The Syracuse Journal, Volume 29, Number 13, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 23 July 1936 — Page 6

Synthetic Gentleman By Channing Pollock CVpyrfeM. Cbennfnr Potloek Serrtae.

? CHAPTER Xl—Continued He didn't want to walk all day. and he did want to tee what the other papers had to aay of last night’s events In the Cocoanut Bar. At Fifth avenue, therefore, he turned into the public library. The reports were much alike—- “ Night club proprietor killed resisting arrest" and “The Indictment against Jay Rogers, now held for the Kelly murder, probably will be dismissed today.” Barry sat, almost alone. In the “newspaper room.” turning the case •ver in his mind. Then he asked for old flies of one of the tabloids. He was nearly an hour finding an account of the Winslow wedding. Without any definite knowledge of the date, ' It was a bit like looking for* the proverbial needle in a haystack. Barry's curiosity was rewarded, at last, when be stumbled upon a pictorial front page headed. "Lawyer Weds Convict's Widow." The ceremony had taken place at There were pictures of the church apd of the convict —“George Selby (inset) and Love Nest Where He Took His Bride." The smudgy little “Inset" might have been a portrait of Nicholas Murray Butler or Jack Dempsey, and the house might have been any house, anywhere. There 7 was an obviously faked photograph of a holdup, and an obviously genuine one of "Mr. and Mrs. Winslow leaving St Stephen’s." “Gosh." Barry reflected: “no wonder Mrs. Winslow had a nervous breakdown!" The story, on the second page, was in the best tabloid tradition. “Five years ago." it began. - “ Peter Winslow, obscure young attorney, secured the acquittal of George Selby, charged with participating In the robbery of a candy store In the Bronx. Yesterday, Peter Winslow, rich and famous criminal lawyer, and George Selby’s widow were the principal figures In what was to have been a secret ceremony at St. Stephen’s.” The present Mrs. Winslow had run •way with George Selby while be was a cadet In a military school. They had come to New York, rented the “love nest." and been ’•blissfully happy" until Selby ran out of money, and was compelled to take his wife to a boarding house. He had been arrested there, for the candy store robbery. In April. JP2L Peter Winslow had got him off. but. the following June, he was caught in another robbery In Philadelphia, and sentenced to a long term In the State Penitentiary. With two other convicts. “Lefty" Miller and “Mugs" Scanlan, be had escaped In October. 1023. Penniless, the men “staged a hold-up that . same night tn Fairmount Park. The " victim called for help, and Selby killed him. Scanlan was shot dead by a police officer, and Selby, attempting to get away. Jumped Into the river, and was drowneiT' Ills body was found two weeks later, entangled In an an-chor-chain." Winslow had given Mrs. Selby work In his ,office, and “three years after Selby's death, love culminated in the ceremony at St. Stephen's." That explained a good deal. Barry thought, remembering the soft, round, pink little woman with worried eyes. It explained Peter's protective attitude. It might explain his quick Interest In the Rogers case, tn which. Barry had told Winslow. Peggy had been “putting up such a game fight to make a man of her husband." •That sort of thing always gets me.” Peter had observed. “A woman tied up. to some man who’s not worthy of her, •nd In love with him." Peter's “Julie" had been in love with her first husband, then., And he with her. evidently, to Judge’by what the tabloids said of their happiness. “Must have been something good in that chnp," Barry reasoned. "Probably realised what his wife was trying to do for him. We're a curious mixture." He was still brooding over curious mixtures, and’ other things, when a clock struck somewhere, and reminded him that, by now. there might be a message as to young Ridder’s release •waiting him at his hotel There wasn’t All Thursday afternoon Barry sat in his room and. at five o’clock, be . called Peter’s secretary. "Nothing definite yet" she Informed him. "The District Attorney’s making the motion all right, but it’ll be tomorrow now before anything cornea of it" Against his better Judgment then. Barry phoned Harwood. “Don't worry." the city editor said. “Have you seen tonight's Globe? Whole first page one loud yell for this kid’s release. They'll be so glad to get him off their hands—" In spite of his friendliness, Barry noticed that Ernie didn't say, “Come on down; we’ve something else for you." Nor even, "Os course, we'U expect you to cover Rogers getting out of Jail." Why should he? “The big beat" was Harwood's “beat" not Barry’s and. anyway, the old man would be at his desk the day after tomorrow. Harwood did say that at last “Ton'd better see him. I'll phone you when. Probably not before Monday. He'll be pretty busy for • day or two. Os course, you’ll be around for your salary on Saturday. Might look me up then." He was still on the pay roll, at least That was Important what with overdrafts and hotel bills, and such things. Bober reflection, backed by experience, bad persuaded Barry that he couldn’t get much on his wardrobe. The studs and cuff-links were rather cheap stuff. He had sold an overcoat once—Ln this very town—for three dollars. Saturday’s money would Just square the bank account As for the hotel bill—" Well, I’ll give them my clothes." Barry decided, “and I'll have something left in my Jeans when I move •at of here." He phoned Peggy again, and then dined frugally and went back to his room. Stop by step, ha went over

light cast by the events of the past few hours. At midnight for the fifth or sixth time, he re-read the story in the Globe. “Well, that’s that" be said aloud, tossing the paper into the wastebasket and winding his silver wristwatch. “Morano’s dead, young Bidder'll be free tomorrow, old Ridder'll be home Saturday, and that's that Wonder where I’ll be a week from now." It didn't matter much. “Nothing matters much,” he told himself again, dwelling on Pat’s phrase. “Not without Pat, It doesn't She’s a grand girt. Out of my class, though. A week from now, she'll be playing tennis and going over to dinner at the Ridders. Wonder If Peg'll be there. Wonder what’s going to happen to those two young people?” In Friday morning’s paper, under “Personal Intelligence." he found a mention of the Winslows. “Mr. and Mrs. Peter Winslow are sailing on the Aqultania next Wednesday." the Item read, “for an extended tour of the Continent." That was that. too. Barry’s drama was ending with all Its principal characters disposed of. as wellmade drama should end. Winslow’s secretary called hloq Just before noon. “Mr. Winslow wants me to tell you that Rogers will be free tn an hour or two." "How's Mrs. Winslow?" “Much better. Mr. Winslow's still with her. though." A “And the Hambldges?" “No; they went back to Southampton last night’* Once more, that was that Barry thought getting his hat and making tracks for the subway. He reached the Tombs well In advance of official orders for the release of “Jay Rogers."

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It was nearly Ove o’clock. Indeed, when "Jay Rogers" ap|H‘»red,. looking very white and haggard, and the last train had left for Southampton. “You can talk to Peggy on the phone." Barry told him, “and then you’d l»etter have dinner with me, and a good night’s rest at my hotel. The Bremen gets In very early, and you'll want to be on the dock." Jack looked at him quizzically. “Will 1." “Won’t you?” "I suppose so. I’d like to see my mother." "I'd like to see her myself," Barry said. “She's been swell to you, all right." “Yes." At dinner. Jack declared, “I’ll take that job on the paper now, if my father'll give it to me." • “Why not?” f “You started me thinking. If can see the old man's viewpoint. H<fs g<n to be decent to Peggy, though, 'it's both of us, or neither. . . . J\ hat's going to happen to you?" "Search rue!" "Look here." Jack blurted. ‘Tm Ridder now. Who needs to know that 1 was ever Jay Rogers? I’ve been at Southampton all the time, writing letters to my mother, and everything. You’ve been Barry Gilbert, working on the Globe, and likely to go on working there. What’s the matter with that?" “Willetts Is the matter with IL" Barry answered—"Willetts, and Evans, and Winslow, and all the camera-click-ers on the| newspapers. Tbere've been several pictures of you already. I can’t understand why you weren't Identified long ago." “Maybe I was," Ridder admitted. “Your old college chums don't exactly run after you while you’re in jail. They don’t get to be college chums until you’re in Wlp’s Who." "Anyway," Barry continued, “your scheme's out 1 want to come clean. Don't ask me why. 1 was going to ran away a week ago, and 1 couldn’t make it ‘Gentlemen don't do that’ 1 said. I've got a new picture of myself as a gentleman." ® “That’s what does the trick, 1 guess," Jack speculated. "Most of us spend our lives trying to live up to the portraits of ourselves that bang over our mental mantel-pieces. Yours was of a reckless, devil-may-care young vagabond. Then you moved Into a house, and company, where that picture didn't fit. You bung op a new one, and you’ve got to live up to that now. It was the same way with me. The picture of myself I liked was of an irresponsible, slightly dissipated young genius. The family portraits didn’t appeal to me. Yours did—your new picture oj yourself, I mean. Tm going to try to be like that the rest of my life." They were lingering over cigars and coffee now. “What is a gentleman F Barry asked. Jack smiled. -The fellow who gets the right portrait" *1 su «x»e sc," Barry said. "Fa mily and dotbee didn't make yon one—not when you were getting drank and forg-

Ing checks. I wasn’t one when I took another man's name, and money, and made up to a girl who thought I was somebody else. . ; . Pictures over man-tel-pieces. That’s another word for tradition, I guess. The tradition that makes men defend women, and go down on sinking ships, and all that sort of thine When that stops being our picture of ourselves, ‘God help all of us,’ I told Pat once . . . Come on; let’s go to a movie I" CHAPTER XII The next afternoon—around three o’clock—Harwood phoned. “The old man wants to see yon. Here at his office. I’d come quick if I were you." So Jack had told him. Or Evans. “I'd be glad if you’d tell Willetts, and the rest," Barry had said to the chauffeur. “It’ll save me introducing the subject." It would, too. He had dreaded his first few moments with Ridder —beginning his story with a pair of cold, calm eyes boring Into him. They would be cold eyes; he felt sure of that a And they were. “The big chief” sat at his big desk tn a big. richly-furnished office with a big door and a little one. The big double door opened Into the reception room. Barry entered through that, and found himself facing Ridder and the smaller single door behind him. Ridder was reading a radiogram, y>d he went on reading. A tall, thin man, with New England written all over him. A youngish man for his age, which might have been fifty. He wore gold-rlmmed spectacles. His long, thin, absolutely straight mouth was higher at the right end. and his right eye was longer and narrower than his left He had a sharp chin, and a thin nose, and a broad forehead, with thin, graying, sandyish hair. The kind of man who could say “Good morning" as though that ended the discussion. “All right” Barry repeated to himself. “I’ll take my medicine. It’ll soon be over, anyway. He Isn’t going to give a damn what I did for his son. If I can say anything to make It easier for those two youngsters and Jacky— Wonder what’s back of that little door." He was still wondering when the big chief looked up. “You’re Gilbert?" “Yes, sir." Z. “Alias Ridder, ehr “Yes, sir.” They were cold eyes. Very cold. Mostly to end the silence, Barty said, “I suppose your son told you." “Nobody told me. I’ve known all about you for two months." “You've known—" “I heard my wife’s talk with my sob the day before we Sailed. Through the door jto my bedroom. I heard her invite him to Southampton. Next morning, I arranged with Willetts to give me a full report of his doings there." “And—?” Barry was thinking in monosyllables. “And. In his first letter, he mentioned your red hair.” Barry grinned. “He also mentioned yonr taking a hundred dollar bill out of an envelope addressed to Mrs. Ridder.” The grin faded. “You haven’t made • move that I haven’t known about” He waited. “Why didn’t you have me arrested?" “Because I knew that my son was In prison, accuse*} of this murder. I read about that less than an hour after I'd satisfied myself that you weren't my son. Jay Rogers. I'd had a man following him all about Florida. The man's report agreed perfectly with the newspaper account of Jay Rogers.” “Still—" "What was I to do? Sail? The doctor said that was out of the question. I wired Harwood ’Rogers didn't kill Kelly. Find out who did.’ Twenty-four hours later. I knew you were on the Globe, and why, and that you'd succeeded In Interesting Winslow." (TO BE CONTINUED) Garibaldi Paved Way for Union of Sicily, Italy< Recorded history of the island of Sicily, which is the largest tn. the Mediterranean sea. begins with the establishment of the Greek city of Naxos In 735 B. C. This, with other Greek colonies established tn the course of the following two centuries became the center of thriving commerce. From the year 536 B. C. until the period of the Punic wars. Greeks and Carthaginians contended for mastery In the Island, notes • writer la the Indianapolis News. In 210 B. C„ Sicily became the first of the Roman provinces. During the Middle Ages, Gotha, Byzantines and Saracens in succession held sway. At length, tn 1090, the Normans made conquest of the land, and Roger II became king of Sicily to 1130. From the close of the Thirteenth century until the Treaty of Utrecht in 1718, Stelly was ruled by prir.es of Aragon and by the Spanish crown. In 1734, under Don Carlos, the kingdom of the Two Sicilies arose, uniting Naples and Sicily under a Bourbon dynasty, Garibaldi’s bold expedition In 1860 opened the way for the onion of Sicily with the kingdom of Italy In 186 L Believed m "Cramp" Rings From the Fifteenth to the Twentieth century England believed in the effi cacy of cramp rings—finger rings that would prevent cramps after they had been blessed by the king. Faith tn these rings Increased so rapidly that the blessing was no longer needed, and minions were sold for other ailments such ss rheumatism, epilepsy and fits As late as 1912. "Genuine Anti-Rhea matic Rings" were advertised to Bng

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In a time when expediency is the ruling principle, it is well for Christians to emphasize the fact that following Christ has through all the years called for that loyalty to convictions which has caused some who bear his name to be willing to die for him, yea, even to live and to suffer for him, for sometimes it may be harder to do the latter than the former. True followers of our Lord are willing. I. To Die for the Faith (7:54-8:1). Stephen, one of the first seven chosen as deacons of the church, "a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit” (6:5), having been called before the Sanhedrin to answer false charges (6:8-15), faithfully stands for the truth. His indictment of Israel cuts to the heart. In anger his hearers stone him to death. He becomes the first martyr of the Church, that holy succession which has representatives in the young manhood and womanhood of today, ready, like John and Betty Stam, to die rather than to deny Christ. Note that in this hour Stephen was given a vision of his risen and ascended Lord (v. 55), standing at the right hand of God to welcome his faithful servant. He prayed for those who took his life (v. 60). How gloriously that prayer was answered in the subsequent life of the young man Saul, who was “consenting unto his death.” Not to all who follow Christ comes the need to face death for him, but all should be determined. H. To Live for the Faith (8:2-4). The early Church found that living for Christ entailed bitter persecution. Not even the sanctity of their homes was inviolate. Their persons and property felt the hard hand of havoc-making Saul, yet we find no intimation of complaint. Soon they were driven from home and scattered abroad, but the result was the establishing of gospel centers wherever they went. Living for Christ calls for daily witness, for more than steadily bearing the responsibility of life. Not to preachers and Bible teachers alone is this sacred duty given, to be discharged only in a church service or Bible school. No, “they that were scattered abroad”—all of them went “everywhere.” They were not merely reforming or devoting their lives to social service, good as these might have been, but “preaching the word” (v. 4). Are we who are now “scattered abroad” going “everywhere,” and are w'e “preaching the word”? The passage from First Peter that closes the lesson indicates that true believers will be called «pon. 111. To Suffer for the Faith (I Pet. 4:12-19). 1. We are not to be surprised by suffering (v. 12), not even by fiery trials, for blessings will follow. The Lord proves his children, even as the refiner tests gold to cleanse it, to prove its worth, and not to destroy it God’s testings are to prove us worthy. 2. We are so to live as not to suffer for our misdeeds (w. 15, 16). Many are they who would have the world believe they suffer fqj- Christ’s sake when they are but meeting the just recompense for their evil deeds. It is a shame to suffer as an evildoer, but an honor and privilege to suffer for Jesus’ sake. 3. Believers are to make their sufferings a testimony (w. 17-19). If we as Christians must needs be purged in order to be fitted for God’s service and the glory that is to come, what will be the end of those who “know not God and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ” (II Thess. 1:7, 8)? Peter refrains from even mentioning what their ultimate end will be, but the writer to the Thessalonians goes on to say that they shall be “punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power.” Solemn words are these. Have we, and those to whom we minister, heeded their warning? A New Day Thank God every morning, when you get up, that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, cheerfulness, content, and a hundred virtues which the idle man will never know.— Charles Kingsley, Real Chancier of Man It is the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned.— Burke. - ♦ Our Friendships Bow few are there born with souls capable of friendship. Then how much fewer must there be capable of love, for love includes friendship

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