Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-08-08

tst who lived for Others. That's why
he was in America. Himself. he
would so many thousand times prefer
10 stay In his own beautiful. dreamy
Syria, amid the olive trees and orange
blossoms. tnan to so forth among so
many, many strangers But his pe,>-
ple-ah. the poor. poor people!
Such long time oppressed by the
wicked Turks. For thero he had come
10 America. They had no schools He
had come TO beg money from the rich,
generous Americans for great chill
dren's school at Beirut
To cut it short. Gwen possessed
eight thousand dollars, an auntly
legacy. And the supreme court itself
couldn't have convinced her that the
book she was writing would fail to
brins in other thousands shortly.
She was aetueily on he point Of
signing check for four ,T the eight
thousands, to be handed over TO Ras
Goora as the nucleus of the Gwendo-
line Ciphers school. in far Off Beirut,
when:
Sam Cody, the busiest man in In
dianapolis founder madeline to
drop in to call on Miss Ciphers. sam
was all business. He had been every
where and made money everywhere he
went.
But he had leisure enough to keenly
desire to make Gwen Ciphers Mrs.
Cody. He jeered at her literary aspi-
rations and her vaunted capacity for
"making her own life" Consequently
Gwen resented him while she secretly
adored him.
He arrived at Miss Cipher's combi-
nation living room about thirty sec
onds ahead of Ras Goora, the moment
of whose coup was ripe. He was shak-
Ing hands with Gwen stilI-that is, he
was holding one-when Ras tapped
discreetly at the door. Gwen. all smiles
of triumph over her Beirut enterprise
invited Ras in. Then she proceeded
to tell Sam all about what she and
Ras were going to do for the Beirut
infants. When she turned to beam on
Ras she was amazed TO find him, all
atrenlble. staring at Sam as if al a
ghost AT the same instant Sam got to
the door first. He grabbed Ras by the
collar, spoke rudely to him for about
ten seconds, opened the door, chucked
him through it and said "Scat." Ras
took the stairs in three downward
jumps, yanked the front door open and
disappeared
Same had been an export agent In
Caiffa six years before. He bought
olives and licor.ce and goats hair and
other things and shipped them to
America TO people he represented
He made a pack of money, but not
so much that he felt like being robbed,
So when he found Ras Goora, his Of
fee boy. whom he had hired because
he could speak English, making wax
impression of the key TO his petty cash
drawer he kicked him into the road, TO
learn subsequently that as an all
around larcenist Ras was Caifra's only
rival to his own father, who, ii was
known, had robbed the poor box at The
missionaries chapel on the day of has
own conversion"
Listen, Gwen" said Sam. after Ras
had scurried iway. You're about as
fit to buck against the snides and
grafters and four-fushers as you were
when YOU were two-and-a-half. ! like
you that way. don't want you 10
get too blamed cynical You win, II
you stay here and meet little million
more of Rases. Tell sou something.
went to see that Simms person-yvur
pubIisher-and made him admit that
he wouldn't publish your book on his
own hook In q million years is only
taking it for his percentage on what II
costs you. You're coming out to fH.
dianapolis with me and be Mrs. Sam
Cody. Sam, he'll be the business agent
between you and the world--see?''
And Gwen saw-at last. So SHE
went.