Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07

three CLOCK next day. 1t should have
reached there in the morning, when all
would have been well; but it had been de
layed-which was fatal because when it
came Miss Mandriver was out, and so, as
usual, was our hero, the Regeneration. So
the postman showed it under the basement
door and went away, quite pleased with him
SELF no doubt!
In the meantime the train bearing Mr..
and Mrs. Briggs and the committee of skep-
teal newspaper men was rushing toward the
city.
TT was busy afternoon for Sanitas Per-
lection Briggs, the Eugenic Marvel the
Mainstay of the Future. In the first place,
there was little game of ball between us
and "Them," and S. P. Briggs was captain
of Us. Then there was the greenhouse not
far away where grapes had been discovered,
and S. P. Briggs was in on that Then there
were-well, all things might happen before
five O'Clock, which, our hero had learned,
was the time he.had better 60 home.
The game was finished in fight, as most
Of the games had been finished of late; and
the fight had given zest to Sanitas Perfec-
tons appetite; so that, when Blinker an
nounced to him and Skinny and Boob that
his mother was baking doughnuts that day,
it sounded good. Hence the visit to Blinker's
of fine fat brown doughnuts. Sanitas Per-
lection got the biggest share too, because
Blinker's mother said:
IF it wasn't for him coming here once in
awhile the poor thing would be starved,
what with their fancy foods and not half
enough O them Weighin' the meals of
CROWN boy! Ugh! Here's all the doughnuts
YOU can carry, SAMMY an you'd better tuck
this sausage in your clothes to eat when you
go to bed tonight.
This afternoon repast, however, hardly
took the edge off our hero's appetite; SO that
the invasion of the greenhouse was not
postponed. They got there without any
trouble, barring the fact that S. IS white
linens THAT is, reasonably white by now
were torn little in getting through barbed
wire fence; and all would have gone smooth
" but for the fact that the man had dog.
Cheese it, said Blinker, who was keeping
guard while Sanitas Perfection having
smashed a few panes Of glass in the green
house, was inside, picking the grapes and
tossing them up to Skinny and Boob.
Cheese it! Here comes the guys dog!'
Well enough for Skinny and Boob, who
had only to slide down the roof of the green
house, and escape over the fence; but how
about Sanitas Perfection Briggs, down be,
low, inside, and having forgotten the small
but important detail of LADDER
He looked up and saw Skinny and Boob
sliding to safety, and, seeming danger, he
plunged for the door 1t was locked. He
caught a swinging vine and tried to climb up
to the roof, and the vine gave way. At that
instant the dog appeared at the glass side of
the greenhouse and announced that he had
something hemmed in; which, of course,
brought the man who owned the place.
"Gosh!" thought Sanitas Perfection Briggs,
seeing the dog. "Gosh! Whatn | do?
SKINNY Boob! Blinker Hey, you'll
"Hey, your came strange voice, and
our hero glanced over his shoulder, horror
stricken. At the back of the greenhouse,
peering through the glass, was the face of
the man who owned the grapes. At his side
was the dog Our hero waited for no more.
With yell of terror he rushed at the oppo-
site side of the glass house, the side nearest
the fence. His hand caught up fowerpot
as he ran. and this he crashed against the
glass wall Bang! Smash! Chatter!
@Stop! Stop! Confound you'll called the
man.
But nothing could stop the Rejuvenator of
the Species now. He was busy conserving
one specimen for private reasons. The
fowerpot tore a ruthless hole in the glass.
Pane after pane splintered, and, at the mo-
ment man and dog came round the end of
the house, Sanitas Perfection Briggs, having