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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-07-11
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Janet forced a little laugh
oh not quite that" she SAID
"But-but I'm very glad y that note
! threw you suppose YOU van.
TO ask me about Miss Ford 90
II hope she's wei. re answered.
blandly; but ! done want &c talk
about her. ] do want ~ thank you
for sending me that note, though. and
for saving my life. d ven know.
when / was H. you were the only
living soul I took any interest in. II
IL hadn't been Coz ycC l don't be-
lieve l should nave pulled through
When ! was delir50Cs they ten me
! was always talking about the little
girl on the bus. and when / wasn't
l used TO ask them il they'd seen
you that day and how you were
looking
Janet uttered little exclamation.
II hope you're much better
now?" she said TREMENDOUSLY. 81 saw
Miss Ford to-day, and she"
Il don't want 10 talk about Miss
Ford, unless you want to- ne an.
swered. Between ourselves. l don't
want to see her again"
Janets eyes we're very wide open.
But ] thought"
Yes" he interrupted: "and so did
l. and so did she And we we're all
wrong. I didn't care for her as I've
learned to care for somebody else. I
want TO talk about you. not about
her"
But You don't know me,r
Yes, 7 do. Why must YOU talk
Yards and yards OF rubbish 10 people
before YOU know them2 I've seen
you nearly every day for over
year. And while [ was Zip
Janet's hear was beating 50 loud
II that she almost feared lest no
should hear IT,
People have such strange fancies
when they're ill.," she murmured.
Il know; but mine persisted after
7 got better Jauet-Tve know Won
for over a year. so can call YOU
Janet-I'm r. enough now 20 get ND
20 town tomorrow morning I want
70 take YOU out TO lunch III youu
come We haven't done much talk
ing, considering we've known each
other such a long time. so we'd bet
ter begin 70 make up for IL. DO say
you'u come
She was silent. Everything VS.
too wonderful for speech
Yes, please do" Sc begged
You've saved my life. hut I'm not
cut of the wood yst ] should have
G. relapse II You were unE-d 10 ne
She seemed % tEks his cords a-i.e
seriously. SOmehOn she could ucs
smile.
Yes she WHISPERED. oil. corr,
His hand vas approaching very
close to hers. and she withdrew i.
quickly
Here coIag n1s -al To- .he
tickets" said che. loosi,g away fr5.a
him.
FrancHard gro4cd Ia his poke. TO-
IoOse change.
"A good '5u5. .l.s.' eciL ~ 10
axes nc t.om Otc1a-d fo4s 10
Paradise. - fscs IL, sac s..r25y.
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the man you were telling us about.
II have been wanting to get news
of him"
do you know him, them"
Il was engaged to him until just
before Christmas"
Janet was silent. The words pro
duced surprise in her, mingled with
a little. dull pain that seemed to
come without cause.
If you don't mind" said Miss
Ford. ''I'll walk with YOU a little
way, as far as the buses. It's
strange you should have seen him
and talked about him in my hearing.
He's been very bad. poor boy
pneumonia and complications after
ward"
He looked like a ghost" Janet
said simply.
Did he-did he look as If he were
getting BETTER"
Il suppose he must be better or
he wouldn't be in the garden. OF
course / can't tell you for certain.
l don't know anything about him
not even bis name"
The other girl said nothing, ard
presently Janet rambled on, a little
confused.
81 was talking rubbish at tea
time. OF course I'm not in love
with him. You can't be in love with
a man you've never spoken to, can
you? That would be too absurd"
Marjorie nodded absently, as IL
she had not heard.
eIn
couldn't find out how he is getting
cn!"
why don't you CALI" Janet
asked. when anybody has been
III like that. surely
Il treated him very badly. Don't
tell any Of the others. well,
was little fool, ! thought for about
a week that liked somebody better.
I heard his father and mother are
furious with me. 7 couldn't possibly
go there. We didn't part friends.
Do you understand"
Janet nodded heavily.
Il suppose" she said. you're
sorry now?"
Yes. ] must have been mad"
Another awkward little pause en-.
sued.
q expect he'd-like to see you
again" Janet said haltingly.
Il don't know. / was a perfect
little beast 70 him | thought | loved
him at first, and then l thought
didn't And now
She broke OF suddenly. Janet's
eyes were downcast, and she kept
on altering her step so as 10 tread
on the cracks between the paving.
stones-a trick OF hers when her
mind was fully occupied.
Il suppose" she said at last. "he
was dreadfuIy in love with you"
He said so. II know hurt him
dreadfully. IL he'd died I should
have thought it was my fault"
why didn't you go TO see him
when he was ill?" There was a hard
ring OF anger in JsRet's voice.
Il ought to have gone to him.
said Miss Ford. She heaved a little
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if that were all.
"Oh, dear no." said Janet. HE
used to wave to me regularly, but /
didn't wave back. for that wouldn't
have been proper But l used TO
smile. No harm in smiling, was
there?
We'll, I used TO see him every day
and sometimes twice a day until
February. when he suddenly disap-
peared. l couldn't think what had
become of him. and. OF course, my
heart was broken"
She made a little grimace and laid
hand over her heart The
gesture was a parody OF sadness.
hooking a pain that had been real
enough and very acute.
$50 he went away" said one OF
the girls, land never so much as
climbed on to the bus to say good
by to you?"
NO; he never got on 10 the bus
and spoke to me- | don't think I
least. l. Well, he didn't; so II
doesn't matter. And he hasn't been
away. The other evening-that very
warm, sunshiny evening" saw him
sitting in chair in the garden. He'd
got a rug round him, and he looked
ireadfully pale and thin. I'm sure
he's had some dreadful illness. poor
dear 1 hardly knew him at first
glance"
did he wave to you again?" Clara
asked.
"Oh. yes! And I nearly waved back
Il was so glad to see him. But /
just smiled as usual"
You ought to call and inquire az
ter him. Why don't YOU, Janet?"
Il call? Perhaps, | wonder what
he'd think OF me? I should be scared
10 death Of him-and his mother,
and his sistersi No; we're very
good friends at a distance. And al
though I've quite lost nv heart 10
him. l don't want 10 know him ex-
actly. I might be dreadfully disab-
pointed And I'm sure he thinks I'm
nice: so he'd be disappointed in me,
wouldn't he?"
Some people" remarked Clara
with sniff. are rather good at fish
ing But it's turned half-pasti Wed
better pretend TO be doing some
work. Miss Gaskinll be back in a
second.
That evening. as the girls were
leaving the office. Marjorie Ford.
who seldom deigned 10 speak TO
Janet. came up 10 her and touched
her on the arm. Janet turned. and
was surprised at what she saw In
the others face. She had let slip
her mask Of cold, hard Indifference.
and for the moment she seemed to
have forgotten her irritating little
airs OF superiority. There was anx-
iety and suffering in her face.
How is he?" she asked in a low
voice. Il didn't want 10 say any
thing 10 you in there. with al the
others listening. Did he-did he
look very bad?"
Il don't understand" Janet began.
who you
oh, yes YOU 90! The man In the
,arden Of No. -. Orchard Road
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sigh. "Wen. it's too late now. OF
course you won't tell the other girls.
will your"
You needn't worry about that"
The older girl held out her hand.
We'll, / mustn't keep you. Here's
your bus coming along. But if you
should hear how he is, or any news
about him" -
"All right" said Janet, in color
less voice; 'Tll let you know. Good
night"
The bus was whirling Janet tow.
ard home, northward from the city.
and cool evening breeze was blow
ing upon her hot face
Il love him So" she whispered
miserably to herself.
She set her teeth, and hastily,
lest she should alter her mind, tore
a leaf out of the notebook she car
ried in her bag and scrubbed jerkily
in pencil.
This is 10 let you know" she
wrote, that l am in the same office
as Miss Ford, and l have heard all
about you. She wants to see you
very much, but doesn't like 10 write
Vi NOA4N W sou. JIG 10 htA1 bOIlg
now. for something that happened
Just before Christmas. Please write
TO her. l hope you are very much
better now"
She signed her name and after a
minutes thought added a postscript:
She doesn't know that l am writ
ing this note 10 you, ard didn't ask
me TO. But / thought you ought to
know. Please forgive me for inter
fering."
She crumpled the note into a lit
tie ball and waited He was sitting
in the garden. covered almost 10 the
neck in rugs. as the bus ratified
through Orchard road He saw her,
smiled. and, as usual. lifted his hand
and waved 70 her. Janet rose,
blushing furiously and flung the lit
tie paper ball into the garden. II
sailed to within a few yards of his
feet. She saw him rise 10 pick Il
up as the bus sped past
On the following evening the bus
stopped outside No. u, but there was
no man I'm the garden. only an empty
lounge chair with a tumbled pile OF
rugs beside It. She watched anx-
iously to see IL he would appear. but
she caught no glimpse OF him, and
the bus went on A minute later she
heard footballs on the bus top. and
a man sank into the seat beside her.
She did not glance in his direction
until some moments later. when 2
voice spoke close 70 her ear.
Excuse ne" it said. but I have
a lot TO thank you for. May ! be-
gin?"
She turned quickly, and saw Eric
Franchard sitting beside her. Sur
prise robbed her for a moment OF
the power Of speech. She cOlOred
and stared dumbly at him
I'm sure he said. you don't
mind my speaking to you. We've
known each other, in way, for such
a long time For over year now
I'VE thought Of you as a friend Be
sides, you've saved NJ life
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ala the novels.
He was taking a before-oreakfast
stroll In front of the house, lively
terrier dancing and barking in has
path. He was big and pleasant
looking rather than handsome, with
a cheerful, gOod-natured face, and a
suggestion of strength and Incidence
in his carriage. At the unfamiliar
sound of a heavy motor vehicle he
looked up TO behold sweet seventeen
90 riding by upon the bus.
She must have made a pretty pic
ture. for ne smiled at her. And
Janet. quickly averting her gaze
blushed the color of a spray OF red
may-blOssOm.
From then until the end of the
Journey her heart Outstripped the
time OF the waltz tune. London
sparrows were Chirruping. and the
sun was beating down pleasantly
upon London pavements. Hawkers
we're displaying great yellow masses
Of Cornish daffodils. On such days
all manner of beautiful. wonderful.
nonsensical ideas go drifting abroad.
and come TO rest in pretty little fluffy
heads
Janet looked out for him on the
way home, and saw him. although she
pretended not 70. There was a We
randa in front Of the house. and he
sat in its shade In a deck chair writ
ing. pad on his knee This time he
did not look up. and Janet went
heavy-hearted 70 bed.
Slowly, as the year advanced. a
custom grew between them The
man at No. u looked out for the girl
when he was in the garden-as he
was often-and waved to her. Janet
never waved back, but after the first
month she gained enough assurance
20 smile frankly down at him Her
smile. his CHEEKY wave OF the hand,
meant good morning or good even
ing. There grew thus between the
two an unspOken friendship.
Janet dreamed OF him day and
night. The other occupants of the
house were as shadows 10 her. She
was dimly aware of having seen an
elderly man, a gray. tightly laced
matron. and two grown-up girls, and
from this she surmised that her ideal
lived in his parents house
AS for Eric FranChard. that young
literary man. who was slowly but
surely forcing his way 10 the front
rank-perhaps, since he was engaged
20 be married. he should have known
better than to wave 10 a little girl
clerk on her way 10 and from bust
ness. But. nevertheless he liked 10
see her pass. She affec 4 him like
a ray OF sunshine in a musty old
room. He enjoyed seeing her as he
enjoyed seeing the sun rise. He did
not want 10 know her-or so he told
himself at first. And as he was
never likely 10 meet her. where was
the harm2
II was just over a year since the
first No. 800 invaded the privacy OF
Orchard Road. and on a warm May
afternoon some OF the girls employed
by the Mutual Goodwill Assurances
Company sat drinking tea and MAX
ius t4v must VI the half hours ints-
al
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Janet Shaw was q year older. and
that year had heightened her skirts
and wrought some change in her
little fluffy head; so that her long,
yellow hair no longer lay in a pig
tail between her shoulders.
Janet and half a dozen other girls
punched up together. were discuss
ing the eternal topic of men. The
talk on such occasions was general
ly frivolous, sometimes a little vul-
gar. and sometimes frankly senti-
mental. The presence of Marjorie
Ford, with her pale, scornful little
face. put a brake upon many tongues.
Half the girls were a little afraid OF
Miss Ford. II was understood that
her father was a doctor with
very good practice, that there was no
need for her to earn her own living,
but that she did so because of
wish to be independent" She was
a tall. handsome girl, with dark hair,
and an Olive-tinted skin, and she
had the knack Of putting a volume Of
disapproval into a look or a word.
She never talked about her boys"
Il wonder" said Clara Evans,
"why Janet hasn't had any good
times TO tell us about. l believe
you're dark horse. my dear. Half
the boys you know must be mad on
YOU"
Il don't care much about boys"
said Janet, watching the faces
around her vita twinkling eyes.
She herself Joined in the general
laughter, and waited until II had
subsidized to add:
Il don't really, you know!"
But don't you even 90 TO the
pictures sometimes"
oh, yesi They bother me. and |
have TO go. but / don't really want
10. l can't imagine raving over any
OF them like some of you girls"
Zone of these days" said Clara,
you'll fall in love, and then you'll
have a different tale to tell"
oh" Janet regarded her with a
broad smile. I've fallen in love al
ready, thank youl But he isn't a
boy: he's a man And i haven't even
spoken TO him. and don't suppose
! ever shall"
Half a dozen voices demanded
DANGEROUSLY that she should tell
them about il. Janet. hardly lOath,
regarded the eager faces with
amusement She rather wanted 10
tell these other girls. They could
hardly tease her, for all had at diff
ferent times professed themselves in
love with men they did not know
actors. aviators and even politicians.
The trivial story would make her
little more important 10 their eyes,
and she intended 10 speak OF ne love
for the unknown man so lightly and
jestingly that they would never sus-
pect her OF being serious.
Il used TO see him every morning
from the top OF the bus she said.
and nearly every night l don't
know his name, but he lives in
nice. big house-No. y Orchard road
and he used always to be In he
Garden. He is very nice-lOOking. and
J quite lost my heart 10 him.
she paused and q Eo'oe inquired
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Germany's Ambition
to Free Asiatic Peoples.

90 Professor Wall says: Germany
can never hope to rule Persia or India
but she may be able to help both coun-
tries 10 gain freedom and independence"
This Is a joke. The point of it is that
Germany is almost literally the only
European country that has never before
even pretended to deliver other peoples,
in reference to any sort Of disinterested
ideal
CD Professor Wall also says: "A vic
torious Germany will break the British
monopoly Of sea power. but she cannot
replace it by monopoly of her own. She
cannot change nature or unmake his
tory" The logic Of this observation Is
decidedly mysterious. Are we TO under
stand that Britain. when she gained such
a monopoly, did change nature and did
unmake history?
(s) Professor Wall complains that
American papers have disregarded the
following fact: "On November 10 new
Polish university was opened in Warsaw
I'm the presence of the German military
governor II IS to take the place OF the
former Russian university. The character
OF the university provides that the Ian
guage OF instruction is Polish" He then
proceeds to say without any sort OF
foundation) that the Russian Poles are
mainly on the side of Prussia: They
take the words OF the German Chancellor
at their face value; while most of them
have always discounted the Russian
promises made in times of distress" Are
we to believe that the great war Is
time of distress for Russia, but not for
Germany? Are We to believe that No
vember 10 was not a time of distress for
Germany? II the PrussisIs have now
allowed Polish education to be Polish.
the only Importance of the fact is that
the Prussians we're the one people who
tried particularly hard to prevent its be-
ing Polish; and Professor Walz knows
this as we'll as do.
(9) Professor Wall says that Capital
ism throughout the world has an instinc-
tive aversion to the German Govern
ment' This is simply absurd. The in
dustrial progress and triumph Of modern
Germany have been strictly and wholly
capitalist; even more so than such In
dustrialism has been everywhere else.
The Kaiser has been more undisguisedly
on the side of the Krupps even than
other Governments on the side OF other
capitalists.
Q0) Professor Wall says: "Co-opera-
ton as an applied principle Of govern
ment is without question a form of So
cialism. collectivist form of society"
This is hOtch-pOtch of perfectly UNI
meaning words It is like saying "Infan-
try is without question form OF cavalry.
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~ C. K. cHEsTERToN.
The Distinguishes english PubIIcls..

'"~ S'eN'" sNie'SN -HBiisH TuDliClsL
T HAVE Just added 70 my collection an
other jolly little letter. from which
learn that my writings are the out
pouring OF a diseased mind, and with
which is enclosed an article By Professor
Wall. Of Harvard as "a good antldOte 10
the poison which ! squirt"
The professors article IS by no means
60 racy as his friends personal commune
cation-indeed. Il is temperate and al
most temporizing. / do not doubt that
Professor Wall writes in all sincerity and
innocence; or even that the change OF
tone IS unconscious so far as he is con-
cerned. AS an ntidOte to any very yiO-
lent poison Sc seems a little weak
Perhaps the best way will be to detach
and number the points in the professors
exposition. and reply to them briefly. as
follows:
% Professor Wall says: I'VE see
today the armies Of Germany upon enemy
soil though they have always been
greatly outnumbered by their opponents"
This is untrue During the first and most
important periods OF the war the Central
Empires enormously outnumbered every
opposin force. In Northern France they
were nearly double their enemy, and were
defeated. In Russia they may have been
roughly equal, with a gigantic superiority
In guns and material In the enemy soils
they thoroughly occupied. like Belgium
and Serbia. they had infinitely smaller
armies against them.
Cd Professor Wall says: mo despotio
government and no caste government
have ever accomplished what the Ger
mans have accomplished during the last
sixteen months. Democracy alone is capa-
BILE Of such efforts" This is wild non
sense. People under every conceivable
kind Of government, including the most
avowedly despotic, have shown quite as
much human courage and discipline.
CD Professor Wall then naturally
proceeds to inquire: "But what is Ger
man democracy, and how does it work
IN practise?" This is a very fair ques-
ton. and I can answer it. Il generally
works by giving to one wealthy man as
many votes as a whole crowd of his
poorer feIIow-citizens. This is simply an
objective fact. which any German viii
admit
ca Professor Wall then remarks:
1T is to the interest of Germany that
the Balkan States enjoy peace and stable
government" This is a rather painfully
transparent evasion. II all that the ben
evolent Germanic Empires want is alb
stract peace for the Balkans, it would
seem a singular way of procuring 1t to
send 10 the nearest Balkan kingdom an
insulting message, challenging il to fight
I'm forty-eight hours. Obviously, what
they wanted was not that the Balkans
should enjoy stable government, but that
ghe Balkans should not enjoy Balkan
government: and they practically said
70 in so many words.
C5) Professor Wall also says that a
German victory will be good for the
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-07-11

THE new bus service. connecting
one of the northern suburbs
with the city, did away to
some extent with the privacy OF
those who live + the square. stone
Georgian houses in Orchard Road.
They were basemented houses.
with stables attaChed-large. roomy
and sombre-lOoking. Hiding behind
high gates and tall laurel hedges,
they had managed 10 conceal them
selves from the eyes % the wCrld
until the first No. 303 rumbled past.
The casual observers on the top
seats beheld gardens full Of iaurels
and paths where dark moss had got
the upper hand OF the gravel Al
wavs the old houses appeared dark
end rather awesOme. On hot, sunltt
mornings they looked cool and not
uninviting; but In gray. wet weather
they were a sight 10 chill Ind &C.
press.
And the people who lived in them2
They were, of course, mostly OF the
tvpes that must live near the hub OF
the universe and yet be almost as
hermits. There were little old ladies'
with small but insufficient private
means. retired army officers with
little besides their pensions. one or
two mysterious families difficult TO
classify. aud a few who earned their
bread by praCtiCiHg the arts.
Quietly they lived. shut out from
the ewes Of the world. until along
came the first No. 500 and gave the
world a .,eep at the damp laurels.
the grown paths, and even al
the dim interio. IF wainscOted
rooms only half screened by the
window curtains.
Janet Shaw was on the first No
sO3 and IL would be we'll 10 mention
FL once that IL was a warm and
sunny morning in early Spring that
Janet was Just turned seventeen at
the time. and that for no particular
reason she was very happy.
She was one NJ a fami-.- OF six.
the father Of which had never IN his
life earned more than two hundred
q wear Yet they lived in pretty
little house. dressed well and ate
well. and had no worries. How they
aid IL is a mystery that We need not
bother 10 solve Janet helped by
almost earning her own living. For
a wear now she had been going 10
an Office every day, receiving pay
ment sufficient 10 cover the cost OF
her clothes, fares and lunches. The
new service OF motor buses was a
boon 10 her The fare was q penny
less each way than 1t cost TO go BY
train. and she did not mind rising
earlier in the morning.
Janet was humming something as
the bus ratified up Orchard road
4 waltz tune out OF the latest mu-
steal comedy. a catchy tune. full OF
love and laughter, a thing 20 stay
for months in little funny heads and
be hummed all day. SO. smiling
and with a heart dancing 20 the Tilt
OF her music. Janet looked from the
top of the bus upon the gardens OF
the Georgian houses. and saw for
the first time the incsrnate hero OF