Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-26
PATSY KILDARE
THE OUTLAW
By JUDD MORTIMER LEWIS
The Hounds of Heauen

TNHIs is Monday and had to go back to
l. school hoped into the auto with
Levy after breakfast when he was going for
my father. Then away we all went, on the
back seat with Rowdy. 1 had Levy take
me to my house first and then go after my
father. Rowdy and rambled to Bells and
Lunnys and climbed the tree and sang all
knew about the burglar and the slim sally
and the man a hundred years old and his
dog and Rowdy's heas and how happy
1 am.
Then the shutter opened and Bell looked
out and about the same time Lunny came to
the bottom of the tree with a newspaper in
one hand and a cigar in the other and Rowdy
Jumped all over him and tore his newspaper
and made him drop his cigar and he Just
laughed. Bell put on klmono and came
downstairs and sat on the bottom step and
Lunny leaned on the post and made me tell
them all about Il. They nearly laughed their
heads off about the slim sally and about the
fleas too, but they laughed the hardest about
the man Who Is a hundred years old. Bell
said when they had stopped laughing, DO
you suppose we could get the social service
to do anything for him?" Lunny said no.
because he lives out of town and people VINO
live out of town have no business being poor
and old and neglected. That Is what Lunny
said, but 1 do not see why they have not II
they want to be.
Then the school bell rang and Bell kissed
me and Rowdy and few TO get to school IN
time. After school went home and shaved
my burglar. At least, l started to shave
him. but he made me hold the looking glass
| for him so that he could shave himself. 50
sat on his stomach and he shaved and made
| even a better Job Of It than l had. AFTER
| that l went to see the old man. but before
| got to his house / saw him standing In the
| mid oF he leaning his cane.
l said TO him, How are you todayF But
| he chewed tobacco and didn't say anything
| I said, "You are out for walk, see lie
| said, II am a hundred years Old SAID
You look It." He said, "Are you the little
| girl who came TO see me long time ago.
I said, mo, am Patsy Kildare and l am
| Irish and proud of It and came TO see you
| Yesterday" He said. Did your dog whip
| my dog?" 1 said, You bet he did, lie
said, Then you are the little girl ana l
have come to meet you. l am hundred
| years old" said, "I was going to your
| house. so turn around" lie did so and then
| he began TO move about an inch with each
| step and he said, II am hundred years
| old" said, "You will be two hundred be-
fore you get home" But we finally got
| there.
He sat on the porch and sat on the step
and Rowdy and his dog played and said,
How does It feel to be so old?" He jast
| cheyed tobacco and said, "I am hundred
years old" I said, Il have got that by
heart Can't you say something else:
Then all of a sudden he twisted his neck ana
| a far-off look came into his eyes and he
seemed to be listening. l said, do you
hear something? l don't He said, NO,
YOU can't hear them till you are hundred
| years old. l hear the hounds of heaven
| running across the sky. You ought to hear
them" ! said, Il am glad of that, for 1t
proves that Rowdy can 90 to heaven Are
| tba,, with the anEelS2' He SAID,
mo, they are hunting" l said, Hunting
what?" He said, Human souls That
scared me so that l jumped I said. You
are cracked in the bean. If you hear
ANYTHING it is not the hounds of heaven"
Then fixed some crackers and milk for
, him and went away, for It was getting dark
did not hear any hounds of heaven run
ming across the sky on the way home
though l stopped and listened two or three
times.
"a Question OF Ethics" the next Patsy XII
dare adventure. appears in tOm0rrOws EVeninl