SOPYRICHT BY CHARLES SCRIBIERDT SOM 0 “AND AS TO FANS" Synopsis.— Richard Searles, suc. cessful American playwright, con- fides to his friend, Bob Singleton, the fact that, Inspired by the genius of a young actress whom he had seen in London, he has written a play, “Lady Larkspur,” solely with the thought that she should interpret the leading char- acter. This girl, Violet Dewing, has disappeared, Singleton, an aviator, has just returned (in- valided) from France His uncle, Raymond Bashford, a wealthy man, had contracted a marriage a short time before his degth, while on a visit to Japan He left Singleton a comparatively small amount of money and the privilege of resi. dence in the ‘‘garage’ of his sum- mer home, Barton-on-the-Sound Connecticut Mrs. Bashford is be- lieved to be traveling in the Orient The household at Barton is made up of broken-down employees of a New York hotel, where Bashford made his home. Singleton goes to Barton, taking with him the manu- script of “Lady Larkspur.” There he finds the household strangely upset, some of its members being suspected by their comrades of pro- Germanism. Antoine, head of the establishment, informs him that he has been perplexed by the some- what mysterious visits of 2 stranger, apparently a forelgne seeking Mrs. jashford poncho has formed the male members of the household Into a guard for pro- tection, Singleton reads Searles’ play and thinks highly of it “Aunt Alice” arrives unexpectedly, meets with a lively reception and turns out to be ¥ and charme- ing. Mrs. Farnswo is her trav- eling companion Torrence, Bash- ford's lawye SUSDE the two women and n “Aunt Alice” may The mysterious st ger, Count Mo tan!, mal fi - H1—Continued. — Montani spoke of th “Oh, to be sure! They best advantage in elec they? But 1 prize pieces room,” said Mrs. F self to chair 1 the big desk in for Antoine, the hall to « “Oh, don't toine car thanks; if you room lights.” I was gone When 1 reached CHAPTER can have taken int Alice, arnsworth finish could trouble,’ 1 do anythi Yes . dining Ng Necessary. will turn on the hardly half a minute, the drawing-room door Montani had crossed the room to the table on Alice hat dropped the fan and was examining closely, He faced door, and the moment he det exclaimed carelessly : “An exquisite little bauble! I am always curious as to the source of such trifles. 1 was looking for the maker's imprimatur. I know a Pari sian who is the leading manufacturer of the jut it is not his, I see.” As we stood talking of other things he plied the fan carelessly as though for the pleasure of the faint scent it which init the ected me world, put it down carefully where he had found it. He really did seem know some- thing about ceramics and praised, with lively enthusiasm, the pleces that had been set out on the table. One piece, as to whose authenticity my uncle had entertained serious doubts, Montani unhesitatingly pronounced genuine and stated very plausible reasons for his opinion, On the whole, he was an interesting fellow. When he had finished his in- to minutes and took his leave, that he was spending the night at an inn near Stamford. “Well,” said Alice when the whir of his machine had died away, “what do You think of him?” “A very agreeable gentleman,” I an- swered. “If he doesn't know porce- laing, he fakes his talk admirably.” “And as to fans—" suggested Mrs. Farusworth. I bad not Intended to mention Mon- tani’s Interest in Allee’s fun, and the remark surprised me, “Oh, I saw it all from the library,” laughed Mrs, Farnsworth. “My back was to the door, but I was facing a mirror. The moment you and Alice went Into the hall he pounced upon the fan—pounced is the only word that describes it. He concealed his Interest In it very neatly when you caught him examining it.” “Fans are harmless things,” sald Alice, “and If there's any story at- tached to this one Um not aware of it. My father bought it in Paris about three years ago, and it has never been out of my possession except to have it repaired. There's a Japanese jew eler who does wonderful things in the way of repairing trinkets of every %ind. I left it with him for a few days. 1 can’t tell now which panel us broken, he did his work so deftly.” GWRLTHE nS I took It from her and balanced it my fingers. It was a beautiful plece of workmanship with the sim- plest carvings on the ivory panels, “He couldn't have seen it anywhere tonight,” observed Allee mus- ingly. “In fact, I hadn't used it at all for a year. It was really by mistake that my mald put It into my trunk I didn't want s0 I've been handbag The last carrying it In a sitting room in the hotel, to it wasn't jammed into the We had a good many our ain, eallers but I'm sure Count Montanl was not among them, would have been Impossible for him to see it at any other time.” “Oh, with an alr of “If It were a jade inscribed with Chi mys- you might imagine that it would sought by some one—I have heard Farnsworth nese “We weren't very hospitable,” sald Alice. “1 might have asked Count to dine with us tomorrow; for the night In this vast house.” Not with Antoine on the premises! “Antoine is convinced that the man is what we call in Amer. ica a crook. And Antoine takes his responsibilities very seriously.” While I was breakfasting at the garage the next morning Antoine ap- appeared and, waiting until Flynn was out hearing, handed me a of paper, “That's a New number,” he sald. of slip York “It was automobile on the tag ame in inst night, I heard him saying, si Clung to the Sideboard Listening. he had motored inn at Stamford. ford would hardly send in to the city up from the while 1 called the No such person as Gluseppe Montani had spent the night there or had been a guest of the house within the memory of the clerk. Antoine's chest swelled at this confir- I bade him wait “If the man returns, treat him as way,” sald Antolae. “He mentioned the Elkton just to throw you off. The “You mean he'll come as a burglar?” “That's what's in my mind, Mr. Sin- gleton. Everything seems very queer, sir.” “Such as what, Antoine?” “The widow has been telegraphing and telephoning considerable, sir.” “There must be no spying upon these ladies!” I admonished severely, “All the people on the place must re member that Mrs, Bashford Is mis tress here, and entitled to fullest re spect.” He had hardly gone before Torrence had me on the wire to hear my report and to say that Raynor had left Wash- ington for a week-end in Virginia. I assured him that nothing bad oe curred to encourage a suspicion that Mrs. Bashford was not all that she pretended to be. The day was marked by unusual activities on the part of the waiters and bell-hops. Instead of the company drills to which I had be- come accustomed they moved about in pairs along the shore and the lines of I learned that Antoine had ordered this, and the “troops” were obeying him with the utmost ge. riousness, The “service” on the es tate was certainly abundant, It was only necessary to whistle and one of the Tyringham veterans would come running. In spite of the complete satisfaction I had expressed to Torrence as to the perfect integrity and honest intentions of the two women, the curiosity of the American state department and the visit of Montan! required elucidation beyond my powers. At dinner they were In the merriest humor, The per formances of the little army through- out the day had amused them greatly. “How delightfully feudal!” ex- claimed Alice. “Really we should have a moat and drawbridge to make the thing perfect. Constance and I are the best protected women .n the world!" We extracted all the fun possibile from the idea that the estate was un- der siege; that Alice was the chate- laine of a beleaguered castle, and that before help could reach us we were in danger of being starved out by enemy. They called into play the poe try which had so roused Antoine's apprehensions, and their talk bristled with quotations, salad and repeated at least a page of Malory, and the Knights of tound duced, Mrs. al sonorous passages from of the King.” They flung Browning's “In a Balcony” at each though they were improvis The befuddlement of Antoine and “The Idyls lines from uns the general joy. They were undoubt- of thelr heads, and it was plain that I suffered greatly in Antoine's estima- tion by my encouragement this fri- volity. Mrs. Farnsworth tically round the the lines of walked and addressed Macbeth beg table me from ning sia- Glamis thou and CO shalt be What thou art art, awdor; promised the open sideboard and eyes clung to mouth Antoine with while listening coll ng. Later. some old ballads, able than ever at in the living room, Alice She was more ador- the plano, It sang was of women to wateh her, the play of light upon her golden head, to yleld to the spell of her voice Esllads had never been sung :before with the charm and feeling she put them; and after ending with Douglas.” responded to rtunity with and hed into a played it ence into “Dougla 5, she my Import “Ben Bolt" then das sparklin Chopin's, rose, Inughingly the mocking my house lke enchantment plea path ; so when *Pardon { wus not wked my me, trog- not Sou give me used to the poetry at being queens family 1 Host served once a widow, “God kno grows respects sr ws we ought } h ups have the being children and can velth it as beautifully do! What el as those women is on your mind?” Elsie, sir,” I groaned at ution of Flynn's German wif sorry, sir; but I thought I should report It. It was a man who came to her this afternoon. You was out ior your walk, and Fiynn had taken the for a drive, was alone wt the garage. This person rode in on the grocer's truck from the vil- it by Plerre—he sha me Fy Here bd ladies #0 Elsie which is how he g As it happened, waiter at the Tyringham, a Swiss, who understands German—had gone into the garage for a nap; ha's quite oid, sir, and has his snooze every noon.” “He's entitled to 18," I remarked; “he must be a thousand years old.” the man a spy, to steal something from the house, it fan he wanted her to take most OT, was wir if she could. manage. It Did you notice, that Mrs. Bashford didn't fan tonight? Not that sir, the Entoine’s guard makes an exciting capture. (TO BE CONTINUED.) > The “Punch” in Gasoline. The genie that came out of the bot- tle in the “Arabian Nights” story be came, when liberated, a monstrous power, The energy stored In a pint of gasoline is hardly less stupendous. One pint of gasoline represents 12. 000 “B, T. U's” of energy. A “RB. T. U.S (the abbreviation for British thermal unit) will lift 750 pounds one foot. Thus there Is In that single pint of innocent looking fluid enough power to lift six tons 750 feet into the alr ~~that is to say, 200 feet higher than the top of Washington monument, Kansas City Star. Tree Seeds for Belgium. Kentucky's commissioner of for. estry Is having a hundred bushels of maple and oak tree seeds collected tn his state for shipment to Belgium, to be planted in the wardavastated areas of thay ROUBLE, Post-Holiday Reflection. A holiday is a day when most peos pie feel less hollow thaw usual, Garment Essential to Complete | Spring Wardrobe. Short Sleeves Preferred and Mode Collarless With Neckline Deeper at Shoulders. Your task of buying sult Is not reatly completed until you have invested In at least one to go with it, observes a fashion cor respondent, And, although there Is further doubt concerning the re- turn of the lingerie blouse to favor, still you know that this type of blouse not the be worn your suit jucket. It is sure to when you take off the Moreover, If you do take off Jacket you want a blouse that an unbroken line with the your spring blouse Ho one to select to show creases gives are white blouse, It really ain wearing a wise to have one netly material tricolette is 108 e matches the a blouse Is or some other proof the he and This shorter, ngainst wrinkles, short sleeve, the usually elbow will for mode Is collar at the the shoulders or preference these the Hine blouses logs neck open sometimes than from deeper at ront to back. However, the linen hand: i favor | and 1 i 1 decade volle blouse is be worn wear, It for now women are or nd will for gumn sort re reminds one then the ordering these in numbers HEo as blouses many women hay large a supply 0 for Hus dozen, all hand made, and summer sorn with the Then there flame and g the » pring BISON, skirt. blouses, 1 separate sport are colored wash reen and toast, ar these are to be worn ofte skirt of white. ever, most of conven that tional it have made thel mag SR el SRA ow Satin Blouse, Flowers in Applique. the regulation which of below the terminate the skirt wear course, Is stil} the blouses have something worn for sport most Somet they waistline in a imes wide girdle that extends to Bed Jackets. Bed Jackets are among novelties In negligees, ——— “DREAMY” GOWN F FOR SPRING EE a Sy a SNA This charming creation biue taffeta is of sky. and exquisite filet lace, in Sontranting colors, Materials Dresses for Girls and Suits for Boys, certainly past be pt when irchased Mak- Saving 1nthoa clothes can wear for 4 mere song. at home 8 a great ys {Ff #1 son, especially il the stores are i \ ed hoot mit Vi Fortuna wear small outfitted in similar warm some Vivid, medium i at least are in favor for for of the set. Jade green is liked and smart when Mari and a used, or great members hades purl iathana Service clothes younger becoming. blue is gold yellow medium Mousquetaires. A shortage of imported French kid is Influencing mere liberal dis plays of the finer lightweight domestic leather says the Dry Goods gloves, of course, are particudarly In white, as as in the fashionable mode champagne and pongee shades, finer grades of silks add a zest, gloves Roun RIOVEeSs, Silk most extensively, ———————————— TL ——— — Toast Shade, Newest of Light Brown. | ish Tones; Pumpkin, Ruby and Brick Are Seen. Newest though other it gues means tho tones, from is by all light brownish very different Tonst if the it isn't by a new name, at least ae the color. Then there Is pumpkin eolor, is seen In some of the new cotton ma- terials, and seems to be much admired. It combines very well with the dull lighter greens, as well with blues, as that are much in demand and, strange may seom, there are reds seen in the smartest of spring sults, Tangerine, which isn't very differ. ent from what we usually call orange, is in for considerable popularity. Canard Is what you will call a blue green: that explains itself when you recall that canard means duck In French. You know the blue green feathers on a wild duck's back, Hyacinth blue is a shade that one sces oceasionally In smart evening frocks. Gold is a shade of yellow that seems to be winning favor. It I= not a bright gold, but suggests bits of the antique metal, as is ——in The White Center Piece. While colors in riotous confusion or symmetrical shadinge for all sorte of household decoration are entirely of any kind Is used, yet one frequent. ly turns with a feellng of relief to all- pieces. They have a dignity which cannot be approached by col ors. To be sure, colors have a fascing. | it only can be used with best results, into service on any and many oc- caslons are always a delightful ad- dition to one's linen supply—in fact they are indispensable, according to For Slender Silhouette,” Though Dame Fashion has not yot divulged all the detalls of her plans for spring and summer, she has never- theless told enough to give pretty def- inite ideas of her Intentions, says a fashion writer In Harper's Bazaar. She insistently advocates for daytime frocks and tallleurs a slender silhou. ette, skirts box or knife plaited and from seven to ten inahes above the ground, and fabrics of tartan plaid or striking Rodier stripes. Coiffure Favors Oriental, The Spanish influence and the on ental is noted In hairdressing as in gowns; the Spanish In the colf thay piles the halr high on the head; the oriental in the coronet effects which have returned. 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