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15 HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION SERIAL. A Fool and His Money By George Barr McCutcheon Copyright, 1918, by Georis Barr McCutcheon. HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION ftVSiOrSIS OF PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS. In the opening installments of "A Fool and His Money," Geo. Barr McCutcheon's hiding place. Smart fears trouble with the authorities, but decides to assist the fa:r charming novel, we learn of John Bellamy Smart, t tie young man who ! telling this divorcee, although she warn him of the danger. A number of visitor makes ll difficult story, lie hat Just written hid firbt novel, and al the same time has fallen heir to. an to keep secret the presence of tiie CountcES in the castle. One guest, familiar with the Immense fortune left him by his uncle. Smart takes a trip on the River Danube. He castle, almost conies upon Smart and the Countess unawares. Trie woman escapes but discovers an ancient castle, which he purchases from an Austrian Count. With his sec- slams a door behind her. The visitor suspects smart of an intrieue with the wife of his retary, punpemlyke, he lakes possession. It is supposed to be tenanted only by the care- valet. Finally the party leaves and .Smart is relieved. The Count turns up asain and taker and his family, the Schmicks. Later Smart finds a woman who i in possession asks for a loan of money, but is refused. He leaves after Smart uses rattier pialn lan- of a wing of the castle that Ib barred to him. Sne grants a brief interview, but refuses guage. The Countess tells Smart she married blindly, and he believes her. Unknown to to leave. The servants appear to be in league with her, and Smart is in a quandary himself he has fallen in love with her. She teliB him she intends to marry again, but Later hp meets her and Is captivated by her wit and beauty. He finds that she is dp does not say whom. The Count and a confederate plan to swindle Smart, but the latter vorctd from a worthless and scheming Austrian Count, who was awarded the custody knocks the ount down and orders the men out of the castle. Mrs. Titus, mother of the of the lady's child. The Count demands Il.ooo.ooo from his rich American father-in-law, Countess, Arrives with two sons, posin? as Smart's mother. Old friends drop in unex- when he would give It up. The mother abductB the child and selects the castie as a pectedly. It i learned that a Baron has challenged the Count to a duel. iHKN the Hazzards and Smiths de- approval, as if she were seeking In me dread of hydrophobia and a temporary was absolutely no heroism displayed parted the next' morning they the cause or her daughter s weak- limp. during our ingnt through tne lulls and were In full possession of all of nesses; as much as to Bay: "What it was nearly 5 o'clock when the valleys, unless you are willing to nc. our nians. hones and secrets, other nonsense have vou been putting hnat niinnoH int vi.w arnnri iha tmn. cent as such a single dash of 60 miles hut .they were hound by. prom- Into the pour child's head, you wretch?" covered point of land and headed an hour which Britton made in order Ises Hint would have haunted them I went up to have a parting1 romp straight for our hiding place on tha avoid a rain shower that threatened throughout all eternity if they al- with Rosemary on the last night of bank. to flank us if we observed the speed lowed thein to be violated. 1 do not her Btay with me, to have my last sip r snan not gt0D ner6 to describe the 'aws' recall having seen two more intensely of honey from her delectable neck. Jrit 8taKe J, tournev through the Bt wait! There was an example of excited, radiant women in my life t.tan The Countess paid but little attention narrow rockv by-roads that ended bravado on my part that shall not go Klslo and Hetty Billy. They were In to us. She sat over In the window and oventuallv in the broad alnine highway unrecorded. I hesitated at first to put an ecstatic state of mind, their hus- stared out Into the dusky shadows of gouth and west of Vienna Let It be it down in writing, hut my sense of bands, but little less excited, offered the falling night. My heart was sore, sufficient to say that we jostled along honor urges me to confess everything, to help us in every way possihle, and, 1 was miserable. The last romp! .. for 12 or 15 miles without special inci- It happened just after that memorable to prove their earnest, turned the prow Blake finally snatched Rosemary off dent although we were nervously Picnic luncheon in the shady dell. The of the motor-boat down-stream, aban- to bed. It was then that the Countess anxious and apprehensive Our guide Countess, I maintain, was somewhat to dotting the trip up the river in order aroused herself and came over to me bbok pointed or rather ' twiddled a blame for the incident. She suggested to be in Vienna in case I should need with a sad little srnlle on her lips. route from the river flats into 'the that we that Is to say, the two of us them for any purpose whatsoever. "Hood night," she said, rattier wist- fouls, where we came up with the main explore the upper recesses of this "Vou mav rest easy so far as 1 am fully, holding out her hand to me. roai ab0ut 8 o'clock. picturesque spot while the others were concerned, Mrs. Titus," said the young I deliberately glanced at my watch. e were wraorjed and goggled to tho making ready for the resumption of diplomat "As a representative of the only 10 minutes past 8," I said, verge of Tudr?oPuPsness.d ft would hae Journey. I nlted Males Government I can t be- reproathfum ...- "rood been 0ulte impossible to penetrate our Shame, contrition, humiliation or come publicly involved in this Interna- I know, she said, quietly. Good motor.masit, and armour even for one whatever you may elect to call It, for tioruil muddle. I've Just got to Keep night. possessed of a keen and 'practiced eye. a lengthy or even apologetic ex- my lips sealed. If it were discovered . CHAflkK ..m Tn(J cjounte,s was heavily veiled' great planatlon of what followed her unfor- that 1 knew of all this, my head would I speed the Parting Guest, goggles bulged beneath the 'green, tunate suggestion. I shall get over t? n J V, "A'Jr- ?rnneo j"..1 nU sr-OVR O'CLOCK in the morning is a ftauzy thing that protected her lovely with it in iuj few words as Possible, stall. Swish! Officially suicided!' K -raceie.. hour C,ravvrd T mav fa8 from sun. wnI and man. A motor In the most obscure spot in all those At 10 o'clock the next morning I was I graceless nour. iraearas maj foat tw) or three sUe)j (Qo lar(fei en ancient lulls, I succumbed to an execra called to the telephone. Smith had yawn at 12, but even they are con- veloped her slender, graceful figure, llle impulse to take her forcibly in my startling news to impart. Cqunt Tar- tent to slumber at 4. I don't believe and gauntlets covered her hands. Even arms, k'S! her! ' ,don f know why nowsy ana Haron I'movlteh had en- th.,r- Brivihing so desolate In this Kosemary's tiny face was wrapped in J it. or how, but that is just what gaged In a duel with pistols at sunrise "?n,, nr,ec,l e on. a silken veil of white. As for the happened. My shame mylhorror over and the latter had gone down with a nl as the mental perspective one rest of we ,d nQt haye begn mis tle transcendental folly was made al bullet through his lungs! He died an obtains at 4 o clock. Tombstones are taken for anything on earth but Amer- moat unbearable by the way in which hour later. Tarnowsy, according to the bright beacons of cheer as compared to lean automohlllsts, ruthlessly inspired sne too, it. At first I thought she rumors flying about official Vienna, ttie monumental regret one expert- to see Europe with tho sole view to nad, swooned, she lay so limp and un was already on his way to Berlin, getting nn to greet the alleged comparing her roads with our own at res sting in my arms. My only excuse, where he would probably remain in se- 5 eastw oatcS llor es of a home. You would have said, on seeing whispered penitently in her ear, was elusion until the affair blew over or k Sdi ,i l L, The ,Vi!e is a tall' us that we knew a great deal about hal 1 conldn t help doing what I had imperial forgiveness was extended to ? 'tsTdefdly, dour thin It may be roads and very little about home. aouate id fot nki'ng nUsTot hlmL . ,. , pink and red and golden and full of all Col,ngraft and Britton-the latter at " There was cause for satisfaction ?he splendors of the east, but it Is a nwnt- TTsat lnJthe lTont w.hllu bearame 'UnSi to v she mere v among us. even though the Haron had resurrection and you can't make any- I shared the broad cushions of the ton- f"1.6; bt "PsoVt of dumb wlnde? fo mla thing . '!,o out of it. Staying up till 4 "eau with l'whS'ia.0 lam? r eSea'sed her..1r.tlff u" nowsv 'under rm"e? for Some weekiat " ?!' d th,fn, polni? ! be.d Sives one an yfVor f ood fI5fl th e rest of the in? at me as if 1 werc ln m08t iJyZ mir 17,, the danger, at id('a f t" sun rise that Is not sup- or'i J0ldinfnbarea fn the tea? explicable puzzle In the world. Her i nf b I'Znl the ported 1y the facts: there is hut one Jf misfit lio over a m-ecirfic J I checks, her throat, her brow grew tending the countess ftignt lrom tne wav to appreciate the real nature of mai w e migni sup over a piecipn e. i WBrm and nink with a lu-st Indiirna. castle. Still I could not help feei ng the hatef. J thing called dawn, and that m always nervous when not driving a he? ins naneel but she utte? disappointed over the outcome of the js t0 Kvl vp wl?h lt )nateaa o laklng the car myself. word Then I followed her deject- meetlng Why couldn't Count Tai- it t ged with you. We stopped for breakfast at a small pd, craven !v back to the roadside nowsy have been the one to fall? ytlll. I suppose the sun has to come mountain inn, 15 tniles from our start- a J' executed an inward curse that The Counters, very pale and distrait, up and perhaps It is Just as well that ing place. The Countess, a faint red '"".J " B" " m l,.h , l.-i ,i gave utterance to her feelings In a it does so at an hour when people are spot in each cheek and a curiously i0m, ., VaVmf most remarkable speech. She said: least likely to suspect lt of anything bright, feverish glow in her dark eyes, ller vivacity was -one She shrank "This is one of the few fine things so shabby. revealed a tendency to monopolize the doJ'"r L mrnsr n( the ssst that Marls has ever done. I am glad Tour o'clock Is more than a grace- conversation, a condition properly at- a d V ubft .kr hW turned that he killed that man. He should less, sodden hour when It ushers in a tributed to nervous excitement. I ouid toward me eared efAdf!i?tlv it In have done so long ago the beast! He day that vou know is to be the un- see that she was vastly thrilled by the Danol.am t. v-iii-i which we were skirt was ugh! the most despicable crea- happiest in vour life; when you know experiences of the hour; her quick, f F ' time to time I glineeVl nt ture I've ever known." that you are to say farewell forever alert, brain was keeping pace with the ler out of the corners of mv eves and She said no more than this, but one to the hopes begot and nurtured in rush of blood that stimulated every eventually was somewhat relieved to could readily grasp all that she left other days; when the one you love fiber In her body to new activities. She e nlhla 'gh , osed her own and untutored. smiles and goes away to smile again talked almost incessantly, and cnlefly was doilnir. Mv soul was in de" nair Collngrnft rather sententiously re- but not for you. And that is just what aooui manners eniireiy iorsouen to me iKne oat)lec; despised me. I could not Collngrnft rather sententiously re- but not for you. And that is just what aooui matters entirely iorsouen to tne Kn oat)lpd deRpiSed me I c marked to little Rosemary, who could 4 o'clock on the morning of the 14th enterprise In hand. The more I see of bl h ' ' i acapised nivself not have (omnrehended the words, of of September meant to me. women, the less I know about them. " J": ' "V ..,' ,' course: "Well, little llosebud, your Pritton and I set forth In the auto- why she should have spent the whole 7 "lA ""' if , ,hi ,u of the papa may be a spendthrift, but he mobile just at the break of dawn, cross- half hour devoted to breakfast to a cVhrUlhaT think of the never wastes bullets." ing the river a few miles below the surprisingly innocuous dissertation on tr"e '.'Vas J lnrlnim one and the Which was entirely uncalled for. I castle, and running back to a point on Schopenhauer and Nietzsche Is or was ' dav as a 'htv SLd V contend. I was struck by the swift the risht hand bank, where we were -beyond me. bowlealone a a Tad, nte of sneed look of dread that leaped Into Alines to await the arrival of the boat con- How was I to know that tears lay And sundown found us z hoot ll miles eyes and her pallor. veying the Countess and her escort, close to the surface of those shimmer- fr0V our destination ?ot rarlne to . On top of all this came the aston- Her luggage, carefully disguised as Ing;, vivacious eyes? How was I to lr" JJrll sl" a" V' n,nn0J-ri t,5 in ishlng news, by cipher dispatch from crated merchandise, had gone to Trieste know that sobs took refuge behind a ,lnn LJL Pr" 10"g ena ,.laL,, " old Jasper Titus' principal adviser In by fast express a couple of days be- simulated interest in philosophy? ,n Bnd had nnr dinn?,. in th nn. It London, tbot his offer of 1,000,000 had fore, sent in my name and consigned We had luncheon picnic fashion half- J ttie harden if lerwards nrnc?edinff been declined by Tarnowsy two days to a gentleman whose name I do not way to our journey's end, diverging ieisurelv hv moonlight in Tt he si on. before. the Count having replied now recall, but who In reality served from the main road to find a secluded " hfghw-av through his lawvera that nothing short as a sort of middleman in transferring spot where we could spread our cloth !,,,, c ,,,1 t , , . . ,. of I2.uoo.000 would induce him to re- the shipment to the custody of a cer- and open our hampers without fear of ,, L j . !i . or eignt miles Iin'iulsli ull claims to his child. tain yacht's commander. interruption or, to use a more sinister " j .v. s Te . , J?5r ' 8 exl I had been Ignorant of this move In It was required of me and of my word, detection. It was rather a Jolly ?"e n85 ountess skilf ully prepared the case, and expressed my surprise. machine, which is more to the point affair, that first and last al fresco ban- passpoits, pronounced them genuine (!), "I asked father to do it. Mr. Smart." that the distance of 120 miles through quet of ours under the spreading f" ,hen gave us the cheerful news said the Countess dejectedly. "It the foothills of the Austrian Alps branches of mighty trees and beside that everything lovely and the seemed the easiest way out of our dif- should be covered and the passengers the trickjing waters of a gay little B9-? nu,n "'",' lnf ,r,"ln.to,r I" e flcultles and the cheapest. He will delivered at a certain railway station mountain brook that hurried liVe mad coast was due to lca e the Staats-hahn-tievtr give in to this new demand. SO miles or more south of Vienna be- down to the broad channel of the Dan- m,t at and we had an hour to though. AVe must make the best of lt." fore 10 o'clock thnt night. There they ube, now ninny miles away. The strain ware. He proposed that we spend it "Whv did vou suggest such a thing were to catch a train for the little of the first few hours had slackened. 't".f comfortably at the roadside while to him?" 1 demanded with heat. seaport on the upper Adriatic, tho name Success seemed assured. We had en- ',r,t'."." W,,lt tiirotiRli tne pretence or She looked hurt. "Because vou of which I was sworn never to reveal, countered no difficulties, no dangers In repairing our tires, inis seemed an seemed to think it was the- right and and, as I have not considered It worth town or country. No one appeared to arrangement for everyone honorable tiling to do," she said pa- w hile to be released from that oath, I be Interested in. us except through idle D", , ,?"' wn0 'n0l,i SQ Blum that I, tienlly. "I do not forget what you am of necessity compelled to omit the curiosity; villagers and peasants stared Sla.a or ttle excuse, offered to Help him. said to me, days and days ago, even mention of it here. at us and grinned; policemen and sol- f "S"fS as I out or the car and though it mav have slipped your mind. Mr. Bangs went on to Vienna the diers stood aside to let us pass, or i;iny smith in my place beside the You said that a bargain is a bargain night before our departure, taking with gave directions politely when requested countess tnan she became quite gay and well, I had Mr. Bangs write him Helene Marie Louise Antoinette, a to do so. There were no signs of pur- an2 vivacious once more. She laughed father lust what vou thought about It." rather shocking arrangement you suit, no Indications of trouble ahead, and chatted with him In a manner that There was a suspicion of tears In her would say unless you had come to And so we could afford to be gay and Promptly convinced me that propin voice as she turned awav and left me know the British lawyer as well as we confident at our mlddav meal in the ,q,".tv 80 fa'j aa 1 ,was concerned had without another word. She was quite knew him. They were to proceed by hills bordering the broad highway. had a niost depressing effect upon her. out of sight around the bend in the the earlv morning train to this obscure We even went so far as to arrnnge Bn'1 tl1at sne revelled in tho change or Mtaltvar.e, and her little boots were seaport.' Collingraft Titus elected to for a Jolly reunion in New York City companions. clattering swiftly upwnrds, before 1 accompany his sister the entire length at no distant day! I remember dls- I was so disturbed hy the discovery fullv grasped the significance of her of the .tourney, with the faithful Blake tinctly that we w ere to dine at Sherry's, that firittnn had to caution me several explanation or, I might better say, and Rosemary. . To me, the day seemed a long wav off. times to handle the inner tubes less her reproach. It slowly dawned upon Billy Smith was to meet us a fe I suppose, being a writer of fiction, roughly or I would damage them and me that I had said a great many things miles outside the town for which we I should be able to supply at this point we might suffer a blowout after all. to her that It would pay me to remem- were hound, with a word of warning In the narrative, a series of thrilling, Everyone appeared to he gay and her before, questioning her motives In If there was anything sinister In the perhaps hair-raising encounters with frivolous, even Blake, who chattered any particular. wind. the enemy. In the form of spies, cut- sotto voce with Britton. that excellent As the day for her departure drew I heard afterwards from Foopendyko throats. Imperial mercenaries or what- rascal spending most of his time lean nearer it was not but 4S hours away that the departure of the Countess and ever came handiest to the imagination, ing against the spare tires in order to her manner seemed to undergo a com- Kosemary from the castle In the gray, H would be a very simple matter to catch what she was saying for his plete change. She became moody, nerv- forlorn dawn of that historic 14th was transform this veracious history into benefit. All efforts to draw me into us, depressed. Of course, all this was attended by a demonstration of grief the most lurid of melodramas hy the the general conversation were unavail attrlbutahle to the dread of discovery on the part of the four Srhmicks that Introduction of the false and bizarre, ing. I was as morose and unresponsive nml rapture when she was once out- was far beyond his powers of deserlp- but it Is not my purpose to do so. I as an Egyptian mummy, and for a very side the great walls of Sehloss Ilothoe- tion, and he possesses a wonderful mean to adhere strictly to the truth excellent reason, I submit. The Coun fen. I could understand her feelings, ability to describe lachrymose situa- and stand by the consequences. Were tess deliberately refused to address a and rather lamelv attempted to bolster tions. rather running to that style of I inclined to sensationalism it would single remark to me. Indeed, when I up her courage by making light of incident, I may say. The elder -Sc-hmleksbe no trouble at all for me to have seemed perilously near to being drawn the supposed perils. wailed and boo-hooed and proclaimed Tarnowsy's agents shooting at our into the conversation sho relapsed into The looked at me with a certain pa- to the topmost turrets that the sun tires or gasoline tank from everv crag a silence that was most forbidding. My thetic sombreness In her eves that would never shine again for either of and cranny; or to have Kosemary kid- cup of misery was overflowing, caused my heart to ache. All of her them, and to prove that she was quite naped by aeroplanlsts supplied' with I wondered If she would feel called jovous raillery was gone, all of her In earnest about the matter, Gretel fell drag-hooks, or to have the Countess upon at some distant confessional to gentle arrogance. Her sole Interest In off the dock into the river and was lodged In a village prison from which tell the fortunate Lord Amberdulo that life In these last davs seemed to be of nearly drowned before Jasper, Jr., could I should be obliged to liberate her with I had brutally kissed her. And Lord a sacrificial nature. She was sweet dive in and get her. Their sons, both battle-axe and sixshooter. my compen- Amberdale would grin in his beastlv and gentle with everyone with me In of whom cherished amorous feelings sation being a joyous rest in a hospl- supercilious way and say: "What else particular, I mav sav and there was for Blake, sighed so prodigiously all tal with the fair Aline nursing me back could you have expected from a bally something positively humble in her at- the way down the river that the boat to health and strength and cooing fond American bounder?" She would no tlturie of self-abnegation. Where sho rocked. Incidentally, during the ex- words in my rapacious ear the while 1 doubt smile indulgently, had once been wilful and ironic, she titement, Jinko, who was to remain reflected on the noble endowments of Heigh-ho' was gentle and considerate. Nor was behind and Journey westward later on a nature that heretofore had been com- ,,. lh. ' -,.. , an n(1 however I the only one to note these subtle with Mrs. Titu. and Jasper, Jr sue- monplace and meek. But, no! None woves at last uttering changes in her. I doubt, however, if ceeded after weeks of vain endeavor of these things happened and I decline !" 'od"bv"s In the rnllwav Vtation the others were less puzzled than I. in smartly nipping the calf of Hawkes' to perjure myself for the privilege of ?" SAJ 'J traveleranj in fact Mrs. Titus was palpably per- left leg. a feat of which he no doubt Kelt ing: into the list of "six best a?trerS ftdy bcs "lilr-, " Hexed, and there were times when 1 was proud but which sentenced my sellers." aitenoeu ny eagei poneis. taught her eyeing me with distinct dls- Impressive butler to an everlasting bo far as I am able to judge, there iTo Bo continued.)
