The Syracuse Journal, Volume 28, Number 47, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 19 March 1936 — Page 8

Synthetic Gentleman I By Channing Pollock ■ CUWiQrM. CZMBlnr Mtoek

CHAPTER I The bouse stood alone on a sanddune overlooking the sea—dark, deserted, and silent, except for the swish of the rain blowing against its shingles. Wet to his skin, and shivering, the Duke struggled >to pry open a window. From his dank coat pocket, the Duke drew a cheap jackknife and a tiny searchlight With these tn his hands, be turned to look toward the highway. It was Invisible, two hundred yards from the porch on which he stood, winding over and around and about these dunes. The Duke’s thumb pressed the button, and, momentarily, the ray revealed waving wet beach-grass, and a single scrub pine bent In the wind. Then, carefully, he began cutting away the dry putty that held a pane of glass. It was slow. work. "Why don’t I break the damned thing?” the Duke asked himself, and, a minute later, felt the unshattered glass drop into his hand. It was easy to open the window, then, and easy for a slim and agile man to climb through. Once inside the bouse, he paused.. Would the electric lights be working, and would It be safe to turn them on? Why not? Half the summer residences In Southampton had been opened for the season. Even an observant passer-by—if there were to be one—would think a brightly lighted room lew remarkable than a furtive ray. The Duke touched a switch his searchlight had disclosed beside, a door. It was exactly the sort of room he bad expected—a luxurious breakfast room in a luxurious summer residence. Most of the furniture was covered, but a gay breakfast table stood in the center, and, beyond It, was an open door to a pantry. The Duke walked through, and into the kitchen, turning on lights as he went “Guess they’re going to open the house pretty soon. After all, why should they mind an extra weekend guest T’ He grinned, and anyone who had seen that grin might have found it bard to mind. It was an ingratiating grin, in a pleasant, likeable face. A lean face, weather-beaten and a little boney, but with large, kind, steel-gray eyes, surmounted by a thatch of unruly brick-red hair. The Duke’s trim figure stretched a tidy six feet above the worn soles of his untidy boots, but bls gray suit, though worn, too, and wet. was well cut and well made, revealing square shoulders and firm muscles. “Wonder If there’s any grub,” said the Duke. AU the kitchen shelves bore brigbtcotored tln.beAr*. with bright lettering, but they were empty. The breadbox was empty, of course; no use opening that But above the shelves was a cupboard, and in that cupboard were rows of canned things—each can neatly wrapped in paper—sardines, anchovies, caviar, chicken, ham. tongue —all sorts of things. "Hospitable people," said the Duke. “I wonder where they keep the coffee.” Thirty minutes later. 111 s Grace bad dined sustalningly. if not well. Half the contents of the pot of coffee still bubbling on the stove had wanned him comfortably, and he washed the dishes. Then he put everything back in place, turned out the lights, and. whistling merrily, went upstairs. At the top of the steps was a kind of library—book-lined, with doors, on either *»rtde, and, at its end. windows facing the sea. Even through the blackness, the intruder could discern the almost luminous white of breaking waves. Again, he touched a switch, and, this time, lights sprang Into being in shaded table-lamps, doubly shaded now by winter wrappings. A fire had been laid in the grate. Me lit the tire, and a cigar, and then opened a door on his right. This was a man’s room, gracious and Inviting. The Duke tel: the mattress drawn back over the footboard of the bed, and. sniffing a pungent odor of cedar and camphor, turned his attention to a closet across the room. A very large closet, with an electric light in it, and built-in drawers, and a cedar cheat. Atop the chest were two pairs of slippers, and above It hung the only garment visible, a blue-striped dressing gown of soft, light flannel His own apparel still clinging damply, the Duke took the dressing gown and slippers back to the biasing fire, and. standing luxuriously before it. changed bis clothes. Still neat, be carried the gray suit and the wet undergarments back to the bedroom, folded the trousers carefully, and laid them on the box-spring. With one band, be flung the mattress into place over them. He returned to the fire, stretching himself laxlly in a huge, over-stuffed chair. Outside, the storm was growing steadily worse. Wind-flung against the windows, the rain kept up Its incessant •wish. A little puddle formed on one of the tills. The Duke mopped it up with an old doth that had been spread over the big chair, and looked through the glass into a cluster of bushes. Illuminated from tbs windows, that teased their tops frantically, as though moved by wild despair. “It’s a filthy night,** the man In the dressing gown thought, as he sauntered back to the crackling logs, drawing contentedly st his dgar, and pausing to take a bock from the tended shelves. "A filthy to ftajifckfc st it he tad Mm » trudging along the cement-paved road from Bridgets mptot*. five miles to ths east. Was it five miles, he thought, er Wtese, or fifty? On foot, he tad left Kew York that morning just after daybreak. Jobless and flat broke. For * month-aU through April, tn fact—the Duke had tramped the streets leaking foe “a regular job." -What mates are mutikeep

and again. “That’s all right for guys with an Income. If somebody’d started me in a rubber-tired pram, and wheeled me Into college, and out again into papa’s office —surb. I’d run straight Why not? Who couldn’t be a knight in armor? But being a knight without armor—that’s different When you get dumped into a fight, naked, with nothing but your ba •• fists, and the whole world coming* at you with brick-bats and brass knuckles, what a d—d fool you are to stick to the Marquis of Queensbury Holes!" Still, he had stuck—reasonably, at least—in the face of what seemed almost a conspiracy of discouragement Fired out of Hollywood for a theft of which he was innocent as an unborn babe. “All right" he had said; "Pve got a few hundreds saved, and I’ll go East, and start all over again.” Confidently, he had left the railway station In Chicago, only to have bls pocket picked before he had gofi as far as ’’the hotel He had nearly frozen In Chicago. He bad nearly starved. And then he had hitch-hiked to New York, riding freights when he could. A pal had christened him “the Duke,” because of his clothes, and his English, and the grand manner he had acquired in Fllmdom. New York—with those Hollywood shoes wearing thin, and that Hollywood gray suit, that had cost $125. getting frayed and baggy. Part of a jobless army in a city without jobs. He had eaten his overcoat—or the proceeds from It. at any rate—and paid the last dime for a bunk in a flophouse. A love of books, a sense of humor, and the wanderlust—these he had Inherited from an Irish father, whose name was Francis X. Gilbert, and whose proudest boast was that he came from the University of Dublin. He had died tn China, nearly six years ago, leaving the seventeen-year-old boy. Barry, to fight his way from Hong Kong to Hollywood, and from Chicago to New York. And so Barry had crossed the Queensboro Bridge to Long Island, and picked up a truck, and charmed the driver Into buying him a pretty good lunch at Huntington. Bay Shore In a passing car, and Sayville on foot, and another truck to Bridgehampton. where be had lost his bearings and tramped back miles before be found himself again on the edge of Southampton. It was black night, and beginning to rain. A cold wind had sprung up from, the northeast. An endless, winding road, and fi’ind-And-re’n r-uunes, with solitary houses. Grand houses they were, all of them. A few had lights inside —and dogs wandering about, m he bad discovered in the course oi two desperate excursions. Moat of these dwellings were dark and vacant “Houses without people.” the Duke had muttered, still not-too-resetat-fully, “and people without houses. . / It doesn’t seem fair.” His teeth were chattering by now. and hia feet squished In his wet shoes. And this house had seemed so utterly deserted, so entirely safe and secure. “Ten o'clock," said the. Duke. “What’s the chancy of anyone finding me in there tonight? And. If they do. It’s better than freezing to death. I*ll be on my way again at daybreak.” Now. fed and warm, he was growing drowsy before the tire. “It must be swell to live like thia all the time.*' he brooded, dreamily. “1 wouldn’t break into anybody's house If I had one like this. Gosh, I guess I’ll sleep here, it’s

."■A— I Imm ■■■ II ■ ~i „ IIL .JJL egg an ADVENTURE % starts right on £ / this page! "SYNTHETIC GENTLEMAN" f ‘Sgßßl SERIAL THRILL A] I Climb right ak»g Into society 1 fiMJjrr'' ' } with "The Duke" lor *»• of y __ i fee most engaging crockdrama . you've read to yean. Fa this , ® 3g l charming secondetcry worker broke right Into a Long ’aland hose, and couldn't get out—far MqwpagffjßßmHWM | he was mistaken far the predl- II I I gal scion of the family and H r II |y J I found himself fa save. fl I I .11 B || | I |h|ByfZi | I Here are same ci the real fl L j I t||& ferXs and laughs far which l||-l j* |fK the pen of Channing Pollock RCTI has become famous. Den t miss BOffW flB a single chapter. • wi*iMl A-W *X SYNTHETIC GENTLEMAN By Channing Pollock jr BEGIN it here and read the succeeding chapters in future issues!

warmer than the bed, and I’ve got a long hike ahead of me in the morning." His head fell forward, and his eyes were closing, when he heard an automobile door slam, and, an Instant later, voices and the shuffling of feet on the porch directly beneath him. The Duke sprang to the electric switch. Fast he moved, his wits worked faster still. “No,” he thought; "that won’t do. If the lights go out, they’ll know there’s something wrong!” The breakfast room window—that was It! But not In dressing gown and slippers. “Damned fool, to take my clothes off!” thought the Duke. Who were these people, anyway, driving up to a closed house at this hour? Thieves? Stragglers, like himself? Hardly—in a big limousine like that he glimpsed hastily from the window. Well, what next? Jail, probably. How long could they give a man for unlawful entry? "Damn!” said the . Duke. And then he heard the lower { door open, and a woman's voice In the hall. “Maybe I can talk my way out.” be thought, and started down the stairs. “Who's there?" he called, bravely, as his feet touched the first landing. A man answered. "Willetts.” he said. “Willetts, the butler. Is that you, Mr. Ridder?" And the lights went on. Standing there, on the landing naked except for the dressing gown, the Duke found himself facing a party of four. Willetts, with his hat tn his hand, squat and powerfully built ASSF ludicrously bald. Another man in a chauffeur's uniform, and two women—one quite young, and the other middleaged and stout They seemed propitiatory. and the fact gave him instant courage. "Is that you. Mr. Ridder?” The question had been asked first In the dark, but now It was repeated In a glare that made every face plainly visible. The butler didn’t know Mr. Ridder, then. That was “a lucky break.” It would give him time to dress, and get away. "Yea,” he answered, quietly. “You’re a little late, aren’t you?" “Sorry, sir,” said the butler. “1 didn’t have any idea you’d be here, sir. Your mother said yyM wasn't coming until tomorrow. Evans had t<> take ’em down to the ship—her and your father, sir—and then he had to go back to the hotel, and pi-’r ~ me.' and cook, and The storm didn’t help, neither, and we stopped at Patchogue for dinner. I hope you ain't going to be put out. str.” (TO BE CONTINUED) Early Clocks In the evolution of time measurement you hear of the toothed wheel popping up around 300 B. C- By 145 B. C, clever Ctetiblns In Alexandria, combined the toothed wheel with the water dock. Around the year 996 Pope Sylvester. It is Said, kept time with a clock of his own design which he made at Magdeburg. Six hundred years later. In 1583 Galileo discovered the principle of the pendulum and thereby blazed the way for Huygens of The Hague, who, in 1657, presented to his government the first pendulum clock ever made. Huygens No. 1 pend 1 « lum clock literally sounded the alarm for the rapid evolution of the clockmaking art. Chronometers are made for ships which are so accurate that they err less than a second a day.

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IM|>ROVED L L J UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY I chool Lesson By BEV. F. B FITZWATER. D. DMember ot Faculty. Moody Bible Institute ot Chicago. 9 rroatom Newaoaper Union. Lessor? tor March 22 JESUS TEACHING TRUE VALUES LESSON TEXT—Luke 11:13-34. GOLDEN TEXT—Seek ye first the kingdom of God. and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.—Matthew 4:33. PRIMARY TOPlC—God’s Good Gifts. JUNIOR TOPIC — When Is a Man Rich? INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—What Is Most Worth Living For? The common tendency of men la to be engrossed with the gifts of God Instead of knowing him as the heavenly Father and enjoying his blessed fellowship. Man’s supreme need is to know and enjoy God himself. I. A Warning Against Covetousness (vv. 13-21). L The occasion (w. 13-15). One of the company requested Jesus to be umpire In a disputed estate. Two brothers were In trouble over an inheritance. Christ refused to enter the sphere of the civil law and warned I against the spirit of avarice. His mission was pre-eminently spiritual. 2. The warning enforced (vv. 16-22). This was done by the parable of the rich man. He showed most clearly that to be concerned with earthly riches while neglecting God is the highest folly. Concerning this man. note: a. His increased goods (v. 16). His riches were rightly obtained, for the ground brought forth plentifully. A man may be rich because the Lord's blessing Is upon him. b. His perplexity (v. 17). His; ,''tends were producing more than hls| Mffhs would hold. He did not want It , to go to waste. No frugal man wants to see the fruits of his toll perish, If, he had possessed right views of life' and a sense of stewardship before God, he would have seen that his barns had enough for his personal needs, and would have distributed the surplus to the needy. c. His fatal choice (w. 18. 19). He chose to enlarge bls barns, and give up his life to ease and luxury. It ought to be a delightful task for men whom God has made rich to devote their time and energy to the distribution of their possessions to benevolent objects. d. The awfqk Indictment (vv. 20, 21). God calls,hlm\a fool and this is no furnish neither contentment tn life nor guarant^of the continuance of life. It Is not only foolishness but madness to forget God while engaged In heaping up riches. Soon the man must die and his riches may get Into the hands of unworthy men. or even curse the lives of the children who Inherit them. 11. Tha Certain Cure for Anxiety (vv. 22-34). Having shown the folly of the rich man who gained gold and lost God, he now urged the disciples to trust God and dismiss all anxious care. 1. The argument (vv. 22, 23). This Is summed up in one brief sentence: “The life Is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.” I 2. The illustrations (vv. 24-28). a. God's care for the fowls (vv. 24-26). The ravens do not sow nor reap, they have neither storehouses nor barns, yet they live, for God feels j them. If God does not forget the fowl, • certainly he will do more for his chll- ! dren who have been created in his | likeness and image and redeemed by i the precious blood of his Son. b. God’s care for the flowers of the field (vv. 27, IS). If God is so careful of those flowers which appear but for a day, how much more will he clothe his children? 3. The exhortations (vv. 2D-34). a. The getting of food and clothes should not be man’s chief concern. b. Seek the kingdom of God (v. 31). Those who make God's kingdom first shall have all of their needs sup- • plied (Phil. 4:19). c. Be not afraid (v. 32). God’s . good pleasure is upon bis own and all j good things he will give them. Id. Practice self-denial In order to give gifts to those In need (vv. 33. 34). 111. Be Ready for the Coming of tha Lord (vv. 35-40). Having warned the disciples against the acquisition of worldly goods, white forgetting God. and shown them the needlessness of anxiety for food and clothes, be shows them the blessedness of being in a state of readiness when the Lord shall come. Conviction as to the certainty of the Lord's coming is a sure cure tor worldliness and anxious care. This attitude of heart be made clear by two parables; that of the return of the Lord, and that of the thief. The Lord will be so pleased with those who are waiting for him that be will take delight In sitting at the banquet with them, and he win even serve them. Challenge te Cheerfelne** A gloomy day is a challenge to cheerfulness. It is easy—and weak—to be gloomy when the weather la gloomy. It Is hard and takes character—to be sunny when the sun Uu t visible a cloudy day calls for a bit of brightness about the clothing, a littie extravagance in smiles and cheering words to offset the gloom. If ever there la need of joyousness and good cheer in our words and looks and demeanor; It la when we feel least like it, and that la when others about us are most likely to he helped by IL Good Thiags It la oUy by thinking about peat and good things ttat we come to love them, and it is only by loving them ttat wo come to tong tor them, and it is only by longing for them that we are Impelled to seek after them, aad it la only seeking after them that they become ours and we enter into vital experience of beauty and blessed-

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