The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-07-04

s.-y s.s4.lg Ells!!a!!l.!n!!.all.!HI!Llgal
Copyright. 1915; by The Star Co All Foreign
Rights Reserved
Synopsis of Previous Chapter.
After the tragic death of John Amesbury
his FRUSTRATED wife. one of Americas greatest
beauties dies. At her death Prof. Stilliter. an
nEent of the interests. kidnaps the beautiful
three-yenr-oId baby girl and brings her up
In a paradise where she sees NO man, but
thinks she II taught by angels. who instruct
into the world where agents of the interests
sS. s to her r. and
her In the Adirondacks.
INsTALLMENT H.
80 you are the little boy who is trying to
nnd the little Amesbury girl said Barclay;
reo The walls lined al
most to the ceilings with books in leather
81 caen stons In %heh
Adam and Eve stood on either side OF very
I a add ee Of very fat serpent There Was a
table of some dark. DULY shiny wood in the
s efo Chinese poreelains that any self.re-
spscting museum would have rave. committed -
things 70 have drawn the attention Of 9a,a q
pis eyes the great man. Who
showed
Tommy almost disappeared into leather
arm sisaiE that smeled vaguely of very ex-
You were very fond Of her: weren't you?"
where she has gomez
Barclay did not answer at once u under
your parents?"
i. l x. T marr %z Aunt sall' said Tommy
"And has boys and girls Of her own9"
Eyes sir: Ave"
Is asking q good deal Of them t. take
a great big house and servants and good
sh o s sa oy a the g GP 81 y How
nS ans IKE to me ese visit IT, p IND. i
II should like" said Tommy naively. ito
Barclay laughed heartily. you SHALL, he
said. and you won't have to tell your aunt
You wcnt>@ even have to :. Change your
name asitls the same mine
to come. and so she has packed up ali your
things and sent them here" He touched a
almost Instantly. and without any noise
whatsoever. man servant appeared in the
SHOW, Barclay to his room" said Bar
ains at ana M,na nes
Tommy fingered a moment. You haven't
he rose and ad his
caressingly on the boys shoulder. Tommy,
It was Very sad little Boy who bathed
and dressed himself in an Elton suit. little
past seven dinner. but he wasn't so sad as he
@ bs eae,eG and safed
rounding. He not only had bedroom as
bathroom The former covered with the
thickest and softest of rugs; the latter AZ al
he was bathing the valet laid out his clothes
for him, coat and trousers over one chair.
necktie and handTerchiefs on the dressing
table and here also vas me ni exc 6ias
nicl;els and pennies that he had had in the
fairly long piece Of fish line half a stick of
licorice and a rusty pocket knife In very
sisting Of one gardenLa. three green leaves
and twist OF silver paper ,,,.o
little trying the S Was SO PIE g an9 bo ns sa
he himself who had spoken The butler. with
of hsse t6qee 20 4ce tail and npo
ing men Tommy was in not a little awe. ms
own seemed TO understand small boys thor
ouehly. 1t is possible that some time in tys
He did not patronize Tommy 70 talk down to
Mn ,Teqs s+ him IN 2oms 9h bad pee afts ss
equal, so if the room had been little smaller
h nave ' soon ierh felt at home In time however
Tommy grew up to his surroundings IN time
piac @oa as big as waiting room in railroad
station and sleep in a bed that might nave
contained a half dozen other small boys
ate nuts, while Barclay drank coffee and
smoked a cigar. At o'clock the little boy
went to bed. It was natural that he should
feel a little sad and lonely with the un1a,
rniliarity of everything. and that he shouid
have one dream after another.
But they were all about the little Amesbury
girl.
He had been told that she had gone to
heaven, and it was of her in heaven that he
dreamed He had never read Dante Mil
ton and the ideas that he had about heaven
were not very elaborate He had picked them
up here and there from people with very
,little ina gination.
= The heaven that he dreamed about wasn't
a very big place. There was no part of 1t
indeed that could not have been contained
within the arch of theatre. If he derived
his IDEAS of it from anything that he had
which there had been acrobatic men in green
tights and spangleS great arches painted to
look as If they were made of gold incrusted
with jewels, lovely winged maidens in
diaphanous white clothes. who. suspended
from the waist by long wires fapped butter
Of which he had dreamed was like this.
with many other things mixed In. There was a
dog two; there was at least one red IN
dian with wings and many streets paved
with gold trees all made of gold and silver
and green enamel and jewelry. There We're
IN the middle of golden street ne saw the
un.sie Amesbury girl. sitting in a little wooden
mar at a little wooden table and giving
VA party TO fairy bigger than your
NUMB Again he saw her robed In white.
-