Q: CHAPTER XXVII

A LEMON

That bulwark of _Peaceful Moments_, Pugsy Maloney, was rather the man of action than the man of tact. Otherwise, when, a moment later, he thrust his head up through the trap, he would have withdrawn delicately, and not split the silence with a raucous "Hey!" which acted on John and Betty like an electric shock.

John glowered at him. Betty was pink, but composed. Pugsy climbed leisurely on to the roof, and surveyed the group.

"Why, hello!" he said, as he saw Betty more closely.

"Well, Pugsy," said Betty. "How are you?"

John turned in surprise.

"Do you know Pugsy?"

Betty looked at him, puzzled.

"Why, of course I do."

"Sure," said Pugsy. "Miss Brown was stenographer on de poiper till she beat it."

"Miss Brown!"

There was utter bewilderment in John's face.

"I changed my name when I went to _Peaceful Moments_."

"Then are you--did you--?"

"Yes, I wrote those articles. That's how I happen to be here now. I come down every day and help look after the babies. Poor little souls, there seems to be nobody else here who has time to do it. It's dreadful. Some of them--you wouldn't believe--I don't think they could ever have had a real bath in their lives."

"Baths is foolishness," commented Master Maloney austerely, eying the scoured infants with a touch of disfavor.

John was reminded of a second mystery that needed solution.

"How on earth did you get up here, Pugsy?" he asked. "How did you get past Sam?"

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Surprised
5. Miss Brown
6. Yes
7. When she went to Peaceful Moments
8. Stenographer
9. On de poiper (paper)
10. Articles
11. To help look after the babies.
12. Yes
13. there's nobody else here who had time to look after them
14. A real bath
15. They are foolishness
16. No
17. Sam
18. No
19. John

Numbered questions:
1. Was Pugsy obnoxious?
2. Did he scare Betty?
3. Did they know each other?
4. How did John feel about this?
5. What name did Pugsy know her as?
6. Did John?
7. When did she change her name?
8. What did she do for a living?
9. On what?
10. What did she write?
11. Why did she come down every day?
12. Did she feel bad for them?
13. Why?
14. What did she feel some have never had?
15. What did MAster Maloney think of baths?
16. Did he like the babies?
17. Who did Pugsy get past?
18. Was that perceived as an easy task?
19. According to who?

Q: CHAPTER XLII

LOVE REMAINS

Wrayson rode slowly up the great avenue, and paused at the bend to see for the first time at close quarters the house, which from the valley below had seemed little more than a speck of white set in a deep bower of green. Seen at close quarters its size amazed him. With its cluster of outbuildings, it occupied nearly the whole of the plateau, which was like a jutting tableland out from the side of the mountain. It was of two stories only, and encircled with a great veranda supported by embowered pillars. Free at last from the densely growing trees, Wrayson, for the first time during his long climb, caught an uninterrupted view of the magnificent panorama below. A land of hills, of black forests and shining rivers; a land uncultivated but rich in promise, magnificent in its primitivism. It was a wonderful dwelling this, of which the owner, springing down from the veranda, was now on his way to meet his guest.

The two men shook hands with unaffected heartiness. Duncan Fitzmaurice, in his white linen riding clothes, seemed taller than ever, a little gaunt and thin, too, from a recent attack of fever. There was no doubt about the pleasure with which he received his guest.

"Where is Louise?" he asked, looking behind down the valley.

"Coming up in the wagons," Wrayson answered. "She has been riding all day and was tired."

A Kaffir boy came out with a tray and glasses. Wrayson helped himself to a whisky and soda, and lit a cigar.

1. his guest
2. Wrayson
3. Duncan Fitzmaurice
4. The two men shook hands
5. yes
6. yes
7. tall
8. no
9. on a hill
10. big
11. two stories
12. no
13. A land of hills
14. yes
15. rivers
16. sparkly
17. the owner
18. whisky
19. soda
20. A Kaffir boy

Numbered questions:
1. Who was being greeted?
2. What was his name?
3. And the man doing the greeting?
4. How did they greet?
5. Was it exuberant?
6. Had the greeter been recently ill?
7. What was his stature?
8. And fat?
9. Was his home on a hill or in between hills?
10. Big or small?
11. How tall was it?
12. Is there a desert all around?
13. What then?
14. Any bodies of water?
15. Such as?
16. bland or sparkly?
17. Who hadn't gotten there yet?
18. What did they have to drink?
19. And?
20. Who brought it?

Q: "Everything happens for the best,"my mother said whenever I faced disappointment ."If you carry on,one day something good will happen." Mother was right,as I discovered after graduating from college in 1932,I had decided to try for a job in radio,then work my way up to a sports announcer.I hitchhiked to Chicago and knocked on the door of every station and got _ every time.In one studio,a kind lady told me that big stations couldn't risk hiring an inexperienced person."Go out in the sticks and find a small station that'll give you a chance,"she said.I thumbed home to Dixon,Illinois. While there were no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon,my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a local sportsman to manage its sports department .Since Dixon was where I had played high school football,I applied.The job sounded just right for me.But I wasn't hired.My mother noticed my disappointment."Everything happens for the best."Mom reminded me.Dad offered me the car to hunt a job.I tried WOC Radio in Davenport,Iowa.The program director, a wonderful Scotsman named Peter Mac Arthur told me they had already hired an announcer. As I left his office,I asked aloud,"How can a guy get to be a sports announcer if he can't get a job in a radio station?"I was waiting for the lift when I heard Mac Arthur calling,"What did you mean about sports? Do you know anything about football?'' Then he stood me before a microphone and asked me to cover an imaginary game.Last autumn,my team had won a game in the last 20 seconds with a 65-yard run.I did a 15-minute build-up to that play, and Peter told me I would cover Saturday's game! On my way home,I thought of my mother's words:"If you carry on,one day something good will happen." I often wonder what direction my life might have taken if I had gotten the job at Montgomery Ward.

1. "Everything happens for the best,"
2. Chicago
3. try for a job
4. no
5. yes
6. he was inexperienced
7. a small station
8. Dixon
9. yes
10. thumbed (hitchhiked)11. yes
12. Montgomery Ward
13. no
14. WOC Radio
15. no
16. they had already hired an announcer
17. cover an imaginary game
18. yes
19. cover Saturday's game
20. no

Numbered questions:
1. What were the mother's words of wisdom?
2. Where did he hitchhike?
3. Why?
4. Did he get one?
5. Did he try several places?
6. Why did the kind lady think this might be the case?
7. Where did she tell him to go?
8. Where was his hometown?
9. Did he go back there?
10. How?
11. Was his father supportive?
12. Where did he suggest?
13. Did he land that position?
14. Where did he interview in Iowa?
15. Did he get that job?
16. Why not?
17. What did Mac Arthur ask him to do?
18. Was he rewarded with an opportunity?
19. to do what?
20. Did he regret not taking the job at Montgomery Ward?