Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-15

and he shrank from facing the world
again. More than all, the thought OF
meeting his father face to face sent the
hot blood surging to his head, intensity
ing its dull ache. His sister Fanny would
be likely to show her sympathy and con-
f1dence by promptly giving tea or
dinner to which he would be specially
hidden, to demonstrate to the world that
I'm spite of his derelictions his family still
stood by him. The remembrance of past
offenses, and Of the definite routine that
his reservations followed, only increased
his misery The usual interview with his
father. with whose mild, martyrlike for
bearance he had long been familiar, rose
before him intolerably.
A light tap at the inner door OF
Wayne's room caused him to leap to his
feet and stand staring for a moment at
q shadow on the ground glass. The door
led into Roger CraighiIrs room. and as
he had been thinking of his father, the
knock struck upon his senses ominously
He hesitated an instant. curbing an i'm
pulse to fly: then the door opened eau
tiously, and Joe Denny slipped in, seated
himself careless1y on a table in the CEN
ter OF the room and nursed his knee.
Consider Joe q moment; he is not the
humblest figure in this chronicles tall.
1.-THE young fellow, Enthusiastically lcish-
American. with a bang of black hair
across his forehead and a humorous light
In his dark eyes. His grin is captivating.
but We are conscious also of shrewdness
steal second when Joe had the ball i'm his
handy He is trinity dressed in ready
made exaggeration of last years style.
His red cravat is fastened with gold
pin i'm the similitude Of crossed bats sup
porting a tiny ball. symbol of our later
Olympian nine. You may. If you like.
look up Joe Denny's batting record for
the time he pitched in the Pennsylvania
State League. and you will thereby
gauge the extent of New Yorks loss I'm
a. srel aQS SO a
before he broke his wizards arm.
Joe. at ease on the table. viewed Mr..
Wayne Craighill critically. but with re-
spect. In his more tranquil moments Joe
spoke fairly reputable English, derived
from the public schools OF his native
hills, but his narrative style frequently
took color of the idiom of the diamond.
and under stress of emotion he departed
widely from the instruction impaired b.
the state of Pennsylvania on the upper
waters of the Susquehanna.
Say the colonePs due on the 40.
Wayne Strengthened himself uncon-
sciousIy and his glance fell upon tn
desk. on which lay an accumulation O.
papers awaiting his inspection and sigma
ture.
"Who said so? I thought he wasn't
due till tomorrow"
81 was up at the house when Walsh
station. I guess the colonel wired
Walsh
"rd like to know why Walsh couldn't
have done me the honor to tell me-" said
Wayne. sourly.
II guess Walsh don't know you're back.
They asked me in the front office
while ago and / told 'em I guessed you
were up at the club: and then j came in
here through the colonels room to see
IL you had stayed put.
Craighill was silent for a moment, then
he asked:
How long was I gone this time. joe"
He addressed young Denny without
in tone of kindness that
minfm!zed the obvious differences be-
tween them.
"It was Wednesday night you broke
loose. and this is Saturday all right
II must have bumped some OF the high
head feels like IT. How about
the newspapers" q
Nothing doing! Walsh fixed that UP
all right. You see 1t was like this: You
made q row the steps or the Allie :
you home. I'd been waiting on the curb
with a machine till about 1 am, and
some of the gents followed you out OF the
club and wanted you to come back ap1
go to bed: and when couple of cof6
came along properly not Seeing anything
and not letting on. you must UP xGE
lump on one of 'em and pound his head
Then the other cop broke into the hssE
and there was a good deal doing. arfe'
got you into the machine and Slid rof
the Country Club. and got a chauffesx's
went to sleep so6G
Wayne shrugged his shoulders.
WAS that all 1 did? Ii sounds prsttv
tame: l must be getting better[or
worse 20
He drew a cigarette from his case and
struck a match before he remembered a
rule that forbade smoking i'm office hours:
then he found cigar and chewed IL uft-
lighted. Joe eyed the Uttered desk. re-
aectively.
Say. you'd better brush that off bee
fore the colonel comes.
Put that stuff out of sight" commands
ed Wayne and tossed him his keys. 'Sea
here, Joe 1 started Wednesday night.
and Thursday night L made a row on the
club steps, and you took me out to RoSs-
,aIe i'm the machine and kent me there
ill you smuggled me I'm here this after
loon That's all right enough but there
vas another chap in the row at the cub
Il thought / was fighting the whole
orce. and you say there Were two Dolice-
men there. There was another fellow be-
sides the policemen" =
Forget it! Forget it," grinned Denny.
waving his hand, airily "The bases
we're full for a few minutes. and young
rent came along and took our side
lgainst the cops see? The two cops had
IS going some, and this little chap blow
ng I'm out OF q minor league raped a
wo-bagger on the biggest cops chin.
You Mr. CraighilIs chauffeur he says
O me, sweet and gentie-like: and be-
rou into the machine. and / cut for the
all. green hills. AS the coal oil lit up
nd she got i'm motion l looked back, and
ur little friend that hit the cop was q
landin' the cop his card
(To be continued tomorrow.)