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STORY FROM THE START
LAurl* J}«roM, auccesafnl play
wright. but aomewhat Inclined
to wildneaa, atteada the weddinK
of his slater, Barbara, to whom
has been left the great Devon
fortune. Laurie had been a gay
young chap, but for the last year
he has been toeing the mark,
through the efforts of Barbara.
La.urle, who la wealthy, refuses
to settle down to work, announc
ing his Intention of resting and
seeking adventure.
CHAPTER II—Continued
Laurie grinned, and the grin Infuri
ated Bangs. He whirled away from It
A footstool Impeded his progress, and
be kicked It out of the way with
large abandon. It was his habit to
rush about a room when he was talk
ing excitedly. He rushed about now;
and Laurie lit a cigarette and watched
him, at first angrily, then with a grow
ing tolerance bom of memories of
acenea In their plays which Bangs had
thrashed out in much this same man
ner. Hie world conld never he wholly
uninteresting while Rodney pranced
about in it, cutting the air with ges
tures like that
"Here I am." snapped Rodney,
"ready with my play, the best plot Tve
had yet Yon won’t let me even men
tion It to you. Here’s the new season.
, Here’s Epstein, sitting on our doormat
with a check-book in each hand, wait
ing to pat on anything we give him.
Ton know he's lost a small fortune
this fall. Ton know It’s up to us to
give him a play that will pull him
out of the hole he’a in. Here’s Haxon,
the best director in town, marking
time and bolding off other managers
In the hope that yon and I win get
down to business. And here you are,
the fellow we’re all counting on—” He
stopped for breath and adjectives.
"Tea," Laurie politely prompted him.
"Here I am. What about it? What
am I dolngT’
“You know d—d well what you’re
doing. You’re loafing!" Bangs fired
the word at him as if it were a shell
from a Big Bertha. "You’re loafing
till It makes ns all sick *10 look at you.
We thought a week or two of it would
be enough, when yon realized the con
ditions : but It’s gone on for a month;
and. Instead of getting tirm, you’re
getting more and more into the loafing
lublt. Yon abuse time till It shrieks
In agony.”
'Mood sentence," applauded Laurie.
“But don’t waste It on me. Put It into
a play."
Bangs seemed not to hear him. He
was standing by the room’s one win
dow, BOW, staring unseeingly out of it.
hands still in his pockets, stared de
spondently at his outstretched legs.
“That’s all it means to you,” he went
on, morosely. "Our partnership is one
la a thousand. It’s based on friend
ship as well as on financial interest.
If I do say it. It represents a combi
nation of brains, ability, backing and
pro.spect8 that comes only once In a
lifetime, if It comes at all. Yet In one
year you’re sick of it, an® tired of
work. You’re ready to throw It all
over, and to throw over at the same
time the men whose Interests are
bound up with yours. You’re dawdling
in cabarets and roadhouses and res
taurants, when yon might be doing
Work—’’ Bangs’ voice capitalized the
word—"real work,” he added fiercely,
“work other fellows would give their
souls to be able to do."
He ended on a flat note, oddly unlike
his usual buoyant tones, and sat still
as if everything had been said.
Laurie lit a fresh cigarette, drew
In a mouthful of smoke, and exhaled
it in a series of pretty rings. In his
brief college experience he had de
voted some time to acquiring this art.
Admiringly watching the little rings
pass through the big rings, he spoke
with studied carelessness.
“It was a pretty good scene. Bangs,"
he said, “and it showed careful re
hearsing. But It would be a lot more
effective if you had a real situation
to base it on. As it is, you’re making
a devil of a row about nothing. 1
worked like a horse all last year, and
yon know it Now Tm resting, or loaf
ing, If yon prefer to call it that and"
—he bit off the words and fairly threw
them at his friend—"It will save you
and Epstein and Haxon a lot of men
tal wear and tear if you will mind your
own business and let me alone."
Bangs raised his eyes and dropped
them again.
“Yon are. our business,” he somber
ly reminded his partner. “I’ve got so
I can’t work without tou,” he added,
with a humility newito hloy “Yon
know that. And yoniknow I’ve got
the plot. It’s ready—ygreat Scoft, it's
boiling in me 1 I’m crazy to get It out.
And here Fve got to sit around watch
ing you kill time, while yon know and
I know that you’d be a d—n sight hap
pier If you were on the Job. Good
Lord, Laurie, work’s the biggest thing
there Is in life! Doesn’t it mean any
thing at all to yon?"
“Not Just now.” Laurie spoke with
maddening nonchalance.
"Then there’s something rotten In
you."
Laurie winced, but made no answer.
He hoped Bangs would go on talking
and thus destroy the echo of his last
words, with which the silent room
seemed filled. But nothing came.
Rodney’s opportunity had passed, and
he was lost in depressed realization
of his failure. Laurie strolled back
to the mirror, his forgotten tie dan
gling in his hand.
"We’ll let it go at that,” he said
then. “Think things over, and make
up your mind what you want to do
about the contract”
“All right”
Bangs replied in the same flat notes
he had used a moment before, and
without changing his position; but the
two words gave Laurie a shock. He
did not believe that either Rodney or
Ebstein would contemplate a dissolu
tion of their existing partnership; but
an hour ago he would not have be
lieved that Rodney Bangs could say
to him the things he had said Just now.
He was beginning to realize that he
had tried his partners sorely in the
month that had passed since bis re-
“Here I Am," Snapped Rodney.
Ida hands deep la bis pockets, taking
Ib the knowle^e of the failure of his
appeal. Under the realization of this,
ha tosaed a final taunt over bis shoal-
dar.
*T can forgive the big blunders a
man makes in hie life," be muttered;
“hut I haven’t much patience with
chap that lies around and shirks at a
tlnM like this!"
Laaria removed the half-smoked
cigarette from his month, and not find
lag ac ash tray within reach, carefully
erashed out its burning end against
the polished top of the dressing ease,
fia bad grown rather pale. •
“That will be kbout all. Bangs," be
wia quietly. "What you and Epstein
and Haxon don’t seem to remember
la joat one thing. If you don’t like
■afters as they are, it’s nighty easy
Aa change them. It doesn't take half
a Binate to agree to dlaaolva a part-
Mcahlp."
*1. kndw." Bangs ratomad to hla
dhair, aad, dropping Usply iRto It, hla
tom to town; f|id all for whatt He
himself had brovght o«t af the foolish
experience nothing save a tired nerv^
aystom, a sense of boredom aneb
he had not known for a yeu’, and,
pedally when ha looked at Bongs,
an acute mental (Macomfort which In
trospective persons would probably
have diagnosed as the pangs ofv con
science. Laurie did not take the trou
ble to diagnose It He merely resent
ed it as a grievance added to the su
preme grievance based on the fact
that he bad not yet even started on
the high adventure he had promised
himself.
He was gloomily consldeighg both
grievances,.and tying his tie with hla
usual care, when something In the
mirror caught and held his attention.
He looked at'it, at first casually, then
wl^ growing Interest In the glass,
directly facing him, was a wide studio
window. It was open, notwithstand
ing the cold January weather, and a
comfortable, middle-aged, plump wom
an, evidently a superior type of care-^
taker, was sitting on the sill, polishing
an Inner pane. The scene was as vivid
as a mirage, and It was like the mi
rage In. that it was projected from
some point which Itself remained un
seen.
Laurie turned to the one window
the dressing-room afforded—a double
French window, at his right, but a lit
tle behind him, and reaching to the
floor. Through this he could see across
a court the opposite side of his own
building, but no such window or com
monplace vision as had Just come to
him. In his absorption in the phe
nomenon he called to Bangs, who' rose
slowly, and, coming to his side, re
gard^ the scene without much Inter
est.
“It’s a cross projection from a house
diagonally opposite us,” he said, after
studying the picture a moment. “It
must be that old red studio building
on the southwest comer of the square.
If we had a room back of this and
looking toward the west, we could see
the teal window.”
“As It is,” said Laurie, “we’ve got a
reserved seat for an intimate study of
any one who lives there. 1 won
der who has that studio?”
Bangs had no idea. He was grate
ful to the little episode, however, for
spreading over the yielding ground
beneath his feet the solid strip on
which he had crossed back to his
chum. He threw an arm across
Lanrle’s shoulders and looked into his
face, with something in his expression
that reminded young Devon of a fa
vorite collie he had loved and lost In
boyhood.
"All right now?” the look asked.
Just as the dog’s look had asked it of
the little chap of ten, when something
had gone wrong. --Rodney’s creed of
life was held together by a few prim
itive laws, the first of which was loy
alty. Already he was reproaching
himself for what he bad sal^ and
done. Laurie carefully completed the
tying of his tie, and turned to him
with his gayest smile.
“Hurry up and finish dressing,” he
cheerfully suggested, “and weni go out
to breakfast. Since you Insist on wait
ing ’round for me like Mary’s little
lamb. I suppose Fve got to feed you.”
Rodney’s wide grin responded, for
the first time in many days. He
bustled about, completing his toilet,
and ten minutes later the two young
men started out together with a light
ness of spirit which each enjoyed and
neither wholly understood. Both bad
a healthy horror of "sentimental stufT’
and a gay, normal disregard of each
other’s feelings in ordinary Inter
course. But in the past half-hour, for
the first time in their association, they
had come close to a serious break, and
the soul of each had been chilled by a
premonitory loneliness as definite as
the touch of an icy finger. In the
quick reaction they experienced now
their spirits soared exultantly. They
breakfasted In a fellowship such as
they had not known since Barbara’s
marriage, the month before.
If Bangs had indulged in any dream
of a change of life in Laurie, how
ever, following this reconciliation, the
next few days destroyed the tender
shoots of that hope. Laurie’s manner
retained Its pleasant camaraderie, but
work and he met as strangers and
passed each other by. The routine of
his days remained what they had been
during the past five weeks. He gadded
about, apparently harmlessly, came
home at shocking hours, and spent
most of the bracing January days
wrapped In « healthf
Infuriated Bangs, who
aad ont of their apartmeol
unhappy gboad On the
sions when he and Rodney lunli
dined together, Laurie was "ent
good-humored and i^en Epstein
with them seemed wholly impervloas
to any bints thrown out, none too
subtly, by his producing partner.
“Listen, Laurie,” said that disgusted
Individual, almost a month after the
new year had been ufthered In, “the
new year’s here. That’s a good time
for a young fella to get busy again on
TT
somethin* vortb while. Ain’t I right?”
Laurie suppressed a yawn and care
fully struck off with his little finger
the firm ash of an excellent cigarette.
He was consuming thirty or forty
cigarettes a day, and his nerves were
beginning to show the effect of this
indulgence^
“I believe it is," he courteously,
agreed. ‘Tt has been earnestly rec
ommended to the young as a good
time to start something.”
“Veil,” Epstein’s voice tnqj^on the
guttural notes of his temp^
Her Elbows Were on the Sill.
Chin Rested in the Hollow of
Cupped Hands.
Her
Her
Mercy Cut No Figure in Old-Time Justice
The torturing of criminals on “tlie
wheel” is a very ancient form of pun
ishment In an “improved” form it
was revived in Germany In the Four
teenth century. The unfortunate vic
tim was laid upon a very large cart
wheel, his legs and arms extended and
fastened to the spokes, and in that po
sition, as the wheel was turned
around, his limbs were broken by suc
cessive blows with an iron bar. In
France, where the wheel was used
only to punish criminals of the most
atrocious sort the victim was first
bound to a frame of wood in the form
of a St Andrew’s cross—that is, two
bars of equal length laid crosswise
like an X. Grooves were cut trans
versely in these bars, above and below
the knees and elbows, and the execu
tioner struck the limbs of the victim
eight blows *0 as to break them in
Failures Become Critics
Reviewers are usually people who
would have been poets, historians, bi
ographers, etc.. If they could"|'~they
have tried their talents at one or the
other, aad have failed; therefore they
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these places. Sometimes be finished
his work by striking the criminal two
or three blows on the chest or stom
ach, which usually put an end to the
sufferer’s life, and therefore were
called blows of mercy. The punish
ment of the wheel was abolished in
France at the revolution. In Germany
it was occasionally inflicted early In
the last century for the crimes of trea
son and parricide.
Famous Old English **Beat^*
The sobriquet “Beau Nash” was be
stowed upon Richard Nash, a fashion
able personage of the Eighteenth cen
tury. He was born in Wales in 1674,
and studied law, but later became
gambler, for which he seemed to have
a greater liking and aptitude and from
which he derived an ample revenue.
In 1704 he transformed Bath from
vulgar and neglected watering place
into a gay and fashionable resort. The
city of Bath, in gratitude for his serv
ices, placed his statue between those
of Newton and Pope. He lived to be
eighty-seven, but his last years were
spent in poverty, owing to the act of
parliament that suppressed gambling
—Kansas Olty Star.
(«.
moments, “don’t that mean nothin’ to
your
Laurie grinned. He had caught the
quick look of warning Bangs shot at
the producer and it amused him.
"Not yet.” he said. “Not till Fve
had my adventure.”
Epstein sniffed.
“The greatest adventure In life,” he
stated dogmatically, “is to make a lot
of money. i tell you vy. Because then.
ypu got all ttte other adventures you
can handle, trying to hold on to It I"
Bangs, Who was developing a new
and hitherto unsuspected vein of tact,
encouraged Epstein to enlarge on this
congenial theme. He now fully real
ized that Devon would go his own gait
until he vflearied of it, and that no
argument or persuasion could enter
his armor-clad mind. The position of
Bangs was a difficult one. for white he
was accepting and assimilating this
unpleasant fact, Epstein and Haxon—
impatient men by temperament and
without much training in self-control—
were getting wholly ont of patience
and therefore out of band. Haxo^
indeed, was for the time entirely out
of hand, for he had finally started the
rehearsals of a new play which, he
grimly informed Bangs, would make
“The Man Above” look like a canceled
postage-stamp.
Bangs repeated the comment to his
chum the next morning, during the
late dressing-hour which now gave
them almost their only opportunity
for a few words together. He had
hoped It would make an impression,
and he listened with pleasure to a
sharp exclamation from Laurie, who
chanced to be standing before the
door mirror in the dressing-room,
brushing his hair. The next instant
Bangs realized that It was not bis
news which had evoked the tribute of
that exclamation.
"Come here!” called Laurie, urgent
ly. “Here’s something new; and, by
Jove, isn’t she a beauty!”
Bangs interrup^ted his toilet to
lounge across the room. Looking over
Laurie’s shoulder, ^fiis eyes found the
cynosure that held the gaze of bis
friend. The wide-open studio window
was again reflected in the mirror, but
with another occupant.
This , was a "girl, young and lovely.
She appeared in the window like a
half-length photograph in a frame.
Her body showed only from above the
waist. Her elbows were on the sill.
Her chin rested In the hollows of her
cupped hands. Her wavy hair, parted
on one side and drawn softly over the
ears in the fashion of the season, was
reddisfi-gold. Her eyes were brown,
and very thoughtful. Down-dropped,
they seemed to stare at something on
the street below, but the girl’s expres
sion was not that of one who was
looking at an object with Interest In
stead, she seemed lost in a deep and
melancholy abstraction.
Laurie, a hair-brush in each hand,
stared hard at the picture.
"Isn’t she charming!” he cried again.
Bangs’ reply revealed a ^severely
practical side of his nature.
“She’ll have a beastly cold In the
head if she doesn’t shut that win
dow,” he grumpily suggested. But his
interest, too, was aroused. He stared
at the girl in the mirror with an at
tention almost equal to Laurie’s.
T he Natlxmal
organization of
ing concerns which fo^
carried on an aggressiv^^
campaign of public edncal^:^;:^
effort to reduce the amount ofelf
able accidents among employees
recently Issued a buljetin about file
Now what possible connection is"
there, you ask, between accidents and
flies? Many of us were taught In our
childhood to regard the ordinary
house fly as a harmless, friendly visi
tor. In most American homes today
a house fly is not an accident. Its
presence Is accepted as a matter of
course. Why should the presence of
a harmless fly be sufficiently impor
tant for the National Safety council to
issue a bulletin.
Suppose a man-eating tiger Jumped
through your window some day into
your dining room. You’d consider that
quite an accident, wouldn’t you? Yet
files kill a thousand times more people
every year than do tigers. But the
fly Is Very small and we are used to
him, so we don’t mind him.
As the Safety Bulletin truly says,
the fly is more than a pest. He is a
menace to health. His germ-laden
body reeks with filth and disease.
Flies used to be regarded, at the
worst, as a nuisance.
Probably the most convincing and
sensational evidence of this fact was
when the investigating committee, ap
pointed to find out why so many of
our soldiers died at Chickamanga
during the Spanlsh-Amerlcan war, re
ported that most of the deaths in that
camp were from typhoid, that most ty
phoid^ was caused by files carrying in
fection from the latrines to the un
screened kitchens and dining rooms,
and that flies killed more American
soldiers during this war than Spanish
bullets. ^
These statements, made by recog
nized experts, were corroborated by
ample evidence and were issued In a
government report. Later investiga
tion has proven that flies carry not
only typhoid but also cholera, “sum
mer complaint,” Infant diarrhea, dys
entery and other Intestinal dfseasee;
and that under some circumstances
they also carry consumption.
With this information, which has
now been common knowledge for
twenty years, files have no more busi
ness in the house of any intelligent
person than any other dangerous wild
animal.'^ ^
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When germs gather on the heart
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