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fessor tip-toed in, followed by Ar
della, with tray. At the sight OF
the two before him, engrossed ia
the inaudible comments, he
stepped back into Ardelia and rat
tied the contents of the tray. Jar
Wis looked up and caught his as
tonished expression. He rose with
Bambi in his arms.
Good morning, father. I'm
home" he said.
Thank de good Lawd!" from
Ardelia.
Its Jarvis" said Bambi, fatu-
ously, patting his cheek.
II suspected that 1t was when I
saw him." the professor admitted.
Pm glad that you're back, and l
hope you'll stay. This child needs
a firmer hand than mine."
You're speaking of a woman
with well-advanced career, Herr
Professor Parkhurst!"
"Ardelia, we are not needed.
She is we'll. A dose of Jarvis
Jocelyn was the correct prescrip-
tion."
well, thank Gawd fo' some
sho' huff lovin' at las" said Ar
della, as she backed out behind the
professor and closed the door.
THE END.
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uDANIpTvBy Marjorie
DAN1Dl Benton Cooke
OOPYRIGHT, PAGDT NEWSPAPER SERVICE

lspeak. He thanked everybody In
the prescribed way, beginning
with the audience. ending with the
company. He said he was happy
that they liked his play. but that
he was making the speech under
false pretenses. All the credit for
the success must go to two women
his wife and collaboration. Here he
turned to include Bambi, but to his
establishment she was gone. The
audience laughed at his discom-
future, but he turned II off wittily
The other woman, the one to whom
most of the credit was due, was
the author of the book. She had
SO far hidden behind an anonym.
lily, but he believed she was in the
house tonight, and 1t was to her
that their congratulations should
be offered. Cries OF Author! Au-
thor of the book" with much clap
ping Of hands. Jarvis stood there,
scarcely breathing. cold sweat on
his brow, waiting for her to come.
The applause became clamor.
The door opened and Bambi float
ed in. She did not see the audi
ence, her eyes were fixed on Jar
Wis face, and the strange express
sion she saw there. She came to
him, put her hand In his, and
smiled. He was SO obviously nom
plussed that the people grasped q
new situation and were suddenly
still. Bambi smiled at him and
spoke:
Dear People: II you have had
as much fun tonight as have, we
owe eGch other nothing! And the
most sun of all is the establishment
of NJ. Jarvis Jocelyn, who discov,
ers himself to be a bigamist. He's
married to the co-dramatist and
the author, and he never knew It!
That | wrote the book has been a
secret until this minute. IL you
hadn't liked the play, | never
would have admitted that I wrote
lit. You're the very incest first
nighters | ever met. and we are
lboth most grateful to you, the
bigamist and l."
There was wild applause, flow
ers were tossed from the boxes,
calls OF "Bravo!" greeted the ltstle
bowling figure clinging tightly to
the big mans hand. They finally
made their escape to the wings,
and Bambi turned to Jarvis for
what was to her the real climax of
the evening.
He looked at her so strangely
that she laid her hand on his arm.
"You aren't glad?" she ques-
toned. anxiously.
Some members of the company
surrounded them with congratula-
tions, and when they were free
they had to hurry out to rescue the
rest of the family.
What did you think of the Sc
|cret. daddy?"
MY child, am past all thought.
l wish to be taken home. put to
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bed and allowed to recover slowly.
I have had shock Of surprise that
would kill q less vigorous man"
But you like 1T You were glad
did lit"
Il am 30 proud of you that | am
imbecile. Let us 30 home"
Richard shook her hands in
silent congratulation.
Where Is Jarvis?" asked her
father.
A search failed to find him.
Richard made a trip back on tho
stage, but he was not there.
1--WE won't wait, IL you will put
1 us into our cab" Bambi said to
him.
He saw them all off, promising
to send Jarvis along IL he saw him.
what do you suppose became
of him." demanded the professor.
But Bambi did not answer. Ali
the triumph of the evening count
ed for nothing to her now. Jarvis
had been hurt or angered at her
revelation. He had deliberately
gone off and left her, regardless
of appearances. She spent the
night In anxiously listening for his
return, but morning found his
rooms vacant, his bed untouched.
Bambi's heart misgave her.
Jarvis was never sure what hap
pened to him after he came off the
stage with Bambi. Something had
exploded In his brain, and his only
thought was to get away, away
from all the noisy, chattering,
Misunderstanding people, to some quiet
place, where he could think.
Broad daylight found him far up
toward the Bronx, weary, footsore,
and hungry. When he came to
himself he realized that he must
send some word to the club of his
whereabouts. He wrote a message
to Bambi:
II shall not come back today. |
cannot. You have hurt me very
deeply. JARVIS"
In the meantime Bambi, after a
sleepless night, was up betimes.
nj DiCahiuot SHC pAotCbtou thot
she was not at all worried.
Then Jarvis message came. Her
face quivered as she read 1t.
What Is It, dear2 Is 1t Jarvis?"
She nodded, the slow tears fall
ing.
"He isn't hurt?"
mot physically hurt, but I've
hurt his feelings. Oh. daddy, I've
made such a mess of 1t. | wanted
Jarvis to be dazzled by my sue
cess, because he thinks I'm a help
less sort OF thing, and now he only
hates me for it."
She broke down and wept bit
Iterly. The professor. distressed
and helpless, took her into his
arms and petted her.
There. there, baby. 1t will work
out all right. Just let us so home,
where we're used to things, and
everything will look different"
Yes. that's 1t, we'll all go
home" sobbed Bambi, wiping her
eyes.
Where is Jarvis2"
81 don't know. Oh, Father Pro-
|fessor, are the fruits of success al
ways so bitter-so bitter?" she
cried to him.
The first week Of the play went
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nook and corner of his own soul.
He knew himself for a blind, self
ish egotist. He was ready now to
fling his winter garments of re-
pentance into the fires Of spring.
He understood himself, though
Bambi baffled him more than ever.
Never mind. She needed him.
Strong said so-and he was going
to her.
He was at the station an hour
before the train left, pacing up and
down the platform like an angry
lion. Aboard the sleeper. and on
the way, he tossed and turned in
his berth in wakefulness. At dawn
he was up and dressed, to sit in a
fever of Impotence while the land
scape slowly slid by the car win
dow.
At Sunnyside he hurried along
the deserted street, where only the
milkman wound his weary way In
the early morning. There. was a
hint of spring in the air, fresh and
exhilarating, with faint eartt
smell
The house lay, with closed
blinds, still asleep. He let himself
in with his latch-key, dropped his
bag, hat and coat in the hall, and
rushed upstairs to Bambi's rooms
No hesitation now. He would storm
the citadel in truth. He opened
her bedroom door softly and
peered in. It was unknown coun.
try to him. The bed was empty
He entered and walked swiftly t.
the door beyond, where he heard
a faint cracking, as of fire burn
ling. At the door he paused.
She was crouched before a fire
cross-legged, her face cupped or
her hands. In her pink robe an(
cap she looked more like a chill,
than ever. She half turned he
head, as IL feeling his presence, 8,
he saw how pale she was, hov
black the circles round her eyes.
my little love!" he cried to her
MY little love!"
i She sprang to her feet, facin,
him; her hands went swiftly to he
heart, as IL a spasm shook her. A
Jarvis came toward her, a grea
light in his face, she put her hand
out to fend him off.
II want you to know that I real
ize just how silly and cheap an,
theatrical I've been. didn't meaJ
| to hurt you," she began in a mono
tone, as IL It tired her too mucl
to speak. He tried to stop her. blu
she shook her head.
II have to say 1t all now. care,
so much when you came home tina
time, and after the first night
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(Oontinued From Our Last Issue. }
The second act went like a
breeze. Laughter and applause
punctuated it's progress. The
house was warming up. Bambi
slipped her hand into Jarvis aud
he held II so tight that she could
feel his heart beat thru his palm.
There was no doubt about II at the
end of the second act. II was 60
ing. The company took repeated
curtain calls, smiling at the Joce-
lyns.
I'm grinning so shall never
get my face straight again." Bambi
said to Richard, who came to the
box to congratulate them.
Looks like a CO." he said cor
daily.
Even Jarvis unbent to him, and
insisted upon his sitting with them
for the third act. Bambi added
smiling second. She had explained
to Richard in advance why she did
not invite him to share the box.
II am having a most unexpected
ly good time" the professor ad-
mitted to them ali.
Jarvis state of mind was painful
as the last act began. In the next
30 minutes he was to meet the
woman he thought he loved. Since
his confession to Bambi the night
before, doubt had raised its head
to stare at him as to the real depth
of his feeling for his unknown in
amorata. Had he really been moved
by love, or was II only need IF
sympathy for his hurt pride that
had driven him to her? Bambi's
strange behavior, her admission
that she did not love Strong, most
OF all those moments when she lay
in his arms-they had upset all his
convictions and emotions. He paid
not attention to the act at all, torn
as he was as to what the night
would bring him.
He was aroused by storms Of APP
plause. The curtain went up
again, and again; the company
bowed solo and in a group. Then
calls of "Authorl Author!" were
heard all over the house. Bambi
ciutched Jarvis sleeve and drew
him back to the box.
go on! You've got to 60 out
and bow. You do 1t alone, Jar
Wis"
In answer he took her arm and
propelled her in front of him, back
on the stage.
Here they are! give them full
STAGE" said the stage manager,
ringing up the curtain. Now, go
ahead, right out there,"
He opened door in the set and
Jarvis and Bambi went on. There
was hush for second. then a bic
round of applause. Bambi laughed
and waved her hand. There was a
hush of expectancy.
Nov, Jarvis, go on!" she
prompted him.
Jarvis, cold as death, began to
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thought you didn't care for me-"
my best beloved, let me-"
mo, no-please. / was piqued
and angry and l thought could
punish you by pretending to be the
other woman you thought you were
writing to. | wanted to make you
care for her, and then
1T was you l cared for--you,
Iyou-you,"
Evening star., 1917-01-14

Special Correspondence Of The STAR.
LONDON, January 4, 1917.
a PERTURBED young man in the
A\ uniform of an officer wearing on
q his breast the bi-colored ribbon
which Indicated that he had won the
DISTINGUISHED service order, one of the
h! CHEST military decorations within the
gift of the king, entered the offices of an
insurance broker attached to lloyds.
the famous insurance mart. At Lloyds
they insure you against anything, from
fire and Zeppelin attacks to influenza
and the measles-even German measles.
I.Iovds are most famous for that sort
of thing and ii is seldom that they fail
to figure out some way of insuring Z
against loss on anything under the sun.
This time. however, Lioyds was beaten.
Il want" said Che young British of
ficer. "to be insured against winning
the Victoria Cross.
The brokers gasped in amazsment.
Here was war-born something that
was utterly new and they demanded
details
'It's lust this way" declared the Of
ficer. .'Recently 1 won the d. S. .. and
| hone that before things are over |
will win the Victoria Cross. l certainly
shall try TO do so, and possibly / will.
But after winning the D. 5. o.. which
7 was quite proud to have done,
found that il is really a costly thing to
do. | am not rich. in fact / have but
little money. But what with dinners
and luncheons and drinks in celebra-
ton OF my getting the ID. S. o., il cost
Evening star., 1917-01-14
Spaim's Attitude AS an Isolated Neutral and Her
Possible Cooperation With the United States

this action OF the Spanish COVE rnmcnt
is that IL has a foreign policy, or q
peace policy, that il does not propose
to have thwarted by too much news
paper publicity. The government
newspapers which did not approve
President Wilson's note were very mild
in their criticisms. On the other hand.
the journals which favored the note
were reported to be violent IN their
criticism OF the entente allies for not
receiving il in the proper spirit.
Whether spain viii be able TO play the
role in peace negotiations which her
statesmen hope lies in the lap Of the
future. II might be assumed that be
cause OF her open sympathy with the
attitude of the entente allies there
would be no possibility OF Germany
agreeing to Spain as in any way an
umpire or arbitrator. That Is pass
ing incident.
Ia the materifr sense. Spain is about
the most disinte. ested of all the Euro
pean ueutrals. But the more potential
fact is that she is the most Catholic
country ia Europe and that the aspirA-
tion of the Pope for peace can best
he realized through her. The media
tion OF the Vatican. IL IL comes. Will be
more feasible through Madrid than
through Rome.
While spain declined to follow Presi-
dent wilson's lead. this does not mean
that her policy is antagonistic to that
of the United States. In December the
Spa anish government did not regard tn.
time as opportune for peace. and gave
its reasons. Events move rapidly. and
what was a good reason in December
might not be "A good reason in March
or April Spain and the United States
may yet be found cooperating in
peace movement OF the neutral ma
tiDns
Evening star., 1917-01-14
A Nickel Dinner.

nOIN KIRBY. Jr. of Dayton. one OF
~ the promoters of the $4,000. 900. 600
national Industrial conference board.
said at a dinner in New York:
THE eight hour law may be good
thing. but the country doesn't want to
accept il compulsorily. A turkey din
ner for nickel may be a good thing.
but il compulsion is used in getting it
then it's only a good thing in o ono.
sided manner.
'.Erastus Johnson. a colored giant tu
a sweater. entered an eating house On
New Year day and downed three dozen
raws on the half shell. two plates OF
chicken gumbo soup. four helpings OF
turkey. a quart of cranberry sauce.
eight sweet potatoes. half q plum pud-
ding. two minee pies and seven cups OF
coffee.
His meal finished. Erastus Johnson
liz a cigarette. took razor out or his
shoe. and. stropping the blade ON the
palm of his hand. he said:
- s'pose ye know Cal Ciays IN De
hospital? Yep. Dey took him on To
de hospital Christmas. but I expect hsli
be out by de Fo'th. You see. dropped
inter his eatin' tint Christmas day. and
all had ter eat wuz a lobster. q chiclr7
en-, four plates o. dark meat and two q
white meat off'n de Christmas turkeys
an a couple of pies and the usual hxs
in's, and darned IL Cal didn't want "a
charge me a quarter. I got 30 mad 4
cut him up. l had to. Couldn't help ~
He'll be out. dey tell me. befo' Do hos
weather sets in
..'The giant colored man paused, He
stropped his blade slowly and delScaten
ly on his palm. Then
"'How much do owe yer he SAID
"a nickel said the eating house
man In a low voice."
Evening star., 1917-01-14

of Thomas Wrenn al Chesterbook. now
called Onido, in Fairfax county. and the
Methodists of Virginia and the Dis
trict of Columbia not long ago erected
a monument above his grave.
Joseph Longson was one of the Ameri-
can pioneer Methodist preachers. He
was born in England where he married
Ann Tupman. Arriving In this country,
he settled first at Norfolk and soon aft
erward came to Washington. then but a
village. His children were: Elizabeth.
who married John J. Mahoney of Fair
fax county; Mary Ellen, who married
Levi Barnes of Montgomery county. Md.
James Longson. who married Emily Lu-
cas- of Washington; Sarah Frances, who
married New York man named Lake.
and Josephine, who became the wife Of
James Faulkner. Many grandchildren
and great-grandchildren of this old
preacher are living in and around Wash
ington. Among the children of Mary FL
len Longson and Levi Barnes are Joseph
Barnes of Montgomery county. Gather
inc Virginia. who lives in Washington.
Clara Deneil, who lives at Glen Echo.
and John o. Barnes Samuel Barnes.
Enoch Barnes and Robert Odelle Barnes
of Washington.
The children of James Longson and his
wife. Emily Lucas of Washington. who
were Annie and Mary Ellen. are dead.
Joseph William Mahoney, son of Eliza =
Evening star., 1917-01-14

lives at Lewinsville: Walter, who is
somewhere in West Virginia, and
Frank and Harry. who are on the
Washington police force.
John CAN'T of trawberry Vale was. as
the Rambler has indicated. one of the i'm
portant personages of the vicinity of
early Washington. He travelled over
the nearby roads in coach and four.
and it is likely that his coach was es-
corted by outriders. He lived in the
style of the rich men of that period
Among his children were Basil f.
CAN'T. who was the father of the
Gantts who live at Rokeby and Ocean
City: Margaret CAN'T, who married
Daniel Dulaney. and Mary Ann CAN'T:
who married, first John Richards of
Leesburg. and second. Charles Binns of
that part of Virginia. Two other chill
dren of John CAN'T of Stra wberry Vale
were John F. CAN'T and William Henry
CAN'T.
In that part of the country between
Chain bridge and Langley. and extend
ing far back from the Potomac river,
the lands of John CAN'T of Strawberry
Vale have been carved up into many
farms. some of them being quite ex-
tensive. Among these tracts are those
owned by Joseph Letter. Walter Kirby,
Ray Kirby, Leonard Darnes. Taylor
Darnes, Harry Darnes. George Shell
house, James NJ. Hall, n. d. Donaldson
Evening star., 1917-01-14

the tollgate and reaching that part
of the road where the cedars and the
naples grow.
This is the CAN'T farm. 1t is remain
ing parcel of what was. a century and
less ago, one of the large estates of
Virginia. Members of the CAN'T fami-
lv still live there and make their liv-
ing from the ancestral fields. And
persons who are acquainted with an
cestral fields know that ancestral fields
often yield less bountifully to descend
ants than TO ancestors. The Ram
bier has observed that an ancestral field
will sometimes demand harder work
and more of ii from a greatgreat
grandson than it did from his great
great grandfather.
Ancestral acres know nothing of
nepotism and they show a disposition
to want to escape from the descendants $
of their early owners and to make
friends with newcomers. However.
these are ancestral Can't lands. and
this particular part of the great
CAN'T holdings in Fairfax county close
to and overlooking a part of Wash
ington is called Rokeby.
In writing a few Sundays ago of
Strawberry Vale Manor and the Scott
family. who obtained grant of 5000
acres of land in that part of Virginia,
the Rambler mentioned the Can't fam
lily, for Strawberry Vale passed from
the possession of the SCOTS into that of
the Gantts, and members of that fam
Evening star., 1917-01-14

CAN'T bought farm at Ocean City.
Md, and Miss Margaret lives there
with him John o. CAN'T usually leaves
Rokeby in midwinter and spends the
time until spring plowing is due, with
his brother, William, at Ocean city.
That was the situation when the Ram
bier wandered into Rokeby few Sun
days ago. A nipping. biting wind cut
across the high land and sang a win
ter song through the dry, bare branches
of the trees that stand around the old
house .
There is a great view from TINS slt-
uation and some of the tall landmarks
of Washington rise boldly into the pic
ture Rokeby adjoins on the east the
Letter holdings. which property. after
passing from the Gantts to Col. Daniel
Dulaney and then to Col. Cruikshank,
passed into the hands of settler
named Van Dusen Then it became the
property of Ray Kirby, who sold part
of the tract to Letter and lives on the
other part near the pike between
Rokeby and Langley. Part of the
Rokeby lands were sold by John q.
CAN'T to Truxton Beale. Standing at
the house of Rokeby, the Rambler
could make out the fire. blackened ruin
of big brick house eastward on the
pike. the Stroman place. When Henry
Stroman lived there it was home
stead of beauty. Among the children
of Henry Stroman are Miss Maize, who
is a clerk in the Treasury; Annie. who
Evening star., 1917-01-14

is TO lessen the draft when in mod
crate weather a less strong fire is
desired
Oxygen and the combustible elements
of the fuel unite at varying tempera-
lures and a definite amount of heat
is evolved but only part Of the heat
radiated from the glowing fuel or
conveyed by the hot gases is taken
UP by the air or water of the furnace
or boiler and distributed throughout
the house.
Too much air admitted to the fire
cools the fuel bed and the gases that
arise from it; hence only enough air
should be admitted TO insure COM
pIete combustion. Roughly speaking.
it takes I5o to 300 cubic feet to burn
a pound of coal. Thus it will be seen
that to secure economic heating there
must be steady and complete com
bustion of all the coal of the most
suita BILE sort under such conditions
that the waste Is reduced to a mini
mum.
To secure this end some simple gem
Evening star., 1917-01-14
WANTED INSURANCE AGAINST
WINNING VICTORIA CROSS

me much more than I could possibly
anord--sbout $50 in all, l should say.
Now, If | win the V. G., which, as I
say. | will try to do when ] get back
to France. | will get leave and come to
England again. Then there viii have
to he celebrations ALI over again, and
| suppose ii will cost me hundreds Of
pounds. Therefore. | wish to pay a
certain premium, enough so tnat If l
win the V. G. you will pay me $500.
That sum ought to pay all celebrating
expenses and leave something over.
The insurance people carefully con-
sidered the matter and finally decided
that il couldn't be done, for the rea-
son that they could reach no solid
basis for estimating the risk of losing
on the policy. The young British Of
ncer departed sorrowfui, and with
Lloyds' bubble of fame pricked SO far
he was concerned.
Evening star., 1917-01-14
The Dead One.

a NEW YORK milk dealer said to a
~ reporter. apropos of the new price.
so cents quart. for cream:
Before such price as that the folks
must try to be optimists. like the chap
who married the widow, for optim SIN
is the only course.
This chaps brother said to him on
the wedding morn:
Il could never bear to be a widow 8
second husband.
The bridegroom smiled optimistically.
We'll, for my part he said, I'd
rather be a widows second husband
than her first.
Evening star., 1917-01-14
A Great Difference.

I'D ISHOP SANFORD OLMSTEAD of
W Denver was urging. in a holiday
address. Christianity of the militant.
active. beneficent sort.
why. my dear friends" he said.
there is almost as much difference be-
tween being good and doing good as
there In between being a man and doing
a man."
Evening star., 1917-01-14

eral rules of practice must be followed.
The furnace should hold coal enough
to heat the house for eight hours with
out forcing the fires.
The fire should be attended to regu-
larly and not be allowed to- burn too
low
The size Of the coal should be nea rly
uniform
The fuel bed should be kept free
from air holes.
Excessive sha king of the CRATES
should be avoided
When there is demand for heat
keep the fuel bed uniformly thick but
do so by frequent frings. using all the
draft ayaila BILE until the fire is burning
freely.
Clinkers should be worked out.
Keep the ash pit free of ashes and
all the HueS clean and free from SCOT.
Ascertain by experiment what op-
Grating conditions produce the best re-
suits in your heater for your house
and stick to them.
Always use your common sense.