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SYNOPSIS.
" Penrod, fearing the ordeal of playing
the part of the Child Sir Lancelot, seeks
•tret.fulness in the composition of a dime
+trovel.
Penrod's mother and sister dress him
4In his costume for the "Children's Pageant
.�t the Round Table." Penrod is ashamed
"to wear it.
Re* nreatte'lin in whole pageant by
putting on a pair of the Janitor's overalls
over his costume.
A visit to a Moving- picture show gives
him an idea, and he loafs away his time
•in school. dreaming dreams.
The teacfrer relit:61in htm. t1eks
distract attention from himself by alleg-
ing loss of sleep because of a drunken
uncle.
The teacher sympathizes with Penrod's
• aunt because or her wayward husband.
and it then develops that Penrod has been
Penrod, Sam Williams and two colored
+boys, Herman and Verman. get up a big
•show to entertain the town.
• CHAPTER X. •
Retiring From the Show Business.
ILENCE followed. Sam and Pen-
rod. spellbound, gazed upon
Roderick Magsworth Bitts, Jr.
• So did Herman and Verman.
Roddy's staggering lie had changed
tthe face of things iittcviy. No one
-questioned it; no one reenzed that it
was much too good to be true.
. "Roddy," said Penrod in a voice
etremulons with hope, "Roddy, will you
join our show?"
• Roddy joined.
Even he could see that the offer im-
• plied his being starred as the para-
mount attraction of a new order of
L things. It was obvious t lint he had
-swelled out suddenly, in the t..4timation
•of the other boys, to that importance
which be • had been taeght w believe
his native gift and natural right. The
sensation was pleasant. He mid often
• been trended with effusion by grownup
callers and by acquaintances of his
mother aud sisters. Lie had heard la-
, dies speak of him as "charming" and
"that delightful child," and little girls
t had sometimes shown ltim deference,
'but until this moment no boy had ever
„ allowed him for one moment to pre-
-slime even to equality. Now, in a trice
the was not only admitted to cotnrade-
• ship. but patently valued as something
•rare and sacred, to be acclaimed and
pedestaled. In fact, the very first
thing that Schofield & Williams did
was to find a box for him to stand
-upon.
The misgivings roused in Roderick's
-bosom by the subsequent activities of
'the firm were not bothersome enough
'to make him forego his prominehce as
Exhibit A. He was not a "quick
minded" boy. and it was long and
much happened before he thoroughly
-.comprehended the causes of his new
celebrity. He had a shadowy feeling
that if the affair came to be heard of
set home it tnight not be liked, but, in-
toxicated by the glamour and bustle
which surround a public character, he
:made no protest. On the contrary, he
entered whole heartediy into the prep -
...Stations for the new show. Assuming,
' With Sam's assistance, a blue mustache
and "sideburns," he helped in the
• painting of a new poster, which, sup-
pleugnglhe old one on the wall of the
still -ire -Wm the cross street, screamed
bloody murder at the passers in that
rather populous thoroughfare:
SCHoFIELD & WILLIAMS
NEW BIG SHOW
RoDERICK MAGSWoRTH 13iTTS Jit
ONLY LIVING NEPHEW,
oF
RIINA MAGSWORTH
THE FAMOS
MUDERESS GoING To BE HUNG
NEXT JULY KLLED EIGHT PEO-
PLE]
PUT ARSINECK IN TRIER MILK
ALSO
SHERMAN HERMAN AND VERMAN
THE MICHIGAN RATS DOG PART
• ALLIGATOR DUKE THE GENUINE
InDiAN IfoG ADMISSioN 1 CENT oft
20 PINS :AME AS BEFORE Do NoT
MISS THIS CHANSE TO sEE RoD-
ERICK,
ONLY LIVING NEPHEW oP RENA
MAGSWORTH THE GREAT FAMOS
• MUDERESS
GoiNG To BE
HUNG
Heart Would Beat Violently.
Nerves Seemed ta Bo Out of Order.
" The heart always works in sympathy
with the nerves, and unless the beart is
• wot•kilig properly the Nvhole nerve system
is liable to become tinstreng, and the
heart itself become affected.
1VIiiburn's Heart and Nerve 'i1l5 Will
• build utt the unstrung nervous sys.tem,
• and strengthen the weak heart, eo'tliat
the sufferer will enjoy the -very best of
• healet ler years to come.
Mrs. John. X. HiekS, ritieteville, Ont.,
• writes: ata sending you my testimony
• for the benefit I have received from tiling
Heart and Nerve Pills, As a
-nerve and heart builder they have tone
Wonders for tee. At tintes 1ny heart
would beat violently, and iny nerves
teemed to be all Out ef crder, but after
ttsitig a few boxes of Milhure.'s heart and
:Nerve. Pills I feel like recce/neon:ling
.1.1min to Others that they might receitro
benefit as t lid,"
• 1/11buru's Heart and 'Nerve rine have
:beee oti. the Market kr rite. 13att twenty -
t five yeers, and ane. ugivetrelly considered
• to be unrivalled as a ntedicitte for all
disorilers of the tit or ttervee.
1V1ilbeftes Heart and Itlerve Pille ere
b()c per hot, 8 lmitcs for it all
stealers 11,ttle,1 direct Ors reecipt of
1 price by The trilbttrit Co, Limited,
Torentte Ott.
THE: • WINGRAM Toms
thigh people to Pat ill iheir eeffee. nm
each Mai ell of 'ern tiied. The great
nrs'nle Murderese, ite0s MagSWOrth,
gentilfettu end lasedeeze, ad llechly's,
her only living nephew, She's A rela-
tion of All the Wits family, bat ite's
her ono and only living nephew. lie,
Menl-bar. net Jilly ehe's giant to he
and etich and all you new see
before yon"-'
Penrod palmed abreptly, seeing Sotne-
thing before useltUe aUgliat and.
awful presence which tilled he entry-
wey. And hie werds tit sheilld he re-
lated( froze upon his lip.
'Before herself MI's. ROdiel; Mugs,
worth Was saw ber son -her scion -
wearing a Mellattlehe and sideburns or
blue, and perched Upon a bee Omitted
by Sherman end Verman, the Mich!,
gan rats, the jedian dog Duke, Eler-
man. and the dog part alligator.
Roddy also saw something before
himself. It needed no prophet to read
the countenance of the dread appari-
tion in the entryway. His mouth open-
ed-rernained open -then filled to capac-
ity with a calamitous sound of grief
got unmingled with apprehension.
Penrod's reason staggered under the
erisis, For a horrible moment he saw
Mrs Roderick Magsworth Bites ap-
preaching like some fetal mountain in
avalanche. She seemed to grow larger
and redder; lightnings played about
ber head. He dual a vague contitelonEt-
ness of the audience spraying out in
flight, of the squealings, tramplings
and dispersals of a stricken field. The
mountain was close upon him -
He stood by the open mouth of the
hay chute which went through the
flow to the manger below. Penrod
Also went throughthe floor. He pro-
pelled himself into the chute and shot
down, but not quite to the manger,
for Mr, &Mittel Williams had thought-
fully stepped into the chute a moment
In advance of bis partner. Penrod lit
upon Sam.
Catastrophic noises resounded in the
loft; volcanoes seemed to romp upon
the stairway.
There ensued a period when only a
shrill keening marked the , passing of
Roderick as he was borne to the tum-
bril. Then all was silence.
Sunset striking through a western
window rouged the walls of the Scho-
fields' library, where gathered a Pint
family council and court martial of
four -Mrs. Schofield, Mr. Schofield and
Mr. anti Mrs. Williams. parents of
Samuel of that ilk. Mr. Williams read
aloud a consplcuons passage from the
last edition of the evening paper:
"Prominent people here believed
close relations of woman sentenced to
hang: Angry denial by Mrs: R. elags-
worth Bias. Relationship admitted by
younger member of family. His state -
meet confirmed by boy friend' -
"Don't!" said Mrs. Williams. ad-
dressing her husband vehemently.
-We've all rend it n dozen times.
we've got filenty of trouble nn our
melds without hearing that again!"
Singuln I•ly enough. Mrs. Williams did
uot look troubled: she looked as if she
were trying to look troubled. Mrs.
Schofield wore a similar expression.
So did AIL Schofield. • So did Mr. Vila.
Hams.
"What did .she say • when she called
you up?" Mrs. Schofield inquired breath-
lessly of Mrs. Williams.
"She could hardly speak at first, and
then 'When she did talk she talked so
fast I couldn't understand most of it,
and" -
"It was just the same when she tried
to talk to me," said Mrs: Schofield. ;
nodding.
"I never did bear any one in such a •
state before," continued Mrs. Williams.
"So furious" -
"Quite justly, of course," said Mrs.
Schofield.
"Of course. And she said Penrod.
and Sam had enticed Roderick away
from home -usually he's.not allowed to
go outside the yard except with his
tutor or a servant -and had told him
to say that horrible creature was his
aunt" -
"How in the world do you suppose
Sam and Penrod ever thought of such
a thing as that?" exclaimed Mrs. Scho-
field. "It must have been made up just
for their 'show.' Della says there were
just streams going in find out allsday.
Of course it wouldn't have happened.
but this was the day Margaret and
I spend every month in the country
with Aunt Sarah, and 1 didn't dream" -
"She said one thing I thought rather ,
tactless," interrupted Mrs. Williams.
"Of course we must allow for her be-
ing dreadfully excited and wrought up,
butt ele,think it weeen't (tette delicate
in her, and she'S usually the very soul
of delicacy. She said that Roderick
had never been allowed to associate
with-evith et/Millen boys"-
"Meanitig Sam and Penrod," said
Mrs. Schofield. "Yes, she said that to
Me too." -
"She said that the most awful Wee:
about it, Mrs. Williams :Went on.
"was that, though she's going to prose-
eUte the newspapers, many people
would always believe tbe story, titur -
"Yes, I imagine they will," said Mre.
Sehofield musingly. "Or course you
and 1 and everybody who fealty knows
the 13itts end Megsworth families um
derstand the perfect abstirditY of t.
Bet I suppose there tire ever so many
Who'll believe it, no matter what the
Biases and Magsworths
filltindreds and hundreds!" said Mrs.
Williams. "I'm afraid it will be ft 1
great coniedown for theft"
"I"ni afraid so," said Mrs. Schofield
gently. "A very great Otiestes, a Vet%
very great one."
obsetted Mrs, Williams after
a thoughtful pause, "there's only one
thing to be done, and I suppose it had
better be done right Away."
She glittided totvetd the tt!,.(5 gontlo- ;
met).
4,Certftilliyp •Mr. SA0fiek1 noted.
Rota Magsworth. he tuck •arshie *tut where Are theyV
in, the with pfettset .tt=arftle and dis, 'InntregU„lonkediri the Stabler
Megaphones were constructed out ot
heavy wrapping paper. and Penrod,
Sam and Herman set ont in different
directions, delivering vocally the in-
dannnatory proclamation of the poster
to a large section of the residential
mintier and leaving Roderick Mags
worth RIM. Jr., with Verman in the
loft, shielded from all deadhead eyes.
Upon the return of
the he heralds t he
& TVilliams military hand
played deafeningly, and an awakened
public! once more thronged to till th.,
Novo,: of the ertn
Prosperity smiled titellit The i•er,‘
Nrst audience after ''e 1.-:ition cif
Coilertok teas Itirtr Iie hugest
of the morning. Master Bitts, the only
exhebit placed upon a box, was a timer -
curio. All eyes fastened upon him and
remained, hungrily feasting, through-
out l'enrod's luminous oration.
But the glees: of one light must ever
be the dimming of another. We dwell
in n vale of seesaws, and cobwebs spin
fastest upon laurel. Verman, the tat-
tooed wild boy. speaking only in his
native forelgu languages, Vermeil the
gay'? 'Vernian the caperer, capered no
more, he chuckled uo more. he beck-
oned 00 more nor tapped his chest nor
wreathed bis idolatrous face in smiles.
Gone, all gone, were his little artifices
for attractiug the general attention to
himself. Gone was every engaging
mannerism which had endeared him to
t he mercurial public. He squatted •
against the wall and glowered at tbe
new sensation. It was the old story -
the old. old story -of too much temper.
ament. Verman was suffering from
artistic jealousy.
The second audience contained a cash
paying adult, a spectacled young man
whose poignant attention was Very
flattering. Re remained after the lec-
ture and put a l'ew questions to Rod-
dy, which were answered eatber eon-
fusedly upon promptings frotn Penrod.
The young man went away without
haying stated tbe object of his interro-
gations, but it became quite plain later
in the day. This same object caused
the spectacled young man to make
several brief but stimulating cane di-
rectly after leaving the Schofield &
Williams Big Show, and the conse,
quenees thereof loitered not by the.
wayside.
The Big Show was at high tide. Not
only was t he anditorillin filled end
throbbing: there was tot ineettese line,
by no MOO IN W10011,1' Juvenile, wailing
for admission 10 the next performance
group stood in I Lie street examilling
the poste'r earnestly as 11 glowed 10
the long. slanting rays of the west
-
Ward snit, and people in automobiles
anti other vehicles had belled wee& in
the street ,lo read the niessag.e so
given to the world. These
were the einitlitlims when crested
• Victoria arrired :ft a gallop, and a
itirge chastely Magnificent and high• ly
fleshed woman.. desponded .entl pro,
1,il'essed itch0A0 ille Pird Mil 11 011 Iii01
Violetlee
At :delft of het' the :,dulls of the
wititites line hastily diseppeated. anti
Most of 1130 pausing Veltieleti moved In-
stantly tat their way. I...4w was follow.
eft by it stricken Man in livery.
The emirs to the etelltorlitin were
tuirrow and steep.'Sirs. Roderic!:
'Sfagswol.tit itittst was of 0 stout I1 ot.
3)11)3 the VO:ee of Penrod was ;outride
timing the ascent.
'Ittentern-bur, getilII13i11I and
tleeke, eatli foul nit Mt now gaemg
(Mon Itodefick Niegsworill gilts, Jr..
the only lividieW of 11IO great
Had. Dyspepsia!
4imnk HE NEARLY TURNER
IUP HIE TOES.
Burdock Blood Bitters
CURED HIM,
U. N. Manderson, Stettler, Mae
-writes: "Alecelt tvitenty-five years ago
tie the Province Of Qtfebec, I came prat;
near turning up my toes with dyspepsia.
A
cousin of mine Persuade4 me to try
Burdock Blood PittersIn about two
weeks I could eat anything from raw fat
pork to unleavened bread. Three bottle
did the job, and1 have never been
troubled with my stomach since. Voll
Would say that this: !s wonderful if you
could only.pee what we sometimes have
to live en to this coentry; bannock, half
cooked beans, etc," '
*Burdock Blood Bitters has been on
the market for the past forty years, and
cannot betexcellecl as a. medicine for all
diseases or disorders of the stomach,
13.13.B. is manefactured only by The
T. Milburn Ca.. Limited, Tcronto, Out,
. • +
Isles] his' wife.
.4 se:melted it They've
started ror1 lie for west."
"Did son Inokla the .sawdust OW"
"No, I didn't."
"Thee thet's where they are."
'rims in the 'early 'twilight the now
historic! stable was improneeed by two
Where elmeged to do the only thing to
he done, limy entered 1110 etotwoom,
"Pem.od 1" said Mr, Schofield,'
"SOW" said. \1r. Williams.
Nothing, disturbed the twilight hush.
Bet by means of a ladder brooget
front the earringe house Mr, Schofield
mounted tothe top of the sawdust
hos, He looped within and discerned
the dim outlines of three quiet figures.
the third 'fettle that of 11 small dog.
The two boys rose upon commeml,
descended the ladder after Mr, Scho-
field, bringing Duhe with them, and
stood before, the authors of their be.
Ing. who bent upou them sinister and
threatening brows. Wit h hanging heads
and despondent mutat:an:Ts. each still
ornamented with a mustache and en
imperial. Penrod and Sam awaited
sentence.
This is 11 boy's lot: Anything he does.
anything whatever. may afterward
turn out to have been a erime-he nev-
er knows.
And pueishment
alike Inexplicable.
Mr. Williams tool: his son by the ear.
probably
. "Too toarc4. bone” .1wcolow.octs,
$.441.marc.144,., 1.19t lookingle1, untt
father- followed .tbe Sinai figure
"Xoo,• gob' to. whipwhlp neT qoavorea
Penro4 slo4e wtbJostles-. •
oWask .your face •at that bytlraot,4
, .sag M father stero17'.
bout: fifteen minutes later Palma,
llorrle41y entering the. ..goraer Ilrog
store, two Oloalm distant, was otos,.
Kea to,perceive a familiar :feral at
the soda counter.
"Vsy..'PO411•794t"' 1504 Sam Williams,.
"Want fieele. SOOY/.' COMO op. Ue
ine. He 4141e't do anything
to me et all, Fie gave me a quarter,"
"Se'd said Penrod,
find clemency fire
•
1/44r4.,Ity, •
O.-- •
He Propelled Himself Into the Chute
and Shot Down.
• CHAPTER XI.
Music
OTI1001). is the longest time -
in life -for ti boy. • •17110last
term of the school year is
matie-of tlepodes, not of weeee,
and living through them is Ube- wait-
leg for the IuilIe011ittul. lint they Eta
pose .$0140401., end at .10$L there value
a day Whell Penrod was oee of 11,gsottp'
Oita 'ai'red oLlt front the graveled
eord. of Ward 801001 O. 7, earroling a
lettvetaSIng the lestitetion.. of their
instructress and not even forgettlug.
.nr. C the janitor..
"Oood-bye, teacher! Clood-bye, school!'
tluoil-bye. Valreste,.dern old foot!"
Penrod tlallg. tile lottdosi. Per )(Very
lesy Vivre is ito age ween Ite "tinfle•Itis
Pem•ters. !tad not "changed."
bot he, haul cooed it. leevItably tlutt
thing had velum 11((1J his family and
the neighbors, and Ilis• father, a seine,
what dyspeptic, 111811, iittoted fretplently
the expressive words or the "Lady of
Khania," hut there %veil* others whose
-aifferiligs were as poiguaet.
Vaetttlon time warmed. the youtig of
the world to pleasant taugeor, mei 0
mottling eame that was like 0 brightly
(0101(1(1 111(11130 in a titild's 1111ry story.
Nliss Margaret schotteld. reclining, 10
hammock upon the emmt vpreb, was
1.3a swill in the eyes of 0 newly made
senior, well favored 'awl in, fair rat.
aient, beside her.. A guitar rested light-
ly upon Itis knee. tind Ste eels trying to
play. a matter ofsome ditlicility, as the
floor of theporch also eeetned 1110111030
to he meelent Pent, directly under his
feet came a voice of song. shrill, loud,
incredibly piereiug and incredibly flat.
dwelling (3 P0 eacit syllable with in.
((11111(1011(01811110 reluetimce to Mate it:
"1 have lends and earthly pow-wur.
gil'e all for a tinw-wur.
Will-ilst setting at my -y -y dear ou moth-
er's knee-ee,
So -o -o rem -mem -bur whilst you're
,t,oung"-
Miss Schofield stamped heartily upon
the ninsieal floor.
"It's Penrod." she explained. ."The
Inttice at the end of the porch is looSe,
aud he crawls under and comes opt all
bugs, He'sbeen having a dreadful
• singing, fit lately-vunning, away to pic-
ture shows and ontuleville. I suppose."
Mr, Robert XI -Mimes looked upon her
yearningly. Ile touched a thrilling,
Owlet on his guitar :cid leaned nearer.
"But you said you have missed me."
he began. "I"-
The voice of Penrod drowned all oth-
er sounds.
"So -o -o rem -mem -bur, writ -141st yOu're
young,
That the da-a-ys to you will come
When you're o -o -old and onlyin the way.
Do riot scoff at them bee -cause" -
"Penrod!" Miss Schofield stamped
again.
"Von did say you'd missed me," said
Mr. Robert Williams. seizing hurried-
ly upon the silence. "Didtet you say"--•
A livelier tune rose upward.
"00, you talk about your fascinating
beauties.
Of your ilem-o-zells. your belies.
But the littit dame 1 met, while in the
city.
Site's par excellaws the queen of all •
the swells.
She's sweeter far" -
Margaret rose and jumped up and
down repeatedly in /1 welt calculated
et•ea, whereupon the voice of Penrod
tried eholelly, "Quit that!" and there
were subterreneen muggings and
sneezings.
-You want to choke a person to
dva tit r he hundred seteistiS. ePPear-
ing at the end or the porch. a cobweb
epon his brow. Atel. cuntlimiug. he
put into praetice it newly acquired
phrase. "Von hotter learn to be more
considerick of other people's cowrort."
Slowly and grleVedly he withdrew.
passed to the sunny side of the house,
reclined in the warm grass beside his
wistful Duke and In•eseetly sang again.
-She's. sweeter far than the flower 1
named her after.
And (he memory of her smite it haunts
Inc yet!.
when In after years the ;noon is softly
beanitth.
And at eVe 1 sfrueil the smell of Mignon-
ette
1 Will re.CALI..
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1Achoticld appeared at an open
whelow upstairs, a hook in his haud.
"Step it!" he commanded. "Can't I
stay twine with at timid:wive one morn-
ing from the ottice without having to
tistett to•.- 1 1101 01 811011
sittiatelting!" Ile retired from the win•
(10w, having too impulsively owed
'num) his maker.. Penrod, shocked mad
entereit the image. but pres-
ently ids voice was again audible as
far as the front Pori:11. ile Watt hairline
With his tie 0 her, elem. where
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into nitrated the little Orutuer, tuni yet
he it; one of the great trials of lovo--
the inunetuortai euitien uf owel:Mai.
Tragedy should have found place -for
him, but he has been left to the hap-
hazard vignottLet or ( 1111, stre(1. att.
is the grave aud real mem.* of tuvers.
ills head is sacirl and ittrrillitt. ON,
power illimitable. There is one way --
only one -to deal with bitn, but ifoliert•
Williams, having a brother of Penrod's
nge. understood that way.
Robert had $1 in the worn! Ile gore
it to ['Owed immediately.
Enslaved forever, the 1)0(0 Itueketel-
ter etse and m'ent forth tipou the high-
way, an overflowing heart bursting the
Iluodgates of song:
• ln Iter eyes the light of love was softly
• gleamun'.
So sweatlay,
So ncatlay.
On the banks the moon's sofl light wa
brightly strcumun%
viiords or love 1 then spoke to her,
She was purest of the pew-er:
'Littil sweetheart, do not sigh,
(lo not weep and do not cry.
I wid build a Mtn coulee fust for yerr-
ew-ew and 1 • ''
Ill fairness It lutist be called to mind
that boys older thou Penrod have those
welliugs of pent melody. A wife can
never tell when she is to undergo a
musical morning. 1111(1 0'00 the golden
wedding brings Iler tio serurily: a nem
or ninety is thible le (lust loose 10soug
;ill)' time.
Invalids murtntlred 10111111 ly as Pen-
rod CO We Within hearing. and people
trying to think :limed the day that
they were bore when Ile went shrilling
by. His hands in 1110 pockets, bis shin-
ing face uplifted to the sky of Juue, he
passed down the street, singing his
way into the heart's deepest hatred of
31 who heard
"One cvuntng 1 was sturow-ling
Midst the city or the Dead.
1 viewed where all a -round me
Their peace -full graves was spread.
But that whish touched me mostlay"-
Ile had reached his journey's end,
a junk dealer's shop, wherein lay the
long desired treasure 03 his soul -an
accordion which might hare possessed
a high quality of interest for 81) anti-
quarian. beteg tlinttlestintuthly a ruin.
beautiful in decay ono wide beyond
the sacrilegious reach ot the
But it was still able to disgorge seenuA,
which could be heard for a veto:pita-
hie distance in all direetious. and it mei
one rich calflike toile that had gone to
Penrod's heart. (le obtained the in
strument for '22 vents. a price iong
since agreed upon With the junk denier.
who falsely claimed loss of [wont.
Shylock that he was: lle itad found
the wreck in an alley.
With this purebase suspended twin'
his shoulder by a faded greeu cord.
Penrod set oet in n somewhat honie•
ward direction. lint tint by the route
he had Jest traveled, thoutrii his Motive
for the change was 1,01 lumenotarinn.
It was his desire to deenny himeelf
thus trotthadourine to the ;rove •of Mar.
jOrie Jetlee. nerahline 1115 advattee hy,
continuous eXperitnents 1)1 the mush.
Of the future. he pranced upon Ids
blithesome way. the faithful Iihke 111
his heels. flt was easier for Duke than
it would 111100 1/001 for 11 yOunget dog,
beeal15le With advaneing age tie had be
grin to groW 11 little deaf.)
Turning the owner neltrest to the
glamored mansion of the &nurses. the
boy jongletn• mime stelthees 311 ('0 tO
face With Marjorie and, in the deliciOes
Stirpritte of the eueutinter. ceased tO
play, his bands, 10 a glia tit in. fa thi;
froth the instreilleut.
Bareheaded, the sunshine giorioet
uPon her rabbet' etwls, 111nrjOele Was
ettelling Maul in halal With het baby
brotlisr, Miteholi. root years old 1-110
Were pink that day - tut forme mote
Oak, with broad. Meek 'Name
er belt, shimmering fellevilons
tmee „lee , sat mse Also. jvititil 0, :in..
A;as: riow stlerell the. sweet little;
baby brother, whose privilege it Was.
to 011117, 10 that small hand dehieately
powdered with freckles. •
"Hello, Marjorie!" said Penrod. :af-•
fectiug carelessness.
•suiti mArjorie„ with unext •
fleeted cordiality She bent over her
baby brother with motherly affect"-,
tions, "Say 'howdy' to the gentye
mune, Mitch,y-Alitch." she urged sweet-
ly. turtling him to face Pent•oti
"W'on't!" said Mitchy-Aliteh, and tO,
emphasize his refusal kicked the gen.,
tymults (WOO the shin,
Penrod's feelings underwent instant
change. and in the sole ocetipation or
Blitchy-Mitcla lie wasted pre-
cious seconds which might have been:
better employed in phitosoehic consid-
eration of the startling example just
afforded of how 11 given law operates
throughout the universe in precisely
the same milliner perpetually Robert
Williams would hate understood this
oh!" Marjorie ;Ilea and put
mitchy•Mitch behind net with too
much sweet ness. tp•iee I.evy's
goneogN Atlantic City with M
nie mam-
ma." she renr.11 eon
kerersatIonally 115
if the kicking iticident %yore ;mite
el
nothin'." returned l'etirod.
kerning his eye niteasil 111Ha1M1lelly-
111 1100 "I know 010013 0,40,10 been
better plaves OM 11 (101t–) .10e;!gil and
everywhere."
There was 1111''' '3 Inerntillide in
his low votive 01 Atlantic city, Par it
was burets Ili the attractlims or mar •
resort 10. owcit :Miss Jones' present af.
Wilde of friendlin('ss. 4)1 oonrse. too.
she was oolong ;atom the neeordion.
It wield he dastardly to hint that she:
had noticed 0 paper hot; 0.410.1) loliged
tilt. pocket 01 Penrod's elutt, and yet
this 1,1,, tv•is undeniably entezpiettons,
"and children are very like grown pe'
pie sometimes!"
• Penrod brought forth the bag, pur-
chased on the way at a drug store
and till this moment unopened, which
expresses itt a word the depth of his
sent -Miele for Marjorie. It eontained
an newnlent le /quite' worth of lemon'
teme„1 wbree ers. licorice sticks. cin.
namon drops aud shupworu chocolate
creams.
-Take all you want," he said, with
offhand geuerosity.
"Why, Penrod Schofield," exclaimed
the wholly thawed damsel. "you nice
boy?"
"Ob. that's nothin'." he returned.
airily. "1 got a good deal of money
bewadays."
"Where from?"
"Oh, lust around:" With a centime,
gesture he offered a tew breaker to
Nlitchy-Mitett, who 51i110•Iied It indig-
nantly and ten 11110111 118 absorption
without detay.
"t'ar 0 y011 Play on 1 ha fr risked Mar-
jorie. with some ditheolt elteeka
being rati(e) too 11111 los cont erstithitl.
•Wilint to heat' ine'f'
$he ttalled, het e:tos stx eel with am
t 1)8 11011
This WO; What he Mel Nene fol. Ile
thtew hie hetet 11,•,1 los eyee
4.41eleittilly. t, he 0811 e.e. MU -
slew ueiti tooled the
accordion 111.-oar1l30 to 10 0011c0
IktIfery.t '1118 4318
1)111001' 131 or the i0ec41rt1p111, opening: ids
mouth stili widet, lost therefrom the
3h* breaker. Wiliolt rolled 111 lilt &1St.
Weeping, be stooped 10 retrieve It. tad
Marjorie, to prevetit hitt, hastily et
her font lillen It. Petrel offered an,
ether jet' breaker. bUt MiteliY.Mitth
s'iriPqt it from his bend, desirltigt"tht:•
1 3 11.14, Which had .conrioccii Sim
114 vv,vetite0t4.
(to 132 014t14Ino)