The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-15

4. a NEW
y NOVEL
Gao. en.l.ir
10
Copyright, 1926, by Upton sinclaAr.)

So then Wee went up into the air.
This fellow had been worming Sc.
crets out of Bunny! And when
Bunny stated firmly that he had
never mentioned the matter to Dan
or to any other of his radical
friends, Wee cried, "Oh, my God!
My Godl You poor, naive, trusting
SOUL" She went on like that, 1t
was proof positive Of the cunning
of these dangerous reds, that they
should be able to keep him in ignor-
ance while they used him for an oil
we'll, and pumped him dry! In
Wees view Of the matter, 1t now be-
came the utmost urgency that Anna
belle and Verne should not find out
that Bunny knew this rascal jour
nalist and had actually helped to
support him. If they found out, 1t
woud be all over with their friend
ship, they would be sure they had
been basely betrayed or at least
that Bunny was such a scatter-brain
that 1t was unsafe to have him
about. Wee wanted to be loyal and
romantic and melodramatic, just
like one of her Communities" And
Bunny was bored, and told her that
Dad had probably told Verne all
about the matter at the time that
he, Bunny, had told his father.
So the young oil prince did not
ask the "naturalborn aristocrat" to
marry him. No, he went of and
was wretchedly unhappy; because
he ached for Wee whenever he was
away from her and yet they seemed
to be always having violent emo
tional crises and having to make it
up with tears. There was no way
for him to avoid trouble, except 70
give up the radical movement; and
it was a fact that intellectually
nothing else appealed to him. He
wanted to see Paul, and argue with
him and present a score of new
objections to the Workers Party!
He wanted to take Rachel to meet
Paul and Ruth, and hear the argu-
ments that would fly fast and furi-
GUS, when Rachel set forth her opin-
ion Of the left wing insanity. He
wanted to go to the meetings Of
the "Ypsels," the Young Peoples
Socialist League, of which Rachel
had recently taken on the duties
of secretary-here was real educar
ton, young folks who actually want
ed to use their minds, and took
ideas with the seriousness that 9TH
er students reserved for football
and fraternity politics.
".
OF all the people Bunny knew, It
appeared just now that only one
was perfectly successful and com
pletely happy, and that was Hli
Watkins, prophet of the Third Re-
velation. For the Lord had carried
out to the letter the promise re-
vealed to the runners of the Bible
Marathon, a great banker had Sc
cretly provided the money for
the great new tabernacle. Now the
structure was completed, and was
opened amid such glory to the Lord
as had never been witnessed in
this part Of the world.
Southern California is populated
for the most part by retired farm
ers from the middle west, who have
come out to die amid sunshine and
flowers. OF course, they want to
die happy, and with the assurance
of sunshine and flowers beyond; so
Angel City is the home of more
wierd cults and doctrines-you
couldn't form any conception of It
till you came to investigate. To
run your eye over the pages of per-
formances advertised in the Sun
day newspapers would cause you to
burst into laughter or tears, accord
ing to your temperament. Where
ever three or more were gathered
together in the name of Jesus or
Buddha or Zoroaster, of Truth or
Light or Love, of New Thought or
Spiritualism or Psychic Science
there was the beginning of new re-
violation, with mystical, inner states
of bliss and esoteric ways of saliva
ton.
Eli had advantages over most Of
these spiritual founders. In the first
place, he had been real shepherd
of flocks and herds, and there are
age-old traditions attaching to this
profession. Also it was symbolically
useful; what Eli had done to the
goats he was now doing to the hu.
man goats of Angel City, gathering
them into the fold and guarding
them from the cruel wolf, Satan.
He had taken to carrying a shep-
herds crock on the platform, and
with his white robes and the star
shining in his yellow hair, he would
call the flocks, just as he had done
upon the hills, and when he passed
the collection plate, they would Dc
the shearing off themselves.
Continued tomorrow.)