The evening world., 1914-04-14

A little thing like q police shakeup
will never bother Guy Scull, secretary
to the new head Of the department.
In fact. he In fond Of upheavals and
all other forms Of disturbance. He Ia
. friend Of war and strife. and II the
few remaining crooked cops" on the
force don't look out Guy Scull will get
them. for he u an old Secret Service
man.
Scull IL the very incarnation Of the
spirit Of adventure, and although the
rank and nle Of New York's police
system have provided many an inter-
esting specimen Of humanity from
"Clubber" Williams and b. Devery to
Max Schmittberger and Faurot Of the
present day. It IL doubtful whether
any Of them could outpolnt him for
genuinely interesting humanity.
A gentleman by birth. breeding and
education. graduate Of Harvard In the
class Of 'ss. belonging moro to the
moneyed and leisurely class than to
the other. Guy Scull's mail might be
sent to him with fair chance of de-
livery wherever there might be .
war or something else doing. II the
fighting gets real good and villa ac-
tually storms Mexico City. Guy 10
liable to clap on his hat and depart
from Police Headquarters. He Is a
man who lives on thrills. his spirit
craving thrills for breakfast, lunch
and dinner. and his physical courage
such that he can command them. Cops
will like him, for he is one OF the quiet
est. softest-speaking men that ever
turned q corner suddenly In an easy
effort to clear out an ambushed enemy.
He 10 . good man with a gun also.
The many society people Of Philadel-
ph!a. Boston and New York who
know Guy Scull call him impossible.
He does not like dude raiment. and II
he tangoes he does It In secret and
hides we'll his secret. He likes pipe
many men filled with the spirit OF
annihilation.
DISAPPOINTED IN WAR AND LIT.
ERATuRE.
AZ soon an he was graduated he
Joined the Rough Riders and began to
wear OF the Harvard accent and ac-
quire a cosmopolitan one. The Span
ish war. unfortunately. was q tame
affair. He didn't even get the typhoid
fever. and he returned from the fray
to mope in his corner of tho Harvard
Club and complain about the innocu-
BUSINESS Of modern life. To kill time
nance. 1t was beautifully written. SO
declared n publisher who rejected 1t.
II was all about knights in armor,
beautiful princesses. terrible battles,
high -piling castles and the rest of
that medieval thing. One Of his own
family in the publishing business re-
jected II and pointed out to the au-
thor that the publishers couldn't pull
the Walter Scott stun nowadays and
begged him to reel of a modern story.
He declined to do so, and then the
Boer war came along.
Scull noticed tho Boer war in the
paper one morning and it looked good
to him. though a bit distant. His
cousin. the S1holarly and sedate Ma
thaniel Curtis Of the literary stan Of
Dodd. Mead Il Co., ate lunch with
him at the club that day. and as
Scull bade him good afternoon fol-
the coffee Mr.. Curtis asked
him where he was bound.
Going out for a WHILE" he replied.
He went out and the next heard of
Mr.. Scull was that he was with Gen.
Buffers brigade fighting the Beers
and writing some wonderfully vivid
stories about the great struggle be-
tween the Dutch colonists and the
bloody British.
GETS INTO A COUPLE OF REAL
GOOD WARS.
That was good war. a real ripping
scrap, and Scull enjoyed It so much
that he started another mediaeval ro-
nance which was finished and