Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1919-08-21

list who lived for others. That's why
he was in America. Himself. be
would so many thousand times prefer
to stay In his own beautiful, dreamy
Syria, amid the olive trees and orange
blossoms, than TO go forth among so
many, many strangers. But his peo-
ple-ah, the poor, poor peoplel
Such a long time oppressed by the
wicked Turks. For them he had come
to America. They had no schools. He
had come to beg money from the rich,
generous Americans for a 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
bring in other thousands shortly.
She was actually on the point Of
signing a check for four Of 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
| Iaes,O 10 ,a.I-o H.-no DiDha~o AAVo
Cody. He jeered at her literary aspi-
rations and her Wanted 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 vas shak-
Ing hands with Gwen still-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 sand
Ras were going to do for the Beirut
infants. When she turned to beam on
Ras she was amazed to find him, all
atremble, staring at Sam as If at 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 1t 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 licorice 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 q wax
impression of the key to his petty cash
drawer he kicked him into the r0usato
learn subsequently that as an all
around larcenist Ras was Caiffa's only
rival to his own father, who, 1t was
known, had robbed the poor box at the
missionaries chapel on the day Of his
own conversion"
"Listen, Gwen" said Sam, after Ras
had scurried away. you're about as
fit to buck against the snides and
grafters and four-iushers as you were
when you were two-and-a-half. / like
you that way. l don't want you to
get too blamed cynical. You will, II
you stay here and meet a little million
more of Rases. Tell you something. /
went to see that Simms person-your
publlsher-and I made him admit that
he wouldn't publish your book on his
own hook in a million years; is only
taking it for his percentage on what 1t
costs you. You're coming out to In
dianapolis with me and be Mrs. Sam
Cody. Sam, he'll be the business agent
between you and the world-seep
And Gwen saw-at last. So she
went.