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THE NEWS-RECOHD. MARSHALL, N. C. I J ;'''''''''ii-A.ili.AXUtfUAIliii..U...lA..i..iAJl,,,Xll...,.,Uli Copyright by George H. FUN AND ACTION GALORE " Here's something ntw In the way ef humor a broadly hti-oroua novel of English llfo by an tngllehmati who haa had tho advent of a post-graduate oourM In Amorlean humor, Uvea In tho United States and writes largoly for tho Amorlean publlo P. Q. Wodehouee. Thoro aro not many Englishmen who havo auooeeded In adapting tholr talents U Amorioan Idoaa of humor Charllo Chaplin and 8tophon Loaeock aro two oonaplcuoua examples. Mr. Wodohouaa got hla adueatlon In Eng land and bogan hla lltorary earoor by conducting a funny nowtpapor column. Ho made hla dobut aa a novelist In 1902 and now haa a cioion or mora books to hla erodlt In 1B00 ho cama to tho Unltod 8tatci and hla addroaa la now Bellport, L. I. Three Man and a Maid" la cloan, full of action and ehockablock with amusing situations. Tho maid la Wllholmina Bennett, a nlco Amor loan girl, rod-haadod and full of pop. Ono of tho throo mon la 8am Marlowe, an amatsur British golfsr, son of an amlnant London lawyer. Another la Euotaoo Hlgnett Sam's cousin, son of Mrs. Horace Hlgnett the world-famous writer and lecturer on theosophy. The third is Bream Mortimer, American; his father and Wllhelmlna'a father are lifelong friends and are bent en a match between their children. The story opens In New York. Mrs. Hlgnstt Is about to begin a lecture tour. She has Eustace with her her constant care la to shoo the girle away from him, since ehe lo a widow and Wlndles, the ancestral Hlgnstt estate, belongs to him. Bennett haa been postering hsr to Isase Wlndles a crime In her eyes. Bream Informs Mrs. Hlgnett that Wllholmina la waiting for Eustace at the Little Church Round the Corner. Mrs. Hlgnstt "pinchea the trousers" of her eon. Wilhelmlna Blllle for short thereupon calla the wedding off. The author then gets hia three mon and a maid en the liner Atlantic, bound for England. 8am rune Into Blllle and falls In love at first sight Eustace mopes In his cabin, heart-broken. Bream la tentatively engaged to Blllle. Mrs. Hlgnstt doee not know Billle is on board; neither does Eustace. Sam poeee aa a hero and wlna Billle only to lose her. Eustace falls In love with Jane, a big-game hunter, Blllle'e traveling companion. A pretty lively voyage, thatl Eustace leaeee Wlndles to Bennett and presently the three men and the maid are all at the Hlgnett home. Sam haa rehabilitated himoolf with Blllle by another display ef heroism. Eustace and Jane are engaged. Bream Is hanging around. Then eye. Action and run galore! CHAPTER I ' Throufb tbe curtained windows of the furnished apartment which Mrs. ' Horace Hlenett had rented for her stay in New York rays of golden sun light peeped In like the foremost spies ! of some advancing army. It waa ex i actly eight : and Mrs. Hlgnett acknowl ' edged the fact by moving her bead on ; the pillow, opening her eyes, and slt j ting up In bed. She always woke at ;! eight precisely. Waa this Mrs. Hlgnett THE Mrs. ! Hlgnett, the world-famous writer on " theosophy, the author of "The Spread--1 Ing Light," "What of the Morrow," and ; all the rest of that well-known series? I'm glad you asked me. Yes, she was. j She had come over to America on a lecturing tour. The year 1921, It will be remem f bered, was a trying one for the inhabl i tents of the United States. Every i boat that arrived from England j brought a fresh swarm of British lec turns to the country. Novelists, poU, : scientists, philosophers and plain, er ! dlnary bores; some herd instinct seemed to affect them all slmultane- . eusly. (: Mrs. Hlgnett had come over with the j first batch of Immigrants; for, spir itual as her writings were, there was S a solid streak ef business sense In this jj woman and she meant to get hers ,i while the getting was good. She had not left England without a pang, for departure had Involved sac rifices. More than anything else In the world she loved her charming home, Wlndles, in the county of Hamp shire, for ao many years the seat of the Hlgnett family. Wlndles was aa the breath ef life to her. Its shady walks, Its silver lake. Its noble elms, the old gray stone of Its walls these were bound up with her very being. She felt that she belonged to Wlndles, and Wlndles to her. Unfortunately, aa a matter of cold, legal accuracy, It did not She did but bold it In trust for her son, Eustace, until such time as he should marry and take posses sion of It himself. There were times when the thought ef Eustace marrying and bringing a strange woman to Wlndles chilled Mrs. Hlgnett te her very marrow. Happily, her firm policy of keeping her son permanently under her eye at home and never" permitting aim to have speech with a female be low the age of fifty bad averted the peril up till new. Eustace had accompanied hla mother to America. It was hla faint anores which she eoold hear In the adjoining room, as, having bathed and dressed, she went dawn the hall to where breakfast ' awaited her. She smiled tolerantly. '. She bad never 'de aired te convert her son te her own early rising habits, for, apart from not allowing him te call his seal his own, she was an indulgent mother. Eustace would get np at half-past nine, long after she had finished breakfast read her mail, and started her duties for the dev. . ... '. ' V Breakfast waa on the table In the sitting-room. Beside It waa a little pile of letters. Mrs. Hlgnett opened them as she ate. The majority Were from disciples and dealt with matters of purely theoaophical Interest There was an Invitation from the Butterfly club asking her to be the guest ef 1 "nor at their weekly dinner. There t a letter from her brother Mal- ' y Elr HaKaby Marlowe, the eml t London lawyer r-ylng thai his i r a, ef wtca i" lal never Im aree Men BijP.Q. UJODEHOUSE Doru Co. appears Mrs. Hlgnett, with red In her proved, would be in New York short ly, passing through on hla way back te England, and hoping that she would see something of him. Altogether a dull mall. Mrs. Hlgnett had Just rlaen from the table when there was a sound of voices In the hall, and presently the domestic staff, a gaunt Irish lady of advanced years, entered the room. "Ma'am, there was a gentleman." Mrs. Hlgnett was annoyed. Her mornings were sacred. "Didn't you tell him I was not to be disturbed r' "I did not I loosed him into the parlor." The staff remained for a moment In melancholy silence, then resumed. "He says he's your nephew. His name's Marlowe." Mrs. Hlgnett experienced no dimi nution of her annoyance. She had not seen her nephew Sam for ten years and would have been willing to ex tend the period. She remembered him as an untidy small boy who, once or twice, during his school holidays, had disturbed the cloistral peace of Wln dles with his beastly presence. How ever, blood being thicker than water, and all that sort of thing, she sup posed she would have to give him five minutes. She went Into the sitting room and found there a young man who looked more or less like all other young men, though perhaps rather fitter than moat He had a brown and amiable face, marred at the mo ment by an expression of discomfort somewhat akin to that of a cat in a strange alley. "Hallo, Aunt Adeline!" he said awk wardly. I "Well, Samuel," said Mrs. Hlgnett There waa a pause. Mrs. Hlgnett who was not fond of young men and disliked having her mornings broken Into, was thinking that he had not Improved in the slightest degree since their last meeting; and Sam, who Imagined that he had long since grown to man's estate and put off childish things, waa embarrassed to discover that his aunt still affected him as of old. Tliat la te say, she made him feel as if he had omitted to shave, and, in addition to that had swal lowed some drug which had caused him te swell unpleasantly, particularly about the hand and feet. "Jelly morning," said Sam, perse veringly. r . "So I Imagine. I have not yet been eat" "Thought I'd look in and see how yen were." .. ; That was very kind of yon. The morning Is my busy time, but . . . yes, that waa very kind of you!" There waa another pause. "How do you like America?' said Sam. "I dislike It exceedingly." ' -."Yea? Well, of course some people do. Prohibition and all that Person ally, it doesn't affect me. I can take tt or leave It alone." "The reason I dislike America " began Mrs. Hlgnett bridling. "I like It myself." said Sam. '"Tve had a wonderful time. Every be fly's treated me like a rich uncle. I've been In Detroit yon know, and they prac tically gave me the city and asked me If I'd like another-' te take home In' my pocket Never saw anything like it I might have been the miss ing heir. I think America's the great eat Invention on record." - "And what brought you to Amer ica f said Mrs. Eignett, unmoved by ' rtesodj. aiidaMaid ! "Oh, I came over to play golf. In a tournament you know." "Surely at your age," said Mrs. Hlg nett, disapprovingly, "you could be better occupied. Do you spend your whole time playing golf?" "un, no. i nunt a bit and shoot a bit and I swim a good lot, and I still play football occasionally." "I wonder your father does not in sist on your doing some useful work." "lie Is beginning to harp on the sub ject rather. I suppose I shall take a stab at It sooner or later. Father says I ought te get married, too," "He la perfectly right" "I auppose old Eustace will be get ting hitched up one of these dayar said Sam. Mrs. Hlgnett started violently. "Why do you say thatr "Ehr "What makes you say that 7" "Oh, well, he's a romantic sort of fellow. Writes poetry and aU that" "There Is no likelihood of Eustace marrying. He Is of a shy and retir ing temperament ana sees tew women. He Is almost a recluse." Sam was aware of this and had fre quently regretted It He bad always been fond of his cousin and in that half-amused and rather patronising way In which men of thews and sinews are fond of the weaker brethren who run more to pallor and intellect; and he had always felt that If Eustace had not had to retire te Wlndles te spend his life with a woman whom from his earliest years he always considered the Empress ef the Wash-outs much might have been made of him. Both at school and at Oxford. Eustace had been If not a sport at least de cidedly cheery old bean. Sam remem bered Eustace at school breaking gas globes with a slipper In a positively rollicking manner. Ho remembered him at Oxford playing up to him man fully at the plane on the occasion when he had done that Imitation of Frank Tlnney which had been auch a hit at the Trinity smoker. Yes, Eustace had had the making of a pretty sound egg, and It was too bad that he had al lowed his mother to coop him up down in the country miles away from any where. "Eustace Is returning to England on Saturday," said Mrs. Hlgnett She spoke a little wistfully. She had not been parted from her aon since he had come down from Oxford : and she would have liked to keep him with her till the end of her lecturing tour. That nowever, was out of the question. was Imperative that while she waa away, he should be at Wlndles. Nothing would have Induced her to leave the place at the mercy of servants who might trample over the flower-beds, scratch the polished floors, and forget to cover up the canary at night. "He sails on the Atlantic." "That's splendid," said Sam. "I'm sailing on the Atlantic myself. 111 go down to the office and see If we can't have a stateroom together. But where la he going to live when he gets to England r "Where is he going te live? Why, at Wlndles, of course. Where elser "But I thought you were letting Wlndles for the summer?" Mrs. Hlgnett stared. .., "Letting Wlndles 1" She spoke aa one might address a lunatic. "What "Letting Wlndlosl" She Spoke as One Might Addroaa a Lunatlo. -. .- put that extraordinary Idea Into jour head?" "I thought father " said something about your letting the place te some American?" , : "Nothing of the kind I" ' It seemed to Sam that his aunt spoke 1 somewhat ' vehemently, even snappishly. In correcting what was a perfectly natural mistake He could net know that the subject of letting Wlndles for the summer was one which had long since begun to Infuriate Mrs. Hlgnett People had certainly asked to let Wlndles. In fact people had pestered tier. There was a rich fat man. an American named Bennett whom she had met Just before sailing at bar brother's Louse la London, Lv ft & H I vited down to Wlndles for the day, I Mr. Bennett had fallen In love with the place and had begged her to name her 1 J UJ I A I A f. own price. Not content with this, ho had pursued her with his pleadings by means of the wireless telegraph while she 'was on the ocean, and had not given up the struggle even when she reached New York. He had egged on a friend of his, a Mr. Mortimer, to continue the persecution in that city. No wonder, then, that Sam's allusion to tbe affair had caused the authoress of "The Spreading Light" momentarily to lose her customary calm. "Nothing will Induce me ever to lot Wlndles," she said with finality, and rose significantly. Sam, perceiving that the audience waa at an end and glad of it alao got up. "Well, I think I'll be going down and seeing about that stateroom," he said. "Certainly. I am a little busy Just now, preparing notes for my next lec ture." "Of course, yes. Mustn't Interrupt , you. I suppose you re naving a great time, gassing away I mean well, ! good-byi ' "Good-byl" Mrs. Hlgnett frowning, for tho In terview had ruffled her and disturbed that equable frame of mind which la so vital to the preparation of lectures on -eheosophy, sat down at the writing table and began to go through the notes which she had made overnight She had hardly succeeded In concen trating herself when the door opened to admit the daughter of Erin once more. "Ma'am, there waa a gentleman." "This Is Intolerable!" cried Mrs. Hlgnett "Did you tell him that I waa busy?" I did not I loosed him Into the dining-room." "Is' be a reporter from one ef the newspapers?" He Is not He has spate and a tall-shaped hat Hla name Is Bream Mortimer." "Bream Mortimer" "Yes, ma'am. He handed me a bit of a kyard, but I dropped It being slippy from the dishes." Mrs. Hlgnett strode te the door with a forbidding expression. This, as she had Justly remarked, was intolerable. She remembered BreamMortlmer. He was the son of the Mr. Mortimer who was the friend of the Mr. Bennett who wanted Wlndles. This visit could only have te do with the subject of Wlndles, and aha went Into the dining-room In a state of cold fury, determined te squash the Mortimer family once and for all. Bream Mortimer was tall and thin. He had small, bright eyes and a sharp ly curving nose. , He looked much more like a parrot than moat parrots do. It gave strangers a momentary shock of surprise when . they saw Bream Mortimer In restaurants eating roast beef. They had the feeling that he would have preferred sunflower seeds. ' - . "Morning, Mrs. Hlgnett""' ' "Please sit down." Bream Mortimer sat down. He looked as though he would rather have hopped onto a perch, but he aat down. He glanced about the room witn gleaming, excited eyes. "Mrs. Hlgnett I must have a word with you alone" "Ton are having a word with me alone." "I hardly know how to begin." "Then let me help you. It Is quite Impossible. I will never consent" Bream Mortimer started. 'Then you have heard I" "I have heard about nothing else since I met Mr. Bennett In London. Mr. Bennett talked about nothing else. Tour father talked about nothing else. And now," cried Mrs. Hlgnett fiercely, "you come and try to reopen the sub ject Once and for all, nothing will alter my decision. No money will in duce me to let my house," "But I didn't come about that!" Ton did not come about WIndlasr "Good Lord, nor. Then will you kindly tell me why yon have come?" , . ' "He found himself face to ' face with an extraordinary pret ty girt." , (TO BB CONTINUED.) 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