The Mena weekly star., 1913-03-20
.ppyr,ght 1911 by Bobbs-Merrill CompsBs
 bntlnued from last issue)
CHAPTER |.
Whats in a Name?


 ' if not in fact, two characters or {dualities under one epidermis, Emost cases, peculiar disadvan- One hears of scoundrels and 8 striving to consume one an in one body, angels and har- but ofttimes, quite the contrary eing a curse, these two warning eraments become a mans ulti- < blessing: as in the case of 4e P. A. Jones, of Mortimer & 5. the great metropolitan Oriental nd carpet company, all of which
 dignified, sonorous sound. s8 was divided within himself. he would not have confessed Into the trusted if battered ear e Egyptian Sphynx. There was, rer, no demon-angel sparring for ! in Georges soul. The difficulty be set forth in this manner: ne side stood inherent common 71 7== on the other, a boundless, TO- Imagination which was like iuherent-a kind of quixote imag- ,H of suitable modern pattern. 3Iter ego terrified him whenever I'd it's strangely beautiful head shpuldered aside his guardian (for that's what common sense s8ue to what end you wilD and ef in that luminous rhetoric un- To spell of which our old friend lo often fell asleep.
 ~ as they called him behind the ers, was but twenty-eight, and if as vice-president in his late fa- ! shoes he didn't wabble round ain to any great extent. In E he was not noticeable: he etand head and shoulders above nor would he have nistaken by near-sighted per {he myopes, for the Vatican's o in the flesh. He was of me height, beardless, slender, but *and wiry and enduring. You zee his prototype on the streets En times a day, and you may V Mss him without turning round k second view. Young men like #must be intimately known to nired; you did not throw your 4cross his neck, first-off. His Mas brown and closely clipped zh head that would have gained Hention of the phrenologist, if nt of the casual passer-by. His in the phraseology of that &, were good ones. For the rest. 6erved the world shrough a pair Gg, shy, blue eyes.
 IS girls, myopic through igno- or stiffness, seeing nothing be- what the eyes see, seldom gave ! second inspection; for he did now how to make himself at Fl, and was mortally afraid of posite, or opposing sex. lie ullyrag a sheik out of his cam
 dle-bags, but petticoats and rasols and small Oxfords had be effect upon him that the Eng stick of a small boy has
 retiring turtle. But many H Twise woman, drawing out with z4d kindness the truly beautiful IS of this young mans soul, Demanded of fate why a sweet, Boy like this one had not been <p her in her youth. You see, H0rldly-wise woman knows that 8ariably the lay-figure and not I Charming that a woman mar nd that matrimony is blind ! puff in grown-ups.
 | of us lay the blame upon our
 We shift the burden of won
 Why We have this fault and
 lat grace to the shoulders of mediate forbears. We go to ee each morning denying that
 e any responsibility; We let E do the worrying. But George
 Tent prospecting in his soul for eh dross philosophy. He was
 for having had so beautiful 'er; proud of having had so
 a sire; and if either of them
 ued him with false weights he
 best to even up the balance.
 mother had been as romantic
 heroine out of Mrs. Radcliff's
 while the father had owned luch romance as one generally
 thorough business man,
 E practically none at all. The
 me itself is a bulwark against
 uslons of romance. One can
 the imagination to the pros
 plcturing a Jones in rutiies
 hboots, pinking a varlet in the
 It smells of sugar-barrels and
 ales, of steamships and rail of stolid routine in the office
 placid concern over the daily 'lder the evening lamp.
 Jones, lovely. lettered yet not
 had dreamed of her boy, and decorated. marrying the
 stlnguished woman in all Flu
 hoeVer she might be. Mir. lad had no dreams at all. and
 the boy to work fin the ship
 partment a little while after
 ese threshold had been crossed,
 pound. The mother, while
 gentle, nad a win, iron un.
 vet and when she held out for
 Algernon and a decent knowl-
 modern languages, the old sreed If, on the other hand,
 hrst name should be George u he should learn the business
 e cellar up. There were sey. 'i's over the matter, but at
 truce was declared. It was
 'nat the boy himself ought to
 word to say upon a subject
 concerned him more vitally
 one else. So, at the age of
 when he was starting of for