The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-16
BY Upton Sinclair

Ready set~ she called sharply-and then to his great
surprise pulled little revolver from under her jacket
it into the air. 1t was to be a real race
He started at the rate of twenty miles hour little
did not know long last, presently
settled down long distance gait He again and
willing investigate being sky and
couds white and the and the sand sparkling cold
truly the girl had said, the morning of the world!
They came to place where wagon-racks came down to
the beach, and there fshermen boats and three had
just showed out through the breakers They rested their
this amazing spectacle entirely youth
running the beach with Their
sway Italian Portuguese faces broad grns with white
teeth showing They knew about the Monastery and this was
the latest freak of the idle rich!
But then place where the highway to the
canvas to protect them from the There people
foreigners but ranchmen from the interior having brought their
families to spend Sunday from the baking heat They
would they the customs ancient Greeks;
they were sober chrcbgong peope the sort who formed the
Ku ux Khan punished by tar
Bunny and he said to himself that it was up to her Did She
really want to be pagan and take the consequences?
He ran on and The tents came near and he
away turning their heads but glazing
What would they do? Seize the wrap
perorce in blanket and deliver him to the poice Bunny
quick mind eaped the outcome sreamerhead
front page of the "Angel City Evening Howler'-
STAR RACES NUDE OIL RED!
Then suddenly he heard voice behind him: Il give up
they went faster than they had and both
shaking with laughter in the morning of the world!
either trousers or shirts and
the of getting into these didn't lend itself
down the beach while Bunny dressed and when he roned her
she longer Greek but American young lady upon
dignity and would have been bad referred
crazy prank
She leading the horse, with the bride its head
and Bunny walked by her side Dd you notice that night
mare? she said they the thywo Loreleis their
graveclothes. THAT of the dreams of old Hank
Thatcher You've heard of Happy Hank the California Grape
king?"
$50 that's his place" exclaimed Bunny,
e dreamed of orgies and kept half dozen harems his
wife refused him divorce punish him. and when died she
covered up his dream a kind of public penance.
Nobody seems to see it but the seals
Oh the papers full of it; they would pass up
about the Thatchers They send reporter
in while One time they had of stoythe reporter
had suit of chain mail under his trousers
had him in vain!"
'She sets dogs on them?"
"Thats why nobody dares go up there peek at
statues"
Good Lord" exclaimed Bunny "Ipeeked
of them"
'We you were lucky. That's why carried revolver
along they sometimes onto the beach, and the negbors
make them"
'Why doesn't she put up fence?"
"Shes in dispute with the county. She claims the
beach, and and then she puts barrier it, and
the county sends at night to tear it down They've been
fighting out for the past ten Also the state is trying
put highway through the rac-it would miles
of the routebut she has spent fortune fighting them
she lives in that castle like beeaguered princess the old
dasa the shades drawn and she steals about from
with in her hand looking for burglars and spies
Ask Harve about it-he knows her"
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