Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-12
WHO'S WHO IN TIE STORY
BY BERTA RUCK

WHO'S WHO IN THE STORY
ARCHIE LAvERocK. the .'arrant
rover" who is through with girls"
in his mid-twenues! This mood pre-
thinks. from some brutal villains
LUCY JOY. good-looking. piQuant.
poised. She has won q big prize in
the "prettiest English girl" contest
and Is noted film actress. Archie
ema ruffians.
SEYMOUR. movie man. her admirer.
FRANKIE. Lucy's half-grown IRE
pressible brother, q naval cadet.
THE ADMIRAL, rubicund, choleric old
officer, who dotes on Lucy.
MRS. JOY. gay. charming. almost as
youthful as her daughter Lucy.
MR.. RICE-MATHEWS, ancient inva-
lid. tired CT being eossed by women.
MAUVE. his granddaughter. slim,
the interest Of the Rover but ig-
noreS him.
GENEvIEvE wILMoT. piquant
American widow, whom the Rover
rescues. and whose small boy adores
him.
Another voice, mo room. Can't
stretch ones legs" Another,
Loads of room in our car! Let him
come in with his mother" mo
no" The most determined voice
| of all; q resonant contralto. $50
bad for q by to be forever with his
mother. / can't have him. Send
him on with the luggage.
| Here!"
There was thrust up against
Archie, by the most pricefully
turned out lady of all, a small lost
| looking boy of nine in school cap
and tie. The resonant contralto de-
claimed with hauteur, You take
| him.
You" was young Laverocls. who
realized that to the contralto with
the sables and the glimpse of pearls
| and the watt of Ambre-Antique and
the exquisite shoes he was merely
one of the lower orders-of whose
| feelings she retained not a memory.
| Magnificent forgetteries the recently
rich had! Well. let us present
| paupers emulate that, thought
] Archie amused; Ones own kind have
, had their fling after all. and u jolly
good innings.
He put his heels together and his
hand to his cap in the smartest
| manner of the nineteen fourteen
Tommy that he had been for two
months: he tucked a wistful child
of the recently rich into the front
seat of the car of which HEX
| Captain Laverock of a long, long line
| of old regular captains courageous
was the chauffeur.
The starting-up. Tho throbbing
| of engines.
give her swing. Sir-Some-
| thing or Other. ="
"All aboard"
The slamming Of doors. .
| Several backward calls to young
Laverock of You. fellow. close on
The party was off.
| Archie, driving, shook with soft
laughter He wondered when he
| should cease to be amused that tic
all these people he was to be You;
! a person without name
A policeman, of pre- Revolution
bearing. stopped him in the Finchley
! road to call him. Sir" and request
him to tell his man in front"
rather amusing. 1t didn't occur to
his man" (actually the important
being at the head Of the party) to
send him. Archie, on ahead. He
| chuckled to think of the days when
| he'd had to take out squads and
| working parties. If he had not put
! a corporal to bring up the rear he
might have dropped his men at the
rate of two per hundred yards.
On they drove. 80
Somewhere tucked in among those
expensive dressing cases were
| practically the whole of his worldly
possessions; shabby kitbags, mud
stained Wolseley valse, haversack.
All marked Capt. A. l.. Laverock,"
and the name of his old regiment. A
moor lYtf
Also he had in his note case that
hundred and-eighty pounds. This
job ct would only be for few weeks
anyhow would save that, he thought
again gladly. 1t would keep and
, feed him, give him time to turn
round-and, after that-Hey for
British East, Vancouver, or where
ever 1T might be. A mans life in the
open. If there were no women there
SO much the better.
For-Need 1t at this point be adj
ded that the Rover en- -repos was
now held by the mood when he was
literally, completely and sincerely
indifferent to women?)
Better build dams, clear forests,
organize native labor. In short. any
mans work in a world fuller of work
than 1t ever before had been. .
Here, suddenly, small voice pip
ed up at his side. The little bow
with the school-cap had found
tongue, and in an opposite remark:
Il don't like girls" he said.
Archie turned. What's that, old
man."
Il don't like girls"
You stick to that" said the man n I
the wheel. That's very sound
line"
There's a lot of girls up where
were going in Scotland.
The dickens there are!"
Yes. There are Il lot Of nv
cousins. There's one called Elsie.
who belongs to Aunt Laura. And
Angela. And Maudie. They're all
going to be there. Then there's
Babs. She's big girl, though.
Bigger than me. She's eleven"
That's good age. ct doesn't
last) So she is the biggest, is she ?"
said Archie.
The small boy said. shyly, what
is your name?"
Archie had thoughts of giving II
as "Mr. YOU" But he said. simply.
"Laverock."
'Laverock. Our chauffeur's name
is Smith"
''And what's yours?"
I'm Royds Minor; Freddie, I had
to stay behind at school until I'd
stopped having mumps. I have got
new electric torch" said the bow.
who. was of those who confide, not
of those who question those to
whom they have taken a friendship.
I'll show 1t to you when it's ur-
packed. Laverock."