Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1934-11-09

and move or one Hundred and Eighty
first street just because a few gray
headed school-tearhers happen tc
think there's comet coming. then
they're crazy. y
TITS the end, that's what 1t Is; ane
for one am glad to see 1t. When the
sea starts to rise and the earth starts
to split open. I'm going to stand there
and laugh. I'm going to say: Now
what's the good Of the farm relief
Now who's going to collect my Income
taxi Now what does II matter whether
we have prohibition or mott Good
by, world That's what I'm going to
say, Good by Good rlddanceP hope
1t wipes the whole d--n' thing as clean
as a billiard ball. :"
Don't hold my hand so tight, Dad
dy. You hurt me. :"
ats ridiculous. They've been fight
ing about their fool figures for genera
tons. They can't even tell whether it's
goirg to rain or not tomorrow. How in
the HI can they say this Is going to
happenl Give a scientist one Idea, and
a lot Of trick figures, and he goes hay
wire, that's all. /. :"
II drew 1t all out and bought gold.
got two revolyers. filled the house
with canned goods. said: Here you
are. Sarah. You've been telling me all
your life how well you can run things.
Take the money. Take the house. Take
these two guns. I'm leaving. II we've
only got a couple Of months left, I'm
going to see TO 1t that have little
fun anyway That's what | said to
herl and, by Cd, here | am. :"
Tony shook his head. He rode
through a long dark tunnel and then
out to the station at One Hundred
and Twenty-nfth street. The train
moved past the final outpost tenements
into a verdant landscape with the
river on one side-the Hudson, in
which tides soon would rise to sweep
high and far over the Palisades. Tony
glanced back. once. toward the TEEN
ing city. The first food would not top
those tallest towers etched there; the
plnnacles Of mans triumphs would. for
a while. rise above the tides; but all
the rest1 Tony turned away and
looked out at the river, trying not to
think of it.
Settled In chair. Tony glanced
around the comfortable furnishings Of
the students room and then gazed at
the student himself. lanky youth
with red hair, good-humoreti blue eyes
and sprinkling of freckles that car
ried into his attained maturity more
than memory of the childhood he
had so recently LEFT.
YES" Tony repeated, I'm from
Cole Hendron. The dean told me about
your academic work. Professor Gates
showed me the thesis on Light which
you turned in for your Phi. D. He said
it was the finest thing he had had
from the graduate school since he'd
held the chair of rhyslcs."
Dull red came In the young mans
face. Nothing much. Just happened
to have an idea. Probably never get
another in my life
Tony smiled. 81 understand you were
stroke in the varsity crew two years
ago. That's the year you were row.
ing everybody out Of the water, Isn't
itT
There weren't any good crews that
year. We just happened to have the
least bad ones"
Tony looked at the youths hands,
nervously clenching and unclenching.
They were powerful hands, which
nevertheless seemed to possess the
capacity for minute adjustment. Tony
smiled. mo need OF being so modest.
old fellow. It's just as I said. Cole
Hendron In New York is getting to-
gether bunch Of people for some
work he wants done during the next
few months. It's work of very prl.
vate nature. can't tell you what.
can't even assure you that he will &C.
cept you. but I'm touring around In
the attempt to send him some likely
people. You understand that I'm not
offering you a Job in the sense Jobs
have been offered In the past. | don't
know that any salary Is attached to II
at all. You will be supplied with a
place to live, and provided with food.
II you accept"
The tall youth grinned. II suppose
you know that offering a chance to
associate with Cole Hendron, to man
like me, is just ike offering the job
Of secretary to St. Peter. to a bishop"
"M-m-m. By the way. why did son
stay here at the university when MOI
Of the graduate students have leftf"
mo particular reason. I didn't have
anything better to do. The university
is on high ground, so II didn't seem
sensible to move for that reason, and
thought might as well 60 on with
my work"
Il see," Tony replied.
His companion hesitated to say
what was obviously on his mind, but
finally broke the short silence. Look
here, Mr.-Mt.-"
Drake. Tony Drake"
"Mr. Drake. can't understand
why on earth Hendron would want
me. If he's planning to take d group
of people to some safe spot in order to
preserve scientific knowledge during
the next year, he can find hundreds Of
people, thousands Of people, that have
more knowledge to save. and better
memory to save It in, than have"
Tony looked at the good-humored
blue eyes and liked the young man.
He felt instlnctively that here was
one person whom Cole Hendron ana
the committee would surely accept.
The name Of the man before him, he