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NIGHT ;
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7 RAN
Fa Ty 2 oy
Juliet Wior pis
HRISTMA§ Eve
was always a
busy night for Mr
Thomas Patter- |
son. He had in-
variably done the |
biggest business |
of the
{
year at |
that time,
except |
for three succes
sive Christmases |
spent under the]
conservative reg- |
ime of the peni
tentiary
Mr.
wag
TEA
ae |
frankly,
on the whole successfully, a bu:
He did not from the poor;
had never found that worth while
His victims were always those who
could afford to lose—and to have. It|
cannot be claimed that he belonged !
to the chivalric type that abandons
loot in order to save the baby,
touched by femini gentleness,
turns gems by mail the next
was he the burly ruffian for whom
timid look nightly under the
little black grease, and he
have passed for a plumber's assi
It was not ign of the
kept by the rich that started him
as early as ten o'clock that e
Tom read the scciety columns
purpose; knew that
ridges were giving a Christm:
ball, among those present woul
suredly be Mr. and Douglas
timore and their daughter, Miss
geline Whittimore, who would
bly in rose chiffon
pearls This meant that the Whi
more house would be empty
Whittimores that evening A
inquiry into of the
more servants su
them would be
carriage had left
such a 2 ple
cided not
him, but 1
window in a shadowed
earlier in the
He found
dark exce
beyond.
the sidel
ered
with th
ue
glar.
take he
ne re
Nor
the
day
might
stant
orance
out
Ve
to
ning
good
he
Mrs.
van
proba-
be chs
rming
the ways
sted
the
BES that
off mome
y door. It
x tl
asant opening 1at
to take
a confede
softly imself
angle,
day
himself in a
seldom
Crossing
ss agility of a
door
Tom
with the
noisele
paused by the
The silence w
the tick
After m
back wi some
turtle’'s, his
as absolute
f a clock could
es his 1
what the move
came
scuffed
a
and he del
along ti polished
dull, indefini
jaws
berately
floor, prodn
te sound that
y
Again ys tense
nesslike
f Or “ 1 leit he
irom singing, ns
went sw
viftly up the gre
crossed
n i I wat
dim stairs
The Wh
y Christmas
gtill lurk
ers and
fttimore
ing in
pt
draw de
fered an
ly wide
and Tor
peaceful
them for hal
hour. Then,
ing to his pocket
collection
Miss
aMOoOng
f an
add-
E Vangel
el
hundred
from Mr. Whitti
more's desk,
slipped down
stairs agai
made the §
of pausing in the
dimly lighted
drawing-room to
if he
overlook
line's
and
dollars
case two
16
}
!
the
i
see had
a ally
thing important.
It was just the faintest little
like click, but it meant a latch -key ir
the front door, not twenty feet a " ay
and Tom had to act on the in:
The only refuge was a heavy
curtain Suggenting a concealed door,
and he rted behind its folds. The
door was cued on the other side.
The front door had opened now, and
mouse
stant
ble. Tom blessed his leanness, find
ing that by standing straight in the
narrow space he
bulge in the plush. With his pocket
knife he deftly slit a peephole in time
to see a young woman come
Obviously this was Miss Evangeline
She was panting a little, her hands
working at the lower lip. She began
to pace up and down, very softly, with
tense excitement In every line. Sud
denly she paused, listening, her eyes
directed straight at the plush hanging.
Tom, nerved for a feminine shriek,
poised himself in readiness to set out
at the first note; but she turned and
‘went swiftly to the front door. An in
stant later she came back with a
young man.
“Well?” said the newcomer quickly.
She drew away from the arm he had
put about her,
“Oh, I don't know! I don't know!”
She laid imploring hands on his
arm,
“But do you think father is tyranni-
cal? That it's silly to walt three
years, when we're sure now? That
we have a right to do it, If we're will
ing to be poor and-—and all that?"
, “I can’t tell what I think. I want
you so much that | don't trust my own
judgment. It has seemed to me that
he was--unfair. 1 could be bolder {if
only 1 didn't realize how utterly un
worthy"
“Don't!”
She ran‘to him, and he took her into
his arms.
“Now I will run and get on another
dress; you wait here,” she sald. "And,
dear, 1 am going to bring my jewels.
They are truly mine, and if we are
too poor—"
“I hate to have you take them,” he
heted to have her take
was at that moment
together with
from her dressing
also
The
Tom
them case
several other trifles
table.
“I'l be back in five
was saying, drawing away
hands. s
When she had gone as far as the
door, Tom took charge of the situation
He threw back the curtain, lifting a
cautioning hand at her faint scream
“If you want to keep this quiet from
no row, please,” he gaid
dignity. “I'm sorry, young feller,
but I'm a detective employed by the
lady's papa to stop this very thing—
? 1 have to do my dooty.”
The young man stared helplessly,
Mis 88 Evangeline clutching at his coat.
lut—Dbut he stammered,
“You see, the old gentleman
wind of it and asked me to
around,” Tom explained “He
want any fuss
The young m
iromn dismaved
minutes,” she
reluctant
got
step
don't
an's color had changed
white ngry red
“1 will not,
clearly.
to a
he
“if
sort
dentially,
young
port.
“Ol “©
coupl
geconds,
$
i
look t
wish anything
said Miss Evangeline h
3 merely stared; he
preparing
Tom edg
speeches for
lope
I 1 cal for it
ment
another
seemed
step Mr
short of breath
Det ? Go
I never hired
ire
ent? ective
d
tive
i:
un
a A
a dele
I 8 80Ome nal
“Well, here he is,” said Miss
geline coldly. “If you will let
it.
Evan
us get
Other
married, we'll
wise...’
She drew
achieved an
al
herself
step
emper be
and Tom
The old gen
gan to show
up,
other
tloman’'es +
ieman g t
of wear.
“Ma
rry
iry
any one you
for mercy's sake say I"
A scuffle and a crash interrupted
A whirling heap om the floor resolved
itself into Tom Patterson on his back
with Miss BEvangeline's lover kneeling
on his chest, a hand at his throat.
"Sorry to make a apologized
man “but 1}
ust in He's a sneak
please!
don't
row!”
Young breathless]
time 's
“You seem to be a—a fairly up-and
Whittimore
“Look a
broke in Tom
want all this in the papers.”
“All what, you scoundrel?”
“Elopement in the Four Hundred—
Miss Evangeline Whittimore. daughter
of—gee? Now you got the swag, you
got the girl;
here,
Mr. Whittimore,”
peaceably, “vou don't
talk. You think about it.”
dismayed faces. The two women on
the stairs exchanged horrified glances,
Mr. Whittimore pinched his chin,
scowled, sighed, then nodded heavily
Slowly and reluctantly, the last pocket
emptied, the young man arose from
Tom's chest.
Two minutes later Mr. Thomas Pat-
terson, hurrying through the dark.
smiled to himself as he inserted care
ful fingers into a remote crevasse of
his structure, where the contribution
from Mr. Whittimore's desk still
lurked in a compact wad.
“They didn’t know I had that,” he
reflected, “but I guess I'll keep it for
hush money. Two hundred dollars is
more'n that young dude earns in an
evening, anyhow!”
(Copyright, Frank A. Munsey Co.)
HER MILLION
Earnings in Ten Years Nearly
Half the Principal
INCREASE OF BIG BEQUEST
Money Left Elkins’ Heiress Remains
as Nest-Egg After
tune—Young Woman
Producing For-
Rich frem
An Accumulating Income.
When was only
old a bequest of $1,000,000
to Marie louise Elkins de
Guigne, his granddaughter, by Wili-
L. Biking, of ( nham, who
was prominent in financial of
Philadelphia previous to hi on
November 7, 1503,
The prov
of the million sho
cation, maint
amount
Norris she
Years
left
town,
11
Was
iam ‘helts
cirele
deatl
that
pay
and
the trustees
for her edu
upport suc
nue of the million
required
d majority,
to
will ded
uld
enance
reve
they wmed she
When }
YER] Of receive
balance lated inco
from u
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Bank Follows Coal Fallure.
Marianna. ~The Farmers’ and
era’ Bank here
Examiner
jarge
Min-
lank
took
1+ hh
ih
was closed and
James W MeBur
It is a State instit
a capital of 350,000, deposits of about
$100,000 and resr of 85.000 It is
identified with the defunct Pittsburgh
Buffalo Coal Company.
ney
uiion w
ve
indicted as Bribe - Takers.
Reading. — True bills found hy
the Grand Jury in the bribery and con
cases against City Clerk Ram:
sey and former Counciimen
mings, Lewis and Flemming, accused
accepting bribes in connection
with awards
paratus,
were
Contract Job tor 18 Months.
Bethlehem -
Davies
$400,000 to
contract awarded the
Thomas Company for
make tunnel castings.
Adds $300,000 to Payroll.
Reading. ~The committee of the
Order of Rallway Conductors and
Brotherhood of Railroad Tralnmen
met with the Reading Rallway offi
clals here. The object of the confer
ence was to discuss the new sched.
ule of wages as agreed upon by the
Board of Arbitrators.
It is probable, It was stated afler
the meeting, that the men will ve
ceive the amounts due them through
the increase some time in Janovary
On the Reading system it will amount
w $300,000,
| Millions of Red Cross Christmas Seals
to Be Sold for Anti-Tubercu-
losis Work.
| Algernon Really Had a Right to Re
sent This Last Action of
Unfeeling Ediior.
“freelance” jour
could have
freedom
wae be
wal
Algernon
nalist,
done
Few people have any idea of the | Was a
magitude of the Red Cross Christmas |
geal campaign. This year over 100, |
000,000 seals have been printed and
distriouted If placed end-to-end |
these seals would extend nearly 2,400
miles, or practically from New York
to Salt Lake City. They have heen |
|
i
atl the moment
considerably jess
and more money. In fact, he
ginning realize that a regular
ary had its advantages,
bo was Algernon's wife,
somewhat gloomy silence was
Drone by the letter carrier's knock
and, restraining any undignified haste
Algernon went to the box, It contained
a foolscap envelope, which is
kind that editors drop checks inte
“Shades of the poets!” quoth Algs
“This ig really more than |
and
with
to
sent to over 25,000 different agents
and will be sold and handled by an
army of not less than 100,000 volun-
teers, including men, women and chil-
dren Milllons of advertising circu-
lars have been scattered throughout
the country, and thoroughly has
advertising campaign been or-|
ganized that it is doubtful if many What is it?
people in the more populous states two andl the
of the country will not have heard of 1 nas returned three!”
the Red Cross seal and its mission in |
the prevention of tuberculosis
it is | :
i at "OW ance,
hoped that at least 50,000,000 | Thought “Katy as a New Dan e
may be sold this The
: ] ! Two traveling men on an
principie | T Pa a
train, ays the
upon which the sale of s« '
that
yased |
! their trips ap
{8 needed to cover
little | low the
cost of | GORY ATH
printing and hand!
for tuberculosis
nity where the
BAD TETTER ON HANDS
Va I had
badly that I
not the
non. Cal
bear!"
“What is it,
80
piped his wife
I sent this editor
heartless fellow
dear?”
Why,
stories
Vay
year . Pareons Sun
nig 18
what
actual
in avery cent excep ACTORS
the . s
atches of their
ing shal MH
spent
commu.
omn bent forward and
the Heller
addres
ahead of hin
WOrs in
seals are
R. D. No. 1, Critz,
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begin to coms white blisters,
then they ret and peel off all
over and and bleed. My hands
were So and itched so badly I
could not day or night 1 could
not put them in water do my reg-
ular
“1 tried medicine and several differ
ent kinds of
got
did me
F
in clear
would bu
crack
BOTre
rest
nor
work
cream on them
tead
fF until
but they
worse ins . ng
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gned)
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fectly
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