The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-31
EVENING STORY
Broken Rules.
BY DWIGHT TINGLE SCOTT

lnlngS ana keep the customers smiling
into the big mirror earned forty or
fifty dollars a week; for some fifteen
minutes of strenuous exercise within
roped arena, twenty by twenty, a
certain husky athlete is reputed to
have received fifty thousand dollars;
men who could handle iron while it
was hot were earning twenty dollars
day. During this prosperous era
the efforts of the Rev. Horace Chit
wood, whose let not your heart be
trouhled'' struck soothingly the deep
est note of mortal woe, and whose
what God has joined" set vibrating
the most sublime chords of human
joy, were appraised by society at six
hundred dollars year, and he got
that much-Some years.
So when the Rev. Mr.. Chitwood died
he left a mortgage on the little home
in a Jersey town, twenty-eight dollars
in back salary, a determined widow
and Little Chit
at is the only thing I can do well
and L had rather it would be here
than elsewhere
Indeed Mrs. Chitwood, 1 have new
er forgotten those pies and that cake
you made for the church supper and
[ remember my promise perfectly" 1t
was the steward who spoke. He had
once been a member of the Rev.
Chitwoods congregation. So Mary
Chitwood became pastry COOK at big
beach front motel, and because schoo!
was out and because Mary Chitwood
wanted him near, Little Chit became
bellboy extra ordinary out in front.
Here the small, active little figure.
the rakish way he wore his cap atop
of his sunny hair, his pink cheeks and
that cherub like smile of his, soon
made Little Chit an institution
whats all the excitement, sonny?"
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sistent crouch, paused. slipped hand
full of "coppers" into the lads snug
coat pocket and patted little Chit on
the head.
"Oh, haven't you heard, colonel?
The Money Princess is coming today"
"Huh-that child in Chicago that
there has been SO much in the papers
about?"
Yes, sir the real Money Princess
and she is coming to our hotel today" :"
Tell us about it. dear" prim old
Miss Harvey. who spent the year round
in the hotel and who had seriously
wanted to adopt her pink-faced
chair.
Strange, indeed, how the hotel was
agog. EX-president and Italian princes
had come with less eclat. In one day
the register had contained the auto
graphs of Rudyard Kip1ing, Lii Hung
w
yet there had scarce been a ripple
thru the great lobby. But now
You see she is the richest little
girl in the whole world. But she
hasn't any mother nor father, nor
even aunts or cousins" explained Lit
coming on a private train with a lot
of people who look after her and they
have fixed PIP almost a whole third
floor for them
The honking of automobile horns.
floor, the forward rush of bellboys
and porters; they arrived. The
Money Princess herself was almost
lost in the hubbub. Came her gov
erness, came her nurse, came her
music teacher, came her maid, came
her housekeeper. came the eminent
DR.. Louise Craig-Lackland, the child
hygienist, came others and the ser
ants of others.
Little Chit picked up a small black
bag, trimmed in gold. He touched
his cap and smiled. The Money Prin-
cess smiled back.
When they reached their floor
again the hubbub of inspecting many
rooms. DR.. Louise Craig-Lackland
knew that the scientific principles of
got out an instrument with a fan
wheel and dial. And of all things!
The music teachers room was done in
salmon and lavender, the housekeeper
had ordered roSeS-there were sweet
peas in all the vases, the rooms faced
the east, the morning sun would an
noy-to be sure the ocean was incon-
veniently in that direction, too-could
they make their apartments do?
Again Little Chit touched his cap
and smiled at the small girl standing
in the midst of all this commotion
and looking mr.
and very much like any other little
girl of twelve might look who had
long yellow curls and red lips and
pink cheeks and blue eyes.
Again the Money Princess smiled
back and opened a little gold mesh
purse that hung from her graceful
young arm.
Not from you, princess.
The Money Princess closed the bag.
You know" said she, Il like you, lit
tie boy, very much
And I like you, too, princess
1t was a\week later and Little Chit
had just delivered ice water. Quite
suddenly but softly the door opened
and the Money Princess slipped into
the hall. She put her fingers over
her lips.
Listen, Little Chit she whispered.
II am running away from them"
Little Chit stood transfixed.
did you ever she continued.
have to eat food that had been all
weighed out for you, and have to
learn French verbs for an hour each
day and practice old finger exercises
every afternoon, and have that old
DR.. Louise Craig-Lackland snooping
around with watch in her hand ev-
cry time you went in bathing, and
some one always warning you against
playing with other children on the
beach?"
Little Chit admitted that his life had
not so far been complicated by any
of these things
We'll, I hate all of them, so 1 am
running away. and you shall go with
me, Little Chit
Lock that door, don't let another
soul in here"
But. sir, he says they are from the
Philadelphia detective agency and
they have just come over on a special
train"