Las Vegas optic., 1914-08-20
The Impossible Boy
By Nina Wilcox Putnam
Illustrations by c. d. Rhodes,
Copyright by Bobbs>Merriu Co.
SYNOPSIS.

STNOPSlS.
CHAPTER 1.-THE open road. Pedro
and the dancing bear. Mr.. Jones, pre-
yent tramp from stealing a youns
kndy's purse Pedro's ambition TO become
q painter spurs him to quit Old Mia ano
Rhe str6lllng bear dancers.
CHAPTER II-Pedro, Old Nita and the
bear trainers start for New hork. Feuio ,
and SO earns a meal for the company
Ths lady OF the purse adventure sees Fe-
Aro painting as she passes
CHAPTER III-New York. MISS IT'S
Wanderpool quarrels with her artist low
Ar sam Hi, and they part. she dls.
covers in her fathers desk pQrtrall
which she recognizes as that OF feaIo
who rescued her from the purse-shS.chei'
CHAPTER Iv-Hin, the respondent
hover, meets Pedro and Mr.. Jones IN
washington square. They ulne toseIheI.
iHin discovers talent In PEDRO $ oIhwinss WINS.
and in a mad desire to lose hlmseh; gives
his studio and all In II 10 Feuio IA "a
ichange for Mr.. Jones.
CHAPTER v-Pedro occupies Hills
latudio and calls on Leigh. the sculptor.
with a letter from Hill. Leigh, calllng IN
return in the alley bumps into TWO men
zone OF whom Is Reginald Vanderpool,
lIris' father. in disguise.
CHAPTER VI-vanderpooPs eompann-
Hon goes into the basement OF HUI stuulo
IAnd talks with Ricardo, or Rowe, tne
basement tenant, of conspiracy agalnst
a foreign government Nanaerpool,
lover whom Rowe has a secret hold, IS
implicated Sonora Daussa ana her chIlo,
supposedly dead In an uprising ROWS
&nows TO be alive.
CHAPTER vII-Pedro gains entrance
ITO an artists meeting at Milligan's, meets
iIris again, makes many iTienus anu ,.,s Do
lcomes unconsclously a subject for news
paper copy
( CHAPTER VIII-Senora Daussa u driv-
ZEN by Ricardo uptown to a resort Wr Where
1.-THE conspirators meet her ana profess
lfoyalty. Sam Hill, soi-disant bear trainer
lsees Rowe Unexpectedly attacked oy Olo
lNita, and rescueS her.
CHAPTER IX-Pedro takes luncheon
with Iris in her home, meeting Wander
ipool. who is disturbed by Pedro's pres
@nce Iri, remembers the miniature and
wonders. She tells Pedro her suspicloh
that her father is being blackmailed ana
enIists his help to discover Vanderpoofs g
secret trouble.
CHAPTER kris poses for Pedro:
Pedro sees Rowe with Vanderpool ana
peeping through Rowes basement WIN
dow Is astonished at sight OF a woman ,,I.l
whose face, feature for feature Is IKE
his own.
CHAPTER XI-Hlll hears from th'
bear dancers that Pedro is Venezuelan
iIIHl and Mr. Jones wander about, ant
,sytumha upon Rowe, loading a steamel
Syith contrahand of war. Hill is selzeC
as a spy. Vanderpool, asphalt king, ap
pears as "Senor Chief"
CHAPTER XII-Iris again poses 70
her portrait. Pedro tells her he canno
help her father, whom he knows 10
s7ssociating with shady characters. IRIS
infatuated with Pedro, signs an agree
lgcnt TO marry whoever gets her fatha
Fut of trouble.
CHAPTER xIu-Mr. Jones return
alone to the bear dancers and Pedro
told. Nita. returning from hunt Il
Ricardo is told by Pedro that Rlcard
and Sonora Daussa, VINO Is Feurq
mother. are together Iedro, with nj
Jones' aid. finds Hill.
CHAPTER XIv-Pedro and his com
panions rescue Hill. Pedro gives HI
iris agreement" and asks in return tina
TJiiI protect Sonora Daussa from Ricard
Valdez, ex-Venezuelan minister.
BY now Pedro was fast losint
strength. 1t seemed to him that at any
dnstant he must succumb, and sink Il
the ground. Only a horror of being
trampled on sustained him, and his
head was growing light. Then his an
Ftagonist, who was bent upon his in
Jury or capture, infuriated at being
held off so long by this mere slip oi