Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-22
Hugo moved to the window, looked

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Great Scottr he exclaimed.
He gaped down at the group below.
Mr.. Carmody and colleagues had now
discarded the skipping ropes and were
performing some unpleasant looking
bending and stretching exercises, hold
ing their hands above their heads and
swinging painfully from what one may
loosely term their waists. 1t was
spectacle calculated to astonish any
nephew.
How long has he got to go on like
that?" asked Hugo, awed
DR.. Twist looked at his watch.
They'll be quitting soon now. Then
cold shower and rundown, and they'll
be through till lunch"
Gold shower"
Lester take cold shower baths"
That's right"
A look of respect came into Hugo's
face as he gazed upon this master of
men. Anybody who, in addition to
making him tie himself in knots under
q blazing sun. could lure Uncle Lester
within 10 yards of a cold shower bath
was entitled to credit.
II suppose. after all this" he said,
they do themselves pretty we'll at
lunch?"
"Thcy have lean mutton chop a
piece. with green vegetables and dry
toast
rs that all?"
That's ALL
And to drink"
".Just water
Followed, Of course, by spot OF
port7'
mo, sir"
mo porte"
You mean-literalls-no port?"
mot a drop. If your old man had
gone easier on the port. he'd not have
needed to come to Healthward Ho."
IT saw" said Hugo, did you invent
that name?"
Sure. Why"
"oh, I don't know. just thought I'd
ask"
Say. while I think of it." said DR..
Twist. have you any cigarettes?"
"Oh. rather" Hugo produced a bulg-
ing case. Turkish this side, Virginian
that"
net for me. ! vas only going to say
that, when YOU meet your uncle, just
bear in mind he isn't allowed tobacco.
Not allowed >: You mean to say
YOU ii. Uncle Lester into lovers knot,
shoot him under cold shower. push a
lean chop into him accompanied by wa
ter, and then don't even let the poor
old chap get his lips around single
gasper?"
That's right"
well, all 1 can say is" said Hugo,
cts no life for a refined Caucasian"
Dazed by the information he had re-
ceived, he began to potter aimlessly
about the room He was not particu-
larly fond of his uncle. Mr.. Carmodys
practice of giving him no allowance and
keeping him imprisoned all the year
round at Rudge would alone have been
enough to check anything in the nature
Of tenderness. but he did not think he
deserved quite all that seemed to be
coming to him at Healthward Ho.
He unused upon his uncle A complex
matter. A man with Lester Carmodys
loathing for expenditure ought by rights
to have been a simple liver, existing on
hot milk and triturated sawdust, like
an American millionaire. That Fate
should have given him, together with
his prudence In money matters, reck-
leSsnesS as regarded the pleasures OF the
table seemed ironic.
II see they've quit" said DR.. Twist.
with glance out of the window. IT
you want to have a word with your
uncle, you could do 1t now. No Bad
news. I hope?"
IF there is. I'm the one that's going
to get it, Between you and me-" said
Hugo, I've come to try to touch him
for a bit of money"
"Is that so?" said DR.. Twist, inter-
ested. Anything to do with money al
ways interested the well known Amer
lean physician and physical culture ex-
pert.
YES" said Hugo. Five hundred
guild. to be exact"
He spoke little deSpondently, for,
having arrived at the window again, he
was in position now to take good
look at his uncle. And so forbidding
had bodily toll and mental disturbance
rendered the latter'S expression that he
found the fresh young hopes with which
he had started out on this expedition
rapidly ebbing away. If Mr.. Carmody
were to husband he looked as If he
might do so at any moment-he,
Hugo, being his nearest of kin,
being his nearest Of kin, would inherit.