Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-08-05

door ana from This Observation-Disclosures
b. an unseen agency-a can half flied
with I'D paint.
aTt caught the small besieger OF the
door on his theroughly surprised right
ear. encouraged him to ONE sremarka
BILE a%crobatics and turned large por
lions OF him dull blue. Allowing
only To peFpIexiy and decid-
fng after d singlea and evidently map
petlzing experiment not to cleanse him
selfsof paint, the loyal animal resumed
his quaint, upright posture.
MI. Schotield seated himself on the
window sill, whence he could keep iii
view that pathetic picture sc unreqnit
ed love. @&
Coon with your story, mamma" he
said. E think I can find Penrod when
we want him.,
And q few minutes later he added.
and ] think I know the place to do
it In.
Again the faithful voice Of Duke was
heard pleading outside the bottled door.
Penrod entered the schoolroom Mon
day morning picturesqnely leaning
upon a mans cane, shortened to sup
port d cripple approaching the age Of
twelve. He arrived about twenty min
utes late. limping deeply, his brave
young mouth drawn with pain, and the
sensation he created must have been
a solace to him, the only possible crit
icism Of this entrance being that 1T,
was just a shade too heroic. Perhaps
For that reason 1t failed to stagger
Miss Spence, a woman so SATURATED
with suspicion that she penalized Pen
rod for hardness as promptly and as
coldly as IL he had been a mere, or
binary, unmutilated boy. Nor would
she entertain any discussion Of the
Justice of her ruling. It seemed almost
that she feared to argue with him.
However, the distinction OF cane and
limp remained to him, consultations
which he ~protracted far into the week
until Thursday evening, In fact, when.
Mr.. Schofeld, observing from a win
dow his sons pursuit OF Duke round
and round the back yard, conf1scated
the cane, with the promise that 1t,
should not remain idle if he saw Pen-
rod limping again. Thus. succeeding
a depressing Friday, another Saturday
brought the necessity for new inyen.
tons.
1t was a scented morning In apple
blossom time. AT about ten BE the
clock Penrod emerged hastily from
the kitchen door. His pockets bulged
abnormally, SO did his cheeks, and be
swallowed with difficulty. a threat.
ening mop, welded BY a cookIike arm
in a checkered sleeve. followed him
through the doorway, and he was pre-.
coded by a small, hurried, wistful dog
with a warm doughnut in his mouth,
The Kitchen door slammed p~etnlnntly.
inclosing the sore voice of Della, where
upon Penrod and Duke seated them
selves upon the pleasant sward and
Immediately consumed the spoils of
their raid.
From the cross street which formed
the side boundary of the Schofelds,
ample yard came q Jingle Of harness
and the cadenced clatter of a pair OF
trotting horses, and Penrod, looking
up, beheld the passing OF a fat ae-
q%uaintance. torpid amid the conserya-
tive splendors of a rather old fashion
ed victoria. This was Roderick Mays.
worth Bits, Jr, a fellow sufferer
at the Friday afternoon dancing class,
but otherwise not often a companion;
a horne sheltered lad, tutored private
lily and preserved against the coarsen-
ing influences of rude comradeship and
miscellaneous Information. Heavily
overgrown In all physical dimensions.
yirtuous and placid. this clustered NUT
ton was wholly undressing to Pen
Lod Scho6ed. Nevertheless, Roderick
Magsworth Bits, Jr., was a per-
sonage on account of the Importance
of the Magsworth Bits family, and 1t
was Penrod's destiny to increase Rod
erick's celebrity far, far beyond its
present ~aristocratic Limitations.
The Magsworfh Bittses were impor.
tant because they were impressive.
There was no other reason. And they
were impressive because they believed
themselves important. The adults OF
the family were impregnably formal,
They dressed with reticent elegance
and wore the same nose and the same
expression-an expression which indi.
Gated that they knew something ex-
quisite. and sacred which other people
could never know. Other people In
their presence were apt to feel mystic.
riously ignoble and to become secretly
uneasy about ancestors. gloves and
pronunciation. The Magsworth Bits
manner was Withholding and reserved
though sometimes gracious, granting
small smiles as great fayors and CIV.
ing Off a chilling kind Of ~preciousness
Naturally when any citizen of the con
munity did anything unconventional o.
improper or made q mistake or had 9
,.alaffva who wont vprar,r that rftizau,s