see. golf is tlie only game ex¬
tant which combines exercise and at
tlie same time assuages tlie sense of
sin. Not only is the competitive fea¬
ture of it underscored and doubled,
for you are also always competing
against yourself, but there is invari¬
ably enough misery attached to tlie
usual game to placate even an old
lino Presbyterian.
Moreover, your sins find you out.
They are there, unconcealed, for
everyone to look at. And there’s no
wiping them- off. You cannot erase a
bad shot by a good shot as you can
in polo or tennis. Golf is a grand
game for those races not yet able to
consider painless pleasure as any¬
thing hut sinful. It is morose, sullen,
and gives tlie impression of being
worthwhile—(lie last a very im¬
portant consideration to. the average
man trained to business standards.
Broken Rhythm
Al Jolson tells tlie story of a golf¬
er whose caddie suddenly, started
hiccoughing. The caddie’s staccato
accomplishment preceded each,stroke
for eight holes. Then, at a critical
moment cotiling to the ninth green,
there was complete silence on tlie
caddie’s part as the duffer missed his
shot completely. He promptly turned
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and knocked the surprised caddie
down.
“What did you do that for?” asked
the astonished club carrier as lie be¬
gan to pick himself .up, “1 didn't hic¬
cup that time.’’
“I know you didn't,” said the en¬
raged player, “but 1 allowed for it.”
—Grantland Rice in Collier’s Maga¬
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Ancient Railroad Line
Motor busses have supplanted tlie
service provided by the first steam
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long, was constructed by the Dela¬
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I’a., to transport “stone coal,” as
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was taken for a trial run on the line
in August, 182b. The test run showed
that the rails, wooden stringers
_
capped with rolled iron strips. Were
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motive and tlie steam engines were
abandoned until the roadbed was
strengthened several years later.
Investigation Seems to
Put Razorback in Bad
Spending a day with a razorback
hog may not he an attractive enter¬
prise. but such a procedure recently
yielded some valuable information to
the state forest commission of Mis¬
sissippi. Believing that tlie razor
hack was a serious destroyer of long
leaf pines, and wanting to get irre¬
futable evidence on the subject. 1*. N.
Howell, one of tlie commissioners,
followed a hog for eight and one
fourth hours, from eight o’clock in
the morning to four that afternoon.
In that time Mr. Howell counted -100
trees which Hie hog rooted out. At
fhat same rate, the commissioner
calculated, in 100 days tlie razorback
would destroy trees valued al $200,
leased on the cost of their growng
and planting—a sum more than forty
times tlie value of the hog itself.
Have You Noticed?
“When 1 raise my baton each play¬
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make a speech,” says an orchestra
leader. But we always think tlie
one with tlie cornet Is getting set to
whistle through his teeth.—Life.
The Usual Revision
Singleton—Believe me, when 1
marry I’ll lay down the law to my
wife,
Wedmore—Maybe, hut you’ll ac¬
cept all her amendments.
I low to work into acceptable con¬
versation what you have seen abroad
is one of the social problems.
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member of tlie union may withdraw
at will.
Took Fish With Bare Hands
A mill employee at Biddeford,
Maine, engaged in work just below
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the mill gates where the water tum¬
bles into tlie Saco river, was dis¬
tracted by a commotion at his feet
and saw a school of salmon cavort¬
ing below him. Blunging into the
water, he capture*! two of the fish
with his bare hands. Each measured
32 inches in length.
First Concrete Road
Tlie first concrete road of any con¬
sequence in the world was construct¬
ed in Detroit, and was eleven feet
wide by one mile long. The Ameri¬
can Magazine, in a study of modern
road building, tells tlie story of his
initial experiment. It was fathered
by Ed Hines, a Detroit printer and
an enthusiastic bicycler, who had be¬
come president of tlie League of
American Wheelmen.
Sympathy often masks curiosity.