Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-12
THE HOUSE or MOHUN
Blu GEORGE GIBBS
Author Of" "Youth md successes
1884, D. Appleton q Co.
Blu GEORGE GIBBS
WHO'S WHO IN THE STORY

uHu UtTOCtC0 OV
DAVID EANGREE, young American
cfhnologist and tcdr reterdn, dfnaseo
by changes In manners and CUSTOMS
brought out by the tcdr, OUT WteL.
csfed in Cherry, Hs n ,nodes' '""''
jim MOHUN, a selt.mode fnancta.
leader. Too busy to think OF wa
children he leaves them to
MRS. MOHUN. .oho has sucoessf"ltv
cultivated the social side OF hte.
BRUCE COWAN, a n,otorcar sales,
msn, OF coce- nsan type, OF tohom
Cherry imagip . she Is eHdmored.
BOB MOHUN, son. is q typtcdlly reck.
iess youngster.
GEORGE LYCETT. elderly chorus,
phtlosophisin0 a. the story develops.
JOHN CHICHESTER, .,chom Mrs.
Mohun tcould Ike to call son. IN. lao.
As THE days went on Cherry noted
"A that he put his disappointment In
her mothers insufficiency behind him.
He gained in strength daily, his jaw to-.
a firmer angle, and his brows were
tangled in thought. There was some-
thing constructive now in his attitude
toward life. His family felt il, though
they could not sec why they should be-
gin 10 hope. But Bob, who treated his
mother rather badly il he happened to
be out of humor, now learned the mean :
ing of his fathers sharp look OF re-
proof or the decision in his quiet tones
They awed him little. for here was a
man who had come back from the dead
in a new guise with which Bob was
unfamiliar. As the sick man gained IN
strength and reached physical condi-
ton which would warrant his taking
up the thread Of affairs, men came to
One Hundred and Eighty. second street,
BY appointment. TO visit him. Leonrey
Towne. the trustee: Henry j: Nc
Cready. vice president Of the COSMOS
Trust Company. representing the IN.
chester interests; George Lycctt wltr
friendly offers of which the SICK man
ayailed himself.
some one has said that, If any one
has something in himself that others
haven't, the world will make beaten
path to his door. No one except con :,
structiye genius could have succeeded
as Jim Mohun had done. True. he had
failed-but not until after he had sue
cceded-und only under prcssr:1 oil aO.
normal conditions. A bad failure, put
an honest one. As the news was carried
down town that Jim Mohun had maze
a brave fight and was pulling through
men remembered him with Kindness,
and wished him well. Other men, his
business associates, with ambitious plans
which needed a directing hand came
seeking him for advice: John Barnett,
a former director Of the unfortunate
Textile Mills Company. with an ldea
of buying plant in the kensington
district of Philadelphia Harvey MAT
thison, OF Pittsburgh, a friend OF earliel
days, who believed that with health
Jim Mohun might still rise again.
These visits were very encouraging
to Cherry, if only because they enabled
her father 10 resume his touch with tne
world. But, much as sh" believed ~
him, it scarcely seemed possible tna'
they could result in any immediate tinan
cisi return 10 add to their slender means
which, as she figured. would be cxhnuste,
before tho beginning of the next winter
And so meanwhile, as she found the
opnortunitv. she went down town look.
ing for work. As she had told Davio
Snngrec. her peace of mind depended,
as it had always done. upon the high
specds N which she moved. And il
was better To be hunting for Il job and
be- refused, than to sit as her mother did
bcmoaning her fate. Sangrec tried 10
help her. enlisting the aid OF George
Iycctt and ono or two of his other
friends and relatives in trying to find
something tht she could de-.
But Cherry was now 10 make the
astonishing discovery that, in spite OF
all the money that had been spent upon
her education. she knew very little
indeed. At her finishing school they
had taught her that ladies always wrote
an angular hand trathcr stylishl. but,
in Cherry ease, little moro than an
illcCible scraNl. Her smattcrins OF
French. hcr smattering Of the piano
werc Of little yAlu" now. Sh" didn
oven know enough /" play at th" movies.
Her English was passublc but instnc-
tive. Her arithmetic had never been
impressive. Any sixtcen-ycar old grad =
uatc Of n business school was better
cauipped than She. Twelve dollars a
week was the best offer that she could
get-as a behind the
counter ut large depaytment store.
Cherry's hopes had scared higher than
this and she realized with dismay how
little fifty dollars Il month would con-
tribute to the common store of money
in the little household. Sh" must do
better than that. much better -
II hundred Lonth at least. But
how? She kept III" secret Of her
disappointmcnts from her father, who
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