Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-07-22

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He had almost walked mis- legs off,
but he was still game So he went
and fetched Sweetzer and showed
Celestia to him through crack in
door.
How'll / get herr"
Tomorrow at ten, Nelly and mall
be at work; pas going to a meetin,
and | heard her say she'd stay home
and do chores.
Not without difficulty Freddie col
lected the fifty dollars which Sweet
ger had promised him With even
more difficulty he wrote a note to
Tommy Barclay. to Mrs. Baxter and to
O'Gorman.
He wrote: BE at my house land he
gave an address) at a few minutes be.
fore ten o'clock, and I'll take you to
her. Freddie the Ferret
"P S.-Bring the money you prom
ised, or won't"
All Freddie's victims except Sweet
ger met in part of Freddie's house
at a little before ten o'clock. one
glance at O'Gorman was enough for
Sweetzer. He knew that he had lost
out and he skunk off, cursing wick.
edly.
Freddie opened the front door and
said
Walk in"
They walked in lhen he showed
them into the parlor, and there was
Celestia
But she wouldn't 60 away with
Tommy, and O'Gurman had no author
ity to take her away.
That's up to the professor, he
said
But when silliter found that she
was with good people and wouldn't go
with Tommy he was contented to let
matters rest where they were
Celestia's real work had begun.
Often upon the lips of the elder Doug
las, and always in his heart, was the
belief that Celestia was divinely in
spired and of divine origin.
Mrs. Douglas and Nelly also be-
lieved that Celestia had come from
heaven. Her effect upon these sim
ple-minded folk was extraordinary.
She looked no longer like Greek
| goddess, but like a simple working
girl. And yet she remained magical
ly lovely to look at and commanding.
Stilliter, after ten minutes talk with
Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas during a short
absence of Celestial, concluded that
she could not be in better hands. In
| deed, it had been in a similar family
that he had intended to place her.
"She says" said Douglas, that ev-
cry man jack of us ought TO have
real share in the country. That we
must treat misery and poverty not as
necessary evils, but as epidemics, and
stamp 'em out. And / tell you the
man who runs that platform will get
heap O. votes in this district. No
body ever tries to argue with her
You just listen and believe"
Stilliter reported to Barclay and the
other members of the triumvirate
And those who had begun 10 lose
faith in Celestia once more became en-
thusiastic.
Don't hurry her any," said Barclay.
LET her doctrines spread from the
house she's living in, slowly and
naturally, until she has a real follow
ing. Then when we do begin to ad-
vertise her it will be more effective
and cheaper"
I'm only afraid OF one thing" said
Stilliter. "She is interested in that
boy of yours. Tommy, and when she
is with him she seems to shake her
mind almost free from the control
that ! had been establishing over II
all these years. thought that ! had
made her quite proof against falling in
love and all physical temptation. But
1t seems not"
ANY young man." said Barclay,
grimly. who seems TO be making
trouble for US will have to be sent
away somewhere and kept there"
But Celestia. having begun to make
converts, was engrossed in the work
and had no longer the leisure, or. in
deed. the wish to waste her precious
time in philandering with individuals.
(Cnuffuumd