P""1"1'"' " A'J-J kHBMB1kJwbdAHajitfykArtriHri ?X inr' sw -. v- EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1919 F . . . i ' A DAUGHTER of TWO WORLDS A Stent 0 (tew Verk 1AI By LEltOY SCOTT Author ot "No. J WasMnolon Square," "Hani RtBtn," its. Printid bu uptetat arrangement with Houghton Mtfflin C. CotvrlgM, lH, bv Lcrou Scott. rpim night was raucous with the 1 " voices of new sboys shouting nn extra. "Sounds Hko a murder," remarked TJnclo George; aud bouelit an Evening Telegram from n bellowing vender. The next instant, Ins eyes' on the huge headline htrclutcheil Harry's arm. "Great Clod!" hi gasped, "Larry Murdochs just teen killed J" But alt Harry's senses were so aennitely fixed elsewhere that he did not even hear Uncle George. He walked on toward tho avenue. "And It ebjr they don't know yet who Wiled hitnl" exclaimed Uncle George". Harry kept mechanically on. At the corner ho pouted, and his gaze, turned UP Hie avenue, fixed upon the front of the hotel. He was not even cont (.clous of Uncle George, at his side, staring with loose face at the Tele pram's four-JIno story of the murder. Ho saw ouly a low-built touring car in itn tomifiiu tun tieures. Hue liar- hswtrison' and Billy Grrtyson, though he did .not men Know who nicy were anu m tho driver's seat Kenneth Harrison. Then ho. saw Keuncth spring out of the car-rsavy Jennie coine out of tho Grantham's main entrance and cross Xho sidewalk saw Kenneth with a smile on his handsome face, and with the manner of proud ownership, help her in, and place himself ut her side and then saw the car move nwny. It wab at that, moment that to Harry Edwards the world seemed to come to a definite end. How' Harry Used a Useless Life HOW he got there, or why he came there, Harry Edwards never knew ; tut at Yi o'clock that sume night he sank down at a solitary table in IJlnck Jerry's cafe. Perhaps he had been guided by the subconscious urge to get ack to the scene of Jennie's early life back where there had been no banlcrs between them, lie aiterwaru irmciii bred oulv wandering in a wild daze, keeping away from main street, having no purpose, conscious only of tin pnin ho bore within him, and he remem bered slipping once, twice, several time, through doorways iu these obscure streets and swallowing the 'raw stuff they set forth as anodyne for that nst agony which seemed now alone to con stitute his being. At Black Jerry's In again ordcreu whisky, and it was brought him. He gulped it down. "Telephone call for you a little while go, Harr.v." said the waiter. "A.' ri" Harry replied indifferently. "Bring 'notller whisky." Ho noted, iery dimly, that the reg ular habitues of the Pokiu, those from the neighborhood, were drawn close to gether in little groups, and were talking in excited undertones. He dimly sensed that there was something out of the usual in their behavior, but he was not conscious enough to wonder what it might mean. He had another drink and another nnd another Hut as yet one more was being brought him. Black Jerry ap peared beside his table and motioned the waiter away. "Take back tliut drink. Sid," Jerry ordered. "Harry don't wont it." "Wha's tin'?" demanded Hnrrv, mi rtIIv tring to rise. "I ordered tha' drink-rl got money to paj I got ri' to drink it!" "Sit down, Harry"," nnd Jerry firmly pushed him back into his chair and sat down beside him. "You ain't used to UUVC, nuu JUll C hub ...... .. ,ut. . .... carry now. Sec here, Harry with gruff kindliness "I been watching you. Something must hnvc happened to start jou off like this. Whnt's wrong?" Harry's bloodshot eves glowered de fiantlv. "None jour damn business!" "Oh, yes, it is.- I've known jou since , you was n Kid. You know I'm your1 friend. Come across what's eat inff von?" Harry pondered this. Then he leaned over the table nnd wnispereu: "jerry, I've jus' seen her!" Black Jerry needed no explanation. Tin tlnnoed about. 'Their table was In n rear corner and no one was within bearing flistnnce. You stiff," he whispered, half sav ncclT. "Don't you know that's dan ftcrous? Did anybody see you with her?" "Think not. Jus' Jennie Uncle George m'self. Yes, Slim Jackson suw us." , "'Slim Jackson!" A groan sounded fleen down in Jerry's chest. "If Slim Jackson starts anything, I'll attend to him. What (I you sec iier tort" f "You know her engagement riven ncth Harrison?" "Yes." Harry's bloodshot gaze became de fiant Hgain. "Guebs you know I'd al ways banked on her marrying me. Had to sco her to put up fight for my own rase my last chance. Well she turned mo down. Tha's wha's matter with me!" "You better forget all about it." Black Jerry nodded. "We're In the same boat, Harry. I've give her up, "Youl" flared Harry. "You're only her father!" Black Jerry was tol erantly silent. "She's turucd me down!" Harry re peated wildly. "My God, Jerry, she's turned me down 1 And me" clutching his crumpled shirt "I don't care now what happens to mel I'm through! Jerry perceived tho dangerous reck lessness of the other's mood ; perceived that Harry should be both humored and handled with firmness. "You're a bit off your bean, Harry you've had too much booze. Come on, I'm going to take ou home." "Won't go home!" declared Harry. "Now, Harry," persuaded Jerry, "we'ro pals, you and me. Ain't we both had to give her up? That makes us pals, don't it? There s nothing I wouldn't do for you. So let your old ual take jou home." "Won't go home!" Aud Harry set tled stubbornly in his chair. Black Jerry recognized that he hao to change to a new tack. He had to keep Harry cngnged until his mood changed, and he chose the topic of in terest closest nt hand. "Who do you think shot him, Harry?" "Sll.nf n.hn?" Jerry stared. "You mean you ain't heard ! If you'd been, alive you'd nave lonmeil Heht here UN all that the bunch in this joint have talked about. t mean the murder of Larry Murdock. Un't you heard?" , , , Harry recalled exclamations unnceu ed at the time, of Uncle George over the extra bought outside the Grantham. And ho began to apprehend that thin mnttrr hud connection with the life that had been his iu that far-away time before he bad learned of Jcnulc s engagement. "Yes, 1 heard," he answered. "Who do -.ou think shot Murdock? Harry shook his head. Don't know an thing about it. Who you think? "The talk iu here nil runs that that hie light between Murdock and Conway ,,) behind it. They think that sonic one who wns strong for Conway must have done it. Guess thut's the way the eoppers'U size it up. too. W e re all sure something big is about to break down in this part of town.. All that this crowd in here is doing is wonder ing what's going to happen next, and wondering who the guy is that croaked Murdock, and wondering if the cop ners'll grab him." For the moment Black Jerry forgot Harry's troubles. This was a world vent to him, and another was impend ing. Harry, too, his faculties quick ened a bit. sensed something of the situation's importance. g Before either spoke ngairi. the wait er who had scried Hnrrv lai n hand on the Mumg fellow's shoulder. "Tcliphone call for you again." lie said. Hnrrv swned into n booth nnd closed the door. "Hello." he called. "Is that Ilnrry lMuards?" asked the oieo on the wire. "Yes." "Don't mention nnv names, but do vou know who this is?" Next to Jennie's that voice was the one he would have most quickly rccog. nlzed nnvwhere. "Yes." "I've got to see you. Harry quick. Can you meet me at the office in ten minutes?" "Sure." "Then I'll go rUht over to the office. If tliintzM are daik, come right in any how. The door'll lie unlocked. And, Harry, better not let anybody see jou come." "All right." There were a few more sentences, then Harry hung up. That fricndlv voice, anxious, Coaxing, yet imperative, had cleared his murky brain ot a little more. He had been asked to come alone. Through the glass door of the booth he eyed Black Jerry, and planned with befuddled cunning. Thep iie stepped out, und moved to Jerry's side. "That wns just a crazy fellow T kuow wants me to meet him uptown," he explained. "But you're right, Jerry. Thin? for me to do is to go home." "Glad jou sec it that way, Harry. I'll jubt go with you like I said." (CONTINUED MONDAY) DREAMLAND ADVENTURES My DADDY "TICKLE TOE TIMMY" (Peaatl. Billy and .Judge Owl, made tiny as mice 6j doing through a meg aphone, are taken on a, tickling spree bu Tickle Toe Timmy, an elf. Mother Mature catches them, wak ing up icinler sleepers and causes them to be tickled and spanked.) Peggy Sings a Lullaby QPANKBTY - SPANKS Spaukcty- The tree roots, urged on by Mother Nature, tried tp make a good job ot their .parikihg of Billy, Peggy, Judge Owl-'ftVd Tickle Toe Timmy. They used their1 dozens of hands freely and wheu one W'l t0011 a rest ot"er ,iaud was ready, to spank in its pace. But'affer Peggy and Billy got over their first startled surprise at this kind ot thrashing, they found they were being more seared than hurt. The trees had beep asleep for a long time, and the roots were slow nnd stiff. Their blows didn't land hard enough to harm a fly, , The Undcrground.Folks were enjoying tho'-jm.anking spree hugely, but Mother Nature was busy looking after her awakened' children. As her eyes rested upon the fonts p the flowers that Peggy bad awakened, sho gavo a cry of disr tress. ' '"Oh, my poor flower children, they are freezing to death!" True enough, the -flowert! had pushed themselves so far upwiml. jn the cold earth that they were fecjing the 'killing touch of Old Man "Winter. ' "Go back to sleep, chil dren," pegged Mother Nature "Go back to' sleep. That's the only way to savO' your llyes." "We con'to .back to sleep," wailed the poor flowers. "The tickling touch ot spring has made us so wide awk4 wo must climb and climb, even though wo climb to frozen doom.'' "Oh, you poor dears, nothing can sayo you unless you go back to sleep," walled Mother Nature. Peggy w'cs shocked nt the result ot her tickling joke on tho flowers. If sho, couia'ouly uo .something to save them if 'hicco'uW only, nut them tq Bleep. Then Jeggy thought of Way to nut them .to weep-tbe wny eyery mother uses with hw;,babe. ftho forgot that I 11 THE GUMPS Saturday Shopping -; -: -- -r- opm. ,, . Tmmn. p. 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The Young Lady Across the Way The young lady across the way says the prevailing unicst is world wide and bbe sometimes fears it will take a long while to bring order out of cosmos. PATHETIC FIGURES By FONTAINE FOX I I I The man whose He WAMsrA cHibDoweersito run it aw. rzL HIS PAYING WITH 1,4 THE TIME. tB ' THE TRAIN OF.CARS W f TsZ, AND "THE TRACK f &?A "CAP" STU BBS Sammy's So Reckless! By Edictna ff ('D-DONT CO ' ' . ., V A N'T Ao . ' (hey wat " (NOW LOOK Oln-YOUfX. WENT fN DQWEI Vrv- XftRB To &irw, Vii' rtS" -ep!WA SOMEBODY'S STENOG "Venus" Is Happy CopyrlBht, 1!)10, by Publlo ledger Co. By Hayward she was befng spanked and began to sing a lullaby: "Sleep, little flowers! Sleep, pretty flowers ! Sleep while I sins. Sleep through dark hours! Sleep throueh cold hours! Sleep till the spring!" An l'eggv sang the Flower Spirits stopped climbing upward mid crept b'iek to listen. And as they listened they nodded nnd nodded and went safely to sleep. And now, to Peggy's surprise, she found the spauking stopping. The Tree Spirits were listening, nnd as they lis tened they crept back into the warm earth nnd nodded and nodded nnd went to slqep. The rpots drooped and the prisoners were free. "Now is the time to escape !" whis- pered Father Rabbit. Peggy looked around and found that all the Under ground Folks hod n6dded to sleep like the flowcrB upd trees, and so had Mother Nature nnd Tickle Toe Timmy. The rnDDlts were tnc only ones awake, nnd of course, they were not winter sleepers. Fntlicr Itabbit helned Pecsv on Tiunnv Rabbit's back, Hilly nn Pinky and Judge Owl on Johnnv Rabbit. Whisk! They were In n dark tunnel. Whisk! They scurried through a twisting pas sage. Plump! They stopped suddenly, and Peggy, Bijly and Judge Owl went flying over the rabbits' heads and out of the mouse's hole, right Into Peggy's nome. a. great cregiure was scaring down upon them. It was Blackie, the cat, crouched to spring, for he thought them mice. Before them was the small end of tho megaphone. Judge Owl trawled into it, and flapped out the other end as big as ever. IJIlly followed, chang ing Into a real boy. Peggy came last, jumping into the megaphone just as Illacltle pounced down behind her. , At once she was her usual size, - The door slammed, as Billy and Judge Owl made for their own homes. Peggy was back in' her chair, alone except for Blackie, who couldn't understand where the supposed mice bad vanished, "Oo-oo-oo!" roared Old Man Win ter down the chimney. "My, that sounds cold," ehivcred Teggy. "I'm glad the Flower Spirits and the Tree Spirits nnd the Under ground Folks are all safely asleep again. And I'm going to be asleep In my own cozy bed just as quickly as I can get there." (l nett week's adventure,, Peggv and Blflu take a trip to visit, the lirds in 'the 0uy South.) tit S k (ait ,T jl &U. "VEAi.Us"AMD HER '-SENSIBLE Shoes'". SOMEOUE 6AVE HER A AEW PAII? Rs IF?ISTMAS AMD SHB's So HAPPT SHE fibRfiV-E-o! 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