Evening star., 1939-01-03

lordsh1p had thought better of it.
Or worse of it 81.
"You can take your cameras all
over the Purple House now, and I
think you will realize what we were
up against. You'll find some queer
things. It's yielding up its secrets.
But see for yourselves ;"
Party to Go Ahead.
"And now," said Rud, "the really
| significant news. The Popular So
cialist party will go ahead. It has
rescued itself. It is free. It is re-
juvenescent. And 1t Is q natural
and necessary party. It has the
vitality of reality. The main points.
Listen! What does 1t stand for?
Let me give you our main points ex-
actly over again. How else could
it have survived Bohun? No. I'm
not bit tagged. These bandages
make talking bit painful, but
that's all They'll be sitter tomor-
row. told you how I got this slog
on the jaw. Otherwise I should
have carried on. But Rogers did
that marvelously. Let me talk about
the party and its future. That's
what I want to talk about. The
scrap won't make half as good a
story unless you put it against its
proper background. I'd better get
it over now. Not bit fatigued. Go
on writing. III take on all you
newspaper men, one down, another
come up.
Don't think.I am leader. Don't
think I'm setting up to be another
Lord Horny. I'm no leader :. I'm
just the megaphone of common
sense. Get that-the megaphone of
common sense. But listen to COM
mon sense. What are we going to
do next? I'll tell you
And so fourth and so on.
Clarified Facts.
It was the news of this explosive
emergence of Rud that the old doc
tor read in his garden. The par
ticulars were not very accurately
given, they had been given by Rud,
and the triumph Of Rud had be-
come much more effective and COM
plete in the telling. And more por-
tentous In his own admirable
phrase he had Clarified the facts"
His experiences in number II were
entirely omitted from the story, be-
cause evidently the reporter had
learnt nothing about them. And
there was no doubt whatever of the
aggressive intentions of the re-
nascent Popular Socialist party. 1t
meant to "moderniZe and remake
the world" no less, under the rule
Of common sense" as interpreted by
Rud. Modern common sense; he
had apparently said it three times.
And first of all he-Rud Whitlow
II you please-meant to challenge
the country on the American issue
"And so exit Bohun," reflected old
DR.. Carstall. II guess this ends him.
He had been a safety valve. He
had put a foolish face in front of
all that snobbish. middle-class riff
raf1 OF his. He had wasted money
that might have worked mischief
Reeks Of Social Malice.
This young Whitlow will be DIFF
ferent. He's ugly as an octopus, but
he's not ridiculous. There's a te-
nacity about him. And malice. He
reeks, Dick said, of social malice. In
these days he may get almost any,
where. He may get lot of power.
What will he do with it?
That fellow-I brought him into
the world-and he was trouble
even then. Twenty-Five hours of it
she had with him, and not worth
one. Nowadays suppose it would
be Caesarian-and over in an hour.
Progress goes on-even when it's
case Of bringing monsters into the
worldD He's nasty little creature
essentially nasty little creature.
Intelligent perhaps -.
Some of the stuff he has been
telling the interviewers has a kind
of plausibility :.
mo doubt our government has
been making mess of this Amer
ican business. No doubt this idea
OF our governing class getting in
| touch with some imaginary govern
ing class over there is all wrong
and we're getting ourselves up
against an angry real democracy
Maybe he has a sort Of right
ness.
"The last. thing one will consent
to do is to realize that any one
else is more intelligent than one
self. Maybe I'm wrong. That little
beast may be more intelligent than
I suppose. Like some of those cal
culating boys or musical prodigies.
A political quick-thinker -" .
Mr.. Whitlow Senior Is Gloomy. :
I'm not going to the Bell to-
night" Mr.. Whitlow senior an
nounced.
But my dear!-what will you
do at homer"
There's the radio. And Patience.
But at the Bell! -.
"The things I get said to me!
Unfriendly things. You'd hardly
imagine. It takes away all the
pleasure of going out. No relax
alton 1t isn't. No distraction.
Always harping on Rud, they are.
What's Rud going to do next?
Where does Rud get his money
from? I don't know what to tell
'em. He's got into politics, say,
and that's the truth Of, it. AS for
what he's going to do about it-don't
ask me. I always said letting him
70 to Camford was a mistake"
II expect he's been led into it,"
said Mrs. Whitlow.
Led! I never remember Rud
being led by any one" said Mr..
Whitlow. "It's just his own damned
headstrong ungovernable temper. I
spared the rod on that boy-all that
stuff about repressions of yours.
And here we are!"
"He might have been worse with
repressions," said Mrs. Whitlow.
"And he might not. Is there
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