The Washington times., 1921-04-01
The Hundred Dollar Question
SYNOPSIS:

Edith Livingston. q demobilized war
worker, making her home In Washing
ton with Grace and Bob Ellsworth. a
ss secretary to Eustibo Alvarez. a Mexi-
can oil stock promoter, in disgy little
office on q side street In the National
Capital.
He pays her much attention, gives her
a $500 gold note. after she has discov-
cred him and J.ps snese studying a map.
and takes her to lunch.
She discovers her sweetheart, willard
Saunders, dining with a Spanish girl.
she is Jealous of the Spanish girl and
Edith becomes suspicious as to what Is
going on in the office. She is satisfied
that no oil stock is being sold. but she
ployers real business is
Her employer, after paying her many
compliments and swearing her to the ut
most secrecy to what transpires in the
office. expresses a desire to be introduced
to her sweetheart. which amazes her.
willard swears to Edith that he is not
in love with the spanish girl and that
there 10 no cause for jealousy. He tells
Edith her employer will bear watching
and asks her to spy on Alvares. She re-
through her employers desk she inds a
picture OF the same spanish girl with
whom she saw her sweetheart dining.
Later she L. further surprised by a re-
quest from her sweetheart that she in
troduce him to her employer. BY means
of q piece of carbon paper which she Sc
gets q copy of a cryptic telegram her
employer sent to some one in Mexico
When she telephones her sweetheart
willard knows more about 1t than she
can tell him.
Alvarez takes Edith to a Maryland
her into taking q drink with him. will
lard finally tells her that Alvarez Is an
intsrnaticnal % crook a short time later
tiemen from the Southwest. breezes in
with a gun in search of Alvarez. He
tells Edith that Alvarez swindIed him
Edith Introduces Texas Tiger to Will
lard and the visitor joins their excur-
sion to MI; Vernon: the home and tomb
But the Potomac! A Robert
Louis Stevenson might paint 1t
with words; or a Rembrandt with
the brush. But / would not know
where to begin.
In his own crude way, Texas
Tiger"-Willard's cowboy friend
perhaps paid to the Potomac as
pretty a tribute as ever has been
offered there.
"Tain't such a much of a boat
he said-we were on THE Charles
McAllister"-"but it's some river!"
We were out beyond Alexandria
out where the river broadens until
1t seems more like a big gulf than
a river. The tip Of ''The Obelisk"
sometime since had faded from
view. For some reason, 1 felt
very close to God as we leaned
against the deck rail of that old
comfortable river-going boat and
looked out over the broad expanse
OF water at the beautifully blurred
green spotches on either side. 1t
was very quiet there.
You know" the cowboy waved
his big red hand toward the river
as 1t trailed peacefully behind us. II
amt never seen nothin' as pretty
Sort o. gives a fellow a chokin' feel
in in his throat" He ran his hand
around his collar, and there was
trace OF tears in his voice. 81 amt
felt 80 somber-like since ! used to
kneel at my mothers side and say
my Now lay me- 1t kinder makes
a fellow think of his mother-this
river. SO quiet, and forbearing.
And-and yes, I'm sure IL must be
forgivin' or II wouldn't tolerate
havin' al, these old boats plowing
up and down disturbing its slumber
and maxim a vain attempt to mar
its beauty.
TRIP TO MT. VERNON.
"Do you know" he turned toward
me, and his ,face-ordinarily unbe-
lievably worldly-was as soft OF ex-
preston as a child's, "I believe
fellow could lay down in this river
and drown. happy. croonin' Sing Me
TO Sleep'-and feelin' that she'd do
it-just like his mother used to-"
Personally. 1 can't imagine my
salf down and drowning happy In
the Potomac or anywhere else. But
I did think II was a wonderful
way to describe IT, And IL gave
me new insight into the person
ality OF the big. gruh man who had
entered my office so unceremon-
iously only a day or two before,