CENTRE HALL, PA. By MYSTERY! Now she was in his arms and glad. His ly For a long breath she 8 closed on hers. was a mere thing of reeling senses. You LOUE “i mured. me” . ” don’t know” she mur sn 11] I omorrov wll MATTYy ou [ qo away Nerhans au Ji ] But nol {omor { ry through her hing resem 4 men frowsy room where murders had been done, From which it would appear that Priscilla Maine, the fash- ionable young heiress, had had a particularly vivid dream, in which the had promised to be the wife of one man amd had been rescued from the police by another—a red-hinded gun- man. But that doesn’t entirely explain things, because the en. the in detail counter with the police in described even ng slums was in the newspapers. And of hadn't been there, though a girl just like her had been in the fight. “The Dark Mir- ror,” Louis Vance, whose fame as a wri'er of mystery stories is international, has told a most fascinating tale of some- thing that sonalty——-but course Priscilla In short, in resembles dual per- isn’t. You will not be able to solve the mys- tery until the very end, for it b>fled a young physi cian-phychologist, who was deo- ing h's best love with Priscilla almost since he was in ard natua- rally didn't want to give her up to her dream lover. And you will enjoy this exceadingly live- ly and quite unique story. CHAPTER ONE I. THE DARK CORNER. wo J The way same: Tt rather, the take heed of Signs enough in of ever the or to i plain when she the thing wi befell without g rl had warning never learned which, seener ant head shadow rel rospect, and puzzled her the dark riddle of this hich set her so widely apart from girl she know and, indeed, from all the rest of humankind, She hand a day of whose every hour brewed its new pe culiar whose every mood was purposeless, with times of almost feverish gavety, causeless, fitful, fugl tive, and other times when for no rea- gon In her kaowledge she caught her golf sighing long fluttering sighs that shook her strangely. So might spirit sigh in weariness, faint with the burden of Incessant strife with some great antagonist of unguessable identity, Toward nightfall all these were soothed away into a feeling of serene poise and self-possession: and sat. urate with consciousness of the rich, strong wine of vitality that gquickened her, she thought of life in the likeness of n wide placid river, wherein she drifted like an fearless swimmer—4 stream whose waters were warm, sweet and calm with a penetrating gunlity of delicious calm she never dreamed could be disturbed, so abso. lute it seemed, so permanent, so im perturbable, Only the sigha persisted oddly, as if her spirit knew moments of melan- alone pretty with life w every rest lesan ess, mood, one's ing. And insidiously the tranquil surface of nameless danger, of peril latent, and implacable; thie stealthy swimmer surmised some skulking un felt current altogether deens or ¥ by a in herself Leen those apague subtly ensnared irresistible set was toward de Now come, struction, at length perceiving wh was Ivzed in her the thoug! prank golf pres brimmed the cup of 1 to figh that pur instinet of ervation: horror made no sing, she effort who Knows prove valn, the baneft in her psychic as the Dark Cor the nant to her, | Hk ind her Necessity Corner } the : snl on freer » Iassitude tras ('hange Wi he desceribe ; very soul, after vast nervall possessed from its tenemer continued by servant, critieal, in vmused ing the Dark Cor : » which Nirange confu forgot ’ SPnsatior it and lawless ecompanied re transcendental Wns tment to LEONORA, Fae thes thd the yey wen) furking Faces kly in forbiddin the r without rest, seek brightest Com ing carnival: K and in nith hrutal, and going une nd and cunning innocent, commonplace ; that al that masks; faces of and red and brown ; negro faces in every shade of quartering Khe naive wicked and gswarthy, fair, unique, that disgusted, faces that meant faces lured were faces nothing, mere mouthing “empty * yellow knew them all: they all knew The sense of with e her strangeness ehbeoed with look breath she drew, she was fonch with her other Self which had =o singularly renounced its authority and faded into {rapotence at the Dark Corner, but still kept step with her, clung to her more closely than her ke a wraith of the noted and compared while taking part in ac- tions wholly foreign to its nature and experiencing reactions obscure to It and unintelligible, Now the girl moved case and holiness, of arrogance! giving the Faces look for look, smile for smile, frown for frown; laughing npishly up at a tail policeman who knitted black brows over Indulgent blue eyes; flinging racy retorts to the banter of a knot of men emerging from a ginamill ; chill. ing with glance and word the ad vances of those who should have known better; chafing hucksters who bawled In her ears the tawdry virtues of their wares; pausing now and pain to exchange more Kindly per siflage with folk who held title to her liking: cutting an impudent figure, as confident and unabashed] ns a coli turned loose in home pastures, Her sharp perceptions took In every thing: not one congiderable detail es. eaped thelr remark. And she liked it, she liked it all, she was curiously per. vOTS with losing step. every every around, which shadow, and living, watched, swiftly, with even with a hint | i meted to her with de light in sounds and sights and smells Very murrow familiar to her senses since time be- yond thelr earliest record, The Street never wi the nar rower for its doubie rank Between these an automo hile horse-dr vehicle went gin erly io urchins, hal half washed, every mn lity the tum their fire esd or wn the f i: {f dressed Of multitude of and le ge nnd warmed spare 8 than every n almost that Tenement on upon asph houses converted bal with candid pes into ies lavishly candid and still confident . tyne £2 draped bedding more inl vigible women drew heads together on high, ribbon of *cabalt sky leas only ider In thick with unnat ural haze, ¢ vith many odors; an unholy alliance § le, {1 hi } ft] cabins ng nn sler between the fir wis ied fix) “You Know I Love You No Secret of That” I Make the width of the Street tt ern, she was well aware piain-clothes men who turned te when she had gone by and co together concerning the absurd of manner kit corners of the But more their months that un Was a minor circumstance than reason for worry, Thes couldn't jug a girl for wearing didn’t where she had got them or how The ¢ considerationg f god clothes, even If they know tress of her attention wag due $ te r more weighty: a and when, of a sudden, at a she deserted unfeigned pulses, she checked with ite cause in dismay startled fil, THE MAN MARIO. On the far corner a tall man, sim- ply clothed, composed of habit, stood atirless, hands clasped lightly before him in a gesture with which the girl was well acquainted, head and shoul- ders lifting above the crowd. Against the tawny flames of naphtha torches his profile was sharp and black, the sithouette of an ascetie, gravely fine: but none better than she knew how its pnsterity was belied by haunted oyes whose sincerity could wring truth from lips that moved to frame a lie. And he wag looking for her; sshe knew that. too, In 0 flurry so real that it touched her anger, she swung aside into the oydtreet, a grim street that led any. where but the way she wished to go. Yet she welcomed its sullen gloom and went swiftly, heedless of every. thing but the necessity of escaping, knowing in her heart she could not escape. . . . Her nome was called in a voice of resonant thobre: “Leonora! 1 beg ofyou . . . Itisl Mario!” She stopped and swung round with a specious show of surprise subsiding into Indifference, Tone and manoer her deurt “Oh! hello! It's yon " The man paused, hat in attitude one of pleading and repronch hand, his vet Informed with an Ineffaceable dignity, “You You ru i Why did OTe thi endur Own esieein DY affection mors and fran nan and “1 am was Mario innocent of CONCoit the ouIRide one you know. and the men it. Where reflect and wom who live about and seldom mm on in I go. 1 look me, on what I see. | in who in nd you whom 1 love . I tell you, you are no more of this life than I, and you do a wicked and eruel thing, when trample down that which gol you snd might bring you to a splendi destiny.” fim terest istaken those ne wrong thing, n youu is in Impressed In spite of touched, and Aattered, too, she looked uneasily away, twisting her hands to gether, her tongue faltering, . p— ———_—_— “Tomorrow you will marry me, and we will go away" om se (TO. BE CON LN Usa) New Ship Lines. A report from Brazil says that new steamship lines are contemplated be tween Italian and Brazilian ports. Don't 10t the badness of your neigh. bors worry you; they might do warse, Circles for First Time in Several Years. Decoration Aids in Carrying Out Very Effective Results the More Fashionable Informa! Eve- in Frocks. 3 r worn Sash Train Lends Smartness. prising number of 1) evening iy be ay, Is oniy A Frock of Gray Mousseline Embroider. ed in White and Gold Threads. dress, Very effective are the results | achieved through these sash trains, A plain little frock of orchid pink | line as high as those worn street | in the stralght-across | hallow line. The walst may be low | ind blousing, with the skirt short and | straight. Then, make it the Inst | vord In smartness a sash of two tones of pink, one a very bright shinde, is tied zhout the low waistline | and several inches of one of the guyly | colored ends trail on the ground, i A modgl of this kind is as adapt | able ne it can be, because the sash | ends may be shortened, or the sash | removed altogether and any sort of | on to y 1 girdle used, so that one hans 8 sim fale uf afternoon dress i Makes its Own Laws. Black Velvet £54 a (mm the hroidery in of sides and OVO Are tier the having broad. very kilace. It shout the fovely the hack. ines the This twhes at the small of until It at the shoulders, length of lacy } NICK tag at «ix euare Joon ne band, about ul the back, widens in feast and in pointed and the there is 8 black lace train attached to the waistline atl the twelve inches then it fal'® at the ds. The over front skirt short of 13 is wrapped type, and wide. Scarf Adds Distinctive A most hnportant ning might termed the searflike movement, It appears on many models and may be described in The sithouetie of a straight chemise dress is changed by attaching a saarf to the hem of the skirt or to the belt of the dress. Searls starting at the belt line always loop at the bot. tom of the dress and then up. forming the bodice, swathing the shoulders and falling down one side. These scarfs dre of the same material as’ the dress, This season's evening dresses are much less decollete than they have All of the models toy show a rather high neck fine for evening gowns, Touch, movement in eve dresses be Brocades for Bags. Brocades of great Prilliancy are wov- en by the great fabric houses, aspw- cially for bags.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers