The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-19
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All I14S f2d1anc0 paused 1H a DTA- liant career and addressed the Child Sir Lancelot. gathering an immediate ly formed semicircular audience of lit tle girls Woman was ever the trailer of magn1dcence
 What you got cn 2 inquired Mfr. Levy after dispensing information. hat you got an under that oae golf cape @
 Penrod locked aksen hifn coIdfy At other times his qusstioner would have approached him with deference, even with apprehens1cn. But today the Child Sir Gala had was soEnevhat in toxicate<l with the power of his own beauty
 What you got on nT he repeated
 ~0h. nothin said Renrod. with an indifference assumed at great cost to his nervous system
 he elate Maurice. YRS inspired to set up as ysdt Then you're naktdi'' he shouted exultantay -rPenrod scho- Held says he hasn't get nothip on un- der that ole gosx cassei He's naiztsa. He's nakidss
 The audience of little girls giggled ir4 tafingly. and javeiin pierced the inu-ards af Penrod when he saw that the Child Elaine amber calrled and beautiful Marjorie Jones ng8ed golden laughter to rIze horrid jest
 Other boys aazd girls canae docking 10 the uraroar He's nekfd he's na- kid sElriekea the Child Sir Galahad. sPenrod Sehnaeldsn U m kids Hes na-a-a- kid.
 Hush. hush ssad Mrs, L.ora Kew bush, pushing her way Into the group. Remember we are all little knights and ladies today Liatle knights and ladies of the Table Round would not naaAs So much noise Now, children, we must hegin to take our places on ! the stage- .Ie body here s's
 Penrod made his escape under cover of this diversion. He sid behind Mrs. Lora Rewbush and, being near q door, opened Ii uznodeed and went out quickly It behind him. He found hinseIf in | narrow and vacant hallway v4ztch led to a door marked Janitorsa Room
 Burning with outrage, henTtsick at the sweet cold biooded laughter of AIarforfe Jones' Penra rested his el- bows upon window sin and specu- lated upon the effecfs of a leap from the second story One of the reasons he gave IL up was his desire to live on Maurice Levys account. already he was forming educational plans for the Child Sir Galahad
 4 stout man in blue overaIs passed through the hallway, muttering to him self petuIantly- q reckon they'll find that halI hot enough now Y he said, convey ing to Penrod an impression that some too feninine women had sent him upon an unreasonable errand. to the furnace He went into the iani- forss rooll and, emerging moment later minus the overalls, passed Penrod again with bass rumble Dern 'em r it seemed he sAid-and made a gloomy exit hy the door at the upper end of the hallway.
 The eqnglomerate and delicate rustic pf Urge. rnanner1y audience was heard as thes janitor opened and closed the floor. and stage fright seized the i 'tas- The orchestra began an overture. Rnd at that PcnTod trembling violent ly. tirfoed down the hall into the jan j:79s.s room If was 2 eul-de-sac. there ras no outlet save by the way he had come
 9espq tring1y he doffed his mantle and iaeked down upon himself for a last sickenfn- assurance that the stockings were as obviously and disgraeefully 14ssrgaret's as they had seemed in tue lsFfsss Iit home. For moment he was eneouIs1ged: perhaps he was no worse thalI srme of fhe other boys Then he lofieed that T safety pin had opened. orc of those conneetfng the stockings with his trunks He aat down to. fasten #. and his eye fell fer tic first time N-itIs particular atte1ltion upon the fi;snlss Tntfl this instant he had been pre1eE.rlaied with tte stockings
 9sFlE recognition dHHned in his es esss
 Iae Sehof1elds: house stood on cnrner at the intersection of two main t5fsIveIed streets. the fe4aee was low and Inc publicity obtainsu bx tie washable portfaf of the family apparel on Mon a.frs had often been painful to Penrod fa- aoys have d peculiar sensitIveness i4f fhese nlnfters. 4 plain. matter of f;s, waslserwoman, employed by Mrs E hof5old never left anything to tbe Imagination of fl1e passerby. nd of all hei. raln1 display the scarlet Haunting of his fathers winter wear had most ah;ts1cd Penrod One day Marjorie 1ones. all gold and starch had passed vy'3en the dreadful things were on the lssses Penrod had hidden himself. shud Aerirg. The whole town. he was con Sllas.eds knew these garments intimate 1y and derisiveIx.
 Ard now. as he sat in the janftorss cfair, the horrible and paraIyzing ross5snition came. He had not an in sts.sst's doubt that every fellow actor a> syeH as every soul in the audience. SvaaId recognize wha his mother and Fi;stor had put upon him. For as the a4ssll truth became plain to himself ft seemed biazoned to the world and far far louder than the stockings. the trunks did fairly below the grisIy Feeret. whose they were and what khey were.