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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER- PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1921
SKMVF DUCROW
By I1ENBY'BTNJQHN COOPEtt
THE GUMPS The Older TJwy Are the Harder They Fall
By Sidney Smith
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- ,iti Ain't T mileL haven't I
c ..Miinr for you to Ulk all the
I . Only you ""'' 8fty ft word' You
imi r. .... ,iin nhniit and disarm
Ci.C tie I Oh, what n lovely tie I
'. that-molro .Ilk, or wwr
'?. !.. vnnw. I don't carol" ho
hmited. "Sunny. Hstont"
Vlt ft minute I" she said. Bho ran
,,, the room and sprang on to tho
' . aHulnrvlnir har amnll
tit na wi"" -?,
.. .h. ..I;l "It'll onlv
.-Don't nurr,. --"-.."--",
.B.y y(l 1 WO VO gOl HIO m. I"
, wek before us i we -"
! i. and the peformanoe. For
,....' .ake. Arthur, don't hurry!"
Sunny, can you be Berlous?" h Bald.
Bn. nodded. "When I want to, out I
.. . -. i.i,. vainer aerlmin thin morn.
oni i". .. ----"", ;.:.,:.-,-
r I've txn seeing " ", v"n mui
wi'.and-whlte cottoges, each with a
l.throom nd "
Itanr the '", '.wiiZ.rT
. t me Bunny, .1 " He ps used.
fey tV.tlTl?her feet refused to
-Tnii the ared at nim.
"ii biv veu. Bunny, with oil my
LirL" he Mid. "I want you to promlso
leentov - v :.,, . ....
1"T0U a)VU ilUW VIM a W1W wiua
ru oeor clear old thing, you I What's
Ihe matter J"
i ihlnk I fell In lovoSrtth you the
Krv flrat day I eftw thtlt ,elir "ttlo red
nun: iou Jut walked straight Into
lit I wu a fool, I didn't roallie what
mtuit te me I I do reallae It now. I
ov roU. I wani you u cwionff a mo .
KnOW rOU RTH J-UUIIB Ol Ullljf JUKI.
tMnteen, aren't you. dear7 Dut wo
ould wait a year, wait till
cunnv fliiDDoa aawn xrtin uio ladib.
v. Mm (n him and nut her arms aud-
Senly round hla neck: sho drew hie
C down ana jiisevu mm on mo chbok
"TOtttl li. Arinur," nne snia 801117,
Forftt II, aear 01a jvnnur, 1 igve you
int. a heap In another way) I love
four dear, lolomn old face more than I
ran tell you. but but It can't be that
int. Tou understand, don't you, dear?"
M nodded s enuy.
1 hate hurting you " she said i her
kri mita auaaeniy nio 11, naie ill
5'd tooner cut my hand off than hurt
bu! you know that, don't you?"
"Then then It can never be?" he
itjld willfully.
J she ihook her heAd. "It can't be I"
tie Mid. "Me and you must be cood
Mtnda. the tet of friends. Arthur!
will always be that, shan't wot"
"Alwaja, eunny oeari" ne said.
Mtviva!" Them was 0. lumn In his
throat It was a blow, but ho took It
like tut man ne was.
"So ao it's orri" no said. "EhT on
for rood and all I No chance for me,
hope, sunny, mat you may ever
ehaate your mind?" He looked at her
with the last rleam of hops In his eyea
Sunny ahook her hed. "I shan't
niver charge my mind, dear," she
said. She went to him and slipped her
warm liitu nana into his. "Only It
wont matte no aireTence Deiwen US,
MOtpt perhaps It'll make us like one
aaotner oetier tnan even" she said.
I I suppose so. I'll a-et used to It
Bo time; It It hurts a bit now, Sunny."
-1 Know at least I don't know, but
tote It doe I" she said.
'Sonny does It mean that them In
I) fome one else?" he said.
teni looKea at mm. tne color flooded
r face to her whit neck. Her eyes
lie! luddenly: sho drw hr honH
klowljr from his.
i aont Know : i don't 'know," Sunny
3bcw aald "I don't know."
But he did 1
Eht WIS iron, and i rfnn atnrlna.
pown at lh empty fireplace.
"Aft'r all. I wan inn !.! V n.l4
Too late: my luck I Well " He
neand a rrrat nlvh 'fiA vf v.. n
pe lime, dear, sweot little soul!"
.nu ounny wamea out into the street
nth a fir.awav InnV In tix. ..... k.
lp Darted. ' ""' ""
'i aon t Imow," ahe had said te
Mhur Curt U. T ' uJr m
Did fahA ItnnvrT CVi. wam4..2j tm
h. know? "-"" uo"u' um
"Ihaen't ant no rlrht tn trn t,,i nil
111 lov with no one!" she said.
,v. ..." v ..', "-", ouuio una who
;.Pr ? .ovn?. on wh couldn't
ISJ?-1 Tno,tnl,n,r nnd nobody l" I was
Ana Tft An Ala .. lift wt .
fftMatl a rW "VT Will J iVB IfOl 10
of 1 A,?" ,,,Je JT .of " nver think
,c5.,.or'? hin love " she nanscd.
S W"J," the (low of the trnfflc. Into
Ilrht J me a Bort tenaer
tha7'iV.h"re!" mL9 thln,rH ,n ' world
inanlMe" rhe whNnerd. "Tinf inv.
1 B!. thlnjr of all I"
Ala thtn ah. l.,i. ....t ,.. .
V..Vr. ni,nd.1' t0 .a policeman.
tirrnn.t.M u7" me. Procession, M a.
to t uro-t T" "he CalIed out " J ,vant
lirlr'lS."' her and lifted
Inhlla n.. b lu c,a "P 'no trainc.
i'? s Sunny Ducrow crossed the
Snil i?u.cll "tWhan I Jump hard but
,"'y Just touch It Presently I'll bo ablo
to wt hold of It easy!"
vilhia,u.8!1 ' her reverie Was broken.
ii . enmo into mo room, '
tAln'1 you "over irolnp to get 'up this
DTntyr ,nornlnB' Ellabeth Ann Du
,'t ,!?n't often I stay in bed," Bunny
hald. "I'm going to get up now. I was
i.a heavy .mn!" ""' ""hti U W"
Mra. Molklri sniffed. "Ilea-y partr
sho raid. "Much rood your heavy tiarirt
to dotAin't we never going to
seem
;"' i" uoi-yvini we never going to
nave a home of our num. Riihih (nm
AJ. we' going to be In In respectable
edgings for the rest of our lives?"
"Oh, there's plenty, of tlmo to see
about a. home,'' Sunny said. 'Tell me, old
dear, how you'd like to go and live out
In the country?"
"I'd hate itl" Mrs. Melkln said de
cidedly. Bunny's face fell. "Well, It wouldn't
be far out," she said. "Not more'n,nbout
ten miles l"
Trt 'ate Itl" Mrs, Melkln said. "I'm
a town bird, I ami"
"How about a nice little red.and
whlte, house with honeysuckles and
ininaar ounny saia.
Td 'ate It r Mrs. a
CUAPTEIt XT IX
Somallllnr . TKIt. rw..
Mli Sunnv nutrnw ,, ...
Z'& a '"'"l1'.'"! . patroSs of
M.tll- ;."i ',""," "crirlt 10 ne as ver
he audU.thufr."" asurprlso to
lomed igu,.: i. ' 1 .7 ,RTwn nccu
.1" v l0 aeeinsr her In lie-lit. inwD t
'heat.Mene' when Bhe appeared' on
''ufttent.4 'Jrtd he house "pen"
uiiu oy tne trnnle force h ,iiar,in,,i
.."u.Zel. regretfully It must h wrif.in
ho S r.?m Rn "ftlstlc nolnt of view
wTC255 could hardly be "",s
IWlene!l"Jy Mr to MIm """ow;
uoience wa no nrar.n. I
aavdt . I wn.th", reputation she hns
"ne Worn w V.3ii '" "lq'' ome
waken i ik . . audience seomed to
"en to the fnet lin th. .'"
wr.u"?n:' "
declare ih.. it l "nvlnif too much
irllliJ;." Jhl M i Ducrow mnde a
hri ih., .T" a.5?..r.?'.to heights that
aver bel cvm ',"lUB"'? "omirers had
Stiff1, Wh(n Bh "" caTud afieVtTe
'"I. frTend?JBhLrff9r MIm Ducrow n
hat in. L,..ttd.v'ce- we would aufcgeai
motional part. . .if0.m .,,Ucn hR,"'
!!. ..' l'Brig as thnt nf n.rH. m.,
ears to '" onvon,ur,M' 'or some
lh ! the nblliiJ t"nno4,1''ubt thnt
('"r. but Ui" 5hl" one CR"nt doubt
ter niabJ .:.')9 Is younir. nnd thmio-h
Ihere is ,?,?, 'I1" night was wonderful,
hf. 'or such n nil.0' th. child about
VHI L n PS inlaw 'I- y at aa a. .
n .......1 :"'"... ""1 nv
Poor; H,r." nf.k1" und much
;nUh1,l?,hS.ifc" touch of
n z? A'Rrt Jackson'. A;. ..:;.::...:
look0rr,ln,8tir'llno''hUla.Ll
fom his nan t ". (h.''' """ " t
of bet er ,hln "nKht W,,.B '" P"n
Sunny ittv in to "ne."
" Cry. nVa- ?hd reaulnV the Morn
aTis'contrjf." tn .Paper that Wallace
t time n W"f dt. tho bet crltlo of
"4 AS ". 8un0nhdnneHeI,..k."(l' 'r mow
r.cneeka nn.h.., "--u 10 nope for;
"! ol he?aU.ired When 8h0 ra hla
Wfil hnat1'tr?letah.rnn,t "'l5ht
'M tftylnnn LJ ?hiieRJm' .nd "unnv
1 criticism," ?n thB rn.ln t0 rea''
h' were hi? .th5.n,ornln I'ajiers.
fc-'Saa"MS-
mmwm
Z H&Ukttfti-f ouht to leave
I ntter Ji.k0 Jtht for 0, bit What's
Ch' '""'taufedfe
"And a bathroom?" Runnv njilcd hnn
fully. "And a kitchen with pice red'
tiles on the floor, and a back garden
with cabbages and like that?"
"Not me I" said Mrs. Melkln.
Bunny sighed. "I thought you'd 'a
Jumped at Itl" she said.
"I'd 'ate the very sight of It Olva
me London and the shops I"
Sunny sighed. "I thought you would
like IV sho said. "I had on Idea,
bUt I" She paused. .
"What's all them papers?" Irs. Mel
kln asked.
"Only about tho piece last might."
' Oh, thnt plcco of HJcrt Jackson's I
Laugh at It, I should think, don't they?"
".Vot quite I" Sunny said,
"Well, If they didn't, they ought tot
Ecrt Jackson writing plays! What's
things coming to? Him at used to be
In tho pickles "
"And me, too, I was In the pickles 1"
Sunny said. "Only things change a bit I"
"Any'ow. don't mention no country
'amel'' Mrs. Melkln snld. "No I nor
no bathrooms nor tiled kitchens neither;
and as for cabbages In tho garden, 1
never oould abldo the smell of them
growing I"
"All right,'' Sunny oald. "All right,
we'll get a little flat somowhere later
on."
"Later onT It's always later on!"
Mrs. Melkln said.
Sunny rose: sho bathed and dressed.
It waa 11 o'CiOck when she opened tho
front door of the house In Dloomibury
and went out Outside the door a car
had-pulled up; In tho car was Lord
Dobrtngton.
"Oood morning, Sunny," ho said. '.'Itlp
ping notices about you In the papers, and
you doscrvo It all ! Seo what Angus said
about you In the Cry?"
She nodded. "And ho wan right," she
said ; "he was dead right I I n Jump
Ing a bit too high. I've got to wait till
I've grown n bit"
"On, rot!" ho said. "Theso chaps al
ways qualify their praise. It waa a rip
ping notice, I road. It aloud to my
mother and sho was delighted with Itl"
"Waa Bhe?" said Sunny.
"Rather I" He made room for her
besldo him. "Jump in, Sunny," ho nald.
He himself was driving the smart
little two-seater, and now, with the skill
of a practiced driver, he put It through
the truffle.
Sunny did not talk whllo they were
negotiating tho worst of tho traft.c, but
presently, when lulling was passed and
tho road became less congested, she be
gan. "It's all off!" she said.
"Oft? What'a oft?"
"Me living at Sunnyvllle," she sold.
"I spoke about It to aunt and she nearly
had, a fit She's against living In the
country; and I did look forward to it
so,"1 ehe said. "I'd made up my mind
to have one of thoso little red-and-wnite
cottagei, and look after thing there
during tho day, and help a bit in the fac
tory, and and ono thing and another,
but there It Is I Aunt won't listen to it
so it's offl"
"Poor old girl 1" robrlngton said. Ho
looked at the little face beside him. He
looked more often than he should, seeing
that he was responsible for the well
being of the car.
"So you want to live In tho country ?"
he said,
"I'd love It! It was Just lovely that
night, I stayed at Darr'rwe's, getting up
In the momlng and seeing the fields and
the cows and the hens and all tho rest of
It, and the fresh air! Oh, I'd love Itl"
"You've never seen our country home,
Sunny, at Great Harwell Harwell Tow
ers?" "Of course. T haven't." Bhn said.
"Sunny, supposing we run on there
now It's only fifty miles Instead of
going to Sunnyvllle this momlng, as we
intended? L,ers mana ior ureav jinr
well, Bhall we?" He looked at her eag
erly. "I'd love you to seo our place I"
"I'd love to see It!"
He looked at the clock on the dash
board. "If wo put It on wo ought to be
there by half-past one. I oould send
Mrs. Mathers a wire from Uxbrldge to
tell her to have luncheon ready. We
could leave there at 4 and be back In
town by 6, shall wef
Sunny nodded.
"IVght I" he snld "I'vo wanted you to
see our place badly."
At Uxbrldge they stopped for a few
minutei while he sent a telegram to the
housekoeper at Harwell Towers, warn
lnr her of their coming for lunch.
The country was lovely ; It was 0. glor
ious day, and Sunny gave herself up to
tho enjoyment of the trip. London and
tho theatres Kerned very, ory far
away; the little car ran llko a dream.
They did not talk muoh, and Sunny was
glad. Now and again Dobrtngton
glanced at her, sometimes their eyes
met, and they rmtled. They were good
friends, the best of good friends; thero
was a complete understanding between
them, thero was no need for any uiiiieu-
essnry conversation
And tho car made good time; It was
Just after 1 when they ran Into the
quaint, Irregular llltlo street of Great
Harwell. It woji an old-world village,
six miles from tho nearest railway sta
tion and consequently unspoiled. The
pavements were of rough cobbles, the
little cottages had whltewwhed walls
and roofs of thatch, or of Irregular,
weather and tlmo-stalned tiles. Old
dames with smiling faces bobbed curtsies
to Dobrlngton as tho car passed; old
men touoh d their hats to him.
"Every ono seems to know you here,"
Sunn snld.
"They ought," ho Bald, with a laugh;
"we've been here over four hundred
years I was born hero ; It's my home,
you know "
Before thorn was a pair of large atone
illlars. surmounted by carved lions hold
ng shloldx On the pillars su'ung hiau
Ifuliy wroupht-lron gates.
"Lor, wn didn't ought to go !n here,
did wo?" Sunny asked, as the car went
between tho gato pillars.
Dobrlngton smiled. "It's our place,"
he said. "Harwell Towers."
v Sunny said nothing; she looked about
her. Sho saw smooth, green sward, on
which fed dror. Sho had never seen
deer In her life, except once In Rich
mond Tarlt ; her eyes widened nnd she
held her breath.
"You you don't mean," she whis
pered, "you don't mean It It nil be-
'ongs to youT"
To my father I" he rld. "it'll bo
mine one day, I supr ., .uugh I hnpe
not for many a long day yet. He's the
dearest and best old fellow In the world,
my governor!"
And there, at last, was the houso It
self. It itood back, a largo sheet of
water reflected It to the most minute
detail. A lonr, low, rambling, old-fashioned
place of stone, with mullloned win
dows and queer churchllke-looklng door
ways. It stood high, built on a slight
hill which had been cut Into terraces.
"Like It?" ho asked.
Sunny did not answer for a moment
"Go go elnw. Oh, please atop ; I want
to look I" she said. " I want to see It
from Just here I"
Ho stopped the uar and sho gated her
fill.
"Well?" ho nskwl.
"It's wonderful, I neer saw any
thing like Itl It's almost exactly like
the drop scene at the Realm, only bet
ter I Didn't there ought to be some'
swans on the lake there?"
Ho laughed. "There shall bo one day
If you like, Sunnyj'i he said meanlnglyt
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