Evening star., 1917-10-14

him In. OLD Man Neon pte him - Voe-
ruk on the cobwebs tor . Twin. ooceues
when ye leave your hou5s In fairyiaad
an : day.sv.llow it IKE . mics sir-
And while the child vas obsyins hsn.
Tinker noticed that ths seer0Wful
woman did not look into the eyes o.
tho sorrowfui man. Do he got 20 WBE
on their troubles.
II wouldn't be fair to explain 3use ~
he did II. Of course. oecauss thst wes1d
whom he slipped sway the msa ana
woman were friends aGain-khouOh you
never In this world Will ret them 20 be
lievs that Tinker had anything to do
! with II: Naturally.
! she told knows. And now you know.
-.
Electric bulbs flashed mp ana - 81
dience took q bstvesn-rssi step ffom
medieval darkness iHto ths lightsoms-
ness OF IN atmosphere nat fssesssf
chewing gum. One smau bog. sttil nm
der the spell Of the Dovss. wanted 70
talk It over with . mother who fsl1sd
to share his thrills:
she Isn't going to have his heed sut
on sure enough. 10 she. mammAr
''Bure. she won't Everything will
come out all right-and now keep
quiet"
But I'm afraid she Will. mamma. be-
cause the fortune teller told him he
would die on the scaffoid."
"oh. let up. Didn't you see her give
him the ring that he was TO send her
when he got in trouble? Sit down and
| behave yourself"
won't take the ring to her.
FOR the lands sake. can't you ever
| shut up? OF course. she'll set the ring
all right. ana then she'll take him out
| Of prison and marry him.
But. mamma. he would rather marry
well. he can't! Don't you see she's
already got . husband? You wait ana
| see. It'll all como out al lright-and
for goodness sake-"
PART III.
The lights went out and the audience
was hushed. You could fairly vision
the tenseness OF that house packed with
peopie-all sorts Of people. high. low
and middlinE-as tho doomed man. sur
| rounded with pike-armed soldiers. Ap
preached . platform on the street. On
the platform stood the headsrnan, ready
with his az.
"oh. mamma they are going to do It
L
"sh-it'li be all right. tell you.
Youll see she saves him At the last
minute. Sh-"
| The man who was to die mounted the
steps and laid his head on the block.
The headsman lifted his Ak and gave
| swing
| And the boy hid his face.
When the queen, In a "cloee-up" rack
OF agonised remorse. appeared on the
screen she found no sympathizer in the
mother Of the child.
! Il hope he'll haunt her till she dies,
the horrid thingi was sure she would
save him. Never mind. son. Its only .
| play"
! She did not recognize that II was also
history and that once on a time Elisa
beth and the Earl OF Essex really lived
and died.
! y
I, Washington looks Just the same rs
ever. but II is beginning to sound like
Somewhere in France.
| You might suppose that Ollendorf had
reincarnated himself and como to town
and brought along his colioquisl
phrasss-except that there is q better
reason.
! Keh-s kuh say?
| Guess.
. -ra
II you want to see something splen-
did. walk along the tagging that leads
to the steps Of the Capitol. and look up
| into the trees. And look and look.
The green light viii rest your eyes
and filter into your brain and take the
kinks out of your immortal soul.
And there will come to you n certain
ty-if you look UP long enouxh-thst
whoever made the trees can also build
| those houses we know about-the ones
that are made without hands.
NANNIE T.ANCA STER