Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1919-11-07
Owens Protege
n
BY WILL T. AMES

Copyright, 1913, by the Mcclure News
paper syndioatsl
Miss Gwen Ciphers. daughter Of an
Indianapolis paint and wall paper mer.
chant and one Of the kind Of women
who name their nrst borns Archibald
II fine and Gwendoline IL superfine.
met up with Ras Goora, son of Q
Caifra rag picker. in Washington
square.
Gwen was the ninetv.six Thousand
and first girls college graduate tn
come from Indiana To New York IN
softer the heart of the world with her
pen. Ras was the second Young man
TO come from Caiffa, Syria. with the
definite purpose of acquiring, within
six months. capItal enough to buy n
licorice plantation,
The first Caiffa vouth to achieve this
ambition had been Tufa Goora. Ros's
cousin. He had returned after n brief
absence, with a small batful Of the
golden coin Of the lnfidels, and had
purchased the most excellent planta-
ton OF Hal Akab also the second
hdhu hiNNCI VI tuO ucpuEtlLk FEtuCu
consul.
Eaa KarhagIan, sloe-eyed daughter
OF the Armenian doctor, seemed dis
posed to condescend to Tufa under
these circumstances. Ras, too, had
yearned hopelessly for Eela. He de-
termined to put over performance to
equal or excel his cousins. He knew
OF better plantation and newer
Ford. The plantation he wanted was
so near to town they could run In to
the picture thenter; If
And Ras would have made his ad-
venturlng voyage to the other side of
the world even had he known positive
ly what had merely occurred to him as
n probabillty-that Tufa's money had
been the fruit Of series Of predatory
enterprises which made 1t by the rarest
of good luck that he ever returned 10
Cnllln. He had got out Of New York
Just two jumps ahead OF the police.
Rns himself was entirely without
prejudice as to the manner in which
he might possess himself of some Of
the pelf Of those villainously rich un-
believers In America. His one idea
VAS to get 1t and get back.
George Washington Ciphers wouldn't
lnve trusted Goora, pere, for ten
cent paint brush II the latter, per ma
gIcian's carpet, had suddenly walked
IN upon him.
Moreover, he would have kept the
kc:nest Of eyes on old Ras senior, to
see that he didn't steal the knob off
the trent door as he went out But
Gwen Ciphers didn't Inherit either her
fathers suspicious temperament nor
Ills quick Insight into human nature.
Gwen though she didn't suspect 1t.
took somewhat after her mushy
mother.
So when Ras, hat In hand, ap-
preached her as she sat on bench in
the historic square planning wonderful
things for the world-to be put In her
bOok-Gwen did NOT shoe him away,
but looked at the paper he held out.
Rns had great, soulful eyes. like n
deer, and said, 10 pathetically, spills,
mees!"
The writing rend: "Am strange
mans In crate country. Pies show
uork Am awful orote strongp
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