The Glenwood post., 1924-05-29
SYNOPSIS

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CHAPTER I-wells twho was born
scenes. in Aoohi's house. Aochi, almost
siEhtless from age. does not psrssiye
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but Wells department leads him to
think q reformation is possible. Aoohi
aos. as: has and Pf.s ss.maa
him of q bargain he has made, to buy
q girl.
CHAPTER I1I.-wells purchases the
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blood. She tells him she 10 whtts-"ali
white"-and bsgs him to spare hsc.
CHAPTER v
James Sanderson was pleased with
the lads build and clear eyes. The
big house on Mob hill was pleased with
him likewise. While he was unim-
pressed with the grandeur, taking 1t
az matter Of course, yet he had a
smile for every one without being IA
miliar. 1t was not to be doubted that
he had manner, as If he were the
masters son, let alone the child of
the masters sister and penny
scrunchin' missionary.
When James Sanderson had arrived
at that place which permitted him to
build house of his own, 1t was of a
piece with its neighbors, a wonderful
example OF ornamentation. The por-
tico was corinthian-colum There
were pinnacles and many-angled roofs,
all wood painted gray. Wherever a
space permitted, the whole was iced
with carved wood, acanthi and fat
Rubens-like babies all sprawling to-
gether.
1t was with twinge, after the fire
and earthquake had swept away his
house with all of the Others that San
derson admitted that a change would
be necessary. This he agreed to, as
far as the exterior of the house was
concerned. There was now nothing
but severe lines, and even his plea for
q Doric column was overwhelmed by
the architect.
Hc was, however, positive about two
things. He would have none Of your
low ceilings. He wanted large rooms,
where there was space for a man to
breathe.
The other matter was a view-room.
Formerly, cupola had served this
purpose. The nearest that Sanderson
could come was to insist that upon
the roof be built pill-bo1 Gas the ar
chitect called it) which set at the oppo-
site end from the roofs water tank. It
had many windows and was reached
by spiral staircase which had a land
ing before the door. and then contin-
ued to a trapdoor in the roof From
the windows Of this tower room was a
sheer drop of sixty feet.
Wisely, SandersOn had this room
prepared for Bob. 1t was apart from
the house. "No sense kespin' the lad
in a boarding school. A fellow wants
little privacy. A place to bring his
friends where we grownups won't dis
turb them, nor hear them"
The room pleased Bob immensely.
Sanderson had fitted 1t up, az he said,
to give the lonely boy a homelike
place. Actually, he had adorned the
room as he would have liked his own
roop, 1x,ho, ha Jod
Floor space, nothing to speak of;
walls covered with the sort of hunt
ing prints that Sanderson had always
admired; four chairs. all bought sec
ond-hand, SO as to be "homelike, and
not stiff;;" a rack of books, filled with
some Of his uncle's own. A broad
double bed, curtained from the room
(Sanderson had slept upon grain
sacks when he first came around the
Hornj; table with a'humidor, lest
Bob take to cigarettes (which he early
did).
His first days in the streets startled
him. It was strange to walk through
the crowds Of hurrying people and see
no face that he knew. once or twice
he had greeted Japanese, only to be
rewarded with q blank stare, or q su-
psrcilious giggle. After that he was
silent. Yet he could not help but feel
each time he saw brown face disap-
pear In the crowd, an unexpected
poignant loneliness 1t seemed to
him that a fragment Of his familiar
world had vanished. leaving him alone.
He was entirely unaware Of sncour-
aging looks thrown ut him. Bob was,
a. q woman with two tiny bundles re-
marked to her companion, not at all
hard to look at. There was something
commanding about him. Not infre-
qusntly q girl, %. q fras-and-easy
young matron. found time to smile at
him.
sandszsen liked the man-company.
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