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" ' By HAROLD MacGRATH
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'J i Jenr n New Yerk .
US HOBhB retireu prccipuuiei
te the kitchen tot hare a geed cry.'
this boy wss " own. She hed
thi bl prayer. Ana new jbm inno inne
Jr..,! .11 thin money might combine
utttav him. When the came. in te
u the tame, ue i "
jr.. figuring en the back of an en
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''Why, what a me maiicri ue
td te knew, observing tne rcuncss
''hit eyes.
w Jumped up and put his arm around
It Den t worry nreuv me, numj,
K a country bumpkin, but net the
iili v.w Yorkers ever saw before.
?. middle name, ns the boys used te say
eVcamp, la Caution Instead of Jerry;
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ui you can reply In care of the nttor ntter nttor
Mrt'whese address I will give you be-
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Tnen no kibbcu ier c.
''h stele away at sundown nnd took
AT 6:30 for New lerK. ms eniy
fee of luggage was a cane suitcase
vtth a battered lecK. in pruer w actv
tit cue from falling; open he hed had te
Si It with a length of clothes line. He
Mtt a suit of village store clothes and
iheckine demy net. it w u" ""
Cely Planned. Either bin cduca
m' was lumber or It was his ready
errant. It waa te de a tow 01 ma
Suriiw and resource; a test of the
...j!... a hia tnnffim te sneech. Here
en this train nnd en the Btreeta of the
eify he would net be particularly
leUced; but nt the desk of geme famous
lettll It he nnssea mis tirueai, "
ViV through his little comedy, New
fork would held no terrors for him.
ni. ihi trnln had reached ita mnxl
Bum speed, he began te examine the
typewritten sneeis wnicn enumtrui
fij worldly possessions. There were
thousands upon thousands In the banks :
tttre were all manner of gilt-edged
bends and stocks; ships, houses, apart
Bints and tenements. There were here
none of these lordly edifices rich men
erect at menumenta te themselves. All
tie real estate, with one exception, lay
Wew Twenty-third street pick-up-
titer old families had petered out, geld
gjntt in brick and brownstone.
,"4hl" he said aloud. Here waa the
M for which he waa searching.
JTnt First l'reseytenan unurcn raori raeri
dtt. what should he de with it? Me
tared out of the window Inte the fall-
hu nliht. All at once he Deaan te
Until, a Joyous, rollicking laughter.
Yfut a revenge wnat a completely
Muuil'tg revenge i very goea. ne
eH cancel this mortgage upon one
eoadluen, that he should be permitted
(a furnlnh nt hi own exnense a me-
snerial window dedicated te his father!
If that didn't atir them. Gabriel's
trurantt wouldn't! He would submit
tie preposition in person. He weuldn t
nil seeing the vestrymen's faces for
half his fortune. Oh. be knew. They
would writhe nnd twist, hem and haw
-and ncrcc lint there sheu'd be no
loophole. It was te be ngrced nlse that
II the window were broken he could
bate the right te present another, nnd
te en. se lone as he lived and the
church steed the church his father bud
betn married in and buried from.
His laughter reused the young man
la the scat behind. The stronger smiled
it) was net at any thought, but at a
Dleture: the clothes line around the
nitcase, the cheap, ill-fitting clothes,
the derby which recalled the headgear
el Jee Weber when old Broadway was
wmewhere. A boob, pure und simple,
heading into the big town, with buven
mill.ens in his jeans! The move had
een se quick that he hadn't had time
wire the professor. Oh, well, he
teu',d call him up as neon us Mr. Hick
tied himself up for the nlplit. lie
would probably hunt un some $2 corn cern
Unsary. All right. Wherever he went.
certain cuy known ns the Shadow
would toddle along after. Taxis, aur aur
lace cars, subwnys, or en the hoof, it
was all the same. The Shadow would
Mrer lese tight of the Substance.
Bancroft became inerdir.tely elated.
The possibility of avenging himself
without hurt te any one was the meat
nwying emotion no nail yet known
hiker's son! Miser's son! Yah! T
THE GUMPSThe Neble 700
LBut
fpe mi
them.
Te
jwnge himself for that, for the years
weal.eua isolation, nnd in hucIi a man-
r as te make all the neighboring
ttWm act nrlili lnnkBl rri. l.l.
humor of the memorial window would
teteme a county flnsulc.
But he hed another blew in store.
memorial would chagrin the vil
li but thin second blew would stun
eiTl. Ttf linrl 4n t.n ttmnn ,liwAn
Winds, no mere; Mr. Ilerne, Prof.
"Uler, principal of the village acad
m, and Miss Hewitt, the faded
ffi ,n"f who played the organ In the
im Presbyterian Church. Fer aev
rai years he had pumped the bellows of
;r ergun; and alter rcheursalti,
?. m y nlbta, she had used te play
r.J".m1 compositions net generally
gM inside of country churches, filling
H boy's eeul with celestial happlnesa.
Jt of klndneas for a forlorn pariah,
wne waa guilty of no crime save that
being the aen of SUaa Bancroft.
ANet in his will, but new! When
PW were growing old nnd bent and
WBless, wben a apell of alcknesa would
I? .i.,heP J9' W thy bad ed up,
v.uy1Lhad MTed UP anything. New,
Jv'"' J?e' c.euld eniy Te tnaku
ffiS three happy who had tried te
"jeten a uniiti kn. ni.. wt
awfd the enduring happlnesa of a
awireua act. Tomorrow, one of the
W thinil he did. Tr wmiM um
n eternal buckler against all fu-
uLivnuncs, uni, or these mil-
'j.inere or 1pb Inwfiills nrniilrd.
Id come happiness te three lonely
nan being He would give each a
. certltted, for fifty thousand del-
JB? fought lightened bta atep m he
K?:lTtA through, the mates of the
Ait,.vVni "rtnlnal. Outside, at
iij' " pausea, uia eyea and ears
yidered. It waa the flrat time he
fsr aeen XSewXerk at n iht. dur-
i.i rW neur' Thousands of
3tMmi,n?I2 ft,Psag8 through the
nt?n. iiu.rry,n&,buP,,ns' l"w'ln.
M,?!'. hta.jHIa brain waa pre'
YbVP't beJ hed often vlaualieed, New
fW, Londen. Parlat hut tar U fh.f
II tual fairly stunned blm; there
' -irJl 'or' t?'ltand a menace.
eutatde be had
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iftettaltr,
thle with humoreua peculation, That
thi roeaery nan many a queer nest in
Its there would be the creW, the .pea
cock, the sparrow and the; hawk! and
somewhere a bird by the name of
Qeerte Bellman. Riinnntln h nut tin
there for the night aad get the lay of
the land? Providing he could paaa the
cenaer at the desk. If they balked
at bla suitcase and hla derby there waa
always Aladdin's lamp in his pocket
-110.000. Cnmfrtrtlnr thniiht!
Behind him steed the Shadow, smil
ing .tolerantly. The peer boob didn't
new wnat te ae, en, or wnicn way te
turn? It was a great temptation te of
fer the hick some friendly advice, but
lue proieaaer nad banned any sucn
Samarltanlsm. r
. Seeing an opening, Bancroft strode
forward resolutely, The Shadow at bis
shoulder, ready te give him a friendly
shove If he hesitated. The worst thing
that could happen ie the Oreat Adven
ture Cemnnnv wnnlrf h the rldttntal
bumping off of Colllngsweod Jeremiah
Bancroft, Lord, what a moniker I
oeunaeo like one of these oerty-goon
that get Inte the Sunday supplements
for nothing. And Jeremiah bis middle
name, tool The passage waa made In
safety, however. But as Bancroft!
atarted te mount the hotel steep, the
Shadow slapped his hand te bis fore
head, "Helf ameket I'll have te witness
this, whether he pipes me or net.
They'll give him the air with a spring
board, Oh the peer hick I"
"A room with bath, please," said
Bancroft, adding a smile te his pleas
antly modulated voice.
One glance waa enough for the clerk.
The Intelligent face, brown nnd clean,
the clear gray eyes, meant nothing, car
ried no message. In the great hostel hestel
rlea of New Yerk clothes along make
the man. That derby I
"Serry "
"Just a moment," interrupted Ban
croft, still smiling. "My hat and
clothes are the fortunes of war. I
cannot go roving about the streets In
this attire ; Chaplin Is tee well' known.
I want a room nnd bath ; If you haven't
that, a whole fleer."
There was a simple and dignified way
put for the clerk. He could have asked
If reservation bad been made, and, en
being informed te the contrary, an
nounce that there wns no hope. In
atend, he believed he might very wel'
haye a little joke te recount later te
lighten the tedium.
"There is nothing left but the am
bassador's suite, sir. I can give you
that."
"Very well," said Bancroft, who
hadn t the least idea what the ambassa
dor's suite signified, socially or finan
cially. He extracted his packet of bills,
se respectable in thickness and se for
midable in numerals that the clerk was
rendered speechless. "Hew much will
it be?" asked the victim.
The clerk, finding himself heist en his
own petard, 'named the extortion, Ban
croft counted off the sum, then signed
the register. He had come through;
but he never realized that the victory
had been due net te his personal mag
netism, but te the strength of his wal
let. The change en the clerk's face from
hauteur te astonishment was carefully
noted by the bell-boy, who darted to
ward the recent object of his contempt.
When he took the key, which he recog receg
nised, blB eyes pepped. He knew In
stantly that here waa a British duke
who had cither gene into the movies or
was the victim of a held-up.
"This wny te the lift, sir!"
The suite appalled Bancroft. Mir
rers and gilt and plush and mahogany ;
Oriental rugs and tapestries, paintings
and bedroom after bedroom, bath
after bath, ceraDarlna favorably with
some palace he had seen In the home
picture books. Tem Canty. Bancroft
had always wondered nbeut that bnv'
spnsatlens when the ermine had been
thrown across his shoulders; he had
some glimmer new,
The Shadow en the Jeb
Ills ready laughter bioke out. His
sense of humor was well developed, and
had, in fact, served te keep him en the
optimistic side of the fence, despite the
periods of depressing unhnnplness. A
(reed start : te aterm New Yerk in thU
faahicn, and te squeeze a laugh out of
it. xne ureat Adventure Company
couldn't have done anything better than
this. That bed there, with Its sultantc
splendor, wns almost Immoral. Havlne
satisfied his curiosity, he searched the
walls for the bells and rang for the
valet.
"I want evening clothes, with short
cent, n fifteen cellar, shoes six and n
half, and a brown or gray fedora, size
seven ; also a dark gray business snlt for
morning." ,
"Yes, sir. You'll be wanting a top
coat, tee. air," said the velet, reanect-
fully. A man wearing the habllments of
the ragpicker would have been treated
respectfully In these hallowed cc
fines.
At half after 8 he re-entered the
lobby nnd went te the desk, with the
.mention or depositing the bulk of his
neney. His anncarance the earn with
which he were hia borrowed plumes
completed tee demoralization of the
clerk. .
Havlne deposited hla menav and re
eclved hla receipt, Bancroft sallied forth
for his flrat lecture in the University
of Streeta. He wandered west, peered
into ahep windewa, glanced curiously
at tne men and women who passed him,
stared at the automobiles and philos
ophized upon the evolution of the wheel ;
crossed Fifth avenue and naused te ad
mire the colossal beauty of the public
iierary. iiere would be a great place
te brewse in, once he became domiciled.
He came presently te the meat famous
Intersection of streets In the Western
Hemisphere Forty-second and Broad Bread
waywhere the huge animated electric
signs flashed Inte hla astonished eyea.
Fer an hour he meandered about thla
brilliant section, In and out of cross cress
streets, stepping before theatre en
trances and Inspecting the framed pho
tographs, and occasionally recegnising
a face. And then the most marvelous
thing in the world happened. Her face !
the unknown girl of the aterm I Nancy
Bewman. He approached the box of
fice window and laid down a bill.
"Standing room only," said the qui
eacrnt humorist behind the grille.
"That'll de for tonight."
Bancroft was tremendously excited,
but be was In no hurry. He had, by
some extraordinary miracle, discovered
ner; mat would ee eneugn ter ine pres
ent. He knew where she would be for
days and days te come. Later, he would
find a wavte he.r. He had hla pass
port properly vtsered, the reclamation of
old Mrs, Herne'r shoe and stockings.
With a ringing In his ears and a
sting In his bleed, he entered the dark
ened house.
Te return te The Shadow. As Ban
croft disappeared Inte the elevator, The
Shadow went up te the desk and glanced
ut the register sheet. J. Colllngsweod,
New Yerk. He turned away and passed
out of the lobby Inte the street, utterly
dumfounded with what he bad seea
and heard. Then be Searched for a
telephone booth nnd made a call;
"The Shadow. Very Important
news." ' u. .A
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