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_ WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8, 1050 -— THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMBS ._~_=

The Mudlark . . . .

“Synopsis: Wheeler, the Mudiark, a seven-year-old East End

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orphan, had no idea when he slipped ! guards and toll down an open coal chute that he would see Queen and Disraeli in the Queen's dining room, start a near riot the throne. But his dream was soon smashed by the arrival of Mr. Naseby, the Sergeant Footman, and McHaiten, a

grenadier, who are shocked at the horrible sight of the muddy little boy on Victoria’s jeweled throne and Brown drunk and dis-

room, is amused and touched. But Wheeler is seized and taken

Disraeli comes into the throne

hands were chafed, coal was shovelled - into banked Tires, kettles were put to warm: a sickly yellow streaked the gloom to painfully. “The porter at the Tradesmen's Entrance leaned back in his chair and stretched his arms as a kitchenmatd entered his cubicle on her way to the cellars. “ ‘Allo,

castle, the chairman of the guard, } the master of the household and # $230,000 Glen Park postal sta-| the two Scotland Yard men on|tion in Gary, was made in Wash-| uty at the castle. © These notes!ington today, ~~ - Tecited tersely the occurrence at £ sit d prepar-! the dinner table and stated that! Purchase of Mis snd prepet-

{Her Majesty required thorough in-

{blame and Insuring against any such disgraceful invasions of her privacy in the future; and the general added that she awaited

| vestigations with a view to fixing!

ation of plans for the structures was authorized by the last session lof Congress. | Other mew post office installa{tions scheduled in Indiana in-

{clude buildings in Bremen, Albion,

away by the grenadiers. Now go on with the story— CHAPTER ELEVEN = = ~~ _ . “THE TRUTH is,” says Arthur Hodge in his Aspects of the he CE : National Psychology, “that the Wheeler Case was one of those she had run into a wall. “Bur-| THE TWO . ~ Firm to Show Film trifies which for reasons afterwards difficult to understand arouse glar! ‘Eavens, was there a bur aren b policemen were’ The National Malleable & | a clamour out of all proportion to their importance. False rumor, glar?” : : | en by surprise, for the efficient, Steel Castings Co. will sponsor |! we may say, perhaps mere gossip giving rise to alarming reports in “Why, bless yer, there was| Ponsonby had been the first to in-| an automotive brake meeting at an irresponsible press, must be to blame. The most exhaustive great larks abaht this ‘ere bur- form them that anything in their 8:30 p. m, Feb. 19, in the Antlers }f research disposes one to insist me . on} 1 { Hotel. A movie, “This Moving | = ts ns glar. Popped in on 'Er Majesty line had come up. They hurried ” that the Wheeler Case per se was look at him. Wheeler was : i | World,” will be shown following ; at ‘er dinner table, and then to his officé to ascertain where! of no importance whatever, and crouched where they had flung p !

” the Bendix Brake presentation. yet one must add that it Ted to [PIM In a high Gothic chair. He -off_again.* RL

D'isy,” he said. “Did you ’'ear if they nabbed -the burglar?

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Terrace where Elizabeth used to take her constitutional. It was McHatten, He had kept almost five hours in the main Guard

+ Roomy; assisting at the inquis- : (tion of Wheeler not to say being

subjected to one himself. He was

‘|tired but in no state for sleep.

He had been subjected -to something of an ordeal in that Guard Room. The Grenadier Guards, as everyone knows, are a proud regiment. They are the First Foot Guards of -the Royal Household Troops, and when the initiated speak of “the Guards” they do not mean the Household Cavalry. The Grenadiers are of the .blood and tradition of the Cavaliers. At the time of the Commonwealth they went into exile with their princes; they fought {n.the Spanish Army and returned in glory at the Restoration. They fought also at Waterloo, and some of them in the Crimea, and at the

been resting gloriously on their laurels ever since. They protected

duties at Court, themselves beautifully at the mounting of the guard, and made the British heart swell with pride whenever they sallied out on parade. It should therefore be clear why the first minds in history to recognize Wheeler as a little dis‘aster were Grenadier Guards minds. - It- was not just that some beggar had managed to steal past the sentries and go skylarking in Windsor Castle at night; it

little. beggar, and actually had gone Boo! to the Queen. It was also that he had not been apprehended even then, but hours later had been discovered by the

_ {Prime Minister sitting on the ~{throne. [that one up.

No good trying to hush By tomorrow it would be the joke of every mess in England, and, what was equally terrible to contemplate, of

{every club in London. * Major

Fontoon declared that it was likely to prove the most humiliating thing the Regiment ever had been brought to face up to.

” ” 8 BUT FONTOON had behaved as if it were all McHatten’s fault. +“Damn it, man, why did you let him sit there on the blasted throne? Why didn’t, . . . Oh, the devil with the gillie!' We’ve heard

_|enough about bim. .. Do you mean {to say. you.let a grubby batman

manage the show? WHat? . , . But you could have pulled the ‘brat off before the Prime Minister came in, couldn't you?” Major Fontoon paced up and down the Guard Room, savagely “at his moustache, while

McHatten stood furious and red

in the face and the other young officers tried too obviously not to

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time of the Wheeler Case had eer into him and shouted

was- that the beggar was sucha him wearily. “He's not to leave

into his face. Wheeler jumped: “Do yousknow what you've done?| Hey? Stop wriggling! I've seen your kind. Sit still!”

{naturally took the same view that Mr. Brown at first had assumed, that Wheeler was a tool of party or parties unknown, and they held on to it for dear life. Any {lesser explanation would have {been intolerable to them. For ob|viously, the less formidable the (culprit, the more ridiculous they. On the other hand, should some man-sizéd conspiracy be turned up, they needn't feel so small themselves; it might even be said that they had nipped it in the

bud — the Regiment's disgrace might be turned to its glory! # = ”

BUT GRIMLY as they tried, they got little out of Wheeler. He, to begin with, was too frightened to make much of a case for himself. They shook him and poked

reats at him, and the tears that he could not restrain made trenches through the soot on his face. He was a little hysterical. Useless. For Wheeler, despite their best efforts to prevent it, had escaped rather suddenly into sleep. His head had lurched forward into the lapels of the coat, one arm had slipped off the arm of the big oak chair and hung limply down, the dirty hand half open. And even Fontoon, looking at that hand, hadn’t the heart to

"Well ... . ah... nm” the major exhaled, gazing down at {this room, See that he's well guarded.” He turned to McHatten.

the memory of the oldest denizens, |and it caused a pleasant excite blinking about. {ment. It was handed on to trades-

and so passed out the gates and

thing so funny, I'm sure. A bur- no one could tell them anything.|

glar in the castle indeed! At this They were referred directly 16 ms {rite it won't be long till a body's] a rectly 1

not sife dead in Westminster Ab. ¢ ® Lord Frederick Incledon;

Fontoén and the other officers: bey, Well,-I'll-not-set foot down Dut the month being November.

there till I know if they caught | the trouble was that Lord im.” And. Daisy scurried back Frederick was fox hunting in Sus-! the way she had come, followed sex. The policemeén insisted. by the porter's gleeful laughter. | At 10:30, under tle deferential YT ¥ a {shaking of a young underfoot-| BY NINE O'CLOCK, news of man, Mr. Brown came awake, | . . i “I'm sorry, sir; I knocked at! Wheeler's exploit Was current, In, oor bo you didn’t hear me.| one form or another, from Bell my. Queen has sent for you twice, | Tower--to--Great-Park.-—Nothing sir" — = = quite so picturesquely shocking! Mr. Brown sat up at & lunge, | had occurred in the castle within flung the footman’s hand from his|

{arm and squinted at him. | “Q-queen?” he said “Queen?” “Yes, sir. 1 was to say Her le arriving with their wares, Majesty wanted you at once.” peop & “She'll 'no’ see me the day! She trickled down Peascod St. in the kens damn’ well I'm fu'!” roared,

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Royal Borough of Windsor and was heard by a porter at the White Hart Inn and a barman at the Crown and a commercial traveler just arriving at the Ship from Birmingham. It made a

Mr. Brown, and collapsed. There was nothing for it but to tell Victoria that her gillle was ill. She pursed her lips, but sald nothing. She kent well enough that her gillle was full, for she

stir—All agreed that he had kent her gillie, and infact had

read a preliminary report of the

great: frightened the queen af dinner and been captured ‘in the

Majesty, the bailiff that the thief

“I want you to make aut a report, sir; a full report. You under(stand? And do it at once.” McHatten wrote the report. Standing afterwards on the tere) race, he wishéd it had been the resignation of his commission. But no; that was exactly what Fontoon would give a Derby winner fory'someone to lay the blame] on and disown. But he wasn't |going to give it to them. He was| {going to stay and see it through. | {He thought with a pang of Emily { Prior, dreading what. she might| {hear of the affair. Inwardly he jcyrsed Mr. Brown, and Wheeler, {the cause of it all, and himself] for being such a fool. He also! cursed the Prime Minister. The anger drained out ef him; he felt a sickening emptiness. Was this whit he wis? Weak, dull, second-rate? Or, if not, why! had he permitted himself to be| made such a fool of in this affair? | His face was wet with fog. He| turned and groped his way back into the castle. |

~A ROYAL COCK at the Shaw Farm stretched his invisible neck and érowed. No sign of day was visible, but that didn't matter. He was like the old Welsh farmers who, rising before the “sun, used to come out into the farmyard and beat on the ground;! beating for day, they called it. = | Pale lights appeared in scattered tower windows of the castle.

Water splashed into basinsy feet’

Wheeler Case, sent her by the guard, which had spared Mr. | Brown not at all. Her Majesty had sent it back without com-| had tried to steal the gold plate, ment. | and the clergyman that he had | claimed the Throne as his birth- By right. No one was sure what the .

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