The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-26
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 Megaphones were constructed out of heavy wrapping paper, and Penrod, Sam and Herman set out in different directions, delivering vocally the in Gammatory proclamation of the poster To a large section of the residential quarter and leaving Roderick Mags- worth Bttts, Jr., with Verman in the loft, shielded from all deadhead eyes. Upon the return of the heralds the Schof1e1d & Williams military band played deafeningIy, and an awakened public once more thronged to fill the coffers of the firm
 Prosperity smiled again. The very first audience after the acquisition of Roderiek~ was larger than the largest of the morning. Master Bitts, the only exhibit placed upon a box, was a super curio. All eyes fastened upon him and remained, hungrily feasting, through out Penrod's luminous oration.
 But the glory of one light must ever be the dimming of another. We dwell in a vale of seesaws, and cobwebs spin fastest upon laurel. Verman, the tat tooed wild boy, speaking only in his native foreign languages, Verman the gay, Verman the caperer, capered no nore, he chuckled no more, he beck oned no more nor tapped his chest nor wreathed his idoIatrous face in smiles. Gone, all gone, were his little arufces for attracting the general attention to himself. Gone was every engaging mannerism which had endeareds him to the mercurial public. He squatted against the wall and glowered at the new sensation. It was the old story 1l<5 fro ament. Verman was suffering from artistic jealousy.
 The second audience contained a cash paying adult, a spectaeled young man whose poignant attention was very dattering He remained after the lec- ture and put few questions to Rod l dy, which were answered rather con fusedly upon promptings from Penrod. The young man went away without having stated the object of his interro- l gations, but it became quite plain later | in the day. This same object caused the spectacled young man to make several brief but stimulating calls di- rectly after leaving the SchofeId & l Williams Big Show, and the conse- l quences thereof loitered not by the wayside.
 The Big Show was at high tide. Not only was the auditorium filled and throbbing; there was an immense line, by no means wholly juvenile, waiting for admission to the next puhormance- "A group stood in the street examining the poster earnestly as it glowed in the long, slanting rays of the west ward sun, and people in automobiles l and other vehicles had halted wheel In the street to read the message so 1 -x3,- 4o were the conditions when a crested victoria arrived at a gallop, and large, chastely magnificent and highly flushed woman descended and pro l gressed across the yard with an air of violence
 At sight of her the adults of the waiting line hastily disappeared, and most of the pausing vehicles moved in stantly on their way, She was follow | ed by stricken man in livery.
 The stairs to the auditorium were narrow and steep. Mrs. Roderfck NIagsworth Bitts was of a stout favor, and the voice of Penrod was audible during the ascent.
 Re mem bur, gentiImun and lay | deeze, each and all are now gazing, upon Roderick Magsworth Bitts, Jr.. the only living nephew of the great Rena Magsworth. She stuck ars'ni in the milk of eight separate and dis
 inck people to put in their coffee, and each and all of 'em died. The great ars'nfc murderess, Rena Magsworth, gentlmun and lay-deeze, and Roddy's her only living nephew She's a reIa- tion of all the Bitts family, but he's her one and only living nephew. Re mem-bur, next July she's goin' to be hung, and each and all you now see before you
 Penrod paused abruptly, seeing some thing before himself-the august and | awful presence which filled the entry
 way. And his words dt should be re- lated) froze upon his lips.
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